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Electing Chávez:
The Business of Anti-neoliberal Politics in Venezuela

Leslie C. Gates

"Gates's highly creative empirical investigation shows how declining public confidence in business and fear of losing access to the resource-rich government induced many businessmen to support Chávez despite his anti-neoliberal appeal." —Daniel Hellinger, Webster University

Questioning Nineteenth Century
Assumptions About Knowledge (3 vols.)

Richard E. Lee

"The range is truly extraordinary . . . covering everything from economics to opera, cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, mathematical modeling, and systems theory . . . [the volumes] open a host of questions for scholars to ponder and suggest many enlightening lines of inquiry. . . . Highly recommended." — Choice

Schizotypy and Schizophrenia:
The View from Experimental Psychopathology

Mark F. Lenzenweger

"Written by an internationally recognized authority, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the complexities of schizophrenia and psychopathology research. Meticulous scholarship, accumulated wisdom, and personal anecdotes are combined into an engaging and highly readable text." — Jill M. Hooley, Harvard University

Environmental Health Hazards and Social Justice:
Geographical Perspectives on Race and Class Disparities

Florence Margai

"A much needed reference in medical geography and environmental epidemiology that is richly illustrated and offers an accessible introduction to the visualization and spatial analysis of environmental health data." — Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist, BioMedware Inc.

What We Pass On:
Collected Poems, 1980–2009

Maria Mazziotti Gillan

"Reading Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Collected Poems What We Pass On is to spend time with an eager intelligence and a love that is not always what we expect it to be. Maria Gillan has opened the meaning of the word poetry — in each poem — to become a vital moment in time." —Grace Cavalieri, The Montserrat Review

Beyond the Bonus March and
The G.I. Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal

Stephen Ortiz

"Moving beyond other well documented examples of activism by former servicemen . . . Ortiz traces the fortunes of the two major U.S. veterans' organizations, the first the patrician American Legion . . . the second the older, smaller and scrappier Veterans of Foreign Wars." — Times Literary Supplement

The Neighborhood Project:
Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time

David Sloan Wilson

"Much of The Neighborhood Project is an inspiring panorama of Mr. Wilson's partners, from the energetic superintendent of Binghamton's schools … to his beloved graduate students.… Many books present science or social science to the curious layman, but none make the actual work of research sound this invigorating." — New York Times

In the Neighborhood of Zero

William Spanos

"Professor Spanos deeply impacted my views on literature and language when I was a student of his, but nothing prepared me for the power and emotion of this memoir. It is an amazing saga." — Marc Lawrence, writer and director of Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics, and Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Recently Published

Electing Chávez: The Business of Anti-neoliberal Politics in Venezuela

Questioning Nineteenth Century Assumptions About Knowledge (3 vols.)

Schizotypy and Schizophrenia: The View from Experimental Psychopathology

Environmental Health Hazards and Social Justice: Geographical Perspectives on Race and Class Disparities

What We Pass On: Collected Poems, 1980–2009

Beyond the Bonus March and The G.I. Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal

The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time