Key academic titles for January-June 2009, by publisher
Verso Books
The New-Old World by Perry Anderson (May)
The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler by André Pichot, translated by David Fernbach (February)
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson (March)
Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani (April)
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler (April)
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights by Robin Blackburn (May)
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou (June)
The Situationists and the City: A Reader, edited and translated by Tom McDonough (June)
The University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still byDan Diner (Mar)
Famine: A Short Historyby Cormac Ó Gráda (May)
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalismby George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller (March)
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chessby Andrei Codrescu (April)
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishnessby Joan Roughgarden (April)
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas byDavid P Barash and Judith Eve Lipton (May)
Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Futureby Edmond A. Mathez (March)
Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation by Adeed Dawisha (April)
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward (May)
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (April)
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience by Jeremy Mynott (April)
Scion Publishing
Statistics at the Bench by Rebecca W. Doerge and Martina Bremer (May)
Proteomics by Andrew Link, Philip Andrews, and Joshua LaBaer (Jan)
OxfordUniversity Press
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas (February)
Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara (March)
Beauty, by Roger Scruton (March)
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries edited by Zachary Leader (April)
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Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne (January)
Gender, Lust and Greed: A History of Economic Ideas, by Nancy Folbre (May)
The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences by Peter D. McDonald (February)
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld 1780-1930 by James Belich (May)
Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970 by Brian Harrison (March)
JonathanCape and Bodley Head
Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet by James Delgado(January)
The Artist, The Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern (February)
Hitler’s Private Library by Timothy Ryback (February)
Wars, Guns, Votes by Paul Collier(March)
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet by Nicholas Stern (April)
The Geopolitics of Emotion by Dominique Moisi(May)
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown(May)
MIT Press
Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting by Joshua Gans (April)
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia by Richard Cytowic, M.D., and David M. Eagleman, Ph.D. (May )
Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till (March)
Simulation and Its Discontents edited by Sherry Turkle (May)
Le Corbusier and the Occultby J.K. Birksted (February)
Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness by James H. Austin (March)
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up by Irving Singer (April)
Design Meets Disabilityby Graham Pullin (May)
The Grid Book by Hannah B. Higgins (March)
What We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health by Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews and Richard D. Roberts (May)
University of Wales Press
John Gray and the Problem of Utopia by John Hoffman (January)
French Crime Fiction edited by Claire Gorrara (April)
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866-1928 by Ryland Wallace (April)
History of the Gothic:Gothic Literature 1764-1824 by Carol Margaret Davison (June)
History of the Gothic:Gothic Literature 1825-1914 by Jarlath Killeen (June)
Shakespearian Gothic by Christy Desmet and Anne Williams (June)
Octave Mirbeau: Selected Plays by Richard Hand (June)
Gilles Deleuze: Aesthetics and Politics by Robert Porter (June)
Republicanism and the American Gothic by Marilyn Michaud (June)
Faber Books
How We Live and Why We Die by Lewis Wolpert (April)
Why Socrates Died by Robin Waterfield (February)
Stalin's Nemesis byBertrande Patenaude (June)
Liberation by William I. Hitchcock (January)
A ShadowFalls by Andrew Beatty
Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd (June)
Hundred Years War Vol.3 by Jonathan Sumption (March)
Icon Books
Not Fade Away: The Life and Music of Buddy Holly by John Gribbin (February)
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb (1939 - 1949) by Jim Baggott (March)
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan and Sharron Shatil (April)
University of Exeter Press
Workingwith Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker (March)
Ancrene Wisse’s Guide For Anchoresses, A Translation by Bella Millett (February)
The Digby Poems: A New Edition of the Lyrics edited by Helen Barr (January)
The Doctrine ofthe Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary edited by Denis Renevey, Christiania Whitehead and Anne Mouron (July)
Miningin a Medieval Landscape: The Royal Silver Mines of the TamarValley by Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton and Chris Smart (March)
British Cinemaand MiddlebrowCulture inthe Interwar Years by Lawrence Napper (February)
Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema by Joe Kember (March)
Ancient Romeat the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome by Elena Theodorakopoulos (April)
GreekTyranny by Sian Lewis (April)
MiddlesexUniversity Press
Global Unions, Global Business: Global Union Federations and International Business by Richard Croucher and Elizabeth Cotton (January)
Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections edited by Mine Doğantan –Dack(January)
Londonland: An Ethnography of Labour in a WorldCity by Simon Bennett (April)
A Short History of Fantasy byFarah Mendlesohn and Edward James (April)
Why We Kill: Understanding Violence across Cultures and Disciplines edited by Nancy Loucks, Sally Holt and Joanna Adler (April)
Images of Authority: Living Within the Shadow of the Crown byJohn Higgins(May)
Polity
Child Care Todayby Penelope Leach (January)
God’s Zealby Peter Sloterdijk (May)
YouTubeby Jean Burgess and Joshua Green (April)
Europe: The Faltering Project by Jürgen Habermas (May)
Veil by Christian Joppke (January)
After the Car by John Urry and Kingsley Dennis (April)
Identifying Citizens by David Lyon (June)
The International Arms Trade by Rachel Stohl and Suzette Grillot (May)
Berg Publishers
Film World byMichel Ciment (May)
Chinese Fashion by Juanjuan Wu (June)
Designing the Modern Interior by Penny Sparke, Anne Wealleans, Trevor Keeble and Brenda Martin (June)
Fashion in Fiction byPeter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas, and Catherine Cole (May)
Karl Marx, Anthropologist byThomas C. Patterson (April)
The Culture of Knitting byJoanne Turney (June)
The Globalization of Food by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin (June)
Violence by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (April)
Pearson
Going Astray: Dickens and London by Jeremy Tambling
Zionism by David Engel
The Red Rose and the White by Sadler
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction by John Sutherland
Words: A User's Guide by Pointon/Clark
Glow by Lynda Gratton (March)
The Pension Plan by Brian Wood and Robin Prior (June)
University of Illinois Press
Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People by Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson (April)
Sojourner Truth’s America by Margaret Washington (April)
Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball by Jennifer Ring (April)
Golf in America by George B. Kirsch (March)
Albert Maysles by Joe McElhaney (April)
Atom Egoyan by Emma Wilson (March)
A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler by Victoria Sturtevant (May)
Institute of Education Press
Ordinary Families? Learning About Families and Parenting from Normative Studies by Marjorie Smith (January)
Retiring Lives edited by Caroline Lodge and Eileen Carnell
Education in England during the Eighteenth Century: The Growth of Public Literacy by Steve Cowan
Perseus Books
Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (April)
Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk (May)
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern by Keith Devlin (March)
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets by Alan Boss (March)
Reinventing the Sacred: Finding God in Complexity by Stuart Kauffman (March)
Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy is Making Where You Live the Most Important Decision Of Your Life by Richard Florida (April)
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes (May)
Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision of the US-China Relationship edited by Richard Rosencrance and Gu Guoliang (March)
Reaktion Books
The End is Nigh: A History of Natural Disasters by Henrik Svensen (February)
Travels in the History of Architecture by Robert Harbison (May)
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin (April)
Europe since the Seventies by Jeremy Black (February)
Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short (March)
Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World Peter Mason (February)
City and Cosmos: Urban Form in the Medieval World by Keith D. Lilley (May)
In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 by Piotr Piotrowski (February)
World Scientific Press/Imperial College Press
Astrobiology, Comets and the Origin of Life by Chandra Wickramasinghe (April)
Brain-Mind Machinery: Brain-Inspired Computingand Mind Opening by Ng-Gee Wah (January)
Cremona Violins: A Physicist’s Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari by Kameshwar C Wali (April)
Inventionof Integrated Circuits: Untold Important Facts by Arjun N Saxena (June)
More than One Way to Build a New Human: Embryos and Twins and Chimeras; Symmetry, Sex, Self, Soul and Schizophrenia by Charles E Boklage (April)
Quantum Themes: The Charms of the Microworld by T Padmanabhan (April)
A Second Genesis: Stepping-Stones Towards the Intelligibility of Nature by Julian Chela Flores (February)
Visual Symmetry by Magdolna Hargittai and Istvan Hargittai (January)
Ashgate
Renewing our Libraries: Case Studies in Re-planning and Refurbishment edited by Michael Dewe (January)
Educating Professionals: Practice Learning in Health and Social Care edited by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow (April)
The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory edited by Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (April)
Heritage: From the Past to the Future by John Feather (April)
Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries and Museums by Graham Matthews, Yvonne Smith and Gemma Knowles (April)
Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes, Volume I edited by Joel D. Lieberman and Daniel A. Krauss (May)
Human-Robot Interactions in Future Military Operations edited by Michael Barnes and Florian Jentsch (May)
Air Transport and the Environment by Ben Daley (June)
As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising by Bethany Klein (April)
The Philosophy of Public Health edited by Angus Dawson (April)
Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII’s Englandby Maria Heywood (May)
Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology by Paul Fletcher (May)
Moved by Mary: The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans(June)
The Unfamiliar Shelley edited by Alan M. Weinberg and Timothy Webb (February)
The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness edited by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, ElizabethCarson Pastan and Ellen M. Shortell (February)
Blackwell
The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology edited by Shane J. Lopez (January)
Science Fiction and Philosophy edited by Susan Schneider (April)
12 Modern Philosophers edited by Christopher Belshaw and Gary Kemp (January)
Alexander the Great: A New History edited by Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle (February)
The Blackwell Companion to the Theologians, Two Volume Set edited by Ian S. Markham (April)
John Milton, Complete Shorter Poems edited by Stella P. Revard (February)
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic AfricanCity by Rudolf P. Gaudio (April)
Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us by Nicholas Evans (April)
Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World edited by John Hartley and Kelly McWilliam
Profile Books
Bodies by Susie Orbach (January)
The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James O’Donnell (February)
Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes (February)
Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon (March)
Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO by Clair Wills (March)
Life Ascending by Nick Lane (April)
Churchill’s Bunker. The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain’s War Victory by Richard Holmes (June)
Seasons of Life by Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman (June)
Routledge
Neville Chamberlain by Nick Smart (January)
Marx by Vincent Barnett (March)
Just A Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language by David Crystal (April)
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts and Sherryl Vint (January)
Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies by Donald E. Hall (April)
European Directorsby Dan Rebellato and Maria M. Delgado(June)
CornellUniversity Press
China 2020: How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade by Michael A. Santoro (June)
Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life by Thomas M. Malaby (June)
A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections edited by Nancy E. Green and Christopher Reed (January)
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya by Roger Benjamin (February)
Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda by Lee Ann Fuji (January)
The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade by Ko-Lin Chin (March)
Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form by Judith Brown (May)
The Serf, the Knight and the Historian by Dominique Barthélemy; translated from the French by Graham Robert Edwards (June)
University of Chicago Press
An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds by Jonathan Silvertown (April)
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the AmericanSmallTown by Robert Pinsky (April)
Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity by Ben-Ami Scharfstein (April)
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere (May)
Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues by Catherine H. Zuckert (May)
The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Remi Brague, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (April
Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism by Alex Preda (June)
Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys by Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper (June)
EdinburghUniversity Press
The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism by Timothy Shanahan (January)
A Handbook of Business Discourse by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (May)
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language by Siobhan Chapman and Christopher Routledge (January)
The Carbon Footprint Wars: What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization? by Stuart Sim (June)
Exploring Environmental History: Selected Essays by T.C. Smout (May)
A History of Scottish Philosophy by Alexander Broadie (January)
In Memory of Jacques Derrida by Nicholas Royle (April)
Palgrave
Sex, Money, Hapiness and Death by Manfred Kets de Vries (April)
The Conservatives Under David Cameron by Simon Lee and Matt Beech (March)
Civilisation by Jonathan Conlin (February)
Why Music Moves Us by Jeanette Bicknell (April)
Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Helen Yaffe (March)
Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics edited by Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson (March)
The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies edited Jens Qvortrup, William A. Corsaro and Michael-Sebastian Honig (April)
Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing by Judith Adamson (May)
Going to War: British Debates from Wilberforce to Blair by Philip Towle (April)
Duke University Press
The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo (April)
Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980 by Rebecca M. Brown (March)
Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia edited by Rosalind C. Morris (April)
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy (August)
The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real by Michael Jackson (February)
Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser, translated by James Rolleston (April)
Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Phillip E. Wegner (July)
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla (February)
Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition by Bhaskar Sarkar (June)
Pluto Books
Money and Power: Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development by Sarah Bracking (May)
Wikiworld by Juha Suoranta and Tere Vaden (May)
In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation by Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew (January)
Human Rights and Social Movement by Neil Stammers (April)
This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Assault on Children by Sharon Beder with Wendy Varney and Richard Gosden (May)
Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation by Kartika Liotard and Steven P. McGiffen (June)
Tax Justice: Putting Global Inequality on the Agenda by Matti Kohonen and Francine Mestrum (June)