Spring 2007




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University Press of New England
Thoreau’s New England

Glorious photographs and pearls of the wisdom of Henry David Thoreau come together in a magnificent celebration of natural New England
Gorman, Stephen, photographs and selections

Wesleyan University Press
Action Speaks Louder
Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie


An authoritative and entertaining history of the action film
Lichtenfeld, Eric

University Press of New England
Wild Acadia
A Photographic Journey to New England’s Oldest National Park


An inspiring photographic journey to New England’s oldest and most visited national park
Monkman, Jerry and Marcy, Images; Text by Jerry Monkman

Wesleyan University Press
The Kip Brothers

Jules Verne’s extraordinary crime drama—now in English
Verne, Jules. Stanford L. Luce, tr. Arthur B. Evans, ed. Jean-Michel Margot, intro and notes.

University of Vermont Press
The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing

A lively biography of the famous homesteader and author Helen Knothe Nearing
Killinger, Margaret O.

Wesleyan University Press
Dub
Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae


The first inside story of this Jamaican reggae style
Veal, Michael E.

University Press of New England
How to Keep Your Children Safe

A Guide for Parents


An invaluable new guide to child safety
Vissing, Yvonne M.

Wesleyan University Press
Sensational Knowledge
Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance


A compelling ethnography of traditional dance and bodily knowledge
Hahn, Tomie

Wesleyan University Press
At Home in the World
Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage


The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form
O'Shea, Janet

Northeastern University Press
Return to Peyton Place

The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback
Metalious, Grace; Cameron, Ardis, intro.

Wesleyan University Press
The Returns of Alwin Nikolais
Bodies, Boundaries and the Dance Canon


Long overdue reflections on a visionary choreographer
Gitelman, Claudia and Randy Martin, editors

University Press of New England
Neon Dragon

The first Devlin and Knight mystery
Dobbyn, John F.

University of New Hampshire Press
Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It

An early 20th century case study of evolving grassroots notions of preservation and the role of women in the American conservation movement
Jarvis, Kimberly A.

University Press of New England
Bicycling on Boston’s North Shore

Discover Boston’s scenic and historic North Shore on two wheels
Turner, Roger L.

Wesleyan University Press
Stèles

First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation
Segalen, Victor

Northeastern University Press
Jon Vickers
A Hero's Life


The first biography of a legendary tenor.
Williams, Jeannie; Nilsson, Birgit, foreword

Northeastern University Press
55 Years In Five Acts
My Life in Opera


One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.
Varnay, Astrid; Arthur, Donald

Wesleyan University Press
American Poets in the 21st Century
The New Poetics


The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets
Rankine, Claudia and Lisa Sewell, Editors

Northeastern University Press
La Nilsson
My Life in Opera


The long-awaited English translation of the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson
Nilsson, Birgit and Popper, Doris Jung and Solti, Georg and Tuller, Peggy

Wesleyan University Press
The Coming Race

The story of a fascinating underground world of winged beings
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, David Seed, ed.

Northeastern University Press
Women and Sports in the United States
A Documentary Reader


The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports
O’Reilly, Jean and Cahn, Susan K., eds.

Wesleyan University Press
Invasion of the Sea

First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
Verne, Jules

University Press of New England
Healing
A Life with Chronic Illness


A practical and spiritual guide to living well with chronic illness
Bouvard, Marguerite G.

Wesleyan University Press
The Branch Will Not Break
50th Anniversary Edition


Limited miniature edition of this beloved collection
Wright, James

Wesleyan University Press
A History of The Eclectic Society of Phi Nu Theta, 1837–1970

The history of a unique New England fraternity
Moody, William B. B.

Dartmouth College Press
Biomedical Ethics
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology


An anthology of succinct and accessible articles on the most important ethical issues confronting health care and the biological sciences today
Steinberg, David, ed.

Northeastern University Press
Freeing Tammy
Women, Drugs, and Incarceration


The latest volume in the popular trilogy of books about women, poverty, and violence
Raphael, Jody

University of Vermont Press
Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions
Speaking Their Minds


Provocative revelations about the flourishing black women’s intellectual traditions in nineteenth-century America
Waters, Kristin, and Carol B. Conaway, eds.

Northeastern University Press
Love and Marriage in Early African America

An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family
Foster, Frances Smith, ed.

University of New Hampshire Press
Harriet Wilson’s New England
Race, Writing, and Region


This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England’s past
Boggis, JerriAnne, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White, eds.

Tufts University Press
The Future of Democracy
Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens


A nonpartisan clarion call for civic renewal to restore American democracy
Levine, Peter

New Hampshire Historical Society
Consuming Views
Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900


A lavish new look at a key nineteenth-century tourist region and the art it inspired
Garvin, Donna-Belle, ed.

Farnsworth Art Museum
Factory Work
Warhol, Wyeth and Basquiat


Examines Andy Warhol’s role as a mentor for both James Wyeth in the 1970s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s
Stoner, Joyce Hill

Hood Museum of Art
Protest in Paris, 1968

A moving reflection on historic events that re-shaped France
Hambourg, Serge

University Press of New England
Selling Anxiety
How the News Media Scare Women


A powerful and witty exposé of how the media distorts news about women

July 2008
August 2008 (new in paper)
Rivers, Caryl

Hood Museum of Art
Thin Ice
Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment


An exploration of the human dimensions of climate change
Stuckenberger, Nicole A.

Boor
Philadelphia Empire Furniture

The first book-length study of American furniture from Philadelphia’s Neo-Classical period
Boor, Allison, et. al.

New England College Press
Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More

The slow passing of an itinerant culture in Ireland
MacWeeney, Alen

Boston Athenaeum
Acquired Tastes
200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum


A stunning commemoration of 200 years of collecting, study, and debate at this venerable Boston institution
Cushing, Stanley Ellis and David B. Dearinger

University of New Hampshire Press
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris
Medicine, Theology, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table


An innovative study that links the themes of Holmes’s best-known literary works to his medical training in nineteenth-century Paris.
Dowling, William C.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Magic Façade
The Austin House


The story of a house that combines the theatrical fantasy of the baroque with the arresting elegance of the Machine Age, and insights into the dazzling modernist who created it
Gaddis, Eugene R., ed.

Antoca Press
William Cullen Bryant
An American Voice


The first collection of Bryant’s writings to be published since 1935, and the most comprehensive critical study of Bryant’s poetry to date
Bryant, William Cullen and Gado, Frank, ed.

University Press of New England
From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands
A Survey of the Industries


The definitive volume on Shaker commercial ephemera
Miller, M. Stephen

Brandeis University Press
Family Matters
Jewish Education in an Age of Choice


A provocative look at the current state of Jewish eduction in the United States
Wertheimer, Jack, editor

Brandeis University Press
Let Us Prove Strong
The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006


A history of the last 60 years of the American Jewish Committee to commemorate its centennial in 2007
Sanua, Marianne R.

Brandeis University Press
Lone Stars of David
The Jews of Texas


An essay collection of lively written, lavishly illustrated, and well-documented narratives on the history and culture of Texas Jews.
Weiner, Hollace Ava and Roseman, Kenneth D.

Wesleyan University Press
The Outernationale

A luminous new work for the 21st century

August 2008 (new in paper)
Gizzi, Peter

Brandeis University Press
American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares
Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965


A unique contribution to America's encounter with Holocaust memory that links the use of Nazi imagery to liberal politics
Fermaglich, Kirsten

Brandeis University Press
Suddenly Jewish
Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots


Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage.
Kessel, Barbara

Brandeis University Press
The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas
Jewish Dimensions


An analysis of the Jewish background of an eminent philosopher.
Wiese, Christian

Brandeis University Press
Israel in the Middle East
Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, Second Edition


An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of the Middle East
Rabinovich, Itamar and Reinharz, Jehuda, eds.

University of New Hampshire Press
Trolley Wars
Streetcar Workers on the Line


A groundbreaking study of public transportation in the Gilded Age and its place in the emerging American city
Molloy, Scott

Wesleyan University Press
Next Life

Forward-looking poetry that pushes the limits of knowledge
Armantrout, Rae

Dartmouth College Press
Folded Selves
Colonial New England Writing in the World System


A new evaluation of New England’s literature of dissent in works by early English settlers in America
Burnham, Michelle

University of New Hampshire Press
Fashionable Acts
Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880


A vibrant look at changes in British elite culture through the lens of opera-going
Hall-Witt, Jennifer

University Press of New England
Knowledge with Know-How
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth


Dartmouth’s unique model of engineering education
Frye, Ellen, editor and Tribus, Myron, foreword

Cavankerry Press
Surviving Has Made Me Crazy
Nepo, Mark and Frankel, Richard, medical foreword

Cavankerry Press
Through a Gate of Trees
Poems

Jackson, Susan and Peacock, Molly

Fence Books
Bad Bad
Minnis, Chelsey

Fence Books
Exchanges on Light

April 2008
Roubaud, Jacques and Sikelianos, Eleni, translator

Fence Books
Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain
Janke, Christopher

Fence Books
Wolftrot
Borel, Marie and Riggs, Sarah, translator and Berrada, Omar, translator

Fence Books
Not for Mothers Only
Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing

Wagner, Catherine and Wolff, Rebecca, editors

Fence Books
The Cow
Reines, Ariana

Four Way Books
The Little Book of Guesses
Gallaher, John

Four Way Books
The Second Person
Poems


Employing the careful emotion of Constantine Cavafy and the realism lying beneath Oscar Wilde’s comic epigrams, he has crafted a contemplative book of poems both wise and willing to learn.
Young, C. Dale

Four Way Books
The Geographic Cure
Poems

Dudley, Ellen

Four Way Books
Hams Beneath the Firmament
Poems

Ford, Terry

Four Way Books
Rift
Poems

Hamer, Forrest

Sheep Meadow Press
Snow Part

The last book of Paul Celan, never before translated.
Celan, Paul, bilingual edition, translated from the German by Fairley, Ian

Sheep Meadow Press
Albums of a Life
A Memoir

Kauffmann, Stanley

Sheep Meadow Press
The Resurrection of the Body

“...a passionate discourse that is at once earthy and numinous...’
Schmidt, Michael

Sheep Meadow Press
The Tenor on Horseback
Poems

Middleton, Christopher

Sheep Meadow Press
The Second Question
Poems

Der-Hovanessian, Diana

Sheep Meadow Press
The Book of Anna
Poems

Ladin, J.

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