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Fungible LifeThe Cultural Logics of TransnationalityAIHWA ONGOctober 2016 304pp 10 illus.9780822362647 £20.99 PBDuke University PressExplores the dynamic world ofcutting-edge bioscience research,offering critical insights into thecomplex ways Asian bioscientificworlds and cosmopolitan sciencesare entangled in a tropical envi-ronment brimming with the threatof emergent diseases. In Ong’sanalysis, Asia emerges as a richlylayered mode of entanglements,where the population’s geneticpasts, anxieties and hopes, sharedgenetic weaknesses, and embat-tled genetic futures intersect.

Ice BearThe Cultural History of an Arctic IconMICHAEL ENGELHARDOctober 2016 288pp 145 colorillus., 1 map, 25 b&w illus.9780295999227 £24.99 PBUniversity of Washington PressPrime Arctic predator and nomadof the sea ice and tundra, the polarbear endures as a source of won-der, terror, and fascination. In theWhite Bear, we acknowledge themagic of wildness: it is both gen-uinely itself and a screen for ourimagination. With meticulous re-search and more than 160 illustra-tions, the author brings into focusthis powerful and elusive animal.Doing so, he delves into the sto-ries we tell about Nature—andabout ourselves—hoping for a fu-ture in which such tales still matter.

Placing Outer SpaceAn Earthly Ethnography of Other WorldsLISA MESSERISeptember 2016 256pp 38 illus.9780822362036 £19.99 PBExperimental FuturesDuke University PressMaking planets into places is cen-tral to the daily practices and pro-fessional identities of theastronomers, geologists, and com-puter scientists Messeri studies.The place-making work of plane-tary scientists, especially theirsearch for an Earth-like planet, al-lows us to understand the universeas densely inhabited by evocativeworlds, which in turn tells us moreabout Earth, ourselves, and ourplace in the cosmos.

Staying with the TroubleMaking Kin in the ChthuluceneDONNA J. HARAWAYSeptember 2016 304pp 31illus., incl. 2 in color9780822362241 £21.99 PBExperimental FuturesDuke University PressIn the midst of spiraling ecologicaldevastation, multispecies feministtheorist Haraway offers provocativenew ways to reconfigure our rela-tions to the earth and all its inhabi-tants. Learning to stay with thetrouble of living and dying to-gether on a damaged earth willprove more conducive to the kindof thinking that would provide themeans to building more livable fu-tures.

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Flock TogetherA Love Affair with Extinct BirdsB.J. HOLLARSFebruary 2017 224pp 9 photos,4 drawings9780803296428 £20.99 HBUniversity of Nebraska PressThis is a remarkable memoir thatshows how “knowing” the naturalworld—even just a small part—illu-minates what it means to be aglobal citizen and how only by em-bracing our ecological responsibili-ties do we ever become fullyhuman. A moving elegy to birdswe’ve lost, Hollars’s exploration ofwhat we can learn from extinctspecies will resonate in the mindsof readers long beyond the finalpage.

Across the Ussuri KrayTravels in the Sikhote-Alin MountainsVLADIMIR K. ARSENYEV TRANSLATED BY JONATHAN C.SLAGHT FOREWORD BY IVAN YEGORCHEVAugust 2016 416pp 9780253022158 £28.99 PBIndiana University PressIn Russia’s Far East sits the wild Us-suri Kray, a region known for its re-mote highlands and ruggedmountain passes where tigers andbears roam the cliffs. A collectionof travel writing by famed explorerand naturalist Arsenyev. Annotatedby Slaght, a biologist working inthe same forests he explored. Thisis a classic of northeast Asian cul-tural and natural history.

Apollo PilotThe Memoir of Astronaut Donn EiseleDONN EISELE EDITED BY FRANCIS FRENCH AFTERWORD BY SUSAN EISELEBLACKJanuary 2017 192pp 37 photos9780803262836 £20.99 HBOutward Odyssey: A People’sHistory of SpaceflightUniversity of Nebraska PressIn October 1968 Donn Eisele flewinto Earth orbit in Apollo 7. Unbe-knownst to everyone, after his re-tirement he wrote in detail abouthis time in the Apollo program.Readers can now experience anApollo story they assumed wouldnever be written as well as thestory behind its discovery.

Defending GiantsThe Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental PoliticsDARREN FREDERICK SPEECE FOREWORD BY PAUL S. SUTTEROctober 2016 328pp 9780295999517 £24.99 HBUniversity of Washington PressLogging operations have eatenaway at the giant redwood forestand today, such trees occupy amere 120,000 acres. Their exis-tence is testimony to the efforts ofactivists and very few conservationbattles have endured longer orwith more violence than on theNorth Coast of California.

Horned Armadillos andRafting MonkeysThe Fascinating Fossil Mammals ofSouth AmericaDARIN A. CROFT ILLUSTRATED BY VELIZAR SIMEONOVSKISeptember 2016 320pp 197color illus.9780253020840 £41.00 HBIndiana University PressOrganized as a “walk throughtime,” this book is the most exten-sive and richly illustrated volumedevoted exclusively to the Ceno-zoic mammals of South America.

Radiation Brain Moms andCitizen ScientistsThe Gender Politics of Food Contamination after FukushimaAYA HIRATA KIMURAAugust 2016 224pp 3 illus.9780822361992 £19.99 PBDuke University PressFollowing the Fukushima DaiichiNuclear Power Plant disaster in2011 many concerned citizens col-lected their own scientific data thatrevealed radiation-contaminatedfood.

Scarlet ExperimentBirds and Humans in AmericaJEFF KARNICKYNovember 2016 256pp 9780803294981 £37.00 HBUniversity of Nebraska PressRefers to the “scarlet experiment”by which scientists destroy a bird inorder to learn more about it. Kar-nicky traces the ways in which birdshave historically been seen asbeautiful creatures worthy of pro-tection and study and yet subjectto experiments—scientific, literary,and governmental—that have ir-revocably altered their relationshipwith humans.

Smitten by GiraffeMy Life as a Citizen ScientistANNE INNIS DAGGOctober 2016 216pp 9780773547995 £28.99 HBFootprints SeriesMcGill-Queen’s University PressWhen Dagg saw her first giraffe atthe age of three, she was smitten.The noted feminist reflects on herscientific work as well as the lead-ing role she has played in numer-ous activist campaigns.

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The Brain’s BodyNeuroscience and Corporeal PoliticsVICTORIA PITTS-TAYLORMarch 2016 200pp 9780822361268 £18.99 PBDuke University Press Brings feminist and critical theoryto bear on new development inneuroscience to demonstrate howpower and inequality are materiallyand symbolically entangled withneurobiological bodies. Pitts-Tay-lor is interested in how the braininteracts with and is impacted bysocial structures, especially in re-gard to race, class, gender, sexual-ity, and disability.

MatteringFeminism, Science, and MaterialismEDITED BY VICTORIA PITTS-TAYLORAugust 2016 320pp 9781479845439 £24.99 PBBiopoliticsNew York University PressPresents contemporary feministperspectives on the materialist or‘naturalizing’ turn in feminist the-ory, and also represents the newestwave of feminist engagement withscience. The volume addresses therelationship between human cor-poreality and subjectivity, ques-tions and redefines the boundariesof human/non-human andnature/culture, and elaborates onthe entanglements of matter,knowledge, and practice.

BioinsecuritiesDisease Interventions, Empire, andthe Government of SpeciesNEEL AHUJAApril 2016 280pp 16 illus.9780822360636 £20.99 PBANIMADuke University Press The book explores efforts to con-trol the spread of Hansen’s dis-ease, venereal disease, polio,smallpox, and HIV through inter-ventions linking the continentalUnited States to Hawai’i, Panamá,Puerto Rico, Cuba, Congo, Iraq,and India in the twentieth andtwenty-first centuries.

The Bare BonesAn Unconventional Evolutionary History of the SkeletonMATTHEW F. BONNANFebruary 2016 528pp 223 b&willus., 26 color illus.9780253018328 £62.00 HBLife of the PastIndiana University PressWhat can we learn about the evo-lution of jaws from a pair of scis-sors? With its engaging andinformative text, plus more than200 illustrative diagrams createdby the author, The Bare Bones isan unconventional and reader-friendly introduction to the skele-ton as an evolving machine.

Wildlife, Land, and PeopleA Century of Change in Prairie CanadaDONALD G. WETHERELLOctober 2016 616pp 9780773547919 £41.00 HBCarleton Library SeriesMcGill-Queen’s University PressEncounters with wild animals areamong the most significant rela-tionships between humans and thenatural world. Drawing on a widearray of historical sources and pho-tographs as well as current ap-proaches to environmental history,this book enriches our understand-ing of the many-layered relation-ships between humans and nature.

Stories from AfieldAdventures with Wild Things in Wild PlacesBRUCE L. SMITHOctober 2016 210pp 9780803288164 £15.99 PBUniveristy of Nebraska Press -Bison BooksOver the past four decades, Smithhas worked with most big-gamespecies in some of the AmericanWest’s most breathtaking and chal-lenging landscapes. Ranging fromhumorous to harrowing, Smith’s es-says recount capturing newbornelk calves, confrontations withbears during his research, plusquirky and edifying hunting tales.

We Could Not FailThe First African Americans in theSpace ProgramRICHARD PAUL & STEVEN MOSSSeptember 2016 312pp 9781477311134 £14.99 PBUniversity of Texas PressThis book tells the inspiring,largely unknown story of howshooting for the stars helped toovercome segregation on earth.Profiles ten pioneer African Ameri-can space workers whose stories il-lustrate the role NASA and thespace program played in promot-ing civil rights.

The Science of SympathyMorality, Evolution, and Victorian CivilizationROB BODDICENovember 2016 216pp 9780252082054 £22.99 PBUniversity of Illinois PressIn his Descent of Man, CharlesDarwin placed sympathy at thecrux of morality in a civilizedhuman society. Early Darwinistsformed a moral economy thatacted on a new system of ethics,reconceptualized obligations, andexecuted new duties. Boddice ar-gues that the bizarre, even danger-ous formulations of sympathy theyinvented influence society and civi-lization in the present day.

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The Mars ProjectWERNHER VON BRAUN & HENRY J. WHITEOctober 1962 112pp 9780252062278 £22.99 PBUniversity of Illinois PressThis classic on space travel wasfirst published when interplanetaryspace flight was considered sci-ence fiction by most of those whoconsidered it at all. Here Wernhervon Braun detailed what he be-lieved were the problems and pos-sibilities inherent in a projectedexpedition to Mars. Today he isrecognized as the person most re-sponsible for laying the ground-work for public acceptance ofAmerica's space program.

Infinity BeckonedAdventuring Through the Inner SolarSystem, 1969–1989JAY GALLENTINE FOREWORD BY BOBAK FERDOWSIJanuary 2016 496pp 52 photos9780803234468 £31.00 HBOutward Odyssey: A People'sHistory of SpaceflightUniversity of Nebraska PressIlluminates a critical period ofspace history when humans daredan expansive leap into the innersolar system. Conveys the trialsand triumphs of those who engi-neered the missions that put ro-botic spacecraft on the heavenlybodies nearest our own.

Bold They RiseThe Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986DAVID HITT & HEATHER R. SMITHFOREWORD BY ROBERT L. CRIPPENJune 2014 352pp 30 photos9780803226487 £31.00 HBOutward Odyssey: A People'sHistory of SpaceflightUniversity of Nebraska PressTells the story of the Space Shuttlethrough the personal experiencesof the astronauts, engineers, andscientists who made it happen—inspace and on the ground, from thedays of research and design to thetragic last minutes of the Chal-lenger disaster.

Go, Flight!The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992RICK HOUSTON & J. MILT HEFLINFOREWORD BY JOHN AARONDecember 2015 368pp9780803269378 £31.00 HBOutward Odyssey: A People'sHistory of SpaceflightUniversity of Nebraska PressInterviews with dozens of individu-als who worked in the historicthird-floor mission control roombring the compelling stories to life.Go, Flight! is a real-world reminderof where we have been and wherewe could go again given the rightpolitical and social climate.

Undoing MonogamyThe Politics of Science and the Possibilities of BiologyANGELA WILLEYMay 2016 224pp 9 illus.9780822361596 £19.99 PBDuke University Press Willey offers a radically interdisci-plinary exploration of the conceptof monogamy in U.S. science andculture, propelled by queer femi-nist desires for new modes of con-ceptualization and new forms ofbelonging.

Calling the ShotsWhy Parents Reject VaccinesJENNIFER A. REICHJune 2016 336pp 9781479812790 £24.99 HBNew York University PressThe measles outbreak at Disney-land in December 2014 spread to ahalf-dozen U.S. states and sick-ened 147 people.  It is just one re-cent incident that the medicalcommunity blames on the nation’sfalling vaccination rates. Reich ex-plores the phenomenon of  vac-cine refusal from the perspectivesof parents who distrust vaccinesand the corporations that makethem. 

Touching the Face of the CosmosOn the Intersection of Space Traveland ReligionEDITED BY PAUL LEVINSON ANDMICHAEL WELTEMATHEMarch 2016 256pp 12 b&w Illus.9780823272112 £15.99 PBFordham University PressDrawing on scientists and religiousthinkers—including a new inter-view with John Glenn and an essayby Director of the Vatican Observa-tory Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—thisbook puts space travel and religionon the map for anyone interestedin outer space, theology, and phi-losophy.

Fallen AstronautsHeroes Who Died Reaching for theMoon, Revised EditionCOLIN BURGESS & KATE DOOLAN FOREWORD BY EUGENE A. CERNANMay 2016 448pp 50 photos9780803285095 £31.00 HBOutward Odyssey: A People’sHistory of Spaceflight SeriesBy telling the stories of those six-teen astronauts and cosmonautswho died in the quest to reach themoon between 1962 and 1972, thisbook enriches the saga of hu-mankind’s greatest scientific un-dertaking, Project Apollo, andconveys the human cost of thespace race.

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