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The Best Business Writing 2013
Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon

Paper, $18.95 / £12.95 568 pages


If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 352 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 352 pages


The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China
Zhu Wen; Translated by Julia Lovell

Cloth, $26.95 / £18.95 184 pages


Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths

Now available in paper

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 392 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 392 pages


Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway
Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 208 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 208 pages


Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity
Hartmut Rosa; Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 512 pages


The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity
Georges Vigarello; Translated by C. Jon Delogu

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 296 pages


Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault
Peter Sloterdijk; Translated by Thomas Dunlap with a foreword by Creston Davis

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 136 pages


Cloth, $59.50 / £41.00 136 pages


Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
David E. Gussak

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 256 pages


Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight
Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon

Paper, $27.95 / £19.95 552 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 552 pages


The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby
Edited by Anne J. Adelman and Kerry L. Malawista

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 336 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 336 pages


The Social Work Interview, Fifth Edition
Alfred Kadushin and Goldie Kadushin

Paper, $50.00 / £34.50 432 pages


Cloth, $130.00 / £89.50 432 pages


The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving
Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd

Cloth, $27.95 / £19.95 176 pages


Mothers in Academia
Edited by Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 288 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 288 pages


Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou

Paper, $32.50 / £22.50 304 pages


Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 304 pages


Qualitative Research in Social Work, Second Edition
Edited by Anne E. Fortune, William J. Reid, and Robert L. Miller

Paper, $65.00 / £45.00 624 pages


Cloth, $150.00 / £103.50 624 pages


Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Anna L. Peterson

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 240 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 240 pages


In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means
Edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 288 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 288 pages


Food: A Culinary History
Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $24.95 / £16.95 624 pages


Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 624 pages


Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
David A. Nibert

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 352 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 352 pages


Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology
Edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius

Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 752 pages


Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma
Barbara Will

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $26.00 / £18.00 320 pages


Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 320 pages


Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
John T. Hamilton

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 272 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 272 pages


What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan

Cloth, $27.95 / £19.95 192 pages


To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
Jacob Taubes; Translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw

Cloth, $18.50 / £13.00 120 pages


Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis: Implications for Social Work
Melvin Delgado

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 288 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 288 pages


The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance
Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor

Cloth, $39.50 / £27.50 432 pages


Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens
Erin G. Carlston

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 352 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 352 pages


Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce
Karl Kusserow; with contributions by David L. Barquist, Elizabeth Blackmar, Daniel Bluestone, and Paul Staiti

Cloth, $60.00 / £41.50 424 pages


The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $19.00 / £13.00 240 pages


Cloth, $28.00 / £19.50 240 pages


Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism
Gary Steiner

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 312 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 312 pages


Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam
Aaron W. Hughes

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 328 pages


Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
Translated with an Introduction by R. Keller Kimbrough

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 288 pages


The Tibetan History Reader
Edited by Gray Tuttle and Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 752 pages


Cloth, $120.00 / £83.00 752 pages


Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
Ho-fung Hung

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 288 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 288 pages


Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939
Thomas Doherty

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 448 pages


Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
Steven M. Cahn and Victor L. Cahn; Foreword by Mary Ann Caws

Paper, $14.95 / £9.95 104 pages


Cloth, $49.50 / £34.00 104 pages


Sources of Tibetan Tradition
Edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 856 pages


Cloth, $120.00 / £83.00 856 pages


American Stories
Nagai Kafū

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 192 pages


Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 192 pages


Satyajit Ray on Cinema
Satyajit Ray; Edited by Sandip Ray; Foreword by Shyam Benegal

Paper, $19.50 184 pages


Cloth, $69.50 184 pages


The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Edited by Lydia H. Liu, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 328 pages


The Bhāgavata Purāna: Sacred Text and Living Tradition
Edited by Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey

Paper, $34.50 / £24.00 296 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 296 pages


Sources of Tibetan Tradition
Edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein, and Gray Tuttle

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 856 pages


Cloth, $120.00 / £83.00 856 pages


Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future
Vivien Gornitz

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 360 pages


Cloth, $120.00 / £83.00 360 pages


Eastern Sentiments
Yi T'aejun; Translated by Janet Poole

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $27.00 / £18.50 208 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 208 pages


Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Haruo Shirane

Paper, $25.00 / £17.50 336 pages


Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 336 pages


Hospice Social Work
Dona J. Reese

Paper, $45.00 / £30.95 360 pages


Cloth, $125.00 / £86.50 360 pages


Social Welfare in East Asia and the Pacific
Edited by Sharlene B.C.L. Furuto

Paper, $30.00 / £20.50 304 pages


Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 304 pages


Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Michael Marder; Foreword by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala

Paper, $30.00 / £20.50 248 pages


Cloth, $90.00 / £62.00 248 pages


The Incident at Antioch/L’Incident d’Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes
Alain Badiou; Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard and Translated by Susan Spitzer

Paper, $22.50 / £15.50 216 pages


Cloth, $69.50 / £48.00 216 pages


Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives
Edited by W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 376 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 376 pages


The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science
Robert E. Pollack

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 144 pages


Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 144 pages


The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet
Lawrence J. Friedman

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 456 pages


Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking
Hunter Vaughan

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 264 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 264 pages


Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey
Robert J. Durán

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 272 pages


Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy
John C. Avise

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 346 pages


Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader
Edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards

Paper, $40.00 / £27.50 472 pages


Cloth, $120.00 / £83.00 472 pages


Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters
Alain Badiou; Translated by Susan Spitzer and Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

Cloth, $35.00 400 pages


Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination
Christopher Collins

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 272 pages


Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event
Clayton Crockett

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 232 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 232 pages


How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Roland Barthes; Translated by Kate Briggs

Paper, $26.95 / £18.95 256 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 256 pages


Investing: The Last Liberal Art
Robert G. Hagstrom

Cloth, $27.95 / £19.95 216 pages


Reforming Democracies: Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda
Douglas A. Chalmers

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 192 pages


Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal
Edited by Mamadou Diouf

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 296 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 296 pages


The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik
Christopher Pavsek

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 304 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 304 pages


Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Claude A. Piantadosi

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 336 pages


The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines
Brent R. Stockwell

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 284 pages


Cloth, $27.95 / £22.95 284 pages


Media of Reason: A Theory of Rationality
Matthias Vogel; Translated by Darrell Arnold

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 400 pages


Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Colleen Glenney Boggs

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 312 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 312 pages


Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire
Saikat Majumdar

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 248 pages


Why Jane Austen?
Rachel M. Brownstein

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $22.00 / £15.00 320 pages


Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 320 pages


How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
Roland Barthes; Translated by Kate Briggs

Paper, $26.95 / £18.95 256 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 256 pages


Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"
Lillian Faderman; with a new Foreword by Judith Halberstam

Paper, $24.00 / £16.50 320 pages


Kiku's Prayer: A Novel
Endō Shūsaku; Translated by Van C. Gessel

Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages