What a month July was! Look at all these books that arrived! Can you believe it! I think July 2011 will be remembered more for how many books arrived here in Graduate Services than this past July 4th you can't remember or forget (the conundrum of a very good time). Though I can't remember what the record was to verify this fact, the amount of books coming in to Graduate Services must be a new monthly record! Agamben, Barthes, Blanchot, Baudrillard, Auden, Badiou, Berry, Bishop, Bly, Kristeva, Kennedy, Mamet, Latour, Rorty, Rich, Pound, Oates. And then there are books by UC Berkeley faculty memebers Abel, Alter, Chandra, Hass, Fudge, Reed, Kaes, Sas, Vernon, Nylan, Largier, as well as a book of essays in honor of Jan de Vries. I'm dropping names like they are rocks and I'm looking down a great big well. And you know what. Maybe I am. A great big well of knowledge right here on the Graduate Services new book shelves. And now my time is up and I didn't even get to mention that the first books from Alasdair Gray, the newest member of the Modern Authors Collection, arrived in July too. Drop his name and see what happens.

 

Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel

Nudities by Giorgio Agamben

Democracy In What State? edited by Giorgio Agamben

The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W.H. Auden

The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou

Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History by William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs

Incidents by Roland Barthes

Mourning Diary: October 26.1977-September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes

The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford by Wendell Berry

Elizabeth Bishop And The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence edited by Joelle Biele

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

Prose by Elizabeth Bishop

Political Writings, 1953-1993 by Maurice Blanchot

Talking into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly

Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan

Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere by Cathryn Carson

Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories by Vikram Chandra

Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Suspense, A Novel edited by Gene M. Moore

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad: Youth, Heart of Darkness, and The End of the Tether edited by Owen Knowles

The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy, 1400-1800: Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr

Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature During the Nazi Occupation by Jeroen Dewulf

Theodore Dreiser: Political Writings edited by Jude Davies

The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster v.1-3 edited by Philip Gardner

Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures edited by Erica Fudge

Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray

A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray

Unlikely Stories Mostly by Alasdair Gray

On Teaching Poetry by Robert Hass

The Concept of Time: The First Draft of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life In North China by David Johnson

Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes

Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty by Paul W. Kahn

You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman

Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy

Looking For the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy

Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A.L. Kennedy

Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy

Hatred and Forgiveness by Julia Kristeva

In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal by Niklaus Largier

Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin edited by Anthony Thwaite

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods by Bruno Latour

The Gadamer Dictionary by Chris Lawn and Niall Keane

Race by David Mamet

Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages by Michael Nylan and Thomas Wilson

Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana

A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates

On What Matters v.1-2 by Derek Parfit (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound edited by Richard Sieburth

Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary De Rachewiltz, A. David Moody, and Joanna Moody

Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo

The Rorty Reader by Richard Rorty edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return by Miryam Sas

Hunger: A Modern History by James Vernon

Death Likes It Hot by Gore Vidal writing as Edgar Box

Native Land: Stop Eject by Paul Virilio, Raymond Depardon, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, and Ben Rubin

The Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts edited by Mark Hussey