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Blue Jerusalem

British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

KIT KOWOL

The untold story of how Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain’s post-war future.

We think we know all there is to know about Britain’s Second World War. We don’t.

This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up for Britain and the post-war world.

From proposals for world government to a more united Empire via dreams of a new Christian elite and a move back-to-the-land, Blue Jerusalem reveals how Conservatives were every bit as imaginative and courageous as their Labour and left-wing opponents in their wartime plans for a post-war world.

Bringing these alternative visions of Britain’s post-war future back to life, Blue Jerusalem restores politics to the centre of the story of Britain’s war. It demonstrates how everything from the weapons Britain fought with, to the theatres in which the fighting took place and the allies Britain chose were the product of political decisions about the different futures Conservatives wanted to make.

Rejecting notions of a ‘people’s war’ that continue to cloud how we think of World War II, it explores how the Tories used their control of the home and battle front to fight a deeply Conservative war and build the martial, imperial, and Christian nation many that many of a Conservative disposition had long dreamed of.

A study of political thinking as well as political manoeuvre, Blue Jerusalem goes beyond an examination of the usual suspects - such as Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain - to reveal a hitherto lost world of British Conservativism and a set of forgotten futures that continue to shape our world.

“Kit Kowol’s study of Conservatism during the war years is historical scholarship at its best: learned, balanced, fluent and provocative. He made me look at the politics of the 1940s in an entirely new light, overturning many of the things I’d taken for granted. A wonderful book; I enjoyed it enormously.”

Dominic Sandbrook, historian and co-presenter of ‘The Rest is History’ podcast

About the Author

KIT KOWOL received his DPhil in Politics from Oxford University in 2014. He subsequently taught and researched at Teesside University, Christ Church (University of Oxford), and King’s College London, where he was an Early Career Development Fellow in Modern British History.

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Facing the Sea of Sand

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By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

978-0-19-968918-7 | PB

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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.

“Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe is an historian of the grand scale...”

About the Author

Anthony Sattin

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.

Indulging Kleptocracy

British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption

JOHN HEATHERSHAW, University of Exeter, TENA PRELEC, University of Rijeka, and TOM MAYNE, University of Oxford

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law.

In Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne examine the broad range of financial, legal, and related services provided in the UK with respect to suspicious wealth from Russian and Eurasian elites. Through a series of rich, gripping case studies, the authors show how powerful legal and financial service industries that know how to game the system have made it possible for these corrupt elites to operate with relative impunity. They detail how these enablers exploit deregulation and the under-enforcement of the law, offshore their clients’ wealth, and enhance their reputations and influence via philanthropy, political donations and the use of the UK’s punitive libel regime. They further argue that kleptocracy is not just a moral and economic problem that sits at the margins of real politics, but it impoverishes the global south and undermines institutions in the global north, eroding faith in democracy by empowering corrupt elite business-political networks in global politics.

Shedding light on dangerous patterns of corruption, Indulging Kleptocracy explores one of the most fascinating stories in the post-Cold War era and offers suggestions on how to break the system of indulgences and stymie the globalization of kleptocracy.

About the Authors

JOHN HEATHERSHAW’s research addresses conflict, security, and development in authoritarian political environments, especially in postSoviet Central Asia.

TENA PRELEC’s research focuses mostly on anti-corruption and EU politics, with a geographic focus on the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe more widely.

TOM MAYNE is a former Senior Campaigner at anti-corruption NGO Global Witness, where he was one of the researchers on the group’s reports on Central Asia and Eurasia.

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February 2025

AUD $42.95 | NZD $48.99

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978-0-19-286933-3

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ALSO BY JAN ZALASIEWICZ

The Planet in a Pebble

978-0-19-964569-5 | PB

AUD $25.95 | NZD $29.99 | TA

The Earth After Us

978-0-19-921498-3 | PB

AUD $44.95 | NZD $51.99 | TA

Discarded How Technofossils Will

be Our Ultimate Legacy

SARAH GABBOTT, University of Leicester,

and

JAN ZALASIEWICZ, Emeritus Professor, University of Leicester

What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished?

What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete flyways, outsize chicken bones, aluminium cans, teabags, mobile phones, T-shirts. They’re produced for our comfort and pleasure—then quickly discarded. The number of our constructions has exploded, to outweigh the whole living world. This new-made treasure chest underpins our lives. But it is also giving a completely new style of fossilization to our planet, as hyper-diverse and hyperrapidly-evolving technofossils spin out of our industrialized economy. Designed to resist sun, wind, rain, corrosion and decay, and buried in soils, seafloor muds, and the gigantic middens of our landfill sites, many will remain, petrified, as future geology.

What will these technofossils look like, in future rock? How long will they last and how will they change, as they lie underground for decades, then millennia, then millions of years? Discarded describes how they transform as they are attacked by bacteria, baked by the Earth’s inner heat, squashed by overlying rock, permeated by subterranean fluids, crumpled by mountain-building movements--and what will be left of them. These new fossils also have meaning for our lives today. For we live on a world increasingly buried under our growing waste. As our discarded artefacts begin to change into fossils, they may be swallowed by birds, entangle fish, alter microbial communities and release toxins. Even deeply buried in rock, technofossils may break down into new-formed oil and gas, change the composition of groundwater, and attract new mineral growths. They will have a lasting impact.

About the Authors

SARAH GABBOTT researches the fossil record of ancient life and is particularly interested in understanding how fossils form and what they reveal about evolution and ecology. She actively seeks new fossil specimens from across the globe, going on digs to China, South Africa and the Canadian Rockies.

JAN ZALASIEWICZ was formerly a field geologist and palaeontologist with the British Geological Survey, involved in the geological mapping of eastern England and central Wales.

Blue Jerusalem

British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

KIT KOWOL

• Tells the untold story of how Churchill and the Conservative Party envisioned Britain’s post-war future

• Presents a radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 that restores politics to the centre of the story of Britain’s war

• Reveals a hitherto lost world of British Conservativism and a set of forgotten futures that continue to shape our world

We think we know all there is to know about Britain’s Second World War. We don’t. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up for Britain and the post-war world.

From proposals for world government to a more united Empire via dreams of a new Christian elite and a move back-to-theland, Blue Jerusalem reveals how Conservatives were every bit as imaginative and courageous as their Labour and left-wing opponents in their wartime plans for a post-war world.

Martin Van Buren

America’s First Politician

JAMES BRADLEY, Cumberland University

• Covers a figure whose life spans the birth and dissolution of the republic, covering all major events of the period

Martin Van Buren was one of the most remarkable politicians not only of his time but in American presidential history. The principal architect of the party system and one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he came to dominate New York—then the most influential state in the Union—and was instrumental in electing Andrew Jackson president. Van Buren’s skills as a political strategist were unparalleled (he was known as the “Little Magician”), winning him a series of high-profile offices: US senator, New York’s governor, US secretary of state, US vice president, and finally the White House. In his rise to power, Van Buren sought consensus and conciliation, bending to the wishes of slave interests and complicit in the dispossession of America’s Indigenous population—two of the darkest chapters in American history.

This new biography of Van Buren—the first full-scale portrait in four decades—charts his ascent from a tavern in the Hudson Valley to the presidency, concluding with his late-career involvement in an antislavery movement.

September 2024

AUD $63.95 | NZD $73.99

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978-0-19-886849-1

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December 2024

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978-0-19-092052-4

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30 illustrations

Driven by the Monsoons

Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China

BARRY CUNLIFFE, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford

• Tells the story of trade across the Indian Ocean through time using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers

• Uses this history to explore the origins of globalization

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.

The Battle of Manila Poisoned

Victory in the Pacific War

NICHOLAS EVAN SARANTAKES, U.S. Naval War College

• Relies on original research and the use of American and Japanese sources

• Strong writing and a gripping narrative make this account particularly engaging

In 1945 the United States and Japan fought the largest and most devastating land battle of their war in the Pacific, a month-long struggle for the city of Manila. In The Battle of Manila, Nicholas Sarantakes offers the first in-depth account of this crucial campaign from the American, Japanese, and, significantly, Filipino perspective. None of the U.S. units that entered Manila had any previous training in urban warfare— yet, Sarantakes shows, they learned on the fly how to use tanks, flamethrowers, air, and artillery assets in support of infantry assaults. Their effective use of these weapons was an important factor in limiting U.S. casualties, even as it may also have contributed to a catastrophic loss of civilian lives.

Among other aspects of the conflict, The Battle of Manila explores the importance of the Filipino guerillas on the ground, the use of irregular warfare, the effective use of intelligence, the impact of military education, and the limits of Japanese resistance.

February 2025

AUD $63.95 | NZD $73.99

TA | 196x129mm

978-0-19-888681-5

HB | 544pp

100+ images & maps

May 2025

AUD $54.95 | NZD $61.99

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978-0-19-994885-7

HB | 400pp

20 B&W illustrations

Hard Neighbors

The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

COLIN CALLOWAY, Dartmouth College

• Offers a complex depiction of Scotch-Irish interactions with Native Americans over time and across the continent

• An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands

Hard Neighbors highlights stories that have been subsumed by terms such as “English settlers” and “American expansion” and traces shifting relationships involving Scotch-Irish people living on the frontier, neighboring Indian peoples, and more distant governments. It follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish from their genesis on a colonial borderland on one side of the Atlantic to their role in the borderlands of Indian country on the other. It traces their relations with Native Americans over time and across the continent, examines their experiences as marginalized and expendable people living between colonial powers and Indigenous peoples, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the hard edge of colonialism.

A Man on Fire

The Worlds of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

DOUGLAS R. EGERTON, Le Moyne College

• The first concise biography of Thomas Wentworth Higginson in more than half a century

Man of action though he was, “Colonel” Higginson was also a writer and journalist, friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and one of the founding editors of the Atlantic Magazine. Emily Dickinson sought out his advice and their correspondence attests both to Dickinson’s genius and Higginson’s attempt to help it reach a larger audience.

Until his death in 1911, Higginson played a role, often a leading and vocal part, in nearly every progressive movement of the 19th century, earning a place in studies of abolitionism, feminism, education, temperance, Victorian fiction, as well as films, novels, and books featuring Dickinson and Harriet Tubman (whom he met in South Carolina during the Civil War). These reveal only aspects of Higginson’s storied life. Douglas Egerton’s biography embraces all the facets of this American whirlwind, illuminating the ways in which Higginson’s lifelong crusade for a more just world resonates today.

March 2025

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978-0-19-761839-4

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29 illustrations

March 2025

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The Wars of the Lord

The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People

MATTHEW J. TUININGA, Calvin Theological Seminary

• Demonstrates how the New England conquest was an outgrowth of Puritan ideals

• Provides a balanced and nuanced analysis of Puritan and Native American motives and actions

• Draws extensively on primary source material

• Highlights the significance of religion in early New England society

Matthew J. Tuininga tells the epic yet tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England from the perspective of those who lived it, both colonists and Native Americans. Religion, he argues, was the central driving force of both peaceful efforts to convert Native Americans to Christianity and the brutal slaughter of Native Americans in wartime.

Mutiny on the Black Prince

Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

JAMES H. SWEET, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In 1768, the British slave ship Black Prince departed the port of Bristol, bound for West Africa. It never arrived. Before reaching Old Calabar, the crew mutinied, murdering the captain and his officers. The mutineers renamed the ship Liberty, elected new officers, and set out for Brazil. By the time the ship arrived there, the crew had disintegrated into a violent mob and fired into the port city. After the Black Prince wrecked off the coast of Hispaniola, the rebels fled to outposts around the Atlantic world. An eight-year manhunt ensued.

At the very moment that the American Revolution unfolded in North America, the Black Prince’s owners conducted a “shadow” revolution, mobilizing the power of the British Crown to seek justice and restitution on their behalf. The eighteenth-century Bristol slave merchants and subsequent generations of their families accrued great fortunes from the trade and invested it in early British banks, railroads, insurance companies, industrial manufacturing, and even the Anglican Church. Mutiny on the Black Prince narrates the way that British slavery shaped the industrializing Atlantic economy and the evolution of the modern corporate state.

April 2025

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978-0-19-767176-4

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16 figures, 10 maps

January 2025

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978-0-19-769272-1

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21 B&W illustrations

My Fellow Americans

Presidents and Their Inaugural Addresses

Edited by YUVRAJ SINGH

Introduction

by TED

WIDMER, City University of New York

• Features an introduction by presidential historian Ted Widmer

• Accessible and readable essays covering over 230 years of American histor

This work brings together all of the inaugural addresses—from George Washington’s first in 1789 through Joseph Biden’s in 2021. What distinguishes it from other compilations of inaugural addresses are brief, original essays by leading scholars, speechwriters, historians, biographers, and editors of presidential papers that contextualize the speech within the presidential administration that followed. The authors examine decisions the president made and how this impacted the nation’s trajectory. They also reflect on how the address relates to the president’s legacy in and out of office. The essays also offer distinctive approaches: some consider the political, economic, and military status of the country; others the composition of the address itself; and still others the personal circumstances of the president at the time of his inauguration.

Hitler’s Deserters

Breaking Ranks with the Wehrmacht

DOUGLAS CARL PEIFER, US Air War College

• Examines the contours between consent, camaraderie, and coercion in Hitler’s military

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 spirt.” This book examines who these Wehrmacht deserters were, why they deserted, what punishment they could expect, and how German military justice operated. The German army was not apolitical, but rather a pillar of the Nazi state. Although much attention has been devoted to officers within the military who resisted Hitler—particularly those associated with the July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life—far less attention has been paid to those who refused military service or deserted during the war.

While providing a full account of what constituted desertion, how it was punished, and how many were convicted for the crime, the book makes the Wehrmacht deserter its main subject. It examines their motivations and the paths they took to evade military service, ranging from hiding in the Third Reich, deserting at the front line, or fleeing to neutral Switzerland or Sweden.

March 2025

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978-0-19-764499-7

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April 2025

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978-0-19-753966-8

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5 B&W illustrations

Life in the Viking Great Army

Raiders, Traders, and Settlers

DAWN M. HADLEY, and JULIAN D. RICHARDS, both at University of York

• This book provides a new insight into the archaeological footprint of the Viking Great Army that ravaged Anglo-Saxon England

• Uses new evidence to understand the wide range of activities undertaken at the camps as the Viking Great Army provisioned itself, processed metalwork, and engaged in trade

This book describes life in the tents and towns that the Viking Great Army inhabited: the treasure, tools, and weapons found in the camps and what they reveal about how the groups that made up the Army lived and the activities that took place, including the processing and trading of loot, the minting of coins, and the manufacture of jewelry.

Hopped Up

How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity

JEFFREY M. PILCHER, University of Toronto

• Highlights local origins and distinctive flavors alongside industrial standardization

• Written by an eminent global historian of food and drink

• Discusses the role of gender and race in brewing, including among the current generation of craft brewers

In Hopped Up eminent food historian Jeffrey M. Pilcher narrates the brewing traditions and contemporary production of beer across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America— from the fermented beverages of precapitalist societies to the present. Over the centuries, he shows, the exchange of technological advances in brewing contributed to regional divergences and convergences in beer varieties, but always in tandem with other social and cultural developments.

Based on a wealth of multinational archives and industry publications, Hopped Up explores not only how humans have made beer but also how consumers—from nobility and clergy in the past to those raising a pint today—have used beer to make meaning in their lives.

January 2025

AUD $52.95 | NZD $60.99

AE | 234x156mm

978-0-19-884855-4

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January 2025

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978-0-19-767604-2

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41 B&W illustrations

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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 non-slaveholding lines to retell the entire history of the region.

Leuthen

Great Battles

T. G. OTTE, University of East Anglia

• The story of Leuthen’s significance in the context of mideighteenth century Europe and its profound significance for the future course of European history

The story of Leuthen, the battle that confirmed the reputation of Frederick ‘the Great’ of Prussia as one of history’s greatest military commanders and the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years’ War and the Napoleonic Wars: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean. As with other great battles, Leuthen is constantly reassessed and rewritten as an element of national culture and identity.

Part of the Great Battles series

January 2025

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978-0-19-777042-9

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October 2024

AUD $40.95 | NZD $46.99

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978-0-19-287049-0

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Titans of the Twentieth Century

How They Made History and the History They Made

MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

• Offers mini-biographies of eight of the most influential political figures and details their impact on world history

• Written by one to the most eminent international relations scholars

• Provides a unique window into the political forces that shaped the twentieth century and laid the groundwork for the twenty-first

The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth century offered political leaders enormous scope for changing the world. This book consists of essays about eight who, for better and for worse, did just that.

Individually, each chapter offers fresh and often surprising portraits of the twentieth century’s titans. Collectively, the essays present a vivid and revealing portrait of a turbulent halfcentury that shaped the world of today.

Upstart

How China became a Great Power

ORIANA

SKYLAR MASTRO, Stanford University

“Upstart is a must-read. Mastro provides a new way to understand how China has built its national power over the past thirty years. In doing so, she provides a clearer way forward for policymakers hoping to get China right.”

Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor of the United States

Using elite interviews, granular data, and authoritative Chinese sources, Oriana Skylar Mastro demonstrates that China was able to climb to great power status through a careful mix of strategic emulation, exploitation, and entrepreneurship on the international stage. This “upstart approach”-- determined by where and how China chose to compete allowed China to rise economically, politically, and militarily, without triggering a catastrophic international backlash that would stem its rise. China emulated when its leaders thought doing so would build power, while reassuring the U.S. of its intentions. China exploited when China felt that the overall U.S. strategy was effective, but didn’t want to risk direct confrontation. Lastly, China pursued entrepreneurial actions when it believed emulation might elicit a negative reaction and a more effective approach was available.

December 2024

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978-0-19-778247-7

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October 2024

AUD $52.95 | NZD $60.99

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978-0-19-769506-7

HB | 304pp

On Xi Jinping

How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World

KEVIN RUDD, Former Prime Minister, Australia

• Summarizes Xi’s worldview as a new form of “MarxistLeninist Nationalism”

• Explores the correlation between ideological changes in China and changes in the Chinese politics, economic policy, and a more assertive foreign policy

• Written by one of the leading Western commentators on relations between China and the West

In his new book, On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behavior both domestically and on the world stage—that of President Xi Jinping, who now hold near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that Xi’s worldview differs significantly from those of the leaders who preceded him, and that this ideological shift is reflected in the real world of Chinese policy and behavior.

A powerful analysis of the worldview of arguably the most consequential world leader of our era, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in how Xi is transforming both China and the international order, and, most importantly, why?

January 2025

AUD $54.95 | NZD $61.99

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978-0-19-776603-3

HB | 432pp

The Power of Black Excellence

HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy

DEONDRA ROSE, Duke University

• Considers the recent US Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of race-based Affirmative Action in college admissions and the impact that this will have on HBCUs

• Draws on insights from Policy Feedback and Critical Race Theory to consider how policymakers historically approached the task of providing educational opportunity for Black Americans and the impact that this has had on democracy

In The Power of Black Excellence, Deondra Rose provides an authoritative history of HBCUs and the unique role they have played in shaping American democracy since 1865. Drawing on over six years of deep research, Rose brings into view the historic impact that government support for HBCUs has had on the American political landscape, arguing that they have been essential for not only empowering Black citizens but also reshaping the distribution of political power in the United States. Rose challenges the conventional wisdom that, prior to the late twentieth century, the federal government took a laissez-faire approach to education. Instead, governmental action was crucial in aiding the expansion of HBCUs in an era plagued by racist policies and laws.

Part of the Studies in Postwar American Political Development series

December 2024

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978-0-19-777659-9

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21 b/w figures; 15 tables

We Tried to Tell Y’All

Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives

MEREDITH D. CLARK, Northeastern University

• Written by former journalist NPR calls “the go-to person about Black Twitter”

• Includes stories and insights from the people who are Black Twitter

Since 1827, when Freedom’s Journal, the first newspaper to be published by free Black men in the United States, Black folks have been making use of the media technologies available to them to tell their own stories in their own ways. In We Tried to Tell Y’all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, Meredith D. Clark explains how Black social media users subvert the digital divide narrative while confronting centuries of erasure, omission, and mischaracterization of Black life in ‘mainstream’ media.

This ethnographic exploration of Black Twitter draws on news media analysis, in-depth interviews, and personal observation to trace the phenomenon’s three levels of community connection, and advances a theory of Black Digital Resistance that illustrates how Black social media users harnessed the platform to annotate and narrate everything from play to protest to everyday life.

Part of the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics series

March 2025

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The Most Powerful Court in the World

A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

STUART BANNER, University of California, Los Angeles

• Allows the reader to see the Court’s cases as the justices saw them, without projecting the prevailing views of our own era into the past

• Emphasizes long-run developments in the Court’s history--things about the Court that have changed, or not changed, over the centuries

Stuart Banner’s The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present. Not merely a history of the Court’s opinions and jurisprudence, it is also a rich account of the Court in the broadest sense—of the sorts of people who become justices and the methods by which they are chosen, of how the Court does its work, and of its relationship with other branches of government. It is about how the Court acquired so much power, how it has retained its power in the face of repeated challenges and criticisms, and what it has done with its power over the years. Rather than praising or criticizing the Court’s decisions, Banner makes the case that one cannot fully understand the decisions without knowing about the institution that produced them.

February 2025

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A Measure Short of War

A Brief History of Great Power Subversion

JILL KASTNER, Independent Researcher; Visiting Fellow, King’s College London, 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

• Breaks down what subversion actually is and how it works to provide deeper understanding of the topic

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. This primer on the history of subversive statecraft in great power rivalry will leave readers smarter about foreign meddling and better able to navigate between the twin temptations of insouciance and overreaction.

The Great Retreat

How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don’t

DIDI KUO, Stanford University

• Offers a controversial argument: to strengthen democracy, we need more connection to political parties, not less

• Provides a comprehensive historical account of the rise and fall of “mass parties” in the US and Europe

• Argues that strong intermediaries require socially embedded institutions with deep connections to communities and citizens

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.

April 2025

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May 2025

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

Indulging Kleptocracy

British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption

JOHN HEATHERSHAW, University of Exeter, TENA PRELEC, University of Rijeka, and TOM MAYNE, University of Oxford

• Develops a powerful theory explaining the emergence of transnational kleptocracy and how it has transformed international politics

In recent decades, there has been an upsurge of western professionals providing financial and legal services to kleptocrats Russia and Eurasia. The United Kingdom has provided more such services than any other nation, and the democracy and good governance in both the UK and in the countries these elites come from.

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

• Makes a novel argument for why the interests of the “cross-border” community go beyond traditional concerns about immigration

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.

The Unfinished Quest

Indiaís Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi

T.V. PAUL, McGill University

In The Unfinished Quest, leading international relations and South Asia scholar T.V. Paul charts India’s cumbersome path toward higher regional and global status, covering both the successes and failures it has experienced since the modern nation’s founding in 1947. Paul focuses on the key motivations driving Indian leaders to enhance India’s global status and power, but also on the many constraints that have hindered its progress. Paul’s analysis of India’s quest for status also sheds important light on the current geostrategic situation and serves as a new framework for understanding the China-India rivalry, as well as India’s relative position in the broader IndoPacific theater.

February 2025

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April 2025

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August 2024

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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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Regulating Bodies

Elite Sport Policies and Their Unintended Consequences

JAIME SCHULTZ, Pennsylvania State University

“Quite simply, Regulating Bodies is a remarkable book. Beautifully written and expertly researched, it exposes the complexities of some of the most pressing and controversial issues in contemporary sport. Regulating Bodies is a must read for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of elite sport. A warning though, once started, it is very hard to put down!”

Professor Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato

With highlights across the spectrum of professional athletics from ski jumping to horse racing, Regulating Bodies narrates the global scientization of the sports industry and the lasting influence of protective sports policies on international discourses around race, sex, identity, and impairment.

July 2024

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Why Ecosystems Matter

Preserving the Key to Our Survival

CHRISTOPHER

WILLS, Emeritus Professor, University of California San Diego

• Taking the reader through striking examples worldwide, explains how complex ecosystems evolve

• Describes how the latest scientific research enables us to measure the evolutionary drivers of ecosystems

Every one of Earth’s teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldron. Christopher Wills’s claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in variety, especially of microbes.

July 2024

AUD $74.95 | NZD $85.99

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19 illustrations

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman

Émilie du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy

ANDREW JANIAK, Duke University

• Shows how Émilie du Châtelet played a key role in the early development of the Enlightenment

• Chronicles how the most famous writers of the era, including Diderot, Voltaire and Kant, sought to disrupt Du Châtelet influence, and they will also learn how she fought back

Just as the Enlightenment was gaining momentum throughout Europe, philosopher Émilie du Châtelet broke through the many barriers facing women at the time and published a major philosophical treatise in French. Within a few short years, she became famous. Her proclamation that a true philosopher must remain an independent thinker, posed a threat to an emerging consensus in the Enlightenment. Because of the threat that she posed to the status quo, the men who created the modern philosophy canon eventually wrote du Châtelet out of their official histories. Now we can hear her voice anew when we need her more than ever. Her lessons of intellectual independence and her rejection of hero worship remain ever relevant today.

What to Save and Why Authenticity, Identity, and the Ethics of Conservation

ERICH HATALA MATTHES, Wellesley College United States

• Offers a unique perspective on questions about conservation by combining philosophical analysis across a wide range of conservation contexts

The world is brimming with things worth saving, and we have limited time and resources. How do we decide what to save? Why do we make these choices?

Philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes explores these questions as they surface in radically diverse contexts—from museums to TikTok, and from National Parks to the corner of your attic. Matthes illustrates the deep relationship between the things we might save and our sense of self. If our cares and concerns are a fundamental part of our identity, then what we care for and preserve will play a significant role in shaping and maintaining our understanding of who we are. In a world in which everything that we care about is subject to powerful forces of change—from climate disturbance and armed conflict, to social transformation and the wear and tear of time—the terms on which we confront change will be key to whether and how we can save the things we care about in the ways that really matter to us.

January 2025

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January 2025

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What Is It Like to Be an Addict?

Understanding Substance Abuse

OWEN FLANAGAN, Emeritus Professor, Duke University

• Introduces a comprehensive, authoritative, state-ofthe-art theory of the nature and ethics of substance addiction

• Provides new interdisciplinary model for how addiction research should proceed

• Offers both subjective and objective expertise on addiction

What is addiction? Theories about what kind of thing addiction is are sharply divided between those who see it purely as a brain disorder, and those who conceive of it in psychological and social terms. Owen Flanagan, an acclaimed philosopher of mind and ethics, offers a state-of-the-art assessment of addiction science and proposes a new paradigm for understanding and explaining substance addiction.

Flanagan has first-hand knowledge of what it is like to be an addict. That experience, along with his wide-ranging knowledge of the philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and the ethics and politics of addiction, informs this important and novel work. Flanagan’s powerful new book upends longstanding conventional thinking and points the way to new ways of understanding and treating addiction.

April 2025

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Blooming in the Ruins

How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us Towards the Good Life

CARLOS ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ, San José State University

• Connects the philosophical concepts to real-world experience through introductory anecdotes in each chapter

• Offers practical advice to readers while inviting them to learn more about Mexican philosophy

Mexican philosophy, which came into focus in the last century, following the Mexican Revolution, is a rich and wide-ranging tradition with much to offer readers today. Emerging in defiance of the Western philosophy bound up with colonial power, it boasts a range of powerful ideas and advice for modern-day life. A tradition deeply tied to Mexico’s history of colonization, revolution, resistance, and persistence through hardship, this philosophy has much to teach us. Incorporating stories from his family’s and his ancestors’ Mexican and Mexican-American experiences, Carlos Alberto Sánchez provides an intriguing guide for readers of all backgrounds, including those who will be learning about philosophy (or Mexico) for the first time.

Part of the Guides to the Good Life series

December 2024

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AI Morality

Edited by DAVID EDMONDS, Oxford University

• Short, lively, stimulating pieces, assuming no expertise in philosophy or AI

• Topics covered include the future of work; autonomous weapons; algorithms, adverts, and recommendations

• Edited by bestselling author David Edmonds, one of philosophy’s most gifted communicators, co-creator of the Philosophy Bites podcast and books

There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution. The chapters are rich with examples from contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future. The contributors investigate problems we’re all aware of and introduce some that will be new to many readers. They discuss self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law, policing, and defence. Each of them explains the issue in a lively and illuminating way, and takes a view about how we should think and act in response. Anyone who is wondering what ethical challenges the future holds for us can start here.

Latter-day Saint Art

A Critical Reader

Edited by AMANDA BEARDSLEY, San Diego State University, and MASON ALLRED, Brigham Young University-Hawaii

•Includes over 200 high-quality color illustrations

•Offers a broad interdisciplinary perspective on Mormon art

Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to filla substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. It defines Mormon art broadly as art by, for, or about Mormons, including work by artists who share a Latterday Saint identity and by those with no personal attachment who have responded artistically to Mormonism. The volume includes twenty-two essays by scholars from various disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds who offer rigorous research and analysis of Latter-day Saint artistic production and culture alongside elegant reproductions of more than 200 works of Mormon art, including panorama paintings, quilts, architecture, sculpture, and cartoons, to film, gallery installations, indigenous works and more. Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader explores Mormon visual art in unprecedented breadth and depth.

August 2024

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December 2024

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245 color illustrations

ARTS

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

• Uses archival evidence to settle inconsistencies in Armstrong’s writings

• Demonstrates how Armstrong’s musical style and personal values remained consistent throughout his career, dispelling narratives to the contrary

• Unearths an unpublished 1973 interview with Beatrice “Mama Lucy” Armstrong

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.

May 2025

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40 color illustrations

Within You Without You

Listening to George Harrison

SETH ROGOVOY, Independent scholar

• Extensively examines George Harrison’s essential role as a co-creator of most Beatles music through his contributions on guitar, providing the intros, hooks, fills, and riffs that distinguished the Beatles’ sound

• Offers close analysis of George Harrison’s songs and how they revealed his struggles with personal relationships, the music industry, fame, depression, and his spiritual beliefs

Within You Without You is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison’s essential contributions to the Beatles and his solo work, as well as his significant role as a Western proponent of Indian music and beliefs. Through close examination of his guitar playing in the Fab Four and his songwriting both in and out of the Beatles, author Seth Rogovoy demystifies the enigma of this most reluctant of rock stars.

Drawing upon the insights of the author—rock critic and historian of over forty years standing—as well as those of expert observers including Beatles filmmaker Michael LindsayHogg and English rock singer-songwriters Robyn Hitchcock and John Wesley Harding, among others, this book extensively examines George Harrison’s contributions to the musical world.

January 2025

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On Elizabeth Taylor

An Opinionated Guide

MATTHEW KENNEDY, Independent writer

“What shines through these pages is Matthew Kennedy’s passionate fondness for Elizabeth Taylor as a screen goddess like no other. But he’s also smart in assessing her triumphs and her slip-ups, proving himself to be savvy indeed about the aesthetic implications of her choices.”

Beverly Gray, author of Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation

On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is a comprehensive overview of the film, television, and theatrical career of Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011). Including an introduction, biographical chronology, and guide to her entire career, Matthew Kennedy gives a critical assessment of each film and performance. This Opinionated Guide gives direction to anyone unfamiliar with Miss Taylor’s work as an actress and elegantly guides readers who desire to explore her career and her impact on twentieth century popular culture. On Elizabeth Taylor is a beautifully comprehensive overview of a singular actress of the twentieth century, offering new ways to see and appreciate her skill and peerless charisma, in turn placing her among the greatest film stars of all time.

On Bette Midler

An Opinionated Guide

KEVIN WINKLER, Former curator, archivist, and administrator, New York Public Library

“Winkler’s blend of dishy backstage detail, over-the-top adoration, and solid criticism befit his larger-than-life subject. Midler’s fans will find plenty to sink their teeth into.”

Publishers Weekly

On Bette Midler: An Opinionated Guide traces the early development of Midler’s performing ethos from New York’s downtown experimental theater scene and examines her impact across media, with chapters on the soaring highs (and occasional cringe-worthy lows) of her stage work, movies, recordings, and television appearances, and considers her influence as an environmental activist and social media presence.

On Bette Midler features performance analysis and deeply researched background logout information, all of it supporting informed—and divinely opinionated—consideration of Midler the artist. It judges her work by the highest standards: those she established for herself.

August 2024

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40 color photos

August 2024

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978-0-19-766832-0

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20 color illustrations

HEALTH & WELL-BEING

The Anatomy of Deception

Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America

SARA E. GORMAN, CEO, Critica

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in the healthcare system seems to be at an all-time low. Conspiracy theories are now mainstream, and distrust of government health agencies is common among private citizens. The Anatomy of Deception investigates the cause behind this seeming uptick in distrust by tracing the unexpected connection between medical mistrust and the move toward far right ideology in the United States. Drawing on personal qualitative research and interviews, health writer and expert Sara Gorman challenges traditional concepts of medical mistrust and argues that the loss of institutional trust in American health care signals a larger breakdown in democracy as a whole. In six short chapters, Gorman advances the idea of medical mistrust not as a byproduct of personal or historical abuses but as a direct result of bias, miscommunication, and lack of access that has slowly eroded trust in the public health system over time. She argues that we can build back trust in medicine through investments in health equity as a first step towards healing the schisms present in modern American society.

The Lupus Book

A Guide for Patients and Their Families

Seventh Edition

DANIEL J. WALLACE, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• The best-selling book on the subject (over 100,000 copies)

• Written in a clear, organized fashion

• Well illustrated with clear, concise tables Wallace has once again completely revised The Lupus Book, incorporating a wealth of new information. This book discusses new drug information and newly discovered information about the pathology of the disease all laid out in user-friendly language that any patient could understand. In particular, Wallace discusses the first drug for lupus to be approved by the FDA—belimumab (Benlysta)—as well as other drugs in clinical trials. Readers will also discover sections on the science of lupus and breakthroughs in research including: genetics, microbiome, and clinical trial methodology. And as in past editions, the book provides absolutely lucid answers to such questions as: What causes lupus? How and where is the body affected? Can a woman with lupus have a baby? And how can one manage this disease?

December 2024

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978-0-19-767812-1

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NEW EDITION

January 2025

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Mind the Science

Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry

JONATHAN N. STEA, University of Calgary

In Mind the Science, Jonathan N. Stea provides a takedown of mental health misinformation and pseudoscience to educate and embolden readers who wish to make informed decisions about their mental health. Readers are empowered to protect themselves from mental health scams, charlatanry, and poor or misguided health practices that thrive in the multi-trilliondollar wellness industry.

The book begins by acquainting readers with the nature, evolution, and seduction of pseudoscience, coaching them on how to become science and mental health literate. Next, the book teaches readers how to spot misinformation and propaganda, shining a light on various pseudoscientific practices, showing the psychological reasons that leave us vulnerable to believing misinformation, and helping readers to develop a keen eye for the tactics and tropes that are used to push propaganda in the wellness and alternative medicine communities. The book concludes with strategies and solutions, showing the concepts and science behind evidencebased ways to improve mental health and teaches what to look for when seeking real professional help.

Patterns that Remain

A Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants

STACEY DIANE ARAÑEZ LITAM, Cleveland State University

• Includes the Healing Orientation Model Elements (HOME), a self-survey designed to provide individuals with an idea of where they are in their healing orientation

Asian Americans represent the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, yet few books capture how historical events, immigration experiences, cultural values, and unhelpful generational patterns impact this group’s thoughts, attitudes, and actions in ways that impact relationships, well-being, and psychological health.

In Patterns That Remain, Stacey Diane Arañez Litam empowers readers to heal from diasporic wounds and become people, partners, and parents who embody abundance mentalities grounded in joy, balance, and gratitude. This unique book combines complex and nuanced facets of Asian American history, research, and therapeutic modalities in ways that validate Asian American worldviews and promote a deep sense of universality and community.

December 2024

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978-0-19-774881-7

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13 B&W illustrations

April 2025

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978-0-19-776267-7

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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

• Uses relatable, real-world examples to illustrate the research and help readers feel more connected and less alone

In a world where everything seems to transform in a blink, anyone can suddenly find themselves scrambling for human connection. In Our New Social Life, social connection and happiness experts Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz explain the science behind these struggles and steer us toward timeless skills to overcome these challenges. Unlike much of the guidance found online, this book meets readers where they are and offers tools for introverts and extraverts alike. Whether the barriers are a function of modern life, such as being distracted by our devices, feeling overworked, and living far away from loved ones, or are more timeless, such as simply not knowing how to connect, misunderstanding the thoughts and feelings of others, undervaluing moments of solitude, and avoiding the sort of vulnerability that creates deep bonds, this book offers hope, encouragement, and relatability to help readers have a richer and more vibrant social life.

Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome

ANDREW

SPECTOR, Duke University School of Medicine

• Presents modern treatment strategies for restless legs syndrome (RLS)

• Includes case vignettes based on real patient scenarios Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome provides an overview and evidence-based guidance on a condition that afflicts millions of people around the world and their loved ones. You will learn the most up-to-date treatment approaches to the disorder, the benefits of common medications used to treat RLS, as well as non-pharmacological options such as iron supplements and infusions, along with their potential side effects and long-term risks. RLS during pregnancy and breastfeeding, patients from rural or low-income communities with limited access to health care, and those with dementia, sleep apnea, and insomnia are among the special populations that are also addressed. Periodic limb movements of sleep are discussed to help distinguish between these and RLS. Real patient scenarios and tips for caregivers and loved ones of people battling restless legs syndrome are interspersed throughout.

Part of the Brain and Life Books series

April 2025

AUD $54.95 | NZD $61.99

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978-0-19-774995-1

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December 2024

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978-0-19-765700-3

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Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis

Second Edition

KATHLEEN COSTELLO, Chief Operating Officer, Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, ROSALIND KALB, Senior Programs Consultant, Can Do Multiple Sclerosis, and BARBARA S.

GIESSER

, University of California, Los Angeles

• Understanding of MS has evolved since the first edition, which has resulted in greater coverage on new disease modifying treatments

This insightful guide offers a detailed description of the essential components of comprehensive MS care, from disease and symptom management, rehabilitation to enhance function, safety and independence, social and emotional support, and attention to overall health and wellness for both patients and caregivers. Each chapter offers solutions and guidance based upon the authors’ interdisciplinary perspectives and years of clinical and research experience. The person with MS is the center of the care team and this book provides guidance for communicating effectively with healthcare providers, participating comfortably in shared decision making, and advocating confidently for personal healthcare needs and priorities.

Part of the Brain and Life Books series

The F-Word

Fourth Edition

JESSE SHEIDLOWER, Columbia University

No word has generated more uses, more creative euphemisms, and more strong opinions than fuck. Jesse Sheidlower’s historical dictionary, now in print for over 25 years, charts the uses of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been used throughout history.

This new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive revision of Sheidlower’s groundbreaking text for the internet age. Major new discoveries push back the known history of fuck by almost two hundred years. Sheidlower also considers rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of fuck in public discourse. The volume includes over 1,000 new quotations; over 100 antedatings (earlier examples of existing entries, improving our understanding of the word’s development); and many dozens of new entries, including highprofile recent uses such as AF ‘as fuck’, fuckboi, and the group of expressions of the sort to give no fucks or zero fucks given

978-0-19-776333-9

LINGUISTICS

Origin Uncertain

Unraveling the Mysteries of

Etymology

ANATOLY LIBERMAN, University of Minnesota

“The great etymologists, and Professor Lieberman undoubtedly stands among them, are language’s Sherlock Holmeses. And his readers, whether professional lexicographers or ‘logo-fascinated’ amateurs, are happy to play a grateful Dr Watson, taking from his vast knowledge an expertise that is both scholarly and accessible, and above all wonderfully informative.”

Jonathan Green, author of Green’s Dictionary of Slang

We like to recount that goodbye started out as “god be with you,” that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for “water of life,” or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for “testicle.” But thereare many words with origins unknown, disputed, or so buried in old journals that they may as well be lost to the general public. In Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology, eminent etymologist Anatoly Liberman draws on his professional expertise and etymological database to tell the stories of less understood words such as nerd, fake, ain’t, hitchhike, trash, curmudgeon, and quiz, as well as puzzling idioms like kick the bucket and pay through the nose. By casting a net so broadly, the book addresses language history, language usage (including grammar), history (both ancient and modern), religion, superstitions, and material culture.

Otherworld

Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland

LISA

M. BITEL, University of Southern California

• Author is a leading Celtic historian and novelist who stays true to the original tales while presenting them in engaging modern prose and poetry

• Offers explanations and interpretations within the retellings, making them accessible to readers without knowledge of Celtic cultures

• Beautiful illustrations especially created for this book enhance the tales and bring them further to life

These nine anonymous Irish tales, all more than a thousand years old, tell of mortals and supernatural creatures whodared to cross the boundary between this world and the Otherworld (sÌd) in pursuit of love. The storiesóhardly known outside of Ireland—are sexier, funnier, and bloodier than better-known medieval myths and romances. Lisa M. Bitel, a historian and novelist, translates and retells the Irish originals in lively prose and poetry, using her expertise in Irish history and literature to guide modern readers through the otherworldly stories. Original drawings by Saba Joshaghani accompany these ravishing tales of wonder and romance.

July 2024

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12 line drawings

Bright Circle

Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism

RANDALL FULLER, University of Kansas

• First group biography of the women of transcendentalism: Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller

• Reveals how often they originated ideas associated with transcendentalism

Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism: to help us see the movement as a far more collaborative and interactive project between women and men than is commonly understood. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller as they developed crucial ideas about the self, nature, and feeling even as they pushed their male counterparts to consider the rights of enslaved people of color and women.

Many ideas once considered original to Emerson and Thoreau are shown to have originated with women who had little opportunity of publicly expressing them. Together, the five women of Bright Circle helped form the foundations of American feminism.

How to Draw the World

Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children’s Classic

PHILIP NEL, Kansas State University

• Presents an inside look at the design of, production of, and inspiration for a classic children’s book

• Addresses the increasing interest in reexamining our relationship to beloved books for the young

• Shows how and why to read children’s books thoughtfully

• An illustrated tour through all that made Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon an astonishing success

This is a biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and countless other creative people to become artists. Published 70 years ago, Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon is a small book about big ideas—ideas about childhood, creativity, politics, psychology, art, and reality itself. In thirty brief chapters, this book explores those ideas, illuminates the creative process, and offers a primer on how picture books work.

Part of the Children’s Classics Critically series

October 2024

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50 illustrations

February 2025

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35 images

Warsaw Tales

Edited by HELEN CONSTANTINE

ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES, Literary translator

• Contains work from twelve different authors, including Nobel prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk whose story Che Guevara has never been published in English before

• Includes an introduction by Antonia Lloyd-Jones that explains the thinking behind the selection and recommends more literary works set in Warsaw

Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus’ Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city’s tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw’s past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city’s Nazi occupation, the post-war city in ruins and its rebuilding under the communist regime, and its new status as the capital of an independent Poland in 1989.

This collection features a wide variety of authors including Boleslaw Prus, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ludwik Hering, Zofia Petersowa, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Orlos, Hanna Krall, Antoni Libera, Zbigniew Mentzel, Olga Tokarczuk, and Krzysztof Varga.

Part of the City Tales series

September 2024

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Octavia E. Butler

H is for Horse

CHI-MING YANG, University of Pennsylvania

•The first account of the childhood influences and writings of Octavia E.. Butl

•Brings to light little-known archival manuscripts and images in Butler’s collection

In the spirit of Octavia E. Butler’s passion for library research, this book is comprised of twenty-six short A-Z chapters, on vocabulary, images, and themes central to her authorial formation. It is part childhood biography, art and literary analysis, and memoir. It interweaves the author’s personal recollections with scholarly musings on poetry, film, and literature inspired by Butler’s encyclopedic reading habits and experiments with genre.

Part of the My Reading series

February 2025

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75 colour illustrations

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Colette

My Literary Mother

MICHÈLE ROBERTS, Novelist, poet, and Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia

•A perfect introduction for readers new to Colette’s work

•Michèle Roberts applies a lifetime of writerly experience to reflect on how Colette has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life

Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes.

In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how Colette invents new forms to express her unsettling content on desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love.

Part of the My Reading series

August 2024

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978-0-19-285821-4

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James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

TOM JENKS, Co-founder and editor of Narrative magazine

•A detailed study of the story

“Sonny Blues”, how James Baldwin created the pleasure of its effects, and what he intended for the story to say and do—its gifts for readers

•Provides a view into racial issues as portrayed in fiction drawn from life

A close reading of James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues” that provides insight into his life and ideas about art.

Tom Jenks’s reading of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes “Sonny’s Blues” into the consciousness of readers.

Part of the My Reading series

August 2024

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John Berger Ways of Learning

IONA HEATH, Retired general practitioner

• Includes extensive quotations from Iona Heath’s unpublished correspondence with John Berger over nearly 20 years

In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger’s writing over more than 50 years and her friendship and correspondence with him over the best part of 20 years. Dr Heath found that both of these interacted profoundly with her work as a general practitioner in a deprived urban area in London. For Iona Heath, general practice is a quite extraordinary undertaking: every working day, sitting with a succession of unique individuals, each worried about some aspect of their health or life circumstances, many burdened by unspoken fears, and each seeking some form of answer. Starting with A Fortunate Man, when she was an ignorant but hopeful undergraduate medical student, she found reading John Berger on any subject had something new to tell her about the aspirations and detail of her work: clues about how to look and how to listen and much else. Later when they started to correspond, Iona Heath found herself in the privileged position of being able to check her understanding directly with the writer and on each occasion found deeper levels of awareness and insight. She is convinced that reading John Berger made her a better doctor.

Part of the My Reading series

September 2024

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10 illustrations

Marion Milner On Creativity

DAVID RUSSELL

, University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduces Milner’s works to the general reader, showing how to creatively read a great thinker

• Provides important links between Milner’s books and their social and intellectual context

The British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1996) thought deeply about how reading, drawing, and getting better related to each other. The guiding question of Milner’s life was of how people come to feel alive in, and feel creatively responsive to, their own lives. In pursuit of this, Milner explored fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, literature, art, philosophy, mysticism, and psychology. She became one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary thinkers about creativity.

David Russell shows that there is no writer quite like Milner and the rewards of reading her are immense. Key to all her writing is her search for creative practices of attention—of how we pay attention in the life we have. She helped to develop a kind of psychoanalysis in Britain that focused on the ways people relate to their own lives and the lives of others.

Part of the My Reading

July 2024

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11 B&W illustrations

OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

King Henry VIII; or All is True

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

LAURA JAYNE WRIGHT, Newcastle University

Edited by WILL SHARPE, University of Birmingham, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• Offers an engaging account of one of Shakespeare’s most lavish and yet least known plays

Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare’s retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, Shakespeare’s most ‘contemporary’ history play offers provocative parallels between the Tudor past and Stuart present.

Titus Andronicus

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HARRY R. MCCARTHY, University of Exeter

Edited by GARY TAYLOR, and TERRI BOURUS, both at Florida State University, RORY LOUGHLANE, University of Kent, ANNA PRUITT, Indiana University, FRANCIS X. CONNOR, Wichita State University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• Engages with wider debates around Shakespeare’s cultural value, which are often missing from critical editions of his plays

In Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons.

The shocking violence of her revenge and his retaliation earn Titus its reputation as Shakespeare’s bloodiest play.

Richard II

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HAILEY BACHRACH, Roehampton University

Edited by ANNA PRUITT, Indiana University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• A new edition of one of Shakespeare’s most famous history plays, Richard II

• Presents the play’s queer performance history, as well as explaining the historical contexts alluded to by the play and the role it played in political events of the 1590s

Richard II is Shakespeare’s most human and tragic history play, a story about the ways power distorts a ruler’s sense of self.

February 2025

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The Comedy of Errors

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IAN BURROWS, University of Cambridge

Edited By SARAH NEVILLE, Ohio State University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• Pays sustained attention to the play’s dramaturgical demands on its performers, and to its sympathetic demands upon its spectators, drawing on two productions staged in 2012

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it’s often considered an immature play but also a piece of dramatic experimentation. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition examines links between Shakespeare’s play and its literary sources and analogues.

February 2025

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Cymbeline

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

KIM GILCHRIST, Cardiff University

Edited by RORY LOUGHLANE, University of Kent, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• Embraces the play’s rich, disorientating multiplicity as a romance, imagined history, experimental drama, and Jacobean exploration of nationhood

Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a tragedy of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter’s secret marriage, he banishes her husband to Rome, who then accuses Innogen of being unfaithful. Innogen must evade deadly plots and homicidal jealousy to restore her name.

February 2025

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Julius Caesar

The New Oxford Shakespeare

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

BRANDI K. ADAMS, Arizona State University

Edited by SARAH NEVILLE, Ohio State University, and EMMA SMITH, University of Oxford

• Provides the reader with an engaging historical and theatrical context for the play and extends their thinking to examine the uses of history to question political structures today

Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of the play’s early history in theatre and print, as well as within its long performance history up to and including in the 21st century.

February 2025

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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

Poetry of the Second World War

An Anthology

Edited by TIM KENDALL, University of Exeter

This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction provides historical context and biographical accounts of each poet.

October 2024

AUD $31.95 | NZD $36.99

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Northanger Abbey

Second Edition

JANE AUSTEN

Edited by THOMAS KEYMER, University of Toronto

Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about different kinds of peril, both imagined and real. In it, Austen’s youngest heroine, Catherine Morland, must navigate financial disadvantage, social constraint, and sometimes quite ruthless manipulation.

NEW EDITION

September 2024

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978-0-19-884106-7 | PB | 272pp

Leviathan

Second Edition

THOMAS HOBBES

Edited by SIR NOEL MALCOLM, All Souls College, Oxford

This new edition offers a definitive text drawn from more than twenty years of research by Noel Malcolm, including, in English translation, all the most significant revisions made in Hobbes’s later Latin translation of Leviathan, as well as extensive explanatory notes that elucidate Hobbes’s language.

NEW EDITION

September 2024

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Orlando

Second Edition

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Edited by MICHAEL H. WHITWORTH, University of Oxford Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through history first as a man, then as a woman. At its heart is the figure of Woolf’s friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history and wryly examines sexual double standards.

NEW EDITION

December 2014

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OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

The Well of Loneliness

RADCLYFFE HALL

Edited by JANA FUNKE, University of Exeter, and HANNAH ROCHE, University of York

This new edition of The Well of Loneliness highlights previously overlooked points of influence, inspiration, and connections with other texts as well as situating the novel in historical contexts. In addition, the editors provide vital insights into Hall’s engagement with religion, sexology, literary history, and popular culture.

Collected Verse

PAUL VALÉRY

PAUL RYAN, Waterford Institute of Technology

This edition of new translations brings together the most extensive collection of Paul Valéry’s verse, from the adolescent years marked by mysticism, Mallarmé, and the Symbolist movement, to the three great works of maturity (The Young Fate, Album of Early Verse, and Charms) and later verse.

October 2024

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978-0-19-289445-8 | PB | 544pp

The Labyrinth

JENS BAGGESEN

Edited by HENRIK BLICHER, University of Copenhagen, and JESPER GULDDAL, University of Newcastle, Australia

The Labyrinth follows Jens Baggesen’s journey, made in 1789, from Copenhagen through Germany to the Swiss border at Basel. Jesper Gulddal’s English translation displays the eclectic literary styles and genredefying narrative, which foregrounds Baggesen’s individual responses to the places and people he encounters.

UK: July 2024

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978-0-19-882032-1 | PB | 384pp

The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana)

Third Edition

DANIEL DEFOE

MARC MIEROWSKY, University of Melbourne, and NICHOLAS SEAGER, Keele University

This new edition of Daniel Defoe’s final novel, under Defoe’s original title The Fortunate Mistress, provides an up-to-date introduction and extensive footnotes.

NEW EDITION

January 2025

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978-0-19-289851-7 | PB | 512pp

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November 2024

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978-0-19-885102-8 | PB | 368pp

OXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS

The Complete Writings

ZHUANGZI

CHRIS FRASER, University of Toronto

This volume provides a complete, annotated English translation of the Zhuangzi with a philosophical focus that guides readers in understanding and appreciating the text’s world of thought. Informed by traditional and recent scholarship, the translation presents the ideas, reasoning, and worldview of the Zhuangzi in smooth, idiomatic English carefully formulated to reflect the phrasing and philosophical nuances of the original Chinese.

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

E. W. HORNUNG

Edited by NICHOLAS DALY, University College Dublin

A. J. Raffles is a gentleman by day, thief by night, performing elaborate heists in late Victorian London amongst clubland bachelors, hansom cabs, champagne suppers, Australian heiresses, and South African diamond moguls.

November 2024

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978-0-19-286249-5 | PB | 464pp

Leaves of Grass

Second Edition

WALT WHITMAN

Edited by PETER RILEY, University of Exeter

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. This edition introduces Whitman’s ongoing labour of revision and renewal--his successive responses to the shattering years that encompassed the American Civil War and its aftermath.

NEW EDITION

September 2024

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978-0-19-289444-1 | PB | 496pp

September 2024

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978-0-19-286634-9 | PB | 240pp

Confessions of a Thug

PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR

Edited by KIM A. WAGNER, Queen Mary University of London

Confessions of a Thug was the first dramatic account to expose a European readership to the fantastic world of the murderous Thugs, or highway robbers, who strangled their victims and who have ever since been a stable of Western popular culture. Writing in the voice of a captured Thug, Taylor presents an Orientalist fantasy that is part picaresque adventure and part colonial exposè.

July 2024

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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

Anthony Trollope

A Very Short Introduction

DINAH BIRCH, Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool

• Considers Trollope’s identity as an Irish writer

• Covers the range of Trollope’s Barsetshire novels and the political Palliser novels

• Includes an overview of his extensive travel writing

This Very Short Introduction will place Trollope’s work in the context of his life and times, drawing on recent scholarship to illuminate his central interests and literary strategies. Readers will find a focused critical guide to his writing, of a kind that will direct and inform their reading.

Authoritarianism

A Very Short Introduction

JAMES

LOXTON, University of Sydney

• Explores dimensions of authoritarianism with examples drawn from countries as varied as Argentina, Chile, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa

• Offers an overview of authoritarianism that is not always accessible to the broader reading public

We constantly hear about the threat of authoritarianism, whether in the form of communist China or at the hands of people like Donald Trump in the United States. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction highlights classic forms of authoritarianism and considers the curious fact that many authoritarian regimes today carry out elections.

Cancer

A Very Short Introduction

Second Edition

NICK JAMES, The Royal Marsden Hospital

• Explains, in non-technical language, what cancer is and what it does

• Uses examples of cancer healthcare from around the world

• Explores the political and economic context of cancer care

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

NEW EDITION

February 2025

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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

Civil Wars

A Very Short Introduction

MONICA DUFFY TOFT, Tuft University

Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. Monica Duffy Toft explains how the study of civil wars has evolved, from in-depth, one-off case studies, to sophisticated statistical analysis and formal modeling. Although much of the actual fighting in civil wars remains the same, other factors have changed; including the actions of the international community.

Cryptography

A Very Short Introduction

Second Edition

SEAN MURPHY, and RACHEL PLAYER, both at Royal Holloway, University of London

Cryptography is a part of everyday life, with most of us being daily users of it, often without knowing. This second edition, explains how cryptography works, discusses its impact on modern society, and highlights recent developments such as blockchain and post-quantum cryptography.

NEW EDITION

September 2024

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978-0-19-757586-4 | PB | 160pp

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Elections

A Very Short Introduction

L.SANDY MAISEL, Emeritus Professor, Colby College, and JENNIFER A. YODER, Colby College

Elections: A Very Short Introduction asks readers to view election systems critically and comparatively, to understand that all democracies do not function in the same way, to think about the reasons their system functions as it does-for good or ill-and to consider alternatives with which they might not previously have been familiar.

August 2024

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The Epic

A Very Short Introduction

ANTHONY WELCH, University of Tennessee

The epic is an ancient, diverse, and global art form. This Very Short Introduction aims to showcase the scope and variety of epic

storytelling around the world. Welch takes a global approach that traces key resemblances between the European classics and traditional heroic poetry from Africa, Central Asia, and the Near East.

November 2024

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Faith

A Very Short Introduction

ROGER TRIGG, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

This Very Short Introduction argues that all faith needs reason, putting contemporary discussions into historical perspective, and shows that faith also involves a commitment to action. It matters for all social life, because religion is typically directed at what is seen as of crucial importance for human life.

Feminist Philosophy A Very Short Introduction

KATHARINE JENKINS, University of Glasgow

Katharine Jenkins offers an introduction to feminist philosophy, giving the reader an idea of what it is, why it is important, and how to think about it. She explores key topics such as gender oppression, what it is to be a woman, intersectionality, beauty and objectification, sexuality, women and work, and women’s knowledge.

July 2024

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978-0-19-284926-7 | PB | 144pp

Futurism

A Very Short Introduction

ARA MERJIAN, New York University

From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the ideas, works, key figures, and development of the Futurist movement in Italy and beyond, in the context of the turmoil and rapid change of the early 20th Century.

October 2024

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978-0-19-285807-8 | PB | 144pp

Gender History

A Very Short Introduction

ANTOINETTE BURTON, University of Illinois

This introduction to the field of gender history offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these entwined subjects across a range of times and places in scholarship since the 1970s.

December 2024

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VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

J.R.R. Tolkien

A Very Short Introduction

MATTHEW TOWNEND, University of York

This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative guide to Tolkien’s works, and it places The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the context of his full body of writings.

Marcel Proust

A Very Short Introduction

JOSHUA LANDY, Stanford University

This book is a brief guide to Proust’s magnum opus in which Joshua Landy invites the reader to view the novel as a single quest--a quest for purpose, enchantment, identity, connection, and belonging-through the novel’s fascinating treatments of memory, society, art, same-sex desire, knowledge, self-understanding, selffashioning, and the unconscious mind.

September 2024

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978-0-19-288204-2 | PB | 160pp

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Meaning

A Very Short Introduction

EMMA BORG, University of London, and SARAH A. FISHER, University College London

Our ability to use written and spoken signs to mean things is so integral to the kind of creatures we are, we seldom notice how incredible this ability is. Yet on reflection, meaning seems entirely mysterious. What is meaning? How do our words get to mean anything at all? These are the questions that drive this book.

July 2024

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978-0-19-758655-6 | PB | 160pp

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Moses Maimonides

A Very Short Introduction

ROSS BRANN, Cornell University

This book organizes Maimonides’ thinking and writings thematically and puts his works into dialogue with one another. It proposes that the key to engaging Maimonides on his own terms is to understand he applied a rationalist’s regimen characteristic of his scientific research and practice of medicine to all of his life’s work: he observed and studied a problem, diagnosed it, and then prescribed a remedy for it whether the concern was physical, metaphysical, spiritual, intellectual, or social in nature.

January 2025

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978-0-19-286654-7 | PB | 160pp

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Pandemics

A Very Short Introduction

Second Edition

CHRISTIAN W. MCMILLEN, University of Virginia

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, HIV, and COVID-19. He illustrates how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.

July 2024

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978-0-19-776200-4 | PB | 160pp 10 illustrations

The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

AZIZ Z. HUQ, University of Chicago

By charting disagreements about the rule of law and showing the overlap and the conflicts between its different understandings, Aziz Z. Huq shows how that concept can be used as an important tool for framing and evaluating the goals and functions of law.

Psycholinguistics

A Very Short Introduction

FERNANDA FERREIRA, University of California

This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with others.

October 2024

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978-0-19-765742-3 | PB | 128pp 10 B&W illustrations

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January 2025

AUD $18.95 | NZD $21.99 | TE | 174x111mm

978-0-19-288677-4 | PB | 160pp

Russian Politics

A Very Short Introduction

BRIAN D. TAYLOR, Syracuse University

Russia is rarely out of the news, yet Russian politics can be difficult to understand. This Very Short Introduction provides a guide to understanding Russian politics that goes beyond the headlines and offers a vivid account of the key forces driving them.

November 2024

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978-0-19-751602-7 | PB | 168pp 10 illustrations

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

Social Science

A Very Short Introduction

ALEXANDER BETTS, University of Oxford

Social Science: A Very Short Introduction offers an accessible overview of how social scientists understand and explain human behavior. Based on real-world examples, it shows how social science can change the world in areas from climate change to pandemics.

Sustainability

A Very Short Introduction

SALEEM ALI, University of Delaware

Sustainability has gained wide currency as an aspirational concept for humans to pursue in their relationship with our planet. This book provides a succinct overview of the scientific and social foundations of sustainability that can be used by individuals, corporations, and governments as a means of charting a more viable future.

December 2024

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978-0-19-287182-4 | PB | 160pp

Surveillance

A Very Short Introduction

DAVID LYON, Queen’s University

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

January 2025

AUD $18.95 | NZD $21.99 | TE | 174x111mm

978-0-19-286962-3 | PB | 160pp

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Sylvia Plath

A Very Short Introduction

HEATHER CLARK, University of Huddersfield

In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath’s life and work while discussing key themes in Plath’s poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and her short stories.

July 2024

AUD $18.95 | NZD $21.99 | TE | 174x111mm

978-0-19-879684-8 | PB | 160pp

11 B&W images

August 2024

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978-0-19-884147-0 | PB | 152pp

VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

Symbiosis

A Very Short Introduction

NANCY A. MORAN, University of Texas at Austin

• Provides an accessible account of a widespread biological phenomenon of great importance

• Synthesizes understanding of symbiosis from very different organisms

This Very Short Introduction describes the nature of symbiosis and the evolutionary pressures that give rise to symbiotic associations as well as factors that lead to their demise. Nancy A. Moran explores examples from animals and plants that are driven by the need for nutrition, defense against pathogens, or shelter.

Thucydides

A Very Short Introduction

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

• Teaches about an extraordinary thinker who provided much of the basis of subsequent historiography

• Offers sophisticated interpretations without the necessity for large background knowledge

An introduction to the thought and background of the Greek historian Thucydides, this book examines his account of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the context both of the international situation in the classical Greek world and of the intellectual traditions of the fifth century BCE.

Toleration

A Very Short Introduction

ANDREW MURPHY

Toleration: A Very Short Introduction concisely canvasses the history, development, and contemporary global status of toleration as both a concept and a contested political and legal practice. Although its modern origins lie in the realm of religious dissent, toleration remains one of our most contentious and broad-ranging concepts, invoked in today’s debates about race, gender, religion, sexuality, cultural identity, free speech, and civil liberties.

February 2025

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978-0-19-286375-1

PB | 144pp

November 2024

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TE | 174x111mm

978-0-19-285582-4

PB | 152pp

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February 2025

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TE | 174x111mm

978-0-19-766495-7

PB | 160pp

20 B&W illustrations

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Addiction

What Everyone Needs to Know ®

SUZETTE GLASNER, University of California, Los Angeles

• Shows what sensible, evidence-based policies might look like to address addiction and the rising overdose deaths

• Researched and written by a leading expert and awardwinning book author in the science and treatment of addiction (and mental illness)

Addiction: What Everyone Needs to Know® aims to clear the air of some of the most polarizing and misleading information that dominates public thinking about addiction. Providing straight talk and sound guidelines for the general public as well as health professionals and policymakers, she raises important questions related to addiction and answers them in an accessible yet empirically informed manner throughout the book.

Puerto Rico

What Everyone Needs to Know ®

Second Edition

JORGE DUANY, Florida International University

• Updated to discuss the latest historical events and processes that have reshaped Puerto Rico over the last decade

• Includes a new chapter to discuss recent events-a prolonged recession, the devastating impact of two hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the largest migrant wave ever recorded from Puerto Rico

In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jorge Duany unravels the fascinating and turbulent past and present of an island that is politically and economically tied to the United States, yet culturally distinct. Moreover, the book explores the massive population displacement that has characterized Puerto Rico since the midtwentieth century.

October 2024

AUD $32.95 | NZD $37.99

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978-0-19-094654-8

PB | 424pp

January 2025

AUD $34.95 | NZD $38.99

TA | 210x140mm

978-0-19-778212-5

PB | 224pp

After the Flying Saucers Came

A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon

GREG EGHIGIAN, Pennsylvania State University

After the Flying Saucers Came is a comprehensive account of the stories, the people, and the strange events that went into making the fascination with UFOs and aliens a worldwide phenomenon among believers, skeptics, and the simply curious.

September 2024

AUD $56.95 | NZD $64.99 | AE | 235x156mm

978-0-19-086987-8 | HB | 352pp

40 B&W illustrations

The Language of Climate Politics

Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

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

A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change.

Oceans Rise Empires Fall Why

Geopolitics Hastens Climate

GERARD TOAL, Virginia Tech

In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise Empires Fall, Gerard Toal explains why geopolitical competition is the primary obstacle.

September 2024

AUD $54.95 | NZD $61.99 | AE | 235x156mm

978-0-19-769326-1 | HB | 400pp

20 B&W illustrations

From Tudor to Stuart

The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I

SUSAN DORAN, University of Oxford

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the

dramatic accession and first decade of the reign of James I and the transition from the Elizabethan to the Jacobean era, using a huge range of sources, from state papers and letters to drama, masques, poetry, and a host of material objects.

October 2024

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978-0-19-764223-8 | HB | 272pp

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June 2024

AUD $63.95 | NZD $73.99 | TA | 234x156mm

978-0-19-875464-0 | HB | 688pp

20 B&W images