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Deng Xiaoping’s Long War: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991XIAOMING ZHANG • The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in

1979 shocked the international community. • The two communist nations had seemed firm

political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decade long conflict.

• In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s desire to modernize his country.

The New Cold War History.

Pbk | 296pp | 9781469642345 | 2018.01 The University of North Carolina Press A$51.99 | NZ$62 | 235x155mm | USA

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66GEOFFREY ROBINSON • The genocide you’ve never heard of –

the violent anti-communist campaign in Indonesia, 1965-66.

• New findings on US and British roles in the mass killings and detentions of 1965-66, within the context of the Cold War (the people killed and detained were members of Indonesia’s Communist party). Also, new evidence of Indonesian Army responsibility for crimes against humanity, including genocide.

• Tie-in to the findings of the 2016 International Peoples Tribunal, as well as the award-winning Oppenheimer films – The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.

Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity.“Of the world’s mass killings since 1945, the genocide in Indonesia stands out as remaining unfamiliar to many, and still presenting unsolved questions while possessing high death tolls. This book is essential for understanding the Indonesian tragedy and why humans sometimes do terrible things on a vast scale.” — Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles

Hbk | 424pp | 9780691161389 | 2018.01 Princeton University Press | A$67 | NZ$79 | USA

From Byron to bin Laden: A History of Foreign War VolunteersNIR ARIELLI • What makes people fight and risk their lives

for countries other than their own? • Why did diverse individuals such as Lord

Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes?

• Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the wars of the French Revolution to the civil war in Syria.

• Challenging narrow contemporary interpretations of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli opens up a broad range of questions about individuals’ motivations and their political and social context, exploring such matters as ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war.

Hbk | 264pp | 9780674979567 | 2017.12 Harvard University Press | A$63 | NZ$74 235x156mm | USA

The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of DowntimeETHAN TUSSEY • In moments of downtime – waiting for a friend

to arrive or commuting to work – we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction: mobile devices have taken over the interstitial spaces of our everyday lives.

• Ethan Tussey argues that these in-between moments have created a procrastination economy, an opportunity for entertainment companies to create products, apps, platforms, subscription services, micropayments, and interactive opportunities that can colonize our everyday lives.

“Ethan Tussey offers an exciting and foundational concept—the ‘procrastination economy’—that is sure to have a long life and change the way we think about entertainment and mobile technology. Insightful and original, incorporating both industry insight and audience use, this book takes a smart approach to a new media phenomenon.” — Amanda D. Lotz, author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television

Hbk | 256pp | 9781479844234 | 2018.01 NYU Press | A$49.99 | NZ$58.99 | USA

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ARCHITECTUREBeauty’s Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi NerviTHOMAS LESLIEBorn in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that matched awe-inspiring spans with surprisingly human scale. Beauty’s Rigor offers a comprehensive overview of Nervi’s long career. Drawing on the Nervi archives and a wealth of photographs and architectural drawings, Thomas Leslie explores celebrated buildings like Palazetto dello Sport built for the 1960 Rome Olympics, St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. He also sheds new light on unbuilt projects such as the Pavilion of Italian Civilization for the Universal Exposition of Rome E42. 164 black and white photographs.“A superbly conceived and argued presentation of the work of a designer who commands a surprisingly meager bibliography despite his historical importance, contemporary relevance, and stunning corpus of masterful designs that are still prominent in the cityscapes of two continents. In addition to reproducing rarely seen documents Leslie has used them to create not only verbal but visual analysis. His passion and commitment shine through the text.” — Barry Bergdoll, author of European Architecture: 1750–1890

Hbk | 232pp | 9780252041129 | 2017.10 University of Illinois Press | A$87 | NZ$102 279x203mm | USA

Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist WorldDALE GYUREBorn to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional considerations of postwar American architecture with traditional elements such as arches and colonnades. Yamasaki’s celebrated and iconic projects of the 1950s and ’60s, including the Lambert–St. Louis Airport and the U.S. Science Pavilion in Seattle, garnered popular acclaim. In the first book to examine Yamasaki’s life and career, Dale Allen Gyure draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, and nearly 200 images, to contextualize his work against the framework of midcentury modernism and explore his initial successes, his personal struggles - including with racism - and the tension his work ultimately found in the divide between popular and critical taste. 70 color and 119 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780300217094 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$105 | NZ$125 | UK

Pictures of the Floating Microcosm: New Representations of Japanese ArchitectureOLIVIER MEYSTREThe success of any architectural project depends on the architect’s ability to depict it. Conveying architectural ideas as drawings, pictures, or models is both a critical part of the process and one that can tell us much about the design itself in a particular time or place. Over the past two decades, major new trends in architectural representation have emerged in Japan, which have gained widespread attention in the western world. Pictures of The Floating Microcosm considers these trends and takes readers through their development to the present day. Olivier Meystre undertakes a critique of the design tools and mediation techniques that have been employed and reveals the very special ways of conceiving an architectural project, drawing on a wealth of new research and interviews with contemporary Japanese architects. 165 color plates and 108 halftones.

Hbk | 240pp | 9783038600541 | 2017.12 Park Books | A$69 | NZ$81 298x210mm | USA

Prefab Housing and the Future of Building: Product to ProcessMATHEW AITCHISONRichly illustrated and drawing on historical examples and contemporary design studies, this book takes the reader through the history, theory and design of prefabricated and modular housing, leading up to a discussion of contemporary problems and opportunities. Including a broad international survey, wide ranging interviews, case studies of leading designers and companies, and cutting-edge research in the field, it suggests a future scenario for industrialized building that will both challenge those professions concerned with the design and production of the built environment, and stimulate the public imagination. 40 colour and 70 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 176pp | 9781848222182 | 2017.12 LH Professional | A$94.99 | NZ$110 250x190mm | UK

Seth Stein ArchitectsKENNETH POWELLSince Seth Stein founded his practice in 1990, he has gained an international reputation and numerous awards for creating extraordinary buildings, both residential and commercial. There is a strong sense of place in his projects, as a country house curves around the contours of a ridge, making the most of its vantage over the sea, or a futuristic urban interior is juxtaposed within an elegant listed structure, revitalising it for contemporary living.This monograph aims not only to bring together the full range of Seth Stein Architects projects for the first time, but in doing so, to offer insights into the practice ethos and design processes, setting them within context and exploring key issues and themes. 80 colour and 50 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 160pp | 9781848222397 | 2017.12 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$94.99 | NZ$110 | 270x249mm | UK

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Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred NeumannRAFI SEGALAlfred Neumann (1900–1968) was a Czech architect whose work was wrought in the context of postwar modernism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Today, his influence and impact have been largely forgotten, but, in their time, Neumann’s original designs received praise and elicited controversy in almost equal measure, offering exciting new possibilities to the modernist mainstream.Space Packed renews attention to this pioneering architect who made a vast contribution to modern architecture and had a lasting impact on Israel’s broader architectural culture. It celebrates the career of this highly skilled and innovative architect, and it will be welcomed by architects and architectural historians. 42 color plates and 278 halftones.

Hbk | 352pp | 9783038600558 | 2017.12 Park Books | A$88 | NZ$105 248x190mm | USA

ARTThe Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and InnovationsCAROL SOLTIS Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America’s first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With discussions of both internationally famous masterworks such as Charles Willson Peale’s Staircase Group and lesser-known but equally engaging pictures including Rubens Peale’s Magpie Eating Cake, Carol Eaton Soltis traces the family’s history and reveals how the Peales’ energy, innovation, and entrepreneurship paved the way for generations of American artists. 225 color and 25 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 400pp | 9780300229363 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$99.99 | NZ$115 | UK

Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News PictureJASON HILLActive from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism - and it prioritized the intelligent and critical activation of both pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention into the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. 113 color images.

Hbk | 392pp | 9780520291430 | 2017.12 University of California Press | A$104 | NZ$126 254x178mm | USA

Chiura Obata: An American ModernSHIPU WANGThis catalogue is the first book surveying Chiura Obata’s rich and varied body of work that includes over 100 beautiful images, many of which have never been published. It also showcases a selection of Obata’s writings and a rare 1965 interview with the artist. The scholarly essays by ShiPu Wang and the other contributors illuminate the intense and productive cross-cultural negotiations that Obata’s life and work exemplify, in the context of both American modernism and the early twentieth-century U.S. racio-ethnic relations - a still-understudied area in American art historical scholarship. 100 color illustrations.


Coming Away: Winslow Homer and EnglandELIZABETH ATHENS, BRANDON RUUD AND MARTHA TEDESCHIWinslow Homer (1836–1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The eighteen months Homer spent in England in 1881 and 1882 - studying the work of masters such as J. M. W. Turner and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and exploring the landscape of coastal villages - irrevocably shaped his creative identity. This beautifully designed and produced publication explores Homer’s time in England and how it influenced his art, as he attempted to reconcile his affinity for traditional subject matter with his increasingly modern aesthetic vision. Coming Away complicates our understanding of his work and convincingly argues that it has more cosmopolitan underpinnings than previously thought. 70 color illustrations.

Hbk | 160pp | 9780300229905 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$59.99 | NZ$69.99 | UK

David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and InterviewsDAVID SMITH AND SUSAN COOKEThis comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist David Smith (1906–1965). A pioneer of twentieth-century modernism, Smith was renowned for the expansive formal and conceptual ambitions of his broadly diverse and inventive welded-steel abstractions. His groundbreaking achievements drew freely on cubism, surrealism, and constructivism, profoundly influencing later movements such as minimalism and environmental art. By radically challenging older conventions of monolithic figuration and refuting arbitrary distinctions between painters and sculptors, Smith asserted sculpture’s equal role in advancing modern art. 28 color photos and 11 black and white illustrations.Documents of Twentieth-Century Art.

Pbk | 496pp | 9780520291881 | 2018.01 University of California Press A$54.99 | NZ$64.99 | 254x178mm | USA

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Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish ArtBEN SCHACHTERContemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment’s prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of Jewish thought and a century of criticism and interpretation, Ben Schachter advocates instead a new approach focused on action and process.A compellingly written challenge to traditionalism, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art makes a well-argued case for artistic production, interpretation, and criticism that revels in the dual foundation of Judaism and art history. 24 color illustrations.

Pbk | 136pp | 9780271079127 | 2017.11 Penn State University Press | A$53.99 | NZ$64 203x152mm | USA

Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820LIAM GILLICKIn Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art’s engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life, which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works. 50 black and white illustrations.Bampton Lectures in America.

Pbk | 208pp | 9780231170215 | 2017.12 Columbia University Press | A$45.99 | NZ$53.99 203x152mm | USA

Outliers and American Vanguard ArtLYNNE COOKESince the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom it draws selectively and intermittently into its orbits. For a new exhibition launching at the National Gallery of Art, curator Lynne Cooke explores shifting conceptualizations of the American outlier across the twentieth century, drawing on the inherent sociality of the exhibition in her installation of these works. This companion catalog, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, offers a fantastic opportunity to consider works by schooled and self-taught creators in relation to each other and defined by historical circumstance. 450 color plates.

Hbk | 448pp | 9780226522272 | 2018.01 University of Chicago Press A$125 | NZ$150 | USA

Wayne Thiebaud: 1958-1968RACHEL TEAGLEWayne Thiebaud: 1958–1968 examines Thiebaud’s ongoing impact on contemporary art through in-depth analysis of the paintings and drawings made at the launch of his career, at a seminal moment when the art world was moving beyond Abstract Expressionism and redefining itself. By questioning Thiebaud’s relationship to Pop art, his self-imposed distance from the movement, and the popular urge to affiliate him with it, Teagle explores the role of his painting in the traffic of images at the end of the twentieth century. Organized in close cooperation with the artist, this is the first study of the emergence of Thiebaud’s mature style and the only museum exhibition to date to delve into a specific period of his production. 100 color images.

Hbk | 176pp | 9780520294462 | 2017.12 University of California Press | A$89.99 | NZ$110 267x241mm | USA

BIOGRAPHYCalder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940JED PERLThis is the first biography of America’s greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with enduring appeal. One of our most beloved modern artists, Calder is celebrated above all as the inventor of the mobile. Only now is the full story of his life being told in a gloriously illustrated biography, which features unseen photographs and is based on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to Calder’s papers. 400 color and black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 704pp | 9780300233315 | 2017.10 Yale University Press | A$79.99 | NZ$94.99 235x187mm | UK

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist RadicalSHERIE RANDOLPHOften photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist. Rather than simply reacting to the predominantly white feminist movement, Kennedy brought the lessons of Black Power to white feminism and built bridges in the struggles against racism and sexism. Randolph narrates Kennedy’s progressive upbringing, her pathbreaking graduation from Columbia Law School, and her long career as a media-savvy activist, showing how Kennedy rose to founding roles in organizations.Gender and American Culture.


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Philo of Alexandria: An Intellectual BiographyMAREN NIEHOFFPhilo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that his trip to Rome in 38 CE was a turning point in his life. There he was exposed to not only new political circumstances but also a new cultural and philosophical environment. Following the po grom in Alexandria, Philo became active as an intellectual in the capital of the Empire, responding to the challenges of his time and creatively reconstructing his identity, though always maintaining pride in the Jewish tradition. Philo’s trajectory from Alexandria to Rome and his enthusiastic adoption of new modes of thought rendered him a keen figure in the complex negotiation between East and West.The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.


Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political CartoonsFIONA HALLORANThomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast’s legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly magazine. Throughout his career, his drawings provided a pointed critique that forced readers to confront the contradictions around them. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran focuses not just on Nast’s political cartoons for Harper’s but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics and highlights the many contradictions in his own life: he was an immigrant who attacked immigrant communities, a supporter of civil rights who portrayed black men as foolish children in need of guidance, and an enemy of corruption and hypocrisy who idolized Ulysses S. Grant.


A Year of Writing Dangerously: A Scholarly Detective Story of the Lost GenerationKEITH GANDALHow do you write a book? In A Year of Writing Dangerously, Gandal recounts the serendipitous bumps and perils of a sabbatical year spent researching and writing about the Lost Generation. Unsparingly funny and poignant, the book explores the sometimes surprising connections between people, documents, and ideas that define the creative process.With wit and wisdom, Gandal shows how writing a book is a lot like taking up competitive tennis, with the same pitfalls, characters, and opportunities that confront writers everywhere. A Year of Writing Dangerously is a must-read for any writer, scholar, or part-time athlete looking for enlightenment.

Hbk | 288pp | 9781421423944 | 2017.12 Johns Hopkins University Press A$47.99 | NZ$55.99 | 229x152mm | USA

COMMUNICATIONAntisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital EconomyGREG GOLDBERGIn this timely critique, Greg Goldberg examines the fear that work is being eviscerated by digital technology. He argues that it is not actually the degradation or disappearance of work that is so troubling, but rather the underlying notion that society itself is under attack, and more specifically the bonds of responsibility on which social relations depend. Rather than rushing to the defense of the social, however, Goldberg instead imagines the appeal of refusing the hard work of being a responsible and productive member of society. Postmillennial Pop.

Pbk | 224pp | 9781479821907 | 2017.12 NYU Press | A$48.99 | NZ$57.99 229x152mm | USA

The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media FreedomJOEL SIMONJournalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda.Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on “global citizens,” U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. Columbia Journalism Review Books.

Pbk | 248pp | 9780231160650 | 2017.12 Columbia University Press | A$36.99 | NZ$42.99 210x140mm | USA

CULTURAL STUDIESThe Stalled Revolution: Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?EVA TUTCHELL AND JOHN EDMONDS100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the campaigns—the excitement, the solidarity, the suffering and the humour. The tragedy is that, after hard-won successes, the revolution has stalled and equality for women is still a distant dream. Today men are paid more and occupy nearly 80% of the most powerful jobs across society. The Stalled Revolution poses a vital question about the future: Are women ready to draw inspiration from past successes and take a third leap forward towards equality?

Hbk | 224pp | 9781787146020 | 2017.12 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$52.99 | NZ$62 229x152mm | UK

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Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and ResistanceROBERT MCRUER Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture - activism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance - provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives. The book engages various cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle surrounding the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; the murder trial of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius; the photography of Brazilian artist Livia Radwanski which documents the gentrification of Colonia Roma in Mexico City; the defiance of Chilean students demanding a free and accessible education for all; and the problematic rhetoric of “aspiration” dependent upon both able-bodied and disabled figurations that emerged in Thatcher’s England. 49 black and white illustrations. Crip. “A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics. McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward.” — Jack Halberstam, author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

Pbk | 320pp | 9781479874156 | 2017.12 NYU Press | A$56.99 | NZ$67 229x152mm | USA

Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism SHELLEY STREEBYFrom the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series Anamata Future News have all envisioned future worlds in the wake of imminent environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the Earth’s sustainability. Today real world social movements helmed by Indigenous people and people of color are leading the way against the greatest threat to our environment: the fossil fuel industry. It is through these stories and movements by Natives and people of color - both in the real world and imagined through science fiction - that we understand the relationship between culture and activism and how both can be a valuable tool in creating our future. American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present.

Pbk | 156pp | 9780520294455 | 2017.12 University of California Press A$31.99 | NZ$36.99 | 210x140mm | USA

FILM AND TELEVISIONDon’t Look NowJESSICA GILDERSLEEVENicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973) has been called “a ghost story for adults.” Certainly, in contrast to the more explicitly violent and bloodthirsty horror films of the 1970s, Don’t Look Now seems of an entirely different order. Yet this supernaturally inflected tale of a child’s accidental drowning, and her parents’ desperate simultaneous recoil from her death and pursuit of her ghost, Don’t Look Now is horrific at every turn. This book argues for it as a particular kind of horror film, one which depends utterly on the narrative of trauma - on the horror of unknowing, of seeing too late, and of the failures of paternal authority and responsibility. This study works to position Don’t Look Now within a discourse of midcentury anxiety narratives primarily existing in literary texts. 20 black and white illustrations. Devil’s Advocates.

Pbk | 124pp | 9781911325482 | 2017.12 Auteur | A$27.99 | NZ$31.99 190x140mm | USA

New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre MARTIN SHUSTEREven though it’s frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as “chewing gum for the mind” really disappeared.Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art form, full of promise and urgency, and in New Television, he offers a strong philosophical justification for its importance. Through careful analysis of shows including The Wire, Justified, and Weeds, among others; and European and Anglophone philosophers, such as Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger; Shuster reveals how various contemporary television series engage deeply with aesthetic and philosophical issues in modernism and modernity. 11 halftones.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780226503950 | 2017.12 University of Chicago Press | A$51.99 | NZ$60 229x152mm | USA

Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web TelevisionAYMAR CHRISTIANBefore HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s real-life friendship. These unconventional stories took advantage of the freedom afforded outside the traditional television system: online. Open TV shows how we have left “the network era” far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences.Postmillennial Pop.

Pbk | 320pp | 9781479815975 | 2017.12 NYU Press | A$56.99 | NZ$67 229x152mm | USA


PsychomaniaI HUNTER AND JAMIE SHERRYPsychomania (also known as The Death Wheelers, 1973), a zombie biker horror film directed by Don Sharp and written by two blacklisted American screenwriters, Arnaud d’Usseau and Julian Halevy [Zimet], is a summit of British trash cinema. A throwaway movie, quickly made but not (to the chagrin of the cast) quickly forgotten when caught on late night TV, it is a succession of wonderfully photogenic moments that defy conventional categories of good and bad film-making and an exercise in unwitting Surrealism. This Devil’s Advocate revives the living dead once again. Drawing on archive materials and interviews, it covers the film’s production, reception and cult afterlife on TV, video and the internet, as well as setting it in the context of the British horror film and comprehensively analyzing its rich political and psychogeographical subtexts. 20 black and white illustrations.Devil’s Advocates.

Pbk | 124pp | 9781911325505 | 2017.12 Auteur | A$27.99 | NZ$31.99 190x140mm | USA

Wes AndersonDONNA KORNHABERThe Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent eclecticism. Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson’s style as the necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his body of work. Using Anderson’s focus on collecting, Kornhaber situates the director as the curator of his filmic worlds, a prime mover who artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive collections and taxonomies. As Kornhaber shows, Anderson’s films offer nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of belonging - told by characters who possess it the least. 25 black and white photgraphs.Contemporary Film Directors.“A decisive account of Anderson’s movies, alive to their obvious charms, undaunted by their limits, and dedicated to activating their hidden potentials. This slim volume is both a sure introduction to Anderson’s cinema and an authoritative reframing of the critical consensus. Anderson is the cinematic collector par excellence, and in this beautifully written study, Kornhaber plunges into the causes and consequences of that obsession in new and trenchant ways.” — J. D. Connor, author of The Studios after the Studios: Neoclassical Hollywood, 1970–2010

Pbk | 194pp | 9780252082726 | 2017.08 University of Illinois Press | A$41.99 | NZ$47.99 209x139mm | USA

HISTORYAcross the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio DEREK VAILLANTIn 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting’s political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting institutions that shaped international radio’s use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. History of Communication.

Pbk | 264pp | 9780252082931 | 2017.10 University of Illinois Press | A$54.99 | NZ$66 228x152mm | USA

Shame: A Brief HistoryPETER STEARNSShame varies as an individual experience and in its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame’s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame’s history and how this history contributes to contemporary issues around the emotion. Summarizing current research, Stearns unpacks the major debates that surround this complex emotion. He also surveys the changing role of shame in the United States from the nineteenth century to today, including shame’s revival as a force in the 1960s and its place in today’s social media.History of Emotions.“Shame: A Brief History takes the reader on a breathtaking journey examining shame and shaming practices around the globe and through the ages. Stearns deftly delineates continuities and discontinuities across time and cultures, integrating key perspectives from psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics and more. This masterful work is delightfully written and thought provoking, exploring the uses of shame across multiple domains—education, childrearing, penology, international politics, to name a few. For better or worse, shame is with us—past, present, and future.” — June P. Tangney, coeditor of Shame in the Therapy Hour



The Continuity of the Conquest: Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman ImperialismWENDY HOOFNAGLEThe Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights. An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and the problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history.

Pbk | 208pp | 9780271074023 | 2017.12 Penn State University Press | A$54.99 | NZ$66 229x152mm | USA

The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold WarMICHAEL MORGANThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Curtain. The Final Act is the first in-depth account of the diplomatic saga that produced this historic agreement. Drawing on research in eight countries and multiple languages, this gripping book explains the Final Act’s emergence from the parallel crises of the Soviet bloc and the West during the 1960s, the strategies of the major players, and the conflicting designs for international order that animated the negotiations.America in the World.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780691176062 | 2017.12 Princeton University Press | A$65 | NZ$77 235x152mm | USA

France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern RepublicHERRICK CHAPMANAt the end of World War II, France’s greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. Recovery required the nation’s complete economic and social transformation. But just what form this “new France” should take remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the Algerian War ended, over a decade later. Herrick Chapman charts the course of France’s long reconstruction from 1944 to 1962, offering fresh insights into the ways the expansion of state power, intended to spearhead recovery, produced fierce controversies at home and unintended consequences abroad in France’s crumbling empire.

Hbk | 368pp | 9780674976412 | 2017.12 Harvard University Press | A$82 | NZ$98 235x156mm | USA

The Mind of ThucydidesJACQUELINE ROMILLYThe publication of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach offered the most productive and nuanced way to study Thucydides. Still in print in the original French, the book has influenced numerous Classicists and historians, and is now available in English for the first time in a careful translation by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.

Pbk | 216pp | 9781501714825 | 2017.12 Cornell University Press | A$39.99 | NZ$46.99 229x152mm | USA

Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic WorldCHRISTOPHE PICARD“How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?” These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the Romans, was critical to establishing the kingdom of the caliphs and for introducing the new religion to Europe and Africa. Over time, it also became a pathway to commercial and political dominion, indispensable to the prosperity and influence of the Islamic world. Sea of the Caliphs returns Muslim sailors to their place of prominence in the history of the Islamic caliphate.

Hbk | 314pp | 9780674660465 | 2017.12 A$64 | NZ$76 | 235x156mm | USA Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern EmpireKELLY O’NEILLRussia’s long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O’Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial “quiet conquest” of a region that has once again moved to the forefront of international affairs. O’Neill traces the impact of Russian rule on the diverse population of the former khanate, which included Muslim, Christian, and Jewish residents. She discusses the arduous process of establishing the empire’s social, administrative, and cultural institutions in a region that had been governed according to a dramatically different logic for centuries. With careful attention to how officials and subjects thought about the spaces they inhabited, O’Neill’s work reveals the lasting influence of Crimea and its people on the Russian imperial system, and sheds new light on the precarious contemporary relationship between Russia and the famous Black Sea peninsula.

Hbk | 384pp | 9780300218299 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$115 | NZ$135 | UK

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Spy Chiefs: Volume 1: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United KingdomCHRISTOPHER MORAN, MARK STOUT, IOANNA IORDANOU AND PAUL MADDRELLIn literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence?This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the United States and United Kingdom from the early 1940s to the present. The figures profiled range from famous spy chiefs such as William Donovan, Richard Helms, and Stewart Menzies to little-known figures such as John Grombach, who ran an intelligence organization so secret that not even President Truman knew of it. “The contributors to this unique volume cut through the mystique and secrecy surrounding many of the men and women who once stood at the apex of British and American intelligence. Their fascinating accounts illustrate the quirks, brilliance, and failures of the leaders who not only shaped organizational cultures, but also the role of intelligence in national policy.” — James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

Pbk | 352pp | 9781626165199 | 2018.01 Georgetown University Press A$56.99 | NZ$68 | USA

Spy Chiefs: Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and AsiaPAUL MADDRELL, CHRISTOPHER MORAN, MARK STOUT AND IOANNA IORDANOUThis second volume of Spy Chiefs goes beyond the commonly studied spy chiefs of the United States and the United Kingdom to examine leaders from Renaissance Venice to the Soviet Union, Germany, India, Egypt, and Lebanon in the twentieth century. It provides a close-up look at intelligence leaders, good and bad, in the different political contexts of the regimes they served. The contributors to the volume try to answer the following questions: how do intelligence leaders operate in these different national, institutional and historical contexts? What role have they played in the conduct of domestic affairs and international relations? How much power have they possessed? How have they led their agencies and what qualities make an effective intelligence leader? How has their role differed according to the political character of the regime they have served? Also available as a 2 volume set: Spy Chiefs: Volumes 1 and 2 (9781626165250) A$114, NZ$139.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781626165229 | 2018.01 Georgetown University Press A$64 | NZ$76 | USA

The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth CenturyPATRICK GRIFFINPatrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain’s mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences of their efforts. As British chancellor of the exchequer in 1767, Charles Townshend instituted fiscal policy that served as a catalyst for American rebellion against the Crown, while his brother George’s actions at the same moment as lord lieutenant of Ireland politicized the kingdom, leading to Irish legislative independence. This fascinating study is the first to consider as a linked history the influence of two all-but-forgotten brothers, both of whom rose to national prominence in the same year. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History.


LITERATUREHamlet and the Vision of DarknessRHODRI LEWISHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare’s engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a Hamlet unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare’s age are scrupulously upended. A major contribution to Shakespeare studies, this book is required reading for all students of early modern literature, drama, culture, and history.


J. G. Ballard D HARLAN WILSONProphetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard’s combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy - even legal action - while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions.Modern Masters of Science Fiction.


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Transporting ChaucerHELEN BARRDrawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others. Chaucer’s playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later - and earlier - texts. Responding to this, the book presents innovative readings of the relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, literary texts and material culture. It re-energises conventional models of source and analogue study to reveal unexpected - and sometimes unsettling - literary cohabitations. At the same time, it exposes how associations between architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer’s oeuvre and what gets made of it.Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.

Pbk | 304pp | 9781526123763 | 2017.09 Manchester University Press A$48.99 | NZ$57.99 | 216x138mm | UK

MUSICBuilding New Banjos for an Old-Time WorldRICHARD JONES-BAMMANBanjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads - asked to meet the modern musician’s needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo’s sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman ventures into workshops and old-time music communities to explore how banjo builders practice their art. His interviews and long-time personal immersion in the musical culture shed light on long-overlooked aspects of banjo making. What is the banjo builder’s role in the creation of a specific musical community? What techniques go into the styles of instruments they create? Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World.


Notes from the Pianist’s Bench 2edBORIS BERMANIn this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this essential volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780300221527 | 2018.01 Yale University Press | A$54.99 | NZ$64.99 | UK

Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of EuropeLEE BIDGOODBluegrass has found an unlikely home, and an avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music’s emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities. Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon, merging intimate immersion in the music with on-the-ground fieldwork informed by his life as a working musician. Drawing on his own personal and professional interactions, Bidgood charts how Czech bluegrass put down roots and looks at its performance as a uniquely Czech musical practice. He also reflects on “Americanist” musical projects and the ways Czech musicians use them to construct personal and social identities. 35 black and white photographs and 1 map. Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World.“Lee Bidgood is the first person to do a serious accounting of the forces, political and artistic, that have contributed to the popularity of this outlier music in this unlikely locale. By putting himself in the narrative, he gives us an up-close and personal sense of the various aspects of the bluegrass and old-time music wave that has swept across the Czech and Slovakian musical landscapes for years—and still counting.” — Tony Trischka, from the foreword


PHILOSOPHYEthical Case against Animal Experiments ANDREW LINZEY AND CLAIR LINZEYThe Ethical Case against Animal Experiments begins with a groundbreaking and comprehensive ethical critique of the practice of animal experiments by the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A second section offers original writings that engage with, and elaborate on, aspects of the Oxford Centre report. The essayists explore historical, philosophical, and personal perspectives that range from animal experiments in classical times to the place of necessity in animal research to one researcher’s painful journey from researcher to opponent. A devastating look at a contemporary moral crisis, The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments melds logic to compassion to mount a powerful challenge to human cruelty.“At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists.” — J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature John Simons (member of the working group) is deputy vice chancellor (academic) at Macquarie University. Jordan Sosnowski (member of the working group) holds a juris doctor degree from Monash University and is currently working in the field of legal research.


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From Plato to PlatonismLLOYD GERSONWas Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato’s dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of “anti-naturalism.”

Pbk | 360pp | 9781501710636 | 2017.12 Cornell University Press | A$52.99 | NZ$63 235x155mm | USA

A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics SHELDON POLLOCKFrom the early years of the Common Era to 1700, Indian intellectuals explored with unparalleled subtlety the place of emotion in art. Their investigations led to the deconstruction of art’s formal structures and broader inquiries into the pleasure of tragic tales. Rasa, or taste, was the word they chose to describe art’s aesthetics, and their passionate effort to pin down these phenomena became its own remarkable act of creation. This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa from its origins in dramaturgical thought - a concept for the stage - to its flourishing in literary thought - a concept for the page. A Rasa Reader incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker on classical Indian aesthetics, many never translated before. Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought.

Pbk | 472pp | 9780231173919 | 2017.12 Columbia University Press | A$68 | NZ$82 254x178mm | USA

Rousseau and the Problem of Human RelationsJOHN WARNERIn this volume, John Warner grapples with one of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s chief preoccupations: the problem of self-interest implicit in all social relationships. Not only did Rousseau never solve this problem, Warner argues, but he also believed it was fundamentally unsolvable - that social relationships could never restore wholeness to a self-interested human being. This engaging study is founded on two basic but important questions: what do we want out of human relationships, and are we able to achieve what we are after? Warner traces his answers through the contours of Rousseau’s thought on three distinct types of relationships - sexual love, friendship, and civil or political association - as well as alternate interpretations of Rousseau, such as that of the neo-Kantian Rawlsian school.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780271071015 | 2017.11 Penn State University Press | A$64 | NZ$76 229x152mm | USA

PHOTOGRAPHYRaghubir Singh: Modernism on the GangesMIA FINEMAN, PARTHA MITTER, AMIT CHAUDHURI AND SHANAY JHAVERIRaghubir Singh (1942–1999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. His vivid, intensely hued photographs capture rural and urban India and iconic depictions of Indian culture though a truly cosmopolitan approach that succeeded in blending East and West. This richly illustrated volume studies in depth the full breadth of Singh’s work, situating it at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world. The book showcases 90 of his photographs, including some previously unpublished images, in counterpoint both with the work of his contemporaries and with images of traditional South Asian artworks that inspired his practice. 150 color illustrations.

Hbk | 224pp | 9781588396358 | 2017.10 Metropolitan Museum of Art A$74.99 | NZ$89.99 | 229x279mm | UK

Still Points ROBERT GARDNERStill Points is a collection of remarkable and evocative still photographs taken by award-winning nonfiction filmmaker and author Robert Gardner during his anthropological and filming expeditions around the world. Thousands of his original photographic transparencies and negatives from the Kalahari Desert, New Guinea, Colombia, India, Ethiopia, Niger, and other remote locations are now housed in the Photographic Archives of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. This elegantly produced volume presents a curated selection of color and black-and-white images made by Gardner between the 1950s and the 1980s. Still Points both honors an important and influential artist and reveals new dimensions in his work. 53 color illustrations and 21 halftones.

Hbk | 112pp | 9780873658706 | 2017.12 Peabody Museum Press | A$84 | NZ$99 292x235mm | USA

RELIGIONPantheon: A New History of Roman ReligionJORG RUPKEIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium - from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to full-fledged Christianization. While focused primarily on the city of Rome, Pantheon fully integrates the many religious traditions found in the Mediterranean world, including Judaism and Christianity. This generously illustrated book is also distinguished by its unique emphasis on “lived religion,” a perspective that stresses how individuals’ experiences and practices transform religion into something different from its official form. 56 halftones.


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Plowshares: Protest, Performance, and Religious Identity in the Nuclear AgeKRISTEN TOBEYIn September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament.Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests.

Pbk | 184pp | 9780271076737 | 2017.11 Penn State University Press | A$33.99 | NZ$38.99 229x152mm | USA

The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding: Crossing the Boundaries of Prejudice and DistrustPAULINE KOLLONTAI, SUE YORE AND SEBASTIAN KIMThe question ‘who is my neighbour?’ challenges the way we see ourselves as well as the way we see others. Especially in situations where we feel conflicted between our own self-identity and common identity within a wider society. Historically, religion has contributed to this inner conflict by creating ‘us versus them’ mentalities. Challenging this traditional view, this volume examines how religions and religious communities can use their resources, methodology and praxis to encourage peace-making.The book is divided into two parts - the first includes sources, theories and methodologies of crossing boundaries of prejudice and distrust from the perspectives of theology and religious studies. The second includes case studies of theory and practice to challenge prejudice and distrust in a conflict or post-conflict situation.

Pbk | 368pp | 9781785923364 | 2017.12 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$57.99 | NZ$68 229x152mm | UK

Theosomnia: Explorations in Theology and SleepANDREW BISHOPSleep is a subject which demands theological attention because of the central place it occupies in contemporary reflection on what it is to be human. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Bishop explores sleep by creatively drawing on resources of the Christian tradition.Sleep is not a neutral force in our lives; it occupies around one third of a person’s life and is the subject of research across many disciplines. This book looks at key questions that a theological treatment of sleep raises, including issues of identity and personhood, mortality, and the relation of sleep to resurrection. Original, creative and constructive, it argues for a working theology of sleep that enriches human experience in relation to God, the self and other people.Studies in Religion and Theology.

Pbk | 176pp | 9781785922183 | 2017.12 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$78 | NZ$92 229x152mm | UK

WINEWine and Place: A Terroir ReaderTIM PATTERSON AND JOHN BUECHSENSTEINThe concept of terroir is one of the most celebrated and controversial subjects in wine today. Most will agree that well-made wine has the capacity to express “somewhereness,” a set of consistent aromatics, flavors, or textures that amount to a signature expression of place. But for every advocate, there is a skeptic, and for every writer singing its praises there is a study or a detractor seeking to debunk it as a myth. Wine and Place: A Terroir Reader examines terroir in a multitude of voices, from multiple points of view - from science to literature, from winemakers to wine critics - seeking not to prove its veracity but to explore its every facet - pro, con, and otherwise. This comprehensive anthology lets the reader come to his/her own conclusion about terroir as a whole.


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