It’s February—winter slush decays in the curbs, and the last of the polar vortex exhales its way out of our weather systems. Spring is nearly upon us, along with its attendant rituals, including the ever-rejuvenating spring cleaning. Next month we’re doing a little shelf-dusting of our own at SUP: we’ll be holding our 2014 overstock sale featuring some deeply discounted titles. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details on the sale. Also, if you missed it, check out our 2013 Book Awards roundup to see some award-winning nonfiction across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Now, here’s a quick look at what’s new and forthcoming this month:
New & Forthcoming:
Literature and the Creative Economy | Sarah Brouillette
“Brouillette has written what will quickly become the definitive account of contemporary British literature—and of the now pandemic effort to monetize creativity. Over the last twenty years, management gurus, policy wonks, and academics of all stripes have set out to calculate the value of self-expression, both to local and national economies and the legions of precarious workers now encouraged to style themselves self-promoting entrepreneurs.”
—Michael Szalay, UC Irvine
Plastic Money | Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva
"With verve and compelling evidence, Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas guide us into the intricate world of credit and debit cards in eight post-communist countries. Along the way, Plastic Money boldly demolishes myths about how markets, money, and globalization work. An inspired contribution to economic sociology."
—Viviana A. Zelizer, Author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Epinets | Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Joel A.C. Baum
"Cognition and behavior are increasingly used as variables in social network theory, but Moldoveanu and Baum leapfrog evolution to analyze the purely cognitive underpinnings of social networks. Your epinet refers to your understanding of how other people see you and one another within your network. Combining network analysis with the reflected self- and emotional intelligence, Epinets serves up a buffet of innovation and insight."
—Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Roads to Utopia | David Greenstein
"'Rabbi Hiyya and Rabbi Yose were walking on the road.' Traditional commentators ignore the Zohar's narrative framework; in this fascinating book, David Greenstein refocuses our attention on this vital element. He demonstrates how the 'walking motif' enables theZohar to address the mundane, to explore not just the 'sacred center,' but also its everyday periphery."
—Daniel Matt, Editor and Translator of The Zohar, Pritzker Edition
And speaking of The Zohar . . .
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 8 | Daniel C. Matt
Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of mystical literature, comprising over twenty sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This eighth volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition consists of commentary on the end of Leviticus and the beginning of Numbers.
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