Adorno and Heidegger: philosophical questions; Iain Macdonald and Krzysztof Ziarek, editors. Stanford University Press 2008. 221p $50.00; $21.95 (pa)
The essays in this volume explore the relations between two traditions of twentieth century thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5635-8; 978-0-8047-5636-5 (pa); LCCN 2007-1573

The anthropology of the Enlightenment; edited by Larry Wolff and Marco Cipolloni. Stanford University Press 2007. 414p $60.00; $21.95 (pa)
These essays explore the intellectual tradition of the eighteenth century, and show how the new perspectives of Enlightenment thinkers in viewing history, culture, and society laid the foundations for modern anthropology.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5202-2; 978-0-8047-5203-9 (pa); LCCN 2007-7298

Archaeological anthropology: perspectives on method and theory; edited by James M. Skibo, Michael W. Graves, and Miriam T. Stark, with a foreword by Patty Jo Watson. University of Arizona Press 2007. 309p $55.00
These essays examine the legacy of 20th century American archaeologist William Longacre, who combined traditional scientific archaeology with anthropology to create the New Archaeology.
ISBN 978-0-8165-2517-1; 0-8165-2517-X; LCCN 2006-17435

Citizenship and national identity in twentieth-century Germany; edited by Geoff Eley and Jan Palmowski. Stanford University Press 2008. 308p $65.00; $27.95 (pa)
These essays explore how Germans defined themselves and other peoples in the twentieth century, how they constructed their parameters of nationality and citizen rights, and how they defined and contested their national community over the century. Essays address developments in the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and modern Germany.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5204-6; 978-0-8047-5205-3 (pa); LCCN 2007-29132

Evil paradises: dreamworlds of neoliberalism; edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk. New Press 2007. 336p $26.95
These essays examine utopian building projects that cater to the interests of the wealthy and influential around the world. Among the topics are: offshore floating hotels whose permanent residents pay no taxes; a chain of private islands in Dubai for the wealthy; and projects constructed by builders who are transforming parts of Beijing and Johannesburg into capitalist paradises.
ISBN 978-1-59558-076-4; LCCN 2007-10424

Extraordinary anthropology: transformations in the field; edited by Jean-Guy A. Goulet and Bruce Granville Miller; with a preface by Johannes Fabian. University of Nebraska Press 2007. 456p $34.95
In these essays, ethnographers discuss the importance of the personally and emotionally volatile “ecstatic” side of fieldwork. Anthropologists who have worked in Central America, North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia share their intimate experiences of transformations in the field through details of significant dreams, haunting visions, and other unexpected or unexplained experiences.
ISBN 978-0-8032-5992-8; 0-8032-5992-1; LCCN 2006-36210

Gender on the borderlands: the Frontiers reader; edited by Antonia Castaneda with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermon. University of Nebraska Press 2007. 310p $34.95
The Mexican-American border region past and present is the subject of these essays, with particular attention to gender issues.
ISBN 978-0-8032-5986-7; 0-8032-5986-7; LCCN 2007-12899

Giesecke, Annette Lucia. The epic city: urbanism, utopia, and the garden in ancient Greece and Rome. Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University 2007. 204p $18.95
The desire to domesticate nature that is reflected in the urban gardens of ancient Greece and Rome is the topic of these essays. Representations of gardens in art and literature, as well as the evidence of actual gardens, are explored.
ISBN 978-0-674-02374-1; 0-674-02374-9; LCCN 2007-28877

Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition; edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, K.F. Diethard Romheld, in association with Lance Lazar. Brill 2007. 365p $174.00 (Numen book series: studies in the history of religions, v112)
These essays examine the extent to which ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. Among the topics are: human sacrifice in Greek culture; child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible; God’s sacrifice of himself as a man in the Christian tradition; and, the rhetoric of sacrifice in contemporary arguments supporting the death penalty.
ISBN 978-90-04-15085-0; 90-04-15085-4; LCCN 42-24019

Intercultural spaces: language, culture, identity; edited by Aileen Pearson-Evans and Angela Leahy. P. Lang 2007. xx, 301p $78.9
These essays by scholars in various disciplines such as sociology, literature, and linguistics, explore what happens when different cultures come into contact and share the same space. Among the topics are: the use of the scarf among Muslim women in France; the orientalism of the 1936 film Pepe le Moko; and post-Soviet community building in the Baltic states.
ISBN 978-0-8204-9546-0; LCCN 2007-19935

Keeping the promise: essays on leadership, democracy, and education; edited by Dennis Carlson and C.P. Gause. P. Lang 2007. 416p $109.95; $36.95 (pa) (Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education; v305)
The authors of these essays analyze the cultural context of educational leadership. They examine leadership within a political context and link it to struggles over social justice and human freedom, with reference to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
ISBN 978-0-8204-9729-7; 879-0-8204-8199-9 (pa); LCCN 2006-23355

Lessons in integration: realizing the promise of racial diversity in American schools; edited by Erica Frankenberg and Gary Orfield. University of Virginia Press 2007. 352p $45.00 (Race, ethnicity, and politics)
These essays analyze five decades of experience with desegregation efforts in the United States in order to discover the factors accounting for successful educational experiences in an integrated setting.
ISBN 978-0-8139-2630-8; LCCN 2006-100759

Modern histories of crime and punishment; edited by Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer. Stanford University Press 2007. 335p $70.00; $27.95 (pa) (Critical perspectives on crime and law)
The authors of these essays approach the history of crime and punishment as part of a broad inquiry into the fabric of governance and control that constitute social and political life. Among the topic are: politics and madness in the Victorian courtroom; the contribution of Oliver Wendell Holmes to American criminal law; and crime and punishment on the tea plantations of colonial India.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5411-8; 978-0-8047-5412-5 (pa); LCCN 2007-14963

Modernism and colonialism: British and Irish literature, 1899-1939; edited by Richard Begam & Michael Valdez Moses. Duke University Press 2007. 326p $89.95; $24.95 (pa)
Thirteen literary scholars examine the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Among the authors discussed are E.M. Forster, William Butler Yeats, and Joseph Conrad.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4019-5; 978-0-8223-4038-6 (pa); LCCN 2007-14125

Native Americans and the environment: perspectives on the ecological Indian; edited and with an introduction by Michael E. Harkin and David Rich Lewis. University of Nebraska Press 2007. xxxiv, 367p $24.95
The relationship of the Native Americans with their environment is the subject of these essays. Topics include: the Native Americans and buffalo herds on the northern plains; the importance of salmon among the Southern Tlingits; and the possibility the ancestors of Native Americans hunted some species to extinction.
ISBN 978-0-8032-7361-0; 0-8032-7361-4; LCCN 2006-20776

Nietzsche and the rebirth of the tragic; edited by Mary Ann Frese Witt. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007. 255p $52.50
The essays in this volume examine the legacies of Nietzsche’s theories of tragedy as literary genre and of the tragic as ontological concept, both from The birth of tragedy and from his later works. Among the topics are: Nietzschean tragedy in Yeat’s lyric poetry; Nietzsche and the Russian concepts of tragic philosophy; and the Apollonian and Dionysian aspects of Thornton Wilder’s play Our town.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4160-6; 0-8386-4160-1; LCCN 2007-10898

Open your eyes: deaf studies talking; H-Dirksen L. Bauman, editor. University of Minnesota Press 2008. 349p $24.95
These essays are an introduction to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the deaf ways of being in the world. The authors, the majority of whom are deaf, examine the physical and cultural boundaries of deafness and explore the intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, disability, family, and race.
ISBN 978-0-8166-4618-0; 978-0-8166-4519-7 (pa); LCCN 2007-33907

Pamuk, Orhan. Other colors: essays and a story. A.A. Knopf 2007. 433p $27.95
Essays from the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist on his life, his home, his work, and the work of other authors, drawn from writings composed over three decades.
ISBN 978-0-307-2665-0; LCCN 2007-21132

Queer people: negotiations and expressions of homosexuality, 1700-1800; edited by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda. Bucknell University Press 2007. 305p $65.00
These essays explore the lives and representations of homosexuals in the eighteenth century. Among the individuals discussed are G.F. Handel, James Boswell, and Daniel Defoe.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5667-6; 0-8387-5667-0; LCCN 2006-30547

Seeking real truths: multidisciplinary perspectives on Machiavelli; edited by Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman. Brill 2007. 447p $129.00
These essays explore the thought and enduring influence of Renaissance political scientist and playwright Niccolo Machiavelli. Among the topics are: The prince as a literary text; Machiavelli and women; and, the representation of sex in Machiavelli’s comedy The mandragola.
ISBN 978-90-04-15877-1; LCCN 2007-298930

Staging Shakespeare: essays in honor of Alan C. Dessen; edited by Lena Cowen Orlin and Miranda Johnson-Haddad. University of Delaware Press 2007. 274p $53.50
Twelve essays explore the relationships between Shakespearean pedagogy, performance, and scholarship. The topics include: the use of music in Trevor Nunn’s film version of Twelfth Night; the implied and missing stage directions in The tempest; and an analysis of Richard Burton’s performance as Hamlet in John Gielgud’s stage production.
ISBN 978-0-87413-987-7; 0-87413-987-2; LCCN 2007-12132

Stone, Alan A. Movies and the moral adventure of life; foreword by Joshua Cohen. MIT Press 2007. 219p $14.95 (A Boston review book)
Fifteen essays on some contemporary films that contain disturbing elements and challenge the viewer to examine what it is to be human. Among the subjects are Pulp fiction, The Battle of Algiers, Schindler’s list, and The passion of the Christ.
ISBN 978-0-262-19567-6; LCCN 2007-13762

Sustaining literature: essays on literature, history, and culture, 1500-1800: commemorating the life and work of Simon Varey; edited by Greg Clingham. Bucknell University Press 2007. 325p $59.50
Essays on a wide variety of topics primarily focused on English literature from 1500-1800. Among the topics are: Jonathan Swift and the primitive church; John Dryden’s poem Alexander’s feast; and, economics in the work of Hannah More.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5656-0; 0-8387-5656-5; LCCN 2006-26351

Twin Tollans: Chichen Itza, Tula, and the epiclassic to early postclassic Mesoamerican world; Jeff Karl Kowalski & Cynthia Kristan-Graham, eds. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection: Distributed by Harvard University Press 2007. 640p $65.00
Essays on the indigenous peoples of Mexico and their tribal affinities, with particular attention to archaeological evidence found at the Chichen Itza Site and the Tula Site.
ISBN 978-0-88402-323-4; LCCN 2006-28672

Women’s work: making dance in Europe before 1800; edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks. University of Wisconsin Press 2007. 270p $65.00; $27.95 (pa) (Studies in dance history)
These essays explore the role of women in the world of dance before 1800, not only as performers and choreographers, but also as patrons and the shapers of aesthetic trends.
ISBN 978-0-299-22530-8; 978-0-299-22534-6 (pa); LCCN 2007-11730