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New BOOKS BY CANADIAN AUTHORS

SPRING/SUMMER 2007

City that Never Sleeps

Ed. by Murray Pomerance

The sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.

ISBN 0-8135-4032-1 Paper $33.75 May 2007

Rutgers University Press

Murray Pomerance is a professor in the sociology department at Ryerson University and the author and editor of numerous books, including Johnny Depp Starts Here. He is also the series editor of Screen Decades whose new volumes are:

American Cinema of the 1930s

edited by Ina Rae Hark

ISBN 978-0-8135-4082-5 Paper $31.00 September 2007

Rutgers University Press

American Cinema of the 1970s

edited by Lester D. Friedman

ISBN 0-8135-4023-2 Paper $31.00 April 2007

Rutgers University Press

American Cinema of the 1980s

edited by Stephen Prince

ISBN 0-8135-4034-8 Paper $31.00 July 2007

Rutgers University Press

I Will Wake the Dawn

Illuminated Psalms

by Debra Band

This beautifully bound book can be used for prayer and study, as well as aesthetic enjoyment, and, it makes an unforgettable gift for weddings, anniversaries, and other special occasions.

ISBN 9-7808-27608399 Paper $87.00 June 2007

Jewish Publication Society

Debra Band holds a B.A. honours degree in history from Concordia University in Montreal.

Crossing the Border

A Free Black Community in Canada

by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn

A story of freedom and flourishing in a community of former slaves in Canada

ISBN 0-252-03183-0 Cloth $58.00 August 2007

University of Illinois Press

Principles of Bioseparations Engineering

Raja Ghosh

This book discusses the underlying principles of bioseparations engineering written from the perspective of an undergraduate course.

ISBN 981-256-892-1 $69.75 2007

World Scientific

Raja Ghosh is a professor at McMaster University.

Real-Time Systems

Modeling, Design, and Applications

edited by Dan Ionescu & Aurel Cornell

This book collects the research work of leading-edge researchers and practitioners in the areas of analysis, synthesis, design and implementation of real-time systems with applications in various industrial fields.

ISBN 981-02-4424-X Cloth $174 Spring 2007

World Scientific

Dr. Dan Ionescu is a Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa.

Success in the Arts

What It Takes to Make it in Creative Fields

by A. Michael Shumate

ISBN 0-9739333-5-6 Paper $15.00

February 2007

Atlas Books

Michael Shumate is a Professor of Illustration and Graphic Design at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario.

Lectures in International Finance

Crisis, Coordination, Currency, Unions and Debt

by Paul R Masson

This book provides a good basis for a graduate course in international finance and covers up-to-date developments on these issues.

ISBN 981-256-912-X Paper $50.75 Summer 2007

World Scientific

Paul R Masson is a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Business Economics Area of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

The Oprah Phenomenon

Ed. by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson

The contributors to The Oprah Phenomenon examine the origins of her public image and its substantial influence on politics, entertainment, and popular opinion.

ISBN 978-0-8131-2426-1 Cloth $58

February 2007

University Press of Kentucky

Jennifer Harris is assistant professor of English at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.

NEW IN PAPER:

Beer in the Middle Ages and the

Renaissance

Richard W. Unger

Weaving together the stories of prosperous businessmen, skilled brewmasters, and small producers, this impressively researched overview of the social and cultural practices that surrounded the beer industry is rich in implication for the history of the period as a whole.

ISBN 978-0-8122-1999-9 Paper $36.25 March 2007

University of Pennsylvania Press

Richard W. Unger is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.

In-House Weddings

by Bohumil Hrabal

translated by Tony Liman

Inspired by "Mrs. Tolstoy and Mrs. Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have now been published in Prague, " Bohumil Hrabal decided to produce his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fiction, from his wife's point of view.

ISBN 0-8101-2430-0 Paper $26.25 July 2007

Northwestern University Press
Tony Liman grew up in Toronto. He received his MFA from the University of British Columbia.

China's Rise and the Balance of

Influence in Asia

Ed. by William Keller and Thomas Rawski

A multifaceted examination of China. This book offers a counterweight to overwrought concerns about the emerging “Chinese threat” and makes the case for viewing China as a force for stability in the twenty-first century.

ISBN 0822959674 Paper $40.75 May 2007

University of Pittsburgh Press

Canadian Contributors: Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu are professors of Economics at the University of Toronto.

Overturning Dr. Faustus

Rereading Thomas Mann's Novel in Light of Observations of a Non-Political Man

by Frances Lee

Thomas Mann's last major novel, Doktor Faustus, revolves around the transformation of traditional German culture into Hitler's fascist Germany, a process that intrigues and confounds thinking people still today. Frances Lee provides a radically new interpretation by relating in a detailed manner to the text of Doktor Faustus the arguments expressed by Mann in his Observations of a Non-Political Man -- a book of political essays published in 1918.

ISBN 1571133569 Cloth $101.25 March 2007

Camden House

Frances Ann Ray Lee received the Ph.D. in German literature from the University of Toronto in 2005.

Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar:

Comprehensive Acquisition

by Yuki Johnson

This extensive and thorough explanation of crucial Japanese grammar in English is the culmination of years of teaching and research. Informed by the work of eminent linguist Susumu Kuno, Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar is designed for students who have studied basic Japanese grammar and wish to better organize their knowledge and expand it in greater depth and at a higher level.

ISBN 978-0-8248-3176-9 Paper $33.50 March 2007

University of Hawai'i Press

Yuki Johnson is associate professor of Japanese linguistics and undergraduate program coordinator in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

Burning for the Buddha

Self- Immolation in Chinese Buddhism

James A. Benn

Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of “abandoning the body” (self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context.

ISBN 978-08248-2992-6 Cloth $69.75 March 2007

University of Hawai'i

James A. Ben is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and McMaster University.

Faulkner’s Inheritance

Edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Ann J. Abadie

Faulkner’s Inheritance is a collection of essays that examines the influences on Faulkner’s fiction.

ISBN 1-57806-953-X Cloth $72.50 July 2007

University Press of MississippiCanadian contributor, Martin Kreisworth, University of Western Ontario

Slavery on Trial

Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture

by Jeannine Marie DeLombard

Discussing various autobiographies, DeLombard argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print.

ISBN 0-8078-5812-9 Paper $36.25 Spring 2007

University of North Carolina

Jeannine Marie DeLombard is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto

Builders of Empire

Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927

Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs They built some of the first communal structures on the empire’s frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.

ISBN 0-8078-3088-7 Cloth $57.95 Spring 2007

University of North Carolina

Stan Lee

Conversations

edited by Jeff McLaughlin

Stan Lee talks with candor about his creative process, publishing, film and television adaptations of his comics books and the evolution of the comics industry. The volume concludes with a new interview conducted by the editor.

ISBN 1-57806-985-8 Paper $29.00 July 2007

University Press of Mississippi

Jeff McLaughlin is assistant professor of philosophy at Thomson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Bach Perspectives, Volume 7

J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music: The Concerto

edited by Gregory Butler

The creativity of J.S. Bach is so overwhelming that his compositions in some genres can risk eclipsing his work in others. Volume 7 of Bach Perspectives aims to restore Bach's Boncertos to their rightful place of honor.

ISBN 978-0-252-03165-6 Cloth $87.00 July 2007

University of Illinois Press

Gregory Butler is a professor of musicology and the University of British Columbia.

Thinking about Causes

From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics

Machamer, Peter, Wolters, Gereon

Causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Thinking about Causes brings together top philosophers to focus on causality as a major force in philosophical and scientific thought.

ISBN 0822943093 Cloth $108.75 April 2007

University of Pittsburgh Press

Canadian Contributor: Brad Inwood is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto

Pragmatism, Democracy and the Necessity of Rhetoric

by Robert Danisch

Rober Danisch examines the search by America's first generation of pragmatists for a unique set of rhetorics that would serve the needs of a developing democracy. Digging deep into pragmatism's historical development, Danisch sheds light on its association with an alternative but significant and often overlooked tradition. He draws parallels between the rhetorics of such American pragmatists as John Dewey and Jane Addams and those of the ancient Greek tradition.

ISBN 978-1-57003-690-3 Cloth $57.95 July 2007

University of South Carolina Press

Robert Danisch is visiting professor of communication and philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal.

The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse

Chekhov to Carver

Kerry McSweeney

At the center of this study of five realist writers is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse—powerful and tightly focused—into a worl the writer must craft and in which the reader must invest.

ISBN 978-1-570036958, Cloth, $43.50 July 2007

University of South Carolina Press

Kerry McSweeney is Molson Professor of English at McGill University.