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“The most important collection of books on western and American Indian history.” —Atlantic Monthly

“Black Elk Speaks  is an extraordinarily human document—and

beyond that the record of a profoundly spiritual journey, the

pilgrimage of a people toward their historical fulfillment

and culmination, toward the accomplishment of a worthy

destiny.”—N. Scott Momaday

“An American classic.”—Western Historical Quarterly

“If any great religious classic has emerged in [the twentieth]

century or on this continent, it must certainly be judged in the

company of Black Elk Speaks.”—From Vine Deloria Jr.’s foreword

BIOGRAPHY / NATIVE STUDIES / WESTERN HISTORY / RELIGION

A spiritual, historical, and literary classic

march 424 PAGES, 6 x 9, 31 cOLOR DRAWINGS, 9 PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 mAPS, APPENDIxES$19.95 PAPERBAck 978-0-8032-8391-6$22.95 canadian / £13.99 UkEBOOk AVAILABLE 978-0-8032-8392-3

Black Elk SpeaksThe Complete Edition

John G. neihardt

Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poi-gnant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, or an en-during spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.

Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Da-kota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Nei-hardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind.

This complete edition features a new introduction by es-teemed scholar Philip J. Deloria and annotations of Black Elk’s story by renowned Lakota scholar Raymond J. DeMallie. Three essays by John G. Neihardt provide background on his land-mark work along with essays by Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond J. DeMallie, Alexis Petri, and Lori Utecht. Maps, the original il-lustrations by Standing Bear, and a set of appendixes rounds out the edition.

John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) is the author of several classics, including A Cycle of the West and Eagle Voice Remembers, both available in Bison Books editions. He was named Nebraska’s first poet laureate and foremost poet of the nation by the Na-tional Poetry Center in 1936.

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also of interest by John g. neihardt

a CyCle OF the WestThe Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah$27.95 paperback 978-0-8032-8378-7

eagle vOiCe rememBersAn Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World$18.95 paperback 978-0-8032-3628-8

(top) Enid Neihardt, Nicholas Black Elk, Ben Black Elk,

Standing Bear, and John G. Neihardt.

(bottom) Black Elk and Neihardt at the Sioux Victory

celebration at Pine Ridge in September 1945.

Photographs are reproduced by permission of the

Neihardt Trust

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“But if the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.”—Black Elk

MeMoir / horses / natural history

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The Horse LoverA Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangsh. alan dayWith lynn wiese sneyd

Foreword by sandra day o’Connor

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He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportu-nity then dropped into his lap to establish a sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses previously warehoused by the Bu-reau of Land Management. After Day successfully lobbied Congress, those acres became Mustang Meadows Ranch, the fi rst government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary estab-lished in the United States. The Horse Lover is Day’s personal history of the sanctu-ary’s vast enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Day’s deep connection with the animals in his care is clear from the out-set, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, with which he trained fi fteen hundred wild horses. The Horse Lover weaves together Day’s recollections of his cowboy-ing adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, persever-ance, and hope. This heartfelt memoir reveals the Herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of wild horses.

Alan Day formerly owned the Mustang Meadows Ranch near St. Francis, South Dakota; Rex Ranch near Whitman, Ne-braska; and the Lazy B Ranch in southern Arizona. With his sister, Sandra Day O’Connor, he coauthored Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. He lives in Arizona. Lynn Wiese Sneyd is a published author and owner of LWS Literary Services. Sandra Day O’Connor served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 to 2005.

“It is impossible to see a herd of wild horses

running free without feeling a surge of

excitement and enthusiasm for their vigor,

power, and beauty. To watch them run with

their manes and tails fl ying in the wind is to

experience a sense of the ultimate freedom of

motion.”—Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S.

Supreme Court Justice

“A great American story, an inspiring tale of

vision, courage, and hard-won wisdom. It’s told

with humor and grace and without pretension.

And every reader is sure to fi nd a horse to fall

in love with in these pages.”—Larry Watson,

author of Montana 1948

“A defi nite read for all those who love

horses. Day and Sneyd’s book is sure to

become an instant wild-horse classic in

the spirit of J. Frank Dobie.”—J. Edward de

Steiguer, author of Wild Horses of the West

“The Horse Lover is a very good illustration

of the real western part our nation. Day, a

successful rancher and businessman, is honest

and forthright in dealings with neighbors,

employees, business associates, and especially

the federal government. I recommend this

reading.”—Dennis DeConcini, former U.S.

senator from Arizona

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the mustangsJ. Frank Dobie $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6650-6 Sales in United States, dependencies, and Canada only

nOBODy’s hOrsesThe Dramatic Rescue of the Wild Herd of White SandsDon Höglund$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1873-4 Sales in United States and Canada only

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MeMoir / Jewish studies / woMen’s studies / PoPular Culture

The Pat Boone Fan ClubMy Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

Sue William Silverman

Gentile readers, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue Wil-liam Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her ex-ploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us, or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman’s own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn’t easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet some-how Silverman found her way, a “gefilte fish swimming up-stream,” and found her voice, which in this searching, brac-ing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what? Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for- television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with something to say to those of us, most of us, still wondering what to make of ourselves.

Sue William Silverman’s memoir, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, is also a Lifetime televi-sion movie. Her memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, won the Association of Writers and Writ-ing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir, teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is a professional speaker (suewilliamsilverman.com).

“Silverman’s language is, by turns, blunt, wrenching, sophisticated, lyrical, tender, hilarious. She writes with wicked dark humor, splendid intelligence, wry wit, and honest confrontation. There’s no other book quite like it.”—Lee Martin, author of From Our House and Such a Life

“Reading The Pat Boone Fan Club feels like sitting down for coffee with a long-lost friend. Silverman reveals the heights that skillful and innovative memoir can achieve.”—Hope Edel-man, author of Motherless Daughters

“Filled with warmhearted humor and profound compassion, this tour de force exploration of the search for identity is a joy to behold.”—Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told Me

Growing up Jewish in a sea of Christians

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american liveS SerieSTobias Wolff, series editor

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this is nOt the ivy leagueA MemoirMary Clearman Blew$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4520-4

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environMental studies / sustainability / MeMoir

The last yurt on the left

Sustainable CompromisesA Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living

alan boye

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Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye fi rst lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattle-snakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-fi ve years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off -the-grid, energy-effi cient, straw bale house in Vermont.

Sustainable Compromises chronicles these two re-markable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras. Writing with hard-won authority and humor, Boye takes up the “how-to” practicalities of

“building green,” from fi nances to nuts and bolts to strains on friends and family. With Walden as a histori-cal and philosophical touchstone and his own experi-ence as a practical guide, he also explores the ethical and environmental concerns that have framed such un-dertakings from Thoreau’s day to our own. A fi rsthand account of the pleasures and pitfalls of living simply, his book is a deeply informed and engaging refl ection on what sustainability really means—in personal, com-munal, ethical, and environmental terms.

Alan Boye is a professor of English at Lyndon State Col-lege in Vermont. His most recent book is Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an Ameri-can Desert (Nebraska, 2006).

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green illusiOnsThe Dirty Secrets of Clean Ener� and the Future of EnvironmentalismOzzie Zehner$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3775-9

traveling the POWer lineFrom the Mojave Desert to the Bay of FundyJulianne Couch$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4506-8

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“Not only is this book beautifully written, with wisdom

and humor, it also off ers a practical guide for ‘sustainable’

home builders of any age. Boye writes with an impressive

intelligence, immediately drawing readers in not only to

the story but to the mind and heart of the author.”—Reeve

Lindbergh, author of Under a Wing: A Memoir

“Alan Boye’s humor and generosity run through this book,

as does his gentle compassion for the people and places

he loves.”—Miriam Karmel, author of Being Esther

Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland mil-itary reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capa-bilities.

In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, envi-ronmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II—as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. En-vironmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dic-tate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of com-peting geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the cold war but also by regional history, culture, and tra-ditions.

Ryan H. Edgington is a visiting assistant professor of history

at Macalester College. His articles have appeared in Western Historical Quarterly, Agricultural History, and in edited vol-umes.

“[Range Wars] will be highly significant to the fields of western history, environmental history, military history, and political and economic history. It will have far-reaching influence on similar studies under way in other regions of the country.”—Durwood Ball, editor of New Mexico Historical Review and author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier

“Edgington has written a very smart, compelling, and provocative book.”—Char Miller, author of Seeking the

Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot

environMental studies / aMeriCan history

Battle for White Sands

Range WarsThe Environmental Contest for

White Sands Missile Range

ryan h. edgington

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On the hOme FrOntThe Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third EditionMichele Stenehjem Gerber$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5995-9

Dirty WarsLandscape, Power, and Waste in Western American LiteratureJohn Beck$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-2631-9u

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histOry OF neBraska (thirD eDitiOn)James C. Olson and Ronald C. Naugle$34.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-8605-4

neBraskaAn Illustrated History, Second EditionFrederick C. Luebke$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8042-7

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in history. A shortage of steel, how-ever, quickly slowed the program’s momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal. Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, had the solution. Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942—a campaign that swept the nation and yielded fi ve million tons of scrap metal, literally salvaging the war eff ort itself. James J. Kimble chronicles Doorly’s conception of a fi erce competition pitting county against county, business against business, and, in schools across the state, class against class—inspiring Nebraskans to gather 67,000 tons of scrap in only three weeks. This astounding feat provided the template for a national drive. A tale of plowshares turned into arms, Prairie Forge gives the fi rst full account of how home became home front for so many civilians. James J. Kimble is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Arts at Seton Hall University. He is the coproducer of Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II, a feature documentary on the 1942 scrap drives.

nebraska / Culture studies / world war i i

Nebraska spurs the war effort on the home front

Prairie ForgeThe Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive

of World War II

JameS J. kimble

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“For anyone interested in the home front and the American production miracle this . . . is must reading.”—William L. O’Neill, professor emeritus of history, Rutgers University, and author of A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II

“An excellent home-front story about Nebraska and World War II.”—R. Douglas Hurt, head of the Department of History at Pur-due University and author of The Great Plains during World War II

“Kimble’s enticing narrative takes us back to a largely forgotten aspect of wartime America.”—David L. Bristow, editor of Nebraska History

In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their win-ter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia, the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County, the Con-federacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County. For the next five months the opposing soldiers eyed each other warily across the Rapidan River. In Music Along the Rapidan, James A. Davis examines the role of music in defining the social communities that emerged during this winter encampment. Music was an es-sential part of each soldier’s personal identity and Davis con-siders how music became a means of controlling the acous-tic and social cacophony of war that surrounded them. Music also became a touchstone for colliding communi-ties during the encampment—the communities of enlisted men and officers or Northerners and Southerners on the one hand, and the shared communities occupied by both soldier and civilian on the other—enabling them to define their relationships and their environment, emotionally, socially, and audibly.

James A. Davis is a professor of musicology at the School of Music at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is the author of Bully for the Band!: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band and his articles have been published in numerous journals including Journal of Military History, American Music, and Nineteenth Century Studies.

military History / civil War / music

Sounds from the Civil War

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Music Along the RapidanCivil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter

Quarters, Virginia

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where it meets music and national life.”—Randal Allred,

professor of English at Brigham Young University–Hawaii

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mOre Damning than slaughterDesertion in the Confederate ArmyMark A. Weitz$24.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-2080-5

PathWay tO hellA Tragedy of the American Civil WarDennis W. Brandt$18.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2824-5

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This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battle-fields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and precise directions for armchair traveler and battlefield visitor alike. The July 1861 Battle of First Manassas and the August 1862 Battle of Second Manassas unequivocally influenced the course and outcome of the Civil War. The first battle dealt a decisive blow to hopes that the inexperienced armies of the North and the South could bring about a quick military resolution of the secession crisis. The second battle was the climactic engagement of a spectacular campaign that carried the war to the outskirts of Washington DC and marked the coming of age of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Manassas: A Battlefield Guide presents readers with a clear, convenient guide to the sites in northern and central Virginia that shaped the course and outcome of these campaigns. Lu-cid, concise narratives give readers a better understanding of the events that took place on these battlefields and of the ter-rain, personalities, and decisions that shaped them.

Ethan S. Rafuse is a professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and has led staff rides and tours of historic battlefields for many military and civil-ian groups. He is also the author of several books, including Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide (Nebraska, 2008) and McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union.

“This guidebook explores the campaigns of Manassas like no

other. It will take you to obscure places long forgotten and

accord them significance; it takes the familiar and illuminates

them in ways not done before. Well written and dashed with

analytical twists both thoughtful and helpful, Dr. Rafuse’s work

is by far the best of its kind.”—John Hennessy, author of Return

to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

also of interest

antietam, sOuth mOuntain, anD harPers FerryA Battlefield GuideEthan S. Rafuse$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3970-8

A companion to your Civil War tourMilitary history / Civil war

ManassasA Battlefield Guide

ethan S. rafuSe

may232 PP. • 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ • 47 MaPs, 2 aPPendixes$21.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-3643-1 $25.50 canadian / £17.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5426-8

this hallowed ground: guides to Civil war battlefields seriesBrooks D. Simpson, Mark Grimsley, and Steven E. Woodworth, series editors

WilsOn’s Creek, Pea riDge, anD Prairie grOveA Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire RoadEarl J. Hess, Richard W. Hatcher III, William Garrett Piston, and William L. Shea$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7366-5 u

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reCOlleCtiOns OF aBraham linCOln, 1847–1865Ward H. Lamon Edited by Dorothy Lamon Teill$21.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-7950-6

The words of Abraham Lincoln have been immortalized in speeches and enshrined in policies and practices, and none of those words, spoken or written, has gone un-noticed or wanted for a response. It is this broader con-text—the wider conversation about Lincoln’s words—that this book discusses. The fi nal project of James A. Rawley, a preeminent historian of the Civil War era, A Lincoln Dialogue cross-examines Lincoln’s major state-ments, papers, and initiatives in light of the comments and criticism of his supporters and detractors. Drawn from letters and newspapers, pamphlets and reports, these statements and responses constitute a unique documentary examination of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. Rawley’s careful selection and his judicious interweaving of historical analysis and background in-vite us into the dialogue and allow us to hear the voices of American history in the making.

James A. Rawley (1916–2005) was the Carol Adolph Hap-pold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His many books include The Transat-lantic Slave Trade: A History, revised edition (Nebraska, 2009), and Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For (Nebraska, 2003). William G. Thomas is the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and a professor of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of several books, including The Iron Way: Rail-roads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America.

“There is no [other] work that provides the extensive and

complete documents selected for this book. Rawley’s

unique approach will make a signifi cant contribution to the

existing literature.”—Charles M. Hubbard, executive direc-

tor of the Abraham Lincoln Institute for the Study of Lead-

ership and Public Policy at Lincoln Memorial University

“No other work juxtaposes Lincoln’s writing and speeches

with contemporary commentaries and criticisms of him.

Rawley’s careful selection of these documents and his

judicious interweaving of his historical analysis and

background come together to create a powerful dialogue

with the reader as well.”—From the foreword by William

G. Thomas

Conversations with a presidentaMeriCan history / Civil war / l iterary ColleCtions

A Lincoln DialogueJameS a. raWley

Edited and with a foreword by

williaM g. thoMas

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On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Han-nah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn’s

“peaceable kingdom” preserved. A Lenape among the Quakers reconstructs Hannah Free-man’s history, traveling from the days of her grandmothers before European settlement to the beginning of the nine-teenth century. The story that emerges is one of persistence and resilience, as “Indian Hannah” negotiates life with the Quaker neighbors who employ her, entrust their children to her, seek out her healing skills, and, when she is weakened by sickness and age, care for her. And yet these are the same neighbors whose families have dispossessed hers. Fascinat-ing in its own right, Hannah Freeman’s life is also remarkable for its unique view of a Native American woman in a colo-nial community during a time of dramatic transformation and upheaval. In particular it expands our understanding of colonial history and the Native experience that history often renders silent.

Dawn G. Marsh is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University. Her articles have appeared in Ethnohistory, Ohio History, and edited books.

“With great insight and sensitivity, Dawn Marsh has pieced

together Hannah Freeman’s story. All who have ever wondered

what happened to Pennsylvania’s Native people should read

this book.”—Nancy Shoemaker, author of A Strange Likeness:

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the Blue tattOOThe Life of Olive OatmanMargot Mifflin$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3517-5

searChing FOr tamsen DOnnerGabrielle Burton$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3638-7

native studies / biograPhy / aMeriCan history / woMen’s studies

Challenging William Penn’s “peaceable kingdom”

A Lenape among the QuakersThe Life of Hannah Freeman

daWn g. marSh

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After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a rocket, landed like a glider, and carried out compli-cated missions in between. Bold They Rise tells the story of the Space Shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who made it happen—in space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic accomplishments of the program to the tragic last minutes of the Chal-lenger disaster. In the participants’ own voices, we learn what so few are privy to: what it was like to cre-ate a new form of spacecraft, to risk one’s life test-ing that craft, to float freely in the vacuum of space as a one-man satellite, to witness a friend’s death. A

“guided tour” of the Shuttle—in historical, scientific, and personal terms—this book provides a fascinat-ing, richly informed, and deeply personal view of a feat without parallel in the human story.

David Hitt is the coauthor of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Nebraska, 2008). Heather R. Smith has worked as an education writer for NASA. Bob Crippen is a NASA astronaut who piloted the first Space Shuttle flight.

“Read this book to experience the Space Shuttle as it matured. Smith and Hitt tap sources that made this aerospace wonder’s early history. You’ll feel the needs and wants of those involved; the joys and sadness that came with conceiving, building, and flying this vehicle. It’s a trip—I know.”—Charles D. Walker, engineer, corporate executive, first commercial industry astronaut, sts-41d, sts-51d, sts-61b

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Wheels stOPThe Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011Rick Houston$36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3534-2

sPaCeflight / aMeriCan history

Launching the Space Shuttle

Bold They RiseThe Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972–1986

david hitt and heather r. Smith

Foreword by bob CriPPen

June368 PP. • 6 x 9 • 30 PhotograPhs, 3 illustrations$36.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-2648-7 $42.50 canadian / £25.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5548-7

outward odyssey: a PeoPle’s history of sPaCeflight seriesColin Burgess, series editor

the x-15 rOCket PlaneFlying the First Wings into SpaceMichelle Evans$36.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-2840-5

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Why saCagaWea Deserves the Day OFF anD Other lessOns FrOm the leWis anD Clark trailStephenie Ambrose Tubbs$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1585-6

the natiOnal museum OF the ameriCan inDianCritical ConversationsEdited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb$29.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-1111-7

For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider’s tour of some of the most interest-ing moments in American history. Grove’s stories are populated with well-known historical fi gures such as John Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea—as well as the not-so-famous. Have you heard of Mary Pickersgill, seam-stress of the Star-Spangled Banner fl ag? Grove also has something to say about a few of our cherished myths, for instance, the lore surrounding Betsy Ross and Eli Whitney. Grove takes readers to historic sites such as Harp-ers Ferry, Fort McHenry, the Ulm Pishkun buff alo jump, and the Lemhi Pass on the Lewis and Clark Trail, and traverses time and space from eighteenth-century Williamsburg to the twenty-fi rst-century Kennedy Space Center. En route from Cape Canav-eral on the Atlantic to Cape Disappointment on the Pacifi c, we learn about planting a cotton patch on the National Mall, riding a high wheel bicycle, fl ying the transcontinental airmail route, and harnessing a mule. Is history relevant? This book answers with a resounding yes and, in the most entertaining fashion, shows us why.

Tim Grove is chief of museum learning at the Nation-al Air and Space Museum. He is the coauthor of The Museum Educator’s Manual and received the 2008 Smithsonian Individual Achievement in Education Award.

“Tim Grove has combined a thought-provoking and entertaining memoir with an insider’s guide to behind-the-scenes history.”—Libby H. O’Connell, chief historian, History Channel

“I guarantee that whether you are a history buff , a history scholar, or an ‘I hate history’ Scrooge, you will love this book.”—Robert K. Sutton, chief historian, National Park Service

aMeriCan history / MeMoir

Curious stories from America’s museums

A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American Historytim grove

may220 PP. • 6 x 9 • 17 illustrations$18.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4972-1 $21.95 canadian / £13.99 ukebook available • 978-0-8032-5404-6

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For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly map-ping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter’s poetry is endlessly new. Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool. Here, too, are thirty new poems in fixed form that illustrate Carter’s continued quest for a poetry of “universal interest.” Taken together, these selections are, truly, poetry in the American grain. Jared Carter lives in Indiana. He has received the Walt Whit-man Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Poets’ Prize, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Me-morial Foundation, and two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Previous praise for Jared Carter’s poetry

“Carter’s is a poetry of a resolute middle distance, firmly of this world: between the dust under the earth and the dust of space there exists the place that the poem can illumine.”—Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books

“[Carter] writes American poetry the way that William Faulkner wrote American novels. . . . [Carter’s poems] have the homespun flavor of our native music—ballads, country blues, and sweet, clear, understated lyrics.”—Sally A. Lodge, Publishers Weekly

“[Jared Carter] is the rare poet who is rooted in a certain place, which is of course Indiana, yet [he] deals with it in such a way that it is of universal interest.”—Dana Gioia, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

also of interest

the BlizzarD vOiCesTed Kooser $11.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-5963-8

valentinesTed Kooser$14.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-1770-6

Announcing a new series:

ted kooser ConteMPorary Poetry

Hand selected by Ted Kooser, poet laureate

of the United States 2004–2006, the books in

this series will feature the work of poets

worthy of additional attention.

Poetry

Poetry of America’s heartland

Darkened Rooms of SummerNew and Selected Poems

Jared carter

Introduction by ted kooser

march176 PP. • 6 x 9 $18.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4857-1 $21.95 Canadian / £13.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5349-0

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tell me a riDDle, reQua i, anD Other WOrksTillie Olsen$17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4577-8 Sales in United States and its dependencies and ter-ritories, Canada, and Mexico

A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fi ll these haunting tales. Pulp-fi ction grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of clas-sic folklore, these stories take place in a world of shadowy fi gures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinfl ints, by men and women mercilessly un-forgiving of one another’s trespasses, and in nights prowled by wolves and scrutinized by an “agonized and lamenting” moon. Ervin D. Krause’s characters pontifi cate in saloons, condemning the morals of others as they slowly get sloshed; they have aff airs in old cars on winter nights; they traffi c in gossip, terrorize their neighbors, steal, hunt, and spy. This collection includes award-winning stories like “The Snake” and “The Quick and the Dead” as well as the previ-ously unpublished “Anniversary,” which stirred a national controversy when it was censored by the University of Nebraska and barred from appearing in Prairie Schooner. Krause’s portrayal of the matter-of-fact cruelty and hope-ful fragility of humanity is a critical addition to the canon of twentieth-century American literature. Nebraska-born Ervin D. Krause’s (1931–70) stories have ap-peared in literary magazines and two O. Henry Prize Stories an-thologies. Timothy Schaff ert’s books include The Swan Gondola.

“This is a remarkable piece of literature. These stories astounded me. I am fl abbergasted that they have never been collected and published previously, and that until now I had never read the name ‘Ervin Krause.’”—Owen King, author of We’re All In This Together and Double Feature

fiCtion / short stories / nebraska

The dark brilliance of Ervin D. Krause

You Will Never See Any GodStories

ervin d. krauSe

Edited and with an introduction

by tiMothy sChaffert

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seleCteD shOrt stOries OF WelDOn keesWeldon Kees Edited and with an introduction by Dana Gioia$15.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7806-6

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Wise LatinasWriters on Higher Education

Edited and with an introduction by

Jennifer de leon

march240 PP. • 5 ½ x 8 ½$25.00s PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4593-8 $28.95 canadian / £17.99 uk

also of interest

islanD OF BOnesEssaysJoy Castro$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7142-5

DesCansO FOr my FatherFragments of a LifeHarrison Candelaria Fletcher$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3839-8

latino/latina studies / woMen’s studies / eduCation / MeMoir

The experience of Latinas in higher education

College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are tradi-tionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay “Only Daughter,” author Sandra Cisneros remarks, “After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes his head even now and says I wasted all that education.”

Wise Latinas is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher edu-cation. For some Latinas, college, where they are vastly un-derrepresented, is the first time they are immersed in Ameri-can culture outside their homes—and where the values of two cultures often clash. Wise Latinas is in part a response to this widening gap.

Featuring acclaimed writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Nor-ma Cantú, and Julia Alvarez, to name a few, Wise Latinas shows that there is no one Latina college experience. With thoughtful and engaging pieces, Wise Latinas provides a plat-form for Latina writers to share their experiences in higher education and gives a voice to the many Latina women who have taken risks, embraced the new, confronted change, and maintained (and in some cases found) their roots.

Jennifer De Leon is a teacher in the Boston Public Schools district and an instructor at the Grub Street Creative Writ-ing Center. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Fourth Genre, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere.

“An extraordinary collection of testimonies. There is plenty of honesty and no pretension in the voices included in Wise Latinas. These essays elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader, from chuckles to gasps to tears. An excellent anthology.”—Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

“On the most fundamental level, Wise Latinas aims to provide models for other Latinas. . . . [It was] a joy to read this book, and a reminder of the footsteps that we all trace.”—Marta Caminero-Santangelo, author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity

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sleeP in meJon Pineda$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4341-5

mOuntains OF lightSeasons of Refl ection in YosemiteR. Mark Liebenow$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4017-9

John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania, when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life together was shattered. Katie became separated from the group. When Evans fi nally found her, he could only watch help-lessly as she was mauled to death by a brown bear. In such a love story, such a life story, how could a person ever move forward? That is the question Evans, traumatized and restless, confronts in this book as he learns the language of grief, the rhetoric of survival, and the contrary poetic al-gorithms of holding fast and letting go. His memories of Ka-tie and their time together, and the strangeness of his life with her family in the year after her death, create an unsen-timental but deeply moving picture of loss, the brutality of nature, and the unfairness of needing to narrate a story that nothing can prepare a person to tell. Told with unyielding witness, elegance, and care, Young Widower is a heartbreaking account of a senseless tragedy and the persistence of grief in a young person’s life.

John W. Evans, a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, teaches creative writing at Stanford. His award-winning work appears in Slate, the Missouri Review, ZYZZY-VA, and the Rumpus.

“A tragic story told with such grace and artistry that the com-plex exploration of grief is fi nally revealed as redemptive. The honesty of John Evans’s writing is unfaltering and deeply impressive.”—Kevin Casey, author of A State of Mind

“This book brims with unforgettable images and moments, but Evans’s greatest achievement is allowing readers to see his wife, Katie, as he did—not as a saint or as a martyr, but as a passionate and dynamic and fl awed woman whom he deeply loved.”—Justin St. Germain, author of Son of a Gun

MeMoir / l iterary nonfiCtion

Coping with a life lost young

Young WidowerA Memoir

John W. evanS

march200 PP. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $19.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4952-3 $22.95 canadian / £13.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5401-5

river teeth literary nonfiCtion Prize seriesDaniel Lehman and Joe Mackall, series editors

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also of interest

the glOBal gameWriters on SoccerEdited by John Turnbull, Thom Satterlee, and Alon Raab$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-1078-3

An American’s experience of the world’s game

soCCer / MeMoir

The Soccer DiariesAn American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit

of the International Game

michael J. agovino

June312 PP. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ $26.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-4047-6 $30.95 canadian / £18.99 ukebook available • 978-0-8032-5565-4

Although soccer had long been the world’s game when Mi-chael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on ob-scure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Ago-vino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country. Agovino’s love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game’s culture and an intimate history of the sport’s coming of age in the United States.

Agovino’s quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play to some of the sport’s most storied venues and historic matches. With Agovino we travel from school fields to Giants Stadium, then from England to Germany, Italy, and Spain, along the way taking in the final days of the North American Soc-cer League, the 1994 World Cup, and the birth of Major League Soccer. Offering the perspective of fan, player, and journalist, Agovino chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolution.

Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Out-skirts of New York City.

“An intimate and wonderfully written account of a sport

that is increasingly shaking America’s soul out.”

—Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner

Let the Great World Spin and Dancer

“More than just one man’s thirty-year obsession with the

sport, The Soccer Diaries is also the American odyssey of the

sport itself. The Soccer Diaries is the incredible journey of

the beautiful game over the last three decades. And it’s an

education for even the most fanatical of supporters.”

—David Peace, author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead “Here is a delightful, briskly readable memoir of sports obsession that deftly cuts across decades and cultures—with one manic, maddening, miraculous sport at its center.”—Hampton Sides, best-selling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder

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Mover and ShakerWalter O’Malley, the Dodgers, and

Baseball’s Westward Expansion

andy mccue

may480 PP. • 6 x 9 • 1 aPPendix$34.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-4508-2 $40.50 canadian / £27.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5505-0

also of interest

COnnie maCk anD the early years OF BaseBallNorman L. Macht $29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4003-2

eD BarrOWThe Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First DynastyDaniel R. Levitt$21.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2981-5

biograPhy / sPorts / baseball / aMeriCan history

The iconic Walter O’MalleyOne of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers. In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O’Malley’s life. He also departs from the overly sentimen-talized accounts of O’Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman who was a major force in baseball for three decades, and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game. Andy McCue is the author of Baseball by the Books: The Complete History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction and is a former president of the Society for American Baseball Research.

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“Andy McCue has written the definitive biography of the

fascinating and elusive Walter O’Malley, the man who changed

the way a country thinks about its national pastime. Wise and

engaging. A must-read for every historian of the game.”

—Michael Shapiro, author of The Last Good Season

also of interest

the POetiCs OF gOlFMeditations on the Meaning and Beauty of a GameAndy Brumer$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-7169-2

In a long, award-winning career writing about golf, Bill Fields has sought out the most interesting stories—not just those featuring big winners and losers, but the ones that get at the very character of the game. Collected here, his pieces off er an intriguing portrait of golf over the past century. The legends are here in vivid profi les of such familiar fi gures as Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Mickey Wright, and Tiger Woods. But so are lesser-known golfers, like John Schlee, Billy Joe Patton, and Bert Yancey, whose tales are no less compelling. The book is fi lled with colorful moments and perceptive observations about golf greats ranging from the fi rst Ameri-can-born U.S. Open champion, Johnny McDermott, to Seve Ballesteros, the Spaniard who led Europe’s resurgence in the game in the late twentieth century. Fields gives us golf writing at its fi nest, capturing the game’s larger dramas and fi ner details, its personalities and its enduring appeal.

A senior editor at Golf World magazine, Bill Fields is a four-time winner of the Golf Writers Association of America’s annual writing contest. His work has also appeared in Golf Digest, the New York Times, and The Best American Sports Writing.

“Nobody knows the game of golf and many of the quaint people who have inhabited it better than Bill Fields, and I’ve never read anyone who gets them down on paper better than he does. You’ll enjoy this book more than a string of birdies if you care anything at all about the sport.”—Dan Jenkins, author of Dead Solid Perfect and Jenkins at the Majors

“Bill Fields’s fi eld isn’t golf; it’s people. With a reporter’s instinct and a writer’s empathy, he specializes in stories only he can see. Don’t read him unless you’re ready to laugh and cry. Both.”—Tom Callahan, author of Johnny U

“Bill Fields is the modern poet laureate of golf. . . . This is a book to dwell over and savor.”—James Dodson, author of American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and the Modern Age of Golf

sPorts / golf

“Bill Fields’s fi eld isn’t golf; it’s people”

Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf HistoryHeroes, Underdogs, Courses, and

Championships

bill fieldS

Foreword by ben Crenshaw

June320 PP. • 6 x 9 $19.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4880-9 $22.95 canadian / £13.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5526-5

let there Be PeBBleA Middle-Handicapper’s Year in America’s Garden of GolfZachary Michael Jack$24.95 hardcover • 978-0-8032-3357-7

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Cobb battles Lajoie to win Chalmers automobile

The Chalmers RaceTy Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That

Became a National Obsession

rick huhn

Foreword by Charles C. alexander

april328 PP. • 6 x 9 • 25 PhotograPhs$29.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-7182-1 $34.50 canadian / £23.99 ukebook available • 978-0-8032-7375-7

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In 1910 auto magnate Hugh Chalmers off ered an automobile to the baseball player with the highest batting average that season. What followed was a batting race unlike any before or since, between the greatest but most despised hitter, Detroit’s Ty Cobb, and the American League’s fi rst superstar, Cleveland’s popular Napoleon Lajoie. The Chalmers Race captures the excitement of this strange con-test—one that has yet to be resolved. The race came down to the last game of the sea-son, igniting more interest among fans than the World Series and becoming a national obsession. Rick Huhn re-creates the drama that ensued when Cobb, thinking the prize safely his, skipped the last two games, and Lajoie suspiciously had eight hits in a doubleheader against the St. Louis Browns. Although initial counts favored Lajoie, American League president Ban Johnson, the sport’s last word, announced Cobb the winner, and amid the con-troversy both players received cars. The Chalmers Race details a story of dubious scorekeeping and statistical systems, of performances and personali-ties in confl ict, of accurate results coming in seven-ty years too late, and of a contest settled not by play on the fi eld but by human foibles. Rick Huhn is the author of The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great and Eddie Collins: A Base-ball Biography. Charles C. Alexander is the author of several baseball books, including Ty Cobb.

also of interest

1921The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New YorkLyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3999-9

my liFe in BaseBallThe True RecordTy Cobb with Al Stump $17.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6359-8

“It took more than a century, but we’ve fi nally got the book we deserve about baseball’s most infamous batting race. Thanks to Rick Huhn, it was worth the wait.”—Rob Neyer, national baseball editor of the website Baseball Nation.com

“With graceful writing and exhaustive research, Huhn gives life to one of baseball’s great untold stories.”—Jon Wertheim, senior writer for Sports Illustrated

“This is the kind of baseball history we need more of—a book grounded in a great story, shaped by intelligent assessments of the evidence, committed

to accuracy and truth-telling, and presented in vigorous prose.”—Reed Browning, author of Cy Young: A Baseball Life

“The Chalmers Race seamlessly weaves its compelling stories and is a deftly told saga of a game-changing and living controversy.”—Gerald C. Wood, author of Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend

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Bring In the Right-Hander!My Twenty-Two Years in

the Major Leagues

Jerry reuSS

april312 PP. • 5 ½ x 8 ½ • 30 PhotograPhs$27.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-4897-7 $32.50 canadian / £21.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5508-1

also of interest

BranCh riCkeyBaseball’s Ferocious GentlemanLee Lowenfish$24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2453-7

An odyssey through the Major Leagues One of only twenty-nine Major Leaguers to play in four dif-

ferent decades, Jerry Reuss pitched for eight teams, includ-ing the Pittsburgh Pirates twice. So when Reuss tells his story, he covers about as much of baseball life as any player can. Bring In the Right-Hander! puts us on the mound for the winning pitch in Game Five of the 1981 World Series, then takes us back to the schoolyards and ball fields of Overland, Missouri, where Reuss first dreamed of that scene. His base-ball odyssey, dedicated to the mantra “work hard and play harder,” began in 1969 with his hometown team, the St. Louis Cardinals (who traded him three years later for mustache-re-lated reasons). Reuss carries us through his winning seasons with the Dodgers, taking in a no-hitter and that World Series triumph, and introducing us to some of baseball’s most col-orful characters. Along the way, as the grizzled veteran faces injuries, releases, and trips to the Minors, then battling his way back into the Majors to finish his career with the Pirates, we get a glimpse of the real grit behind big league life, on and off the field.

Since his retirement as an active player, Jerry Reuss has worked in broadcasting as a color analyst for ESPN, the Ana-heim Angels, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“In Bring In the Right-Hander! Jerry Reuss delivers a revealing and remarkable performance.”—Fred Claire, former Los Angeles Dodger executive vice president and general manager and author of Fred Claire: My 30 Years in Dodger Blue

“Jerry Reuss had one of the great deliveries in baseball. And he has pitched a strike again with an insightful look at a career that transcended the “Golden Era” of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. I couldn’t put it down!”—Steve Garvey, 1974 National League Most Valuable Player and ten-time All-Star

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it’s gOOD tO Be aliveRoy Campanella$20.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-6363-5 Sales in United States, dependencies, and Canada only

Jackie and CampyThe Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of

Baseball’s Color Line

William c. kaShatuS

april296 PP. • 6 x 9 • 23 PhotograPhs, 1 MaP$24.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-4633-1 $28.95 canadian / £19.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5446-6

Rivalry, race, and two Dodger greats As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodg-

ers, and prior to that as the fi rst black players to be candi-dates to break professional baseball’s color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going far beyond the personality diff erences and petty jealousies of competitive teammates. Behind the bitterness were deep and diff ering beliefs about the fi ght for civil rights. Robinson, the more aggressive and intense of the two, thought Jim Crow should be attacked head-on; Campanella, more passive and easygoing, believed that ability, not mili-tancy, was the key to racial equality. Drawing on interviews with former players such as Monte Irvin, Hank Aaron, Carl Erskine, and Don Zimmer, Jackie and Campy off ers a clos-er look at these two players and their place in a historical movement torn between active defi ance and passive resis-tance. William C. Kashatus deepens our understanding of these two baseball icons and civil rights pioneers and pro-vides a clearer picture of their time and our own.

William C. Kashatus is the author of many books, including September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies and Racial In-tegration.

sPorts / baseball / afriCan aMeriCan studies / Civil rights

“A fantastic and thought-provoking analysis of how two men championed the fi ght for racial harmony in segregated America via diff erent rules of engagement. A must-read for any serious student of baseball and American history.”—Larry Lester, historian for the Negro League Baseball Hall of Fame

“Bill Kashatus has given us a very human account of Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella.”—Monte Irvin, New York Giants Hall of Famer

“Kashatus sheds new and important insight on the Robinson-Campanella relationship by placing it in the larger framework of African American history.”—Larry Hogan, author of Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball

BlaCkOutThe Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring TrainingChris Lamb$16.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8047-2

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JOCkOJocko Conlan and Robert W. Creamer$14.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-6381-9

the men in BlueConversations with UmpiresLarry R. Gerlach$24.95x paperback • 978-0-8032-7045-9

Autobiography of MLB umpire Al ClarkbiograPhy / sPorts / baseball / Jewish studies

Called Out but SafeA Baseball Umpire’s Journey

al clark with

dan SchloSSberg

Foreword by Marty aPPel

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“I was pleased that Al Clark was the home-plate umpire in my three hundredth win and even more pleased when he gave me the lineup card afterward. I always considered him a good umpire and a good guy.”—Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame pitcher

“Al Clark never threw me out of a game, but Billy Martin wasn’t so fortunate. I not only witnessed his confrontations with Al but enjoyed remembering them in this book.”—Ron Blomberg, first designated hitter

“Some of the nicest conversations I’ve had in forty-two years of baseball have been with umpires. I loved any time spent with my friend Al Clark. Enjoy some great baseball stories from a man who once had a front-row seat in our great game.” —Chris Wheeler, Phillies broadcaster

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BaseBall BeFOre We kneW itA Search for the Roots of the GameDavid Block$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-6255-3

early inningsA Documentary History of Baseball, 1825–1908Compiled and edited by Dean A. Sullivan$21.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-9244-4

How did baseball become segregated?The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did the game become so fi rmly segregated that it required a trailblaz-er like Robinson? The answer, Ryan A. Swanson suggests, has everything to do with the politics of “reconciliation” and a wish to avoid the issues of race that an integrated game nec-essarily raised. The history of baseball during Reconstruction, as Swan-son tells it, is a story of lost opportunities. Thomas Fitzger-ald and Octavius Catto (a Philadelphia baseball tandem), for example, were poised to emerge as pioneers of integra-tion in the 1860s. Instead, the desire to create a “national game”—professional and appealing to white Northerners and Southerners alike—trumped any movement toward civil rights. Focusing on Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Rich-mond—three cities with large African American populations and thriving baseball clubs—Swanson uncovers the origins of baseball’s segregation and the mechanics of its implemen-tation. An important piece of sports history, his work also off ers a better understanding of Reconstruction, race, and segregation in America.

Ryan A. Swanson is an assistant professor and the director of the Lobo Scholars Program in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico.

When Baseball Went WhiteReconstruction, Reconciliation,

and Dreams of a National Pastime

ryan a. SWanSon

June304 PP. • 6 x 9 • 1 illustration, 3 MaPs$29.95 hardCover • 978-0-8032-3521-2 $34.50 canadian / £23.99 ukebook available • 978-0-8032-5517-3

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“‘Nothing is ever said or written about drawing the color line in the [National] League,’ Sporting Life unapologetically observed in 1895. ‘It appears to be generally understood that none but whites shall make up the League teams, and so it goes.’ This statement, while written more than a century ago, is surprisingly germane today. It nearly summarizes the historiography of baseball’s segregation.”—From the introduction by Ryan A. Swanson.

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JOe CrOninA Life in BaseballMark Armour$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-4899-1

PitChing, DeFense, anD three-run hOmersThe 1970 Baltimore OriolesEdited by Mark Armour and Malcolm Allen $24.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3993-7

The Big Red Machine dominates 1975sPorts / baseball / aMeriCan history

The 1975 Cincinnati Reds, also known as the “Big Red Ma-chine,” are not just one of the most memorable teams in baseball history—they are unforgettable. While the Reds dominated the National League from 1972 to 1976, it was the ’75 team that surpassed them all, winning 108 games and beating the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling 7-game World Series. Led by Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson, the team’s roster included other legends such as Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tony Pérez, Ken Griffey Sr., and Dave Concepción. The 1975 Reds were notably disciplined and clean-cut, which distinguished them from the increasingly individualistic players of the day. The Great Eight commemorates the people and events surrounding this outstanding baseball team with essays on team management and key aspects and highlights of the season, including Pete Rose’s famous position change. This volume gives Reds fans complete biographies of all the team’s players, relives the enthralling 1975 season, and cel-ebrates a team that is consistently ranked as one of the best teams in baseball history. Mark Armour is the author of Joe Cronin (Nebraska, 2010) and coeditor of Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers: The 1970 Baltimore Orioles (Nebraska, 2012).

“A superbly in-depth look at one of the greatest teams of all time, this is essential reading for any baseball fan.” — Dan Epstein, author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s

The Great EightThe 1975 Cincinnati Reds

edited by mark armour

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MeMorable teaMs in baseball history seriesMark Armour and Bill Nowlin, series editors

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the team that FOrever ChangeD BaseBall anD ameriCaThe 1947 Brooklyn DodgersEdited by Lyle Spatz Associate Editors Maurice Bouchard and Leonard Levin $26.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3992-0

The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. Their record for most wins (111) fell only when the baseball schedule expanded, and their winning percentage, an astounding .721, is still unsurpassed in the American League. Though the season ended with a heartbreaking loss to the New York Giants in the World Se-ries, the 1954 team remains a favorite among Cleveland fans and beyond.

Pitching to the Pennant commemorates the ’54 Indians with a biographical sketch of the entire team, from the “Big Three” pitching staff (Mike Garcia and future Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Early Wynn), through notable players such as Bobby Avila, Bob Feller, Larry Doby, and Al Rosen, to man-ager Al Lopez, his coaches, and the Indians’ broadcast team. There are also stories about Cleveland Stadium and the 1954 All-Star Game (which the team hosted), as well as a season timeline and a fi rsthand account of Game One of the World Series at the Polo Grounds. Pitching to the Pennant features the superb writing and research of members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), making this book a must for all Indians fans and baseball afi cionados.

A member of SABR since 2005, Joseph Wancho serves as cochairman of the Minor League Research Committee and has made contributions to several books in the Memorable Teams in Baseball History series.

“The 1954 Cleveland Indians made history by dethroning the fi ve-time consecutive World Champion New York Yankees and breaking New York’s 1927 record of 110 victories. Now the people and events that produced 111 wins are well commemorated. Congratulations to SABR and the talented members who have put these great baseball stories between two covers.”—Morris Eckhouse, author of Legends of the Tribe

“Pitching to the Pennant brought back great memories of a great baseball team that was robbed of the chance to be remembered that way.”—Les Levine, host of More Sports and Les Levine

Winning in ClevelandsPorts / baseball / aMeriCan history

Pitching to the PennantThe 1954 Cleveland Indians

edited by JoSeph Wancho

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The Continental LeagueA Personal History

ruSSell d. buhite

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late inningsA Documentary History of Baseball, 1945–1972Compiled and edited by Dean A. Sullivan$29.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9285-7

The development and demise of baseball’s Continental League

Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new econom-ic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league’s brief history affords a glimpse of any number of missed chances for America’s game.

As one of the original Continental Leaguers, historian Rus-sell D. Buhite is—literally—talking “inside baseball” when he describes what happened in 1959 and 1960. Part mem-oir, part history, his account of the origin, development, and eventual undoing of the Continental League explores the organization’s collective corporate structure as well as its significant role in building a thriving Minor League and forc-ing expansion on Major League Baseball. Buhite captures a lost era in baseball history and examines its lasting impact on the game.

Russell D. Buhite is professor emeritus of history at the Mis-

souri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of several books, including Douglas MacArthur: Statecraft and Stagecraft in America’s East Asian Policy.

“Russell Buhite makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing scholarly work on baseball’s past.”—Charles C. Alexander, author of Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era

“Russell Buhite, a former Minor League baseball player and an accomplished historian, is well equipped to provide this entertaining, informative, insightful, and personal account of Branch Rickey’s abortive Continental League.”—James Giglio, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Missouri State University and author of Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man

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When thunDers sPOkeVirginia Driving Hawk Sneve $9.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-9220-8

lige mOunts, Free traPPerFrank B. Linderman$19.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8041-0

Two Hawk DreamslaWrence l. loendorf and

nancy medariS Stone

Illustrated by davÍd JoaQuÍn april88 PP. • 7 x 10 • 10 illustrations, for ages 10–12 years$16.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-6488-5 $19.50 canadian / £11.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-6495-3

A Shoshone coming-of-age story Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-

Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk’s father and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk’s mating call for only seven seasons, too few to be old enough to hunt.

So begins another day for a boy of the Tukudika (Sheep Eater) Shoshones, living in the traditional ways in what will one day be known as Yellowstone National Park. Two Hawk is learning those ways, accompanied by his dog, Gyp-sum, and a talkative magpie whose secrets only Two Hawk can hear. His adventures, beautifully illustrated by Davíd Joaquín, show Two Hawk, and the reader, the meaning of rituals and responsibilities and the mystical origins of Two Hawk’s name. Only the appearance of the hairy-face man who crosses paths with Two Hawk’s family suggests the vast changes that are soon to shake the Shoshones’ world.

Archaeologist and rock art researcher Lawrence L. Loendorf

is president of Sacred Sites Research, which records and an-alyzes pictograph and petroglyph sites and promotes their protection. Writer and editor Nancy Medaris Stone is the co-author, with Loendorf, of Mountain Spirit: Sheep Eater Indi-ans of Yellowstone. Davíd Joaquín is a freelance artist and il-lustrator. His illustrations have appeared in Mountain Spirit: Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone.

“This story of a boy named Two Hawk, his family, his dog, Gypsum, and an outspoken magpie on their seasonal journey down from the heights of Yellowstone is a magical tale full of adventure and wisdom.”—Jake Page, author of In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000–Year History of American Indians

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Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from drought; and a wife who dresses as a prostitute to seduce her pious hus-band in their garden. Breathing new life into an ancient text, A Bride for One Night offers a surprising and provocative read, both for anyone already intimate with the Talmud and for anyone interested in one of the most influential works of Jewish literature.

Ruth Calderon has a doctorate in Talmud from Hebrew Uni-versity and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem and found-er and chair of Alma: Home for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. Ilana Kurshan is the books editor of Lilith magazine. She is the author of Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? as well as several articles about Talmud, literature, and Jewish life.

“Calderon’s retelling of tales of the Talmud will be healing

for those who have felt pushed to the Talmud’s margins and

exciting for those who have loved the Talmud’s gift for a good

story.”—Rabbi Jill Hammer, author of Sisters at Sinai and The

Jewish Book of Days

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hOuses OF stuDyA Jewish Woman among BooksIlana M. Blumberg$14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2449-0

sisters at sinaiNew Tales of Biblical WomenJill Hammer $20.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0806-1

religion / Jewish studies / woMen’s studies / bible studies

Modern retelling of Talmudic tales

A Bride for One NightTalmud Tales

ruth calderon

Translated by ilana kurshan

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exCerPt FrOm “lamP”

“A warm clay lamp rests in my palm, the heat of the oil passing from

the front to the back of my hand with a quick fl ick of the wrist. In the

evening the oil was congealed, with a small warm puddle of liquid

gathered just around the fl ame. Now the entire lamp is warm—the fl ax

wick is fl oating and the fl ame appears as if suspended in midair.

The room is cold and the man standing across from me has his head

buried in a small book of notes, its pages loosely tied together. He reads

while half-asleep. Occasionally he breaks into a

chant; then he plunges back into silence like a

whale diving back into the ocean. It is the

second watch of the night. This man is my new

husband. But this is not how I imagined my

wedding night; this is not what the women

told me to expect when they stood over me to

remove the hair from my body with oils and

lime. Why did they bother? What is the use of

my soft skin, my plucked eyebrows, my

colorful nightgown? Outside beggars and cats

devour the remains of the wedding feast. If

only everyone knew how I would end up

spending my wedding night. As an oil lamp,

not a bride.”

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JeWish traDitiOnsA JPS GuideRonald L. Eisenberg $40.00s paperback • 978-0-8276-0882-5

inventing JeWish ritualVanessa L. Ochs $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0834-4

Development of a Jewish rite of passage

Jewish studies / religion

Bar MitzvahA History

rabbi michael hilton

June360 PP. • 6 x 9 • 3 illustrations$30.00s PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8276-0947-1 $34.50 canadian / £21.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8276-1166-5

The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony of bar mitzvah was first recorded in thirteenth-century France, where it took the form of a simple statement by the father that he was no longer responsible for his thirteen-year-old son. Today, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls are more popular than at any time in history and are sometimes accompanied by lavish celebrations. How did bar mitzvah develop over the centuries from an obscure legal ritual into a core compo-nent of Judaism?

How did it capture the imagination of even non-Jewish youth? Bar Mitzvah is a comprehensive history of the cer-emonies and celebrations for both boys and girls. As cultural anthropology informed by rabbinic knowledge, it explores the origins and development of the most important com-ing-of-age milestone in Judaism. Rabbi Michael Hilton has sought out every reference to bar mitzvah in the Bible, the Talmud, and numerous other Jewish texts spanning several centuries, extracting a fascinating miscellany of informa-tion, stories, and commentary.

Michael Hilton has been rabbi of Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community in London since 2001. He is the author of The Christian Effect on Jewish Life and coauthor of The Gospels and Rabbinic Judaism: A Study Guide.

“Michael Hilton’s book combines a thorough grounding in the primary sources and scholarly literature about the history of bar mitzvah with the experience of an established congregational rabbi. For anyone seeking insight into the origins, development, and significance of this major Jewish lifecycle event, this is the book to consult.”—Marc Saperstein, professor of Jewish history and homiletics at Leo Baeck College

“Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah are contemporary Judaism’s best-known and least understood observances. Michael Hilton does a wonderful job of assembling the lore, laws, and customs regarding bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah in a way that is easily accessible to scholars, educators, and laypeople. Highly recommended!”—Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, author of Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah

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tOrah thrOugh timeUnderstanding Bible Commentary, from the Rabbinic Period to Modern TimesShai Cherry $25.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0848-1

The Aura of TorahA Kabbalistic-Hasidic Commentary

to the Weekly Readings

rabbi larry tabick

July408 PP. • 6 x 9 • 3 illustrations$24.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8276-0948-8 $28.95 canadian / £17.99 uk

religion / Jewish studies / bible studies

The mystical and spiritual side of the Torah

Because a welter of details sometimes conceals the Torah’s aura of holiness, Jewish mystics and spiritual teachers have for centuries attempted to reveal that aura through creative interpretation of the Torah text. The Aura of Torah explores these attempts in an eff ort to bridge the gap between the Torah text and the modern Jewish spiritual quest.

The book collects a wide variety of interpretations of To-rah passages, commentaries, and midrash rooted in the mystical side of Jewish tradition, translated by Rabbi Larry Tabick, with original Hebrew and Aramaic texts included. The quoted authors span many centuries and speak from many schools of thought: kabbalists writing within the tra-dition of the Zohar and other gnostic works; Hasidic teach-ers from the modern movement founded by the Ba’al Shem Tov in eighteenth-century Ukraine; and German pietists, or Hasidei Ashkenaz, of the twelfth and thirteenth centu-ries. Tabick examines how these texts build on the under-lying principles of the Torah—the supremacy of God, the interconnectedness of nature and morality, and the unique (though not exclusive) role of the Jewish people in the di-vine plan for all humanity—to point to a deep spiritual truth in the world of the divine and the soul.

Larry Tabick is a rabbi of Shir Hayim, the Hampstead Re-form Jewish Community in London. He is the author of Growing into Your Soul: A Celebration of Jewish Life for Your Coming of Age.

“The Aura of Torah is an important and useful contribution to the emergent literature of spiritual companions to the parashah. There is nothing quite like it on the shelf. Tabick assembles mystical teachings for the general reader with insight, creativity, and obvious spiritual depth.”—Lawrence Kushner, author of Honey from the Rock and numerous other books

a heart aFireStories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic MastersZalman M. Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles-Yepez $45.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0884-9

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The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Mi-chael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality.

Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theologi-cal sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jew-ish Bible’s voices—the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew, as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew—and the world that it created.

Michael Carasik is the compiler and translator of the Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot Commentators’ Bible series and the au-thor of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel.

“An engaging presentation of the most current scholarship about the Jewish Bible. Carasik’s description of the numerous voices, which speak in its pages, illumines their teachings, illustrates their origin, and clarifies their relationships with each other and the world from which they emerged.” —Frederick E. Greenspahn, Gimelstob Eminent Scholar of Judaic Studies, Florida Atlantic University.

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OutsiDe the BiBle, 3-vOlume setAncient Jewish Writings Related to ScriptureEdited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman$275.00s set • 978-0-8276-0933-4

the COmmentatOrs’ BiBleThe Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot: ExodusMichael Carasik $75.00 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0812-2

Hearing the Bible anew

The Bible’s Many Voicesmichael caraSik

april376 PP. • 6 x 9 • 9 tables$31.95 hardCover • 978-0-8276-0935-8 $36.95 canadian / £22.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8276-1134-4

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terriBle thingsAn Allegory of the HolocaustEve Bunting $10.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0507-7 $16.95 hardcover • 978-0-8276-0325-7

in the mOuth OF the WOlFRose Zar and Eric A. Kimmel$18.00 paperback • 978-0-8276-0382-0

Grandpa’s Third DrawerUnlocking Holocaust Memories

Written and illuStrated

by Judy tal kopelman

may32 PP. • 10 x 7 • 16 PhotograPhs, for ages 5–8 years$12.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8276-1221-1 $14.95 Canadian/£9.99 uk $17.95 hardCover • 978-0-8276-1204-4 $20.95 canadian / £12.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8276-1169-6

A child learns about the HolocaustJuvenile fiCtion / Jewish studies / holoCaust

The original Hebrew edition won the Israeli Ze’ev Prize for Children’s Literature in 2003 and twice won the fi rst prize in Mits’ad Hasfarim for fi rst to third grades (in 2003 and 2012), a nationwide survey of all schoolchildren in Israel. Of all the places in the world, Uri really loves to be at his grandpar-ents’ house. There he can stay up way past his bedtime and eat as many sweets from the chocolate box as he likes. There’s only one forbidden place in that house: the third drawer in Grandpa’s desk. This drawer is locked. No one ever opens it. Then one day Uri fi nds the key to the third drawer. From that moment, nothing is ever the same. Grandpa’s Third Drawer takes up the diffi cult challenge of discuss-ing the Holocaust with young children, of teaching its heritage and memory, all in a gentle and unobtrusive manner. The story of a silent grandfather unexpectedly confronted by his curious and loving grand-child is accompanied by rich illustrations, which include authentic preserved objects donated by Holocaust survivors from Theresien-stadt. The original Hebrew edition won the Israeli Ze’ev Prize for Chil-dren’s Literature in 2003 and twice won the fi rst prize in Mits’ad Hasfarim for fi rst to third grades (in 2003 and 2012), a nationwide survey of all schoolchildren in Israel.

Judy Tal Kopelman is a lecturer in creative writing and literature at Kinneret College, Sea of Galilee.

“It was with great eagerness that I read this beautiful book. Its warmth will move many students and readers.”—Eli Wiesel

“Grandpa’s Third Drawer is an organized and clear story which enables young readers to confront the hardest of stories to tell.”—Yael Dar, Ha’aretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper

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Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana’s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, po-litical engagement, and the literary arts. The one constant that guided and shaped his many occupations and roles in life was poetry. The Promise of Hope is a beautifully edited collection of some of Awoonor’s most arresting work span-ning almost fifty years. Selected and edited by Awoonor’s friend and colleague Kofi Anyidoho, himself a prominent poet and academic in Ghana, The Promise of Hope contains much of Awoonor’s most recent unpublished poetry, along with many of his an-thologized and classic poems. This engaging volume serves as a fitting contribution to the inaugural cohort of books in the African Poetry Book Series.

Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) was a diplomat, a professor of comparative literature at numerous universities, most re-cently at the University of Ghana. He is the author of sev-eral volumes of poetry, including Night of My Blood; Ride Me, Memory; The House by the Sea; and The Latin American and Caribbean Notebook. His collected poems (through 1985) were published in Until the Morning After. Kofi Anyidoho, a poet and scholar, serves on editorial boards for several jour-nals and has been a guest editor of Matatu, a journal of Afri-can culture and society that is published in Amsterdam.

“A celebration of the work of one of our important world

poets for readers both inside and outside Africa.”

—From the foreword by Kwame Dawes

“We pay homage to Kofi Awoonor not only as a poet with a

profound vision and articulation of the world, our world, but

also with a gift of words that is at home in poetry, in prose, in

critical literary studies, and equally in major essays about our

African, our human, condition.”

—From the introduction by Kofi Anyidoho

. Poetry / afriCa

Classic poetry from Africa

The Promise of HopeNew and Selected Poems, 1964–2013

kofi aWoonor

Edited and with an introduction by

kofi anyidoho

Foreword by kwaMe dawes

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Announcing a new series: afriCan Poetry book series Under the helm of series editor Kwame Dawes, the African Poetry Book Series seeks to discover and highlight works of African poetry with a wide-ranging scope, from classic works to contemporary voices

Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi , winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in fl ux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind of a sensitive, intelligent, and curious poet who stands in the midst of it all. Gachagua’s is a world fully grounded in the postmodern Kenyan cultural cauldron, a world in which people speak with

“satellite mouths,” with bodies that are “singing machines,” and in which the most we can do is “collide against each other.” Here light is graceful, and we glow like undiscovered galaxies and shifting matter. And here as well, we fi nd new expression in a poetry that moves as we do.

Clifton Gachagua is a screenwriter, fi lmmaker, and translator based in Nairobi. His poetry has appeared in Saraba and Kwani? 06.

“The judges of the inaugural Sillerman First Book Prize for

African Poetry have agreed that without a doubt, we are

experiencing in this book the opening noises of a poet who

will make a great deal of important noise in the future.”

—From the foreword by Kwame Dawes

Poetry / afriCa

New voice in African poetry

winner of the sillerMan first book Prize

for afriCan Poets

Madman at Kilificlifton gachagua

Foreword by kwaMe dawes

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slapeRing hol pRessseven neW generatiOn aFriCan POetsA Chapbook boxed set TJ Dema, Clifton Gachagua, Tsitsi Jaji, Nick Makoha, Ladan Osman, Warsan Shire, and Len VerweyEdited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani

This eight-piece boxed set, an African Poetry Book Fund (apbf) project, features the work of seven African poets, with an introduction by Kwame Dawes, APBF series editor, and Chris Abani.

The boxed set is an annual project starting in 2014 to ensure the publication of seven chapbooks by African poets through participating publishers. Publication is made possible through Slapering Hol Press, in association with apbf and the literary journal Prairie Schooner, with support from the Poetry Foundation.

February. 260 pages, 6 x 9$23.95 paperback boxed set 978-1-940646-58-9  $27.95 CanadianSales in the U.S. and its dependencies and territories, Canada, and Mexico

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In honor of the 50th birthday of the Sheldon Mu-seum of Art’s Philip Johnson–designed building and the 125th anniversary of the Sheldon Art As-sociation and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln art collection, Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art showcases the Sheldon’s impressive collection, featuring reproductions of 125 major works along with smart, engaging en-tries by a team of respected scholars. The catalog presents some of the museum’s most beloved and widely known canvases, includ-ing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century master-pieces by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Benjamin West; iconic pic-tures by twentieth-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Georgia

O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol; and works by both emerging artists and giants in the contemporary field, including Dan Christensen, Carmen Herrera, Hung Liu, Ed Ruscha, Patssi Valdez, and Philemona Williamson. This survey highlights the artistic, cultural, and geographic conflicts and concurrences that shaped more than two centuries of American painting and offers art enthusiasts and scholars alike a means to reconnect with old favorites while discovering new ones—all freshly interpreted based on recent discoveries and research.

Brandon K. Ruud is the curator of transnational American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the editor of Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints (Nebraska, 2004), which was named a New York Times notable book. More recently, he contributed to the catalogs American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago and Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago and edited Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Muse-um of Art (Nebraska, 2013). Gregory Nosan is director of education and publications at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Nosan served as associate director of publications at the Art Institute of Chicago. In that capacity he managed the journal Museum Studies and edited major exhibition catalogs including Matisse: Radical Inven-tion, 1913–1917 and John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the direc-tor of the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the series editor of American Transnationalism: Perspectives from the Sheldon Museum of Art, the coeditor of Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self (Nebraska, 2010), and the editor of The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction (Nebraska, 2012).

march280 PP. • 11 x 10 • 162 Paintings$75.00S hardcover • 978-0-8032-4869-4 $87.50 canadian / £54.00 uk

art / Painting

Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Artedited by brandon k. ruud and gregory noSan With an introduction by Jorge daniel veneCiano

aMeriCan transnationalisM: PersPeCtives froM the sheldon MuseuM of art series Jorge Daniel Veneciano, series editor

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enCOuntersPhotography from the Sheldon Museum of ArtEdited by Brandon K. Ruud$50.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4518-1

the geOmetriC unCOnsCiOusA Century of AbstractionEdited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano $50.00s paperback • 978-0-8032-4092-6

FaBulOus harleQuinORLAN and the Patchwork SelfEdited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano and Rhonda K. Garelick$44.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-3475-8

All images from Painting from the Collection of the Sheldon Musuem of Art

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When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand re-mained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When the remaining Choctaws applied for their al-lotments, however, the government reneged, and the Choc-taws were left dispossessed and impoverished. Thus begins the history of the Mississippi Choctaws as a distinct people. Despite overwhelming poverty and significant racial prejudice in the rural South, the Mississippi Choctaws man-aged, over the course of a century and a half, to maintain their ethnic identity, persuade the Office of Indian Affairs to provide them with services and lands, create a functioning tribal government, and establish a prosperous and stable reservation economy. The Choctaws’ struggle against segre-gation in the 1950s and 1960s is an overlooked story of the civil rights movement, and this study of white supremacist support for Choctaw tribalism considerably complicates our understanding of southern history. Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi traces the Choctaw’s remarkable tribal rebirth, attributing it to their sustained political and social activism.

Katherine M. B. Osburn is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She is the author of Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885–1934 (Nebraska, 2008).

“In this extensively researched book, Osburn presents a compelling history of the Mississippi Choctaws and sheds new light on these often forgotten people.”—Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, author of Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians

“Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi rests on extraordinary amounts of newly uncovered sources, with an unusually high degree of originality.”—Ted Ownby, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi.

also of interest

sOuthern ute WOmenAutonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887–1934Katherine M. B. Osburn$18.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-2038-6

native studies / aMeriCan history

Choctaw Resurgence in MississippiRace, Class, and Nation Building

in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977

katherine m. b. oSburn

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searChing FOr the Bright PathThe Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to RemovalJames Taylor Carson$29.95s paperback • 978-0-8032-6417-5

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On reCOrDsDelaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and MemoryAndrew Newman$45.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-3986-9

restOring the Chain OF FrienDshiPBritish Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783–1815Timothy D. Willig $50.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4817-5

In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms fl owed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speech-es, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of sur-faces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of com-munication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextu-al literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the atten-tion of scholars and show how struggles over modes of com-munication intersected with confl icts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major histori-ans, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European in-teraction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources. Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wil-derness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeff rey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chi-cago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Trea-ties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664.

Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeff rey Glover, Peter Charles Hoff er, Andrew New-man, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.

“Colonial Mediascapes off ers compelling insights from a veritable Who’s Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fi elds—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies.”—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

native studies / l iterary CritiCisM / aMeriCan history

Colonial MediascapesSensory Worlds of the Early Americas

Edited and with an introduction by

matt cohen and Jeffrey glover

Foreword by Paul Chaat sMith

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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsa of the Northern Plainsgilbert livingSton WilSon

Edited and Annotated by MiChael sCullin

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buff alobird-woman, a Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reserva-tion in western North Dakota, for a study of Hidatsa uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-fi ve

years in Wilson’s archives, held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buff alobird-woman’s insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people gathered, prepared, and used the plants in their local environment for food, medicine, smoking, fi ber, fuel, dye, toys, rituals, and construction. It also details the many sources and uses of wood—a scarce resource on the northern plains. Uses of Plants by the Hidatsa of the Northern Plains also provides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life dur-ing the nineteenth century, from courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants—including the roots, fruits, seeds, and sap.

Gilbert L. Wilson (1869–1930) was a well-known an-thropologist whose dissertation on Hidatsa agriculture was published in 1917 and is still available in print today. Michael Scullin is a codirector of Midwest Ethnohorti-culture. His articles have appeared in the journal Plains Anthropologist and in many edited volumes.

July352 PP. • 6 x 9 • 71 figures, 1 MaP$65.00s hardCover • 978-0-8032-4674-4 $75.00 canadian / £47.00 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-6774-9

The Canadian Sioux, Second EditionJameS h. hoWard

With a new foreword by

rayMond J. deMallie and douglas r. Parks

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatch-ewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, origi-nally published in 1984 by James H.

Howard, helps fi ll that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-fi rst century. Based on Howard’s fi eldwork in the 1970s and supple-mented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux although long forgot-ten by their relatives in the United States. Rich in detail, it presents an abundance of information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the Vision Quest, the Medicine Feast, the Medicine Dance, the Sun Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. This second edition includes previously unpublished images, many of them photographed by Howard, and some of his original drawings.

James H. Howard (1925–1982) was a professor of anthropology at Oklahoma State University. His many publications include The Warrior Who Killed Custer: The Personal Narrative of Chief Joseph White Bull and Shawnee: The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and Its Cultural Background.

June232 PP. • 6 x 9 • 24 PhotograPhs, 1 MaP, 3 tables, 3 figures$30.00s PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-7176-0 $34.50 canadian / £21.99 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-7378-8

studies in the anthroPology of north aMeriCan indians seriesRaymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, series editors

native studies / religionnative studies / natural history

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buff alobird-woman, a Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reserva-tion in western North Dakota, for a study of Hidatsa uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-fi ve

years in Wilson’s archives, held jointly by the Minnesota

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatch-ewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, origi-nally published in 1984 by James H.

Howard, helps fi ll that gap in the literature and remains

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Gifts from the Thunder BeingsIndigenous Archery and European Firearms

in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic,

1670–1870

roland bohr

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Ab-original peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technol-ogy in combination with Indigenous

weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual tran-sition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s. Technological change and the eff ects of European contact were not uniform throughout North America, as Roland Bohr illustrates by comparing the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic—two adjacent but environmentally diff erent regions of North Amer-ica—and their respective Indigenous cultures. Begin-ning with a brief survey of the subarctic and northern Plains environments and the most common subsis-tence strategies in these regions around the time of contact, Bohr provides the context for a detailed exami-nation of social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of bows, arrows, quivers, and fi rearms. His detailed analysis of the shifting usage of bows and arrows and fi rearms in the northern Great Plains and Central Subarctic makes Gifts from the Thunder Beings an important addition to the canon of North American ethnology. Roland Bohr is an associate professor of history and the director of the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

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Freshwater PassagesThe Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

david chapin

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afi eld than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Min-nesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known

as a partner in Montreal’s North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond’s life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years’ War and the Ameri-can Revolution. Pond’s encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defi ned his career. Whereas previ-ous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond than hitherto has been available.

David Chapin is the author of Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity.

July376 PP. • 6 x 9 • 13 MaPs$50.00s hardCover • 978-0-8032-4632-4 $57.50 canadian / £40.00 ukebook available • 978-0-8032-5341-4

native studies / aMeriCan history / aMeriCan west biograPhy / north aMeriCan history

Gifts from the Thunder Beingsexamines North American Ab-original peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technol-ogy in combination with Indigenous

weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afi eld than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Min-nesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known

as a partner in Montreal’s North West Company and

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Deep Map CountryLiterary Cartography of the

Great Plains

SuSan naramore maher

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literary CritiCisM / great Plains / natural history

Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth (a deep map), the “deep-map” form of nonfiction and environmental writing defines an in-novative and stratigraphic literary genre. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, Susan Naramore Maher explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and inter-textuality.

Maher’s Deep Map Country gives readers the first book-length study of the deep-map nonfiction of the Great Plains region, featuring writers as diverse as Ju-lene Bair, Sharon Butala, Loren Eiseley, Don Gayton, Linda Hasselstrom, William Least Heat-Moon, John Janovy Jr., John McPhee, Kathleen Norris, and Wallace Stegner. Deep Map Country examines the many layers of storytelling woven into their essays: the deep time of geology and evolutionary biology; the cultural history of indigenous and settlement communities; the per-sonal stories of encounters with this expansive terrain, the political and industrial stories that have affected the original biome and Plains economies; and the spiritual dimensions of the physical environment that press on everyday realities.

Susan Naramore Maher is dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is co-editor of Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley (Nebraska, 2012) and Coming into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction.

“Deep Map Country will become the standard to which other interdisciplinary and ‘thick’ discussions of Great Plains works will be compared.”—Diane Quantic, author of The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction

“What Maher describes is both a literary aesthetic and an ethos, and she chronicles a significant development in the literary culture of Plains writers.”—Rick Van Noy, author of Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place

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Native DiasporasIndigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism

in the Americas

Edited by gregory d. SmitherS and

brooke n. neWman

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indig-enous lifeways, and the eff ects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human traffi cking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smith-ers and Brooke N. Newman have

gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their infl uences through reaggregation. These di-verse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identifi cation, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacifi c Islands, and the main-land Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreak-ing in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understand-ing Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways. Gregory D. Smithers teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of three books, including Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1890s. Brooke N. Newman is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her articles have appeared in Gender and History and Slavery and Abolition.

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The Awakening CoastAn Anthology of Moravian Writings

from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua,

1849–1899

Edited, translated, and annotated by

karl offen and terry rugeley

The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionar-ies arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so fi rmly established

there that eastern Nicaragua to this day remains one of world’s strongest Moravian enclaves.

The Awakening Coast off ers the fi rst comprehen-sive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-de-scendant populations through the turbulent years of the Great Awakening of 1881 to 1882, when converts fl ocked to the church and the mission’s member-ship more than doubled. The anthology tracks the intersection of religious, political, and economic forces that led to this dynamic religious shift and il-lustrates how the mission’s fi rst fi fty years turned a relatively obscure branch of Protestantism into the most important political and spiritual institution in the region by contextualizing the Great Awakening, Protestant evangelism, and indigenous identity dur-ing this time of dramatic social change.

Karl Off en is an associate professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma. He is the coeditor of Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Terry Rugeley is a professor of history at the Uni-versity of Oklahoma. He is the author of Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatán, 1800–1880.

June456 PP. • 6 x 9 • 14 PhotograPhs, 2 drawings, 4 MaPs, 3 tables$75.00s hardCover • 978-0-8032-4896-0 $87.50 canadian / £54.00 uk ebook available • 978-0-8032-5449-7

native studies / religion / historynative studies / history

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indig-enous lifeways, and the eff ects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human traffi cking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smith-ers and Brooke N. Newman have

gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill

The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionar-ies arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so fi rmly established

there that eastern Nicaragua to this day remains one

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Busy in the CauseIowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West,

and the Prelude to the Civil War

loWell J. Soike

Despite the immense body of litera-ture about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching con-fl ict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fi ery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fi ery confl icts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by

questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing infl uence of evangeli-cal Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War. Lowell J. Soike is retired from the State Historical So-ciety of Iowa, where he served as a historian for thirty-six years. He is the author of Without Right Angles: The Round Barns of Iowa and Norwegian-Americans and the Politics of Dissent, 1880–1924.

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Sunflower JusticeA New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

r. alton lee

Until recently, American legal his-toriography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law refl ects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management confl icts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic rela-tions set precedents that reverber-

ated around the country. Sunfl ower Justice is a pioneer-ing work that presents the history of a state through the use of its supreme court decisions as evidence. R. Alton Lee traces Kansas’s legal history through 150 years of records, shedding light on the state’s political, economic, and social history in this ground-breaking overview of Kansas legal cases and judicial biographies. Beginning with the territorial justices and continuing through the late twentieth century, R. Alton Lee covers the dispossession of Native Americans’ land, the growth and impact of labor unions, antimo-nopoly cases against railroad and mining companies, a nine-year state ban on the movie Birth of a Nation and implications and eff ects of desegregation, as well as the shooting of Dr. George Tiller for performing legal abortions. Because judicial decisions are not made in a vacuum, Lee presents each of the justices in the con-text of the era and their personal experiences before examining how their decisions shaped Kansas political, economic, social, and legal history.

R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of American his-tory at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2009) and The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley.

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aMeriCan history / Civil war legal studies / history

Until recently, American legal his-toriography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law refl ects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management confl icts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic rela-tions set precedents that reverber-

ated around the country.

Despite the immense body of litera-ture about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching con-fl ict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fi ery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fi ery confl icts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by

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Based on three decades of fi eldwork throughout the develop-ing world, Scars of Partition is the fi rst book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular at-tention to the contemporary legacies of artifi cial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France that continue to divide indigenous peoples into separate postcolonial states. In so doing, it uniquely illustrates how the distinctive stamps of France and Britain continue to mark daily life along and be-hind these inherited borders in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean.

Scars of Partition draws on political science, anthropology, history, and geography to examine six cases of indigenous, in-dentured, and enslaved peoples partitioned by colonialism in West Africa, West Indies, South Pacifi c, Southeast Asia, South India, and the Indian Ocean. William F. S. Miles demonstrates that sovereign nations throughout the developing world, de-spite basic diff erences in culture, geography, and politics, still bear the underlying imprint of their colonial pasts. Disentan-gling and appreciating these embedded colonial legacies is critical to achieving full decolonization—particularly in their borderlands.

William F. S. Miles is a professor of political science at North-eastern University in Boston. He is the author of numerous books, including Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Inde-pendence in Nigeria and Niger and Bridging Mental Boundar-ies in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu.

PolitiCal sCienCe / CoMParative studies / history

Scars of PartitionPostcolonial Legacies in French

and British Borderlands

William f. S. mileS

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“This splendid volume is a seminal contribution to the comparative study of colonialism, decolonization, and

colonial legacy. . . . A magnum opus embodying a lifetime of careful research, and a strikingly original research design.” —Crawford Young, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence

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Edited by MARIE-LAURE RYAN and

JAN-NOËL THON

The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary nar-rative, newspapers, and comics to radio, � lm, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds

across Media explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide di� erent ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness? The � rst part of the volume critically assesses the cross- and transmedial validity of narratological concepts such as storyworld, narrator, representation of subjectivity, and � ctionality. The second part deals with issues of multimodality and intermediality across media. The third part explores the relation between media convergence and transmedial storyworlds, examining emergent forms of storytelling based on multiple media platforms. Taken together, these essays build the foundation for a media-conscious narratology that acknowledges both similarities and di� erences in the ways media narrate. Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Arti� cial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory; Narrative as Virtual Reality; and Avatars of Story, as well as the editor of Narrative across Media (Nebraska, 2004), among others. Jan-Noël Thon is a research associate in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen. Most recently, he has coedited From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Nar-rative.

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Film and Everyday Eco-disastersROBIN L. MURRAY and JOSEPH K. HEUMANN

Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual ten-sions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documen-

taries and feature � lms explore environmental-human con� icts by depicting the consequences of our overcon-sumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy.

Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as re� ected in the work of � lmmakers from the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent � lms such as Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science � ction action � lm highlight-ing oxygen as a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these � lms as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This interdisciplinary approach to � lm studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable devel-opment as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.

Robin L. Murray is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Joseph K. Heumann is a professor emeritus of communication studies at Eastern Illinois University. Murray and Heumann are the coauthors of Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge; That’s All Folks: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features (Nebraska, 2011); and Gun� ght at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment.

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The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing has produced a strong sense that understanding mediafrom oral storytelling, literary nar-rative, newspapers, and comics to radio, � lm, TV, and video gameskey to understanding the dynamics of culture and society.

across Media explores how media, old and new, give

Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual ten-sions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documen-

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Writings from the Sand, Volume 2Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt

iSabelle eberhardt

Edited and with an introduction by

Marie-odile delaCour and Jean-renÉ huleu

Translated by Melissa Marcus

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas for-bidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she studied the Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually con-

verted to Islam. Eberhardt traveled throughout North Africa, wrote about her experiences, and married an Algerian. Her legendary, short, and stormy life included subversive political anarchism, the mysticism of Islam, numerous love aff airs, and, most importantly, writing unmatched by her contemporaries. The merit of Eberhardt’s writings, similar to that of many artists, was neither known nor valued until after her death. The companion to volume 1, Writings from the Sand, Volume 2, showcases the prose of one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating female wander-ers and includes previously unpublished stories and an unfi nished novel. This new volume exemplifi es Eberhardt’s creation of identity in fi ction as her writing explores the world of prostitutes, Bedouins, and French colonists in exotic tales of love and conquest.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) died at the age of twenty-seven in a fl ash fl ood in the desert town of Aïn Sefra, Algeria. Melissa Marcus is the translator of Fawzia Assaad’s Layla, an Egyptian Woman, and Malika Mokeddem’s The Forbidden Woman (Nebraska, 1998), and Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt (Nebraska, 2012).

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The Pedagogical ImaginationThe Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century

French Literature and Film

leon SachS

French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic’s identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and fi lm on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representa-

tions of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a diff erent approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-fi rst-century French literature and fi lm, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from “what” literature and fi lm say about education to “how” they say it. He argues that the most important literary and fi lmic treatments of French education in recent years—the works of Agnès Varda, Érik Orsenna, Abdellatif Kechiche, François Bégaudeau—do more than merely depict the present-day school crisis. They explore ques-tions of education through experiments with form. The Pedagogical Imagination shows how such techniques engage present-day readers and viewers in acts of inter-pretation that reproduce pedagogical principles of ac-tive, experiential learning—principles at the core of late nineteenth-century educational reform that became vehicles for the diff usion of republican ideology. Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.

“Sachs weaves together disciplines that have traditionally been distinct (literature, literary theory, reading pedagogy, fi lm studies, history), and he does so in a way that is strikingly original and provocative.”—Mortimer Martin Guiney, author of Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic

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fiCtion / woMen’s studies / afriCa literary CritiCisM / frenCh studies

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas for-bidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she studied the Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually con-

verted to Islam. Eberhardt traveled throughout North

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My First Booke of My Lifealice thornton

Edited and with an introduction by

rayMond a. anselMent

An early modern domestic and spiri-tual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a complex, contradic-tory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and English civil

war as well as on a plethora of domestic dangers and diffi culties: from her reluctant marriage, which sought to rescue the sequestered family estate and clear her brother’s name, to fi nancial crises, to the illnesses and deaths of several family members and six children, to slanderous criticisms of her fi delity and her parenting. This fi rst complete edition of an autobiographical apologia begins with recollections of Thornton’s child-hood and ends with the death of her husband, restor-ing almost half of the original text omitted from the nineteenth-century edition. The image she fashions of a woman devoted to God and family evolves from the conventional format of the deliverance memoir into a rhetorically sophisticated defense of her life in re-sponse to rumored scandal. Inseparable from the praise of God and family is the distinctive sense of identity that emerges from the introduction, text, and annota-tions, all of which provide a signifi cant contribution to early modern woman’s writing. Raymond A. Anselment is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is the au-thor and editor of several books, including The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

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early Modern Cultural studies seriesCarol Levin and Marguerite Tassi, series editorS

Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsSelected Tales, Essays, and Poems

elizabeth Stuart phelpS

Edited by elizabeth duQuette

and Cheryl tevlin

Introduction by elizabeth duQuette

The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her fi rst major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred thousand

copies, making it one of the best-selling American works of the nineteenth century. Through the next four decades Phelps published hundreds of essays, tales, and poems, which appeared in every major American periodical, while also writing novels, including Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887). Phelps’s legacy as an important American writer, however, has been hurt by the seeming contradictions between her life and work. For example, she was an ardent advocate for women’s rights both inside and outside marriage, but her stories seem to glorify the sort of extreme self-sacrifi ce associated with the most conservative domestic ideology. In this collection, the editors seek to restore Phelps’s reputation by bringing together a diverse collection from the entire body of her lifetime of work. From arguments for suff rage to harrowing tales of Reconstruction, these essays, along with short fi ction and poetry, provide a new perspec-tive on a major American writer from the later nine-teenth century.

Elizabeth Duquette is an associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America. Cheryl Tevlin graduated summa cum laude from Gettysburg College in 2010.

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legaCies of nineteenth-Century aMeriCan woMen writers seriesTheresa Strouth Gaul, series editor

autobiograPhy / woMen’s studies literary ColleCtions / woMen’s studies

An early modern domestic and spiri-tual memoir, Life(1626–1707), a complex, contradic-tory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and English civil

war as well as on a plethora of domestic dangers and

The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her fi rst major novel, international success, the novel sold more than six hundred thousand

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Ethos and Narrative InterpretationThe Negotiation of Values in Fiction

lieSbeth korthalS alteS

Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive eff ects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How and why do readers

attribute an ethos (of, for example, sincerity, reliability, authority, or irony) to literary characters, narrators, and even to authors? Are there particular conditions under which it is more appropriate for interpreters to attribute an ethos to authors, rather than to narrators? In the answer Liesbeth Korthals Altes proposes to such questions, she argues that such ethos attributions are deeply implicated in the process of interpreting and evaluating narrative texts. Demonstrating the extent to which ethos attributions, and hence, interpretive acts, play a tacit role in many methods of narratological analysis, Korthals Altes also questions the agenda and epistemological status of various narratologies, both classical and post-classical. Her approach, rooted in a broad understanding of the role and circulation of narrative art in culture, rehabili-tates interpretation, both as a tool and as an object of investigation in narrative studies.

Liesbeth Korthals Altes is a professor of general lit-erature in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the author or coeditor of several books including Authorship Revisited: Conceptions of Authorship around 1900 and 2000 and The Autonomy of Literature at the Fins de Siècles (1900 and 2000): A Critical Assessment.

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Reading UnrulyInterpretation and Its Ethical Demands

zahi zalloua

Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Read-ing Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical dou-ble bind, hesitating then between

the two confl icting injunctions of either thematizing (making sense) of the literary work, or attending to its aesthetic alterity or unreadability. Creatively hesitating between incommensurable demands (to interpret but not to translate back into fa-miliar terms), ethical readers are invited to cultivate an appreciation for the unruly, to curb the desire for her-meneutic mastery without simultaneously renouncing meaning or the interpretive endeavor as such. Examin-ing French texts from Montaigne’s sixteenth-century Essays to Diderot’s fi ctional dialogue Rameau’s Nephew and Baudelaire’s prose poems The Spleen of Paris, to the more recent works of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy, and Marguerite Duras’s The Ravishing of Lol Stein, Reading Unruly demon-strates that in such an approach to literature and theory, reading itself becomes a desire for more, an ethical and aesthetic desire to prolong rather than to arrest the act of interpretation.

Zahi Zalloua is an associate professor of French and interdisciplinary studies at Whitman College. He is the coeditor of Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body and the author of Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism.

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syMPloke– studies in ConteMPorary theory seriesJeff rey R. Di Leo, series editor

literary CritiCisM / PhilosoPhy literary CritiCisM

Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, ing Unrulyboth an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical dou-ble bind, hesitating then between

the two confl icting injunctions of either thematizing

Ethos and Narrative Interpretationexamines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive eff ects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How and why do readers

attribute an ethos (of, for example, sincerity, reliability,

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Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociol-ogy not only emerged in the same period, but—antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding—also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often per-ceived as destroying unity and “social cohesion.” Antisemi-tism was likewise a response to the modern age, offering in its vilifications of “the Jew” an explanation of society’s defi-ciencies and crises. Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology is a collec-tion of twelve original essays providing a comparative anal-ysis of modern antisemitism and the rise of sociology. This volume addresses three key areas: the strong influence of writers of Jewish background and the rising tide of antisemi-tism on the formation of sociology; the role of antisemitism in the historical development of sociology through its treat-ment by leading figures in the field, such as Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, and Theodor W. Adorno; and the discipline’s development in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. Togeth-er the essays provide a fresh perspective on the history of sociology and the role that antisemitism, Jews, fascism, and the Holocaust played in shaping modern social theory. Marcel Stoetzler is a lecturer in sociology at Bangor Univer-sity. He is the author of The State, the Nation, and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Ger-many (Nebraska, 2008).

Contributors: Y. Michal Bodemann, Werner Bonefeld, Detlev Claussen, Robert Fine, Gino Germani, Chad Alan Goldberg, Irmela Gorges, Jonathan Judaken, Richard H. King, Daniel Lvovich, Amos Morris-Reich, Roland Robertson, Marcel Stoetzler, and Eva-Maria Ziege.

“Anyone in the social sciences concerned with antisemitism,

prejudice, racism, myth, ideology, and theory should be

interested in this volume.”—Mark P. Worrell, associate

professor at the State University of New York, Cortland, and

author of Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the

Frankfurt School

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FrOm amBivalenCe tO BetrayalThe Left, the Jews, and IsraelRobert S. Wistrich$55.00s hardcover • 978-0-8032-4076-6

Jean-Paul sartre anD the JeWish QuestiOnAnti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French IntellectualJonathan Judaken$29.95x paperback • 978-0-8032-2489-6

Jewish studies / soCial sCienCe / history

Antisemitism and the Constitution of SociologyEdited and with an introduction

by marcel Stoetzler

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In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Ari-zona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an alto-gether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive fi eld study, Shorter’s interpretation of the commu-nity’s ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of “historical inscription” reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their Testamento narrative of myth and history, and their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church pro-cessions. Working collaboratively with Yoeme communities, Shorter has produced a scrupulous investigation that challenges re-ceived wisdom from both anthropological and New Age per-spectives, demonstrates how Yoeme performances provide a counterdiscourse to earlier understandings of colonialism and conquest, and updates our knowledge of contemporary Yoeme society. Shorter’s vivid descriptions and penetrating analyses vividly show how today’s Yoeme peoples navigate the tribulations and opportunities of the twenty-fi rst century.

David Delgado Shorter is an associate professor and vice chair in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Shorter breaks new ground in relating history and ethnography,

in contributing to the study of Native American religions, and

in emphasizing the signifi cance of spatial relationships to

cultural realities.”—Raymond J. Demallie, Journal of Folklore

Research

“An extraordinary work of engaged ethnography, We Will

Dance Our Truth questions familiar oppositions of myth

and history, orality and writing. . . . He writes with poetic

sensitivity, intellectual rigor, and a deep commitment to Yoeme

sovereignty.”—James Cliff ord, author of The Predicament of

Culture

“Detailed and nuanced. David Shorter appropriately and

impressively tips the balance in favor of the people whose

stories he tells as he grapples with their history and how

scholars can most eff ectively be in conversation with those

they write about.”—Robert Warrior, author of Tribal Secrets:

Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions

native studies

We Will Dance Our TruthYaqui History in Yoeme Performances

david delgado Shorter

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A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)kriStine Stenzel

This volume is the fi rst descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in

the complex Vaupés social system, characterized by long-standing linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when increasing outside infl uence in the region trig-gered rapid social and linguistic change. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people, and their language, though still used in traditional com-munities, is in risk of becoming endangered. Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revital-ize their language. Working with dozens of native speakers and drawing on numerous oral narratives and written texts, this book is the fi rst comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few refer-ence grammars of this language family.

Kristine Stenzel is a professor of linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her articles have appeared in International Journal of American Linguistics, Studies in Language, and edited volumes.

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Native American EnvironmentalismLand, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness

Joy porter

In Native American Environmental-ism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as “wilderness” and “na-ture.” The confl ict between Christian environmentalist thinking and in-digenous views, a confl ict intimately linked to the current environmental

crisis in the United States, is explored through an analy-sis of parks and wilderness areas, gardens and garden-ing, and indigenous approaches to land as expressed in contemporary art, novels, and historical writing. Countering the inclination to associate indigenous peoples with “wilderness” or to confl ate everything

“Indian” with a vague sense of the ecological, Joy Porter shows how Indian communities, forced to migrate to make way for the nation’s “wilderness” parks in the nineteenth century, have as a result often been forced to cope with much of the modern world’s environmen-tal despoliation and have in fact even gone on to fi ght key environmental battles. By linking Native American history to mainstream histories and current debates, Porter begins the process of shifting debate about cli-mate change away from scientists and literary environ-mental writers, a project that will be central to tackling environmental crises in the twenty-fi rst century. Joy Porter is a professor of indigenous history at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. She is the author of Native American Freemasonry: Associational-ism and Performance in America (Nebraska, 2011) and the coauthor of Competing Voices from Native America and The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.

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and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

native studies / environMent / sPirituality native studies / referenCe

In ismin North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as “wilderness” and “na-ture.” The confl ict between Christian environmentalist thinking and in-digenous views, a confl ict intimately linked to the current environmental

crisis in the United States, is explored through an analy-

This volume is the fi rst descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in

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Vanished ArizonaRecollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition

martha SummerhayeS

Introduction by louise barnett

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When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those fi rst few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Sum-

merhayes, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of “a whole house,” she was informed that

“women are not reckoned in at all in the War Depart-ment.” Although Martha Summerhayes’s recollections span a quarter of a century and recount life at a dozen army posts, the heart of this book concerns her experiences during the 1870s in Arizona, where the harsh climate, rattlesnakes, cactus thorns, white desperadoes, and other inconveniences all made for a less-than-desirable posting for the Summerhayeses. First printed in 1908, Vanished Arizona is Summer-hayes’s memoir of her years as a military wife as her husband’s Eighth Regiment conducted Gen. George Crook’s expedition against the Apaches. It was so well received that she became an instant celebrity and the book a timeless classic. The book retains its place securely among the essential primary records of the frontier-military West because of the narrative skill of the author and her delight in life. Louise Barnett is a professor of American studies at Rutgers University and the author of a number of books, including Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer, available in a Bison Books edition.

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Prairie Dog EmpireA Saga of the Shortgrass Prairie

paul a. JohnSgard

This book by the renowned natural-ist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environ-mental story of the western Great Plains under the black-tailed prairie dog’s reign—and then under a brief but devastating century of human dominion. An introduction to the ecosystem

of the shortgrass prairie, Prairie Dog Empire describes in clear and detailed terms the habitat and habits of black-tailed prairie dogs; their subsistence, seasonal behavior, and the makeup of their vast colonies; and the ways in which their “towns” transform the sur-rounding terrain—for better or for worse. Johnsgard recounts how this terrain has in turn been transformed over the past century by the destruction of prairie dogs and their grassland habitats. This book also off ers a rare and invaluable close-up view of the rich history and threatened future of the creature once considered the

“keystone” species of the western plains. Included are maps, drawings, and listings of more than two hundred natural grassland preserves where many of the region’s native plants and animals may still be seen and studied.

Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Regents Professor Emeritus in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the winner of the 2004 National Conservation Achievement Award and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, both sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the author of more than fi ve dozen books on natural his-tory, including Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America’s Wetlands (available in a Bison Books edition).

June264 PP. • 6 x 9 • 35 illustrations, 9 MaPs, 12 tables, 2 aPPendixes$19.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-5487-9 $22.95 canadian / £13.99 uk

western history / woMen’s studies natural history / great Plains

When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those fi rst few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Sum-

merhayes, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen

This book by the renowned natural-ist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environ-mental story of the western Great Plains under the black-tailed prairie dog’s reignbut devastating century of human dominion. An introduction to the ecosystem

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QuotidianaEssays

patrick madden

In Quotidiana Patrick Madden illumi-nates common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfi g-ure the overlooked and underappre-ciated. Madden muses on the origins of human language, the curative properties of laughter, and the joys and woes of fatherhood. Sparked

by considerations of selling garlic, washing grapes, changing a diaper, or chipping a tooth, his essays are an antidote to the harried hullabaloo of talk-show and tabloid culture—and a reminder that we are surrounded by wonders that whisper to the curious and attentive. Ingenuous and erudite, and with a beguiling wit, Madden examines the intricate tapestry of ordinary life in its extraordinary patterns. His book is a poetic and engaging exploration of the unexpectedly wide scope of our everyday existence.

Patrick Madden is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essays have appeared in a variety of periodicals as well as in The Best Creative Nonfi ction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies.

“Words form constellations; they glitter on the pages. . . . There is a religiosity here, though not the usual kind. It’s a glow on the horizon, a low light, something to think our way toward.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

“At once an approachable and postmodern composition, Quotidiana presents an enthralled, refl exive mind at work. Readers will eagerly await [Madden’s] next thought.” —Janelle Adsit, ForeWord Reviews

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Honyocker DreamsMontana Memories

david mogen

Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories dramatizes “recovery” both as healing and as reconstruc-tion of a past that haunts and enriches the present. David Mogen’s narrative begins with his dying father’s reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, and then weaves through his own memories

about the postfrontier world of Indian reservations and farming towns that endure on the Montana “Hi-Line,” that fl at expanse of Big Sky country that lies hard against the Canadian border east of the Rockies. Mogen’s journey of recovery includes heartfelt, often humorous stories defi ning his family’s “honyocker” history, shaped by the dreams and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners. The narrative chronicles boom-and-bust tales about grow-ing up in small-town Montana in the 1950s, about the culture shock associated with leaving the Hi-Line in the 1960s, about a healing gift from Blackfeet relatives, and about traveling to Ireland to refl ect on family ties to Marcus Daly, Butte, Montana’s “Copper King.” Mogen suggests how the eras of his own childhood and the frontier world of his ancestors have shaped him and our American heritage as we move further into the twenty-fi rst century.

David Mogen is professor emeritus of English at Colorado State University. He is the coeditor of several books, including Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature, and is the author of Ray Bradbury and Wilderness Visions: The Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature.

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Winner of the 2011 indePendent Publisher book of the year award

Winner of the 2011 assoCiation for MorMon letters award

Finalist for the 2011 Pen Center usa literary award

In nates common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfi g-ure the overlooked and underappre-ciated. Madden muses on the origins of human language, the curative properties of laughter, and the joys and woes of fatherhood. Sparked

by considerations of selling garlic, washing grapes,

Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memoriesboth as healing and as reconstruc-tion of a past that haunts and enriches the present. David Mogen’s narrative begins with his dying father’s reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, and then weaves through his own memories

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The old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone’s parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church oper-ated like a religious city hall, and where he grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar begin-nings and failed, fl awed religion. When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discov-ers that there is more to “old haunts” than mere words—and more to severing one’s roots than just getting away. The Last Street Before Cleveland chronicles Mackall’s de-scent into his past: the story of how, looking for answers about his lost friend, he stumbles onto larger questions about himself. With clear-eyed candor, Mackall describes the resur-facing of dormant demons, the opening of the old chasms of depression and addiction, and the discovery, at rock bottom, of a fl ickering faith that casts a surprising light over every-thing that has come before. Mackall’s is, fi nally, a story about life—lived and lost, given and earned.

Joe Mackall is a professor of English at Ashland University, as well as a cofounder and editor of the nonfi ction journal River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfi ction Narrative. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on NPR’s Morning Edition, and he is the author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish.

“Powerfully imagined and poetically told.”—New Brunswick Reader

“Joe Mackall has written a stunning blue-collar memoir of recovery that goes far beyond the conventional dependency narrative.”—Robert Atwan, editor of the Best American Essays series

“Beautifully written—honest, naked, graceful.”—Brian Doyle, author of Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies

“Joe Mackall’s masterful memoir . . . is that rare account that deserves the name ‘spiritual journey.’”—Sydney Lea, author of A Little Wildness and Hunting the Whole Way Home

MeMoir / l iterary nonfiCtion

The Last Street Before ClevelandAn Accidental Pilgrimage

Joe mackall

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Ambassadors from EarthPioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft

Jay gallentine

Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our fi rst mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrion-ics and cliff -hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi fi lm. But it all really happened! Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by

previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the people who conceived, built, and guided our fi rst unmanned spacecraft and planetary probes. From the Sputnik and Explorer satellites of the late 1950s, to the thrilling Voyager “Grand Tour” of the ’70s and ’80s, they yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age. Confessed one participant, “We were making it up as we went along.” Gallentine fearlessly clambers to the bottom of a surprisingly bitter controversy over who fi rst developed the technique of using gravity to steer a spacecraft. Also of special note are his candid discussions with James Van Allen, the discoverer of the rings of plan-etary radiation that now bear his name.

Jay Gallentine is a space historian who strives to tell never-before-heard stories of the space age in a light-heartedly appealing, readable, and nontechnical style.

Winner of the 2009 eugene M. eMMe award for Astronautical Literature

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outward odyssey: a PeoPle’s history of sPaCeflight seriesColin Burgess, series editor

Riders of Judgment, Second Editionfrederick manfred

Introduction by thoMas PoPe

Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authen-tic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time—the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars. Riders of Judgment centers on the

three Hammett brothers and their cousin Rosemary, whom all three love. To the oldest brother, Cain, falls the lot of avenging the murder of his father, grandfa-ther, and brother. Cain—who is in a sense a cowboy Hamlet—is torn by confl icts within himself. He desires peace yet is forced to wear a gun. He is a law-abiding man by instinct yet has to take the law into his own hands. He is loved by a woman but rejects her because he feels unworthy of her love. Then one spring morning the cattle barons invade his territory, and Cain’s hesitancy vanishes. One man’s in-ner struggle becomes a fi ght to turn the cattle kingdom into a free country for the small stockman.

Riders of Judgment is the fi nal book in Frederick Man-fred’s fi ve-volume series, The Buckskin Man Tales.

Frederick Manfred (1912–94) is the author of twenty-four novels, including the fi ve-volume series The Buckskin Man Tales, which includes Conquering Horse, Lord Grizzly (fi nalist for the 1954 National Book Award), and Scarlet Plume, all available in Bison Books editions, as well as King of Spades.

april380 PP. • 5 ½ x 8 ½$21.95 PaPerbaCk • 978-0-8032-4881-6 $25.50 canadian / £15.99 uk

sPaCeflight / history fiCtion / aMeriCan west

Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authen-tic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished timecowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.

three Hammett brothers and their cousin Rosemary,

Ambassadors from Earththat our fi rst mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrion-ics and cliff -hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi fi lm. But it all really happened! Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by

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The Life of Kit Carsonalan e. grey

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, ex-plorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, offi cer, hunter, and rancher. In The Life of Kit Carson, Alan E. Grey invites young readers to join Kit as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen to fi nd adventure along

the beaver streams; ride with him and John Fremont as they explore the untamed West, taking cover as Kit trades gunfi re in the Mexican-American War; and witness his encounters with Indians in the Navaho and Southern Plains campaigns. Composed of stories discovered through years of research, this book is an exciting and easy-to-read, action-packed tale. Young readers and adults alike will fi nd both education and entertainment in this masterfully presented life story. Alan E. Grey has graduate degrees in chemistry and has worked as a chemist for most of his adult life. Since retirement, he has followed his lifelong interest in western history. He is the author of The Life of Chief Joseph (available in a Bison Books edition).

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The Life of Chief Josephalan e. grey

In The Life of Chief Joseph readers encounter the story of the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph and the events leading up to his now-famous dec-laration: “From where the sun now stands, I will fi ght no more forever.” Alan E. Grey weaves a historically accurate biography full of colorful stories gleaned from careful research,

telling a fascinating tale and off ering the reader a thorough history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War. Grey captures the spirit of this remarkable leader, from his youth through the struggles of his fi nal years. Young readers and adults alike will both enjoy and learn from this riveting account of one of the most signifi cant American Indian fi gures of the nineteenth century. Alan E. Grey has graduate degrees in chemistry and has worked as a chemist for most of his adult life. Since retirement, he has followed his lifelong interest in west-ern history. He is the author of The Life of Kit Carson (available in a Bison Books edition).

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also of interest

kit CarsOn anD the WilD FrOntierRalph Moody$13.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-8304-6

also of interest

stanDing Bear OF the POnCaVirginia Driving Hawk Sneve $14.95 paperback • 978-0-8032-2826-9

biograPhy / young readers / native studiesbiograPhy / young readers / aMeriCan west

Kit Carson, the quintessential frontiersman, is remembered as a larger-than-life mountain man, ex-plorer, trapper, guide, soldier, Indian agent, offi cer, hunter, and rancher. In The Life of Kit Carsoninvites young readers to join Kit as he strikes out on his own at the age of sixteen to fi nd adventure along

the beaver streams; ride with him and John Fremont

In encounter the story of the Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph and the events leading up to his now-famous dec-laration: “From where the sun now stands, I will fi ght no more forever.” Alan E. Grey weaves a historically accurate biography full of colorful stories gleaned from careful research,

telling a fascinating tale and off ering the reader a

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A Game of BrawlThe Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

bill felber

Foreword by

senator edward M. kennedy

It was probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history. And it was a struggle to defi ne how baseball would be played. This book recreates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputa-tion as the dirtiest team in baseball.

Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and Foxy Ned Hanlon were proven winners—but their nasty tactics met with widespread disapproval among fans. So it was that their pennant race with the comparatively saintly Beaneaters took on a decidedly moralistic air. Bill Felber brings to life the most intensely watched team sporting event in the country’s history to that time. His book captures the drama of the fi nal week, as the race came down to a three-game series. And fi nally, it conveys the madness of the third and decisive game, when thirty thousand fans literally knocked down the gates and walls of a facility designed to hold ten thou-sand to watch the Beaneaters grind out a win and bring down baseball’s fi rst and most notorious evil empire. Bill Felber recently retired as the executive editor of the Manhattan Mercury. He is the author of The Book on the Book: An Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work.

winner of the 2007 sPorting news-sabr baseball researCh award

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Mr. Wrigley’s Ball ClubChicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age

robertS ehrgott

Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and fl appers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the

revolutionary technology of broadcasting to attract eager throngs of women to his renovated ballpark. Mr. Wrigley’s Ball Club transports us to this heady era of baseball history and introduces the team at its crazy heart—an amalgam of rakes, pranksters, schem-ers, and choirboys who take center stage in memorable successes, equally memorable disasters, and shadowy intrigue. Readers take front-row seats to meet Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Joe McCarthy, Lewis “Hack” Wilson, and Gabby Hartnett. The cast of characters also includes their colorful if less-extolled teammates and the Cubs’ nemesis, Babe Ruth, who terminates the ambitions of Mr. Wrigley’s ball club with one emphatic swing. Roberts Ehrgott has written for and edited several national publications, including the Saturday Evening Post. He served as a historical consultant for Mark Jacob and Stephen Green’s Wrigley Field: A Celebration of the Friendly Confi nes.

“Roberts Ehrgott has written a graceful, engrossing account of an era in which the Cubs, while already falling short of winning the World Series, built a national following in the age of fl ash, fl appers, mobsters, molls, bank runs and breadlines.”—Scott Simon, Chicago Tribune

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baseball / aMeriCan history baseball / aMeriCan history

It was probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history. And it was a struggle to defi ne how baseball would be played. This book recreates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputa-tion as the dirtiest team in baseball.

Future Hall of Famers John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler,

Chicago in the Roaring Twenties was a city of immigrants, mobsters, and fl appers with one shared passion: the Chicago Cubs. It all began when the chewing-gum tycoon William Wrigley decided to build the world’s greatest ball club in the nation’s Second City. In this Jazz Age center, the maverick Wrigley exploited the

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Joe CroninA Life in Baseball

mark armour

From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of baseball, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseball’s major players, both on the fi eld and off . For most of his playing career, Cro-nin (1906–84) was the best shortstop in baseball. Elected to the Hall of

Fame in 1956, he was a manager by the age of twenty-six and a general manager at forty-one. He was the youngest player-manager ever to play in the World Se-ries, and he managed the Red Sox longer than any other man in history. As president of the American League, he oversaw two expansions, four franchise shifts, and the revolutionary and controversial introduction of the designated-hitter rule, which he wrote himself. This book follows Cronin from his humble beginnings to his position as one of the most powerful fi gures in baseball. Mark Armour explores Cronin’s time as a player as well as his role in some of the game’s fi ercest controversies, from the creation of the All-Star Game to the issue of integration. Bringing to life one of base-ball’s defi nitive characters, this book supplies a crucial and fascinating chapter in the history of America’s pastime.

Mark Armour is the editor The Great Eight: The 1975 Cincinnati Reds (Nebraska, 2014) and a coeditor of Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers: The 1970 Baltimore Orioles (Nebraska, 2012).

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Throwing Hard EasyRefl ections on a Life in Baseball

robin robertS with c. paul rogerS iii

Foreword by stan Musial

New foreword by JaMes roberts

New introduction by C. Paul rogers iii

With a seemingly eff ortless motion, pinpoint control, a blazing, dancing fastball, and an unequaled competi-tive spirit, Robin Roberts enjoyed one of the most celebrated careers in baseball history. He made his Major League debut in the summer of 1948 and became one of the most notable sports fi gures of the fi fties. His many

accomplishments on the mound helped to make him one of the more distinguished residents of Coopers-town, and he will always be remembered as the most dominant National League pitcher of his time. In addition, Roberts was as impressive a storyteller as he was an athlete, and his experiences and encounters leading up to, throughout, and following his incredible nineteen-year career made for an extraordinary life. Throwing Hard Easy is Roberts’s own account, recalling his childhood, his playing days, and life after baseball. This edition features new photographs and a new foreword by his son, James Roberts, as well as a new introduction by his coauthor and lifelong fan, C. Paul Rogers III. Robin Roberts (1926–2010) was a Major League pitcher who spent most of his career with the Phillies and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. He is the coauthor of The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant (with C. Paul Rogers III). C. Paul Rogers III is the coauthor of several books, including Lucky Me: My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball (with Eddie Robinson).

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biograPhy / baseball MeMoir / baseball

From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of baseball, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseball’s major players, both on the fi eld and off . For most of his playing career, Cro-nin (1906–84) was the best shortstop in baseball. Elected to the Hall of

Fame in 1956, he was a manager by the age of twenty-

With a seemingly eff ortless motion, pinpoint control, a blazing, dancing fastball, and an unequaled competi-tive spirit, Robin Roberts enjoyed one of the most celebrated careers in baseball history. He made his Major League debut in the summer of 1948 and became one of the most notable sports fi gures of the fi fties. His many

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Alexander CartwrightThe Life behind the Baseball Legend

monica nucciarone

Foreword by John thorn

Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820–92) was present during the organization of the Knickerbock-er Base Ball Club of New York in the mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, Cart-wright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As

with Doubleday, however, Cartwright’s claim to fame has also spawned all sorts of conjecture and controversy. His complex life, not just the mythog-raphy surrounding him, comes clearly into focus in Monica Nucciarone’s biography of the incomparable Cartwright. Nucciarone traces Cartwright’s path from Elysian Fields in New Jersey to a gold-rush adventure in California, and on to Honolulu, where he became involved in the movement to annex Hawaii to the United States. Beginning with the widely held no-tion that Cartwright created the game of baseball as we know it today, then spread it across North America to Hawaii like a Johnny Appleseed, Nuc-ciarone’s book separates fact from speculation. Although the picture that emerges may not be the Alexander Cartwright of legend, it shows us a man as colorful, complicated, and immense in character as any legend he inspired. Monica Nucciarone is a professor and faculty counselor advisor at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Washington and teaches part-time in the fi eld of social sciences and career development. John Thorn is the offi cial historian for Major League Baseball.

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My Guardian AngelSylvie Weil

Translated by gillian rosner

The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrifi ed of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion.

This is not Nazi Germany but Troyes, France, in 1096, as seen through the eyes of funny, feisty, twelve-year-old Elvina. She is the granddaughter of the great rabbi Rashi, and she knows how to read and write—which is very rare for a girl of her time. She draws strength from this, as well as from her guardian angel, to whom she regularly speaks. On a cold Sabbath afternoon while Elvina is alone in the house, three soldiers pound at her door. One of them is wounded. Elvina has only a moment to make a diffi cult choice that could put her family and the entire community at risk. Can her guardian angel guide her and keep her safe?

My Guardian Angel is a story of compassion and toler-ance that speaks clearly to readers of all faiths. Elvina’s voice lingers long in memory, and her courage and humor long in the heart.

Sylvie Weil is the author of several works of adult fi ction and the Elvina trilogy, a series of French novels for young adults. Gillian Rosner has translated many award-wining books for children, including Secrets from 0 to 10 and A Book of Coupons.

Winner of the Prix Sorciéres, France’s most prestigious award for children’s literature

a sydney taylor honor book

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fiCtion / young readers / Jewish studiesbiograPhy / baseball

Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820–92) was present during the organization of the Knickerbock-er Base Ball Club of New York in the mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, Cart-wright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As

with Doubleday, however, Cartwright’s claim to

The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrifi ed of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion.

This is not Nazi Germany but Troyes, France, in 1096,

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Illustrated by vera rosenberry

Anne Frank loved to play tennis and swim. She enjoyed being with her friends in school and couldn’t resist chattering during class. But, tragical-ly, Anne was growing up in Holland during the Second World War, when all European Jews lived in grave dan-ger. When Dutch Jews were forced to leave their homes, Anne and her

family found a hiding place. Anne kept a diary in which she described the two years of their secret life. After the war ended, the diary was found and published. Her innocent account of the horrors of war was widely read, and it touched readers all over the world. This biography tells about Anne’s family and their lives before the Second World War, the Nazi persecution of Jews, and Anne’s years in hiding. Johanna Hurwitz’s readable, direct style enables young readers to share Anne’s childhood dreams and to feel the tension of the years that followed. The realistic black-and-white drawings by Vera Rosenberry bring Anne Frank even closer to readers’ hearts.

Johanna Hurwitz is the author of Leonard Bernstein: A Passion for Music, as well as many books of fi ction for young readers. Her book The Hot and Cold Summer won the Texas Bluebonnet Award and the Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award. Vera Rosenberry is the author and illustrator of several children’s books, including When Vera Was Sick, Vera Goes to the Dentist, Vera Rides a Bike, and Vera’s New School.

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Remember for LifeHolocaust Survivors’ Stories of Faith and Hope

Edited by brad hirSchfield

Stories of hope from the Holocaust. Memory is about choice. We can choose to remember the past in ways that provoke pain and stir our anger, or we can remember in ways that help us create the kind of world in which we most want to live. Nowhere is this choice more important than in connection to the

Holocaust. And never has it been more important than now, because we are the fi rst generation that will live without the presence of those who can tell us in their own words what they saw with their own eyes. These seventy-one fi rsthand stories from survivors of the Holocaust teach us to choose to remember for life, for their words are not about hatred and death but about ethics, decency, and love. Although the stories are arranged to accompany the weekly Torah read-ings and many of the Jewish holidays, they are just as meaningful when read on their own, in any sequence. The themes—journey, identity, resistance, community, refuge, and righteousness, to name but a few—are uni-versal. And the lessons—about how to live more fully the life we are given—shine through.

Brad Hirschfi eld is a radio show cohost and author of You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right: Finding Faith without Fanaticism. He is the copresident of CLAL–The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leader-ship and regularly listed as one of America’s “Fifty Most Infl uential Rabbis” by Newsweek.

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Jewish studies / holoCaustbiograPhy / history / young readers

Stories of hope from the Holocaust. Memory is about choice. We can choose to remember the past in ways that provoke pain and stir our anger, or we can remember in ways that help us create the kind of world in which we most want to live. Nowhere is this choice more important than in connection to the

Holocaust. And never has it been more important than

Anne Frank loved to play tennis and swim. She enjoyed being with her friends in school and couldn’t resist chattering during class. But, tragical-ly, Anne was growing up in Holland during the Second World War, when all European Jews lived in grave dan-ger. When Dutch Jews were forced to leave their homes, Anne and her

family found a hiding place.

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