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Równie prestiżowe jak uczelnia, z którą jest związane, wydawnictwo Yale University
Press początkowo słynęło z publikacji na temat architektury i historii sztuki. Obecnie
w jego ofercie znajdują się pozycje z szeregu dziedzin – od polityki i historii tematów
aktualnych po muzykę czy religię. Niemniej jednak sztuka, na której YUP zbudowało
swoją historię i reputację, nadal pozostaje kluczowym obszarem zainteresowań
wydawnictwa. Yale University Press podpisało liczne umowy największymi muzeami,
dzięki czemu zyskało status wiodącego wydawcy w dziedzinie sztuki na świecie.
Książki Yale University Press cieszą się uznaniem wśród krytyków, zdobywały również
takie nagrody literackie jak amerykańska National Book Award czy Nagroda Pulitzera.

Alexander McQueen:
Savage Beauty
Bolton Andrew

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one
of the most influential, imaginative and
inspirational designers at the turn of the
millennium. His fashions both challenged
and expanded the conventional
parameters of clothing beyond utility to a
compelling expression of culture, politics
and identity. Focusing on the most iconic
and acclaimed designs of his prolific
career, this stunning book examines
McQueen's inimitable technical virtuosity
and its subversion of traditional tailoring
and dressmaking practices. This book also
focuses on the highly sophisticated
narrative structures found in McQueen's
collections and in his astonishing and
extravagant runway presentations, which
suggested the most avant-garde
installation and performance art.

9780300169782, HB, April 2011
34.8x25.9 cm, 224 pages, 250 colour illus.

Daphne Guinness
Guinness Daphne, Steele Valerie

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish
women living", says designer and film director
Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the
subject and co-author of this extraordinary
book. From her platinum-and-black striped
hair to her towering 10-inch heels, her to-die-
for couture collection and amazing diamond
jewellery, Daphne Guinness embodies the
rarified, personal style of a true fashion icon.
A designer, editor, model, muse, and stylist,
Ms. Guinness is renowned for the way she
uses fashion to transform herself. As her
friend, the art historian John Richardson puts
it: "She is the object of her own creativity. Her
persona is her own masterpiece".
Sumptuously illustrated with both high-
fashion photographs and paparazzi shots, the
book is a spectacular showcase for the world
of Daphne Guinness.

9780300176636, HB, September 2011
28x23 cm, 192 pages, 100 colour illus.

Balenciaga
and His Legacy
Walker Myra

The House of Balenciaga grew to serve an
international clientele from locations in
Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona, and from
1937 to its closing in 1968 created some
of the most outstanding and innovative
examples of French and Spanish haute
couture of the era. This beautifully
illustrated book presents nearly 70
Balenciaga creations for day and evening,
along with 25 hats, from the extraordinary
archives of the Texas Fashion Collection
of the University of North Texas. The book
also includes striking fashion photographs
from "Vogue" magazine and "Harper's
Bazaar" by Richard Avedon and Louise
Dahl-Wolfe. A series of essays explores
many aspects of the designer's work,
among them his contributions to fashion
history.

9780300121537, HB, November 2006
30.7x24.4 cm, 224 pages
112 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Accessorize!
250 Objects
of Fashion & Desire
Bloemberg Ninke, Mortier Bianca

Awarded a Dutch Design Award 2008, this
book is aimed at fashionistas with a sense of
history. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has
an important collection of fashion accessories
from different eras and countries. This book
contains 250 of the most beautiful
accessories, lavishly photographed.

"Your fingers will itch to get your credit card
out" – Marie Claire

9789086890453, PB, August 2010
23.2x17 cm, 272 pages, 250 colour illus.

Handbags: The Making
of a Museum
Clark Judith

The history of the handbag – its design,
how it has been made, used, and worn –
reveals something essential about
women's lives lived over the last 500
years. Perhaps the most universal item of
fashionable adornment, it can also be
elusive, an object of desire, secrecy and
even fear. "Handbags" explores these rich
histories and multiple meanings.
This book features specially commissioned
photographs of an extraordinary, newly
formed collection of fashionable handbags
that dates from the 16th century to the
present day. It has been acquired to
exhibit in the first museum devoted to the
handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The
project is a commission undertaken by
experimental exhibition-maker Judith
Clark, whose innovative practices are
revealed in "Handbags".

9780300186185, HB, August 2012
27.9x23.5 cm, 272 pages
350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Schiaparelli and Prada:
Impossible
Conversations
Bolton Andrew, Koda Harold

Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada
and Elsa Schiaparelli – both Italian, both
feminists – share striking affinities in terms of
their design strategies and fashion
manifestoes. Presented as an intimate
"conversation", "Schiaparelli and Prada" aims
to tease out formal and conceptual similarities
between the two designers. Striking
photographs and insightful texts will illustrate
the parallels between the two, including their
preferences for interesting textiles and prints,
eccentric colour palettes, and a bold and
playful approach to styling and accessories.
Schiaparelli, in the 1920s through the 50s,
and Prada, from the late 1980s to today,
exploited the narrative possibilities of prints,
sought out unconventional textiles, played
with ideas of good and bad taste, and
manipulated scale for surrealistic outcomes.

9780300179552, HB, May 2012
28x23 cm, 192 pages, 175 colour illus.

Glamour: Fashion,
Design, Architecture
Steele Valerie

As one of the most alluring yet elusive
concepts in contemporary style, glamour is
an ideal that permeates our visual culture.
This lavishly illustrated book radically
revises our understanding of glamour in
fashion, industrial design, and architecture.
The volume traces glamour's trajectory
from its historical middle-class origins to its
present-day connotations of affluence and
elegance. In doing so, "glamour" is
established as a new critical category for
design that embraces richly decorative
patterns, complex layering, sumptuous
materials, and sculptural forms. Following
a general introduction on the culture and
consumption of glamour, three essays
explore the concept as it has evolved in
the fields of fashion, design, and
architecture.

9780300106404, HB, October 2004
29.5x24.9 cm, 256 pages
150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Buriki: Japanese Tin
Toys from the Golden
Age of the American
Automobile
Earle Joe

Tin toys have been made in Japan for more
than 100 years, but during World War II their
production – and international sales – ended.
Almost as soon as the war was over,
ingenious manufacturers began to make
model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. With
the resumption of international trade in 1948,
exports of more sophisticated metal toys
soared. At the same time, the postwar boom
in the United States led to an increasingly
automobile-based society – the perfect
inspiration for Japan's gifted toy designers.
As leading marques competed to market ever
more seductively styled autos to U.S.
consumers, Japanese toy manufacturers
followed styling trends closely, retooling often
to create miniature versions of the latest
models; airplanes and spaceships.

9780300151572, PB, June 2009

Full Spectrum:
Prints from the
Brandywine Workshop
Edmunds Allan,
Langdale Shelley, Fine Ruth

Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine
Workshop has become an internationally
recognized centre for printmaking and a
vital part of the Philadelphia community. In
2009 the workshop donated one hundred
prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in
memory of its late director Anne
d'Harnoncourt. "Full Spectrum" celebrates
this generous gift and documents and
contextualizes the workshop's
achievements over its distinguished 40-
year history. All one hundred prints by the
eighty-nine artists represented in the
bequest are beautifully reproduced.
Cultural identity, political and social issues,
portraiture, landscape, patterning, and
pure abstraction are some of the many
subjects explored in these works.

9780300185485, PB, October 2012
9780300185485, 76 pages, 110 colour images

Inventing the Christmas Tree
Smith Benjamin A., Brunner Bernd

Bernd Brunner's brief history – enriched by a selection
of delightful and unusual historical illustrations – spans
many centuries and cultures to illuminate the
mysteries of the Christmas tree and its enduring hold
on the human imagination. Tracing various European
traditions from the Middle Ages forward, Brunner finds
that only in the nineteenth century did Christmas trees
become common in European family homes. In North
America, the imported custom soon fascinated,
though some found the tree not quite compatible with
a Puritan mindset. Brunner (author of "Moon", "Bears"
and "The Ocean at Home") explores how the
Christmas tree entered mainstream American culture
and how in recent times it has become globally
popular. He introduces Jacqueline Kennedy's
Nutcracker Tree in the White House, trees used to
celebrate the New Year in Turkey, and the world's
most expensive Christmas tree, erected in Abu Dhabi.
The author also considers the place of the artificial
tree and the ecological dimensions of the Christmas
tree trade.

9780300186529, HB, September 2012
17.8x12.7 cm, 96 pages,

Treasures of Chinese
Export Ceramics:
From the Peabody
Essex Museum
Kerr Rose, Sargent William R.

"Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics" is
one of the most authoritative sources on
this topic. The book features scholarly
entries on more than 275 objects, dating
from the 15th to the 20th century and
divided by type of ware. A glossary of
ceramics terminology makes this an
invaluable resource for even a novice
collector. The commentary, including an
essay by Rose Kerr, offers new
perspectives on the artistic, historical, and
social dimensions of export ceramics.

9780300169751, HB, May 2012
30.5x24.1 cm, 480 pages
430 colour illus.

Georg Jensen Jewelry
Taylor David Alan

The Danish silversmith Georg Jensen
(1866 - 1935) first established a worldwide
reputation as a designer of flatware,
hollowware, and jewellery in the arts and
crafts idiom of the early twentieth century,
then went on to become a foremost
international designer of elegant and refined
silver creations in the modernist style. This
book surveys his work from his beginnings as
a self-taught artist through his apprenticeship
to a master silversmith and beyond. His work
is highly sought after today, and he is
considered one of the most influential
designers of the twentieth century. Richly
illustrated, the book provides thorough,
detailed coverage of the full range of
Jensen's jewellery.

9780300107067, HB, July 2005
31x25 cm, 304 pages
50 black&white illus., 250 colour images

Extravagant Inventions:
The Princely Furniture
of the Roentgens
Koeppe Wolfram

This landmark publication is the first
comprehensive survey, in nearly four
decades, of the firm from its founding in
about 1742 to its closing in the late 1790s.
The Roentgen workshop perfected the
practice of adapting prefabricated
elements according to the specifications of
the customers. Detailed discussions of
these extraordinary pieces are
complemented by illustrations showing
them in their contemporary interiors,
design drawings, portraits, and previously
unpublished historical documents from the
Roentgen estate. This fascinating book
provides an essential contribution to the
study of European furniture.

9780300185027, HB, November 2012
27.9x21.6 cm, 304 pages
220 colour and black&white illus.

Art of Edo Japan:
The Artist and the City,
1615-1868
Guth Christine

This beautifully illustrated survey examines
the art and artists of the Edo period, one of
the great epochs in Japanese art. Together
with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port
cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid
capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) nurtured a
magnificent tradition of painting, calligraphy,
printmaking, ceramics, architecture, textile
work, and lacquer. As each city created its
own distinctive social, political, and economic
environment, its art acquired a unique flavour
and aesthetic. Author Christine Guth focuses
on the urban aspects of Edo art, including
discussions of many of Japan's most popular
artists – Korin, Utamaro, and Hiroshige,
among others – as well as those that are
lesser known, and provides a fascinating look
at the cities in which they worked.

9780300164138, PB, April 2010
23.4x15.6 cm, 176 pages
20 black&white illus., 109 colour illus.

Storytelling in Japanese
Painting
Watanabe Masako

"Storytelling in Japanese Painting"
presents seventeen classic Japanese
stories – tales romantic and horrifying, epic
and meditative – as told through 30
remarkable scrolls, ranging from the 13th
to 19th centuries. Among them are the
supernatural Great Woven Cap; the story
of the valiant Peach Boy and his battle
against the ogres; the 11th-century
psychological novel "The Tale of Genji";
and, the political allegory "Tale of a
Strange Marriage". Each scroll is
accompanied by a brief relation of the tale
being illustrated, while the book's
introduction discusses the history and
tradition of storytelling in Japanese art.
A series of multiple gatefolds allows many
of these scrolls to be appreciated in detail,
while preserving the sweep and grandeur
of these complex, colourful, evocative
works of visual and narrative wonder.

9780300175905, PB, November 2011

Three Thousand Years
of Chinese Painting
Barnhart Richard M., Xin Yang,
Chongzheng Nie, Cahill James,
Shaojun Lang, Hung Wu

An illustrated and comprehensive account of
the history of Chinese painting from
prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should
be of interest to students and general readers
who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of
Chinese painting.

"This is the most comprehensive and up-to-
date single volume account of Chinese
painting from prehistoric times to the present.
For some time to come it will be an
indispensable work for students and the
general reader who wish to gain an in-depth
knowledge of Chinese painting” – James
Watt

9780300094473, PB, August 2002
30.4x22.8 cm, 416 pages

Chinese Silks
Feng Zhao, Hao Peng,
Huang Nengfu, Juanjuan Chen,
Watt James C. Y., Wenying Li,
Kuhn Dieter

Encyclopaedic in breadth, the volume
presents a chronological history of silk
from a variety of perspectives, including
the archaeological, technological, art
historical, and aesthetic. The authors
explore the range of uses for silk, from the
everyday to the sublime. By directly
connecting recently found textile artefacts
to specific references in China's vast
historical literature, they illuminate the
evolution of silk making and the driving
social forces that have inspired the
creation of innovative textiles through the
millennia.

9780300111033, HB, August 2012
30.5x22.9 cm, 624 pages

Pomp and Poverty:
A History of Silk
in Ireland
Dunlevy Mairead

Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong silk
has always been a symbol of wealth and
status, beginning in prehistoric China. In
"Pomp and Poverty", Mairead Dunlevy
unfolds a colourful tale. She introduces us
to the merchants or "silk men" who traded
in silk, oversaw its production and invested
in machinery and design; the weavers and
dyers who created luxury under
exploitative conditions for miserable
wages; and, the gentlefolk and aristocracy
who indulged in this expensive fabric as a
signifier of wealth and taste. Irish legend
credits seventeenth-century French
Huguenots with introducing the industry,
but this book reveals that it was woven in
Ireland long before that, possibly from the
tenth century.

9780300170412, HB, April 2011
26.2x19.8 cm, 280 pages

Jean-Luc Moulene:Opus
+ One
Fer Briony, Joseph Manuel,
Raymond Yasmil, Toufic Jalal

Since the late 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulene
(b. 1955) has developed a body of work
informed by a critical investigation of artistic
authorship, addressing such issues as
autonomy, immanence, and anarchic politics.
Although he is best known for his enigmatic
and seductive large-format photographs,
Moulene has maintained a parallel
exploration of materials and objects –
manufactured and found, industrial and
organic, intimate and imposing – that he has
collectively titled Opus. This book, the first
critical study of Moulene's work, brings
together leading scholars to examine the
artist's diverse aesthetic strategies and
interests in the relationships between social
and political arenas and systems and orders,
including geometry, mathematics, social
sciences, and human behaviour.

9780300188820, HB, November 2002
29.2x19.1 cm, 264 pages, 264

Van Gogh: Up Close
Homburg Cornelia

This sumptuously illustrated book offers a
completely new way of looking at the art of
Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's
approach to nature through his innovative use
of the close-up view. One hundred key
paintings dating from his arrival in Paris in
1886 to the end of his career, show how Van
Gogh experimented with unusual visual
angles and the decorative use of colour,
cropping, and the flattening of his
compositions. In some paintings he zoomed
in on a tuft of grass or a single budding iris,
while depicting shifting views of a field or
garden in others. "Van Gogh: Up Close" not
only reveals how these paintings became the
most radical and innovative in the artist's
body of work but also demonstrates that, far
from being a spontaneous or undisciplined
artist, Van Gogh was well aware of the history
of art and was highly conscious of his efforts
to break new ground with his work.

9780300181296, HB, February 2012

Becoming van Gogh
Kelly Simon, Kendall Richard

The career path of Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890), one of the world's most
recognizable artists, was anything but
typical. Focusing on the early stages of
Van Gogh's artistic development,
"Becoming Van Gogh" illustrates the
artist's efforts to master draftsmanship,
understand the challenges of materials
and techniques, incorporate colour theory,
and fold myriad influences into his artistic
vocabulary. This handsome book features
works by Van Gogh alongside works by
the artists who influenced him, showing
how he incorporated elements of their
techniques into a style that became,
eventually, uniquely his own. Generously
illustrated with 150 colour images, the
book also includes a chronology charting
the artist's stylistic development.

9780300186864, HB, November 2012

Renoir in the Barnes
Foundation
House John, Lucy Martha

A passionate supporter of European
modernism, Barnes built a collection that was
virtually unrivaled, with massive holdings by
Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo
Picasso. It was Renoir that Barnes admired
above all other artists, however; he thought of
him as a kind of god. Barnes collected Renoir
tenaciously, amassing 181 works by the
painter between 1912 and 1942, and all of
these are included in this lavishly illustrated
book. "Renoir in the Barnes Foundation" tells
the fascinating story of Barnes' obsession
with the impressionist master's late works,
while offering illuminating new scholarship on
the works themselves. Authors Martha Lucy
and John House look closely at the key
paintings in the collection, placing them in the
wider contexts of contemporary artistic,
aesthetic, and theoretical debates.

9780300151008, HB, June 2012

Impressionism,
Fashion, and Modernity
Groom Gloria

This volume is the first to explore fashion
as a critical aspect of modernity, one that
paralleled and many times converged with
the development of Impressionism,
starting in the 1860s and continuing
through the next two decades, when
fashion attracted the foremost writers and
artists of the day. Although they have
depicted fashionable subjects throughout
history, for many artists and writers,
including Charles Baudelaire, Stephane
Mallarme, Emile Zola, Gustave Caillebotte,
Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude
Monet, Berthe Morisot, and Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, fashion became integral to the
search for new literary and visual
expression.

9780300184518, HB, October 2012
30.5x24.1 cm, 336 pages

Vauxhall Gardens:
A History
Borg Alan, Coke David E.

From their early beginnings in the Restoration
until the final closure in Queen Victoria's
reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a
rural tavern and place of assignation into a
dream-world filled with visual arts and music,
and finally into a commercial site of mass
entertainment. In the first book on the subject
for over fifty years, Alan Borg and David E.
Coke reveal the teeming life, the spectacular
art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in
fascinating detail. In the nineteenth century
the Gardens remained a popular attraction,
but faced increasing competition from new
forms of entertainment such as the circus and
the music hall and, with the arrival of the
railway, the seaside.

9780300173826, HB, May 2011
25x15 cm, 400 pages

Diary
Gombrowicz Witold

Just before the outbreak of World War II,
young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in
Poland and set sail for South America.
In 1953, still living as an expatriate in
Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of
literature's most memorable openings:
Monday – Me; Tuesday – Me; Wednesday
– Me; and, Thursday – Me. Gombrowicz's
"Diary" grew to become a vast collection of
essays, short notes, polemics, and
confessions on myriad subjects ranging
from political events to literature to the
certainty of death. Not a traditional journal,
"Diary" is instead the commentary of a
brilliant and restless mind. Widely
regarded as a masterpiece, this brilliant
work compelled Gombrowicz's attention for
a decade and a half until he penned his
final entry in France, shortly before his
death in 1969.

9780300118063, PB, June 2012
19.7x12.7 cm, 800 pages

Little History
of the World
Gombrich E. H.

E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World",
though written in 1935, has become one of
the treasures of historical writing since its first
publication in English in 2005. The Yale
edition alone has now sold over half a million
copies, and the book is available worldwide in
almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of
course the best-known art historian of his
time, and his text suggests illustrations on
every page. This illustrated edition of the
"Little History" brings together the pellucid
humanity of his narrative with the images that
may well have been in his mind's eye as he
wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations
– most of them in full colour – are not simple
embellishments, though they are beautiful.
They emerge from the text, enrich the
author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of
reading this remarkable work.

9780300176148, HB, October 2011
23.4x18.9 cm, 304 pages
200 colour illus.

Little History
of Philosophy
Warburton Nigel

This engaging book introduces the great
thinkers in Western philosophy and explores
their most compelling ideas about the world and
how best to live in it. In forty brief chapters, Nigel
Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of
the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He
provides interesting and often quirky stories of
the lives and deaths of thought-provoking
philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by
hemlock poisoning rather than live on without
the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer,
who asks the disquieting philosophical and
ethical questions that haunt our own times.
Warburton not only makes philosophy
accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue,
reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates.
"A Little History of Philosophy" presents the
grand sweep of humanity's search for
philosophical understanding and invites all to
join in the discussion.

9780300187793, PB, September 2012
21.6x13.8 cm, 288 pages, 42 black&white illus.

Little History
of Science
Bynum William F.

This inviting book tells a great adventure story: the
history of science. It takes readers to the stars
through the telescope, as the sun replaces the earth
at the centre of our universe. It delves beneath the
surface of the planet, charts the evolution of
chemistry's periodic table, introduces the physics
that explain electricity, gravity, and the structure of
atoms. It recounts the scientific quest that revealed
the DNA molecule and opened unimagined new
vistas for exploration. Emphasizing surprising and
personal stories of scientists both famous and
unsung, "A Little History of Science" traces the
march of science through the centuries. The book
opens a window on the exciting and unpredictable
nature of scientific activity and describes the uproar
that may ensue when scientific findings challenge
established ideas. With delightful illustrations and a
warm, accessible style, this is a volume for young
and old to treasure together.

9780300136593, HB, September 2012

Lady in the Painting:
Simplified Characters
Ross Claudia, Ross Jocelyn,
Fang-Yu Wang Fred

A well-known chinese folktale is retold here
within the limits of an elementary 300
character vocabulary. Yale and Pinyin
romanization with Traditional characters.
An excellent text for beginning Chinese
students.

9780300125160, PB, April 2008

Lady in the Painting:
A Basic Chinese Reader
Ross Claudia, Ross Jocelyn,
Fang-Yu Wang Fred

This book is an expanded edition of the story "The
Lady in the Painting", written in the style of a
Chinese folktale by Fred Fang-Yu Wang. The
story is told with vocabulary and structures familiar
to students who have completed a basic course in
Chinese. Using an inventory of only about 300
Chinese characters, it serves as an excellent
transition between the short reading passages that
students encounter in a basic level Chinese
course and the longer and more demanding
passages in subsequent levels. This expanded
edition of "The Lady in the Painting" can be used
as the primary textbook for a low-intermediate
class or as a supplementary text, depending upon
the reading proficiency of the students. The CD-
ROM provides sentence-by-sentence and
paragraph-by-paragraph audio recordings for
listening practice. Each of the eight chapters of the
book includes an expanded vocabulary list,
structure notes and exercises and reading
comprehension questions.
9780300115499, PB, April 2008

Anthology of Vietnamese
Poems: From the Eleventh
Through the Twentieth
Centuries
Thong Huynh Sanh

This superb anthology brings together a thousand
years of Vietnamese poems for the English-
speaking world. Huynh Sanh Thong, widely
regarded as the preeminent translator of the poetry
of Vietnam, here presents more than three hundred
poems by 150 poets, some celebrated, some
obscure. Many of the poems are not otherwise
available in English. The author's historical and
critical introduction to Vietnamese poetry, and his
abundant explanatory notes throughout the
collection, assist readers in understanding and
appreciating each work. Huynh observes that
Vietnamese people in all walks of life compose,
read, and listen to poetry; this collection of poems
thus reveals much about Vietnamese language,
literature, history, and culture.

9780300091007, PB, March 2001
22.9x15.2 cm, 448 pages

Let's Study Urdu!
Volume 1:
An Introductory Course
Asani Ali S., Akbar Hyder Syed

"Let's Study Urdu!" is a comprehensive
introduction to the Urdu language that draws
on a range of real-life contexts, popular film
songs, and prized works of Urdu literature.
A variety of effective aural, oral, and written
drills will help students master the language
while keeping them entertained.
"Let's Study Urdu!" provides students of
diverse backgrounds, including heritage
speakers, the opportunity to enhance their
competency over basic grammatical
structures so that they can comfortably use
the language in Urdu-speaking milieus from
South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and
North America.

9780300114003, PB, July 2007
27.9x21.5 cm, 320 pages

Let's Study Urdu!
Introduction
to the Script
Asani Ali S., Akbar Hyder Syed

"Let's Study Urdu!" is a comprehensive
introduction to the Urdu language that
draws on a range of real-life contexts,
popular film songs, and prized works of
Urdu literature. A variety of effective aural,
oral, and written drills will help students
master the language while keeping them
entertained. "Let's Study Urdu!" provides
students of diverse backgrounds, including
heritage speakers, the opportunity to
enhance their competency over basic
grammatical structures so that they can
comfortably use the language in Urdu-
speaking milieus from South Asia, the
Middle East, Europe, and North America.

9780300120608, PB, July 2012
27.9x21.5 cm, 320 pages

Ahlan Wa Sahlan:
Sound and Script
Workbook
Alosh Mahdi

This new sound and script workbook is
intended to be used and completed by students
before they begin using the second edition of
the "Ahlan wa Sahlan" textbook. The workbook
helps students learn the alphabet, numerals,
and sounds of the Arabic language. It will teach
students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while
presenting an engaging story that involves
Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United
States, and Michael, an American student
studying in Cairo. Features of the New Edition
include: DVD video, filmed in Syria; expanded
communicative activities; updated audio
program; and, material designed according to
proficiency principles. Components of the New
Edition include: a full-color Student Textbook
with DVD and audio program; Annotated
Instructor's Edition; Sound and Script
Workbook; and, Online, interactive exercises.

9780300140484, PB, July 2009
27.9x21.5 cm, 176 pages

Ahlan Wa Sahlan:
Functional Modern
Standard Arabic for
Beginners
Alosh Mahdi, Clark Allan

The new edition of this widely used text
covers the first year of instruction in
Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach
students to read, speak, and write Arabic,
while presenting an engaging story that
involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying
in the United States, and Michael, an
American student studying in Cairo. In
diaries, letters, and postcards, the two
students describe their thoughts and
activities, revealing how a non-American
views American culture and how the
Arabic culture is experienced by an
American student. This new edition
features a DVD video, filmed in Syria;
expanded communicative activities; an
updated audio program.

9780300122725, HB, July 2009
27.9x21.5 cm, 396 pages

Ahlan Wa Sahlan:
Functional Modern
Standard Arabic for
Intermediate Learners
Alosh Mahdi

Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern
Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners is
an intermediate text designed for students
continuing to develop overall proficiency in
Modern Standard Arabic. A variety of new
drills and exercises for classroom use, an
audio programme that contains listening
comprehension passages by native speakers
and authentic reading passages offering
insight into the target cultures.

9780300103786, HB, August 2005
28.8x21.5 cm, 432 pages

Arabic for Life
Frangieh Bassam K.

"Arabic for Life" takes an intensive,
comprehensive approach to beginning
Arabic instruction and is specifically
tailored to the needs of talented and
dedicated students. Unlike the other
Arabic textbooks on the market, Arabic for
Life is not specifically focused on either
grammar or proficiency. Instead, it offers a
balanced methodology that combines
these goals. Frangieh has created a book
that is full of energy and excitement about
Arabic language and culture, and it
effectively transmits that excitement to
students. "Arabic for Life" offers a dynamic
and multidimensional view of the Arab
world that incorporates language with
Arabic culture and intellectual thought.

9780300141313, PB, July 2011
25x15 cm, 500 pages, 50 illus.

Carbon Crunch:
How We're Getting Climate
Change Wrong – and How
to Fix it
Helm Dieter

Despite commitments to renewable energy and two
decades of international negotiations, global
emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging
of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25 per cent to
almost 30 per cent of world energy use. And while
European countries have congratulated themselves
on reducing emissions, they have increased their
carbon imports from China and other developing
nations, who continue to expand their coal use. As
standards of living increase in developing countries,
coal use can only increase as well – and global
temperatures along with it. In this hard-hitting book,
Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to
tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a
new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy – from
transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to
electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a
focus on new technologies.
9780300186598, HB, September 2012
23.4x15.6 cm, 304 pages

Science of Human
Perfection: Heredity, Health,
and Human Improvement in
American Biomedicine
Comfort Nathaniel C.

The "Science of Human Perfection" traces the
history of the promises of medical genetics and of
the medical dimension of eugenics. The book also
considers social and ethical issues that cast
troublesome shadows over these fields. Keeping
his focus on America, science historian Nathaniel
Comfort introduces the community of scientists,
physicians, and public health workers who have
contributed to the development of medical genetics
from the nineteenth century to today. He argues
that medical genetics is closely related to eugenics,
and indeed the two cannot be fully understood
separately. History makes clear that as patients
and consumers we must take ownership of genetic
medicine, using it intelligently, knowledgeably, and
sceptically, lest pernicious interests trump our own.

9780300169911, HB, September 2012

Poetry of Kabbalah:
Mystical Verse from the
Jewish Tradition
Cole Peter, Dykman Aminadav

This groundbreaking collection presents for the first
time in English a substantial body of poetry from the
world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom
Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic
potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition,
MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole
provides dazzling English renderings of works
composed on three continents over a period of some
fifteen hundred years. The volume presents the texts
in their original languages alongside the English
translations. These prayerful poems represent
different cultural terrains and take up multiple tacks.
The reader will encounter cosmological masterpieces
and occasional poems; erotic charms and epic
phantasmagoria; ballad-like lyrics and didactic
mottoes; and, simple hymns of pure devotion and
gnomic verse of numerical intrigue.

9780300169164, HB, May 2012
21x14 cm, 320 pages

Music Libel Against
the Jews
HaCohen Ruth

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book
shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian
era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth
HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel" – a
variation on the Passion story that recurs in various
forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy
is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious
musicality". In paying close attention to how and
where this libel surfaces, she covers a wide swathe
of western cultural history, showing how entrenched
aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently
defined European culture and its internal moral and
political orientations. Ruth HaCohen combines in her
comprehensive analysis the perspectives of
musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology,
and anthropology, tracing the tensions between
Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and
their artistic manifestations from the high Middle
Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond.

9780300167788, HB, January 2012
23.5x15.6 cm, 528 pages

Search for Immortality:
Tomb Treasures of Han
China
Lin James C. S.

During the last two centuries BC, the Western Han
dynasty of China forged the first stable empire
covering all of China and presided over a golden
age that shaped much of subsequent Chinese art
and culture. From family values to the structure of
the civil service, Han thinking and philosophy
continue to pervade Chinese society up to the
present day – indeed, the majority of Chinese
people consider themselves "Han Chinese". In their
search for immortality, the Han imperial family left
an artistic legacy of spectacular beauty and power.
The finest of these treasures to have survived –
including exquisite jades, silver and goldwork,
bronzes and ceramics – have been found in the
tombs of the Han imperial family and of a rival
"emperor" of Nanyue and are brought together for
the first time in a landmark exhibition at The
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

9780300184341, HB, March 2012
28.5x24.5 cm, 384 pages

Exploring Happiness: From
Aristotle to Brain Science
Bok Sissela

In this smart and timely book, the distinguished
moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature
of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking
and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and
elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness –
from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu,
Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama
– as well as the latest theories advanced by
psychologists, economists, geneticists, and
neuroscientists. Eschewing abstract theorizing, Bok
weaves in a wealth of firsthand observations about
happiness from ordinary people as well as
renowned figures. This may well be the most
complete picture of happiness yet. This book is
also a clarion call to think clearly and sensitively
about happiness. Bringing together very different
disciplines provides Bok with a unique opportunity
to consider the role of happiness in wider questions
of how we should lead our lives and treat one
another – concerns that don't often figure in today's
happiness equation.

9780300178104, PB, July 2011
25x15 cm, 224 pages

This Will Have Been:
Art, Love, and Politics in
the 1980s
Burton Johanna, Horrigan William

Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and
conservative, capricious and political, socially
engaged and art-historically aware. This fascinating
book chronicles canonical as well as nearly
forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has
often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be
viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to
articulate their needs and desires in an increasingly
commodified world. "This Will Have Been" brings
into focus the full impact of the art, artists, and
political and cultural ruptures of this paradigm-
shifting decade. More than 200 full-colour
reproductions of works in a range of media,
including drawing, painting, photography, and
sculpture, illustrate this ambitious guide to a period
of artistic transformation.

9780300181104, PB, January 2012

Genetics of Original Sin:
The Impact of Natural
Selection on the Future of
Humanity
Duve Christian

Focusing on the process of natural selection, de
Duve explores the inordinate and now dangerous
rise of humankind. His explanation for this self-
defeating success lies in the process of natural
selection, which favours traits that are immediately
useful, regardless of later consequences. Thus, the
human genome determines such properties as
tribal and group cohesion and collaboration and
often fierce and irrational competition with and
hostility toward other groups' attributes that were
once useful but now often ruinously dysfunctional.
In a brilliant and original conclusion, the author
argues that, unique in the living world, humankind
is endowed with the ability to deliberately oppose
natural selection.

9780300182729, PB, March 2012

Politics of the Food
Supply: U.S. Agricultural
Policy in the World
Economy
Scott James C.,Winders Bill

This book deals with an important and timely issue:
the political and economic forces that have shaped
agricultural policies in the United States during the
past eighty years. It explores the complex
interactions of class, market, and state as they
have affected the formulation and application of
agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal,
showing how divisions and coalitions within
Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture
were central to the ebb and flow of price supports
and production controls. In addition, the book
highlights the roles played by the world economy,
the civil rights movement, and existing national
policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and
recent trends in supply management policy.

9780300181869, PB, March 2012

Sixty to Zero: An Inside
Look at the Collapse of
General Motors - and the
Detroit Auto Industry
Taylor Alex

Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and
insight as an automotive industry reporter, as well as
personal relationships with many of the leading
players, Taylor reveals the many missteps of GM and
its competitors: a refusal to follow market cues and
consumer trends; a lack of follow-through on major
initiatives; and, a history of hesitance, inaction, and
failure to learn from mistakes. In the process, he
provides lasting lessons for every executive who
confronts the challenges of a changing marketplace
and global competition. Yet Taylor resists
condemning GM's leadership from the privileged view
of hindsight. Instead, his account enables the reader
to see GM's decline through the eyes of an insider,
with the understanding that corporate decision-
making at a company as large as General Motors
isn't as simple as it may seem.

9780300171518, PB, May 2011
23.1x15.5 cm, 254 pages

Innovation Economics: The
Race for Global Advantage
Ezell Stephen J., Atkinson Robert D.

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call:
a fierce global race for innovation advantage is
under way, and while other nations are making
support for technology and innovation a central
tenet of their economic strategies and policies,
America has no robust innovation policy at all.
What does this portend? Robert Atkinson and
Stephen Ezell, widely respected economic thinkers,
report on profound new forces that are shaping the
global economy – forces that favour nations with
innovation-based economies. The authors explore
how a weak innovation economy has delayed
America's recovery from the Great Recession and
how innovation in the U.S. compares with that in
other developed and developing nations. Atkinson
and Ezell then lay out a detailed, pragmatic road
map not only for America to regain its global
innovation advantage by 2020, but also for
maximizing the global supply of innovation and
promoting sustainable globalization.

9780300168990, HB, September 2012

Euro: The Battle for the
New Global Currency
Marsh David

In this new, fully revised and updated edition, Marsh
tells how complacency and recklessness have holed
the Euro below the waterline, with Greece, Ireland
and Portugal rescued from ruin via hastily assembled
bail-out packages, amid rising resentment among
countries and electorates bearing the cost. He
explains how politicians ignored years of financial
imbalances heralding growing problems for the Euro,
why the Euro has increased rather than lowered
Germany's economic dominance and why Greece
and other hard-pressed Euro states will be forced to
restructure their debts, Marsh believes the Euro will
not collapse, partly because China and Japan
support it as an alternative to the fading dollar.
However he concludes monetary union can survive
only if it become a less ambitious grouping with fewer
and more homogeneous members. "The battle to
maintain the Euro as it was originally conceived has
been lost. The new task will be to safeguard what is
to come".

9780300176742, PB, July 2011

Future of History
Lukacs John

Throughout "The Future of History", Lukacs reflects
on his discipline, eloquently arguing that the writing
and teaching of history are literary rather than
scientific, comprising knowledge that is neither
wholly objective nor subjective. History at its best,
he contends, is personal and participatory. Despite
a recently unprecedented appetite for history
among the general public, as evidenced by history
television programme ratings, sales of popular
history books, and increased participation in local
historical societies, Lukacs believes that the
historical profession is in a state of disarray. He
traces a decline in history teaching throughout
higher education, matched by a corresponding
reduction in the number of history students. He
reviews a series of short-lived fads within the
profession that have weakened the fundamentals
of the field. In looking for a way forward, Lukacs
explores the critical relationships between history
and literature, including ways in which novelists
have contributed to historical understanding.

9780300181692, PB, May 2012
21x14 cm, 224 pages

Twelve Turning Points of
the Second World War
Bell P. M. H.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad.
D-Day. These defining events of the Second World
War exemplify both the immense heroism and the
grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense,
thrilling moments that had the potential to swing the
war in favour of either side and in turn change the
course of history. In this gripping new look at the
twentieth century's most crucial conflict, historian
P. M. H. Bell analyzes twelve unique turning points
that determined the character and the ultimate
outcome of the Second World War. Be they military
campaigns, economic actions, or diplomatic
summits, Bell's twelve turning points span the full
breadth of the war, from the home front to the front
line. Many are familiar – Barbarossa and Hiroshima
among them – while sections on war production, the
Atlantic convoy system, and the conferences at
Tehran and Yalta emphasize the importance of the
combatants' actions off the battlefield.

9780300187700, PB, September 2012
23.4x15.6 cm, 288 pages, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

Hitler's Hangman:
The Life of Heydrich
Gerwarth Robert

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of
the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an
appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi
leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the
SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless
overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia,
and leading planner of the "Final Solution",
Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
Yet Heydrich has received remarkably modest
attention in the extensive literature of the Third
Reich. Robert Gerwarth weaves together little-
known stories of Heydrich's private life with his
deeds as head of the Nazi Reich Security Main
Office. Fully exploring Heydrich's progression from
a privileged middle-class youth to a rapacious
mass murderer, Gerwarth sheds new light on the
complexity of Heydrich's adult character, his
motivations, the incremental steps that led to
unimaginable atrocities, and the consequences of
his murderous efforts toward recreating the entire
ethnic makeup of Europe.

9780300187724, PB, August 2012

December 1941:
Twelve Days That Began
a World War
Mawdsley Evan

In far-flung locations around the globe, an
unparalleled sequence of international events took
place between December 1 and December 12,
1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley
explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates
how these dramatic events marked a turning point
not only in the course of World War II but also in the
direction of the entire century. This book, a truly
international history, examines the momentous
happenings of December 1941 from a variety of
perspectives. It shows that their significance is
clearly understood only when they are viewed
together.

9780300187878, PB, September 2012
23.4x15.6 cm, 336 pages
6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.

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Dickinson: Selected Poems
and Commentaries
Vendler Helen

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William
Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many
others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the
most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns
her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected
poems of Emily Dickinson. In selecting these poems
for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many
aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, "from her
first-person poems to the poems of grand
abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her
unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness,
from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of
aftermath". In accompanying commentaries Vendler
offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the
writer, "the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper
of her perennial themes". All of Dickinson's
preoccupations – death, religion, love, the natural
world, the nature of thought – are explored here in
detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize
the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of
her linguistic invention.

9780674066380, PB, October 2012
24.3x16.6 cm, 560 pages

Declaring His Genius:
Oscar Wilde in North
America
Morris Roy

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-
old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare
but my genius". But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in
this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time
in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the
sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking
tour of America, "Declaring His Genius" offers an
indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the
Gilded Age. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil
War Americans – still reeling from the most
destructive conflict in their history – understood
themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological
changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening
gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful
anti-materialistic message about art and the need
for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour.
Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature
writer was ready to take on the rest of the world.
Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

9780674066960, HB, December 2012
20.9x13.9 cm, 264 pages, 27 halftones illus.

New Literary History
of America
Marcus Greil, Sollors Werner

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along
– a story of discovery and invention unfolding in
speeches and images, letters and poetry,
unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination.
In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing
expressions of the American experience, the
authors and editors of this volume find a new
American history. In more than two hundred original
essays,
"A New Literary History of America" brings together
the nation's many voices. From the first conception
of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest
re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television,
science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a
new, kaleidoscopic view of what "Made in America"
means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science,
philosophy, political rhetoric – cultural creations of
every kind appear in relation to each other, and to
the time and place that give them shape.

9780674064102, PB, May 2012
25.4x16.5 cm, 1128 pages, 27 halftones illus.

Cairo: Histories of a City
Al-Sayyad Nezar

In "Cairo: Histories of a City", Nezar Al-Sayyad
narrates the many Cairos that have existed
throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the
city's history unmatched in temporal and
geographic scope, through an in-depth examination
of its architecture and urban form. In twelve
vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs,
and maps, Al-Sayyad details the shifts in Cairo's
built environment through stories of important
figures who marked the cityscape with their
personal ambitions and their political ideologies.
Each chapter attempts to capture a defining
moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of
its evocations and contradictions. He pays
particular attention to how the imperatives of
Egypt's various rulers and regimes – from the
pharaohs to Sadat and beyond – have inscribed
themselves in the city that residents navigate
today.

9780674047860, HB, May 2011
23.1x15.7 cm, 352 pages
13 colour maps, 9 halftones, 73 colour illus.

Alone in America:
The Stories that Matter
Ferguson Robert A.

Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of
loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological
beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern
terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a
trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a
vital one because a greater percentage of people
live alone today than at any other time in U.S.
history. "Alone in America" tests the inner
conversations that work and sometimes fail. It
examines the typical elements and moments that
force us toward a solitary state – failure, betrayal,
change, defeat, breakdown, fear, difference, age,
and loss – in their ascending power over us. It
underlines the evolving answers that famous figures
in literature have given in response. Figures like
Mark Twain's Huck Finn and Toni Morrison's Sethe
and Paul D., or Louisa May Alcott's Jo March and
Marilynne Robinson's John Ames, carve out their
own possibilities against ruthless situations that hold
them in place.

9780674066762, HB, December 2012
19x12.7 cm, 250 pages

World of Persian Literary
Humanism
Dabashi Hamid

What does it mean to be human? Humanism has
mostly considered this question from a Western
perspective. Through a detailed examination of a
vast literary tradition, Hamid Dabashi asks that
question anew, from a non-European point of view.
The answers are fresh, provocative, and deeply
transformative. This groundbreaking study of
Persian humanism presents the unfolding of a
tradition as the creative and subversive
subconscious of Islamic civilization. Exploring how
1,400 years of Persian literature have taken up the
question of what it means to be human, Dabashi
proposes that the literary subconscious of a
civilization may also be the undoing of its
repressive measures. This could account for the
masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that
accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and
sexual misconduct, and later of scientific and
philosophical inaccuracy.

9780674066717, HB, November 2012
23.4x15.5 cm, 384 pages

Florence and Baghdad:
Renaissance Art
and Arab Science
Belting Hans

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting
caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing
artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of
view. But the theory of perspective that changed the
course of Western art originated elsewhere – it was
formulated in Baghdad by the eleventh-century
mathematician Ibn al Haithan, known in the West as
Alhazen. In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting
deals with the double history of perspective, as a
visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in
the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe).
How could geometrical abstraction be reconceived
as a theory for making pictures? "Florence and
Baghdad" addresses a provocative question that
reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and
mathematics: What happens when Muslims and
Christians look upon each other and find their way of
viewing the world transformed as a result?

9780674050044, HB, August 2011
23.4x15.5 cm, 312 pages
71 halftones, 40 colour illus.

Italy and Hungary:
Humanism and Art in the
Early Renaissance. Acts of
an International
Conference, Florence
Farbaky Peter, Waldman Louis A.

In the later fifteenth century, the Kingdom of
Hungary became the first land outside Italy to
embrace the Renaissance, thanks to its king,
Matthias Corvinus, and his humanist advisors,
Janos Vitez and Janus Pannonius. Matthias created
one of the most famous libraries in the Western
World, the Bibliotheca Corviniana, rivaled in
importance only by the Vatican. The twenty-one
essays collected in this volume provide a window
onto recent research on the development of
humanism and art in the Hungary of Matthias
Corvinus and his successors. Richly illustrated with
new photography, this book eloquently documents
and explores the unique role played by the
Hungarian court in the cultural history of
Renaissance Europe.
9780674063464, HB, September 2011
24x16.5 cm, 728 pages
2 maps, 152 colour illus., 107 black&white illus.

Young Professional's
Survival Guide: From Cab
Fares to Moral Snares
Gunsalus C. K.

Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to
make a good impression – and your boss asks you
to do something that doesn't feel right, like fudge a
sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea
how to handle the situation, and your boss is
hovering. When you're caught off guard, under
pressure from someone more powerful, it's easy to
make a mistake. And having made one, it's easier to
rationalize the next one. "The Young Professional's
Survival Guide" shows how to avoid these traps in
the first place, and how to work through them if you
can't avoid them. Gunsalus offers questions to ask
yourself (and others) to help you recognize trouble
and temptation, sample scripts to use to avoid being
pressured into doing something you'll regret, and
guidance in handling disputes fairly and
diplomatically. Most of all, she emphasizes, choose
your mentors for their characters as well as their
titles and talents.

9780674049444, HB, November 2012
20.9x13.9 cm, 224 pages

Motherland in Danger:
Soviet Propaganda during
World War II
Berkhoff Karel C.

Much of the story about the Soviet Union's victory
over Nazi Germany has yet to be told. In
"Motherland in Danger", Karel Berkhoff addresses
one of the most neglected questions facing
historians of the Second World War: how did the
Soviet leadership sell the campaign against the
Germans to the people on the home front?
"Motherland in Danger" takes us inside the Stalinist
state to witness, from up close, its propaganda
machine. Using sources in many languages,
including memoirs and documents of the Soviet
censor, Berkhoff explores how the Soviet media
reflected – and distorted – every aspect of the war,
from the successes and blunders on the front lines
to the institution of forced labor on farm fields and
factory floors. Richly illustrated with new
photography, this book eloquently documents and
explores the unique role played by the Hungarian
court in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe.

9780674049246, HB, April 2012
23.5x15.6 cm, 416 pages

Last Tortoise: A Tale of
Extinction in Our Lifetime
Stanford Craig B.

Tortoises may be the first family of higher animals to
become extinct in the coming decades. They are
losing the survival race because of what
distinguishes them, in particular their slow, steady
pace of life and reproduction. "The Last Tortoise"
offers an introduction to these remarkable animals
and the extraordinary adaptations that have allowed
them to successfully populate a diverse range of
habitats – from deserts to islands to tropical forests.
The shields that protect their shoulders and ribs have
helped them evade predators. They are also
safeguarded by their extreme longevity and long
period of fertility. Craig Stanford details how human
predation has overcome these evolutionary
advantages, extinguishing several species and
threatening the remaining forty-five. Focusing on
tortoise nurseries and breeding facilities, the
substitution of proxy species for extinct tortoises, and
the introduction of species to new environments,
Stanford's work makes a persuasive case for the
future of the tortoise in all its rich diversity.

9780674049925, HB, May 2010

Science-Mart: Privatizing
American Science
Mirowski Philip

During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply
funded basic research in science and medicine.
Starting in the 1980s, however, this support began
to decline and for-profit corporations became the
largest funders of research. Consequently, patent
and intellectual property laws were greatly
strengthened, universities demanded patents on the
discoveries of their faculty, information sharing
among researchers was impeded, and the line
between universities and corporations began to blur.
At the same time, corporations shed their in-house
research laboratories, contracting with independent
firms both in the States and abroad to supply new
products. "Science-Mart" offers a provocative,
learned, and timely critique, of interest to anyone
concerned that American science – once the envy of
the world – must be more than just another way to
make money.

9780674046467, HB, April 2011
23.6x15.7 cm, 464 pages
15 graphs, 15 tables, 1 illus.

Natural Experiments
of History
Diamond Jared, Robinson James A.

In the historical disciplines, a fruitful approach has
been to use natural experiments or the comparative
method. This book consists of eight comparative
studies drawn from history, archeology, economics,
economic history, geography, and political science.
The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging
from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early
chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the
later chapters. The studies range from a simple two-
way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic,
which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons
of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The
societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate
societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past
societies. Geographically, they include the United
States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical
Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and
other Pacific islands. In an Afterword, the editors
discuss how to cope with methodological problems
common to these and other natural experiments of
history.

9780674060197, PB, April 2011
20.6x14 cm, 288 pages, 14 figures, 5 maps, 7 tables

Primeval Kinship:
How Pair-Bonding Gave
Birth to Human Society
Chapais Bernard

Chapais contends that only a few evolutionary steps
were required to bridge the gap between the kinship
structures of our closest relatives – chimpanzees
and bonobos – and the human kinship configuration.
The pivotal event, the author proposes, was the
evolution of sexual alliances. Pair-bonding
transformed a social organization loosely based on
kinship into one exhibiting the strong hold of kinship
and affinity. The implication is that the gap between
chimpanzee societies and pre-linguistic hominid
societies is narrower than we might think. Many
books on kinship have been written by social
anthropologists, but Primeval Kinship is the first
book dedicated to the evolutionary origins of human
kinship. And perhaps equally important, it is the first
book to suggest that the study of kinship and social
organization can provide a link between social and
biological anthropology.

9780674046412, PB, March 2010
23.4x15.6 cm, 368 pages, 17 illus.

More than Real:
A History of the Imagination
in South India
Shulman David

"More than Real" draws our attention to a period in
Indian history that signified major civilizational
change and the emergence of a new, proto-modern
vision. In general, India conceived of the imagination
as a causative agent: things we perceive are real
because we imagine them. David Shulman
illuminates this distinctiveness and shows how it
differed radically from Western notions of reality and
models of the mind. At a time when contemporary
ideologies and language wars threaten to segregate
the study of pre-modern India into linguistic silos,
Shulman demonstrates through his virtuoso readings
of important literary works – works translated lyrically
by the author from Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and
Malayalam – that Sanskrit and the classical
languages of southern India have been intimately
interwoven for centuries.

9780674059917, HB, April 2012
23.5x15.6 cm, 352 pages

Under the Drones: Modern
Lives in the Afghanistan-
Pakistan Borderlands
Bashir Shahzad, Crews Robert D.

This volume explodes Western misunderstandings
by revealing a land that abounds with human
agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant
complexity. Through the work of historians and
social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore
the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the
animated sociopolitical identities expressed through
traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism's
ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy;
the long and contradictory history of Afghan media;
and the simultaneous brutality and potential that
heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past
shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose
the West's prevailing perspective on the region as
strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing.
"Under the Drones" is an essential antidote to
contemporary media coverage and military
concerns.

9780674065611, HB, May 2012
21x14 cm, 336 pages, 2 maps, 9 halftones, 3 line illus.

Convicting the Innocent:
Where Criminal
Prosecutions Go Wrong
Garrett Brandon L.

On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington – defended
for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never
tried a death penalty case – was found guilty of rape
and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to
death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing
cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life.
However, he spent another eight years in prison
before more sophisticated DNA technology proved
his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA
exonerations have shattered confidence in the
criminal justice system by exposing how often we
have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk
free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon
Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of
the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be
exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial
transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of
wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of
incompetence, abuse, and error.

9780674066113, PB, September 2012
23.6x15.7 cm, 376 pages, 18 graphs, 1 illus.

Deng Xiaoping and the
Transformation of China
Vogel Ezra F.

Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a
greater long-term impact on world history than Deng
Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East
Asian history and culture is better qualified than
Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions
embodied in the life and legacy of China's boldest
strategist. Once described by Mao Zedong as a
"needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the
pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind
China's radical transformation in the late twentieth
century. He confronted the damage wrought by the
Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of
personality, and loosened the economic and social
policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed
with modernization and technology, Deng opened
trade relations with the West that lifted hundreds of
millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the
same time he answered to his authoritarian roots,
most notably when he ordered the crackdown in
June 1989 at Tiananmen Square.

9780674055445, HB, September 2011
23.4x16 cm, 928 pages, 40 halftones illus.

Russia and the Russians:
A History (Second Edition)
Hosking Geoffrey

In a sweeping narrative, one of the English-speaking
world's leading historians of Russia follows the
country's history from the first emergence of the
Slavs in the historical record in the sixth century C. E.
to the Russians' persistent appearances in today's
headlines. The second edition covers the
presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitrii Medvedev
and the struggle to make Russia a viable functioning
state for all its citizens.

"For the general reader, this book is the King James
version of Russian history" – Robert Legvold, Foreign
Affairs

9780674061958, PB, September 2011
23.4x16 cm, 752 pages
14 maps, 38 halftones illus.

Rise of Nuclear Fear
Weart Spencer R.

After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at
Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering
a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged
the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it
would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of
fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the
threat of climate change has never aroused the
same visceral dread or swift action. Spencer Weart
dissects this paradox, demonstrating that a powerful
web of images surrounding nuclear energy holds us
captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our
thinking and public policy. Building on his classic,
"Nuclear Fear", Weart follows nuclear imagery from
its origins in the symbolism of medieval alchemy to
its appearance in film and fiction. Recognizing how
much we remain in thrall to these setpieces of the
imagination, Weart hopes, will help us resist
manipulation from both sides of the nuclear debate.

9780674052338, PB, March 2012
23.4x15.2 cm, 384 pages

Picturing Heaven
in Early China
Lan-ying Tseng Lillian

"Tian", or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early
China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to
indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later
came to be regarded as a force driving the movement
of the cosmos and as a home to deities and
imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw
an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven,
the concept of Heaven encompassed an immortal
realm to which humans could ascend after death.
Using excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how
Han artisans transformed various notions of Heaven
– as the mandate, the fantasy, and the sky – into
pictorial entities. The Han Heaven was not indicated
by what the artisans looked at, but rather was
suggested by what they looked into. Artisans attained
the visibility of Heaven by appropriating and
modifying related knowledge of cosmology,
mythology, astronomy. Thus the depiction of Heaven
in Han China reflected an interface of image and
knowledge.

9780674060692, HB, July 2011
22.8x15.2 cm, 500 pages
4 tables, 131 line drawings, 161 halftones, 123 colour illus.

Chinese History:
A New Manual
Wilkinson Endymion

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of
Chinese history has long been an indispensable
guide to all those interested in the civilization and
history of China. In this latest edition, now in a
bigger format, its scope has been dramatically
enlarged by the addition of one million words of new
text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual
introduces students to different types of transmitted,
excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to
the twentieth century. It also examines the context in
which the sources were produced, preserved, and
received, the problems of research and
interpretation associated with them, and the best,
most up-to-date secondary works. Because the
writing of history has always played a central role in
Chinese politics and culture, special attention is
devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of
Chinese historiography.

9780674067158, PB, December 2012
27.9x22.8 cm, 1100 pages, 275 tables

History of Imperial China 6:
China's Last Empire.
The Great Qing
Brook Timothy, Rowe William T.

In a brisk revisionist history, William T. Rowe
challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a
decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace
with the modern West. Despite this geographic range
and the accompanying social and economic
complexity, the Qing ideal of "small government"
worked well when outside threats were minimal. But
the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to
become a player in a predatory international contest
involving Western powers, while the devastating
uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled
an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive
state-mandated changes during the early twentieth
century were not enough to hold back the nationalist
tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the
Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China's last
empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges
facing China today.

9780674066243, PB, Semptember 2012
23.4x15.5 cm, 368 pages, 5 maps, 17 halftones illus.

Muhammad and the
Believers: At the Origins
of Islam
Donner Fred M.

In "Muhammad and the Believers", the eminent
historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision
of how Islam first evolved. He argues that the origins
of Islam lie in what we may call the "Believers'
movement" begun by the prophet Muhammad – a
movement of religious reform emphasizing strict
monotheism and righteous behavior in conformity with
God's revealed law. The Believers' movement thus
included righteous Christians and Jews in its early
years, because like the Qur'anic Believers, Christians
and Jews were monotheists and agreed to live
righteously in obedience to their revealed law. The
conviction that Muslims constituted a separate
religious community, utterly distinct from Christians
and Jews, emerged a century later, when the leaders
of the Believers' movement decided that only those
who saw the Qur'an as the final revelation of the One
God and Muhammad as the final prophet, qualified as
Believers.

9780674064140, PB, May 2012
21.1x15 cm, 304 pages, 6 maps, 21 halftones illus.

Shi'ism:
A Religion of Protest
Dabashi Hamid

For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and,
in particular, Shi'ism, this book arrives with urgently
needed information and critical analysis. Hamid
Dabashi exposes the soul of Shi'ism as a religion of
protest – successful only when in a warring position,
and losing its legitimacy when in power. Dabashi
makes his case through a detailed discussion of the
Shi'i doctrinal foundations, a panoramic view of its
historical unfolding, a varied investigation into its visual
and performing arts, and finally a focus on the three
major sites of its contemporary contestations: Iran,
Iraq, and Lebanon. In these states, Shi'ism seems to
have ceased to be a sect within the larger context of
Islam and has instead emerged to claim global political
attention. "Shi'sm: A Religion of Protest" attends to the
explosive conflicts in the Middle East with an abiding
attention to historical facts, cultural forces, religious
convictions, literary and artistic nuances, and
metaphysical details. This timely book offers readers a
bravely intelligent history of a world religion.

9780674064287, PB, May 2012
23.6x15.7 cm, 448 pages, 1 map, 13 halftones illus.

New Religious Intolerance:
Overcoming the Politics of
Fear in an Anxious Age
Nussbaum Martha C.

What impulse prompted some newspapers to
attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic
extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing
Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did
Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban
those structures? In "The New Religious
Intolerance", Martha C. Nussbaum surveys such
developments and identifies the fear behind these
reactions. Fear, Nussbaum writes, is "more
narcissistic than other emotions". Legitimate
anxieties become distorted and displaced, driving
laws and policies biased against those different
from us. Overcoming intolerance requires
consistent application of universal principles of
respect for conscience.. With this greater
understanding and respect, Nussbaum argues, we
can rise above the politics of fear and toward a
more open and inclusive future.

9780674065901, PB, April 2012
21x14 cm, 304 pages

Framing Muslims:
Stereotyping and
Representation after 9/11
Morey Peter, Yaqin Amina

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the
values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the
individual freedoms central to the civic identity of
Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on
TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the veiled, oppressed
female, or the shadowy terrorist plotting our destruction,
crude stereotypes permeate public representations of
Muslims in the United States and western Europe. But
these "Muslims" are caricatures – distorted abstractions,
wrought in the most garish colors, that serve to reduce
the diversity and complexity of the Muslim world to a set
of fixed objects suitable for sound bites and not much
else. In "Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and
Representation after 9/11", Peter Morey and Amina
Yaqin dissect the ways in which stereotypes depicting
Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the
West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the
public imagination, producing an immense gulf between
representation and a considerably more complex reality.

9780674048522, HB, June 2011
21x14 cm, 256 pages

Wheel of Fortune:
The Battle for Oil and
Power in Russia
Gustafson Thane

The Russian oil industry – the world's largest
producer and exporter, providing nearly 12 percent
of the global supply – is facing mounting problems
that could send shock waves through the Russian
economy and worldwide. "Wheel of Fortune"
provides an authoritative account of this vital
industry from the last years of communism to its
uncertain future. Tracking the interdependence
among Russia's oil industry, politics, and economy,
Thane Gustafson shows how the stakes extend
beyond international energy security to include the
potential threat of a destabilized Russia.
Gustafson, a leading consultant and analyst of the
politics of energy in the former Soviet Union, draws
on interviews with key players over the course of
two decades to provide a detailed history of the oil
industry's evolution since the breakup of the Soviet
Union.

9780674066472, HB, November 2012
23.4x15.5 cm, 672 pages
3 maps, 7 charts, 2 tables, 1 illus.

Illusion of Free Markets:
Punishment and the Myth
of Natural Order
Harcourt Bernard E.

"The Illusion of Free Markets" argues that our faith in
"free markets" has severely distorted American
politics and punishment practices. Bernard Harcourt
traces the birth of the idea of natural order to
eighteenth-century economic thought and reveals its
gradual evolution through the Chicago School of
economics and ultimately into today's myth of the
free market. The modern category of "liberty"
emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of
punishment and public economy, known in the
eighteenth century as "police". This development
shaped the dominant belief today that competitive
markets are inherently efficient and should be sharply
demarcated from a government-run penal sphere.
This modern vision rests on a simple but devastating
illusion.

9780674066168, PB, November 2012
23.6x15.7 cm, 336 pages, 7 tables, 12 graphs

Great Persuasion:
Reinventing Free Markets
since the Depression
Burgin Angus

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the
workings of the free market in the wake of a global
economic crisis, an earlier generation of
economists revisited their worldviews following the
Great Depression. "The Great Persuasion" is an
intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin
traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in
order to reconsider many of the most basic
assumptions of our market-centered world. It was
only in the 1960s and '70s that Friedman and his
contemporaries developed a more strident defense
of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided
a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent
conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald
Reagan and inspired much of the political and
economic agenda of the United States in the
ensuing decades. Burgin's brilliant inquiry uncovers
both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for
the free market and the moral quandaries it has left
behind.
9780674058132, HB, October 2012
23.4x15.5 cm, 320 pages

Creation and Destruction
of Value: The Globalization
Cycle
James Harold

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility
of processes of globalization, both historically and in
the present. This book applies lessons from past
breakdowns of globalization to show how financial
crises provoke backlashes against global integration:
against the mobility of capital or goods, but also
against flows of migration. By a parallel examination
of the financial panics of 1929 and 1931 as well as
that of 2008, he shows how banking and monetary
collapses suddenly and radically alter the rules of
engagement for every other type of economic activity.
In the open economy of the twenty-first century, such
calls are only viable in very large states – probably
only in the United States and China. By contrast, in
smaller countries demand trickles out of the national
container, creating jobs in other countries. The
international community is thus paralyzed, and
international institutions are challenged by conflicts of
interest.

9780674066182, PB, October 2012
18x11 cm, 336 pages, 7 figures

Cost of Inaction:
Case Studies from Rwanda
and Angola
Anand Sudhir, Desmond Chris,
Fuje Habtamu, Marques Nadejda

This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of
inaction can be much greater than the cost of
action. Inaction can lead to serious negative
consequences – for individuals, the economy, and
society. The consequences of a failure to reduce
extreme poverty, for example, typically include
malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature
mortality, incomplete basic education, and other
human and social development costs. In this
volume, the authors seek to clarify exactly what is
meant by "cost of inaction". They develop a
methodology to account for the consequences and
estimate the costs of a failure to respond to the
needs of children and their families. Their
conceptual framework emphasizes the need to
select appropriate actions against which inaction is
evaluated.

9780674065581, PB, April 2012
22.9x15.2 cm, 300 pages, 90 tables

How Economics
Shapes Science
Stephan Paula

At a time when science is seen as an engine of
economic growth, Paula Stephan brings a keen
understanding of the ongoing cost-benefit
calculations made by individuals and institutions as
they compete for resources and reputation. She
shows how universities offload risks by increasing the
percentage of non-tenure-track faculty, requiring
tenured faculty to pay salaries from outside grants,
and staffing labs with foreign workers on temporary
visas. Career prospects in science are increasingly
dismal for the young because of ever-lengthening
apprenticeships, scarcity of permanent academic
positions, and the difficulty of getting funded. Vivid,
thorough, and bold, "How Economics Shapes
Science" highlights the growing gap between the
haves and have-nots – especially the vast imbalance
between the biomedical sciences and
physics/engineering – and offers a persuasive vision
of a more productive, more creative research system
that would lead and benefit the world.

9780674049710, HB, January 2012
23.4x15.4 cm, 384 pages, 7 tables, 13 line illus.

Capitalizing on Crisis:
The Political Origins of the
Rise of Finance
Krippner Greta R.

Krippner argues that state policies that created
conditions conducive to financialization allowed the
state to avoid a series of economic, social, and
political dilemmas that confronted policymakers as
postwar prosperity stalled beginning in the late
1960s and 1970s. The book focuses on
deregulation of financial markets during the 1970s
and 1980s, encouragement of foreign capital into
the U.S. economy in the context of large fiscal
imbalances in the early 1980s, and changes in
monetary policy following the shift to high interest
rates in 1979. Exhaustively researched, the book
brings extensive new empirical evidence to bear on
debates regarding recent developments in financial
markets and the broader turn to the market that
has characterized U.S. society over the last several
decades.

9780674066199, PB, September 2012
23.6x15.7 cm, 240 pages, 14 graphs

Capitalism from Below:
Markets and Institutional
Change in China
Nee Victor, Opper Sonja

Studying over 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi
region, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper argue that
China's private enterprise economy bubbled up from
below. Through trial and error, entrepreneurs devised
institutional innovations that enabled them to
decouple from the established economic order to
start up and grow small, private manufacturing firms.
Barriers to entry motivated them to build their own
networks of suppliers and distributors, and to develop
competitive advantage in self-organized industrial
clusters. This rapidly growing private enterprise
economy diffused throughout the coastal regions of
China and, passing through a series of tipping points,
eroded the market share of state-owned firms.
Today, this private enterprise economy is one of the
greatest success stories in the history of capitalism.

9780674050204, HB, June 2012
23.5x15.6 cm, 424 pages
2 maps, 15 graphs, 29 tables, 5 line illus.

Collected Papers
on Monetary Theory
Gillman Max, Lucas Robert E.

Robert Lucas incorporated the quantity theory of
money into these models and derived its
implications for money growth, inflation, and
interest rates in the long run. He also showed the
different effects of anticipated and unanticipated
changes in the stock of money on economic
fluctuations, and helped to demonstrate that there
was not a long-run trade-off between
unemployment and inflation
(the Phillips curve) that policy-makers could exploit.
The twenty-one papers collected in this volume fall
primarily into three categories: core monetary
theory and public finance, asset pricing, and the
real effects of monetary instability. Published
between 1972 and 2007, they will inspire students
and researchers who want to study the work of a
master of economic modeling and to advance
economics as a pure and applied science.

9780674066878, HB, December 2012
23.4x15.5 cm, 568 pages
53 graphs, 11 tables

Cuban Economic and
Social Development: Policy
Reforms and Challenges
in the 21st Century
Barberia Lorena, Dominguez Jorge I.,
Espina Prieto Mayra, Perez Villanueva,
Omar Everleny

The Cuban economy has been transformed over the
course of the last decade, and these changes are
now likely to accelerate. In this edited volume,
prominent Cuban economists and sociologists
present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and
social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to
reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare
of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade,
capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal
policy, and the agricultural sector. In a second
section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and
an economist map how reforms in economic and
social policies have produced declines in the social
standing of some specific groups and economic
mobility for others.
9780674062436, PB, March 2012
22.9x15.2 cm, 430 pages
45 tables, 25 black&white illus.

Macroeconomics Beyond
the NAIRU
Naastepad C. W. M., Storm Servaas

Economists and the governments they advise have
based their macroeconomic policies on the idea of a
natural rate of unemployment. Government policy that
pushes the rate below this point – about 6 percent – is
apt to trigger an accelerating rate of inflation that is
hard to reverse, or so the argument goes. In this book,
Servaas Storm and C. W. M. Naastepad make a
strong case that this concept is flawed: that a stable
Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
(NAIRU), independent of macroeconomic policy, does
not exist. Consequently, government decisions based
on the NAIRU are not only misguided but have huge
and avoidable social costs, namely, high
unemployment and sustained inequality. Skillfully
merging theoretical and empirical analysis, Storm and
Naastepad show how the NAIRU's neglect of labor's
impact on technological change and productivity
growth eclipses the many positive contributions that
labor and its regulation make to economic
performance.

9780674062276, HB, January 2012
23.6x16.5 cm, 304 pages, 27 graphs, 27 tables

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