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LEAD TITLES The Adventurous Vegetarian Jane Hughes has 20 years' experience of working in publishing, as an editor, production manager and small publisher. She has been associated with The Vegetarian Society since the 1980s, she has a clear understanding of the meaning of the word ‘vegetarian' and daily access to experts. She has a website and a blog which contain samples of her work: interviews, food and cookery course reviews, features and recipes. www.veggiefoodwriter.co.uk; www.veggiefoodwriter.blogspot.com/ Working with many vegetarian groups and societies, author Jane Hughes has brought together favourite meals and fascinating stories from Belgium to China, Cuba to Palestine. Each country is introduced by a section about that country's traditional vegetarian meals and interesting info about the history of vegetarianism within that country. Recipe pages include pull out boxes with ingredient information and ideas for altering ingredients where local foods are not available. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781780261607 $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780261249 Publish September 2013, 304 pages Publish September 2013, 304 pages New Internationalist New Internationalist NZRRP$49.95 NZRRP$39.95 Quantity
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The Secret World of Sleep How the Nighttime Brain Creates Consciousness Penelope A. Lewis is a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, where she runs the Sleep and Memory Lab. She has written for a number of popular science publications, including New Scientist. Her research has been featured on the BBC, and she's received funding from top institutes, including the Wellcome Trust and Unilever. She lives in Manchester, United Kingdom. In recent years neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest research on sleep, however, points in the opposite direction. Where old wives tales have long advised to "sleep on a problem," today scientists are discovering the truth behind these folk sayings, and how the busy brain radically improves our minds through sleep and dreams. In The Secret World of Sleep, neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research into the night time brain to understand the real benefits of sleep. She shows how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts. By understanding the roles that the nocturnal brain plays in our waking life, we can improve the relationship between the two, and even boost creativity and become smarter. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230107595 Publish September 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95 From the book: “Namely, sleep deprivation can lead to moodiness, hallucinations and paranoia, poor memory, difficulty concentrating, and impaired decision making. These are all controlled by the brain, so this pattern suggests that sleep (or lack of it) impacts upon brain function even more than it impacts upon the body. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, given that the brain orchestrates sleep, and—far from switching off—moves through a complex and highly structured pattern of activities while you slumber.” Quantity
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY The Hamlet Doctrine Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She teaches at Eugene Lang College. What are we to do in our information-saturated age? Do we know too much to be able to act? Have we all become Hamlet in the tragedy of modern life? In this riveting and though-provoking re-examination of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster show that the story of Hamlet reveals more about the modern world than we might expect. It is more than a drama upon the stage - a play about nothing, no less - but a searing anatomy of the dilemma of human existence in a world that is out of joint. Who is the real hero of the play, the Prince or Ophelia? Along the way, Critchley and Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love. Listening to writers, philosophers, and analysts, they formulate the Hamlet doctrine - when knowing too much leads to only doing nothing, rather than something. The Hamlet Doctrine is a passionate encounter with the play that affords an original look at this work of literature and the prismitic quality of the play to project meaning. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9781781682562 Publish September 2013, 288 pages Verso NZRRP$44.95 “Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Halmet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.” - Hari Kunzru. “I absolutely love the book, which I think is brilliant both as a set of readings of the play and as a meditation on contemporary existence... A thrilling performance.” -David Shields, author of Reality Hunger. Quantity
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The American West and the Nazi East
Castro's Secrets
A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
Brian Latell, University of Miami, USA.
The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine
Carroll P. Kakel, III, The Johns Hopkins University Centre for Liberal Arts, USA.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781137352736 Publish September 2013 320 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$58.00
This is a unique exploration of the conceptual and historical relations between the Early American and Nazi-German national projects of territorial expansion, racial cleansing, and settler colonization in their respective 'western' and 'eastern' empires, along with their associated campaigns of extreme political violence against 'native' indigenous peoples. Kakel locates the Early American national project in 'the West' as a central part of the histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide, and offers a unique window on to the colonial origins, content, and context of the Nazi national project in 'the East', including the Holocaust. This book brings to light the unexpected and unsettling connections between the 'American West' and the 'Nazi East'.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278418 Publish September 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$29.95
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The Amistad Rebellion
Christian Theology
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Introducing the Classics Stephen R. Holmes and Shawn Bawulski, University of St Andrews, UK.
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburg, USA.
$46.00 Hb ISBN 9781781682500 Publish May 2013 304 pages Verso NZRRP$58.00
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Brian Latell offers us a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Latell draws his narrative on personal interviews with high level defectors from Cuba’s intelligence, many of whom have not sopken out for nearly five decades. The result is a vivid and revelatory account that revises our understanding of how Fidel operated, what his goals were, and how he imagined the future for his tiny island nation. Latell takes us from the crimes Fidel allegedly committed as a youth in the anti-Battista movement, to how quickly he built up an intelligence system that rivalled the Soviet Union’s KGB and Britain’s M15 in effectiveness and how that translated into a feud with JFK’s administration and the CIA, and the ultimate confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crises that brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
Using newly discovered evidence, Markus Rediker reframes the story of the Amistad Rebellion of 1839 to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their government. He reaches back to Africa to find the rebel's roots, narrates their catacylsmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a poignant, moving and dramatic prison story. Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the Africans, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, he shows how the rebels captured the popular imagination and helped to inspire and build a movement within a grand global struggle between slavery and freedom. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9780415501873 Publish September 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.00
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Christian Theology: The Classics is a vibrant introduction to thirty of the most important works of Christian theology. From the origins of Christianity to the present day, the writings of some of the most influential theologians of all time are explored - with the author, the context in which they were writing and the lasting significance of the work all under the spotlight. Classic works under discussion include Augustine of Hippo, On the Trinity, Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians, John Calvin, The Institutes of The Christian Religion, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections, Karl Barth, The Church Dogmatics, Gustavo Gutierez, Theology of Liberation, St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, John Wesley, Christian Perfection.
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Current Controversies in Philosophy
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9780415530873 Publish September 2013 240 pages Routledge NZRRP$58.00
Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind
India and South Asia
Uriah Kriegel
David Ludden, New York University, USA.
Philosophy of mind is one of the most dynamic fields in philosophy, and one that invites debate around several key questions. There currently exist annotated tomes of primary sources, and a handful of single-authored introductions to the field, but there is no book that captures philosophy of mind's recent dynamic exchanges for a student audience. By asking ten leading philosophers to square off on five central, related debates currently engaging the field, editor Uriah Kriegel has provided such a publication. Preliminary, 200-words descriptions of each chapter, annotated bibliographies for each controversy, and a supplemental guide to further controversies in philosophy of mind (with bibliographies) help provide clearer and richer views of active controversies for all readers.
Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. With coverage not only of India, but also of Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this book surveys nearly 5000 years, from the early settlers of prehistory to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the Tamil Tiger conflicts. Particular emphasis is placed on the last 200 years, while the key theme of shifting regional identities underpins the author's insights in to the social, economic and spiritual past of the region. South Asia is a global phenomenon, and working that idea into our understanding of South Asian history is a challenge that this new edition fully embraces.
A Short History
$25.00 Pb ISBN 9781851689361 Publish September 2013 320 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$32.00
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Roman Imperial Biographies
$55.00 Pb ISBN 9780415859714 Publish March 2013 296 pages Routledge NZRRP$69.95
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Galerius and the Will of Diocletian
Japan
William Lewis Leadbetter
A Short History
Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual, archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his religious views and his abdication. The author also examines Galerius' endeavour to take control of Diocletian's empire, his failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine's remorseless drive to power. The first comprehensive study of the Emperor Galerius, this book offers an innovative analysis of his reign as both Caesar and Augustus, using his changing relationship with Diocletian as the principal key to unlock the complex imperial politics of the period.
Mikiso Hane (1922-2003) was a Professor at Knox College, USA.
$22.95 Pb ISBN 9781780742564 Publish September 2013 256 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$29.95
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$33.00 Pb ISBN 9781137346490 Publish May 2013 308 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$42.00
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From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and its history surveys nearly 10,000 years of society, culture, economics and politics. Balancing economic and political information with new insights into the twin spheres of art and religion, Mikiso Hane offers authoritative coverage of all aspects of Japanese life. With a particular focus on the key events of the last 200 years, the author also pays special attention to the changing conditions of those whose history has been so frequently neglected - the women, the peasants, and the lowest order of untouchables.
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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
The Koreas
John M. Logsdon, George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, USA.
Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University, USA.
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Over his remaining time in the White House, JFK actively involved himself in space decisions and several times reviewed his decision to go to the Moon, each time concluding that the benefits of being the leader in space outweighed the massive costs of the lunar landing enterprise. Logsdon traces the evolution of JFK's thinking and policy up until his assassination, which brought to an end his reexamination of the program's goal and schedule and his hope to collaborate, rather than compete, with the Soviet Union in going to the Moon. This study, based on extensive research in primary documents and archival interviews with key members of the Kennedy administration, is the definitive examination of John Kennedy's role in sending Americans to the Moon.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415643108 Publish September 2013 224 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
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Presenting a succinct, historically informed introduction to North and South Korea, the second edition of The Koreas considers the radically different ways these countries have dealt with the growing challenges of globalization. Since the first edition's publication, the economic, political, and social differences have only intensified, making evident the relevancy and importance of Armstrong's work, in understanding the Koreas now and in the future. Ultimately, The Koreas is a crisp, engaging primer of Korea and the Korean people in the contemporary world.
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$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137331250 Publish September 2013 276 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
The Legacy of the Italian Resistance
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers
Philip Cooke, University of Strathclyde, UK.
Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives
In this rich and detailed interdisciplinary study, Philip Cooke explores the enduring and contested legacy of the Italian Resistance movement. This book scrutinizes the ambivalent and shifting attitudes toward the movement held by the major Italian political parties and the State, caught up as they were in an ambitious project to build a new nation out of the ruins of Fascism and the Second World War. Using a wide array of texts, Cooke bridges the gap between historical and cultural studies and shows how Italian politics, history, and culture have interacted over the long term. Fusing historical and cultural analysis, this is a unique contribution to our understanding of modern Italy.
Olaf Jensen, University of Leicester, UK and Chris Szejnmann was born in Munich, Loughborough University, UK.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781137349330 Publish September 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$58.00
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Less Than Nothing
Phenomenology of Perception
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the Collège de France, France.
Slavoj Zizek, University of London, UK.
$69.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681275 Publish September 2013 1,056 pages Verso NZRRP$84.95
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For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social process of production, or the contingency of individual existence. In Less Than Nothing, the pinnacle pubication of a distinguished career, Slavoj Zizek argues that it is imperative that we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such n approach not only enables Zizek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with the key strands of contemporary thought - Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quatum physics and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9780415834339 Publish September 2013 696 pages Routledge NZRRP$58.00
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$53.00 Pb ISBN 9781137340924 Publish September 2013 368 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$67.00
Ordinary People as Mass Murderers offers a series of essays that explore one of the most fundamental and widely-discussed questions confronted by humanity: how do 'ordinary' people come to participate in mass murder? This book brings together a mix of established and younger experts to provide a unique and up-to-date overview of the current state of research, much of it previously unpublished in English. Nine contributions and an introduction combine to present complex findings in an accessible format, approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives (history, gender, sociology, psychology, law, comparative genocide) and addressing a number of hitherto unresolved questions.
Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty's contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and "intellectualism" on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as a mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one's situation and experience within the world.
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NASA in the World
The Pinochet File
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, Second Edition
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Angelina Long Callahan, Naval Research Laboratory, USA; and Ashok Maharaj, Georgia Institute of Technology's School of History, USA.
Peter Kornbluh.
From its inception in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was mandated not only to sustain U.S. leadership in space, but also to pursue international collaboration. NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. Drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel, it explores US-Soviet cooperation during the darkest days of the Cold War, relations with India and Japan, the development of the International Space Station, and a host of other fascinating episodes, making it a signal contribution to space studies and American diplomatic history.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781595589125 Publish September 2013 624 pages The New Press NZRRP$49.95
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Revised for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first made publicly available in the original hardcover edition formed the heart of the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism-a campaign chronicled for the first time in this updated edition. Peter Kornbluh spearheaded the effort to declassify some 24,000 secret CIA, White House, National Security Council, and Defense Department records on Chile. This book now includes the story of Pinochet's 2004 indictment and trial, and new information about the famous cases of the American Charles Horman and Chilean folk singer Victor Jara-both executed by Pinochet's military after the coup. Quantity
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The Holocaust and its Contexts
Italian and Italian American Studies
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY Searching for Sasquatch
The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism.
Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology
Ralph Darlington, University of Salford, UK.
This fresh and entertaining study looks at the surprisingly complex relationship between professional scientists and cryptozoologists. The traditional heroic narrative of monster-hunting in the late twentieth century treats mainstream, academic scientists (the eggheads) as villains who reject the possibility of anomalous primates and cryptozoology as unworthy of study. It gives a privileged place to passionate amateur naturalists (the crackpots) who soldier on against great odds and an obstinate public to bring knowledge of these creatures to light. However, as historian Brian Regal shows, this is misleading: many professional scientists eagerly sought anomalous primates, examining their traces and working out evolutionary paradigms to explain them. Even though scientific thinking held that creatures such as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti did not and could not exist, these scientists risked their careers because they believed them to be a genuine biological reality.
Brian Regal, Kean University, USA.
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major force within the international trade union movement. Yet, in country after country, this influence waned nearly as quickly as it took root. In this accessible and engaging history of Revolutionary Syndicalism, Darlington traces this rise and fall in six different countries. $33.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463305 Publish September 2013 338 pages Haymarket NZRRP$42.00
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137349439 Publish September 2013 262 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681251 Publish September 2013 160 pages Verso NZRRP$44.95
Rhapsody for the Theatre
Secret War in the Middle East
Alain Badiou, the College International de Philosophie, France.
The Covert Struggle for Syria, 1949-1961
For Alain Badiou, theatre - unlike cinema - is the place for the staging of a truly emancipatory collective subject. In this sense theatre is, of all the arts, the one strictly homologuous to politics: both theatre and politics depend on a limited set of text and statements, collectively enacted by a group of actors or militants, which put a limit on the excessive power of the state. This explains why the history of theatre has always been inseperable from a history of state repression, and censorship. This definitive collection includes not only Badiou's phamplet Rhapsody for the Theatre but also essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, on the political economy destiny of contemporary theatre, and on Badiou's own work as a playwright, as the author of Ahmed Tetralogy.
This work is an in-depth study of Syrian politics and foreign relations between 1949 and 1961. Topics covered include the role of foreign governments in manipulating Syria's numerous military coups; the covert struggle to remove Adib al-Shishakli, the conflicts in the late 1950s between Syrian politicians and officers, the consolidation of power in Syria by chief Abd al-Hamid Sarraj and his covert battles with Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq from 1957 onwards. Previously unstudied aspects of Syrian covert intervention in the 1958 Lebanese Civil War and of a Syrian-Jordanian "dirty war" are also included. Throughout the book, particular attention is paid to the role of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
Andrew Rathmell
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9781780764955 Publish September 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$72.00
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Weimar Culture Revisited
Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum
John Alexander Williams, Bradley University, USA.
Science for the Nation is a unique look at the history of a great national institution as well as a study of the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role that a museum of science and technology plays within larger society. It illuminates the ways in which we think about the collecting and display of scientific objects, and explores the changing and often difficult relations between the state, business and industry, and museum funding. The essays also examine the Science Museum in the context of other national museums in London, and show the key differences affecting their chosen paths and individual development.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137347183 Publish September 2013 262 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
For decades after the Second World War, historians and writers depicted cultural life in Germany's Weimar Republic as an unstable mixture of avant-garde experimentation, decadence, and proto-fascist tendencies. However, their definition of "culture" treated it as a canon created by elites and intellectuals, excluding the everyday practices and thorough popular participation that were such a crucial aspects of Weimar life. This volume brings together a remarkable array of studies to provide an accessible cross-section of these "new cultural history" approaches. Included here are investigations of visual and political culture, transnational currents in the mass media, and the intense popular interest in sports, health, and nature, all attesting to the extraordinarily multi-faceted nature of democracy in interwar Germany.
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Studies in European Culture and History
Science for the Nation Peter Morris is Head of Research across the NMSI family of museums. He was given the Edelstein Award for excellence in the history of chemistry by the American Chemical Society in 2006.
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9781137349323 Publish September 2013 392 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.00
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Radical Unionism
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The Condor Years
Working Lives
How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents
Work in Britain Since 1945 Arthur McIvor is Professor of Social History and Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He is the author of A History of Work in Britain, 18801950 and co-author of Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781403987679 Publish September 2013 360 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$58.00
Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments led by Chile formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA which later backfired on the United States.
A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last sixty years. McIvor covers themes such as gender, race, class, disability and health in his exploration of how the meaning of employment has been signified by the workers themselves.
The Condor Years uncovers the unsettling facts about the secret U.S. relationship with the dictators who created this terrorist organization. Written by award-winning journalist John Dinges, the book is a chilling but dispassionately told history of one of Latin America’s darkest eras. In March 2013, Argentina began the long-awaited human rights trial against the perpetrators of Operation Condor. $31.00 Pb, ISBN 9781565849778 June 2005, 325 pages The New Press NZRP$38.00
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS The No-nonsense Guide to Fair Trade Sally Blundell is a freelance journalist and writer in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has conducted research, interviews and reports for Trade Aid, New Zealand's largest fair trade organization. She has written a history of the Trade Aid Movement.
The No-Nonsense Guides
An in depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producers at the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice. $17.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780261331 Publish September 2013, 144 pages New Internationalist NZRRP$22.95 From the book: “Depending on whom you talk to and which survey you read, fair trade is a social-justice movement, a tool for international development or an alternative market model that facilitates access for small-scale farmer co-operatives and worker collectives on terms that enable them to move from poverty to economic self-sufficiency. This it does by entering into long-term trading relationships that take into account the specific challenges of producer groups; by providing artisans and farmers, particularly those in the volatile commodities market, with guaranteed prices that cover the cost of production; by supporting initiatives identified by those groups to improve output, incomes and living standards.”
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An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs
Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Second Edition
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780415680967 Publish September 2013 336 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
This revised and updated version of An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Offering a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it includes background topics, the position of the Middle East in the world and profiles of the constituent countries. Features include clearly and thematically organised sections covering the continuing importance of the Middle East, the background, fundamental concerns, the states and the crucial issues related to the area. Original maps integrated into the text, placing international issues and conflicts in their geographical contexts. Coverage of fundamental considerations, such as water shortage the petroleum industry conflicts and boundary issues.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415813945 Publish September 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
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By placing Obama in the historical context of U.S. race relations, this book interrogates the idealized and progressive view of American society advanced by much of the mainstream literature on Obama. The author takes a careful look at the historical, cultural and political dimensions of race in the United States, using an interdisciplinary analysis that incorporates approaches from history, political science, and sociology. Each chapter addresses controversial issues such as whether Obama can be considered an African-American president, and whether Obama has abandoned his core African-American constituency in favour of projecting a race-neutral approach designed to maintain centrist support.
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Routledge Series on Identity Politics
Dr Mark Ledwidge, University of Oxford, USA; Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University, UK and Inderjeet Parmar, University of Manchester, UK.
Liam D Anderson, Wright State University, USA and Ewan Anderson, University of Durham, USA.
CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Battle for Ground Zero
Digital Disconnect
Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Elizabeth Greenspan, Harvard University, USA.
$42.00 Hb ISBN 9780230341388 Publish September 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois, USA.
Instead of becoming a rallying symbol in the fight against terrorism, Ground Zero has been plagued by intense conflict and controversy from the very start. This book goes behind the scenes of this fight to rebuild, revealing how grieving families, commercial interests, and politicking bureaucrats clashed at every step of the way, confounding progress and infuriating the public. Since the fall of 2001, Greenspan has been documenting the drama - conducting interviews with neighborhood residents, architects, officials, rescue workers, and victims' relatives, as well as key New York players like Mayor Bloomberg, uber-developer Larry Silverstein, and Governor Pataki. She provides a warts-and-all look at this pivotal decade - from the bitter feuding between city officials and victims' families, to the endless controversy over the memorial design, to the fraught tenth anniversary, against a still-unfinished building.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781595588678 Publish May 2013 320 pages The New Press NZRRP$49.95
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Black Panthers Speak
Lineages of Revolt
Third Edition
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals. Shut out of academic employment for a quarter century because of his political affiliations, he nonetheless helped lay the basis for the explosion of scholarship in labor and black history during the past two decades.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781608463282 Publish September 2013 328 pages Haymarket NZRRP$34.95
Adam Hanieh teaches Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK). He is author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011).
Here are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard, and Fred Hampton; Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women; the party's court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education; as well as songs, poems, and political cartoons. This is the story behind the Black Panthers.
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Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to the author, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the Internet. McChesney's awardwinning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect McChesney returns to this thesis in light of the advances of the digital age, incorporating capitalism into the heart of his analysis. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems, and other policies and massive indirect subsidies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
Too often the Arab uprisings which started in 2011 have been reduced to a simple expression of mass protest against authoritarian regimes. Lineages of Revolt aims to correct this error. In an accessible and engaging style, Adam Hanieh shows how an analysis of the specific nature of capitalist development in the Middle East is key to understanding these revolutions.
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The Dao of World Politics
The Oil Road
Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations
Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London
L. H. M. Ling, The New School in New York, USA.
James Marriott is an activist and co-author of The Next Gulf: London, Washington, and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria. Based in Cairo, Mika Minio-Paluello is a campaigner for social movements resisting oil companies. Both work for Platform, a London based arts, human rights, and environmental justice organisation (www. platformlondon.org).
This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to argue for a shift in world politics from Western hegemony and hierarchy to a more balanced engagement with parity and ethics. The author theorizes that we may develop a more representative approach towards sustainable and democratic governance by offering a nonWestern alternative to hegemonic debates in IR. The book presents the story of world politics by integrating folk tales and popular culture with policy analysis. The deconstruction of IR as a singular unifying school of thought through the lens of a non-Westphalian analytic shows a unique perspective on the forces that drive and shape world politics. This book suggests new ways to articulate and act so that global politics is more inclusive and less coercive. Only then could IR realize what the Dao has always stood for: a world of compassion and care.
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From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterannian fishing communities and European capitals, Marriott and Minio-Paluello blend travel writing and investigative journalism, charting a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics, profit, and humanity.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Policy Agendas in British Politics
Shattered Hopes
Peter John, University College London, UK; Anthony Bertelli, University of South Carolina, USA; Will Jennings, University of Southampton; Shaun Bevan, University of Mannheim, Germany.
The Failure of Obama's Middle East Peace Process Josh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour. $57.00 Pb ISBN 9780230390423 Publish September 2013 240 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$72.00
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Progressive Politics after the Crash
The Threat of Liberation
Governing from the Left
Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar
Olaf Cramme, London School of Economics, UK; Patrick Diamond, University of Manchester, UK; and Michael McTernan is Deputy Director of Policy Network.
Amrit Wilson is the author of Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (Pluto, 2006).
In the wake of the 2007-8 financial crash, and as the world struggles to deal with its long-term consequences, this book takes stock of the fate of progressive politics in Europe and America. Although there are more centre-left governments in power - questions continue to be asked about their governing programmes and political strategies for dealing with a tough new era. This book explores how American and European centre-left traditions are adapting to twenty-first century structural constraints and ideological pressures. It takes a broad view of the circumstances of western capitalist democracies to look at how new policy programmes, new concepts and new interpretations might shape and inspire the next stages of progressive governance and politics.
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Tide Players
The Road to the Dayton Accords
The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
A Study of American Statecraft
Jianying Zha, The New School, USA.
Derek Chollet is the author of America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (coauthored with James Goldgeier).
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The Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when imperialist powers were seeking to institute ‘regime change' and install pliant governments. Using iconic photographs, declassified US and British documents, and in-depth interviews, it examines the role of the Umma Party of Zanzibar and its leader, Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu. Drawing parallels between US paranoia about Chinese Communist influence in the 1960s with contemporary fears about Chinese influence, it looks at the new race for Africa's resources, the creation of AFRICOM and how East African politicians have bolstered US control. This book reflects on the history of a party which confronted imperialism and built unity across ethnic divisions, and considers the contemporary relevance of such strategies. Quantity
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On just the second day of his first term, Barack Obama appointed former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as his special envoy for Middle East peace and boldly asserted that his administration would 'actively and aggresively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.' At the outset of Obama's second term, here is the first hard-hitting analysis of why the administration has entirely failed on this issue, a failure brought in part because of Obama's wrongheaded obeisance to Israeli policy and its US advocates. Written in a clear and accessible style by the director of national peace organisation who has also been a Middle East analyst for the Congressional Research Service, this book offers an informed history of the Obama administration's policies and maps out a progressive path forward.
Derek Chollet provides unprecedented insights into the high-stakes diplomacy behind the historic 1995 Dayton agreement that ended the war in Bosnia-the most devastating conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Based on still unopened US government archives and hours of interviews, The Road to the Dayton Accords is a fast-paced history that focuses on the key players, decisions and events on the difficult journey to peace. Exhaustively researched and candidly written, this is a behind-the-scenes portrait of statecraft at the highest levels. With novelistic detail, this book also deepens our understanding of the course and conduct of modern American foreign policy, especially over US efforts to solve the world's most difficult conflicts-a challenge that still dominates the news today.
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Jianying Zha depicts a new generation of movers and shakers who are transforming modern China. Through half a dozen sharply etched and nuanced profiles, this book captures both the concrete detail and the epic dimension of life in the world's fastest growing economy. Zha's vivid cast of characters includes an unlikely couple who teamed up to become the country's leading real-estate moguls and a tycoon of home-electronic chain stores who insisted on avenging his mother, who had been executed as "a counter-revolutionary criminal." Alongside these entrepreneurs, Zha also brings us the intellectuals: a cantankerous professor at China's top university; a former cultural minister turned prolific writer; and Zha's own brother, a dissident who served a nine-year prison term for helping to found the China Democracy Party.
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Why Europe Matters
The Voices from Tunis to Damascus
The Case for the European Union
Writing Revolution has been awarded the 2013 English PEN award for outstanding writing in translation!
John McCormick, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781137016874 Publish September 2013 216 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$43.00
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Critics like to depict the European Union as undemocratic and unpopular, but their arguments are too often based on myths and misunderstandings. This does us all a disservice, and in this period of uncertainty about the future of Europe it is more important than ever that we have a firm grasp of the issues at stake. This powerful new book debunks the misconceptions surrounding the EU and makes a compelling and comprehensive case for the benefits of European integration. It shows how the EU has improved the lives of Europeans in countless ways, and how it has given Europe a powerful presence on the international stage. Guaranteed to illuminate as well as spark debate, this book will appeal to anyone who seeks to better understand what Europe means and why it matters.
Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together some of the most exciting new writing born out of revolution in the Arab world. This is a remarkable collection of testimony, entirely composed by participants in, and witnesses to, the profound changes shaking their region. Situated between past, present and future - in a space where the personal and the political collide - these voices are part of an ongoing process, one that is at once hopeful and heartbreaking. Unique amongst material emanating from and about the convulsions in the Arab Middle East, these creative and original writers speak of history, determination and struggle, as well as of political and poetic engagement with questions of identity and activism. $29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780765402 May 2013 Quantity 304 pages I.B. Tauris Publishers NZRP$39.95
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Dante The Poet, the Thinker, the Man Barbara Reynolds is one of the world's best-known Dante scholars. She completed the Penguin translation of Paradiso after the death of Dorothy L. Sayers. She also translated Dante's early work La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. In addition, she has written a biography of Dorothy L. Sayers and edited The Cambridge Italian Dictionary. Dante is one of the world's towering literary geniuses and yet perhaps the most enigmatic, with many puzzles remaining about his turbulent life. Now Barbara Reynolds, a leading expert on Dante, in this her acclaimed biography, pieces together the many mysterious clues scattered throughout Dante's works, including his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. She reveals a startling new portrait of Dante: the poet, the thinker and the man. $19.95 Hb, ISBN 9781780767260 Publish May 2013, 480 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$29.95 “I cannot remember when I last read a book which taught me more.” -A.N. Wilson, The Daily Telegraph “This wonderful biography.” -The Financial Times “In the beg-steal-or-borrow class, indispensible.” -The Spectator
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The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit Carol Baxter is a prize-winning author of three popular histories, all with a criminal bent, including Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady, which have been published to critical accliam in her native Australia. She lives in Sydney, Australia. John Tawell was a sincere English Quaker but a sinning one. Convicted of forgery, he was transported to Sydney, where he opened Australia's first retail pharmacy and made a fortune. When he returned home after 15 years, he thought he would be welcomed, a reformed, rich entrepreneur; instead he was shunned. Tawell was struggling financially and emotionally when on New Year's Day 1845 he boarded the 7.42pm train from Slough to Paddington. Soon, policemen rushed to the station looking for a suspected murderer - but the 7:42 had departed. The Great Western Railway was experimenting with a new-fangled instrument, the telegraph, so a message was relayed to London: a "KWAKER" man was on the run. It became the sensational murder of the day, involving poisoning, religious scandal, sexual innuendo, and very little hard evidence. Tawell was infamous, and his trial helped to secure the telegraph's fame and adoption - a watershed event. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780742434 Publish September 2013, 336 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$34.95
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From the book: “At Salt Hill, word quickly spread that the doctors suspected poison, although the police hadn’t found a container suitable for holding a toxin. Concerned locals searched their yards. In the garden behind the Windmill Inn’s front fence, someone found a little ounce phial, unlabelled, containing a tiny portion of light-coloured liquid. Had the Quaker tossed it over the fence when passing, the police wondered? They handed it over to Dr Champnes, who was about to leave for London. Once there, he would pay a visit to analytical chemist John Thomas Cooper. Champnes opened his carpet bag and added the phial to its gruesome content.” Quantity
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A Colossal Wreck
The Life of Herbert Hoover
A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture
Fighting Quaker 1928-1933
Alexander Cockburn was the co-editor of CounterPunch.
This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Perhaps the greatest Secretary of Commerce in American history, he helped engineer the prosperity of the 1920s and vainly warned of an economy overheated by speculation that collapsed in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Modest, shy, humble, with a subtle sense of humor, he lacked the self-promotional style of professional politicians and eschewed political invective. His depression measures mitigated the effects of the depression yet failed to end it. Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.
Glen Jeansonne, University of Wisconsin, USA.
As the Atlantic noted, Alexander Cockburn was a towering figure who 'would say all the outragous things his bland Yank counterparts lacked the wit, courage, erudition, or epaterspirit to utter on their own.' In A Colossal Wreck, written prior to his death in July 2012, Cockburn reveals his great literary spirit, incisive reading of the situation and campaigning vim into a single volume that will undoubtly seen as his masterpiece. Whether ruthlessly exposing the hypocrisy of Washington from Clinton to Obama, pricking the pomposity of those in power or tirelessly defending the rights of the oppressed or silenced, Cockburn was the most gifted radical journalist of his generation.
$49.95 Pb ISBN 9781137346735 Publish May 2013 566 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$59.95
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SOCIETY & CULTURE Climate Change in the Media
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780765884 Publish September 2013 150 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$37.00
Reporting Risk and Uncertainty
Housework and Housewives in American Advertising
James Painter, Oxford University, UK.
Married to the Mop
Recent research has shown that the journalistic potrayal of the problem of climate change as 'risks' rather than 'uncertainties' can create a stronger response from the public in terms of engagement and understanding. Understanding the concept of risks and uncertainty - and how to communicate them - is a hotly debated issue across the scientific, management, and policymaking communities. In this book, James Painter analyses how the international media present the two issues of risk and uncertainty. He focuses on the coverage of recent projections of global temperatures and of the melting ice of the Arctic sea, and include six countries, Australia, France, India, Norway, the UK and the USA.
Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh, USA.
$45.00 Pb ISBN 9781137347237 Publish September 2013 286 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$57.00
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Controversies in Contemporary Islam
Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism
Oliver Leaman is Professor of Philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.
James G. Crossley, University of Sheffield, UK.
Quests, Scholarship and Ideology
This book helps to deepen our understanding of the varieties of contemporary Islam and the issues that are of most concern to Muslims today. Oliver Leaman explores some of the controversies and arguments that exist within Islam and between Islam and other religions. He considers how the religion can be defined by looking at the contrast between competing sets of beliefs, and arguments amongst Muslims themselves over the nature of the faith. Areas covered include: Qur'anic interpretation, gender, finance, education, and nationalism. Examples are taken from a variety of different contexts and illustrate the diversity of approaches to Islam that exists today.
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781844657377 Publish September 2013 256 pages Acumen Books NZRRP$52.00
Jesus in the age of Neolibralism analyses the ideology underpining scholarly and popular quests for the historical Jesus in a neoliberal age. The book focuses on cultural and political concerns, notably postmodernism, multiculturalism and liberal masking of power. The study explores a range of issues, including the dubious periodisation of the quest for the historaical Jesus; ‘biblioblogging’; Jesus the ‘Great Man’ and western individualism; imageconscious Jesus scholarship; the ‘Jewishness’ of Jesuses; and the contradictions between personal beliefs and dominant ideological trends in the construction of historical Jesuses.
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$46.00 Pb ISBN 9780415676137 Publish September 2013 272 pages Routledge NZRRP$58.00
American advertising from the late 1800s to today has been remarkably consistent in depicting housework as women's work. In this wide-ranging and entertaining book, author Jessamyn Neuhaus shows advertising to be our most significant public discourse about housework, analyzing print ads and TV commercials, as well as ad agency documents and trade journals, to demonstrate how the housewife figure framed household labor as exclusively feminine care for the family. Though the 1970s and 1980s were transitional decades in which stereotypical images of the housewife became unmarketable, Neuhaus reveals how advertising today continues to gender housework with its depictions of racially diverse yet nonetheless socially acceptable 'housewife moms.'
SOCIETY & CULTURE My Father's Wars
So Rich, So Poor
Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century
Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
Alisse Waterston, City University of New York, USA.
Peter Edelman, Georgetown University, USA.
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9780415859189 Publish September 2013 224 pages Routledge NZRRP$59.95
$27.00 Pb ISBN 9781595589361 Publish September 2013 208 pages The New Press NZRRP$34.00
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Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard University, USA.
$33.00 Pb ISBN 9781595586773 Publish September 2013 256 pages The New Press NZRRP$41.00
In this provocative book, lifelong antipoverty advocate Peter Edelman offers an informed analysis of how this country can be so wealthy yet have a steadily growing number of unemployed and working poor. According to Edelman, we have taken important positive steps without which 25 to 30 million more people would be poor, but poverty fluctuates with the business cycle. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers-with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color-while bestowing billions on those at the top. So Rich, So Poor delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics, and takes a particular look at the continuing crisis of young people of color, whose possibility of a productive life too often is lost on their way to adulthood.
Satire and Democracy
The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, wellknown cultural critics-reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to overhauling dramatically our understanding of the politics of race. Through provocative and insightful essays, The New Black challenges contemporary images of black families, offers a contentious critique of the relevance of presidential politics, defies accepted notions of what "black" means individually and collectively, transforms ideas about the real and perceived political power of people of color, and generally attempts to define the new boundaries of debates over race in America.
Is the comedy of Stephen Colbert simply fun or is it powerful political satire? Colbert’s America claims that Colbert’s satire fosters critical thinking about social issues, encourages active citizenship, and entertains the viewer all at the same time. The first book to cover the various themes and features of Colbert’s America offers readers insight into the powerful ways that Colbert’s comedy challenges the cult of ignorance that has threatened meaningful public debate and social dialogue since 9/11. - InFinance, March 2013 $39.95 Pb ISBN 9781137014726 October 2012 226 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRP$49.95
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Breakpoint Why the Web Will Implode, Search Will be Obsolete, and Everything Else You Need to Know About Technology is in Your Brain Jeff Stibel is the author of Wired for Thought: How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet (Harvard Business Press, 2009). He was the recipient of a Brain and Behavior Fellowship while studying for his PhD in brain science at Brown University, USA. What can the human brain and its relationship to the internet tell us about our society, our technologies, and our businesses? A lot, as it turns out. The internet today is a virtual replica of the brain, and the networks that leverage it grow and collapse in ways that are easily predictable if you understand the brain and other biological networks. In this fascinating look at the future of business and technology, neuroscientist and entrepreneur Stibel shows how the brain can act as a guide to understanding the future of the internet and the constellation of businesses and technologies that run on it. He’ll show how leaders like Marissa Mayer are using artificial intelligence to remake Yahoo! and how startups like oDesk and Kickstarter are using crowdsourcing, the next wave of revolutionary technology, to create something much larger and “smarter” than the sum of their parts. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9781137278784 Publish September 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95 From the book: “This book is centered on the internet, the biggest technological revolution of the twentieth century, and likely the driving force of innovation for the next hundred years. The internet is approaching a breakpoint, as are many of the technologies and businesses that now rely on it. That is the bad news. The good news is that the breakpoint will bring better things, and we can look to nature as a guide for what that will be.” Quantity
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My Father's Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS The Rise of the Naked Economy How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace Ryan Coonerty is the co-founder and Chief Strategist for NextSpace. He served two terms as the Mayor of Santa Cruz, California and was selected by the Aspen Institute as "one of the nation's most promising young leaders." Ryan teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the author of Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments. An optimistic, humorous, and inspirational vision of the new era of non-traditional employment and how to not only survive, but to thrive in this changing economy. What happens when work is no longer a place but a state of mind? When the trappings that have defined the economy as we knew it are stripped away and we start from the bare essence of what it means to make a living? From corner coffee shops to Fortune 500 companies, workers from all different backgrounds are creating a new reality and prosperity.The Rise of the Naked Economy shows readers how to achieve both personal and professional success in an economy that does not guarantee lifetime employment. $39.95 Hb, ISBN 9780230342194 Publish September 2013, 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95 From the book: “This book examines how work has morphed from a physical place to a kind of mind-set of shared goals and values, and how stripping away the hassles and restrictions of the old-style office makes its benefits all the more apparent. Because humans don’t evolve as quickly as technology does, we’ll explain why office Christmas parties still matter and why you (yes, you) need to get out of your skivvies (an ironic reality in the Naked Economy) and be with real live people.” Quantity
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$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415497060 Publish September 2013 384 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
China Constructing Capitalism
Consumer-Brand Relationships
Economic Life and Urban Change
Theory and Practice
Scott Lash and Michael Keith, University of London, UK; Jakob Arnoldi, Aarhus University, Denmark and Tyler Rooker, University of California, USA.
Susan Fournier, Boston University, USA; Michael Breazeale, University of Nebraska, USA; and Marc Fetscherin, Rollins College, USA.
Dominant theorists of globalization take on the assumptions of a 'Washington Consensus' which presumes the centrality of neo-liberal American individualism. For them, America's globalization is at stake. The authors argue that there is a new global driving force: a new logic that is Global China. Here, Washington neo-liberal individualism is displaced by the collective relationality of a 'Beijing Consensus'. This book analyzes China as a 'risk culture', embracing the boundless opportunity and adventure of Beijing's Olympic architecture, Shenzhen investment bank young traders, Shanghai property developers and art markets. It examines the risk-sharing of inter-generational family mortgages, wage-pooling microfinance and regimes of collective saving.
$79.95 Pb ISBN 9780415783132 Publish September 2013 456 pages Routledge NZRRP$99.95
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A Companion to Marx's Capital
Corporate Europe
Volume 2
How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War
David Harvey's video lecture course on Marx's Capital can be found at: davidharvey.org/ reading-capital.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681213 Publish September 2013 384 pages Verso NZRRP$32.95
The creation and management of customer relationships is fundamental to the practice of marketing. While marketing research has a long tradition in the study of business relationships between manufacturers and suppliers and buyers and sellers, attention in the past decade has expanded to the relationships that form between consumers and their brands. The aim of this book is to advance knowledge about consumer-brand relationships by disseminating new research that pushes beyond theory, to applications and practical implications of brand relationships that businesses can apply to their own marketing strategies. With contributions from an impressive array of scholars from around the world, this volume will provide readers with a useful launch pad for further research in this blossoming area.
David Cronin is the author of Europe's Alliance With Israel: Aiding the Occupation.
The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close, and Marx's work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, and following the success of his companion to the first volume of Capital, Harvey turns his attention to Volume 2, aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and hitherto neglected text. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on production, Volume 2 looks at how the circuits of capital, the buying and selling of goods, realize value. This is a mustread for everyone concerned to acquire a fuller understanding of Marx's political economy.
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During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite and the peoples of Europe. The author reveals how the EU's policies on health, climate change, armaments and food safety have been tailored to please an unaccountable elite. Making extensive use of previously unpublished documents, he explores how ideologically blinkered lobbyists have seized on the financial crisis of recent years to entrench the casino capitalism that caused the crisis in the first place. What emerges is a powerful exposé of how vested interests in the EU have manipulated opportunities to introduce ideologically-driven reforms. Quantity
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Fifty Major Economists
One Step Ahead
Third Edition
Private Equity and Hedge Funds After the Global Financial Crisis
Routledge Key Guides
Steven Pressman, Monmouth University, USA.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415645096 Publish September 2013 368 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
Timothy Spangler, UCLA School of Law, USA.
Fully updated in light of the global economic crisis, Fifty Major Economists continues to provide an introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign debt problems which face the world today, it includes entries on Paul Krugman, Hyman Minsky, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith , Irving Fisher, James Buchanan. This book contains brief biographical information on each featured economist and an explanation of their major contributions to economics, along with simple illustrations of their ideas.
$54.95 Hb ISBN 9781780742953 Publish August 2013 352 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$69.95
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One Step Ahead is the essential guide to understanding how private equity and hedge funds actually work, from start-ups to complex global firms, and the impact of their investments in both public and private markets around the world. In this accessible and timely study, Timothy Spangler - author of the awardwinning Forbes.com blog and Twitter feed 'Law of the Market' - explores how the structures of alternative investment funds enable them to adapt and react to global financial conditions. From the inefficacy of the Occupy Movement to the 2013 purchase of Hostess Brands by a private equity firm, Spangler's arguments are topical and relevant to the general reader. He adeptly avoids partisan political grandstanding, instead offering a practical, jargon-free style that will be familiar to readers of Michael Lewis and Thomas Friedman. Quantity
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Startup Rising
Ronald Coase is Nobel Laureate in Economics and Ning Wang, Arizona State University, USA.
The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past thirty five years in transforming itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an indomitable economic force in the international arena. This book challenges received wisdom about the future of the Chinese economy, warning that while China has enormous potential for further growth, the future is clouded by the government's monopoly of ideas and power. Coase and Wang argue that the development of a market for ideas - which has a long and revered tradition in China - would be integral in bringing about the Chinese dream of social harmony.
Christopher Schroeder, American University of Cairo School of Business, Egypt.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9780230342224 Publish September 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.95
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As a seasoned angel investor in emerging markets, Schroeder was curious but skeptical about the future of investing in the Arab world. Travelling to Dubai, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul, and Damascus, he saw thousands of talented, successful, and intrepid entrepreneurs, all willing to face cultural, legal, and societal impediments inherent to their worlds. Equally important, he saw major private equity firms, venture capitalists, and tech companies like Google, Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and PayPal making significant bets, despite the uncertainty in the region. Here, he marries his own observations with the predictions of these tech giants to offer a surprising and timely look at thesecond stealth revolution in the Middle East - one that promises to reinvent it as a center of innovation and progress. Quantity
THE ARTS Beyond Continuity
Core Training for the Relational Actor
Script Supervision for the Modern Filmmaker
The First Steps
Mary Cybulski, Script Editor, Los Angeles, CA, USA
$37.00 Pb ISBN 9780240814896 Publish September 2013 300 pages Focal Press NZRRP$46.00
Alison Hodge, University of London, UK.
A guide to the craft of script supervising, this book includes practical instruction and examples explaining the skills needed to work as a professional script supervisor. Mary Cybulski details training to be and working as a script supervisor. She covers the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, screen direction, and what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. Also included are many of the more subtle, but just as important, skills: how to get a job, how to tell what is important in a script and on set, how to get along with the cast and crew, and how not to get overwhelmed when there is too much information to process.
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As the founder of the truly international Quick and the Dead ensemble, Hodge has pioneered a uniquely embodied and relational approach to acting and live performance, Core Training. This beautifully produced DVD offers a remarkable documentation of the methodology's key exercises performed by Quick and the Dead actors. It considers ground and weight, breathing and breath, working with things, working with others before culminating in a sequence of imaginative steps towards a performance, The Rego Project, inspired by the painter of the same name. It transitions fluidly from Hodge's coaching into analysis of the exercises into dazzling applications of her training principles. An accompanying full-colour booklet offers further insights into the practice. Quantity
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THE ARTS Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures
Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans
A Guide to the Invisible Art, Second Edition
Robert A. Schanke, Central College, USA.
Emmy recipient John Purcell has over 30 years of varied studio experience in picture and sound.
$74.00 Pb ISBN 9780415828178 Publish September 2013 416 pages Focal Press NZRRP$93.00
In Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition veteran film sound editor John Purcell arms you with classic as well as cutting-edge practices to effectively edit dialogue for film, TV, and video. This new edition offers a fresh look at production workflows, from celluloid to Digital Cinema, to help you streamline your editing; expanded sections on new software tools, workstations, and dialogue mixing, including mixing "in the box; fresh approaches to working with digital video and to moving projects from one workstation to another and an insider's analysis of what happens on the set, and how that affects the dialogue editor.
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137349422 Publish September 2013 262 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theatre whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Exploring both sex and sexuality candidly, he burst the boundaries of what was considered acceptable. His writings were not only manifestations of the sexual liberation of the times, but were also attempts to overcome what he had been raised to despise. Schanke's examination of Yeomans' life and legacy allows a rare exploration into the pivotal moment of gay American history between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic.
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Dramatic Story Structure
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
A Primer for Screenwriters
Fifth Edition
Edward J. Fink, California State University, USA.
Peter Wollen, UCLA, USA and D. N. Rodowick, Harvard University, USA.
A successful screenplay starts with an understanding of the fundamentals of dramatic story structure. In this practical introduction, Edward J. Fink condenses centuries of writing about dramatic theory into ten concise and readable chapters, providing the tools for building an engaging narrative and turning it into an agent-ready script. Fink devotes chapters to the six basic elements of drama from Aristotle's Poetics (plot, character, theme, dialogue, sound, and spectacle), as well as the concepts of unity, metaphor, style, universality, and catharsis. Key terms and discussion questions encourage readers to think through the components of compelling stories and put them into practice, and script formatting guidelines ensure your finished product looks polished and professional.
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9781844573608 Publish September 2013 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$54.95
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Modern Recording Techniques
Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis
Eighth Edition
Art in Post-Traumatic Cultures
David Miles Huber is a three-time, Grammynominated producer and musician in the electronic dance and surround-sound genres.
Griselda Pollock (editor), University of Leeds, UK.
Master the tools and day-to-day practices of music recording and production. Learn the ins and outs of room acoustics and designing a studio. Gain techniques for mic placement and running a session. Get a solid grounding in both theory and industry practice. Modern Recording Techniques, the bestselling, authoritative guide to recording, provides everything you need to improve your craft. Expanded to include the latest digital audio technology, the eighth edition now has sections on touch technology, tablets, and newer connectivity options, such as Thunderbolt. It also includes revamped graphics throughout, and major updates of the sections covering DAWs, MIDI, and mastering.
$43.00 Pb ISBN 9781780763163 Publish September 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$55.00
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In this innovative collection, a distinguished group of international authors dare to think psychoanalytically about the legacies of political violence and suffering in relation to posttraumatic cultures worldwide. They build on maverick art historian Aby Warburg's project of combining social, cultural, anthropological and psychological analyses of the image in order to track the undercurrents of cultural violence in the representational repertoire of Western modernity. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, they analyze the image and the aesthetic in conditions of historical trauma, from enslavement and colonization to the Irish Famine, from Denmark's national trauma about migrants and cartoons to collective shock after 9/11.
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New Encounters: Arts, Culture, Concepts
$69.95 Pb ISBN 9780240821573 Publish September 2013 672 pages Focal Press NZRRP$89.95
First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. The book is divided into three main sections. The first explores the work of Sergei Eisenstein as film-maker, designer and aesthetician. The second, which contains a celebrated comparison of the films of John Ford and Howard Hawks, is an exposition and defence of the auteur theory. The third formulates a semiology of the cinema, invoking cinema as an exemplary test-case for comparative aesthetics and general theories of signification. Published as part of the BFI Silver series, this fifth edition features a new foreword by film theorist David Rodowick and brings together material from the four previous editions, inviting the reader to trace the development of Wollen's thinking, and the unfolding of the discourse of cinema.
BFI Silver
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9780415813716 Publish September 2013 176 pages Routledge NZRRP$43.00
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ALICE WALKER Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple; her many volumes of poetry; and her powerful nonfiction collections, including We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For and The Chicken Chronicles (both available from The New Press). Walker has been an activist all of her adult life, and believes that learning to extend the range of our compassion is activity and work available to all. She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of all living beings. She is one of the world’s most prolific writers, yet tirelessly continues to travel the world to literally stand on the side of the poor, and the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed.
The Cushion in the Road Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way Alice Walker In her newest collection of wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, Alice Walker writes that "we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive." For the millions of her devoted fansand for readers of Walker's bestselling 2006 book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For in particular-here is a new "gift of words" (Essence) that invites readers on a journey of political awakening and spiritual insight. The Cushion in the Road revisits themes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidarity with the Palestinian people, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Cuba, healthcare, and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi. In doing so, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world. Through the evocative image of the meditation cushion in the road, she finds a delicate balance between these two paths and invites her readers to do so, too. Rich with humor, wisdom, and Walker's unique eye for the telling details of human experience and the natural world, The Cushion in the Road shows Walker at the height of her literary powers, reveals the depths of her spiritual and political understandings, and will surely be an inspiration for all. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595588722 Publish March 2013, 336 pages The New Press NZRRP$44.95 Praise for The Cushion in the Road: “Walker’s compassion, courage, and humour gain strength and eloquence essay by essay... Media attention will surge for this provocative collection by Walker, a revered writer of conscience.” -Booklist From the book: “And then, a miracle seemed to be happening. America was about to elect or not elect a person of color as its president. What? My cushion shifted minutely. Then too an unsuspecting guest left the radio on and I learned bombs were falling on the people of Gaza. A mother, unconscious herself, had lost five of her daughters. Didn’t I have a daughter? Would I have wanted to lose her in this way? Wasn’t I a mother— even if reportedly imperfect in that role? Well! My cushion began to wobble.”
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The World Will Follow Joy Turning Madness Into Flowers: New Poems Alice Walker In this luminous collection of poems, Walker casts her eye on history, politics, and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she reminds us of the urgency of our times and of our human capacity to come together and take action. Walker imbues her poetry with memorable images, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom. Chronicling the conditions of human life today, she demonstrates in The World Will Follow Joy her deep compassion, profound spirituality, and necessary political commitments. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595588760 Publish March 2013, 192 pages The New Press NZRRP$39.95 Praise for The World Will Follow Joy: “This tireless activist has freed her mischievous, sensual, and spiritual poetic self to write of nature, love, friendship, courage, and generousity with playful and crooning lyricism... Walker distrills struggles, crises, and tragedies down to bright, singing lessons in living with awareness and joy.” -Booklist From the book: The world, the animals, including us humans, want to be engaged in something entirely other: seeing, and delighting in, the stark wonder of where we are: This place. This gift. This paradise. We want to follow joy. And we shall.
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LITERATURE & LANGUAGE Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination
Arabiyyat al-Naas
Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds
Munther Younes and Makda Weatherspoon, both at Cornell University, USA and Maha Foster, University of Denver, USA.
Part One
Rachel Trousdale is an Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College, USA, where she teaches modernism, postmodernism, and creative writing. She received her PhD from Yale University.
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137346742 Publish September 2013 252 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination argues that exiled and migrant novelists create alternate worlds which teach their readers to construct new, nation-like communities. Taking Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie as model practitioners, this book shows how such writers are remaking national literary traditions. These playful, puzzle-filled texts transcend classification as postcolonial or postmodern; instead, they help identify and create a lineage of boundarycrossing, and test how far the real world can be changed by fiction.
$99.95 Pb & DVD ISBN 9780415516938 Publish September 2013 456 pages Routledge NZRRP$130.00
Arabiyyat al Naas, Part One offers a groundbreaking introduction to Arabic as it is written and spoken by native speakers. It combines a progressive and rigorous grounding in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the form employed for reading, writing and formal speaking, with an innovative integration of the spoken Levantine variety used in everyday situations in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. Introducing the two simultaneously and seamlessly building on their shared features, Arabiyyat al Naas, Part One uses each in its proper context: Levantine for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities. In this way, the course efficiently prepares students for the practical realities of learning and "living" Arabic today.
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$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781137346759 Publish September 2013 198 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$53.00
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Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
Arabiyyat al-Naas
Robert H. Bell is Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English at Williams College, USA. He is the author of many scholarly works, including Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses. He is the winner of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers and of the Carnegie/ CASE U.S. College Professor of the Year.
Part Two Munther Younes, Cornell University, USA and Hanada Al-Masri, Denison University, USA.
This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. From the knockabout clowns of the early comedies, through the wise fools of the mature plays, to disturbing tragic figures who play the fool, Shakespeare dramatizes the pleasures and perils of fooling and folly, and evokes the mysterious possibilities of "foolosophy." Esteemed scholar Robert H. Bell highlights the fun, wit, insight, and mystery of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and vexing figures.
$99.95 Pb & DVD ISBN 9780415509084 Publish September 2013 448 pages Routledge NZRRP$130.00
Arabiyyat al Naas, Part Two is a vibrant course designed for second year students of Arabic. Building further on the rigorous and innovative approach to Arabic used in Part One of the series, it continues to cover both Modern Standard Arabic and the spoken Levantine variety used in everyday situations in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. With Levantine employed for conversations and MSA for reading and writing activities, both are used in their proper contexts, reflecting authentic usage of the language by native speakers. In this way, the course expertly guides students through the practical realities of learning and 'living' Arabic today.
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$39.00 Pb ISBN 9780230349131 Publish September 2013 208 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.00
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Thomas Hardy
Modern Japanese Grammar
The Poems
A Practical Guide
Gillian Steinberg is Associate Professor of English at Yeshiva College, New York, USA.
Naomi McGloin, University of WisconsinMadison, USA; Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Michigan State University, USA; Fumiko Nazikian, Columbia University, USA; and Tomomi Kakegawa, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA
Gillian Steinberg offers an approachable introduction to the poems of one of the most prolific and influential English writers, through an examination of wide-ranging selections from his work. Part I of this invaluable study including clear and stimulating close readings of Thomas Hardy's key poems, major themes in Hardy's poetry, including ghosts, God's role in the world, war, and the painful passage of time, summarizes the methods of analysis and provides suggestions for further work. Part II supplies essential background material, featuring an account of Hardy's life and works, samples of criticism from important Hardy scholars. With a helpful Further Reading section, this insightful volume is ideal for anyone who wishes to appreciate and explore Hardy's poetry for themselves.
$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415572019 Publish September 2013 400 pages Routledge NZRRP$84.95
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Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Japanese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as word order, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is carefully organised around language functions covering all major communication situations. It is richly illustrated throughout with examples written both in Romanization and Japanese script or a mixture of hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Special care has been taken to explain similar expressions in order to eliminate any confusion.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE Freud on the Couch A Critical Introduction to the Father of Psychoanalysis Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University, USA. Freud's status as one of the most preeminent thinkers of the 20th century means we tend to assume we know what he said rather than truly engaging with his ideas. Beverley Clack reveals a more complex Freud - a Freud unencumbered by the mistranslations, clichés and misconceptions that commonly surround his work. Casting new light on a man often unfairly derided as obsessed with sex and rigid theory, Clack argues that he was as concerned with "the death drive" as the "sex drive" and that his fierce critique of religion masked a fascination with spiritual, existential, and philosophical questions. Exploring how his life influenced his thought, Clack explains all of Freud's key ideas and case studies in the context of the time and highlights why his work is still so relevant today. $29.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780742625 Publish September 2013, 224 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$34.95 “Thoughtful, creative and well written. Clack has the ability to sum up complex ideas in a succinct and readable manner.” - Alastair Ross, Oxford University. From the book: “As we begin to explore Freud’s ideas in more detail, we will do well to remember that his theories are grounded in reflections on his clinical practice. His account of the mind is shaped by his practical experience of working with people suffering from in capacitating neurotic illness: that is, mental disorders which affected their ability to function. To ignore the practical context for his ideas would be a mistake, not least because his approach to defining the human is both innovative and controversial, emerging from his clinical work with those who are ‘sick’.” Quantity
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The Adventurer's Handbook
The No-nonsense Guide to World Food
From Surviving an Anaconda Attack to Finding Your Way Out of a Desert
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781780743196 Publish September 2013 256 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$29.95
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What's the best way to serve polar bear meat? How do you find water in a desert? Learn the answers to these questions and more from the best instructors possible: a cast of famous explorers, including Livingston, Shackleton and John Hunt. The author delves into the original diaries and logs of great expeditions to provide a winning combination of intrepid stories of yester-year and hilarious retro tips. Discover which famous explorer was cooked by Hawaiian natives and who was left on an ice floe in the Arctic by his drunk captain. Fully illustrated and replete with fascinating text boxes of trivia (how should you address a husky in Alaska?), The Adventurer's Handbook is the perfect gift for both seasoned explorers and office workers dreaming of that next big trip abroad.
$17.95 Pb ISBN 9781780261317 Publish September 2013 144 pages New Internationalist NZRRP$22.95
In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.
The No-Nonsense Guide
Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist and practitioner in community food security. Author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he's on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.
Mick Conefrey is the author of Everest 1953 and How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt.
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SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT Drunk Tank Pink
Reductionism
The Subconcious Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave
Alastair I.M. Rae, University of Birmingham, UK.
Adam Alter, New York University, USA.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781780742540 Publish September 2013 256 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$29.95
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A Beginner’s Guide
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780742649 Publish September 2013 250 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$34.95
Pink-painted walls that calm criminals, words that prompt eye-witnesses to recall things that never happened, symbols that make their viewer more aggressive. The world is full of hidden forces that shape our every thought, feeling and behaviour - without us ever realising. In this brilliant study of the strange recesses of our minds, Adam Alter reveals the power secret cues exert over our daily lives and the societies in which we live. The utterly ordinary makes for truly extraordinary effects. From how what floor your flat is on can determine your child's development to how unconscious attitudes on race skew the criminal justice system, unlocking these hidden forces is key to smarter decision making and happier outcomes.
Ever since the ancient Greeks conceived of the atom, humans have sought the smallest ingredients of our existence. In the past century, the use of reductionism to understand behaviour has gained steam as the quantum universe and the workings of the human mind have been uncovered in particle experiments and MRI scanners. But there are also those who say that reductionists are oversimplifying our world. Now acclaimed physicist Alastair Rae spells out how the powerful tool of reductionism works, from the level of subatomic particles, up through molecular chemistry, and beyond to our neural networks. How does physics explain consciousness? Can quantum mechanics be applied to the brain or mind? Rae's exploration is an indispensable guide to one of the most fundamental ideas of science and the perfect companion for anyone considering how scientific findings reach into human life.
MACMILLAN ART
Roger Butler, National Gallery of Australia, Australia; Eric Denker, Corcoran Gallery of Art, USA; Peter Haynes, University of Canberra, Australia; Merryn Gates; Rudiger Joppien, Former curator at the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany; Hendrik Kolenberg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; Suzanne Knight, artist based in Canberra, Australia; Akira Kurosaki, Kyoto Seika University, Japan; Howard Morphy, Australian National University, Australia; Sarina NoordhiusFairfax, Australian National University, Australia and Paul Wunderlich, artist and teacher.
This splendidly illustrated, multi-coloured publication serves as a fitting memorial to a much-admired Canberra-based artist, teacher and traveller, Jรถrg Schmeisser, who died in 2012 while still involved with the production of the book. A painter of the art of colour etching, his keenly observed studies of the world around him - whether in his birthplace, Germany, or in far-flung and ancient places in the Middle East, Far East and Australia - are rich in detail and often annotated in his own handwriting. He lets the etched line work on the spectator's imagination - with poetic rewards for all who ponder. Schmeisser came to Australia in 1978 as head of the Printmaking Department of the Canberra School of Art. As such, he encouraged the development of a generation of young artists. His own works are keenly collected - particularly in Australia, Germany and Japan. Co-published by SFA Press, Canberra, and Macmillan Art Publishing, this is a heartwarming account of an artistic life well-lived from a variety of scholarly and critical perspectives. The design and colour reproduction are both spectacular. $69.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921394942 March 2013, 175 pages Macmillan Art Publishing NZRRP$99.95
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Days Gone By, Volume 2 Christine Wu Ramsay graduated and undertook research in organic chemistry at Adelaide and Melbourne Universities, the Chester Beatty Research Instiute in London and Brandeis University in Massachusetts in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she established Raya Gallery, the first gallery in Melbourne to specialise in contemporary South East Asian art. From the 1990s to the present, she has travelled extensively and held exhibitions of the photographs taken on these journeys. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world - as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her characteristic sense of humour. Presented with the realities of Western costumes and values, she sets these against her changing perceptions of the traditions and philosophies of a matriachal and extended Chinese family living in Singapore. Contrasts between East and West are highlighted when she takes a Western husband and they have two Eurasian children, Photographs spanning a century, complement the author's engaging and revealing description of studying, working and living in Asia, Australia, England and America from 1958 to 1983. $74.95 Hb, ISBN 9781921394751 April 2013, 116 pages Macmillan Art Publishing NZRRP$99.95
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FOCAL PRESS
Palgrave Macmillan would like to congratulate Focal Press on its 75th year of publishing.
Letter from Focal Press Dear Reader, As you know, Focal Press was acquired by the Taylor and Francis Group in 2012. Both share a long and rich history in providing information to the Media community. As Focal celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, we reflect on the principles of our founder and how they are alive in what we do today. Andor Krasza-Krausz established Focal in 1938 with the idea that the every-day pracitioner should have access to leading-edge knowledge and techniques of the experts. It started with photography and soon spread throughout all aspects of Media. Today Focal Press brings its readers expert advice, practical techniques, and inspiration from leaders in Photography, Filmmaking, Audio Engineering, Music Technology, Theatre, Gaming, Animation and Communication. Becoming part of the Taylor and Francis Group and sharing communities with the Routledge imprint, we are now able to provide a library of resources and a wider pool of experts to the Media and Arts community. Not only can we connect our community to the practical techniques of their craft, but we now connect them with leading thinkers in their field where the subjects and disciplines of Media and Arts are discussed. Sincerely, Christine Veroulis and Cara St. Hilaire
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Photography in the Digital Age, Second Edition
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