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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature
ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, JENNIFER DEGER, ALDER
KELEMAN SAXENA, AND FEIFEI ZHOU

Nature has gone feral. How shall we re-attune ourselves to the new
nature? A field guide can help.

Field guides teach us how to notice, identify, name, and so better

appreciate more-than-human worlds. They hone our powers of
observation and teach us to see the world anew. Field Guide to the
Patchy Anthropocene leads readers through a series of sites,
observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive
practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. Foregrounding
nonhumans as world-changing historical actors, this book looks to
nurture a revitalized natural history to address the profound challenges
of our times.

The Anthropocene is not only planetary, but it takes form, and gains
momentum, within social and ecological patches. Field-based
observations and place-based knowledge-cultivation—getting up-close
and personal with patchy dynamics—are vital if we are to truly grapple
with the ecological challenges and the historical conjunctures that are
bringing us to multiple catastrophic tipping points.

This field guide encourages skilled observers of many stripes to pursue

their commitments to place, social justice, and multispecies
community. It is through attention to the beings, places, ecologies, and
histories of the Anthropocene that we can reignite curiosity, wonder,
and care for our damaged planet.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the

University of California, Santa Cruz. MAY 352 pages, 68 illustrations

Jennifer Deger is Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Creative Cloth 9781503637320
Futures at Charles Darwin University, Australia. eBook 9781503638662
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology /
Alder Keleman Saxena is Assistant Research Professor of Anthropology at Cultural & Social
Northern Arizona University.

Feifei Zhou is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

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The Influencer Factory
A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on
YouTube
GRANT BOLLMER AND KATHERINE GUINNESS

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract

attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness.
They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the
logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation.

Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the

"Corpocene:" a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the
status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of
leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for
pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"—a raw
material for brands to use—with the dream of becoming corporations
in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell.

Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial,
Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the
material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what
literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses,
cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the
manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the
material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer
Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of
contemporary economic life.

Grant Bollmer is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, and Katherine APRIL 248 pages, 13 illustrations
Guinness is Lecturer in Art History, at the University of Queensland.
Paper 9781503638792
Cloth 9781503637924
eBook 9781503638808
SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies

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Belonging without Othering
How We Save Ourselves and the World
JOHN A. POWELL AND STEPHEN MENENDIAN

In a world marked by extreme divisions - from global conflicts to

grave human rights violations - public figures struggle to find words
that capture humanity's inclination to fracture itself. Throughout
history, humanity has been plagued by unspeakable horrors like
slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust, rampant refugee crises, femicide,
and state brutality, all rooted in the belief in an irreconcilable "other."
We yearn for a language that is capacious enough to make sense of all
kinds of oppressions - whether tied to religion, ethnicity, ancestry,
sexual orientation, ability, or gender. Terms like tribalism, prejudice,
stigma, and caste have all been used to ignite change. They all,
however, fall short.

Belonging without Othering is a profound exploration arguing that the

struggles faced by marginalized groups can only be fully grasped
through the lenses of othering and belonging. In a time when diversity,
equity, and inclusion initiatives are being contested, this book offers an
approach that encourages us to turn towards one another - even if it
involves questioning seemingly tolerant and benevolent forms of
othering. Crucially, the authors assert that there's no inherent or
inevitable notion of an "other."

As the threat of authoritarianism grows across the globe, powell and

Menendian make the case that belonging without othering is the
natural but not the inevitable next step of our long journey towards
creating truly equitable democracies.

john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in civil rights, APRIL 480 pages, 1 table, 3 figures
structural racism, housing, and democracy, and the Director of the
Othering and Belonging Institute at University of California, Berkeley. He Cloth 9781503638846
holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is eBook 9781503640092
LAW / Civil Rights
a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies.

Stephen Menendian is Director of Research at the Othering and

Belonging Institute, where he manages many ongoing research projects,
including the Inclusiveness Index and the California Zoning Atlas.
Stephen has published in leading refereed journals and led many studies
on racial inequality, voting rights, and housing law and policy.

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Beyond Shareholder Primacy
Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future
STUART L. HART

This remarkable book is a call to consciousness—and action—for

individuals, organizations, communities, and nations. Beyond
Shareholder Primacy argues that our current Milton Friedman-style
"shareholder primacy capitalism," as taught in business schools and
dogmatically embraced around the world, has become dangerous for
society, the climate, and the planet, and economically unnecessary. But
there are surprising reasons for hope—from the history of capitalism
itself. Beyond Shareholder Primacy argues that capitalism has
reformed itself twice before and is poised for a third major
reformation. Retelling the origin story of capitalism from the 15th
century to the present, Hart argues that a more radical, more
sustainable, more just capitalism is possible in our lifetime.

Hart goes on to describe what it will take to move beyond capitalism's

present worship of "shareholder primacy," including reforms to all
major economic institutions. Sustainable capitalism will explicitly
incorporate the needs of society and the planet, include a financial
system that allows leaders to prioritize the planet, reorganize business
schools around sustainable management thinking, and enable banks
corporations not just to stop ignoring the damage they cause, but
actually begin to create positive impact.

Stuart L. Hart is a Professor of Management at Cornell University's 392 pages, 4 tables, 34 figures
Johnson School of Management, where he founded the Center for
Sustainable Global Enterprise. He previously was co-founder and Director Cloth 9781503636217
of The Sustainable Innovation MBA at the University of Vermont's eBook 9781503638747
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Grossman School of Business. He is author of the influential book,
Development / Sustainable Development
Capitalism at the Crossroads, 3rd Edition: Next Generation Business
Strategies for a Post-Crisis World.

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The CEO Playbook for Strategic
Transformation
Four Factors That Will Make or Break Your
Organization

SCOTT A. SNELL
There is no CEO task more significant than strategic transformation.
Large-scale change involves rethinking how to engage customers and
the external world, and hard decisions about how to reorganize internal
operations—plus the challenges of executing the transformation. The
stakes are high, filled with risk and reward obvious to all...and it often
fails. Most organizations aren't built for change—they're designed for
stability, scale, and repetition. Too many things can go wrong, from
natural organizational resistance and inertia, to lack of strategic focus,
to execution problems. And yet, organizations today must be more
dynamic than ever before. Strategy is now dynamic, not static, and
requires agility, nimbleness, rapid resource deployment and
organizational change.

This practical playbook helps CEOs and other key leaders reduce the
risks and see through the overwhelming complexity of a major change
in organizational strategy. Unlike many other books on leading change
that focus narrowly on overcoming resistance, The CEO Playbook for
Strategic Transformation offers a more comprehensive, framework
involving four major tasks for leaders: 1) Establish and Communicate
the Urgent Need, 2) Engage Stakeholders, 3) Mobilize the
Organization, 4) Develop Organizational Agility. Leaders who guide
their organizations through these stages are far likelier to succeed than
those who lack a playbook.

224 pages, 17 tables, 12 figures

Scott A. Snell is professor at University of Virginia's Darden Graduate Cloth 9781503634558
School of Business Administration. He teaches courses in strategic eBook 9781503639195
management and works internationally with senior executives to help their BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
companies align strategy, organizational capability, and investments in top Leadership
talent. His research has been published in a number of top journals, and he is
the author of four books.

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Bit by Bit
A CS Comic Exploring Stanford's CS106A & CS106B cover to
Curricula
ECY FEMI KING
follow

Originally designed as an educational supplement for the renowned

Stanford courses Computer Science 106A and 106B, Bit by Bit is a
comic-style resource that uses fractal grids, custom-drawn characters,
and fun graphics as a visually immersive introduction to the key
concepts of beginner coding, learning pedagogy, education, and visual
thinking.

Bit by Bit takes readers on a journey that encompasses the full scope of
both courses; beginning with the chief elements and fundamentals of
programming such as functions, variables, and integers; carrying
readers through the basics of Python and C++ into the conceptual
world of efficiency and recursion; and walking them through
collections of linked data structures. Throughout each section, course
and Stanford alum Ecy Femi King is there to guide, cajole, and assist,
simultaneously providing useful tips to encourage maximum
knowledge absorption and engaging commentary for readers at every
level. In short, this book is more than just a cohesive "study buddy" for
introductory Stanford courses. Rather, it delivers a far-reaching guide
of both pedagogical interest and practical use to students, educators,
and researchers worldwide.

Ecy Femi King received her BS (with distinction) in Symbolic Systems, JUNE 160 pages,
with a concentration in Human-Centered AI, and is currently pursuing a
masters in Computer Science (HCI), both at Stanford. King was senior Paper 9781503638761
class president, a CS198 class section leader, and a member of the COMPUTERS / Programming / General
Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is a regular
contributor to the Stanford Daily.

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My Brother, My Land
A Story from Palestine
SAMI HERMEZ, WITH SIREEN SAWALHA

A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the

story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love
and heartache while living under military occupation.

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked

back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is
the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives
in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing
up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's work as farmers
caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed
resistance in the First and Second Intifada, Sami Hermez, with Sireen
Sawalha, crafts a rich story of intertwining voices, mixing genres of
oral history, memoir, and creative nonfiction.

Through the lives of the Sawalha family, and the story of Iyad's
involvement in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hermez confronts readers
with the politics and complexities of armed resistance and the ethical
tensions and contradictions that arise, as well as with the dispossession
and suffocation of people living under occupation and their ordinary
lives in such times. Whether this story leaves readers discomforted,
angry, or empowered, they will certainly emerge with a deeper
understanding of the Palestinian predicament.

Sami Hermez is an anthropologist and teaches at Northwestern University MARCH 304 pages, 1 figures, 13
in Qatar. He is the author of War Is Coming: Between Past and Future illustrations, 2 maps
Violence in Lebanon (2017). His work in and out of the classroom reflects 6x9
a strong commitment to freedom, justice, and equality. His family's history Cloth 9781503628397
eBook 9781503637061
of migration spans the Levant, with roots in Al-Qosh, Aleppo, Beirut, and
HISTORY / Middle East / Israel &
Jerusalem. Sami lives in Doha with his family. Palestine

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Near and Far Waters
The Geopolitics of Seapower
COLIN FLINT

Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which

powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage.
Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower
as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near waters—those
parts of the oceans close to a country's shoreline—and far waters—
parts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines
of other countries. A forceful and clarifying challenge to conventional
accounts of geopolitics, Near and Far Waters offers an accessible
introductionto the combination of economic and political relations that
are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower
to control near waters and project force into far waters.

Examining the histories of three naval powers (the Netherlands,

Britain, and the United States) this book distills the past and present
patterns of seapower and their tendency to trigger repercussive conflict
and war. Readers will gain an appreciation for how geopolitics works,
the importance of seapower in economic competition, the motivations
behind China's desire to become a global naval force, and the risks of
current and future wars. Drawing on decades of experience, Flint urges
readers to take seriously the dilemma of near/far waters as a context
for an alternative understanding of global politics.

Colin Flint a Distinguished Professor of Political Geography in the JULY 240 pages, 5 illustrations, 18 maps
Department of Political Science at Utah State University.
Paper 9781503639812
Cloth 9781503639645
eBook 9781503639829
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics

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Global Mega-Science
Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge
Production
DAVID P. BAKER AND JUSTIN J.W. POWELL

Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today.

But what are its main sources? In accessible and engaging fashion,
Global Mega-Science examines the origins of unprecedented growth of
knowledge production over the past 120 years. David Baker and Justin
Powell integrate sociological and historical approaches with unique
scientometric data to argue that at the heart of this phenomenon is the
unparalleled cultural success of universities and their connection to
science: the university-science model. Considering why science is so
deeply linked to (higher) educational development, the authors analyze
the accumulation of capacity to produce research—and demonstrate
how the university facilitates the emerging knowledge society.

The age of global mega-science was built upon the symbiotic

relationship between higher education and science, especially the
worldwide research collaborations among networked university-based
scientists. These relationships are key for scholars and citizens to
understand the past, future, and sustainability of science.

David P. Baker is Professor of Sociology, Education, and Demography at 248 pages, 4 tables, 20 figures
Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Schooled Society
(Stanford, 2014) and co-author of National Differences, Global Paper 9781503637894
Similarities (Stanford, 2005) and The Century of Science (2017). Cloth 9781503602052
eBook 9781503639102
EDUCATION / Organizations &
Justin J.W. Powell is Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institutions
University of Luxembourg. His (co-)authored books include Comparing
Special Education (Stanford, 2011), Barriers to Inclusion (2016), and The
Century of Science (2017).

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Cyber Sovereignty
The Future of Governance in Cyberspace
LUCIE KADLECOVÁ

Governments across the globe find themselves in an exploratory phase

as they probe the limits of their sovereignty in the cyber domain.
Cyberspace is a singular environment that is forcing states to adjust
their behavior to fit a new arena beyond the four traditional domains
(air, sea, space, and land) to which the classic understanding of state
sovereignty applies. According to Lucie Kadlecová, governments must
implement a more adaptive approach to keep up with rapid
developments and innovations in cyberspace in order to truly retain
their sovereignty. This requires understanding the concept of
sovereignty in a more creative and flexible manner.

Kadlecová argues that the existence of sovereignty in cyberspace is the

latest, remarkable stage in the evolution of this concept. Through a
close study of the most advanced transatlantic cases of state
sovereignty in cyberspace—the Netherlands, the US, Estonia, and
Turkey—Cyber Sovereignty reveals how states have pursued new
methods and tactics to fuel the distribution of authority and control in
the cyber field, imaginatively combining modern technologies with
legal frameworks. In times of booming competition over cyber
governance between democracies and authoritarian regimes
worldwide, cyber sovereignty is a major topic of interest, and concern,
for the international community.

Lucie Kadlecová is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social 248 pages, 3 tables
Sciences, Charles University, and cybersecurity expert in the private
sector. Cloth 9781503638549
eBook 9781503639386
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
Relations / General

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Rethinking the End of Empire
Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power
Politics
LYNN M. TESSER

Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was

typically an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants
and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or
status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the
desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new
states? The answer has customarily centered on 'nationalists' acting
against weakening empires during a time of proliferating beliefs that
peoples should control their destiny. Rethinking the End of Empire
offers a wholly unique approach by arguing that nationalism often
existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local
activists and insurgents, underscoring the need to treat nationalism
relationally.

Drawing on research largely untapped by international relations

scholars, Lynn M. Tesser analyzes the decades prior to clusters of state
birth to show that the transformation of pre-independence mobilization
into moves toward territorial separation lay more with the politics of
empires than republican ideas. Featuring extensive insights from
sociology, history, and area studies, this book adds nuance to
scholarship that assumes most, if not all, pre-independence unrest was
nationalist and separatist, and sheds light on why varied demands for
change eventually coalesced around independence in some cases, but
not others.

Lynn M. Tesser teaches international relations at the Marine Corps MAY 320 pages, 1 maps
University and is the author of Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union
(2013). Paper 9781503638891
Cloth 9781503638105
eBook 9781503638907
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
Relations / General

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China’s Rising Foreign Ministry
Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy cover to
DYLAN M.H LOH
follow

China's rise and its importance to international relations as a discipline-

defining phenomenon is well recognized. Yet when scholars analyze
China's foreign relations, they typically focus on Beijing's military
power, economic might, or political leaders. As a result, most
traditional assessments miss a crucial factor: China's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (MOFA).

In China's Rising Foreign Ministry, Dylan M.H Loh upends

conventional understandings of Chinese diplomacy by underlining the
importance of the ministry and its diplomats in contemporary Chinese
foreign policy. The book explains how MOFA gradually became the
main interface of China's foreign policy and the primary vehicle
through which the idea of 'China' is produced, articulated, and
represented on the world stage. Through a multi-year and multi-sited
fieldwork study of China's MOFA, this groundbreaking book
investigates the practices and experiences of the actors that produce
diplomacy and documents the ministry's evolution into one of the most
significant institutions in China's rise.

A theoretically innovative and ambitious book, China's Rising Foreign

Ministry contributes an original reading of Chinese foreign policy,
with wide-ranging implications for international relations. By shedding
light on the dynamics of Chinese diplomacy and how assertiveness is
constructed, Loh provides readers with a comprehensive appraisal of
China's foreign ministry and the role it performs in China's re-
emergence.

Dylan M.H Loh is Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Global Affairs 280 pages, 13 tables, 8 illustrations
at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Cloth 9781503638204
eBook 9781503638679
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
Relations / Diplomacy

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Constant Disconnection
The Weight of Everyday Digital Life
KENZIE BURCHELL

The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of

working life, home life, and everyday personal life – driving us to
engage more with platforms than with people, a new state of constant
disconnection that we cannot escape. Overflowing email inboxes,
deluges of mobile phone notifications and torrents of social media
posts – the flow of communication in its abundance is today's
individualized interface for interpersonal and professional practices.
Communication technologies and their use are both the needle and the
thread of the wider social tapestry of everyday contemporary life. This
ever-changing communication environment is where the neoliberal
economic policies of the West and the commercial imperatives of the
platform and data-mining industries meet. It is where the
contradictions they produce can be felt day-to-day by citizens-turned-
users.

How does it feel to live at the pressure points of intersecting economic

realities and why does it matter? Drawing on extensive sociological
research, Burchell examines how individuals try to manage connection
as participation in everyday life and how, on a larger scale, the ever-
expanding knowledge, communication, and data-driven economies
depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate
communication needs. With so much time spent managing the
pressures of our communication environment, we often overlook the
way media technologies produce systemic tensions that are reshaping
how we interact with each other and what we understand to be social
connection today.

Kenzie Burchell is Assistant Professor of Media, Journalism, and Digital AUGUST 296 pages,
Cultures at the University of Toronto.
Paper 9781503639799
Cloth 9781503632356
eBook 9781503639805
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

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Organizing Color
Toward a Chromatics of the Social
TIMON BEYES

We live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we

make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a
theory of color as fundamental medium of the social.

Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years,

Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital,
management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with
colour's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate
experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-
century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and
productivity, from the colonial production of Indigo in India to
globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the
consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other
chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow processing the machinery of the chemical
industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of
education and critique in Steyerl's Adorno's Grey.

Contributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism

and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of
social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"—that is attuned to
the protean and world-making capacity of color.

Timon Beyes is Professor of Sociology of Organisation and Culture at MARCH 292 pages, 18 illustrations
Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Paper 9781503638617
Cloth 9781503638303
eBook 9781503638624
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

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Climate of Denial
Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the
Long Nineteenth Century
ALLEN MACDUFFIE

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of
mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the
crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of
feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century,
when Western culture encountered the profound shock of Charles
Darwin's theory of evolution.

Darwin's theory made it increasingly difficult for secular humanists to

flatly deny that humans are animals, fully enmeshed in natural systems
and processes. But like those of us confronting climate change today,
many writers and scientists struggled to integrate its depersonalizing
vision into their understanding of the place of humans in the natural
order. The result was that the radical environmental implications of
The Origin of Species were evaded as soon as they were articulated,
abetted by a culture of denial structured by the illusions of capital and
empire.

In light of the climate emergency, Climate of Denial recontextualizes

nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive
strategies used—then and now—to avoid confronting the unsettling
realities of our situation on this planet.

Allen MacDuffie is Associate Professor of English at the University of 272 pages,

Texas at Austin. He is the author of Victorian Literature, Energy, and the
Ecological Imagination (2014.) Paper 9781503639546
Cloth 9781503638938
eBook 9781503639553
LITERARY CRITICISM European /
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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The Politics of Grace in Early Modern
Literature
DENI KASA

This book tells the story of how early modern poets used the
theological concept of grace to reimagine their political communities.
The Protestant belief that salvation was due to sola gratia, or grace
alone, was originally meant to inspire religious reform. But, as Deni
Kasa shows, poets of the period used grace to interrogate the most
important political problems of their time, from empire and gender to
civil war and poetic authority. Kasa examines how four writers—John
Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, and Abraham Cowley—
used the promise of grace to develop idealized imagined communities,
and not always egalitarian ones. Kasa analyzes the uses of grace to
make new space for individual and collective agency in the period, but
also to validate domination and inequality, with poets and the educated
elite inserted as mediators between the gift of grace and the rest of the
people.

Offering a literary history of politics in a pre-secular age, Kasa shows

that early modern poets mapped salvation onto the most important
conflicts of their time in ways missed by literary critics and historians
of political thought. Grace, Kasa demonstrates, was an important
means of expression and a way to imagine impossible political ideals.

Deni Kasa is Associate Fellow of the Faculty of History at the University MARCH 240 pages,
of Oxford.
Cloth 9781503638266
eBook 9781503638310
LITERARY CRITICISM / European /
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Descartes’ Meditative Turn
Cartesian Thought as Spiritual Practice
CHRISTOPHER J. WILD

Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist

philosophy, choose "meditations"—a term and genre associated with
religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that
lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge,
including mathematics and sciences? Why did he believe that the
immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which the
Meditations on First Philosophy set out to demonstrate, can only be
made self-evident through meditating? These are the question that
Christopher Wild's book answers.

Descartes discovered the "foundations of a marvelous science" through

a dramatic conversion in southern Germany in the winter of 1619. The
spiritual and cognitive exercises, derived from ancient philosophy and
the Christian meditative tradition, which Descartes deployed in the
Meditations, enable readers to discover metaphysical truths with the
same degree of self-evidence with which Descartes did during his own
conversion. Descartes' meditative turn, Wild argues, brings to a
culmination a lifelong preoccupation with the practice or craft of
thinking, known as Cartesian method. By joining meditation to method
the Meditations becomes the founding document for a Cartesian "art of
turning," a new practice of both thought and life.

Christopher Wild is Professor of Germanic Studies, Theater & MARCH 360 pages, 11 illustrations
Performance Studies and Associate Faculty in the Divinity School at the
University of Chicago. Paper 9781503638594
Cloth 9781503638280
eBook 9781503638600
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys /
Modern

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Making Space for the Gulf MAKING SPACE
Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East FOR THE GULF
Histories of Regionalism
ARANG KESHAVARZIAN and the Middle East

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of

imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The
roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been
defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its
shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-
building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings
of the region over the last two centuries. Here, the Gulf comes into
Arang Keshavarzian
view as a created space, encompassing dynamic social relations and
competing interests.

Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran,
Iraq, and the Arab Peninsula together within global processes. He
connects moments more often treated as ruptures—the discovery of
oil, the Iranian Revolution, the rise and decline of British empire, the
emergence of American power—and crafts a narrative populated by a
diverse range of people—migrants and ruling families, pearl-divers
and star architects, striking taxi drivers and dethroned rulers, protectors
of British India and stewards of globalized American universities.
Tacking across geographic scales, Keshavarzian reveals how the Gulf
has been globalized through transnational relations, regionalized as a
geopolitical category, and cleaved along national divisions and social
inequalities.

When understood as a process, not an object, the Persian Gulf reveals

much about how regions and the world have been made in modern
times. Making Space for the Gulf offers a fresh understanding of this
globally consequential place.
Stanford University Press does not control Persian rights to this title.

Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and APRIL 312 pages, 6 illustrations, 3 maps
Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Bazaar and
State in Iran: Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (2007) and coeditor of Paper 9781503638877
Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution (2021). Cloth 9781503633346
eBook 9781503638884
HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian
Peninsula

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Past Progress
Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and
Korea
ED PULFORD

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress –
whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of
former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing
new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the
triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how
several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing progressive
endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese
empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories
from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these
borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-
oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale.

Taking an archaeological approach to notions of historical progress,

the book's three parts follow an innovative structure moving
backwards through linear time. Part I explores "post-historical"
Hunchun's diverse sociopolitics since high socialism's demise. Part II
covers the socialist era, discussing cross-border temporal synchrony
between China, Russia, and North Korea. Finally, Part III treats the
period preceding socialist revolutions, revealing how the collapse of
Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynasties marked a compound "end of
history" which opened the area to projections of modernity and
progress. Examining a borderland across linguistic, cultural, and
historical lenses, Past Progress is a simultaneously local and
transregional analysis of time, borders, and the state before, during,
and since socialism.

Ed Pulford is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of MAY 328 pages, 20 illustrations
Manchester.
Paper 9781503639027
Cloth 9781503638181
eBook 9781503639034
SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology /
Cultural

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Conflicted
Making News from Global War
ISAAC BLACKSIN

How is popular knowledge war of shaped by the stories we consume,

what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these
boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge
from warzones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and
Lebanon, as well as in Afghanistan and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges
normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational
authority comes to be. Turning the lens on journalists from the New
York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other
prominent publications, Isaac Blacksin shows why news coverage of
contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of
excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for
war.

Blacksin argues that journalism's humanitarian frame—now

hegemonic in conflict coverage—serves to de-politicize and re-
moralize war, transforming war from the effects of policy on
populations to the effects of violence on the innocent. Exploring the
tension between experience and expression in conditions of violence,
and tracking how journalists respond to dominant expectations for
war's reality, Conflicted tells the story of war, reporters, and the
consequences of their convergence. As new wars, and new reportage,
continue to shape our understanding of armed conflict, Conflicted
makes visible both the power and the particularity of war reportage
now.

Isaac Blacksin is a media anthropologist and an ethnographer of military JULY 312 pages,
conflict. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and the
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Paper 9781503639447
Southern California. Cloth 9781503638242
eBook 9781503639454
SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology /
Cultural

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Chinese Workers of the World
Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–
Indochina Railway
SELDA ALTAN

Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New
World plantations, worked in South African mines, and toiled through
the construction of the Panama Canal, among many other projects.
While most investigations of Chinese workers focus on migrant labor,
Chinese Workers of the World explores Chinese labor under colonial
regimes within China thorough examination of the Yunnan-Indochina
Railway, constructed between 1898–1910. The Yunnan railway—a
French investment in imperial China during the age of "railroad
colonialism"—connected French-colonized Indochina to Chinese
markets with a promise of cross-border trade in tin, silk, tea, and
opium. However, this ambitious project resulted in fiasco. Thousands
of Chinese workers died during the horrid construction process, and
costs exceeded original estimates by 74%.

Drawing on Chinese, French, and British archival accounts of day-to-

day worker struggles and labor conflicts along the railway, Selda Altan
argues that long before the Chinese Communist Party defined Chinese
workers as the vanguard of a revolutionary movement in the 1920s, the
modern figure of the Chinese worker was born in the crosscurrents of
empire and nation in the late-nineteenth century. Yunnan railway
workers contested the conditions of their employment with the
knowledge of a globalizing capitalist market, fundamentally reshaping
Chinese ideas of free labor, national sovereignty, and regional
leadership in East and Southeast Asia.

Selda Altan is Assistant Professor of History at Randolph College. 224 pages, 2 tables, 1 figures, 5
illustrations, 2 maps

Cloth 9781503638235
eBook 9781503639331
HISTORY Asia / China

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Seeking News, Making China
Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass
Society
JOHN ALEKNA

Contemporary developments in communications technologies have

overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed
the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational,
and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In
China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a
world where communication was slow, disjointed, or non-existent.
Less than ten percent of the population ever read newspapers. Just fifty
years later, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, news
broadcasts reached hundreds of millions of people instantaneously,
every day. How did Chinese citizens experience the rapid changes in
information practices and political organization that occurred in this
period? What was it like to live through a news revolution?

John Alekna traces the history of news in twentieth century China to

demonstrate how large structural changes in technology and politics
were heard and felt. Scrutinizing the flow of news can reveal much
about society and politics—illustrating who has power and why, and
uncovering the connections between different regions, peoples, and
social classes. Taking an innovative, holistic view of information
practices, Alekna weaves together both rural and urban history to tell
the story of rise of mass society through the lens of communication
techniques and technology, showing how the news revolution
fundamentally reordered the political geography of China.

John Alekna is Assistant Professor of History at Peking University. MARCH 352 pages, 10 illustrations

Paper 9781503638570
Cloth 9781503636675
eBook 9781503638587
HISTORY Asia / China

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FALL 2023

FEATURED
TITLES
Who Wrote This?
How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human cover to
Writing
NAOMI S. BARON
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Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even
know? And why would it matter?

Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us

with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's
time-saving advantages or do we stop to weigh what we lose when
heeding their siren call? Linguist and educator Naomi Baron leads us
on a journey connecting the dots between human literacy and today's
technology. Baron gives readers a spirited overview of the emergence
of both literacy and AI, and a glimpse of their possible future. As the
technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and fluent, it's tempting
to take the easy way out and let AI do the work for us. Baron cautions
that such efficiency isn't always in our interest. As AI plies us with
suggestions or full-blown text, we risk losing not just our technical
skills but the power of writing as a springboard for personal reflection
and unique expression.

Funny, informed, and conversational, Who Wrote This? urges us as

individuals and as communities to make conscious choices about the
extent to which we collaborate with AI. Baron shows us how to work
with AI and how to spot where it risks diminishing the valuable
cognitive and social benefits of being literate.

Japanese language rights sold.

Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American SEPTEMBER 336 pages, 2 tables, 1
University. Of her nine earlier books, her most recent are How We Read figures
Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (2021), Words
Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (2015), and Always Cloth 9781503633223
On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008). She has appeared eBook 9781503637900
on Good Morning America, 20/20, CNBC, and CNN, and her writing has LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
been widely published, including in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Communication Studies
Times, the Washington Post, and The Conversation.

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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
WALTER J. SCHEIRER

As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly

migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally
fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable
real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet
takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the
point where faked information, images, and audiovisual content are
nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.

Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins
of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other
deviations from reality that have recently become part of mainstream
culture, from the 19th century darkroom to the artistic stylings of GPT
-3.

His story focuses on three different visionary communities who are

responsible for fashioning the way digital fakery is commonly
deployed today: computer hackers, digital artists, and AI researchers.
Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content
are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather, stem from
human behavior—and pose serious questions about the integrity of our
democracy in the face of an information literacy deficit.

Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate DECEMBER 272 pages, 42 illustrations
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre
Dame. Cloth 9781503632882
eBook 9781503637047
COMPUTERS / History

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Styles of Seriousness
STEVEN CONNOR

Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness,

Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a
sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while
seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most poignantly
indeterminate, perhaps because of the impossibility of being
completely serious.

In colloquy with philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, James,

Sartre, Austin, Agamben and Sloterdijk and writers like Shakespeare,
Byron, Auden and Orwell, Connor considers the linguistic and ritual
behaviors associated with different modes of seriousness: importance;
intention, or ways of really 'meaning things'; sincerity; solemnity;
urgency; regret; warning; and ordeal. The central claim of the book is
human beings are capable of taking things seriously in a way that
nonhuman animals are not, for the unexpected reason that human
beings are so much more versatile than most animals at not being
completely serious. One always in fact has a choice about whether or
not to take seriously something that is supposed to be so. As a
consequence, seriousness depends on different kinds of formalization
or stylized practice. Styles of seriousness matter, Connor shows,
because human beings are incapable of simply and spontaneously
existing. Being a human means having to take seriously one's style of
being.

Steven Connor is Director of Research in the Digital Futures Institute, OCTOBER 264 pages,
King's College, London, and Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author of Giving Way: Thoughts on Paper 9781503636866
Unappreciated Dispositions (Stanford, 2019) and twenty other books. Cloth 9781503636453
eBook 9781503636873
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern /
General

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The Antechamber
Toward a History of Waiting
HELMUT PUFF

Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past
through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From
literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents,
Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior
rooms designated and designed for people to linger.

In early modern continental Western Europe, antechambers became

standard in the residences of the elites. As a time-space infrastructure
these rooms shaped encounters between unequals. By imposing spatial
distance and temporal delays, antechambers constituted authority,
rank, and power. Puff explores both the logic and the experience of
waiting in such formative spaces, showing that time divides as much as
it unites, and that far from what people have said about early moderns,
they approached living in time with apprehensiveness. To early
modern Europeans, time was not an objective force external to the self
but something that was tied to acting in time.

Situated at the intersection of history, literature, and the history of art

and architecture, this wide-ranging study demonstrates that waiting has
a history that has much to tell us about social and power relations in
the past and present.

Chinese (simplified characters) language rights sold.

Helmut Puff is Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History OCTOBER 264 pages, 23 illustrations
and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books
include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland (2003) as well Paper 9781503637023
as Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History (2014). Cloth 9781503635418
eBook 9781503637030
HISTORY Social History

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Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts
Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration cover to
JONATHAN S. FEINSTEIN
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A new model for smarter creativity

Innovators and creators work in cultural and environmental contexts

that shape their work. These contexts are large scale, filled with
multitudes of elements and possibilities. Creativity in Large-Scale
Contexts, by Yale Professor Jonathan Feinstein, introduces a
groundbreaking new network model to describe how successful
creativity is generated in such contexts. The book will help groups and
organizations be more productive and efficient in their innovation
work.

Feinstein argues that in large-scale contexts creativity happens most

efficiently when it is actively "guided." Guiding creativity involves
understanding and navigating the creative context, imagining new
ways to use it, identifying puzzles and opportunities, and spanning
these to create novel connections. With thoughtful guidance, creators
and creative teams can find their way through the thicket of
possibilities faster, smarter, and with less waste. Feinstein describes
two forms of guidance — guiding conceptions and guiding principles
— and shows how they work together to generate creativity.

Empirically grounded, this book will be essential for teaching and

managing creativity and innovation and will open new avenues for
future intellectual growth in the field.

Jonathan Feinstein is John G. Searle Professor of Economics and OCTOBER 384 pages, 5 tables, 21
Management at Yale School of Management. figures, 4 illustrations

Cloth 9781503632813
eBook 9781503637153
PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability

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