The atomic bomb and American society: new perspectives; edited by Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler. University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 447p $42.00
These essays explore the ways in which the atomic bomb has shaped American society and U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the present. The changing public perceptions of the bomb as a military deterrent as reflected in mass media and entertainment are examined.
ISBN 978-1-5723-3648-3; LCCN 2008-34982

Cropper, Corry. Playing at monarchy: sport as metaphor in nineteenth-century France. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxiii, 247p $45.00
The author examines the ways in which sports and games that were formerly the domain of the nobility were transformed into bourgeois pursuits upon the rise of the middle classes in nineteenth-century France. Among the sports and games under discussion are tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, hunting, and the Olympics; literary authors examined include Balzac, Merimee, and Flaubert.
ISBN 978-0-8032-1773-7; LCCN 2008-24056

Derrida and the time of the political; edited by Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac. Duke University Press, 2009. 343p $89.95; $24.95 (pa)
These essays examine the political and ethical writings of philosopher Jacques Derrida. Among the topics are: the meaning and scope of democracy; the relationship between the ethical and the political; and, the future of nationalism in an age of globalism and declining state sovereignty.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4350-9; 978-0-8223-4372-1; LCCN 2008-40670

Design & historic preservation : the challenge of compatibility: held at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, March 14-16, 2002; edited by David Ames & Richard Wagner. University of Delaware Press, 2009. xxvii, 197p $44.50
The essays in this collection of papers address the important issue of “compatibility’ in the designing of additions to historic buildings, and in the construction of new infill buildings in historic districts and landscapes. The tension between tradition and innovation in the maintenance of historical venues is explored.
ISBN 978-0-8741-3831-3; LCCN 2008-33527

Dowling, David. Capital letters: authorship in the antebellum literary market. University of Iowa Press, 2009. 217p $39.95
This work examines the rise of capitalism in America in the decades before the Civil War and the emergence of literary authorship as a commercial profession. Among the authors described in terms of contrasting pairs are: Harriet Wilson and Henry David Thoreau; Fanny Fern and Walt Whitman; and, Rebecca Harding David and Herman Melville.
ISBN 978-1-5872-9784-7; LCCN 2008-41458

Facos, Michelle. Symbolist art in context. University of California Press, 2009. 264p $65.00; $29.95
The symbolist art movement of the late nineteenth century served as a link between the better-known movements of impressionism and modernism. The author traces the roots of symbolism in romantic art, and explores symbolist art’s emphasis on ideas and its influence on subsequent art movements.
ISBN 978-0-5202-5499-2; 978-0-5202-5582-1 (pa); LCCN 2008-34395

Figueroa, Victor. Not at home in one’s home: Caribbean self-fashioning in the poetry of Luis Pales Matos, Aime Cesaire, and Derek Walcott. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 239p $51.50
This work examines issues of racism, colonialism, and political engagement as reflected in the major poetic works of three Caribbean authors: Tuntun de pasa y grifera by Luis Pales Matos, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aime Cesaire, and Omeros by Derek Walcott.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4177-4; LCCN 2008-33460

Functions in biological and artificial worlds: comparative philosophical perspectives; edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes. MIT Press, 2009. 302p $50.00
Both biological organisms and technical artifacts are commonly described and understood in terms of their functionality: i.e., how they are structured and how they perform as machines having design and purpose. These essays explore the parallels between natural and artificial functionality and strive to define the concepts of functionality that are appropriate to each.
ISBN 978-0-2621-1321-2; LCCN 2008-31061

Gilmore, Paul. Aesthetic materialism: electricity and American romanticism. Stanford University Press, 2009. 242p $60.00
This work focuses on the attempts of American writers of the romantic period to incorporate the science and technology of electricity into their aesthetic response to the modern world. Images of electricity and telegraphy in the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass are explored.
ISBN 978-0-8047-6123-9; LCCN 2008-31223

Globalisation and Euopeanisation in education; edited by Roger Dale & Susan Robertson. Symposium Books, 2009. 264p $56.00
This collection of essays focuses on the relationships between globalization, Europeanization, and education. Among the topics are: competitiveness and higher education; the politics of public-private partnerships in education in Europe; and, language policies in European education.
ISBN 978-1-873927-90-8

Hutchinson, Elizabeth. The Indian craze: primitivism, modernism, and transculturation in American art, 1890-1915. Duke University Press, 2009. 277p $89.95; $24.95 (pa)
The author demonstrates how the popularity of Native American wares in American commerce in the early 20th century promoted an interest in Native American material culture that was much more widespread than previously thought. These chapters show how the broad acceptance of native wares during the “Indian craze” helped legitimize the Native American peoples’ cultures in political and sociological thought.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4390-5; 978-0-8223-4408-7 (pa); LCCN 2008-48037

Imagining selves: essays in honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks; edited by Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach. University of Delaware Press, 2008. 325p $64.50
This collection of essays deals primarily with issues of eighteenth century English literature. Among the topics are: realism in the children’s tales of Maria Edgeworth; censorship of Restoration comedies on the eighteenth century stage; and, the posthumous publication history of Alexander Pope’s Essay on man.
ISBN 978-0-8741-3012-6; LCCN 2008-19286

The Indonesia reader: history, culture, politics; edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo. Duke University Press, 2009. 477p $94.95; $25.95 (pa)
This collection of articles and essays on the nation of Indonesia surveys historical, political, social, and cultural aspects of the land. Among the topics are: status and power in classical Bali; pirates on the Java Sea; and, the multiplicity of languages in Indonesia.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4403-2; 978-0-8223-4424-7 (pa); LCCN 2008-41803

Krupp, Anthony. Reason’s children: childhood in early modern philosophy. Bucknell University Press, 2009. 261p $56.50
The author attempts define what the early modern philosophers thought about children and childhood, a difficult task in view of the fact that most of these philosophers wrote only indirectly of children in their works. Among the authors examined are Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and Bayle.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5721-5; LCCN 2008-21403

Leigh, David J. Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction. University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. 256p $28.00
This work examines the influence of apocalyptic thought and literature (in particular, the influence of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation) on twentieth-century fiction. Among the authors examined are Walker Percy, C.S, Lewis, Doris Lessing, and Thomas Pynchon.
ISBN 978-0-2680-3380-4; LCCN 2008-26867

The mangle in practice: science, society, and becoming; Andrew Pickering and Keith Guzik, editors. Duke University Press, 2008. 306p $84.95; $29.95 (pa)
Science sociologist Andrew Pickering conceptualizes research practice as a "mangle," an open-ended interplay of human and non-human agency that has its origin in science and technology studies. This collection of essays by various authors explores the application of Pickering's mangle across a wide range of fields including history, philosophy, sociology, geography, environmental studies, literary theory, biophysics, and software engineering
ISBN 978-0-8223-4351-6; 978-0-8223-4373-8 (pa); LCCN 2008-28482

McGurl, Mark. The program era: postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing. Harvard University Press, 2009. 466p $35.00
The author examines how the shape of postwar American fiction has been directly influenced by the rise of mass higher education and the university creative writing program. Among the authors examined are Flannery O’Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, and Toni Morrison.
ISBN 978-0-6740-3319-1; LCCN 2008-50588

Radchenko, Sergey. Two suns in the heavens: the Sino-Soviet struggle for supremacy. Woodrow Wilson Center, 2009. 315p $65.00 (Cold war international history project series)
The author examines the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China in the 1960s, tracing the steps by which the two great communist superpowers changed from powerful allies into competitive, hostile neighbors.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5879-6; LCCN 2008-42486

Securing privacy in the Internet age; edited by Anupam Chander, Lauren Gelman, and Margaret Jane Radin. Stanford Law Books, 2008. 376p $39.95
The issues of privacy and security in the modern computerized world are explored in these essays. Among the topics are: identity theft; criminal liability and data privacy; and, the case for national identification cards.
ISBN 978-0-8047-5918-2; LCCN 2008-12382

Southern masculinity: perspectives on manhood in the South since Reconstruction; edited by Craig Thompson Friend. University of Georgia Press, 2009. 270p $59.95; $24.95 (pa)
The essays in this volume explore the concept of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Among the topics are: ritual and performance in southern lynchings; socialism and masculinity in the new South; and, the ruin of white southern manhood in William Faulkner’s The sound and the fury.
ISBN 978-0-8203-2950-5; 978-0-8203-3232-1 (pa); LCCN 2008-24054

Swift as priest and satirist; edited by Todd C. Parker. University of Delaware Press, 2009. 231p $51.50
These essays explore the religious beliefs and activities of Jonathan Swift, with reference to the views on religion expressed in his creative work. Among the topics are: Swift’s idea of Christian community; Swift’s opinion of his own sermons; and, religious issues in Swift’s A tale of a tub.
ISBN 978-0-8741-3044-7; LCCN 2008-28719

Tennessee women: their lives and times. Vol. 1; edited by Sarah Wiljkerson Freeman and Beverly Greene Bond; associate editor, Laura Helper-Ferris. University of Georgia Press, 2009. 457p $69.95; $24.95 (pa)
This volume contains eighteen biographical essays of Tennessee women, past and present. Among the figures represented are: abolitionist Fanny Wright; runner Wilma Rudolph; and, entertainer Minnie Pearl.
ISBN 978-0-8203-2948-2; 078-0-8203-2949-9 (pa); LCCN 2008-36509

Transcendental transcendence: essays on religion and globalization; edited by Thomas J. Csordas. University of California Press, 2009. 338p $60.00; $24.95
The role of religion in globalization is the focus of these essays. Among the topics are: the state of Christianity in the Sudan; the expansion of Brazil’s Santo Daime cult into Europe; and, Catholic charismatic renewal.
ISBN 978-0-5202-5741-2; 978-0-520-25742-9 (pa); LCCN 2008-20952

Van Order, M. Thomas. Listening to Fellini: music and meaning in black and white; M. Thomas Van Order. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 275p $57.00
These essays examine the role of music as an essential element in the black and white feature films of the Italian film director Federico Fellini. Among the films discussed are La strada, la dolce vita, and 8 ½. Much of the analysis focuses on the work of composer Nino Rota, who created the original scores.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4175-0; LCCN 2008-22584

Windows to the sun: D.H. Lawrence’s "thought-adventures"; edited by Earl Ingersoll and Virginia Hyde. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 249p $52.50
The essays in this volume explore the psychological and philosophical aspects of the work of author D.H. Lawrence. Among the novels examined are Women in love, Kangaroo, and Aaron’s rod.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4197-2; LCCN 2008-29480