New releases for February

Pink and Blue
Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Jo B. Paoletti

"Pink and Blue is an interdisciplinary tour de force. Readers will never again take gendered children’s fashion for granted." —Susan B. Kaiser, author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context

Earth Works
Selected Essays
Scott Russell Sanders

"Like the building stones of his beloved limestone country, Scott Russell Sanders’s enduring essays are beautifully carved from the material of the Earth and its layered lives. ... This collection of Sanders’s finest work will become a classic of American thought." —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars
Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier
Nguyen Cong Luan

"Of all the many books I have read about the Vietnam War, this one pays the ultimate tribute to the incredible sacrifices made by the courageous soldiers and people of South Vietnam.  ... This book is a must read for those who want the complete picture and whole truth about a tragic war that consumed the world for over two decades." —Lawson W. Magruder III , Lieutenant General, US Army Retired. Vietnam '70-'71

Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean
Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries
Edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli

"Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam in relation to the other great religious traditions of the West. ... Allows the opening of larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish we still had." —Charles Stewart, University College London

Muslim Families in Global Senegal
Money Takes Care of Shame
Beth Buggenhagen

"A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." —Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

Women's Voices from West Africa
An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel
Edited by Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale

"A valuable contribution to the corpus of literature on African women's verbal art." —Fiona Mc Laughlin, University of Florida

Musical Forces
Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
Steve Larson
Foreword by Robert S. Hatten

"Musical Forces presents an original and important theory of melody, centered on the idea that we experience musical motion metaphorically through our experience of physical motion. The study sheds new light on musical expectation, compositional practice, and the role of metaphor in musical experience and discourse. Musical Forces is a major contribution to musical scholarship." —David Temperley, Eastman School of Music