Asian diasporas: new formations, new conceptions; edited by Rhacel S. Parrenas and Lok C.D. Siu. Stanford University Press, 2007. 305p $65.00; $24.95 (pa)
The essays in this volume focus on the worldwide dispersal of Asian populations, with attention to the various social and economic communities that they have developed abroad, and the identity issues that have often prevented full assimilation in their new surroundings. Among the topics are The East Indians of Trinidad, the Japanese of Brazil, the Chinese of Latin America, and the Koreans of the United States.
LCCN 2007-26785; ISBN 978-0-8047-5243-5; 978-0-8047-5244-2 (pa)

Cave archaeology of the eastern woodlands: essays in honor of Patty Jo Watson; edited by David H. Dye. University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 278p $42.95
These essays explore the archaeological research being done in the caves of the eastern woodlands area of the United States, and investigate how the Indians of North America and their prehistoric ancestors used caves for the mining of valuable ores, for living purposes, and as repositories of art.
LCCN 2007-27437; ISBN 978-1-57233-608-7

Crash politics and antiracism: interrogations of liberal race discourse; edited by Philip S.S. Howard and George J. Sefa Dei. P. Lang, 2008. 221p $89.95; $32.95 (pa) (Counterpoints, v339)
Using the 2004 motion picture Crash as a starting point, each of these essays examines race relations as depicted in popular culture, and as experienced in contemporary society.
LCCN 2007-51149; ISBN 978-1-4331-0245-5; 978-1-4331-0246-2 (pa)

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (31st: 2007). Middle East garden traditions: unity and diversity: questions, methods and resources in a multicultural perspective; edited by Michel Conan. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007. 363p $40.00
The aesthetics of gardens and of landscape design in Middle Eastern countries are explored in these essays. Contemporary as well as historical topics are examined, including the Islamic garden culture of medieval al-Andalus (modern Andalusia, Spain).
LCCN 2007-9557; ISBN 978-0-8840-2329-6

The epicenter of crisis: the new Middle East; edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon. MIT Press, 2008. 363p $25.00 (A Washington quarterly reader)
The politics and governments of key states in the modern Middle East are examined in these essays by foreign policy specialists. Changing social conditions, ethnic conflict, civil war, the power of Islam, and the growth of terrorism are among the topics examined in regard to such nations as Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
LCCN 2007-39856; ISBN 978-0-262-62216-5

Finding Persephone: women’s rituals in the ancient Mediterranean; edited by Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou. Indiana University Press, 2007. 327p $65.00; $24.95 (pa) (Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture)
These essays investigate the ways in which the ritual practices and religious lives of women in Greek and Roman antiquity served to establish their social and civic identities. Among the topics are: the depiction of female religious ritual in ancient Greek drama; the worship of Demeter in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; and, the women’s secret rituals at the Themophoria and the Eleusinian mysteries.
LCCN 2007-13060; LSBN 978-0-253-34954-5; 978-0-253-21938-1 (pa)

Gordon, Stewart. When Asia was the world. Da Capo Press, 2008. 228p $26.00
The author focuses on eight medieval and early modern Asian travelers whose written accounts reveal the commercial, artistic, diplomatic and intellectual riches of the Middle and Far East.
LCCN 2007-35608; ISBN 978-0-306-81556-0

Ireland and transatlantic poetics: essays in honor of Denis Donoghue; edited by Brian G. Caraher and Robert Mahony. University of Delaware Press, 2007. 247p $54.50
These essays focus on modern Irish literature in the English language. Among the authors discussed are James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
LCCN 2007-1071; ISBN 978-0-87413-972-3

Jenkins, G. Matthew. Poetic obligation: ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945. University of Iowa Press, 2008. 263p $42.50
These essays explore the relationship between poetic creativity and ethics, focusing on works by American poets since the end of World War II. Among the authors discussed are George Oppen, Edward Dorn, and Lyn Hejinian.
LCCN 2007-907339; ISBN 978-1-58729-635-2

Leggott, Sarah. The workings of memory: life-writing by women in early twentieth-century Spain. Bucknell University Press, 2008. 176p $43.50
The author focuses on the use of memory in narrative (both fictional and autobiographical) by four modern Spanish women authors: Carmen Baroja, Maria Martinez Sierra, Maria Teresa Leon, and Concha Mendez.
LCCN 2007-25326; ISBN 978-0-8387-5682-9

Looking past the screen: case studies in American film history and method; edited by Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin. Duke University Press, 2007. 413p $89.95; $24.95 (pa)
These essays examine motion pictures as a cultural and social phenomenon extending far beyond the confines of the screen. The authors employ an interdisciplinary approach in their investigations of film stardom, regulation, reception, and production. Among the topics are: children’s matinees; film censorship; and the influence of urban photography and painting upon the realism of the 1948 film The naked city.
LCCN 2007-8325; ISBN 978-0-8223-3807-9; 978-0-8223-3821-5 (pa)

Material feminisms; edited by Stacy Alaimo & Susan Hekman. Indiana University Press, 2008. 434p $65.00; $24.95 (pa)
These essays by feminist thinkers examine the question of materiality in relation to race, sexual difference, human disability, and the interaction between nature and culture. The intersections of the human body, the natural world, and the material world are explored.
LCCN 2007-19295; ISBN 978-0-253-34978-1; 978-0-253-21946-6 (pa)

Mirror images: popular culture and education; edited by Diana Silberman Keller … [et al.]. P. Lang, 2008. 226p $99.95; $32.95 (pa) (Counterpoints, v338)
The authors of these essays discuss popular culture expressed through various media, including movies, television, advertising, digital games, popular songs, and the internet, and show how popular culture has played an educating and teaching role in modern society.
LCCN 2007-51151; ISBN 978-1-4331-0231-8; 978-1-4331-0230-1 (pa)

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. Juju fission: women’s alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between. P. Lang, 2007. 317p $38.95 (Society and politics in Africa, v18)
The author discusses novels by seven women writers from different parts of Africa, including Maru by Bessie Head (South Africa and Botswana), Woman at point zero by Nawal el Saadawi (Egypt), and A sister to Scheherezade by Assia Djebar (Algeria).
LCCN 2007-20740; ISBN 978-1-4331-0089-5

The panda’s black box: opening up the intelligent design controversy; edited by Nathaniel C. Comfort. 165p $20.00
The debate over intelligent design (the belief that certain features of the universe and of living beings are best explained by assigning an intelligent cause to them, rather than an undirected cause such as natural selection or evolution) is the focus of these essays. The essays discuss the intelligent design debate among scientists, theologians, educators, and lawmakers.
LCCN 2006-34764; ISBN 978-0-8018-8599-0

Postwestern cultures: literature, theory, space; edited by Susan Kollin. University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 267p $35.00; $19.95 (pa) (Postwestern horizons)
The American West is explored in essays by scholars in the fields of regional studies, global studies, popular culture, environmental criticism, gender and queer theory, and multiculturalism.
LCCN 2007-11384; ISBN 978-0-8032-1114-8; 978-0-8032-6044-3 (pa)

Public health & human rights: evidence-based approaches; edited by Chris Beyrer and H.F. Pizer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxxv, 470p $65.00; $29.95 (pa)
The relation between human rights violations and the state of public health around the world is the focus of these essays. Repressive laws, social discord, gender-based violence, human trafficking, and civil disturbances are explored to determine how the public health of a nation can be compromised by the violations of civil rights.
LCCN 2006-39837; ISBN 978-0-8018-8646-1; 978-0-8018-8647-8 (pa)

Radio cultures: the sound medium in American life; edited by Michael C. Keith. P. Lang, 2008. 351p $83.36; $32.95
The author examines the ways in which radio has influenced the nation’s social and cultural environment from its beginnings nearly a century ago. Among the topics are: radio as a force in developing the identity of linguistic minorities; the influence of Mexican border radio on American popular music; and, underground radio as a factor in counterculture movements.
LCCN 2007-43470; ISBN 978-0-8204-8865-3; 978-0-8204-8648-2 (pa)

Tsagalis, Christos. The oral palimpsest: exploring intertextuality in the Homeric epics; Christos C. Tsagalis. Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2008. xxvii, 325p $24.95 (Hellenic studies, v29)
The author demonstrates how the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer can only be understood in the context of a larger narrative tradition to which Homer frequently alludes, just as oral mythology can only be fully appreciated by the listener’s awareness of the aspects of myth that the teller has chosen to emphasize, ignore, or skew. The title refers to the ancient practice of erasing the text of a palimpsest and reusing it for a new writing, which would often leave the original writing still visible beneath the new text.
LCCN 2007-37296; ISBN 978-0-674-02687-2

The UN secretary-general and moral authority: ethics and religion in international leadership; Kent J. Kille, editor. Georgetown University Press, 2007. 370p $29.95
These essays discuss the role and responsibility of the Union Nations secretary general, and describe the careers and achievements of the first seven secretaries, from the election of Trygve Lie of Norway in 1946 to the resignation of Kofi Annan of Ghana in 2006.
LCCN 2007-11204; ISBN 978-1-58901-180-9

Victorian freaks: the social context of freakery in Britain; edited by Marlene Tromp. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 328p $49.95
The Victorian ideas of normalcy, stability, and harmony in the natural world were upset and challenged by the existence of individuals with physical abnormalities who were cruelly labeled “freaks” and who were often compelled to seek a living in traveling exhibitions known as “freak shows”. These essays focus on some of the more celebrated figures, such as Joseph Merrick the Elephant Man, Daniel Lambert the King of the Fat Men, Julia Pastrana the Bear Woman, and Laloo the Marvelous Indian Boy who lived with the limbs of an embedded parasitic twin protruding from his body.
LCCN 20070-45057; ISBN 978-0-8142-1086-4

Victorian prism: refractions of the Crystal Palace; edited by James Buzard, Joseph W. Childers, and Eileen Gillooly. University of Virginia Press, 2007. 327p $40.00
The Crystal Palace, which opened to the public in London’s Hyde Park as part of the Great Exhibition of 1851, was an immediate sensation and stood as a symbol of technological progress as well as of modernity. These essays discuss the role of the Crystal Palace in the art, politics, and national psyche of Victorian England, and the influence it had on subsequent building projects in Britain and elsewhere.
LCCN 2006-36265; ISBN 978-0-8139-2603-2

What’s happening to public higher education?: the shifting financial burden; edited by Ronald G. Ehrenberg. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xxii, 381p $24.95
American public higher education has entered a period of crisis, as the decline in funding for public colleges and universities has led to lower faculty salaries, increased student tuition, and a threat to the accessibility and quality of a college education. The authors of these essays examine the issues and propose solutions.
LCCN 2007-925427; ISBN 978-0-8018-8713-0

Women’s experimental cinema: critical frameworks; Robin Blaetz, editor. Duke University Press, 2007. 421p $94.95; $25.95 (pa)
These essays examine the work of fifteen avant-garde women filmmakers, some of whom began working in the 1950s and many of whom are still active today. Among the figures discussed are Maria Menken, Marjorie Keller, and Abigail Child.
LCCN 2007-9344; ISBN 978-0-8223-4023-2; 978-0-8223-4044-7 (pa)

Zadie Smith: critical essays; edited by Tracey L. Walters. P. Lang, 2008. 221p $34.95
These essays explore literary work of British novelist Zadie Smith, best known for her novels White teeth and On beauty. Issues of race relations, postcolonialism, and gender identity are among the topics.
LCCN 2006-100513; ISBN 978-0-8204-8806-6