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Trade terms apply to the following trade titles Capitalism’s New Clothes

How To Be An Agnostic

Enterprise, Ethics and Enjoyment in Times of Crisis

Mark Vernon began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England, left an atheist, and is now a searching agnostic on such things. He writes regularly for The Guardian and New Statesmen amongst other publications and is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.

Colin Cremin lectures in sociology at the University of Auckland, teaching social theory and visual culture. He has written in the areas of cultural sociology, critical management studies, postmodern theory, ideology and subjectivity. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Zizek Studies.

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Capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force. He shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a productive/ destructive relationship. He identifies three related kinds of social engagement: enterprise and employment, ethics and leftoriented social action, and enjoyment and consumption. As these ideological strands overlap and reinforce one another, the exploitation, violence, injustice, alienation and ecological destruction the system breeds is revealed, but not necessarily identified or addressed as a failure of capitalism. Capitalism’s New Clothes goes a long way to explaining the contradictions of contemporary existence under a system that has been revealed as damaging and regressive, but is more dominant than ever. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745328140, NZRP$55.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Pluto Quantity Sociology & Economics

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The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. How To Be An Agnostic explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being ‘spiritual but not religious’, the insights of ancient philosophy, and God the biggest question. Mark Vernon was an Anglican priest, left a conviction atheist, and now finds himself to be a committed, searching agnostic. Part personal story, part spiritual search, this journey through physics and philosophy concludes that the contemporary lust for certainty is demeaning of our humanity. We live in a time of spiritual crisis, but the key to wisdom - as Socrates, the great theologians and the best scientists know - is embracing the limits of our knowledge. This much expanded edition was previously published as After Atheism, and includes new chapters looking at mindfulness meditation, pic’n’mix religion, quantum spirituality, the probability of God and why Stephen Hawking is wrong about nothing. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230293212, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Popular Philosophy 9 780230 293212

Hope

Threat

Stan van Hooft is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author two other books for Acumen, Understanding Virtue Ethics and Cosmopolitanism.

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel

From the now iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head “Camp Hope” of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful as it draws on resources that are uniquely human and universal. We are beings who hope. But what does that say about us? What is hope and what role does it play in our lives? In his fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the meaning of hope, Stan van Hooft shows that hope is a fundamental structure of the way we live our lives. Drawing on everyday examples as well as more detailed discussion of hope in the arenas of medicine, politics and religion, van Hooft shows how hopefulness in not the same as hope and offers a convincing and powerful defense of the need for realism. There are few contemporary philosophical discussions of hope and Stan van Hooft’s book offers an accessible and insightful discussion of the topic that shows the relevance of philosophical thinking and distinctions to this important aspect of human life. Australian Author $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652600, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 176 pages Acumen Publishing Quantity Popular Philosophy 9 781844 652600

Abeer Baker is a senior lawyer with Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (NGO) and heads the Legal Clinic for Prisoners’ Rights, at Haifa University. Anat Matar is a senior lecturer of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a political activist. She is the chair of the Israeli Committee for the Palestinian Prisoners. Palestinian prisoners charged with securityrelated offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel’s security. They are seen as potential, if not actual, suicide bombers. This stereotype ignores the political nature of the Palestinian prisoners’ actions and their desire for liberty. By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the IsraelPalestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners’ status within Palestinian society, the conditions of their imprisonment and various legal procedures used by the Israeli military courts in order to criminalise and de-politicise them. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745330204, NZRP$55.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Pluto Current Affairs Quantity

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Beyond the Military Revolution

A Hermit’s Cookbook

War in the Seventeeth Century World

Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK.

Andrew Jotischky, Lancaster University, UK.

The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of ‘crisis’ or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230251564, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Military History

A Hermit’s Cookbook opens with stories and penportraits of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity and their followers who were ascetic solitaries, hermits and pillar-dwellers. It proceeds to explore how the ideals of the desert fathers were revived in both the Byzantine and western traditions, looking at the cultivation of food in monasteries, eating and cooking, and why hunting animals was rejected by any self-respecting hermit. Full of rich anecdotes, and including recipes for basic monk’s stew and bread soup - and many others - this is a fascinating story of hermits, monks, food and fasting in the Middle Ages. $44.95 Hb, ISBN 9780826423931, NZRP$55.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum Quantity Culinary History

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Cinema Italiano

Hugo Chávez

The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult

And the Bolivarian Revolution

Filmwriter Howard Hughes is the author of many film-related books.

Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian.

Cinema Italiano is the first book to discuss comprehensively and in depth Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse. It is illustrated throughout with rare stills and international posters from this revered era in European cinema and reviews over 350 movies. Chapters discuss the rise and fall of genres such as mythological epics, gothic horrors, science fiction, spy films, war movies, costume adventures, political cinema and ‘poliziotteschi’ crime films. They also trace the directorial careers of Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Francesco Rosi, Lucio Fulci, Duccio Tessari, Enzo G. Castellari, Bernardo Bertolucci and Gillo Pontecorvo. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848856080, NZRP$39.95 Publish May 2011, 320 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity History of Cinema

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. Now in office for over a decade, President Chávez has undertaken the most wideranging transformation of oil-rich Venezuela for half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. In this updated edition, Richard Gott reflects on the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution, and the challenges that lie ahead. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844677115, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 368 pages Verso Quantity Latin American Politics

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The Courage of the Truth

The Invention of Paris

Michel Foucault is acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s; and Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago.

A History in Footsteps

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the notion of “truthtelling” in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction. His death, on June 25th, 1984, tempts us to detect the philosophical testament in these lectures, especially in view of the prominence they give to the themes of life and death. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781403986689, NZRP$59.95 Publish May 2011, 356 pages Palgrave Macmillan Philosophy

In The Invention of Paris, radical author and publisher Eric Hazan takes the reader on an exciting and historically rich tour through the construction of Paris, exploring the places and struggles that have marked its growth. Concentrating both on the literary and cultural representations of the city, as well as riots, rebellions and revolutions throughout the nineteenth century and up until 1968 - Hazan acts as a guide who is simultaneously personal and rigorous in tone. The Invention of Paris opens a window on a Paris too often hidden beneath tourist kitsch and bourgeois complacency. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844677054, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 400 pages Verso Quantity History

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Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books.

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The Great Famine

The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys

Ireland’s Agony 1845-1852

Courage, Tragedy and Justice in World War II

Dr Ciaran O Murchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Gregory A. Freeman is an award-winning writer with more than 25 years’ experience.

Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, this book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9781847252173, NZRP$69.95 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Continuum History

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Gregory A. Freeman brings to life for the first time the dramatic story of a young American bomber crew that was forced to bail out over Germany in August 1944. After landing, they were captured and lynched in a two-hour assault by local townspeople. After the war, a highly dramatic trial took place in the German town, forcing the locals to confront their wartime atrocity. Freeman creates a vivid narrative of the dramatic event and follows the survivors’ efforts to understand how good men could die in such a terrible way. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230108547, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Military History

Feature Titles Lives and Letters

The Notebook

Robert Gottlieb was the president, publisher, and editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and the editor of The New Yorker.

José Saramago (1922-2010) was a Nobel laureate Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist.

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. It features names such as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Sarah Bernhardt, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Mae West, the Trumps, and so much more. $44.95 Hb, ISBN 9780374298821, NZRP$55.00 Publish May 2011, 496 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Biographical Anthology Quantity

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My Queer War

Out of Palestine

James Lord is the author of Giacometti: A Biography, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Making of Modern Israel

In My Queer War, James Lord tells the story of a young man’s exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. His career in the armed forces takes him to Nevada, California, Boston, England, and, eventually, France and Germany, where he witnesses firsthand the ravages of total war on Europe’s land and on its people. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, and in a moment of great rashness makes the acquaintance of the world’s most renowned artist, who will show him the way to a new life. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532758, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Memoir

Hadara Lazar is a prominent Israeli journalist.

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Hadara Lazar has been interviewing witnesses to the historic events of 1948 for a quarter of a century in an effort to understand the sources of this intractable enmity. Her book, a series of in-depth conversations with Israelis, Arabs, and British political figures who lived through the end of the British Mandate and the founding of the Jewish state, is less a work of history than a chorus of distinctive voices. She visits her subjects in their offices and homes, evokes their personalities, bringing them alive as characters in a drama with no last act. Out of Palestine is the most vivid, comprehensive account we have of how Israel became Israel. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781935633280, NZRP$34.95 Publish May 2011, 197 pages Atlas & Co. Quantity History

The New A-Z of Empire

A Short History of Flu

A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History

Dr Michael Bresalier, University of Bristol, UK. That flu can at once be a seasonal nuisance, a troublesome epidemic or a vast and potentially devastating pandemic disease has meant that each medical generation is vexed by the same question: what IS flu? Exploring the changes and continuities in flu over the last three hundred years illuminates not only the contingency of our flu definition but their social and political consequences in the lives of individuals, in policy making, in the organisation and delivery of medical care. Dr Bresalier’s story starts when the terms influenza was first defined in the 18th Century and carries the reader forward to the present day. $29.95 Hb, ISBN 9780826496324, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum Medical History

C. Brad Faught, Tyndale University College, Toronto.

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Provocative and lyrical, The Notebook records a year in the life of José Saramago, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, traces the ongoing inquiry into the execution of the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on the London Underground, and charts the transition from the era of George W. Bush to that of Barack Obama. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844677016, NZRP$24.95 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Verso Memoir Quantity

The New A-Z of Empire responds to the current burgeoning interest in empires and covers 400 years of British imperial history from the founding of the East India Company in 1600, through the ‘First’ and ‘Second’ British Empires and includes the ‘Scramble for Africa’, World War I, the Mandate System, Dominion status, World War II, nationalism, decolonisation and Commonwealth development. Over 400 alphabetical entries contain a mine of essential information including individual personalities, territories, political ideas, diplomacy, law, administration, business, commerce, exploration, art and literature. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781845118716, NZRP$39.95 Publish May 2011, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity History

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The New Silk Road

The Unexpected Patriot

How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China

How an Ordinary American Mother is Bringing Terrorists to Justice

Ben Simpfendorfer currently works for Global Strategic Associates, LLC, (GSA), an international advisory firm.

Shannen Rossmiller works closely with the FBI to find and prosecute terrorists.

The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road. This is a fully revised and updated account of how China is spurring growth in the Arab world, taking into account new developments that have taken place since the first edition. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230284852, NZRP$44.95 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Palgrave Macmillan Global Economics

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After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge in rural Montana, was formulating a plan. Soon she was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate the central nervous system of global terror: online networks. Her efforts succeeded beyond imagination. Shannen started working with the FBI on sting operations, bringing many of her targets to justice. This is the story of one woman’s unexpected courage and how it changed the face of this global struggle. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230102552, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Current Affairs

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Action and Appearance

Before and After 9/11

Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt

A Philosophical Examination of Globalization, Terror, and History

Anna Yeatman, Magdalena Zolkos and Charles Barbour, all University of Western Sydney, Australia; and Phillip Hansen, University of Regina, Canada.

Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University, USA.

Action and Appearance is a collection of essays that look into the crucial and complex link between action and appearance in Hannah Arendt’s political thought. Contributed by respected scholars, the essays articulate around the following themes: the emergence of political action when questioning the nature of law, subjectivity and individuality; the relationship between ethics and politics; the nexus of (co-)appearance, thinking and truth; and Arendt’s writing as action and appearance. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441101730, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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Adorno on Nature

Crime and the Rise of Modern America

Deborah Cook, University of Windsor, Ontario.

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Decades before the environmental movement emerged in the 1960s, Adorno condemned our destructive and self-destructive relationship to the natural world, warning of the catastrophe that may result if we continue to treat nature as an object that exists exclusively for our own benefit. Adorno on Nature presents the first detailed examination of the pivotal role of the idea of natural history in Adorno’s work. A comparison of Adorno’s concerns with those of key ecological theorists - social ecologist Murray Bookchin, ecofeminist Carolyn Merchant, and deep ecologist Arne Naess - reveals how Adorno speaks directly to many of today’s most pressing environmental issues. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652624, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Acumen Publishing History & Philosophy Quantity

A History from 1865 - 1941 Kristofer Allerfeldt, University of Exeter.

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Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement

Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey, both Middlesex University, UK. The Guattari Effect brings together internationally renowned experts on the work of the French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist Félix Guattari with philosophers, psychoanalysts, sociologists and artists who have been influenced by Guattari’s thought. This book explores the full spectrum of Guattari’s work, reassessing its contemporary significance and giving due weight to his highly innovative contributions to a variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, pragmatics, ecology, aesthetics and media theory. $54.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441121974, NZRP$64.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum History & Philosophy

C ontemporary B lack H istory

Robbie Lieberman, Southern Illinois University, and Clarence Lang, University of Illinois. The original essays in this book highlight the destructive impact of McCarthyism on the African American Freedom Movement. Recovering little-known stories of black radical activism, it challenges the idea that the Cold War was, on balance, beneficial to the movement. The book emphasizes what was lost when anticommunism forced the movement to submerge broader issues of economic justice, labor rights, feminism, and peace. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230113749, NZRP$61.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

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Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation, media, and incarceration affected the criminal underworld. In ten thematic chapters, the book turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition, the turnof-the-century immigrants, and the conmen who preyed on the people of the Promised Land, to examine how crime and America both changed, defining each other. $43.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415800457, NZRP$55.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Quantity Routledge History & Philosophy

The Guattari Effect

“Another Side of the Story”

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This clearly written and accessible work presents a philosopher’s response to the series of events known as “9/11” and the global culture in the United States - and global society - that followed. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the emerging post-9/11 culture, situating it in a broad context that includes politics, religious discourse, economic theory, and philosophical orientation. Before and After 9/11 reconstructs the events that led to and departed from the attacks on September 11, 2001. It also pays particular attention to the importance of the economic dimension in the emergence of conflicts in an age of globalization. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441118929, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Quantity Continuum History & Philosophy

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Athenian Democracy

Interpreting Nietzsche

A Sourcebook

Reception and Influence

Luca Asmonti, University of Warwick, UK.

Ashley Woodward, University of Melbourne, Australia.

This volume presents a wide range of literary and epigraphic sources on the history of the world’s first democracy, offering a comprehensive survey of the key themes and principles of Athenian democratic culture. Beginning with the mythical origins of Athenian democracy under Theseus and describing the historical development of Athens’ democratic institutions through Solon’s reforms to the birth of democracy under Cleisthenes, the book addresses the wider cultural and social repercussions of the democratic system, concluding with a survey of Athenian democracy in the Hellenistic and Roman age. $54.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441113719, NZRP$64.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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Helping students and researchers get to grips with the work of this compelling but often baffling thinker, this introductory guide surveys the impact and continuing influence of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche on modern European thought. Interpreting Nietzsche explores how some of the most important thinkers of the 20th century have responded to the legacy of his writings. Each chapter focuses on how Nietzsche’s work has been read by such major figures as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, and Gianni Vattimo. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441120045, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

History & Philosophy Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real

Philosophy as Criticism Essays on Dennett, Searle, Foot, Davidson, Nozick

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French mathematical philosopher. Translated by Simon Duffy, University of Sydney, Australia.

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The Philosophy of Heidegger

J. B. Kennedy, University of Manchester.

This is a readable and reliable overview of Heidegger’s thought, suitable both for beginners and advanced students. A striking and refreshing feature of the work is how free it is from the jargon and standard idioms of academic philosophical writing. Written in straightforward English, with many illustrations and concrete examples, the book provides a very accessible introduction to such key Heideggerian notions as in/authenticity, falling, throwness, moods, temporality, earth, world, enframing, etc. Organized under clear, no-nonsense headings, Watt’s exposition avoids complicated involvement with the secondary literature, or with wider philosophical debates, which gives his writing a fresh, immediate character. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652648, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Acumen Publishing Quantity History & Philosophy

Michael Watts is a psychologist and writer.

J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato’s dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this “harmony of the spheres”. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. Many of Plato’s ancient followers insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views within the dialogues, but modern scholars have denied this. Kennedy, an expert in Pythagorean mathematics and music theory, now shows that Plato’s dialogues do contain a system of symbols. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652679, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Acumen Publishing Quantity History & Philosophy

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New Waves in Ethics

Reading Derrida’s Of Grammatology

Thom Brooks, Newcastle University, UK.

Sean Gaston, Brunel University, UK, and Ian Maclachlan, Merton College, Oxford, UK.

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With new readings from nineteen internationally renowned scholars, Reading Derrida’s Of Grammatology is a significant reassessment and informed discussion of Jacques Derrida’s landmark 1967 text. Since its original publication, Of Grammatology has had a profound impact on philosophy, literary theory and the Humanities in general. Through a series of close readings of selected passages by writers from a wide range of disciplines, this collection aims to discover anew this important work and its continuing influence. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441152756, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Continuum History & Philosophy Quantity

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The Paris Commune

Reading Rancière

A Revolution in Democracy

Paul Bowman, Cardiff University, UK, and Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University, UK.

Donny Gluckstein is a lecturer in history in Edinburgh and is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party. When Parisian workers established the world’s first workers’ democracy, there were no blueprints for the society they might build. This detailed study examines their brief experiment in collective social, economic, and political equality, with attention to the historic problems of the Commune, critical debates over its implications, and the lingering inspiration of the glimpse of a better world it provided. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781608461189, NZRP$32.00 Publish May 2011, 260 pages Haymarket Books History & Philosophy

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Philosophy of Criticism is both the final word from a celebrated philosopher on his distinguished career and an attempt, through critiques of his major contemporaries, to explore the future of philosophy. After an autobiographical introduction, in which Dilman reflects on how he came to become a philosopher, he moves into an incisive critique of key contemporary thinkers and movements in philosophy. The result is a vital and urgent engagement with the core questions of philosophy and a re-instatement of the centrality of criticism in philosophy. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441146915, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 176 pages Quantity Continuum History & Philosophy

The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues

New Waves in Ethics brings together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy. Topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike. An ideal collection for anyone interested in the most important debates in ethics and political philosophy, as well as those with an interest in the latest significant contributions from the leading new generation of philosophers working in ethics. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230232761, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy

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Albert Lautman's work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy. His ideas have had an enormous influence on key contemporary thinkers including Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, for whom he is a major touchstone in the development of their own engagements with mathematics. Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real presents the first English translation of Lautman’s published works between 1933 and his death in 1944. Lautman undertakes to develop an understanding of the broader structure of mathematics and its evolution. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441123442, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 336 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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Whilst Jacques Rancière has long been a wellknown force in francophone contexts, the translation of his works into English has generated a lot of excitement and catapulted him to the forefront of attention in several putatively distinct but interconnected fields: philosophy, politics, critical theory, aesthetics and film. Reading Rancière intervenes in this ongoing discourse by assembling an eminent collection of critical assessments of the significance of Rancière’s diverse impact and growing influence. It offers a response to the work of this major contemporary theorist, as well as a new interview and a key text published here for the first time. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441137814, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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Ilham Dilman (1930-2003) is best known for his contributions to moral philosophy and psychology.

History & Philosophy Derek Nelson, Thiel Global Institute, USA.

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Rewriting Exodus

Southern Queen

American Futures from Du Bois to Obama

New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century

Anna Hartnell, University of London.

Thomas Ruys Smith, University of East Anglia.

Exodus, as a powerful narrative of liberation, has been a central imaginative touchstone in the black American struggle against US racism. This book traces the concept in a number of pivotal black thinkers, and explores its significance for contemporary America. The exodus story is a fitting allegory for the painful experience of exile that disproportionately afflicted African Americans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and it also provides compelling imagery for the triumphant election of Barack Obama in 2008. Anna Hartnell traces the intellectual development of one of the defining narratives of black American thinking on social justice in the United States. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745329550, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Pluto Quantity History & Philosophy

New Orleans occupies a singular position within American life. Drawing deeply from Old World traditions and New World possibilities, the port city of the Mississippi has proved a lure to an extraordinary variety of travellers from its very earliest days. It was in the nineteenth century that the city’s most distinctive characteristics were forged, and chapters are based around signal moments that reveal the city’s essential qualities: the Battle of New Orleans in 1815; the World’s Fair in 1884; the establishment of Storyville in 1897. This book looks behind the carnival mask to explore aspects of the city’s history which have so often been kept hidden from view. $48.00 Hb, ISBN 9781847251930, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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Sacred Landscape in Ancient Egypt

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe

Dr Steven Snape, University of Liverpool.

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Sin: A Guide for the Perplexed is intended as a mid-level, comprehensive introduction to the notion of sin and its significance for Christian theology. Nelson situates and interprets biblical material on sin, and then offers a lucid history of the doctrine. He elucidates Augustine’s conception of original sin and defends it against its many caricatures. Special attention is paid to sin as an ordinary, yet highly interruptive, phenomenon in the lives of individuals. This is supplemented by a careful look at the non-individualistic dimensions of sin, and an appreciation of how sin relates to other key theological commitments. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780567542755, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 176 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

For the ancient Egyptians the whole of the natural world was divine, not only because it was created by the gods, but more particularly because its individual parts - the sun, the sky, the Nile - were gods. Taking the Egypt of Ramesses II as his focal point, Steven Snape explores the holy landscapes of Egypt, both the natural world and the built landscape of temples, tombs and colossal statuary. Even major Egyptian cities were not shaped by the presence of humans who lived there but by their resident gods. A major aspect of the book will be the extensive use of quotations from hieroglyphic texts, translated by the author, to allow the ‘voices’ of the ancient Egyptians to be heard. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9781847251459, NZRP$70.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum History & Philosophy Quantity

A Reader Dr Helen Parish, University of Reading. In recent decades research into witchcraft and magic has expanded alongside a deepening understanding of early modern popular culture and belief, and has facilitated a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of these themes. This volume brings the key threads of each debate together, demonstrating the richness of the historiography, and the significance of superstition, magic, and popular belief to our understanding of early modern popular culture. $54.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441122223, NZRP$64.00 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Continuum History & Philosophy Quantity

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Thor

Violence, Atonement and the Sacred

From Myth to Marvel

Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge, UK.

Martin Arnold, Hull University.

Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world’s preeminent philosophers of religion. Hedley proposes good reasons to think that issues of global conflict and the ecological crisis highlight the continuing relevance of the topic of sacrifice for contemporary culture. The subject of sacrifice has been decisively influenced by two books: Girard’s The Violence and the Sacred and Burkert’s Homo Necans. Both of these are theories of sacrifice as violence. Hedley’s book challenges both of these highly influential theories and presents a theory of sacrifice as renunciation of the will. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441194459, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 320 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. Thor’s significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and he resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries and became central to the rhetoric of national romanticism. Resurrected in the latter part of the 20th century in Marvel Magazine, Thor was further transformed into an articulation both of an anxious male sexuality and of a parallel nervousness regarding American foreign policy. Martin Arnold explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held and considers why and how his myth has been adopted, adapted and transformed. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441135421, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy

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While it is uncontroversial to point to the liberal roots of feminism, a major issue in Englishlanguage feminist political thought over the last few decades has been whether feminism’s association with liberalism should be relegated to the past. Can liberalism continue to serve feminist purposes? This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism. This book examines why, and in what ways, each of these theorists believes that liberalism offers the normative and political resources for the improvement of women’s situations. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652709, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Acumen Publishing Quantity History & Philosophy

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The American Rhetorical Construction of the Iranian Nuclear Threat

NATO and Terrorism

Jason Jones, University of Washington, USA.

James W. Peterson, Valdosta State University, USA.

This book offers an in-depth consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining speeches, interviews, news reports, online message boards and newspaper layouts during the Bush Presidency (2000-2008). The book points out, using rhetorical theory and discourse analysis, the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration’s position by examining the arguments Bush and his political surrogates put forward, and the discourse strategies that influenced which ideas gained salience and which were downplayed. $59.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441105745, NZRP$70.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Continuum Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

NATO and Terrorism focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations. The first was the expansion from sixteen to twenty-six member states. This section traces the evolution of the new member states from communist enemies to democratic partners. The second was the radical shift in the missions of the alliance and the book analyzes the military operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well as the new issue of the Missile Shield for Europe. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441129765, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum Current Affairs & Politics

Organizational Expansion and Mission Transformation

Conversations with Power

The Palestinian Strategic Report

What the Greatest Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership

2009/2010 Mohsen Saleh, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

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Fresh out of college and just beginning his work as a syndicated columnist and a researcher at the New America Foundation, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. He hardly expected to get his foot in the door - much less to have revelatory, insightful conversations with so many of them. Here, he distills their collective wisdom into key lessons for aspiring leaders of the future. These conversations provide an illuminating, entertaining, and uplifting reminder of what is possible when great leaders inspire and the public is engaged. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230110588, NZRP$30.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

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Governance in Pacific Asia

Robert C. Pirro, Georgia Southern University, USA.

Peter Ferdinand, University of Warwick, UK. Governance in Pacific Asia offers a comprehensive account of the diverse experiences of the states in Pacific Asia. Organized thematically around government and business relations in the main sectors of the economy, chapters cover the historical, social, and cultural contexts for such policies as well as the social and political consequences of rapid economic development. They also discuss the increasing economic integration of the region as well as its impact on global affairs and the reverse effect of globalization upon particular political systems. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441167590, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Continuum Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

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This is the fifth in a series of comprehensive annual studies of the Palestinian issue published by the Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations. The book covers the internal politics of Palestine, Israeli politics and policy, and Israeli-Palestinian relations. Also covered are the Arab, Muslim and international stances toward the Palestinian issue. Along with economic and demographic indicators, the report has a special focus on Jerusalem and the holy sites. The 14 distinguished contributors not only survey the situation but also analyse events in the region, identifying trends and predicting likely future developments. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9789953500690, NZRP$70.00 Publish May 2011, 384 pages Pluto Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship

Political Economy and Development from Japan to Burma

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Public officials, journalists and ordinary citizens frequently use words like “tragedy” and “tragic” when trying to make sense of burdensome events and painful setbacks. Political theorists and philosophers have long used the example of Greek tragedy and notions of the tragic to reflect on the nature and significance of democracy in modern life. Pirro offers a way to understand the deep connections between these two seemingly disparate and unconnected discourses of tragedy. The book considers how tragedy has been used to promote democratic activism, foster civic solidarity in times of democratic transition, and form a sense of national identity. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441165251, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

Interviews with New Left Review

Religion and the State in Russia and China

Edited by Francis Mulhern.

Suppression, Survival, and Revival

Four generations of intellectuals discuss their political histories and present perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often, best known. These recollections span the one hundred years from the eve of the Great War to the present, ranging across Europe East and West, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the gendering of private and public life, capital and class formation, the novel past and future, geography, and the theory and philosophy of language are among the associated areas of intellectual exchange. At the heart of the collection is a critical experience of communism and the tradition of Marx. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676996, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Verso Quantity Current Affairs & Politics

Christopher Marsh, Baylor University.

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This book explores the religious nature of man through the cases of forced secularization in the Soviet Union and China. The book provides an in-depth account of the failure and successes of both countries’ secularization policies. Starting with the theological innovations that led to atheistic theorizing, it then looks at the policies that were implemented to speed up the suppression of religious beliefs and what ultimately led to today’s resurgence of religion. The research for this project includes extensive fieldwork in both Russia and China, including participant-observation at rallies and demonstrations. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441112477, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Quantity Continuum Current Affairs & Politics

Biography & Memoir The Churchills

The Jew Süss

A Family Portrait

His Life and Afterlife in Legend, Literature and Film

Celia Lee and John Lee, both University of Birmingham.

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Millard Fillmore

American Iconoclast

The 13th President, 1850 - 1853

Andrew Kersten, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School.

Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes’s right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America’s most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of the country’s inexorable march toward modernity. Going well beyond the familiar story of the socially conscious lawyer and drawing upon new archival records, Kersten shows Darrow as early modernity’s greatest iconoclast. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780809094868, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 320 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Biography

In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the debate, President Zachary Taylor suddenly took ill and died. The presidency, and the crisis, now fell to the littleknown vice president from upstate New York. In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Paul Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore’s response to the crisis he inherited set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War. His myopic vision led to the destruction of his presidency, his party, and ultimately, the Union itself. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805087154, NZRP$39.95 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity Biography

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Eleanor de Montfort

Napoleon and the Rebel

Louise Wilkinson, Canterbury Christ Church University.

A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captured the king and secured control of royal government, and Eleanor worked tirelessly in supporting her husband’s cause. But the family’s political fortunes were shattered at the battle of Evesham where Simon de Montfort was killed. Eleanor rose to her role as matriarch of her family, sending her surviving sons overseas, negotiating the surrender of Dover Castle and securing her own safe departure from the realm. This book reconstructs the narrative of her remarkable life. $54.95 Hb, ISBN 9781847251947, NZRP$69.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity Biography

Marcello Simonetta is the author of The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, and Noga Arikha is the author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours.

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Authors Simonetta and Arikha draw from a massive trove of first-hand documents, allowing them to present a rare, detailed portrait of this remarkable dynasty that reveals Emperor Napoleon and his family at their most intimate and vulnerable moments. The turbulent relationship between Napoleon and his favorite brother, Lucien, creates the perfect springboard to illustrate the bloody power struggles, romantic idealism, and corruption that characterized nineteenth-century Europe, as well as the rise and fall of the French empire. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230111561, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Biography

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FDR’s Funeral Train

B E S T S E L L E R

The Philosopher of Auschwitz

A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance

Jean Amery and Living with the Holocaust Irene Heidelberger-Leonard, Free University of Brussels.

Robert Klara is an editor and writer.

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For almost three centures the life of Jew Süss has been adapted, distorted and transformed. This book tells the story of these transformations. Joseph Süss Oppenheimer (1698-1738), better known as the Jew Süss, was a court Jew, who advised the Duke of Württemberg. His unpopular economic policies made him enemies and when the Duke died suddenly, he was arrested, convicted of ‘destestable abuses’ and exectued in Stuttgart in an iron cage. His spectacular rise and fall inspired a media outpouring in the eighteenth century and he has been much written about subsequently. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781847250179, NZRP$69.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Continuum Quantity Biography

The April 1945 journey of FDR’s funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal. Weaving together information from long-forgotten diaries and declassified Secret Service documents, journalist and historian Robert Klara enters the private world on board that famous train. He chronicles the three days during which the country grieved and despaired as never before, and a new president hammered out the policies that would galvanize a country in mourning and win the Second World War. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230108035, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Biography

Who was Jean Amery? Victim or survivor? Agnostic or Jew? Austrian or exile? Philosopher or journalist? This biography demonstrates that he is more - far more - than some enigmatic cult figure: he is one of the most influential of Holocaust survivors and one of the most provocative writers and thinkers of the 20th century. $59.00 Hb, ISBN 9781848851504, NZRP$69.00 Published August 2010, 304 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Biography

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Winston Churchill is arguably the most famous Briton, but a shroud of mystery still surrounds him and his family. From Sir Randolph’s alleged syphilis to Winston’s illegitimacy, and from Jennie’s gambling problem to Jack’s dashed ambitions, authors Celia and John Lee use never before seen archives to cut through the rumors and lies and get to the truth about the life of the former prime minister and his relationship with his family. Chock full of intrigue and scandal, The Churchills finally sets the record straight regarding one of the world’s greatest dynasties. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230112209, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Biography

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From the state of the great writer’s stomach and the progress of his work, to the fierce and painful arguments that would eventually divide the couple for ever, Sofia’s Diaries are both compelling and extraordinarily revealing. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781846881022, NZRP$39.95 Quantity May 2010, 650 pages Alma

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Between 1925 and 1930, the author of The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins in which he describes his travels around Europe. Some letters read like excerpts from a Stendhalian travel journal, whilst others are Pickwickian adventures populated with comic, exaggerated personalities. $36.00 Hb, ISBN 9781846881114, NZRP$44.95 November 2010, 288 pages Alma

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When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a stateof-the-art facility where she can live out her days in comfort. But when Dorrit also finds love, her peaceful submission is blown apart and she must fight to escape before her ‘final donation’. $19.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687442, NZRP$24.00 May 2010, 272 pages Quantity Oneworld Publications

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A’ida’s letters to her insurgent husband Xavier tell of daily events in the town and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity assume for A’ida a life-affirming significance. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844673612, NZRP$29.95 2009, 198 pages Quantity Verso Books

Turning conventional thinking about gender differences on its head, Lise Eliot issues a startling call to close the troubling gaps between boys and girls, and help all children reach their fullest potential. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687404, NZRP$39.00 Quantity May 2010, 432 pages Oneworld Publications

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Elena Kostioukovitch explores the phenomenon that first struck her as a newcomer to Italy: the Italian “culinary code,” or way of talking about food. Along the way, she captures the fierce local pride that gives Italian cuisine its remarkable diversity. $27.00 Pb, ISBN 9780374532536, NZRP$34.95 November 2010, 480 pages Quantity Farar Straus Giroux

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There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781844675982, NZRP$49.95 April 2010, 432 pages Verso Books Quantity

Drawing on more than twenty years of scientific research into positive emotions, world renowned researcher Dr Barbara Fredrickson shows us that attaining positivity is not about striving to be an annoyingly and unnaturally cheerful ‘Pollyanna’. $31.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687381, NZRP$39.00 May 2010, 277 pages Oneworld Publications

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Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. $24.95 Hb, ISBN 9781844652266, NZRP$29.95 September 2010, 132 pages Acumen Publishing Quantity

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This significant, richly illustrated monograph was published to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work curated by Zara Stanhope for Heide Museum of Modern Art in November 2008. Les Kossatz has occupied a unique position within Australia’s art world for more than 40 years. $120.00 Hb, ISBN 9781921394201, NZRP$145.00 Quantity 2008, 288 pages Macmillan Art

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Essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career. This beautifully designed volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist. $130.00 Hb, ISBN 9781921394379, NZRP$160.00 April 2010, 348 pages Quantity Macmillan Art

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Encounters with Australian Modern Art represents a vital milestone in the presentation of Australian art to a world-wide readership. It is lavishly illustrated with more than 200 iconic images, many drawn from the collection of the TarraWarra museum of Art. $89.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921394218, NZRP$105.95 2008, 274 pages Quantity Macmillan Art

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While flowers and leaves attract the eye for the beauty of their colours, Criss Canning is a consummate colourist and an expert in the rendering of light as it is reflected off the glass and ceramic vessels that are used to present her botanical specimens in Criss Canning: The Pursuit of Beauty. $99.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921394188, NZRP$120.00 2008, 224 pages Macmillan Art

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This ground-breaking study focuses on the lived experiences of gay men who were born during the Twentieth Century. The men’s personal stories include their experiences of being closeted in the years following World War II and the Cold War, the exuberance, and, for some, personally challenging times of gay liberation and the disco culture of the 1970s, to a time of fear and grief during the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

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The Revolutionary Century: Art in Asia 1900 to 2000 “Throughout the book [Alison] Carroll’s voice is personal and opinionated; she avoids feigning impartiality or indifference. The result is a text that is speculative and engaging, frequently poised as if to invite responses and rejoinders from the reader...Carroll is an impressive scholar, and she is also someone who has maintained a long commitment to being engaged in ‘the field’. Such experience percolates throughout the publication with a lightness that belies the gravitas of the analysis.” Quantity – Artlink, Vol 30, No 4 $99.95, HB ISBN 9781921394171, NZRP$120.00

‘My favorite is “Street Food of India” by Sephi Bergerson, a photographer who lives in Delhi. In just 50 recipes and under 200 pages, Mr. Bergerson accomplishes the rare feat of capturing how people eat, not just what. He shows people eating, making and clamoring for the outdoor snacks that are nearly universal in India: cool lemonade spiked with cumin and salt, scalding hot sweet tea with ginger, potato cakes with vibrant herb chutneys.’ Qty – New York Times December 7th 2010

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M acmillan A rt P ublishing Tjanpi Desert Weavers Penny Watson Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a dynamic employment enterprise within the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council. The latter was formed as a response to the land rights struggles of the 1970s when Indigenous women realised they had no voice. Today the organization delivers health, social and cultural services across 28 desert communities in Northern Australia’s Central and Western Desert lands. Tjanpi (meaning grass) began in 1995 as a series of basket-weaving workshops designed to provide meaningful employment. This book presents a huge range of art works and the environments and circumstances of their making, along with elucidating commentary by the women artists which has been translated from their various languages. $99.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921394461, NZRP$120.00 256 pages Publishing July 2011 9 781921 394461 Quantity

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Alan Loney This Mini Book features the artist's paintings from the 19060s until now. Alan Loney's essay examines Leti's multi-faceted studio practice wherein he produces paintings, prints, artists books, drawings and photographs as integral parts of a working life devoted to the arts. However, the author's major theme is the development of Leti's paintings from the energetically gestural works of his early career to the multi-panelled minimalism of recent years. Many of the paintings in this book have been neither exhibited nor reproduced. Most are landscape-based, but presented as richly coloured lyrical abstractions which project a poetic appeal to the senses through colour, texture and gesture. $35.00 Hb, ISBN 9781921394492, NZRP$39.95 144 pages Published January 2011 Quantity

Penny Watson Today more than 350 indigenous Australian women across three states are making spectacular contemporary fibre-art sculptures from locally collected grasses. While out collecting grasses, the women take time to hunt, gather food, visit sacred sites and teach their children about ‘country’. Now, fifteen years after Tjanpi’s formation, the women have been awarded the most prestigious national award for Indigenous art (for their Tjanpi Toyota) and their lively grass sculptures have been exhibited throughout Australia and in England, the USA and Germany. $35.00 Hb, ISBN 9781921394478, NZRP$39.95 144 pages Publishing June 2011

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Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer. This Macmillan mini-art book features a variety of works by this much favoured senior Australian artist. Drawings, prints and paintings are arranged according to familiar Olsen themes with sections devoted to the landscape, the kitchen and culinary subjects, birds and animals, the life-class with its models and, of course, his famous frogs.

Ken McGregor and Jenny Zimmer. Adam Cullen emerged in the 1990s as the enfant terrible of the Sydney art-scene and a foremost exponent of ‘grunge’. Despite descriptions of his work as crude, distasteful and grotesque, and his predilection for ‘low-life’ subject matter, his paintings have been selected for many public collections and in 2000 he won the coveted Archibald Prize with his portrait of actor, David Wenham.

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Literary Fiction Classics for Everyone

All Men Are Liars Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator and editor.

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Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the Argentinian writer Alejandro Bevilacqua. The few accounts of those who knew him - which include those of his last lover, a former fellow prison inmate, a sworn enemy and even the author Alberto Manguel himself - are contradictory and unreliable. The reader must discover the only worthwhile truth: the fascinating homage Alberto Manguel pays to literature and its shape-shifting creations, which give infinite expressions to the objects of our desires. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781846881329, NZRP$24.95 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Alma Books Quantity Fiction

Oneworld Classics is an independent publisher with offices in London (Richmond) and Oxford.

Launched in March 2007 by the directors of Oneworld Publications and Alma Books, its aim is to expand the literary canon in the English-speaking world through a series of mainstream and lesser-known classics, often by commissioning new translations.

East of the West

Moby Dick

A Country in Stories

Herman Melville (1819-91) is considered to be one of America’s greatest and most influential authors.

Miroslav Penkov, University of North Texas.

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When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491831, NZRP$29.95 Publish May 2011, 704 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction Quantity

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Queen of Spades

Yasutaka Tsutsui is one of the leading Japanese novelists and short-story writers.

And Other Stories

One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she’ll constantly have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality. This is the fifth work by one of the greatest and most acclaimed living Japanese writers to be translated in English, displaying all the author’s dry humour and relish for the absurd. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781846881343, NZRP$24.95 Publish May 2011, 200 pages Alma Books Quantity Fiction

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is considered the father of modern Russian literature. This collection of Pushkin’s shorter fiction begins with The Queen of Spades, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes Dubrovsky, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; Peter the Great’s Negro, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story Egyptian Nights, a meditation on poetry and the poet. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491817, NZRP$24.95 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Oneworld Classics Fiction

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The Sunday of Life

Hell

Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician.

Paprika

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Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

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When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Brû, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a vulgar and cunning wife, a shifty career in fortune-telling, the approaching threat of war with Germany and the mysteries of Parisian public transport. With a cast of eccentric characters, amusing incidents and an uplifting tone, The Sunday of Life is a scintillating novel which showcases Queneau’s trademark punning, sly wit and delight in the absurdity of people and situations. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491824, NZRP$24.95 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Oneworld Classics Quantity Fiction

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A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his communist grandfather. A failed wunderkind steals a golden cross from a church. A boy meets his cousin (the love of his life) once every five years in the river that divides their village into east and west. These are Miroslav Penkov’s strange, unexpectedly moving visions of his home country, Bulgaria, and they are the stories that make up his charming, deeply felt debut collection. Penkov writes with great empathy of eight hundred years of tumult; his characters mourn the way things were and long for things that will never be. The stories are always light on their feet, animated by Penkov’s unmatched eye for the absurd. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780374117337, NZRP$39.95 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Fiction

Society & Culture Postsecular Cities

Dana Williams and Sandra Shannon, both Howard University.

Religious Space, Theory and Practice Justin Beaumont, University of Groningen, and Christopher Baker, University of Chester, UK.

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics offers new essays that address issues raised in Wilson’s “The Ground on Which I Stand” speech. Essays and interviews range from examinations of the presence of Wilson’s politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also included is Sybil Roberts’ A Liberating Prayer: A Lovesong for Mumia, that, for two seasons, has played to sold out houses, but that until now has not been published. $38.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230113015, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan Society & Culture Quantity

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Racism and Education in the UK and the US

Perspectives On and From the Gülen Movement

Towards a Socialist Alternative Mike Cole, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK.

C ultural S ociology

Spiritual Quest

Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences

Reflections on Daily Prayers in the Traditions of Shi'i Islam

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Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK.

Theorist Clifford Geertz’s influence extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in interpretation. The volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking in a sense at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. Contributors include an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars investigating the three core components of contested legacy: theory, method, and writing. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230111721, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Society & Culture

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This succinct and readable study offers unique contemporary insights into the spiritual, intellectual and moral interplay set in motion by the short Qur’anic chapters that are recited in their prayers by Muslims of all traditions, but which are particularly recommended within Shi’i Islam. Reza Shah-Kazemi engages closely and creatively with the Qur’anic chapters, resulting in a stimulating meditation that probes the depths of meaning contained within the verses of a revelation by which the spiritual life of Muslims has for many centuries been nourished and fulfilled. $14.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848854475, NZRP$17.00 Publish May 2011, 80 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity Society & Culture

Outsourcing the Womb

White News

Race, Class and Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market

The Long Fight for Social Justice in the American News Media

France Winddance Twine, University of California.

Juan Gonzalez is a columnist for the New York Daily News, and Joseph Torres is the government relations director for Free Press.

This book provides a critical introduction to the global surrogacy market. A comparative analysis of the assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy industry in Egypt, Israel, India and the United States disentangles the intersecting roles of race, religion, class inequality, religious law, and global capitalism. Gestational surrogacy challenges the idea of ‘natural’ reproduction and of the meaning of parenthood. What role should the state play in providing individuals and families with access to reproductive technologies? This book concludes with a discussion of ‘reproductive justice’. $14.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415892025, NZRP$19.00 Publish May 2011, 74 pages Routledge Quantity Society & Culture

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White News is a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial newspaper to the internet age. It chronicles key government decisions that created the US nation’s system of news, major political battles over the role of the press, and the rise of media conglomerates and epoch-defining technologies. It weaves back and forth between the corporate battles and government policies that built the segregated media system. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676873, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 320 pages Verso Quantity Society & Culture

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Interpreting Clifford Geertz Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith, and Matthew Norton, all Yale University.

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Following the success of the widely acclaimed Critical Race Theory and Education: a Marxist Response (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), in this new book Mike Cole extends his Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neoMarxists, Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230103801, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Society & Culture

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This edited collection deals with the challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2003 and the London Transport attacks of 2007. The contributors explore the challenges to the concept and practice of civility in public life within a European context, and demonstrates the contributions that can be made in this regard by the thought and practice of the global movement associated with the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441102072, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Quantity Continuum Society & Culture

M arxism

European Muslims, Civility and Public Life Paul Weller, University of Derby, and Ihsan Yilmaz, University of London, UK.

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This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion. In this century, by contrast, religion, faith communities and spiritual values have returned to the centre of public life, especially public policy, governance, and social identity. Postsecular Cities examines how the built environment reflects these trends. $54.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441144256, NZRP$64.00 Publish May 2011, 272 pages Continuum Quantity Society & Culture

C ontinuum R esources in R eligion and P olitic al C ulture

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

A F amily B usiness P ublic ation

Business & Economics

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Family Business by the Numbers

Reckless Endangerment

How Financial Statements Impact Your Business

How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon

Norbert E. Schwarz, Family Business Consulting Group, Inc.

Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, and Joshua Rosner, Graham Fisher and Company.

Business is the language of numbers - but not everyone in businesses understands how to read the myriad of financial statements that are necessary. Author Norb Schwarz provides readers with accessible information to understanding financial statements such as annual reports; cash flow statements; income statements; balance sheets and so much more. Filled with accessible information including definition and explanations - this book is essential for all family businesses members who don’t have a firm handle on these essential skills. $59.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230111233, NZRP$79.95 Publish May 2011, 144 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner - who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records - Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805091205, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity Business & Economics

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Keeping the Family Business Healthy

We First

How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership

How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World

John L. Ward, Family Business Consulting Group Inc.

Simon Mainwaring is the founder and CEO of the branding firm WeFirst.

Good planning is more than just thinking ahead businesses need a strategic approach to ensuring their success. Keeping the Family Business Healthy provides readers with a guide to strategic thinking - including how to maintain growth; how to shape business direction; preparing for new leadership; and working with a large and diverse family base. $69.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230111219, NZRP$89.95 Publish May 2011, 308 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

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Brand Resilience

Women and the New Business Leadership

Managing Risk and Recovery in a HighSpeed World

Peninah Thomson, Praesta Partners LLP, and Tom Lloyd is a management writer and author.

Jonathan R. Copulsky is the CMO for Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy and Operations Practice.

In The Woman’s Place Is in the Boardroom the authors put the business case for more women on company boards. In the next book they explained how to achieve it. Here the authors discuss the role women directors can play in the reform of corporate governance systems following recent financial, crises in leadership, governance and the economy. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230271548, NZRP$69.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

As the recent Toyota and Tiger Woods scandals illustrate, brand reputation is more precarious than ever before. True and false information spreads like wildfire in the vast and interconnected social media landscape and even the most venerable brands can be leveled in a flash - by disgruntled customers, competing companies, even internal sources. Here, veteran marketing executive Jonathan Copulsky shows companies and individuals how to play brand defense in the twenty-first century. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230111387, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

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Women’s Work, Men’s Cultures Overcoming Resistance and Changing Organizational Cultures

A CEO’s Guide to the Boardroom

Sarah Rutherford runs her own diversity consultancy company, Rutherford Associates.

Beverly Behan is the founder of Board Advisor.

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A social media expert with global experience with many of the world’s biggest brands, Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases. These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that satisfies the need for both profit and a healthy, sustainable planet. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230110267, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Business & Economics

Managing and participating on governing boards of business can be a complicated and politically fraught experience. In many cases the room is filled with first timers - first time CEO, first time board member, or first time Chairman. As public and private companies are under so much public scrutiny, boards are increasingly being held accountable for the organization. This book covers key issues that are at the forefront of governing bodies such as: hiring board members; creating boards that are effective and keep organizations on track; succession planning; organizational performance and measurement - plus more. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230113657, NZRP$59.95 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the role of organisational cultures in marginalising women workers. Based on academic research, case studies and interviews, the author presents a new model for changing organisational culture. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230283701, NZRP$69.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics

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Bryony Dixon’s illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information. $31.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844573080, NZRP$36.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

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The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls

Aesthetics

Cyrus R.K. Patell, New York University.

A Beginner's Guide

It’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’ legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession in Canada threaten the band’s future, and the broad consensus is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street. But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired by the year he has just spent in New York City. And new bandmember Ron Wood is helping Richards recapture the two-guitar groove that the band had been missing since the Brian Jones era. The result? Some Girls, the band’s response both to punk rock and to disco, an album that crackles with all the energy, decadence, and violence of New York in the 1970s. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441192806, NZRP$25.00 Publish May 2011, 144 pages Continuum Quantity The Arts

Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, Minnesota. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art and morality collide. From Plato on poetry to Ringo Starr on the drums, this is a perfect introductory text for anyone interested in the fascinating questions art can raise. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851688203, NZRP$28.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Oneworld Publications The Arts

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Television’s Marquee Moon

The Best Years of Our Lives

Bryan Waterman, New York University.

Sarah Kozloff, Vassar College, New York.

Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs a sign with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB which, he tells them, stands for “Country Bluegrass and Blues.” That’s exactly the sort of stuff they play, they lie, somehow managing to get a gig out of him. After the first show their band, Television, lands a regular string of Sundays. By the end of the summer a scene has developed that includes Tom Verlaine’s new love interest, a poet-turned-rock chanteuse named Patti Smith. American punk rock is born. Bryan Waterman peels back the layers of the origin myth and situates Marquee Moon in a broader cultural history of SoHo and the East Village. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441186058, NZRP$25.00 Publish May 2011, 144 pages Continuum Quantity The Arts

Due to its popularity and the controversy it engendered, The Best Years of Our Lives stands as one of the most important cultural documents of the post-WWII era. Moreover, with its emphasis on soldiers returning from war with post-traumatic stress syndrome, facing an uncertain economic climate, and strained domestic lives, the film speaks with emotional power directly to contemporary issues, including the devastating injuries and insecurites faced by soldiers returning home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq today. Among the topics discussed are American neorealism, aesthetics, war and homecoming, and more. $24.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844573264, NZRP$28.00 Publish May 2011, 96 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts

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Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese

The Ethics of Emerging Media

Hank Shteamer covers music for Time Out New York, The Wire and various other outlets.

Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ‘90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman and Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo preside over one of the most devoted cult fan bases in American music. Based on new, in-depth interviews, this book explores the songby-song creation of Chocolate and Cheese and how the album served as a bridge between Ween’s original two-guys-and-a-4-track incarnation and the rich, virtuosic rock & roll force they would later become. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826431172, NZRP$25.00 Publish May 2011, 144 pages Continuum The Arts Quantity

Bruce Drushel and Kathleen German, both Miami University. This book engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. It provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe. Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each chapter raises questions about how changing media formats affect current theoretical understanding of ethics. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441183354, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages Continuum The Arts

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Bryony Dixon, BFI National Library and Archive.

When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin’s record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who remained a fondly regarded yet completely marginalized Nashville figure, unheard on the radio and unseen on the charts. Cash’s odyssey from oldies act to folk hero pivots on his first American Recordings album, a document of almost unbearable solitude and directness. It is a singular record, an instance in which a musical giant has been granted a kind of midnight reprieve, a chance to regain and renew his legend. Tony Tost illuminates the ways in which American Recordings is the crossroads where cultural, spiritual and mythic archetypes come together in the figure of The Man in Black. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441174611, NZRP$25.00 Publish May 2011, 144 pages Continuum Quantity The Arts

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Tony Tost is a scholar and poet.

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Johnny Cash’s American Recordings

The Arts Film and the Holocaust

Rebels in Paradise

New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a journalist and art critic for Artforum, Art in America, and ARTnews.

Aaron Kerner, San Francisco State University.

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When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno’s dictum that “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Conservative opposition to all “artistic” representations of the Holocaust remains powerful, leading to the insistent demand that it be represented, as it really was. This book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep crosssection of both national cinemas and genres. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441124180, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 352 pages Quantity Continuum The Arts

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Los Angeles, 1960: There was no art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number of daring young artists liked about it. Freedom from an established way of seeing, making, and marketing art fueled their creativity, which in turn inspired the city. Today Los Angeles has four museums dedicated to contemporary art, hundreds of galleries, and thousands of artists. Here, at last, is the book that tells the saga of how the scene came into being, why a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805088366, NZRP$51.00 Publish May 2011, 304 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity The Arts

In the Limelight and Under the Microscope

Stealing Rembrandts

Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity

Tom Mashberg is an investigative reporter.

Professor Diane Negra, University College Dublin, and Dr Su Holmes, University of East Anglia.

Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion dollars in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. In Stealing Rembrandts, authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major art heists of the Dutch Master in the last century. Through thefts around the world from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the world’s most renowned museums, and robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings. Stealing Rembrandts is a dramatic and brilliant account that lets you peek into the alluring and little-known criminal art world. $38.00 Hb, ISBN 9780230108530, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity The Arts

The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists

This timely collection explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary and historical media contexts. Amidst concerns about the apparent ‘decline’ in the currency of modern fame (‘famous for being famous’), as well as debates about the shifting parameters of public/private visibility, it is female celebrities who are positioned as the most active discursive terrain. This collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826438553, NZRP$56.00 Publish May 2011, 304 pages Quantity Continuum The Arts

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An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art

TARDISbound

Michelle Facos, Indiana University.

Piers D. Britton, University of Redlands, USA.

Using the tools of the ‘new’ art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical introduction to nineteenthcentury art and culture. This book will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art. The book expertly balances its coverage of trends and individual artworks: where the salient trends are clear, trend-setting works are highlighted, and the complexity of the period is respected by situating all works in their proper social and historical context. $72.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415780728, NZRP$84.00 Publish May 2011, 428 pages Routledge Quantity The Arts

With its triumphant return to TV in 2005, Doctor Who was made up of four different fictional forms, across three different media, with five actors simultaneously playing the eponymous hero. This is the first book to deal both with the TV series and with the ‘audio adventures’, original novels, and short story anthologies produced since the 1990s. TARDISbound places Doctor Who under a variety of lenses, from examining the leading characteristics of these texts, to issues of class, ethnicity and gender in relation to the Doctor(s), other TARDIS crew-members, and the non-human/inhuman beings they encounter. $38.00 Pb, ISBN 9781845119256, NZRP$45.00 Publish May 2011, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity The Arts

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

White Riot

Benjamin Britten (1913-76) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was Benjamin Britten’s seventh major opera and had its premiere in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare’s own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play. This newly commissioned opera guide has an essay which explores the unique process of the opera’s composition, including passages of recently published material from Britten’s own correspondence. Other essays examine the magical sound world that Britten created for this work, as well as documenting Britten’s own response to productions of the opera during his lifetime. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847495440, NZRP$34.00 Publish May 2011, 184 pages Oneworld Classics Quantity The Arts

Stephen Duncombe, New York University, and Maxwell Tremblay, New School for Social Research.

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From The Sex Pistols to Bad Brains, skinheads to afropunks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been addressed in a comprehensive way. This book collects writings from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Ian stuart and The Clash’s Paul Simenon, and reports on punk scenes from Tunisia to Toronto. Put together in an entertaining way to appeal to both students and fans, White Riot includes photos, lyrics, and letters as well as articles from a wide array of punk rockers, scenesters, and scholars. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676880, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 336 pages Verso Quantity The Arts

1 Henry IV

Julian Barnes

A Critical Guide

Sebastian Groes, Roehampton University, UK, and Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire.

Stephen Longstaffe, University of Cumbria, UK.

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The Major Phases of Philip Roth

Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, and Paul Jenner, all Loughborough University, UK.

Fifty years into Philip Roth’s career, agreement has not yet been reached on the nature of his achievement. Is he the post-war Jewish-American writer par excellence, or a hyphenless American, commentator of American experience? Is he the faithful defender of the realist tradition, a citizen of the world, or the playful postmodernist? The Major Phases of Philip Roth confronts his remarkable diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism and psychoanalysis. This refreshing study is not intent on locating a single unifying theme. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441169709, NZRP$50.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Continuum Literature

David Gooblar, University of Cambridge, UK.

This book provides a critical introduction to novels produced in the United States between 1980 and the present. Compact yet wide-ranging, and written in vivid, accessible prose, it registers the diversity of contemporary American fiction and carefully situates this work in historical contexts. Detailed attention is given throughout to how America’s current novelists have responded to shifting gender politics, changes in the nation’s racial configuration, the increasing dominance of a commodity culture and to adjustments in the United States’ place in the world following the end of the Cold War and the increased pace of globalisation. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826436962, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Continuum Quantity Literature

Do the Gods Wear Capes?

Modernist Literature

Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes

A Guide for the Perplexed

Ben Saunders, University of Oregon.

Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Brash, bold, and sometimes brutal, superheroes might seem to epitomize modern pop-culture at its most melodramatic and mindless. But according to Ben Saunders, the appeal of the superhero is fundamentally metaphysical - even spiritual - in nature. In chapter-length analyses of the early comic book adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and Iron-Man, Saunders explores a number of complex philosophical and theological issues, including: the problem of evil; the will-to-power; the tension between intimacy and vulnerability; and the challenge of love, in the face of mortality. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826441980, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Continuum Quantity Literature

Modernist Literature both offers an historical overview and explains the contours of literary modernism by taking the reader through the major figures and texts, focusing particularly on the core years of 1900-1930 but also looking back to Modernism’s precursors and beyond to its legacy. Concentrating on the British Isles but covering principal American authors and referencing a much wider range of texts, Modernist Literature is written in a clear, accessible style that makes it an indispensable introduction to the subject. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826432629, NZRP$42.00 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Continuum Literature

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Heart of Darkness

Robert Musil and the NonModern

Third Edition

Mark Freed, Central Michigan University, USA.

Ross Murfin, Southern Methodist University, USA.

While Musil is a major scholarly industry in the German-speaking world, critical attention from English-speaking scholars remains disproportionately small. Moreover, there has been little engagement with Musil’s contribution to cultural theory from those working outside literary studies. Freed brings Musil into dialogue with critics of the modern such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Lyotard and argues that Musil’s theory and literary performance of essayism constitutes a strategy of nonmodernity: that is, an engagement with the problems of modernity that does not re-inscribe the distinctions on which modernism grounded itself. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441122513, NZRP$53.00 Publish May 2011, 192 pages Continuum Literature Quantity

This popular case study of Conrad’s classic short novel reprints an authoritative text together with essays written from a range of contemporary critical perspectives. In this third edition, the section of cultural documents and illustrations is entirely new, as are two recent exemplary critical essays by Gabrielle McIntire and Tony C. Brown. $38.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230333451, NZRP$45.00 Publish May 2011, 432 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature

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P erplexed

C ase S tudies in C ontemporary C riticism

The Contemporary American Novel in Context

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Julian Barnes is one of the most admired British writers of his generation. Although known primarily as a novelist and essayist, the ‘chameleon of British letters’ has written with distinction across the widest range of literary genres. This critical guide provides a wide range of current critical perspectives on Barnes’s work from best-selling novels of the 1980s, Flaubert’s Parrot and The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, up to his recent memoir Nothing to be Frightened of. Including contributions by some of the finest critics working in the contemporary field, it reflects the richness and diversity of one of Britain’s greatest living writers. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441152220, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 208 pages Continuum Quantity Literature

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N ew D irections in R eligion and L iterature

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1 Henry IV has always been one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays and this critical guide offers a comprehensive guide to the wide range of criticism on the play and its central figures, including Falstaff. It introduces the play’s critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826441966, NZRP$48.00 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum Quantity Literature

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Health & Lifestyle

Science & Environment

Bill Moyers Journal

The Believing Brain

The Conversation Continues

From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them As Truths

Bill Moyers is the winner of more than thirty Emmy awards and nine Peabody awards. One of the highest-rated public affairs programs on public television, Bill Moyers Journal drew up to two million weekly viewers from 2007 to 2010. Now, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues brings this groundbreaking work to the page. With extensive new commentary from Bill Moyers, here is an unparalleled guide to the debates, the cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people who have so powerfully shaped the world we live in. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781595586247, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 544 pages The New Press Health & Lifestyle Quantity

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Michael Shermer is the founder of Skeptic magazine.

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On Tolerance

Bottled Lightning

The Life Style Wars

Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy

Frank Furedi , University of Kent.

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In this pugnacious new book, Frank Furedi argues that despite the democratisation of public life and the expansion of freedom, society is dominated by a culture that not only tolerates but often encourages intolerance. Often the intolerance is directed at people who refuse to accept the conventional wisdom and who are stigmatised as ‘deniers’. Frequently intolerance comes into its own in clashes over cultural values and lifestyles. People are condemned for the food they eat, how they parent and for wearing religious symbols in public. This book challenges the ‘quiet mood of tolerance’ towards morally stigmatised forms of behaviour. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441120106, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 224 pages Continuum Quantity Health & Lifestyle

Seth Fletcher, Popular Science magazine.

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Urban Green

How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, and Gambling Feel So Good

Architecture for the Future

David J. Linden, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA.

Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cuttingedge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates looking to nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clean water at up to 5 litres an hour; beavers that reshape their environments while simultaneously enriching ecosystems; and mountains that offer a new way of imagining how a city could be built. By designing our homes and cities in harmony with the natural world, we can take the next step in the sustainable revolution. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230107632, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Science & Environment

Neil B. Chambers is an award-winning green architect.

David J. Linden explains how new research has deciphered how and when pleasure takes control of the brain - and when it won’t let go. He illuminates how behaviours that lead us to ecstasy can just as easily become compulsive: why are nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? Why has the search for safe appetite suppressants failed? This enjoyable and provocative book delves beyond what we like into why we can’t stop ourselves from liking it - even when we think we can. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851688241, NZRP$34.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Oneworld Publications Quantity Health & Lifestyle

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B E S T S E L L E R

Adam's Tongue

How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care

M acmillan S cience

From electric cars to a “smart” power grid that can actually store electricity, letting us harness the powers of the sun and wind and use them when we need them, lithium - a metal found only in some of the most uninhabitable places on Earth - is setting us on a path toward a carbon-free future. It’s also shifting the geopolitical chessboard in profound ways. In this illuminating, entertaining, and timely book, the science reporter Seth Fletcher takes us on a fascinating journey, introducing us to the key players and ideas in an industry with the power to reshape the world. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780809030538, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 304 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity Science & Environment

Pleasure

Smart Medicine

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Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805091250, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 400 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity Science & Environment

William Hanson, University of Pennsylvania.

How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community: pharmacies that double as walk-in clinics; health services that will be delivered online; electronic records that hold the history of every drug or blood test you ever took. The plethora of new options will change the way you and your doctor make decisions. Sophisticated yet written in easily accessible language, this is a penetrating look at the new world of medicine. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230621152, NZRP$49.95 Publish May 2011, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Health & Lifestyle

How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780809016471, NZRP$29.95 Published March 2010, 304 pages Henry Holt and Company Science & Environment

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