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Virginia Woolf wrote that reading is a pursuit which devours a great deal of time, and is yet apt to leave behind it nothing very substantial. Do youagree?

Luckily for me, I am not threatened by the kind of illness that eventually led Virginia Woolf into the river. Im just tired. Being that, I find that reading is more rewarding than ever. If I read something Ive read before, Im refreshed by being able to bring to it a new angle based on experience. And if I read something new, I do so with a new hunger, and, as far as I can tell, a whole new clarity. Only just lately I have been going right through Empsons poems again, and finding them as brilliant as they are elusive; and I have been reading Brownings The Ring and the Book seriously for the first time right through, and have found it to be a wonderful mixture of genius and willful obliquity. I only wish I had enough time left to recite it aloud: when you try that, even for just a single page, you find that its weird faults are impossible to smooth over. So my critical urge is stillactive.

How has your response to books changed as your life hasprogressed?

My response to books has improved throughout my life, until now, finally, I am fit to be a proper student. There ought to be a university for the old and sick, where, unless youre on your last legs, you arent allowed into the library. I have this vision of nonagenerians taking their first crack at, say, Popes Homer. Actually Im about to read that one again, but Im far tooyoung.

A conversation with Clive James

Latest ReadingsClive James

An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death

In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that if you dont know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do, James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would live, read, and perhaps even write. James is the award-winning author of doz-ens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of Jamess old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family, and on living anddying.

As thoughtful and erudite as the works of Alberto Manguel, and as moving and inspiring as Randy Pauschs The Last Lecture and Will Schwalbes The End of Your Life Book Club, this valediction to Jamess lifelong engagement with the written word is a captivat-ing valentine from one of the great literary minds of ourtime.

CLIVE JAMES is an Australian memoirist, poet, translator, critic, and broadcaster. He has written more than thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including CulturalAmnesia.

As a reader and writer confronting death, Clive James has all the creative energy and charm of a man discovering life. These thoughtful essays are immensely appealing, their tone is beautifully judged. Cleverly, he re-reads in order to measure the past. With this and his recent poetry, he could outlive us all.Ian McEwan

Clive James is perhaps the most original and distinctive literary-critical voice of the last half-century.Martin Amis

August Memoir/Literature Cloth 978-0-300-21319-5 $25.00/16.99 Also available as aneBook. 192 pp. 5 x 7 34 World

Clive James, brilliant to the (near) end, turns his readings and re-readings of everyone and everything from Hemingway and Conrad to Patrick OBrian and Game of Thrones into sharp, funny meditations onamong much elseclass, beauty, mimicry, memory, manhood, death (other peoples), and life (his own). Long may his dazzling, long farewell continue.SalmanRushdie

Clive Jamess inevitable humor, sanity, erudition, enthusiasm, and crystal keenness are everywhere evident in Latest Readings, but perhaps its greatest grace is the opportunity it gives to feel as if youre spending time in his company, listening and learning for at least a little while longer. If its mini essays (and some not so mini) seem to float from Jamess mind into yours, it is only because a lifetime of reading, thinking, feeling, and formulating has gone into them, registering the pure, responsive authority of a writer with nothing left to prove but so much left to say.James Wolcott

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Virginia Woolf wrote that reading is a pursuit which devours a great deal of time, and is yet apt to leave behind it nothing very substantial. Do youagree?

Luckily for me, I am not threatened by the kind of illness that eventually led Virginia Woolf into the river. Im just tired. Being that, I find that reading is more rewarding than ever. If I read something Ive read before, Im refreshed by being able to bring to it a new angle based on experience. And if I read something new, I do so with a new hunger, and, as far as I can tell, a whole new clarity. Only just lately I have been going right through Empsons poems again, and finding them as brilliant as they are elusive; and I have been reading Brownings The Ring and the Book seriously for the first time right through, and have found it to be a wonderful mixture of genius and willful obliquity. I only wish I had enough time left to recite it aloud: when you try that, even for just a single page, you find that its weird faults are impossible to smooth over. So my critical urge is stillactive.

How has your response to books changed as your life hasprogressed?

My response to books has improved throughout my life, until now, finally, I am fit to be a proper student. There ought to be a university for the old and sick, where, unless youre on your last legs, you arent allowed into the library. I have this vision of nonagenerians taking their first crack at, say, Popes Homer. Actually Im about to read that one again, but Im far tooyoung.

A conversation with Clive James

Latest ReadingsClive James

An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death

In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that if you dont know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do, James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would live, read, and perhaps even write. James is the award-winning author of doz-ens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of Jamess old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family, and on living anddying.

As thoughtful and erudite as the works of Alberto Manguel, and as moving and inspiring as Randy Pauschs The Last Lecture and Will Schwalbes The End of Your Life Book Club, this valediction to Jamess lifelong engagement with the written word is a captivat-ing valentine from one of the great literary minds of ourtime.

CLIVE JAMES is an Australian memoirist, poet, translator, critic, and broadcaster. He has written more than thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including CulturalAmnesia.

As a reader and writer confronting death, Clive James has all the creative energy and charm of a man discovering life. These thoughtful essays are immensely appealing, their tone is beautifully judged. Cleverly, he re-reads in order to measure the past. With this and his recent poetry, he could outlive us all.Ian McEwan

Clive James is perhaps the most original and distinctive literary-critical voice of the last half-century.Martin Amis

August Memoir/Literature Cloth 978-0-300-21319-5 $25.00/16.99 Also available as aneBook. 192 pp. 5 x 7 34 World

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PedigreeA Memoir

Patrick ModianoTranslated by Mark Polizzotti

Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano admits that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree is thetheme.

In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early yearsshad-owy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his finest books by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world goneby.

Pedigree sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in Suspended Sentences, Dora Bruder, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable, colorful world of his parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the most haunting moments of his early life, such as the death of his ten-year-old brother. Pedigree, Modianos only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writinglife.

PATRICK MODIANO, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for lit-erature and an internationally beloved novelist, has been honored with an array of prizes, including the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca by the Institut de France for lifetime achievement and the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in Paris. MARK POLIZZOTTI has translated more than forty books from the French and is director of the publications program at TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork.

Quite a pedigree has this ever-more-fascinating Nobel Prize-winner.James Campbell, TLS

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Also by PatrickModiano: Suspended Sentences Three Novellas Paper 978-0-300-19805-8 $16.00 Paris Nocturne See page 28 After the Circus See page 29

August Memoir Cloth 978-0-300-21533-5 $25.00 Also available as aneBook. 144 pp. 5 x 7 34 For sale in the US and Canada only

Pedigree is a late work for Patrick Modiano that deals with his youth. What do we learn abouthim?

Several things that I believe are essential to understanding Modianos fictions. First, just how closely certain key recurring episodes in his novels are patterned on real events from his early life, and how profoundly they have shaped his sensibility. But also we learn about the context in which he grew up. For instance, certain areas of Paristhe Bois de Boulogne, or particular streets in the 6th or 16th arrondissementshow up frequently in his works; this memoir gives the backstory. More significantly, Modiano alludes in various novels to his problematic relations with his absentee mother and distant but controlling father; only after reading Pedigree did I truly grasp that complicated and heartbreakingdynamic.

Winning the Nobel Prize in 2014 certainly changed the fortune of Modianos literary career. How do you see his work in the tradition of Nobellaureates?

One of the things that most appeals to me about Modianos writing is its apparent modestyor rather, its ability to treat some of the great issues of the twentieth century, such as human responsibility in times of crisis or the vicissitudes of identity, without grandstanding or self-conscious profundity. Unlike many Nobel winners, his work does not proclaim its importance, but instead remains on a personal, human scale; the more universal significance of his writings is read, as it were, between the lines. This deceptively simple, local quality makes his work, to my mind, much more accessible and enjoyable to read than the works of many recent laureatesbut no less deserving of thehonor.

A conversation with translator Mark Polizzotti

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PedigreeA Memoir

Patrick ModianoTranslated by Mark Polizzotti

Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano admits that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree is thetheme.

In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early yearsshad-owy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his finest books by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world goneby.

Pedigree sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in Suspended Sentences, Dora Bruder, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable, colorful world of his parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the most haunting moments of his early life, such as the death of his ten-year-old brother. Pedigree, Modianos only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writinglife.

PATRICK MODIANO, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for lit-erature and an internationally beloved novelist, has been honored with an array of prizes, including the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca by the Institut de France for lifetime achievement and the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He lives in Paris. MARK POLIZZOTTI has translated more than forty books from the French and is director of the publications program at TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork.

Quite a pedigree has this ever-more-fascinating Nobel Prize-winner.James Campbell, TLS

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Also by PatrickModiano: Suspended Sentences Three Novellas Paper 978-0-300-19805-8 $16.00 Paris Nocturne See page 28 After the Circus See page 29

August Memoir Cloth 978-0-300-21533-5 $25.00 Also available as aneBook. 144 pp. 5 x 7 34 For sale in the US and Canada only

Pedigree is a late work for Patrick Modiano that deals with his youth. What do we learn abouthim?

Several things that I believe are essential to understanding Modianos fictions. First, just how closely certain key recurring episodes in his novels are patterned on real events from his early life, and how profoundly they have shaped his sensibility. But also we learn about the context in which he grew up. For instance, certain areas of Paristhe Bois de Boulogne, or particular streets in the 6th or 16th arrondissementshow up frequently in his works; this memoir gives the backstory. More significantly, Modiano alludes in various novels to his problematic relations with his absentee mother and distant but controlling father; only after reading Pedigree did I truly grasp that complicated and heartbreakingdynamic.

Winning the Nobel Prize in 2014 certainly changed the fortune of Modianos literary career. How do you see his work in the tradition of Nobellaureates?

One of the things that most appeals to me about Modianos writing is its apparent modestyor rather, its ability to treat some of the great issues of the twentieth century, such as human responsibility in times of crisis or the vicissitudes of identity, without grandstanding or self-conscious profundity. Unlike many Nobel winners, his work does not proclaim its importance, but instead remains on a personal, human scale; the more universal significance of his writings is read, as it were, between the lines. This deceptively simple, local quality makes his work, to my mind, much more accessible and enjoyable to read than the works of many recent laureatesbut no less deserving of thehonor.

A conversation with translator Mark Polizzotti

5General InterestTHE MARGELLOS WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS

The President and the ApprenticeEisenhower and Nixon, 19521961

Irwin F. Gellman

Based on twenty years of research, a book that rewrites the history of the Eisenhower presidency

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ikes administration worked or what it accomplished. We knowor think we knowthat Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, and kept him at arms length; that he did little to advance civil rights; that he sat by as Joseph McCarthys reckless anticommunist campaign threat-ened to wreck his administration; and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. None of this istrue.

The President and the Apprentice reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon. Ike trusted and relied on Nixon, sending him on many sensitive over-seas missions. Eisenhower, not Truman, desegregated the military. Eisenhower and Nixon, not Lyndon Johnson, pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 through the Senate. Eisenhower was determined to bring down McCarthy and did so. Nixon never, contrary to recent accounts, saw a psychotherapist, but while Ike was recovering from his heart attack in 1955, Nixon was overworked, overanxious, overmedicated, and at the limits of his ability tofunction.

IRWIN F. GELLMAN is the author of four previous books on American presidents. He is currently at work on a volume on Nixon and Kennedy. He lives in Parkesburg, PA.

The President and the Apprentice is an important, illuminating book. There has been a great deal written about Eisenhower and Nixon in recent years, but none of us has done the archival work done by Irv Gellman, or even close.Evan Thomas, author of Ikes Bluff

August History/Biography Cloth 978-0-300-18105-0 $40.00/25.00 Also available as aneBook. 832 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 32 b/w illus. World

Advance Praise for The PresidenT and The aPPrenTice

The conclusions and research are irrefutable. Gellman is spot-on about Ikes management style, his and Nixons working relationship, his strengths as a bureaucratic leader, his civil rights record, his handling with Nixon of McCarthy, his impact on domestic policy, his handling of the Sputnik episode, and his dominance of and leadership in foreign policy. Overall, a wonderfully succinct summary of very complex stuff. This will be, hands down, the most important book ever written on Nixons vice presidency and his relationship to the president.DavidA. Nichols, author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

Irwin Gellmans superb research and plausible reconstruction of the Eisenhower-Nixon relationship may well revolutionize the meaning of historical revisionism. The President and the Apprentice is an unsettling tour de force.David Levering Lewis, author of King: A Biography and W.E.B. Du Bois: ABiography, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Irv Gellman gives us a clear and carefully researched look at Ike as a leader and mentor of Richard Nixon. He provides plenty of new material that provides a fresh look at this important relationship.GeorgeP. Shultz, author of Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State

No future study of the Eisenhower-Nixon years can afford to ignore what Gellman has accomplished. His insights illuminate every significant issue from Ikes election in 1952 to the rise of Nixon as his successor, all with awesome scholarship. This is a major work of history and biography.HerbertS. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America

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The President and the ApprenticeEisenhower and Nixon, 19521961

Irwin F. Gellman

Based on twenty years of research, a book that rewrites the history of the Eisenhower presidency

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ikes administration worked or what it accomplished. We knowor think we knowthat Eisenhower distrusted his vice president, Richard Nixon, and kept him at arms length; that he did little to advance civil rights; that he sat by as Joseph McCarthys reckless anticommunist campaign threat-ened to wreck his administration; and that he planned the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. None of this istrue.

The President and the Apprentice reveals a different Eisenhower, and a different Nixon. Ike trusted and relied on Nixon, sending him on many sensitive over-seas missions. Eisenhower, not Truman, desegregated the military. Eisenhower and Nixon, not Lyndon Johnson, pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 through the Senate. Eisenhower was determined to bring down McCarthy and did so. Nixon never, contrary to recent accounts, saw a psychotherapist, but while Ike was recovering from his heart attack in 1955, Nixon was overworked, overanxious, overmedicated, and at the limits of his ability tofunction.

IRWIN F. GELLMAN is the author of four previous books on American presidents. He is currently at work on a volume on Nixon and Kennedy. He lives in Parkesburg, PA.

The President and the Apprentice is an important, illuminating book. There has been a great deal written about Eisenhower and Nixon in recent years, but none of us has done the archival work done by Irv Gellman, or even close.Evan Thomas, author of Ikes Bluff

August History/Biography Cloth 978-0-300-18105-0 $40.00/25.00 Also available as aneBook. 832 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 32 b/w illus. World

Advance Praise for The PresidenT and The aPPrenTice

The conclusions and research are irrefutable. Gellman is spot-on about Ikes management style, his and Nixons working relationship, his strengths as a bureaucratic leader, his civil rights record, his handling with Nixon of McCarthy, his impact on domestic policy, his handling of the Sputnik episode, and his dominance of and leadership in foreign policy. Overall, a wonderfully succinct summary of very complex stuff. This will be, hands down, the most important book ever written on Nixons vice presidency and his relationship to the president.DavidA. Nichols, author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

Irwin Gellmans superb research and plausible reconstruction of the Eisenhower-Nixon relationship may well revolutionize the meaning of historical revisionism. The President and the Apprentice is an unsettling tour de force.David Levering Lewis, author of King: A Biography and W.E.B. Du Bois: ABiography, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Irv Gellman gives us a clear and carefully researched look at Ike as a leader and mentor of Richard Nixon. He provides plenty of new material that provides a fresh look at this important relationship.GeorgeP. Shultz, author of Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State

No future study of the Eisenhower-Nixon years can afford to ignore what Gellman has accomplished. His insights illuminate every significant issue from Ikes election in 1952 to the rise of Nixon as his successor, all with awesome scholarship. This is a major work of history and biography.HerbertS. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America

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Humans Need Not ApplyA Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jerry Kaplan

An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work

After billions of dollars and fifty years of effort, research-ers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. As society stands on the cusp of unprecedented change, Jerry Kaplan unpacks the latest advances in robotics, machine learning, and perception powering systems that rival or exceed human capabilities. Driverless cars, robotic helpers, and intelligent agents that promote our interests have the potential to usher in a new age of affluence and leisure but as Kaplan warns, the transi-tion may be protracted and brutal unless we address the two great scourges of the modern developed world: vol-atile labor markets and income inequality. He proposes innovative, free-market adjustments to our economic system and social policies to avoid an extended period of social turmoil. His timely and accessible analysis of the promise and perils of artificial intelligence is a must-read for business leaders and policy makers on both sides of theaisle.

JERRY KAPLAN is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, and best-selling author. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University and teaches ethics and impact of artificial intelligence in the Computer ScienceDepartment.

New technologies are poised to vastly increase wealth, but for whom? Kaplan makes a persuasive case that future growth may be driven more by assets than labor, and offers unique policy proposals to promote a more equitable future.LawrenceH. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and president emeritus of Harvard University

August Technology/Economics Cloth 978-0-300-21355-3 $35.00/20.00 Also available as aneBook. 256 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 World

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The Elements of PowerGadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S. Abraham

A natural resource strategist investigates the growing global demand for rare metals and what it means to the environment and our future

Our future hinges on a set of rare metals that few of us have even heard of. In this eye-opening book, a natural resource strategist reveals the critical importance of these transformative elements to our technological lifestyle and the consequences of our reli-ance upon them, including geopolitical instability and environmentaldegradation.

To see our growing dependency, you need only look at your smartphone: cerium buffs the glass; indium allows your screen to respond to touch; terbium makes images more vibrant; and lithium helps it store energy. Abraham provides readers with a front-row seat to the life of these metals, tracing the paths of these high-tech elements through a dozen countries from the mine to ourpockets.

But its not just smartphones that rely on these metals; they are the building blocks of modern society because they are critical for nearly all our electronic, military, and green technologies. Just as oil, iron, and bronze revolutionized previous eras, so too will these metals. The challenges this book reveals, and the plans it pro-poses, make it essential reading for our rare metalage.

DAVID S. ABRAHAM is a natural resource strategist who previ-ously analyzed risk on Wall Street and at an energy-trading firm, oversaw natural-resources programs at the White House Office of Management and Budget, and ran a water-focused NGO in Africa. He currently serves as senior fellow at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Los AngelesTimes.

This book has assembled and organized a large number of fascinating stories about rare metals.RoderickG. Eggert, Colorado School of Mines and Critical Materials Institute

October CurrentEvents/Technology/Economics Cloth 978-0-300-19679-5 $30.00/20.00 Also available as aneBook. 288 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 3 b/w illus. World

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Who are the readers of this book, and how do you hope to inspirethem?

This is a book for adults masquerading as one for young people. Thats said tongue-in-cheek, but still ... When I was an eighth grader, the last thing I wanted to endure was high-minded civics lectures. So my first rule here is, treat younger readers as adults. Keep the story engaging and fast-paced, but also honest and about the big picture. Because there are also vast numbers of adults out there who had the American history beaten out of them in dull social studies classes. Those adults deserve better. And too few historians write forthem.

Which key events in American history shaped the nation mostpowerfully?

Id turn the question around. How do a thousand smaller pieces of history come together to shape key events? Look at the Civil War. If the purpose of a democratic republic is to resolve conflicts peacefully, then the Civil War is the republics biggest failure. How did that happen? Its perhaps the strangest story in our history, of how the ideas of equality and liberty were growing and spreading at the very same time that inequality and slavery were becoming more deeply entrenched in Americansociety.

Of the countless individuals in American history, do you have afavorite?

Many favorites, not one. But heres a clich: Washington. You knowthe bland, blank face on the dollar bill? I found myself liking him more and more as I got to know him. In the depths of the Revolution, begging his bedraggled soldiers in the most affectionate manner to reenlist. Grinning, shouting, and waving a handkerchief at the prospect of trapping the British at Yorktown. So embarrassed by the honors heaped upon him on the way to his first inauguration, he rose early and snuck out of town before his escort could arrive. Somber toward the end of his life at the thought that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union. And on that, he wasright.

A conversation with James West Davidson

A Little History of the United StatesJames West Davidson

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equal-ity to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidsons vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first con-tact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishingresources.

In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hun-dreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from her escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided anddiverse.

JAMES WEST DAVIDSON, a widely respected historian, has writ-ten on American history and the detective work that goes into it, as well as books about the outdoors. He is coauthor of The American Nation, which was for years the top-selling book on American his-tory in the U.S. He is also coauthor of Great Heart, cited by the National Geographic Society as one of the 100 greatest adventure books of all time. He lives in Rhinebeck, NY.

A persuasive and enjoyable read. Davidson faced a herculean task in condensing more than five hundred years of history into a slim volume. He fulfills this difficult brief with authority and brio.Richard Aldous, author of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

Visit the Little History website: www.littlehistory.org

September History Cloth 978-0-300-18141-8 $25.00/16.99 Also available as aneBook. 336 pp. 5 12 x 8 12 11 maps + 40 b/w illus. World

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Who are the readers of this book, and how do you hope to inspirethem?

This is a book for adults masquerading as one for young people. Thats said tongue-in-cheek, but still ... When I was an eighth grader, the last thing I wanted to endure was high-minded civics lectures. So my first rule here is, treat younger readers as adults. Keep the story engaging and fast-paced, but also honest and about the big picture. Because there are also vast numbers of adults out there who had the American history beaten out of them in dull social studies classes. Those adults deserve better. And too few historians write forthem.

Which key events in American history shaped the nation mostpowerfully?

Id turn the question around. How do a thousand smaller pieces of history come together to shape key events? Look at the Civil War. If the purpose of a democratic republic is to resolve conflicts peacefully, then the Civil War is the republics biggest failure. How did that happen? Its perhaps the strangest story in our history, of how the ideas of equality and liberty were growing and spreading at the very same time that inequality and slavery were becoming more deeply entrenched in Americansociety.

Of the countless individuals in American history, do you have afavorite?

Many favorites, not one. But heres a clich: Washington. You knowthe bland, blank face on the dollar bill? I found myself liking him more and more as I got to know him. In the depths of the Revolution, begging his bedraggled soldiers in the most affectionate manner to reenlist. Grinning, shouting, and waving a handkerchief at the prospect of trapping the British at Yorktown. So embarrassed by the honors heaped upon him on the way to his first inauguration, he rose early and snuck out of town before his escort could arrive. Somber toward the end of his life at the thought that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union. And on that, he wasright.

A conversation with James West Davidson

A Little History of the United StatesJames West Davidson

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equal-ity to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidsons vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first con-tact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishingresources.

In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hun-dreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from her escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided anddiverse.

JAMES WEST DAVIDSON, a widely respected historian, has writ-ten on American history and the detective work that goes into it, as well as books about the outdoors. He is coauthor of The American Nation, which was for years the top-selling book on American his-tory in the U.S. He is also coauthor of Great Heart, cited by the National Geographic Society as one of the 100 greatest adventure books of all time. He lives in Rhinebeck, NY.

A persuasive and enjoyable read. Davidson faced a herculean task in condensing more than five hundred years of history into a slim volume. He fulfills this difficult brief with authority and brio.Richard Aldous, author of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

Visit the Little History website: www.littlehistory.org

September History Cloth 978-0-300-18141-8 $25.00/16.99 Also available as aneBook. 336 pp. 5 12 x 8 12 11 maps + 40 b/w illus. World

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Eternitys SunriseThe Imaginative World of William Blake

Leo Damrosch

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blakes creative work while telling the story of his life

William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enig-matic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original sym-bolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a coun-terculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experiencesocial, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that neverends.

Following Blakes life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blakes poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The authors goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreci-ate Blakes imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of ourperception.

LEO DAMROSCH is Research Professor of Literature, Harvard University. His previous books include Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a National Book Award finalist; and Tocquevilles Discovery of America. He lives in Newton, MA.

Leo Damroschs luminous new book on William Blake forsakes esoteric scholarship and addresses itself to the common reader who is invited to a festive celebration of the great English poet who was also an extraordinary visual artist and a profound and original thinker.Harold Bloom

Also by LeoDamrosch: Jonathan Swift His Life and His World Paper 978-0-300-20541-1 $22.00/10.99

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Praise for Leo Damroschs JonaThanswifT: his Life and worLd

This will be the definitive life of Swift for years to come.Jonathan Bate, New Statesman

Superb.... Damroschs outstanding book has raised Swifts provocative genius to life.... Damrosch has brought [Swifts] vision into sharp focus and exposed its disquieting relevance.Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal

[A] commanding new biography.... Damrosch is gifted with a fluent style [and] sturdy sense of humor.John Simon, New York Times Book Review (EditorsChoice)

Damrosch tells this story ... with great energy and elegantly worn erudition. He restores to Swift the dignity he deserves, reminding us that the really shocking things about him lie not in his life but in his work.Fintan OToole, New York Review of Books

Leo Damrosch conjures up Jonathan Swift with hallucinatory vividness, allowing the contradictions of this baffling, elusive genius full rein. He recovers in rich detail the world in which Gullivers Travels and other enduring masterpieces were created. This is a brilliant and humane biography.Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

A lively and pleasurable experience: vigorous, compassionate, occasionally pugnacious, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.... Damroschs book, and the centuries-old voices in it, are alive and talking to us.Laura Collins-Hughes, Boston Globe

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Plutarch Award

Named a Best Book of 2013 by the Daily Beast literary editor LucasWittmann

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Eternitys SunriseThe Imaginative World of William Blake

Leo Damrosch

In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blakes creative work while telling the story of his life

William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enig-matic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original sym-bolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a coun-terculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of experiencesocial, political, philosophical, religious, erotic, and aesthetic. He believed that we live in the midst of Eternity here and now, and that if we could open our consciousness to the fullness of being, it would be like experiencing a sunrise that neverends.

Following Blakes life from beginning to end, acclaimed biographer Leo Damrosch draws extensively on Blakes poems, his paintings, and his etchings and engravings to offer this generously illustrated account of Blake the man and his vision of our world. The authors goal is to inspire the reader with the passion he has for his subject, achieving the imaginative response that Blake himself sought to excite. The book is an invitation to understanding and enjoyment, an invitation to appreci-ate Blakes imaginative world and, in so doing, to open the doors of ourperception.

LEO DAMROSCH is Research Professor of Literature, Harvard University. His previous books include Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a National Book Award finalist; and Tocquevilles Discovery of America. He lives in Newton, MA.

Leo Damroschs luminous new book on William Blake forsakes esoteric scholarship and addresses itself to the common reader who is invited to a festive celebration of the great English poet who was also an extraordinary visual artist and a profound and original thinker.Harold Bloom

Also by LeoDamrosch: Jonathan Swift His Life and His World Paper 978-0-300-20541-1 $22.00/10.99

October Biography/Literary Studies Cloth 978-0-300-20067-6 $30.00/18.99 Also available as aneBook. 288 pp. 7 x 9 40 color + 56 b/w illus. World

Praise for Leo Damroschs JonaThanswifT: his Life and worLd

This will be the definitive life of Swift for years to come.Jonathan Bate, New Statesman

Superb.... Damroschs outstanding book has raised Swifts provocative genius to life.... Damrosch has brought [Swifts] vision into sharp focus and exposed its disquieting relevance.Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal

[A] commanding new biography.... Damrosch is gifted with a fluent style [and] sturdy sense of humor.John Simon, New York Times Book Review (EditorsChoice)

Damrosch tells this story ... with great energy and elegantly worn erudition. He restores to Swift the dignity he deserves, reminding us that the really shocking things about him lie not in his life but in his work.Fintan OToole, New York Review of Books

Leo Damrosch conjures up Jonathan Swift with hallucinatory vividness, allowing the contradictions of this baffling, elusive genius full rein. He recovers in rich detail the world in which Gullivers Travels and other enduring masterpieces were created. This is a brilliant and humane biography.Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

A lively and pleasurable experience: vigorous, compassionate, occasionally pugnacious, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.... Damroschs book, and the centuries-old voices in it, are alive and talking to us.Laura Collins-Hughes, Boston Globe

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Plutarch Award

Named a Best Book of 2013 by the Daily Beast literary editor LucasWittmann

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What is Real Life Rock?In 1978 the UK group Magazine called their first album Real Life. I loved the absurdity of the idea that a bunch of songs could claim to be real lifeand I liked the idea that a column centered on music, but taking in everything that moves in and out of music: novels, poems, movies, commercials, news stories, critical theory, DJ patter, random snatches of dialogue, something overheard waiting in linecould pretend to do the same. Or try. Ten items every month or so, starting in the Village Voice in 1986, moving on to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, The Believer, now the Barnes & Noble Review. Its fun to write. It ought to be fun toread.

You tell many stories in this radioactive brick of a book. Could they be regarded as chapters in a single narrative, and if so, whats themoral?

You know, the term narrative has come to mean false story. For me, this is a never-ending conversation, between me and whatever Im writing about, but more than that, a conversation between all of the objects swimming through these columns. All the terrible tribute albums arguing with each other about why theyre not as bad as they seem. Robert Johnson and a beer commercial made out of his Cross Road Blues. Really, a Top 40 where the moral is, There is always something new under the sun.

Throughout the book, there are many nuggets of comedy, strange coincidences and unexpected twists, startling arguments and deliberate provocations. Anyfavorites?

The Oakland As applying themselves to Scarborough Fair. Patty McCormack at fifty-three defending her ten-year-old self at a screening of The Bad Seed in 1999. Hearing the Ass Ponys Swallow You Down and wondering if I could even get a fraction of the pain in the song on thepage.

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A conversation with Greil Marcus

Real Life RockGreil MarcusForeword by Dave Eggers

From the author of The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs comes his Basement Tapes: the complete Real Life Rock Top 10 columns

The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our great-est cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has writ-ten a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enor-mous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of culturaltransmission.

Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispens-able volume packed with startling arguments and casualbrilliance.

GREIL MARCUS has written many books, including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock n Roll Music and Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, and is the editor, with Werner Sollors, of A New Literary History of America. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Center at the City University of NewYork.

Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.David Kirby, Washington Post, on The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs

[It] has the energy of its obsessions, and it snares you in the manner of those intense, questing and often stoned sessions of intellectual debate you may have experienced in your college years. It was destined, in other words, to achieve cult status.Ben Brantley, New York Times, on Lipstick Traces

Also by GreilMarcus: The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs See page 83

October Popular Culture/Music History Cloth 978-0-300-19664-1 $35.00/25.00 600 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 1 b/w illus. World

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What is Real Life Rock?In 1978 the UK group Magazine called their first album Real Life. I loved the absurdity of the idea that a bunch of songs could claim to be real lifeand I liked the idea that a column centered on music, but taking in everything that moves in and out of music: novels, poems, movies, commercials, news stories, critical theory, DJ patter, random snatches of dialogue, something overheard waiting in linecould pretend to do the same. Or try. Ten items every month or so, starting in the Village Voice in 1986, moving on to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, The Believer, now the Barnes & Noble Review. Its fun to write. It ought to be fun toread.

You tell many stories in this radioactive brick of a book. Could they be regarded as chapters in a single narrative, and if so, whats themoral?

You know, the term narrative has come to mean false story. For me, this is a never-ending conversation, between me and whatever Im writing about, but more than that, a conversation between all of the objects swimming through these columns. All the terrible tribute albums arguing with each other about why theyre not as bad as they seem. Robert Johnson and a beer commercial made out of his Cross Road Blues. Really, a Top 40 where the moral is, There is always something new under the sun.

Throughout the book, there are many nuggets of comedy, strange coincidences and unexpected twists, startling arguments and deliberate provocations. Anyfavorites?

The Oakland As applying themselves to Scarborough Fair. Patty McCormack at fifty-three defending her ten-year-old self at a screening of The Bad Seed in 1999. Hearing the Ass Ponys Swallow You Down and wondering if I could even get a fraction of the pain in the song on thepage.

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A conversation with Greil Marcus

Real Life RockGreil MarcusForeword by Dave Eggers

From the author of The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs comes his Basement Tapes: the complete Real Life Rock Top 10 columns

The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our great-est cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has writ-ten a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enor-mous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of culturaltransmission.

Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispens-able volume packed with startling arguments and casualbrilliance.

GREIL MARCUS has written many books, including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock n Roll Music and Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, and is the editor, with Werner Sollors, of A New Literary History of America. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Center at the City University of NewYork.

Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.David Kirby, Washington Post, on The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs

[It] has the energy of its obsessions, and it snares you in the manner of those intense, questing and often stoned sessions of intellectual debate you may have experienced in your college years. It was destined, in other words, to achieve cult status.Ben Brantley, New York Times, on Lipstick Traces

Also by GreilMarcus: The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs See page 83

October Popular Culture/Music History Cloth 978-0-300-19664-1 $35.00/25.00 600 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 1 b/w illus. World

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What are you trying to achieve in thisbook?After Buddhism is the culmination of forty years of thinking about and practicing the dharma as a modern Westerner. I pull together a number of threads that I have explored in earlier writings, such as Buddhism without Beliefs. In all of my writings I address the question of how the teachings of this ancient Asian religion might speak to the condition of our secular age. This new work is an attempt to recover what was truly original about the Buddhas vision and to acquire a better understanding of the man himself. Recent scholarship affords us both a clearer picture of the historical world in which Gotama lived and more critical insight into the earliest discourses. Together, these allow the possibility of rethinking the dharma from the groundup.

Who have you written this bookfor?With the widespread adoption of mindfulness, more and more people find themselves practicing a form of meditation that is rooted in the Buddhist tradition. I hope this book might do for Buddhist ethics and philosophy what the mindfulness movement has done for Buddhist meditation: provide a framework of values and ideas that have been stripped of their religious and metaphysical associations to reveal a practical way of life that is available to allwhich might help us deal with some of the urgent questions we face as a human community in the twenty-firstcentury.

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A conversation with Stephen Batchelor

After BuddhismRethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

Stephen Batchelor

A renowned Buddhist teachers magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the traditions earliest texts

Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly sec-ular societies. But what does it mean to adapt religious practices to secularcontexts?

Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddhas teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age. After Buddhism, the culmination of four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada tra-ditions, is his attempt to set the record straight about who the Buddha was and what he was trying to teach. Combining critical readings of the earliest canonical texts with narrative accounts of five of the Buddhas inner circle, Batchelor depicts the Buddha as a prag-matic ethicist rather than a dogmatic metaphysician. He envisions Buddhism as a constantly evolving cul-ture of awakening, its long survival due to its capacity to reinvent itself and interact creatively with each society itencounters.

This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in todays globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddhas vision of humanflourishing.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR is known worldwide for his work as author, teacher, and scholar of Buddhism. His previous books include Buddhism without Beliefs and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. He lives in southwestFrance.

A daring and reasoned work of remarkable scope, vision, scholarship, and promise.Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses

Batchelor makes the dharma come thrillingly alive. A masterful achievement.Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker

October Zen Buddhism/Philosophy Cloth 978-0-300-20518-3 $28.50/18.99 Also available as aneBook. 320 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 World

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What are you trying to achieve in thisbook?After Buddhism is the culmination of forty years of thinking about and practicing the dharma as a modern Westerner. I pull together a number of threads that I have explored in earlier writings, such as Buddhism without Beliefs. In all of my writings I address the question of how the teachings of this ancient Asian religion might speak to the condition of our secular age. This new work is an attempt to recover what was truly original about the Buddhas vision and to acquire a better understanding of the man himself. Recent scholarship affords us both a clearer picture of the historical world in which Gotama lived and more critical insight into the earliest discourses. Together, these allow the possibility of rethinking the dharma from the groundup.

Who have you written this bookfor?With the widespread adoption of mindfulness, more and more people find themselves practicing a form of meditation that is rooted in the Buddhist tradition. I hope this book might do for Buddhist ethics and philosophy what the mindfulness movement has done for Buddhist meditation: provide a framework of values and ideas that have been stripped of their religious and metaphysical associations to reveal a practical way of life that is available to allwhich might help us deal with some of the urgent questions we face as a human community in the twenty-firstcentury.

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A conversation with Stephen Batchelor

After BuddhismRethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age

Stephen Batchelor

A renowned Buddhist teachers magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the traditions earliest texts

Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly sec-ular societies. But what does it mean to adapt religious practices to secularcontexts?

Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddhas teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age. After Buddhism, the culmination of four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada tra-ditions, is his attempt to set the record straight about who the Buddha was and what he was trying to teach. Combining critical readings of the earliest canonical texts with narrative accounts of five of the Buddhas inner circle, Batchelor depicts the Buddha as a prag-matic ethicist rather than a dogmatic metaphysician. He envisions Buddhism as a constantly evolving cul-ture of awakening, its long survival due to its capacity to reinvent itself and interact creatively with each society itencounters.

This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in todays globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddhas vision of humanflourishing.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR is known worldwide for his work as author, teacher, and scholar of Buddhism. His previous books include Buddhism without Beliefs and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. He lives in southwestFrance.

A daring and reasoned work of remarkable scope, vision, scholarship, and promise.Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses

Batchelor makes the dharma come thrillingly alive. A masterful achievement.Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker

October Zen Buddhism/Philosophy Cloth 978-0-300-20518-3 $28.50/18.99 Also available as aneBook. 320 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 World

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Six PoetsHardy to Larkin: An Anthology

Alan Bennett

The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works

In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this isso.

Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anec-dotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife Emma in his poetry, though he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon hisdeath.

Simultaneously profound and entertaining, Bennetts book is a paean to poetry and its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particularvoice.

ALAN BENNETT is a renowned playwright, many of whose plays have been staged at the Royal National Theatre. He is also widely admired as essayist, actor, and screenwriter, and his screenplay for The Madness of King George received an Academy Award nomina-tion. His dozens of books include Smut, The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories, A Life Like Other Peoples, and The Lady in the Van. Bennett lives in Camden Town in London, UK.

October Poetry Cloth 978-0-300-21505-2 $24.00 Also available as aneBook. 224 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 For sale in the US only

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WantedThe Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly

Robert M. Utley

A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly

The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly sur-vive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws reputations are so weighted with legend and myth, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In this adventure-filled double biography, Robert M. Utley reveals the true stories and parallel courses of the two notorious contemporaries who lived by the gun, were executed while still in their twenties, and remain com-pelling figures in the folklore of theirhomelands.

Robert M. Utley draws sharp, insightful portraits of first Billy, then Ned, and compares their lives and lega-cies. He recounts the adventurous exploits of Billy, a fun-loving, expert sharpshooter who excelled at escape and lived on the run after indictment for his role in the Lincoln Country War. Bush-raised Ned, the son of an Irish convict father and Irish mother, was a man whose outrage against British colonial authority inspired him to steal cattle and sheep, kill three policemen, and rob banks for the benefit of impoverished Irish sympathiz-ers. Utley recounts the exploits of the notorious young men with accuracy and appeal. He discovers their profound differences, despite their shared fates, and illuminates the worlds in which they lived on opposite sides of theglobe.

ROBERT M. UTLEY is an award-winning author of 21 books on western American history. He made his career in the National Park Service, rising to the position of chief historian and assistant director of the service. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ.

Any book by the dean of western narrative historians is cause for celebration. Such is the case here. No one has written a book comparing one of the western demigods with a comparable legendary character from another culture. The achievement is one of a kind.RichardW. Etulain, author of The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane

Also by Robert M. Utley: Geronimo Paper 978-0-300-19836-2 $20.00/14.99 The Last Days of the Sioux Nation Second Edition Paper 978-0-300-10316-8 $34.00 tx/22.00

November History/Biography Cloth 978-0-300-20455-1 $30.00/20.00 Also available as aneBook. 224 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 42 b/w illus. World

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What inspired you to investigate the natural history ofwine?

We were inspired to do this book when we found ourselves drinking wine as an inspirational aid while writing our last book together, on the evolution of the brain. It occurred to us that wine is a wonderful perspective through which to view almost every area of naturalscience.

Why are humans so enamored ofwine?There are plenty of evolutionary scenarios to explain both our ability to metabolize alcohol and our propensity to seek it out. Quite honestly, though, wine itself transcends purely reductionist explanations. It appeals comprehensively to our senses, but it is much more than simply a sensory stimulus. It is a wonderful metaphor for some fundamental aspects of humanexperience.

Do you have a favorite fact about any particular wine orvintage?

This book is about wine itself, rather than about particular wines, or styles of wine. However, a particular favorite is the Prephylloxera bottling from Mount Etna, made from ancient gnarled vines that somehow survived the epidemic that almost destroyed the wine industry in the late nineteenthcentury.

Where is winegoing?The chemistry of wine wont change in the future, and more than likely the genetics of wine wont either. But as an extension of the human spirit, wine will continue to challenge human creativity in exactly the same way it first did seven or eight thousand yearsago.

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A conversation with Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle

A Natural History of WineIan Tattersall and Rob DeSalleIllustrated by Patricia J. Wynne

A captivating survey of the science of wine and winemaking for anyone who has ever wondered about the magic of the fermented grape

An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wine one evening, it almost inevitably led the twoone a palaeoanthropolo-gist, the other a molecular biologistto begin exploring the many intersections between science and wine. This book presents their fascinating, freewheeling answers to the question What can science tell us about wine? And viceversa.

Conversational and accessible to everyone, this color-fully illustrated book embraces almost every imaginable area of the sciences, from microbiology and ecology (for an understanding what creates this complex beverage) to physiology and neurobiology (for insight into the effects of wine on the mind and body). The authors draw on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, evolution, and cli-matology, and they expand the discussion to include insights from anthropology, primatology, entomology, Neolithic archaeology, and even Classical history. The resulting volume is indispensible for anyone who wishes to appreciate wine to itsfullest.

IAN TATTERSALL is curator emeritus in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York City. ROB DeSALLE is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH.

A Natural History of Wine fills an important gap in our understanding of how the Eurasian grapevine evolved over millions of years to become the wine grape par excellence.PatrickE. McGovern, author of Ancient Wine and Uncorking the Past

Also by Rob DeSalle and IanTattersall: The Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs Paper 978-0-300-20572-5 $20.00/12.99 Also co-authored by RobDeSalle: Welcome to the Microbiome Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You See page 23

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What inspired you to investigate the natural history ofwine?

We were inspired to do this book when we found ourselves drinking wine as an inspirational aid while writing our last book together, on the evolution of the brain. It occurred to us that wine is a wonderful perspective through which to view almost every area of naturalscience.

Why are humans so enamored ofwine?There are plenty of evolutionary scenarios to explain both our ability to metabolize alcohol and our propensity to seek it out. Quite honestly, though, wine itself transcends purely reductionist explanations. It appeals comprehensively to our senses, but it is much more than simply a sensory stimulus. It is a wonderful metaphor for some fundamental aspects of humanexperience.

Do you have a favorite fact about any particular wine orvintage?

This book is about wine itself, rather than about particular wines, or styles of wine. However, a particular favorite is the Prephylloxera bottling from Mount Etna, made from ancient gnarled vines that somehow survived the epidemic that almost destroyed the wine industry in the late nineteenthcentury.

Where is winegoing?The chemistry of wine wont change in the future, and more than likely the genetics of wine wont either. But as an extension of the human spirit, wine will continue to challenge human creativity in exactly the same way it first did seven or eight thousand yearsago.

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A conversation with Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle

A Natural History of WineIan Tattersall and Rob DeSalleIllustrated by Patricia J. Wynne

A captivating survey of the science of wine and winemaking for anyone who has ever wondered about the magic of the fermented grape

An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wine one evening, it almost inevitably led the twoone a palaeoanthropolo-gist, the other a molecular biologistto begin exploring the many intersections between science and wine. This book presents their fascinating, freewheeling answers to the question What can science tell us about wine? And viceversa.

Conversational and accessible to everyone, this color-fully illustrated book embraces almost every imaginable area of the sciences, from microbiology and ecology (for an understanding what creates this complex beverage) to physiology and neurobiology (for insight into the effects of wine on the mind and body). The authors draw on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, evolution, and cli-matology, and they expand the discussion to include insights from anthropology, primatology, entomology, Neolithic archaeology, and even Classical history. The resulting volume is indispensible for anyone who wishes to appreciate wine to itsfullest.

IAN TATTERSALL is curator emeritus in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York City. ROB DeSALLE is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, AMNH.

A Natural History of Wine fills an important gap in our understanding of how the Eurasian grapevine evolved over millions of years to become the wine grape par excellence.PatrickE. McGovern, author of Ancient Wine and Uncorking the Past

Also by Rob DeSalle and IanTattersall: The Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs Paper 978-0-300-20572-5 $20.00/12.99 Also co-authored by RobDeSalle: Welcome to the Microbiome Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You See page 23

November Food Culture/Science Cloth 978-0-300-21102-3 $35.00/25.00 Also available as aneBook. 256 pp. 5 34 x 8 34 62 color illus. World

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SpeerHitlers Architect

Martin Kitchen

A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitlers chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subjects deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities

In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitlers Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speers life-long assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served sowell.

Kitchen reconstructs Speers life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challeng-ing the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious account-ing of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speers claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat wasinevitable.

MARTIN KITCHEN is professor emeritus of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of numerous books on European and German history. He lives in BritishColumbia.

This judicious and important book offers the best critical synthesis of Albert Speers life and his role in the Third Reich, and will undoubtedly become the standard text on Speer in English.Jan Vermeiren, co-editor of History

November Biography Cloth 978-0-300-19044-1 $37.50/20.00 Also available as aneBook. 392 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 16 pp. b/w illus. World

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Welcome to the MicrobiomeGetting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You

Rob DeSalle and Susan L. PerkinsIllustrated by Patricia J. Wynne

Revolutionary research is revealing how the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies can keep us healthyor make us sick

Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific tech-nology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies as well as in the places where we live, work, and play. This intriguing, up-to-the-min-ute book for scientists and nonscientists alike explains what researchers are discovering about the microbe world and what the implications are for modern science andmedicine.

Rob DeSalle and Susan Perkins illuminate the long, intertwined evolution of humans and microbes. They discuss how novel DNA sequencing has shed entirely new light on the complexity of microbe-human inter-actions, and they examine the potential benefits to human health: amazing possibilities for pinpoint treat-ment of infections and other illnesses without upsetting the vital balance of an individualmicrobiome.

This book has been inspired by an exhibition, The Secret World Inside You: The Microbiome, at the American Museum of Natural History, which will open in New York in early November 2015 and run until August 2016. It will then travel to other museums in the United States andabroad.

ROB DeSALLE is curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. He is author or coauthor of dozens of books, several based upon exhibitions at the AMNH. He lives in New York City. SUSAN L. PERKINS is curator of microbial systematics and genomics at AMNH. She lives in New YorkCity.

This is a really great read and a timely summary of a field that has just exploded. The authors do a great job of reviewing the literature in an accessible and accurate way, and the vignettes are really entertaining.PaulJ. Planet, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University

Also co-authored by RobDeSalle: The Brain Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs Paper 978-0-300-20572-5 $20.00/12.99 A Natural History of Wine See pp. 20-21

November Science/Biology Cloth 978-0-300-20840-5 $32.50/20.00 Also available as aneBook. 288 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 51 b/w illus. World

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An Argument Open to AllReading The Federalist in the 21st Century

Sanford Levinson

From one of Americas most distinguished constitutional scholars, an intriguing exploration of Americas most famous political tract and its relevance to todays politics

In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is per-haps Americas most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us understand the original intent of the framers of the Constitution, Levinson examines each essay for the political wisdom it can offer us today. In eighty-five short essays, each keyed to a different essay in The Federalist, he considers such questions as whether present generations can rethink their constitutional arrangements; how much effort we should exert to preserve Americas traditional culture; and whether The Federalists arguments even suggest the desirability of worldgovernment.

SANFORD LEVINSON holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas atAustin.

This book is a delight, and an excellent introduction to The Federalist. Almost anyone, whether beginner or experienced scholar, can benefit from reading Levinsons take on these classic essays.JackM. Balkin, Yale Law School

November Politics/History/Law Cloth 978-0-300-19959-8 $38.00/30.00 Also available as aneBook. 352 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 World

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The Grand Strategy of Classical SpartaThe Persian Challenge

Paul A. Rahe

A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world

More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticu-lously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the initial establishment of the Hellenic defensive coalition and was, in fact, the most essential player in its ultimatevictory.

Drawing from an impressive range of ancient sources, including Herodotus and Plutarch, the author veers from the traditional Atheno-centric view of the Greco-Persian Wars to examine from a Spartan perspective the grand strategy that halted the Persian juggernaut. Rahe provides a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Sparta circa 480 b.c., revealing how the Spartans form of government and the regimen to which they subjected themselves instilled within them the pride, confidence, discipline, and discernment necessary to forge an alli-ance that would stand firm against a great empire, driven by religious fervor, that held sway over two-fifths of the humanrace.

PAUL A. RAHE is the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and professor of history at Hillsdale College. His previous books include the seminal three-volume work Republics Ancient and Modern. Rahe lives in Hillsdale, MI.

The degree of originality in this book is remarkable. Its careful, detailed description and analysis of the Spartan constitution is full of keen understandings that help explain Spartan policy, diplomacy, and strategy.Donald Kagan, author of The Peloponnesian War

Yale Library of Military History

November History Cloth 978-0-300-11642-7 $38.00/25.00 416 pp. 6 18 x 9 14 44 b/w illus. World

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FlourishingWhy We Need Religion in a Globalized World

Miroslav Volf

A celebrated theologian explores how the greatest dangers to humanity, as well as the greatest promises for human flourishing, are at the intersection of religion and globalization

More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affect-ing everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both glo-balization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to livewell.

In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that it can be about more than breadalone.

MIROSLAV VOLF is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University and the author of several books, including Exclusion and Embrace, winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award inReligion.

Volf convincingly tackles one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century: how we can have a peaceful religious pluralism together with healthy globalisation. He not only gives the facts and analyses the situation perceptively, he also has the depth of understanding of a range of religions to produce a practical way forward that is both realistic and attractive.DavidF. Ford, University of Cambridge

January Religion Cloth 978-0-300-18653-6 $28.00/18.99 Also available as aneBook. 288 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 World

From Miroslav Volfs Flourishing:

Despite his fierce anger against God for letting him

suffer in a communist labor camp as an innocent man

and a socialist, my father, at the time a teenager on the

brink of death, embraced faith in Godas he tells the

story, it was God who embraced him!and ended up

a Pentecostal believer. The family into which I was

born was a faith-island, an austere but beautiful and

nurturing social microenvironment. With my first cry as

a newborn, I learned that not all forms of religiosity are

religions in the pejorative sensemind-shutting and

freedom-trampling cultural edifices used as instruments

of socialcontrol.

The Pentecostal movement started some forty years

before my fathers conversion, in Los Angeles, 6,318

miles as the crow flies from the camp where he, a

45-kilogram man, was condemned to carry 80-kilogram

sacks on his back. Pentecostalisms founder was William

Seymour (18701922), a black man and the son of

former slaves; he was in charge of the multiracial

and multiethnic mother congregation from which

Pentecostalism spread worldwide. Seymours faith

became my fathers faith because a Slovenian migrant

worker had converted in the United States and returned

back home to spread the good news. Within a single

century, the faith of a downtrodden black man from

the New World had engulfed the entire globe, shaped

the lives of more than half a billion human beings,

and garnered the sympathies of prominent religious

leaders like Pope Francis. Earlier and closer to home,

it delivered my father from death and made him into a

newman.

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FlourishingWhy We Need Religion in a Globalized World

Miroslav Volf

A celebrated theologian explores how the greatest dangers to humanity, as well as the greatest promises for human flourishing, are at the intersection of religion and globalization

More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affect-ing everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula, all the way to the inner longings of our hearts. Integral to both glo-balization and religions are compelling, overlapping, and sometimes competing visions of what it means to livewell.

In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that it can be about more than breadalone.

MIROSLAV VOLF is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University and the author of several books, including Exclusion and Embrace, winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award inReligion.

Volf convincingly tackles one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century: how we can have a peaceful religious pluralism together with healthy globalisation. He not only gives the facts and analyses the situation perceptively, he also has the depth of understanding of a range of religions to produce a practical way forward that is both realistic and attractive.DavidF. Ford, University of Cambridge

January Religion Cloth 978-0-300-18653-6 $28.00/18.99 Also available as aneBook. 288 pp. 5 12 x 8 14 World

From Miroslav Volfs Flourishing:

Despite his fierce anger against God for letting him

suffer in a communist labor camp as an innocent man

and a socialist, my father, at the time a teenager on the

brink of death, embraced faith in Godas he tells the

story, it was God who embraced him!and ended up

a Pentecostal believer. The family into which I was

born was a faith-island, an austere but beautiful and

nurturing social microenvironment. With my first cry as

a newborn, I learned that not all forms of religiosity are

religions in the pejorative sensemind-shutting and

freedom-trampling cultural edifices used as instruments

of socialcontrol.

The Pentecostal movement started some forty years

before my fathers conversion, in Los Angeles, 6,318

miles as the crow flies from the camp where he, a

45-kilogram man, was condemned to carry 80-kilogram

sacks on his back. Pentecostalisms founder was William

Seymour (18701922), a black man and the son of

former slaves; he was in charge of the multiracial

and multiethnic mother congregation from which

Pentecostalism spread worldwide. Seymours faith

became my fathers faith because a Slovenian migrant

worker had converted in the United States and returned

back home to spread the good news. Within a single

century, the faith of a downtrodden black man from

the New World had engulfed the entire globe, shaped

the lives of more than half a billion human beings,

and garnered the sympathies of prominent religious

leaders like Pope Francis. Earlier and closer to home,

it delivered my father from death and made him into a

newman.

Chr

istop