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 type
The Ordinal Society Marion Fourcade; Kieran Healy 2024 Book
The Oxford Handbook of the French Language Co-Editor: Mairi-Louise McLaughlin 2024 Book
The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations Daniel Lee 2021 Book
The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico Cori Hayden 2022 Book
The Substance of Fiction Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 Sophie Volpp 2022 Book

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

TJ's Then & Now: How Trader Joe's Changed the Way America Eats

2017
In 1982, just a few years after Joe Coulombe founded Trader Joe's, we received a TJ's flyer at our house. We left this flyer in our car, where it lay hidden for 35 years. (Hoarders unite!) A fan of culinary history, I wanted to bring TJ fans a glimpse of Trader Joe's history — when
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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

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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Good Food Great Business - How To Take Your Artisan Food Idea From Concept to Marketplace

2014

For those ready to follow their foodie dreams (or at least start thinking about it), this book provides the tools to decide if creating a specialty food business is right for you. Whether the goal is selling a single product online or developing a range of gourmet foods for grocery chains...Read more about Good Food Great Business - How To Take Your Artisan Food Idea From Concept to Marketplace