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
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book
Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries Co-Author: Brent Mishler 2022 Book
The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War Michael Larocci 2022 Book
Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art ​​Miryam Sas 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

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

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

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

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