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
The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes Catherine Flynn 2022 Book
The Black Geographic Jovan Scott Lewis 2023 Book
Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, Nigel Hatton 2022 Book
The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland Andrew Kornbluth 2021 Book
To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua Courtney Desiree Morris 2023 Book

Persian Carpets: 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-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the...Read more about Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity

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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Oil Spell

2018

Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies—US drone strikes, environmental disaster—and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influences—Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment, and the...Read more about Oil Spell

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

Mouths

2017

Poetry. The poems in MOUTHS attempt the impossible task of speaking outside human language and after the end of human life. That they always already fail to do so is thematized in chafing refrains, syntactic disjunctions, and the accusatory second person pronoun, which addresses at once...Read more about Mouths

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