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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Titlesort ascending Author Year Publication type
Eggtooth Jesse Nathan 2023 Book
Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field Angela Hume 2018 Book
Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life Alberto Ledesma 2017 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
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education Kelly M. Mack; Kate Winter; Melissa Soto 2019 Book

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

2022

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit — functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical, and artistic creations...Read more about Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

2022

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and...Read more about Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

2022

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area presents the results of the excavations in this area at Mycenae conducted under the direction of Wace (1950) and Taylour (1959–60) in collaboration with Papademetriou and later Mylonas. Located in the ‘Cult Centre’, the...Read more about Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area

In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

2022

Collected here are seventeen prose stories and two comics created by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative, all published since the year 2000—masterful works that vary greatly in style and content but spring from a common source: the desire to forge a...Read more about In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

2022

This book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and

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Troublemaker

2022

12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping to hide his suspension, Los Angeles has reached a turning point. In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating...Read more about Troublemaker

Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

2022

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented...Read more about Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses

Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema

2022

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the...Read more about Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema

Engineering Vulnerability In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

2022

In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. Her case study is Guyana in the aftermath...Read more about Engineering Vulnerability In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation

Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics

2022

Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as...Read more about Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics