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Australia & New Zealand Trade Catalogue 2024
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9781009228961
Paperback
AUD $29.95 / NZD $32.95
Available October 2024
Dr Charlotte Markey, University of Reading
Key Features
• Chapters include relatable and inspiring personal stories from real people that bring topics to life
• Q&A and myth-busting sections in each chapter provide easily accessible answers to common questions
• Based on scientific research, it offers evidence-based, reliable information at a time where there is so much misinformation about body image and other related issues like nutrition, eating disorders and mental health
Adultish The Body Image Book for Life
Psychology
About
Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults. This all-inclusive book provides evidencebased information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. Packed with valuable features like Q&As, myth-busting, real-life stories, and expert advice, it is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you’re in.
About the Author
Dr Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image and eating behavior for over twenty-five years. Through all her roles as a scientist, teacher, writer, and parent she is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping others to develop a healthy body image.
Review
‘Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life is an excellent resource on body image for people of every age! Dr. Charlotte Markey has done a remarkable job of synthesizing research and connecting her readers to experts in the field, to create a very readable, understandable and thorough discussion of all topics on body image today. I am very grateful to Charlotte for bringing this must-read book into the world.’
Denise Hamburger - BE REAL Founder & Executive Director
9781009256605
Hardback
AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95
Published April 2024
Netta Weinstein, University of Reading
Heather Hansen, University of Reading
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Durham University
Key Features
• Showcases different perspectives, traditions, stories, and research methods on solitude from people around the world
• Explains how we can balance our social and solo needs
• Clearly defines ‘solitude’ and demonstrates how it plays a role in the move toward our best possible selves
• Explores a wide range of topics connected to solitude, including but not limited to: creativity, anxiety, authenticity, ageing, and emotional regulation
Solitude The Science and Power of Being Alone
Social psychology
About
The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotion regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. Learning what makes us better at spending time alone can help us move toward our best possible selves.
About the Authors
Netta Weinstein
Netta Weinstein is an internationally recognized psychologist and director of the European Research Council’s ‘Solitude: Alone but Resilient’ (SOAR) project. Her research focuses on motivation and well-being.
Heather Hansen
Heather Hansen is an independent science writer and author. She joined SOAR in 2020 to lend her expertise in interviewing and communication. She has won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Colorado Authors League.
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen is a pioneer and expert in studying solitude in laboratory experiments and investigating the factors that lead to different concepts of solitude.
Review
“Extremely comprehensive, accessible, and tremendously engaging. This is an absolute must read and invaluable resource on this topic from leading international experts.”
Robert J. Coplan, Carleton University
9781009200165
Hardback
AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95
Published February 2024
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
English literature
About
Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice – as if we have opened a letter from the poet himself – followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that missive touches. This gripping life traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.
Key Features
• Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets
• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life, and his continuing importance, studded as it is with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form
• Immersive: affords to its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as one of his correspondents
About the Author
Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the first recipient in 2021 of the inaugural Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. He is in addition the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023).
Review
‘This is the best short introduction to Byron available. Stauffer steers us through a tumultuous life with poise and expert authority. The letters provide vivid snapshots of Byron at key moments across three decades and the biography that emerges is deeply absorbing.’
Jane Stabler, Professor of Romantic Literature, University of St Andrews
9781009430050
Paperback
AUD $32.95 / NZD $35.95
Published March 2024
Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
Key Features
• Presents a collection of essays which reflect on the lived experience of navigating Alzheimer’s Disease, combined with essays summarising new findings and how they shape our understanding of the disease
• Evidence-based strategies that may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain, particularly for those with a genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s
• An up-to-date explanation of where we stand in the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease
Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s
Neurology
About
In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which he now knows to have been early signs of his Alzheimer’s Disease. Daniel still writes every day, something he credits with keeping his mind sharper and his demons at bay. This book is a personal collection of essays written over the past two years that describe his own personal experiences, first treating patients with Alzheimer’s, and now living with the disease himself. The book presents an up-to-date discussion of recent advances and setbacks in Alzheimer’s research. Humane and hopeful, this book offers evidence-based information on how it may be possible even now to slow progression of the disease.
About the Author
Daniel Gibbs is a retired general neurologist with mild Alzheimer’s dementia. He has written previously about his experiences as seen from two points of view, doctor and patient, in A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, Cambridge University Press, 2021 and 2023 (revised edition).
Discover A Tattoo on my Brain
9781009325189 | Paperback
AUD $18.95 / NZD $20.95
Published March 2023
9781009382465
Hardback
AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95
Published October 2024
Dr Linda Gask, University of Manchester
Out of Her Mind
How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change
About
For centuries so called ‘difficult women’ have been labelled as ‘hysterical’ and ‘out of their minds’. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it’s ‘all in their heads’. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Drawing on the lived experiences of women, alongside expert commentators, recent history, current events, and her own personal and professional experience, Dr Linda Gask explores women’s mental healthcare today. In doing so she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women can’t all be out of their minds.
Key Features
• Grounded in the real-life experiences of women with whom readers will be able to identify
• Provides an informed, referenced, and balanced overview of what is happening to women’s mental health and what must change
• Written in an accessible, engaging, and readable style that includes reference to recent history, and literature as well as dealing with the complexity of mental health and illness
About the Author
Linda Gask is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Now retired, she has been the Royal College of Psychiatrists Presidential Lead for Primary Care and has written about her own experience of mental illness in two memoirs, The Other Side of Silence and Finding True North. A lifelong feminist, she has an international reputation in the fields of primary care mental health and doctor-patient communication and has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation.
Review
‘A psychiatrist’s clear, accessible feminist narrative of the mental health problems girls and women still face from childhood through to old age, pressured to care for others while not receiving proper care from the mental health system themselves. It reminded me of so many of the reasons why a feminist perspective helps us understand & live our lives.’
Maggie Gee - author of The Ice People, The White Family and The Red Children
Five Times Faster Rethinking
the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
9781009326490
Hardback
AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95
Published April 2023
Simon Sharpe
Key Features
• A policy insider’s compelling views on science, economics, showing how changes in each could lead to faster progress in addressing climate change
• Many examples from Sharpe’s personal experiences in climate diplomacy
• Goes against conventional wisdom and contradicts some mainstream narratives about climate change solutions, providing a fresh perspective and new ideas
About
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.Women can’t all be out of their minds.
About the Author
Simon Sharpe is Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He designed and led flagship international campaigns of the UK’s Presidency of the UN climate change talks (COP 26) in 2020-2021; worked as the head of private office to a minister of energy and climate change in the UK Government; and has served on diplomatic postings in China and India. He has published influential academic papers and created groundbreaking international initiatives in climate change risk assessment, economics, policy, and diplomacy.
Paperback coming soon
9781009568517
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available November 2024
9781009392365
Paperback
AUD $29.95 / NZD $32.95
Published September 2024
Karen Stollznow, Griffith University
Key Features
• Provides a definitive linguistic history of the word ‘bitch’, from its origins as “a female dog” to its modern-day impact on feminism
• Explores the complex and evolving range of current meanings and shows how these change depending on the gender, race and sexuality of the speaker
• Draws upon a wide range of examples, from historical documents to TV series, and from dictionaries to social media
Bitch
The Journey of a Word
Sociolinguistics
About
Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today— after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word-it’s not always entirely clear what it means. Bitch is a chameleon. There are good bitches and bad bitches; sexy bitches and psycho bitches; boss bitches and even perfect bitches. This eye-opening deep-dive takes us on a journey spanning a millennium, from its humble beginnings as a word for a female dog through to its myriad meanings today, proving that sometimes you can teach an old dog new tricks. It traces the colorful history and ever-changing meaning of this powerful and controversial word, and its relevance within broader issues of feminism, gender, race and sexuality. Despite centuries of censorship and attempts to ban it, bitch has stood the test of time. You may wonder: is the word going away anytime soon? Bitch, please.
About the Author
Karen Stollznow is a linguist and the author of On the Offensive (CUP, 2020), Missed Conceptions (2023), God Bless America (2013) and Language Myths, Mysteries, and Magic (2014). She writes for Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, and The Conversation and has appeared on the History Channel’s History’s Greatest Mysteries and Netflix’s The Unexplained. Karen is currently a researcher at Griffith University and a host of Monster Talk, an award-winning science-based podcast.
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