New releases for July

A Zionist among Palestinians
Hillel Bardin
Foreword by Mubarak Awad and Edward (Edy) Kaufman

"A Zionist Among Palestinians is a testimony to the effort to bring about change, to educate Palestinians and Israelis about one another, and to touch them one at a time." —Jewish Book Council

Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer
William O'Rourke

"[T]hose who enjoy a good romp through some of our country's most pivotal times in the company of an astute observer who is unafraid to offer a penetrating, and sometimes scathing, critique of the state of the nation will find themselves well matched." —ForeWord Reviews

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On Railways Far Away
William D. Middleton

"Few American chroniclers of the international railroad scene have shown the versatility and insight of William D. Middleton. As an author and a photographer (not to mention a professional engineer), he demonstrated an uncanny ability to connect all the dots in railroading, from all corners of the world. In this book he does it with an inimitable personal touch." —Kevin P. Keefe, Publisher, Classic Trains magazine

Railroads of Meridian
J. Parker Lamb
With contributions by David H. Bridges and David S. Price

"An excellent contribution to the history of railroads in the South. Southern railroading in general has been a chronically neglected subject." —Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., author of The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

The Complete Dinosaur
Second Edition
Edited by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., and James O. Farlow
Bob Walters, Art Consultant

What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? In this updated edition for dinosaur lovers everywhere, enthusiastic amateurs and learned professionals alike will discover these fascinating answers.

Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
Edited by Pascal Godefroit

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Since then, Iguanodon has been studied by professionals and amateurs alike and displayed both upright like a kangaroo and as the dinosaur we know today. This book presents the latest research on Iguanodon and other denizens of the Cretaceous ecosystems of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Dinosaurs under the Aurora
Roland A. Gangloff

"Whether it is the logistics of conducting fieldwork in tune with the life cycle of the peregrine falcons on the Colville River, extracting bones from the permafrost, dealing with Arctic mosquitoes, or envisioning the high Arctic world during the Cretaceous, Gangloff takes you there as only a true field paleontologist can. His vivid narrative brings this research to life." —Jim Kirkland, State Paleontologist of Utah

Gaining Ground
The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods
Second Edition
Jennifer A. Clack

"This outstanding update of early tetrapod anatomy, phylogeny and systematics . . . will be extremely useful to students and lecturers in palaeontology, geology, zoology and general biology [and] a ‘must’ for researchers in the field." —Nature

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The Symphonic Repertoire
The Eighteenth-Century Symphony
Volume I
A. Peter Brown, Founding Editor
Edited by Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin

"Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin have assembled and edited a superb collection of essays . . . The book is gratifyingly up to date, taking account of recently published research on sonata form, the galant style, and the early orchestra. Richly illustrated with musical examples, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony will be welcomed by students both of the genre and of the age that produced it." —John A. Rice, Akademie für Mozart-Forschung, Salzburg

Bremen and Freiburg Lectures
Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell

"This volume represents a major event in English Heidegger scholarship. Students less acquainted with Heidegger's work will find entry to his ideas through concrete subject matter. Even for the general academic reader, the Bremen lectures offer material for historical and political discussions." —Jerome Veith, Boston College

The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity
Toward a Wider Suffrage
John Llewelyn

"Through unorthodox and innovative readings of Husserl, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, Llewelyn in able to configure a new geography of thought." —François Raffoul, Louisiana State University

New Routes for Diaspora Studies
Edited by Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steven C. McKay

"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of ‘diaspora’ to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present . . . [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject." —Rhacel Parreñas, Brown University

The Culture of Colonialism
The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
T. O. Beidelman

The Kaguru of Tanganyika faced daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life. The author links this administrative world to the Kaguru’s wider social, cultural, and geographical milieu, and to the political history, ideas of indirect rule, and the white institutions that loomed just beyond their world.
 
Beyond the Screen
Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
Edited by Marta Braun, Charles Keil, Rob King, Paul Moore, and Louis Pelletier

The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. Beyond the Screen captures this pioneering vision of the future of cinema.

Soviet Animation and the Thaw of the 1960s
Not Only for Children
Laura Pontieri

Soviet Animation and the Thaw of the 1960s examines the remarkable animation that emerged during the post-Stalin period of liberalization in the Soviet Union as an avenue of expression for a new spirit of aesthetic freedom. Drawing on extensive archival research, Laura Pontieri reconstructs the dynamics inside Soviet animation studios and the relationships between the animators and the political establishment.

A History of Women in Russia
From Earliest Times to the Present
Barbara Evans Clements

"The product of a lifetime of engagement by one of the preeminent authorities on the history of Russian women, the book reflects the author's deep expertise in primary sources as well as her familiarity with the secondary literature." —Choi Chatterjee, California State University Los Angeles

Russia's People of Empire
Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present
Edited by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland

"This is the first book, to my knowledge, to present such compelling, nuanced and sustained portraits of personalities stamped with the varied practices of Russian/Soviet imperial multiculturalism. . . . I anticipate that it will become a classic." —Roberts Crews, Stanford University

Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
María DeGuzmán

"In this study, DeGuzmán has been able to accomplish what no study to date has been able to do: to investigate how "night"—in all its figurations—has constituted an aesthetics of both self-representation for Latinos as well as a viable and effective form of resistance to state-sanctioned inclusion. Its diversity of texts and clearly reasoned analysis make it a potential standard text for the field." —Lázaro Lima, author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory