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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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%.
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
John Alekna is Assistant Professor of History at Peking University. MARCH 352 pages, 10 illustrations
Paper 9781503638570
Cloth 9781503636675
eBook 9781503638587
HISTORY Asia / China
FEATURED
TITLES
Who Wrote This?
How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human cover to
Writing
NAOMI S. BARON
follow
Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even
know? And why would it matter?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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