| All-Night Lingo Tango | Barbara Hamby | This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet master who can make a new world out of nothing.
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| American People and the National Forests | Samuel Hays | A history of the role of American society in shaping the policies of the United States Forest Service. |
| American People and the National Forests | Samuel Hays | A history of the role of American society in shaping the policies of the United States Forest Service. |
| Andes Imagined | Jorge Coronado | Repositions Peruvian indigenismo as a discourse of and about modernity, in which the movement's artists and intellectuals used the figure of the Indian to mobilize larger questions about becoming modern. |
| Between Garden and City | Dorothée Imbert | The first biography and study of the work of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes, a significant but somewhat overlooked figure in the history of European modernism. In tracing his contributions, Imbert restores Canneel as a major figure in the development of landscape architecture into a modern discipline. |
| Brezhnev's Folly | Christopher Ward | The first scholarly account of BAM (the Baikal-Amur Railway), Russia’s most ambitious public construction project to be attempted in the final decades leading up to the collapse of the USSR. This is a rich social history based on a combination of original scholarly research and interviews with many of those who worked on BAM. |
| Corruption and Democracy in Latin America | Charles Blake | A groundbreaking national and regional study of corruption and its relation to democracy in Latin America. This book provides policy analysis and prescription through a wide-ranging methodological, empirical, and theoretical survey. |
| Crystal and Arabesque | Jonathan Massey | The first biography of Claude Bragdon, an early and unique, but often overlooked, advocate of architectural modernism. |
| Error | Nicholas Rescher | A new analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Defines three main categories of error, and provides a historical perspective on error from Greek to modern philosophy. |
| Ignorance | Nicholas Rescher | Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ignorance in areas of philosophy, scientific endeavor, and ordinary life. |
| Ka-Ching! | Denise Duhamel | Ka-Ching! is a book of poems that explores America’s obsession with money. It also includes a crown of sonnets about e-bay, sestinas on the subjects of Sean Penn and the main characters of fairytales, a pantoum that riffs on a childhood riddle, and a villanelle inspired by bathroom grafitti.
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Watch Denise Duhamel read at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida. |
| Learning from Language | Walter Beale | This book seeks to bring together the disciplines of linguistics, rhetoric, and literary studies through the concept of symmetry (how words mirror thought, society, and our vision of the world). |
| Liberalism at Its Limits | Ileana Rodriguez | Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants. |
| Liberalism at Its Limits | Ileana Rodriguez | Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants. |
| Mother/Child Papers | Alicia Suskin Ostriker | In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into. |
| Open Interval | Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon | Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in ]Open Interval[ locate the self in the interval between body and name. |
| Political Economy of Transitions to Peace | Galia Press-Barnathan | How is peace actually achieved, reinforced, and made permanent? This is the question that this book tackles as the author examines the outcomes of a series of conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe from 1945 to the present. The insights and lessons emerging from these cases and drawn out by Press-Barnathan's analysis will help scholars and decision-makers to better understand and more skillfully manage transitions to peace in present-day conflicts. |
| Political Economy of Transitions to Peace | Galia Press-Barnathan | How is peace actually achieved, reinforced, and made permanent? This is the question that this book tackles as the author examines the outcomes of a series of conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe from 1945 to the present. The insights and lessons emerging from these cases and drawn out by Press-Barnathan's analysis will help scholars and decision-makers to better understand and more skillfully manage transitions to peace in present-day conflicts. |
| Regulation in the Reagan-Bush Era | Barry Friedman | New in Paper.
Explores the unprecedented influence of executive power over the federal regulatory process during the Ronald Regan and then George H. W. Bush presidencies.
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| Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal | Heather Douglas | Douglas challenges the traditional value-free ideal, and proposes a
new ideal for values in science. She argues that the distinction
between junk science and sound science lies in the roles values play
at key points throughout science, and that constraining those roles is
central to protecting the integrity and objectivity of science. |
| See Jack | Russell Edson | Edson began publishing poetry in the 1960s. He has been called “the godfather of prose poems in America” by Booklist’s Ray Olson.
Edson has been quoted as saying “Prose comes so naturally that one doesn’t really have to choose it, it’s already in one’s mouth”.
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| Stalinist Confessions | Igal Halfin | A study of the Great Purge in the setting of Leningrad Communist University, seen in the rhetoric of the accused and their accusors. |
| Stalinist Confessions | Igal Halfin | A study of the Great Purge in the setting of Leningrad Communist University, seen in the rhetoric of the accused and their accusors. |
