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The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or
epic droughts, but by the near complete disappearance of shared social
enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the
rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the
utter despair of seeking even minimal shelter from looming disaster.
Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State MAY 2022 112 pages, 6 illustrations
University of New York - Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater
Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Paper 9781503633339
eBook 9781503633599
PHILOSOPHY | Semiotics & Theory
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Reading John Milton
How to Persist in Troubled Times
STEPHEN B. DOBRANSKI
John Milton is unrivalled—for the music of his verse and the breadth
of his learning. In this brisk, topical, and inspiring biography, Stephen
B. Dobranski brushes the scholarly dust from the portrait of the artist
to reveal Milton's essential humanity and his unwavering commitment
to ideals—freedom of religion and the right and responsibility of all
persons to think for themselves—that are still relevant and necessary in
our times.
Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor at Georgia SEPTEMBER 2022 304 pages, 41
State University and the editor of the journal Milton Studies. His books illustrations
include Milton's Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2015),
Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Cloth 9781503632707
eBook 9781503633308
Press, 2005), and a new edition of Paradise Lost (Norton, 2022).
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
Literary Studies
4
The Culture Transplant
How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a
Lot Like the Ones They Left
GARETT JONES
Over the last two decades, as economists have worked to uncover the
best predictors of national prosperity around the world, one of their
repeated findings has been that cultural factors of the populations are
strong predictors of economic performance. In The Culture
Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-
country income differences, and draws on recent research showing that
immigrants bring economically important cultural attitudes that persist
for decades, even centuries, in their new national homes. And since a
nation's citizens shape a nation's culture, its government, and its
behavioral norms, that means migration will shape the rules of the
game for a nation's economy.
Garett Jones is Associate Professor of Economics at the Center for Study OCTOBER 2022 208 pages, 6 tables, 3
of Public Choice, George Mason University. He also holds the BB&T figures
Professorship for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. Garett's
research and commentary have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Cloth 9781503632943
eBook 9781503633643
Street Journal, the Washington Post, Forbes, and Businessweek. His first
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
book, Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Knowledge Capital
Your Own (Stanford, 2015) was a Gold Medalist in the 2016 Independent
Publisher Book Awards. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy:
Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
(Stanford, 2020).
5
Unbreakable
Building and Leading Resilient Teams
UNBREAKABLE
BRADLEY L. KIRKMAN AND ADAM STOVERINK BUILDING AND
LEADING RESILIENT
TEAMS
Today more than ever before, work teams must demonstrate resilience.
In the face of volatile, complex, and ambiguous business BRADLEY L. KIRKMAN and
ADAM STOVERINK
environments, all teams inevitably suffer setbacks. In their new book,
Bradley L. Kirkman and Adam C. Stoverink provide the hands-on
practical tips for building and leading resilient teams equipped to
bounce back from those challenges. They highlight four team
resources that are essential to any resilient team, including: team
confidence, teamwork roadmaps, capacity to improvise, and
psychological safety. These four resources are brought to life through
compelling stories of teams that performed well in the face of adversity
—and a few that didn't. They also provide leaders with step-by-step
guidance for how to grow these resources in their own teams, whether
they're in-person, remote, or hybrid. This book delivers all the tools
necessary to build and lead resilient teams that are virtually
unbreakable.
Bradley L. Kirkman is the General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished FEBRUARY 2023 176 pages, 11 tables, 4
Professor of Leadership in the Poole College of Management at North figures
Carolina State University. He is the author of 3D Team Leadership: A
New Approach for Complex Teams (Stanford, 2017), and his work has Cloth 9781503629301
eBook 9781503634299
appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, the
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
Academy of Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Leadership
Adam C. Stoverink is the Director of Walton MBA Programs and an
Associate Professor of Management at the University of Arkansas Walton
College of Business. His work is published in a variety of journals,
including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied
Psychology, and in outlets such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
6
No-Excuses Innovation
Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Mature
Enterprises
BRUCE A. VOJAK AND WALTER B. HERBST
Bruce A. Vojak is Managing Director and Founder of Breakthrough SEPTEMBER 2022 256 pages, 5 tables,
Innovation Advisors, LLC and former Adjunct Professor at the University 18 figures, 10 illustrations
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cloth 9781503627581
eBook 9781503633469
Walter B. Herbst is Partner and Co-Founder of Herbst Produkt and
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
Clinical Professor Emeritus at the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern Management Strategy
University.
7
Hinge Points
An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program
HINGE POINTS
SIEGFRIED HECKER AN INSIDE LOOK AT
NORTH KOREA’S
NUCLEAR PROGRAM
How did North Korea, one of the poorest and most isolated countries
in the world in the crosshairs of every U.S. administration during the SIEGFRIED HECKER
Siegfried S. Hecker is a professor emeritus in the Department of DECEMBER 2022 360 pages, 1 figure,
Management Science and Engineering and a senior fellow emeritus at the 16 illustrations, 1 map
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford
University. He was co-director of CISAC from 2007-2012. From 1986 to Paper 9781503634466
Cloth 9781503634459
1997, Dr. Hecker served as the Director of the Los Alamos National
eBook 9781503634473
Laboratory. Dr. Hecker is an internationally recognized expert in POLITICAL SCIENCE | International
plutonium science, global threat reduction, and nuclear security. Relations & Arms Control
8
Data Cartels
The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our
Information
SARAH LAMDAN
These companies are not household names. They fly under the radar
and call themselves "data analytics" or "business solutions" operations.
Their control over data can prevent the free flow of information to
places where it is needed, and simultaneously distribute private
information to predatory entities. Just a few companies dominate most
critical informational resources, from scientific research and financial
data to the law. They sell personal data to law enforcement and other
government agencies that determine who should be eligible for social
services, and then sell the "risk" products that insurance companies,
employers, landlords, and healthcare systems use to make decisions.
Alarmingly, everything they're doing is perfectly legal.
Sarah Lamdan is Professor of Law at the City University of New York NOVEMBER 2022 272 pages
School of Law. She also serves as a Senior Fellow for the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a Fellow at NYU School Paper 9781503633711
of Law's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, and Co-Chair Cloth 9781503615076
eBook 9781503633728
for the Invest in Open Infrastructure Community Oversight Council.
LAW | Science & Technology
9
Making Sense
Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer
MAKING SENSE
Therapeutics MARKETS FROM
SOPHIE MÜTZEL STORIES IN NEW
BREAST CANCER
Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a THERAPEUTICS
leading cause of death for women worldwide. With advances in
SOPHIE MÜTZEL
molecular engineering in the 1980s, hopes began to rise that a non-
toxic and non-invasive treatment for breast cancer could be developed.
These hopes were stoked by the researchers, biotech companies, and
analysts who worked to make sense of the uncertainties during product
development. In Making Sense Sophie Mützel traces this emergence of
'innovative breast cancer therapeutics' up to the 2010s, through the lens
of the narratives of the involved actors. Despite the notorious
unpredictability of cancer drug development these actors are tasked
with establishing a client-base and capturing the attention of potential
investors, even before trials are completed. Combining theories of
economic and cultural sociology, Mützel shows how stories are
integral for the emergence of new markets; stories of the future create
a market of expectations prior to any existing products. Making Sense
uses thousands of press statements, media reports, scientific reports,
and financial and industry analyses to illustrate these mechanisms,
presenting a fresh view of how life-prolonging innovations can be
turned into mere market products.
Sophie Mützel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne, DECEMBER 2022 256 pages, 6 tables,
Switzerland. She is the author of Making Meaning of the Move of the 23 figures, 5 illustrations
German Capital (Michigan, 2002).
Paper 9781503634060
Cloth 9781503632554
eBook 9781503634077
SOCIAL SCIENCE | Disease & Health
Issues
10
Reader's Block
A History of Reading Differences
READER’S BLOCK
MATTHEW RUBERY A HISTORY OF READING
DIFFERENCES
This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers MATTHEW RUBERY
and the impact neurological conditions affecting their ability to make
sense of the printed word had on their lives: from dyslexia, hyperlexia,
and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Matthew
Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding
of the very concept of reading.
Matthew Rubery is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary OCTOBER 2022 288 pages, 13
University of London. He is the author of The Untold Story of the Talking illustrations
Book (Harvard, 2016) and co-editor of Further Reading (Oxford, 2020).
Cloth 9781503632493
eBook 9781503633421
LITERARY STUDIES | Cultural Studies
11
Forbidden Intimacies
Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance
MELANIE HEATH
What unites these families is the clandestine way in which they must
operate. As government intervention erodes their abilities to secure
housing, welfare, work, and even protection from abuse, Heath
exposes the huge variety of intimacies, and the power they hold to
challenge heteronormative, Western ideals of love.
Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster FEBRUARY 2023 240 pages, 1 figure
University. She is the author of One Marriage Under God: The Campaign
to Promote Marriage in America (NYU, 2012) and co-author of The How Paper 9781503634251
To of Qualitative Research, second edition (Sage, 2022). Cloth 9781503627604
eBook 9781503634268
SOCIAL SCIENCE | Gender Studies
12
The Dragon Roars Back
Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese
THE DRAGON
Foreign Policy
ROARS BACK
SUISHENG ZHAO
TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERS AND
This book is the first historically comprehensive and up-to-date DYNAMICS OF CHINESE
analysis of the critical turns, twists, and cause shifts of Chinese FOREIGN POLICY
diplomacy and the major internal and external forces that have
functioned to shape diplomatic dynamics since the founding of the SUISHENG ZHAO
What are the primary forces and how these forces have driven China's
reemergence to global power? Zhao book argues that transformational
leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions
prevail are the game-changers. Mao Zedong led revolutionary
diplomacy to keep the wolves off the door; Deng Xiaoping's
developmental diplomacy created a favorable international
environment for economic prosperity; Xi Jinping has launched big
power diplomacy to return China to the global centrality it occupied
through most of human history. With the ultimate decision-making
authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have
made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic
institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and
responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance
their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US NOVEMBER 2022 344 pages, 4
Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of illustrations
Denver.
Paper 9781503634145
Cloth 9781503630888
eBook 9781503634152
POLITICAL SCIENCE | China
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The Opium Business
A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China
PETER THILLY
From its rise in the 1830s, to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade
was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money
was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and
the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese
society. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the dangerous lives and
shrewd business operations of opium traffickers in southeast China,
situating them within a global history of capitalism. By tracing the
evolution of the opium trade from clandestine offshore agreements in
the 1830s, to multi-million dollar "Prohibition Bureau" contracts in the
1930s, Thilly demonstrates how the modernizing Chinese state was
infiltrated, manipulated, and profoundly transformed by opium
profiteers.
Peter Thilly is Assistant Professor of History at the University of OCTOBER 2022 312 pages, 2 figures, 14
Mississippi. illustrations, 8 maps
Paper 9781503634107
Cloth 9781503628861
eBook 9781503634114
HISTORY | China
14
Seeking Western Men
Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise
MONICA LIU
Monica Liu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice and Society NOVEMBER 2022 248 pages, 2 tables, 4
Studies at the University of St. Thomas. figures
Paper 9781503633735
Cloth 9781503632479
eBook 9781503633742
SOCIOLOGY | Marriage & Family
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The Tropical Silk Road
The Future of China in South America
EDITED BY PAUL AMAR, LISA ROFEL, FERNANDO
BRANCOLI, MARIA AMELIA VITERI AND CONSUELO
FERNANDEZ
Paul Amar is Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Orfalea NOVEMBER 2022 416 pages
Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Paper 9781503633803
Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Cloth 9781503633193
eBook 9781503633810
California, Santa Cruz.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | Globalization
Maria Amelia Viteri is Professor of Anthropology at Universidad San
Francisco de Quito (USFQ).
Consuelo Fernandez is Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ).
Fernando Brancoli is Adjunct Professor of International Security and
Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IRID-UFRJ).
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Undesirables
A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
AOMAR BOUM, ILLUSTRATED BY NADJIB BERBER
Aomar Boum is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He is the DECEMBER 2022 120 pages
author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in
Morocco (Stanford, 2013), and co-author of A Concise History of the Paper 9781503632912
Middle East (Westview Press, 2016) and the Historical Dictionary of eBook 9781503633704
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS |
Morocco (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). With Sarah Stein, he is co-editor
Historical Fiction
of The Holocaust and North Africa (Stanford, 2018). His work has also
appeared in the Journal of North African Studies, the International
Journal of Middle East Studies, Soccer and Society, Middle East Report,
and others.
17
Losing Istanbul
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
MOSTAFA MINAWI
Mostafa Minawi is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. DECEMBER 2022 328 pages, 12
He is the author of The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and illustrations, 1 map
Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Stanford, 2016).
Paper 9781503634046
Cloth 9781503633162
eBook 9781503634053
HISTORY | Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Poverty as Subsistence
The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia
POVERTY AS
MIHAI VARGA
SUBSISTENCE
THE WORLD BANK AND
PRO-POOR LAND
Poverty as Subsistence explores the 'propertizing' land reform policy REFORM IN EURASIA
that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries
of Eurasia, and the expectation of poverty reduction to result from MIHAI VARGA
distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural)
populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this
expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-
communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it
failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among
the rural poor. Mihai Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a
simplified version of China's land reform, that ignored a key element
of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the
structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders
survive and grow in their communities. With concrete insights from
analysis of the land reform program throughout post-communist
Eurasia and multi-sited fieldwork in Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine,
this book details how and why land reform led to subsistence and the
mechanisms underpinning informal commercialization.
Mihai Varga is a lecturer and senior research fellow in sociology at the FEBRUARY 2023 208 pages, 10 tables, 7
Eastern Europe Institute, Freie Universität Berlin. He was a Max Weber figures
Fellow in 2011-2012 and his research focuses on economic crises and
their political and socio-economic consequences. Cloth 9781503633049
eBook 9781503634183
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
International Policy
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Epidemic Orientalism
Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious
EPIDEMIC
Disease
ORIENTALISM
ALEXANDRE WHITE
RACE, CAPITAL, AND
THE GOVERNANCE OF
For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time INFECTIOUS DISEASE
they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in
part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to ALEXANDRE WHITE
protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two
centuries. For over 150 years international cooperation to prevent the
spread of infectious disease has operated through a series of
regulations, starting with International Sanitary Conferences beginning
in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health
Regulations, who organize epidemic responses through the World
Health Organization today. Unlike other equity-focused global health
initiatives, their mission — to establish "the maximum protections
from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"
— has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his
starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests,
racism, and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the
regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the
international spread of infectious disease. He makes this evident
through examining how these regulations are formatted; how their
framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and
spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a
modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism,
White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework
within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern
epidemic disease control.
Alexandre White is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of JANUARY 2023 304 pages, 6 tables, 6
Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is Associate Director for JHU's figures, 6 illustrations
Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.
Paper 9781503634121
Cloth 9781503630260
eBook 9781503634138
SOCIAL SCIENCE | Disease & Health
Issues
20
Climate Change, Interrupted
Representation and the Remaking of Time
BARBARA LECKIE
Barbara Leckie is Professor of English and the Comparative Study of NOVEMBER 2022 248 pages, 7
Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. She is the author of illustrations
Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in
Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Pennsylvania, 2018). Paper 9781503633988
Cloth 9781503633070
eBook 9781503633995
LITERARY CRITICISM | Philosophy
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Criticism and Politics
A Polemical Introduction
BRUCE ROBBINS
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, SEPTEMBER 2022 280 pages
Columbia University. He is the author of several books, most recently,
The Beneficiary (Duke, 2017). Paper 9781503633209
Cloth 9781503630192
eBook 9781503633216
LITERARY CRITICISM | Semiotics &
Theory
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Engaging Violence
Civility and the Reach of Literature
DAVID SIMPSON
David Simpson is Distinguished Professor and G.B. Needham Chair, SEPTEMBER 2022 296 pages
emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is
States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature (Chicago, 2019). Paper 9781503633087
Cloth 9781503632745
eBook 9781503633094
LITERARY CRITICISM | Semiotics &
Theory
23
Race in the Machine
A Novel Account
QUINCY THOMAS STEWART
Quincy Thomas Stewart is Associate Professor of Sociology at JANUARY 2023 288 pages, 2 tables, 15
Northwestern University. Previously, he was a Robert Wood Johnson illustrations
Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan and an
Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. Cloth 9781503631229
eBook 9781503633650
SOCIAL SCIENCE | Race & Ethnic
Relations
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What Pornography Knows
Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century
KATHLEEN LUBEY
Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. John's University. She is SEPTEMBER 2022 296 pages, 21
the author of Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, illustrations
1660-1760 (Bucknell, 2012).
Paper 9781503633117
Cloth 9781503611665
eBook 9781503633124
LITERARY CRITICISM | Gender and
Sexuality
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Shakespeare's Mad Men
A Crisis of Authority
RICHARD VAN OORT
This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and
iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of
Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in
which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral
and narrative beings. Taking King Lear and Measure for Measure as
case studies, van Oort shows how the minimal concept of an
anthropological scene of origin—the "originary hypothesis"—provides
the basis for a new understanding of every aspect of the plays, from the
psychology of the characters to the ethical and dialogical conflicts
upon which the drama is based. The result is a gripping commentary
on the plays. Why does Lear abdicate and go mad? Why does Cordelia
die? Why does Edgar torture his father with non-recognition? Why
does Edmund recant? Why does the Duke in Measure for Measure
abdicate and disguise himself as a friar? Why is Angelo seduced by
Isabella? Why does Lucio accuse the Duke of madness and lechery?
Why does Isabella remain silent at the end?
Richard van Oort is Professor of English at the University of Victoria in OCTOBER 2022 296 pages
Canada. He is author of the book Shakespeare's Big Men (University of
Toronto, 2016), among others. Paper 9781503633575
Cloth 9781503632905
eBook 9781503633582
LITERARY CRITICISM | Shakespeare
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American Graphic
REBECCA B. CLARK
AMERICAN
GRAPHIC
REBECCA B. CLARK
What do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In
American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term
tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the
grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically streamlined
in the form of graphs, diagrams, and user interfaces. Clark's innovation
is to ask what happens when the same moment in a work of literature
is graphic in both ways at once. Her answer suggests that the graphic
turn in contemporary literature is intimately implicated in the fraught
dynamics of identification. As Clark reveals, this double graphic
indexes the unseemliness of a lust—in our current culture of
information—for cool epistemological mastery over the bodies of
others.
Clark analyzes the contemporary graphic along three specific axes: the
ethnographic, the pornographic, and the infographic. In each chapter,
her explication of the double graphic hinges onpairing a canonical
author—Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon—read
against the grain with literary, visual and/or performance works by
black and/or female creators—Mat Johnson, Kara Walker, Fran Ross,
Narcissister, Teju Cole—in order to test the effects and affects of the
double graphic across racialized and gendered axes of differences.
American Graphic forces us to face how closely and uncomfortably
yoked together disgust and data—identification with and identification
of the other—have become in our increasingly graph-ick world.
Rebecca Clark received her PhD in English from the University of DECEMBER 2022 304 pages, 42
California, Berkeley. Her work has been published in the journals illustrations
Narrative, postmedieval, and Post45. She has taught at UC Berkeley and
Dartmouth College. Paper 9781503634237
Cloth 9781503630970
eBook 9781503634244
LITERARY STUDIES | Criticism &
Theory
27
Digital Relationships
Network Agency Theory and Big Tech
DIGITAL
JASON DAVIS
RELATIONSHIPS
NETWORK AGENCY
THEORY AND BIG TECH
Why do so many organizations fail to mobilize the social networks of
employees to respond to disruptions, innovate, and change? In Digital JASON DAVIS
Relationships, Jason Davis argues that individual and organizational
interests about networking can come out of alignment such that the
network ties that individuals form are organizationally suboptimal for
achieving their most ambitious goals. Developing a new perspective
about networks and organizations, he explains through network agency
theory how network problems emerge, the role of digital technology
adoption by organizations in amplifying misalignment, and the
capacity of managers and function of the executive to resolve agency
problems and mitigate their impact. Drawing on over a decade of
qualitative research in US, Asian, and European "big tech" companies
and new analytical and computational modeling, this book offers new
interpretations and solutions to the pathologies that emerge from
organizationally detrimental networking behaviors and in the face of
managerial interventions.
Jason Davis is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. FEBRUARY 2023 288 pages, 2 tables, 15
His work has been published in top academic journals, such as the figures
Administrative Science Quarterly, American Economic Review,and
Strategic Management Journal. Jason has received multiple research Cloth 9780804791106
eBook 9781503634176
awards, including the AOM Academy-Wide Newman Award for Best
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
Paper from a Dissertation (2009), and recently the EFMD EiP Gold Award Management Theory
(2020) in executive education and Case Centre Best Case Award in
Entrepreneurship (2021).
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SPRING 2022
FEATURED
TITLES
Global Burning
Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
EVE DARIAN-SMITH
Eve Darian-Smith is Professor and Chair of the Department of Global APRIL 2022 216 pages, 2 figures, 13
and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her most illustrations
recent book is The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Paper 9781503631083
Methods for Global Studies, with Philip McCarty (University of California eBook 9781503631465
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate
Press, 2017).
Change
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My Life as an Artificial Creative
Intelligence
MARK AMERIKA
Mark Amerika is an internationally acclaimed media artist, novelist and MAY 2022 288 pages
theorist of digital culture. A Time Magazine 100 Innovator, Amerika's Paper 9781503631700
artwork has been exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Biennial of Cloth 9781503631076
American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary eBook 9781503631717
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Arts in London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and
the Walker Art Center. He is a Professor of Distinction at the University of
Colorado where he has served as the Founding Director of the Doctoral
Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance in the College of
Media, Communication and Information and a Professor of Art and Art
History.
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1368
China and the Making of the Modern World
ALI HUMAYUN AKHTAR
What did the world learn from China across the five centuries
connecting the Ming's global expeditions with the end of the Opium
Wars? Akhtar's new retelling of global history provides much-needed
context for understanding modern China and the West, particularly as a
newly rising China inspires debates about the future of international
economic development.
Ali Humayun Akhtar is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at JUNE 2022 288 pages, 27
Bates College. He is the author of Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: illustrations Cloth
Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad (Cambridge 9781503627475
University Press, 2017). eBook 9781503631519 WORLD
HISTORY
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Automation Is a Myth
LUKE MUNN
Luke Munn is a researcher based in Aotearoa, New Zealand exploring the APRIL 2022 176 pages
social, political, and environmental impacts of digital cultures. Paper 9781503631427
Cloth 9781503631113
eBook 9781503631434
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media &
Technology
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Atomic Steppe
How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
TOGZHAN KASSENOVA
Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of
Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian
republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear
arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons—or
try to become a Central Asian North Korea?
Togzhan Kassenova is senior fellow at the University at Albany, SUNY FEBRUARY 2022 392 pages, 2 tables,
and a nonresident fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International 20 illustrations, 2 maps
Peace. Paper 9781503632431
Cloth 9781503628465
eBook 9781503629936
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International
Relations / Arms Control
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The Critique of Nonviolence
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Philosophy
THE CRITIQUE OF
MARK CHRISTIAN THOMPSON
NONVIOLENCE
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
AND PHILOSOPHY
How does Martin Luther King, Jr, understand race philosophically and
how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological MARK CHRISTIAN
THOMPSON
conception of racist police violence?
Mark Christian Thompson is Professor and Chair of English at Johns JULY 2022 224 pages
Hopkins University. His most recent book is Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Paper 9781503632073
Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars (SUNY Press, 2018) and Cloth 9781503631137
his next book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy and eBook 9781503632080
LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics &
Theory is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press (December
Theory / Race
2021).
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