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HISTORY .............................................4 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ........................9 CURRENT AFFAIRS ................................11 SCIENCE ..............................................13 PHILOSOPHY .......................................16 CLASSICS ............................................19 ARTS ...................................................20 LINGUISTICS .......................................20 OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS .................21 VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS ...............27 WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW ® .......31 INDEX .................................................32

CONTENTS

HI S T OR Y

HIST O RY

From Tudor to Stuart

Venice

The Genius of their Age

The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I

The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment

, Syracuse University

, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at The American Foreign Policy Council

• Pulls together a range of sources, including archival

Peter Frankopan, author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History and The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

Noel Malcolm’s masterly study gives a truly pan-European

In The Genius of their Age, S. Frederick Starr follows up his

relations in the early modern period. It includes the Ottoman

acclaimed Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age with

Empire, as well as the European colonies in the Americas and

a portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures—

Asia it describes the religious and legal norms, both Christian

Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn-’Abdallah Ibn-Sina and Abu al-Rayhan

and Muslim it discusses the literary representations in both

Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni. A thousand years ago, these

Western Europe and the Ottoman world; and presents a mass

two intellectual giants—known as Ibn Sina and Biruni for

of individual human stories, from New England to North Africa,

short—achieved stunning breakthroughs in fields as diverse

from Scandinavia to Peru. Original, critical, lucidly written, and

as medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, geography,

deeply researched, this work will change the way we think

and physics. Starr presents an engaging portrait of their world,

about the history of homosexuality in early modern Europe.

, University of Oxford • A story of continuity and change on the death of a queen and the accession of a new king • Told through use of a mass of contemporary evidence, including literature, polemic, art, architecture, material culture, and an assortment of state papers • Looks at the story of the succession to the English crown within a wider British and European context

R.J.B. Bosworth, author of Italian Venice: A History Venice, one of the world’s most storied cities, has a long and remarkable history, told here in its full scope from its founding in the early Middle Ages to the present day. A place whose fortunes and livelihoods have been shaped to a large degree by its relationship with water, Venice is seen in Dennis Romano’s account as a terrestrial and maritime power, whose religious, social, architectural, economic, and political histories have been determined by its unique geography.

From Tudor to Stuart tells the story of the dramatic accession and first decade of the reign of James I and the transition from the Elizabethan to the Jacobean era, using a huge range

• Sets out a major new interpretation of the history of sexuality in early modern Europe and the so-called emergence of modern homosexuality

documents, and draws on materials in 15 languages

account of the whole phenomenon of male-male sexual

their work, their friendship, and their rivalry.

of sources, from state papers and letters to drama, masques,

Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

poetry, and a host of material objects. The Virgin Queen was a hard act to follow for a Scottish newcomer who faced a host of problems in his first years as

Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

king: not only the ghost of his predecessor and her legacy but also unrest in Ireland, serious questions about his legitimacy

, University of Oxford

on the English throne, and even plots to remove him (most famously the Gunpowder Plot of 1605). Contrary to traditional assumptions, James’s accession was by no means a smooth one.

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HI S T O RY

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HIS TORY

HI S T OR Y

HIST O RY

Does Counter-Terrorism Work?

Britain’s Slavery Debt

The Silver Empire

Leuthen

RICHARD ENGLISH, Queen’s University Belfast

Reparations Now!

How Germany Created Its First Common Currency

Great Battles

“judicious and thoughtful... fair and balanced, critical without being polemical,... relevant and timely. Part of its argument is that history is important, and I am in complete agreement.” Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow Emerita, Stanford University Professor Emerita, Wesleyan University Based on the author’s experience of studying terrorism and counter-terrorism for over three decades, Does CounterTerrorism Work? offers an historically-grounded, systematic, and expert interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses

MICHAEL BANNER, Trinity College, Cambridge

• The story of Leuthen’s significance in

ethical, and practical issues surrounding reparations

OLIVER VOLCKART, London School of Economics and Political Science

• Engages seriously with the case against reparations, but

• How the more than 300 governments

Europe and its profound significance

of the sixteenth century Holy Roman

for the future course of European

Empire came together to create a

history

• Offers a reasoned and concise discussion of the historical,

offers persuasive counter arguments and clarification of the issues • Provides a practical proposal for a way forwards, regarding the amount of money which might be due and how it might be raised

to terrorist violence. Previous analyses have too often tended

In Britain’s Slavery Debt Michael Banner makes a specific and

to be polarized, simplistic, and short-termist; they have also

practical proposal regarding reparations, picking up on the

lacked a comprehensive framework against which properly

programme suggested by Caribbean countries (through

to assess the (in)efficacy of counter-terrorist efforts over

CARICOM), and taking as a starting point the nearly £20 million

time. Richard English’s pioneering book carefully defines what

paid as compensation by the British government at abolition,

effective counter-terrorism would involve, and then tests that

not to those who had suffered slavery, but to those who lost

layered framework through cross-case, balanced, historically-

enslaved labourers. Britain’s Slavery Debt discusses what can be

focused comparison of important counter-terrorist campaigns.

done, here and now, by individuals and institutions, to advance the case for reparations between national governments.

common currency based on silver

Jerusalem through the Ages is a one-stop shop for both the history and archaeology of Jerusalem. At

aftermath to the present day - and

the onset, it is questioned whether

Empire created a common currency in

the significance of the ‘Leuthen myth’

or not another book on Jerusalem

the sixteenth century. Oliver Volckart

in subsequent Prussian and German

is needed. The answer, we now

examines the conditions that shaped the

history

know, is yes, emphatically, for Jodi

monetary outlook of the member states of the Empire, paying particular attention to the uneven access to silver and gold. Following closely the negotiations that prepared the common currency, he is able to illuminate the interest groups that were formed, what their agendas and

a common currency should look like: a silver-based currency that was introduced in 1559-66.

HI S T O RY

“Authoritative and accessible,

account of how the Holy Roman

to obtain majority agreement on what

• How the battle has been

JODI MAGNESS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

remembered, from the immediate

forged, and how it was eventually possible

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the context of mid-eighteenth century

From Its Beginnings to the Crusades

The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive

ulterior motives were, how alliances were

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T. G. OTTE, University of East Anglia

Jerusalem through the Ages

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The story of Leuthen, the battle that confirmed the reputation of Frederick ‘the Great’ of Prussia as one of history’s greatest military commanders and the most consequential conflict in continental

Magness has created a magisterial work: captivating, informative, and mesmerizing from the very first page.” Eric H. Cline, author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Europe between the Thirty Years’ War

In this broad yet detailed account of

and the Napoleonic Wars: how it was

one of the world’s oldest, holiest, and

fought, how it has been remembered,

most contested cities, leading expert Jodi

and what it has come to mean. As with

Magness incorporates the most recent

other great battles, Leuthen is constantly

archaeological discoveries and original

reassessed and rewritten as an element

research to weave an authoritative

of national culture and identity.

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HIS TORY

HI S T OR Y The Hijacking of American Flight 119 How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI’s Battle to Stop It JOHN WIGGER, University of Missouri • Tells the story of the “D.B. Cooper” copycat parachute hijackers Beginning in 1968 a wave of airline hijackings swept across the skies over America. There were nearly 150 hijackings of U.S. commercial flight over the next five years. The most audacious of these air pirates were the parachute hijackers, starting with “D.B. Cooper” and ending with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 119, the most daring of them all. John Wigger’s gripping account of this period is based on fresh interviews and first-hand accounts from FBI agents, flight attendants, pilots, and passengers who were swept up in the heist and the hunt for the hijacker. He brings to life one of the most chaotic and fascinating periods in American aviation history.

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BUS IN ES S & ECO NO MIC S Hopped Up How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity

After the Flying Saucers Came A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon

JEFFREY M. PILCHER, University of Toronto

GREG EGHIGIAN, Pennsylvania State University

• A highly readable narrative of

• First history of the UFO

brewing traditions and contemporary production of beer across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America • Highlights local origins and distinctive flavors alongside industrial standardization • Discusses the role of gender and race in brewing, including among the current generation of craft brewers A highly readable history of beer and the brewing industry around the world over the centuries, Hopped Up narrates the oscillations between distinctive regional and national preferences and the capitalist global standardization of beer style and taste in a work that will appeal

Capitalism and Crises How to Fix Them ,Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford

The world is encountering multiple crises – climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution. Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them—how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist

phenomenon—based on extensive

system. We have failed to understand the key institution at the heart of it—business—and

archival research and interviews

as a result we have allowed it to cause as well as solve problems. This book describes why

• Written by an academic whose research on UFOs and alien contact has been featured in the media and supported by NASA After the Flying Saucers Came is a comprehensive account of the stories, the people, and the strange events that went into making the fascination with UFOs and aliens a worldwide phenomenon among believers, skeptics, and the simply curious. It traces how an odd sighting of “flying saucers” by an American pilot in 1947 inspired governments, the media, scientists, writers, and the general public to consider the possibility that

to historians and beer connoisseurs alike.

extraterrestrials were visiting earth.

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this has happened and what needs to change to address it: it will take you through how the capitalist system operates, where it fails and why, and it will demonstrate that at the core of the problem is the key driver of capitalism and that is profit—the way in which we resource and reward those who run the system. Currently, profit comes from causing as well as solving problems. It must not, if we are to prevent the problems. Drawing on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance, Mayer describes what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how to fix it. He sets out the big challenges that capitalism must address and how it should set about doing that, and discusses how financial institutions should be at the heart of this, and how the public sector can work with the private on a common purpose of solving

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problems and creating shared prosperity. Capitalism and Crises provides an inspiring and motivational roadmap of how we as practitioners, policymakers, consumers, employees, communities, students, and citizens of the world can together tackle the challenges of the 21st century—to flourish and survive. Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

About the Author COLIN MAYER CBE FBA is Emeritus Professor of Management Studies and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the European Corporate Governance Institute, an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College and St Anne’s College, Oxford.

HI S T O RY

BUS INES S & ECONOMICS

BU S I NES S & E C O N O M I CS How Change Happens

Glad We Met

S E C OND EDIT IO N

The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings

Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam • Builds on online and offline success of First Edition • Draws on 15 years of daily blogs and conversations on the From Poverty to Power blog • An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence How Change Happens bridges the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding

, Chancellor’s Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Adam Grant, PhD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

CURREN T AFFAIRS The Political Thought of Xi Jinping STEVE TSANG and OLIVIA CHEUNG, both at Soas China Institute • Draws from Xi Jinping’s own words and writings issued in his name to explain his ideas and plans • Contextualizes and checks Xi’s words against policy

There are an estimated 200-500 million 1:1 meetings held

implemented to ascertain what, if anything, should be

each day around the world. In Glad we Met: The Art and Science

taken at face value

of 1:1 Meetings Dr. Steven Rogelberg, author of The Surprising Science of Meetings, brings new and strategic insight to help us maximize the potential of these crucial conversations.

In The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung provide an authoritative overview of what “Xi Jinping Thought” is and is not and what it means for both China and

Oceans Rise Empires Fall Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate GERARD TOAL, Virginia Tech • A powerful and timely explanation of why interstate rivalry and competition so often undermine efforts to address climate change • Explains why conflicts like the war in Ukraine increase fossil fuel production even when states acknowledge that global warming will produce dire consequences • Authored by one of the world’s leading scholars of geopolitics

1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for

the world. Xi Jinping intends to stay the leader of China for

the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and

life and is working to make “Xi Jinping Thought” China’s new

In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the

organizations. The best managers recognize that 1:1s are not an

state ideology, something that will define what he calls the

effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from

add-on to their role as a manager, conducting 1:1s successfully

China Dream of national rejuvenation and the pathway to

rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why

ARE foundational to being a manager. At the same time, these

its fulfilment by 2050. Drawing from original research of Xi’s

do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational

latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change.

meetings fundamentally influence a direct report’s experience

speeches, writings, and policies, the authors conceptualize

policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global

This second edition adds a chapter by the LSE’s Dr Tom Kirk

at work, including how they engage and attach to their role,

Xi’s vision independently from interpretations provided by the

warming? In Oceans Rise Empires Fall, Gerard Toal explains why

perceive the effectiveness of their manager, and envision their

Chinese Communist Party or other sources. They further show

geopolitical competition is the primary obstacle. In a world of

future at the organization.

how Xi seeks to transform this vision into reality.

interstate rivalry, nations tend to always prioritize acquiring the

of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world’s largest social justice NGOs, as well as the author’s 40 years of studying and working on international development, it tests ideas and sets out the

on the rising importance of digital technology in activism, and analyses the implications of some of the darker currents of

fossil fuels necessary for growth in the short term over working

populism and shrinking civic space for those trying to bring

toward a zero-carbon future.

about positive change.

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

C URR EN T AF F A I RS Collisions The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Catholic University of America

The Language of Climate Politics Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

SC IE NC E Wuhan

Quantum Drama

How the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China Spiralled Out of Control

From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement

DALI L. YANG, The University of Chicago

A vivid and erudite account of the profound debate between Einstein and Bohr, its implications for the nature of physics, and the astonishing experimental discoveries it has led to today.

, award-winning science writer, and , Professor of History and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley

• One of the first histories of the

GENEVIEVE GUENTHER, Founding Director, End Climate Silence and The New School

origins of the war in Ukraine

• Dismantles and reframes the terms

of Chinese political and bureaucratic

In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and

• Provides an account of the war’s

that dominate our current climate

processes as well as cognitive biases

meaning of the new quantum theory. This would become one of the most famous debates

debates

during the Covid-19 outbreak

in the history of science. At stake were an understanding of the purpose, and defense of

global dimensions, from Russia to

• Comprises unparalleled exploration

Ukraine to Europe to the United

The Language of Climate Politics offers

• Delves into the Chinese government’s

States and beyond

readers new ways to talk about the

decision-making processes and the

climate crisis that will help get fossil

factors that influenced it

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war. Tracing the development of Ukraine and Russia’s fractious relationship back to the end of the Cold War, Kimmage takes readers through the central events that led to Vladimir Putin seizing a large portion of Ukraine—the Crimea—in 2014 and, eight years later, initiating arguably the most intensive military conflict of the entire post-World War II era.

fuels out of our economy and save our planet. It’s an analysis of the current discourse of American climate politics, but also a critical history of the terms that most directly influence the way not just conservatives but centrists on both sides of the political divide think and talk about climate change. In showing how those terms lead to mistaken beliefs about climate change and its solutions, the book equips readers with a new vocabulary that will enable them to neutralize climate propaganda and fight more effectively for a

In Wuhan Dali L. Yang provides a definitive account of China’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Examining the first six months of the outbreak, Yang details the government’s handling of information about the

the integrity, of science. What (if any) limits should we place on our expectations for what science can tell us about physical reality? Quantum Drama reveals, science owes a large debt to those who kept the discussions going against the apathy and indifference of most physicists before definitive experimental inquiries became possible. Although experiment moved the Bohr-Einstein debate to a new level and drew many into foundational research, it has by no means removed or resolved the fundamental question. There will be no Nobel prize for an answer. That will not shut off discussion. Our Drama will continue beyond our telling of it and is unlikely to reach its final scene before science ceases or the world ends.

epidemic and the decisions that shaped

Prologue to Quantum Drama

the scale and scope of the outbreak. Not

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livable future.

About the Authors JIM BAGGOTT is an award-winning science writer. Trained as a scientist in the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, and a former lecturer at the University of Reading, he has written popular books on science, philosophy,

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S CIENCE

SCIENCE

SC IE NC E

CHARGE

Selfish Genes to Social Beings

This Volcanic Isle

Sentience

The Primacy of Doubt

Why Does Gravity Rule?

A Cooperative History of Life

, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford

, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh

The Violent Processes that Forged the British Landscape

The Invention of Consciousness

• Considers our current state of understanding and the

• Evolution seen in a different light: through the lens of the

ROBERT MUIR-WOOD, Risk Management Solutions, and University College, London

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics

From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world

“Sentience is full of provocative ideas,

TIM PALMER, University of Oxford

exciting experiments seeking hints that matter might be

importance and universality of cooperation, at every level

unstable

from society to genes

As far as we know, the charges of the proton and electron are opposite and exactly equal, even though the proton is far bigger, and composed of three quarks tightly bound within it, while the electron is a fundamental particle. But why are they equal? This is one of the deepest unresolved puzzles of fundamental physics, and forms the driving force of this

• Explores how complexity evolves through major transitions in evolution • Demonstrates that through the concept of emergence, we are free to make choices despite what appear to be biological and genetic imperatives

book. To explore the clues we have, Frank Close takes us on

Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it’s

a journey into the quantum subatomic world of particles. He

hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation,

describes the strong and weak forces that operate alongside

Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-

electromagnetism at these short ranges, and the colour

up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history

and flavour charges that drive them, as well as the parallels

of life. Starting with human society, Silvertown digs deeper, to

between them, giving tantalizing hints of a deeper unity of all

show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs,

forces that is the dream of grand unification theories. Seeking

to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together,

an answer to why matter is neutral brings us to fundamental

to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive

forces and particles, the Standard Model, the recently

and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.

discovered Higgs boson, and the

• Recounts the surprisingly violent tectonic prehistory of Britain

as well as lively anecdotes from

• Shares a deep love for the geological

decades of pondering these issues.

forces shaping natural history, and

Humphrey’s thesis offers a great deal

relates it to the famous landmarks of

to think about.” Philip Ball, New Scientist

the British Isles

SCI ENCE

when your immediate inclination is to think ‘I want to do that again, but

of self, but is it only humans who feel

I’ll have a bit of a break first.’ I will

of the British Isles, and its resulting

this way? Do other animals? Will future

be reading this book again, without

legacy. Along the way he introduces the

machines? Nicholas Humphrey tells the

doubt. Remarkable.”

personalities who shared a fascination

story of his quest to understand the

for Britain’s tectonic history, including

evolutionary history of consciousness

Charles Darwin the geologist, Tennyson

and explains the startling answers he has

the science-poet, and Benoit Mandelbrot,

come to.

the pure mathematician who labelled the

Brian Clegg, Popular Science The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty, covering a breathtaking range of topics, from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, economic modelling to conflict prediction,

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Primacy of Doubt is like getting off one

Conscious sensations ground our sense

is the previously untold story of how

for the stability of matter.

science book I’ve ever read... The

In This Volcanic Isle Robert Muir-Wood

west coast of Britain a fractal icon. Here

implications of grand unification

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S CIENCE

PHIL OSOP HY AI Morality

The AI Mirror

Dancing with the Devil

Dogwhistles and Figleaves

Edited by DAVID EDMONDS, University of Oxford

How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood

• Short, lively, stimulating pieces, assuming no expertise in philosophy or AI • Considers the implications of AI for things we all care about: health, work, identity, politics

SHANNON VALLOR, University of Edinburgh • Offers a way to think about AI that can reinvigorate the reader’s sense of human agency and possibility

• Topics covered include the future of work; autonomous

• Written by an ethicist with over a decade of experience

weapons; algorithms, adverts, and recommendations

working with leading AI researchers and developers

• Edited by bestselling author David Edmonds, one of

• Confronts the very real dangers of AI to human flourishing,

philosophy’s most gifted communicators, co-creator of the

while giving the reader a middle way between passive

Philosophy Bites podcast and books

resignation to AI technology as a replacement for human

There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of

PHILO SO P HY

agency and rejecting AI as an existential threat that must be opposed and defeated

KRISTA K. THOMASON, Swarthmore College • Argues for the value of negative emotions, even when they aren’t righteous • Counters some of the prevailing ideas about negative emotions in everyday life • Written in an accessible and engaging style Most people think bad feelings—feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt—are obstacles to a good life. You’re supposed to do your best not to feel them or to get over them as quickly as you can, otherwise they’ll take over and turn you into a monster. But this is a big mistake. We don’t have to battle

human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds

Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and

our negative emotions or “channel” them into something

brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore

philosophical case for what AI could be, and what we can be

productive. We feel negative emotions because our lives matter

some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about

with it. She calls us to reclaim our human potential for moral

to us. They are part of what makes life meaningful. This book

this revolution. The chapters are rich with examples from

and intellectual growth, rather than losing sight of our shared

shows how philosophy can help us learn to live life well with

contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future.

humanity as we gaze dully into our AI mirrors.

bad feelings.

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JENNIFER MATHER SAUL, University of Waterloo • The first book-length study of dogwhistles and figleaves • Illuminates the spread of falsehood and the phenomenon of “fake news” • Rich in examples from contemporary politics and recent history • Accessible to readers from any background, helping them to make sense of what is happening in the world Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist, and accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Jennifer Saul shows how two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role in this, and have exploited and widened existing divisions in society.

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PHILOS OPHY

P HIL OSO P HY

C LASSIC S

The Examined Run

The Women Are Up to Something

The New Roman Empire

Why Good People Make Better Runners

How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

A History of Byzantium

SABRINA B. LITTLE, Christopher Newport University • Shows how ideas from moral philosophy can play an important role in running and athletics, and why being a good person can make us better athletes • Accessibly explains important ideas about virtue ethics and character development • Draws on the author’s experience as a successful ultramarathon athlete Philosopher and prominent ultra-marathoner Sabrina Little here offers a novel view of what it means to run well, and how cultivating key personal virtues can make us strong, faster, and happier runners. Combining her extensive personal experience as a runner and coach, with her deep knowledge of virtue ethics, The Examined Run accessibly shows how virtues like perseverance, emotional control, and compassion can be just as important in training and competition as any other regime, and should appeal to any intellectually curious runner or athlete.

certainly well worth reading.” Bárbara Mujica, Washington Independent Review of Books This the story of four philosophers—Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch—who helped shape the intellectual history of the 20th century, reviving the ethical imagination of their time and ours. The Second World War gave these four women their chance, as they pursued roles formerly reserved for men. But they succeeded because

Tom Holland, author of Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age A Noble Ruin, the fullest biography of Antony in English,

, University of Chicago

assimilates the various, often competing, ancient sources to

Peter Heather, author of Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion,

provide a strong and much-needed dose of realism to the

AD 300-1300

caricature we have of this major historical figure. The book

BENJAMIN J.B. LIPSCOMB, Houghton University “The story is fascinating. The Women Are Up to Something is

, Victoria University of Wellington

The New Roman Empire is the first full, single-author history of Byzantium (the eastern Roman empire) to appear in a generation. It begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and ends with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman

gives ample attention to the varied cultural circumstances in which Antony operated, including the social and moral expectations of his republican heritage, as well as the exceptional challenges posed by the convulsion of civil war.

Turks in the fifteenth century, presenting those twelve centuries in an accessible narrative of events, free of jargon. The book focuses on political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, administration, demography, and economy.

of their formidable intelligence and because of who they were: a combative Catholic convert who never cared whom she offended; her unlikely best friend, an atheist who grew up in a world of class and manners; a woman who spent a decade and a half raising her boys, publishing the first of her sixteen books at almost 60; and a mystical novelist who gradually drifted

A Noble Ruin Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

away from the academy.

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CLAS S ICS

A RTS

L I N GU I STI CS

OXFORD W ORL D’S CLASSIC S

How Coppola Became Cage E. L. Battistella, CHOICE

, Freelance Writer and Journalist Lindsay Gibb, author of National Treasure: Nicolas Cage Publishers Weekly

Highly Irregular is an illustrated history of English as told through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What

How Coppola Became Cage tells the story of Nicolas Cage’s

is the deal with the word ‘colonel’? The weirdness of English

early career and rise to fame, examining the formative

can be blamed on specific influences that shaped it, and in

performances that made him an icon of independent cinema

this book Arika Okrent investigates the many puzzles of our

of the eighties and early nineties. By interviewing dozens of

language to show how English came to be the way it is today.

directors, producers, and actors who worked closely with Cage,

Measure for Measure

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Edited by JOHN JOWETT, University of Birmingham, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

Edited by EMMA WHIPDAY, Newcastle University, TERRI BOURUS, Florida State University, and EMMA SMITH, University Of Oxford

• A new edition of Shakespeare’s most theatrical, most renown tragedy • The introduction offers a comprehensive assessment of the play, from its stage setting, to performance history, to

author Zach Schonfeld takes readers behind the scenes of his

Macbeth’s first soliloquy, and the final act

legendary early films and provides a revealing portrait of Cage’s

Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration

intensely devoted commitment to his roles.

of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most

Highly Irregular

theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth has

Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language

endured as a psychologically and supernaturally sinister

, Linguist and Author

combination of banal domesticity and pure horror in the play’s

work. Emma Smith’s introduction considers the historical and contemporary contexts of the play, from the influence of the Gunpowder Plot as an act of domestic terrorism, to the setting and events.

Illustrated by , Illustrator and Writer

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• Emma Whipday’s introduction revisits Measure for Measure from the perspective of a post #MeToo world, exploring how the play examines sexual violence, corrupt patriarchal power, and female speech and silencing Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of substitutions: Angelo deputises for the Duke, who disguises himself to spy on his subjects; corrupt Angelo demands that almost-nun Isabella gives her body in exchange for her brother’s life; and the Duke substitutes living bodies and decapitated heads to bring about a ‘happy ending’ in this problematic comedy. Exploring corrupt power, state surveillance, and the silencing of women by powerful men, Measure for Measure continues to resonate today.

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O X FORD WORLD ’S CLAS S ICS

O XF OR D W ORLD ’S C L A SSI C S

OXFORD W ORL D’S CLASSIC S

As You Like It

Romeo and Juliet

Henry IV Part I

The Tempest

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The New Oxford Shakespeare

Edited by TODD BORLIK, University of Huddersfield, FRANCIS X. CONNOR, Wichita State University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

Edited by HANNAH AUGUST, Massey University, FRANCIS X. CONNOR, Wichita State University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

Edited by , University of Fribourg, Switzerland, , Indiana University, and , University of Oxford

Edited by , University of York, , University of Kent, and , University of Oxford

• With pace and verve, the introduction delivers the most

• Hannah August challenges Romeo and Juliet’s

• Offers an up-to-date review of

• Incorporates a wide range of

up-to-date account of the play’s critical and performance

catergorisation as a heteronormative, archetypical “love

history

story” by studying gender identities within the play and

• The most thorough appraisal of the comedy as a protoenvironmental text that has become a touchstone for early ecocriticism Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It’s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to the play, upholding it as a crowning expression of the Elizabethan Renaissance while underscoring its appeal to twenty-first century readers as Shakespeare’s most intrepid exploration of gender, sexuality, and the environment. Its double-crossdressed heroine dominates the plot (and their love interest Orlando) to conduct a masterclass in gender fluidity.

the queer history of its performance, from the sixteenth century to today This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play’s ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of heterosexual romantic love, proving that at multiple points throughout the play’s four-hundred-years-plus stage history, Verona has been more queer than the prevailing view of Romeo and Juliet as a core text of heterosexual love might lead us to believe.

the so-called ‘religious turn’ in

approaches to shed light on the

Shakespeare criticism

text’s connections to colonialism and

A history play that combines a comingof-age narrative with a tale of power,

colonial resistance • Explores The Tempest’s Jacobean

rebellion, friendship, and betrayal, Henry

context while examining how

IV, Part I has been a perennial favourite

subsequent interpretations have

from Shakespeare’s time to the present.

explored gender, resistance, and

What has ensured its popularity is

illusion in new ways

above all the towering figure of Falstaff, Shakespeare’s greatest comic creation. The ebullient, unabashedly pleasureseeking and brilliantly witty character has proved as irresistible for audiences as he was for his protégé, Prince Hal.

The Merry Wives of Windsor The New Oxford Shakespeare Edited by , Writer and Researcher, , Ohio State University, and , University of Oxford • Provides in-depth insight into Shakespeare’s world while indicating the flexibility of his plays for readers and performers today The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only comedy set in England. These features

Performed variously as escapist fantasy,

underscore some of its most immediately

celebratory fiction, and political allegory,

appealing qualities—its contemporary

The Tempest is one of the plays in which

realism; its depiction of everyday life; its

Shakespeare’s genius as a poetic dramatist

interest in status and gender; and the

found its fullest expression. Significantly,

language and physicality of its comedy.

it was placed first when published in the

This edition’s introduction focuses on

First Folio of 1623, and is now generally

these elements of Merry Wives, setting out

seen as the playwright’s most penetrating

their historical contexts but also thinking

statement about his art.

about what they offer audiences and readers today.

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O X FORD WORLD ’S CLAS S ICS

O XF OR D W ORLD ’S C L A SSI C S Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882 Edited by , Yale University, , Historic Royal Palaces, and , Stony Brook University • Queen Victoria is the only British monarch to have published personal, often intimate, details of her family life and her private emotions

Republic

OXFORD W ORL D’S CLASSIC S Roman de Brut

Translated by , Independent Scholar and Translator, and Edited by , Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham

Edited by , University of Liverpool, and , Emeritus Professor Kenyon College

• The first English translation of this key

• A new translation of Wace’s Roman

text produced for over a century

de Brut, a poem which served as a

Robin Waterfield’s lively and up-todate translation is accompanied by an introduction by John Rich, which sets Dio’s work in its context and explores

gateway to the larger traditions of Arthurian literature and historical writing in the French and English vernaculars

Scouting for Boys A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Edited by , University of Oxford An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and ‘self-instructor’ of the Boy Scout Movement. One of the all-time bestsellers in the English-speaking world, this primer of ‘yarns and pictures’ constitutes probably the most influential manual for youth ever published. Yet the book is at the same time a roughly composed hodge-podge of jingoist

both literary and historical features of the

This volume provides an accessible,

lore and tracker legend, padded with lengthy quotations from

text, and his portraits of major characters

English prose translation of Wace’s

Archives and the Royal Library

adventure fiction and Baden-Powell’s own autobiography, and

such as Pompey, Cicero, and Crassus.

Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears

at Windsor to inform readers of

seamed through with the multiple anxieties of its time: fears

This edition also includes full explanatory

for the first time as king of the Britons. It

the scope and importance of the

of degeneration, concerns about masculinity and self-restraint,

notes, a glossary, and maps of Central

is accompanied by an introduction and

publication history

and invasion paranoia.

Rome, Gaul, and the East.

notes, a select bibliography, a summary of

• Draws on sources from the Royal

the text, a list of manuscripts, and indexes

The books offer intimate views of the

of personal and geographical names.

most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and

Elleke Boehmer’s edition of Scouting for Boys reprints the

A new verse translation, with introduction and notes , Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews • Captures the literary richness of the plays • Takes into account recent scholarship to understand Aristophanes’ writing and context This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes. It contains four of his most overtly political plays: Acharnians, in which an Athenian farmer rebels against the city’s war policies; Knights, a biting satire of populist demagogues; Wasps, whose main theme is the Athenian system of lawcourts; and Peace, in which escape from war is symbolized in images of rustic fertility and sensuality. The translation combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.

original text and illustrations, and her fine introduction investigates a book that has been cited as an authority by militarists and pacifists, capitalists and environmentalists alike.

of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from

Wasps and Other Plays

all classes of society.

The Fall of the Roman

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O X FORD WORLD ’S CLAS S ICS

O XF OR D W ORLD ’S C L A SSI C S The Flight to Italy Diary and Selected Letters

Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

T. J. REED, Emeritus Professor, Oxford University

DAVID COWARD, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds

• Only existing translation of a major document • Captures a pivotal moment in a great writer’s life which illuminates his later works • Foundational text of European literature which informs the later movements of Romanticism as well as travel and ecoliterature This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany’s greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood. Goethe’s Italian diary brings us close to a great European writer at a turning-point in his life.

• An accomplished translation by renowned translator David Coward that will be of interest to readers new to

V ERY S HORT IN TRODUC T IO NS British Architecture

Borders

Cancer

A Very Short Introduction

SEC O ND EDI TI O N

SEC O ND ED ITION

ALEXANDER C. DIENER, University of Kansas, and JOSHUA HAGEN, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

NICK JAMES, The Royal Marsden Hospital

DANA ARNOLD, Manchester School of Architecture • Presents British architecture in a new light and questions long-held assumptions

• Demonstrates the importance

Maupassant and those already familiar with his work

• Encourages readers to think about

of borders to debates about the

• David Coward’s introduction offers a stimulating and

the relationship between British

environment, politics, immigration,

culture and architecture

and economics

informative support to all readers of Maupassant, together with extensive explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggested further reading • Featuring a fully updated bibliography This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story. The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while

This Very Short Introduction presents an

This second edition challenges the

original and engaging overview of the

perception of borders as passive lines

architecture of Britain, from medieval

on a map, revealing them instead to be

times to the present day, exploring

integral forces in the economic, social,

key aspects of British architecture that

political, and environmental processes

endure across time. It also highlights the

that shape our lives.

ways in which architecture can project

• Uses examples of cancer healthcare from around the world • Explores the political and economic context of cancer care Cancer is a problem that touches virtually everyone either directly or indirectly. As one of the biggest killers in the Western world it is feared by many people. In this Very Short Introduction, Nick James examines the trends and treatment of cancer, looking at efforts to develop treatments, research into cures, and the future of cancer care.

national and regional identities.

the disturbing Who Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.

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V ER Y S HORT INTROD UCTIONS

V ER Y S HO RT I N T R O D U CTI O NS

V ERY S HORT IN TRODUC T IO NS

Dostoevsky

Geophysical and Climate Hazards

The Gulag

Military Strategy

The Self

A Very Short Introduction

, Columbia College, and Columbia University • Surveys Dostoevsky’s major themes, anchoring them in readings of his major novels and journalism • Offers readers a new understanding of the context underlying Dostoevsky’s writing and the historical importance of his work • Gives a concise, accessible introduction to a world classic and internationally eminent author

T H IR D E DIT ION

, Emeritus Professor, University College London

ALAN BARENBERG, Texas Tech University

• Updated case studies of recent disasters

• Examines the Gulag in the context of

• Important updates to research on hazard and risk science • Updates to reflect the changes in global warming, including changes in emissions, ice melt rates, and migratory measures In this Very Short Introduction Bill McGuire explores the potential catastrophes facing our planet. Assessing both the

This Very Short Introduction shows why it is that Dostoevsky

probability of these events happening in the future, and our

became the writer best known for his treatment of the big

chances of survival, this new edition brings our understanding

questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy through an incisive

of global disasters and risk research up to date by using recent

analysis of Dostoevsky’s stories within the context of their time.

case studies from around the world.

the Soviet system • Presents a picture of the human face of suffering and survival through the stories of ordinary prisoners and exiles • Clarifies the variety of different institutions that were part of the Gulag, including prisons, “colonies,” camps, and exile settlements By presenting both the everyday experiences of ordinary prisoners and the overall political and economic background of the system, The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction offers a succinct and comprehensive study of the Gulag and its legacy in the former USSR.

SEC O ND EDI TI O N

ANTULIO J. ECHEVARRIA II, US Army War College • Features an expanded chapter on the power of cyberwarfare as a psychological influence • Includes new further reading references Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the “art of the general.” It highlights the dynamic relationship

MARYA SCHECHTMAN, University of Illinois • Explores the topic of self in an interdisciplinary way, drawing on philosophy, psychology, and sociology This Very Short Introduction is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questions about the self as well as modern research to produce new perspectives on both academic questions about the self and the more immediate practical, everyday puzzles about the self that concern us all.

between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, it discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them.

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V ER Y S HORT INTROD UCTIONS

V ER Y S HO RT I N T R O D U CTI O NS

W HA T EV ERYON E N EEDS TO KNO W

Simone Weil

Thucydides

Food Politics

Free Speech

A Very Short Introduction

A. REBECCA ROZELLE-STONE, University of North Dakota

JENNIFER T. ROBERTS, City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center

What Everyone Needs to Know®

• Characterizes Weil’s ethics as an ‘ethics of attention’ and situates it between Kantian and care ethics • Demonstrates how Weil’s philosophy is completely at odds with several prominent contemporary ideologies

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A concise and lively overview of the intriguing and provocative

An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek

life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic,

historian Thucydides, this Very Short Introduction examines his

and social activist Simone Weil. The breadth, poignancy, and

account of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the

prescience of Weil’s philosophy has much to offer us in our

context both of the international situation in the classical Greek

times of personal, communal, political, and environmental

world and of the intellectual traditions of the fifth century BCE.

crises.

TH I R D EDI TI O N

ROBERT PAARLBERG, Wellesley College • Includes clear and lively writing in an accessible Q&A format The third edition of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today’s global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health challenges. New material covers a range of global food issues and includes an expanded focus on food policy and politics in the United States. Discussing the politics and policies that continue to shape our contemporary food system, Robert Paarlberg challenges myths and critiques more than a few of

NADINE STROSSEN, Emerita Professor, New York Law School • Provides an original, comprehensive framework for integrating the Supreme Court’s many disparate— even inconsistent—free speech rulings into a coherent overall scheme This concise but comprehensive book engagingly summarizes both the broad themes and specific tenets of First Amendment law, and the strongest arguments for and against protecting controversial speech such as hate speech and disinformation. It explains the many speech-protective legal rules that emerged during the Civil Rights era, demonstrating how essential free speech is for other human rights.

Remote and Hybrid Work What Everyone Needs to Know® BARBARA Z. LARSON, Northeastern University • Provides a perspective on remote work that precedes the COVID-19 pandemic, and focuses on the lasting features of remote work This book, written by remote-work scholar and noted expert Barbara Z. Larson, uses both real-world examples and extensive research to address the challenges and opportunities that people and companies face today as work changes. Chapters address questions related to all key stakeholders in remotework environments, including the remote worker, remote teams, managers of remote workers, and companies with remote workforces.

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W HAT EVERYONE NEED S TO

INDEX

INDE X A

After the Flying Saucers Came ��8 AI Mirror, The ��16 AI Morality ��16 Aristophanes �� 25 Arnold, Dana ��27 As You Like It (OWC) ��22 August, Hannah ��22

Flight to Italy, The (OWC) ��26 Food Politics (WENTK) ��31 Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe ��5 Free Speech (WENTK) ��31 From Tudor to Stuart ��4

B Baden-Powell, Robert ��25 Baggott, Jim ��13 Banner, Michael �� 6 Barenberg, Alan ��29 Blacker, Jean ��24 Borders (VSI) ��27 Borlik, Todd ��22 Bourus, Terri ��21 Britain’s Slavery Debt ��6 British Architecture (VSI) ��27 Burgess, Glynn S. ��24

C Cancer (VSI) ��27 Capitalism and Crises ��9 CHARGE ��14 Cheung, Olivia ��11 Close, Frank ��14 Collisions ��12 Connor, Francis X. ��22 Connor, Francis X. ��22 Coward, David ��26

D Dancing with the Devil ��17 Davies, Callan ��23 Diener, Alexander C. ��27 Dio, Cassius ��24 Does Counter-Terrorism Work? ��6 Dogwhistles and Figleaves ��17 Doran, Susan �� 4 Dostoevsky (VSI) ��28

E Echevarria Ii, Antulio J. ��29 Edmonds, David ��16 Eghigian, Greg �� 8 English, Richard �� 6 Examined Run, The ��18

G Genius of their Age, The ��5 Geophysical and Climate Hazards (VSI) ��28 Ghose, Indira ��23 Glad We Met ��10 Green, Duncan ��10 Guenther, Genevieve ��12 Gulag, The (VSI) ��29

H Hagen Joshua ��27 Halliwell, Stephen ��25 Heilbron, John L. ��13 Henry IV Part I (OWC) ��23 Highly Irregular ��20 Hijacking of American Flight 119, The �� 8 Homans, Margaret ��24 Hopped Up ��8 How Change Happens ��10 How Coppola Became Cage ��20 Humphrey, Nicholas ��15

J James, Nick ��27 Jerusalem through the Ages ��7 Jowett, John ��21

K-L Kaldellis, Anthony ��19 Kimmage, Michael ��12 Language of Climate Politics, The ��12 Larson, Barbara Z. ��31 Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882 (OWC) ��24 Leuthen ��7 Lipscomb, Benjamin J.B. ��18 Little, Sabrina B. ��18 Loughlane, Rory ��23

M Macbeth (OWC) ��21 Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories (OWC) ��26 Magness, Jodi �� 7

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Marschner, Joanna ��24 Martinsen, Deborah ��28 Maupassant, Guy De ��26 Mayer, Colin �� 9 McGuire, Bill ��28 Measure for Measure (OWC) ��21 Merry Wives of Windsor, The (OWC) ��23 Military Strategy (VSI) ��29 Muir-Wood, Robert ��15 Munich, Adrienne ��24

N Neville, Sarah ��23 New Roman Empire, The ��19 Noble Ruin, A ��19 Noel, Malcolm �� 5

O Oceans Rise Empires Fall ��11 Okrent, Arika ��20 Otte, T. G. �� 7

P Paarlberg, Robert ��31 Palmer, Tim ��15 Pilcher, Jeffrey M. �� 8 Political Thought of Xi Jinping, The ��11 Primacy of Doubt, The ��15 Pruitt, Anna ��23

Q-R Quantum Drama ��13 Queen Victoria ��24 Reed, T. J. ��26 Remote and Hybrid Work (WENTK) ��31 Rich, John ��24 Roberts, Jennifer T. ��30 Rogelberg, Steven G. ��10 Roman de Brut (OWC) ��24 Romano, Dennis �� 4 Romeo and Juliet (OWC) ��22 Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca ��30

Shakespeare, William ��21 Shakespeare, William ��22 Shakespeare, William ��23 Silver Empire, The ��7 Silvertown, Jonathan ��14 Simone Weil (VSI) ��30 Smith, Emma ��21 Smith, Emma ��22 Smith, Emma ��23 Starr, S. Frederick �� 5 Strossen, Nadine ��31

T Tatum, W. Jeffrey ��19 Tempest, The (OWC) ��23 The Fall of the Roman Republic (OWC) ��24 This Volcanic Isle ��15 Thomason, Krista K. ��17 Thucydides (VSI) ��30 Toal, Gerard ��11 Tsang, Steve ��11

V Vallor, Shannon ��16 Venice ��4 Volckart, Oliver �� 7 Wace �� 24

W-Y Wasps and Other Plays (OWC) ��25 Waterfield, Robin ��24 Whipday, Emma ��21 Wigger, John �� 8 Wolfgang Von Goethe, Johann ��26 Women Are Up to Something, The ��18 Working, Lauren ��23 Wuhan ��12 Yang, Dali L. ��12

S Saul, Jennifer Mather ��17 Schechtman, Marya ��29 Schonfeld, Zach ��20 Scouting for Boys (OWC) ��25 Selfish Genes to Social Beings ��14 Self, The (VSI) ��29 Sentience ��15

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