{"id":17910,"date":"2022-09-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:30:35","slug":"national-read-a-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/national-read-a-book-day","title":{"rendered":"What the Berghahn team recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 6th marks National Read a Book Day<\/strong> in the United States with International Literacy Day <\/strong>following closely on September 8th. To celebrate, we want to share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Marion Berghahn<\/strong>, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nachdenken \u00fcber Musik<\/em> (Trans. Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts<\/em>) by Alfred Brendel <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the 20th Century’s most celebrated pianists, Alfred Brendel, reflects on Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, and Busoni, composers whose works figured prominently into his own repertoire as a pianist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LOVE, LOYALTY AND DECEIT: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men<\/a>
Hugh Firth and Loulou Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth’s son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vivian Berghahn<\/strong>, <\/strong>Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director<\/p>\n\n\n

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Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait<\/em> by Reinhard Bendix<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this book is to make Weber’s sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation. This volume is used as an introduction to the study of original Weber texts and gives the reader a systematic presentation of Weber’s sociological studies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOHN F. KENNEDY\u2019S HIDDEN DIARY, EUROPE 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings<\/a>
John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Lubrich<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenting the 1937 diaries of John F. Kennedy\u2019s tour of Europe, this volume offers insights into his early experiences on a continent under the shadow of Nazism. In addition to numerous archive photographs, this volume contains Kennedy\u2019s complete diary of his 1937 trip to Europe and, as a counterpart, the \u201cScrapbook\u201d of Lem Billings who documented it from his perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Covenant of Water<\/em> by Abraham Verghese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water<\/em> follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning – and in Kerala, water is everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TURBA<\/a>
The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation
Managing Editor:<\/strong> Dena Davida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TURBA <\/em>is the first journal for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in the live arts. The live arts are broadly defined as those arts in which contingent, momentary acts and events, performed by human or other autonomous agents, are crucial to the aesthetic perception and the emergence of meaning in ephemeral time-based work. They include, but are not limited to, dance, music, sound art, theatre, performance art, verbal arts, circus arts, live media arts and inter-arts performance works. With this journal, we aim to create a platform for the exploration of ideas, concepts, constraints, expectations, and contingencies which guide and drive curatorial practices in these fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Stanton<\/strong>, Books Editorial Director and Senior Editor (Humanities: History)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll <\/em>by Robert Rodriguez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acquired wisdom has always put\u00a0Sgt. Pepper<\/em>\u00a0at the head of the class, but it was\u00a0Revolver<\/em>\u00a0that truly signaled The Beatles’ sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before\u00a0Rubber Soul<\/em>\u00a0but came to fruition on\u00a0Revolver<\/em>, which took an astonishing 300 hours to produce, far more than any rock record before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE RICH AND THE POOR IN MODERN EUROPE, 1890-2020: A Historian\u2019s Response to Recent Debates among Economists<\/a>
Hartmut Kaelble
Translated by Volker Berghahn<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequality of education, health, housing and chances of social mobility, nor does it differentiate statistical inequality from the realities of peoples\u2019 actual experience. With this broad understanding in mind, in a long look back on the history of social inequality in Europe, The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe addresses these neglected subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Mason<\/strong>, Senior Editor (Social Sciences: Anthropology)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Crime and Punishment <\/em>by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dostoyevsky’s great novel of damnation and redemption tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIFE WITH DURHAM CATHEDRAL: A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building
<\/a>Arran J. Calvert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral. Focusing on the role of sound, light, time, space, building and dwelling, the author argues that Durham Cathedral is much more than just a backdrop to everyday life. Rather, through the constant processes of negotiation and change, it is a fully engaged participant in the daily lives of those who use Durham Cathedral. As such, it is not a place in which life happens, but a place with which life happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caryn Berg<\/strong>, Editor (Humanities: Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lessons in Chemistry<\/em> by Bonnie Garmus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A delight of her rip-roaring, funny book is how it bonds familiar plot and character elements with the unexpectedly unconventional\u2026 a smart, funny, big-hearted debut combining chemical elements into what seems a winning formula.” <\/em>– The Sunday Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THESE WERE PEOPLE ONCE: The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters<\/a>
Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn easy read on a difficult subject, its beautiful encapsulations of the tragic lives behind their commodified remains highlight the urgency of the authors\u2019 project and public and commercial responses to it. The grim thread of mistreatment of the dead guides the reader through the labyrinth of Big Tech, how cynical tech companies and equally-cynical users are complicit in each other\u2019s harms.\u201d<\/em> – Samuel Andrew Hardy<\/strong>, Cultural Property Criminologist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Horn<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/strong>Editor (Cultural studies: Film and Media studies)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Heaven Is a Place on Earth<\/em> by Adrian Shirk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exploration of American ideas of utopia through the lens of one millennial’s quest to live a more communal life under late-stage capitalism. Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, Heaven Is a Place on Earth<\/em> is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments–from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement–through the lens of one woman’s quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access! <\/em> ANIMALS, PLANTS AND AFTERIMAGES: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction<\/a>
Edited by Val\u00e9rie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animals, Plants and Afterimages<\/em> brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Bonnington<\/strong>,<\/strong> Associate Editor (Social Sciences: Anthropology and Sociology)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hot Milk <\/em>by Deborah Levy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“<\/em>Hot Milk is a powerful novel of the interior life, which Levy creates with a vividness that recalls Virginia Woolf. The sense of Sofia\u2019s life with her mother (or against her mother) is built through an accumulation of detail, a constellation of symbols and narrative bursts. But like a medusa, this novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned.” <\/strong><\/em>– The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MILITARY POLITICS: New Perspectives<\/a>
Edited by Thomas Crosbie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume provides an extremely valuable contribution to the academic and military professional literatures \u2026 This volume will quickly become one that individuals turn to in order to inform their thinking and their collegial arguments.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0– Alan Okros<\/strong>, Canadian Forces College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mythos <\/em>by Stephen Fry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. Mythos <\/em>captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age – in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MADNESS, BUREAUCRACY AND GENDER IN MUMBAI, INDIA: Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital<\/a>
Annika Strauss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cases in this book are wonderful, rich and full of complexities \u2026 They are the heart of the book and offer insights into diverse lives and resonant themes, especially related to gender, marriage, queer lives and kin dynamics.\u201d<\/em> – Sarah Pinto<\/strong>, Tufts University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alina Zihharev, <\/strong><\/strong>Assistant Marketing Manager (Humanities)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Never Let Me Go<\/em> by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman who has chosen a difficult subject: ourselves, seen through a glass, darkly.”<\/em> – Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOHN F. KENNEDY\u2019S HIDDEN DIARY, EUROPE 1937: The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings<\/a>
John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
Edited with an Introduction by Oliver Lubrich<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProfessor Lubrich has written a brilliant Introduction that examines both the background to Kennedy’s travels in 1937 and provides a preview of his subsequent visits to Germany in 1939, 1945, and 1963.”<\/em> – Philip Cassier,<\/strong> Welt am Sonntag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Children of Men<\/em> by P.D. James<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world facing human extinction and ruled by a despot, Theo Faren\u2019s life is turned around by a chance encounter with a young woman and a group of dissenters in this haunting, timeless dystopian tale from P.D. James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SHAKESPEARE AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT<\/a>
Edited by Rowan Mackenzie and Robert Shaughnessy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakespeare\u2019s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement<\/em> explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare\u2019s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the complicated and vibrant encounters between a canonical cultural force and work that frequently characterizes itself as inclusive and egalitarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellow Face<\/em> by R.F. Kuang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June\u2019s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access!<\/em>
VISIONS OF MARRIAGE: Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020<\/a>
Hsiao-Chiao Chiu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe book is a fascinating study of changes in the institution of marriage over time in Kinmen. It demonstrates how marriage can be studied as both driving social changes and impacted by social changes.\u201d<\/em> –<\/strong> Lynne Yukie Nakano<\/strong>, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Hitch In Time: From Liverpool to Pamplona on a 72,000-mile Road Trip <\/em>by Andy Smart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining memoir, travel writing, and a wealth of unbelievably hilarious anecdotes, this autobiographical extravaganza chronicles the amazing early life of entertainer Andy Smart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INSIDE PARTY HEADQUARTERS: Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany<\/a>
R\u00fcdiger Bergien
Translated from the German by David Burnett<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spanning a long period of the GDR\u2019s history, from 1946 through 1989, R\u00fcdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party\u2019s communist apparatus. Inside Party Headquarters<\/em> reviews not only the party\u2019s modes power and state interaction, but also the processes of negotiation and disputation preceding formal Politburo decisions, advancing the available detail and discourse surrounding this formative and volatile stretch of German history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower’s Guide to Ecological Market Gardening <\/em>by Jesse Frost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The best way to produce healthier soils, fight climate change, and reduce work all at the same time is to disturb the soil less. The Living Soil Handbook shows growers how to do just that. I highly recommend this practical and beautifully designed book.” <\/strong><\/em>– Ben Hartman, <\/strong>author of The Lean Farm<\/em> and The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BRAVING THE STREET: The Anthropology of Homelessness<\/a>
Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis slim, useful book \u2026 is suitable for students \u2026 The fairly tight North American focus allows for great accuracy and detail, and the Canadian material is especially interesting, because Canadian social policy is less well known than that of the United States, and seems far more progressive on homelessness.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>– The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow <\/em>by Gabrielle Zevin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It’s not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to the brief time they spent playing together as children. Their unique spark is instantly reignited. What comes next is a story of friendship and rivalry, fame and creativity, betrayal and tragedy, perfect worlds and imperfect ones. And, ultimately, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond<\/a>
Edited by Jacob Copeman, Nicholas J. Long, Lam Minh Chau, Joanna Cook, and Magnus Marsden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a bold and innovative book about the complex realities of living in a global age \u2026 It is both comprehensive in its breadth and precise in its ethnographic detail.\u201d<\/em> – Arkotong Longkumer, <\/strong>University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Passenger<\/em> by Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“An appealing piece of work . . . gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocation.” <\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>– The Daily Telegraph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WAR STORIES: Reading Plains Indian Biographic Rock Art
<\/a>James D. Keyser and David A. Kaiser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKeyser and Kaiser\u2019s book compiles widespread Biographic rock art information into one source in a form that is easily useable. This is an significant reference for the field of rock art research, and it is an important document for educating the greater public that rock art can be deciphered and understood today\u2026\u201d<\/em> – Mavis Greer,<\/strong> Greer Archaeology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Food Americana: The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories behind America\u2019s Favorite Dishes <\/em>by David Page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Terrific food journalism. Page uncovers the untold backstories of American food. A great read.”<\/em> – George Stephanopoulos<\/strong>, Good Morning America, This Week and ABC News’ Chief Anchor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LOVE, LOYALTY AND DECEIT: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men<\/a>
Hugh Firth and Loulou Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much do we really know about our parents\u2019 lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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