2013 Humanities Books

2013 Faculty-Authored Publications

Alpers, Svetlana, Visiting Scholar

Roof Life (Yale University Press)

Alter, Adam

Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave (The Penguin Press)

Altshuler, Bruce

Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art History: 1962-2002 (Phaidon Press)

Anker, Peder

From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (Chinese Translation) (Louisiana State University Press)

Antoon, Sinan

The Corpse Washer (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (Yale University Press)

Appadurai, Arjun

The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (Verso)

Apsel, Joyce

Genocide Matters: Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives (Routledge)

Apter, Emily

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Verso)

Baer, Ulrich

Beggar’s Chicken: Stories from Shanghai (Earnshaw Books)

Bain, Bryonn, Visiting Scholar

The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America (Third World Press)

Baumol, William

The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t (Yale University Press)

Beam, Cris

Fostering (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Ben-Dor, Zvi

Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958 (Brandeis)

Benson, Rodney

Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison (Cambridge University Press)

Benton, Lauren

Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (NYU Press)

Brown, Jonathan

Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence (Yale University Press)

Cave, Peter

Philosophy: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld Publications)

Centrone, Brian

An Ordinary Boy (Seventh Window Publications)

Chibber, Vivek

Registering Class: Socialist Register 2014 (Monthly Review Press)

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Verso)

Chung, Irene

Contemporary Clinical Practice with Asian Immigrants: A Relational Framework with Culturally Responsive Approaches (Routledge)

Cohen, Jean-Louis

Allemagne – France: 1800-2000 (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)

Deutschland Frankreich Architekture 1800-200 (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)

Le Corbusier’s Secret Laboratory: From Painting to Architecture (Hatje Cantz)

Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Literature (Museum of Modern Art)

Metropolen 1850-1950 (Deutscher Kunstverlag)

Cohen, Robert

Rebellion in Black and White (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Collins, Christopher

Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination (Columbia University Press)

Cornyetz, Nina

The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire (Routledge)

Cox, Virginia

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Dancyger, Ken

Alternative Scriptwriting: Beyond the Hollywood Formula (Focal Press)

DeWitt, Anne

Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel (Cambridge University Press)

Devi, Gayatri

A Calm Brain: How to Relax into a Stress-Free, High-Powered Life (Plume)

Dinshaw, Carolyn

How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time (Duke University Press)

Diner, Hasia

1929 (NYU Press)

Dorsen, Norman

The Embattled Constitution (NYU Press)

Dreyfus, Mariela

Poesía completa. Edición y prólogo de Mariela Dreyfus y Silvia Guerra (Sevilla: Sibila / Fundación BBVA)

Egan, Patrick

Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics (Cambridge University Press)

Epstein, Mark, Visiting Scholar

Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective (Basic Books)

The Trauma of Everyday Life: A Guide to Inner Peace (The Penguin Press)

Estraikh, Gennedy

1929 (NYU Press)

Fagin, Dan

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (Bantam)

Frydman, Roman, Visiting Scholar

Rethinking Expectations: The Way Forward for Macroeconomics (Princeton University Press)

Galloway, Alex

Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation (University of Chicago Press)

Ganti, Tejaswini

Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema (Routledge)

Gao, Chen

Experiencing Chinese: Intermediate Course 2 (Higher Education Press)

Geismar, Haidy

Treasured Possessions: Indigenous Interventions into Cultural and Intellectual Property (Duke University Press)

Gerson, Stephane

Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom (St. Martin’s Press)

Gilles, D.B.

Writer’s Rehab: A 12-Step Program for Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together (Michael Wiese Productions)

Gilligan, Carol

Joining the Resistance (Polity)

Gilligan, James

Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous to Your Health Than Others (Polity)

Gilsenan, Michael

Recognizing Islam: 11 (The MIT Press)

Gitelman, Lisa

“Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron (The MIT Press)

Godoy, Marcial

Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (NYU Press)

Groys, Boris

History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism (The MIT Press)

Gurman, Hannah

Hearts and Minds: A People’s History of Counterinsurgency (New Press)

Halbertal, Moshe

Maimonides: Life and Thought (Princeton University Press)

Halim, Hala

Alexandrian Cosmopolitan: An Archive (Fordham University Press)

Halkitis, Perry

The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience (Oxford University Press)

Hammel-zabin, Amy

Conversations With A Pedophile: In the Interest of Our Children (Barricade Books)

Harvey, Anna

A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy (Yale University Press)

Hasinoff, Erin, Visiting Scholar

Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935 (Bard Center)

Heuler, Karen

The Inner City (ChiZine)

Hulsebosch, Daniel and Bernstein, R.B.

Making Legal History (NYU Press)

Iampolski, Mikhail

Spatial History (Seans Publishing House (St. Petersburg))

Jerolmack, Colin

The Global Pigeon (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) (University of Chicago Press)

Juul, Jesper, Visiting Scholar

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games (The MIT Press)

Karl, Rebecca

Mao Zedong Zhuan (Hunan People’s Press)

Katz, Gil

The Play Within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process (Routledge)

Katz, Marion

Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice (Cambridge University Press)

Kaufman, Scott

Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined (Basic Books)

Kay, Sarah

Parrots and Nightingales (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Kennedy, Philip

Scheherazade’s Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights (NYU Press)

Kirkland, David

A Search Past Silence: The Literacy of Young Black Men (Teacher’s College Press)

Klimke, Martin

Between Prague Spring and French May (Berghahn Books)

Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact 1250-1914 (Berghahn Books)

Korb, Scott

Light without Fire: The Making of America’s First Muslim College (Beacon Press)

Kowalzig, Barbara

Dithyramb in Context (Oxford University Press)

Labanyi, Josephine

A Companion to Spanish Cinema (Oxford and Malden)

Levering Lewis, David

King: A Biography (University of Illinois Press)

Ledbury, Mark, Visiting Scholar

Fictions of Art History (Yale University Press)

Lee, Stella

The Budding Bougainvillea, a collection of 15 stories (Inked Press)

Lefer, David

The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution (Sentinel)

Lieberman, Al

The Definitive Guide to Entertainment Marketing: Bringing the Moguls, the Media, and the Magic to the World (FT Press)

Luckett, Moya

Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917 (Wayne State University Press)

Ludden, David

India and South Asia (Short Histories) (Oneworld Publications)

Lukes, Steven

Durkheim and the Law (Palgrave Macmillan)

Marantz, Alec

Distributed Morphology Today (The MIT Press)

Maslon, Laurence

Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture (Crown Archetype)

Mcbride, James

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel (Riverhead)

Mccarthy, Anna

The Citizen Machine: Governing By Television in 1950s America (NYU Press)

Mejorado, Ascension

Profitability and the Great Recession: The Role of Accumulation Trends in the Financial Crisis (Routledge)

Meltzer, Eve

Systems We Have Loved: Conceptual Art, Affect, and the Antihumanist Turn (University of Chicago Press)

Nagle, Robin

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)

Nagler, Jonathan

Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States (Princeton University Press)

Nestle, Marion

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (University of California Press)

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (University of California Press)

Nicholls, Peter

Thinking Poetry (Routledge)

Norman, Elizabeth

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan (Random House)

Nouis, Lucien

De l’infini des bibliothèques au livre unique – L’archive épurée au XVIIIe siècle (Classiques Garnier)

Nutter, Geoffrey

The Rose of January (Wave Books)

Ofri, Danielle

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Beacon Press)

Pellegrini, Ann

“You Can Tell Just By Looking” And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Beacon Press)

Penenberg, Adam

Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking (Portfolio)

Polyne, Millery

The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development (University of Minnesota Press)

Rademacher, Anne

Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability (Hong Kong University Press)

Ravitch, Diane

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools (Knopf)

Ritchin, Fred

Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen (Aperture)

Rosenblum, Constance

Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City (NYU Press)

Rushkoff, Douglas

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (Current)

Sargent, Thomas

Recursive Linear Models of Dynamic Economies (Princeton University Press)

Rational Expectations and Inflation (Princeton University Press)

Sayrafiezadeh, Said

Brief Encounters with the Enemy: Fiction (The Dial Press)

Scheffler, Samuel

Death and the Afterlife (Oxford University Press)

Seitel, Fraser

Rethinking Reputation: How PR Trumps Marketing and Advertising in the New Media World (Palgrave Macmillan)

Sennett, Richard

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (Yale University Press)

Serban, George, Visiting Scholar

The Mask of Normalcy: Social Conformity and Its Ambiguities (Transaction Publishers)

Shapira, Harel

Waiting for Jose: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America (Princeton University Press)

Sharkey, Patrick

Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (University of Chicago Press)

Shaw, Lytle

Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (Contemp North American Poetry) (University of Iowa Press)

Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics (University of Alabama Press)

Shenefelt, Michael

If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic (Columbia University Press)

Shovlin, John

The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757 Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad (Oxford University Press)

Silber, William

Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence (Bloomsbury Press)

Silver, Ken

Chagall: Love, War, and Exile (Yale University Press)

Slifkin, Rob

Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (University of California Press)

Smith, Zadie

NW: A Novel (Penguin Books)

Sosulski, Kristen

The Savvy Student’s Guide to Online Learning (Routledge)

Starr, Gabrielle

Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (The MIT Press)

Tchen, John

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (Verso)

Thain, Marion

The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations (Cambridge University Press)

Tortorici, Zeb

Centering Animals in Latin American History (Duke University Press)

Truxes, Thomas

The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757 Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad (Oxford University Press)

Vatulescu, Cristina

Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times (Stanford University Press)

Walkowitz, Daniel

City Folk: English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America (NYU Press)

Way, Niobe

Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Harvard University Press)

Weiss, Allen

Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics (Reaktion Books)

Weisser, Susan

The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories (Rutgers University Press)

Weschler, Lawrence

David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition (Prestel USA)

White, Heidi

If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic (Columbia University Press)

Willis, Deb

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (Temple University Press)

Wood, Maryrose

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book III: The Unseen Guest (Balzer + Bray)