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Free indirect　：　the novel in a postfictional age / Timothy Bewes

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:07:23 +0900

Timothy Bewes. Free indirect　：　the novel in a postfictional age. Columbia University Press, c2022, Literature now. ISBN:978-0-231-19297-2; 0-231-19297-2

The textual townsman : writing urban identity in early modern Japan / Thomas Gaubatz

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:40:56 +0900

Thomas Gaubatz. The textual townsman : writing urban identity in early modern Japan. Columbia University Press, [2026]. ISBN:9780231221313; 9780231221306; 0231221304; 0231221312
"The Textual Townsman examines the formation of urban subjectivity in Japan between the late 17th and mid-18th century. It argues that the capacity to imagine a shared sense of urban identity and community--one that would integrate the specificities of place and occupation and status of birth into a normative sense of shared values--was built on the circulation of woodblock-printed texts. The identity is that of the "townsman" or "urban commoner" (chōnin), roughly comparable to a pre-industrial bourgeoisie. Where previous studies have taken the townsman as a stable position within a static social hierarchy, The Textual Townsman begins from the premise that early modern identity was not as stable as it might seem: especially in the hybrid spaces of the city, boundaries were dynamic, porous, and open to discursive contestation. The indeterminacy lurking within seemingly self-evident social distinctions drove textual production and literary representation, as writers attempted to understand the tensions and contradictions of urban society through new forms of narrative. The popular fiction of this moment--the "books of the floating world" (ukiyo-zōshi)--depicted the complexity and diversity of the urban world while also didactically endorsing a set of norms that would make sense of its contradictions; The Textual Townsman explores this normalizing function through readings of works by Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) and Ejima Kiseki (1666-1735). It gives particular attention to how these authors delineate the margins of townsman identity, both outer--the distinctions separating the townsman from the rural peasant or subaltern underclass, and that literature functioned to navigate and to police--and inner--the internal stratification and tension that the textual phantasm of a harmonious urban community functioned to obscure. In doing so, The Textual Townsman reframes one of the most contested scholarly debates surrounding early modern Japanese literature: what was the political significance of the townsman's literary voice? Where existing studies of early modern Japanese literature have seen the work of these authors as the subversive assertion of the townsman's cultural authority in the face of his political marginalization, The Textual Townsman shows that the politics of townsman literature is rather to be found in the negotiation of the townsman's sense of self: in legitimating the social contradictions, hierarchies, and exclusions upon which urban identity was built, and in doing so producing townsman identity itself as a locus of power and property"-- Provided by publisher

Triangle republics : cross-border literary transits between the Cold War Koreas and Japan / I Jonathan Kief

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:02:04 +0900

I Jonathan Kief. Triangle republics : cross-border literary transits between the Cold War Koreas and Japan. Columbia University Press, 2025. ISBN:9780231219846; 9780231219853
"Explores the robust and dynamic literary dialogues that emerged between writers in North Korea, South Korea, and Japan during the Cold War decades of the 1950s-1980s. Unlike the dominant narrative of these years, which assumes that the post-1945 processes of decolonization and division isolated these three literary domains from one another, the book shows how the shared predicaments of the Cold War and national division in fact brought them together, with a key role played by the Korean diasporic community in Japan, which was uniquely positioned to interact with writers and texts from both Koreas. With its multilingual, regional perspective, the book challenges the "national literature" paradigm of literary studies, showing how cross-border networks of textual transit and exchange played a central role in the creative transformations of these decades"-- Provided by publisher

Trading locomotives : the global economy and the development of Japan's railroads, 1869-1914 / Naofumi Nakamura

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:48:18 +0900

Naofumi Nakamura. Trading locomotives : the global economy and the development of Japan's railroads, 1869-1914. Columbia University Press, [2025]. ISBN:9780231218450; 0231218451; 9780231218467; 023121846X
"In Trading Locomotives, Naofumi Nakamura examines the development of Japanese railway technology and management from a global perspective. The proliferation of railways around the world was integral to the emergence of a global market economy at the turn of the twentieth century, and the railways in Japan played an essential part in that story. Nakamura investigates steam locomotive manufacturing and distribution in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on how this industry came to Japan and then became a major domestic sector. Arguing that the industrial revolution was the first modern global economy, the book explores how international momentum and competition enabled the development of the Japanese railway economy during this era. Drawing on an extensive array of archival materials from Japan, the United States, and the UK, Trading Locomotives sheds new light on the global nature of the industrial revolution in Japan, as well as in the rest of the world"-- Provided by publisher

Inside Salafi-Jihadist governance : the strategies and characteristics of Islamist insurgent rule / Marta Furlan

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:45:51 +0900

Marta Furlan. Inside Salafi-Jihadist governance : the strategies and characteristics of Islamist insurgent rule. Columbia University Press, [2025], Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare. ISBN:9780231219860; 0231219865; 9780231219877; 0231219873
"Inside Salafi-Jihadist Governance explores how Salafi-Jihadist organizations behave when they rule civilians. Drawing on in-depth case studies of the Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra/Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Maria Furlan assesses how different Salafi-Jihadist armed groups govern, whether there is a single model of Salafi-Jihadist rebel governance, and if there is any difference between how Salafi-Jihadist groups govern compared to other nonstate rebel groups that have taken over civilian territories. She finds that these groups generally structure their governance efforts the same way, and that the variations are by individual group, not by Salafi-Jihadist groups as a whole. She also illuminates the relationship between Salafi-Jihadist ideology and Salafi-Jihadist governance and the extent to which doctrine influences the decisions that Salafi-Jihadist armed groups make as rulers, a connection she finds to be quite strong. This book presents a unique, comprehensive analysis of the inner workings of government and civilian life under these organizations that contributes to the study of irregular warfare and post-conflict governance in the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher

Varieties of power : women's political representation in Arab parliaments / Marwa Shalaby

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:20:06 +0900

Marwa Shalaby. Varieties of power : women's political representation in Arab parliaments. Columbia University Press, [2025], Columbia studies in Middle East politics. ISBN:9780231218658; 0231218656; 9780231218665; 0231218664
"The Middle East and North Africa region continues to have one of the lowest rates of female representation in national legislatures over the past decades. Even as post-Arab Spring governments worked to increase women's participation in politics, the number of women serving in Arab legislatures stood at 18 percent in 2021, compared to 40 percent in Nordic countries and 27 percent in Europe. In Varieties of Power , Marwa Shalaby proposes that specific difficulties in an increasingly authoritarian region affect women's political inclusion in Arab countries. She examines the dynamics of female political inclusion in three national parliaments operating under authoritarianism-Morocco, Jordan, and Kuwait-and systematically analyzes variations in women's legislative behavior and priorities across the three cases. Drawing on more than seven years of data collection and fieldwork in the region, Shalaby demonstrates that the structure of procedural rules as well as the degree of institutionalization of party competition play a significant role in promoting, or hampering, women's access to political power under authoritarianism. In Morocco, for instance, robust party competition a; nd strong legislative procedures are correlated with more women's participation in parliament, while the lack of these conditions are correlated with lower women's participation in Jordan and Kuwait; the women in Morocco, subsequently, find it easier to raise questions related to women's issues to the general political body than their peers in nearby authoritarian countries. While institutions matter, Shalaby argues, the internal procedures and the 'content' of these institutions are crucial for explaining the varying levels, and substance, of women's political representation. Contributing new insights in both the study of women in politics and authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa region, Varieties of Power is a nuanced and incisive book"-- Provided by publisher

To stand with Palestine : transnational resistance and political evolution in the United States / Karam Dana

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:14:41 +0900

Karam Dana. To stand with Palestine : transnational resistance and political evolution in the United States. Columbia University Press, [2025]; ©2025. ISBN:9780231186162; 0231186169; 9780231186179; 0231186177
"Without an official homeland, argues Karam Dana, the Palestinian political self by necessity assumes the form of global collective activism. The book takes a historical and multidisciplinary approach to the issue of Palestinian activism from the start of the conflict to the present day. Dana, himself a Palestinian American, draws on interviews with key Palestinian expatriate activists, historical documents, and public opinion data to examine the impact of global Palestinian exiled communities on the creation and molding of a refined Palestinian identity both in the United States and in the broader international community. The book explores the ways that Palestinian identity is strengthened by the lack of a defined home nation and how a coalition built on exile orients itself on a right of return to a distant homeland, even after many generations have strong roots in their adopted countries. Palestine is an enduring issue in global politics, and To Stand with Palestine is a remarkable and timely study that gives a unique inside look at how Palestinians view their political selves and their place in the geopolitical order"--

Japan reborn : race and eugenics from empire to cold war / Kristin Roebuck

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:22:08 +0900

Kristin Roebuck. Japan reborn : race and eugenics from empire to cold war. Columbia University Press, [2025]. ISBN:9780231204392; 0231204396; 9780231204385; 0231204388
"Did race-based eugenics and norms of racial "purity" vanish as a global force after World War II? In this book, historian Kristin Roebuck argues that in Japan, defeat and occupation only heightened the relevance of "race hygiene" as a prescription for national strength. Japan Reborn: Race, Nation, and Foreign Relations after World War II examines efforts at the end of the Allied occupation of Japan in 1952 to cleanse the nation of children born to Japanese mothers and foreign fathers, primarily American, who were stationed in Japan after the war. Such "cleansing" would occur through eugenic abortion, proscriptions of interracial sex, resettlement of "mixed blood" children overseas, and the hoped-for but never achieved expulsion of U.S. and U.N. troops from Japanese soil. Japan Reborn exposes how Japanese nationalism, often erroneously held to have vanished in the wake of defeat in World War II, was instead reconstructed on a new basis: that of the "pure race" rather than the failed state"-- Provided by publisher

Age of disaffection : the aesthetic critique of politics in 1960s Japan / Patrick Noonan

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:56:35 +0900

Patrick Noonan. Age of disaffection : the aesthetic critique of politics in 1960s Japan. Columbia University Press, [2025]; ©2025. ISBN:9780231220491; 0231220499; 9780231220484; 0231220480
"How might political disillusionment define a new form of politics? Age of Disaffection explores this question by tracing how artists and intellectuals critiqued conventional forms of political engagement-from party organizing to protest in the street-in 1960s Japan. It argues that this critique produced an "ethos of disaffection" that made the transformation of self the basis for radical change. While studies of the 1960s tend to conceptualize politics in terms of contestation, Age of Disaffection foregrounds cultivation, or the production of ways of thinking and feeling in efforts to redefine the political itself. In doing so, it reveals how the cultural production of 1960s Japan confronted a crucial question that continues to vex efforts at radical change today: transform institutions or alter how people relate to themselves and others?"--

By the power vested in me : how experts shape same-sex marriage debates / Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:47:01 +0900

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. By the power vested in me : how experts shape same-sex marriage debates. Columbia University Press, [2025]. ISBN:9780231202220; 0231202229; 9780231202237; 0231202237
"Same-sex marriage in the United States and France was a contested legal topic. Both countries relied on evidence from experts to sort through their challenges and both countries ended up with roughly the same outcome of legal same-sex marriage. However, the expert justifications that were essential in the United States were more or less nonexistent in France and vice versa. In By the Power Vested in Me, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer shows how scientific and technical merit is couched within politics, money, emotion, and cultural taboo and formulates what he calls expert capital. Through 72 interviews and 300 hours of ethnographic observation, Stambolis-Ruhstorfer takes readers through the contestation of same-sex marriage in the American courts, culminating in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case and the French parliament, where same-sex marriage was hotly debated through nationally televised hearings. In telling these two stories, he examines how and why certain experts--but not others--rise to prominence and use their power to influence both public opinion and policy, a topic that is particularly timely now, when public mistrust of expertise has never been higher"--

Spreading Indra's net : the Columbia University lectures of D.T. Suzuki / edited by Richard M. Jaffe, Shigematsu Sōiku, Tokiwa Gishin, and Elizabeth Mary Thomas

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:16:46 +0900

edited by Richard M. Jaffe, Shigematsu Sōiku, Tokiwa Gishin, and Elizabeth Mary Thomas. Spreading Indra's net : the Columbia University lectures of D.T. Suzuki. Columbia University Press, [2025]. ISBN:9780231192866; 023119286X
"D. T. Suzuki entered the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in 1951 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant and soon joined the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, where he remained until 1957. His lectures drew not only Columbia students but also many notable intellectual and cultural leaders, sometimes as many as forty at a time, including John Cage, Arthur Danto, Phillip Guston, Abraham Kaplan, Ibram Lassaw, and Agnes Martin, many of whom later claimed to have been deeply influenced by Suzuki's classes. Arthur Danto even suggested that intellectually and culturally Suzuki's lectures played a role in 1950s New York intellectual life similar to that exercised by Alexandre Kojève's course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit at the Collège de Paris in the 1930s. The Columbia lectures comprise one of the most comprehensive presentations of Suzuki's approach to Buddhism available among his many published writings. He wove together a number of distinct threads from nearly a half-century of writing in English and Japanese. In particular, he lectured extensively on the relationship between Zen and such foundational Mahayana texts as The Awakening of Faith, providing some of the clearest examples of how Suzuki understood the connection between Chan/Zen and the broader Mahayana tradition. Suzuki also connects his understanding of Zen and Mahayana to Christianity, existentialism, and other currents in contemporaneous American and European thought in an effort to explain Buddhism to his American audience. All together, the lectures provide a vivid example of how one of the most important Buddhist intellectuals of the twentieth century interpreted Zen as a modernist tradition and understood its relationship to global intellectual currents"-- Provided by publisher

Linked verse in medieval Japan : history, commentary, performance / H. Mack Horton

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:07:13 +0900

H. Mack Horton. Linked verse in medieval Japan : history, commentary, performance. Columbia University Press, [2025]. ISBN:9780231191142; 0231191146
"For half a millennium, linked verse (renga and haikai) was the most popular and arguably the most important verse form in Japan. Yet, even in Japan, a concentrated effort to transcribe and explicate some of the greatest examples of linked verse began only in the last few decades. This is due to the highly allusive nature of this type of poetry, as well as to the hundreds upon hundreds of rules governing its composition. Horton aims to present the first reliable overview of the entire phenomenon of medieval linked verse, covering the history of the genre, the treatises that contemporaries wrote about how to read and interpret linked-verse sequences, and the operation of renga composition sessions. The book is divided into three parts. Part One gives a history of the genre. Part Two presents a study of the commentarial tradition and shows how contemporary linked-verse poets approached composition and interpretation. Accompanying it is a translation of and metacommentary on perhaps the most difficult hundred-verse sequence in existence, Yajima Shôrin'an naniki hyakuin, by Sôchô and his disciple Sôboku. Part Three addresses the oral performance and linked verses, when poets would compete with each other to produce links of the highest quality in accordance with the renga strictures"--

Ｈｉｓｔｏｒｙ　ｏｆ　Ａｒｔ　ｉｎ　Ｊａｐａｎ / ＴｓｕｊｉＮｏｂｕｏ． ; ｔｌａｎｓｌａｔｅｄｂｙＮｉｃｏｌｅＣｏｏｌｉｄｇｅＲｏｕｓｍａｎｉｅｒｅ．

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:59:00 +0900

ＴｓｕｊｉＮｏｂｕｏ． ; ｔｌａｎｓｌａｔｅｄｂｙＮｉｃｏｌｅＣｏｏｌｉｄｇｅＲｏｕｓｍａｎｉｅｒｅ．. Ｈｉｓｔｏｒｙ　ｏｆ　Ａｒｔ　ｉｎ　Ｊａｐａｎ. ｐｂｋ．　ｅｄ．, Ｃｏｌｕｍｂｉａ　Ｕｎｉｖｅｒｓｉｔｙ　Ｐｒｅｓｓ, ｃ２０１９. ISBN:0231193416; 9780231193412

Passcode to the third floor : an insider's account of life among North Korea's political elite / Thae Yong-hoほか

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:20:54 +0900

Thae Yong-ho; translated by Robert Lauler. Passcode to the third floor : an insider's account of life among North Korea's political elite. Columbia University Press, [2024]. ISBN:9780231198868
"In 2016, Thae Yong-ho, the North Korean Deputy Ambassador to the UK, defected to South Korea. In this book, he reveals the truth of what he saw during his career as a North Korean ambassador, and why he decided to leave. Thae is the highest-ranking diplomat who has defected to South Korea in history. The Passcode to the Third Floor, a best-seller in South Korea, is a tell-all exposé on North Korean politics and diplomacy over the regime of three generations of the Kim dynasty. This unflinching account reveals his thoughts on the Kim family and their close associates on the "Third Floor"-the group of members who are in charge of the glorification of Kim Jong Un and protecting its regime"--

The Abraham Accords : the Gulf states, Israel, and the limits of normalization / Elham Fakhro

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:32:05 +0900

Elham Fakhro. The Abraham Accords : the Gulf states, Israel, and the limits of normalization. Columbia University Press, [2024]. ISBN:9780231212380; 0231212380
"On August 13, 2020, then President Donald Trump delivered a groundbreaking announcement: his administration had brokered a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Weeks later, the president triumphantly announced that Bahrain had followed suit. At a ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House, foreign ministers from the two Gulf states joined Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in signing the Abraham Accords, a treaty that outlined their shared intent to establish a new era of peace and opportunity in the Middle East. The Abraham Accords marked the first peace agreement between Israel and an Arab state in over twenty-five years, and the first ever between Israel and any of the Gulf monarchies. Still in their infancy, the Abraham Accords have upended the Middle East's political landscape and shattered the Arab consensus around the Palestinian issue. The book explores three questions: Why did the Accords happen? How were they orchestrated? And what do they mean both for the parties involved and for the party most visibly excluded from the arrangement: the Palestinians? Elham Fakhro takes a bottom-up approach, looking at the perspectives of civic actors in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to understand how shared security concerns with Israel, interest in global trade, and a desire for ties to the West led these countries to overlook a longtime solidarity with Palestinians, whose voices Fakhro also includes. She also looks at the new directions that Palestinian activists and politicians will need to take in the wake of these growing alliances"--

Embodied performance : warriors, dancers, and the origins of noh theater / Matsuoka Shinpeiほか

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:35:05 +0900

Matsuoka Shinpei; translated by Janet Goff; foreword by Haruo Shirane. Embodied performance : warriors, dancers, and the origins of noh theater. Columbia University Press, [2024]. ISBN:9780231212267; 0231212267; 9780231212274; 0231212275
"A study of the origins of noh theater. The first part of the book delves into the performance forms and religious, political, and cultural conditions that shaped sarugaku (the early form of noh), whose roots lay in the performance of religious rituals to exorcise demons. The second part of the book focuses on the transformation of sarugaku into a high art by the great actor, playwright, and theoretician Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443). The contents are enlivened by colorful quotations from a wide array of contemporary sources, including diaries, narrative tales, and illustrated picture scrolls, that open up a window onto medieval Japanese culture. The translation aims to make the book accessible to a theater audience as well as a Japan-focused one; explanations of technical terms and background information have been woven into the text, and endnotes, a glossary, index, and bibliography have been added. The endnotes provide supplementary information, as well as giving the location of Japanese sources. Existing English translations of literary and historical works are also noted"--

Eclipse : a novel / Keiichiro Hiranoほか

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:38:24 +0900

Keiichiro Hirano; translated by Brent de Chene and Charles De Wolf. Eclipse : a novel. Columbia University Press, [2024]. ISBN:9780231214902; 0231214901; 9780231214919; 023121491X
"Eclipse tells the story, cast in the form of a memoir, of a young Dominican friar, fascinated by the fragments of pre-Christian philosophy that have come into his hands and determined to achieve a synthesis of Hermetic and Neo-Platonic thought with the Christian tradition, and his experiences during a journey on foot from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts in the year 1482"--

The political clinic : psychoanalysis and social change in the twentieth century / Carolyn Laubender

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:00:51 +0900

Carolyn Laubender. The political clinic : psychoanalysis and social change in the twentieth century. Columbia University Press, [2024], New directions in critical theory. ISBN:9780231214940; 0231214944; 9780231214957; 0231214952
"The Political Clinic argues that European clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a heretofore unacknowledged site of political thinking, theorization, and action. While much psychoanalytic scholarship has focused on its intellectual, social, and political impact outside of the clinic, this book argues for the importance of understanding the clinic itself as a necessarily politicized space. Carolyn Laubender makes this case by (re)turning to the specifically post-Freudian traditions of psychoanalysis, exploring how prominent 20th-century analysts developed unique-and politically salient-clinical practices. Combining case studies and archival material from Britain and its (post)colonies, she examines how psychoanalysts like Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Wulf Sachs, D.W. Winnicott, Wilfred Bion, and John Bowlby forged original clinical techniques for working with their patients that experimentally reimagined the political work that the clinic performs. Rather than applying psychoanalytic theory to political dynamics, this book considers how psychoanalysts themselves became formidable political actors precisely through their clinical work, where they implicitly transformed the privatized space of the clinic into a proto-political laboratory for reimagining the formations of race, gender, childhood, nation, and democracy. The Political Clinic thus (re)positions clinical practice as of a piece with social and political engagement, challenging tacit assumptions about its irrelevance in these contexts. Drawing on a new analysis of Frantz Fanon's radical politics as a "combined action" of the material-political and the psycho-clinical, Laubender concludes that it is only through such an integration that we can advance a progressive clinical politics for the future"--

The feminist Pacific : international women's networks in Hawai'i, 1820-1940 / Rumi Yasutake

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:05:54 +0900

Rumi Yasutake. The feminist Pacific : international women's networks in Hawai'i, 1820-1940. Columbia University Press, [2024], Global America. ISBN:9780231208529; 9780231208536
"Shaping Feminist Internationalism in the Pacific examines the dissemination, transformation, and hybridization of Western-origin women's movements from the U.S. Northeast to the socio-historical contexts of the multiracializing Hawaiian Kingdom in the nineteenth century. It considers the forging of U.S. semi-colonial rule of the islands at the turn-of-the-century and the rise of Hawai'i centered internationalist aspirations during the interwar years, from local, regional, and global perspectives. The study centers on Honolulu, the crossroads of the Pacific, but also branches out to other missionary outposts-namely Chicago, Kobe, Tokyo, Shanghai-that were modern commercial and industrial centers and the homelands for the majority of Hawaii's nineteenth and early twentieth-century immigrants. By borrowing a historical framework that illuminates multiple phases and dimensions of globalization, this study bridges nineteenth-century Protestant churchwomen's evangelism with twentieth-century feminist internationalism. It depicts how women's pursuit of civilizing mission cultivated transracial and transnational women's networks and paved the way for collective the post-WWI attempts to protect and empower women and children worldwide. This monograph details the over-a-century history of a small but diverse group of Anglo-Saxon, Native Hawaiian, and Asian/Asian-American (Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) women who adopted, hybridized, and transformed women's civilizing mission, and how their Pan-Pacific feminist camaraderie responded to and influenced Atlantic-based feminist organizations and institutions during the interwar years"--

Falsehoods fly : why misinformation spreads and how to stop it / Paul Thagard

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:01:28 +0900

Paul Thagard. Falsehoods fly : why misinformation spreads and how to stop it. Columbia University Press, [2024]. ISBN:9780231213943; 9780231213950
"Misinformation is threatening medicine, science, politics, social justice, and international relations, in problems such as vaccine hesitancy, climate change denial, conspiracy theories, claims of racial inferiority, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Barack Obama has described disinformation--defined as misinformation that is spread deliberately by people who know it is false--as the single biggest threat to democracy. Dealing with misinformation requires explanation of how information is generated and spread, and how it breaks down but can be mended. This book offers a deep account of information and misinformation that provides concrete advice on how improved thinking and communication can benefit individuals and societies. Concern with misinformation is widespread, but this book is unique in both depth and breadth. The depth comes from an original theory of information as deriving from four processes: acquisition, inference, memory, and spread, or AIMS. Each of these is spelled out in terms of concrete cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that generate real information when done well, but which can easily break down and produce misinformation. Fortunately, misinformation can be transformed into real information using the same mechanisms. The breadth of the book comes from applying the AIMS theory of information and misinformation to five different domains: COVID-19, climate change, conspiracy theories, inequality, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine"--