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Trade terms apply to the following trade titles Henry Ayers
Obama and the Empire
The Man Who Became a Rock
Fidel Castro (1926-) led a guerrilla movement in Cuba that overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959. Despite innumerable assassination attempts, the Cuban president was the nemesis of 10 US administrations. He retired due to ill-health in August 2006, but has continued to make characteristically forthright comments on world events and US-Cuba relations.
Jason Shute is an acknowledged expert on immigrant communities in South Australia and on Henry Ayers. He is a graduate of London’s Royal College of music, where he won a number of prizes and carried out further studies in opera. He has lived with his family in South Australia for nearly two decades where he continues to work as a composer and conductor. ‘The most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen.’ With these words the explorer William Gosse expressed the awe he and many others have felt at the natural phenomenon of Uluru. The first white person to reach the central Australian monolith, he gave it the name ‘Ayers Rock’. But who was Henry Ayers, the man whose name is forever associated with Australia’s most recognisable natural icon? And why should he still be remembered today? This book, the first biography of Henry Ayers, focuses attention on the complex character behind the name and examines all aspects of his life. It provides a fascinating insight into Australian history through the life of a man who was consistently in the upper echelons of influence and authority in colonial society and whose legacy lives through his association with the most famous and recognisable natural feature of his adopted country. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855632 Publish November 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity 9 781848 855632 Biography
Fidel Castro, one of the chief protagonists of the Cold War and Washington’s traditional foe, casts a critical eye over the significance of President Obama’s election and his performance during his first term of office. In this new book, the outspoken former Cuban president considers whether CubaUS relations are finally heading in a new direction under the Obama Administration. Now the antagonist of his 11th US president, Fidel Castro discusses a wide range of vital political issues, including the global financial crisis, climate change and the environmental crisis, the potential for a thaw in US-Cuba relations and the continued US occupation of the Guantanamo naval base. He asks what is different about President Obama and his administration and what reflects continuity with his predecessors’ policies, and challenges Washington’s decision to retain Cuba on the list of nations supporting international terrorism. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780980429268 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Ocean Press Quantity Current Affairs & Politics 9 780980 429268
The Malaria Project
What It Means to Be Palestinian
The Secret Battle that Changed the Course of WWII
Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood
Karen Masterson is a journalist who has worked for such publications as The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Houston Chronicle. She won a Knight Fellowship to work with the Malaria Unit of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during which she traveled with the CDC to Tanzania to research malaria in action and witness its affect on the lives of those afflicted.
Dina Matar is Lecturer in Arab Media and International Political Communication at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, SOAS. She is a former foreign correspondent and editor covering the Middle East, Europe and Africa. She is a co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
In 2003, journalist Karen Masterson stumbled upon a forgotten memo in the National Archives that set her on a mission to unearth a disturbing chapter of World War II history. It contained a secret plan: The U.S. Government would launch a Manhattan Project-style drug development program to defeat malaria, which by late 1942, had caused ten times more casualties in the Pacific than enemy fire. America’s covert anti-malaria program became the war’s Number 1 medical priority. After two years of subjecting syphilitics and prison volunteers to horrendous malaria symptoms and painful drug-related side effects, the program found its magic bullet. But it wasn’t discovered by one of the many drug companies working for the war effort. It was stolen in battle from the Nazis, brought to the United States, and developed into an American-made wonder cure. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230614307 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History
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What It Means to Be Palestinian is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine and ends in 1993, with the Oslo peace agreement that changed the nature and form of the national struggle. It is based on in-depth interviews and conversations with Palestinians, male and female, old and young, rich and poor, religious and secular, in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories. Presented as remembered personal narratives and as ‘social’ histories, these conversations provide a deep & intimate account of what it means to be Palestinian in the 21st century. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848853638 Publish November 2010, 224 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity Society & Culture 9 781848 853638
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Feature Titles Amelia Earhart
Guantanamo
The Turbulent Life of an American Icon
Fidel Castro has been the antagonist of 11 US presidents. He is now retired, but continues to be a forthright commentator on world events and US-Cuba relations.
Kathleen C. Winters is an aviation historian and licensed pilot.
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When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. Acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230616691 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Biography
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The Boy
Israel and Palestine
A Holocaust Story
Avi Shlaim, University of Oxford.
Dan Porat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the failure of the Oslo peace process, from the 1948 War to the 2008 invasion of Gaza, Israel and Palestine places current events in their proper historical perspective. It assesses the impact of key political and intellectual figures, including Yasir Arafat and Ariel Sharon, Edward Said and Benny Morris; it also re-examines the United States’ influential role in the conflict, and explores the many missed opportunities for peace and progress in the region. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676569 Publish November 2010, 352 pages Verso Quantity Current Affairs
The Boy presents the story of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. The sixty-two photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives. Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780809030712 Quantity Publish November 2010, 304 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux History
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Children’s Exodus
Just Warriors, Inc.
A History of the Kindertransport
The Ethics of Privatized Force
Vera K. Fast is an historian and archivist.
Deane-Peter Baker, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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The presence of contractors on today’s battlefields is without question one of the most significant developments in modern warfare. While many contractors perform relatively benign tasks on behalf of the military, controversy rages around those contractors who offer services that involve the use of armed force. In Just Warriors, Inc., philosopher and ethicist Deane-Peter Baker argues that, contrary to popular assumptions, a compelling moral and philosophical case can be made in favour of the ongoing utilization of the services that these ‘private warriors’ offer. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441134172 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Quantity Continuum Current Affairs
Energy and Climate Wars
Land Matters
How Naive Politicians, Green Ideologues, and Media Elites Are Undermining the Truth about Energy and Climate
Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices.
Peter C. Glover is a British writer and journalist specializing in political and energy analysis; and Michael J. Economides, University of Houston, US. Energy and Climate Wars exposes the energy and climate myths that are driving today’s public debate, from the West’s war on carbon to the concept of peak oil and renewable energy. Using facts and empirical science, Peter Glover and Michael Economides show how most of the battle over energy and climate issues are the works of political and ‘green’ ideologues bent on social engineering programs. $44.95 Hb, ISBN 9781441153074 Quantity Publish November 2010, 208 pages Continuum Current Affairs & Politics
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In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781845118648 Quantity Publish November 2010, 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers The Arts
T hink N ow
In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Children’s Exodus offers an in-depth look at the people and politics behind the various chains of rescue as well as the personal narratives of the children who left everything behind in the hope of finding safety. Drawing on unpublished interviews, journals, and articles, Vera K. Fast examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855373 Publish November 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity History
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How is it that Guantánamo Bay, seized after the Spanish-American War over one hundred years ago, is still held by the United States as a naval base? President Obama has proposed to close the prison for those captured in the “war against terrorism,” but Fidel Castro argues that the illegal occupation must end and the territory be returned to Cuba. This book also features a comprehensive chronology of the base’s history and extensive appendices, including some key historical documents through which Washington has justified its continued occupation. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780980429251 Quantity Publish November 2010, 160 pages Ocean Press Current Affairs & Politics
Feature Titles Lethal Warriors
A Short History of Atheism
When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
Gavin Hyman is Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University. Exploring the rise of atheism as an explicit philosophical position (notably in the work of Denis Diderot), Hyman traces its development in the later ideas of Descartes, Locke and Berkeley. Drawing also on the work of contemporary scholars like Amos Funkenstein and Michael J Buckley, the author shows that, since in recent theology the concept of God which atheists negate is changing, the triumph of its advocates may not be quite as unequivocal as Hitchens and Dawkins would have us believe. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848851375 Publish November 2010, 240 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Philosophy
David Philipps is an award-winning journalist.
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Muriel’s War
Sociology Is a Martial Art
An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
A Bourdieu Reader
Sheila Isenberg is an instructor of English and Journalism at Marist College.
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century; and Gisèle Sapiro is a sociologist at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Muriel Gardiner was born into wealth and privilege, the heiress to the fortunes of the two greatest meatpacking families in Chicago. As a young woman, she decided to leave her family and study in Europe, taking a particular interest in the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Soon after, Hitler annexed Austria and Muriel found herself in Vienna’s Medical School just as the Nazis were breaking down the doors. As a member of the Austrian resistance, she smuggled papers, and hid hundreds of Jews and political dissidents over the course of six years. Muriel’s life story is packed with adventure and inspiring acts of bravery. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230615656 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Biography
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Sociology Is a Martial Art is an accessible survey of Pierre Bourdieu's most influential writings. It includes the full text of his short books Acts of Resistance, Firing Back, and On Television, in addition to key articles, interviews, and speeches, all of which introduce the reader to Bourdieu’s innovative approach to sociology as a mode of political intervention. Edited and with an introduction by noted French sociologist Gisèle Sapiro, Sociology Is a Martial Art will become this generation’s indispensable introduction to Bourdieu’s work. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595585431 Quantity Publish November 2010, 240 pages The New Press Sociology & Politics
My Family, a Symphony
The Solitary Self
A Memoir of Global Adoption
Darwin and the Selfish Gene
Aaron Eske is the Communications Director for Angelina Jolie’s orphan advocacy organization, Global Action for Children.
Mary Midgley is one of the most respected moral philosophers and the author of many books.
Aaron Eske grew up in rural Nebraska with four siblings his parents adopted from around the globe. As an adult, trying to make sense of how his global family came to be, Eske bought a round-the-world plane ticket and journeyed in search of his siblings’ origins. He visited the orphanages where they had lived, met the people who had cared for them, and immersed himself in the the world of international adoption. The result is a harrowing, complex, and ultimately triumphant story of international adoption that highlights the issues surrounding this increasingly popular parenting option. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230104150 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Memoir
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Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. She argues cogently and convincingly that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the “selfish gene” tendency in recent neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Such neatness, she shows, cannot be imposed on human psychology. She returns to Darwin’s original writings to show how the reductive individualism which is now presented as Darwinism does not derive from Darwin but from a wider, Hobbesian tradition in Enlightenment thinking. $29.95 ISBN 9781844652532 Quantity Publish November 2010, 192 pages Acumen Publishing Philosophy
Popular Resistance in Palestine
Troubled Water
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh is a professor at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities and works with a number of civil society organizations.
Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk
In this fascinating book, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh synthesises data from hundreds of original sources to provide the most comprehensive study of civil resistance in Palestine. The book contains hundreds of stories of the heroic and highly innovative methods of resistance employed by the Palestinians over more than 100 years. The author also analyses the successes, failures, missed opportunities and challenges facing ordinary Palestinians as they struggle for freedom against incredible odds. This is the only book to critically and comparatively study the uprisings of 1920-21, 1929, 1936-9, 1970s, 1987-1991 and 2000-2006. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745330693 Quantity Publish November 2010, 320 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
Gregory Freeman is a writer with more than 25 years experience in journalism and historical nonfiction.
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In 1972 the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the Vietnam war, rioted - or, as Troubled Water suggests, mutinied. Although the incident became a turning point for race relations in the Navy, this story remained buried within U.S. Navy archives for decades. Gregory A. Freeman uses eyewitness accounts and a careful and unprecedented examination of the navy’s records to refute the official story of the incident and make a convincing case for the U.S. navy’s first mutiny. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230103399 Quantity Publish November 2010, 272 pages Palgrave Macmillan History
H eretics
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They were once known by the famous moniker, “Band of Brothers.” Now, 60 years later, the notorious army unit from Fort Carson, Colorado calls themselves the “Lethal Warriors,” having seen the worst of the violence in Iraq. Many of its members are plagued by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and some, misdiagnosed or untreated since returning from war, embarked on drug-fuelled crime sprees, some of which resulted in murder. Here, David Philipps applies his piercing insight and relentless investigative skills not only to this particular unit, but to the broader issue of PTSD as it rages throughout the country. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230104402 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan
God
Piers Benn, Imperial College London.
W. Jay Wood, Wheaton College, USA.
In this work, Piers Benn delves into the relationship between commitment and meaningful life, and asks whether commitment must be based on truth to provide such meaning. He also explores obstacles to commitment such as boredom, sloth and indifference. Drawing on his own experience of dithering and procrastination, he suggests that a sceptical, cautious attitude to important matters can both be a virtue, and a real obstacle to human fulfilment. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652310 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Acumen Publishing Now publishing March 2011 History & Philosophy Quantity
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Forgiveness
The Hegel Dictionary
Eve Garrard, University of Manchester, and David McNaughton, Florida State University.
Glenn Alexander Magee, Long Island University, USA.
Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really amounts to. They argue that it is more difficult, complex and troubling than many of its advocates suppose. and admirable to forgive even unrepentant wrongdoers. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844652266 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Quantity Acumen Publishing History & Philosophy
The Hegel Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of G.W.F. Hegel, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Hegel’s thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information and analysis. A-Z entries include clear definitions of key terms used in Hegel’s writings and detailed synopses of his major works. The dictionary also includes entries on Hegel’s philosophical influences, such as Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, and those he influenced, including Marx. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847065919 Publish November 2010, 272 pages Quantity Continuum History & Philosophy
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Childhood in World History
The Historical Study of Women
Second Edition
England 1500-1700
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University.
Amanda Capern, University of Hull, UK.
Childhood exists in all societies, though there is huge variation in the way it is socially constructed across time and place. Studying childhood historically greatly advances our understanding of what childhood is about and a world history focus permits some of the broadest questions to be asked. Now fully up to date, this second edition of Childhood in World History highlights the gains but also the divisions and losses for children across the millennia. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415598095 Publish November 2010, 176 pages Routledge History & Philosophy
A richly detailed survey of the history of earlymodern women covering the history of ideas, social life, political participation, religious culture and women’s writing. Capern treats women’s history as inherently political and offers a new interpretative framework for understanding the history of femininity in early-modern England. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780333662694 Publish November 2010, 456 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy
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A History of Korea
Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century
An Episodic Narrative Kyung Moon Hwang, University of Southern California, USA. A concise, lively history of Korea, which explores the richness of Korean civilization from the ancient era through to the jarring transformation that resulted in two distinctive trajectories through the modern world. Chapters flow both chronologically and thematically, covering themes such as identity, gender and family. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230205468 Publish November 2010, 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy
Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two is crucial to this history. This book focuses on a key period in their relationship that moulded the character of the British Empire, the USA and the way the two have interacted since. The rise and crises of empires will always fascinate the observer because in their fate we see much of human history. This fascinating and complex story is told by Black with narrative drive and scholarly acumen. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441104458 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Continuum Quantity History & Philosophy
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P algrave E ssential H istories
Crisis of Empire Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK.
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C ontinuum P hilosophy D ictionaries
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Are there adequate reasons to think that God exists? And, if God exists, what is God like? Jay Wood examines these two foundational questions about God, which have exercised philosophers since antiquity. The first part of the book addresses epistemological concerns, focusing on arguments for and against the claim that theism is rationally justifiable. Metaphysical questions about God’s nature, in particular God’s knowledge and power, constitute the second part of the book. Both questions are shown to be related since, if the concept of a God perfect in wisdom, power and goodness is incoherent, it cannot be reasonable to believe that God exists. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844652471 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Quantity Acumen Publishing History & Philosophy
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History & Philosophy Hobsbawm
The Longest Day
History and Politics
The D-Day Story, June 6th,1944
Gregory Elliott, Newcastle University.
Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974) was a celebrated IrishAmerican journalist and author, most famous for his popular military history books on World War II.
Historian Eric Hobsbawm is possibly the foremost chronicler of the modern age. Despite this, no extended study of Hobsbawm’s work has yet been attempted Gregory Elliott fills this gap in exemplary fashion. Elliott analyses both the scholarly record of Hobsbawm and the intellectual and political journey that his life represents. In doing so, he seeks to situate Hobsbawm’s thought within the context of a generalised crisis of confidence on the Left after the fall of the Berlin Wall. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745328447 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Pluto History & Philosophy Quantity
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This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors -from high-ranking Allied and German officers, to the paratroopers who landed in Normandy before dawn, the infantry who struggled ashore and the German troops who defended the coast. Cornelius Ryan captures the horror and the glory of D-Day, relating in emotive and compelling detail the years of inspired tactical planning that led up to the invasion, its epic implementation and every stroke of luck and individual act of heroism that would later define the battle. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848853874 Quantity Publish November 2010, 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History & Philosophy
Immanuel Kant
M.N. Roy
Key Concepts
Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism
Will Dudley, Williams College, USA, and Kristina Engelhard, University of Cologne, Germany.
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University.
This book provides an accessible introduction to Kant by explaining each of the key concepts of his philosophy. The book is organized into three parts, which correspond to the main areas of Kant’s transcendental idealism: Theoretical Philosophy; Practical Philosophy; Aesthetics, Teleology, Religion. Each chapter presents an overview of a particular topic, while the whole provides a clear and comprehensive account of Kant’s philosophical system. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844652396 Publish November 2010, 276 pages Acumen Publishing History & Philosophy Quantity
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This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India’s most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Exploring the intellectual production of this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on to post-Independence India. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the modern history of South and East Asia, America and Europe, and to those interested in anti-colonial struggles, Communist politics and trajectories of Marxist thought. $28.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415446037 Quantity Publish November 2010, 175 pages Routledge History & Philosophy
Jurgen Habermas
Philosophy of Religion
Key Concepts
The Key Thinkers
Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Ohio, USA.
Jeffrey J. Jordan, University of Delaware, USA.
This volume provides an accessible and comprehensive conceptual map of Habermas’ theoretical framework and its key concepts, including the theory of communicative action, discourse ethics, his social-political philosophy and their applications to contemporary issues. It will be an invaluable resource for both novice readers of Habermas and those interested in a more refined understanding of particular aspects of his work. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844652372 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Acumen Publishing History & Philosophy
Arguments concerning the existence and nature of God have been a staple of western philosophy for over 2,000 years. Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of this fascinating field. Nine specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441192158 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Continuum History & Philosophy Quantity
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The Land of the Thunderbolt Mountains
Rawls’s ‘A Theory of Justice’
Nineteenth-century Origins of Albanian National Identity
Frank Lovett, Washington University, St Louis, USA.
A Reader’s Guide
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Published in English for the first time, The Land of the Thunderbolt Mountains showcases d’Istria’s writings about Albania. Through the medium of songs and folklore, d’Istria analyses an overlooked but important aspect of Eastern European history - the theme of nationality and the role of women in its development - and examines in detail the role of Albanian women in different regions of the country, from an original female perspective. $69.95 Hb, ISBN 9781845115906 Quantity Publish November 2010, 184 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers History & Philosophy
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R eader ' s G uides
John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century. A staple on undergraduate courses in political theory, it is a classic text in which Rawls makes an astonishing contribution to political and moral thought. Rawls’s ‘A Theory of Justice’: A Reader’s Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to this hugely important and challenging work. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826437815 Publish November 2010, 176 pages Continuum History & Philosophy
Dora d’Istria (the pen name of Elena Ghika) was born in Bucharest in 1828 into the ruling family of Romania, which originated in Albania.
History & Philosophy
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Reading the Dao
Valences of the Dialectic
A Thematic Inquiry
Fredric Jameson, Duke University.
Wang Keping, Beijing International Studies University, China.
One of the most accomplished literary and cultural critics in the world, Fredric Jameson returns to the philosophy of the dialectic in a grand and nuanced study of the concept and those who have developed it. The question of the dialectic remains at the center of contemporary theoretical debates: Is it Hegelian and idealistic? To what degree is it central to Marxism? Is a materialist dialectic really possible? How damaging are the “poststructuralist” critiques of the dialectic by Deleuze, and Laclau and Mouffe? Valences of the Dialectic addresses these questions, and studies individual thinkers both dialectical and anti-dialectical, from Hegel and Fichte to Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, Deleuze and Lacan. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844674633 Quantity Publish November 2010, 634 pages Verso History & Philosophy
The Dao De Jing represents one of the most important works of Chinese philosophy, in which the author, Lao Zi (c. 580-500 BC), lays the foundations of Taoism. In Reading the Dao: A Thematic Inquiry, Wang Keping offers a clear and accessible guide to this hugely important text. Wang’s thematic approach opens up key elements of the Dao De Jing in a way that highlights and clarifies the central arguments for the modern reader. Presenting comprehensive textual analysis of key passages and a useful survey of recent Taoist scholarship, the book provides the reader with an insight into the origins of Taoist philosophy. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441196514 Quantity Publish November 2010, 240 pages Continuum History & Philosophy
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege
Wartime Dissent in America
On Sense and Reference
Wartime Dissent in America tells the story of U.S. wartime dissent by exploring the speeches, pamphlets and essays of war opponents in every major American war since the Revolutionary War. This history and anthology summarizes each war, with special emphasis on the jeopardy and impact of dissent during each period. Far more than an anthology, the book explores the history and development of American wartime dissent. It is, at once, a valuable collection of the nation’s vital statements of wartime dissent, while also telling the broader story in which this tradition of dissent developed and played out. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230104839 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity History & Philosophy
Robert Mann, Louisiana State University.
Mark Textor, King’s College London, UK.
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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language. Frege’s writings are difficult and deal with technical, abstract concepts. Ideal for those coming to Frege for the first time, and containing fresh insights for anyone interested in his philosophy, this Guidebook is essential reading for all students of philosophy of language, philosophical logic and the history of analytic philosophy. $45.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415419628 Publish November 2010, 304 pages Quantity Routledge History & Philosophy
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Starting with Leibniz
Who is Rigoberta Menchu?
Roger Woolhouse, University of York, UK.
Greg Grandin, New York University.
Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Leibniz provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker. Thematically structured, the book leads the reader through a thorough overview of Leibniz’s thought, resulting in a more complete understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns. Offering coverage of the full range of Leibniz’s philosophical ideas, the book explores his work on substance, mind, body, matter, dynamics and the philosophy of science, God, free will. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9781847062048 Publish November 2010, 192 pages Continuum History & Philosophy
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published I, Rigoberta Menchú, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala under a military dictatorship to great acclaim. Since then, her memoir has increasingly become a target for rightwing historians and commentators seeking to discredit Menchú’s account and to deny the genocide carried out by the Guatemalan military regime with US support. Greg Grandin takes on her critics to set the story straight. He investigates the historical context and political realities that underlie Menchú’s past and the ongoing debate surrounding it, in this substantial new work on Guatemalan history. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844674589 Quantity Publish November 2010, 224 pages Verso History & Philosophy
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World History
A Sourcebook
The Basics
Peter Wilson, University of Hull, UK.
Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University.
An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict. Covering all aspects of the war from a variety of contemporary perspectives, it brings together an exciting range of material from treaties to literature to eyewitness accounts. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230242067 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan History & Philosophy
World History has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular and talked about approaches to the study of history. World History: The Basics introduces this fast-growing field and addresses key questions such as: what is world history?; how do we study a subject with such a broad geographic and chronological range?; and why has world history been controversial? Written by one of the founders of the field and addressing all of the major issues including time, place, civilizations, contact, themes and more, this book is both an ideal introduction to world history and an important statement about the past, present and future of the field. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415582759 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Routledge History & Philosophy
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Current Affairs & Politics Change the World without Taking Power
The Dying Sahara Jeremy Keenan is a consultant to the UN and other international organisations.
John Holloway, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.
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This new edition of John Holloway’s contemporary classic, Change the World without Taking Power, includes an extensive new preface by the author. In this book, John Holloway asks how we can reformulate our understanding of revolution as the struggle against power, not for power. He opens up the theoretical debate, reposing some of the basic concepts of Marxism in a critical development of the subversive Marxist tradition represented by Adorno, Bloch and Lukacs, amongst others, and grounded in a rethinking of Marx’s concept of ‘fetishisation’ - how doing is transformed into being. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745329185 Quantity Publish November 2010, 296 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
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Socialism or Barbarism
Ethics, Law and Military Operations
Paul Le Blanc, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, and Helen C. Scott, University of Vermont.
Normative Frameworks and the Practice of Military Operations
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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. The editors provide an extensive and informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and thought. This is the most comprehensive introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745329888 Publish November 2010, 240 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
David Whetham, King’s College London, UK.
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Ethics, Law and Military Operations is one of the first books to examine both the ethical and the legal considerations of contemporary military conflict. It adopts a practical approach to explore the ways in which legal and normative issues combine to affect the entire spectrum of military operations, from high-intensity conflict to peacekeeping activities and the provision of humanitarian aid. With an operational perspective in mind, this book delivers accessible frameworks for evaluating and applying fundamental legal and ethical concepts. $67.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230221710 Publish November 2010, 272 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Current Affairs & Politics
Staying Power
Europe’s Alliance with Israel
Peter Fryer is the author of the classic Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, and Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics.
David Cronin is a journalist specialising in European politics.
Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day. In a comprehensive account, Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly influenced and shaped events in Britain over the course of the last two thousand years. This new edition includes a foreword by Paul Gilroy explaining the genesis of the book and its continuing significance in black history today. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745330723 Publish November 2010, 656 pages Pluto Quantity Current Affairs & Politics
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In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU’s 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. Journalist David Cronin interrogates the relationship and its outcomes. Cronin shows that rather than using this relationship to encourage Israeli restraint, the EU has legitimised actions such as the ill-treatment of prisoners and the Gaza invasion. Concluding his revealing and shocking account, Cronin calls for a continuation and deepening of international activism and protest to halt the EU’s slide into complicity. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745330655 Quantity Publish November 2010, 192 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
A Better Ireland
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
Eoin Ó Broin is a writer and policy analyst based in Dublin.
Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge.
Is a better Ireland possible? Can progressive social and political forces in Ireland, north and south, unite around a common programme for democratic reform, social justice and economic equality? Could such an alliance for change secure popular support? Eoin Ó Broin explores these questions, providing a radical political, economic and social critique of Ireland, north and south in the 1990s and 2000s. He makes an honest assessment of the obstacles to building a national alliance for change, and maps out a detailed set of alternatives for Ireland in the 21st century. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745330006 Publish November 2010, 208 pages Pluto Quantity Current Affairs & Politics
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In The Dark Sahara (Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating ‘false flag’ terrorism to justify the launch of a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the Pentagon’s designation of the region as a ‘Terror Zone’ has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Keenan’s chillingly detailed research shows that the US and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745329611 Publish November 2010, 240 pages Quantity Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
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In this succinct and panoramic work-both stimulating for the specialist and accessible to the general reader-one of the world’s leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, tackles the question of the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and its legacy for radical thought in the twentyfirst. Addressing the history of critical theory from the contemporary vantage-point characterized by postmodernism, post-Marxism and critiques of Eurocentrism, Therborn probes how the recent theoretical currents-including those of Slavoj Zizek, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou-have coped with the changed intellectual as well as political and economic contexts. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844676309 Publish November 2010, 208 pages Quantity Verso Current Affairs & Politics
Current Affairs & Politics Ideologies in the Age of Extremes
A Short History of the Liberal Party
Willie Thompson is the author of numerous books including What Happened To History?.
The Road Back to Power
This is a history of political ideologies during the period famously described by Eric Hobsbawn as ‘The Age of Extremes’ - from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ideologies in the Age of Extremes introduces the key ideologies of the age; liberalism, conservatism, communism and fascism. Willie Thompson identifies the political influence of mass movements as a key feature. He uses a powerful approach that considers the different ideologies in relation to each other. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745327112 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics
Chris Cook lifts the lid on the ‘third Party’. Providing an indispensable account of their journey over the last century, he charts the Party’s history from the landslide victory of 1906 under Asquith, via their descent into divisions and decline in the interwar years, to in-depth analysis of the 2010 election. And asks, what of their future? Will the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition divide the party? Or, will the coalition win the nation's hearts? $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230210448 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan Current Affairs & Politics
Chirs Cook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Iran, the Green Movement and the USA
The S Word A Short History of an American Tradition... Socialism
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York.
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This book presents the dilemma that the West faces in dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran and their nuclear armament, and how the unfolding civil rights movement in Iran (the Green Movement) will be effected by this interaction. Expert Iranian author Hamid Dabashi argues that if Obama negotiates with Ahmadinejad, he will further strengthen the IRI regionally and legitimize Ahmadinejad’s otherwise troubled presidency internationally; and if he were not to do so and opt for further economic sanctions and/or military strikes he will paradoxically strengthen the IRI regionally and altogether destroy the domestic opposition and the budding Green Movement. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848138162 Quantity Publish November 2010, 192 pages Zed Books Current Affairs & Politics
John Nichols is a leading political reporter in the US.
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Islam as Political Religion
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The Future of an Imperial Faith
Understanding the Somalia Conflagration
Shabbir Akhtar, Old Dominion University, USA.
Afyare Abdi Elmi, Qatar University.
This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what his religion is and could be as a political entity. Exploring the views and arguments of philosophical, religious and political thinkers, the author covers a raft of issues faced by Muslims in an increasingly secular society. Chapters are devoted to the Qur’an and Islamic literature; the history of Islam; Sharia law; political Islam; Islamic ethics; and political Islam’s evolving relationship with the West. $67.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415781473 Quantity Publish November 2010, 298 pages Routledge Current Affairs & Politics
Somalia has been devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, and it has long been without a central government. Against this background of violence, Somali academic Afyare Abdi Elmi, attempts to explain the multiple dimensions of the conflict and find a peacebuilding consensus Somalia is a failed state and a Muslim state. Elmi shows that only by addressing the problem of the statelessness in the country can the long process of peace begin. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780745329741 Publish November 2010, 216 pages Pluto Current Affairs & Politics Quantity
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Pakistan’s Quagmire
Zombie Capitalism
Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation
Chris Harman is the author of several books, including A People’s History of the World. While for most mainstream commentators the financial crisis that opened in 2007 signaled the failure of regulation and accountability, Chris Harman describes the ongoing economic turmoil as a byproduct of capitalism’s inability to consider anything but the bottom line. $27.00 Pb, ISBN 9781608461042 Publish November 2010, 425 pages Haymarket Books Current Affairs & Politics
Usama Butt, political and security researcher / analyst, UK; and N. Elahi, King’s College London.
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John Nichols here offers his unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life arguing that socialism has a long, proud American history. Recent polls show that Americans are more open to socialism and alternatives to capitalism than in decades. Indeed, as The New Yorker put it, “There hasn’t been so much talk of socialism in an American election since 1920, when Eugene Victor Debs, candidate of the Socialist Party, made his fifth run for president from a cell in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.” This book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today. $27.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676798 Quantity Publish November 2010, 176 pages Verso Current Affairs & Politics
The only country in Islamic world to be formed in the name of Islam and a nuclear power, Pakistan today is struggling for its very existence and is at war with itself. Pakistan’s Quagmire focuses on the insurgency in Pakistan, a security problem not only for the country, but also for the region and the rest of the world. The book looks at both theoretical and practical aspects, from international relations, conflict processes, and political Islam to the annihilation of the TTP, the presence of Al-Qaeda in tribal regions, and the role of Pakistani military and agencies. $64.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826433008 Quantity Publish November 2010, 304 pages Continuum Current Affairs & Politics
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Biography & Memoir Hitler
Diaries from Turkey in World War I
Michael Lynch
Ian Lyster worked in publishing for many years and later set up his own book distribution company.
This new accessible biography looks at Hitler’s life from his childhood, his time as a drop out, his awakening as a revolutionary and his then relatively conventional ascent to power. The story charts the days of Nazi Germany and the Second World War through to Hitler’s humiliating defeat and death in his bunker. Michael Lynch addresses the fundamental question surrounding Hitler: Was he was the product of a unique, extraordinary epoch, or was he its creator? In the context of the great mass of ideas and interpretations that have been produced in response to this basic yet demanding question, Michael Lynch provides a balanced guide that will be enlightening for students and general readers alike. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415436465 Quantity Publish November 2010, 272 pages Routledge Biography
Among the Ottomans introduces two unique diary accounts written by two generations of the same family in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire. Marie Lyster’s WWI diaries describe the political and social climate of Constantinople as Allied troops swept through Turkey. Just 200 miles away in the Dardanelles, her son Henry fought alongside the Greek Comitajis, as they clashed with the Bulgarians. Published for the first time, these two diaries provide an unprecedented account of the Great War’s impact across generations and geographical borders and a unique insight into the final years of the Ottoman Empire. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855212 Quantity Publish November 2010, 240 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Memoir
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Exiles
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
Michael J. Arlen is an Anglo-Armenian writer and former television critic for The New Yorker.
The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip
Exiles is the story of two glamorous people - one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated for the 1970 National Book Award and helped reestablish the memoir as a genre, their son evokes - with humor and honesty - his parents’ seemingly charmed life in Hollywood and New York, his own childhood spent between homes and boarding schools, and the decline of a family full of love, joy, and pride in one another: in other words, a family as ordinary as it is unusual. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532604 Publish November 2010, 240 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Quantity Memoir
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Nevin Martell is a contributing editor at Filter magaizine, and an author.
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Franklin and Eleanor
Padre Pio
An Extraordinary Marriage
Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age
Hazel Rowley is the author of three previous biographies and the recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Sergio Luzzatto, University of Turin, Italy. Padre Pio is one of the world’s most beloved holy figures, more popular in Italy than the Virgin Mary and even Jesus. Neither a worshipful hagiography nor a character assassination, Padre Pio is the first objective biography of this fascinating figure. A nuanced examination of the persistence of mysticism in the modern day, and a striking analysis of the links between Catholicism and twentieth-century politics, this profoundly original tale of wounds and wonder, salvation and swindle explores what it really means to be a saint in our time. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805089059 Publish November 2010, 384 pages Henry Holt and Company Quantity Biography
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. No one has told the full story until now. In this groundbreaking new account of the marriage, Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention - private and public - that kept FDR and Eleanor together. She reveals a partnership that was both supportive and daring. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780374158576 Publish November 2010, 416 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Biography Quantity
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Gulag Voices
Patrick Pearse
Oral Histories of Soviet Detention and Exile
The Making of a Revolutionary
Jehanne Gheith, Duke University, and Katherine Jolluck, Stanford University.
Joost Augusteijn, Leiden University.
In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major cities and those from the "provinces," and from an array of corrective hard labor camps and prisons across the former Soviet Union. $44.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230610637 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Memoir Quantity
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In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson’s closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. This is as close as we’re ever likely to get to one of America’s most ingenious and intriguing figures. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781441106858 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Continuum Biography
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Patrick Pearse was not only the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising but also one of the main ideologues of physical-force nationalism in Ireland. Based on a wealth of new material on his childhood and underground activities, this first full biography in more than thirty years provides an intimate and revealing account of Pearse’s life, and of the development of his ideas on Irish culture, education, and politics. The integrated approach reveals how Pearse gave his own interpretation of ideas that were current in European society at the time, while Augusteijn also offers the first comprehensive analysis of his impact on Ireland after his death. $54.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230277656 Quantity Publish November 2010, 416 pages Palgrave Macmillan Biography
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Travel
Radetzky
First Russia, then Tibet
Imperial Saviour and Military Genius
Travels Through a Changing World
Alan Sked, London School of Economics.
Robert Byron was one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers.
History remembers Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Radetzky in the battles which led to Napoleon’s abdication and first exile in 1814. The wars Radetzky fought - and won - throughout his extensive military career were of the greatest possible significance in European history, yet today, he is almost forgotten. In this, the first biography of Radetzky to be published in English, Alan Sked paints a vivid picture of an exceptional, yet neglected commander of genius in a book which will be fascinating reading for enthusiasts of military and modern European history. $69.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848856776 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Quantity I.B.Tauris Publishers Biography
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The Shadows of Youth
Night Haunts
The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Sukhdev Sandhu is the author of, among other books, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined A City.
Andrew B. Lewis, Wesleyan University.
London at night has always been seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered neutral by street lighting and CCTV cameras. Beautifully written, Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the cityto revitalize the great myth of London for a new century. $22.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676552 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Verso Travel
The Shadows of Youth provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who - under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - challenged the way Americans think about civil rights, politics, and moral obligation in an unjust democracy. A wealth of original sources and oral interviews allows the historian Andrew B. Lewis to recover the sweeping narrative of the civil rights movement, from its origins in the youth culture of the 1950s to the near present. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532406 Publish November 2010, 368 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Memoir Quantity
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Talk Show
The Station
Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece Robert Byron was one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers.
Dick Cavett was the host of The Dick Cavett Show, which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982.
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Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj. As a piece of travel literature, First Russia, Then Tibet is compelling and beautifully-written. As a portrait of these countries in the 1930s, it is invaluable. Ultimately, it illuminates the constant quest for meaning that underscored Robert Byron’s life and travels. $34.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848854246 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks Travel
For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation’s most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett’s best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780805091953 Quantity Publish November 2010, 288 pages Henry Holt and Company Memoir
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Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and mysterious place in Greece: an autonomous state, where no woman can set foot, which has its own calendar and its own time. In 1927, at the age of 22, Robert Byron journeyed to Athos with his friends and embarked on an adventure whose influence would remain with him for the rest of his life. Through compelling descriptions of the monks of Athos, their daily lives and the treasures held in their monasteries, Byron illuminates an ancient and enigmatic world, long shrouded from the eyes of outsiders. $34.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848855076 Quantity Publish November 2010, 272 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks Travel
The Virgin Queen
Where Hornbills Fly
A Personal History of Elizabeth I
A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo
Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008) was a prolific and popular historian.
Erik Jensen’s impressive diplomatic career after Sarawak culminated in his appointment as an UnderSecretary-General of the United Nations.
The reign of Elizabeth was characterised by the virgin queen cult that grew up around her fierce independence, by her epic defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, by England’s seafaring prowess personified in the figures of Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh and by the great flowering of artistic and literary creativity that was catalyzed in the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe. In this classic biography, Christopher Hibbert paints a compelling and evocative portrait of one of history’s most fascinating women, illuminated against a backdrop of the tumultuous, glorious events of the Elizabethan era. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848855557 Quantity Publish November 2010, 312 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks Biography
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The Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world’s most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life. As a young man Erik Jensen settled in Sarawak where he lived with the Iban for seven years, learning their language and the varied rites and practices of their lives. In this compelling and beautifully-wrought memoir, Erik Jensen reveals the challenges facing the Iban as they adapt to another century, whilst fighting to preserve their identity and singular place in the world. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855007 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Quantity I.B. Tauris Publishers Travel
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Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Night of the Golden Butterfly moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing.
“All human frailty and nobility is here – an imaginative tour de force” – Sunday Telegraph 10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction, this book brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Ben Okri. Includes authors for whom the Caine Prize has been a springboard to successful business publishing deals. $28.00 Pb, ISBN 9781906523244 September 2009, 228 pages Quantity New Internationalist
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9 781906 523244 Ralph Nader Ralph Nader seeks to ask the questions, What if a cadre of superrich individuals tried to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America’s most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? And what if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? $44.00 Hb, ISBN 9781583229033 October 2009, 736 pages Seven Stories Press Quantity
From A to X John Berger, storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic. In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity assume for A’ida a life-affirming significance. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844673612 Quantity May 2009, 198 pages Verso
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Yasunari Kawabata Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and the passage of time, demonstrating the range and complexity of a true master of short fiction. $24.00 Pb, ISBN 9780374530495 2006, 280 pages Henry Holt Quantity
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Passenger to Teheran Vita Sackville-West, celebrated writer, poet and author. In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. $34.00 Pb, ISBN 9781845113438 2007, 160 pages I.B. Tauris
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Military History The Routledge Atlas of the First World War
The Battle for Budapest 100 Days in World War II
Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 174 fascinating maps. Together the maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that shattered Europe, and illustrate its military, social, political and economic aspects. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415460385 2008, 224 pages Routledge
Krisztian Ungvary The battle of Budapest (December 1944 to February 1945) was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of the Second World War. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human trauma, it comes second only to Stalingrad, comparisons to which were even being made by soldiers, both German and Soviet, fighting at the time. This definitive history covers their experiences, and those of the 800,000 non-combatants around whom the battle raged. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781850436676 2004, 366 pages Quantity I.B. Tauris
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Frames of War
The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War
When Is Life Grievable? Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. $45.00 Hb, ISBN 9781844673339 Quantity June 2009, 194 pages Verso 9 781844 673339
The Holocaust Industry
Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. In The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War, Martin Gilbert graphically charts the war’s political, military, economic and social history through 247 maps. Each map has been specially drawn for this atlas, many of them covering topics that have not previously been mapped. Focusing on the human - and inhuman - aspects of the war, The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War includes examination of military, naval and air campaigns on all the war fronts. $70.00 Hb, ISBN 9780415397094 Quantity 2008, 320 pages Routledge 9 780415 397094
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The Triumph of Military Zionism
Norman Finkelstein teaches at the City University of New York and contributes to the London Review of Books. This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Norman Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binyamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the rubbish of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, selfproclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. $22.00 Pb, ISBN 9781859844885 Quantity 9 7 8 1 8 5 9 8 4 4 8 8 5 2003, 286 pages Verso
Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right
Israel’s Wars A History Since 1947
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Colin Shindler is a Fellow in Israeli Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Why did Israel shift from a state based on pioneering egalitarianism and ‘making the desert bloom’ to one which is chiefly known for its military prowess? The Triumph of Military Zionism examines Israel’s shift to the right at the hands of Menachem Begin, the supposed ‘disciple’ of Vladimir Jabotinsky. Shindler’s book uses original research to challenge the conventional wisdom that Begin was the natural heir to Jabotinsky. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848850248 Quantity December 2009, 288 pages 9 781848 850248 I.B.Tauris
The Will to Resist Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ahron Bregman During the twentieth century, Israel has achieved notoriety, witnessing almost constant conflict and violence. This book is a masterly account of Israel’s wars with the Palestinians and the Arabs. From the 1947-8 Jewish-Palestinian struggle for the possession and mastery of the land of Palestine, through Israel’s wars with its Arab neighbours, to the Al-Aqsa Intifada, this book unearths new insights and exposes unknown facts for the first time. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415287166 Quantity 2002, 192 pages Routledge 9 780415 287166
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. Despite tremendous sentiment against the Americanled occupations, citizens and soldiers continue to die. Award-winning journalist Jamail shows a new generation of American soldiers are taking opposition into their own hands. As one of the few unembedded journalists in Iraq, he investigates the growing antiwar resistance of GIs, embodied in organisations such as Iraq Verterans Against the War. $32.00 Hb, ISBN 9781931859882 Quantity September 2009, 230 pages Haymarket 9 781931 859882
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Continuum Religion Titles Recently Published Exploring the Spirituality of the World Religions
From Political Theory to Political Theology
um u in t n es Hitler’s Theology o c r C u o s Re $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441187444 March 2010 Continuum
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Buddhayana: Living Buddhism Anil Goonewardene has taught for over twenty years at the London Buddhist Vihara's Dhamma School. From leading expert Anil Goonewardene, this book is an insightful, lively and readable account of Buddhism. Drawing on over twenty years of teaching experience, Anil sets out to demonstrate that the three key traditions of Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana) are all rooted in the same foundations and that the central teachings of these different schools are the same. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441187956 May 2010, 320 pages Continuum Quantity
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Islamic Fundamentalism Youssef M Choueiri, University of Manchester, UK. This book presents a striking analysis of how and why Islamism and Jihadism have become such potent contemporary political forces, shedding new light on a much-misunderstood situation. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826498014 June 2010, 272 pages Continuum Quantity
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Oddbjørn Leirvik, University of Oslo, Norway. Images of Jesus Christ in Islam 2nd Edition provides a general introduction to the question of Jesus Christ in Islam and a dialogical discussion of this issues’ importance for Christian-Muslim relations. Its originality lies in its comprehensive presentation of relevant sources and research and its discussion of Islamic images of Christ in the wider context of Muslim-Christian relations. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441181602 March 2010, 304 pages Continuum Quantity
Hinduism Today Stephen Jacobs, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Understanding Hinduism today requires an understanding of how it is practised in the contemporary world. Stephen Jacob’s new introduction tackles these central issues, beginning with case studies of the grassroots practice of Hinduism in India and in diaspora communities. He covers issues of singular importance in the modern study of Hinduism. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826430656 April 2010, 192 pages Continuum
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Islam Today Ron Geaves, Liverpool Hope University, UK. This new introduction aims to present Islam through the lens of contemporary issues. Informed by research taken from lived religion, each chapter looks at Islam in a modern context, and explores issues relevant to the religion today. Ron Geaves moves through key contemporary themes: Islam and diversity, ethics and morality, gender, fundamentalism, and the relationship between Islam and the West. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781847064783 April 2010, 200 pages Continuum Quantity
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Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok,Cambridge University, UK. Judaism Today gives an account of the nature of traditional Judaism, provides an introduction to the various divisions that currently exist in the Jewish world and identifies and discusses contemporary issues with which the Jewish faith engages in the twenty-first century. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826422316 April 2010, 200 pages Continuum
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This book is an insightful guide to the diverse ways that religious faith is practiced and spirituality is understood. Discussing contemporary issues such as post-modernism and the emergence of a “new paradigm,” the new realities of geopolitics, globalization and global warming, this book explores the importance of religion in people’s lives to provide direction in the society today. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441146458 May 2010, 264 pages Continuum
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Studying Christianity William H. Brackney, Acadia Divinity College. This is an essential guide to the study of Christianity. Clearly structured to cover all the major areas of study, including chapters on how Christianity has been studied, foundations and scripture, community and structure, religious values, theology, and ethics, rituals and spirituality. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780826498861 January 2010, 192 pages Continuum
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David Ananda Hart, Derby University, UK. Clearly structured to cover all the major areas of study, including historical foundations, scripture, society, thought, ethics, rituals, spirituality and aesthetics, this is the ideal study aid for those approaching Hinduism for the first time. Includes helpful suggestions for further study, pointing students towards material such as primary sources (scriptures), films and novels and including ideas for teaching, discussion topics and exercises. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781847062949 May 2010, 224 pages Continuum
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Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine
Derek Wall, author of The Rise of the Green Left ($29.95 Pb, 9780745330365) and The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics ($19.95 Pb, 9781906523398), will be speaking at the Australian Green Left conference as part of the Climate ChangeSocial Change conference taking place at the University of Melbourne over November 5-7.
By William Parry November 9th 2010 is the International Day Against the Wall! Freelance journalist and photographer William Parry’s Against the Wall is a stunning book of photos capturing the graffiti and art that has transformed Israel’s wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity. Featuring the work of artists including Banksy, Ron English, Blu and others, as well as Palestinian artists and activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, and touching humour. They illustrate the wall’s toll on lives and livlihoods, showing the hardship it has brought to tens of thousands of people, preventing their access to work, education and vital medical care. Mixed with the photos are portraits and vignettes, offering a heartfelt and inspiring account of a people determined to uphold their dignity in the face of profound injustice. $45.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745329178 Quantity
The conference is organised by Green Left Weekly and the Socialist Alliance and is sponsored by the University of Melbourne’s Office of Environmental Programs. Derek Wall is a former principal speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales, and a green activist, writer and economist. He is a leading member of Green Left, an ecosocialist current within the Green Party. For further information please visit http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/44725
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Palgrave News! Erasing Iraq ($35.00 Pb, ISBN 9780745328973) has been ranked in the top 40 best-selling titles of the Sydney Writers Festival! Author Mike Otterman and co-author Dr. Richard Hil also took part in a Sydney Ideas Open event, a new series of short, evening talks and forums where the community can explore new research, new ideas and new thinking in an intimate and informal way. To listen to this lecture please visit: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/sydney_ideas_ open/2010.php About the book… For nearly two decades, the US and its allies have prosecuted war and aggression in Iraq. Erasing Iraq shows in unparalleled detail the devastating human cost. Western governments and the mainstream media continue to ignore or play down the human costs of the war on Iraqi citizens. This has allowed them to present their role as the benign guardians of Iraqi interests. The authors deconstruct this narrative by presenting a portrait of the total carnage in Iraq today as told by Iraqis and other witnesses who experienced it firsthand. Featuring in-depth interviews with Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Western countries, Erasing Iraq is a comprehensive and moving account of the Iraqi people’s tragedy. Qty
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals By Jonathan Balcombe “With vivid stories and entertaining anecdotes, Balcombe gives the human pedestal a strong shake while opening the door into the inner lives of the animals themselves” Quantity – The Scavenger, July edition $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230613621
Growing up Bin Laden By Jean Sasson “Growing up Bin Laden will help you to ‘know thy enemy’” – Australian Literary Review, July edition 2010. Quantity $25.00 Pb, ISBN 9781851687565
Jim Pavlidis Minibook By Megan Backhouse “The text is invariably fascinating and powerful, but this is ostensibly an art book. It is a compact volume but features Pavlidis’s work in a variety of media and style”. Quantity – The Age, July 2010 $35.00 Hb, ISBN 9781921394348
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Macmillan Art Publishing Recent Releases Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957 – 67
Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980
Kathie Sutherland
Anne Marsh
Kathie Sutherland’s scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley’s formative decade, 1957–67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career. This beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist who died in 1992 after a creative life lived to the full. The author has drawn on Whiteley’s unpublished notebooks and all available sources to create a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures created during these years. ART: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394379 348 pages, colour throughout Quantity Published March 2010 9 781921 394379
Look represents over 150 artists with more than 400 colour plates of photographic artworks exploring themes such as: identity, life, experiment, space and environment. Each image is accompanied by a short explanatory text with details of the artist’s preoccupations and methodologies. The second part of the book is dedicated to a series of scholarly essays tracing major developments in the art of photography. These, together with the extraordinary array of images, bring to readers what must be one of the most comprehensive collections of photographic and photography-related art ever analysed within the contemporary art context. ART: Photography, $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394102 Quantity 400 pages, colour throughout, 9 781921 394102 Published September 2010
Captured in Time: Journeys with My Camera
The Revolutionary Century: Art in Asia 1900-2000
Christine Wu Ramsay
Alison Carroll
This book, offering two hundred and fifty beautiful photographic studies, spans the years 1986-2006. Each image captures a special moment at a certain place in Australasia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and is unique, never to be recaptured. With an eye for detail and atmosphere, Christine Wu Ramsay brings a unique sensibility to her captured moments. The photographs in this book provide pure visual pleasure, for they are works of art created by an astute observer of humanity’s cultural achievements. ART: Photography, $99.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394270 Quantity 304 pages, colour throughout Published February 2010
This book, with nearly 200 colour plates, aims to introduce the major themes and practices of art in Asia over the years 1900-2000. While national art histories have been written, there has not been an overview across the whole region – exposing the major themes that affected the art of individual countries within the whole geographic context. Beginning with a broad overview of the nature of art in Asia in the twentieth century, it is followed by a crossregion study divided into four parts: the setting leading in from the 19th century; the decades 1900-1940; followed by the period between World War II and 1960; and finally the years from 1960-2000. ART: Arts of Asia, $99.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394171 Quantity 208 pages, colour throughout Published July 2010 9 781921 394171
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Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment
Tim Storrier: Moments
Truus Daalder (text), Jeremy Daalder (photographs)
Foreword: Edmund Capon. Interviews: William Wright
The care with which this book has been prepared is simply astonishing. Its history began when Truus and Joost Daalder acquired their first examples of non-European ethnic body adornment around 1980, four years after their arrival in Adelaide. Creating this magnificent publication has involved much travel and research, and a passionate author. Sumptuous and expertly designed, the book is visually stunning. All artefacts, accompanied by helpful captions, exert their mystery and allure. The text offers concise but informative discussion of cultural and social contexts, considered comparisons, detailed analyses of the illustrated objects and useful political and geographic data. ART: Jewellery & Adornment $175.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394287 420 pages, more than 700 colour photographs, Published December 2009 Quantity
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This 332 page, large format volume reproduces Storrier’s paintings, drawings, photographs and constructions on a huge scale – some images folding out to nearly a metre-wide and reproduced in finite detail. William Wright, in interviewing the artist, touches upon the meaning of some of the works that appear to imply criticism of the media and modern communications systems. Then, surprisingly, the book begins with Storrier’s latest and as yet un-exhibited work. It introduces several highly dramatic portraits, including one of himself. This is a visually stunning book which will prompt considerable thought about the human condition as it is interpreted by a leading Australian artist. ART: Painting, Photography, Assemblage $130.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394140 Quantity 332 pages, colour throughout 9 781921 394140 Published November 2009
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe
Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson
Eds. Constant J. Mews and Gregory Kratzmann
With French translation by Flore Gregorini This large and sumptuously illustrated monograph presents the spectacular painting of a master colourist – Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson. A Pitjantjatjana elder who maintains his home and studio in Alice Springs, he still travels extensively across his ‘Country’ to fulfil traditional obligations. Watsons ‘Dreamtime’ stories, inherited from his family, relate to sites and geographical features within his ‘Country’ and all his paintings are of these designated places. While no two paintings are alike, the characteristics of each place can be recognised. ART: Painting $99.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394430 208 pages, colour throughout Quantity Published September 2010
Ken McGregor and Marie Geissler
Introduced by means of comprehensive essays by Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger of Harvard University and Margaret M. Manion of the University of Melbourne, this sumptuous volume presents the proceedings of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria in 2008 when that institution arranged an important exhibition of medieval manuscripts. Learned papers presented by an array of prestigious scholars investigate topics such as travel, incarceration, purgatory, music, magic, history, worship and inheritance in the medieval world. Jeffrey Hamburger’s essay deals with changing conventions in the production of medieval books while Professor Manion describes the State Library’s remarkable exhibition. ART: Medieval Manuscripts $99.00, Hb, ISBN 9781921394331 Quantity 260 pages 9 781921 394331 Published March 2010 November titles
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Archaeology & Ancient History
C lassic al W orld
Mark Woolmer, Durham University.
Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons
Presenting the latest research and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the social, political, economic and ecological changes that occurred in Phoenicia between the Early Bronze Age and the start of the Hellenistic era. Phoenician government and society, agriculture and economy, trade and colonisation, warfare, religion, and art and architecture are all discussed in order to illustrate the character and achievements of this vibrant civilisation, which was able to maintain its unique identity and culture in the face of external threats from states such as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon and Persia. $33.00 Pb, ISBN 9781853997341 Publish November 2010, 144 pages Quantity Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History
Philip A. Shaw, University of Leicester. This book, the first in an exciting new series, considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues on the basis of linguistic and onomastic evidence that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spheres of activity, such as fertility or warfare, rather than considering the extent to which goddesses are rooted in localities and social structures. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715637975 Publish November 2010, 160 pages Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History Quantity
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Roman Egypt
Reading Ancient Slavery
Livia Capponi, Newcastle University.
Richard Alston and Edith Hall, both Royal Holloway University of London; and Laura Proffitt, Birkbeck College London.
Scholars now agree that Egypt should be devoted more attention by anyone interested in the history of the Roman Empire. This book offers a first approach to the subject, presenting a survey of the most important aspects of life in the province under Roman domination, from the conquest by Octavian in 30 BC to the third century AD, as they emerge from the micro-level of the Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, but also from the ancient literary sources, such as Strabo, Diodorus, and Philo, and from the most important archaeological discoveries. $33.00 Pb, ISBN 9781853997266 Publish November 2010, 128 pages Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History
Evidence relating to the ‘real world’ of antiquity inscriptions, historiography and legal speeches - has dominated studies of ancient Greek and Roman slavery, although providing few direct accounts by slaves of their subjective experiences. This volume provides a sustained discussion of the theory and practice of handling ancient poetry and images in order to enhance our understanding of the way that slavery was experienced by both slaves and their owners in the ancient world. $69.95 Pb, ISBN 9780715638682 Publish November 2010, 320 pages Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History Quantity
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Changing Natures
The Eye of the Beholder
Hunter-gatherers, Famers and the Modern World
Deformity and Disability in the GraecoRoman World
Bill Finlayson, University of Reading, and Graeme M. Warren, University College Dublin.
Robert Garland, Colgate University, New York.
The adoption of agriculture is often described as one of the most fundamental revolutions in human history. More recently the structure of the Neolithic mind has been proposed as a new cognitive revolution, separating us fundamentally from preceding hunter-gatherers. This book focuses on our understandings of hunter-gatherer diversity and change over time, with emphasis on the adoption of agriculture; and the relationships between our understandings of the modern world, and ourselves, and the models we impose on prehistory. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715638132 Publish November 2010, 144 pages Quantity Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History
This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology and ethnography. It is now issued in paperback for the first time with a new preface and updated bibliography. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781853997372 Publish November 2010, 280 pages Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History Quantity
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Pagan and Christian
The Theodosian Code
Religious Change in Early Medieval Europe
Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity
David Petts, Durham University.
Jill Harries, University of St Andrews, and Ian Wood, University of Leeds.
There has been a lack of engagement with the methodological and theoretical problems underpinning any attempt to explore the archaeology of belief. This book, illustrated with case studies and examples drawn from a range of sources, including the ‘Celtic’ west, Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, tackles some of these important issues. In particular it explores two under-theorised aspects of conversion: the relationship between archaeology and belief, and an attempt to re-centre the ‘pagan’ as a key element in the conversion process. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715637548 Publish November 2010, 144 pages Duckworth Academic Quantity Archaeology & Ancient History
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The Theodosian Code, put together under the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II, is a compliation of the laws dating from 312 to 438 AD, when the code was published. It brought order to a vast unmanageable body of law and formed part of the basis for the sixth-century Institutes of Justinian, fundamental to later jurisprudence. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781853997402 Publish November 2010, 268 pages Duckworth Academic Archaeology & Ancient History
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Looking at Lysistrata
Alexander Trocchi (1925-84) was a controversial Scottish novelist of the beat generation.
Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes’ ProvocativeComedy
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain’s Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict’s life after Burrough’s Naked Lunch, this modern classic - which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 - still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day. $19.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491671 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Oneworld Classics Classics
David Stuttard has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK.
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Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’
Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict.
A Reader’s Guide
The first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. A veritable literary melting pot, Roussel’s groundbreaking text makes ample use of wordplay and the surrealist techniques of automatic writing and private allusion. $22.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847491688 Publish November 2010, 224 pages Quantity Oneworld Classics Classics
Genevieve Liveley, Univerisity of Bristol. Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid’s epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied. Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’: A Reader’s Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441100849 Publish November 2010, 192 pages Continuum Classics Quantity
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Classical Dictionaries
Simplicius
Past, Present and Future
On Aristotle on Physics 1.3-4
Christopher Stray, Swansea University.
Pamela Huby, University of Liverpool, and C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
This is the first book to be devoted to its subject, offering a wide-ranging introduction to dictionaries of Latin and Greek from the ancient world to the present. As well as the well-known dictionaries such as Liddell and Scott and the Oxford Latin Dictionary, less well-known genres are considered, such as etymological dictionaries, lexica of single authors and the Gradus ad Parnassum. Case studies of the treatment of individual words are included, but the nature of lexica as cultural enterprises is also considered, as are the human stories of their makers; the enduring tensions between scholarly accuracy and the practicalities of publishing; and the way such books are used by their readers. $110.00 Hb, ISBN 9780715639160 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Duckworth Academic Classics
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In this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle’s account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus, Parmenides and Zeno, sometimes from their original works but also from later writers from Plato onwards, drawing particularly on Alexander’s lost commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and on Porphyry. Much of his approach is just scholarly, but in places he reveals his Neoplatonist affiliation and attempts to show the basic agreement among his predecessors in spite of their apparent differences. $33.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715639214 Publish November 2010, 192 pages Quantity Duckworth Academic Classics
The Classics and South African Identities
Writing Ancient Persia
Michael Lambert, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
The history of the Achaemenid Persian empire has been largely rewritten in the last thirty years by an international group of scholars, inspired partly by new sources of information, but also by a concerted attempt to look at Ancient Persia in its own terms, rather than through the lens of neighbouring societies, and to excise the pejorative bias of the Greek sources. This essay is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780715639177 Publish November 2010, 144 pages Duckworth Academic Classics
Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool.
The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his theoretical lens: the foundation of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1956 and the cultural reinforcement of Afrikaner nationalist identity; the deployment of British colonial identity in public discourses about the role of the Classics in apartheid South Africa at an English-speaking university; and the exploration of black African identities in response to the teaching of the Classics at missionary institutions. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780715637968 Quantity Publish November 2010, 224 pages Duckworth Academic Classics
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C lassic al E ssays
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In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes’ comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics sets the play firmly in its historical and social context, while exploring Aristophanes’ purpose in writing it and considering the responses of modern audiences and directors. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9781853997365 Publish November 2010, 168 pages Quantity Duckworth Academic Classics
R eader ' s G uides
O neworld C lassics
Classics
Society & Culture The Cultural Front
An Introduction
Michael Denning, Yale University.
Ronnie L. Littlejohn, Belmont University, Nashville.
In The Cultural Front, Denning lifts the lid on a period which cracks open the great debate in contemporary cultural studies of “high” versus “low” culture - a period in which artists and intellectuals rubbed shoulders with activists and workers, all striving in various ways to create a genuinely democratic popular culture. From Disney animators to proletarian novelists, and encompassing the likes of Orson Welles, Duke Ellington, John Dos Passos, C.L.R James and Billie Holiday, Denning charts a scene which not only fused art and popular protest but also left a deep imprint on American cufture and society today. $56.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844674640 Publish November 2010, 576 pages Verso Quantity Society & Culture
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For Confucius, society’s harmony relied upon the appropriate behaviour of each individual within the social hierarchy; and its emphasis on practical ethics has led many to think of Confucianism as a secular philosophy rather than a religion. In this new, comprehensive introduction, Ronnie Littlejohn argues rather that Confucianism is profoundly spiritual, and must be treated as such. He offers full coverage of the tradition’s sometimes neglected metaphysics, as well as its varied manifestations in education, art, literature and culture. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848851740 Publish November 2010, 240 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture Quantity
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Zoroastrianism
Experiencing War
An Introduction
Christine Sylvester, Lancaster University, UK.
Jenny Rose, Claremont Graduate University.
This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people - physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the interest of theorizing aspects of war from the point of view of individual experience, be the individual a combatant, a casualty, a supporter, opponent, recorder, veteran, distant viewer, an international lawyer, an ethicist or other intellectual. $64.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415566315 Publish November 2010, 152 pages Routledge Society & Culture
This new, thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words ‘Magi’ and ‘magic’, and whose adherents still live according to the code of ‘Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.’ The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice between the path of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world’s most inspiring and perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848850880 Quantity Publish November 2010, 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture
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The Art of Faith
Lockdown High
3,500 Years of Art and Belief in Norfolk
When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Dr Andrew Moore, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, and Dr Margit Thøfner, University of East Anglia.
Annette Fuentes is a member of the board of contributors to USA Today’s opinion pages.
The Art of Faith celebrates the impact of faith on the art of a region with a long history of migration and diverse beliefs. Across the centuries, Norfolk has been the home to many and varied faiths: Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Romans all came with their own belief systems. During the Roman period, Christians settled in this region; in the middle ages there were thriving Jewish communities; and from the fifteenth century onwards there was a bewildering number of different branches of Christianity. Over the past two centuries a greater diversity has emerged. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9780856676949 Quantity Publish November 2010, 80 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture
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The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
On the Nation and the Jewish People
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of The Old?
Ernest Renan (1823 - 1892) was a French philosopher and writer; and Shlomo Sand, University of Tel Aviv.
Steve Early is a contributor on labor issues for diverse publications from The Nation to The New York Times, and is the author of Embedded with Organized Labor.
Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People, demonstrates the complexity of Renan’s thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan’s work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844674626 Publish November 2010, 128 pages Verso Quantity Society & Culture
From forced trusteeships to hostile inter-union raids, the labor movement has been gripped by a civil war that threatens its very existence. Steve Early argues that these polices are an extension of the strategy of labor management collaboration that must be replaced with rank-and-file initiative if American labor is to halt its long decline. $27.00 Pb, ISBN 9781608460991 Publish November 2010, 320 pages Haymarket Books Quantity Society & Culture
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Investigative reporter Annette Fuentes visits schools across America and finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, teachers carrying guns, increased policing and allseeing electronic surveillance. She also reveals the many industries and “experts” who have vested interests in perpetuating the Lockdown High model. Her moving stories will astonish and anger readers, as she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence. $56.00 Hb, ISBN 9781844676811 Publish November 2010, 320 pages Quantity Verso Society & Culture
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W ar , P olitics and E xperience
I.B.T auris I ntroductions
Confucianism
Society & Culture The Practical Watch Escapement
Shelter
George Daniels is a practicing horologist with over fifty years experience in both antiquarian and modern watchmaking.
Where Harvard Meets the Homeless Scott Seider, Boston University.
One of George Daniels’s central contributions to horology is his co-axial escapement. First devised in 1977, today it remains largely the same as fitted in watches of Daniels’s own manufacture, as well as those of several wrist-watch manufacturers. This book explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman, and is accompanied by a series of detailed line drawings. $77.00 Pb, ISBN 9780856676871 Publish November 2010, 88 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture Quantity
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Religion and Tourism
Shi’i Interpretations of Islam
Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters
Three Treatises on Islamic Theology and Eschatology
Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen, Norway.
S. J. Badakhchani, The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
This book explores the dynamic interaction between religion and tourism in the modern world. The chapters examine religious theme parks, wellness and spa tourism, the roles played by tourist guides, guidebooks and religious souvenirs, and the role of tourism as a major arena of religious encounters in the contemporary world. Surveying the growing body of work in the field, Michael Stausberg argues that tourism should be a major focus of research within religious studies. $62.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415549325 Publish November 2010, 272 pages Routledge Society & Culture Quantity
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In this volume, S. J. Badakhchani offers new critical editions and translations of three shorter Ismaili works by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201 - 1274), namely Aghaz wa anjam (The Beginning and the End), Tawalla wa tabarra (Solidarity and Dissociation), and Matlub al-mu’minin (Desideratum of the Faithful). In these three treatises, Tusi provides concise interpretations of key motifs in Ismaili doctrine, with special reference to the primordial nature of man, his earthly existence in relation to the imam, and his destiny in the hereafter. $79.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848855946 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Quantity I.B.Tauris Publishers Society & Culture
Sociologists Backstage
The Paradox of Generation Mix
Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones, both University of California, Santa Barbara.
In his provocative analysis, Rainier Spencer illuminates the assumptions that multiracial ideology in fact shares with concepts of both white supremacy and antiblackness. Spencer links the mulatto past with the mulatto present in order to plumb the contours of the nation’s mulatto future. He argues cogently, and forcefully, that the deconstruction of race promised by the American Multiracial Identity Movement will remain an illusion of wishful thinking unless we truly address the racist baggage that serves tenaciously to conserve the present racial order. $44.00 Pb, ISBN 9781588267764 Publish November 2010, 350 pages Lynne Rienner Quantity Society & Culture
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Sociologists Backstage is a volume of directed reflections by sociological researchers on the motivations for research, the decisions made at crucial points, and the challenges they face in the research process. The volume is thus intended to combine the intriguing elements of memoir and the enlightening aspects of a research “postmortem”. Readers will be able to use the volume to both humanize the research process and explore the complications of research. $62.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415870931 Publish November 2010, 296 pages Routledge Quantity Society & Culture
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The Return of Turkey
Summoning the Spirits
Coups, Repression and Culture
Possession and Invocation in Contemporary Religion
Nurdan Gürbilek is one of the foremost cultural critics in Turkey.
Andrew Dawson, Lancaster University.
The Return of Turkey is a beautifully written collection of essays by a leading Turkish literary intellectual, which presents a compelling analysis of the cultural climate in Turkey, making the argument that the dominant external clichéd dualities of East/West and Secular/Sacred and Arabic/European should be replaced by a narrative of silence, repression and return. Comprising a sophisticated review of the history, culture and politics of Turkey since the 1980 military coup, this is the only book in English that analyzes the culltural aspects of modern Turkey in order to explore its place within global politics. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848134874 Quantity Publish November 2010, 128 pages Zed Books Society & Culture
Charismatic visions and the role of mediums; possession ceremonies and ecstatic trance; the social contexts and practices of invocation: these are a number of the intriguing topics addressed by this comprehensive undergraduate textbook, the first of its kind to offer a thorough overview of the fascinating and multifaceted subject of spirit possession. Avoiding technical jargon and abstruse theorising, the book offers a representative snapshot of the way the topic is being treated by academics across the world. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848851627 Publish November 2010, 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity Society & Culture
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C ontemporary S ociologic al P erspectives
Reproducing Race Rainier Spencer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Shelter demonstrates how the juxtaposition of privilege and poverty inside the Harvard Square Shelter - a homeless shelter run by Harvard College students - proves transformative for the homeless men and women taking shelter there, the students volunteering there, and the wider society into which both groups emerge each morning. It makes the case for the replication of this student-run model in major cities across the United States. Inspiring and energizing, Shelter offers a unique window into the lives of America’s poorest and most privileged citizens as well as a testament to the powerful effects that can result when members of these opposing groups come together. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441185617 Quantity Publish November 2010, 272 pages Continuum Society & Culture
Business & Economics Family Business as Paradox
Next Generation Talent Management
John L. Ward, Kellogg School Center of Family Enterprises, Northwestern University; Amy Schuman, Family Business Consulting group; and Stacy Stutz is a Chicago-based independent consultant with nearly twenty years of diverse experience in consulting and management.
Talent Management to Survive Turmoil Andres Hatum, Universidad Austral, Argentina. In the past talent was largely an issue for Human Resources personnel. Now, in an era characterized by workforce heterogeneity and changing environments, talent is an important issue for managers themselves. This book explains the organizational transformations that have occurred and the new talent challenges managers have to confront. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230279292 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics
Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if familyowned businesses can consciously manage and over time, perhaps, synthesize these contradictions, the Family Enterprise will have a long-term strategic and competitive advantage and the family will remain committed to continuity. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230243606 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics Quantity
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From Cost Management to Collaborative Innovation
Dr Georges Haour, University of Toronto, Canada, and Laurent Mieville, Univeristy of Geneva, Switzerland.
Leslie Willcocks, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Sara Cullen, University of Melbourne, Australia; and Andrew S. Craig, Craig Ltd.
In today’s knowledge-based society universities and firms must learn to engage more effectively. Universities focus on generating new knowledge, while firms are increasingly drawing on external collaborations to add value to their offerings. This book shows managers how to work with universities to boost their competitive position and revenue. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230236516 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics Quantity
Evidence shows that organizations with both a CEO and a team involved in sourcing strategy and supplier configuration make more effective decisions. If the wrong supplier is chosen, performance can be negatively affected. Here the authors look at how companies can improve their outsourcing capabilities. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230231917 Publish November 2010, 300 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics
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Good for Business
Personal Brands
The Rise of the Conscious Corporation
Manage Your Life with Talent and Turn It into a Unique Experience
Andrew Benett and Ann O’Reilly, both Euro RSCG Worldwide; Cavas Gobhai is a leading business consultant; and Greg Welch, Spencer Stuart.
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In this timely book, two top branding experts team up with a highly regarded specialist in corporate culture and a leading global search consultant to illustrate how the most dynamic and promising companies of today are charting a new path for the corporate brand of tomorrow. In Good For Business, the authors show not only why building an authentic corporate brand is critical to success, but how to do it in a way that creates more loyal customers, develops a devoted workforce, and makes a social difference in the world at large. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230103450 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics
Roberto Alvarez del Blanco, Instituto de Empresa, Spain. The personal brand, like commercial brands, can become a means of affirming identity, highlighting ability and establishing reputation. Successful, stand-out people build their personal brand and make it count in their professional and personal lives. This book shows how to build and manage your personal brand. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230252639 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics Quantity
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How Disruption Brought Order
When Family Businesses Are Best
The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising
The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
Jean-Marie Dru, TBWA Worldwide.
Dr. Randel S. Carlock, INSEAD, and John L. Ward, Northwestern University.
In his previous bestselling books, global advertising icon Jean-Marie Dru explored the visionary, innovative techniques that have become a hallmark of TBWA Worldwide campaigns. Now he gives a first-hand account of how the bold methods of disruption launched TBWA to the forefront of international advertising. Here he shares personal insights and anecdotes about his life in advertising as well as lessons learned, revealing how client campaigns for Nissan, Adidas, and the Apple iPhone became such unqualified successes. $27.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230604056 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Business & Economics
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The authors explore how effective planning and communication helps business families around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high performing multi-generation family enterprises. This book shows family businesses working together at their best. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230222625 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Business & Economics Quantity
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How Firms Create Value by Partnering with Universities
T echnology , W ork G lobalization
From Science to Business
The Arts
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Amore
Junk
The Story of Italian American Song
Art and the Politics of Trash
Mark Rotella is a senior reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.
Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University.
Amore is Mark Rotella’s celebration of the “Italian decade” - the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett, among others, won the hearts of the American public with a smooth, stylish, classy brand of pop. In Rotella’s vivid telling, the stories behind forty Italian American classics (from O Sole Mio, Night and Day, and Mack the Knife to Volare and I Wonder Why) show how a glorious musical tradition became the sound track of postwar America and the expression of a sense of style that we still cherish. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780865476981 Publish November 2010, 304 pages Quantity Farrar Straus and Giroux The Arts
Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of ‘Junk’, Gillian Whiteley re-thinks art’s historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations and the telling of a panoply of trash narratives. This is a timely book that uncovers the etymology of waste and the cultures of disposability within these economies of wealth. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781848854130 Publish November 2010, 192 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers The Arts Quantity
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The Apu Trilogy
Theory after ‘Theory’
Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic
Derek Attridge and Jane Elliott, both The University of York.
Andrew Robinson is the author of Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema and he is the editor of three screenplays by Satyajit Ray.
This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well examinations of established areas such as subaltern studies, the postcolonial, and queer theory. Influential figures such as Agamben, Arendt, Schmitt and Badiou are examined in a range of contexts. $62.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415484190 Publish November 2010, 320 pages Routledge Quantity The Arts
Satyakit Ray’s three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959) - collectively known as The Apu Trilogy - are established classics of world cinema. The Trilogy was the chief reason for Satyajit Ray’s receiving a Hollywood Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1992, just before his death. This book by Ray’s biographer and world authority Andrew Robinson is the first full study of the Trilogy. $36.00 Pb, ISBN 9781848855168 Publish November 2010, 224 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Quantity The Arts
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Don Giovanni
Understanding Records
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, and began composing at the age of five. His subsequent prolific output included the great operas of his maturity, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte.
A Field Guide To Recording Practice Jay Hodgson, University of Western Ontario.
Don Giovanni is one of Mozart’s most popular and enduringly fascinating works. This guide contains more than twenty photographs covering performances of Don Giovanni to the present day, a detailed thematic analysis, the libretto in Italian with a facing literal translation, an up-to-date bibliography and a discography, as well as DVD and website guides. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781847495419 Publish November 2010, 172 pages Oneworld Classics The Arts Quantity
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Recording Practice is musical practice, a technical but artistic affair. Understanding Records explains the musical language of Recording Practice in a way that any interested reader can understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidating how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where listeners can hear those techniques at work in the broader Top 40 soundscape, and where they fit in the broader record-making process at large. $48.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441156075 Publish November 2010, 272 pages Quantity Continuum The Arts
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Words and Money
Barry Keith Grant, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
Andre Schiffrin was, for thirty years, the publisher of Pantheon Books. In 1990 Schiffrin left Pantheon to found The New Press.
Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers was commonly perceived as another B thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated at the time. But in the fifty years since, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged classic of American cinema. In the first comprehensive critical study of the film, Barry Keith Grant traces the film’s historical context - it appeared in an America gripped by Cold War paranoia and atomic anxieties - and its production history, and goes on to explore the importance of genre, Communism and conformity, modernity and post-war society and gender for an understanding of the film’s cultural contexts and metaphorical weight. $28.00 Pb, ISBN 9781844572786 Quantity Publish November 2010, 128 pages Palgrave Macmillan The Arts
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Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreaking critique of conglomeration in the book industry, André Schiffrin turns his attention to the broader crisis in the media. Schiffrin compares the media crisis in the United States to the situation in Europe and across the globe, and he demonstrates how the American corporate model has extended its reach. But he also describes and considers a range of alternative policies culled from many countries that, if pursued, could help to save journalism and the media in the US. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781844676804 Publish November 2010, 176 pages Quantity Verso The Arts
Literature & Language Bret Easton Ellis
Reading the Bronte Body
American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park
Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture
C ontinuum S tudies in C ontemporary N orth A meric an F ilm
Naomi Mandel, University of Rhode Island, USA.
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This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). Taking as its starting-point American Psycho’s seismic impact on contemporary literature and culture, the volume establishes Ellis’ centrality to the scholarship and teaching of contemporary American literature in the U.S. and in Europe. Contributors examine the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to this controversial writer, provide an overview of growing critical material on Ellis and review the literary and artistic significance of his recent work. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826435620 Publish November 2010, 176 pages Quantity Continuum Literature
Beth Torgerson, Flagler College, St. Augustine, USA.
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Margaret Atwood
Stefan and Lotte Zweig’s South American Letters
The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake
New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42
J. Brooks Bouson, Loyola University in Chicago, USA.
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In this critical collection, well-known Atwood scholars offer original readings and critical re-evaluations of three Atwood masterpieces - The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. Providing new critical assessments of Atwood’s novels in language that is both lively and accessible, Margaret Atwood reveals not only Atwood’s ongoing and evolving engagement with the issues that have long preoccupied her-ranging from the power politics of human relationships to a concern with human rights and the global environment - but also her increasing formal complexity as a novelist. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826430625 Quantity Publish November 2010, 216 pages Continuum Literature
Darién J. Davis, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA; and Oliver Marshall is an independent historian based in Sussex, England.
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Tom Carty, Staffordshire University, and Ilse Wuhrer, Keele University, UK.
L iterary L ives P erplexed
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Foundations German 1 is a lively, interactive introduction to German. It has been designed and written for complete beginners on a taught course, mostly likely as part of an Institution-wide Language Programme (IWLP) or similar provision in the Higher or Further Education sectors. Designed specifically for IWLPs (including language options and electives, Languages for all, Open Learning Programmes and similar), it is written by a top team of authors with wide experience of IWLPs. It contains a lively, creative classroon course with integrated pairwork and groupwork opportunities, and scripted and unscripted dialogues provide a diverse range of audio material. $59.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230280571 Quantity Publish November 2010, 208 pages Palgrave Macmillan Language
Postcolonialism
Spanish at Work
A Guide for the Perplexed
Analysing Institutional Discourse across the Spanish-Speaking World Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Swansea University, UK.
Written in jargon-free language and illustrated with examples from literary and cultural texts, this book addresses the many concerns, forms and ‘specializations’ of postcolonialism, including gender and sexuality studies, the nations and nationalism, space and place, history and politics. It explains the key ideas, concepts and approaches in what is arguably the most influential and politically edged critical approach in literary and cultural theory today. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9780826400468 Publish November 2010, 192 pages Continuum Literature
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Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway’s life and work. Emphasising his immense love of animals, the sea and the natural world, the swiftly-told personal narrative gives a crucial insight into Hemingway’s character, revealing him as a conflicted idealist caught between his need to write and his need to love. She explores his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages, and builds up a vivid picture of Hemingway’s century - not only the two world wars and the Spanish Civil War, but also the peaceful fishing in the Gulf waters, the African safaris, and the iconic Spanish bullfights. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230276963 Quantity Publish November 2010, 216 pages Palgrave Macmillan Literature
Spanish at Work is the first book examining the discourse practices of institutions in the Spanishspeaking world. It focuses on three ‘umbrella’ institutions (the mass-media, politics and the workplace), each of which are explored through a discrete theme. Spanish at Work delves into a varied selection of countries and settings in which Spanish is spoken variously as one of several official languages, as the official language, as a ‘minority’ language, and even as a second language or one of a number of other languages. $53.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230579101 Publish November 2010, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan Quantity Language
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Foundations German 1
A Literary Life
Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, India.
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Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. Foreseeing Nazi Germany’s domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria in 1933. In 1941 Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe’s future and feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide together in 1942. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs’ time together and for the first time reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary. $42.00 Pb, ISBN 9781441107121 Quantity Publish November 2010, 224 pages Continuum Literature
Ernest Hemingway Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina.
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Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë’s literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës’ personal lives. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the necessary cultural context to understand these representations. Reading the Brontë Body is the first scholarly attempt to provide both the theoretical framework and historical background to make such a literary analysis of the Brontë novels possible. $46.00 Pb, ISBN 9780230103283 Publish November 2010, 192 pages Quantity Palgrave Macmillan Literature
Health & Lifestyle
Science & Environment Globalizing Polar Science
A Beginner’s Guide
Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years
B eginner ' s G uides
Paul Scotting, University of Nottingham, UK.
James R. Fleming, Colby College, Maine; Roger D. Launius and David Devorkin, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world, but few of us understand how it works or how we treat it. In this illuminating introduction, Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores why some of us are more likely to develop it than others. Arguing that we’re in a new age of understanding that will revolutionise the fight against cancer, Scotting discusses cutting-edge developments and maps out the promising future strategies for its prevention, treatment, and cure. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781851687558 Publish November 2010, 208 pages Oneworld Health & Lifestyle Quantity
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Defining Moments
Light from the East
Navigating through Business and Organizational Life
How Islamic Science Helped Shape the Western World
Peter Shaw, St. John’s College, Durham.
John Freely has written over forty travel books and guides most of them about Greece and Turkey.
Our lives are full of defining moments, but do we recognize them? We often fail to appreciate the significance of these moments. At work the pressure can be relentless and we can fail to enjoy these moments. The author shows how to recognize and appreciate these moments, which in turn helps us to better cope during more difficult times. $59.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230577206 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Health & Lifestyle Quantity
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This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek manuscripts into Arabic in eigth-century Baghdad, preserved and enchanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. John Freely tells this spellbinding story against a background of the melting pot of cultures involved and concludes with the decline of Islam’s Golden Age, which led the West to forget the debt it owed to the Muslim world and the influence of medieval Islamic civilisation in forging the beginnings of modern science. $49.95 Hb, ISBN 9781848854529 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers Science & Environment
A Sense of Place
Uranium Wars
An Intimate Portrait of the NiebaumCoppola Winery and the Napa Valley
The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age
Steven Kolpan, The Culinary Institute of America.
Amir D. Aczel is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
In A Sense of Place, renowned wine expert and writer Steven Kolpan tells the story of how Francis Ford Coppola brought California’s most distinguished and historic vineyard back to life. Coppola overcame naysayers, red tape, and financial turmoil to reestablish the winery as a defender of quality, producing wine under four different labels, including the revered wine Rubicon. In 1995, Coppola purchased the Inglenook Chateau and its adjacent vineyards, fulfilling his dream of reuniting the original Napa Valley estate. Kolpan’s luscious, flavorful narrative is worth enjoying now and keeping for later. $65.00 Pb, ISBN 9780415920056 Quantity Publish November 2010, 325 pages Routledge Health & Lifestyle
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Why Italians Love to Talk about Food In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food, Elena Kostioukovitch explores the phenomenon that first struck her as a newcomer to Italy: the Italian “culinary code,” or way of talking about food. Along the way, she captures the fierce local pride that gives Italian cuisine its remarkable diversity. Organized according to region and colorfully designed with illustrations, maps, menus, and glossaries, Why Italians Love to Talk About Food will allow any reader to become as versed in the ways of Italian cooking as the most seasoned of chefs. Food lovers, history buffs, and gourmands alike will savor this exceptional celebration of Italy’s culinary gifts. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532536 Quantity Publish November 2010, 480 pages Farrar Straus and Giroux Health & Lifestyle
Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel’s suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day’s top scientists to harness nuclear power. At a time when the world is again confronted with the perils of nuclear armament, Amir D. Aczel’s absorbing story of a rivalry that changed the course of history is as thrilling and suspenseful as it is scientifically revelatory and newsworthy. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230103351 Quantity Publish November 2010, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan Science & Environment
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
Elena Kostioukovitch is an essayist, translator, and literary agent.
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The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that was focused on, but not limited to, understanding the Earth's poles. This groundbreaking collection redresses the surprising failure of historians to explore beyond even a cursory manner the richness of the IPYs and IGY as sites of historical and scientific study. In doing so, it illuminates critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour. $49.95 Pb, ISBN 9780230105331 Quantity Publish November 2010, 400 pages Palgrave Macmillan Science & Environment
And Other Speculations about This and That Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books, as well as countless other works.
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Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed “fads and fallacies in the name of science.” This book takes aim at a gallery of amusing targets, ranging from Ann Coulter’s qualifications as an evolutionary biologist to the logical fallacies of precognition and extrasensory perception, from Santa Claus to The Wizard of Oz, from mutilated chessboards to the little-known “one-poem poet” Langdon Smith (the original author of this volume’s title line). $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9780374532413 Publish November 2010, 256 pages Quantity Farrar Straus and Giroux Science & Environment
S tudies in the H istory of S cience & T echnology
Cancer