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Unleashing Your Complexity
Genius
JENNIFER GARVEY BERGER AND
CAROYLN COUGHLIN

We humans have a natural inclination towards connection, engagement

and creativity – all necessary skills to thrive in complexity. At the same
time, the stress caused by uncertainty and ambiguity can make it hard
to tap into this inclination. This book offers a set of practices that help
you not only understand complexity but actually hack into your
nervous system to bring your natural capacities back online.

We do this by helping your body's natural complexity management

gifts take charge:by learning to notice and shift our nervous systems
through rest, movement, and experimentation; by developing a new
relationship to our emotions; and by leaning into connections and love.
Following the narrative of Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, this book
illustrates how paying close attention to our body, redefining our
emotional experiences, and shifting our engagement to our surrounding
environment can transform the anxiety, exhaustion, and overwhelm
that complexity creates. Instead, we can cultivate better connection,
engagement, and creativity—thereby creating the conditions for us and
those around us to thrive in a complex world by making best use of the
internal natural resources we already have.

Jennifer Garvey Berger is Chief Cultivating Officer and Founder,

Cultivating Leadership, a consultancy that serves executives and executive SEPTEMBER 122 pages, 1 tables, 1
teams in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world. figure
Her clients include, for example, Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia,
and Oxfam International. She is the author of Unlocking Leadership Business Management and Leadership |
Mindtraps; Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World; Organizational Development and
and co-author of Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Change
Leaders (all with Stanford University Press).

Carolyn Coughlin is Board Co-Chair and Founder, Cultivating Leadership.

She has been an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development
specialist for over 15 years. Her journey began in the corporate world, where
she was a management consultant first at Price Waterhouse and later at
McKinsey and Company.
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How to Live at the End of the World
Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene
TRAVIS HOLLOWAY

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and

philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world?

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.

The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the

self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For
those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or
isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of
sheer individualism once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of
time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new
approach to solidarity.

How to Live at the End of the World is a hopeful exploration of how

we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," reclaim it, and revise our
way of life or thought in view of it. A book on time, art, and politics in
an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult,
unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn
Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers,
sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy – a zoocracy, or,
a rule of all of the living.

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

A captivating biography that celebrates the audacious, inspiring

life and works of John Milton, revealing how he speaks to our
times.

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.

Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, is considered by many to be

English poetry's masterpiece. But Milton's renown rests on more than
his artistic achievements. In a time of convulsive political turmoil, he
justified the killing of a king, pioneered free speech, and publicly
defended divorce. He was, in short, an iconoclast, an independent,
even revolutionary, thinker. He was also an imperfect man—
acrimonious, sometimes mean. Above all, he understood adversity.
Afflicted by blindness, illness, and political imprisonment, Milton
always sought to "bear up and steer right onward" through life's
hardships.

A leading expert on Milton, Dobranski offers an engaging introduction

to the author's life and works to look beyond Milton's academic
standing, beyond his reputation as a dour and devout purist, and to
reveal the ongoing power of his works and the dauntless courage that
he both wrote about and exemplified.

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

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The Culture Transplant
How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a
Lot Like the Ones They Left
GARETT JONES

A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a

nation's economy and culture.

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.

Appealing to readers of books like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and

Steel, or Acemoglu and Robinson's Why Nations Fail, this book
illustrates the links between past and present, anthropology and
economics, to show exactly how migration shapes 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).

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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.

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No-Excuses Innovation
Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Mature
Enterprises
BRUCE A. VOJAK AND WALTER B. HERBST

As small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) approach maturity

it is common for them to choose to only maintain what they believe to
be the safety of maturity attained rather than to opt for a strategy that
also includes constant reinvention and renewal. But as Bruce A. Vojak
and Walter B. Herbst argue, this path of seemingly least risk and least
resistance can be the most detrimental to the company in the long run.
The real risk is to not innovate.

No-Excuses Innovation makes the case to owners, advisors, executives,

and leaders – as well as those in the trenches – of the value of
innovation: why it's worthy of investment and what it can do for the
health and longevity of a company. This book also details how
innovation, and thus reinvention and renewal, can be most effectively
and efficiently implemented. With case studies and narrative examples
drawn from their time in the industry and the academy, the authors
present a valuable strategy guide specific to SMMEs and one of the
biggest existential dilemmas they encounter.

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.

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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

past 30 years, progress from no nuclear weapons in 2001 to a

threatening arsenal of 30 to 50 weapons in 2021? Internationally
renowned nuclear expert Sig Hecker argues that the conventional
wisdom that good faith diplomatic efforts were circumvented by the
North's repeated violations of diplomatic agreements is neither true nor
helpful.

Based on Hecker's many visits to North Korea and an in-depth analysis

of the political and technical developments, Hinge Points argues that
decisions should have been based on technically informed risk/benefit
analysis that sought to manage the risks as best as possible, instead of
trying to drive them to zero. Providing a primer of nuclear basics based
on Hecker's many years at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and
teaching nuclear technologies and policies at Stanford University
during the past 15 years, this book demystifies and explains the nuclear
weapon world and the dangers of its bomb fuel, namely plutonium and
uranium, through accessible accounts of Hecker's personal
experiences.

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

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Data Cartels
The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our
Information
SARAH LAMDAN

In our digital world, data is power, and information hoarders reign

supreme. The practices they use are similar to those of cartels—
utilizing intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain control and
power. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of the
"data cartels," demonstrating how the entities mining, hoarding,
commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources
perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of
knowledge.

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.

Ranging from small firms to billion-dollar data giants like Thomson

Reuters and RELX Group, these companies masterfully exploit
outdated information and privacy laws, curating information in a way
that amplifies racism and targets marginalized communities. Lamdan
contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us
from creating effective legal regulation, and that lack of legal
intervention has allowed oversized information monopolies to grow.

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

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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

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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.

Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film,

medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive
differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page,
Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading.
Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not
reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to
rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an
understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to
accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating
and highly original book.

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

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Forbidden Intimacies
Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance
MELANIE HEATH

In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict

as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and
religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of
family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath
comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United
States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of
ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which
intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very
limits of Western tolerance.

These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of

polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of
justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in
the U.S., organize to fight against the prohibition of their families'
existence, whereas African migrants in France face racialized
discrimination in addition to rigid migration policies. The matrix of
legal and social contexts, informed by gender, race, sexuality, and
class, shapes the everyday experiences of these relationships. Heath
uses the term "labyrinthine love" to conceptualize the complex ways
individuals negotiate different kinds of relationships, ranging from
romantic to coercive.

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

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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

People's Republic. This book takes us through the course-setting

policies of five leaders—the driving individuals at the apex of the party
state. Suisheng Zhao explores how China's leaders have set foreign
policy priorities, shaped ideational and institutional conditions, and
confronted shifting policy challenges as China seeks its “rightful
place” under the sun.

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.

Opium merchants traveled by sea, over mountains, and up rivers, with

leading traders establishing monopolies over trade routes and
territories, and assembling "opium armies" to protect their businesses.
Over time, and as their ranks grew, these organizations became more
bureaucratized and militarized, mimicking—and then eventually
influencing, infiltrating, or supplanting—the state. Through the chaos
of revolution, warlordism, and foreign invasion, opium traders
diligently expanded their power through corruption, bribery, and direct
collaboration with the state. Drug traders mattered—not only in the
seedy ways in which they have been caricatured, but crucially as
shadowy architects of statecraft and China's evolution on the world
stage.

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

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Seeking Western Men
Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise
MONICA LIU

Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across

international borders comprise a $2.5 billion-dollar global industry.
Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more
physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired
with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica
Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China's email-order
bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily
middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their
material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is
tied to what they believe they've lost in the shifting global economy
around them.

Ranging from multi-millionaire entrepreneurs to ex-wives and

mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector
workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their
translators and potential husbands from the U.S., Canada, and
Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the
backdrop of China's global economic ascendance and a relative decline
of the West, this book asks: How does China's rise reshape Chinese
women's perception of Western masculinity? Moreover, how do the
women's own differing class positions within China shape the outcome
of their marital trajectories? Through the unique window of global
internet dating, this book reveals how China's rise on the world stage
reshapes relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across
borders.

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

The Tropical Silk Road captures an epochal juncture of two of the

world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of
China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south
and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes.
The intersection of these two processes took another step in April
2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk
Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South
America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to
the Latin American tropics. How will this new tropical Silk Road
shape political alliances, social landscapes, and ecological futures in
South America?

Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive

array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political
scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers,
Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to
offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America
that covers a wide range of topics, including humanitarian aid,
agribusiness, and extractive industry—mineral mining, fossil fuel
tapping, and port and transport infrastructure. As cracks in the
progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-
wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical
possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-
U.S. centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for
South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of
resistance.

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

Undesirables is a graphic novel follows the fictional character of Hans,

a German-Jewish journalist, and his experiences in the French work
camps in North Africa, where he is imprisoned among others classified
as “undesirables” by the Vichy regime. After fleeing Berlin, Hans is
captured by Vichy authorities and interned in Camp Le Vernet and
later transported to different camps in the deserts of Morocco and
Algeria. He spends a year and a half in forced labor camps working on
the trans-Saharan Railway project, and encounters other figures who
have been deported and forced into camps by the Vichy government.
In 1941, he escapes to Morocco and ends up in Casablanca, where he
hides in the house of a local Jewish family until the Allied Forces land
in 1942.

Based on thirteen years of archival research at Yad Vashem, the

Archives of the Kingdom of Morocco, and others, this novel presents a
new perspective on Moroccan and North African Jews in the larger
context of European and Mediterranean history.

*Stanford University Press does not handle French or Arabic language

rights to this title.*

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.

Nadjib Berber is an Algerian artist and cartoonist, well-versed in French

and Algerian history, especially World War II.

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Losing Istanbul
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire
MOSTAFA MINAWI

Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise

and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in
Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women
negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a
microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural
currents between 1878 and the First World War. He narrates lives lived
in these turbulent times—the joys and fears, triumphs and losses, pride
and prejudices—while focusing on the complex dynamics of ethnicity
and race in an increasingly Turco-centric imperial capital.

Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, travelogues, personal

letters, diaries, photos, and interviews, Minawi shows how the loyalties
of these imperialists were questioned and their ethnic identification
weaponized. As the once diverse empire comes to an end, they are
forced to give up their home in the imperial capital. An alternative
history of the last four decades of the Ottoman Empire, Losing
Istanbul frames global pivotal events through the experiences of Arab-
Ottoman imperial loyalists who called Istanbul home, on the eve of a
vanishing imperial world order.

*Stanford University Press does not handle Arabic language rights to

this title*

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

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Climate Change, Interrupted
Representation and the Remaking of Time
BARBARA LECKIE

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara

Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the
long nineteenth century through our current moment, her
interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once remakes time and
illustrates that the time for climate action is now.

Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected

temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms.
Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to
rethink prevailing frameworks of time. At the same time, it models the
anachronistic, time-blending, and time-layering temporality it
advances. In a series of experimental chapters informed by the unlikely
trio of Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, and Virginia Woolf, Leckie
re-inflects and co-writes the traditions and knowledge of the long
nineteenth century and the current period in the spirit of climate action
collaboration.

The current moment demands as many approaches as possible, invites

us to take risks, and asks scholars and activists adept at storytelling to
participate in the conversation. Climate Change, Interrupted,
accordingly, invests in interruption to tell a different story of the
climate crisis.

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

An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original

polemic about the purpose of criticism

What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent

disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the
news media. These conflicts have renewed the Culture Wars over the
legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and
leading to a new set of questions. Does a concern with race, gender,
and sexuality, with unacknowledged power and privilege, with
identity, give present critics the right to criticize the great works of the
past? If we have learned to see those works in terms of historical
differences rather than universal truths, how is it that they speak to us
at all? In the study of the world's cultures, there is more than one way
to avoid being Eurocentric; which way should we choose? Re-
examining key thinkers since 1970, including Walter Benjamin,
Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Edward Said, Hortense Spillers,
Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall, Criticism and Politics offers both a
non-specialist introduction to recent cultural theory and a strong new
interpretation of how this theory applies to the everyday issue of what
cultural critics do and how they should feel about what they do.

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

Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for

engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives.
But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against
violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and
engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in
disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the
power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets
out to describe the ways in which these words—violence, literature,
and civility—and the concepts they evoke are mutually entangled, and
the uses to which these entanglements have been put.

Simpson's argument follows a broadly historical trajectory through the

long modern period from the Renaissance to the present, drawing on
the work of historians, political scientists, literary scholars and
philosophers. The result is a distinctly new argument about the
complex and often mystified entanglements between literature, civility
and violence. What now are our expectations of civility and literature,
separately and together? How do these long-familiar but still imprecise
concepts stand up to the demands of the modern world? Simpson's
argument is that, despite and perhaps because of their imperfect
conceptualization, both persist as important protocols for the critique of
violence.

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

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Race in the Machine
A Novel Account
QUINCY THOMAS STEWART

In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with

monks, vampires and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents
a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously
exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost
beliefs.

The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic at Nearbay

Institute, living in a population of socially connected intelligent
machines, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory
lecture: “What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the
social machine?” This prompt guides the protagonist along a twisting
intellectual tale surrounding a series of experiments which explore:
How many racists does it take to create systems of inequality? What
role do non-racists actors play in upholding them? How is bias
learned? How does it spread? A distinct understanding of race
develops as the first-person narrator figuratively delves into bending
time, dreams of a “race code” and confronts a series of mysterious
communications that remain just outside comprehension. Over the
course of this storied social scientific journey, the answers to important
questions about racial inequality quietly emerge amidst scholarly
encounters, among both antagonistic colleagues and unexpected allies,
and culminate when the hero is forced to reach a devastating
conclusion about themselves and the world.

Stirring and luminous, Race in the Machine deftly oscillates between

the allegorically simplified and the impossibly complex to weave an
utterly unique and nuanced portrait of race in the modern world.

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

What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based

on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-
century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks.
Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited
across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused
primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, combining
speculative philosophy and feminist theory with sexual description.
Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social
consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists
said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a
society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this
inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to
expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's
bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action,
forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. At times
inventing their own sexual anatomy and gender identity, at times
having their bodies claimed and used by others, pornographic figures
bring genitals to the fore, insisting they be justly treated rather than
coldly transacted. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply
misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual
description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep
knowledge of how social inequality is perpetuated as well as plans for
how to rectify it.

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?

In approaching these and other questions from the perspective of the

originary hypothesis, van Oort helps us to see the ethical predicament
of the plays, and, in the process, makes Shakespeare new again.

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

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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

Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote

Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and
major cities in Australia. Connecting these separate events is more than
immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve
Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread
connecting different places around the world allows us to better
understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of
authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global
consequences.

Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of

catastrophic wildfires, and finds key similarities in all of them. As
political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits
and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political
tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing
their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate
science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary
worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.

The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand

acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird
them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the
corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires
are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization,
and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental
and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to
confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological
collapse.

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

Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines

than we might think?

Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance

co-authored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark
Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a
nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic
attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series
of intellectual prompts that investigate the creative process across the
human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether
creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that
emerges from the experience of an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility.
Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously
embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws
from jazz performance, Beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and
Surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence
operates as a finely-tuned remix engine continuously training itself to
build on the history of avant-garde art and writing.

Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence

flips the script on contemporary AI research which attempts to build
systems that perform more like humans, to instead make a very non-
traditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship
to the cosmos.

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

The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a

monumental event in world history. It prompted a series of diplomatic
missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the
way for China's first modern global era. Award-winning author Dr. Ali
Humayun Akhtar maps China's ascendance from the Age of
Exploration up until nineteenth-century industrialization, offering a
new picture of the encounters that made the modern world.

Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe Ming

emperors in palaces of silk. Malay legends recounted stories of
Chinese princesses and their entourages traveling to Melaka, driving
new tastes for Chinese imports. During Europe's Age of Exploration,
Spanish and Portuguese mariners charted new routes to China in
search of these storied commodities. Among the ships' passengers were
Italian Jesuits, who established a permanent foothold in centers like
Manila and Macau. At the height of the Enlightenment, coffeehouses
in Paris were served Chinese tea in porcelain cups while intellectuals
debated the merits of Confucius. China, in other words, went global,
and the cultural impact on the world's trade networks was profound.

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

For some automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others it

signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or
nightmare, automation, argues Luke Munn, is ultimately a fable that
rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy
claiming that machines will soon take over production and supplant
humans. But technical solutions are piecemeal; their support and
maintenance reveals the immense human labor behind so-called
"autonomous" processes. Then there is the myth of universal
automation with technologies framed as a force sweeping across the
globe and remaking society. But this fiction ignores the social, cultural,
and geographical forces that shape technologies at a local level. And,
there is the myth of automating everyone, the generic figure of "the
human" at the heart of automation claims. But labor is socially
stratified and so automation's fallout will be highly uneven, falling
heavier on some (immigrants, people of color, women) than others.
Munn moves from machine minders in China to warehouse pickers in
the United States to explore the messy ways that new technologies do
(and don't) reconfigure labor. Combining this rich array of human
stories with insights from media, race, and cultural studies, Munn
points to a more nuanced, localized, and racialized understanding of
the "future of work."

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?

This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known

nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. For Soviet
officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved
homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing. Two-
headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health
disaster for Kazakhstan—compounded, when the Soviet Union
collapsed, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear
power.

Equipped with intimate personal perspective and untapped archival

resources, Togzhan Kassenova introduces us to the engineers turned
diplomats, villagers turned activists, and scientists turned pacifists who
worked toward disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still
present around the world, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their
nuclear inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security.

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?

In this important new work, Mark Christian Thompson attempts to

answer these questions, examining ontology in Martin Luther King,
Jr.'s philosophy. Specifically, the book views King through 1920s
German academic debates between Martin Heidegger, Rudolf
Bultmann, Hans Jonas, Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt,
and others on Being, gnosticism, existentialism, political theology, and
sovereignty. It further examines King's dissertation about Tillich, as
well other key texts from his speculative writings, sermons, and
speeches, positing King's understanding of divine love as a form of
Heideggerian ontology articulated in beloved community.

Tracking the presence of twentieth-century German philosophy and

theology in his thought, the book situates King's ontology conceptually
and socially in nonviolent protest. In so doing, The Critique of
Nonviolence reads King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963) with
Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" (1921) to reveal the depth of
King's political-theological critique of police violence as the
illegitimate appropriation of the racialized state of exception. As
Thompson argues, it is in part through its appropriation of German
philosophy and theology that King's ontology condemns the perpetual
American state of racial exception that permits unlimited police
violence against Black lives.

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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