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 Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are David M Henkin 2022 Book
The Substance of Fiction Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 Sophie Volpp 2022 Book
Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social Shannon Jackson 2022 Book
Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing Edited by Leonardo Arriola, Martha C Johnson and Melanie L Phillips 2022 Book
The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes Catherine Flynn 2022 Book

Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

2022

Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns...Read more about Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

Stay True

2022

In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations,...Read more about Stay True

Max and Tansy's Secret Hideaway

2022

This book is about two mallard ducks who constantly come and swim in the pool right outside my kitchen window of the complex where I live. Throughout the years my husband, Steve, and I created many stories about them. One day I decided that these two ducks, Tansy and Max should be the...Read more about Max and Tansy's Secret Hideaway

Living Pictures

2022

Living Pictures refers to the parlor game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It’s a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that Polina Barskova explores in the scintillating literary...Read more about Living Pictures

Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

2022

During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it proved to be a fraught affair. Despite widespread acclaim for Pan-American unity with the Allied...Read more about Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

Practice of the Presence

2022

"Everything is possible for those who believe, even more for those who hope, still more for those who love, and most of all for those who practice and persevere in these three powerful paths."

Since it was first published in its pocket-size 1692 edition, Brother...Read more about Practice of the Presence

Asian American Histories of the United States

2022

An impressive new work about how major moments in Asian American history continue to influence the modern world.

In the first chapter, Choy, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, connects anti-Asian violence during the Covid-19 pandemic to a history of...Read more about Asian American Histories of the United States

Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians

2022

Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversation by focusing on the enduring legacy of seventeenth-century Afro-Atlantic Catholics in the broader history of African American Christianity. With...Read more about Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America's First Black Christians

Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary

2022

In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate “matter,” and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to...Read more about Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary

The High Price of Freeways

2022

The High Price of Freeways consists of stories, most set in California, that explore the oddity of living in a place where freedom is touted, but its costs are often hidden: abortion, rape, and childbirth form the backdrop for several stories; a pan-sexual comic gets...Read more about The High Price of Freeways