May 2012

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Title \| Price	Date	Subject	Type	Imprint
Analog Fictions for the Digital Age Literary Realism and Photographic Discourses in Novels after 2000 Julia Breitbach Shows how current photographic discourse can illuminate the analysis of recent literary realism and proposes a truly original photographic hermeneutics for literary study. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2012	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia From Prehistory to the Present Edited by T.A. Heslop, Elizabeth Mellings, and Margit Thofner Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Dec 2012	Art Architecture & Photography	Academic	Boydell Press
Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China Xiaoping Fang The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Dec 2012	History of Science & Medicine	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Beriberi in Modern Japan The Making of a National Disease Alexander R. Bay The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $95.00	Dec 2012	History of Science & Medicine	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Dear Dorothy Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow Nicolas Slonimsky, Edited by Electra Yourke The fascinating letters of conductor/author Nicholas Slonimsky (1894-1995) to his wife, sharing his adventures as he traveled around the world to conduct new American music. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $49.95	Dec 2012	Music	Trade	University of Rochester Press
Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau Violence, Identity, Nation Steven Howe By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2012	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women's Writing in German Strange Subjects Emily Jeremiah Explores nationality, gender, and postmodern subjectivity in the work of five German-speaking women writers who embody a "nomadic ethics." Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2012	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights Edited by Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Ruth Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2012	Women's & Gender Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics P.J. Brendese Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory's ongoing impact on democratic horizons. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2012	Politics & Economics	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Tbe World as a Metaphor in Robert Musil's "the Man without Qualities" Possibility as Reality Genese Grill The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Dec 2012	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice Bode Omojola Drawing on extensive field research conducted over the course of two decades, Bode Omojola examines traditional and contemporary Yorùbá genres of music. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2012	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press