Letters & Science Bookshelf

Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

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Title Author Year Publication typesort ascending
Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Book
In the Shadows of the Big House Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana Stephen Small 2023 Book
The Cloud of Unknowing Translated by Carmen Acevedo Butcher 2018 Book
The Defiant Middle Kaya Oakes 2021 Book

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

2018

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: a handbook pays tribute to the father of that historic literary protest movement, Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), through the writing of Judy Juanita, who encountered him and emulated his work and activism when she was a twenty-year-old student at San...Read more about Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

Persian Carpets : The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-

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In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business

2018
We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes
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Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

2018

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume’s essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism,...Read more about Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

The Cloud of Unknowing

2018

This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly...Read more about The Cloud of Unknowing

Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach

2017

This practical manual presents an innovative modular treatment for adults and adolescents with a wide range of

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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

2017

“The future of America, its openness and understanding that we, as a nation, have always depended has thrived on the energy, ideas and struggle of immigrants like Alberto Ledesma. The promised land can only be envisioned by the newcomer to our shore. Ledesma’s story, its powerful images, is...Read more about Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

In the Volcano's Mouth

2016
Miriam Bird Greenberg’s stunning first collection, which roves across a lush, haunting rural America both real and imagined, observed from railyards and roadsides, evokes the world of myth (“I’d spent my childhood / in a house made of bees; on hot days honey // dripped through cracks in the...Read more about In the Volcano's Mouth

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

2015
Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work was described by his close friend Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first
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