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Key academic titles for January-June 2009, by publisher Verso Books The New-Old World by Perry Anderson (May) The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler by André Pichot, translated by David Fernbach (February) Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson (March) Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror by Mahmood Mamdani (April) Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler (April) The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights by Robin Blackburn (May) Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou (June) The Situationists and the City: A Reader, edited and translated by Tom McDonough (June) The University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still by Dan Diner (Mar) Famine: A Short History by Cormac ó Gráda (May) Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller (March) The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu (April) The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness by Joan Roughgarden (April) How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas by David P Barash and Judith Eve Lipton (May) Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future by Edmond A. Mathez (March) Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation by Adeed Dawisha (April) The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward (May) Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith (April) Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience by Jeremy Mynott (April) Scion Publishing ? Statistics at the Bench by Rebecca W. Doerge and Martina Bremer (May) Proteomics by Andrew Link, Philip Andrews, and Joshua LaBaer (Jan) Oxford University Press The Ends of Life: Ro