Prize for Chicago Author Ralph O'Connor, lecturer in history at the University of Aberdeen, has won the British Society for Literature and Science's annual prize for his book 'The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856'. (University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226616681, 448pp, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables, very More..

	Kurdistan With 310 colour plates and 219 halftones, this is a beautiful book and altogether an astonishing work. Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I, when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East, leaving the Kurds without a homeland. Today the Kurds, who live on land that straddles More..

New from Georgetown University Press 'Analyzing Intelligence', edited by Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce (9781589012011, 288pp, paper £17.75)Drawing on the individual and collective experience of recognized intelligence experts and scholars in the field, ‘Analyzing Intelligence’ provides the first comprehensive assessment of the state of intelligence analysis since 9/11. Its in-depth and balanced evaluation More..

	Gardens THE Book of the Week (26 June 2008) 'The book is about gardens as a metaphor of the human condition,' Tom Turner writes. 'It is not about the history of designed gardens or of gardening as practice. Harrison draws freely and with brilliance from 5,000 years of western literature and criticism, More..

	Imperial Nature Illustrated with 49 halftones Reviewing ‘Imperial Nature’ in the journal ‘Nature’, Sandra Knapp remarks that ‘Science, particularly natural history, switched at this time from an activity practised by aristocrats to one paid for by governments. Jim Endersby provides a refreshing record of how scientists worked during this transition, rather than More..

	Voicing American Poetry In ‘Voicing American Poetry’, Lesley Wheeler explores how and why American poetry of the twentieth century and beyond keeps returning to voice as an idea, even though the term frustrates definition. Poetic voice is a crucial term precisely because of its ambiguity: both poets and critics invoke voice to argue More..

	New from USIPP New titles just in from the United States Institute of Peace Press include: ‘Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East’, edited by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky ‘The Madrassah Challenge: Militancy and Religious Education in Pakistan’ by C. Christine Fair ‘My Kashmir: Conflict and the Prospects for Enduring More..

	American Servicemen in France “You are about to play a personal part in pushing the Germans out of France. Whatever part you take—rifleman, hospital orderly, mechanic, pilot, clerk, gunner, truck driver—you will be an essential factor in a great effort.” As American soldiers fanned out from their beachhead in Normandy in June More..

	RiverTime Journeys on the world’s rivers, from a naturalist’s point of view. 13 colour photographs, 2 maps In this engaging travelogue of our world’s rivers, great and small, poet and biologist Mary A. Hood reflects on rivers as creators of place. Recounting her journeys along portions of the Mississippi, the Danube, the Amazon, More..

	French Theory 'How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States' The must-read exposé of America’s love/hate affair with French theory. During the last three decades of the twentieth century, a disparate group of radical French thinkers achieved an improbable level of influence and fame in the United States. More..

	Recently Reviewed Chicago Books Among recently reviewed titles from the University of Chicago Press: 'Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History' by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll, reviewed in 'Times Higher Education' (1-7 May), 9780226071633, 423pp, cloth £15.00 The 'London Review of Books' (8 May), had an extensive review of Evelyne Bloch-Dano's More..

Cornell Nursing and Medical Titles 'Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out' Emily Monosson, editor 9780801446641, 264pp, 8 charts/graphs, Cornell, May 2008, cloth £12.50 About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many More..

	Tides of History Just sailed into a harbour near you. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans’ outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty’s navy was due in no small More..

	Interested in Ford Madox Ford? The society was founded in 1997 to promote knowledge of and interest in the life and work of Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939). It organizes an active programme of events. Besides regular meetings in Britain, there have been conferences in Italy, Germany, and the U.S.A., most recently in Genova, in September More..

	Richard Rorty On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living More..

Bestsellers from Cornell Several of the bestselling titles from Cornell are revised editions of textbooks: Donnelly’s ‘Universal Human Rights’, Biers’ ‘Archaeology of Greece’, Brothwell’s ‘Digging Up Bones’ or Reece’s revision of ‘Duke’s Physiology’. Other titles to have established their places on student reading lists include: in literary theory, Genette’s ‘Narrative Discourse’, Irigaray’s ‘This Sex More..

	New edition of Craft of Research With more than 200,000 copies in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Now, seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition More..

Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams. Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that express the value of dreams as a vehicle of authentic spiritual More..

	So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke In 'So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke', Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known heretical group in the south of France in the early fourteenth century. The Beguins were a small sect of priests and lay people allied to (and sharing many of the More..

	Brussels versus the Beltway This book presents the first large-scale study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union, two of the most powerful political systems in the world. Every day, tens of thousands of lobbyists in Washington and Brussels are working to protect and promote their interests in More..

Two from Amsterdam Orders to NBN International 'Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier' by Alex McKay. 9789053565186, 302pp, paper £29.50 This is a ground-breaking study of the introduction of “Western medicine” to Kalimpong, Sikkim, central Tibet and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain traces the efforts of medical missionaries and British imperial Indian Medical Service More..

	Bestsellers from SUNY Many of the bestselling titles from the State University of New York Press fall into three broad subject areas: Religious Studies, particularly Comparative Religions and Eastern Religions; Philosophy; and Psychology. Examples of the first category include Arvind Sharma’s ‘Women in World Religions’, Klostermeier’s ‘Survey of Hinduism’, now in its third edition, More..

	Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond “After we had exchanged the requisite formalities over tea in his camp on the southern edge of Kabul's outer defense perimeter, the Afghan field commander told me that two of his bravest mujahideen were martyred because he did not have a pickup truck to take them to a Peshawar hospital. More..

	New SUNY paperbacks From the State University of New York Press a wide range of paperbacks has just come into stock. Religious studies titles include 'The International Eliade', edited by Bryan Rennie, which brings together contributors from beyond the Anglo-American milieu to consider the work of Mircea Eliade. Significant new insights and information concerning More..

	New Paperbacks from Chicago New in paperback from Chicago. Caroline A Jones, 'Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses', 9780226409535, 544pp, 23 colour plates, 127 halftones, £18.00. Even a decade after his death, Clement Greenberg remains controversial. One of the most influential art writers of the twentieth century, he propelled Abstract More..

	Love and the Incredibly Old Man In the 'Times Literary Supplement' (18th April 2008), Stephen Burn comments that "A creative attitude to the novel is in abundant evidence across all Siegel's fiction; and this new novel is a worthy addition to a body of work which deserves a wider audience. With its narrative experiments and witty More..

	Practical Mystic Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington (1882–1944), a pioneer in astrophysics, relativity, and the popularization of science, and a devout Quaker. Practical Mystic uses the figure of Eddington to shows More..

New from Minnesota Anatoly Liberman, 'An Analytic Dictionary of the English Language: An Introduction', 9780816652723, 368pp, cloth £31.00 The first dictionary of its kind, drawn from four centuries of research in twenty-five languages. This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman’s comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries More..

	Governance in Dark Times With the rush of calamitous events in recent years—the September 11 terror attacks, the Iraq imbroglio, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita—Americans feel themselves to be living in dark times. Trust in one another and in the government is at low ebb. People in public service face profound challenges to the More..

	To Plead Our Own Cause A painful and moving collection of testimonies. Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. More..

Understanding Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist, psychologist, systems thinker, student of animal communication, and insightful environmentalist, was one of the most important holistic thinkers of the twentieth century. Noel G. Charlton offers this first truly accessible introduction to Bateson’s work, distilling and clarifying Bateson’s understanding of the “mind” or “mental systems” as More..