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Table of Contents UNDER THE BLACK FLAG At the Frontier of the New Jihad Sami Moubayed....................................... 2 CHINA'S FORGOTTEN PEOPLE Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State Nick Holdstock .................... 2 LET ONE HUNDRED VOICES SPEAK How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything Liz Carter ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 AFTERMATH The Makers of the Post-War World Richard Crowder .......................................................... 2 THE WARTIME JOURNALS Hugh Trevor-Roper edited by Richard Davenport-Hines ...................... 2 SLOVENIA 1945 Memories of Death and Survival after World War II John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE Virginia Cox ............................................................ 2 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MINOANS John Bennet ........................................................................................ 2 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Michael H. Fisher .............................................................. 2 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION Helen L Parish ........................................................................ 2 A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY Kenneth Morgan..................................................... 2 MURDER, MAYHEM AND MUSIC HALL The Dark Side of Victorian London Barry Anthony ........... 2 RENAISSANCE WOMAN by Gaia Servadio ............................................................................................................ 2 THE EAGLE IN SPLENDOUR Inside the Court of Napoleon Philip Mansel............................................... 2 IN SEARCH OF KINGS AND CONQUERORS Gertrude Bell and the Archaeology of the Middle East Lisa Cooper.......................................................................................................................................................................... 2 FROM GABRIEL TO LUCIFER A Cultural History of Angels Valery Rees.................................................... 2 FLORA OF THE SILK ROAD An Illustrated Guide Christopher Gardner and Basak Gardner ............ 2 PALERMO, City of Kings The Heart of Sicily Jeremy Dummett ...................................................................... 2 STROLLING THROUGH ROME The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City Mario Erasmo ... 2 ISLAM An Introduction Catharina Raudvere ........................................................................................................ 2 ANTIQUITY IMAGINED The Mysterious Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East Robin Derricourt ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2 SEX Antiquity and its Legacy Daniel Orrells .......................................................................................................... 2 UGLINESS The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory edited by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich....... 2 ART AND THE HOME Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday Imogen Racz............................................. 2
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Under The Black Flag At the Frontier of the New Jihad Sami Moubayed Key Selling Points
First inside account of ISIS/ISIL Headline news story Includes first-hand interviews and accounts
JUNE 2015
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The Islamic State movement (ISIS/ISIL/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and membership and now poses a significant threat to the region, if not to the wider world. Moubayed, a Beirut-based journalist who has been analysing Syria and the region for 20 years, has unrivalled access to the movement and its participants. His book is the first inside account of an organisation which has dominated the headlines with a dangerous mix of barbarity and military prowess. In looking at the historical background of ISIS: where it came from, how it evolved, where it stands today and what its aims are for the future to reveal, it will provide, for the first time, a fully-fledged picture of what lies at the heart of the Islamic State.
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Author Sami Moubayed is a Syrian historian and journalist. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers, including al-Ahram Weekly, al-Hayat, Gulf News, The Daily Star, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and Asia Times. He is a blogger with The Huffington Post and an online panelist with The Washington Post.
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China's Forgotten People Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State Nick Holdstock Key Selling Points
First book on a place which will be in the headlines as China’s Terrorist problem grows Author is one of the world’s few authors to have lived in the region Should support a big publicity campaign as news outlets look for expert voices on the troubles
MAY 2015
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£14.99
On the 28th October 2013 a jeep ploughed through a busy crowd before exploding in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. The Chinese authorities identified the driver as a Uyghur – one of an Islamic ethnic minority, 10 million strong, who live in China’s North West province of Xinjiang. Six months later, eight knifewielding Uyghurs went on a rampage at a train station in Kunming, killing 29 people and wounding more than 140 others. These attacks, described as ‘China’s 9/11’, have shaken the Chinese leadership which has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression, hardship and helplessness. As a result, China’s Islamic population is reacting to its own demonization, with Islamic terrorism in China no doubt set to increase over the next decade. How the Party responds will have global repercussions.
288 PAGES
CHINA, CURRENT AFFAIRS
Author Nick Holdstock is a journalist and writer. He has written on Xinjiang for the London Review of Books and his writing can be found in Vice, The LA Review of Books, n+1, The Independent, The Dublin Review, the Edinburgh Review, Dissent and Salon.com amongst others. He has worked with Isabel Hilton at China Dialogue - part of the Guardian environment network. His first novel, The Casualties, is forthcoming from Macmillan US.
China’s Forgotten People explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world’s most powerful one-party state, and what this means for the way we think about China.
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Let One Hundred Voices Speak How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything Liz Carter Key Selling Points JUNE 2015 £12.99
The must-have book for understanding the new China, the world’s largest online country The author is a world expert on social media and Chinese society and very active social networker Relevant for politicos, journalists, historians, analysts and all those interested in the rising superpower
192 PAGES
Author Liz Carter is currently the Managing Editor of Tea Leaf Nation, one of the most popular blogs covering China in the West, recently acquired by Foreign Policy, and writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy. She has appeared on Al Jazeera and HuffPost Live as an expert on Chinese media and has written for various print publications. Fast becoming one of the ‘go-to’ voices on Chinese developments, especially relating to social media and the internet, she is an expert on Chinese culture and language, and also translates Chinese into English. She has worked as a reporter in China and spent a year at a thinktank in Washington. She lives in Washington DC.
Description From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring and the role of Twitter in the Middle East, the internet and social media is changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily-censored society, China has over 560 million active internet users, more than double that of the USA. In this book, social media expert and China-watcher Liz Carter tells the story of how the internet in China is leading to a coming together of activists, ordinary people and cultural trendsetters on a scale unknown in modern history. News about protests and natural disasters, or gossip and satirical jokes, are practically uncensorable and spread quickly through Weibo – the Chinese Twitter - and the Chinese internet underground. Lively, ground-breaking and brilliantly researched, Online China reveals a new side to the world’s largest country, and is the must-read guide to its future and the future of the state, protest and censorship in the internet age.
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Aftermath The Makers of the Post-War World Richard Crowder Key Selling Points
Important subject area in international history and diplomacy Features key figures of wide international interest Wide relevance to contemporary current affairs
MAY 2015 £25
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In a single decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – receded, replaced by two new superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United States. This shift in power was accompanied by efforts to create a new form of international diplomacy: internationalism, working through multilateral bodies such as the United Nations, the IMF and the European Coal and Steel Community. This era also produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times, including Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Truman and de Gaulle; diplomats like George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman; and international fixers, such as Averell Harriman and John Maynard Keynes. Their stories and experiences form the core fabric of this book. Richard Crowder examines their shared ambition to rebuild the world in the aftermath of World War II and launch a second age of globalization.
320 PAGES
Author Richard Crowder studied at the University of Oxford, and at the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University. He works as a UK diplomat, but writes in his personal capacity as an independent historian.
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The Wartime Journals Hugh Trevor-Roper edited by Richard Davenport-Hines Key Selling Points
Author is widely acclaimed historian Book’s topic is perenially fasincating Has been reviewed widely
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H ISTORY / WORLD WAR II / Authors ESPIONAGE/INTELLIGENCE Hugh Trevor-Roper was perhaps the STUDIES
most brilliant historian of his generation. An expert in the history of both early modern Britain and Nazi he was Regius RIGHTSGermany, SOLD: Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and latterly Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. His most best-known book is: The Last Days of Hitler. Richard Davenport-Hines is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature and a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History. He is the author of many books, including A Night at the Majestic (2006) and The Pursuit of Oblivion (2001). He is a regular reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, History Today and other publications.
As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty’s Service). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor-Roper, a war-time ‘backroom boy’ who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England. He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war interrogated many of Hitler’s immediate circle, investigated Hitler’s death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler’s will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper’s wartime journals – unknown even to his family and closest confidants – is an exciting archival find and provides an engaging – sometimes mischievous - and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime. Reviews of The Wartime Journals “Fascinating insight into Trevor-Roper himself” - Wall Street Journal
“a marvellous book”
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Slovenia 1945
Memories of Death and Survival after World War II John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar Key Selling Points
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION JUNE 2015 £29 3 MAPS, PLUS BW INTEGRATED 288 PAGES
HISTORY / WORLD WAR II /SLOVENIA Author John Corsellis has published a series of articles on the Slovene refugees based on his post-war involvement with them as an aid worker. He is a life member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Marcus Ferrar is a writer who was a Reuters correspondent in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. He also teaches in Switzerland and Slovenia.
A vivid, personal and deeply moving story A unique collection of the survivors' accounts Enormous breadth of scholarship by authors with unique insight into events Description At the end of May 1945, 12,000 Slovenian soldiers boarded trains in Austria. They thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death. One of the most moving and tragic stories of World War II, 'Slovenia 1945' follows the fate of Slovenes caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans in World War II and the problems of post-war settlement. Thousands were returned by British troops to face death at the hands of their wartime enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Yet many survived and the story of their exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. In this unique account, the authors draw on more than half a century of research, personal accounts and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell the story of the Slovene refugees. Reviews of Slovenia 1945 'Extraordinarily interesting…heartrending…particularly moving…it shows the resilience of the human spirit in a finer light than I can remember reading elsewhere' - Nigel Nicolson
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A Short History of the Italian Renaissance Virginia Cox Key Selling Points SEPTEMBER 2015 60 HALFTONES 256 PAGES HISTORY/ART HISTORY
Top-notch author, a world leader in her field New emphases: women; rhetorical culture; the Italian regions beyond Florence/Venice/Rome Very large general and student interdisciplinary sale
HISTORY OF IDEAS RELIGION/ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY
Author Virginia Cox is Professor of Italian at New York University. She is the author of The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy, Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 and The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo.
Description The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when Italy led the world in painting, building, science, literature and music. The author thus explores the arts in Milan, Ferrara, Mantua, Urbino and even Naples. She examines too the impact of rhetoric and performance on key texts like Machiavelli’s The Prince and Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, as well as the role of women, both as patrons of the arts and creative artists in their own right. ‘Renaissance woman’, Cox boldly argues, is as important a legacy as ‘Renaissance man’.
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A Short History of the Minoans John Bennet
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Wide general as well as specialist appeal Author with a rising media profile: In Our Time Radio 4 participant Makes use of fresh discoveries to shed new light on the Minoan mystery
SEPTEMBER 2015 100 INTEGRATED BW, 5 MAPS 288 PAGES CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY/ARCHAEOLOGY/HISTO RY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE
Author RIGHTS SOLD: John Bennet is Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He has written extensively on the Minoan civilization and contributed an essay on ‘The Aegean Bronze Age’ to the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (2007).
Description The Minoans have for decades tantalized all those who have tried to understand this most enigmatic people of the ancient world. The Minoan allure lies in large part in the riddles to which their mysterious culture gives rise. What is contained in their earliest writing script, the still un-deciphered Linear A? Did their likely extinction by volcanic eruption shape the Atlantis legend? Why was their religion so thoroughly matriarchal, with its symbols of snake goddess, serpent and labrys (double-headed axe)? What was the purpose of their great palaces at Knossos, Phaestos and Malia? What is the meaning of the atmospheric bull dance fresco uncovered at the palace of Knossos? The archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans controversially ‘rediscovered’ and then restored the Minoan civilization in the early twentieth century, and tied it to King Minos, builder of the famous labyrinth and keeper of the legendary Minotaur. In this lucid and absorbing new history of Crete from the 9th millennium BCE to the end of the Bronze Age (c 1000 BCE), John Bennet expertly draws on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries to separate fact from imagination, history from myth.
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A Short History of the Mughal Empire Michael H. Fisher Key Selling Points
Mughal Empire is a fascinating subject, widely studied and with much interest for general readers Fisher is a leading authority on the Mughals Includes analysis of important new debates and interpretations
SEPTEMBER 2015 £12.99
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The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.
256 PAGES
HISTORY / ASIAN STUDIES / INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Author
Michael Fisher holds the Robert S. Danforth Chair in History at Oberlin College and in 2007 was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for Social Sciences by Oberlin. He is the author of eight books, including Visions of Mughal India (I.B.Tauris); A South Asian History of Britain: Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Subcontinent; Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain, 1600-1858; The Politics of the British Annexation of India and A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals.
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A Short History of the Reformation Helen L Parish Key Selling Points
Powerful and popular topic generating wide general sales Student take-up from both history and religion Exciting new emphases: concentrates on wider attitudes towards sex and on print culture
SEPTEMBER 2015
£10.99
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When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther’s seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities. But it did more, challenging the relationship between spiritual and secular authority, perceptions of the supernatural, the interpretation of the past, the role of women in society and church, and clerical attitudes towards marriage and sex. Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts. She assesses the Reformers’ impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and – reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas – on oral, print and written culture.
256 PAGES
HISTORY Author Helen L Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).
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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery Kenneth Morgan Key Selling Points SEPTEMBER 2015 40 BW INTEGRATED, 5 MAPS 256 PAGES HISTORY/ POLITICS/ HISTORY OF IDEAS/ ETHNIC STUDIES
Author Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University. He is the author of Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800 (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007) and Australia: A Very Short Introduction (2012).
Much-needed in-depth introduction to a vital and timely topic World-leading authority on the subject Wide general interest sale as well as to students of history and their teachers
Description From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean – the infamous Middle Passage – to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as barbaric? Exploring these and other questions – and the slave experience on the sugar, rice, coffee and cotton plantations – Kenneth Morgan discusses the rise of a distinctively Creole culture; slave revolts, including the successful revolution in Haiti (1791-1804); and the rise of abolitionism, when the ideas of Montesquieu, Wilberforce, Quakers and others led to the slave trade’s systemic demise. At a time when the menace of human trafficking is of increasing concern worldwide, this timely book reflects on the deeper motivations of slavery as both ideology and merchant institution.
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Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall The Dark Side of Victorian London Barry Anthony Key Selling Points PUBLISHED
Extraordinary portrait of seedy side of Victorian London Author is a leading authority on Victorian theatre history London books are very popular
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Author Barry Anthony is an historian with a particular interest in the Victorian and Edwardian period who has written extensively about popular culture and entertainment. He is the author of Chaplin’s Music Hall and The King’s Jester: The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius (both I.B.Tauris) and co- author, with Richard Brown, of a groundbreaking study of the early British cinema, A Victorian Film Enterprise.
Description In this book, Barry Anthony explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviourwhich abounded in and around the Victor- ian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of characters - from prostitutes, confidence tricksters, vagrants and cadgers, to the actors, comedians and music-hall stars who trod the boards of the Strand’s early theatres. He tells the stories of Lottie Collins, whose music-hall song Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay was said to have heralded the ‘Naughty Nineties’; the disappearance of young actress Mabel Love which created a national sensation; and the murder of William Terriss, slain by a fellow actor at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre. These stories, and many more, are played out against the physical geography of the Strand - entertainment venues such as the Coal Hole, the Cyder Cellars, the Tivoli Music Hall and the Adelphi, Gaiety and Strand theatres; vari-ous taverns, oyster bars, barbers’ shops, tobacconists; the ancient and disreputable area of Holywell Street and Wych Street; and, below all, the dark, subterranean world of the Adelphi Arches.
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Renaissance Woman by Gaia Servadio Key Selling Points
Highly promotable author guarantees substantial media coverage Vivid, highly readable biographical account of four key Renaissance women, from courtesan Tullia d'Aragona to Elizabeth I Unique and original take on the Renaissance world Beautifully illustrated
PUBLISHED £22.50
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The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a ‘New Woman’, proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast of a book. She dates the birth of this revolutionary movement not to the traditionally quoted year of 1492 but to the invention of the printing press in 1456, which made books - and hence education - available to women. Central to her story are the lives of such as Vittoria Colonna, whose extraordinary mutual love with Michelangelo is told here, Tullia d’Aragona, poet and the best known courtesan of her age, and French poet Louise Labé, who fought in battle in male clothes. They are placed centre stage to the Renaissance’s power plays, paintings and architecture, courtesans and popes, music and manners, fashion, food, cosmetics, changing societies and the language of poetry and symbols.
288 PAGES
HISTORY / WOMEN'S STUDIES RENAISSANCE Author Gaia Servadio is a broadcaster, journalist, editor and writer, whose books include Mafioso (1975), Luchino Visconti: A Biography (1981), The Real Traviata (1994) and Rossini (2003).
Reviews of Renaissance Woman “A marvellous study of Renaissance women and their men” The Spectator
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The Eagle in Splendour Inside the Court of Napoleon Philip Mansel Key Selling Points
MAY 2015
Philip Mansel is a bestselling author and an expert on French history and his books have been translated into Turkish, Greek, French, Italian and Arabic The definitive portrait of Napoleon's court - published for the first time in mass market hardback Provides a fresh view on Napoleonic power
£17.99
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"When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heine
256 PAGES
BIOGRAPHY / HISTORY / IMPERIALISM Author Philip Mansel, who has lived and taught in Paris, is one of Britain's leading historians of France and the Ottoman Empire. Mansel's acclaimed Constantinople: City of the World's Desire was described by William Dalrymple as 'An impeccably researched masterpiece of exquisite historical writing.' He currently lives in London, and is editor of The Court Historian, journal of the Society for Court Studies (www.courtstudies.org).
The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon’s palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was through the splendour of his court - a world fashioned beyond the battlefield - that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers, and his second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the intoxicated world of a court 'devoured by ambition' as Stendhal called it : its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy; mistresses, artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that conquered half the world yet, in the end, was abandoned by his dynasty and his courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and ignominious exile.
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In Search of Kings and Conquerors
Gertrude Bell and the Archaeology of the Middle East Key Points LisaSelling Cooper
Completely new take on Gertrude Bell New angle on archaeology of the Middle East Possible Gertrude Bell movie in the pipelineand so renewed interest in Bell
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HISTORY / MIDDLE EAST / ARCHAEOLOGY / BIOGRAPHY Author Lisa Cooper is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Art RIGHTS SOLD : & Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates.
The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell was marked by myriad achievements. Although best known for her intrepid desert travels and her part in the creation of the modern state of Iraq, she also made a significant contribution to the field of archaeology. At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers of their presence in the form of castles, palaces, mosques, tombs and temples. Among the many sites she visited were Ephesus, Binbirkilise and Carchemish in modern-day Turkey as well as Ukhaidir, Babylon and Najaf within the borders of modern Iraq. Lisa Cooper here explores Bell’s achievements, emphasizing the tenacious, inquisitive side of her extraordinary personality, the breadth of her knowledge and her overall contribution to the archaeology of the Middle East. Featuring many of Bell’s own photographs, this is a unique portrait of a remarkable life.
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From Gabriel to Lucifer A Cultural History of Angels Valery Rees
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PAPERBACK SEPTEMBER 2015 £20 21 IN 16PP COLOUR PLATES 288 PAGES
RELIGION HISTORY OF IDEAS Author ANCIENT HISTORY A prominent scholar of the Renaissance, Valery Rees is a Senior Member of the School of Economic Science in London. She co-edited Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy (2002), and has featured as a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's flagship ideas programme, In Our Time.
Fascinating subject, of great general interest First broad cultural history of its kind: not confined to Christianity but genuinely comprehensive Highly promotable and media-savvy author
Description 'Fiery the angels fell; slow thunder rolled around their shores, burning with the fires of Orc.' Whether in recent popular culture, or back across countless centuries, angels have perpetually enthralled and even terrified us. 'Every single angel is terrible,' wrote the German Romantic poet Rilke: 'and so I hold myself back from the dark bird-cry of my anguished sobbing.' For sceptics, angels may be no more than metaphors: poetic devices to convey, at least for those with a religious sensibility, an active divine interest in creation. But for others, angels are absolutely real creatures: manifestations of cosmic power with the capacity either to enlighten or annihilate those whose awestruck paths they cross. Valery Rees offers the first comprehensive history of these beautiful, enigmatic and sometimes dangerous beings, whose existence and actions have been charted across the eons of time and civilization. The author shows that the ubiquity of these celestial messengers reveals something profound, if not about God or the devil, then about ourselves: our perennial preoccupation with the transcendent.
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Flora of the Silk Road An Illustrated Guide
Christopher Gardner and Basak Gardner Key Selling Points £35 600 COLOUR INTEGRATED 416 PAGES
TRAVEL,GARDENING, BOTANY, PHOTOGRAPHY, MIDDLE EAST, CHINA
Author Chris and Basak Gardner have lead specialist botanical and wildlife tours worldwide for many years, particularly in the countries of the Silk Road. Both are professional botanists with extensive experience in identifying and photographing flowers. Chris is also an experienced garden designer and co-author of the successful book, The Plant Hunters (1998). Basak was Head of Herbarium at Nezahat Gokyigit Botanic Garden in Istanbul.
The Silk Road is the most spectacular floral region on earth Over 500 stunning colour photographs First book on the flowers of the Silk Road
Description The Silk Road – a name that has enchanted for centuries. Yet a well kept secret, even today, is that this fabled route linking Europe with Asia is also the most spectacular floral region on earth. Chris and Basak Gardner offer a unique pictorial celebration of the plants and scenery to be found along its 5,000 miles. Embracing Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Central Asia and China, more than five hundred of the finest wild flowers are depicted together with the beautiful landscapes in which these botanical paradises are found. With an accompanying text giving descriptions of the species, plant families and their distribution, as well as information on photographing plants in the wild, this unique book will amaze and delight not only those with an interest in the spectacular and legendary landscapes that form the Silk Road but also plantsmen and horticulturalists worldwide. Reviews of Flora of the Silk Road ‘Beautiful... for a gardener, the book is like a glimpse of paradise.’ - Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times
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Palermo, City of Kings The Heart of Sicily Jeremy Dummett Key Selling Points
MARCH 2015 £18.99 20 INTEGRATED BW, 18 COLOUR IN 8PP PLATES, 12 MAPS 288 PAGES
HISTORY / TRAVEL / M ONUMENTS AND Author ARCHITECTURE Jeremy Dummett is an expert on the history of Sicily and author of Syracuse, City of Legends: A R IGHTS SOLD: Glory of Sicily. He read history at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became interested in the history and culture of Italy. His professional career took him to Athens and Milan, where he lived and worked for many years. Now retired, he is a frequent visitor to Sicily. His website is www.jeremydummett.com
First English-language history of Palermo Concise overview of Palermo’s key monuments Essential reading for armchair travellers and visitors to Sicily
Description Palermo – the capital of Sicily – is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence of the mafia. Jeremy Dummett here provides a concise overview of Palermo’s long history, together with a survey of its most important monuments and sites. He looks at the influences of the city’s various ancient rulers – the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs and Normans – as well as its more recent incarnation as part of the Italian state. In addition to being an essential companion for visitors to Palermo, this book can be equally enjoyed as a standalone history of the city and its place at the heart of Sicily.
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Strolling through Rome The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City Mario Erasmo
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There is no other book like this on the market Essential reading for all travellers to Rome: 3.5 million British tourists visit Italy, most of whom visit Rome Part of the established and bestselling Strolling through… series
APRIL 2015 £12.99 22 BW INTEGRATED 368 PAGES
TRAVEL Author Mario Erasmo is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. He specialises in the Legacy of Classical Antiquity and leads art and garden tours in Europe retracing the travels of the Grand Tour. He is the author of Death: Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B.Tauris) and Reading Death in Ancient Rome.
Description Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture, whilst also navigating the vibrant modern city? Mario Erasmo here guides the traveller through Rome's many layers of history, exploring the streets, museums, piazze, ruins and parks of this ‘city of the soul’. Punctuated with anecdote, myth and legend, these unique walks often retrace the very steps taken by ancient Romans, early Christians, medieval pilgrims, Renaissance artists and aristocrats on the Grand Tour. Here is a rich cultural history of Rome that brings its epic past alive, illuminating the extraordinary sights and fascinating secrets of one of Europe's most beguiling cities.
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Islam An Introduction Catharina Raudvere
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Student-friendly apparatus including explanatory text boxes, glossary and further reading lists Balanced and up-to-date, with an emphasis on Islam as a world faith rather than just the Middle East Ideal for undergraduate class use and assignment
PUBLISHED £14.99
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Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history (explaining the significance of the revelation of the Prophet Muhammad and the origins of the different Sunni and Shi'a groups within Islam), while also giving full and comprehensive coverage to Muslim ritual life and Islamic ethics. She discusses moral debates and modern lifestyle issues such as halal consumption, interfaith dialogue and controversy over the wearing of the veil. Diaspora communities are considered with a view to showing how norms and doctrines are understood - and sometimes contradicted - in social and ritual practice. In addition, the author focuses on the meaning and continuing application to modern life of the Quran and hadith as sources for Islamic theology (kalam) and jurisprudence (fiqh).
272 PAGES RELIGION/ MIDDLE EAST STUDIES / HISTORY
Author Catharina Raudvere is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her previous books include The Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visibility and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul (I.B.Tauris, 2003) and Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (I.B.Tauris, 2008, co-edited with Leif Stenberg).
Islam: An Introduction offers undergraduate students of religion and general readers a balanced, sensitive and well informed appraisal of the world's most intensively discussed religious and cultural traditions.
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Antiquity Imagined The Mysterious Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East Robin Derricourt Key Selling Points
JUNE 2015 £25
First book to explore comprehensively the ‘mysteries’ of Egypt, the Holy Land and of their reception Ancient Egypt is perennially popular and sellable – as are pyramid theories, von Däniken, Atlantis will attract substantial and engaged audience of enthusiasts as well as of students and specialists
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Author Robin Derricourt is Honorary Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of New South Wales. A former Director of Cambridge University Press Australia and the University of New South Wales Press, he is the author of Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas (2011) and of People of the Lakes: Archaeological Studies in Northern Zambia (1980).
Description Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been seen as the source of civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also of mystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether about the Lost City of Atlantis or visits by alien beings. In his exploration of how its past has been creatively interpreted by later ages, Robin Derricourt surveys the various claims that have been made for Egypt particularly the idea that it harbours an esoteric wisdom vital to the world’s survival. His book is the first to show in depth how ancient Egypt and the surrounding lands have so continuously and seductively tantalised the Western imagination.
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Sex Antiquity and its Legacy Daniel Orrells Key Selling Points
Sex is sellable Considerable cross-disciplinary undergraduate as well as general appeal
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APRIL 2015 £12.99 256 PAGES
ANCIENT HISTORY / GENDER STUDIES / HISTORY OF IDEAS
Author Daniel Orrells is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has published widely on the subject of classical antiquity in modern intellectual history, and is the author of Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011) and co-editor of African Athena: New Agendas (2011).
Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about sexuality. But if human life cannot exist without sex, the scientific study of sexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon. Doctors, legal experts and other intellectuals have all pondered challenging questions in an attempt to stay abreast of the latest sexual research. How might we separate talking about sex from discussing pornography? How do we speak objectively about desire and pleasure? And how do the words that we use to talk about sex affect what we are able to say meaningfully about it? Such questions increasingly inform public discourse across a variety of media. Showing how ancient words and ideas have left a significant imprint on present-day ideas about sex, Daniel Orrells offers a bold new narrative of how the scientific study of sexuality came into being. Uncovering the intriguing story of how the obscene and erotic verse of Roman epigram and love-poetry became the sanitised language of nineteenth-century sexual science, this divertingly readable book demonstrates how the reception of both Latin and Greek texts were central to the development of modern sexology and psychoanalysis. Ranging from Sappho, Catullus and Martial to Michel Foucault, Richard Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud, the author reveals just how profoundly classics has shaped the landscape of sexual identity that we inhabit today.
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Ugliness The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory edited by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich Key Selling Points
The first general survey in English of ugliness and its history, development and relationship to art theory and practice on a global scale World-renowned contributors from across the globe The editors are fast becoming the contemporary experts on ugliness
MAY 2015 £16.99
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Ugliness is very much alive in the history of art. From ritual invocations of mythic monsters to the scare tactics of the early twentieth-century avant-garde, from the cabinet of curiosities to the identity politics of today, the ugly has been every bit as active as the beautiful, and often much more of a reality… Why then has it been so neglected? This book seeks to remedy this oversight through both broad theoretical reflection and concrete case studies of ugliness in various historical and cultural contexts. The protagonists range from cooks to psychoanalysts, from war prostheses to plates of asparagus, on a world stage stretching from ancient Athens to Singapore today. Drawing across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the writers illuminate why ugliness, associated over the millennia with negative categories ranging from sin and stupidity to triviality and boredom, remains central to art and cultural practice.
328 PAGES
ART THEORY/ ART HISTORY/ AESTHETICS/ CULTURAL Authors STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY Andrei Pop is postdoctoral fellow, University of Basel and R IGHTS SOLD: Widrich Mechtild is postdoctoral fellow, department of architecture, ETH Zurich
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Art and the Home Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday Imogen Racz Key Selling Points
A perfect student text, relevant to a wide-range of disciplines Unique: the only up-to-date, singleauthored book on the Home and contemporary art
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£16.99
Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. Like the personal, social, and cultural elements out of which they are constructed, homes can be not only comforting, but threatening too.
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HISTORY OF ART/THEORY OF ART/CULTURAL STUDIES
Author Imogen Racz is Senior Lecturer at Coventry University. Her publications include Contemporary Crafts, (2009), as well as many articles related to sculpture and object-based art.
The home is a rich theme running through post-war western art, and it continues to engage contemporary artists today - yet it has been the subject of relatively little critical writing. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday is the first singleauthored, up-to-date book on the subject. Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts.
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