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Solitude
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Dispatches From the Land of Alzheimer’s
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Sorting It Out
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The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
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Toxic Stress
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The Impossible Office?
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The Joy of Abstraction
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To Run the World
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The Strength of My Scars
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Born in Blood
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway
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Resistance and Liberation
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World Earth Day
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Purpose and Power
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A Philosopher Looks At Friendship
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What was Shakespeare Really Like?
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Enough
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The Gift of Aging
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No Miracles Needed
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Solitude
The Science and Power of Being Alone
Social psychology
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9781009256605 Hardback AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95 Available April 2024 Netta Weinstein, University of Reading Heather Hansen, University of Reading
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.
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Durham University
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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.
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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
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.
Advance Praise “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
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Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s Neurology
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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.
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Daniel Gibbs 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).
9781009430050 Paperback AUD $32.95 / NZD $35.95 Available March 2024 Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon
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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
Discover A Tattoo on my Brain 9781009325189 | Paperback AUD $18.95 / NZD $20.95 Published March 2023
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Sorting It Out
Supporting Teenage Decision Making
Developmental psychology
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9781009382205 Paperback AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95 Available February 2024 Robin Gregory, University of British Columbia Brooke Moore, University of
Written for parents, teachers, and others who live or work with teenagers, this science-based guide describes how you can become a confident ‘decision mentor.’ Learn to support young people in making good decisions for themselves. Treating decision making as an essential and learnable skill, the six-step ‘Decision-Maker Moves’ highlight the power and promise of young people as they shape their lives through the options they choose. Stories, examples, and practical tips show how decisions can transform problems into opportunities. Each chapter provides common-sense advice on when and how to talk with teenagers as they weigh up the oftenconflicting values, emotions, and trade-offs affecting their choices. We cannot provide young minds with all the answers, but we can help them as they navigate both life-changing and everyday decisions.
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Robin Gregory Robin Gregory is a parent and grandparent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Senior Research Scientist at Decision Research, Oregon. He helps families, communities, and governments worldwide address difficult decisions involving diverse perspectives, uncertainty, and tough trade-offs in ways that reflect and help achieve their values.
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Provides guidance to parents, teachers, and coaches on when and how to support teenagers as they make both every day and once-in-alifetime choices Translates complex research findings into accessible, interesting advice for readers with no specialized training or academic background Presents friendly, engaging anecdotes and examples of the decision-making approach in action, encouraging readers to compare them to their own experiences
Brooke Moore Brooke Moore is a parent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a District Principal in the Delta School District, British Columbia. Throughout these roles, both professional and personal, she is motivated by a vision where all young people can move into adulthood with dignity, purpose, and options, a phrase she learned through her work with the Network of Inquiry and Indigenous Education.
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The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script American literature
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9781009385220 Hardback AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95 Available April 2024 James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University Anne Margaret Daniel, New School University
The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald’s novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald’s scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.
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‘Owen Davis’s stage dramatization of Fitzgerald’s novel is, in more ways than one, a peep behind the scenes at Gatsby’s life. Davis rearranged dialogue and chronology, while to sticking to the familiar story – rather in the manner of a jazz musician improvising on a standard. His hero is closer to bootlegger Gatz than playboy Gatsby. Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West have unearthed a fascinating curiosity. Their introduction provides just the right amount of confidential information the audience needs, before the play begins.’ James Campbell, Author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
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This edition makes available in print for the first time the script for this fascinating and lively 1926 Broadway adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel Includes an introduction that explores how director George Cukor played up the elements of jazz, adultery, and crime for the theater audience Includes photographs of the actors and stage sets from the 1926 production, as well as reviews and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald’s scrapbook, making it an essential purchase for all who cherish The Great Gatsby and admire its author
‘Short of discovering a portal to the past or building a time machine, readers will never come closer to returning to Broadway’s Jazz Age heyday than with this edition of Owen Davis’s 1926 theatrical adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Masterfully edited by Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West III, Davis’s script channels the melancholy spirit of Fitzgerald’s classic while making the changes necessary for the tragic story of American aspiration to succeed on the stage, allowing us to appreciate why the show ran for more than 100 performances.’ Kirk Curnutt, Executive Director, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
English literature
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9781009200165 Hardback AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95 Available February 2024 Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
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.
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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).
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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
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‘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
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Toxic Stress
How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It Medicine
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9781009306584 Paperback AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95 Available March 2024 Lawson R. Wulsin, University of Cincinnati
Our stress response system is magnificent - it operates beneath our awareness, like an orchestra of organs playing a hidden symphony. When we are healthy, the orchestra plays effortlessly, but what happens when our bodies face chronic stress, and the music slips out of tune? The alarming rise of stress-related conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and depression, show the price we’re paying for our high-pressure living, while global warming, pandemics and technology have brought new kinds of stress into all our lives. But what can we do about it? Explore the fascinating mysteries of our hidden stress response system with Dr. Wulsin, who uses his decades of experience to show how toxic stress impacts our bodies; he gives us the expert advice and tools needed to prevent toxic stress from taking over. Chapter by chapter, learn to help your body and mind recover from toxic stress.
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Presents the stress response system in plain language, showing how it plays a major role in health and illness Provides hope and understanding for readers, showing the process for preventing and healing from the effects of toxic stress Blends the science of stress with stories from real people, bringing complex ideas into meaningful focus
Advance praise ‘Wulsin’s Toxic Stress is a tour de force. His writing style is refreshing and vivid, and his understanding of contemporary research is encyclopedic and up to date. This is a terrific book.’ Joel E. Dimsdale M.D., University of California
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The Impossible Office?
The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated Politics NEW in Paperback
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9781009429771 Paperback AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95 Available March 2024 Anthony Seldon, University of Buckingham Assisted by Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms, Tom Egerton
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, crises and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Seldon discusses which of our PMs have been most effective and why, as well as probing the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the Prime Minister in intimate detail. A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.
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Features a new chapter on the recent three premierships of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak Looks forward to the coming General Election and asks what could the next Prime Minister do differently? Reveals how and why the Prime Minister took over from the Crown as the most powerful figure in Britain Explains why the Chancellor has become the second most powerful figure in Britain, and why the job of Foreign Secretary lost its way Looks at Prime Ministers as human beings, their spouses and families, and the pathos of the post-premiership
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The Joy of Abstraction
An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life Mathematical sciences NEW in Paperback
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9781108708449 Paperback AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95 Available April 2024 Eugenia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life – from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. The journey begins with the ideas and workings of abstract mathematics, after which you will gently climb toward more technical material, learning everything needed to understand category theory, and then key concepts in category theory like natural transformations, duality, and even a glimpse of ongoing research in higher-dimensional category theory. For fans of How to Bake Pi, this will help you dig deeper into mathematical concepts and build your mathematical background.
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Demystifies mathematical thought processes, helping readers develop mathematical thinking even if they have no mathematical background Provides further insight into the mathematical concepts and examples presented in Cheng’s How to Bake Pi, gently building on those simple ideas to develop more formal mathematics Features examples from life, not just from other areas of mathematics, showing how math is relevant to social and political questions
Advance praise ‘Eugenia Cheng loves mathematics—not the ordinary sort that most people encounter, but the most abstract sort that she calls ‘the mathematics of mathematics.’ And in this lovely excursion through her abstract world of Category Theory, she aims to give those who are willing to join her a glimpse of that world. The journey will change how they view mathematics. Cheng is a brilliant writer, with prose that feels like poetry. Her contagious enthusiasm makes her the perfect guide.’ John Ewing, President, Math for America
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To Run the World
The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
International history
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9781108477352 Hardback AUD $57.95 / NZD $62.95 Available May 2024 Sergey Radchenko, Johns Hopkins University
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin’s decisionmaking. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin’s postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev’s reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev’s jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev’s failed attempts to reinvent Moscow’s claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.
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A sweeping new history of Soviet foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union which uncovers the inner workings of the Kremlin Reveals the role that political legitimacy, and the accompanying desire for recognition, played and continue to play in Soviet and Russian foreign policies Provides new insights into key episodes of the Cold War on the basis of previously unknown archival materials
Advance praise ‘A tour de force. Based on a plethora of previously unmined Soviet (and Chinese) sources, To Run the World is thought-provoking, comprehensive narrative of the Soviet Union’s place and aspirations in the global Cold War.’ Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
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Born in Blood
Violence and the Making of America
Early republic history
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9781316511886 Hardback AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95 Available March 2024 Scott Gac, Trinity College
Born in Blood investigates one of history’s most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. It offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Indians, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.
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Presents American violence as the product of political and social structure Provides historical context for understanding the recent spate of police killings and the violence and White self-determination behind anti-government action in America Helps readers understand how many forms of violence in the American past persist to this day Centers the experiences and choices of oppressed civilian populations throughout American history
Advance praise ‘Violence is central to American statecraft. In this remarkable book, Scott Gac unpicks individual, group, and institutional expressions of power, refracted through race, gender, and class. It is a chilling account of how and why violence became a ‘national tradition’ in US history.’ Joanna Bourke, author of Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invades Our Lives ‘Scott Gac’s Born in Blood illuminates the endemic violence along the front edge of the catastrophe more commonly known as American Freedom.’ Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 6. 1934-1936
American literature
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9780521897389 Hardback AUD $67.95 / NZD $73.95 Available May 2024 Ernest Hemingway Edited by Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, Miriam B. Mandel
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934–June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway’s experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ and ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’ In more than twenty pieces in Esquire, he relates his hunting and fishing exploits, discusses writing and writers, and becomes more politically vocal, addressing topical concerns. During this period he immerses himself in big game fishing off Key West, Cuba, and Bimini, gathering specimens for scientific study and making record catches, as well as taking on boxing challengers. He maintains longstanding literary friendships, advises and helps aspiring writers and contemporary artists, and makes public his disdain of critics. Volume 6 also features for the first time an Appendix of Earlier Letters (1918–1934) that have come to light since publication of previous volumes. Writing his epistolary autobiography, Hemingway himself reveals the many and sometimes contradictory facets of his wide-ranging genius.
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‘This latest installment of the monumental Hemingway Letters project is pure gold. This volume is a fascinating window into a pivotal time in his life, which we all but live alongside him as it unfolds. His fierce passion for fishing, the brewing war in Spain, his complicated relationships with other writers and friends – it all comes vividly alive in his own inimitable words.’ Lynn Novick, Co-Director/Producer of PBS Docuseries ‘Hemingway’
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Resistance and Liberation France at War, 1942-1945
Military history
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9781009161145 Hardback AUD $66.95 / NZD $72.95 Available January 2024 Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School
In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France’s memory of those traumatic years.
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Definitive new history of France at war showing how de Gaulle sought to forge a new French army, prevent the country falling into civil war and reassert French power on the world stage Goes beyond the binaries of resistance and collaboration to show French society as a whole experienced war, defeat, occupation and liberation Reveals how de Gaulle attempted to establish a triumphalist French “memory” of the war by emphasizing the role of resistance in France’s liberation while minimizing that of the Allies and the colonial forces of the l’Armée d’Afrique
Advance praise ‘Douglas Porch is a master storyteller: engrossing, enlightening and entertaining. He does full justice to an important dimension of the Second World War that is unfamiliar to many Anglophone readers.’ Richard Carswell, author of The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory
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Purpose and Power
US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present History
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9781009257275 Hardback AUD $53.99 / NZD $57.99 Available January 2024 Donald Stoker, National Defense University
Across the full span of the nation’s history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand strategies underpinning the nation’s pursuit of sovereignty, security, expansion, and democracy abroad. He shows how successive administrations have projected diplomatic, military, and economic power, and mobilized ideas and information to preserve American freedoms at home and secure US aims abroad. He exposes the myth of American isolationism, the good and ill of America’s quest for democracy overseas, and how too often its administrations have lacked clear political aims or a concrete vision for where they want to go. Understanding this history is vital if America is to relearn how to use its power to meet the challenges ahead and to think more clearly about political aims and grand strategy.
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Advance praise ‘Purpose and Power is the most comprehensive and complete discussion of America’s grand strategy that has been published. Donald Stoker has provided historians and scholars of international relations with a provocative and insightful examination of two centuries of American thinking about its role in the world. This book is likely to become an instant classic in the field.’ Thomas Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
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A Philosopher Looks at Friendship Ethics
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9781009255547 Paperback Price is not set Available July 2024 Sophie Grace Chappell, The Open University
What is it to be a friend? What does the role of friend involve, and why? How do the obligations and prerogatives associated with that role follow on from it, and how might they mesh, or clash, with our other duties and privileges? Philosophy often treats friendship as something systematic, serious, and earnest, and much philosophical thought has gone into how ‘friendship’ can formally be defined. How indeed can friendship be good for us if it doesn’t fit into a philosopher’s neat, systematising theory of the good? For Sophie Grace Chappell, friendship is neither systematic nor earnest, yet is certainly one of the greatest goods of life. Drawing on well-known examples from popular culture, and examining these alongside recent philosophical, political, social, and theological debates, Chappell demystifies and redefines friendship as a highly untidy and many-sided good, and certainly also as one of the most central goods of human experience.
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What was Shakespeare Really Like? 9781009340373 Hardback AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95 Published September 2023 Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Foreword by Stephen Fry Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging study wrestles with fundamental debates concerning Shakespeare’s personality and life.
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Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer 9781009412650 Hardback AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95 Published January 2024 Linda Eckert, University of Washington Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What’s more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that’s nearly 100% preventable. It’s no secret that healthcare is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs. But women’s health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention, Dr Linda Eckert takes her years of experience and weaves it together with the voices of the courageous women who use their own experience of cervical cancer to advocate for change.
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The Gift of Aging
Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity 9781009330732 Paperback AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95 Published June 2023 Marcy Cottrell Houle Elizabeth Eckstrom, Oregon Health and Science University Award-winning authors Marcy Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom have teamed up again following the success of their critically acclaimed book The Gift of Caring, winner of the 2016 National Christopher Award. This new book blends frontline science with inspirational stories and insights from wise elders for aging with health, joy, and purpose. The book explains how our bodies and brains age, defining what can be expected with aging and what is unusual.
No Miracles Needed
How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air 9781009249546 Paperback AUD $22.95 / NZD $24.95 Publishing February 2023 Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University Foreword by Bill McKibben The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage sooner than you might think, leading to loss of biodiversity and economic and political instability. But all is not lost! Find out what you can do to improve the health, climate, and economic state of our planet. Together, we can solve the climate crisis, eliminate air pollution and safely secure energy supplies for everyone.
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