
ANTHROPOLOGY
Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey Into Native Oral Tradition by Rodney Frey (Washington State University Press; 276 pages; $29.95). Combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a discussion of storytelling and ethnography that draws on the author’s collaborative projects with the Crow, Coeur d’Alene, Nez Perce, and Warm Springs tribes.
Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia edited by Hanne Veber and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (University Press of Colorado; 312 pages; $104 hardcover, $37.95 paperback). Writings on indigenous peoples’ perceptions of power in lowland South America, and changing forms of indigenous leadership; groups discussed include the Mentuktire Kayapo, the Ashaninka, and the Kali’na.
Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid by Louise Meintjes (Duke University Press; 338 pages; $94.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). A study of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music in South Africa; draws on fieldwork over decades in Msinga in the KwaZulu Natal.
The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine by Eric Plemons (Duke University Press; 208 pages; $84.95 hardcover, $23.95 paperback). Draws on the accounts of patients and physicians in a study of procedures intended to feminize the faces of transwomen.
Mourning Remains: State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru’s Postwar Andes by Isaias Rojas-Perez (Stanford University Press; 321 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Focuses on the perspectives of elderly, Quechua-speaking mothers from the Ayacucho region in a study of efforts to find, recover, and identify bodies of those “disappeared” during the 1980s and 90s counterinsurgency campaign.
The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism by Jim Igoe (University of Arizona Press; 176 pages; $29.95). Examines how representations of nature and wildlife affect the public imagination, and in turn, shape the perception and proposed solutions of environmental problems.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Mississippian Beginnings edited by Gregory D. Wilson (University Press of Florida; 336 pages; $89.95). Writings that challenge aspects of previous research on the Mississippian cultures of the Midwest and Southeast (AD 1000--1600).
Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida’s Springs by Jason O’Donoughue (University Press of Florida; 245 pages; $74.95). Topics include the ritual and other significance of springs to Florida’s ancient peoples.
Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru edited by Tom D. Dillehay (University of Texas Press; 810 pages; $75). Reports on the archaeological investigation of Preceramic sites in the lower Chicama Valley between 2006 and 2013.
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa by ShiPu Wang (Penn State University Press; 196 pages; $69.95). A comparative study of works by four Asian-American artists---Frank Matsura, Eitaro Ishigaki, Hideo Noda, and Miki Hayakawa---that depict African-Americans, American Indians, and other minorities.
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths by Emily Katz Anhalt (Yale University Press; 268 pages; $30). Focuses on Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Ajax, and Euripides’ Hecuba in a meditation on the lessons that can be drawn from Greek myths on the costs of rage and violent rage.
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and the Shield of Herakles translated by Barry B. Powell (University of California Press; 192 pages; $85 hardcover, $14.95 paperback). Modern verse translation of the Greek poet.
Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in Ovid by Bartolo A. Natoli (University of Wisconsin Press; 227 pages; $69.95). Examines Ovid’s depiction of speech loss in the Metamorphoses and his use of that model to construct his “exilic persona” in Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto.
ECONOMICS
How Much Inequality Is Fair? Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society by Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Columbia University Press; 279 pages; $60). Draws on realms from economics to philosophy to engineering to propose a model of a fair, free-market society; argues that maximizing fairness means maximizing entropy.
Poverty in a Rich Society: The Case of Hong Kong edited by Maggie K.W. Lau and David Gordon (Chinese University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 216 pages; $52). Writings by scholars from Hong Kong and Britain on growing poverty and income inequality in what remains a wealthy, export-oriented financial hub; topics include poverty and health issues, and the effectiveness of public programs.
EDUCATION
Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality by Jack Schneider (Harvard University Press; 326 pages; $27.95). Uses the school district of Somerville, Mass., to test alternative methods of assessing schools’ strengths and weaknesses.
Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing by Annette Vee (MIT Press; 361 pages; $34). Examines parallels between writing and computer programming in terms of notions of needed literacy; argues that a computational mentality is emerging in society despite the fact that coding is still a specialized skill.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Towards Continental Environmental Policy? North American Transnational Networks and Governance edited by Owen Temby and Peter Stoett (State University of New York Press; 432 pages; $95). Essays on such topics as obstacles in the transboundary governance of endangered species, and environmentalists, natural resources, and U.S. fencing along the border with Mexico.
Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia by Timothy Neale (University of Hawai’i Press; 286 pages; $65). Examines a controversy concerning the Wild Rivers Act of 2005 in Cape York Peninsula, a region with fewer than 18,000 people over an area of 50,000 square miles.
FILM STUDIES
The Cinema of Wes Anderson: Bringing Nostalgia to Life by Whitney Crothers Dilley (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 246 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). A critical study of the American director, whose films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Marvelous Bodies: Italy’s New Migrant Cinema by Vetri Nathan (Purdue University Press; 253 pages; $45). Analyzes 13 films from 1990 to 2010 that reflect Italy’s recent history with immigration.
Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II by Kathleen M. German (University Press of Mississippi; 268 pages; $65). Combines perspectives from history, rhetoric, and film studies in an analysis of The Negro Soldier and other government films made to mobilize African-Americans and appeal to their patriotism.
HISTORY
Dispatches From the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod by Ray E. Boomhower (Indiana University Press; 272 pages; $75 hardcover, $24 paperback). Discusses a journalist for Time and Life who reported, firsthand, from the Pacific war, embedded with the Marines.
Dodge City and the Birth of the Wild West by Robert R. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra (University Press of Kansas; 240 pages; $45 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). A study of how the Kansas town came to be known for violence and lawlessness to the point of existing as a cultural metaphor, as in “getting out of Dodge”; topics include the early role played by a local lawyer named Harry Gryden, in contact with the national press during the Dodge City War of 1883.
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker (Beacon Press; 209 pages; $26.95). Traces the unconventional life of the English-born radical abolitionist, who was living in a cave near Philadelphia in 1738 when Benjamin Franklin published his uncompromising book All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates.
The Fires of New England: A Story of Protest and Rebellion in Antebellum America by Eric J. Morser (University of Massachusetts Press; 232 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.95 paperback). Discusses a group of 20 men who met in Keene, N.H., in the winter of 1834 and drafted a manifesto condemning the state’s legal system and calling for an uprising to return to the ideals of the Revolution.
Flying against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II by S.P. MacKenzie (University Press of Kansas; 256 pages; $29.95). A study of how talismans, rituals, and other superstitious objects and behavior figured in the morale of combat fliers.
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique by Nuno Domingos (Ohio University Press; 342 pages; $80 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Focuses on how football figured in Mozambican expressive culture under Portuguese colonialism; focuses on the suburbs of Lourenco Marques (what is today the capital city of Maputo).
Forward with Patton: The World War II Diary of Colonel Robert S. Allen edited by John Nelson Rickard (University Press of Kentucky; 335 pages; $50). Annotated edition of the 1944-45 diary of an intelligence aide to Gen. George S. Patton, but who before the war had been a journalist and a paid informant for the KGB.
Frontiers of Evangelization: Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions by Robert H. Jackson (University of Oklahoma Press; 208 pages; $36.95). Focuses on Franciscan missions in northern New Spain (Mexico) and Jesuit missions in Chiquitos (Bolivia) in a study contrasting the impact of colonization and missionary activity on sedentary and non-sedentary indigenous peoples.
Gerry Studds: America’s First Openly Gay Congressman by Mark Robert Schneider (University of Massachusetts Press; 296 pages; $90 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). A biography of the Massachusetts Democrat, who served in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997.
Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898--1928 by Martin T. Olliff (University of Alabama Press; 264 pages; $49.95). Discusses a Progressive Era-movement that worked to use resources to improve roads for farmers and highways before being eventually supplanted by state and federal government programs.
A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries by Henry Notaker (University of California Press; 400 pages; $39.95). Offers a historical and literary perspective on cookbooks since the late Middle Ages, including how the texts shed light on manners, morals, nutrition, and other realms beyond recipes.
In Haste With Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881-1885 edited by David W. Forbes (University of Hawai’i Press; 256 pages; $45). Includes previously unpublished letters and other writings by the Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonalani.
Lossberg’s War: The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff by Fritz von Lossberg, edited and translated by David T. Zabecki and Dieter J. Biedekarken (University Press of Kentucky; 466 pages; $65). First English publication of the memoir of a German general (1868-1942), known as the “Lion of the Defensive,” who directed almost all the major German defensive battles on the Western Front of World War I.
Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston by Dawn Keetley (University of Massachusetts Press; 272 pages; $90 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Examines explanations at the time for the 12-year-old’s torture of seven small boys, and murder of two other children, and offers an alternative view of Jesse as a psychopath.
A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964--1974 by Seth M. Markle (Michigan State University Press; 296 pages; $39.95). Discusses a period in which African-American and Caribbean leftists, nationalists, and pan-Africanists traveled to and sometimes settled in the East African country.
Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region edited by Michele Grigsby Coffey and Jodi Skipper (University of Georgia Press; 288 pages; $64.95). Essays that reflect efforts to engage across disciplines in studies of the South; topics include blues tourism and racial politics in Clarksdale, Miss.
On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Sean Scalmer (Temple University Press; 232 pages; $74.50 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Traces the history of the stump speech on behalf of a cause, campaign, or candidate; topics include the style of such orators as Davy Crockett, Henry Clay, and William Gladstone.
Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector by Susan Nalezyty (Yale University Press; 275 pages; $85). Topics include how the collection of art and antiquities assembled by the Venetian-born scholar, author, and churchman 1470-1547) served as a source of inspiration for such artists as Titian and such writers as Giovanni della Casa.
Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China, 1127--1279 edited by Joseph S.C. Lam and others (Chinese University Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 352 pages; $60). Writings by cultural historians, literary scholars, an art historian, and a musicologist who reconstruct the sensory experience of the empire and its capital Hangzhou (then called Lin’an); topics include the portrayal of time in Song poetry and painting.
Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate by Paul D. Naish (University of Pennsylvania Press; 287 pages; $55). Draws on novels, diaries, letters, and scientific writings in a study of how in the decades preceding the Civil War, some of the sharpest discourse on slavery had as its object the practice in Latin America, rather than the United States.
The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez (Oxford University Press; 506 pages; $37.50). Draws on memoirs and other writings by veterans in a study of the Soviet military’s direct involvement in support of Egypt in the Six Day War and the following War of Attrition.
Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Melendez (Ohio State University Press; 260 pages; $119.95 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Examines the role of Puerto Rico’s government in both encouraging and organizing immigration to the mainland from the late 1940s to the 1960s.
Stewart Udall: Steward of the Land by Thomas G. Smith (University of New Mexico Press; 415 pages; $34.95). A biography of the politician and environmentalist (1920-2010), who served three terms as a U.S. Congressman from Arizona and as Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 by Heather Vrana (University of California Press; 352 pages; $85 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Documents the significance to Guatemalan politics and society of activism by students from the University of San Carlos, the country’s only public university.
Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England by Erika Gasser (New York University Press; 272 pages; $35). A study of how patriarchal power figured in cases involving charges of witchcraft and demonic possession in early modern England and colonial New England.
West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle: A History of Mentality and Recovery by Armin Grunbacher (Bloomsbury Academic; 224 pages; $114). Examines the self-perceptions, worldview, influence, and business conduct of German industrialists in the wake of World War II and the Nazi era, including their efforts to rehabilitate their reputations.
Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State by Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello (Cornell University Press; 312 pages; $29.95). Documents the diverse body of activists who won women the vote through a 1917 referendum in the state.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science by Basil Mahon (Prometheus Books; 288 pages; $26). A biography of the English self-taught mathematical physicist and polymath (1850-1925) who played a major role in the development and applications of electromagnetic theory.
HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War by Edward Jones-Imhotep (MIT Press; 287 pages; $35). Draws on recently declassified material in a study of efforts to extend reliable radio communications to the remote Canadian North; describes how officials and scientists linked the natural and “machinic” orders to represent the vulnerability of the Cold War state.
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
The Age of Monopoly Capital: Selected Correspondence of Paul M. Sweezy and Paul A. Baran, 1949-1964 edited by Nicholas Baran and John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review Press, distributed by New York University Press; 544 pages; $59). Edition of correspondence that documents the intellectual collaboration that preceded Monopoly Capital (1966), the seminal work by the two Marxist economists, who were based on opposite coasts.
LAW
All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868--1968 by W. Lewis Burke (University of Georgia Press; 344 pages; $64.95). Examines the experiences of black lawyers who were among 188 African-Americans admitted to the state’s bar during the period, starting with Reconstruction.
Civil Justice Reconsidered: Toward a Less Costly, More Accessible Litigation System by Steven P. Croley (New York University Press; 304 pages; $55). Proposes reforms for the civil-litigation system in the United States that would reduce costs and increase access.
LITERATURE
Appropriating Theory: Angel Rama’s Critical Work by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez (University of Pittsburgh Press; 240 pages; $28.95). A study of the Uruguayan writer and critic (1928-83) that focuses on his reworking of the theories of such European critics as Benjamin, Lukacs, and Adorno to address issues in Latin America.
Coming Too Late: Reflections on Freud and Belatedness by Andrew Barnaby (State University of New York Press; 307 pages; $90). Argues that Freud’s notion of a son’s ambivalent relationship with his father is not demonstrative of sexual rivalry for the mother under the Oedipus complex, but rather the existential situation of belatedness or coming after; draws on Freud’s own readings of biblical and other texts.
Generous Mistakes: Incidents of Error in Henry James by Michael Anesko (Oxford University Press; 133 pages; $70). Focuses on The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors in a study of errors of composition and editorial practice in the texts’ construction, and errors as a theme of both novels.
The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald by Deborah Pike (University of Missouri Press; 301 pages; $45). Draws on previously unpublished sources in a study that reevaluates Fitzgerald’s work as an artist and writer.
Walter Map and the Matter of Britain by Joshua Byron Smith (University of Pennsylvania Press; 254 pages; $69.95). Explores issues of narrative transmission in a study of how Map (died circa 1209-10), a writer and churchman from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands, came to be mistakenly identified as the author of the French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Walter Scott and Fame: Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age by Robert Mayer (Oxford University Press; 221 pages; $90). Focuses on letters held in the National Library of Scotland in a study of ideas of authorship put forth in the British writer’s correspondence with his readers---famed and otherwise; covers 1802 to 1832, the year of Scott’s death.
MUSIC
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen (Princeton University Press; 512 pages; $39.95). Traces the interplay of opera and politics beginning with the musical genre’s emergence under Medici absolutism.
PHILOSOPHY
As If: Idealization and Ideals by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Harvard University Press; 218 pages; $27.95). Draws on the German philosopher Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) in a discussion of idealization and the usefulness of strategic untruths in political philosophy and other realms.
Causal Powers edited by Jonathan D. Jacobs (Oxford University Press; 232 pages; $70). Essays that offer a largely anti-Humean perspective on causal powers; topics include reciprocity without symmetry in causation.
Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: The Image of Nature by Michael James Bennett (Bloomsbury Academic; 277 pages; $114). Focuses on the Stoics, Aristotle, and Epicurus in a study of the French philosopher and his appropriation of concepts from Greek philosophy.
Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics edited by Joerg Tuske (Bloomsbury Academic; 436 pages; $114). Focuses on thinkers from before AD 1700 in essays on such themes as consciousness and the external world, universals and momentary existence, and self, no-self, and self-knowledge.
Ponderings XII--XV: Black Notebooks 1939--1941 by Martin Heidegger, translated by Richard Rojcewicz (Indiana University Press; 227 pages; $60). Third in a translation of five notebooks kept between 1931 and 1938 that shed light on Heidegger’s philosophical development as well as his links to Nazism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Constructions of Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy edited by Michael Stohl, Richard Burchill, and Scott Englund (University of California Press; 256 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Topics include legal understandings of terrorism, terrorism as performance violence, the construction of state terrorism, and whether different definitions of terrorism alter understandings of causality.
The Development Dance: How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid by Haley J. Swedlund (Cornell University Press; 200 pages; $95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Examines factors that shape when and how foreign aid is delivered, and how certain practices prove politically unsustainable; sources include interviews with individuals representing donors and recipients in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda as well as an original survey of donor officials working across 20 sub-Saharan countries.
The Pragmatist: Bill de Blasio’s Quest to Save the Soul of New York by Joseph P. Viteritti (Oxford University Press; 272 pages; $29.95). Uses de Blasio’s efforts in New York as a case study of the viability of progressivism.
Wartime Sexual Violence: From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War by Kerry F. Crawford (Georgetown University Press; 213 pages; $89.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Traces shifts in international views of sexual violence in war through case studies of the US response in relation to the DR Congo, the adoption of UN resolution 1820, and a British initiative.
When Informal Institutions Change: Institutional Reforms and Informal Practices in the Former Soviet Union by Huseyn Aliyev (University of Michigan Press; 296 pages; $80). Focuses on Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine in a study of what happens when democratic institutional reforms are brought to bear on informal institutions in transitional societies.
PSYCHOLOGY
The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled by Jason Schnittker (Columbia University Press; 368 pages; $35). Offers a sociological perspective on the diverse actors and interests that form the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism by Thomas Joiner (Oxford University Press; 214 pages; $29.95). Documents how mindfulness, a concept and practice with Buddhist roots, has been derailed by commercialism and a culture of self-importance.
RELIGION
Alan Watts---In the Academy: Essays and Lectures by Alan Watts, edited by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice (State University of New York Press; 390 pages; $95). Writings on language and mysticism, Zen Buddhism, psychedelics, and other topics by the British writer and philosopher (1915-73), who was known for his popularization of Eastern traditions in the West.
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue translated by Jeffrey L. Broughton with Elise Yoko Watanabe (Oxford University Press; 394 pages; $99). Annotated and first complete English translation of a Chan Buddhist epistolary work comprising the letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher (1069-1163) to 40 scholar-officials and two other Chan masters.
On the Body of the Lord by Albert the Great, translated by Albert Marie Surmanski (Catholic University of America Press; 472 pages; $39.95). First English publication of a work written by the German Dominican Albertus Magnus in the 1270s---a treatise on the Eucharist as grace, gift, food, communion, sacrifice, and sacrament.
Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle by Paula Fredriksen (Yale University Press; 319 pages; $35). Examines Paul’s witness to the gentile pagans in the context of his belief in an imminent end of time; argues that the apostle lived his life entirely within his native Judaism.
The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans by Almeda Wright (Oxford University Press; 332 pages; $29.95). Focuses on black Christian youth who experience a fracturing or fragmentation in their spirituality.
The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Ing (Oxford University Press; 293 pages; $99). Documents variations in Confucian thought regarding vulnerability in integrity, including thinkers who argued that a concern for others could, and possibly should, have us do things that compromise ourselves.
RHETORIC
Words Are Weapons: Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror by Philippe-Joseph Salazar, translated by Dorna Khazeni (Yale University Press; 242 pages; $30). Considers how the profession of faith figures in the power of the self-declared Islamic State’s rhetoric, and examines how Western discourse can overcome a “rhetorical disarmament.”
SOCIOLOGY
The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members by Vanessa R. Panfil (New York University Press; 288 pages; $89 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on fieldwork in Columbus, Ohio, including interviews with more than 50 gay gang- and crime-involved men.
Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement by Amada Armenta (University of California Press; 212 pages; $34.95). Focuses on law enforcement and the local jail in Nashville, Tenn., and their participation in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g).
Representing Talent: Hollywood Agents and the Making of Movies by Violaine Roussel (University of Chicago Press; 245 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). A sociological study of Hollywood talent agents that draws on interviews and observations of the industry from the smallest outfits to giant agencies.
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran by Kevan Harris (University of California Press; 325 pages; $85 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Draws on fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2011 in a study of how programs expanding health, education, and social benefits in Iran have both embedded the Islamic Republic in Iranians’ everyday lives while empowering resistance to the regime.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics by Eva Kit Wah Man (State University of New York Press; 282 pages; $52). Topics include whether Confucian and Daoist thought can provide alternative body ontologies for critical feminism.
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