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In Search of the Balkan Recovery: The Political and Economic Reemergence of South Eastern Europe
Edited by Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey

Cloth, $45.00 244 pages


Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World
Martin N. Murphy

Now available in paper.

Paper, $29.50 540 pages


Cloth, $60.00 540 pages


Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West
Justin Gest

Cloth, $35.00 256 pages


The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Ami Pedahzur

Now available in paper.

Paper, $22.50 / £15.50 232 pages


Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 232 pages


Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science
Edited by Craig Calhoun

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 336 pages


Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Whitney Davis

Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 368 pages


The Responsibility of the Philosopher
Gianni Vattimo; Edited by Franca D'Agostini; Translated by William McCuaig

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 168 pages


The New Muslim Brotherhood in the West
Lorenzo Vidino

Cloth, $29.50 / £19.50 336 pages


W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity
J. J. Long

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 224 pages


Cloth, $45.00 224 pages


Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb
Massimo Montanari

Cloth, $26.50 / £18.50 128 pages


Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing
Fabio Lanza

Cloth, $39.99 / £27.50 320 pages


Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
John Calvert

Cloth, $29.50 256 pages


Securing The State
David Omand

Cloth, $29.50 320 pages


The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Gardner Bovingdon

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 304 pages


Naturalism and Normativity
Edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 376 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 376 pages


Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Kevin P. Murphy

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 320 pages


Cloth, $40.00 / £27.50 320 pages


Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems
Edited by Devra I. Jarvis, Christine Padoch, and H. D. Cooper

Now available in paper.

Paper, $34.50 / £24.00 512 pages


Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 512 pages


Islamic Law and Civil Code: The Law of Property in Egypt
Richard A. Debs; Forewords by Frank E. Vogel and Ridwan Al-Sayyid

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 216 pages


Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Baruch Kimmerling

Now available in paper.

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 464 pages


Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 464 pages


Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives
Francois Dosse; Translated by Deborah Glassman

Cloth, $37.50 / £26.00 672 pages


What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life
David Leibow, M.D.

Paper, $16.95 / £11.95 224 pages


Cloth, $49.50 / £34.00 224 pages


Disarming the Past: Transitional Justice and Ex-Combatants
Edited by Anna Cutter Patel, Pablo de Greiff, and Lars Waldorf

Paper, $30.00 / £20.50 288 pages
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The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity
Antoine J. Bousquet

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 288 pages


Cloth, $45.00 288 pages


Sugamo Diary
Sasakawa Ryôichi

Cloth, $40.00 320 pages


Inside Austria: New Challenges, Old Demons
Paul Lendvai

Cloth, $40.00 320 pages


Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
Hervé This

Now available in paper.

Paper, $16.95 / £11.50 232 pages


Cloth, $22.95 / £15.95 232 pages


Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
Natsume Soseki

Now available in paper.

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 304 pages


Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 304 pages


New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them
Amrita Narlikar

Cloth, $45.00 208 pages


Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity
Gary Cross

Now available in paperback.

Paper, $24.50 / £17.00 328 pages


Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages


Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara

Now available in paper.

Paper, $16.95 / £11.95 320 pages


Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 320 pages


Gastropolis: Food and New York City
Edited by Annie S. Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 368 pages


Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 368 pages


Taxation in Developing Countries: Six Case Studies and Policy Implications
Edited by Roger Gordon

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 352 pages


The Rey Chow Reader
Edited by Paul Bowman

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 320 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 320 pages


Elijah and the Rabbis: Story and Theology
Kristen H. Lindbeck

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 272 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 272 pages


Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
Michael C. LaSala, Ph.D.

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 304 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 304 pages


Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945
Thomas G. Mahnken

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 256 pages


Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 256 pages


Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader
Edited by Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall

Paper, $32.50 / £22.50 584 pages


Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 584 pages


Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook
Edited by Claudio Iván Remeseira; Foreword by Andrew Delbanco

Paper, $29.95 / £20.95 576 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 576 pages


Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy
David Gentilcore

Cloth, $26.95 / £18.95 272 pages


Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China
Benjamin I. Page and Tao Xie; Foreword by Andrew J. Nathan

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 232 pages


Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and Their Relevance Today
Athanassios G. Platias and Constantinos Koliopoulos

Cloth, $27.50 256 pages


J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature
Edited by Anton Leist and Peter Singer

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 408 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 408 pages


Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader
Edited by Christopher Kul-Want

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 376 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 376 pages


Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
R. Charli Carpenter

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 304 pages


Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment
Herbert Molderings; translated by John Brogden

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 240 pages


The Politics of Medicaid
Laura Katz Olson

Cloth, $32.50 / £22.50 416 pages


Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement
Tulasi Srinivas

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 448 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 448 pages


Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition
Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas C. Fraser

Cloth, $65.00 / £45.00 280 pages


The CEO's Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom
William M. Klepper

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 192 pages


The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest
Trudy Griffin-Pierce

Cloth, $45.00 / £31.00 320 pages


Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown: Poems by Zen Monks of China
Translated by Charles Egan

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 328 pages


Cloth, $99.50 / £68.50 328 pages


Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics
Edited by Klejda Mulaj

Cloth, $45.00 320 pages


America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York
Edited by Sam Roberts

Paper, $29.95 / £20.95 256 pages


Cloth, $49.95 / £34.95 256 pages


Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History
Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford; Illustrations by Mauricio Antón

Now available in paper.

Paper, $22.95 / £15.95 232 pages


Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 232 pages


The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Joseph Margolis

Cloth, $24.50 / £17.00 232 pages


Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction
Douglas Alan Walrath

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 400 pages


Empire and Nation: Selected Essays
Partha Chatterjee; Introduction by Nivedita Menon

Paper, $29.50 384 pages


Cloth, $89.50 384 pages


The Imaginary Institution of India: Politics and Ideas
Sudipta Kaviraj

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 312 pages


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 312 pages


So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
Donald Keene

Cloth, $24.95 / £16.95 192 pages


Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Paul A Cohen

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 296 pages


Cloth, $84.50 / £58.50 296 pages


Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan’s Past
Edited by John Breen

Now available in paper.

Paper, $26.50 244 pages


Cloth, $55.00 244 pages


Art’s Claim to Truth
Gianni Vattimo

Now available in paper.

Paper, $19.50 / £13.50 216 pages


Cloth, $29.50 / £20.50 216 pages


Teaching in Social Work: An Educators’ Guide to Theory and Practice
Jeane W. Anastas

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 320 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 320 pages


Social Work Practice with Men at Risk
Rich Furman

Paper, $35.00 / £24.00 320 pages


Cloth, $105.00 / £72.50 320 pages


Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
Peter Sloterdijk

Cloth, $34.50 / £24.00 256 pages


The Nature and Future of Philosophy
Michael Dummett

Paper, $19.95 / £13.95 160 pages


Cloth, $69.50 / £48.00 160 pages


The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach; Edited by Keri Walsh and with a foreword by Noël Riley Fitch

Cloth, $29.95 / £19.95 376 pages


The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan
Translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth

Cloth, $75.00 / £52.00 1016 pages


The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945
Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper, and Craig Mackenzie

Cloth, $80.00 / £55.00 288 pages


Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Sam B. Girgus

Paper, $27.50 / £19.00 272 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 272 pages


Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations
Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow

Paper, $26.50 / £18.50 304 pages


Cloth, $82.50 / £57.00 304 pages


Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan
George R. Packard

Cloth, $32.50 / £22.50 368 pages