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LEAD TITLES Frankenstein's Cat Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts Emily Anthes is a science writer whose work has appeared in Discover, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is also the founder of the Wonderland blog, part of the Public Library of Science, one of the most prestigious and most read science research publishers in the world. Fluorescent fish that glow near pollution. Dolphins with prosthetic fins. Robot-armoured beetles that military handlers can send on spy missions. Beloved pets resurrected from DNA. Scientists have already begun to create these high-tech hybrids, mostly to serve human whims and needs. What if a cow could be engineered to no longer feel pain - should we design a herd that would assuage our guilt over eating meat? Shouldn't we create it? Popular science writer Emily Anthes travels around the globe to see how humans are inventing the fauna of the future, from the Roslin Institute, the Scottish birthplace of Dolly the Sheep, where scientists are trying to clone an endangered mountain lion to a ‘pharm' where chickens are modified to lay eggs laced with cancer-fighting drugs. Frankenstein's Cat is an eye-opening exploration of weird science - and how we are playing god in the animal world. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851689682, NZRP$32.95 Publish March 2013, 288 pages Oneworld Publications
Emily blogs at Wonderland (http://blogs.plos.org/wonderland/), which is part of the blog network of the Public Library of Science. Her blog post, When a deaf man has Tourette’s, was selected for inclusion in The Open Laboratory 2010: The Best of Science Writing on the Web.
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Tina Modotti Revolutionary Photographer Photographs by Tina Modotti. Compiled and designed by Rachel Kirby. Born in Italy in 1896, photographer Tina Modotti lived an extraordinary life. Migrating as a teenager with her father to the United States, she began her working life as a textile worker. Drawn to the cultural scene in Los Angeles, she became an actor in some early Hollywood silent movies. Moving to Mexico in the 1920s, she became a contemporary of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Julio Antonio Mella. She is portrayed in several of Diego Rivera's murals and, as Rivera's photographer, she photographed many of his murals as he worked and after they were completed. Deeply involved in the revolutionary movements of her time, she fought in Spain's Civil War in the 1930s, where she met Pablo Neruda. She later lived in the Soviet Union but found the repressive atmosphere there stifling. As one of the most outstanding female photographers of the twentieth century, Tina Modotti was initially trained by the iconic US photographer Edward Weston. She later developed a unique documentary style of photography. Profoundly influenced by the post-revolutionary cultural and political fervor in Mexico, she became internationally recognized for her photographs of that country. She died there at the age of forty-six. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781921700699, NZRP$34.95 Publish March 2013, 120 pages Ocean Press
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY The Spectacle of Disintegration Situationist Passages Out of the Twenty-First Century McKenzie Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, 50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International and The Beach Beneath the Street, among other books. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City, USA. McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. This book takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, René Vienet's earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti's pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho's account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord's late films and his surprising work as a game designer. At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, this book recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit to the twenty first. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781844679577, NZRP$49.95 Publish March 2013, 224 pages Verso
“A playful, smart and occasionally epigrammatic study of the Situationists ... this brilliant account is not only an essential work for our own times; it also comes with a cover that, with the minimum of manual dexterity, folds out into a collaborative graphic essay. ” – John Burnside, Times Literary Supplement. Quantity
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The Stalinist Legacy Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics, Second Edition Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/. Marx once wrote that "history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living," and even twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse activists are still confronted by the legacy of Stalinism. This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the origins, impacts and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781608462193, NZRP$39.95 Publish March 2013, 551 pages Haymarket
From the book: “Would the world have been a better place had the Russian Revolution not taken place? I don’t think so. Every revolution, successful or unsuccessful, takes us forward, albeit at a snail’s pace. To write off these experiences as meaningless (or, as is the fashion today, as crimes) is ahistorical: the result of intoxication with capitalist triumphalism after the fall of 1991. How pathetic all this seems today. Capitalism in yet another crisis and a stagnant US economy overdetermined by Wall Street where speculative finance and crime regularly shake hands. Socialism was given but a single chance. It failed. Capitalism has failed on several occasions. Logic dictates that socialism will rise again in different shapes and forms in the decades that lie ahead.” Quantity
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Bakhtin Reframed
A Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Literature
Deborah Haynes, University of Colorado, USA.
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Duncan F. Kennedy, Briston University, UK.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9781845118167 Publish March 2013 275 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$49.00
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Antiquity and the Meanings of Time
Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time. But what did the ancients think about time? Is our interest in chronology a relatively recent phenomenon? Or does it go further back? In his major new work, Duncan Kennedy indicates that our own fascination with time-reckoning is by no means unique. Discussing a number of key texts (such as Homer's Odyssey; Sophocles' Oedipus Rex; Virgil's Aeneid; and Ovid's Metamophoses) and imaginatively setting these side-by-side with modern works (such as Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Joyce's Ulysses), he shows that, from era to era, and in different ways, human beings have uniformly striven to understand the unfolding of history and their relationship to it.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780765129 Publish March 2013 160 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$39.95
Visionary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was largely ignored during his lifetime yet his oeuvre has significantly impacted how we think about visual culture. Deborah Haynes aims to adapth Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art practices, addressing the integral relationship of art with life, the artist as creator, reception and the audience, and context/intertextuality. This provides both a nnew conceptual vocabulary for those engaged in visual culture - ideas such as answerability, unfinalizability - and a new, practical approach to historical analysis of generic breakdown and narrative re-emergence in contemporary art.
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY The Battle That Shook Europe
The Freud Scenario
Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.
Peter Englund, Uppsala University, Sweden.
$35.00 Pb ISBN 9781780764764 Publish March 2013 304 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$44.00
The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscrow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which could be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781844677726 Publish March 2013 576 pages Verso NZRP$58.00
In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a script for a movie about Sigmund Freud. The Freud Scenario, found among Sartre's papers after his death, is the result. A fluent portrait of a man engaged in a personal and intellectual struggle that was to change the course of twentieth-century thought, the script was too challenging and-at a projected seven hours-too long for a Hollywood audience. The script remains an unrealized classic and a testament to two of the most influential minds in modern history.
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Blake/Paine
Kenya
In Their Time and Ours
A History Since Independence
Mike Marqusee's books include Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s and Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali.
Charles Hornsby, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK.
Furiously annotating a pamphlet attacking Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, William Blake challenged Thomas Paine's dismissal of miracles. How could "Paine the worker of miracles" doubt their existence? As this anecdote illustrates, it is all too easy to organize our thinking about the high Enlightenment in ways that place Paine and Blake in stark opposition: Paine the debunker of Biblical fictions; Blake the ecstatic interlocutor of angels. Despite their differences, there was a profound level of sympathy between the two men. In a work that reveals their radical affinities, Marqusee shows how their writing, read together and in opposition, can enliven our understanding of war, revolution and those moments in which the horizon of the possible expands-epiphanies that were, for Blake, true miracles.
$43.00 Pb ISBN 9781780765013 Publish March 2013 736 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$55.00
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European Aesthetics
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida
1947-1951
Robert Wicks is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written books on Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Kant and is a regular contributor to the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781851688197 Publish March 2013 352 pages Oneworld Publications NZRP$58.00
Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nationstate, with regular elections, its borders intact and without experiencing war or military rule. However, Kenya's independence has always been circumscribed by its failure to transcend its colonial past; its governments have failed to achieve adequate living conditions for most of its citizens; and its politics have been fraught with controversy. In this definitive new history, Charles Hornsby demonstrates how independent Kenya's politics have been dominated by a struggle to deliver security, impartiality, efficiency and growth, but how the legacies of the past have continued to undermine their achievement, making the longterm future of Kenya far from certain.
Ilan Pappe, Universiy of Exeter, UK.
In this seminal study, Robert Wicks provides a sweeping survey of European Aesthetics over the last two hundred years. Presenting the theories of sixteen important continental thinkers including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, this the only comprehensive study of the evolution of continental thought in this widely-studied area of philosophy. With colour photographs and written in a lively but objective tone, this book will prove essential for students in Philosophy, Art, and Literary Theory.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781780764924 Publish March 2013 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$44.95
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This book integrates new archival material with the findings of recent scholarship to present the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the Arab-Israeli 1948 war. The author shows, in sharp contrast to the recollections and myths of both sides, that the military events of 1948 were not decisive. The victory of the Zionist organization and the fate of the Palestinians was determined by politicians on both sides - in the discussions and decisions of the United Nations in 1947-8 and in the Arab League - long before a shot had been fired. The author argues that Israel's failure to take advantage of the genuine opportunity for peace with the Arabs at the UN-sponsored Lausanne Conference in 1949 resulted in the prolonged and tragic conflict between Israel and the Arab states still very much alive today. Quantity
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Verso World History Series
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9781781680100 Publish March 2013 576 pages Verso NZRP$59.95
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Outcast London
Perry Anderson, UCLA, USA.
A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society
The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the prior background of European feudalism. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses the overall structures of Absolutism as a statesystem in Western Europe, from the Renaissance onwards. The second part of the work sketches a comparative prospect of Absolutism in Eastern Europe. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State together into a single argument-within their common limits-as materials for debate.
Gareth Stedman Jones is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University and in 2010 become Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of An End to Poverty? and Languages of Class: Studies in Working-Class History 18321982.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781781680124 Publish March 2013 480 pages Verso NZRP$43.00
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of "outcast London." Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statistical and documentary evidence, argues that after 1850 London passed through a crisis of social and economic development. Outcast London is a fascinating and important study of the problem at the center of the crisis: the casual poor and their fraught relations with the labor market, with housing and with middle-class London.
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Public History and Heritage Today
Perry Anderson, UCLA, USA.
Paul Ashton, University of Technology, Australia and Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, UK.
People and their Pasts
The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Freudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and the refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome and the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781137285904 Publish March 2013 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$58.00
This international collection draws together museum professionals, family and local historians, re-enactors, archivists and a range of public history contributors to discuss and explore particular forms of public history. Different understandings of the past are interrogated, analysed - and valued. Everyday experience alongside the moments of larger narratives are juxtaposed and subjected to scrutiny. For some scholars, public history is simply the presentation of history by professional historians to 'the public', but in this original collection people are seen as active agents in the development of innovative and dynamic ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present and future.
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Marxism in the United States
A Short History of the Weimar Republic
Remapping the History of the American Left
Colin Storer, University of Nottingham, UK.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781781680155 Publish March 2013 328 pages Verso NZRP$58.00
A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this nuanced overview of American Marxism is neither an attack on Marxism nor a defense of it as the authentic expression of the working class. According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, Buhle wrote "as good a book, with stunning command of detail and hard-headed generosity, as anyone in his generation about the life of radicalism in America." With today's resurgent interest in radicalism, this new edition provides an unparalleled guide to 150 years of American left history.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780761763 Publish March 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$39.95
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. In the fields of art, literature, theatre, cinema, music and architecture - not to mention science - Germany became a world leader during the 1920s, while her perilous political and economic position ensured that no US or European statesman could afford to ignore her. Incorporating original research and a synthesis of the existing historiography, this book will provide students and a general readership with a clear and concise introduction to the history of the first German Republic.
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I.B. Tauris Short Histories
Paul Buhle, formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison.
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$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781780764849 Publish March 2013 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$52.00
Albania
The Dying Sahara
Portrait of a Country in Transition
US Imperialism and Terror in Africa
Clarissa de Waal, University of Cambridge, UK.
Jeremy Keenan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Clarissa de Waal here explains Albania's 'transition' from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. De Waal shows that whilst the archaic world of customary law continues to pervade highland life, and squatters on state farmland live under constant threat of eviction, members of the ex-communist elite in Tirana embrace rentier capitalism. Albania, it seems, is a country wracked by contradictions. With unparalleled insights into the region, this book is a unique history told from the perspective of the participants.
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9780745329611 Publish March 2013 288 pages Pluto NZRP$55.00
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$17.95 Pb ISBN 9781844672806 Publish March 2013 112 pages Verso NZRP$22.95
In The Dark Sahara, Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating ‘false flag' terrorism to justify the launch of a new ‘Saharan front' in Washington's War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a ‘Terror Zone' has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the US ‘invasion' of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes, cashing in on US terrorism ‘rents', provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the US and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe.
Being Arab
The Fall of Muammar Gaddafi
Samir Kassir (1960-2005) was a columnist for the daily newspaper An-Nahar, wrote regularly for Le Monde Diplomatique and published a number of important works in French as well as Arabic. He was killed by aa car bomb in Beiryt on June 2, 2005.
NATO's War in Libya Hugh Roberts, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon's foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and Islamism in order to take the future of the region into their own hands. With the Arab Spring, millions have now answered that call.
$29.95 Hb ISBN 9781844679485 Publish March 2013 160 pages Verso NZRP$38.00
The campaign against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi was the first NATO war in North Africa since Algeria's FLN defeated France. NATO claimed that it acted on behalf of the people of Libya to prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of the civilian populace. Yet, Hugh Roberts, one of the most widely respected scholars of North Africa, reveals these justifications to be baseless. Hugh Roberts provides an informed and balanced account of Gaddafi's rise to power and decades-long rule, detailing the West's shifting policies, which isolated him, embraced him, and then bombed him. Whose interests were really at stake? What are the prospects for the National Transitional Council? Roberts's study is the first to put the Libyan war into a context that includes Afghanistan, Iraq, and the complex balance of forces in North Africa.
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Beyond the Developmental State
Fortunes of Feminism
Industrial Policy into the 21st Century
From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism
Ben Fine, University of London, UK; Jyoti Saraswati, New York University, USA and Daniela Tavasci, Queen Mary University London, UK.
$49.95 Pb ISBN 9780745331669 Publish March 2013 320 pages Pluto NZRP$64.00
Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, USA.
Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin both the state and the market. The contributors show the close interrelation between states and markets in both a national and international context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies and themes, the book exposes the theorectical and empirical limitations of the developmental state paradigm as an approach to state intervention offering alternatives as well as discussing the policy implications and challenges they raise. This book presents a decisive break with the old dogmas of both neoliberal orthodoxy and theories of 'market-imperfection' and outlines theoretically and empirically grounded alternatives.
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Nancy Fraser's powerful new book documents the "movements of feminism" and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s. Fraser follows the history of feminism from the ferment of the New Left, during which "Second Wave" feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation alongside other social movements, to its emersion in identity politics following the decline of its initial utopian energies. Alongside this detailed history, Fraser recognizes the need for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism to respond to the crisis in neoliberalism. She argues for a feminism that could join other egalitarian movements in struggles aimed at subjecting capitalism to democratic control, while retrieving the core utopian insights of feminism's earlier phases. Quantity
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$41.00 Pb ISBN 9780745330679 Publish March 2013 272 pages Pluto NZRP$52.00
The Global Hunger Crisis
Power Beyond Scrutiny
Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
Media, Justice and Accountability
Majda Bne Saad is a member of the National Irish Famine Commemoration Committee.
Power Beyond Scrutiny uncovers the forces which distort and limit public debate in the media. From the misuse of politicians' expenses to recent phone hacking scandals, establishment corruption has never been more in the headlines. Yet amidst the din there have been seismic silences. Justin Schlosberg interrogates these silences - why did a plea bargain which allowed Britain's biggest arms company to escape bribery prosecution go almost entirely unchallenged in television news? Why, in 2010, did broadcasters offer an unchallenged platform to critics of Wikileaks but not its supporters? These are some of the questions and imbalances that Schlosberg seeks to address as he explains the nature of public debate in the digital age. In doing so he uncovers a range of news blockages that are more than just accidents.
Justin Schlosberg, University of London, UK.
In this deeply informative study, Majda Bne Saad identifies the causes for global hunger embedded in the current global political and economic system and highlights the key challenges facing food deficit countries. She shows how Western countries share the blame for global hunger through their support for subsidies to agricultural production and biofuels, which have created new challenges to food security worldwide. Bne Saad argues that, as world population rises from 7 billion to 9.2 billion by 2050, there needs to be a ‘second green revolution' to grow more food. She looks at the factors constraining low-income nations from achieving food security and considers policies which could generate income and enhance individuals' entitlement to food.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780745332918 Publish March 2013 224 pages Pluto NZRP$49.95
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The Great Tax Robbery
Will This Be China's Century?
How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business
A Skeptic's View
Richard Brooks is a columnist for Private Eye and with David Craig was co-author of the bestselling Plundering the Public Sector.
Mel Gurtov takes issue with the widespread view that China is on the way to rivaling or even displacing the United States as the dominant world player. Gurtov identifies serious constraints that will keep the country's leadership focused for the forseeable future on challenges at home. Arguing that China's econmic rise has exacerbated problems of social inequility, environmental degradation, official corruption and more - and that its military capabilities and ambitions are far more limited than many observers have suggested - he makes a strong case that the most productive US policy will be one of engagement on issues of common concern, rather than confrontation or containment.
Mel Gurtov, Portland State University, USA.
As we are assured that ‘there are no alternatives' to severe cuts in public spending', Brooks reveals the scandalous proliferation of tax avoidance among Britain's fat cats and how new measures from successive British governments actually make it easier. From offshore companies in Luxembourg to deliberate exploitation of developing countries, Brooks shows how a host of High Street names including Vodafone, Amazon, Barclays, Topshop - legally pay almost no tax in Britain despite multibillion pound profits. Unpicking the loopholes and bonuses that bankers and top sports stars like Wayne Rooney use to legally reduce their tax burden, this is a shocking exposé of how the richest deprive the state coffers of billions - leaving us to pick up the bill.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781588268747 Publish March 2013 180 pages Lynne Rienner NZRP$39.95
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR The Strongman Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia Angus Roxburgh is a respected British foreign correspondent and Russia specialist. He was the Sunday Times Moscow correspondent in the mid-1980s and the BBC's Moscow correspondent during the Yeltsin years. Russia under Vladimir Putin has proved a prickly partner for the West. The author charts the dramatic fight for Russia's future under Vladimir Putin - how the former KGB man changed from reformer to autocrat, how he sought the West's respect but earned its fear, how he cracked down on his rivals at home and burnished a flamboyant personality cult. Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews in Russia, where he worked for a time as a Kremlin insider advising Putin on press relations, as well as in the US and Europe, Roxburgh also argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold, by failing to understand its fears and aspirations following the collapse of communism. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780765044, NZRP$39.95 Publish March 2013, 368 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers
“Roxburgh is a former Moscow correspondent for BBC and was once an adviser to Vladimir Putin’s press secretary. This very readable book shows how Putin’s return to the presidency was orchestrated with Dmitry Medvedes. Australian policymakers might like to listen to Medvedes, who bemoaned Russia’s dependence on raw materials at the expense of manufacturing.” -Ian Kirkwood, Newcastle Herald, March 2012. Now in Paperback! Quantity
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Frantz Fanon
Journey into Barbary
The Militant Philosopher of Third World Revolution
Travels Across Morocco Original, ferociously witty, controversial, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) is celebrated as a painter, co-founder of the Vertocist Movement - and writer.
Leo Zeilig, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781848857254 Publish March 2013 224 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$44.95
Frantz Fanon is best known as one of the leading twentieth-century political thinkers and activists against colonialism and imperialism and as the author of the iconic book Wretched of the Earth. Leo Zeilig here details the life of Fanon - from his upbringing in Martinique to his wartime experiences and work in Europe and North Africa - and frames his ideas and activism within the greater context of his career as a practising psychiatrist and his politically tumultuous surroundings. The book covers the period of the Algerian War of Independence, national liberation and what Fanon described 'the curse of independence'.
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In1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to Morocco. Lewis intended to explore the culture of the Berbers of Morocco. Lewis' text predates the ascent of Amazigh national consciousness in the late 20th century and his repeated play on the words Berber, Barbary, and barbarism reveals an important element of his attitude toward the Berber people. While avoiding labelling them as primitive, he associates them with strong practices of barbarian rule that at once contrast the enervation of European modernity and suggest a path by which Europe might revive itself. This is a riveting snapshot and ethnographic travel account of Morocco in the '30s as well as of Europe's involvement and attitudes towards it.
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Schtick Kevin Coval is the author of ALA "book of the Year" finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, Everyday People. He is a regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and teaches creative -writing at schools across the city.
$22.95 Pb ISBN 9781608462704 Publish March 2013 220 pages Haymarket NZRP$29.95
Nicole Kidman
“‘Will the real Nicole Kidman please stand up?’ Many readers will remember that line from the television game show Tell the Truth, in which celebrities were required to guess which of three contestants was the ‘real’ person. Pam Cook tells us that our ‘search for veracity is doomed to failure’ because the celebrity’s identity is a fragmentary and contradictory media construct. Cook, Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton, traces Kidman’s evolution into a ‘commodity star’, analyses her performances, and evaluates Kidman’s management of her personal life and celebrity status. The most interesting section deals with Kidman’s much $29.95 Pb vaunted, and often criticised, acting skills, and ISBN 9781844574889 her transition from Stanislavskian naturalism, the July 2012, 160 pages style preferred by cinema, to Brechtian didactic Palgrave Macmillan modernism, a more theatrical style which NZRP$34.95 ‘emphasises the artificiality of performance’.” -Australian Book Review Quantity October 2012 issue 9 781844 574889
Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents; a sweeping exposition on JewishAmerican culture in all its bawdy, contradictory, and inventive glory. Exploring how Jews shed minority status in America - in his own family and in culture and politics at large - poet Kevin Coval shows us a people's transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the color line.
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PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS
$49.95 Pb ISBN 9781781300077 Publish March 2013 144 pages Philip Wilson Publishers NZRP$64.95
Emil Nolde
Garth Evans Sculpture
Artist of the Elements
Beneath the Skin
Averil King is a regular contributor to Apollo Magazine, Art Newspaper and Country Life.
Ann Compton, University of Glasgow, UK.
The celebrated German Expressionist, Emil Nolde (1867-1956), created vivid and passionate oils and watercolours. Often incorporating vibrant colours and elements of fantasy, these paintings quickly imprint themselves on the viewer's mind. His graphic works, especially his etchings, have a delicacy and originality distinguishing them from those of his contemporarries. This introduction to his work, the first in English, sets him in his time and place for readers unfamiliar with his oeuvre. Averil King's perspective and wide-ranging text investigate the themes that preoccupied the man and the influences that shaped his art.
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Garth Evans is a sculptor as capable of evoking intimacy and simplicity as he is of dealing with the monumental and the timeless. This complete survey of his unique career is long overdue, and reveals a wealth of innovative and powerful work, much of it previously unseen in print. As narratives of British sculpture are reconsidered, Evans is emerging as one of the most creative and influential artists to bridge the generation of Antony Caro and Philip King with that of Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Alison Wilding and Bill Woodrow. This investigation into Evans' hugely varied, visually eventful and challenging practice explores connections across geographies and timeframes as well as contextualizing major changes and new departures in his work.
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ANTIQUITY AND ITS LEGACY
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781848851016 Publish March 2013 160 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$34.95
New Zealand Author
Drama
Religion
Antiquity and its Legacy
Antiquity and its Legacy
David Rosenbloom, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Jorg Rupke, University of Erfurt, Germany.
The influence of Greek drama on western civilization has been profound. David Rosenbloom creatively and imaginatively explores the great variety of ways in which the tragedy and comedy of antiquity have been received and influenced in their turn by the cultural agendas of later ages. The author notes that late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries have seen the large-scale revival of ancient Greek drama worldwide. He discusses the reasons for this modern fascination with the staging of classical drama, noting that globalization and new forms of post-colonialism have enabled fresh adaptations of ancient theatre to be explored from eastern Europe to Africa. The drama of antiquity transcends the most intransigent cultural, ethnic and national boundaries. This concise and lively overview explains why its capacity to transport endures.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780761701 Publish March 2013 192 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$34.95
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Science
Antiquity and its Legacy
Antiquity and its Legacy
Caroline Petit, University of Manchester, UK.
Philippa Lang, Emory University, USA.
Caroline Petit here offers a concise yet comprehensive account of medicine in antiquity which explores precisely that fascinating legacy. Discussing topics such as medical ethics, diagnostic explorations of illness and disease, matters of sex and gender, the ancient division between body and soul, interpretations of madness and melancholia, and methods of medical teaching and dissemination, the author draws fascinating parallels between the ancient, early modern and modern periods. We learn, positively, that the ancient medical thinking of Galen, Hippocrates and Soranos of Ephesus nourished the thought of some of the greatest physicians in history; but also that, negatively, modern medical thinkers sometimes misused ancient texts in pursuit of their own social and political agendas - a recurring problem in the history of medicine.
This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, Philippa Lang addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'. Lang discusses the origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics and physics; conceptions and philosophies of biology and disease; ideas about mechanistic science and technology as they have been used to control the societies of human beings; and the important nexus between science, morality and ethics. Greek and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the meaning of science itself.
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PALGRAVE FAVOURITES
Philosophy Antiquity and its Legacy Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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What is a religion? In this concise and elegant overview, Jorg Rupke addresses the similarities and differences of religions in antiquity, tracing their sometimes complex lineage into modern systems of belief. Greek and Roman religion is discussed not in isolation, but in the broader context of western Asia and Egypt. The author also addresses developments relating to early Islam on the south-eastern margins of the Byzantine Empire. Examining such topics as the functions of priests and religious functionaries; religious individualism; the relationship between religion and political identity; the acceptance of the pagan Julian calendar by Christians; and contrasting ancient and modern understandings of divination, Rupke shows that study of premodern culture enables us more daringly to explore the contemporary religious world.
The Heritage of Eastern Turkey
What is 'philosophy'? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, 'philosophy' meant something very different and much broader than the presentday university discipline. In her lively and engaging new book, Emily Wilson shows that this amounts to more than just the philological change in a word. She points to fundamental differences between ancient and modern ideas about reason, wisdom, theology, science, psychology, ethics and what it is to be fully human. Exploring diverse thinkers like Socrates, Xenophanes and Popper, the author discusses broad themes and schools - including the preSocratics and Sophists - in the history of ideas. In a fascinating discussion Wilson concludes that antiquity, for all its impact on later ages, promoted a bolder kind of philosophical scepticism than anything common in modernity.
From Earliest Settlement to Islam Antonio Sagona, University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Antonio Sagona’s extravagantly illustrated book traces the history of the region from the beginning of settled life (c. 11,000 - 5500 BC) to the spread of Islam and the resplendent Ottoman period. Among its fascinating subjects are details of the obsidian trade; the emergence of agriculture and stock-breeding; the development of metallurgy; the constant re-organisation of political boundaries under the Urartians, Hittites and Persians; and the Arab Conquest followed by the invasion of the remarkable Selijuks and their wonderful arts. The text is supported by rare and beautiful photography of the sites and monuments, and of artefacts produced by the many different peoples who have inhabited this fascinating geographic region. Quantity
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Environmental History and Global Change
SOCIETY & CULTURE Cities
Cricket Cauldron
An Environmental History
The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan
Ian Douglas, University of Manchester, UK.
Shaharyar Khan served as Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board from 2003 -2006.
There is increasing concern over the unchecked growth of the world's cities and the detrimental effect this is having on the world's ecosystems. This unfettered growth is affecting every ecosystem on Earth, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, through both climate change and the lack of food and other resources. Ian Douglas's important new book tells the story of our cities: their development, their problems and our efforts to overcome them. His canvas is global and his timescale from early times to the present day.
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Cricket mania has engulfed South Asia with global effect, and nowhere more powerfully than in Pakistan. Shaharyar Khan shows how cricket has been transformed by the global media and huge financial rewards bringing in their wake corruption - betting scandals and match-fixing - and threatening the reputation of cricket and sport globally. He shows the mediafed frenzy has exacerbated Pakistan's social and class divisions and has even brought Islamic religiosity into sport. But despite these tensions, he shows a ray of hope: cricket has contributed to international tensions on and off the field but has been a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan at local and international levels.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World’s Top Companies William Poundstone is the bestselling author of over ten bestselling non-fiction books, including Fortune's Formula, the Amazon Editors' pick for the #1 non-fiction book of the year in 2005. He has written for the New York Times, the Economist, Esquire, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review. His books have sold over a million copies worldwide. You are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of the world's top employers, you'll need to have a convincing answer to this and countless other tricky puzzles. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? reveals the new extreme interview questions in the post-crash, hypercompetitive job-market and uncovers the extraordinary lengths the best companies will go to to find the right staff. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851689552, NZRP$24.95 Publish March 2013, 304 pages Oneworld Publications
“It’s famously tough getting through the Google interview process. But now we can reveal how strenuous are the mental acrobatic demanded from prospective employees. Job-seekers can expect to face open-ended riddles, seemingly impossible mathematical challenges and mind-boggling estimation puzzles. William Poundstone has collected examples in his latest book, Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?.” - Wired, April 2012. Now in B Format! Quantity
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Reading Contemporary Television
THE ARTS
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780764245 Publish March 2013 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$37.00
FICTION
Loving the L Word
Beacons
The Complete Series in Focus
Stories For Our Not So Distant Future
Dana Heller, Old Dominion University, USA.
Gregory Norminton is a novelist, actor, playwright and environmental activist.
The complete and groundbreaking The L Word is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. Loving The L Word picks up where Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by some newcomers, Loving The L Word explores the series' quantum contribution to the ongoing evolution of queer television. Whether you loved The L Word, hated it, or loved to hate it, this book recognizes that the show transformed the post-Ellen LGBT television landscape, fulfilling a long-neglected, visceral desire for lesbian stories and images.
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Beacons throws down the gauntlet, challenging well-known authors to imagine our worst and best possible futures and, in imagining them, to help us change things for the better. From Joanne Harris' powerful vision of a newar future where 'outside' has become a thing of history to Nick Hayes' beautifully illustrated tale of the bond between man and nature, this is where dystopian satire meets speculative and historical fiction, metaphorican flights of fancy, quiet tragedy, and farcical comedy, crafting stories that are as various as our possible futures. Provocative, funny and deeply moving, Beacons represent the best of British writing - and collectively illuminates the immediate of the ecological problems at hand.
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FICTION Jewish Mother from Berlin/ Susanna
Running the Rift Naomi Benaron teaches at Pima Community College and online through the Afghan Women's Writing Project.
Gertrud Kolmar, born in 1894 in Berlin, was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Before her two prose works were published in English in 1997, she was known outside of Germany primarily for her more than 500 poems,
$38.00 Pb ISBN 9780841917002 Publish November 2012 202 pages Lynne Rienner NZRP$48.00
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In these two extraordinary works, published posthumously, Gertrude Kolmar's elegiac prose transports us into her characters' rich inner worlds even as it depicts the cold material realities of 1920s Berlin. In A Jewish Mother from Berlin, Martha Jadassohn's seemingly conventional life descends into chaos after the brutal rape of her five-year-old daughter. The ethereally beautiful protagonist of Susanna sets out in search of her lost lover, only to find herself floundering in a world where everyone else's perceptions clash with her own. Kolmar's powerful voice renders unforgettable these stories of two uncommon women who struggle in vain to find a sense of place in interwar Germany.
$19.95 Pb ISBN 9781851689040 Publish March 2013 376 pages Oneworld Publications NZRP$24.95
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This book follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it's impossible to stay apolitical - where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Rwanda's first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, the family, and the country he loves. Finding them again is the race of his life.
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Magnificent Joe
Leon Trotsky
James Wheatley is a graduate of the Sheffield Hallam Creative Writing Course.
An Illustrated Introduction Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics. He is an editor of New Left Review. Phil Evans is a longtime political cartoonist based in England. He has illustrated Karl Marx’s Kapital for Beginners, among other books.
Recently released from prison, Jim is welcomed back by his childhood mates to the northern working-class town where he grew up. With no alternative, Jim falls in step with their lives: working down the building site, pub, sleep. No time to regret the future that could have been had he not taken that punch and killed that boy. The only glimmer of warmth amid the tough grind is his friendship with Joe, a man with severe learning difficulties who is regarded with suspicion by the rest of the community. But when Joe is falsely accused of a crime, Jim must break the claustrophobic confines of his life and take drastic action in order to protect him. With his spare and powerful prose, James Wheatley has crafted a brilliantly compelling, often dark, and frequently funny novel about how an extraordinary friendship can offer redemption and help rebuild a life.
$19.95 Pb ISBN 9781608461868 Publish March 2013 175 pages Haymarket NZRP$29.95
Amusing, well researched and suprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humor, Tariq Ali and Phil Evans trace his political career, from prison to the pinnacle of revolutionary power to his eventual exile and murder by Stalin.
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LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Against World Literature
Mighty Lewd Books
On the Politics of Untranslatability
The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
Emily Apter, New York University, USA.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781844679706 Publish March 2013 240 pages Verso NZRP$58.00
Julie Peakman is an author who is internationally renowned for her work on the history of sexuality.
The book engages in a polemical critique of recent efforts to revive World Literature models of literary studies on the grounds that they construct their curricula on an assumption of translatability. As a result, incommensurability and what Apter calls the "untranslatable" are insufficiently built into the literary heuristic. Drawing on philosophies of translation developed by de Man, Derrida, Sam Weber, Barbara Johnson, Abdelfattah Kilito and Édouard Glissant, as well as on the way in which "the untranslatable" is given substancein the context of Barbara Cassin's Vocabulaire européen des philosophies, the aim is to activate Untranslatability as a theoretical fulcrum of Comparative Literature with bearing on approaches to world literature, literary world systems and literary history.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781137033963 Publish October 2012 280 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$44.95
Now considered a classic amongst scholars of eighteenth century and the history of pornography, this book provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality in an in-depth investigation of the development of pornography. Through the examination of more than 500 pieces of British erotica, it looks at sex as seen in culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century. Using the evidence of erotica, and taking a feminist approach within a framework of gender history, this book challenges the traditional view that women were generally seen as sexually passive.
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NEW CASEBOOKS C.S. Lewis
Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia
Ann Alston and Catherine Butler, both Senior Lecturers in English at the University of the West of England, UK.
Michelle Ann Abate, Hollins University, USA and Lance Weldy, Francis Marion University, USA.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780230301252 Publish November 2012 232 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$44.95
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Beginning with the publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 and concluding with the appearance of The Last Battle in 1956, C. S. Lewis's seven-book series chronicling the adventures of a group of young people in the fictional land of Narnia has become a worldwide classic of children's literature. This stimulating collection of original essays by critics in a wide range of disciplines explores the past place, present status, and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia. With essays ranging in focus from textual analysis to film and new media adaptations, to implications of war/ trauma and race and gender, this cutting-edge New Casebook encourages readers to think about this much-loved series in fresh and exciting ways.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780230283619 Publish November 2012 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$44.95
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J. K. Rowling
Robert Cormier
Harry Potter
Adrienne E. Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Cynthia J. Hallett, Bennett College for Women, USA and Peggy J. Huey, Colorado Technical University Online, USA.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780230008502 Publish November 2012 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$44.95
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J. K. Rowling's popular series of books about the boy wizard Harry Potter has captivated readers of all ages around the world. Selling more than 400 million copies, and adapted into highly successful feature films, the stories have attracted both critical acclaim and controversy. In this collection of brand new essays, an international team of contributors examines the complete Harry Potter series from a variety of critical angles and approaches. There are discussions on topics ranging from fairytale, race and gender, through to food, medicine, queer theory and the occult. The volume also includes coverage of the films and the afterlife of the series with the opening of Rowling's Pottermore website.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780230313323 Publish November 2012 200 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$44.95
This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children's literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier's controversial young adult novels. The newly-commissioned essays explore the author's earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier's achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780240818276 Publish March 2012 456 pages Focal Press NZRP$89.95
Roald Dahl is one of the world's best-loved authors. More than twenty years after his death, his books are still highly popular with children and have inspired numerous feature films - yet he remains a controversial figure. This volume, the first collection of academic essays ever to be devoted to Dahl's work, brings together a team of well-known scholars of children's literature to explore the man, his books for children, and his complex attitudes towards various key subjects. Including essays on education, crime, Dahl's humour, his long-term collaboration with the artist Quentin Blake, and film adaptations, this fascinating collection offers a unique insight into the writer and his world.
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT
Light and Lens
This is Improbable
Photography in the Digital Age, Second Edition
Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research
Robert Hirsch, The State University of New York, USA.
Marc Abrahams is editor of the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research and founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are presented at Harvard University each year. Abrahams and the Ig have been covered by the BBC, New Scientist, Daily Mail, Times, and numerous other outlets internationally.
This is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view. It covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Explore the history, theory and methods of digital imagemaking.
$19.95 Pb ISBN 9781851689750 Publish March 2013 320 pages Oneworld Publications NZRP$24.95
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Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposĂŠ of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the globe. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stolen, the best way to slice a ham sandwich (mathematically), and what time of month generates higher tips for Vegas lap dancers. Abrahams' tour through these unlikeliest investigations of animals, plants, and minerals (including humans) will first make you laugh, then make you think about the world in a new way. Quantity
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS Taylor & Francis is delighted to announce a new distribution arrangement between with RIBA Enterprises, the publishing arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, for books published under the RIBA, RIBA Publishing and NBS imprints. Commencing 1 October 2012 Palgrave Macmillan will be the exclusive distributor for all published titles to the Australian and New Zealand market. RIBA Publishing is one of the leading providers of high quality information for architects, built environment professionals and students around the world.
Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings
The Plot Designing Diversity in the Built Environment
A Technical Guide for New Build
Jonathan Tarbatt.
Carol Williams, Bat Conservation Trust.
Set in the context of design guidance, planning policy, regulations, financial considerations, development models and commercial realities, the book extracts broad strategic design parameters for the masterplanner. $83.00 Pb, ISBN 9781859464434, NZRP$104.00 June 2012, 192 pages Routledge Quantity
This book is a place where all those involved in low and zero carbon buildings could find out about how to incorporate provision for biodiversity within their developments. $58.00 Pb, ISBN 9781859463536, NZRP$73.00 March 2010, 96 pages Routledge Quantity
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Design for Climate Change
Small Projects Handbook
William Gething and Katie Puckett.
Stephen Yakeley and Diana Yakeley.
This book uses real-world evidence from a Technology Strategy Board-funded research project to develop a set of tools for achitects to meet a growing need to anticipate future climate change. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859464489, NZRP$87.00 November 2012, 196 pages Routledge
This book sets out in an accessible form how to run a small building project. It provides guidance for every stage of a job, from initial appraisal of the client’s requirements through to practical completion and payment. $99.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859464441, NZRP$130.00 October 2012, 312 pages Routledge Quantity
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The Environmental Design Pocketbook
Sustainable Concrete Architecture
Sofie Pelsmaker, UCL Energy Institute, UK.
David Bennett.
The author places the information you need for sustainable, low-energy building design at your fingertips. Packed with diagrams, tools, and tips, it cuts through the complex mass of technical data and legislation that faces the designer. $46.00 Pb, ISBN 9781859463741, NZRP$58.00 March 2012, 196 pages Routledge
Highly illustrated and detailed in scope, the book combines comprehensive technical analyses of concrete materials with useful case studies demonstrating the value of the material in low-energy, green building. $89.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859463529, NZRP$110.00 March 2012, 240 pages Routledge Quantity
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Urban Design Practice
Eric Lyons and Span
An International Review
Barbara Simms, Cambridge University, UK.
Sebastian Loew.
This book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980), whose famous post-war ‘lifestyle housing’ is as well loved today as it was vibratly successful when first constructed. $79.95 Hb, ISBN 9781859462560, NZRP$99.95 August 2012, 256 pages Routledge
This book gives a fascinating account of the state of urban design practice today. Its global scope offers background facts and figures to professionals interested in exporting their skills internationally. $89.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859464496, NZRP$110.00 June 2012, 352 pages Routledge Quantity
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A House in the City
Whole Life Sustainability
Home Truths in Urban Architecture
Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett.
Robert Dalziel and Sheila Qureshi-Cortale . The author examine what they believe are the significant elements of urban housing design: adaptability, flexibility, construction, sustainability, space and light, appearance and threshold, and density and urban form. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859464526, NZRP$87.00 October 2012, 136 pages Routledge
This book shows a number of approaches for doing Whole Life Costing, steering clear of number-crunching, and instead using simple ‘back-of-the-envelope’ techniques, and easy self-assessment tools for the architect to evaluate and understand the whole life of their building. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9781859464502, NZRP$87.00 October 2012, 160 pages Routledge
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