Sarah Churchwell, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Key Features
• Makes the authoritative scholarly edition of The Great Gatsby available to general readers in a beautiful, celebratory, collectible version
• Debunks myths and clichés about the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby
• Full annotations identify literary works, songs, movie and stage stars, musical works, politicians, other public figures mentioned in the novel
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
About
The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical prose that revives a vanished world of glittering parties and vibrant jazz, where money and deceit walk hand in hand. Rich in humor, sharply observant of status and class, the book tells the story of Jay Gatsby’s efforts to keep his faith – in money, in love, in all the promises of America – amid the chaos and conflict of life on Long Island’s Gold Coast during the Roaring Twenties. This centennial edition presents the established version of the text in a collector’s volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations. The authoritative introduction examines persistent myths about Fitzgerald, his greatest work, and the age he embodies, while offering fresh ways of reading this iconic work.
About the Editors
James L. W. West, III
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. From 1994 to 2019, he was General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently completed in eighteen volumes (sixteen under his editorship). Professor West’s variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.
Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022), Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018), and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004).
American literature
9781009382465
Hardback
AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95
Published October 2024
Dr Linda Gask, University of Manchester
Key Features
• Grounded in the real-life experiences of women with whom readers will be able to identify
• Provides an informed, referenced, and balanced overview of what is happening to women’s mental health and what must change
• Written in an accessible, engaging, and readable style that includes reference to recent history, and literature as well as dealing with the complexity of mental health and illness
Out of Her Mind
How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change
Clinical Psychology
About
For centuries so called ‘difficult women’ have been labelled as ‘hysterical’ and ‘out of their minds’. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it’s ‘all in their heads’. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Drawing on the lived experiences of women, alongside expert commentators, recent history, current events, and her own personal and professional experience, Dr Linda Gask explores women’s mental healthcare today. In doing so she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women can’t all be out of their minds.
About the Author
Linda Gask is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Now retired, she has been the Royal College of Psychiatrists Presidential Lead for Primary Care and has written about her own experience of mental illness in two memoirs, The Other Side of Silence and Finding True North. A lifelong feminist, she has an international reputation in the fields of primary care mental health and doctor-patient communication and has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation.
Review
‘A psychiatrist’s clear, accessible feminist narrative of the mental health problems girls and women still face from childhood through to old age, pressured to care for others while not receiving proper care from the mental health system themselves. It reminded me of so many of the reasons why a feminist perspective helps us understand & live our lives.’
Maggie Gee - author of The Ice People, The White Family and The Red Children
9781009382205
Paperback
AUD $39.95 / NZD $43.95
Published February 2024
Robin Gregory, University of British Columbia
Brooke Moore, University of British Columbia
Key Features
• Provides guidance to parents, teachers, and coaches on when and how to support teenagers as they make both every day and once-in-a-lifetime choices
• Translates complex research findings into accessible, interesting advice for readers with no specialized training or academic background
• Presents friendly, engaging anecdotes and examples of the decision-making approach in action, encouraging readers to compare them to their own experiences
Sorting It Out Supporting Teenage Decision Making
About
Written for parents, teachers, and others who live or work with teenagers, this science-based guide describes how you can become a confident ‘decision mentor.’ Learn to support young people in making good decisions for themselves. Treating decision making as an essential and learnable skill, the six-step ‘Decision-Maker Moves’ highlight the power and promise of young people as they shape their lives through the options they choose. Stories, examples, and practical tips show how decisions can transform problems into opportunities. Each chapter provides common-sense advice on when and how to talk with teenagers as they weigh up the often-conflicting values, emotions, and trade-offs affecting their choices. We cannot provide young minds with all the answers, but we can help them as they navigate both life-changing and everyday decisions.
About the Authors
Robin Gregory
Robin Gregory is a parent and grandparent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Senior Research Scientist at Decision Research, Oregon. He helps families, communities, and governments worldwide address difficult decisions involving diverse perspectives, uncertainty, and tough trade-offs in ways that reflect and help achieve their values.
Brooke Moore
Brooke Moore is a parent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a District Principal in the Delta School District, British Columbia. Throughout these roles, both professional and personal, she is motivated by a vision where all young people can move into adulthood with dignity, purpose, and options, a phrase she learned through her work with the Network of Inquiry and Indigenous Education.
Developmental psychology
9781009568517
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Published November 2024
Simon Sharpe
Key Features
• A policy insider’s compelling views on science, economics, and diplomacy showing how changes in each could lead to faster progress in addressing climate change
• Goes against conventional wisdom and contradicts some mainstream narratives about climate change solutions, providing a fresh perspective and new ideas
• This new paperback edition includes a brand new chapter on how international cooperation on climate change can be reconciled with economic and geopolitical competition
Five Times Faster
Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change – Updated
Earth and environmental science
NEW in Paperback
About
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. This is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe. This edition has been brought upto-date throughout, and includes a new chapter on how international cooperation on climate change can be reconciled with economic and geopolitical competition. It also includes a response to the question the book has most often provoked: ‘How can I help?’
About the Author
Simon Sharpe is Managing Director of S-Curve Economics, and Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team. He designed and led flagship international campaigns of the UK’s Presidency of the UN climate change talks (COP26) in 2020–2021; worked as the head of private office to a minister of energy and climate change in the UK government; and has served on diplomatic postings in China and India. He has published influential academic papers and created groundbreaking international initiatives in climate change risk assessment, economics, policy, and diplomacy.
9781009440066
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Published March 2025
Mike Berners-Lee
Key Features
• Finds new angles on the biggest challenges of our time - the Polycrisis, of which climate change is one symptom – by standing further back, digging deeper, joining up the issues and learning from failure
• Tackles the root causes, rather than just the symptoms, of our climate and ecological emergency
• Empowering for anyone who has been feeling hopelessly small in the face of such huge global problems
• Packed full of perspective-forcing, jaw-dropping and illuminating diagrams
Earth and environmental science
About
We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution, inequality, and more. What, exactly, has been holding us back? Mike Berners-Lee looks at the challenge from new angles. He stands further back to gain perspective; he digs deeper under the surface to see the root causes; he joins up every element of the challenge; and he learns lessons from our failures of the past. He spells out why, if humanity is to thrive in the future, the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in our politics, our media, and our businesses. Anyone asking ‘what can each of us do right now to help?’ will find inspiration in this practical and important book.
About the Author
Mike Berners-Lee is a leading thinker, researcher, best-selling author and consultant on the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. About his first book – How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything (2010) – Bill Bryson wrote ‘I can’t remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating, useful and enjoyable all at the same time’. His book There Is No Planet B (2021), was described by the Financial Times as ‘a handbook for how humanity can thrive’. He founded and directs Small World Consulting, which helps organisations of every size and type to have a positive role in our world. Mike is a professor at Lancaster University, where his research includes emissions modelling, sustainable food systems and the impact of AI.
Discover There is No Planet B
9781108821575 | Paperback
AUD $21.95 / NZD $23.95
Published January 2021
9781009620215
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Published August 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University
Key Features
• Offers a definition of what manipulation is and why manipulation is bad
• Explains how manipulation reduces freedom and what we should do to reduce it
• Shows how governments, companies, and ordinary people should combat manipulation
Manipulation What
It Is, Why It’s Bad, What to Do About It
About
New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power - of freedom - through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy. In, Manipulation, nudge theory pioneer and New York Times bestselling author, Cass Sunstein, offers a new definition of manipulation for the digital age, explains why it is wrong; and shows what we can do about it. He reveals how manipulation compromises freedom and personal agency, while threatening to reduce our well-being; he explains the difference between manipulation and unobjectionable forms of influence, including ‘nudges’; and he lifts the lid on online manipulation and manipulation by artificial intelligence, algorithms, and generative AI, as well as threats posed by deepfakes, social media, and ‘dark patterns,’ which can trick people into giving up time and money. Drawing on decades of groundbreaking research in behavioral science, this landmark book outlines steps we can take to counteract manipulation in our daily lives and offers guidance to protect consumers, investors, and workers.
About the Author
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. The most cited law professor in the world, he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. During the Obama Administration, he served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including several New York Times bestsellers.
9781009200165 Hardback
AUD $49.95 / NZD $53.95
Published February 2024
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
Key Features
• Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets
• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life, and his continuing importance, studded as it is with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form
• Immersive: affords to its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
English literature
About
Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice – as if we have opened a letter from the poet himself – followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that missive touches. This gripping life traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.
About the Author
Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the first recipient in 2021 of the inaugural Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. He is in addition the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected
Review
‘This is the best short introduction to Byron available. Stauffer steers us through a tumultuous life with poise and expert authority. The letters provide vivid snapshots of Byron at key moments across three decades and the biography that emerges is deeply absorbing.’
Jane Stabler, Professor of Romantic Literature, University of St Andrews
9781009340373
Hardback
AUD $29.95 / NZD $32.95
Published September 2023
Stanley Wells,
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
What Was Shakespeare Really Like?
English literature
About
Key Features
• The question of what Shakespeare was actually like – what really made him tick –is one of the great mysteries of modern Shakespearean scholarship, now addressed head-on
• Can be read and enjoyed with anyone with the slightest interest in Shakespeare and his immense literary legacy of sonnets and plays
Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging study wrestles with fundamental debates concerning Shakespeare’s personality and life. The mysteries of how Shakespeare lived, whom and how he loved, how he worked, how he produced some of the greatest and most abidingly popular works in the history of world literature and drama, have fascinated readers for centuries. This concise, crystalline book conjures illuminating insights to reveal Shakespeare as he was. Wells brings the writer and dramatist alive, in all his fascinating humanity, for readers of today.
Review
‘It is, I think, incontestable to claim that no single person in history has done more for the study and appreciation of Shakespeare than Stanley Wells. This book asks four beguilingly simple questions which result in deeply fascinating and exciting journeys into Shakespeare’s mind and practice. As you read, you are very likely to exclaim, as I did, ‘Why the hell didn’t my English teacher talk like this? Actors, directors, producers, lecturers, teachers, students, and all who want to know and understand more will hug this book to them.’
Stephen Fry
9781009569316
Hardback
AUD $36.95 / NZD $39.95
Published March 2025
Janet Todd, University of Cambridge
Key Features
• Janet Todd is a leading critic of Jane Austen and this accessible book distils the ‘essence’ of her thinking into readable and concentrated form, which can be read by anyone with an interest in Austen
• Combines astute literary reflection with memoirs of a reading life
• Shows how Austen’s books remain surprisingly applicable to contemporary settings, exploring themes such as self-regard and the obsession with our bodies, English patriotism and the destructive march of tourism
Living with Jane Austen
About
Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that ‘we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be’. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen’s own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen’s 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how - for over half a century - Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life. Part personal memoir, part expert interaction with all the letters, manuscripts and published novels, Janet Todd’s book reveals what living with Jane Austen has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen’s work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.
About the Author
Janet Todd has been thinking and writing about books for more than half a century. She has been a biographer, novelist, critic, editor and memoirist. In the 1970s, she helped open up the study of early women writers by beginning a journal and compiling encyclopedias before editing the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn and Jane Austen.
Reviews
‘Intimate, knowledgeable and frequently unexpected, this is a book for all Jane Austen’s readers by one of the very best of those readers.’ Richard Cronin, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow
‘Sharing a mind is as exciting as sharing a bed. In this gentle, witty, semimemoir, Janet Todd reveals her eccentric encounters with books and shows us why the novels of Jane Austen should matter to all of us now.’ Miriam Margolyes
9781009012041
Paperback
AUD $34.95 / NZD $37.95
Published June 2025
Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
Key Features
• Covers the major, defining themes and trends of Brazilian history while presenting a host of unlikely, fascinating figures and lesser-known moments to readers
• Offers a deep understanding of the ways in which the legacy of three hundred years of slavery shaped and continues to shape Rio de Janeiro
• Ties together key innovations in art, literature, music, film, and television
Rio de Janeiro
Ten Moments that Shaped Series
History
About
What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in turn, mining their depths and drawing connections between artistic movements and political and economic transitions. The book explores the centrality of slavery to every aspect of life in nineteenth century Rio and its long legacy through to the current day, illuminating both the city’s grinding inequality and violence, as well as its triumphant cultural expressions. Rio de Janeiro is a unique and fascinating city, and through ten pivotal moments, McCann reveals its boundless creativity and contradictions, and shows how it has been continually remade by newcomers, strivers, and tricksters.
About the Author
Bryan McCann is a leading social and cultural historian of Brazil. He is the author of several books about the history of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular, including Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (2004) and Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (2014). He is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Georgetown University.
Review
‘A lucid tour de force, full of illuminating detours. This brilliant book captures the multi-faceted city for newcomers and invites seasoned experts to rediscover it.’
Bruno Carvalho, author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
9781009457156
Paperback
AUD $39.95 / NZD $43.95
Published August 2024
Robert Bartlett, University of St Andrews
Key Features
• Emphasizes the precariousness of our knowledge of the past
• Draws on detailed case studies from France, Ireland, Italy and Germany, between 1870 and 1944
• Highlights the importance of the efforts made to preserve and protect manuscript sources
History in Flames
The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
About
To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn’t occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing. This book examines the political and military events that preceded the moment of destruction, from the FrancoPrussian War and the Irish Civil War to the complexities of World War II; it analyses the material lost and how it came to be where it was. At the same time, it discusses the heroic efforts made by scholars and archivists to preserve these manuscripts, even partially. History in Flames reminds us that historical knowledge rests on material remains, and that these remains are vulnerable.
About the Author
Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History. He has written and presented three television series for the BBC, “Inside the Medieval Mind” (2008), ‘The Normans’ (2010), and ‘The Plantagenets’ (2014). History
9781009586573
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Published June 2025
Francis Young
Key Features
• The first book in English about the late survival of pre-Christian religion in northern and eastern Europe, even after the climacteric Battle of Grunwald in 1410
• Francis Young is an established and internationally acclaimed authority on the history of pre-Christian belief and the intersection between history and myth: both his previous CUP books were academic bestsellers
• Brings entirely new and surprising perspectives to the interpretation of pagan religions in Europe in the period post–1387
• The history of paganism is a subject of considerable appeal and fascination, to readers in several fields: history, religion, myth and folklore, and the history of ideas
Silence of the Gods
The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
History of religion
About
The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last ‘pagan’ peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around the dusky edgelands, pre-Christian religions endured and indeed continued to flourish for an astonishing five centuries. Silence of the Gods tells, for the first time, the remarkable story of these forgotten peoples: belated adopters of Christian belief on the outer periphery of Christendom, from the Sámi of the frozen north to the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians around the Baltic, as well as the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia’s Volga-Ural Plain. These communities, Dr Young reveals, responded creatively to Christianity’s challenge, but for centuries stopped short of embracing it. His book addresses why this was so, uncovering stories of fierce resistance, unlikely survival and considerable ingenuity. He revolutionises understandings of the lost religions of the last pagans.
About the Author
Francis Young grew up in Bury St Edmunds, England, and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. He has written over twenty books in the fields of folklore and the history of religion and supernatural belief, including Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic (2022), Magic in Merlin’s Realm (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Twilight of the Godlings (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His work has also appeared in History Today, BBC History Magazine and The Catholic Herald, as well as other periodicals. A regular podcaster, and broadcaster on BBC Radio, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a lay canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and teaches courses in religious history and folklore for the Department for Continuing Education in the University of Oxford.
9781108477352
Hardback
AUD $59.95 / NZD $64.95
Published May 2024
Sergey Radchenko, Johns Hopkins University
Key Features
• A sweeping new history of Soviet foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union which uncovers the inner workings of the Kremlin
• Reveals the role that political legitimacy, and the accompanying desire for recognition, played and continue to play in Soviet and Russian foreign policies
• Provides new insights into key episodes of the Cold War on the basis of previously unknown archival materials
To Run the World
The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
International history
About
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin’s decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin’s postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev’s reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev’s jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev’s failed attempts to reinvent Moscow’s claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.
About the Author
Sergey Radchenko
Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a historian of the Cold War, and an expert on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. Previous publications include Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia
Review
‘A tour de force. Based on a plethora of previously unmined Soviet (and Chinese) sources, To Run the World is thought-provoking, comprehensive narrative of the Soviet Union’s place and aspirations in the global Cold War.’
Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
9781009554114
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Published April 2025
Kate Loveman, University of Leicester
Key Features
• Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary
• Brings fresh understandings to the methods and motives behind the creation of this most famous of journals
• Offers new ways of reading the diary and new insights into what it can tell us about groups and people underrepresented in the historical records
• Shows that Pepys’s diary continues profoundly to influence how we understand the Restoration period, history, and the question of whose stories are worth telling
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
About
During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few people who can read Pepys’s shorthand – unlocks the riddles of the diary, investigating why he chose to preserve such private matters for later generations. She also casts fresh light on the women and sexual relationships in Pepys’s life and on Black Britons living in or near his household. Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys’s history became part of the history of the nation.
About the Author
Kate Loveman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester and an internationally recognized expert on Pepys and Restoration literature. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660–1703, and the editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys for Everyman.
9781108708449
Paperback
AUD $29.95 / NZD $32.95
Published April 2024
Dr. Eugenia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Joy of Abstraction
An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life
Mathematical sciences
About
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life – from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. The journey begins with the ideas and workings of abstract mathematics, after which you will gently climb toward more technical material, learning everything needed to understand category theory, and then key concepts in category theory like natural transformations, duality, and even a glimpse of ongoing research in higher-dimensional category theory. For fans of How to Bake Pi, this will help you dig deeper into mathematical concepts and build your mathematical background.
Key Features
• Demystifies mathematical thought processes, helping readers develop mathematical thinking even if they have no mathematical background
• Provides further insight into the mathematical concepts and examples presented in Cheng’s How to Bake Pi, gently building on those simple ideas to develop more formal mathematics
• Features examples from life, not just from other areas of mathematics, showing how math is relevant to social and political questions
About the Author
Eugenia Cheng
Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children’s books. She also writes the ‘Everyday Math’ column for the Wall Street Journal.
Enough Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer
Medicine
About
AUD $39.95 / NZD $43.95
Published January 2024
Dr Linda Eckert, University of Washington
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What’s more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that’s nearly 100% preventable. It’s no secret that healthcare is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs. But women’s health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention, Dr Linda Eckert takes her years of experience and weaves it together with the voices of the courageous women who use their own experience of cervical cancer to advocate for change. This heartbreaking, yet hopeful, book takes you through the world of cervical cancer with evidence-based information, personal stories and actionable outcomes. Society flourishes when women have access to safe and affordable healthcare. Together we can make this need 9781009412650
Key Features
• Written by Dr Linda Eckert, an expert in gynecology, immunization and cervical cancer, the book is grounded in her decades of experience working with women around the world. Information is evidence-based but accessible as she explores the reasons for such a persistently high death toll and the barriers to changing it
• Stories told by survivors or patients’ families paint a picture of the impact this deadly disease has on women and their communities. These powerful tales are both heartbreaking in their portrayal of loss, as well as passionate and optimistic in their advocacy for change
About the Author
Linda O. Eckert is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington and an internationally recognized expert in immunizations and cervical cancer prevention. For over thirty years, Dr Eckert has worked at Seattle’s Harborview Hospital, treating people from all around the world. Frequently in the spotlight for her expertise in HPV vaccinations and cervical cancer screenings, Dr Eckert is passionate in her drive to eliminate this deadly disease.
Review
‘Beautifully written, Enough is a searing call to arms, for too many women are dying of cervical cancer when we have the tools to save their lives. The unnecessary human cost of cervical cancer is a scandal, and one that Dr. Eckert is determined to fix.’
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times and co-author of Half the
9781108837293
Hardback
AUD $49.95 / NZD $53.95
Published June 2024
Brett L. Walker, Montana State University
Key Features
• Provides a unique perspective on World War II as it was experienced by individual sailors
• Shifts the history of World War II away from a traditional western narrative
• A naval history told by an experienced US Merchant Mariner with in-depth understanding of life at sea
Yukikaze’s War
The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific
Military history
About
Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze and her crew. By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial strategies, and toward the intricacies of fighting on the water, Walker allows us to see the war from Yukikaze’s bridge during the most harrowing battles, from Midway to Okinawa. Walker uncovers the ordinary sailor’s experience, and we see sailors fight while deep-running currents of Japanese history unfold before their war-weary eyes. As memories of World War II fade, Yukikaze’s story becomes ever more important, providing valuable lessons in our contemporary world of looming energy shortfalls, menacing climate uncertainties, and aggressive totalitarian regimes.
About the Author
Brett L. Walker is a historian of Japan, medicine, the environment and World War II, as well as an experienced captain.
Review
‘This lively tale is a classic strategy-and-battles military history, buttressed by keen insights into the role of technology, Japanese aesthetics, and brilliance wrapped in stupidity. Yukikaze was blessed with excellent leadership, brave, skilled sailors, and good fortune but while those qualities explain the ship’s rare survival through 1945, they could not compensate for the cascade of fundamentally reckless and callous decisions that characterized Imperial Japan’s war. The book reads like a romp but it is an elegy.’
Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Professor of History, Northwestern University
9781009161145
Hardback
AUD $69.95 / NZD $75.95
Published January 2024
Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School
Key Features
• Definitive new history of France at war showing how de Gaulle sought to forge a new French army, prevent the country falling into civil war and reassert French power on the world stage
• Goes beyond the binaries of resistance and collaboration to show French society as a whole experienced war, defeat, occupation and liberation
• Reveals how de Gaulle attempted to establish a triumphalist French “memory” of the war by emphasizing the role of resistance in France’s liberation while minimizing that of the Allies and the colonial forces of the l’Armée d’Afrique
Resistance and Liberation France
at War, 1942-1945
Military history
About
In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France’s memory of those traumatic years.
About the Author
Douglas Porch
Douglas Porch is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His previous books include Defeat and Division, France at War, 1939–1942 (2022) & Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (2013).
Review
‘Douglas Porch is a master storyteller: engrossing, enlightening and entertaining. He does full justice to an important dimension of the Second World War that is unfamiliar to many Anglophone readers.’ Richard Carswell, author of The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory
9781009548434
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Published January 2025
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge
Dr Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge
Key Features
• By creating good lifestyle habits, everyone can live a fuller life. While many focus their attention on their physical health throughout their life, they rarely consider improving their brain health which is every bit as important. This book presents clear guidance about how everyone can improve their cognition, resilience and wellbeing
• Provides evidence-based lifestyle factors that promote good brain health, cognition and wellbeing to be adopted early in life and to be maintained throughout, promoting a healthier, longer and happier life
Brain Boost
Healthy Habits for a Happier Life
Medicine
About
Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it’s vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. This book is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to implement lifestyle strategies that will improve your brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing. Covering the benefits of exercise, diet, sleep, social interactions, kindness, mindfulness, and learning, you will discover how adopting habits to improve these areas of your life at an early age will lead to a longer, healthier life. Embracing these simple strategies to prioritise your brain health and wellbeing is essential for a fulfilling life, with lifestyle choices playing a significant role in promoting resilience, creativity, and overall quality of life across all ages. For anyone seeking to lead a fulfilling life through happiness, health, and personal growth, this is the book for you.
About the Authors
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences and is one of the top female scientists in the world. She is the recipient of The Conversation’s Sir Paul Curran Award for 2023, and has written popular science books. Professor Sahakian is frequently interviewed on radio, newspapers and TV, including Netflix.
Dr
Christelle
Langley
Dr Christelle Langley is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. She has been involved in several high-impact studies and is gaining a national and international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.
Review
‘As modern medicine gives us longer, fuller lives it has never been more important to support our brain health. Barbara and Christelle have brilliantly distilled this complex science into easily achievable methods, therein providing readers the opportunity to maintain the best possible brain health.’
Lord Darzi of Denham, OM, KBE, PC, FRS, Imperial College London
9781009430050
Paperback
AUD $33.95 / NZD $36.95
Published March 2024
Daniel Gibbs, Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University
Key Features
• Presents a collection of essays which reflect on the lived experience of navigating Alzheimer’s Disease, combined with essays summarising new findings and how they shape our understanding of the disease
• Evidence-based strategies that may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain, particularly for those with a genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s
• An up-to-date explanation of where we stand in the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease
Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s
About
In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which he now knows to have been early signs of his Alzheimer’s Disease. Daniel still writes every day, something he credits with keeping his mind sharper and his demons at bay. This book is a personal collection of essays written over the past two years that describe his own personal experiences, first treating patients with Alzheimer’s, and now living with the disease himself. The book presents an up-to-date discussion of recent advances and setbacks in Alzheimer’s research. Humane and hopeful, this book offers evidence-based information on how it may be possible even now to slow progression of the disease.
About the Author
Daniel Gibbs is a retired general neurologist with mild Alzheimer’s dementia. He has written previously about his experiences as seen from two points of view, doctor and patient, in A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, Cambridge University Press, 2021 and 2023 (revised edition).
Discover A Tattoo on my Brain
9781009325189 | Paperback
AUD $19.95 / NZD $21.95
Published March 2023
9781009397384
Hardback
AUD $44.95 / NZD $48.95
Published February 2025
Bruno Maçães, Flint Global
World Builders
Technology and the New Geopolitics
Politics
About
World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology. Understood as ‘world building’, the most important events of our troubled times suddenly appear connected and their inner logic is revealed: technology wars between China and the United States, the pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the energy transition. To conclude, Maçães considers the more distant future, when the metaverse and artificial intelligence become the world, a world the great powers must struggle to build and control.
Key Features
• Identifies the full implications of technology for global politics
• Interprets the contemporary world through discussions of major global challenges including tech wars, the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate change
• An exciting and accessible writing style
About the Author
Bruno Maçães is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, where he advises some of the world’s leading companies on geopolitics and technology, as well as a columnist for the New Statesman. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was the Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal during the eurozone crisis. His books include The Dawn of Eurasia (2018), Belt and Road (2018), History Has Begun (2020) and, most recently, Geopolitics for the End Time (2021).
9781009158190
Paperback
AUD $30.95 / NZD $33.95
Published February 2025
Dr Marissa A. Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
Key Features
• Explores what motivates serial murderers and addresses why society is so fascinated by them
• Provides data-driven analysis and meticulously researched case studies to illustrate key psychological phenomena among female serial killers
• Compares the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, crimes, and victims, showing why female killers’ crimes often go undetected despite being just as heinous as those committed by males
Just as Deadly
The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
Psychology
About
You’ve heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. In this riveting account, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison draws on original scientific research, various psychological perspectives, and richly detailed case studies to illuminate the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, and crimes. She also emphasizes the countless victims of this grisly phenomenon to capture the complexity and tragedy of serial murder. Meticulously weaving data-based evidence and insight with intimate storytelling, Just as Deadly reveals how and why these women murder— and why they often get away with it.
About the Author
Dr. Marissa A. Harrison is a research psychologist, author, and associate professor at Penn State Harrisburg. Her studies on serial murder and human sexuality have been covered in popular media such as The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Time.
Review
‘Dr Harrison has clearly demonstrated her expertise on female serial killers. Her seminal work will stand the test of time, scrutiny, and reliability. Her scholarship, insightful analysis, and penchant for detail make this book the best on the market. Excellent reading for those interested in why and how women become serial killers.’
Eric W. Hickey, author of Serial Murderers and their Victims, 7th Edition
9781009228961
Paperback
AUD $31.95 / NZD $34.95
Published October 2024
Dr Charlotte Markey, University of Reading
Key Features
• Chapters include relatable and inspiring personal stories from real people that bring topics to life
• Q&A and myth-busting sections in each chapter provide easily accessible answers to common questions
• Based on scientific research, it offers evidence-based, reliable information at a time where there is so much misinformation about body image and other related issues like nutrition, eating disorders and mental health
Adultish
The Body Image Book for Life
Psychology
About
Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults. This all-inclusive book provides evidence-based information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. Packed with valuable features like Q&As, mythbusting, real-life stories, and expert advice, it is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you’re in.
About the Author
Dr Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image and eating behavior for over twenty-five years. Through all her roles as a scientist, teacher, writer, and parent she is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping others to develop a healthy body image.
Review
‘Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life is an excellent resource on body image for people of every age! Dr. Charlotte Markey has done a remarkable job of synthesizing research and connecting her readers to experts in the field, to create a very readable, understandable and thorough discussion of all topics on body image today. I am very grateful to Charlotte for bringing this must-read book into the world.’ Denise Hamburger - BE REAL Founder & Executive Director
9781108490931
Hardback
AUD $49.95 / NZD $53.95
Published October 2023
Jacob L. Wright, Emory University
Key Features
• Compellingly conveys why we are still reading the Bible – two millenia after it was written
• Interrogates why no other ancient society – Babylon, Assyria, and Rome – produced any comparable text
• Conveys a story of triumph over defeat and explains how the scribes who wrote the Bible inspired the creation of a nation
Why the Bible Began
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
Religion
About
Why did no other ancient society produce a text remotely like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community, could have produced a text so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable.For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged during Babylonian exile after the shattering destruction of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible turned to the golden ages of the past, reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible is a resonant blueprint for the inspiring creation of a nation. As a response to catastrophe, it offers a powerful, message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds.
Review
‘In this profoundly insightful book Wright demonstrates how ancient Israel and Judah developed the resources to construct a resilient nationhood not in spite of but, paradoxically, because of the experience of military defeat, economic devastation, and diaspora. No other kingdom of the ancient Near East was able to do so. Today, as so many communities, peoples and nations face similar critical threats to their existence, Wright’s book provides a fascinating and incisively argued case study of how one people drew upon its cultural resources not simply to survive but to generate a vibrantly creative intellectual and spiritual tradition.’
Carol
A. Newsom, C. H. Candler Professor Emerita of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Emory University
9781009256605
Hardback
AUD $39.95 / NZD $43.95
Published April 2024
Netta Weinstein, University of Reading
Heather Hansen, University of Reading
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen, Durham University
Key Features
• Showcases different perspectives, traditions, stories, and research methods on solitude from people around the world
• Explains how we can balance our social and solo needs
• Clearly defines ‘solitude’ and demonstrates how it plays a role in the move toward our best possible selves
• Explores a wide range of topics connected to solitude, including but not limited to: creativity, anxiety, authenticity, ageing, and emotional regulation
Solitude The Science and Power of Being Alone
Social psychology
About
The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotion regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. Learning what makes us better at spending time alone can help us move toward our best possible selves.
About the Authors
Netta Weinstein
Netta Weinstein is an internationally recognized psychologist and director of the European Research Council’s ‘Solitude: Alone but Resilient’ (SOAR) project. Her research focuses on motivation and well-being.
Heather Hansen
Heather Hansen is an independent science writer and author. She joined SOAR in 2020 to lend her expertise in interviewing and communication. She has won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Colorado Authors League.
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
Thuy-vy T. Nguyen is a pioneer and expert in studying solitude in laboratory experiments and investigating the factors that lead to different concepts of solitude.
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France at War, 1939–1942
Porch
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Mar 2012 | PB 9781107604667
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