The acquisition and exhibition of classical antiquities: professional, legal, and ethical perspectives; edited by Robin F. Rhodes. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 175p $25.00
These essays describe the ethical and legal issues involved in the ownership and display of ancient cultural property. The nature of the antiquities black market, the ambiguities inherent in determining ownership, and the growing demands by some nations for the return of their “looted” properties (such as the movement for the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles currently possessed by Great Britain) are among the topics.
ISBN 978-0-268-0427-7; LCCN 2007-35546

Atrocities on trial: historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes; edited by Patricia Heberer and Jurgen Matthaus; foreword by Michael R. Marrus. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxx, 327p $29.95
The Nuremberg trials that took place following World War II are the focus of these essays. The moral, legal, and political issues involved in the determination of guilt and punishment in the aftermath of unprecedented crimes against humanity are explored.
ISBN 978-0-8032-1084-4; LCCN 2007-36395

Birnbaum, Pierre. Geography of hope: exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation. Stanford University Press, 2008. 479p $65.00 (Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture)
The author explores the careers of eight Jewish thinkers who have had a profound effect on modern political and intellectual life: Karl Marx, Emile David Durkheim, George Simmel, Raymond Aron, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Michael Walzer, and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5293-0; LCCN 2007-41163

Casting a shadow: creating the Alfred Hitchcock film; edited by Will Schmenner and Corinne Grandf. Northwestern University Press, 2007. 155p $32.95
These essays examine film director Alfred Hitchcock as a collaborative artist who worked closely with his creative team to achieve a unique cinematic style, focusing on key films such as Vertigo, Rear window, and I confess.
ISBN 978-0-8101-2447-9; LCCN 2007-29080

Challenges of an aging society: ethical dilemmas, political issues; edited by Rachel A. Pruchno and Michael A. Smyer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 448p $49.95
These essays by professionals in the fields of gerontology and bioethics examine the social, political, and ethical challenges of an aging society. Topics are explored from different points of view, including economics, nursing, psychology, and theology.
ISBN 978-0-8018-8648-5; LCCN 2006-39066

Color, hair, and bone: race in the twenty-first century; edited by Linden Lewis and Glyne Griffith, with Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler. Bucknell University Press, 2008. 249p $50.00
The essays in this volume address race relations and the politics of race and racial identity in the United States and Europe at the start of the new millennium. Representations of racial issues in the arts and popular culture (past and present) are also addressed. Among the topics are the Asian presence in America as depicted in D.W. Griffith’s film Broken blossoms, and black masculinity as described in Gloria Naylor’s fiction.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5668-3; LCCN 2007-8080

Comrades: a local history of the Black Panther Party; edited by Judson L. Jeffries. Indiana University Press, 2007. 310p $65.00; $24.95 (pa) (Blacks in the diaspora)
This volume examines the expansion of the Black Panther Party (one of the most visible expressions of the black power movement) from its base in Oakland, California, into different cities of the United States during the 1960s and 70s. The urban centers discussed include Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
ISBN 978-0-253-34928-6; 978-0-253-21930-5 (pa); LCCN 2007-13592

Conflict in organizational groups: new directions in theory and practice; edited by Kristin J. Behfar and Leigh L. Thompson. Northwestern University Press: Kellogg School of Management, 2007. 292p $60.00
The management of conflicting elements and personalities in organizational groups is the subject of these essays. Management teams cannot function to full potential when time and energy must be diverted to appeasing or catering to problem employees, or to obstinate factions within the group. The authors offer guidelines for identifying and dealing with potentially harmful conflict within groups.
ISBN 978-0-8101-2457-8; LCCN 2007-6131

Contemporary Jewish writing in Europe: a guide; edited by Vivian Liska and Thomas Nolden. Indiana University Press, 2008. xxxiii, 224p $29.95
Jewish writing in post-World War II Europe is the topic of these essays. Individual chapters examine Jewish authors and the works that have been produced in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Great Britain, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Russia since 1945.
ISBN 978-0-253-34875-3; LCCN 2007-22547

Ferran, Ofelia. Working through memory: writing and remembrance in contemporary Spanish narrative. Bucknell University Press, 2007. 370p $75.00
The author studies the various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, analyzing a series of narrative texts that present memory and the recapture of a traumatic past as their main theme. Among the works discussed are Montserrat Roig’s The violet hour, Maria Teresa Leon’s Exile portal, and Juan Benet’s Return to Region.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5658-4; LCCN 2007-12246

Jewish perspectives on Hellenistic rulers; edited by Tessa Rajak … [et al.]. University of California Press, 2007. 363p $49.95 (Hellenistic culture and society, v50)
These essays explore monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period as understood by ancient Jewish authors, and by the Jewish translators of the Septuagint (the Greek-language version of the Hebrew scriptures).
ISBN 978-0-520-25084-0; LCCN 2007-46132

Joseph Conrad: voice, sequence, history, genre; edited by Jakob Lothe, Jeremy Hawthorn, and James Phelan. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 281p $54.95; $23.95 (pa) (Theory and interpretation of narrative)
The narrative techniques of novelist Joseph Conrad are explored in this collection of essays. Attention is focused on key works, such as Lord Jim, Nostromo, and Heart of darkness.
ISBN 978-0-8142-1076-5; 978-0-8142-5165-2 (pa); LCCN 2007-27286

Losano, Antonia. The woman painter in Victorian literature. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 300p $52.95
The author examines the presence of the woman painter in English novels, a character type who appears with increasing frequency in the Victorian period, and who often embodies creativity, emancipation, and free-thinking. Well-known novels such as Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and lesser known works such as Margaret Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks are discussed.
ISBN 978-0-8142-1081-9; LCCN 2007-28410

McMahon, Gary. Camp in literature. McFarland, 2006. 306p $35.00
The literary and performance style known as “camp”, with its roots in effete, marginalized lifestyles, is the subject of these articles. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, camp is “banality, artifice, mediocrity, or ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal.” Among the figures discussed are authors Oscar Wilde and Ronald Firbank, author/performer Quentin Crisp, and author/filmmaker Ed Wood.
ISBN 0-7864-2466-4; LCCN 2006-1878

Miller, Christopher L. The French Atlantic triangle: literature and culture of the slave trade. Duke University Press, 2008. 571p $27.95
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans in bondage across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. The author examines the consequences of French Atlantic slave trade as represented in the history, literature, and films of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4151-2; LCCN 2007-33635

Monsters in and among us: toward a gothic criminology; edited by Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 304p $59.50
These essays explore books and films that link violence, images of “monstrosity”, and gothic modes of narration and visualization. The depictions of terrorists, serial killers, pedophile clergy, and rogue cops in fiction, film, and news media, are among the topics.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4159-0; LCCN 2007-5479

Museum frictions: public cultures/global transformations; edited by Ivan Karp … [et al.]. Duke University Press, 2006. 602p $27.95
These essays examine the effects of the increasingly globalized world on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practice. The authors analyze the complex roles that national and community museums, museums of art and history, monuments, heritage sites, and theme parks play in creating public cultures.
ISBN 978-0-8223-3894-9; LCCN 2006-16164

Postcolonial disorders; edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good … [et al.]. University of California Press, 2008. 465p $65.00; $27.50
These essays explore the social and psychological problems that persist in formerly colonized countries, in economically developing countries, and among marginalized populations around the world . Among the topics are: the status of the Basque separatist movement in Spain; the political aspects of modern art in Indonesia; and boundary issues and their impact on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in China.
ISBN 978-0-520-25223-3; 978-0-520-25224-0 (pa); LCCN 2007-29461

Rhodes, Chip. Politics, desire, and the Hollywood novel. University of Iowa Press, 2008. 190p $34.95
The author describes how the motion picture business in Hollywood and the social world of Los Angeles have been depicted in American novels, including Nathanael West’s The day of the locust, Budd Schulberg’s What makes Sammy run?, and Joan Didion’s Play it as it lays.
ISBN 978-1-58729-629-1; LCCN 2007-36085

Ross, Alex. The rest is noise: listening to the twentieth century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 624p $30.00
These essays provide a history of twentieth century music, focusing on key personalities and events from fin de siecle Vienna to the new millennium. Among the topics are: the turbulent premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The rite of spring; the Soviet restrictions on the lives and creative work of Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich; and the evolution of the operas of Benjamin Britten.
ISBN 978-0-374-24939-7; LCCN 2007-4504

Schickel, Richard. Film on paper: the inner life of movies. Ivan R. Dee, 2008. 292p $18.95
In this collection of essays, film critic Richard Schickel turns book reviewer and discusses recent
books about film. He uses particular books about movies and the film industry as the starting point for his own observations about films, actors, directors, writers, and other aspects of the industry.
ISBN 978-1-56663-759-6; LCCN 2007-38464

Smith, Thomas Ruys. River of dreams: imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 232p $38.00 (Southern literary studies)
The chapters in this volume describe the role of the Mississippi River in American culture and consciousness in the ante-bellum period, before Mark Twain had celebrated the Mississippi in his novels and other writings. The author also examines accounts of the Mississippi by European travelers, including Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
ISBN 978-0-9071-3233-3; LCCN 2006-32210

Spirit of the age: Victorian essays; edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Yale University Press, 2007. 327p $35.00
This is a collection of essays by British authors that were originally published in the Victorian era, reflecting the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of the time. Among the entries are W.M. Thackeray’s “The snobs of England, by one of themselves”; Charles Dickens’ “Demoralisation and total abstinence”; Matthew Arnold’s “Culture and its enemies”; and Oscar Wilde’s “The soul of man under socialism”.
ISBN 978-0-300-12330-2; LCCN 2007-925376

Theories of memory: a reader; edited by Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 310p $65.00; $29.95 (pa)
This book is a collection of primary sources on the subject of memory, extracted from the writings of authors from Plato to the present. The collection provides a historical and theoretical framework for the psychological, rhetorical, and cultural concepts of memory.
ISBN 978-0-8018-8728-4; 078-0-8018-8729-1 (pa); LCCN 2007-921656

Walt Whitman, where the future becomes present; edited by David Haven Blake and Michael Robertson. University of Iowa Press, 2008. 188 p. $39.95 (The Iowa Whitman series)
These essays discuss the enduring poetic legacy of Walt Whitman one hundred and fifty (plus) years after the publication of his monumental Leaves of grass. The title of the book refers to a statement Whitman made in the preface to Leaves of grass: “The greatest poet places himself where the future becomes present.”
ISBN 978-1-58729-638-3; LCCN 2007-936977