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
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America Rebecca Herman 2022 Book
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History Timothy Hampton 2022 Book
Blue in Green Chiyuma Elliott 2021 Book
Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema Mary Ann Doane 2022 Book
Back Stages: Essays Across Art, Performance, and the Social Shannon Jackson 2022 Book

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

2024

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance....Read more about Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Racial Domination

2024

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as a term of civic...Read more about Racial Domination

The Ordinal Society

2024

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.

We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy...Read more about The Ordinal Society

Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

2024

An exciting introduction to the scientific interface between biological studies of the brain and behavioural studies of human development. The authors trace the field from its roots in developmental psychology and neuroscience, and highlight some of the most persuasive research findings...Read more about Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire

2023

In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form through...Read more about Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire

Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity

2023

A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.

The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred...Read more about Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity

The Black Geographic

2023

The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the...Read more about The Black Geographic

Untraceable

2023

With gripping results, this companion novel to Undercover Latina returns to the high-stakes world of the Factory—an international organization of spies protecting people of color.

Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall’s biggest problem is being the...Read more about Untraceable

Eggtooth

2023

In this debut collection, Jesse Nathan matches an exquisite feeling for the music of lines and sentences with his profound explorations of the idea of home. The book’s title comes from the word for a bit of cartilage on a baby bird’s beak, a growth that helps it break out of

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The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

2023

“Creativity” is a word that excites and dazzles us. It promises brilliance and achievement, a shield against conformity, a channel for innovation across the arts, sciences, technology, and education, and a mechanism for economic revival and personal success. But it has not always evoked...Read more about The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea