AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery by Robin Wallace (University of Chicago Press; 288 pages; $25). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a study of the composer’s adaptation to deafness.
ANTHROPOLOGY
A Good Position for Birth: Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize by Aminata Maraesa (Vanderbilt University Press; 228 pages; $69.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Discusses attitudes toward pregnancy and childbirth in the remote and largely impoverished Toledo district.
Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey by Wendy A. Vogt (University of California Press; 244 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in humanitarian shelters and other sites in a study of Central Americans enroute through Mexico.
Naming the World: Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho by Andrew Cowell (University of Arizona Press; 312 pages; $50). Uses place naming, personal naming, neologisms, and other topics to explore language practices and ideology on the Wind River Reservation, Wyo.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Andrea Vesentini (University of Virginia Press; 344 pages; $49.50). Discusses interiors from cars to single-family homes to shopping malls in a study of “inner flight” as an aspect of suburbanization.
BUSINESS
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy by Melissa Gregg (Duke University Press; 200 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Examines how productivity became the central measure of job performance in the early factory era and traces problematic aspects of its legacy for today’s “always-on” workplace.
CULTURAL STUDIES
The Hotel: Occupied Space by Robert A. Davidson (University of Toronto Press; 224 pages; US$27.95). Uses the concept of “occupancy” to discuss the hotel as both symbol and space, including as represented in art, photography, and film.
ECONOMICS
Where Economics Went Wrong: Chicago’s Abandonment of Classical Liberalism by David Colander and Craig Freedman (Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $27.95). Focuses on Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, as well as MIT, to examine how economics lost its grounding in classical liberalism, losing a needed firewall between science and policy.
EDUCATION
Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi by Natalie G. Adams and James H. Adams (University Press of Mississippi; 299 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses the practical process of desegregation after immediate directives issued in a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling in October 1969; combines archival research with oral histories that document the experiences of educators, officials, parents, and students.
FILM STUDIES
Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll (University of Georgia Press; 159 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include how stereotypical depictions of Appalachian characters serve as foils to define the whiteness of non-Appalachian Southerners.
HISTORY
Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color by Michael R. Fischbach (Stanford University Press; 296 pages; $90 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Documents how the Palestinian struggle figured in both the civil-rights and black-power movements.
Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980 by Seth Blumenthal (University Press of Kansas; 363 pages; $39.95). Examines Nixon’s appeal to young voters and those younger conservatives’ role in shaping administration policy and the future of the Republican Party.
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Harvard University Press; 407 pages; $35). Traces the use and justifications of torture since the colonial era.
Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt: Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate by Myra C. Glenn (University of Massachusetts Press; 230 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A biography of a Boston physician identified as the first woman to establish a successful medical practice in the United States.
The Rebel Cafe: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground by Stephen R. Duncan (Johns Hopkins University Press; 336 pages; $54.95). Explores the interplay of bohemia and leftist politics in bars, nightclubs, and coffeehouses in New York and San Francisco.
A Revolution Unfinished: The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy in Juchitan, Oaxaca by Colby Ristow (University of Nebraska Press; 297 pages; $50 hardcover, $30 paperback). Discusses the confrontation that followed the Oaxaca governor’s dispatch in October 1911 of federal soldiers to retake the town of Juchitan from supporters of Jose F. “Che” Gomez and his movement in support of popular sovereignty.
They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power by Michael Koncewicz (University of California Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Draws on previously unpublished tape excerpts in a study of Republicans, including Nixon’s own political appointees, who worked early on against his efforts to punish his enemies and expand his power.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America by Shannon Withycombe (Rutgers University Press; 220 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Draws on women’s accounts of their experiences, as well as on writings by physicians.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century edited by Marlene Laruelle (University of Pittsburgh Press; 288 pages; $29.95). Writings on the mutual borrowings and other intellectual relations of European far-right groups and their Russian and Soviet counterparts.
LAW
Our Selfish Tax Laws: Toward Tax Reform That Mirrors Our Better Selves by Anthony C. Infanti (MIT Press; 252 pages; $39). Argues for reforming tax laws in ways that reflect American values of inclusivity; includes comparative case studies of housing tax expenditures and the unit of taxation in the United States, Canada, France, and Spain.
LINGUISTICS
Language, Syntax, and the Natural Sciences edited by Angel J. Gallego and Roger Martin (Cambridge University Press; 350 pages; $125). Pays particular attention to the linguistic theory of generative grammar from the perspective of the natural sciences.
LITERATURE
Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974--1978 by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn, translated by Peter Constantine (University of Notre Dame Press; 480 pages; $35). First English translation of the Russian writer’s memoir of his time in the West, beginning with his expulsion after the publication of The Gulag Archipelago.
No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Sharon B. Oster (Wayne State University Press; 368 pages; $54.99). Describes how realist authors reconfigured a philosemitic myth that portrayed Jews as outside of time; authors discussed include Abraham Cahan, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.
Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic by Gergana Ivanova (Columbia University Press; 226 pages; $65). Traces the reception history of the work and its author, Sei Shonagon, since the 17th century.
MUSIC
Live at The Cellar: Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s by Marian Jago (University of British Columbia Press; $99 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Uses the Vancouver venue and similar sites in four other cities to examine the phenomenon of Canadian co-operative, not-for-profit jazz clubs run by musicians.
Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil by Michael B. Silvers (University of Illinois Press; 212 pages; $99 hardcover, $28 paperback). Offers an “ecomusicological” perspective on how a daunting environment has shaped forro music in the state of Ceara.
PHILOSOPHY
The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union by Anthony T. Flood (Catholic University of America Press; 148 pages; $65). Topics include the medieval philosopher’s view of the relationship between the love of God and the love of self.
Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life by Jacqueline Feke (Princeton University Press; 256 pages; $39.50). A study of the Greco-Roman astronomer that reconstructs his entire philosophical system, including his metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology, as reflected in references throughout his mathematical and astronomical works.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Birth of Democratic Citizenship: Women and Power in Modern Romania by Maria Bucur and Mihaela Miroiu (Indiana University Press; 189 pages; $75 hardcover, $35 paperback). Draws on interviews with women aged 24 to 83 in a study of the experience of postsocialist transition.
Drones and Support for the Use of Force by James Igoe Walsh and Marcus Schulzke (University of Michigan Press; 252 pages; $75). Uses experimental data to examine how the existence of combat drones shapes public attitudes on the use of force.
The Identitarians: The Movement Against Globalism and Islam in Europe by Jose Pedro Zuquete (University of Notre Dame Press; 484 pages; $39). Traces the intellectual origins and activist history of a movement that emerged in France and Italy and has since spread in Europe; includes discussion of links to the American alt-right.
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy From Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro (Yale University Press; 324 pages; $28). Identifies problems with the trend toward decentralization and devolving power to the grassroots, and argues for stronger political parties.
PSYCHOLOGY
The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence Between “Brown” and “The Bell Curve” by Michael E. Staub (University of North Carolina Press; 232 pages; $29.95). Discusses psychological experiments and research in the postwar era and their interplay with public policy and wider culture.
RELIGION
The Adventure of Weak Theology: Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events by Stefan Stofanik (State University of New York Press; 288 pages; $90). Traces the development of the American philosopher’s theological perspective, born formally in his 2006 work The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event.
Bathsheba Survives by Sara M. Koenig (University of South Carolina Press; 192 pages; $49.99). Traces the biblical character’s shifting image---as victim, seductress, and otherwise---from ancient commentaries to present-day novels, films, and music.
The Magdalene in the Reformation by Margaret Arnold (Harvard University Press; 290 pages; $29.95). A study of Mary Magdalene that examines how the saint figured in both Catholic and Protestant culture of the early modern era, including in discussions of women’s religious roles.
Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy by Colleen McDannell (Oxford University Press; 312 pages; $29.95). A social history that challenges stereotypes of Latter-day Saint women.
SOCIOLOGY
French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism by Rick Fantasia (Temple University Press; 220 pages; $104.50 hardcover, $39.95 paperback). Traces the impact of the rise of fast food in France and the mass-market production of factory-processed industrial cuisine.
SPORTS STUDIES
Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues by Lincoln A. Mitchell (Kent State University Press; 264 pages; $39.95). Documents how the New York teams’ 1957 move to Los Angeles and San Francisco increased the fan base and otherwise revitalized Major League baseball.
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