The Profile list this year is a rich stew: among the onions of freshly uncovered classics nestle the bay leaves of bold new thinking, while the carrots of familiar faces swim in the rich juices of exciting new voices. It’s a recipe we’ve worked hard to perfect, it contains only the finest ingredients, and we think you’ll find it delicious. Step 1: Mix it up. Everyone loves a classic, but sometimes things need to be freshened up a bit. In Civilisations, Mary Beard and David Olusoga boldly reimagine Kenneth Clark’s much-loved Civilisation for the twenty-first century. Step 2: Get cooking. From David Runciman’s How Democracy Ends to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Mistaken Identities, Profile’s books this season are all about how we – and our world – are changing. They’ll put your preconceptions in the blender, and sizzle your worldview on the griddle. Step 3: Nourish your body. Lost your appetite? Shapeshifters, Gavin Francis’ lyrical exploration of how our bodies change might tempt you, or turn to Jack Hartnell’s richly detailed Medieval Bodies for dragon’s blood and henbane. Step 4: Work it off afterwards. Stretch your … eyes at the revelations in Kenny Pryde and Ken Bensinger’s sports exposés, or, if you don’t feel quite that active, you can curl up with Henry Nicholls’ memoir of narcolepsy, Sleepyhead. Happy eating! ANDREW FRANKLIN PUBLISHER
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CIVILISATIONS Kenneth Clark’s 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made for television. But it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women, western to the exclusion of all other cultures and dogmatic to the exclusion of other ideas. Now, here are two new books from Mary Beard and two from David Olusoga to coincide with a major new documentary series from the BBC on global civilisations. These short books are extraordinarily ambitious, exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture. Finally, for the twenty-first century, there is a far bigger, more intriguing and open-ended series of ideas to be explored.
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Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Parthenon, Confronting the Classics and SPQR. Her blog has been collected in the books It’s a Don’s Life and All in a Don’s Day. She was in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.
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David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian and television presenter. He is the author of three books, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonian Roots of Nazism, The World’s War and most recently Black and British: A Forgotten History which won the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and LongmanHistory Today Award.
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How We Look Focusing on the some of the earliest human figures in art – from the Olmec heads of prehistoric Mexico to the first nudes of the ancient Greek world – Mary Beard asks what these images were for, how they were understood by people in the past and why they were sometimes so dangerous and unsettling. Why have cultures all over the world been invested so heavily in images of the body? And how is it that one particular style of representation that originated in classical Greece 2,500 years ago even now determines how we look at the human form in art?
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The Eye of Faith For millennia art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Together, across different cultures, they have given us some of the most famous and breathtaking images ever made. Yet there are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making invisible God visible in the human world. Ranging from Angkor Wat to the Parthenon, from Delhi to Ely, from idolatry to iconoclasm, Mary Beard explores the often tricky interface between art and religion.
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Encounters What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when different civilisations encountered each other for the first time? Although the period was unquestionably one of conquest and destruction, it was also an age of mutual curiosity, global trade and the exchange of ideas. Hidden within the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, eighteenth-century Japanese prints and the art of late Mughal Indians are strands of artistic and cultural DNA drawn from other cultures during this first age of globalisation.
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The Cult of Progress The Industrial Revolution transformed the world – and art. Artists struggled to depict the changing world and the fate of peoples and cultures radically altered, and damaged, by what was seen at the time as the unstoppable spread of progress. Many artists, including the Impressionists, worked to understand and paint what they saw, but others, like Gauguin, fled to what they considered as the prelapsarian world, supposedly untouched by ‘progress’.
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Medieval Bodies Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages A major new talent unveils a glittering history of the body in the Middle Ages Here, Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves. In paintings and reliquaries that celebrated the (sometimes bizarre) martyrdoms of saints, the sacred dimension of the physical left its mark on their environment. In literature and politics, hearts and heads became powerful metaphors that shaped governance and society in ways that are still visible today. And doctors and natural philosophers were at the centre of a collision between centuries of sophisticated medical knowledge, and an ignorance of physiology as profound as its results were painful. Like a medieval pageant, this striking and unusual history brings together medicine, art, poetry, music, politics, cultural and social history and philosophy to reveal what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages.
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Jack Hartnell is lecturer in art history at the University of East Anglia, where his research focuses on the visual culture of medieval and early modern medicine, cartography and mathematics. He has held fellowships at Columbia University, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Shapeshifters On Human Life and Change The mysteries of human transformation revealed by the bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being Our minds and bodies change constantly – we dream and laugh, wax and wane, distort and repair, grow taller and shrink, flourish and decay as we make our way through life. Some of these changes we have little choice about – we can’t avoid puberty, or the menopause, or even death. Others are specific to the individual, inhabiting that strange hinterland between mind and body, imposed by the savage perfectionism of anorexia or the internal pressures of plastic-surgery addicts. And still others are rare, almost magical in their manifestations, such as the sun-sensitivity and facial hair that characterise porphyria and, once upon a time, led to sufferers being suspected as werewolves. Mixing case studies with observations about history, art, literature, myth and magic, and viewing with a humane and sensitive eye, Gavin Francis, author of the international bestseller Adventures in Human Being, explores the various ways in which change is the very essence of being human.
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Gavin Francis is a GP and the author of Adventures in Human Being, which was translated into thirteen languages. He also writes for the Guardian, The Times, the London Review of Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and children.
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In Search of Mary Shelley The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein Mary Shelley as never before – a new biography of the woman beyond Frankenstein
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three children, before early widowhood changed her life forever. Most astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein, creating two of our most enduring archetypes. The life story is well known. But who was the woman who lived it? She’s left plenty of evidence, and in this fascinating dialogue with the past, Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to find the real woman behind the story. She uncovers a complex, generous character – friend, intellectual, lover and mother – trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly. Published for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, this is a major new work of biography by a prize-winning writer and poet. £18.99 320pp Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 528 5 eISBN: 978 1 78283 195 2 Biography January 2018 World All Languages Tr US 8
Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning writer and poet. She has been published in more than thirty languages and received an MBE for services to literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, and the recipient of a number of national and international honours for her poetry, she has worked as an editor, translator, and university professor as well as a violinist.
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The Case of the Purloined Brooch Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Sensational Glasgow Murder and the Quest for Justice It was one of the most sensational crimes – and the greatest miscarriages of justice — in history.
Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy eighty-two-year-old spinster, was murdered in her Glasgow home. Robbery was deemed the motive, for a valuable diamond brooch was missing. Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant innocent of the crime, was arrested, convicted and very nearly hanged. Sentenced to life at hard labour at Peterhead, the brutal Scottish prison, he smuggled out a desperate plea to the one man who could save him: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Writer, criminologist and champion of the downtrodden, Sir Arthur turned his formidable talents to freeing Slater, dissecting the case with a forensic acumen worthy of Sherlock Holmes. Drawing on Sir Arthur’s published and private writings, and on Slater’s little-known prison correspondence, this book is a vivid account of Sir Arthur’s ultimately successful quest, which freed Slater after nearly 20 years.
Margalit Fox is an award-winning
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senior writer at The New York Times. Her previous book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth (Profile, 2013), about the decipherment of the mysterious Bronze Age script Linear B, received the 2014 William Saroyan Prize for Nonfiction.
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Mistaken Identities Creed, Country, Colour, Class, Culture An important and original interrogation of identity
We often think identity is personal but our identities are social, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, such as our nationality, class, culture, race and religion. Taking these broad categories as a starting point, Kwame Anthony Appiah challenges our assumptions about how identity works. Identities can be confused but this book shows that identities are crafted from confusions, and helps us sort through them. Religion isn’t primarily about beliefs. The idea of national self-determination is incoherent. Our everyday racial thinking is an artefact of discarded science. And the very idea of Western culture is a misleading myth. We will see our situation more clearly if we start to question these mistaken identities. Illustrated through historical, cultural, personal and literary example, this is radical new thinking developed from the 2016 BBC Reith Lectures.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah is professor of philosophy and law at New York University and has been President of the PEN American Center. He is the author of seminal works on philosophy and culture, including In My Father’s House, The Honor Code and the prizewinning Cosmopolitanism. He lives with his husband in New York and New Jersey.
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How Democracy Ends All political systems come to an end, even democracies
Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the people can be trusted to look after their own affairs again. But there is a danger that this picture is out of date. Until very recently, most citizens of Western democracies would have imagined that the end was a long way off, and very few would have thought it might be happening before their eyes as Trump, Brexit and paranoid populism have become a reality. Are we looking for a better way of doing politics, or are we looking for something better than politics? David Runciman, professor of politics at the University of Cambridge, answers all this and more as he surveys the political landscape of the West, identifying the forces that are threatening liberal democracy, and painting a portrait of its likely successor. A concise, clear and original take on the future of Western politics, How Democracy Ends is essential reading for the times that lie ahead.
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David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. He is the author of five previous books, including Political Hypocrisy, The Confidence Trap and Politics (for the Ideas in Profile series). He writes regularly about politics and hosts the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics.
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Once in a Lifetime Rebooting Britain Beyond Brexit Bigger than Brexit – fixing what’s wrong with Britain’s economy Brexit dominates the headlines, but there are deeper and far more significant challenges today to Britain’s economy. As Jagjit Chadha shows, the UK’s longstanding decline in productivity is the key to understanding the main problems facing us today: low real-wage growth; low levels of investment, except, disastrously, in property; erratic regional performance; lack of infrastructure; and the growing gulf between rich and poor. These fundamental difficulties predate the decision to leave the EU, and it is essential not to be distracted from them by the raging Brexit debate – regardless of the Brexit outcome, our economic future depends on resolving these issues. Leaving the EU almost certainly won’t help, but ignoring the real problems won’t make them go away. In fact, it is sure to make them worse.
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Jagjit Chadha is director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Previously he was professor of economics at the University of Kent and part-time professor of economics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked at the Bank of England and as a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
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Water Ways A Thousand Miles Along Britain’s Canals Slow adventures on wet roads and water streets For 150 years, between packhorse and railways, canals drove the Industrial Revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban to the countryside. And when their purpose was extinguished, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday. Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain’s waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. He discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the canals their home. In Britain, most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.
Jasper Winn grew up in West Cork, where he left school aged ten and educated himself by reading, riding horses and playing music, an upbringing that shaped a lifetime of travel. He is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, the story of a solo trip by kayak, and is Writer in Residence for the Canal and River Trust.
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The Medal Factory British Cycling and the Cost of Gold The story of British Cycling from underfunded basket-case to Olympic powerhouse
In the 1990s the UK was as significant a force in the cycling world as it was in the bobsled world. Cycling was a continental sport, done only by eccentrics in the UK. The sport’s governing body was a handful of old eccentrics. It was a shambles. But by 2008 Team GB, boosted by massive lottery funding and a hungry new generation of leaders, totally dominated Olympic cycling, winning eight out of ten gold medals on the track in Beijing. Soon, Team Sky, a British road-racing squad with roots in that Olympic programme, would dominate the Tour de France. But now disaster looms. Allegations of sexism, bullying and complicity with drug taking threaten the reputation and the funding of British Cycling, the governing body. Peter Keen and Chris Boardman, followed by Dave Brailsford, Steve Peters and Shane Sutton created a new blueprint for performance. Does it represent a twowheeled ‘Moneyball’, with lessons other organisations can learn from? Or was the stellar success of British Cycling down to a like-minded visionary group who got lucky with lottery funding? Is theirs a healthy culture, or has the will to win lead to poor ethics and unfairness? £16.99 352pp Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 985 6 eISBN: 978 1 78283 416 8 Sport May 2018 World All Languages Tr US 14
Kenny Pryde has been a cycling journalist since 1987. He edited Winning: Bicycle Racing Illustrated and The Fabulous World of Cycling, was a staff writer at Cycling Weekly and editor-at-large of Cycle Sport. He has written for the Guardian, Ride, VeloNews, the Herald, the Scotsman and the Irish Independent.
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Houses of Deceit FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports The full story behind FIFA’s headline-grabbing corruption scandal, soon to be a major film The story of FIFA’s fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, hustlers, corruption and phenomenal quantities of money. In Houses of Deceit, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a journey into FIFA’s dark heart. He introduces the flamboyant villains of the story – the FIFA kingpins who flaunted their wealth in private jets and New York’s grandest skyscrapers – and the dogged team of American FBI and IRS agents, who finally brought them to book. Providing fresh insights on a scandal which has gripped the world, he shows how greed and arrogance brought down the men who controlled the most powerful institution in sporting history. A wild, gritty and gripping story, Houses of Deceit combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller. It is currently being adapted for a major film, produced by Pearl Street Films, the production company owned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Ken Bensinger is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an award-winning investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. He is based in Los Angeles.
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Menopause The One-Stop Guide A practical guide to understanding and dealing with the menopause
The menopause is a natural event but for many women it represents a time of hormonal upheaval and uncomfortable symptoms. It can happen at any age, and the journey through it may feel a bit rocky. With clear and sensible information about recognising symptoms, getting help, treatment and staying positive, this guide will help those who are going through menopause, and family members who wish to better understand and offer their support. This book evaluates the best approaches to the menopause and offers women all the information they need to determine whether medication, holistic remedies or other forms of treatment will work best for them, and allows them to take charge of their health. Kathy Abernethy was appointed chair of the British Menopause Society from July 2017. She holds an MClinSci in reproductive women’s health and speaks regularly on the topic of menopause. Kathy co-leads a busy NHS Menopause Service in London.
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Unsteady States The Science of Political Turmoil The laws of political turmoil laid bare in five astonishing stories
Political risk analyst Sam Wilkin was taken aback when he noticed that key indicators of trouble had started showing up in his own back yard. Could it really be true that Peru, the Philippines and Thailand were less risky than France? Bear in mind, Thailand’s last military coup was about three years ago ... Reader: it was true. Now that political instability has come home to roost, it’s a good moment to ask: what causes it? How can you tell when your country is headed for turbulence? And what does the best social science say we can do about it? A colourful romp through the history of recent revolutionary moments becomes a profound enquiry into the machinery of social unrest. Why are farming nations so unstable? Is there really a ‘resource curse’ on mineral-rich nations? Wilkin answers these questions and more in pursuit of the holy grail of political science: how to make things better without first making them much, much worse.
Sam Wilkin is a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica, a geopolitical analysis firm that counts more than twentyfive world governments among its clients. He is also a senior advisor to Oxford Economics, one of the world’s foremost global forecasting consultancies. His previous book is Wealth Secrets of the One Percent.
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The Persecution of the Templars Scandal, Torture, Trial The definitive account of the trial of the Templars The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by Philip the Fair, a king of France resentful of their power, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned in 1307. Through interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, desecration of the Cross, sex acts and more. This book follows the everyday reality of the trial, from the early days of scandal and scheming in 1305, up to 1314, when the leaders were burned at the stake. Assessing the truth of the scandal with a cool eye, Demurger uses first-hand testimony and records of the interrogations to illuminate the conflicts, hopes and desperation of ordinary members caught up in this moment in history. A deeply researched and immersive account that gives a striking vision of the relentless persecution, and the often underestimated resistance, of the once-mighty Knights Templar.
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Alain Demurger is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Paris, and France’s foremost specialist in the history of the Crusades and the military orders. His books on the subject have become required reading, including The Last Templar, published by Profile and translated into a dozen languages.
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A Spot of Folly Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem Previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from the master of psychological suspense, with an introduction from Sophie Hannah Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be led inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife’s kidnapping than meets the eye. Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best. The stories are: ‘Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror’; ‘A Spot of Folly’; ‘The Price of Joy’; ‘The Irony of Hate’; ‘Digby’s Wives’; ‘The Haunting of Shawley Rectory’; ‘A Drop Too Much’; ‘The Thief’; ‘The Long Corridor of Time’; ‘In the Time of his Prosperity’; and ‘Trebuchet’.
Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books – notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots – have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and won numerous awards. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a life peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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Sleepyhead Neuroscience, Narcolepsy and the Search for a Good Night An examination of sleep from the perspective of a narcoleptic Sleep is something so fundamental that most of us take it for granted, undervalue and rarely examine it. Henry Nicholls doesn’t have this option – he suffers from narcolepsy, a disorder he developed at age twenty-one. For the healthy but overworked majority, this might sound like an enviable condition, but for Henry, the inability to stay awake is profoundly disabling. Using personal reflections, interviews with fellow narcoleptics, insomniacs and neuroscientists, anecdotes from medical history, and insights from art and literature, Henry Nicholls travels through the half-lit world of sleep. He considers how sleep is seen in contemporary culture, and delves into the history of sleep theory: how it was irrevocably damaged by Freud, and how this has created a medical vacuum for the treatment of sleep disorders. Sleepyhead is a scientific, cultural and autobiographical journey into the hinterlands of sleep, told with penetrating intelligence, humour and gentleness. Henry Nicholls is a science £16.99 352pp Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 587 2 eISBN: 978 1 78283 224 9 Science March 2018 World All Languages Tr US 20
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journalist, specialising in evolutionary biology and conservation, and is a regular contributor to New Scientist, Nature, BBC Focus and BBC Wildlife. He writes a regular column for BBC Earth and the Guardian, and is the author of three books – Lonesome George, The Way of the Panda and The Galapagos.
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Rainforest Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines Saving the rainforest could be the bargain of the twenty-first century
Rainforests are the lungs of our planet. They are also home to 50 per cent of the world’s animals and plants. And yet we’ve all heard of their systematic destruction. But this is the full story you’ve never heard: an in-depth, wide-ranging, first-hand narrative that not only looks at the state of the world’s tropical rainforests today and the implications arising from their continuing decline, but also at what is being done, and can be done in future, to protect the forests and the 1.6 billion people that depend upon them. Juniper is inspirational, too, in his descriptions of the rainforest’s remarkable birds and plants and its indigenous people. Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on the author’s many years’ experience at the frontline of the fight to save the rainforests. Tony Juniper is Britain’s best-known environmental campaigner. He has published several successful and award-winning books including the Sunday Times bestseller What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? and Saving Planet Earth. He has worked to conserve tropical forests for more than thirty years and as an advisor to The Prince’s Rainforests Project. £16.99 320pp Demy hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 636 7 eISBN: 978 1 78283 249 2 Nature March 2018 World All Languages £9.99 978 1 78125 328 1
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Sounds Appealing The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation The latest volume in David Crystal’s pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about ‘correct’ pronunciation in the English language, and Britain’s most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology – with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill – Crystal explores the origins of regional accents: how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many books range from clinical linguistics to the liturgy and Shakespeare. He is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words, Spell It Out and Making a Point, all published by Profile. His Stories of English is a Penguin Classic. £12.99 320pp B Format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 609 1 eISBN: 978 1 78283 234 8 Language January 2018 World All Languages Tr 22
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The Last Battle Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 In time for the anniversary of the Armistice, a new history laying bare the last months of the Great War By August 1918, the outcome of the war was not in doubt: the allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out – could the Germans prolong the war into 1919, or could the war be won in 1918? In The Last Battle, Peter Hart, author of Gallipoli and The Great War, and oral historian at the Imperial War Museum, brings to life the dramatic final months of the war, as men fought in secure victory with survival seemingly only hours, or days, away. Drawing on experience of both generals and ordinary soldiers, and dwelling with equal weight on strategy, technology and individual experience, this is a powerful and detailed account of history’s greatest endgame.
Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War. His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli, The Great War and Voices from the Front. £25.00 416pp Royal hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 482 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 176 1 History February 2018 World All Languages £12.99 978 1 78125 475 2
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Nefertiti’s Face The Creation of an Icon A major new work exploring the story behind ancient Egypt’s most famous art work Who was Nefertiti? We know her name means ‘a beautiful woman has come’, that she was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and that she bore him six daughters. But after her husband’s death, Nefertiti vanishes from view, and much of what we now know about her is speculative. And yet Nefertiti remains one of the most famous women to have ever lived. In this original and wide-ranging study, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley explores the history of the bust of Nefertiti from its origins in a busy workshop in ancient Egypt, to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912, and its present status as one of the world’s most important artefacts. Shedding light on Nefertiti’s own life, as well as her improbable afterlife, this is a book for anyone who wants to know the real story of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious queen.
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Joyce Tyldesley is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is also research associate of the Manchester Museum. Prior to joining the University of Manchester she taught prehistory and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Her books include Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and Tutankhamen’s Curse: The Developing History of an Egyptian King.
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Feminism A short, authoritative and lively introduction to feminism ‘Feminism,’ wrote Marie Shear in 1986, ‘is the radical notion that women are people.’ But feminism is not a single, simple narrative. It doesn’t begin at a particular moment, can’t be identified with any one organisation or movement and isn’t defined by a handful of great thinkers. In Feminism, Deborah Cameron unpicks the strands that constitute one of history’s most important movements. In her incisive account, she discusses, sexuality, violence, academic theory and practical activism, shows how feminism can be a way of viewing the world and provides an overview of the history of feminism. Structural gender inequality is a fact of life. As long as that continues to be true, we need to understand and engage with the ideas and history of the feminist movement. Deborah Cameron is the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford. £8.99 192pp B format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 837 8 eISBN: 978 1 78283 352 9 Feminism June 2018 World All Languages
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The Man Booker Prize Diary 2018 Celebrating 50 years of the finest fiction An illustrated celebration of 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize celebrates 50 years of unforgettable literary triumphs with an illustrated week-to-view diary of prizewinning, first-edition covers. Launched in 1968, the Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom by an author of any nationality. From the very first winner P. H. Newby’s Something to Answer For in 1969, to Paul Beatty’s 2016 runaway success The Sellout, each week is illuminated by a book that stands enshrined in the illustrious Man Booker history. Featuring prizewinners: Salman Rushdie • Thomas Keneally • Keri Hulme • Margaret Atwood • Yann Martel • Nadine Gordimer • Ian McEwan • Arundhati Roy • Kazuo Ishiguro • Hilary Mantel • Julian Barnes • Iris Murdoch • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • William Golding • Marlon James • Paul Beatty • Anne Enright • Aravind Adiga • A. S. Byatt and more
£12.99 128pp 210 x 153mm hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 018 6 Diary October 2017 World All Languages Tr US 26
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The Daily Stoic Journal 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living Companion volume to bestseller The Daily Stoic
The Daily Stoic Journal is a guide to integrating Stoicism into our twenty-first-century lives. Readers will find weekly explorations and quotations to inspire reflection, as well as daily prompts and a helpful introduction explaining the various Stoic tools of self-management. This beautifully designed hardback features space for morning and evening notes, along with advice to encourage ongoing writing and insights, day-by-day through the year. This is perfect for anyone seeking inner peace and clarity in our volatile world. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of six books. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
Stephen Hanselman has worked for more than three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent.
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The Great East Window of York Minster An English Masterpiece A fully restored medieval work of art is revealed afresh
After an immense process of careful restoration and conservation, the outstanding artistry of the Great East Window of York Minster is captured through state-of-the art photography that shows the complete sequence of major panels, in corrected placements, for the very first time. At the size of a tennis court, it is the largest single expanse of medieval stained glass in Britain and one of the largest medieval windows ever made. This visual feast is brought to life by Sarah Brown, who explores the history, artistry, meaning and restoration of the window, revealing new insights on a fragile masterpiece that has been described as England’s Sistine Chapel. Groundbreaking new research has shed exciting new light on the window’s complex narratives, relating its story to the Minster’s history and liturgy. This stunning, illustrated hardback presents an engaging contextual analysis of the window’s unequivocal position as an English masterpiece.
£30.00 224pp 250 x 210mm hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 978 8 History March 2018 World All Languages Tr US 28
Sarah Brown is a national expert on medieval ecclesiastical architecture, stained glass history and conservation. She is the Director and Chief Executive of the York Glaziers Trust, responsible for the care of the stained glass of York Minster.
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Age of Conquests The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian 336 BC – AD 138 Five hundred years of power, politics and culture in the Hellenistic period and the Roman East The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The Hellenistic period that followed (c. 323–30 BC) was one of fragmentation, violent antagonism, and struggles by small polities to retain an illusion of independence. Yet it was also a period of growth, prosperity and intellectual achievement. A vast network of trade, influence and cultural contact spread from Italy to Afghanistan, enriching and enlivening centres of wealth, power and intellectual ferment. From Alexander the Great’s early days building an empire, via wars with Rome, rampaging pirates, Cleopatra’s death and the Jewish diaspora, up to the death of Hadrian, Chaniotis examines the social structures, economic trends, political upheaval and technological progress of an era that spans five centuries and where, perhaps, modernity began.
Angelos Chaniotis is a professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Quondam Fellow at All Souls, the University of Oxford. The author of many books and articles, he is senior editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, a member of the German Archaeological Institute and an editor of the classical studies journal Mnemosyne.
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MOOMIN SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION HARDBACKS Two summer gems to add to the collection Featuring-lovingly restored original cover artworks and design, stunning endpapers, fold out maps and bookmarks.
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Moominsummer Madness When a grumbling volcano causes Moominvalley to flood, the Moomins escape by boat, finding refuge on a floating theatre. Adventures abound when the theatre casts adrift leaving Moomin, Snork Maiden and Little My marooned. Will they all be reunited before the final curtain? £10.99 176pp Cut-down B format hardback ISBN: 978 1 908745 69 9 June 2018 UK & Commonwealth
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Moominpappa at Sea Moominpappa yearns to make a fresh start, to find a rocky island and lighthouse where he’ll feel alert and important again. And so the Moomins set sail for a new home. Moominpappa’s longed-for island proves as mysterious and wild as he’d hoped. It even has a deserted lighthouse. But how is Moominmamma to grow her flowers and what could have happened to the last keeper of the lighthouse?
£10.99 176pp Cut-down B format hardback ISBN: 978 1 908745 70 5 June 2018 UK & Commonwealth
Moomin mania continues to build in the UK with a major retrospective of Tove Jansson’s art at Dulwich Picture Gallery and a new Moomin TV animation series launching in spring 2019. Sort of Books adds to the celebrations with these two stunning special collector’s edition hardbacks. 30
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Other People’s Houses The internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel A timely and vivid portrayal of a child refugee’s experiences
Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was ten-year-old Lore Segal. For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people’s houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly workingclass Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understood the terrors she had fled, or the crushing responsibility of trying to help her parents gain a visa. Amazingly she succeeded and two years later her parents arrived; their visa allowed them to work as domestic servants – a humiliation for which they had to be grateful. In Other People’s Houses Segal evokes with deep compassion, clarity and calm the experience of a child uprooted from a loving home to become stranded among strangers.
Lore Segal (b. 1928) is an American novelist, translator, children’s author and teacher. Other People’s Houses (1958) was the first of her five novels. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and the New Republic.
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The Great Concert of the Night A mosaic-like novel about love, loss and looking
‘A quietly brilliant writer, almost eccentric in his craftsmanship.’ Sunday Times In the small hours of the first of January, a man begins to write, having watched Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which a former lover – Imogen – plays a major role. For the next year, he writes something every day. His journal is a ritual of commemoration and an investigation of the character of Imogen and her relationships – with himself; with her family and friends; with other lovers. Imogen is an elusive subject, and The Great Concert of the Night is an intricate text, mixing scenes from the writer’s memory and the present day, and scenes from Imogen’s films, with observations on a range of subjects, from the visions of female saints to the history of medicine and the festivals of Ancient Rome. But one subject comes to occupy him above all: what happens when a person becomes a character on the page.
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Jonathan Buckley is the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe, So He Takes the Dog and Nostalgia. The Great Concert of the Night is his tenth novel. He was the 2015 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and has also written several guidebooks to various parts of Italy. He lives in Hove.
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A Better World is Possible The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Social Progress An exclusive account of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s investment in a better world
On 17 March 1967 the 26-year-old David Sainsbury wrote out a cheque for £5 and established the trust which would become the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Its purpose was ambitious – to make the world a better place by taking on some of the social, economic and scientific challenges that face humanity. By its 50th anniversary in 2017 Gatsby will have spent over £1bn on programmes that range from reducing poverty in Africa to investigating how plants fight disease and finding out how the brain works. Georgina Ferry’s in-depth account reveals its achievements and invites us to question how the super-rich - and even the moderately affluent - might spend their money more wisely and for the common good.
Georgina Ferry is a science writer, author and broadcaster. She was a staff editor and feature writer on New Scientist, and presented science programmes on BBC Radio. Her biography of Britain’s only female Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award.
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Game Query The Mind-Stretching Economist Quiz The non-trivial trivia quiz that asks how well you really know your world In its first ever quiz book in a 175-year history, the sharp wits of The Economist’s own champion quiz team (‘Marginal Futility’) throw down the gauntlet for a genuinely severe contest. Ranging over the globe and the sweep of world history, peering into the most significant developments in science, politics and culture, this is the rare quiz whose answers shed real light on the ways of the world. What was Europe’s first attempt at an international currency union, before the euro was a twinkle in Jacques Delors’ eye? Where did fifteenth-century popes live? Who sang ‘Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley’? £8.99 224pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 010 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 426 7 Trivia/Quiz November 2017 World All Languages Tr
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Cover Story A History in 100 Postcards A high-speed journey through the past two centuries as told through the sharp-witted, sometimes irreverent, always bold covers of The Economist, now available for the first time in jumbo postcard format. In a special introduction, the historian Dominic Sandbrook tells the story of the paper’s evolution, both in its editorial and visual style. The five surviving editors-in-chief of the paper – Andrew Knight, Rupert Pennant-Rea, Bill Emmott, John Micklethwait and Zanny Minton Beddoes – give context and tell stories from their own tenures. £15.00 216pp Cut-down demy paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 013 1 Graphic Design November 2017 World All Languages Tr 34
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How To Think A Guide for the Perplexed The world is telling you what to think. Here’s how to resist In this clever, witty book, Alan Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that prevent thought – forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, such as alternative facts and information overload. He also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: it’s impossible to think for yourself.) How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume – but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.
£10.99 192pp B format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78125 956 6 eISBN: 978 1 78283 406 9 Philosophy October 2017 UK & C/Wealth exc Canada
MIHIR DESAI
The Wisdom of Finance Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return Putting the humanity back into finance through the prism of art, literature and film
Longlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Finance is shrouded in mystery for outsiders, while many insiders are uneasy with the disrepute of their profession. How can finance become more accessible and recover its nobility? Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai takes up the cause. He draws upon a rich knowledge of literature, film, history and philosophy to explain finance’s inner workings. This is a wholly unique book, offering an enlivening new perspective. £12.99 240pp B format hardback ISBN: 978 1 78816 004 9 eISBN: 978 1 78283 422 9 Business/Finance August 2017 UK & C/Wealth exc Canada 35
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Books published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health, life and our place in the world. www.wellcomecollection.org Twitter: @ExploreWellcome
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In Therapy The Unfolding Story In this complete and extended edition, world-renowned therapist Susie Orbach reveals what really goes on in therapy Worldwide, increasingly large numbers of people are seeing therapists on a regular basis. In the UK alone, 1.5 million people are in therapy. We go to address past traumas, to break patterns of behaviour, to confront eating disorders or addiction, to talk about relationships, or simply because we want to find out more about ourselves. Susie Orbach has been a psychotherapist for over forty years. Also a million-copy bestselling author, The New York Times called her the ‘most famous psychotherapist to have set up couch in Britain since Sigmund Freud’. Here, she reveals what goes on during therapy through a series of dramatised case studies. The improvised dialogue offers readers the experience of reading along with a session, while exploring what is going on behind each exchange between therapist and client, and offering her professional analysis and opinion. Insightful and honest about a process often necessarily shrouded in secrecy, In Therapy: The Unfolding Story is an essential read for those curious about, or considering entering, therapy. This complete and updated edition now has twice as many in-depth case studies, a new introduction and an updated afterword. £9.99 288pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 988 7 e-ISBN: 978 1 78283 431 1 Psychology/Self-Help January 2018 World All Languages Tr US
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THE VELOMINATI AND FRANK STRACK
The Hardmen Legends of the Cycling Gods Stories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules.
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Giro d’Italia The Story of the World’s Most Beautiful Bike Race The full, rich story of the legendary Giro d’Italia celebrated in all its kaleidoscopic glory.
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Anquetil, Alone The legend of Jacques Anquetil, controversial French cycling star of the 60s, told through the eyes of novelist and childhood fan Paul Fournel.
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We Do Things Differently The Outsiders Rebooting Our World Futurologist Mark Stevenson introduces the unlikely innovators breaking the rules to make our world better.
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EUGENIA CHENG
Beyond Infinity An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2017 ‘Beyond Infinity is witty, charming, and crystal clear. Eugenia Cheng’s enthusiasm and carefully chosen metaphors and analogies carry us effortlessly through the mathematical landscape of the infinite. A brilliant book!’ Ian Stewart, author of Calculating the Cosmos £8.99 304pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 286 4 eISBN: 978 1 78283 081 8 Mathematics March 2018 World ex USA, Can Exclusive Europe
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Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee? Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals ‘Highly recommended! Enormously fun, full of fascinating oddities and genuinely thought-provoking.’ Alex Boese, author of Elephants on Acid £8.99 288pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 574 2 eISBN: 978 1 78283 216 4 Popular Science April 2018 World All Languages
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ANNIE GRAY
The Greedy Queen Eating with Victoria Full of original research, Annie Gray’s first book considers Britain’s most iconic monarch from a new perspective, telling the history of British dining culture along the way.
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Night Trains The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper In journeys to Istanbul, Lisbon, Venice and elsewhere, bestselling author Andrew Martin recaptures the glamour and intrigue of the night train.
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Where the Line is Drawn Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine ‘Brilliantly evokes the Palestinian tragedy by way of a complex friendship. This is a fiercely intelligent and honest account.’ Ian McEwan
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FINBARR LIVESEY
From Global To Local The making of things and the end of globalisation Globalisation was once the vision of the future; not any more. How we make things is changing, and with it the world order.
£9.99 224pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 660 2 e-ISBN: 978 1 78283 260 7 Economics, Current Affairs May 2018 UK & C/Wealth exc Canada
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India: Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation The Relentless Invention of Modern India A compelling portrait of modern India – and where it should go next. £9.99 336pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 646 6 eISBN: 978 1 78283 253 9 Biography, Politics April 2018 UK & Commonwealth
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Mafia Life Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime A compelling new account of life inside the mafia from a leading expert in the field. £9.99 288pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 255 0 eISBN: 978 1 78283 055 9 Social History June 2018 World English Language 41
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MATTHEW ENGEL
That’s The Way It Crumbles The American Conquest of English Americanisms have been slyly coloring the English language for centuries, and this practice must stop. Period.
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SEAN MCMEEKIN
The Russian Revolution A New History The first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth century.
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Comparing Notes How We Make Sense of Music We are all instinctively musical. Why? And how does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn’t) music? Adam Ockelford has the answers.
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The Dawn of Christianity People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles Robert Knapp finds a new answer to the old question: why did Christianity take root and spread in the ancient Roman world?
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The Moor’s Last Stand How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End A thrilling account of the life of Spain’s last Moorish king and the ending of seven centuries of Spanish Islam.
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Imperial Triumph The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative.
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The Fate of the West The Battle to Save the World’s Most Successful Political Idea Liberal democracies of the West are in decline. A former editor of The Economist explains how they must change in order to recover and thrive. £9.99 272pp B format paperback ISBN: 978 1 78125 735 7 eISBN: 978 1 78283 299 7 Politics, Current Affairs April 2018 World ex Japan
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Megatech Technology in 2050 Taking the long view of the big technology trends that will shape our lives and the future of the planet in the decades ahead.
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The Economist Style Guide 12th Edition
An updated and refreshed edition of this bestselling guide to English usage.
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