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LEAD TITLES The Other Hundred 100 Faces, 100 Places, 100 Stories Chandran Nair is the founder and CEO of the Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Pankaj Mishra was born in northwest India in 1969 and lives in London and Mashobra, India. He has published fiction and non-fiction and writes for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and the Guardian. The Forbes 100, the Fortune 500, Bloomberg's Billionaire Index... the list of rich lists is endless. Here instead are the stories of The Other Hundred - those people who aren't among the world's rich, but whose lives deserve to be celebrated. The Other Hundred is an initiative of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, an independent social think tank based in Hong Kong, dedicated to advancing an understanding of the reshaping of the rules of global capitalism. A judging panel including leading photographers Richard Wilkes, Richard Hsu and Ruth Eichhorn, chose the images to be included in this book from over 11,000 images submitted by 1,500 photographers. The 100 stunning photographs that comprise The Other Hundred provide glimpses into the lives of real people and their struggles, triumphs, hopes, and dreams. The Other Hundred is not a commercial project; a proportion of all proceeds will be donated to the subjects of the photographs or organisations dedicated to addressing social issues and inequality across the globe. $54.95 Hb, ISBN 9781780743752 Publish November 2013, 240 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$69.95
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William Shakespeare and Others Collaborative Plays Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK and Eric Rasmussen is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA. In partnership with the RSC, Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen present William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays. Bringing together, for the first time in a hundred years, the fascinatingly varied body of plays that became known as The Shakespeare Apocrypha, this is the companion to the bestseller The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works. This is also the first Shakespeare edition to include the 1602 edition of Thomas Kyd’s pioneering The Spanish Tragedy, with ‘addition’ that the latest research attributes to Shakespeare. The collection includes Sir Thomas More, which contains the only scene from any play to survive in Shakespeare’s own handwriting; the history play Edward III, including a superb seduction scene by Shakespeare; and the domestic murder tragedy Arden of Faversham, in which Shakespeare’s hand has been detected by recent computer-assisted analysis. $35.00 Hb, ISBN 9781137271440 Publish November 2013, 752 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$45.00 List of plays: 1. Arden of Faversham 6. Sir Thomas More 2. Locrine 7. The London Prodigal 3. Edward III 8. A Yorkshire Tragedy 4. Thomas Lord Cromwell 9. Mucedorus 5. The Spanish Tragedy 10. Double Falsehood; or The Distressed Lovers Quantity
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Egyptomania Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs Bob Brier, known as Mr. Mummy,is a Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and the author of eight books, including The Murder of Tutankhamen. In 2010 National Geographic TV presented his documentary Secret of the Great Pyramid. Egyptomania explores the burning fascination with all things Egyptian and the events that fanned the flames - from ancient times, to Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign, to the Discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb by Howard Carter in the 1920s. For forty years, Bob Brier, one of the world’s foremost Egyptologists, has been amassing one of the largest collections and seeking to understand the pull of Ancient Egypt on our world today. In this original and groundbreaking book, he explores our three thousand year old fixation with recovering Egyptian culture and its meaning. He traces our enthrallment with the mummies that seem to have cheated death and the pyramids that seem to have grown from the sand. Drawing on Bob’s personal collection - from Napoleon’s twenty volume Egypt encyclopaedia to Howard Carter’s letters to an actual mummy - Egyptomania is an inventive and mesmerizing tour of how an ancient civilisation endures in in ours today. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137278609 Publish November 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
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Illness The Cry of the Flesh, Second edition Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK.
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What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel shows how the concepts and language used to describe illness today are inappropriate and misleading. Too often illness is viewed as a localised biological dysfunction while ignoring the actual experience of the ill person, their fears, their hopes, the way they interact with others and, ultimately, experience life. By focusing on the impact of illness on the ill person's life and reflecting on the experience of illness as lived from within, Carel shows how illness is a life-changing process rather than a limited physiological problem. Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or not - view the ill and challenges us to become more thoughtful. Illness unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844657537 Publish November 2013, 240 pages Acumen NZRRP$34.95 From the book: “Illness and decay are universal features of life, human and non-human. So why is illness, as a woman with bowel cancer wrote to me, “a dirty little secret” that sick people share? What are the contents of this secret? What is the experience of being ill like? In order to begin to answer these questions we need a philosophical approach that enables us to express the experience of illness. This book unpacks the “dirty little secret” of illness in an attempt to make it less secretive and hopefully less lonely. The tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private and isolating nature is a riddle I hope to begin unravelling in this book.” Quantity
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$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681442 Publish November 2013 256 pages Verso NZRRP$39.95
The Age of Globalization
American Heretic
Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination
Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance
Benedict Anderson, Cornell University, UK.
Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University, USA.
History is forged through the travel of ideas across continents - as well as by bombs. The Age of Globalization (previously published as Under Three Flags) is an account of unlikely connections that made up late nineteenthcentury politics and culture, and in particular between militant anarchists in Europe and the Americas, and anti-imperialist uprisings in Cuba, China and Japan. Told through the complex intellectual interactions of two great Filipino writers - the political novelist Jose Rizal and the pioneering folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes - The Age of Globalization is a brilliantly original work on how global exchanges shaped the nationalist movements of the time.
In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty. The idea that the United States is a stronghold of religious freedom is central to its identity as a nation-and utterly at odds with the historical record. The author traces the arc of American religious discrimination and shows that, far from the dominant protestant religions being kept in check by the separation between church and state, religious groups from Quakers to Judaism have been subjected to similar patterns of persecution. Today, many of these same religious groups that were once regarded as anti-thetical to American values are embraced as evidence of its strong religious heritage-giving hope to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups now under fire.
$42.00 Hb ISBN 9781137278296 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
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Aspects of Classical Civilization
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
$55.00 Pb ISBN 9780415611213 Publish November 2013 368 pages Routledge NZRRP$69.95
The Culture of War in China
Second Edition
Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty
Richard Alston, University of London, UK.
Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University, USA.
Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, the book examines the emperors and key events that shaped Rome's institutions and political form. Blending social and economic history with political history, Richard Alston's revised edition leads students through key issues, introducing sources, exploring techniques by which those sources might be read, and encouraging students to develop their historical judgement. This expanded and revised edition of Aspects of Roman History, covering an additional 45 years of history from Actium to the death of Augustus, provides an invaluable introduction to Roman Imperial history, surveying the way in which the Roman Empire changed the world and offering critical perspectives on how we might understand that transformation.
Was the primary focus of the Qing dynasty really civil rather than military matters? In this ground-breaking book, Joanna WaleyCohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China. She argues that the civil and the military were understood as mutually complementary forces. Emperors underpinned military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. The Culture of War in China is a striking revisionist history that brings new insight into the roots of Chinese nationalism and the modern militarised state.
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766683 Publish November 2013 176 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$69.95
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$69.00 Pb ISBN 9780415711395 Publish November 2013 560 pages Routledge NZRRP$87.00
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Collected Papers on Alexander the Great
The Cyrenaics
Ernst Badian, formerly of Harvard University, USA.
The Cyrenaic school of philosophy (named after its founder Aristippus' native city of Cyrene in North Africa) flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Ugo Zilioli's book provides the first book-length introduction to the school in English. The book begins by introducing the main figures of the Cyrenaic school beginning with Aristippus and by setting them into their historical context. Furthermore the book offers an overview of ancient and modern interpretations of the Cyrenaics, to provide readers with alternative accounts of the doctrines they endorsed and of the role they played in the context of ancient thought. Finally, the book offers a reconstruction of Cyrenaic philosophy and shows how the ethical side of their speculation connected with the epistemology and ontology they endorsed and that, as a result, the Cyrenaics were able to offer a quite sophisticated philosophy.
Ugo Zilioli, University of Pisa, Italy.
Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. Badian's earliest work transformed understanding of aspects of the Roman Republic, and he continued to work on that area throughout his career; but his series of studies of Alexander the Great (which he deliberately never summed up in a synoptic work) demolished the hero of his predecessors such as Droysen and Tarn, whom he regarded as starry-eyed hero-worshippers, and created an Alexander on the model of a twentieth-century tyrant. The Alexander who was a ruthless killer of his rivals and those who disagreed with him, a mass-murderer in his conquests, and perhaps even an incompetent imperialist, has superseded the Alexander whose mission it was to bring Greek civilization to the ends of the earth.
$49.95 Pb ISBN 9781844657636 Published August 2013 240 pages Acumen NZRRP$69.95
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The Coptic Christian Heritage
The Famine Plot
History, Faith and Culture
England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Lois M. Farag, Luther Seminary, USA.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415781039 Publish November 2013 336 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best known historian.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the heritage of Coptic Christians. The contributors combine academic expertise with intimate and practical knowledge of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic heritage. The chapters explore historical, cultural, literary and material aspects, including: the history of Christianity in Egypt, from the pre-Christian era to the modern day Coptic religious culture: theology, monasticism, spirituality, liturgy and music the Coptic language, linguistic expressions of the Coptic heritage and literary production in Greek, Coptic and Arabic material culture and artistic expression of the Copts: from icons, mosaics and frescos to manuscript illuminations, woodwork and textiles.
$26.00 Pb ISBN 9781137278838 Publish November 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$32.00
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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Forta Mor, the Great Hunger. In this sweeping history, Tim Pat Coogan tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing death and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the ninetenth century and finally calls to account those responsible. Quantity
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Fleeting Cities
The Ottoman World
Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Christine Woodhead, University of Durham, UK.
Alexander C. T. Geppert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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$69.00 Pb ISBN 9780415711784 Published June 2013 560 pages Routledge NZRRP$87.00
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Media and the British Empire
A People's Art History of the United States
Chandrika Kaul, University of St Andrews, UK. The book examines the role of media and communications in shaping the British imperial experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors seek to situate the role of media in the context of the empire and in the process throw light on the history of the media itself - in each case exhibiting sensitivity to the problematic relationship between media and the practice of imperial domination, of the economics of news collection and distribution, as well as the differing viewpoints of producers and consumers. In geographic terms, the coverage of the essays is equally wide, with contributions relating to South Africa, Kenya, Central Africa and Bechuanaland, Britain and the Indian sub-continent, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Canada, and Malaya.
250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements Nicolas Lampert, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, USA.
$44.95 Hb ISBN 9781595583246 Publish November 2013 400 pages The New Press NZRRP$54.95
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$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766553 Published November 2013 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95
Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond. This book introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Stylishly illustrated with over two hundred images, this book is nothing less than an alternative education for anyone interested in the powerful role that art plays in our society. Quantity
Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee
Pilgrims and Sultans
Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century
The Hajj Under the Ottomans
Dana Sajdi, Boston College, USA.
The pilgrimage to Mecca - the hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its history or of the conditions under which thousands of pilgrims from far flung regions of the Islamic world travelled to the heart of the Arabian peninsula. This pioneering book concentrates on the pilgrimage in the sixteenth and seventeeth centirues, when Mecca was ruled by the Ottoman sultans. At a time when, for the majority of the faithful, the journey was long, arduous and fraught with danger, the provision of food, water, shelter and protection for pilgrims presented a major challenge to the provincial governors of the vast Ottoman empire. Drawing on rich documentation left by Ottoman administrators and on the accounts of contemporary pilgrims, Suraiya Faroghi here sheds new light on the trials and experiences of everyday life for those undertaking the hajj.
Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
This book offers a critical exploration of definitive cultural phenomena of the Ottoman eighteenth century, such as, the coffee house, the printing press, imperial architecture and royal pageantry and festivals. In doing so, the book reassesses the history and unravels the historiography of the so-called 'Tulip Period'. Further, the book also reconsiders the coffeehouse to see it as a multifunctional space, which was used variously for such diverse means and ends as a rebel headquarters, a Sufi lodge, police station and racketeering office. Most importantly, this book attempts to transcend current debates about the purported Ottoman eighteenth century cultural and political decline and the twin teleologies of Westernization and modernisation. It views the Ottoman empire in its natural geography of Eurasia and its interactions as significantly with the East as much as with the West.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767710 Publish November 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$39.95
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New Press People’s History
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781137358318 Published August 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$58.00
Routledge Worlds
$51.00 Pb ISBN 9781137358325 Published July 2013 480 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$64.00
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world-wide web. Conceptualizing exhibitions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities undertakes a transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed within the European metropolis. Focusing on five such expositions - the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung (1896), the fifth Parisian Exposition Universelle (1900), the FrancoBritish Exhibition in London (1908), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924/25), and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris (1931) - this award-winning book examines their specific aims and aspirations, evolving forms and execution, and the public debates they engendered.
The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disintegration during World War I, it encompassed a diverse range of ethnic, religious and linguistic communities with varying political and cultural backgrounds. Yet, was there such a thing as an ‘Ottoman world' beyond the principle of sultanic rule from Istanbul? Ottoman authority might have been established largely by military conquest, but how was it maintained for so long, over such distances and so many disparate societies? The Ottoman World addresses these questions, examining aspects of the social and socioideological composition of this major premodern empire, and offers a combination of broad synthesis and detailed investigation that is both informative and intended to raise points for future debate.
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$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780415840552 Publish November 2013 896 pages Routledge NZRRP$75.00
AD 180-395, Second Edition
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War
David Potter, University of Michigan, USA.
Stephen Conway, University College London, UK.
This is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religionChristianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative than it was in the past. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed?
Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; and from the American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of the British at Yorktown (1781), the entire contest is now emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The Thirteen Colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution but situates it on the wider, global canvas of European warfare.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781848858138 Published April 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant on Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire Dionysios Stathakopoulos, King's College London, UK.
Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University, USA.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9780415507868 Publish November 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.00
Throughout his career Kant engaged with many of the fundamental questions in philosophy of religion: arguments for the existence of God, the soul, the problem of evil, and the relationship between moral belief and practice. Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is his major work on the subject. This Guidebook is an excellent starting point for anyone coming to Kant's important but complex work for the first time. Lawrence Pasternack introduces and assesses Kant's life and the background to Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, the ideas and arguments of the text, and the continuing importance of Kant's work to philosophy of religion today.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780761947 Publish November 2013 192 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$39.95
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$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781844655793 Publish November 2013 160 pages Acumen NZRRP$43.00
The Byzantine Empire was one of the most impressive imperial adventures in history. From Constantine's establishment of Byzantium (renamed Constantinople) as his capital in 324 CE, until the fall of the city to the Ottomans in the fifteenth century, the Byzantines became a powerhouse of literature, art, theology, medicine, law and learning. The author tells a compelling story of military conquest, alliance and reversal, including the terrifying secret weapon of ‘Greek fire'. His new short history is above all a narrative of individuals: of powerful rulers like Justinian I, who recovered Italy from the Vandals and oversaw construction of Hagia Sofia (completed in 537); of his notorious queen Theodora; of the charismatic but cuckolded general Belisarius; and of the religious leaders Arius and Athanasius, whose conflicting ideas about Christ and doctrine shook the Empire to its core. Quantity
Spinoza's Radical Theology
The Swastika's Darkening Shadow
The Metaphysics of the Infinite
Voices Before the Holocaust
Charlie Huenemann, Utah State University, USA.
Monty Noam, Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Israel.
The advent of modern science brought deep challenges to traditional religion. Miracles, prophecy, immortal souls, absolute morality - all of these fundamental notions were challenged by the increasingly analytical and skeptical approach of modern scientists. One philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, proposed a new theology, rooted in a close analysis of the Bible, which could fit this new science and provide a sound basis for a social order. Spinoza's Radical Theology explains the mechanics and meaning of Spinoza's ideas and how they can inform the questions with which we still struggle today.
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9781137302465 Publish November 2013 336 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$55.00
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In the years leading up to the Second World War, the Jews of Europe faced unprecedented fear and anguish as the noose of antisemitism gradually tightened around them. The convulsive spasm of murderous violence that would overtake them, later called the Holocaust, has been impressively examined by historians in the past several decades, as has the steady persecution of the pre-war Jewish community under the Third Reich. Yet the spread of Jewhatred across the Continent, rooted in numerous reports of that grim reality, has thus far eluded serious, comprehensive inspection. This volume shines a lucid spotlight on the years between Adolf Hitler's advent as Chancellor of Germany and his unleashing of the Second World War, revealing how imperiled European Jews navigated their world as darkness closed about.
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I.B. Tauris Short Histories
The Routledge History of the Ancient World
The Roman Empire at Bay
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767680 Publish November 2013 240 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$39.95
Syria and the USA
War Memories
Washington's Relations with Damascus from Wilson to Eisenhower
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture
Sami Moubayed, Syrian University, Syria.
Alan Forrest, University of York, UK; Etienne Francois; Free University of Berlin, Germany and Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina, USA.
Although American missionaries had visited the Middle East in the nineteenth century, it was not until after World War I that Syrian and US dignitaries met in an official capacity. In the aftermath of World War II the relationship took a new turn, as the US was accused of involvement in the series of coups and countercoups that rocked the young republic from 1949 until the ill-fated Syrian-Egyptian union of 1958. In the forty years between 1919 and 1959, envoys from the White House, along with presidential candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties and US celebrities like Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller all came to Damascus and reported - in many different ways - their observations.
$51.00 Pb ISBN 9781137365408 Published August 2013 414 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$64.00
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$21.00 Pb ISBN 9780956873224 Publish November 2013 90 pages Lynne Rienner NZRRP$26.00
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Syria During the Cold War
Who is Who?
The East European Connection
The Philosophy of Doctor Who
Przemysław Gasztold-Senm Institute of National Remembrance, Poland; Massimiliano Trentin, Universities of Padua, Italy and Jan Adamec, Charles University, Czech Republic.
Kevin S. Decker, Eastern Washington University, USA.
Along with its close ties with the Soviet Union, Syria maintained important relations with several smaller Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War. The authors of Syria During the Cold War draw on local archival material to illuminate the motivations, developments, and difficulties of the relationships between the regime in Damascus and the governments of Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia in this formative era.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781780765532 Publish November 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$44.95
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$58.00 Hb ISBN 9781780761633 Publish November 2013 336 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$73.00
The memory of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was so powerful across Europe. The military expansion ensured that no part of Europe remained untouched by the wars and by the political, economic and social changes that accompanied them. This interdisciplinary volume brings together an international team of experts who study how experiences and memories were transmitted to future generations in European culture and explore the various media through which they passed. This focus allows the authors to examine the intersection between experience and memory, between the private and the public, literature and art, and between the memories of the individual, groups, regions, nations, and the continent of Europe.
Doctor Who is 50 years' old in 2013. Through its long life on television and beyond it has inspired much debate due to the richness and complexity of the metaphysical and moral issues that it poses. This is the first in-depth philosophical investigation of Doctor Who in popular culture. It considers continuity and change in the pictures that the programme paints of the nature of truth and knowledge, science and religion, space and time, good and evil, including the uncanny, the problem of evil, the Doctor's complex ethical motivations, questions of persisting personal identity in the Time Lord processes of regeneration, the nature of time travel through 'wibbley-wobbley, timeywimey stuff’, how quantum theory affects our understanding of time; and the nature of the mysterious and irrational in the Doctor's universe. Quantity
The Third Reich
The Wife of Jesus
On the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Cambridge University, UK.
Anthony Le Donne, University of the Pacific, California.
Throughout his life Hugh Trevor-Roper sought to understand the forces that had allowed Nazism to emerge in German society. He was constantly in search of answers to his most pressing question: how was it possible that a regime so violent and barbarous, without effective opposition, emerged in a society which had seemed a stable and highly civilised European country? This book represents the most important and most compelling aspects of Trevor-Roper's work on the Third Reich - much of which is previously unpublished. Together, it demonstrates the force, coherence and durability of his underlying convictions and arguments, combining vivid reporting and the re-creation of contemporary experience with a long-term perspective on the Nazi phenomenon.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780743059 Publish November 2013 208 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$38.00
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Was Jesus married? The question has the power to inflame opinion, split religions, start wars and divide Christians and scholars alike. Whether stirred up by the phenomenal success of Dan Brown's novels or the 'discovery' last year by Harvard Professor Karen King of the so-called Gospel of Jesus' Wife - an ancient piece of papyrus that made the explosive suggestion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were man and wife - the matter refuses to rest, and remains unsolved. Original research in the area has been undermined by a vigorous campaign to dismiss the possibility of Jesus' marriage, a cause further strengthened by the popularity of conspiracy theories. Le Donne places Jesus firmly within his socio-cultural context and provocatively argues that the evidence has only one conclusion: Jesus had a wife.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Bosnia's Million Bones Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle Christian Jennings is a journalist and human rights activist who has written for Wired and The Economist, among others. What would it be like to be tasked with finding, exhuming from dozens of mass graves, and then identifying the mangled bodyparts of an estimated 8,100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia? A leading forensic scientist likened it to ‘solving the world’s greatest forensic science puzzle’ and in 1999 one DNA laboratory, run by the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo, decided to do just that. Thirteen years on, the ICMP are the international leaders in using DNAassisted technology to assist in identifying the thousands of persons worldwide missing from wars, mass human-rights abuses and natural disasters. Christian Jennings, a foreign correspondent and former staffer at the ICMP, tells the story of the organization and how they are now gathering forensic evidence of those killed in Libya and Iraq, and tracing the victims of brutal regimes in Chile and Colombia. He describes too how they helped identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami, in this moving and fast-paced story about the power of science to bring justice to broken countries. Now used as evidence at war crimes trials in The Hague, the technology described in Bosnia’s Million Bones is an amazing story of modern science, politics, and the quest for truth. It is real-life CSI in action. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137278685 Publish November 2013, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$64.95
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Out of Time The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College, UK. A profound and sympathetic investigation of ageing, in life and literature In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Diana Athill and writers, poets and thinkers who have all written about the fears, liberation and experience of ageing, Out of Time looks at the perils and potential pleasures of growing old. It is a brave and powerful refusal to disappear, a rallying cry for the persistence of life after sixty, and a convincing rebuttal of the war of the generations and the end of baby-boomer bashing. Combining memoir, analysis and politics, Segal explores the problems of dealing with loss and how to find victory in survival. She raises the possibilities of continued desire and identity where often the aged are become forgotten and increasingly invisible. This is a brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of ageing. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781781681398 Publish November 2013, 320 pages Verso NZRRP$49.95 “An international treasure... her beautifully written, deeply engrossing work... will inspire new generations.” - Barbara Ehrenreich “Unique capacity for clarity and wit, along with her courage of intellect.” - Sheila Rowbotham “One of the most capacious readers of feminism and sexuality studies I have ever encountered.” - Judith Butler Quantity
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$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137347176 Published July 2013 246 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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Advertising in the Age of Persuasion
An Age of Limits
Building Brand America 1941-1961
Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK.
Dawn Spring, University of Cincinnati, USA.
Ralph Schroeder develops a new social theory centred on the notion of limits. The current era, from the 1970s onwards, has seen a departure from the three defining trends of the modern age: the struggle for social citizenship rights, the disembedding of markets, and the transformation of nature. Based on a comparative-historical analysis, the book argues that there are now similar constraints on social development throughout the global North and beyond. These constraints include the waning of conflicts driving the extension and deepening of rights, the instability of increasing financialization, and the progressive lack of control over the exploitation of natural resources. The book explores several advanced Western democracies in depth, as well as China and India.
Social Theory for the 21st Century
In the 1940s and 1950s, American advertisers began an unprecedented collaboration with corporations, media, the government, and organized religion. Their goal was nothing less than an American-led global consumer order, supported by advertising-based media, in which brands took precedence over the corporations that owned them, and advertising, propaganda, and public relations became indistinguishable. This eye-opening history traces the remarkable story of how advertisers sought to ensure that they remained significant players in the postwar global order. Author Dawn Spring traces the efforts of key players such as Kodak, J. Walter Thompson, and Radio Free Europe to build relationships across multiple sectors and develop the broad-based and influential media infrastructure that continues to undergird America's global presence today.
$53.00 Pb ISBN 9780230360617 Published June 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$67.00
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS A Citizen’s Guide to American Foreign Policy
The Obama Administration's Policies
Tragic Choices and the Limits of Rationality
Shahram Akbarzadeh, University of Melbourne, Australia.
$48.00 Pb ISBN 9781137358813 Publish November 2013 284 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$61.00
David Patrick Houghton, University of Central Florida, UK.
The Middle East has been the centerpiece of American foreign policy for decades. As President Barack Obama faces continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear debate in Iran, and the ever-present Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the future of this region is once again firmly in the international spotlight. America's Challenges in the Greater Middle East charts US policy toward key Middle Eastern states and evaluates the impact of the current administration's policies. This edited volume brings together scholarly opinion from a diverse range of world-recognized experts and is the definitive text on the Obama administration's engagement with this volatile, yet politically vital, part of the world.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9780415844086 Publish November 2013 160 pages Routledge NZRRP$43.00
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The Arab Spring
Common Ground
Will It Lead to Democratic Transition?
Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Clement Henry, University of Texas, USA; Jang Ji-Hyang, Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Korea.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9781137344038 Publish November 2013 316 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.00
Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London, UK.
Nearly two years since it first erupted in Tunisia, the popular uprisings of the 'Arab Spring' continue to shake the foundations of decades of authoritarian rule across the Middle East and North Africa. While their precise nature or the political, economic and strategic implications for the region and the rest of the world have yet to be assessed, there is no doubt that they will be profound. With deep economic ties to the Middle East, Korea feels the impact of the political changes currently taking place in the region acutely, and the two regions' futures remain deeply intertwined. This timely project on the Arab Spring was initiated to provide the Asan Institute's own assessment of the changes currently taking place in the region and their significant implications for South Korea.
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9780745325316 Publish November 2013 272 pages Pluto NZRRP$54.95
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Houghton shows us that understanding American foreign policy often comes down to recognizing the cognitive limitations of the decision-makers, which affects the foreign policy process. This book asks questions like, "Why do presidents so often do things which seem to be directly against the national interests of the United States - not just in retrospect, but even at the time?" "Why does Congress sometimes tie the hands of the president in foreign affairs?" "Why do presidents seem to respond more to opinion polls or to what's on CNN and Fox News than they do to the core interests of the United States?" Houghton's overview helps us see past the partisan in-fighting that too often obscures the central issues in foreign affairs.
Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. The book asks how forces and ideas opposed to neoliberal hegemony, and to the individualist tradition in Western thought, might serve to protect some idea of communality, and how far we must accept assumptions about the nature of individuality and collectivity which are the legacy of an elitist tradition. Along the way it examines different ideas and practices of collectivity, from conservative notions of hierarchical and patriarchal communities to the politics of ‘horizontality' and ‘the commons' which are at the heart of radical movements today. Quantity
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The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
How Money and Donations Have Corrupted British Politics
Sylvia Longmire served as senior intelligence analyst on drug trafficking and border violence for California. She has been interviewed on Geraldo at Large, CNN and CNN International, and BBC World Radio, and her writing is regularly featured in Homeland Security Today magazine. Currently, Longmire is an independent consultant and testifies as an expert witness on US asylum cases. She lives in the St. Louis metro area.
Bobby Friedman is the author of a biography of John Bercow (2011).
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground where people will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to willing American consumers. Longmire offers real solutions to the critical problems facing Mexico and the United States.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780742526 Publish November 2013 256 pages Oneworld Publication NZRRP$38.00
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Welcome to the murky world of political donations. Big business, eccentric loners, fraudsters, and dodgy wheeler-dealers are all rubbing shoulders against some of the most senior politicians in the country - and they expect something in return for their money. From Bernie Ecclestone's controversial £1m gift to New Labour, through Cash for Honours to David Cameron's "kitchen suppers", Bobby Friedman uncovers the toxic system that turns upstanding party treasurers and cabinet ministers into shady courters of the rich. Revealing the tricks that party financiers use to circumvent electoral rules and informed by interviews with wealthy donors and key political figures, he lays bare the truth behind the next looming political scandal after Leveson and the expenses fiasco. Quantity
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Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs
America's Challenges in the Greater Middle East
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$46.00 Pb ISBN 9780415857826 Publish November 2013 216 pages Earthscan NZRRP$58.00
The Energy of Nations
The Gloss of Harmony
Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance
The Politics of Policy Making in Multilateral Organisations
Jeremy Leggett is a columnist for the Guardian and the Times.
Birgit Müller, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France.
Five systemic risks threatening the global economy. One entrepreneur day to day in the guts of them all. His story is a voyage of discovery into the way the human mind works, the institutionalization of denial, and the reasons civilizations fail. It is also one of tantalizing hope. We have the means to escape the crashes awaiting us, or to soften their blows. Many in society realize this, and are acting, racing to find a road to renaissance before it is too late. This is their story too.
The Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunded organisations with the responsibility of tackling some of the essential problems of our time. The book shows how international organisations shape the world in often unexpected and unpredictable ways. The authors of this collection look not only at the official objectives and unintended consequences of international governance but also at how international organisations involve collective and individual actors in policy making, absorb critique, attempt to neutralise political conflict and create new political fields with local actors and national governments.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780745333748 Publish November 2013 272 pages Pluto NZRRP$72.00
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Goodman for Architects
The Basics
Remei Capdevila-Werning, Columbia University (2009-11), USA.
Harold Schobert, Penn State University, USA.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415639378 Publish November 2013 144 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
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Gender
The Implosion of Capitalism
The Basics
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum, based in Senegal.
Hilary Lips, Radford University, USA. She has won a number of awards including the Distinguished American Scholar Award from the New ZealandUnited States Educational Foundation.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9780415689540 Publish November 2013 320 pages Routledge NZRRP$43.00
American philosopher Nelson Goodman (19061998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman's philosophy which have been the most influential among architects and architectural theorists. Goodman specifically discussed architecture in his major work on aesthetics, The Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968), and in two essays How Buildings Mean (1985), and On Capturing Cities (1991). His main philosophical notions in Ways of Worldmaking (1978) also apply well to architecture. This book shows that the methods, concepts, and ways of arguing characteristic of analytical philosophy are helpful tools to examine buildings in a novel and fruitful way and they will certainly enhance the architect's critical skills when designing and thinking about architecture.
Gender: The Basics is an engaging introduction which encourages the reader to pay attention to the impact of cultural, historical, biological, psychological and economic forceson the qualities which have come to be defined as masculine or feminine in particular contexts. Highlighting that there is far more to gender than biological sex, it takes a global perspective to examine the interaction between gender and topics including relationships, intimacy and concepts of sexuality; the workplace and labour markets; gender related violence and war; public health, poverty and development; and the ageing process.
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In The Implosion of Capitalism renowned political economist Samir Amin analyses the contours of a world in crisis. He connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - in a coherent and historically based account. In light of these major crisis and tensions, Amin updates and modifies the classical definitions of social classes, political parties, social movements and ideology. In doing so he lays bare the reality of monopoly capitalism in its general, global form. In a bravura conclusion, Amin argues that the current capitalist system is not viable and that implosion is unavoidable.
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Thinkers for Architects
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9780415603010 Publish November 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$43.00
People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet? How do we deal with nuclear waste? What happens when the oil runs out? Energy: The Basics answers these questions but it also does much more. In this engaging yet even-handed introduction, readers are introduced to the concept of ‘energy' and what it really means; the ways energy is currently generated and the sources used; new and emerging energy technologies such as solar power and biofuels and the impacts of energy use on the environment including climate change.
CURRENT AFFAIRS & PHILOSOPHY In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon
The NYPD Tapes A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage
Stories of Repression in the New China
Graham Rayman is a writer for The Village Voice. His NYPD Tapes series has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award, the Harvard Goldsmith award, and a half-dozen other prizes.
Xu Youyu and Hua Ze, both are signatories of Charter 08. In China, public beatings, gruelling official questioning, and unexplained detentions have become common place. In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon is a revealing look at life under this police state. Brave Chinese citizens from all walks of life share their stories of brutality and oppression to expose the shocking and violent truth. $24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278791 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95
$41.00 Hb ISBN 9780230342279 Publish November 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$52.00
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The Indian Ideology
Only One Thing Can Save Us
Perry Anderson, UCLA, USA.
Why Our Country Needs to Snap Out of It and Have a New Kind of Labor Movement
Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society underwrite such claims. This book suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much deeper, historically. They lie, in the way the struggle for independence culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a divided subcontinent, not least in the roles played by Gandhi as the great architect of the movement, and Nehru as his appointed successor, in the catastrophe of Partition. Only an honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what has gone wrong with the Republic since Independence. The 'Idea of India', widely diffused not only in the official establishment, but more broadly in mainstream intellectual life, side-steps or suppresses many of these uncomfortable realities, past and present.
Thomas Geoghegan is the author of several books, including the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Which Side Are You On?
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781595588364 Publish November 2013 224 pages The New Press NZRRP$44.95
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$24.95 Hb ISBN 9781137278371 Publish November 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead of admitting mistakes and pledging reform Schoolcraft's superiors forced him into a mental hospital in an effort to discredit the evidence. In The NYPD Tapes, the reporter who first broke the Schoolcraft story brings his ongoing saga up to date, revealing the rampant abuses that continue in the NYPD today, including warrantless surveillance and systemic harassment.
In Only One Thing Can Save Us, acclaimed author Thomas Geoghegan asserts that only a new kind of labor movement can help the country switch course toward a future that is fair and prosperous for all Americans. We need a revived labor movement, he explains, not only to stop the drop in wages, health insurance, and pensions over the past thirty years, but also to make the American economy more competitive by placing real limits on returns to our bloated financial sector; pushing for government support for health care and pensions; and promoting a new model of corporate governance. Geoghegan shows how a revitalized labor movement can help get the country out of debt-private debt, government debt, and most of all trade debt. Quantity
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The Palestinian Refugee Problem
The Will to Prevail
The Search for a Resolution
Danny Danon is deputy speaker of the Knesset, Israel.
Rex Brynen, McGill University, Canada and Roula El-Rifai, International Development Research Centre, Canada.
The United States continues to use Israel as a subordinate satellite at the same time as it imposes policies to be enforced by the State without thought to whether they are in Israel's best interests. A new generation coming to power in Israel sees that the present moment is the crucial time for Israel to assert its sovereignty to the external forces who have mistreated the country. From this new generation, Danny Danon has become a strong voice for Israelis who no longer care to acquiesce to the demands of others. Envisioning a bold new path to a final peace in a region that continues to argue over the same failed solutions, Danon shows how a victorious, independent Israel that is able to defend its borders and interests without foreign intervention is not only beneficial to establishing peace in the region, but to world at large.
$58.00 Pb ISBN 9780745333380 Published August 2013 304 pages Pluto NZRRP$73.00
In this unique volume, leading analyst - many of whom have been actively involved in pas negotiations on this issue - provide an overview of the key dimensions of the Palestinian refugee problem. Mindful of the sensitive and contested nature of the subject, none offers a single solution. Instead, each contribution summarises and synthesises the existing scholarly and governmental work on the topic. Each paper developed an array of policy options for resolving various aspects of the refugee issue, written in such a way as to provide a broad menu of choices rather than a single narrow set of recommendations. No other work on the Palestinian refugee issue has undertaken such a task.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Permanent Emergency
The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought
Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security
A Historical Survey of the Major Muslim Political Thinkers of the Modern Era
Kip Hawley, Transportation Security Administration, USA.
$24.00 Pb ISBN 9781137278326 Published July 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
Abdelillah Belkeziz, Hasan II University, Morroco.
In this riveting exposé, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley unveils the agency's ongoing battle to outthink and outmaneuver terrorists, navigating bureaucratic limitations and public disdain to stay one step ahead of catastrophe. Citing foiled terrorist plots and near misses that have never been publicly revealed, Hawley suggests that the fundamental flaw in America's approach to national security is the belief that we can plan for every contingency. Instead, he argues, we must learn to manage reasonable levels of risk so we can focus our near-term energy on stopping truly catastrophic events while, in the long-term, engaging passengers to support a less rigid and more sustainable security strategy.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766492 Publish November 2013 224 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95
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The debates on 'Islam and Modernity' clearly include in their analysis notions of the State. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of 'the state' (al-dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which encompasses three successive waves: the modernist trends of the early and later reformers like Sayyed Jamal Eddin Al-Afghani; the dogmatism of ideologues like Hasan Al-Bana; and the rhetoric of revivalists like the Ayatollah Khomeini. Through this analysis, Belkeziz argues that modern Islamic political thought succeeded in producing ideologies, but ultimately failed to produce a unified theory of state. Quantity
Pink Sari Revolution
State of Failure
A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India
Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State
Amana Fontanella-Khan.
Jonathan Schanzer, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, USA.
When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the badlands of India, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she alleged that she had been abused by a man in the politician’s household. But then Sampat Pal heard word of the charges, and the formidable commander of the pink-sari-wearing, pinkbaton-wielding, 20,000-strong Gulabi Gang, a.k.a the ‘Pink’ Gang, decided to shake things up. In the story of Sampat Pal and the Pink Gang’s fight for Sheelu, as well as others facing injustice and oppression at home or further afield, Amanda Fontanella-Khan delivers a riveting, inspiring portrait of women grabbing fate with their own hands - and winning back their lives.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781137278241 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
In State of Failure, Israeli-Palestine expert Jonathan Schanzer argues that the reasons behind Palestine’s inertia are far more complex than its supporters believe, and that, despite recent rumblings, the dream of statehood may again be scuttled by internal corruption and incompetence. Drawing on exclusive sources within the Palestine Authority, the author shows how Mahmoud Abbas used President George W. Bush’s support to catapult himself into the presidency. State of Failure reveals how Abbas, now four years past the end of his legitimate term, may cost the Palestinians everything.
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Media Participation and Alternative Democracy
The Big Truck That Went By
Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden.
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781137326379 Published August 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$52.00
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How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
As democracy encounters increasing difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics, and in so doing, making considerable use of the Web and other new communication technologies. Clearly this is having significant impact, and we see that new modes of political participation and even political cultures are emerging. Yet, we would be foolish to expect some simple 'techno-fix' for democracy; its problems are more complex than that. This volume analyses various factors that shape such Web-facilitated participation, including features of the Web itself as well as broader societal realities. Avoiding simplistic optimism or pessimism, the discussion highlights the tensions and force-fields that impact on participation. The presentation also addresses several key topics in regard to citizens' engagement, such as cosmopolitanism.
“First thoughts on being asked to review this book were negative… But I was glad I did. It tells much about the history, culture and politics of Haiti. It poses philosophical questions about the role of the developed world in assisting the third world and its relationship with the first world. And it makes one realise how fortunate we are living in Australia compared to such third world countries… While superficially about the Haitian quake and its after effects, the book is much more. And it reminds us what is less important here.” - Law Society Journal, July 2013 $24.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230341876 January 2013, 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$32.95
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR JFK in the Senate Pathway to the Presidency John Shaw is a senior correspondent and vice president for Market News International and a contributing writer for the Washington Diplomat. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks at how the young Senator was able to catapult himself on to the national stage. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader in the Senate, JFK never aspired to be "The Master of the Senate" who made deals and kept the institution under his control. Instead, he envisioned himself as a "Historian-Scholar-Statesman" in the mould of his hero Winston Churchill which he realized with the 1957 publication of Profiles of Courage that earned JFK a Pulitzer Prize and public limelight. Largely overlooked has been Kennedy's tenure on a special Senate committee to identify the five greatest senators in American history - JFK's work on this special panel coalesced his relationships in Congress. Based on primary documents from JFK's Senate years as well as memoirs, oral histories, and interviews with his top aides, JFK in the Senate provides new insight into an underappreciated aspect of his political career. $35.00 Hb, ISBN 9780230341838 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$45.00
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John F. Kennedy
A Memoir
Peter J. Ling, University of Nottingham, UK.
Phyllis Chesler, City University of New York, USA.
Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public's largely positive appraisal of this glamorous historical figure and professional historians' skeptical and mixed evaluation of a president who had only a foreshortened single term in which to make his mark. What made JFK the man he was? What were his policy goals, how did they shift, and how far did he manage to advance them? What was the Kennedy style of governance? Why was he killed and how can we explain the unprecedented outpouring of grief that his death elicited? Peter J. Ling explores all these important questions, sifting and synthesizing the prodigious mass of Kennedy scholarship to provide readers with a fresh and strongly contextualized portrait of the man and his presidency.
Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Fghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernised foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal costums. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. This is the story of how a naive American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415528863 Publish November 2013 336 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
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Marie Curie and Her Daughters
The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam
The Private Lives of Science's First Family Shelley Emling is the author of the highly acclaimed The Fossil Hunter.
James A. Warren is a military historian specializing in modern American military history.
$34.95 Hb ISBN 9780230107120 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$44.95
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts-the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts, he defeated both great Western powers and their Vietnamese allies, forever changing modern warfare. In Giap, military historian James A. Warren brings to life a revolutionary general who deftly defeated world powers against incredible odds. Synthesizing ideas and tactics from an extraordinary range of sources, Giap was one of the first to realize that war is not only a series of battles between two armies and that victory can be won through the strength of a society's social fabric.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278364 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95
Published to widespread acclaim, this book shows that far from a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, Marie Curie was nothing short of an iconoclast. Emling draws on personal letters released by Curie’s only granddaughter to show how Marie influenced her daughters yet let them blaze their own paths: Irene followed her mother’s footsteps into science and Eve traveled the world as a foreign correspondent and then moved on to humanitarian missions. Few people know about Curie’s close friendship with American journalist Missy Meloney, who arranged speaking tours across the country for Marie, Eve and Irene. Factually rich, personal, and original, this is an engrossing story about the most famous woman in science that rips the cover off the myth and reveals the real person, friend and mother behind it.
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Routledge Historical Biographies
$34.95 Hb ISBN 9780230342217 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$44.95
An American Bride in Kabul
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Harry S. Truman
My Life in Politics
The Coming of the Cold War
Jacques Chirac is a lifelong French politician and one of the most charismatic figures of twentieth century politics. He was president of France from 1995 to 2007. He also served as Prime Minister of France twice in the 1970s and 1980s, and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995. He is best known for being one of the most prominent international opponents of the Bush administration's intention to go to war in Iraq. He also worked to abate nuclear armament, banning the further continuation of nuclear tests in France.
Nicole Anslover, University of IndianaNorthwest, USA.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9780415895675 Publish November 2013 336 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
With his humble beginnings and straightforward manner, Truman was the personification of a typical American. As president, however, he dealt with decisions that were anything but typical. In the post-Cold War era, Harry S. Truman: The Coming of the Cold War provides insight into a pivotal moment in history that laid the foundations of today's politics and international relations. In this concise and accessible biography, Nicole L. Ansolver addresses the president's political and personal life to explore the lasting impact that Truman had on American society and America's role in the world. Supplemented by a diverse array of primary documents, including presidential addresses, private letters, and political cartoons, this narrative presents a key American figure to readers of history and politics.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278432 Publish November 2013 368 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95
Two-time French president Jacques Chirac is a pivotal figure in the twentieth-century political landscape - here, for the first time in English, he reveals the truth behind his time in politics. My Life in Politics is not only a riveting life story, but an important and compelling account of international politics from a true insider.
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John F. Kennedy
The True German
The Spirit of Cold War Liberalism
The Diary of a World War II Military Judge
Jason K. Duncan, Aquinas College, USA.
Werner Otto Müller-Hill was a military judge in the Wehrmacht and Robert Gellately, Oxford University, UK.
Despite the short length of his time in office, during his presidency, Kennedy dealt with many of the issues that would come to define the 1960s, including the burgeoning Cold War and the growing Civil Rights movement. Jason K. Duncan explains Kennedy's significance as a political figure of the 20th century in U.S. and world history. Duncan contextualizes Kennedy's political career through his personal life and addresses the legacy the president left behind. In a concise narrative supplemented by primary documents, including presidential speeches and critical reviews from the left and right, Duncan builds a biography that elucidates the impact of this iconic president and the history of the 1960s.
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John Winthrop
Uncompromised
Founding the City Upon a Hill
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab-American Patriot in the CIA
Michael Parker, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Egypt.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415818124 Publish November 2013 208 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
Werner Otto Müller-Hill served as a military judge in the Werhmacht during World War II. From March 1944 to the summer of 1945, he kept a diary, recording his impressions of what transpired around him as Germany hurtled into destruction - what he thought about the fate of the Jewish people, the danger from the Bolshevik East once an Allied victory was imminent, his longing for his home and family and, throughout it, a relentless disdain and hatred for the man who dragged his beloved Germany into this catacysm, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Muller-Hill’s diary has been hailed as a unique document, praised for its singular candor and uncommon insight into what the German army was like on the inside.
Nada Prouty was an undercover spy for the FBI and CIA for over a decade.
Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop is remembered for his role in the Puritan migration to the colonies and for delivering what is probably the most famous lay sermon in American history, "A Model of Christian Charity." In it he proclaimed that New England would be "a city upon a hill"--an example for future colonies. Michael Parker examines the political and religious history of this iconic figure. In this short biography, John Winthrop introduces readers to the colonial world, the Pequot Wars, and the history of American Exceptionalism.
$22.95 Pb ISBN 9780230342002 Published February 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
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Following a childhood in war-torn Lebanon with an abusive father, and facing the prospect of an arranged marriage, she jumped at the chance to forge her own path in America - a path that led to exciting undercover work in the FBI, then the CIA. But all this changed in the wake of 9/11, at the height of anti-Arab fervor, when federal investigators charged Prouty with passing intelligence to Hezbollah. Though the CIA and federal judge eventually exonerated Prouty of all charges, she was dismissed from the agency and stripped of her citizenship. In Uncompromised, Prouty tells her whole story in a bid to restore her name and reputation in the country that she loves. Beyond a thrilling story of espionage and betrayal, this is a sobering commentary on cultural alienation, the power of fear, and what it means to truly love America. Quantity
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$49.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767802 Publish November 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$64.95
Australian Author
A Spy in the Archives
The View From the Train
A Memoir of Cold War Russia
Cities and Other Landscapes
Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Sydney, Australia.
Patrick Keiller, Royal College of Art, UK.
In 1966 the historian Sheila Fitzpatrick travelled to Moscow to research in the Soviet archives. This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War, when the Soviets couldn't decide either to thaw out properly or re-freeze. Moscow, the world capital of socialism, was renowned for its drabness. The buses were overcrowded; there were endemic shortages and endless queues. This was also the age of regular spying scandals and tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions and it was no surprise that visiting students were subject to intense scrutiny by the KGB. In this book, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides a unique insight into everyday life in Soviet Moscow. Full of drama and colourful characters, her remarkable memoir highlights the dangers and drudgery faced by Westerners living under communism.
In his sequence of films, Patric Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. Referencing writers such as Benjamin and Lefebvre, this collection follows his career since the late 1970s, exploring themes including the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture and film; how cities change over time, and how films represent this; as well as accounts of cross-country journeys involving historical figures, unexpected ideas and an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain.
$32.95 Hb ISBN 9781781681404 Publish November 2013 228 pages Verso NZRRP$39.95
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$42.00 Hb ISBN 9781137278562 Publish November 2013 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
The Death of Punishment
Doctor Who, The Eleventh Hour
Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst
A Critical Celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat Era
Robert Blecker, New York Law School, USA.
Andrew O'Day is co-author, with Jonathan Bignell, of Terry Nation (2004).
For twelve years Robert Blecker wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Sentence, the result of the thousands of hours over twenty-five years spent with convicted street criminals inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. In between these extremes Blecker exposes the perversity of justice: The worst criminals live the best lives and criminal punishment-as currently conceived and practiced in the U.S. and Europe-doesn't really exist. The Sentence challenges the deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780760193 Publish November 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$39.95
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How Can You Represent Those People?
iDisorder Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us
Criminal Defense Stories Abbe Smith, Georgetown Law School, USA and Monroe H. Freedman, Hofstra University, USA.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137311948 Publish August 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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During 2013, Doctor Who, the world's longest running science fiction show, celebrates its 50th birthday. Published to celebrate the Doctor's anniversary, this book provides a valuable record of the current Doctor, Matt Smith, who arrived in 2010 and is still travelling in time and space. This first book devoted solely to the Steven Moffat/Matt Smith era is written by experts on the Doctor. It is wide-ranging and varied in viewpoint and explores such issues as the performance of the Doctor, the gothic and fairy tale genres, the portrayal of history on screen, gender and sexuality, the phenomenon of Christmas television, the transatlantic dimensions of the programme, its look and sound, promotional culture and audience response.
Larry Rosen, California State University, USA.
How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. Contributors include prominent lawyers and rising stars, each offering a different - often very personal - perspective on the Question. Many share stories - comic and tragic, inspiring and heartbreaking about criminal defense. Contributors include public defenders, capital defenders, prisoners' rights lawyers, and academics. Essays discuss clients ranging widely from 'ordinary' indigent defendants to alleged terrorists. This is a fascinating collection, a must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278319 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
iDisorder changes to your brain’s ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders - such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsivve need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the ‘psychology of technology’, the author offers clear, downto-earth explanations for why many of us are suffering from an iDisorder. Rosen offers solid, proven strategies to help us overcome the iDisorder we all feel in our lives while still making use of all that technology offers.
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SOCIETY & CULTURE The Politics of Islamophobia
Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the Uni ted States
Race, Power and Fantasy David Tyrer, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Kim Moody, University of Hertfordshire, UK. A thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays on applied Marxist theory, and the future of labor unions. Kim Moody, one of the world's most authoritative and recognized labor writers, analyzes the past, present, and future of unions in the US. With a sharp understanding of Marxist theory and labor history, Moody charts a well reasoned course for the future of the rank-and-file. $33.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463268 Publish November 2013 326 pages Haymarket NZRRP$42.00
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New Dimensions of Doctor Who
Religion, Theology, and Class
Adventures in Space, Time and Television
Fresh Engagements after Long Silence
Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University, UK.
Joerg Rieger, Southern Methodist University, USA.
New Dimensions of Doctor Who brings together experts on the Doctors, on TV brands, bioethics, transmedia, and cultural icons to explore contemporary developments in the series' music, design and representations of technology, plus issues of showrunner authority and star authorship. Putting these new dimensions into context means thinking about changes in the TV industry such as the rise of branding and transmedia storytelling. Along with its faster narrative pace, and producer/ fan interaction via Twitter, 'new Who' also has a new home: Roath Lock Studios at Cardiff Bay. Studying the Doctor Who Experience in its Cardiff setting, and considering audience nostalgia alongside anniversary celebrations, this book explores how current Doctor Who relates to real-world spaces and times.
Unlike notions of gender, ethnicity, and race, the notion of class has rarely been reflected in religious and theological studies in recent decades. The few who currently use the term "class" think 'poor people,' 'social stratification,' or 'income differentials.' Commonly overlooked are power differentials, the tensions between classes, and the question of production. The essays in this volume discuss what new discourses on class in religious and theological studies might add to cutting-edge developments in these fields. This book demonstrates that just like the lack of the study of class distorts the study of religion and theology, renewed engagement leads to new insights and broader horizons.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137351425 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137339645 Publish November 2013 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Despite its emblematic place within contemporary racism and its increasingly important position in defining relations between states and ethnicised minorities, Islamophobia remains a contested, frequently unrecognised and largely under-theorised form of racism. The Politics of Islamophobia provides a definitive contribution to these debates, offering a theoretically sophisticated account which draws upon a series of substantive case studies to position Islamophobia as an expression of racialised governmentality. By taking into account connections across different national contexts, and by moving beyond the limiting framing of the 'War on Terror' which has dominated recent debates, this book offers a new perspective on the study of Islamophobia.
Oral History Off the Record
World Scouting
Toward an Ethnography of Practice
Educating for Global Citizenship
Anna Sheftel, Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada and Stacey Zembrzycki, Concordia University, Canada.
Eduard Vallory is Visiting Scholar at New York University, USA after having been Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain.
This edited collection argues that discussions of oral history methodology must include honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice, allowing us to address the complexities of this human-centered methodology. To demonstrate what "off the record" experiences contribute, fourteen original essays are included here from oral historians at various stages of their careers, drawing important connections between vastly different niches within the field, including Holocaust memory, collaborative work with Aboriginal communities, Islamic studies, immigration and ethnic history, postconflict memory, and histories of marginalized peoples. Despite their differences, the work of these authors speaks to the challenges of collaborating with complex communities and their messy stories.
This is the very first book to look at scouting worldwide and explain in a comprehensible way the largest youth movement on the planet, with a presence in over 165 countries on 5 continents. Based on the first academic research on world scouting, it covers the history of boy and girl scouting from its origins to the present, its structure and recognition policy, and its role in developing ideas of global citizenship and belonging. Using new data and storytelling, Eduard Vallory discusses the main elements that distinguish the scout movement all over the world; explains its origin, evolution, operating system, and values; and deals with its controversies.
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9781137353566 Published May 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$55.00
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Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
In Solidarity
PALGRAVE FAVOURITES Bali Tourism
Tina Modotti
Bali Tourism offers an in-depth study of Balinese tourism, society, and character. This handy, easy-to-read text is an essential overview of what the island has to offer tourists and looks at the exciting possibilities—and the potential pitfalls—of visiting this extraordinary land. The book paints a vivid portrait of this country’s hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the ways visitors see Bali—and how the Balinese see visitors—as well as the promise and problems Bali faces in developing its tourism industry.
Revolutionary Photographer
Born in Italy in 1896, photographer Tina Modotti lived an extraordinary life. Migrating to the United States, she became an actor in some early Hollywood silent movies, then moved to Mexico in the 1920s where she was a contemporary of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Julio Antonio Mella. Deeply involved in the revolutionary movements of her time, she fought in Spain’s Civil War in the 1930s where she met Pablo Neruda. She later lived in the Soviet Union but found the repressive atmosphere there stifling. Profoundly influenced by the post-revolutionary cultural and political fervour in Mexico, she became internationally recognized for her photographs of that country. She died there at the age of 46.
$62.00 Pb, ISBN 9780789035202 July 2013, 150 pages Routledge NZRP$78.00
$24.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921700699 July 2013, 120 pages Ocean Press NZRP$34.95
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses Neil Smith, CEO of Promontory Growth and Innovation (PGI), has for 20 years focused on helping corporations dramatically improve performance and profitability by growing revenues and innovatively reducing costs. Smith has led initiatives with companies including Mellon Bank, Willis, and North American Van Lines. He recently spearheaded the highly visable initiative across Bank of America. Patricia O'Connell, former Management Editor at BloombergBusinessweek.com, brings more than 20 years of writing and editing in a variety of subjects, including business, leadership, and strategy. Companies make headline news all the time for decisions that make many of us scratch our heads in wonder. Here, the author reveals the hidden barriers that cause excellent companies to do dumb things and cause smart people within companies to act in dumb ways. Drawing on his years of experience working with CEOs and helping transform top global businesses, and insights to CEOs around the world, Smith has identified eight barriers that prevent organizations from both achieving and maintaining sustainable success. Rich with anecdotes and case studies, Smith outlines a fast and proven process in which 12 principles of business transformation can break down the barriers holding companies back. $32.95 Pb, ISBN 9781137278401 Publish November 2013, 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95 “Neil Smith has helped create incalculable shareholder value and customer loyalty for companies across America and around the world with one ‘radical’ idea: Our own employees know where the barriers to success are, and they know how to break them down so the CEO and the management teams can drive the vision and strategy we set for our companies.” -Brian T. Moynihan, chief executive officer, Bank of America Corporation Quantity
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Myths, Politicians and Money The Truth Behind the Free Market Bryan Gould was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who became a British diplomat, an Oxford law don, a television journalist, and a leading British politician. He challenged for the leadership of the British Labour Party in 1992 and returned to New Zealand in 1994 to lead a New Zealand university. The global history of the past three decades has seen the economic pre-eminence of the west plummet, it has also seen the propagation and application of ideas which had previously been dismissed as the preserve of a small and extreme minority on the fringes of politics, economics, and philosophy. This book explores the rise of the free market ideology, its entrenchment within politics and the impact that it has had on society. Bryan Gould uses his extensive first-hand knowledge of the revolving door that exists between politics and big business to explode the myths that have been used to bolster this failing economic system. Gould exposes why politicians around the world distort economic policy against the interest of ordinary people, how neo-liberalism has been allowed to rise to prominence and why the breakdown of a European super-state will create economic stability for millions. $44.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137358622 Publish November 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$54.95
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Beyond the Business Plan
Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow
10 Principles for New Venture Explorers
The Art and Science of Brand Building
Simon Bridge, University of Ulster, UK and Cecilia Hegarty.
$44.95 Hb ISBN 9781137332868 Publish November 2013 190 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$59.95
Libby Gill is an internationally respected executive coach, brand strategist, and bestselling author.
Beyond the Business Plan provides 10 new principles for starting a new business venture which guarantee the flexiility to face any uncertainties. These principles can be used as an alternative to a traditional business plan or even alongside one allowing it to adapt when needed. This book does not dictate how to run a business but provides the insight needed to overcome unforeseen obstacles, to adapt, grow, and change as necessary. This fresh approach teaches how to be responsive to uncertainty and demonstrate that flexible development can navigate the changing world economy better than any business plan.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781137278517 Publish November 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
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The Brazilian Economy
Creating Winning Bids
Growth and Development, Seventh Edition
Basil Sawczuk
Werner Baer, University of Illinois, USA.
$48.00 Pb ISBN 9781588268426 Publish November 2013 500 pages Lynne Rienner NZRRP$61.00
Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow reveals how strong branding creates awareness, provides authentic value, motivates others to act, and builds long-term customer loyalty based on trust and respect. In this book, internationally respected executive coach and brand strategist Libby Gill helps businesses define and articulate their unique brand promise by exploring case studies and client success stories with the aim of helping readers master the 'Six Core Mindshare Methods' (Clarify, Commit, Collaborate, Connect, Communicate, and Contribute).
In this thorough description and analysis of Latin America's largest economy, Werner Baer traces the trajectory of Brazil's economic development from the colonial period through the current Lula administration. The sixth edition includes vast amounts of new statistical and institutional information, as well as a detailed assessment of the country's economic performance over the last decade. Current, and often contentious, issues such as privatization, income and regional inequalities, and the environmental impact of development are also extensively explored.
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9781859464984 Published April 2013 128 pages RIBA Publishing NZRRP$69.95
Creating Winning Bids sets out the key stages in the production of a winning bid. Based on tried and tested methods, and using a simple step-by-step process, it will improve your chances of success in what can otherwise seem a daunting and complex process. Distilling the author's experience of over 25 years of bidding in the public and private sectors, it is packed with practical tips about what your client really wants to see.Beginning with a concise look at how to find new opportunities for work, it examines the various types of bid that can be made and includes invaluable explanations of the jargon used in the bidding process - from OJEU to PQQs. Illustrated throughout with useful diagrams and checklists, and covering a range of procurement routes, this guide will help anyone from the sole practitioner to the large firm with a dedicated bidding team to create practical and perfectly-tailored winning bids.
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Buyographics
De-Marketing
How Demographic and Economic Changes Will Reinvent the Way Marketers Reach Consumers
Nigel Bradley, University of Westminster, UK and Jim Blythe, Plymouth Business School, UK
Matt Carmichael, Crain's Chicago Business, USA.
$42.00 Hb ISBN 9781137278630 Publish November 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
This book follows 11 families in 11 representative counties to examine their lives and how the decisions they make impact consumer behavior. As you read those stories, the trends come to life and give you a greater understanding of how to reach your target. Carmichael focuses on the top ten trends that are reshaping the consumer landscape and impacting buying behavior and the economic outlook of the world's most important market. For each trend he provides ethnographic research from the families, stats from the leading consumer data sources, and exclusive interviews and examples from marketers, agencies, and media executives. These trends show how America is aging, growing more diverse ethnically, and becoming more polarized economically.
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We all understand the basic principles underpinning marketing activity: to identify unfulfilled needs and desires and boost demand for the solutions a product is offering. The mantra is always "sell more". De-marketing tries for the very opposite. This is the first book to cast light on the secretive, counterintuitive world of de-marketing, deconstructing its mysteries and demonstrating how to incorporate them into a profit-driven marketing plan. A selection of thought leaders in strategic marketing mix theory with illustrative global cases, providing insight into how these strategies have been employed in practice and measuring their successes and failures.
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$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278388 Publish November 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$32.95
Free Market Revolution
On Becoming a Leadership Coach
How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence
Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, Ayn Rand Institute.
Christine Wahl, Georgetown University, USA; Clarice L. Scriber, Consulting, Inc.; and Beth Bloomfield, Bloomfield Associates, LLC.
Already a bestseller, in Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand’s legacy argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in ‘trickle-down government’ but in Rand’s inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest - a philosophy that more and more people are turning to for answers. The authors explain how her ideas can solve a host of political and economic ills, including the debt crisis, looming inflation, anti-business regulation, and the swelling entitlement state. And most important, they show how Rand’s principles allow defenders of the free market to seize the moral high ground in the fight to limit government. This is a fresh and urgent look at the ideas of one of the most controversial figures in modern history - ideas that may prove the only hope for the future.
$59.95 Hb ISBN 9781137322883 Publish November 2013 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$74.95
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A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages
The Poverty of Capitalism
The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A
Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next
John Close is an award-winning journalist.
John Hilary is Executive Director of War on Want.
Modern mergers and acquisitions is a new phenomenon. And yet, it remains largely unexplored. But while there have been a few iconic characters and tales to emerge, no one has told the rich history of M&A, until now. A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages is a look into that world and the people who created it. Told through an intriguing narrative that not only brings to light in gritty detail all of the back room drama of such powerful players as Carl Icahn, Joe Flom, Marty Lipton, and Bruce Wasserstein, but also reveals how the new generation, including activist whirlwind Bill Ackman and iconoclastic new Delaware judge Leo Strine, will dominate the next tsunamic, and imminent, M&A boom.
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental degradation. A return to capitalist growth threatens to exacerbate these problems, not solve them. In The Poverty of Capitalism, John Hilary reveals the true face of transnational capital in its insatiable drive for expansion and accumulation. He exposes the myth of ‘corporate social responsibility' (CSR), and highlights key areas of conflict over natural resources, labour rights and food sovereignty. Hilary also describes the growing popular resistance to corporate power, as well as the new social movements seeking to develop alternatives to capitalism itself.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9780745333304 Publish November 2013 240 pages Pluto NZRRP$44.95
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$54.95 Hb ISBN 9780230342262 Publish November 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$69.95
This book focuses on coaching leaders in the context of the organizational systems within which they lead. It draws upon the curriculum of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate Program, one of the premier coach training programs in the world and the only one with this particular focus. Forty percent of this edition consists of new and revised material, including chapters on professional coaching, self-awareness, cultures in coaching, coaching relationships, behavioral practices, and grounded assessments.
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The Meaningful Brand
Profiting Without Producing
How Strong Brands Make More Money
How Finance Exploits Us All
Nigel Hollis has a popular brand blog called Straight Talk with Nigel Hollisa, a four-time winner of WPP's Atticus Award.
Costas Lapavitsas, University of London, UK.
Why do consumers pay a premium price for a brand? Is it better quality, the look and feel, or is it the brand's social standing? Nigel Hollis believes the answer to all those questions is "yes." Yet the lack of meaningful differentiation is creating a market full of commodities rather than products that instill loyalty. Nigel Hollis focuses on the four components of a meaningfully different brand: purpose, delivery, resonance, and difference.This unique model will be applied to two very different brand models: premium priced and value priced. The models will show readers how to amplify what their brand stands for across all the brand touch points including: findability, affordability, credibility, vitality, and extendibility. The book will include cases of global brands such as Dyson, Johnnie Walker, Geico, and Volkswagen.
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Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct of nonfinancial enterprises, banks and households. Its most prominent feature is the rise of financial profit, in part extracted from households through financial expropriation. Financialized capitalism is also prone to crises, none greater than the gigantic turmoil that began in 2007. Using abundant empirical data, the book establishes the causes of the crisis and discusses the options broadly available for controlling finance.
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$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767901 Publish November 2013 360 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$32.95
The Puritan Gift
Rethinking Reputation
Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
How Trumps Marketing and Advertising in the New Media World
Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper.
Fraser P. Seitel and John Doorley, New York University, USA.
Financial experts and the media are clamouring to tell us that these events are unprecedented and unpredictable. But is this really true or should we all have seen it coming? In this important book the authors offer a shocking expose of the failures of the American financial system as well as vital lessons for the future. Tracing the extraordinary development of the managerial culture that underpinned three centuries of American commercial triumph, The Puritan Gift shows how the current financial crisis has an old fashioned cause: bad management. By distancing itself from the core values of innovation and discipline the 'gift' of the early Puritan settlers which underlay its past commercial and economic success America sacrificed its future prosperity and security.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278708 Publish November 2013 248 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$44.95
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$42.00 Hb ISBN 9781137278623 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Once just the icing on a good campaign, PR is now the lynchpin of any reputation management strategy. Little wonder, in aa time when even minor gaffes can ruin the career of politicians, celebrities, athletes and high-flying CEOs - an a single well-placed endorsement can launch an unknwon stratup into the stratosphere. In Rethinking Reputation, public relations gurus Fraser Seitel and John Doorley examine the pivotal PR moments of recent years - including the BP oil spill and the 2012 Republican primaries - to glen the dos and don’ts for the new media world. In between, they illustrate the characterbased communication strategies that have bulletproofed countless businesses - and how you can use them too. Quantity
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Revealed
Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have
Using Remote Personality Profiling to Influence Negotiate and Motivate
Joshua Klein
John Taylor works as an independent consultant with international companies and government organizations in Europe, the US, Africa and Asia; Adrian Furnham, University College, UK; and Janet Breeze - after a brief career in the British Diplomatic Service, Janet has worked as a consultant and trainer to international business, government, multilateral development agencies and NGOs for nearly 20 years.
As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has risen, and a new currency based on reputation has been created. This means that not only are companies tracking what an individual is tweeting and what sites they spend the most time on, but they're using this knowledge to predict the consumer's future behavior. And a world in which Target knows that a woman is pregnant before she does, or where a person gets a job (or loses one) based on his high school hijinx is a scary one indeed. This is all currently happening online already. The value of individual reputation is already radically changing the way business is done.
$59.95 Hb ISBN 9781137291981 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$74.95
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It is not always possible to interview or meet people face-to-face before significant negotiations or decisions have to be made. They may be business competitors or candidates for an important leadership role. Revealed is a book for those who need to assess others and make decisions based about people, without being able to meet and interview them.
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The Resilient Manager
Second Stage Entrepreneurship
Navigating the Challenges of Working Life
Ten Proven Strategies for Driving Aggressive Growth
Adrian Furnham, University College, UK.
Dan Weinfurter, Chicago Growth Consultants, USA.
Resilient people are happier, healthier, and more productive. Psychologist and business writer Adrian Furnham takes a sideways and entertaining look at the challenges of being a leader, demonstrating how resilience can be honed, developed, and used as a personal life raft to keep afloat in the face of adversity.
$69.95 Hb ISBN 9781137361066 Publish November 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$89.95
$44.95 Hb ISBN 9781137302588 Publish November 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$59.95
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What many books and programs for entrepreneurs miss is how to turn a venture into a successful growing company that can capitalize on its initial concept and continue to succeed past its early days. Dan Weinfurter has been recognized by Inc. 500 as a leader who can not only launch a company, but can achieve significant growth as the company scales its way to the top. The author's advice takes the potential entrepreneur throughout their course of the company, setting up an appropriate and effective company culture that will lead to better sales and retention. Based upon the author's own experiences leading multiple companies past their founding and into fast growing companies, Weinfurter offers readers a key look into the challenges they will face at every step of the journey. Quantity
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$69.95 Hb ISBN 9781137352606 Publish November 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$89.95
Sustainable Innovation Strategy
What Chinese Want
Creating Value in a World of Finite Resources
Culture Communism and the Modern Chinese Consumer
Christophe Sempels and Jonas Hoffmann, both at SKEMA Business School, USA.
Tom Doctoroff is the North Asia Area Director and Greater China CEO for J. Walter Thompson (JWT).
Sustainable Innovation Strategy is a thoughtprovoking and timely book which examines the links between sustainable development, innovation strategy and the business model. Through insightful case studies from mature and developing markets, the authors show how sustainability needs to be at the core of every organization's strategy and innovation. They reveal the three ways in which sustainable strategies can be incorporated into business models - eco-efficiency, circularity and functional economy. Rigorous and practical, this book shows how other organizations have successfully made the transition from resource reliant to generating profit and value through sustainable models.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278357 Publish November 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95
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Despite the nation’s growing influence, the average Chinese person is still a mystery to most of us. The author marshals his 20 years of experience navigating this fascinating intersection of commerce and culture to explain the mysteries of China. He eplores the many cultural, political, and economic forces shaping the twenty-first-century Chinese and their implications for businesspeople, marketers and entrepreneurs. From the exploding senior demographic to what the Internet means for the government’s hold on power, Doctoroff pulls back the curtain to reveal a complex and nuanced picture of a fascinating people whose lives are becoming ever more entwined with our own. Quantity
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Swarm Intelligence What Nature Teaches Us about Shaping Creative Leadership
This year is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and to celebrate the BBC will be airing a special episode in November 2013! For fans of the Time Lord, we have the following great backlist titles:
James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Syracuse University, USA.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781137278470 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
In Swarm Intelligence, Rolling argues that we need to turn our classrooms-and workplacesinto crucibles for collective creativity. Drawing on cutting-edge research in the realms of biological swarm theory, systems theory, and complexity theory and writing in an accessible narrative style, Rolling shows why working in groups makes us both smarter and more creative, and how we can put these principles in practice at the earliest stages of life, to develop the next generation of capable leaders. He argues that this model, rather than the pursuit of individual achievement, promises the greatest potential for the next generation, both as learners and as a nation.
The Doctor’s Monsters
Many of Doctor Who’s most memorable protagonists have been its monsters, the Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, the Sonterans, Ood, Wiirrn, and others. The Doctor’s Monsters takes a new look at these and many other creatures, and asks what inspired them and what lies behind them. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848851788 August 2012, 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$38.00 Quantity
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Love and Monsters
From the twilight of Tom Baker’s years to the newest Doctor, Matt Smith, Miles Booy explores the shifting meaning of Doctor Who across the years - from the Third Doctor’s suggestion that we should read the Bible, via costumed fans on television, up to the 2010 general election in Britain. $34.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848854796 April 2012, 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$43.00
The Talent Mandate Why Smart Companies Put People First Andrew Benett, Havas Worldwide, USA.
$54.95 Hb ISBN 9780230340879 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$69.95
"Our employees are our greatest asset" - it's a cliché companies feel obliged to spout. Some may even believe it. But as with eating healthy food and getting exercise, lip-service doesn't make goals come true. Based on original research and in-depth interviews with outstanding leaders of talent-driven organizations such as Zappos, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Nestle, Dow Chemical, The Motley Fool, AnswerLab, and more, Andrew Benett uncovers emerging trends and benchmarks and shows why it is so important to invest in and develop tomorrow's talent. Readers will come away with a clear lesson: Talent is no longer something to be palmed off down the chain of command. It must be the top business priority of the most senior people in the company - including the CEO.
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TARDISbound
TARDISbound 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, engaging with the common elements of these different texts and with distinctive features of each. $37.00 Pb, ISBN 9781845119256 May 2011, 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRP$46.00
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BFI FILM CLASSICS The BFI Film Classics is a series of small and beautifully-illustrated books that introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema, from the silent period to classics of contemporary cinema. ‘Magnificently concentrated examples of flowing freeform critical poetry.’ – Uncut ‘A formidable body of work collectively generating some fascinating insights into the evolution of cinema.’ – Times Higher Education Supplement
Cat People
Nosferatu (1979)
Kim Newman.
S. S. Prawer, Oxford University, UK and Brad Prager, University of Missouri, USA.
Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious horror. The new edition includes a postscript about the sequel, The Curse of the Cat People.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576432 Publish November 2013 96 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576494 Publish November 2013 104 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844573431 Publish November 2013 128 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576500 Publish November 2013 128 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
Nosferatu was one of the masterpieces of the New German Cinema. Herzog's film, with its terrifying coda in which the reincarnated fiend rides out into the world, is perhaps the most compelling screen treatment of the vampire myth. In this second edition, Brad Prager introduces S.S. Prawer's comprehensive account of the film with a new foreword. $24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576531 Publish November 2013 104 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Pan's Labyrinth
David Robinson is a film critic, historian and author.
Mar Diestro-Dopido is a film critic based in London.
This intriguing text overturns a myth of film history by examining new evidence surrounding the authorship of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - a film that still exerts its gothic spell after nearly a century. A new introduction considers the place of German Expressionist cinema within the European revival of Gothic at the turn of the 20th century.
Del Toro's cult masterpiece locates the monstrous within fairytales and links it to the very real horrors of post-Civil War Spain. This book explores the film's cross-cultural and historical contexts, and its groundbreaking use of ancient myths and folklore. It also includes an interview with del Toro about the genesis and production of the film.
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$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576418 Publish November 2013 128 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
The Innocents
The Shining
Sir Christopher Frayling was Rector of the Royal College of Art from 1996 to 2009.
Roger Luckhurst is a Professor in the School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London, UK.
Sir Christopher Frayling explores the journey from Henry James's original novella, The Turn of the Screw, via critical debates and the stage version of The Innocents, to the screenplay by Archibald, Capote and Mortimer. Making full use of the unpublished Jack Clayton archive, the book also includes interviews with Deborah Kerr and Freddie Francis.
Roger Luckhurst's study of Kubrick's dark masterpiece The Shining illuminates the film's themes, tropes and resonances through a detailed analysis of sequences and performances. Taking the maze as a key motif, Luckhurst offers numerous threads with which to navigate the strange twists and turns along the corridors of this enigmatic film. $24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576395 Publish November 2013 104 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
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Nosferatu (1922)
Vampyr
eine Symphonie des Grauens
Second Edition
Kevin Jackson is a Writer, Broadcaster and Filmmaker.
David Rudkin.
F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. Kevin Jackson's study traces Nosferatu's eventful production and reception history, including attempts by Stoker's widow to suppress it.
Vampyr is a problematic film, partly because some of it is lost. But in what remains, there are problems too. In a reading as passionate as it is analytic, a veteran dramatist and film-author reveals how, image by image, this difficult film systematically binds the spectator - spatially, and morally - into its unique world of the Undead. $24.95 Pb ISBN 9781844576449 Publish November 2013 96 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
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THE ARTS British Gothic Cinema
Digital Mayhem 3D Landscape Techniques
Barry Forshaw's books include Death in a Cold Climate, British Crime Film, and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9781137300317 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.00
Where Inspiration, Techniques and Digital Art Meet
From the films produced by the Hammer studios and their rivals in the 1940s and 1950s, to the films of the 21st century and their current popularity, Forshaw provides a definitive, wide-ranging study of British horror cinema. Beginning with a lively discussion of the great literary antecedents, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the genre in the middle of the 20th century and the headlinegrabbing critical and establishment revulsion over the unprecedented levels of violence and sexuality. It also explores the rude health of the field and its continuing influence. With enthusiasm and scholarship, Forshaw celebrates the British cinema's long love affair with the Gothic and the macabre, both persevering characteristics of modern film and television.
Duncan Evans is a journalist, author, and photographer with a passion for 3D.
$71.00 Pb ISBN 9780240525983 Publish November 2013 246 pages Focal Press NZRRP$89.95
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The Creation and Re-creation of Cardenio
Fair Play
Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes
Jen Harvie, University of London, UK.
Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Terri Bourus, Purdue University, USA and Gary Taylor, Florida State University, USA.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137344205 Publish November 2013 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
Breaking new ground, this collection gives equal attention to Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Fletcher. Taken as a whole, the essays prove that Double Falsehood (a play performed in 1727, which claimed to be based on seventeenthcentury manuscripts) is not a forgery, and does preserve fragments of the Jacobean original. With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment and performance, a copy of the script and photographic record of Taylor's production, and historical research by respected scholars in the fields of early modern England and Spain, this book will make a bold and definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9781137027276 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$55.00
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What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Is it damaged by cultural policies introduced since the 1997 election of New Labour - and especially since the 2008 recession - which have 'entrepreneurialized' artists, cut arts funding and cultivated corporate philanthropy and the 'creative industries'? Might it contribute to urban gentrification, particularly in London? How can it enhance understanding of relationships between the individual and the group? How can it improve social welfare and nurture social life? This book explores these questions through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre.
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Dance Medicine in Practice
The Group Theatre
Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Training
Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era
Liane Simmel
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415809399 Publish November 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
Inspiration and techniques meet here as you learn how to create every type of landscape from harsh desert savannahs to icy tundra. Using a blend of showcase images, step-by-step and long-form tutorials, you will be guided through the featured artist's process so you can incorporate their techniques and workflow into your own projects. Not just another buttonpushing manual or coffee table book, Digital Mayhem will help develop your critical eye for composition, choice of camera lens, lighting, rendering, and post production, allowing you to work more intuitively. With insight from some of the best digital artists in the world, Digital Mayhem will have you creating your own masterpieces in no time!
Helen Krich Chinoy; Don B. Wilmeth, Brown University, USA; and Milly S. Barranger, University of North Carolina, USA.
Dance Medicine in Practice is the complete physical textbook for dance, written specifically to help dancers understand the anatomy, function and care of their bodies. Specific chapters are devoted to focusing on the spine, pelvis, hips, knees, feet, shoulders and arms. This book covers anatomy, pitfalls, self analysis, injury prevention, exercises, and the checklist of dos and dont’s for the best dance technique. The best dancers know that looking after their bodies is the key to their success, and Dance Medicine in Practice also covers how to ensure the best possible nutrition, plan and manage training schedules, and ensure that injuries are kept to a minimum both in frequency and impact. It is the best possible companion to a life in dance.
$52.00 Hb ISBN 9781137294593 Publish November 2013 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$66.00
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The Group Theatre started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century. This book begins the story of the Group's remarkable ten years at the end of the experiment, then resets the narrative against the Depression years and introduces the cast of youthful characters and their issues with the American theatre of their day. Tracing the careers of Group Theatre actors and directors including Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Harry Morgan, Chinoy follows with their collective vision for a new theatre developed around their grand idea for a new approach to an acting process based on an ordered training of the actor's imagination and emotions in exercises and in plays that confront social issues important to the Group. Quantity
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THE ARTS Inner Monologue in Acting
Quick Sketching with Ron Husband
Rob Roznowski; Michigan State University, USA.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781137354280 Publish November 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy. The Inner Monologue is that 'stream of consciousness' or 'inner voice' that constantly echoes in your head. This revolutionary new book tames and harnesses that voice to be used as a powerful tool in acting. Written in an accessible tone, the book assists actors, directors and educators in their quest for deeper more thoughtful acting and is a perfect supplement to traditional actor training.
Ron Husband, Disney Animator, USA.
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9780415823340 Publish November 2013 368 pages Focal Press NZRRP$55.00
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The Poetry of Radio
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema
The Colour of Sound
The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
SeĂĄn Street, Bournemouth University, UK.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415715430 Published June 2013 160 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
Ron Husband offers instruction to quick sketching and all its techniques. From observing positive and negative space and learning to recognize simple shapes in complex forms to action analysis and using line of action, this Disney legend teaches you how to sketch using all these components, and how to do it in a matter of seconds. You’ll also see Ron's portfolio of select art representing his growth as an artist throughout the years. Watch his drawings as he grows from a young, talented artist, to a true Disney animator. As if instruction and inspiration in one place weren't enough, you'll find a sketchbook included, so you can flip from Ron's techniques and work on perfecting basic shapes. Or take your book on the road, read Ron's advice, sketch away, capture the world around you.
This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. It includes primary source material gathered through interviews conducted by the author with distinguished producers and poets, including Kaye Mortley (Australia) as well as poets. Alongside audio poetry, the book discusses the spoken word including documentaries and public announcements, the radio feature, soundscapes, sonic art with contributions from key figures such as Colin Black (Australia) and Marcus Leadley (UK)and the poetry of the vernacular in speech and sound. It considers new platforms for listening including podcasts and developments in mobile technologies.
David Greven, Connecticut College, USA.
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137354990 Publish November 2013 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$52.00
The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road, to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the Slasher Horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.
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A Practical Guide to Greener Theatre
This Modern Romance
Introduce Sustainability into Your Productions
Stephanie Williams, The Modern Romance Studio and Christen Vidanovic, photographer.
The Art of Engagement Photography
Ellen E. Jones, Saint Paul, USA.
$53.00 Pb ISBN 9780415663243 Publish November 2013 256 pages Focal Press NZRRP$67.00
Protecting the environment should be a priority of every theatrical production. This book not only gives you the information you need to make greener decisions, but provides you with practical, workable solutions. You will learn how to assess and improve every production area. Checklists, examples of successful strategies, and step-by-step instructions will show you how to identify areas where manageable, sustainable changes can make your productions greener, and advice from working professionals, with experience greening their own productions, will leave you confident that your processes are environmentally sound. Even non-technical people who find themselves responsible for supervising productions will find green solutions that can be instituted with a straff of volunteers or students.
$51.00 Pb ISBN 9780415828260 Publish November 2013 224 pages Focal Press NZRRP$64.00
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Award winning photographer Stephanie Williams shares her insider secrets to building a successful engagement and special occasion photography business through technique, styling, workflow, and branding tips that are sure to help get your work recognized by potential clients and industry publications. Read tips and testimonials from prominent wedding professionals, bloggers, editors and stylists, as well as Stephanie's actual clients! Learn how to build your brand and get your work published. Improve or refresh your technical skill through practical lighting, equipment, and technique guidance. Diversify the way you interact with clients and style your shoots.
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THE ARTS
PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS
Visualizing Feeling
Vincent Van Gogh
Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde
The Years in France: Complete Paintings 1886-1890
Susan Best, University of New South Wales, Australia.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767093 Publish November 2013 208 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95
Walter Feilchenfeldt is an art dealer, author and a world authority on Cezanne and Van Gogh.
Is late modern art ‘anti-aesthetic'? Susan Best acknowledges the radical and exploratory nature of art in late modernism. Her book focuses on four highly influential female artists - Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - and it explores how their art transformed established avantgarde protocols by introducing an affective dimension. Visualizing Feeling also addresses a methodological blind spot in art history: the interpretation of feeling, emotion and affect. By creatively re-evaluating late modern art, Susan Best offers a new way of thinking about subjectivity and feeling which acknowledges and celebrates the achievements of the feminine avant-garde.
$129.95 Pb ISBN 9781781300190 Publish November 2013 384 pages Philip Wilson Publishers NZRRP$159.95
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Presented here is a comprehensive list of Van Gogh's paintings executed between 1886 and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-surOise. The works are reproduced in full colour and appear in related scale to their original size. All owners are registered, beginning with Theo van Gogh or receivers of gifts, and ending with the present owners, if known and willing to be mentioned. For the first time the paintings recorded in early documents like the ‘Andries Bonger Inventory List' of 1890 and the 1905 Amsterdam Exhibition are completely identified. The book is a contribution to a future catalogue raisonné of Vincent van Gogh's work and includes a wealth of new information of crucial importance to collectors, dealers, art historians and public institutions. Quantity
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE Inferno Revealed From Dante to Dan Brown Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian and Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia, USA and Mark Parker is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at James Madison University, USA. An introduction to and exploration of Dante's world that provides context for understanding Dan Brown's new bestseller Inferno. Using Dan Brown's book as a springboard, Inferno Revealed provides readers of Brown's Inferno with an engaging introduction to Dante and his world. Inferno Revealed explores how Dante made himself the protagonist of The Divine Comedy, something no other epic poet has done, a move for which the ramifications have not yet been fully explored. The mysteries and puzzles that arise from Dante's choice to personalize the epic, along with his affinity for his local surroundings and how that affects his depiction of the places, Church, and politics in the poem are considered - along with what this reveals about Brown's own usage of the work. The book is one of the first to analyse how Dan Brown has repurposed Inferno in his newest book - noting what he gets right and what errors are made. The book also considers other famous adaptions from major canonical writers such as Milton and Keats to popular adaptations like David Fincher's Se7en and Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. $29.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137279064 Publish November 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$39.95
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Darwin and Faulkner's Novels
Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics
Evolution and Southern Fiction
Melanie L. Harris is Associate Professor at Texas Christian University.
Twice winner of the Faulkner Conference 'Call for Papers,' Michael Wainwright lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137362889 Publish November 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Wide-ranging and skillful, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth-century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness, Michael Wainwright charts the manner in which Faulkner learned and applied his evolutionary concepts. Ultimately, this ambitious book unsettles staid interpretations of the Faulknerian canon and overturns habitual judgments on the value of his later novels.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137356024 Publish November 2013 190 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris takes an inside look into the virtues and values that can be lifted from a study of Walker's non-fiction work. This work enlivens the debate in African and African American religious thought about the fluidity of spirituality and widens the conversation to encourage readers to embrace religious traditions inclusive of and beyond Christianity as the foundations for empowerment of both women and ethical values.
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LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
$44.00 Pb ISBN 9781137357335 Published August 2013 248 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$55.00
J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices
Masculine Style
Carrol Clarkson, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
The American West and Literary Modernism
This book pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. It considers the ethical and aesthetic implications of the writer's linguistic choices. In what ways do seemingly innocent linguistic decisions have ethical and aesthetic consequences for the position of the speaking or writing self in relation to those whom one addresses, or in relation to those on whose behalf one speaks, or in relation to a world one attempts to represent or create in writing? Questions such as these arise throughout Coetzee's oeuvre, especially in relation to further reflections on notions of the writer's authority and authorial commitments.
Daniel Worden, University of New Mexico, USA.
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137360694 Publish November 2013 208 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Daniel Worden argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity," as dramatized in late nineteenthcentury dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. This perceptive study charts the contours and shifts in Western masculinity as it is detached from rigid class associations after the Civil War, remade as a normative requirement for national belonging at the turn of the century, and contained as a threatening force during the early years of the Cold War.
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The New Critical Idiom
Gothic
Medieval Literature
Second Edition
Criticism and Debates
Fred Botting, Kingston University, UK.
Holly A. Crocker, University of South Carolina, USA and D. Vance Smith, Princeton University, USA.
This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on ‘Contemporary Gothic', an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women's film and writing througout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of stage sensations and photography as well as engaging with all major texts and criticism since initial publication in 1995. With the added benefit of series features such as a glossary and annotated further reading section, this remains the ideal guide to the Gothic.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415667906 Publish November 2013 448 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
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What's the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?
Second Edition
Richard Burt, University of Florida, USA and Julian Yates, University of Delaware, USA.
Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, UK.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780415834445 Publish November 2013 320 pages Routledge NZRRP$39.95
This book combines classic critical essays alongside newer voices and approaches, highlighting the crucial criticism and vibrant debates on medieval literature throughout history. The authors present a fascinating collection of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature and culture, examining topics including gender, sexuality, politics, belief, language, nationhood, science and desire. The volume sheds light on critical discussions of the Medival period and shows how the study of medieval literature is still relevant and exciting in the twenty-first century. Each section is thoroughly introduced and the essays display the differing debates on key areas, providing a springboard for readers to establish their own study, arguments and opinions.
Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to ‘re-present' time, space and identity. This second, revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media, encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations, the rise of the novel, realist representations, narratives of imperialism, modernism, cinema, postmodernism and new technologies.
$54.95 Pb ISBN 9781137270498 Published July 2013 277 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$69.95
What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, through both reverent and irreverent discourse. Addressing recent critical debates around problems of print and performance, works in media theory and deconstruction, and film adaptations, the chapters uncover areas of confluence and reveal the inventive ways in which these areas respond to each other. Ultimately, this book turns conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture.
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Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780415831727 Publish November 2013 224 pages Routledge NZRRP$39.95
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LITERATURE & LANGUAGE Women and the Rise of the Novel,1405-1726
Pb, 9780415527453, 432pp $57.00, NZRRP$72.00
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The Complete Course for Beginners, Second Edition
Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, USA.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137354082 Publish November 2013 192 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 is the first theoretical study of early modern women's contribution to the rise of the novel. Named in its first edition an "Outstanding Academic Book of the Year," by Choice, this second, expanded edition includes two new chapters that extend its scope to include philosophical writings and memoirs. Unique in its comparative and premodern focus, the study examines works in Italian, French, and Spanish, as well as English, highlighting the contributions of writers from Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre to Margaret Cavendish and Jane Barker. Donovan shows how these women used the theological method of casuistry and the framed-novelle genre to construct a feminist "prosaics", which was essential to the novel's epistemology.
Daisy Neijmann
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Routledge Modern Language Readers
Junko Ogawa and Fumitsugu Enokida, both University of Birmingham, UK.
Polish through the press, internet and contemporary literature Aniela Grundy, University College London, UK and Oscar Swan, University of Pittsburgh, USA This book is designed for intermediate students of Polish and includes a wide range of graded texts. The readings are taken from an assortment of contemporary Polish writing, including extracts from modern literature and articles from magazines and newspapers. The texts have been specifically selected to ensure that students receive maximum exposure to topics relevant to Polish language, history, culture and society, making this Reader an engaging and stimulating resource with a meaningful cultural context. Each reading is fully supported by a general introduction, textrelated comprehension questions and extensive vocabulary exercises and explanations of any difficult grammar structures encountered in the text.
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Colloquial Japanese provides a step-bystep course in Japanese as it is written and spoken today. This new edition has been completely rewritten by experienced teachers; it combines an accessible approach with a thorough treatment of the language, equipping learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Japanese in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills; jargon-free explanations of grammar, with key structures presented through user-friendly diagrams; and coverage of the different writing systems of Japanese: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
PALGRAVE FAVOURITES Crime Fiction
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Second Edition David Smyth, University of London, UK. This second edition of Thai: An Essential Grammar provides an up-to-date and concise reference guide to Thai grammar. Using clear, jargon-free explanations, it sets out the complexities of Thai in short, readable sections and presents an accessible description of the language. Focus is kept on the real patterns of use today and grammar forms are demonstrated through a wide range of relevant examples. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader. Features include coverage of crucial topics, such as sentence particles, negation, questions and quantification; examples given in both Thai script and romanised transliteration; pronunciation section; guidance on speech conventions and the Thai writing system; glossary of grammatical terms; two appendices covering Romanisation systems and three key verbs; and bibliography.
• explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as ‘Rational Criminal Investigation’, The HardBoiled Mode’, ‘The Police Procedural’ and ‘Historical Crime Fiction’ • locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context • outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory • considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the ‘classic’ whodunnits of Agatha Christie. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415318242 January 2005, 184 pages Routledge Quantity NZRP$39.95
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The New Critical Idiom
Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs: • presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
Thai: An Essential Grammar
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Colloquial Japanese The Complete Course for Beginners, Third Edition
The Routledge Intermediate Polish Reader
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415510349 Publish November 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
Colloquial Icelandic provides a step-bystep course in Icelandic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Icelandic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar, an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises, realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios. This second edition includes up-to-date cultural information, an enhanced index, an expanded glossary and completely new audio recordings.
Colloquials
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$69.95 Pb ISBN 9780415516419 Publish November 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
Colloquial Icelandic
HEALTH & LIFESTYLE You Can Beat Your Brain How to Turn Your Enemies into Friends, How to Avoid Twitter Mobs, and 16 More Ways to Outsmart Yourself Self-described psychology nerd David McRaney is a journalist who blogs at Youarenotsosmart.com. His first book, You Are Not So Smart was an international bestseller. Do you think that you are smarter than most people? Do you know why you fell for your partner? Do you think that, as a member of a jury, you'd be impartial and just listen to the evidence? You are probably wrong. Every second, your brain is misevaluating and misjudging, responding to evolved rules that no longer apply. And it's time to fight back! In the follow-up to the bestselling sensation You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney once again delves into the assorted ways we mislead ourselves, but more than that, he helps us to overcome our quirks and think more effectively. From conserving willpower to using money to buy happiness, You Can Beat Your Brain is a pocket-sized primer informed by the latest studies in psychology and packed with wry humour and astonishing facts. You'll discover why tall men earn more money, why a rickety bridge is a good place for a first date, and how to avoid irrational beliefs and self-delusions. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780743745 Publish November 2013, 304 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$24.95
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Overcoming
PSYCHOLOGY
$54.95 Pb ISBN 9781444183771 Publish November 2013 416 pages CRC Press NZRRP$69.95
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood
Urban and Rural Decay Photography
A Five Areas Approach, Fourth Edition
How to Capture the Beauty in the Blight
Chris Williams
J. Dennis Thomas is a photographer and author based in Austin, TX.
This book uses the proven and trusted five areas model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people assess and manage depression and low mood to change how they feel. Written by an award-winning expert, this volume is one of the most popular books in the Overcoming series. The book comprises a series of chapters for therapists to work through with their patients. The text addresses issues ranging from low mood through to severe depressive episodes. The book's patient-friendly approach features illustrations, questions and exercises to enhance the therapeutic experience. Patients who follow the plan will see positive results. This fourth edition retains its successful format but includes new material on care-givers, medication, staying well, planning for the future, and low-intensity and very low-intensity self help.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415663212 Published August 2013 224 pages Focal Press NZRRP$49.95
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PALGRAVE FAVOURITES
Republic of Outsiders The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels
Scotch
Alissa Quart, Columbia University, USA.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781595588753 Publish November 2013 256 pages The New Press NZRRP$49.95
Urban and Rural Decay Photography offers expert tips and techniques for capturing breathtaking photographs of your favorite decay scenes, whether in urban or rural settings. The author guides you through the history of decay photography, shows you what equipment you will need, and discusses digital, film and HDR capture and composition. The book addresses which artistic considerations work best for the kinds of shots that capture a moment and convey a story. He also provides you with important safety advice and matters of the law when entering and working with decaying structures. Chock full of inspiring images that will ignite your creativity and your passion for decay photography, this is just the book you need to get you out and discovering your newest urban or rural exploration adventure.
The Whiskey of Scotland in Fact and Story, Eighth Edition
We have long received our information, therapy, films, and even vegetables from authoritative sources: from insiders, trained or ordained to dispense this knowledge or cultural products. Most of the rebels in this book are changing that equation. Republic of Outsiders is the story of the growing number of Americans who disrupt the status quo. These outsiders create and package new identities in a process acclaimed author Alissa Quart dubs "identity innovation." They push the boundaries of who they-and we-can be and what we can do. In a brilliant and far-reaching account, Quart introduces us to those who have created new structures to keep themselves sane; fulfilled; and, on occasion, paid. Republic of Outsiders is a critical examination of how to make rebellion or amateurism a strength rather than a weakness.
Robert Bruce Lockhart’s book has long been regarded as a whisky classic. Including the foreword written by his late son in 1995, fully updated and revised, this book covers some of the lesser known episodes in the industry’s history. In particular the author’s family’s involvement with Balmenach Distilery on Speyside is well covered as are the polemics of the Scots and their relationship with whisky and where it might be heading. Much of what Lockhart stated back in the 60s still holds true 50 years later and the book is considered essential reading for the whisky enthusiast. $32.00 Pb, ISBN 9781906476229 December 2011, 132 pages Interlink NZRP$39.95
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SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT The End of Plagues The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease John Rhodes is one of the world's leading immunologists, and has held research fellowships at the US National Institutes of Health and the University of Cambridge. At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox claimed the lives of two million people per year. By 1979, the disease had been eradicated and victory was declared across the globe. Yet the story of smallpox remains the exception, as today a host of deadly contagions, from polio to AIDS, continue to threaten human health around the world. Spanning three centuries, The End of Plagues weaves together the discovery of vaccination in 1796, to the early nineteenth-century founding voyages in which chains of orphans, vaccinated one by one, were sent to colonies around the globe, to the development of polio vaccines and the stockpiling of smallpox as a biological weapon in the Cold War. World-renown immunologist John Rhodes charts our fight against these plagues, and shows how vaccinations gave humanity the upper hand. Today, aid groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation have made the eradiction of polio aa priority, and Rhodes takes us behind the scenes to witness how soon we may be celebrating the eradication of polio. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137278524 Publish November 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$44.95
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Plane Truth Aviation's Real Impact on People and the Environment Rose Bridger works on environmental issues in the UK in the areas of policy, practical projects and community development. She has been a consultant for the local food sector and campaigned against air freight expansion for a number of years. Aviation is one of the world's fastest growing industries. Passenger numbers and cargo volumes are projected to double in the next 20 years. Yet aviation is an increasing source of greenhouse gas emissions and plans for expansion are met with protests around the world. Plane Truth shows how new runways and airports gobble up farmland and wildlife habitats and inflict noise and air pollution on communities. It reveals the extraordinary level of subsidy for the industry, from government expenditure on infrastructure to tax breaks, and shows how urbanisation surrounding airports is a growing source of revenue for airport growth. Bridger explains how these revenue streams support aviation in the face of rising oil prices and the global economic downturn. Plane Truth demolishes industry claims that fuel efficient aircraft and alternative fuels can enable growth without increasing climate change and reveals the symbiotic relationship between aviation and wider socio-economic problems. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745330327 Publish November 2013, 256 pages Pluto NZRRP$45.00 From the book: “As the environmental damage of aviation becomes more widely recognised, proponents of expansion emphasise economic benefits from passenger’s expenditure and trade in goods. But the economic impacts are not straightforward. Aviation places a heavy burden on taxpayers. The majority of airport construction is government funded. Tax exemptions on fuel for international flights underpin airlines’ economic viability. Sales of duty free goods at airports and in flight drain tax revenue from national exchequers. Aircraft manufacturing by Boeing and Airbus is heavily subsidised. Since the economic downturn, governments in all world regions have intervened to prop up ailing national airlines with financial support packages.” Quantity
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$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278425 Publish November 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$32.95
Prize Fight
Superfuel
The Race and the Rivalry to Be the First in Science
Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
Morton A. Meyers, MD, School of Medicine SUNY, Stony Brook.
Richard Martin is an award-winning science writer.
Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden side of scientific discovery, from the international scandal over who discovered the AIDS virus to the fiery dispute that raged for 30 years over the development of the MRI, and many other discoveries that profoundly impact our lives. Exploring cases closely guarded by the scientific community, from allegations of stolen authorship to lifelong struggles to gain recognition, Meyers shows us how too often brilliant minds are reduced to bitter conflicts and promising careers are cut short by disputes over authorship or fudged data. He also discusses ways in which the scientific community can better resolve conflicts over the attribution of credit and avoid the paralyzing disputes that too often interrupt the pursuit of scientific progress.
Now, as the world searches for cheap, noncarbon-emitting energy sources, thorium is re-emerging as an overlooked solution. As one of the first energy experts to promote thedevelopment of thorium, Richard Martin combines science, new historical research, and a timely business narrative to show how we can wean ourselves off our fossil-fuel addiction and shift to a lower-risk energy source. At once a big think book and a science manifesto, Superfuel challenges us to look back at what could have been different in history as well as forward to an energy revolution in the making.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278340 Publish November 2013 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$32.95 Now in Paperback!
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