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How To Think About AI
A Guide For The Perplexed
RICHARD SUSSKIND, Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide which challenges us to think differently about AI.
In recent years, and certainly since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been massive public and professional interest in Artificial Intelligence. Much of the related discussion is Manichean—both in opposition to and in support of AI. People are confused about what AI is, what it can and cannot do, what is likely in the future, and, in broad terms, whether AI is good or bad for humanity. There is also confusion about how we might regulate AI or if we should do so at all; and over where and how we might draw moral boundaries on its use.
In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind explores the unraveling history of Artificial Intelligence, explaining what it does and how it has evolved. Throughout, the author offers unconventional views on AI: looking at the ups and downs (arguing that the ‘winter’ of AI was caused by the birth of the web); reflecting on AI’s depiction in fiction and film; positioning ChatGPT and generative AI as the latest chapter in artificial intelligence; and positing that we are still at the foothills of developments. Susskind suggests that the main error we make in thinking about AI is anthropomorphizing, that is, evaluating and discussing current and future AI systems by reference to humans, our abilities, our strengths and limitations, and our ways of living, working, and thinking. This book gives readers a different roadmap. March 2025 AUD $24.95 | NZD $28.99 TA | 216x138mm
About the Author
PROFESSOR RICHARD SUSSKIND OBE KC (Hon) is Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, and for 25 years, from 1998 to 2023, was Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The
author of 12 books, his work has been translated into 16 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 50 countries. He wrote his doctorate on AI and law at Balliol College Oxford in the mid-1980s. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Facing the Sea of Sand
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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean
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Driven by the Monsoons
Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China
BARRY CUNLIFFE, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
Across thousands of years, humans have been driven by need and the sheer desire to own exotic goods to create and maintain trade routes whatever the difficulties. This is a story of maritime endeavour to complement that of the Silk Road.
The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng He. This story complements that of the land routes, showing how humans have been driven across thousands of years to create and maintain networks whatever the difficulties.
Driven by the Monsoons illuminates maritime connections between the Indian Ocean and its surrounding water routes: the Arabian Gulf and the Red and China Seas. It begins with the movement of humans into South-East Asia and ends about 1600 CE when European companies emerge to takeover. It is tale of exotic goods, material needs, adventure, and desire.
While conditions at sea and the abilities of the maritime communities provided a degree of stability, the direction and intensity of trade and the types of commodities on the move was determined by the fortunes and aspirations of distant empires, those of China in the east and South-West Asia and the Mediterranean in the west. This ever-changing pressure provided the dynamic situation in which society and economies in East Africa, India and South-East Asia flourished. Driven by the Monsoons explores the birth of the modern, connected, world.
“Once again Barry Cunliffe brings his archaeological and historical expertise to bear on maritime spaces, the Indian Ocean and the seas off China, that have been sailed intensively for thousands of years. “
David Abulafia, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
About the Author
BARRY CUNLIFFE has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, a Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He was a Commissioner of English Heritage from 2005 to 2013.
The Dandy
A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour
PETER K. ANDERSSON, historian and writer
The story of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan.
The figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman, exemplified by men such as Beau Brummell, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, or Max Beerbohm. But there is a broader history to be told about the dandy--one that incorporates unknown men from the lower strata of society. This is the first ever history of those dandies who emanated from the less privileged layers of the populace- the lowly clerks, shop assistants, domestic servants, and labourers who increasingly during the modern age have emerged as style-conscious men about town.
A series of fascinating in-depth studies of the wide variety of dandy subcultures that have surfaced around the world in the last two centuries tell the story of how the shaping of fashion and men’s self-image became increasingly democratized, with the arbiters of taste increasingly coming from the other end of the social spectrum. Along the way, we encounter such long-forgotten groups as the mashers, the knuts, the Paris gandins and the Berlin transgender dandies, alongside more well-known figures like the zoot suiter, the teddy boy, the Mod, and the New Romantic.
Above all, this is a story of how fundamental aspects of modern culture such as fashion, style, and conduct have been shaped from below just as much as from above. It is a story that shows how the problematic business of young men trying to find an identity is an enduring phenomenon - and one sadly often accompanied by innocent victims along the way.
‘Dandyism… is hardly about fashions that have now and then “trickled down” to the masses. It is about how impulses from marginal or lower-class groups have overflowed and permeated popular culture in general. It is the history of how a universal longing for distinction and escape from monotony has shaped modern life.’
Introduction to The Dandy
About the Author
PETER K. ANDERSSON is a historian and writer, with a PhD in History from Lund University in Sweden. He has has written extensively on Victorian cultural history, urban history, and popular culture. He has contributed to periodicals such as The TLS, History Today, and Journal of Victorian Culture.
June 2025
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On the Fringe
978-0-19-755576-7
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Pseudoscience: A Very Short
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
The Worlds of Albert Einstein
MICHAEL D. GORDIN, Princeton University and DIANA KORMOS BUCHWALD, Einstein Papers Project and Caltech
A nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianism, and science.
Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein’s life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era--Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory. His views on important political and intellectual movements of his era shaped the world he lived in while his persona acquired a formidable patina deposited by generations of apocryphal mythmaking, both during and after his lifetime.
“Albert Einstein lived a life of soaring scientific creativity. He also witnessed, and responded to, some of the most searing developments of modern times: world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the nuclear age. This remarkable book traces how the efforts to Einstein’s life hung together.”
David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of Physics and the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
About the Authors
MICHAEL D. GORDIN is Rosengarten Professor at Princeton University, where he also serves as Dean of the College. He specializes in the history of modern science and has published several books on topics ranging from the history of nuclear weapons, the history of science in Russia and the Soviet Union, Albert Einstein, scientific languages, and more.
DIANA KORMOS BUCHWALD is General Editor and director of the Albert Einstein Papers. Her research concerns the development of scientific ideas, experiments, instruments, and technologies.
Annapolis Goes to War
The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire
in World War II
CRAIG L. SYMONDS, United States Naval Academy
• Symonds is among the leading naval historians of his generation, and taught Midshipmen at the Naval Academy—the subject of this book—for over thirty years
Taking readers into and through the lives of these young men in wartime, Craig Symonds offers a poignant and powerful story of adjustment, growth, pain, loss, and eventually triumph. Using their diaries, memoirs, and letters, he evokes unforgettably their trials and bonds, their loss of innocence and their discovery of the meaning of sacrifice. Annapolis Goes to War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the experience of fighting the bloodiest war in human history.
About the Author
CRAIG L. SYMONDS books include Decision at Sea, Lincoln and his Admirals, The Battle of Midway, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, World War II at Sea, and, most recently, Nimitz at War. He has won the Lincoln Prize, the Roosevelt Prize, and the Dudley Knox Medal for Lifetime Achievement. In 2023 he was awarded the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
A Journey North
Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship
LOUIS P. MASUR, Rutgers University
• A poignant and affecting portrait of two titans of America’s founding
• A fresh, intimate view of the new nation at a critical moment
The story of a road trip undertaken in early summer 1791 through upstate New York and New England by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. A Journey North opens a window onto the post-revolutionary landscape, illuminating the origins of the remarkable bond between two founding figures—one that endured for fifty years and remains one of the most consequential and significant friendships in American political history.
About the Author
LOUIS P. MASUR is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. He is the author of many books, including The Civil War: A Concise History, Lincoln’s Hundred Days, Lincoln’s Last Speech, and The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America.
September 2025
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Undaunted Mind
The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin
KEVIN J. HAYES, Emeritus Professor, University of Central Oklahoma
• Written by a premier literary historian, the work presents Franklin’s life in more detail than ever before
Undaunted Mind tells the story of the development of Benjamin Franklin’s intellect beginning with the earliest books he read as a child in Boston, his formal schooling and independent study, through his time in London, Paris, and Philadelphia, where he established himself as one of America’s leading intellectuals and philanthropists. The story of Franklin’s intellectual life is also the story of the friends he made in various stages of his life, so this book illuminates his circles of illustrious friends who encouraged his reading, his community improvement projects, and his scientific research.
About the Author
KEVIN J. HAYES is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of numerous books on American literature, history, and culture, including George Washington: A Life in Books (OUP, 2017), which won the George Washington Book Prize; The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (OUP, 2007); and A Journey through American Literature (OUP, 2012).
Faith and Fear
America’s Relationship with War since 1945
GREGORY A. DADDIS, San Diego State University
• Highlights the role of war in the making of US grand strategy and foreign policy
• Offers a new interpretation of the long Cold War era
In a groundbreaking reassessment of the long Cold War era, historian Gregory A. Daddis argues that ever since the Second World War’s fateful conclusion, faith in and fear of war became central to Americans’ thinking about the world around them. These inherent tensions-an unwavering trust and confidence in war coupled with a fear that nearly all national security threats, foreign or domestic, are existential ones-have shaped Americans’ relationship with war that persists to the current day.
About the Author
GREGORY A. DADDIS is a Professor of History at San Diego State University and holds the USS Midway Chair in Modern US Military History. A retired US Army colonel, he deployed to both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. Daddis specializes in the history of the Vietnam Wars and the Cold War era and has authored five books. He is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
July 2025
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November 2025
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The Spy and the State
The Story of American Intelligence
JEFFREY P. ROGG, University of South Florida
• Presents a complete history of American intelligence
• Incorporates new research on important figures and controversies in American intelligence
Is the NSA spying on Americans? It wouldn’t be the first time. Does the CIA still assassinate people? Depends on what you mean by “assassinate.” Is the intelligence community really a “deep state” that subverts American democracy? Not exactly, but it has interfered in politics too often in US history. These types of questions have preoccupied the American people and international audiences in recent years. But the origins of these and other controversies reach back even further in US history. The Spy and the State provides readers with the foundation to understand the past, navigate the present, and shape the future of American intelligence.
About the Author
JEFFREY P. ROGG is Senior Research Fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida. He previously held academic positions at the Joint Special Operations University at US Special Operations Command, the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel, and the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval War College.
August 2025
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The Skeptic Isle
How the British Government Sold the Second World War
STEVEN CASEY, London School of Economics and Politics
Based on a massive array of overlooked primary sources, The Skeptic Isle presents a fast-paced narrative of the British attempt to sell World War II to its citizens. It weaves together government public relations, media reporting, political maneuvering, and the public’s response to reinterpret some of the most famous moments of British history, from Chamberlain and appeasement to Churchill’s great speeches, from the Battle of Britain to the military campaigns in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, from food rationing to the Beveridge Report.
About the Author
STEVEN CASEY is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics and Politics. He is the author of eleven multiawarding-winning books, including Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and Nazi Germany, 1941-45 (OUP, 2001); Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the United States, 1950-1953 (OUP, 2008); The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany (OUP, 2017); and The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan (OUP, 2021). His articles appear in such outlets as Foreign Affairs, History Today, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Spectator
August 2025
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The Southern Fault Line
How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family’s History
BRYAN JONES, University of Texas at Austin
• Uses historical family narratives to study Southern history, with the author serving as the final observer in the civil rights era
Throughout the entirety of its history, the white South has been dominated by opposing perspectives on the desirability of democracy and equality. Historically the key dividing line was slave ownership, and that split persisted long after the Civil War. Plantation oligarchs rejected democracy, while small farmers in the upcountry embraced it—if only for whites.
Drawing from his own family’s centuries-old roots in the region, the eminent American politics scholar Bryan Jones compares the experiences of a slaveholding line with three nonslaveholding lines to retell the entire history of the region.
About the Author
BRYAN JONES research interests center on the study of public policy processes, American governing institutions, and the connection between human decision-making and organizational behavior. He directs the U.S. Policy Agendas Project, the major resource for examining changes in public policy processes in American national institutions. The Policy Agendas system has been adopted in thirty countries, allowing comparisons of policy change worldwide.
Driven by the Monsoons
Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China
BARRY
CUNLIFFE, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
• Offers a new historical perspective which gives an understanding of modern world economies
• Uses this history to explore the origins of globalization
• Provides a comprehensive look at the economic systems which spanned the Indian Ocean throughout history
Barry Cunliffe tells the story of trade across the Indian Ocean using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers, showing how, across thousands of years, humans have been driven by need and the sheer desire to own exotic goods to create and maintain trade routes whatever the difficulties.
About the Author
BARRY CUNLIFFE has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, a Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum.
June 2025
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The Colonialist
The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
WILLIAM KELLEHER STOREY, Millsaps College
• Most comprehensive life and times biography of Cecil Rhodes sincethe 1980s
• Shows how Rhodes’ vision of a white-dominated, connected, economically integrated Southern Africa continues to shape the region today
Mining magnate, politician, and imperialist, Cecil Rhodes had a larger-than-life impact on the development of Southern Africa and the extension of British imperial power. This critical biography of Rhodes elaborates his life and times, showing how his racist politics impacted mining, industry, transportation, warfare, and society, while discussing his controversial and enduring legacies.
About the Author
WILLIAM KELLEHER STOREY is Professor of History and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Millsaps College. He is the author of Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa and Writing History: A Guide for Students, among other books. Storey has been recognized as statewide Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Gettysburg
ADAM I. P. SMITH, University of Oxford
“Here is a splendid first book to read about Gettysburg. Adam I. P. Smith places the battle within its broader wartime context, clearly narrates its tactical ebb and flow, and, most valuably, assesses its powerful influence on popular understanding of the nation’s most disruptive and transformational moment.”
Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor of History Emeritus, University of Virginia
Gettysburg provides an engaging and succinct overview of why the battle of Gettysburg happened, its outcome and why it mattered. It explains why Gettysburg is the most “famous” battle of the American Civil War, and which, it is often said, was the “turning point” of the war.
Part of the Great Battles series
About the Author
ADAM I. P. SMITH read History at Oxford before going on to do postgraduate work at Sheffield, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities. He taught at University College London before being appointed Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and Political History at Oxford. He is also the Director of the Rothermere American Institute and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
May 2025
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May 2025
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978-0-19-967127-4
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Embracing Exile
The Case for Jewish Diaspora
DAVID KRAEMER, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
• Includes new interpretations of many Jewish texts
• Argues that Zionism is a modern, secular movement and not a “natural” continuation of Jewish tradition
Embracing Exile analyzes biblical and rabbinic texts, philosophical treatises, studies of Kabbalah, Hasidism, and a multiplicity of modern expressions for a comprehensive history of Jewish responses to and justifications of their diasporas. It shows that Diaspora Jews through the ages insisted that God joined them in their exiles, that “Zion” was found in Babylon and Eastern Europe, and that, as citizens of the world, Jews could only live throughout the world. The result is a convincing assertion that lament has not been the most common Jewish response to diaspora and that Zionism is not the natural outcome of either Jewish ideology or history.
About the Author
DAVID KRAEMER is Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he has also served as Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics for many years. He is the author of several books on Rabbinic Judaism and its texts, the social and religious history of Jews in antiquity, and Jewish rituals and their development.
Hitler’s Deserters
Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht
DOUGLAS
CARL PEIFER, US Air War College
• Presents an accessible story that will appeal to readers interested in war and society, as well as military enthusiasts and WWII experts
The German military executed between 18,000 and 22,000 of its personnel in World War II on the charges of desertion and “undermining the military spirit.” Who were the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who had been condemned to death on these charges? Why had they deserted? Was there an archetypal deserter? What was the balance between consent and coercion in maintaining military discipline? This book addresses these questions as well postwar debates over whether Wehrmacht deserters should be treated as cowards, victims, or role models worthy of rehabilitation.
About the Author
DOUGLAS CARL PEIFER’s teachings and research interests focus on European history, contemporary European security issues; the World Wars; and mutiny, desertion, and dissent. Peifer’s books include Choosing War: Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents and his articles have appeared in Contemporary European History, European Security, German Studies Review, Journal of Military History, Naval War College Review, Orbis, War and Society, and War in History.
August 2025
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978-0-19-762354-1
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April 2025
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978-0-19-753966-8
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The Things She Carried
A Cultural History of the Purse
KATHLEEN CASEY, Furman University
in America
• Presents a long overdue social, cultural, and material history of the purse in America
• Uncovers untold narratives about important historical figures and events in American history—such as the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, and the growth of queer communities
The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse—an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over the last two centuries. Kathleen Casey examines a variety of sources and finds purses at fraught historical moments, where they serve important symbolic, psychological, or economic functions for their users.
About the Author
KATHLEEN CASEY is Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Professor of History at Furman University in South Carolina. She is the author of The Prettiest Girl on Stage is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville.
The Great Museum of the Sea A
Human History of Shipwrecks
JAMES P. DELGADO, SEARCH, Inc.
• Features vivid, first-hand experiences with the Titanic, USS Arizona, the slave ship Clotilda, and dozens of other famous wrecks
In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the reader on a personal tour of the world of shipwrecks, including many of the more than one hundred lost ships he has personally discovered, investigated, excavated, and shared in print and on screen. In these pages, Delgado explains why people care about shipwrecks—and why we have incorporated the concept of a shipwreck, and shipwrecks themselves, into our religions and cultures since the earliest civilizations.
About the Author
November 2025
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JAMES P. DELGADO is Senior Vice President of SEARCH, Inc., the leading cultural resources firm in the United States, and the author of more than twenty books, including War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century and The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History of the U.S. Navy’s Most Infamous Mutiny. He was also host of the National Geographic international television series “The Sea Hunters” featuring best-selling author Clive Cussler and regularly appears on Nat Geo’s series “Drain the Oceans.” For decades he has led diving and excavation teams, most recently at the site of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship known to have brought slaves to the United States.
October 2025
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978-0-19-778075-6
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The Dandy
A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour
PETER K. ANDERSSON, historian and writer
• The international story of the dandy from below, looking at the hitherto ignored story of working-class dandies
• Shows how the shaping of fashions and the image of men has become increasingly democratized over the last two centuries
The Dandy: A People’s History constitutes the first ever history of those dandies who emanated from the less privileged layers of the populace—the lowly clerks, shop assistants, domestic servants, and labourers who increasingly during the modern age have emerged as style-conscious men about town. Peter Andersson shows that dandyism is far from just an elite phenomenon represented by famous poets and artists. He shows how dandyism as a popular youth subculture grew into an influential cultural movement, from the days of Beau Brummell in the early 19th century to the age of mods in the 1960s.
About the Author
PETER K. ANDERSSON has written extensively on Victorian cultural history, urban history, and popular culture. He has authored several books and he has contributed to periodicals such as The TLS, History Today, and Journal of Victorian Culture.
June 2025
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Breaking the Engagement
How China Won & Lost America
DAVID SHAMBAUGH, George Washington University
• Draws on an extensive range of US Government and private sector sources, interviews with senior US Government official, as well as never-before-examined Chinese language sources
• Offers insight based on 40 years of the author’s first-hand experience in US-China relations
For over three decades following the 1972 rapprochement between the US and China, the two countries seemed to be steadily building a stronger relationship even accounting for periodic setbacks like the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The last decade, though, has seen a sharp increase in tensions between the two countries. What happened? In Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America, author David Shambaugh examines the evolution, expansion, and disintegration of the American engagement coalition and policies toward China.
About the Author
DAVID SHAMBAUGH is an internationally recognized scholar and award winning author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. An active public intellectual and educator, he serves on numerous editorial boards, and has been a consultant to governments, research institutions, foundations, universities, corporations, and investment funds.
August 2025
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A Measure Short of War
A Brief History of Great Power Subversion
JILL
KASTNER, Independent Researcher, and WILLIAM
C.WOHLFORTH
, Dartmouth College
• Provides a unique transhistorical perspective on a topic that regularly emerges as a serious problem in world politics
• First comprehensive history of subversion among great power rivals, from ancient times to the present
In A Measure Short of War, Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth provide a compelling history of subversion—domestic interference to undermine or manipulate a rival—by exploring two thousand years of mischief and manipulation in world politics. They illustrate subversion’s allure, its operational possibilities, and the means for fighting back against it.
About the Authors
JILL KASTNER is a London-based independent scholar and visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She has written about Cold War crises in Berlin and the Middle East and contributed to The Nation and Foreign Affairs
WILLIAM C. WOHLFORTH received his doctorate in political science from Yale University and before coming to Dartmouth taught at Georgetown University and Princeton University. He has held fellowships at the Institute of Strategic Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and the Hoover Institution.
April 2025
AUD $54.95 | NZD $61.99
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978-0-19-768316-3
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The Great Retreat
How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don’t
DIDI KUO, Stanford University
• Provides a comprehensive historical account of the rise and fall of “mass parties” in the US and Europe
• Connects the erosion of political parties in advanced democracies to the recent crises of democratic capitalism
In The Great Retreat Didi Kuo connects the erosion of political parties in advanced democracies to the recent crises of democratic capitalism focusing on how today’s weak parties have ceded governance to the private sector. For democracy to adapt to a new era of global capitalism, Kuo makes the case that we need strong intermediaries like mass parties, socially embedded institutions with deep connections to communities and citizens. As trust in political parties has plummeted, with party membership reaching historic lows, The Great Retreat provides a powerful defense of political parties—for without parties, democratic representation is impossible.
About the Author
DIDI KUO is a Center Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She has written widely about democratization, capitalism, and political parties.
We Now Belong to Ourselves
J.L. Edmonds,
The
Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America
ARIANNE EDMONDS, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
• Details the journey of the author discovering the legacy of her family newspaper and how the foundational work of her ancestors supported the civic and social justice work of contemporary Los Angeles
Written by Jefferson Lewis Edmonds’ great-great granddaughter, We Now Belong to Ourselves chronicles how Edmonds and other pioneering Black publishers documented the shifting tides in the advancement of Black liberation. Arianne Edmonds argues that the Black press was central in transforming Black Americans’ communication patterns, constructing national resistance networks, and defining Black citizenship after Reconstruction—a vision, mission, and spirit that persists today through Black online social movements.
About the Author
ARIANNE EDMONDS is a 5th generation Angeleno, archivist, civic leader, and founder of the J.L. Edmonds Project, an initiative dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Black American West. Her family archives stretch back to the 1850s and her story as the keeper of her ancestral records can be found in The New York Times 1619 Project, The Root, and LA Weekly.
May 2025
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978-0-19-766419-3
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September 2025
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978-0-19-757908-4
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When the World Closed Its Doors
The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders
EDWARD ALDEN, Council on Foreign Relations, and LAURIE TRAUTMAN, Western Washington University
In When the World Closed Its Doors, Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman tell the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond to an external threat and explain how this global shock to the system ended up transforming state border policies around the world. They detail the consequences of the COVID border restrictions and explain why governments used their harshest containment measures on those coming from outside.
About the Authors
EDWARD ALDEN was the bureau chief for the Financial Times newspaper in Toronto, Canada, and Washington, DC before joining the Council on Foreign Relations in 2007. In addition to his own books and articles, he has worked with senior US policymakers on in-depth investigations of issues such as US immigration policy, US trade policy, border security, and the future of work.
LAURIE TRAUTMAN is the Director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University—the only one of its kind in the United States. As a leading expert in Canada-US border policy issues, she works across academia, government, and the private sector to improve cross-border mobility and collaboration.
Perfect Storm
Russia’s Failed Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future
THANE GUSTAFSON, Georgetown University
• Draws upon author’s thirty-year experience as a consultant on Western business in Russia and as a professor of government at Georgetown University
In Perfect Storm, Russia analyst Thane Gustafson reinterprets the broader story of Russia’s failed opening to the West, focusing on its economic, technological, and social aspects, and the role these played in its ultimate failure. Walking through the longer history of Russia’s failure to integrate long before the invasion of Ukraine, Gustafson helps to put in context the more dramatic events of 2022-2024, when vast swathes of the Russian economy found themselves cut off from the West. Perfect Storm tells the story of Russia’s opening to the West, from its achievements and disappointments to the complexity of the post-invasion sanctions regime and Russia’s possible futures under a new generation of leaders.
About the Author
THANE GUSTAFSON is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of many books, including Klimat (2021), The Bridge (2020), and Wheel of Fortune (2012).
April 2025
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June 2025
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978-0-19-779568-2
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Dictating
the Agenda
Authoritarian Resurgence & Influence in World Politics
ALEXANDER
COOLEY, Columbia University, and
ALEXANDER
DUKALSKIS, University College Dublin
Dictating the Agenda examines how contemporary authoritarian regimes are undermining the global influence of Western democratic liberal ideas and advocacy. They achieve this by projecting their agendas into global arenas often considered “non-political,” such as consumer boycotts, global media, transnational higher education, and international sports. While globalization—marked by economic exchange, technological innovation, and consumerism—was once believed to inevitably spread US-style liberalism worldwide, the past decade has proven otherwise. Authoritarian governments in Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia are now exploiting these very tools to discredit liberal activism, diminish the significance of liberal values in global governance, and advance their autocratic ideologies and agendas.
About the Authors
ALEXANDER COOLEY’s research examines how international actors have influenced the governance, sovereignty, and security of the postCommunist states. In addition to his academic publications, Professor Cooley’s commentaries have appeared in Foreign Affairs, New York Times, and Washington Post
ALEXANDER DUKALSKI’s research and teaching interests include authoritarian politics, human rights, and Asian politics. He is also a frequent expert commentator in national and international media on these themes.
September 2025
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978-0-19-777636-0
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Digital Empires
The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
ANU BRADFORD, Columbia Law School
“Digital Empires is a must read for anyone seeking to understand what’s at stake in developing a practical regulatory framework that serves the needs of people everywhere.”
Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft
In Digital Empires, Anu Bradford examines the ideological origins, societal implications, and the relative global influence of three contrasting regulatory approaches towards the digital economy. Throughout, she compares the EU’s approach with both the US-based techno-libertarian model and China’s authoritarian approach. At a moment of time when digital societies are at an inflection point, this book lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and spells out the stakes involved in making those choices.
About the Author
ANU BRADFORD is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs.
June 2025
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How To Think About AI
A Guide For The Perplexed
RICHARD SUSSKIND, Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind explores the unraveling history of Artificial Intelligence, explaining what it does and how it has evolved. Throughout, the author offers unconventional views on AI: looking at the ups and downs (arguing that the ‘winter’ of AI was caused by the birth of the web); reflecting on AI’s depiction in fiction and film; positioning ChatGPT and generative AI as the latest chapter in artificial intelligence; and positing that we are still at the foothills of developments. Susskind suggests that the main error we make in thinking about AI is anthropomorphizing, that is, evaluating and discussing current and future AI systems by reference to humans, our abilities, our strengths and limitations, and our ways of living, working, and thinking. This book gives readers a different roadmap.
About the Author
PROFESSOR RICHARD SUSSKIND OBE KC (Hon) is Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, and for 25 years, from 1998 to 2023, was Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The author of 12 books, his work has been translated into 16 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 50 countries. He wrote his doctorate on AI and law at Balliol College Oxford in the mid-1980s. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
March 2025
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Free Creations of the Human Mind
The Worlds of Albert Einstein
MICHAEL D. GORDIN, Princeton University and DIANA KORMOS BUCHWALD, Einstein Papers Project and Caltech
Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein’s life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era - Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory. His views on important political and intellectual movements of his era shaped the world he lived in while his persona acquired a formidable patina deposited by generations of apocryphal mythmaking, both during and after his lifetime.
About the Authors
MICHAEL D. GORDIN is Rosengarten Professor at Princeton University, where he also serves as Dean of the College. He specializes in the history of modern science and has published several books on topics ranging from the history of nuclear weapons, the history of science in Russia and the Soviet Union, Albert Einstein, scientific languages, and more.
DIANA KORMOS BUCHWALD is General Editor and director of the Albert Einstein Papers. Her research concerns the development of scientific ideas, experiments, instruments, and technologies.
August 2025
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Discarded
How Technofossils Will be Our Ultimate Legacy
SARAH GABBOTT, University of Leicester, and JAN ZALASIEWICZ, Emeritus Professor, University of Leicester
• Considers striking new pathways to fossilization of a variety of modern materials and objects, from polyester clothes to computers
Discarded tells the story of the fossils we will leave as relics into the far future. It explores how the things we now so abundantly produce and discard--plastic bottles, mobile phones, concrete flyways, chicken bones, aluminum cans and many more—might alter with burial and petrify, to become future geology.
This book describes, for the general reader, the kind of science that is emerging to show the far-future human footprint on Earth. It offers a different perspective upon fossils and fossilization, one that expands the idea of what people think of as fossils, and what they can tell us.
February 2025
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Not Just for the Boys
Why We Need More Women in Science
ATHENE DONALD, Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge
“Donald writes eloquently... It’s a great read”
Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement
• Explores historical attitudes towards women doing science, and what progress has been made
• Examines the impacts of societal expectations and stereotyping
Why are there still too few women scientists? Drawing on personal experience and those of leading women in science, Athene Donald presents a powerful, persuasive account of the historical and continuing systemic barriers and embedded bias that women face in the scientific sphere, arguing the moral and business case for greater diversity.
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July 2025
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Human-Centered AI
Ben Shneiderman, Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland
“The book will be of interest to anyone interested in AI-including software engineers, designers, computer scientists, policymakers and philosophers—and our future. Its writing style is accessible, and consequently can be read by both experts and novices. It may also be useful for pedagogical purposes.”
Gloria Andrada, Metascience
In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman provides an optimistic realist’s guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans’ lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to make successful, reliable systems. Digital cameras, communications services, and navigation apps are just the beginning.
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March 2025
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26 colour illustrations
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Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 7
PETER ADAMSON, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and CHIKE JEFFERS, Dalhousie University
Halifax
• A comprehensive anthology that goes well beyond usual introductions to the topic
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined as philosophy emerging from and distinctively related to Africa or the African diaspora.
Part of the History of Philosophy series
About the Authors
PETER ADAMSON received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His main position is at the LMU in Munich. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast.
CHIKE JEFFERS is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with broad interests in social and political philosophy.
April 2025
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Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6
PETER ADAMSON, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
“Each brief chapter immediately captures the interest of the reader in a way that is entertaining, informative, and a genuine pleasure to read. Excellent notes and bibliography of further reading.”
P. A. Streveler, CHOICE
Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance in this engaging book. Major historical themes include the humanist engagement with ancient literature, the emergence of women humanists, the flowering of Republican government in Renaissance Italy, the continuation of Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy alongside humanism, and breakthroughs in science. All areas of philosophy, from theories of economics and aesthetics to accounts of the human mind, are featured.
Part of the History of Philosophy series
About the Author
PETER ADAMSON received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His main position is at the LMU in Munich. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy and is the host of the History of Philosophy podcast.
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March 2025
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978-0-19-894211-5
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Master of Rome
A Life of Julius Caesar
DAVID POTTER, University of Michigan
• A compelling new portrait of one of the ancient world’s most famous and consequential figures
• Offers a vivid narrative of the collapse of Roman democracy, showing what happens when the guardrails that defend democratic processes fail
Through a careful analysis of the ancient sources, including Caesar’s own writings, David Potter offers us a stunning and original portrait of the general and statesman’s character and methods. He shows Caesar as a highly organized manager with an extraordinary ability to adjust to circumstances while maintaining a steady equivalent of an ancient media presence that attracted favorable attention. After his death, Caesar’s followers put forward a narrative of his life that made his rise to power seem inevitable, but Caesar’s own writing tells us a different story—one of a detail-oriented general who demanded a high degree of accountability from his subordinates.
About the Author
DAVID POTTER is Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor Michigan. His previous books include Disruption: Why Things Change, Constantine the Emperor, The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium, and Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
October 2025
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Children of Mars
The Origins of Rome’s Empire
JEREMY ARMSTRONG, University Of Auckland
This book provides a new narrative account of the rise of Rome as an imperial force in the centuries before Julius Caesar and Augustus. It presents a new interpretation of the early Roman army, highlighting the fluid and family-driven character which is increasingly visible in the evidence. It draws on recent developments within the field of early Roman studies to argue that the emergence of Rome’s empire in Italy should not be seen as the spread of a distinct “Roman” people across Italian land, but rather the expansion of a social, political, and military network amongst the Italian people. It suggests that Rome’s early empire was a fundamentally human and relational one. While this reinterpretation of early Roman imperialism is no less violent than the traditional model, it alters its core dynamic and nature, and thus shifts the entire trajectory of Rome’s Republican history.
Part of the Ancient Warfare and Civilization series
About the Author
JEREMY ARMSTRONG is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the author of Early Roman Warfare: From the Regal Period to the First Punic War and War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals.
November 2025
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978-0-19-758497-2
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Plato of Athens
A Life in Philosophy
ROBIN WATERFIELD, Independent Scholar and Translator
“Waterfield’s narrative is compelling.”
The Atlantic
This book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato’s life from his childhood in war-torn Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE to his founding of the Academy, adventures in Sicily, death, and immense legacy. Throughout, it sheds light on Plato’s many timeless works of philosophy.
Rome Strategy of Empire
JAMES LACEY, Marine Corps University
“This well-argued and exhaustively researched book will no doubt reopen the debate as to whether the Romans really were capable of strategic thought.”
Military History Matters
Rome: Strategy of Empire dispels the myth that Romans were incapable of longterm strategic thinking or maintaining any enunciated strategy for more than a brief period, acting as a welcome counternarrative to Edward Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third.
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
A New History of the Ancient Near East
AMANDA H. PODANY, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
“Adopting a truly innovative approach, Podany has provided us with a wonderfully vivid and compelling account of the region.”
Minerva Magazine
“[A] remarkably lively...chronicle.” Science
A sweeping history of the ancient Near East from 3500 to 323 BCE, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, and the changes that they faced over time are explored through their own written words and the buildings, cities, and empires in which they lived.
October 2025
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978-0-19-779721-1
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October 2025
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978-0-19-778217-0
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25 B&W halftones & 15 B&W
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October 2025
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978-0-19-778266-8
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Why Religion Went Obsolete
The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
CHRISTIAN SMITH, University of Notre Dame
• Proposes that religion has not merely declined but become culturally obsolete
• Presents a comprehensive discussion of the qualitative and quantitative forces affecting religion in America
Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. But we know a lot more about the fact that traditional American religion has declined than we do about why this is so. Why Religion Went Obsolete aims to change that. Drawing on survey data and hundreds of interviews, Christian Smith offers a sweeping, multifaceted account of why Americans have lost faith in traditional religion. Why Religion Went Obsolete is a tour de force from one of our leading chroniclers of religion in America.
About the Author
CHRISTIAN SMITH is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. Smith is well known for his research focused on religion, adolescents and emerging adults, and social theory. He has written many books, including Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (with Michael O. Emerson), as well as Soul
Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (with Melinda Lundquist Denton).
Choosing Love
What LGBTQ+
Christians
Can Teach
Us
All About Relationships, Inclusion, and Justice
DAWNE MOON and THERESA W. TOBIN, both at Marquette University
Choosing Love shows what happens when two identities that seem diametrically opposed—conservative Christian and LGBTQ+—are joined together within one person. Drawing on participant observation conducted within organizations for LGBTQ+ Christians and on more than 100 interviews with LGBTQ+ Christians, former Christians, and allies—especially Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color— Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how a number of LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just.
About the Authors
DAWNE MOON is a qualitative sociologist who has studied religion, gender, sexuality, and people’s struggles to define “who we are” for thirty years. She is Professor in Social and Cultural Sciences and Co-Director of Gender & Sexualities Studies at Marquette University.
THERESA W. TOBIN is a philosopher who researches ethical questions around gender, sexuality and religion, emotions, and spiritual violence. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University where she also directs the Education Preparedness Program.
July 2025
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978-0-19-780073-7
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September 2025
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978-0-19-777651-3
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Stomp Off, Let’s Go
The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
RICKY RICCARDI, Louis Armstrong House Museum
• Draws from rare unpublished materials, including tapes, manuscripts, letters, and oral histories
• Celebrates Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong as the architect of Louis Armstrong’s career
In Stomp Off, Let’s Go, author Ricky Riccardi offers a fresh take on the most widely discussed period of Louis Armstrong’s life. Tracing the trumpeter’s meteoric rise to fame from childhood in New Orleans all the way to Chicago, where he changed the course of music with the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, Riccardi foregrounds the voices of Armstrong and his contemporaries to explore Armstrong’s path and relationships more intimately, in turn providing essential insights into how Armstrong rose to become one of America’s most beloved icons.
About the Author
RICKY RICCARDI is Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and author of Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. In 2022, he won a GRAMMY Award for Best Album Notes for The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Sessions 1946-1966. He has delivered lectures on Armstrong at venues around the world and has taught Armstrong courses for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing University and at Queens College, CUNY.
May 2025
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978-0-19-761448-8
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40 color illustrations
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Break the Frame
Conversations with Women Filmmakers
KEVIN SMOKLER, Independent scholar
• Features interviews with Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Mary Harron (American Psycho), and Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman) among others
Break the Frame is a collection of 25 career-spanning interviews with America’s celebrated, reigning, and rising women filmmakers. Each conversation considers the director’s complete filmography as a map of their evolving artistry and evidence of their unassailable contributions to a historically misogynist industry. Author Kevin Smokler listens as women filmmakers speak to the struggle and triumphs of developing and directing movies that are shaping how the film business sees women in the director’s chair, and how their audiences see themselves and each other. This book is both an opportunity and invitation to devote one’s time, admiration and enthusiasm to movies directed by women.
About the Author
KEVIN SMOKLER is the author of Brat Pack America and Practical Classics, and the co-director of the award winning 2022 documentary film Vinyl Nation. His essays and criticism have appeared in Salon, Vulture, Buzzfeed, and NPR.org.
July 2025
AUD $63.95 | NZD $72.99
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978-0-19-761976-6
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Soon and Very Soon
The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch
ROBERT F. DARDEN, Emeritus Professor, Baylor University and STEPHEN M. NEWBY, Baylor University
• Features rare highlights from over 150 interviews with top musicians and singers in gospel and pop music, including Rev. Sandra Crouch and producer Bill Maxwell
Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andraé Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction. His compositions—”The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power,” “Through It All,” “My Tribute (To God be the Glory),” ”Jesus is the Answer,” “Soon and Very Soon,” and others—remain staples in modern hymnals, and he is often spoken of in the same “genius” pantheon as Mahalia Jackson, Thomas Dorsey and the Rev. James Cleveland. As the definitive biography of Crouch published to date, Soon and Very Soon celebrates the many ways that his legacy indelibly changed the course of gospel and popular music.
About the Authors
ROBERT F. DARDEN is Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Baylor University and the founder of the Black Gospel Music Preservation Project. He is the author of more than two dozen books and former Gospel Music Editor for Billboard magazine.
STEPHEN M. NEWBY holds the Lev H. Prichard III Endowed Chair in the Study of Black Worship as Professor of Music and serves as Ambassador for Black Gospel Music Preservation at Baylor University.
June 2025
AUD $65.95 | NZD $74.99
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978-0-19-774812-1
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On Elton John An
Opinionated Guide
MATTHEW RESTALL, Pennsylvania State University
• Presents a unique approach to Sir Elton’s career and music by placing his career and music in a broader artistic context
• Takes Sir Elton seriously as a subject for scholarly study while written in an accessible style
• Offers a new and revealing way to view society and culture in Sir Elton’s lifetime (1947-present)
On Elton John offers a lively, provocative, and imaginative new way to explore the career and music of Elton John within the contexts both of other artists from David Bowie to Britney Spears and of sweeping shifts in popular culture during Sir Elton’s lifetime. A must-have for fans, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in music history, popular culture, and the social issues of our era.
About the Author
MATTHEW RESTALL is a historian of early Latin America, focusing on Aztec and Maya history, on the Spanish Conquest period, and on the African diaspora, as well as a popular music historian, having authored books on Elton John and pop music. He teaches at the Pennsylvania State University and is the Director of Latin American Studies. A recipient of Guggenheim, NEH, and other fellowships, he has published books in seven languages.
June 2025
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978-0-19-768482-5
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College Mental Health 101
A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, and BLAISE AGUIRRE, both at Harvard Medical School and, CHELSIE GREENE, Holistic Psychotherapy
The crisis in college mental health has intensified and the demand for counseling services is difficult for most college counseling offices to meet. Students often stop pursuing help because the waitlists are long and they become disillusioned. Finally there’s help navigating the system. College Mental Health 101 is chock full of student and expert voices, straightforward tips on picking a school, getting the professional, medical, and social support you need, and understanding your diagnosis.
About the Authors
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD is a clinical psychologist, author, and consultant. He has spoken in over thirty-five countries, including two TEDx events, and is the author of twenty books.
BLAISE AGUIRRE is a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is the founding medical director of 3East continuum of care.
CHELSIE GREEN is a psychotherapist and holistic wellness practitioner who works in private practice. She specializes in working with young adults and the BIPOC community.
HEALTH & WELL-BEING
False
How
Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things that Aren’t True
JOE PIERRE MD, University of California San Francisco
• Provides a contemporary review of cross-disciplinary research with novel insights
Drawing on decades of experience as a psychiatrist and clinical professor, Joe Pierre invites readers to journey with him through the normal quirks of brain functioning—such as “heuristics”, cognitive biases, motivated reasoning, cognitive dissonance, and bullshit receptivity—that create the cognitive vulnerabilities to false belief innate within us all. With a cross-disciplinary approach, False illuminates the psychology of false belief that lies at the root of contemporary media mistrust, science denialism, and political polarization, and highlights that contrary to popular opinion, deficits of intelligence and mental health are usually not to blame.
About the Author
JOE PIERRE MD is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been featured in over 100 news articles and media interviews, appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Slate, and the award-winning documentary Behind the Curve as well as on CNN, BBC, NPR, and VICE News. His blog Psych Unseen has attracted over 3 million views.
August 2025
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HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Supporting Your Teen’s Mental Health
Science-Based Parenting Strategies for Repairing Relationships and Helping Young People Thrive
ANDREA TEMKIN-YU, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Guides parents through evidence-based skills written in an easy-to-understand way
Supporting Your Teen’s Mental Health is an essential resource for parents and caregivers looking to support teenagers who are struggling with mental health concerns. Written in a conversational tone by psychologist and fellow parent Andrea Temkin-Yu, the workbook is a thorough, evidence-based guide to essential parenting strategies that have been proven to help improve relationships and behavior. With plenty of examples and interactive exercises, this workbook will help parents feel more confident and prepared as they work to help their teen.
About the Author
ANDREA TEMKIN-YU is Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. Temkin-Yu specializes in parent-focused interventions and has expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and disruptive behaviors.
Navigating Life with ADHD
SARAH CHEYETTE, Sutter Health, and BENJAMIN CHEYETTE, Mindful Health Solutions
• Addresses the needs of both children and adults with ADHD
• Includes tables to help make medication for ADHD easy to understand and help people with ADHD discuss medications intelligently with their medical providers
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological disorder that affects millions of people of all ages worldwide and has effects that ripple through society.
Navigating Life with ADHD addresses how the disorder manifests and affects adults and children, how to support those in your life who have ADHD as caregivers and loved ones, and how to find the best treatment to thrive for those with ADHD.
Part of the Brain and Life Books series
About the Authors
SARAH CHEYETTE, MD, is a Board-Certified Pediatric Neurologist at Sutter Health, focusing on treating ADHD in children and adults. She has been a “Top Doctor” in San Francisco magazine, a frequent guest on webinars and podcasts, and author of three other books on ADHD.
BENJAMIN CHEYETTE, MD, PHD, is the Director for ADHD and a BoardCertified Psychiatrist at Mindful Health Solutions, an interventional psychiatry practice.
June 2025
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HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Our New Social Life
Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection
NATALIE
KERR and JAIME KURTZ, both at James Madison University
This book draws on decades of research to highlight several key barriers to social connection and offer actionable, researchbased strategies for anyone who wants a more vibrant social life. Whether they are social butterflies who find themselves adjusting to a new environment, or someone who has always struggled to foster deeper relationships, these experts in happiness and social connections help readers build skills that can lead to a lifetime of connectedness.
About the Authors
JAIME KURTZ, PH.D., is a Professor of Psychology at James Madison University. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher whose work has appeared in journals such as Psychological Science, Emotion, Affective Science, and the Journal of Positive Psychology.
NATALIE KERR, PH.D., is a Professor of Psychology at James Madison University. Her work, which has drawn national attention, has been published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Social Influence.
Venice Tales
Edited by HELEN CONSTANTINE and KATIA PIZZI, University of London
• An intelligent and entertaining companion to enrich a reader’s appreciation of Venice
• Readers will find in these stories an echo of the magical, suspended, and fluid atmosphere of Venice
• Italian authors provide a unique viewpoint on this cosmopolitan city
Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of shortstories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others).
Part of the City Tales series
About the Author
KATIA PIZZI is Senior Lecturer in Modern Italian Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and formerly Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Dr Pizzi has published extensively on the culture, literature, memory, and history of cities, especially Trieste and the Italian north-eastern borders.
April 2025
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Octavia E. Butler
H is for Horse
CHI-MING YANG, University of Pennsylvania
• Brings to light little-known archival manuscripts and images in Butler’s collection, combining personal memoir with literary analysis and popular culture
“This brilliant, playful, and beautifully executed study is the first to focus upon Octavia Butler’s juvenilia, giving us a glimpse into the becoming of one of the most important science fiction writers of the 20th century... youthful archive, noting her practice of ‘reading for life.’ While this book does so much for Black study’s work with Butler, it also makes a necessary intervention in the work of animal studies, returning us to the necessity of an interspecies perspective on living that has been active in Black Thought all along. In a word, this work is not to be missed and I am grateful for this bit of genius in this world at this moment.”
Sharon P. Holland, Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies
Part of the My Reading series
About the Author
CHI-MING YANG is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in histories of race, empire, and East-West cultural exchanges.
February 2025
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Émile Zola
Writing Modern Life
RACHEL BOWLBY, University College London
• Provides new readers with a guide to the different pleasures and ways of thinking to be found in reading Zola today
• Offers insights into Zola’s daily life and writing routines, found in recently published letters from the time of his exile in England
Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover. This is a book on the novels of Émile Zola. The first part covers most of the writing of the Rougon-Macquart novel sequence and the second part turns to the end of Zola’s life and his exile in England.
Part of the My Reading series
About the Author
RACHEL BOWLBY has taught mainly at Sussex and at UCL, where she was Lord Northcliffe Chair of English before becoming a Professor of Comparative Literature. Her first book, Just Looking, based on a PhD at Yale, was in part about Zola.
April 2025
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
The Great Gatsby
Second Edition
F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
Edited by SARAH CHURCHWELL, University of London
• A new authoritative edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, widely regarded as his best work
• Includes an accessible new introduction as well as an updated bibliography and explanatory notes
A new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel, The Great Gatsby—a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. Capturing the excitement and glamour of the era Fitzgerald himself named ‘the Jazz Age,’ Fitzgerald’s incandescent prose brings to life a shimmering world of hot jazz, flowing gin, and brute power, as Gatsby’s dreams explode into tragedy. A biting satire of America’s illusions about itself, this definitive chronicle of the 1920s is also a timeless exploration of the allure of our own ideals and romantic imagination—and what happens when we fail to live up to them. This edition contains an accessible new introduction which offers new ways of thinking about this much-loved masterpiece.
Utopia
THOMAS MORE
Edited by JOANNE PAUL, University Of Sussex
• Retains the ancillary and marginal material from the first English translation of Utopia, allowing readers into the ‘conversation’ that the translator had with More’s original text
• Includes a new introduction based on recent research and scholarship, as well as an updated bibliography and revised explanatory notes
• Provides novel insights into More’s context and proposes fresh arguments about his intentions in the text
Thomas More’s Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers since its first publication in Latin in 1516. It is a scathing critique of More’s contemporaries and a hopeful portrait of a better world; a ridiculous satire of the rich and powerful, and a personal exploration of what constitutes a good life.
This edition is based on the first English translation of Utopia, produced in the mid-sixteenth century, allowing readers to understand how More was read on publication and the effects of the translator’s changes upon the book’s legacy. The introduction by Joanne Paul explores why this work has been so influential in modern utopian literature and in political theory through the ages.
March 2025
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Second Edition
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Edited by CATHERINE WYNNE, University of Hull, and DARRYL JONES, Trinity College Dublin
• This new edition provides a fresh new examination of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with a focus on Conan Doyle’s own medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective
• Complete with newly revised critical apparatus, including expansive explanatory notes on the text
• Part of a set of new, refreshed editions of all Sherlock Holmes stories
His Last Bow
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Edited by TRISH FERGUSON, Liverpool Hope University, and DARRYL JONES, Trinity College Dublin
• Contains a new introduction and critical notes that elucidate the historical and political contexts of the stories
• Offers novel interpretations of the significance of unravelling clues in the Sherlock Holmes stories and the incorporation of the reader into the act of decoding
A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow, featuring a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that take place against the backdrop of the First World War. This edition contains a new introduction which offers a richly detailed contextual backdrop for understanding the stories of this volume as a work of war service.
The Blazing World and Other Writings
MARGARET CAVENDISH
Edited by LISA WALTERS, University of Queensland
• The first edition of The Blazing World that has modernized spelling and grammar, rendering it more accessible to students and instructors
• The most comprehensive collection of Cavendish’s literary writings to date
In this edition Lisa Walters brings together well-known and popular works such as The Blazing World, alongside lesser-known poems and prose pieces, like The Ambitious Traitor and The Unnatural Tragedy. The introduction discusses the wide-ranging concepts that appear in the writings, from gender and cross-dressing, to science and the nature of the universe, and provides a fresh insight on Cavendish’s proclivity for literary experimentation and innovation.
July 2025
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The Cat and The Masked Woman
COLETTE
Edited
by
DIANA HOLMES,
University of Leeds, and Translated by
HELEN CONSTANTINE
• Helen Constantine’s fresh translation brings a new understanding of Colette to the English-speaking reader
• Includes an accessible introduction by Diana Holmes examining themes of gender and relationships in Colette’s writings, along with a bibliography, and chronology
A new translation into English of two works by one of France’s most widelyread and critically acclaimed French authors—Colette: The Cat, a surprising short novel in which the triangular love story involves one non-human protagonist, and The Masked Woman, a collection of 22 short stories that provide a challenging take on gender roles and relationships.
OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
History of A Six Weeks’ Tour
Through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
AND PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Edited by CIAN DUFFY, Lund University, and ANNA MERCER, Cardiff University
• An important and revealing but less well-known work by two of the most famous authors of the Romantic period
Published for the first time in paperback, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their ‘adventures and feelings’ during two journeys from England to Switzerland at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Character of a Trimmer and Other Writings
GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX
Edited by BRIAN R. CLACK, University of San Diego, and WILLIAM GIBSON, Oxford Brookes University
• Contains a new selection of philosophical aphorisms and an appendix of historical judgments on Halifax (including Burnet, Hume, Macaulay, and Churchill)
A new edition of the works of the Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695), one of the greatest statesmen of late seventeenth century England. His writing on political activity, on Charles II, on the role of women in society, and his thoughts on morality and human nature are presented in this volume in a new modernized text.
May 2025
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
Mathilda
MARY SHELLEY
Edited by DEANNA P. KORETSKY, Spelman College
• Offers an original transcription from the only known manuscript copy of Mathilda—one of only three original transcriptions in circulation
• Examines how the major themes in the book reflect the political discourse of the time and presents new avenues for understanding Shelley’s views on gender and sexuality
A new edition of Mary Shelley’s second novel Mathilda, which remained unpublished until 1959 due to its themes of suicide and incest. The introduction examines the novel as both a complex exploration of taboo desires and an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy.
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Second Edition
OSCAR WILDE
Edited by KATE HEXT, University of Exeter
• Includes revised and expanded explanatory notes to elucidate historical details and Biblical references
• Features an up-to-date guide to further research and adaptations
This volume, edited by Kate Hext, positions Wilde’s major plays in the context of Wilde’s life, career, and late-Victorian culture. Its introduction provides a readable overview with stylistic analyses to help readers understand the plays and why they are still fresh and relevant today, followed by sections on each play which explain key figures, plot devices, and Wilde’s evolution as a dramatist.
Mrs Dalloway
Third Edition
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Edited by TRUDI TATE, Cambridge University
• This edition celebrates the centenary of the original publication of Mrs Dalloway
• Features a fully updated bibliography including key new works on the flu epidemic, politics, shell shock, and parties
This new edition, annotated and introduced by Trudi Tate, broadens and deepens key aspects of the historical context, including a fresh examination of Woolf’s representations of women in the wake of the first women in Britain winning the right to vote, the context of post-war politics, and the innovative aspects of the author’s writing style.
April 2025
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May 2025
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Jacob’s Room
Second Edition
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Edited and introduced by URMILA SESHAGIRI, University of Tennessee
• New explanatory endnotes for the 21st-century reader, including historical and literary references, geographical sites, terms that have passed out of common usage, and connections to Woolf’s other writings
• A compositional chronology of Jacob’s Room featuring excerpts from Woolf’s diaries and letters
• Overviews of Woolf’s published reviews and essays as well as her work at the Hogarth Press
Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.
OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
The Voyage Out
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Edited with an introduction by LORNA SAGE, University of East Anglia
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage.
Virginia Woolf knew all too well the forms that she was supposed to follow when writing of a young lady’s entrance into the world, and she struggled to subvert the conventions, wittily and assiduously, rewriting and revising the novel many times. The finished work is not, on the face of it, a ‘portrait of the artist’. However, through The Voyage Out readers will discover Woolf as an emerging and original artist.
Night and Day
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Edited by SUZANNE RAITT, University Of London
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf’s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or not she loves the iconoclastic Ralph Denham; Woolf seeks a way of experimenting with the novel for that still allows her to express her affection for the literature of the past.
This is the most traditional of Woolf’s novels, yet even here we can see her beginning to break free; in this, her second novel, with its strange mixture of comedy and high seriousness, Woolf had already found her own characteristic voice.
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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS
Billy
Budd, Sailor,
and Selected Tales
Second Edition
HERMAN MELVILLE
Edited by MICHAEL JONIK, University Of Sussex
• This edition offers an expanded choice of Melville’s short texts and draws on a fresh and more accurate editing of the manuscript of Billy Budd
• Highlights the contemporary relevance for questions of economics and ecology, identity and sexuality, and philosophy and politics in Melville’s novella
• Adds several editions of Melville’s texts which have been previously overlooked by editors, namely, ‘The Piazza’, ‘The Bell-Tower’, ‘Jimmy Rose’, and ‘The Apple-Tree Table’, as well as his review of Hawthorne’s short fiction, ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses’
April 2025
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
MARCEL PROUST
Edited by EDWARD J. HUGHES, Queen Mary University of London, and ADAM WATT, University of Exeter
Translated by CHARLOTTE MANDELL
• The second volume of Proust’s widely recognised masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, which ponders questions of time, memory, identity, sensation, art and existence
• An accomplished new translation by renowned translator Charlotte Mandell that will be of interest to readers new to Proust and those already familiar with the author and his work
• Edward Hughes’ introduction offers a stimulating and informative support to all readers of Proust, together with the extensive explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggested further reading
March 2025
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Journey to the Moon
JULES VERNE
Edited and Translated by DAVID COWARD, University of Leeds, and WILLIAM BUTCHER, Former French Professor
• This edition contains the first appearance of the text in modern literary English
• Features an original introduction, explanatory notes, biographical information, and unpublished research into the sources and the manuscripts
A new translation of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, telling the story of an audacious journey to the Moon that inspired generations of writers and astronauts. This edition contains a wealth of contextual information and unpublished research and is the first text to appear as the author wished.
August 2025
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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
Agatha Christie
A Very Short Introduction
GILL PLAIN, University of St Andrews
• Provides a fresh critical account of Christie’s career, providing new evidence for her ongoing relevance and appeal
• Innovative approach to form and structure to illustrate unexpected textual sophistication
• New research and new readings on Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world’s longest running play. This Very Short Introduction will explore this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and it will examine the construction of her most popular serial characters.
Alexander Hamilton
A Very Short Introduction
R. B. BERNSTEIN, City College of New York
“This concise, elegant, and erudite presentation of the life of Alexander Hamilton is just what we need. As Americans look to the past to answer questions about our present and future, Bernstein has given us an excellent history of the life and times of a man who did so much to set the course of the early United States.”
Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. This book presents a summary of Hamilton’s life and explores his role in revolution, constitutionalism, economics, diplomacy, and war, as well as his relationship to honor culture and duelling, and considers Hamilton’s legacies.
The Catholic Reformation
A Very Short Introduction
JAMES
E. KELLY, Durham University
• The first introductory, single-volume title specifically focused on the Catholic Reformation as a global, all-encompassing enterprise, that is aimed at the more general reader
• Brings the latest interdisciplinary research to bear on numerous areas
• A concise introduction across the large scale and individual experience of the Catholic Reformation
James E. Kelly traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, through the years of unrest in Europe, to its global expansion in the Americas, Asia and Africa, and its continued influence and legacy into the twentieth century.
July 2025
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March 2025
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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
Environmental Justice
A Very Short Introduction
Coming soon
PAMELA HILL, Boston University School of Law
• Succinctly explains the recent and evolving concept of environmental justice within the larger context of environmental protection
• Raises important questions about inequality and the obligations of governments and societies
• Presents multiple perspectives on the subject, offering both theoretical treatment and case studies
Environmental Justice: A Very Short Introduction defines the term, identifies specific environmental justice populations, examines root causes of the issues, including racism, capitalism, and colonialism, and traces the history of the environmental justice movement and governmental responses to it.
George Eliot
A Very Short Introduction
JULIETTE
ATKINSON, University College London
• Provides an overview of some of the aesthetic and intellectual ideas that shaped Eliot’s fiction, such as realism, religious humanism, Spinoza’s philosophy, Victorian physiology, and Victorian historiography
• Brings attention to the most famous, influential, or experimental passages in Eliot’s fiction
• This book, rather than separating biographical context, intellectual context, themes, and form, moves fluidly between them, and shows how they are all interrelated in Eliot’s novels
This Very Short Introduction aims to show the extraordinary sophistication and self-awareness of Eliot’s fiction, which resists any kind of moral or artistic simplification.
Henry David Thoreau
A Very Short Introduction
LAWRENCE BUELL, Harvard University
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement, with worldwide influence as an essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau’s Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. His essay “Civil Disobedience” is a classic of American political activism and a model for nonviolent reform movements around the world. Esteemed Thoreau scholar Lawrence Buell gives due consideration to all significant aspects of Thoreau’s art and thought while framing key issues and complexities in historical and literary context.
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May 2025
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Human Geography
A Very Short Introduction
PATRICIA DALEY, and IAN KLINKE, both at University of Oxford
• A new approach to introducing human geography
• Grounding theorisations of space in concrete spaces and places (the colony, the pipeline etc.)
• Examines the formation of power systems and the ways in which they have been constructed, subverted, and resisted over time
This Very Short Introduction explains how human geography can aid a better knowledge of the modern world and offers an exciting and contemporary entry into the study of power systems and the way in which they have been constructed, subverted, and resisted over time.
VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
Jorge Luis Borges
A Very Short Introduction
ILAN STAVANS, Amherst College
• Explores the influence of Borges on Latin American and world literature
• Discusses Borges’s approach to the book as an essential tool to map out collective memory
Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges’s life and the major themes of his oeuvre.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Very Short Introduction
E. J. CLERY, Uppsala University
• Reviews the reception of her works, including Vindication of the Rights of Men and Vindication of the Rights of Woman, over two centuries
Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. This Very Short Introduction will examine the conditions for Mary Wollstonecraft’s formation as a feminist, and will go on to look at Wollstonecraft as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic. E. J. Clery also considers the reception Mary Wollstonecraft has received over the last two centuries and argues that readers need to look at her gamut of activities anew in the 21st century.
August 2025
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Mathematical Biology
A Very Short Introduction
PHILIP K. MAINI, University of Oxford
• Explains to non-mathematicians the role mathematical modelling can play in helping increase our understanding of biology and points out its strengths and weakness
• Explains how the same fundamental ideas have been used in different fields, and shows how mathematics is the language of science
In this Very Short Introduction Philip K. Maini describes the art of modelling, what it is, why we do it, and illustrates how the abstract way of thinking that is the essence of mathematics enables us to transfer knowledge from one area of research to another.
Moses Maimonides
A Very Short Introduction
ROSS BRANN, Cornell University
• Provides an accessible introduction to Maimonides’ cultural background, world, and thought
• Offers a detailed picture of the cultural richness of the medieval Islamic Mediterranean and its Jewish communities
Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his death, the meaning of his life and his work remains contested.
This Very Short Introduction to Moses Maimonides surveys Maimonides’ many intellectual, literary, and professional ventures.
Postwar Europe
A Very Short Introduction
RICHARD BESSEL, University of York
• Presents the complicated themes of postwar Europe without using overcomplicated approaches
• Up-to-date account of a subject that is central to understanding how the structures and experiences of today’s Europe came to be
The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. This Very Short Introduction explores the conditions in Europe at the end of the war, how political life took shape, how European societies and economies were rebuilt, the Cold War, the course and consequences of the end of empire, and European cultural life.
May 2025
AUD $20.95 | NZD $22.99
TE | 174x111mm
978-0-19-885463-0
PB | 144pp
12 B&W illustrations
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October 2025
AUD $23.95 | NZD $26.99
TE | 174x111mm
978-0-19-753698-8
PB | 160pp
10 B&W illustrations
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August 2025
AUD $20.95 | NZD $22.99
TE | 174x111mm
978-0-19-885166-0
PB | 176pp
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WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW®
Libya and the West What Everyone Needs to Know®
PETER L. HAHN, Ohio State University
• Revitalizes the current literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya
• Provides historical context for contemporary issues in the Middle East and the impact of international events on the citizens of Libya
• Captures four distinct Western policy narratives over decades of change in one, integrated narrative
Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with Libya beginning in the 1910s. On the basis of a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it offers insights into the political and socio-economic conditions within Libya that concerned Western leaders and shaped their policies. Among the crucial episodes that this book embraces are fascist Italy’s military conquest and colonization of Libya; the expulsion of Axis armies from Libya and other north African states during World War II; the enthronement of King Idris in 1951; and the discovery of oil in Libya in 1959.
The Metaverse
What Everyone Needs to Know®
SCOTT SHACKELFORD, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, MICHAEL MATTIOLI, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, JEFFREY PRINCE, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, and JOÃO MARINOTTI, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Presents an unvarnished and novel view of key issues in the Metaverse through a thoughtful synthesis of research, interviews and insights
The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it’s the future of the Internet, the next generation of video games, or “a deeply uncomfortable, worse version of Zoom.” In many ways, the confusion, overpromising, and hype are reminiscent of how the Internet itself was envisioned in earlier epochs.
In the trademark question-and-answer style of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, this book provides an understanding of what the Metaverse is, how it is different from virtual and augmented reality, and the emerging Metaverse economy. It looks at media, politics, speech, crime and security, and identity and privacy in the Metaverse. It explores how governance and law operate—or may operate— in the Metaverse, the rights of bots, and our Meta future. The stakes are high, and confusion abounds, particularly in the public, making The Metaverse a perfect addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series.
August 2025
AUD $34.95 | NZD $38.99
TA | 210x140mm
978-0-19-022303-8
PB | 208pp
3 maps
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July 2025
AUD $34.95 | NZD $38.99
TA | 210x140mm
978-0-19-775944-8
PB | 208pp
Available as an Ebook
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Adamson, Peter................................. 21
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (OWC) .................................................. 32
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century ................. 21
Agatha Christie (VSI) ........................... 37
Aguirre, Blaise ................................... 27
A Journey North .................................... 7
Alden, Edward ................................... 17
Alexander Hamilton (VSI) ................... 37
Andersson, Peter K. ..................... 5, 14
Annapolis Goes to War ......................... 7
Armstrong, Jeremy ............................ 22
Atkinson, Juliette ............................... 38 B
Bernstein, R. B. ................................. 37
Bessel, Richard .................................. 40
Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales (OWC) .................................................. 36
Blazing World and Other Writings, The (OWC) ................................................. 32
Bowlby, Rachel .................................. 30
Bradford, Anu .................................... 18
Brann, Ross ........................................ 40
Breaking the Engagement .................. 15
Break the Frame ................................. 25
Buchwald, Diana Kormos............. 6, 19
Buell, Lawrence ................................. 38
Butcher, William ................................ 36
Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy . .............................................................21 C
Casey, Kathleen ................................. 13
Cat and The Masked Woman, The (OWC) .................................................. 33
Catholic Reformation, The (VSI) ......... 37
Cavendish, Margaret ........................ 32
Character of a Trimmer and Other Writings, The (OWC) ............................ 33
Cheyette, Benjamin .......................... 28
Cheyette, Sarah ................................. 28
Children of Mars ................................. 22
Choosing Love ..................................... 24
Churchwell, Sarah ............................. 31
Clack, Brian R. ................................... 33
Clery, E. J. .......................................... 39
Colette ............................................... 33
College Mental Health 101 ................. 27
Colonialist, The ................................... 11
Conan Doyle, Arthur ........................ 32
Constantine, Helen .................... 29, 33
Cooley, Alexander ............................. 18
Coward, David ................................... 36
Cunliffe, Barry................................ 4, 10 D
Daddis, Gregory A. ............................. 8
Daley, Patricia .................................... 39
Dandy, The ...................................... 5, 14
Darden, Robert F. .............................26
Delgado, James P. ............................. 13 Dictating the Agenda .......................... 18
Athene ................................. 20 Driven by the Monsoons ................ 4, 10 Duffy, Cian ......................................... 33 Dukalskis, Alexander
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Kastner, Jill ......................................... 15
Kelleher Storey, William ................... 11
Kelly, James E. ................................... 37
Kerr, Natalie ....................................... 29
Klinke, Ian...........................................39
Koretsky, Deanna P. ........................ 34
Kraemer, David ................................. 12
Kuo, Didi ............................................. 16
Kurtz, Jaime ........................................ 29 L
Lacey, James ...................................... 23
Libya and the West (WENTK) .............. 41 M
Maini, Philip K. .................................. 40
Mandell, Charlotte ............................ 36
Marinotti, João ................................... 41
Mary Wollstonecraft (VSI) ................... 39
Master of Rome .................................. 22
Masur, Louis P. ................................... 7
Mathematical Biology (VSI) ................ 40
Mathilda (OWC) .................................. 34
Mattioli, Michael ................................ 41
Melville, Herman ............................... 36
Mercer, Anna ..................................... 33
Metaverse, The (WENTK) ..................... 41
Moon, Dawne .................................... 24
More, Thomas ................................... 31
Moses Maimonides (VSI) ..................... 40
Mrs Dalloway (OWC) ........................... 34 N
Navigating Life with ADHD ................. 28
Newby, Stephen M. ......................... 26
Night and Day (OWC) ......................... 35 O
Octavia E. Butler ................................. 30
On Elton John ...................................... 26
Our New Social Life ............................ 29
Paul, Joanne ....................................... 31
Peifer, Douglas Carl .......................... 12
Perfect Storm ...................................... 17
Pierre MD, Joe ................................... 27
Pizzi, Katia .......................................... 29
Plato of Athens ................................... 23
Podany, Amanda H. ......................... 23
Postwar Europe (VSI) .......................... 40
Potter, David ...................................... 22
Prince, Jeffrey .................................... 41
Proust, Marcel ................................... 36 R
Raitt, Suzanne.................................... 35
Restall, Matthew................................26
Riccardi,
