Geography and environmental sciences
? Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
By Marten Scheffer, professor
of environmental sciences, Wageningen University
Princeton University Press, ?26.95
ISBN 9780691122045
Scheffer describes the dynamic systems theory underpinning critical transitions, covering topics including catastrophe theory, bifurcations and chaos.
History
? The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925
By Simon Partner, associate professor in Japanese studies,
University of California Press, ?32.95 and ?13.50
ISBN 9780520258587 and 8594
Taking the biography of Aizawa Kikutar? as its central focus and incorporating intimate details of life drawn from his diary, The Mayor of Aihara chronicles the transformation of Hashimoto against the backdrop of Japan’s rapid industrialisation.
? Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969
By Andrew J. Diamond, associate professor of American history and civilisation, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3
University of California Press, ?14.95
ISBN 9780520257474
Mean Streets focuses on the streets, parks, schools, and commercial venues of Chicago from the era of the 1919 race riot to the civil rights battles of the 1960s to cast a new light on street gangs and to place youths at the centre of the 20th-century American experience.
Literature
? Re-Reading Harry Potter
By Suman Gupta, professor
of literature and culture,
Palgrave Macmillan, ?50.00
and ?14.99
ISBN 9780230219571 and 9588
This book discusses the political and social presumptions
ingrained in the texts of the
Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media.
Media and communication studies
? Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives
Edited by Pirkko Markula, professor of socio-cultural studies of sport and physical activity, University of Alberta
Palgrave Macmillan, ?52.00
ISBN 9780230222847
Through feminist theorising and qualitative textual analysis, the contributors discuss sexualisation, nationalism, success, failure and the visibility of women athletes
in newspaper reporting of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games in Asia, Europe and the US.
Music
? Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
By Amiri Baraka, professor emeritus, State University of
New York at Stony Brook
University of California Press, ?15.95
ISBN 9780520257153
In this assemblage of his writing
on music, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times and places he has encountered.
Politics
? Postinternationalism and Small Arms Control: Theory, Politics, Security
By Damien Rogers, affiliate scholar, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
Ashgate, ?60.00
ISBN 9780754675389
Rogers examines how the international community has responded to the challenge of controlling small arms and light weapons since the early 1990s, focusing on the maturing relationships between particular actors on the world stage.
? Brand New Ireland? Tourism, Development and National Identity in the Irish Republic
By Michael Clancy, associate professor in international politics, University of Hartford
Ashgate, ?55.00
ISBN 9780754676317
By examining tourism in the Republic of Ireland over the past 20 years, Clancy explores tourism’s role in the “Celtic Tiger” phenomenon and uses tourism as a lens for observing national identity formation in a period of rapid change.
? Organizational Cooperation in Crises
By Lina M. Svedin, assistant professor in political science, University of Utah
Ashgate, ?55.00
ISBN 9780754677253
Svedin presents a systematic examination of organisational co-operation in crises by bringing together three research traditions on co-operation to examine how their variables fare empirically when applied to a set of cases and decision situations.
North Korea’s Foreign Policy under Kim Jong Il: New Perspectives
Edited by Tae-Hwan Kwak, professor emeritus of political science, Eastern Kentucky University, and Seung-Ho Joo, professor of political science, University of Minnesota-Morris
Ashgate, ?60.00
ISBN 9780754677390
This study examines North Korea’s current foreign policy under Kim Jong-Il as well as its bilateral relations with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
? The Politics of Global Regulation
Edited by Walter Mattli, professor of international political economy and fellow, St. John’s College, Oxford, and Ngaire Woods, professor of international political economy, University of Oxford
Princeton University Press, ?38.95 and ?14.95
ISBN 9780691139609 and 9616
Mattli and Woods present an analytical framework to explain regulatory outcomes at the global level and offer a series of case studies that illustrate the challenges of a global economy in which many institutions are less transparent and are held much less accountable by the media and public officials than are domestic institutions.
Social sciences
? When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
By Adriana Petryna, associate professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University Press,
?38.95 and ?14.95
ISBN 9780691126562 and 6579
When Experiments Travel documents the complex ways
in which commercial medical science is being integrated into local healthcare systems and emerging drug markets.
? Crisis and Change in the British and Dutch Prison Services: Understanding Crisis-Reform Processes
By Sandra L. Resodihardjo, lecturer in social sciences, Leiden University
Ashgate, ?55.00
ISBN 9780754675495
Examining the conditions under which a crisis in a policy sector can lead to significant reform within the sector, this study draws on crises within the British and Dutch prison services.
? Democracy in Social Movements
Edited by Donatella della Porta, professor of sociology, European University Institute
Palgrave Macmillan, ?55.00
ISBN 9780230218833
This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement organisations involved in global protest and focuses on the global justice movement and how they adopt new democratic approaches.
? Sport and Social Identities
Edited by John Harris, associate professor in sports administration, Kent State University, and Andrew Parker, professor of sport and Christian outreach, University of Gloucestershire
Palgrave Macmillan, ?55.00 and ?19.99
ISBN 97802305355 and 9780230535282
This book looks at how identities are constructed and reinforced in sport, exploring notions of race, class, sexuality and nationalism and is aimed at students of sociology and sports studies.
Theatre studies
? Theatre, Facilitation and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East
By Sonja Arsham Kuftinec, associate professor of theatre, University of Minnesota
Palgrave Macmillan, ?50.00
ISBN 9780230005396
Kuftinec addresses how theatre might intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflict through detailed case studies of the Balkans and
the Middle East.
Biological sciences
? Human Impacts on Salt Marshes: A Global Perspective
By Brian R. Silliman, assistant professor of zoology, University of Florida, Edwin D. Grosholz, professor and Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz specialist in co-operative extension, University of California, Davis, and Mark D. Bertness, Robert P. Brown professor of biology, Brown University
University of California Press, ?35.00
ISBN 9780520258921
This volume details how humans have modified salt marshes around the world and why these vital habitats need protection as well as offering recommendations about what should be done to remediate current threats and restore the structure and function of salt marsh ecosystems.
? Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
By Theodore W. Pietsch, Dorothy T. Gilbert professor and curator of fishes, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington
University of California Press, ?61.00
ISBN 9780520255425
Pietsch delivers a summary of all that is known about anglerfishes – morphology, diversity, evolution, geographic distribution, bioluminescence and reproduction.
? Resource Strategies of Wild Plants
By Joseph M. Craine, assistant professor of biology, Kansas State University
Princeton University Press, ?59.95 and ?26.95
ISBN 9780691139111 and 9128
Drawing from recent findings in plant-herbivore interactions, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology, Craine explains how plants attain available nutrients, withstand the immense stresses of drying soils, and flourish in the race for light.
? The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth
By John Kricher, A. Howard Meneely professor of biology, Wheaton College
Princeton University Press, ?14.95
ISBN 9780691138985
The Balance of Nature traces the history of the science of ecology and evolutionary biology, from the discipline’s early innovators to the advent of Darwin and evolution, to the scientific minds of today.
Film studies
? The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
By Jennifer M. Barker, assistant professor of moving image studies, Georgia State University
University of California Press, ?35.00 and ?14.95
ISBN 9780520258402 and 8426
Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile – a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin and reverberates in the body.
Law
? From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America
By Richard Mendelson, lecturer in law, University of California, Berkeley
University of California Press, ?17.95
ISBN 9780520259430
This study takes the story of wine from the early support for wine as a beverage to the moral and religious fervour that resulted in Prohibition and the governmental controls that followed repeal to the present-day emergence of a significant wine culture.
Philosophy and theology
? Knowledge
By Duncan Pritchard, professor of philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Palgrave Macmillan, ?60.00 and ?16.99
ISBN 9780230230484 and 9780230019447
Pritchard offers students an exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, and covers such topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism and attributer contextualism.
? The Positive Function of Evil
Edited by Pedro Alexis Tabensky, lecturer in philosophy, Rhodes University
Palgrave Macmillan, ?50.00
ISBN 9780230219557
This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives.