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Books released during the week of November 16, 2009 |  | American Moderns Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century Christine Stansell With a new preface by the author "Stansell frames her book around three activities: talking, writing and loving. She compels readers to appreciate what was shockingly new in each activity--no small feat, since we now take (nearly) for granted the unfettered speech, print and sex that these early radicals found so daring."--Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times |
 | Hobbes and the Law of Nature Perez Zagorin "I read this book with genuine pleasure and profit. Hobbes and the Law of Nature is a work of great intellectual power by a scholar of enormous breadth and depth. Zagorin rescues Hobbes from misguided and hostile interpreters, and his book will certainly elicit some strong, even angry feelings. This will be all to the good."--Richard Flathman, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University |
 | "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor Geoffrey Robinson "In this outstanding book, Robinson provides an authoritative and gripping account of the violence visited upon East Timor by the Indonesian Armed Forces that is unparalleled in documentation, sophistication, and insight. His appraisal of the conditions enabling the belated United Nations intervention in East Timor is likewise unrivalled in its combination of scholarly analysis and insider insights."--John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science |
 | Predicting the Unpredictable The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction Susan Hough "Sue Hough, in fine style, has written a fascinating history of one of the most vexing problems in science. Anyone who has ever wondered why geophysicists can't predict earthquakes should read this book."--Thomas H. Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center |
 | Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis Peter Davis & Eliana Garcés "This book will be eminently helpful to both the practitioner with an undergraduate background in economics and to the academic economist. It offers the practitioner a clear and concise rendering of the techniques used in antitrust analysis. It offers the academic an explanation of the issues that arise in antitrust cases and the institutional setting in which they are analyzed."--Ariel Pakes, Harvard University |
Books released during the week of November 9, 2009 |  | The Lost World of Old Europe The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC Edited by David W. Anthony With Jennifer Y. Chi "An excellent, up-to-date, and much-needed synthesis on the Copper Age in the lower Danube valley. David Anthony is a renowned researcher, and his expertise is complemented by respected senior researchers who have published widely on southeast European prehistory. This book features exceptional artifacts, most of which are being exhibited for the first time in the United States."--Peter F. Biehl, University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
 | Mammals of North America Second Edition Roland W. Kays & Don E. Wilson Praise for the first edition: "Sets new standards in field guides. A must for any biological traveller to the US or Canada, as well as for residents."--Adrian Barnett, New Scientist |
 | A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica Ann Haynes-Sutton, Audrey Downer, Robert Sutton, & Yves-Jacques Rey-Millet This unique illustrated guide features 650 stunning color photographs as well as detailed species accounts that describe key identification features, voice, habitat, confusion species, status, and distribution. On the bookshelf or in the coat pocket, this is a one-of-a-kind photographic guide to the birds of Jamaica. |
 | Power over Peoples Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present Daniel R. Headrick "This is a major contribution to historical studies, as well as the study of technological change and economic history. Headrick asks a set of questions that are infrequently discussed, and analyzes them in an interesting way. This will be an important and widely cited book."--Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester |
 | The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. (Two volume set) Edited by Michael Kazin Rebecca Edwards & Adam Rothman, associate editors "I can think of no better introduction to American politics than The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. The editors, led by the distinguished historian Michael Kazin, have done a superb job of balancing traditional and innovative approaches to their subject and in assembling essays that are authoritative, insightful, and accessible. This work will quickly become an indispensable guide to the political institutions, ideas, issues, and movements that have shaped and sometimes convulsed the United States across its history. A major accomplishment."--Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University |
 | The Priority of Love Christian Charity and Social Justice Timothy P. Jackson "Jackson is a first-rate scholar who writes clearly and gracefully. Any summary of his argument in Priority of Love can hardly do justice to the facility with which he handles the controversies on each of his major themes and to his provocative sub-themes."--Michael J. Kerlin, America |
 | The Qualities of a Citizen Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 Martha Gardner "Martha Gardner's full and richly detailed book . . . is an insightful analysis of the application of United States immigration and citizenship law to women across a broad spectrum of classes and races between 1870 and the late 1960s. . . . Gardner's devotion to her sources, evident in the stunning details she provides, makes the history come alive."--Beatrice McKenzie, Journal of American Ethnic History |
 | Terror in Chechnya Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War Emma Gilligan "This book constitutes a major step forward in the study of war crimes and human rights violations during the second Russo-Chechen war. In Gilligan's view, the principal objective of the Russian leadership was the subjugation and punishment of the Chechen populace. Her book is unprecedented in scope. Henceforth, those interested in this subject will turn first to this volume as a treasure trove of information."--John B. Dunlop, author of Russia Confronts Chechnya |
Books released during the week of November 2, 2009 |  | Covenantal Rights A Study in Jewish Political Theory David Novak "This will be a reference point for all those seeking a profound Jewish consideration of issues in political theory for years to come. It will be read with profit not only by those interested in the Jewish political tradition, but also by moral philosophers, students of Jewish theology, and anyone concerned with the contemporary debate on religion and public affairs."--Alan Mittleman, Muhlenberg College |
 | Darwin in Galápagos Footsteps to a New World K. Thalia Grant & Gregory B. Estes "Grant and Estes, the world's authorities on Darwin in Galápagos, put readers in young Darwin's mind and meticulously trace his every footstep. They have the most intimate knowledge about this archipelago and a heartfelt friendship with its most famous visitor. Darwin comes alive in this carefully researched book. A book every Galápagos traveler should read, as should anyone who wants to understand how Darwin became the first evolutionary biologist."--Martin Wikelski, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Konstanz University |
 | The Last Pharaohs Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC J. G. Manning "This fascinating book has broad views that should appeal to many people who are neither specialists on ancient Egypt nor the ancient Greek world. J. G. Manning has a perfect knowledge of his subject."--Alain Bresson, University of Chicago |
 | The Moral Purpose of the State Culture, Social Identity, and Institutional Rationality in International Relations Christian Reus-Smit Reus-Smit argues that international societies are shaped by deep constitutional structures that are based on prevailing beliefs about the moral purpose of the state, the organizing principle of sovereignty, and the norm of procedural justice. The first major study of its kind, this book is a significant addition to our theoretical and empirical understanding of international relations, past and present. |
 | Self-Fulfillment Alan Gewirth Alan Gewirth presents here a systematic and highly original study of self-fulfillment that seeks to justify the high place that the ideal has been accorded. He does so by developing an ethical theory that ultimately grounds the value of self-fulfillment in the idea of the dignity of human beings. |
 | Taking Wittgenstein at His Word A Textual Study Robert J. Fogelin "Robert Fogelin is absolutely right to take Wittgenstein's methodological statements seriously and to focus on the primary texts rather than to be guided by fashionable interpretations. Fogelin's reading is perceptive and sensible, the key concepts around which he organizes his interpretation are judiciously chosen, and the book is clearly written."--Severin Schroeder, Reading University |
 | War of No Pity The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma Christopher Herbert "War of No Pity is a vital and vitally important work of literary, cultural, and historical criticism, one that no student of the Victorian period can afford not to know."--Stephen Arata, Victorian Studies |
Books released during the week of October 26, 2009 |  | Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide The Role of Politics in Judging Brian Z. Tamanaha "Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide will forever change our understanding of American legal realism and its mythical opponent, legal formalism. Generations of judges, lawyers, and scholars have come to see a false picture that pits radically skeptical realists against naïve or deceptive formalists. Tamanaha's magnificent book will open your eyes and change the way you think about the law. Every lawyer and judge should read this book. Every legal scholar must!"--Lawrence Solum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
 | Machiavelli's Ethics Erica Benner "Machiavelli's Ethics is a superb scholarly book. Erica Benner does truly impressive work in analyzing Machiavelli's views on the most fundamental ethical issues--including necessity and virtue, justice and injustice, and ends and means. She shows, with very solid evidence, that Machiavelli did in fact worry a lot about justice and that he put it at the core of his republican theory."--Maurizio Viroli, author of Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli |
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A Revolution of the Mind Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy Jonathan Israel "This book succeeds beautifully. Written with confidence and concision, it lays out Jonathan Israel's central ideas about the Radical Enlightenment and its fundamental importance in shaping the values of democratic modernity. Those who already know his work will find a clear and bold statement of his principal arguments, as well as important elaborations and expansions. Those unfamiliar with his scholarship will get a masterful introduction to the work of one of the leading Enlightenment scholars in the world today."--Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University |
 | Securing the Peace The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars Monica Duffy Toft "Using comprehensive data on internal conflicts, Toft challenges the flawed assumptions driving international peacemaking diplomacy and peacekeeping operations, which sadly may be prolonging civil wars instead of ending them. This provocative and politically incorrect book ought to stimulate a long-needed debate over the efficacy of current approaches to ending conflicts."--Andrew Natsios, Georgetown University |
Books released during the week of October 19, 2009 |  | Dostoevsky A Writer in His Time Joseph Frank With a new preface by the author "A monumental achievement. . . This is not a literary biography in the usual sense of the term. . . . It is, rather, an exhaustive history of Dostoyevsky's mind, an encyclopedic account of the author as major novelist and thinker, essayist and editor, journalist and polemicist. . . . Wrought with tireless love and boundless ingenuity, it . . . [is] a multifaceted tribute from an erudite and penetrating cultural critic to one of the great masters of 19th-century fiction."--Michael Scammell, New York Times Book Review |
 | Megadisasters The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe Florin Diacu "In Megadisasters, Florin Diacu takes the reader on a gripping tour of all the forces of nature that wreak havoc on our species, forcing us all, in the end, to cherish every day that Earth does not manage to kill us."--Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of The Pluto Files |
 | The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited Edited by Jonathan B. Losos & Robert E. Ricklefs "This wonderful and lively book provides a fitting forty-year retrospective on MacArthur and Wilson's seminal volume. I can easily see it on the shelf of every serious graduate student of community ecology. It has all the 'right' names in it--many of them personal friends of MacArthur and Wilson--plus a bunch of rising stars of the next generation. This book should create quite a ripple in the field."--William H. Schlesinger, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
 | War at a Distance Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime Mary A. Favret "This book is a masterpiece. Brilliant, brave, and beautifully written, it combines precision with lyricism. It will be required reading for scholars and students in Romantic studies, but its appeal will hardly be limited to them, since the topic is relevant to anyone interested in the nature and effects of war in our own time."--Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley |
Books released during the week of October 12, 2009 |  | A Very Brief History of Eternity Carlos Eire "Despite its heady topic, Eire's engaging style and sense of humor keep things light enough to carry readers through a history of 'how conceptions of forever, or eternity, have evolved in Western culture, and what role these conceptions have played in shaping our own self-understanding, personally and collectively.' Eire gives readers so much to think about and in such Publishers Weekly |
 | American Hungers The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 Gavin Jones "Gavin Jones's American Hungers tackles a one-hundred-year period, treating a vast range of texts with great theoretical sophistication. This ambitious book aims to make poverty as powerful an analytical tool as race and gender have proven in recent critical history."--Michael Robertson, American Literature |
 | Birds of Borneo Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan Susan Myers "Myers is clearly an expert on the birds of Borneo, and she has gathered a lot of information together. Birds of Borneo offers sound scholarship, solid coverage of subspecies, concise general range and status descriptions, fine treatment of habitat and behavior, and good illustrations. I'm delighted at its publication and look forward to using it in the field."--Rosa Ann Rowlett, Field Guides Inc |
 | Experimental Economics Rethinking the Rules Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer & Robert Sugden "The authors of this book have pulled off a remarkable feat: a page-turner on experimental economics that will appeal to a wide audience. Noneconomists and nonexperimentalists will be treated to a fascinating introduction to the methods, philosophy, and controversy of this rapidly expanding area of research. Experimental economists will get a whole new perspective on their field that will make them think differently about their own work. Not to be missed!"--George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University |
 | The Great American Mission Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order David Ekbladh "An extraordinarily important book. Ekbladh puts concepts of development and modernization at the heart of America's global expansion in the twentieth century and thereby helps us understand the forces that move U.S. foreign policy, both yesterday and today."--O. A. Westad, author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times |
 | No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford "This original and important book contributes to our understanding of college admissions, as well as the interracial social experiences and growing economic inequality in selective higher education today. Particularly interesting are the simulations of what racial and class compositions might be under different types of admissions criteria, including race-blind and class-sensitive conditions."--Caroline Hodges Persell, New York University |
 | On Compromise and Rotten Compromises Avishai Margalit "Avishai Margalit has turned a fierce spotlight on a neglected but important area of ethics, when compromises are morally acceptable. He introduces new and compelling distinctions and illuminates a number of major issues in contemporary and recent historical events."--Kenneth J. Arrow, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics |
 | Souled Out Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right E. J. Dionne Jr. "Souled Out, by the respected political journalist and progressive Catholic E.J. Dionne Jr., is a deeply personal and searchingly intelligent reflection on the noble history, recent travails, and likely prospects of American liberalism."--R. Scott Appleby, New York Times Book Review |
 | Treason in the Northern Quarter War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt Henk van Nierop Translated by J. C. Grayson "Treason in the Northern Quarter is an impressive study that presents the true nature of the Dutch Revolt and the horror that civil war and revolution bring to ordinary people."--Geoffrey Parker, author of The Thirty Years' War and The Grand Strategy of Philip II |
Books released during the week of October 5, 2009 |  | Art of the Everyday Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel Ruth Bernard Yeazell "A charming, even masterful footnote in the history of taste.... Thoroughly researched, highly readable, and lavishly illustrated."--James Gardner, New York Sun |
 | Kierkegaard's Writings, I Early Polemical Writings Søren Kierkegaard Edited and translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Julia Watkin "The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent ntoes."--Library Journal |
 | Kierkegaard's Writings, X Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions Søren Kierkegaard Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions was the last of seven works signed by Kierkegaard and published simultaneously with an anonymously authored companion piece. Imagined Occasions both complements and stands in contrast to Kierkegaard's pseudonymously published Stages on Life's Way. |
 | Kierkegaard's Writings, XVIII Without Authority Søren Kierkegaard Edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong "These new translations are excellent."--Choice |
 | Kierkegaard's Writings, XXV Letters and Documents Søren Kierkegaard Edited and Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier This volume provides the first English translation of all the known correspondence to and from Søren Kierkegaard, including a number of his letters in draft form and papers pertaining to his life and death. These fascinating documents offer new access to the character and lifework of the gifted philosopher, theologian, and psychologist. |
 | Outer Billiards on Kites (AM-171) Richard Evan Schwartz In Outer Billiards on Kites, Richard Schwartz presents his affirmative solution to the Moser-Neumann problem. In addition to solving the basic problem, Schwartz relates outer billiards on kites to such topics as Diophantine approximation, the modular group, self-similar sets, polytope exchange maps, profinite completions of the integers, and solenoids--connections that together allow for a fairly complete analysis of the dynamical system. |
 | Scroogenomics Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays Joel Waldfogel "Waldfogel delivers a badly needed poke in the eye at holiday-time consumer madness, positing that not only is compulsory gift giving stressful and expensive, but it's economically unsound. . . . This lively, spot-on book may be the one gift that still makes sense to buy come Black Friday."--Publishers Weekly |
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