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Anthropology

Disquieting Gifts
Humanitarianism in New Delhi
Erica Bornstein
Forthcoming: Available in April

Business

Effective Human Resource Management
A Global Analysis
Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau
Forthcoming: Paperback available in May

Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning
Concepts and Cases
Michael J. Marquardt and Roland K. Yeo
Forthcoming: Available in April

Grow to Greatness
Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Edward D. Hess
Forthcoming: Available in March

Serial Innovators
How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms
Abbie Griffin, Raymond L. Price, and Bruce A. Vojak
Forthcoming: Available in April

Economics

Breakdown in Pakistan
How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action
Masooda Bano
Forthcoming: Available in March

Peerless and Periled
The Paradox of American Leadership in The World Economic Order
Kati Suominen
Forthcoming: Available in May

The Political Economy of Environmental Justice

H. Spencer Banzhaf
Forthcoming: Available in May

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Online Appendix

Finance

Public No More
A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities
Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano
Forthcoming: Available in April

A Rising Tide
Financing Strategies for Women-Owned Firms
Susan Coleman and Alicia M. Robb
Forthcoming: Available in April

The Economics of Business Valuation
Towards a Value Functional Approach
Patrick L. Anderson
Forthcoming: Available in July

Fine Arts

The Beauty of the Real
What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses
Mick LaSalle
Forthcoming: Available in April

Straitjacket Sexualities
Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Forthcoming: Available in April

History

After Empire
The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
Peter Zarrow
Forthcoming: Available 3/28/2012

The Premise of Fidelity
Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Maki Fukuoka
Forthcoming: Available in June

Opera and the City
The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
Andrea S. Goldman
Forthcoming: Available in June

Theater of State
Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England
Chris R. Kyle
Forthcoming: Available in January

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Preliminary Table of Contents

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Transformative Beauty
Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Amy Woodson-Boulton
Forthcoming: Available in January

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The Idea of Galicia
History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
Larry Wolff
2010. Now in Paperback

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Table of Contents
Introduction

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Divided Memory
French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present
Olivier Wieviorka
Translated by George Holoch
Forthcoming: Available 3/28/2012

Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations
Serhiy Bilenky
Forthcoming: Available in April

Networks in Tropical Medicine
Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890–1930
Deborah J. Neill
Forthcoming: Available in January

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Totalitarianism and Political Religion
An Intellectual History
A. James Gregor
Forthcoming: Available in January

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The Revolt of the Whip

Joseph L. Love
Forthcoming: Available in April

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"We Are Now the True Spaniards"
Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824
Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
Forthcoming: Available in May

Making the Chinese Mexican
Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Grace Peña Delgado
Forthcoming: Available 2/29/2012

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Writing Mexican History

Eric Van Young
Forthcoming: Available in January

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The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822–1888

Ian Read
2012, Available Now

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In the Wake of War
Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America
Edited by Cynthia J. Arnson
Forthcoming: Available in May

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 3
Light and Shadows, 1910–1916
Edited by Candace Falk
Forthcoming: Available in May

Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Victoria Saker Woeste
Forthcoming: Available in May

Jewish Studies

Barricades and Banners
The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry
Scott Ury
Forthcoming: Available in May

Sephardism
Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination
Edited by Yael Halevi-Wise
Forthcoming: Available in March

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance
Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa
David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
2012, Available Now

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Table of Contents
Introduction

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The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010

Robert S. C. Gordon
Forthcoming: Available in June

Law

Felony Murder

Guyora Binder
Forthcoming: Available in April

Values in Translation
Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank
Galit A. Sarfaty
Forthcoming: Available in May

The Global Limits of Competition Law

Edited by Ioannis Lianos and D. Daniel Sokol
Forthcoming: Available in May

Philip Selznick
Ideals in the World
Martin Krygier
Forthcoming: Available in April

Imagining New Legalities
Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century
Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Forthcoming: Available 3/14/2012

Literary Criticism American & Canadian Literature

Hip Figures
A Literary History of the Democratic Party
Michael F. Szalay
Forthcoming: Available in May

Literary Studies

Reading Colonial Japan
Text, Context, and Critique
Edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee
Forthcoming: Available 3/28/2012

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After La Dolce Vita
A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy
Alessia Ricciardi
Forthcoming: Available in June

The Long and Short of It
From Aphorism to Novel
Gary Saul Morson
Forthcoming: Available in March

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Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime

Robert Zaller
2012, Available Now

The Semblance of Identity
Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature
Christopher Lee
Forthcoming: Available in March

Ends of Enlightenment

John Bender
Forthcoming: Available in June

Our Conrad
Constituting American Modernity
Peter Lancelot Mallios
2010

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Preface
Table of Contents

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Mimesis and Theory
Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005
René Girard, Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Doran
2008

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Table of Contents
Introduction

Aspiring to Home
South Asians in America
Bakirathi Mani
2012, Available Now

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Table of Contents
Excerpt from the Introduction

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Across Meridians
History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels
Jinqi Ling
Forthcoming: Available in March

Post-Postmodernism
or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism
Jeffrey T. Nealon
Forthcoming: Available in June

Middle East Studies

Silencing the Sea
Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry
Khaled Furani
Forthcoming: Available in July

The Lebanese Connection
Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic
Jonathan V. Marshall
Forthcoming: Available in April

Adaptable Autocrats
Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
Joshua Stacher
Forthcoming: Available in March

New Babylonians
A History of Jews in Modern Iraq
Orit Bashkin
Forthcoming: Available in June

Juridical Humanity
A Colonial History
Samera Esmeir
Forthcoming: Available in June

A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Nancy Y. Reynolds
Forthcoming: Available in June

Philosophy

The Future and Its Enemies
In Defense of Political Hope
Daniel Innerarity
Translated by Sandra Kingery
Forthcoming: Available in June

Arendt and Adorno
Political and Philosophical Investigations
Edited by Lars Rensmann and Samir Gandesha
Forthcoming: Available in May

Testing the Limit
Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the Phenomenological Tradition
François-David Sebbah
Translated by Stephen Barker
Forthcoming: Available in April

Policy

Market Menagerie
Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Smita Srinivas
Forthcoming: Available in March

Police Reform in Mexico
Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change
Daniel M. Sabet
Forthcoming: Available in April

Politics

Roots of the State
Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Benjamin L. Read
Forthcoming: Available in March

Social Forces and States
Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
Judith A. Teichman
Forthcoming: Available in May

Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico
The Other Half of the Centaur
Edited by Wil G. Pansters
Forthcoming: Available in April

The Not-So-Special Interests
Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance
Matt Grossmann
Forthcoming: Available in March

Religion

Contemplative Nation
A Philosophical Account of Jewish Theological Language
Cass Fisher
Forthcoming: Available in March

Race and Political Theology

Edited by Vincent W. Lloyd
Forthcoming: Available in March

Security Studies

Looking for Balance
China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia
Steve Chan
2012, Available Now

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Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons
Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge
Edited by Kristen P. Williams, Steven E. Lobell, and Neal G. Jesse
Forthcoming: Available 3/28/2012

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Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats

Edited by James J. Wirtz and Peter R. Lavoy
Forthcoming: Available in March

Sociology

East Asian National Identities
Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
Gilbert Rozman
Forthcoming: Available 3/7/2012

Life Behind the Lobby
Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream
Pawan Dhingra
Forthcoming: Available in March

The New Gilded Age
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time
Edited by David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz
Forthcoming: Available in April

Improving Learning Environments
School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Richard Arum and Melissa Velez
Forthcoming: Available in May

Race Decoded
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Catherine Bliss
Forthcoming: Available in April

The Politics of Trafficking
The First International Movement to Combat the Sexual Exploitation of Women
Stephanie A. Limoncelli
2010

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Varieties of Feminism
German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Myra Marx Ferree
Forthcoming: Available in January

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Race Migrations
Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race
Wendy D. Roth
Forthcoming: Available in May