AMERICAN STUDIES
Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India by Asha Nadkarni (University of Minnesota Press; 264 pages; $75 hardcover, $25 paperback). Identifies a eugenicist impulse in notions of women’s biological ability to “reproduce the nation”; topics include Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novels.
ANTHROPOLOGY
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout (Duke University Press; 272 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Documents how the explosion of the sex trade has affected and involved the gay and lesbian community since Cuba was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s.
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition edited by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen (Berghahn Books; 219 pages; $85). Writings by scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and other fields on such topics as female suicide bombers, the cultural valuation of suicide, and ancient Stoic perspectives on suicide.
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey by Kabir Tambar (Stanford University Press; 218 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). An ethnographic study of the Alevis, a Muslim minority that has been the target of hostility in majority Sunni Turkey but have also seen themselves hailed as the bearers of folkloric heritage.
We the Cosmopolitans: Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human edited by Lisette Josephides and Alexandra Hall (Berghahn Books; 186 pages; $80). Essays by anthropologists on such topics as cosmopolitan morality in the British immigration and asylum system, and cosmopolitanism and the controversy over cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting the prophet Muhammed.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Maya Figurines: Intersections between State and Household by Christina T. Halperin (University of Texas Press; 300 pages; $55). A study of small human, animal, and supernatural figurines recovered from household refuse deposits.
New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida edited by Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall (University Press of Florida; 300 pages; $79.95). Writings on such topics as radiocarbon dating and the late prehistory of Tampa Bay, mounded architecture at Crystal River, and reconstructing Caloosahatchee shell mound building.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy by Nino Zchomelidse (Penn State University Press; 288 pages; $84.95). Focuses on the Easter candlestick, the monumental ambo, and the liturgical scroll in southern Italy and Sicily from the mid-to-late 10th century to the early 14th century.
Lee Lozano: “Dropout Piece” by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer (Afterall Books, distributed by MIT Press; 112 pages; $35 hardcover, $16 paperback). Discusses an elusive conceptual piece by the American artist (1930-99) that takes material form only in some notes she wrote to herself in 1970 and was linked to her withdrawal from the art world.
The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy: The “Vita” Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries by Paroma Chatterjee (Cambridge University Press; 310 pages; $99). Discusses a form of icon used widely in Byzantium and by Italian Franciscans in which the image displayed the enlarged portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Histories by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland and edited by Paul Cartledge (Viking; 834 pages; $40). New translation of the Greek historian’s masterwork, which was composed around 440 BC.
COMMUNICATION
C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television by Donald G. Godfrey (University of Illinois Press; 304 pages; $50). A biography of the American inventor (1867-1934), who was a pioneer in the technology of film projection and early television.
Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America by Brenton J. Malin (New York University Press; 309 pages; $79 hardcover, $25 paperback). Explores notions of the relationship of emotion and new communications technologies beginning with the telegraph.
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot (MIT Press; 325 pages; $32). Topics include a cosmopolitan sensibility in the study of media technologies.
CRIMINOLOGY
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice edited by Franklin E. Zimring and David S. Tanenhaus (New York University Press; 248 pages; $79 hardcover, $25 paperback). Topics include education behind bars, juvenile record confidentiality, and the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of brain development and juvenile sentencing.
Killer Weed: Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice by Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter (University of Toronto Press; 304 pages; US$79.95 hardcover, US$29.95 paperback). Uses an analysis of 15 years of newspaper coverage to examine biases in Canadian media and law-enforcement attitudes toward marijuana cultivation.
Leaving Prostitution: Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work by Sharon S. Oselin (New York University Press; 206 pages; $75 hardcover, $23 paperback). Examines the experiences of street-level sex workers who attempt to exit the trade; discusses organizations in Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Hartford, Conn. that aid in that transition.
ECONOMICS
Architects of Austerity: International Finance and the Politics of Growth by Aaron Major (Stanford University Press; 254 pages; $60). Compares economic policy in the United States, Britain, and Italy in the early 1960s.
Banking Regulation in China: The Role of Public and Private Sectors by He Wei Ping (Palgrave Macmillan; 260 pages; $110). Topics include regulating the entry of foreign banks.
Bayesian Non- and Semi-Parametric Methods and Applications by Peter E. Rossi (Princeton University Press; 202 pages; $45). Develops Bayesian approaches to models in microeconomics and quantitative marketing.
Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy Changes and Lessons edited by Giovanni Cornia (Oxford University Press; 370 pages; $95). Essays on factors that have led to a reduction of income inequailty in Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay.
Reframing Economics: Economic Action as Imperfect Cooperation by Roger A. McCain (Edward Elgar Publishing; 256 pages; $120). Draws on game theory’s distinction between cooperative and non-cooperative games.
Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis by James W. Russell (Beacon Press; 201 pages; $26.95). Examines the decrease in retirement savings with the decline of traditional pension plans, and describes 401(k)s as a Wall Street-benefiting swindle.
EDUCATION
Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere (Berghahn Books; 255 pages; $95). Pays particular attention to colonial India.
Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture by Lisa M. Nunn (Rutgers University Press; 175 pages; $80 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Uses data from three diverse high schools to examine how students beliefs about success are shaped by their school environment and curriculum.
The Dyslexia Debate by Julian G. Elliott and Elena L. Grigorenko (Cambridge University Press; 271 pages; $85 hardcover, $32.99 paperback). Disputes the usefulness of dyslexia as a diagnostic concept in the understanding of reading difficulties.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence edited by Joseph A. Pratt, Martin V. Melosi, and Kathleen A. Brosnan (University of Pittsburgh Press; 288 pages; $26.95). Uses case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia to examine energy production, use, and distribution in cities and regions.
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America by Christopher F. Jones (Harvard University Press; 312 pages; $39.95). Discusses the construction of large energy-transport systems in the mid-Atlantic region between 1820 and 1930 and their key role in fomenting American fossil-fuel dependence.
FILM STUDIES
The Demons of Modernity: Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema by John Orr (Berghahn Books; 125 pages; $70). Discusses the Swedish director as central to European cinema and considers his work in relation to such pivotal directors as Dreyer, Godard, Antonioni, and Tarkovsky.
Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas: From Nation-Building to Ecocosmopolitanism by Pietari Kaapa (Bloomsbury Academic; 260 pages; $120). Topics include Nordic horror films in ecological context, and the ecopolitics of multicultural filmmaking in the region.
From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film by Naomi Greene (University of Hawai’i Press; 288 pages; $65 hardcover, $25 paperback). Uses film to explore the changing image of China and the Chinese in the American cultural imagination, beginning with D.W. Griffiths’s Broken Blossoms (1919).
Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action by Ira Jaffe (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 198 pages; $80 hardcover, $27 paperback). Analyzes works by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jim Jarmusch, Abbas Kiarostami, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, and other filmmakers who counter mainstream cinema’s imperative of action.
Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium by Michael Z. Newman (Columbia University Press; 160 pages; $9). Explores the divergent views of video in realms from avant-garde art to filmmaking.
The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption by Matthew W. Hughey (Temple University Press; 230 pages; $89.50 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Analyzes Dances With Wolves,The Blind Side, and other movies featuring white characters as saviors of people of other races; draws on an analysis of 50 films, almost 3,000 reviews, and interviews with viewer focus groups.
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State by Lynette J. Chua (Temple University Press; 228 pages; $69.50). Draws on in-depth interviews in a study of activists’ “pragmatic resistance.”
HISTORY
American Energy Policy in the 1970s edited by Robert Lifset (University of Oklahoma Press; 322 pages; $24.95). Topics include Iran and the geopolitics of oil, nuclear-power debates during the decade, and Shell Oil and the reform of federal offshore oil leasing.
Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914-1945 by Alexander Anievas (University of Michigan Press; 336 pages; $80). Examines how global capitalism led to two world wars.
Chattanooga, 1865-1900: A City Set Down in Dixie by Tim Ezzell (University of Tennessee Press; 212 pages; $59). Traces the Tennessee city’s economic and political development during the period; topics include white Democrats’ efforts to wrest power from white Republicans and their black supporters.
Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race by Sean Metzger (Indiana University Press; 316 pages; $85 hardcover, $32 paperback). Uses adornment to shed light on Americans’ shifting views of China over the past 150 years; focuses on the queue, or man’s braid; the qipao suit for women; and the Mao suit.
Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive by Rhys Crawley (University of Oklahoma Press; 364 pages; $34.95). A revisionist study of the World War I Allied campaign that examines the operational capacity of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and argues that failure was inevitable.
Cold War Kids: Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 1945-1960 by Marilyn Irvin Holt (University Press of Kansas; 224 pages; $34.95). Documents the growing role of politics and federal policy in children’s lives; topics include White House conferences on children and youth in 1950 and 60.
Conflicted Mission: Faith, Disputes, and Deception on the Dakota Frontier by Linda M. Clemmons (Minnesota Historical Society Press; 274 pages; $22.95). A study of the missions to the Dakota Indians of Minnesota that contrasts the favorable reports sent by missionaries to their supervisors in the East with the doubt-filled letters they wrote privately.
Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms From the Vikings to the Reformation by Sverre Bagge (Princeton University Press; 325 pages; $29.95). A political history of Scandinavia that focuses on the conversion to Christianity and the rise of the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Dissent on the Margins: How Soviet Jehovah’s Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach About It by Emily B. Baran (Oxford University Press; 382 pages; $74). Traces the turbulent history of the sect in the Soviet Union and three of its successor republics: Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova.
The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe by Richard Stites (Oxford University Press; 439 pages; $34.95). Focuses on revolts led in Europe by Col. Rafael del Riego, Gen. Guglielmo Pepe, Gen. Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Col. Sergei Muraviev-Apostol.
From Pompei: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland (Harvard University Press; 328 pages; $28.95). Traces the responses of artists, writers, and others who toured the excavated site of the ancient city, which was preserved by its burial in volcanic ash.
Gifts From the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670-1870 by Roland Bohr (University of Nebraska Press; 468 pages; $70). Contrasts how indigenous populations in the two regions adapted European firearms to their original weaponry.
Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok (University of Virginia Press; 232 pages; $30). Traces the friendship and intellectual exchange between the Prussian explorer and scientist and the American statesman and polymath.
Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II by Taeko Shibahara (Temple University Press; 222 pages; $64.50). Traces the emergence of feminism among Japanese women between 1871 and 1941 and their collaborations with American counterparts.
The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada by Joseph F. O’Callaghan (University of Pennsylvania Press; 364 pages; $75). Completes a trilogy on the reconquista with a study of the Castilian monarchs’ decade-long effort to subjugate Granada, which fell to the Christians in 1492.
Last to Join the Fight: The 66th Georgia Infantry by Daniel Cone (Mercer University Press; 209 pages; $29). Draws on letters, diaries, and newspapers in a study of a regiment assembled at Macon in the summer of 1863.
Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights by Christine Knauer (University of Pennsylvania Press; 360 pages; $49.95). Examines debates accompanying the integration of the U.S. armed forces.
Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa’s Cultural and Educational Exchange With the United States, 1960-1999 edited by Daniel Whitman with Kari Jaksa (State University of New York Press; 444 pages; $105). Documents the experiences of South Africans who were among some 3,000 sent to the United States during apartheid.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817 edited by J. Jefferson Looney and others (Princeton University Press; 748 pages; $115). Documents a period in which the former president, among other things, privately suggests amendments to the Virginia constitution and fields questions about his beliefs after false reports he had converted to Christianity.
Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism by Peter Adams (University of Michigan Press; 230 pages; $70 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Examines American Jews’ political mobilization after the Civil War, with a focus on the election of 1868.
Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee by Phillip Papas (New York University Press; 402 pages; $39). A revisionist study of the life and military thought of a British Army officer turned American revolutionary who championed guerilla warfare by small militia units.
The Republic of Men: Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France by Geoff Read (Louisiana State University Press; 304 pages; $45). A study of how gender and gender bias figured in the eight most important parties, left to right, of the interwar period.
Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government by Michael Nelson (University Press of Kansas; 360 pages; $34.95). A study of the turbulent election and its aftermath that considers how despite deep divisions, political parties at the time made divided government work.
River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865-1954 by Elizabeth Gritter (University Press of Kentucky; 344 pages; $40). Pays particular attention to the civil-rights leader and Lincoln League founder Robert R. Church Jr. and the political boss Edward H. Crump.
Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785--1850 by John R. Van Atta (Johns Hopkins University Press; 312 pages; $54.95). Focuses on Congress in a study of public debates over the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian West and the government’s role in that expansion.
Statebuilding From the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal edited by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov (University of Pennsylvania Press; 311 pages; $59.95). Essays on the rise of public waste management, the creation of juvenile courts, women’s groups’ contributions to housing policy, and other examples of Progressive Era statebuilding in which the boundaries of public and private were blurred.
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Charles F. Walker (Harvard University Press; 347 pages; $29.95). A study of Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, who in 1780 adopted an Inca royal name, Tupac Amaru, and led a rebellion against Spain that spread through and beyond Peru; pays particular attention to his wife, Micaela Bastidas, as a key strategist.
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization From Primates to Robots by Ian Morris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 495 pages; $30). Uses a history of 15,000 years of human conflict to argue that, in the long term, war has made humanity safer and more prosperous.
What They Wished For: American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004 by Lawrence J. McAndrews (University of Georgia Press; 503 pages; $49.95). Traces the influence of American Catholics on domestic and foreign policy since the Kennedy administration.
When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing by Roberta Gold (University of Illinois Press; 344 pages; $55). A history of the tenants’ movement in postwar New York.
White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960 by Margaret Grubiak (University of Notre Dame Press; 184 pages; $28). Documents how the architectural history of campus chapels reflects the shifting role of religion within the university.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France by Michael R. Osborne (University of Chicago Press; 312 pages; $50). Examines colonial and tropical medicine through World War I with a focus on institutions built by the navy in the ports of Brest, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Toulon, and Bordeaux.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution by David N. Livingstone (Johns Hopkins University Press; 280 pages; $39.95). Offers a transatlantic perspective on the reception of Darwinism with a focus on religious communities that shared a Scots Presbyterian heritage.
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, and Wiebe E. Bijker (MIT Press; 382 pages; $64 hardcover, $32 paperback). Case studies include neonatal intensive case medicine in Western hospitals, and the legacy of the 1984 chemical plant disaster in Bhopal, India.
LABOR STUDIES
Labor Movements: Global Perspectives by Stephanie Luce (Polity Press; 248 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Analyzes declines in union membership in the United States and other countries.
LAW
More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure by Omri Ben-Shahar and Carl E. Schneider (Princeton University Press; 229 pages; $29.95). Analyzes the ineffectiveness of the mandated disclosures that accompany the selling or provision of goods and services, from doctor’s consent forms to software agreements.
LITERATURE
Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing by Sari Edelstein (University of Virginia Press; 240 pages; $59.50 hardcover, $29.50 paperback). Documents the influence of journalism on the work of such writers as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Jacobs, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Genre Fusion: A New Approach to History, Fiction, and Memory in Contemporary Spain by Sara J. Brenneis (Purdue University Press; 242 pages; $45). Focuses on works by Montserrat Roig, Carmen Martin Gaite, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, and Javier Marias in a study of how both fiction and nonfiction work together to reconstruct Spain’s past.
In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 274 pages; US$95). Analyzes diaries written by both rural and urban women on the island.
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry: The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond by Jesse Ross Knutson (University of California Press; 210 pages; $60). Traces a transformation in Sanskrit literature at the turn of the 13th century; focuses on a literary salon in the court of King Laksmanasena in what is now Bangladesh.
Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son by Gary Scharnhorst (University of Illinois Press; 272 pages; $35). Traces the turbulent personal life and checkered literary career of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s only son (1846-1934).
Literature and the Creative Economy by Sarah Brouillette (Stanford University Press; 248 pages; $45). Analyzes works by Monica Ali, Aravind Adiga, Naljit Nagra, and Ian McEwan.
Lord Strange’s Men and Their Plays by Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean (Yale University Press; 488 pages; $65). Discusses an innovative and controversial troupe of actors on the London stage whose members included players who would later join Shakespeare in forming the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel: Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 by Gerhild Scholz Williams (University of Michigan Press; 264 pages; $70). Challenges the characterization of the Hamburg-based author as a “courtly gallant” novelist.
A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch by Donna J. Lazenby (Bloomsbury Academic; 325 pages; $112). Explores mystical elements of the works of the two writers, both atheists.
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington (Columbia University Press; 347 pages; $35). Examines leftist politics as an influence in the work and lives of the writers Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks and the artist Charles White.
Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton by Christopher Warley (Cambridge University Press; 217 pages; $90). Explores class in Paradise Lost, A Lover’s Complaint, and four other works.
Rethinking the New Medievalism edited by R. Howard Bloch and others (Johns Hopkins University Press; 280 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings that reflect and extend the “new medievalism” developed as an alternative approach to medieval literature by Stephen Nichols in the early 1990s.
The Rose and Geryon: The Poetics of Fraud and Violence in Jean de Meun and Dante by Gabriella I. Baika (Catholic University of America Press; 320 pages; $65). Focuses on The Romance of the Rose and The Divine Comedy in a study of the notion of peccata linguae or sins of the tongue.
Street Urchins, Sociopaths, and Degenerates: Orphans of Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by David Floyd (University of Wales Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press; 264 pages; $140). Documents how orphans in fin-de-siecle fiction differed from their depiction in earlier literature and reflected the era’s social anxieties.
MUSIC
Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration by Adriana N. Helbig (Indiana University Press; 258 pages; $70 hardcover, $25 paperback). Examines hip-hop music and dance competitions as politicized realms that connect African students, African immigrants, and native-born Ukrainians.
Newfoundland Rhapsody: Frederick R. Emerson and the Musical Culture of the Island by Glenn David Colton (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 428 pages; US$39.95). Uses the life of the Newfoundland musician, lawyer, and folklore enthusiast (1895-1972) to examine music on the island before and after confederation with Canada.
The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi by Abramo Basevi, edited by Stefano Castelvecchi, translated by Edward Schneider and Stefano Castelvecchi (University of Chicago Press; 268 pages; $55). First complete English translation of an 1859 study of Verdi’s opera by the musician, scholar, and contemporary of the composer.
The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett: Creative Development and the Compositional Process by Thomas Schuttenhelm (Cambridge University Press; 338 pages; $99). A critical study of the British composer from his Symphonic Movement of 1931 to his final masterwork, The Rose Lake, in 1991-3.
PHILOSOPHY
Civil Disagreement: Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society by Edward Langerak (Georgetown University Press; 170 pages; $29.95). Examines debates over gay marriage and other polarizing issues and proposes an approach termed “perspective pluralism” that honors the integrity of diverse views without arguing that all are equally acceptable or true.
Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life by Axel Honneth (Columbia University Press; 412 pages; $35). Translation of a 2011 German work that draws on the ethos of Hegel’s Philosophy of the Right to develop a theory of justice anchored in real-world situations.
The Laws of the Spirit: A Hegelian Theory of Justice by Shannon Hoff (State University of New York Press; 297 pages; $90). Develops a theory of justice that embraces the competing demands of community, universality, and individuality.
The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton (Princeton University Press; 205 pages; $27.95). Draws on art, architecture, music, and literature in a defense of the experience of the sacred.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing by Nancy D. Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press; 320 pages; $39.50). Uses interview and other data to trace a progressive shift in evangelical views on race relations over the past three decades.
Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism by Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, and Jason Sharman (Cambridge University Press; 271 pages; $90 hardcover, $32.99 paperback). Discusses the phenomenon of shell corporations as a cover for illegal activities; draws on research in which the authors posed as consultants and contacted 4,000 services in 180 countries to discover how easy it is to form an untraceable company.
Governance and Finance of Metropolitan Areas in Federal Systems edited by Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay (Oxford University Press; 372 pages; $75). Essays that examine two large metropolitan areas in each of nine countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Latino Politics en Ciencia Politica: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness edited by Tony Affigne, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, and Marion Orr (New York University Press; 298 pages; $89 hardcover, $30 paperback). Draws on data from the Latino National Survey (2005-2008), said to be the largest ever survey of its kind, and a spin off Latino survey specific to New England.
Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science: A Transatlantic Tale by Robert Adcock (Oxford University Press; 300 pages; $49.95). Describes how the pioneers in the field adapted European liberal theory in a process that led, by the late 19th century, to two competing visions: progressive liberalism and disenchanted classical liberalism.
Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis edited by Andrew M. Dorman and Joyce P. Kaufman (Stanford University Press; 317 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Writings on the national-security priorities of the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, South Korea, and Turkey.
The Rise and Fall of Intelligence: An International Security History by Michael Warner (Georgetown University Press; 424 pages; $49.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Traces the development of institutionalized intelligence since the early 20th century and considers the implications of the end of state monopolies on the practice.
POPULAR CULTURE
Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon by Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Blandy, and Danny Coeyman (University Press of Mississippi; 176 pages; $30). A study of the Florida-born artist and art instructor (1942-1995), who starred in his own PBS show and produced more than 35,000 paintings over his lifetime, mostly of trees and mountains.
RELIGION
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson (Bloomsbury Academic; 323 pages; $32.95). Sets On the Origin of Species in dialogue with the Nicene Creed in a discussion of care for the natural world.
Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle by Angela Tarango (University of North Carolina Press; 234 pages; $32.95). Focuses on the Assemblies of God in a study of the history and religious experience of Indian converts to Pentecostalism.
The House of Service: The Gulen Movement and Islam’s Third Way by David Tittensor (Oxford University Press; 248 pages; $49.95). Draws on fieldwork in Ankara in a study of the ideology and educational mission of the movement, which operates schools in Turkey and around the world.
Karl Rahner’s Theological Aesthetics by Peter Joseph Fritz (Catholic University of America Press; 312 pages; $49.95). A study of the German Jesuit thinker that juxtaposes his thought with that of his teacher Martin Heidegger.
Never Wholly Other: A “Muslima” Theology of Religious Pluralism by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey (Oxford University Press; 333 pages; $74). Explores the Qur’an’s views on religious difference from the perspective of female interpreters of the Muslim holy book as well as feminist theology and semantic analysis.
The Pathos of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts---The Baroque Era by Richard Viladesau (Oxford University Press; 344 pages; $55). Focuses on art and music in a study of how Catholic and Protestant theologies of the period emphasized the centrality of Christ’s suffering on the cross for human salvation.
Resurrecting the Death of God: The Origins, Influence, and Return of Radical Theology edited by Daniel J. Peterson and G. Michael Zbaraschuk (State University of New York Press; 207 pages; $80). Writings on radical theology in the wake of William Hamilton and Thomas J.J. Altizer’s controversial 1966 book, Radical Theology and the Death of God.
SOCIOLOGY
Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer (New York University Press; 279 pages; $75 hardcover, $24 paperback). Draws on interviews with 48 women in a study of grandmothers who juggle paid work with helping, non-custodially, to care for their grandchildren.
Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families by Hung Cam Thai (Stanford University Press; 285 pages; $85 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Considers how money figures in the relations between low-wage Vietnamese immigrant families in America and their relatives back in Vietnam.
Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age edited by Sandra L. Barnes, Zandria F. Robinson, and Earl Wright II (State University of New York Press; 203 pages; $80). Writings by African-American sociologists on such topics as race, the “Great Recession,” and the foreclosure crisis, and comedian Dave Chappelle as a critical race theorist.
Surviving Katrina: The Experiences of Low-Income African-American Women by Jessica Warner Pardee (Lynne Rienner Publishers; 229 pages; $65). Draws on interviews with 51 New Orleans women who experienced the 2005 disaster.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women’s Path From Victims to Agents by Benedetta Faedi Duramy (Rutgers University Press; 172 pages; $25.95). Draws on interviews with women who have been both victims and perpetrators of violence and documents their shared anger and desperation.
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