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
Written On Water Translated by Andrew F. Jones 2023 Book
The Word of the Muse Bridgette Portman 2023 Book
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book
Embodying Peripheries Edited By: Giuseppina Forte; Edited By: Kuan Hwa 2022 Book

Written On Water

2023

Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. First published in 1945, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang's reflections on art, literature, war,...Read more about Written On Water

The Word of the Muse

2023

With Coseema off planet, Olive has bought herself some time—but the clock is ticking. After a risky rescue mission, she and her friends make their way to the center of the rebellion against Emperor Burnash, who is desperate to capture Olive and claim her power for his own. Without her

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Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland

2023

Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the...Read more about Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

2023

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon, or the utter amazement when we watch a child walk for the first time? How do you put into words the collective effervescence of standing in a crowd and singing in unison, or the wonder you...Read more about Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Embodying Peripheries

2022

This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of...Read more about Embodying Peripheries

The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

2022

In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden...Read more about The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

2022

This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.


The 21st-...Read more about Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War

2022

Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic

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Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art

2022

In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the...Read more about Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art

Violent Utopia

2022

In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in...Read more about Violent Utopia