SCIENCE Fall 2020
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LU M BIA UN IVERSI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
Letter from the editor:
The year 2020 has been a difficult one. But each book I have the good fortune to publish is a beacon to a better understanding of our world and ourselves. Please allow me to highlight a few of our new and forthcoming science books that have especially resonated with me while I physically isolate during this pandemic. First are those titles that gained even greater relevance as COVID-19 became a global crisis. Rethinking Readiness by Jeff Schlegelmilch, the recently promoted director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, outlines five categories of megadisasters (including pandemics) that threaten to overwhelm our capacity to respond and recover—and provides guidance for preparing more effectively. Ruth DeFries’s What Would Nature Do? examines four sometimes counterintuitive lessons from biological evolution and the natural world that we can apply to our complex challenges today. And Sushma Subramanian’s How to Feel takes an introspective, scientific, and cultural approach to our sense of touch—something many of us, myself included, are thinking more about as we remain socially distanced from family and friends. Two books this year speak to careers and personal experiences in the sciences. Ashley Juavinett’s So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? gives an honest look at that career path. The Bearded Lady Project, edited by the project’s creators Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano, collects thought-provoking portraits of women scientists in the field and in the lab alongside bracing personal essays. Elsewhere, in the life sciences, paleontologist Dean Lomax’s Locked in Time selects fifty very special fossils that capture prehistoric animals as they actually lived and died. Also revealing are Yves Agid’s Subconsciousness, a brief but illuminating exploration of how the human brain manages automatic behavior, and Daniel Graham’s An Internet in Your Head, which proposes a new metaphor for the brain: not as a single, unnetworked computer, but as a highly networked internet. In Mind Thief, Han Yu puts forth a deeply researched and deeply moving narrative history of Alzheimer’s disease, from the first patients to current research, its challenges, and future prospects. I’ll end here on a book that I hope will inspire you to take what action you can: Plastic Free, by Plastic Free July creator Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and writer Joanna Atherfold Finn. It tells the story of how the Plastic Free July environmental movement went global and offers suggestions for how you can reduce your single-use plastic consumption—and why you should consider it, even if you’re feeling a bit cynical these days. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, Miranda Martin, editor, science
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CONTENTS
LIFE SCIENCES
How to Feel
Life Sciences...........................................................3
The Science and Meaning of Touch
Physical Sciences....................................................8 New in Paperback................................................11 Best of the Backlist............................................... 13
Sushma Subramanian
Of Related Interest...............................................15 Ordering Information..........................................18
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dem Press, Fernwood Publishing, and the Chinese
How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19932-2 February 2021 264 pages
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Mind Thief
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The Story of Alzheimer's Han Yu
Mind Thief is a comprehensive and engaging history of Alzheimer’s that demystifies efforts to understand the disease. Beginning with the discovery of “presenile dementia” in the early twentieth century, Han Yu examines over a century of research and controversy. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19870-7
March 2021 368 pages 8 illus.
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LIFE SCIENCES
Locked in Time
The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries
Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
The Evidence and the People Who Found It
Dean R. Lomax
Donald R. Prothero
Dean R. Lomax examines the extraordinary direct evidence of fossils captured in the midst of real-life action: dinosaurs sitting on their eggs like birds, Jurassic flies preserved while mating, a T. rex infected by parasites. Each fossil, he reveals, tells a unique story about prehistoric life. Many recall behaviors typical of animals familiar to us today, evoking the chain of evolution that links all living things to their distant ancestors. $29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19728-1
Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries, placing each moment in the context of what it represented for the progress of science. The volume also features the stories of animal species strange and familiar, including humans—and our ties to some of our closest relatives and more distant cousins.
June 2021 232 pages 137 illus.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19036-7
December 2020 376 pages 154 illus.
Fantastic Fossils
On the Prowl
Donald R. Prothero
Mark Hallett and John M. Harris
A Guide to Finding and Identifying Prehistoric Life
In Search of Big Cat Origins
Illustrated by Mary Persis Williams
In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist’s journey. He details the best places to look for fossils, the art of how to find them, and how to classify the major types. He also provides expert wisdom about typical fossils that an average person can hope to collect and how to hunt fossils responsibly and ethically. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19578-2 2020 336 pages 364 illus.
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On the Prowl is a fully illustrated and approachable guide to the evolution of the big cats and what it portends for their conservation today. Mark Hallett and John M. Harris trace the origins of these iconic carnivores, venturing down the evolutionary pathways that produced the diversity of big cat species that have walked the earth. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18450-2 2020 272 pages 153 illus.
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LIFE SCIENCES
An Internet in Your Head
Subsconsciousness
Automatic Behavior and the Brain
A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works
Yves Agid
Daniel Graham
Searching for the Subconscious makes clear the role the subconscious plays in our lives, highlighting the physiological basis of the subconscious, with particular reference to the more ancient parts of the brain (the basal ganglia) when compared to the more recently evolved cerebral cortex; identifying brain pathologies arising from malfunction of the subconscious; and demonstrating the unsuspected implications for society that this—still poorly understood— mental function entails. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20127-8
The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet. $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19604-8 May 2021 352 pages 42 illus.
$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-20126-1 July 2021 200 pages
So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?
Music, Math, and Mind
David Sulzer
The Physics and Neuroscience of Music
Ashley Juavinett
So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? is a contemporary and engaging guide for aspiring neuroscientists of diverse backgrounds and interests. Ashley Juavinett provides a candid look at the field, offering practical guidance that explores everything from programming to personal stories.
David Sulzer offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency–(including none), Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19089-3
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December 2020 328 pages 17 illus
April 2021 272 pages
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LIFE SCIENCES
Mind Ecologies
The Alchemy of Disease
Body, Brain, and World
How Chemicals and Toxins Cause Cancer and Other Illnesses
Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin
Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19025-1 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19024-4 2020 336 pages
John Whysner
In The Alchemy of Disease, John Whysner offers an accessible and compelling history of toxicology and its key findings. He details the experiments and discoveries that revealed the causal connections between chemical exposures and diseases. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19166-1 2020 352 pages
Biotechnology Law
The Political Ecology of Malaria
A Primer for Scientists
Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
Alan J. Morrison
Matian van Soest
This book is an essential introduction to biotechnology law for scientists and other non-attorneys with biotech backgrounds. Biotechnology Law is a clear, concise, and practical primer on the topic, replete with straightforward, real-world examples to illustrate each key concept.
Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda’s capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socioecological transformations.
$70.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17938-6
$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5053-2
2020 328 pages
2020 230 pages 26 illus.
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LIFE SCIENCES
Making Diabetes
The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time
The Politics of Diabetes Diagnostics in Uganda
Raymond C. Barfield
Arlena Siobhan Liggins
Diabetes is regarded as one of the most challenging global health issues of the twentyfirst century. Tracing the effects of a diagnostic device, the glucometer, Arlena Siobhan Liggins examines how it contributes to the making of diabetes in contemporary Uganda. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4897-3 2020 300 pages 14 illus.
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The practice of medicine serves people who are facing limits in their lives brought on by the threats of disease and death. Because good doctoring is so intimately related to the complex impact these threats have on our limited lives, Raymond C. Barfield argues that the significance and meaning of the practice of medicine is inextricably bound to existence in time. $35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1427-6 2020 200 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Transmission of Acupuncture
Current Debates and International Perspectives
Yang Zhenhai
Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz
Edited by Liu Lihong Translated by Sabine Wilms Introduction by Heiner Fruehauf
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.
This book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu Lihong’s discipleship with Yang Zhenhai, one of the last remaining master practitioners of Daoist acupuncture in mainland China.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6
2020 192 pages 21 illus.
2020 320 pages
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES
What Would Nature Do?
Rethinking Readiness
Ruth DeFries
Jeff Schlegelmilch
A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters
A Guide for Our Uncertain Times
Foreword by Irwin Redlener
Not long ago, the future seemed predictable. Now, certainty about the course of civilization has given way to fear and doubt. Raging fires, ravaging storms, political upheavals, financial collapse, and deadly pandemics lie ahead—or are already here. Ruth DeFries argues that a surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world can help humanity weather these crises.
Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict.
$26.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19942-1
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19041-1
December 2020 264 pages 19 illus.
$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19040-4 2020 200 pages
Plastic Free
The Bearded Lady Project
The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters
Challenging the Face of Science
Edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn
This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success. From narrating marine-debris research expeditions to tracking what actually happens to our waste to sharing insights from behavioral research, Plastic Free speaks to the massive scale of the plastic waste problem and how we can tackle it together. $28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19862-2 December 2020 272 pages
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Challenging persistent gender biases in the sciences, the Bearded Lady Project puts the spotlight on underrepresented geoscientists in the field and in the lab. This book pairs portraits of these scientists after donning fake beards with personal essays in which they tell their stories. $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19804-2 2020 208 pages 11 illus.-
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Super Polluters
The Sustainable City
Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of ClimateDisrupting Emissions
Second Edition
Steven Cohen and Guo Dong
Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer
Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19217-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19216-3
This second edition of The Sustainable City dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure and initiatives and puts additional emphasis on the roles that individual citizens and various stakeholders can play. It also reviews current trends in urban inequality and discusses whether a model of sustainability that embraces a multidimensional approach to development and a multi-stakeholder approach to decisionmaking can foster social inclusion. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19655-0
2020 296 pages
$95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19654-3
SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES
June 2021 328 pages
Climate Change Science
To Be a Water Protector
John C. Mutter
Winona LaDuke
A Primer for Sustainable Development
This book is a primer on the essential science for grasping the workings of climate change and climate prediction. It is accessible for readers with little to no background in science, with an emphasis on the needs of those studying sustainable development. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19223-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19222-4 2020 208 pages
Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems, and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years—sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth, and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. $25.00 paper 978-1-77363-267-4
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The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers
2020 128 pages
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Vanishing Ice
Drought
Vivien Gornitz
Benjamin I. Cook
Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas
Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon.
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies. $40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-17689-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17688-0 2019 232 pages 57 illus.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16824-3 2019 400 pages 55 illus.
More Powerful Together
Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future Second Edition
Conversations With Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders
Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon
Jen Gobby
This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the
warming of our planet.
$55.00 / £46.00 paper 978-0-231-17283-7 $175.00 / £144.00 cloth 978-0-231-17282-0 2018 520 pages 239 illus.
As an activist, Jen Gobby has been actively involved with climate justice, anti-pipeline, and Indigenous land defense movements in Canada for many years. As a researcher, she has sat down with folks from these movements and asked them to reflect on their experiences with movement building. Bringing their incredibly poignant insights into dialogue with scholarly and activist literature on transformation, Gobby weaves together a powerful story about how change happens. $26.00 paper 978-1-77363-226-1 2020 266 pages
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Morphing Intelligence
Origins of Darwin's Evolution
Catherine Malabou Translated by Carolyn Shread
J. David Archibald
Solving the Species Puzzle Through Time and Place
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
$22.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-18737-4 February 2021 224 pages
THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17685-9 2020 208 pages
The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries
Getting Risk Right
Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them
Geoffrey C. Kabat
Donald R. Prothero
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE $27.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-16647-8
$26.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18603-2
2020 272 pages 13 illus.
July 2021 488 pages 227 illus.
The Diagnostic System
The Ecocentrists
Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
A History of Radical Environmentalism
Keith Makoto Woodhouse WINNER, S-USIH BOOK
Jason Schnittker
PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR U.S. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
WINNER, SECTION ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL kkk
$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16589-1
2020 368 pages
Mind Beyond Brain Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal David E. Presti
$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18957-6 2020 240 pages
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$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17807-5
2020 392 pages 13 illus.
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
After Eunuchs
Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
Howard Chiang
Donald R. Prothero
$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18261-4 2020 368 pages 160 illus.
WINNER, BONNIE AND VERN L. BULLOUGH BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SEXUALITY WINNER, INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF
China’s Green Religion
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
ASIA SCHOLARS (ICAS), HUMANITIES BOOK PRIZE $26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18579-0 2020 416 pages 51 illus
Learn or Die
James Miller
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization Edward D. Hess
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17587-6 2020 226 pages 10 illus.
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Live Sustainably Now A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life Karl Coplan
TITLE $18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-17025-3 2020 280 pages 3 illus. COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
$22.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-19091-6 April 2021 224 pages 16 illus.
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
The Madhouse Effect
How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel
Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. The Madhouse Effect offers a clever lampoon of the fallacious claims and absurd arguments of climate-science deniers.
$22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17963-8
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2018 240 pages 63 illus.
2018 240 pages 105 illus.
$18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-17787-0
A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age
The Collapse of Western Civilization
David J. Helfand
Naomi Oreskes and
A View from the Future
Scientific Habits of Mind
Erik M. Conway
A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-16873-1 $29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-16872-4 2016 344 pages 53 illus.
In this haunting, provocative work of science-based fiction, Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway imagine a world devastated by climate change. Dramatizing the science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, this book reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do and reveals the self-serving interests of the so-called “carbon combustion complex” that have turned the practice of science into political fodder. $9.95 / £8.99 paper 978-0-231-16954-7 2014 104 pages 1 Illus.
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Dispossession and the Environment
Hot Carbon
Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
John F. Marra
Paige West
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. In Hot Carbon, John F. Marra tells the untold story of this scientific revolution, weaving together the workings of the many disciplines that employ carbon-14 with gripping tales of the individuals who pioneered its possibilities.
Paige West’s searing study of Papua New Guinea reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today’s globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
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2019 280 pages 45 illus.
$105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-17878-5
2016 216 pages 12 illus.
LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF LECTURES
Modern Humans
Neuroenology
John F. Hoffecker
Gordon M. Shepherd
How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
Their African Origin and Global Dispersal WINNER, CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million years ago and their spread throughout the world. John F. Hoffecker demonstrates that Homo sapiens represents a major transition in the evolution of living systems.
Gordon Shepherd shows that creating the taste of wine engages more of the brain than does any other human behavior. He comprehensively explains how specific sensory pathways in the cerebral cortex create the memory of wine and how language is used to identify and imprint wine characteristics.
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2017 520 pages 75 illus.
2016 224 pages 34 illus.
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The Terroir of Whiskey
Energy’s Digital Future
A Distiller’s Journey Into the Flavor of Place
Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security
Rob Arnold
Amy Myers Jaffe
Rob Arnold takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland. He puts the spotlight on a new generation of distillers, plant breeders, and local farmers who are bringing back long-forgotten grain flavors and creating new ones in pursuit of terroir. $27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19458-7 December 2020 368 pages
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She surveys new advances coming to market in on-demand travel services, automation, logistics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and 3-D printing and explores how this rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-19682-6 April 2021 288 pages
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Underwater
Better Data Visualizations
Jonathan Schwabish
Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design. $28.95 / £23.00 paper 978-0-231-19311-5 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19310-8
January 2021 320 pages 553 illus.
Rebecca Elliott
In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it. Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19027-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19026-8 December 2020 296 pages
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Infowhelm
Nature and Value
Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
Edited by Akeel Bilgrami
Heather Houser
Heather Houser argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18733-6 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-18732-9 2020 336 pages
This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. The essays present a revaluation of the natural world with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19463-1 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19462-4 2020 312 pages
LITERATURE NOW
Doctors’ Orders
The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession Tania M. Jenkins
Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.
Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz
Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 November 2020 352 pages 25 illus.
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Robotic Knitting
The Best American Magazine Writing 2020
Re-Crafting HumanRobot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
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Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-5203-1
This year’s National Magazine Awards finalists and winners include Sarah A. Topol on the genocide against the Rohingya (New York Times Magazine) and Erika Fry on the unintended consequences of a dengue fever vaccine (Fortune), the DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark writes about art he can touch (Poetry), and a ProPublica series investigates the disaster that befell the USS Fitzgerald.
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Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Beyond
A Physicist’s Wanderings off the Beaten Track Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis shows that some fundamental truths cast into scientific laws are ubiquitous and enter our lives in subtle ways that we may not be aware of. In a kind of twenty-first century version of Plato’s dialogues he offers new insights on life’s many possibilities and ambiguities everywhere from managing business and personal relationships to finding purpose in one’s existence. $32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-3-8382-1447-4 2020 238 pages 32 illus..
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In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the United States. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra, and anemia, and proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. Boel Bener presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions, and concerns—a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-5163-8 2020 200 pages 32 illus.
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This anthology addresses trans people’s access to health care from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Many contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5082-2
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