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Contents The Body Image Book for Girls..................................... 4

Trump and Us................................................................ 41

Understanding Coronavirus.......................................... 6

Unending Capitalism..................................................... 42

Bread, Cement, Cactus.................................................. 8

Whitelash....................................................................... 43

There Is No Planet B – Revised Edition......................... 10

Williams’ Gang.............................................................. 44

Blood Royal.................................................................... 12

Colonialism in Global Perspective................................ 45

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare.................................... 13

Policing the Womb........................................................ 46

Boom and Bust.............................................................. 14

Abortion and the Law in America................................ 47

Learning from Loss........................................................ 15

Becoming Free, Becoming Black.................................. 48

Frame It Again............................................................... 16

Creating Equality at Home........................................... 49

Life after Privacy............................................................ 17

Dangerously Divided..................................................... 50

Pulp Vietnam................................................................. 18

Diagnosing from a Distance......................................... 51

The Origins of AIDS....................................................... 19

Give Yourself a Nudge.................................................. 52

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway................................ 20

Fighting the People’s War............................................ 53

Understanding Evolution.............................................. 21

LBJ’s 1968....................................................................... 54

The Biological Universe................................................. 22

My Opposition............................................................... 55

Feeding the People....................................................... 23

The Beats....................................................................... 56

Brexitland...................................................................... 24

Rogue Diplomats........................................................... 57

In the Know................................................................... 25 Leaders Who Lust.......................................................... 26

Retail and wholesale representatives.......................... 58

On Justice....................................................................... 27

Publicity......................................................................... 58

Brain Fables................................................................... 28

Customer Services.......................................................... 59

On the Offensive........................................................... 29

Cambridge University Press Around the World........... 59

Retooling Politics........................................................... 30 Seeking Virtue in Finance............................................. 31 Grow the Pie.................................................................. 32 Female Husbands.......................................................... 33 The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success........................ 34 A Century of Votes for Women.................................... 35 Outsiders at Home........................................................ 36 Giving the Devil his Due............................................... 37 Project Europe............................................................... 38 The Caravan................................................................... 39 The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook........................ 40

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The Body Image Book for Girls Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless Charlotte Markey

UK publication September 2020 US publication September 2020 180 pages 9781108718776 Paperback £9.99 / $14.95

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It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those body image worries be eased? Body image expert and psychology professor Dr Charlotte Markey helps girls aged 9-15 to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. She provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with social media, and everything in-between. Girls will find answers to questions they always wanted to ask, the truth behind many body image myths, and real-life stories from girls who share their own experiences. Through this easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated guide, Dr Markey teaches girls how to nurture both mental and physical heath to improve their own body image, shows the positive impact they can have on others, and enables them to go out into the world feeling fearless!

Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Health Sciences Center at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image, eating behaviour and weight management 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. Dr Markey is an experienced and talented author, with her first book Smart People Don’t Diet (2014) dubbed as ‘possibly the best book about weight loss ever written’ by Scientific American. Her research has gained widespread media attention, having been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, ABC News and Time.

At a glance • Provides accurate, evidence-based information about body image, healthy eating habits, mental health and self-care for tween- and teen-aged girls • Helps girls to understand and appreciate their bodies as they become women, and navigate their way through the inaccurate and unrealistic beauty ideals portrayed in the media • Encourages ways to take care of mental and physical heath to improve body image and overall wellbeing, and also shows girls the part they can play in helping others to develop a positive body image

Advance praise ‘Dr. Markey clearly knows how to motivate girls to rebel against harmful ideals and be more conscious, critical media consumers. Within the pages of this book, girls will find all the information they need to live more healthfully and happily.’

Lexie and Lindsay Kite, PhDs and co-founders of Beauty Redefined ‘Body image is on all girls’ minds and they need information on how to process it.

Dr. Markey discusses this issue in a positive, health-oriented, down-to-earth way that is appealing to girls. Finally we have an excellent resource to share with girls about their bodies. Every girl should read this book!’

Dr. Meghan Gillen, Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn State Abington ‘If you have a body, which I suspect you do, then you stand to learn something from The Body Image Book for Girls. Dr. Charlotte Markey expertly translates a complex body of scientific research into this accessible and beautifully illustrated book, interweaving the science of body image with the lived experiences of real girls. Although aimed at young girls, this book contains important practical tips for engaging in self-care, healthy eating, physical activity, and body positivity— things we could all use a bit more of.’

Dr. Jamie Dunaev, Rutgers University, Camden

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UNDERSTANDING

coronavirus

R AuL R ABADaN

UK publication July 2020 US publication July 2020 c. 130 pages 9781108826716 Paperback £9.99 / $11.99

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Understanding Coronavirus Raul Rabadan Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called ‘coronavirus’, officially named SARSCoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19. Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate sources of information, unfounded conspiracy theories on the origins of the newly emerging virus and the inconsistent public health measures across different countries, have all served to increase the level of anxiety in the population. Where did the virus come from? How is it transmitted? How does it cause disease? Is it like flu? What is a pandemic? What can we do to stop its spread? Written by a leading expert, this concise and accessible introduction provides answers to the most common questions surrounding coronavirus for a general audience.

Raul Rabadan is a Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University.

He is the director of the Program for Mathematical Genomics at Columbia University. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Rabadan was a fellow at the Theoretical Physics Division at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2003 he joined the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

He has been named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 (2010), a Stewart Trust Fellow (2013), and he received the Harold and Golden Lamport (2014), Diz Pintado (2018) and Phillip Sharp (2018) awards. Dr. Rabadan’s current interest focuses on uncovering patterns of evolution in biological systems – in particular, RNA viruses and cancer.

At a glance • Provides a thoughtful and balanced introduction to the coronavirus SARSCoV2 and the disease COVID-19 • Discusses the first cases, the clinical characteristics and the inconsistent public health measures adopted across different countries and regions and their impact • Includes coverage of testing, the immune response to the virus and the latest advances in the therapy development • Provides a comparison of the 2019 coronavirus pandemic with the 2003 SARS outbreak, as well as flu pandemics, including the 2018 Spanish flu and 2009 H1N1 • Discusses what data is available, what it means and what can be learnt from it

Advance praise ‘With all the technology and medical knowledge of the 21st century a pandemic virus has defeated us. This book tells us why and how that could happen and what we can do about it. And as a bonus we get a comparison with the 1918 pandemic Flu. All this wrapped up in a clear, understandable and interesting way.

We learn what is happening to us now and how to better prepare for the future.’

Arnold J. Levine, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey ‘An extremely concise and important book that everyone should read to understand the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.’

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Columbia University, and author of The Gene and The Emperor of All Maladies ‘Raul Rabadan has written an essential book for the first pandemic of the 21st century, COVID19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. It’s a wonderfully concise and accessible explanation of everything you want to know about the virus, the disease, and the outbreak. If you want to learn what is a coronavirus, how the outbreak started, what are the therapeutic options, and much more, I highly recommend this book.

Professor Rabadan explains viruses in a way that is accessible to all.’

Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University, New York

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UK publication July 2020 US publication July 2020 152 pages 9781108814638 Paperback £9.95 / $12.95

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Bread, Cement, Cactus A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation Annie Zaidi In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues.

Annie Zaidi is a freelance journalist and scriptwriter based in Mumbai, India, and was named by Elle magazine as one of the emerging South Asian writers ‘whose writing... will enrich South Asian literature’. Her first novel, Prelude to a Riot, was published in 2019. Other books include Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, a collection of essays based on her experiences as a reporter, which was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2010, and Love Stories # 1 to 14, a collection of short fiction published in 2012. She also edited the anthology Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing, published in 2015.

At a glance • 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize, for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues • A personal yet researched exploration of identity in the author’s India that will resonate with readers worldwide

Advance praise ‘Profound and deeply affecting, a beautifully written elegy on the power and consequence of memory and matters of identity, a work of universal interest’ Philippe Sands, author of East West Street and The Ratline ‘Annie Zaidi’s gripping memoir of her brave, persistent and poignant search for a place to call her own will ring many bells in many hearts. It is a timely account of the uprooting and alienation of a contemporary Indian woman who is one amongst a multitude of other minorities.’

Lord Meghnad Desai, Member of the House of Lords, and author of The Raisina Model: Indian Democracy At 70 and The Rediscovery of India ‘A wonderful book. A profound journey through memory, language, land and culture. Beautifully written, soberly devised, exquisitely sensitive to nuance.

It grapples with identity fractured, identity remade, identity reclaimed, and elevates memoir to a literary art form.’

Bidisha, journalist, broadcaster, film-maker, and author of Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices

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MIKE BERNERS-LEE

There Is No Planet B Revised Edition

final cover coming soon

UK publication October 2020 US publication October 2020 9781108821575 Paperback c. £9.99 / $12.95

There Is No Planet B – Revised Edition A Handbook for the Make or Break Years Mike Berners-Lee We have the chance to live better than ever. But, as humans become ever more powerful, can we avoid blundering into disaster?

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics – the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do?

Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable.

There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you’ll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think.

This book will shock you, surprise you – and then make you laugh.

And you’ll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet.

This completely updated edition of There Is No Planet B brings you even more handy tips on how to help combat the climate emergency. New to this edition are: • An expanded “What can I do?” section; • Extinction Rebellion, the school children marches, and the role of protest; • More for the business community on offsetting, Carbon net zero, and investing; • Pandemics and COVID-19; • Australian wildfires

Mike Berners-Lee thinks, writes, researches and consults on sustainability and responses to the challenges of the twentyfirst century. He is the founder of Small World Consulting (SWC), an associate company of Lancaster University, which works with organisations from small businesses to the biggest tech giants. SWC is a leader in the field of carbon metrics, targets and actions. His previous books include How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (2010) and The Burning Question: We Can’t Burn Half the World’s Oil, Coal, and Gas. So How Do We Quit? (2013, co-written with Duncan Clark). This book explores the big picture of climate change and the underlying global dynamics, asking what mix of politics, economics, psychology and technology is really required to deal with the problem. BernersLee is a professor in the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University, where he develops practical tools for thinking about the future, and researches the global food system and carbon metrics.

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At a glance • Provides the big picture on environmental issues, meeting the public’s yearning for perspective and clarity about what is going on • Offers a joined-up picture of how to improve humanity’s existence on Earth: science, technology, economics, values, politics and more are all considered together, providing a coherent response that one discipline at a time can’t give • Provides an essential guide for everyone, from the layperson to policy makers • Links the big picture to the practical, providing systemic understanding and guidance on what can be done, from governments down to personal actions • Updated with new material

Praise for previous edition ‘Who should read There is No Planet B? Everyone. Mike Berners-Lee has written a far-ranging and truth-telling handbook that is as readable as it is instructive.’

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker and author of The Sixth Extinction ‘This is a massively entertaining compendium of bite-sized facts … It’s also massively important, given the current state of the planet.’

Bill McKibben, author of Falter ‘… a lively and cogent assessment of what is happening to the Earth’s biosphere and resources. He tells us what we can do if we want to make a difference, and tread more softly on the planet. All citizens should be grateful for this information-packed and wide-ranging primer.’

Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

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Blood Royal Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe Robert Bartlett

BLOOD ROYAL DYNASTIC POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

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UK publication July 2020 US publication August 2020 636 pages 23 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables 9781108490672 Hardback £24.99 / $34.95

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How did dynasties use names, the numbering of rulers and the visual display of heraldry to express their identity? And why did some royal families survive and thrive, while others did not? Drawing on a rich and memorable body of sources, this engaging and original history of dynastic power in Latin Christendom and Byzantium explores the role played by family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of the royal and imperial dynasties of Europe. From royal marriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked uncles, Robert Bartlett makes enthralling sense of the complex web of internal rivalries and loyalties of the ruling dynasties and casts fresh light on an essential feature of the medieval world.

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 (1993), which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History in 1994, and Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? (2015). He is well-known as the writer and presenter of several BBC documentary series including Inside the Medieval Mind (2008), The Normans (2010), and The Plantagenets (2014).

Advance praise At a glance • Demonstrates the central importance of dynastic rule in the political cultures of medieval Europe • Covers the whole of Latin Christendom and Byzantium from 500 to 1500 • Featuring lots of colourful and surprising anecdotes and examples, this is a tour de force from a master historian

‘Integrating numerous translated quotes from key primary sources into a fluently written history, this wide-ranging, authoritative, and colourful overview will prove to be of enduring relevance, as a great story for the general reader and a treasure trove for researchers.’

Jeroen Duindam, author of Dynasties. A Global History of Power 1300-1800 ‘Blood Royal is a magisterial, comprehensive and imaginative exploration of dynastic principles and practices in medieval Europe, including the risks and perils of dynastic succession. It is chock full of wonderful anecdotes that enable the author’s analysis. No one can read it without marvelling at Bartlett’s erudition, precision of thought and limpid prose. Quite frankly, in terms of originality, there is no other book I know to rival it on any aspect of dynastic history.’

William Chester Jordan, author of The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX ‘Blood Royal is a tour de force. In dynastic politics, Bartlett has found a huge subject that has yet been little explored. He has researched it magisterially, ranging Europe-wide across vast numbers of sources in classical and vernacular European languages. No reader will finish Blood Royal without having got a feel for its author’s humanity, and an understanding of the imponderables, the risks, and the passions of his all too human subjects.’

Janet L. Nelson, author of King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare All the

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SHAKESPEAR E Edited by Paul Edmondson and

Stanley Wells ‘What a fresh and lovely idea! I’ve been speaking the sonnets for most of my life.

They are such wonderful training for an actor, and the notes and paraphrases in this book are just what we all need to guide us through them.’

JUDI DENCH

UK publication July 2020 US publication September 2020 208 pages 9781108490399 Hardback £12.99 / $17.95

Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare’s sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. Explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases of every poem and dramatic extract illuminate the meaning of these sometimes challenging but always deeply rewarding witnesses to Shakespeare’s inner life and professional expertise. Beautifully printed and elegantly presented, this volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.

Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of many books and articles about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile (2015), Twelfth Night (2005), The Shakespeare Cir­cle: An Alternative Biography (2015) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (2013) (both with Stanley Wells for Cambridge University Press).

Professor Sir Stanley Wells Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, is Honorary President at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. His many books include Shakespeare: For All Time (2002), Looking for Sex in Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare & Co. (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010) and Great Shakespeare Actors (2015).

At a glance

Advance praise

• A breath of fresh air which encourages readers to engage anew with Shakespeare as a writer in sonnet form

‘What a fresh and lovely idea! I’ve been speaking the sonnets for most of my life.

They are such wonderful training for an actor, and the notes and paraphrases in this book are just what we all need to guide us through them.’

• Encourages new insights into the relationship between Shakespeare’s life and work • Significantly enhances comprehension of these often difficult poems through easily intelligible summaries and paraphrases

Judi Dench ‘Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells have done something daring, controversial, and richly illuminating...To make these deeply familiar poems seem unexpected and new is a significant achievement.’

Stephen Green­blatt, Author of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics and The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

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William Quinn John D. Turner

Boom and Bust A Global History of Financial Bubbles William Quinn, John D. Turner

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

UK publication August 2020 US publication August 2020 310 pages 27 b/w illus. 13 tables 9781108421256 Hardback £18.99 / $24.95

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently?

In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.

William Quinn is a Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast, where he conducts research on market manipulation, stock markets and, above all, bubbles.

John D. Turner is a Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an editor of The Economic History Review. His book Banking in Crisis (2014) won the Wadsworth Prize in 2015.

Advance praise At a glance • Ranges across three hundred years of bubbles from the South Sea Bubble of 1720 to the subprime crisis and Chinese stock market crash • Provides tangible approaches that investors and governments can take to predict and address bubbles • Shows that not all bubbles are economically destructive and that some have actually benefited society

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‘Where do financial bubbles come from? Can - and should - policy makers always try to stop them? Can investors avoid them? Quinn and Turner take us on an informative, engaging tour of the last three hundred years of bubbles and, using history as their guide, provide intriguing answers.’

Richard S. Grossman, author of WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn From Them ‘Quinn and Turner argue that the essential elements of capital markets: money, credit and speculation are also the necessary ingredients of financial bubbles.

Can we have one without the other?’

William Goetzmann, author of Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

Learning from Loss The Democrats, 2016–2020 THE DEMOCRATS

2016-2020

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MASKET UK publication September 2020 US publication September 2020 9781108482127 Hardback £18.99 / $24.95

Seth Masket The Democrats’ decision to nominate Joe Biden for 2020 was hardly a fluke but rather a strategic choice by a party that had elevated electability above all other concerns. In Learning from Loss, one of the nation’s leading political analysts offers unique insight into the Democratic Party at a moment of uncertainty. Between 2017 and 2020, Seth Masket spoke with Democratic Party activists and followed the behavior of party leaders and donors to learn how the party was interpreting the 2016 election and thinking about a nominee for 2020. Masket traces the persistence of party factions and shows how interpretations of 2016 shaped strategic choices for 2020. Although diverse narratives emerged to explain defeat in 2016 – ranging from a focus on ‘identity politics’ to concerns about Clinton as a flawed candidate, these narratives collectively cleared the path for Biden.

Seth Masket s Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver. Masket writes regularly for Mischiefs of Faction and FiveThirtyEight. His work has also appeared in Politico, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage. He is the author of The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How They Weaken Democracy (2016) and No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures (2009).

At a glance • Unique insight into a key period in the history of the Democratic Party and a time of transition and uncertainty for the broader American party system from one of the country’s leading analysts • Draws on deep research conducted from 2017-2020, including extensive interviews and follow-ups with Democratic activists and analysis of fundraising, endorsements, public opinion, and media coverage • Evaluates the salience and consequences of the narratives that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because of ‘identity politics’ and/ or because she was a woman • Draws lessons from American history and political science research

Advance praise ‘Seth Masket has written an engaging, illuminating and thought-provoking book, one that adeptly combines broad theoretical sweep with fine granular detail.

This rigorous and original study sheds valuable light on timely—and timeless— debates in American politics.’

Molly Ball, TIME national political correspondent and author of PELOSI ‘Seth Masket revisits The Party Decides with a fascinating and persuasive analysis of the 2016 and 2020 presidential nominations. This book will quickly become the go-to source for understanding when and how parties succeed or fail in choosing their presidential nominees.’

Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, co-author of One Nation After Trump and Its Even Worse Than It Looks ‘Seth Masket has written a timely and important book on what was perhaps the most central question of the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Why did 2016 turn out the way that it did? That question has dominated commentary for four years, but Masket focuses on it from a particularly important perspective: Why do Democrats think that Democrats lost a race that they thought they could win?’

Hans Noel, Georgetown University, author of Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America and co-author of The Party Decides

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JOSÉ LUIS BERMÚDEZ

FRAME IT AGAIN NEW TOOLS FOR R ATIONAL DECISION-MAKING

Frame It Again New Tools for Rational Decision-Making José Luis Bermúdez Framing effects are everywhere. An estate tax looks very different to a death tax. Gun safety seems to be one thing and gun control another. Yet, the consensus from decision theorists, finance professionals, psychologists, and economists is that frame-dependence is completely irrational. This book challenges that view. Some of the toughest decisions we face are just clashes between different frames. It is perfectly rational to value the same thing differently in two different frames, even when the decision-maker knows that these are really two sides of the same coin. Frame It Again sheds new light on the structure of moral predicaments, the nature of self-control, and the rationality of co-operation. Framing is a powerful tool for redirecting public discussions about some of the most polarizing contemporary issues, such as gun control, abortion, and climate change. Learn effective problemsolving and decision-making to get the better of difficult dilemmas.

UK publication October 2020 US publication October 2020 240 pages 9781107192935 Hardback £18.99 / $24.99

At a glance • Presents a controversial and important central claim: framing effects can be tools for rational problem-solving • Shows how rational frames can help solve practical dilemmas in personal and social life • Develop a new framework for thinking about internal and collective conflicts • Discusses a wide range of examples from contemporary life, the history of literature, philosophy, and psychology • Explains all the theoretical concepts and important experiments without jargon and using the author’s trademark clarity

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José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy and Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. His many books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, Thinking without Words, and the highly successful textbook Cognitive Science, now in its third edition.

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Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail ourselves of new technology, and granting the government and corporations immense power over us. In this highly original work, Firmin DeBrabander begins with this premise and asks how we can ensure and protect our freedom in the absence of privacy. Can – and should – we rally anew to support this institution? Is privacy so important to political liberty after all? DeBrabander makes the case that privacy is a poor foundation for democracy, that it is a relatively new value that has been rarely enjoyed throughout history – but constantly persecuted – and politically and philosophically suspect. The vitality of the public realm, he argues, is far more significant to the health of our democracy, but is equally endangered – and often overlooked – in the digital age.

Firmin DeBrabander is Professor of Philosophy, Maryland Institute College of Art. He has written commentary pieces for a number of national publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, LA Times, Salon, Aeon, Chicago Tribune, and The New Republic. Professor DeBrabander is the author of Do Guns Make us Free? (2015), a philosophical and political critique of the guns rights movement.

At a glance • Provides an interdisciplinary analysis, drawing upon academic fields including philosophy, politics, media studies, law, and history • Examines the peculiarities of online behavior and explains how our interaction with digital media facilitates the surrender of privacy • Questions both the historical and philosophical identity of privacy

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GREGORY A. DADDIS

PULP VIETNAM WA R A N D G E N D E R I N C O L D WA R M E N ’ S A DVENTUR E M AGA Z I NE S

UK publication September 2020 US publication September 2020 c. 360 pages 9781108493505 Hardback c. £26.95 / c. 29.95

At a glance • Explores the possible connection between representations of masculinity in men’s adventure magazines in the1950s and ‘60s and sexual violence committed

by US soldiers in Vietnam • Relevant to current discussions of sexual harassment and assault in today’s military and to toxic masculinity in society at large.

• Daddis is both a historian and a retired US Army colonel, having served in both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.

• Features nearly sixty images from the pulps to illustrate how the ideal man was depicted as both heroic warrior and sexual conqueror

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Pulp Vietnam War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Gregory A. Daddis In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men’s adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The ‘macho pulps’ - boasting titles like Man’s Conquest, Battle Cry, and Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies in battle, while women were reduced to sexual objects, either trivialized as erotic trophies or depicted as sexualized villains using their bodies to prey on unsuspecting, innocent men. The result was the crafting and dissemination of a particular version of martial masculinity that helped establish GIs’ expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam. By examining the role that popular culture can play in normalizing wartime sexual violence and challenging readers to consider how American society should move beyond pulp conceptions of ‘normal’ male behavior, Daddis convincingly argues that how we construct popular tales of masculinity matters in both peace and war.

Gregory A. Daddis is a professor of history and the USS Midway Chair in Modern U.S. Military History at San Diego State University. A retired U.S. Army colonel, he has served in both Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. He has authored four books, including Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam (2017).

The Origins of AIDS JACQUES PÉPIN

The Origins of AIDS 2nd Edition

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UK publication November 2020 US publication November 2020 c. 310 pages 9781108720397 Paperback £19.99 / $27.95

2nd Edition Jacques Pépin It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital of Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical campaigns intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.

Jacques Pépin is Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. He has conducted research on infectious diseases in sixteen African countries.

Reviews for the first edition ‘Reviews for the first edition ‘A remarkable feat (...) works out the most likely path the virus took during the years it left almost no tracks’.

The New York Times

At a glance • This revised and updated edition incorporates nearly a decade’s worth of new research on AIDS. • Offers a unique combination of epidemiology and history in tracing the origins and amplification of AIDS within African and then worldwide.

• Explains the complex routes of the virus and how the extension of World War I to Africa might have allowed HIV to make its fateful journey from Southeast Cameroon to Léopoldville.

‘Extensively referenced, [this] well-written book reads like a detective story, while at the same time providing a didactic introduction to epidemiology and evolutionary genetics. As far as the origins of AIDS are concerned, unless some completely new evidence emerges, it will be difficult to come up with a better explanation than Pepin’s.’

Science ‘This is scientific history at its most compelling ... He writes with grace and feeling, and makes accessible the scientific and clinical issues. Above all, he comes across as a humane and caring doctor. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the scourge that has defined our times.’

Times Literary Supplement

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THE LETTERS OF

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents in rich and lively detail the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923–1925) illuminates Hemingway’s literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s that he would epitomize for posterity. We witness the development of his friendships and associations with Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, and John Dos Passos. Striving to “make it new,” he emerges from the tutelage of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein to forge a new style, gaining recognition as one of the most formidable talents of his generation.

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UK publication July 2020 US publication June 2020 840 pages 16 b/w illus.

9780521897372 Hardback £29.99 / $39.95

At a glance • Volume 5 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from January 1932 to May 1934 • Of the 392 letters, some eightyfive percent are appearing in print for the first time • Features a scholarly introduction, extensive annotations and editorial apparatus which includes a roster of correspondents, a chronology of the artist’s life to reveal his relationships and activities, and maps of the far-flung places that figure in his letters of this period • Contains over forty images including Hemingway’s own drawings and contemporary advertisements as well as photographs and facsimiles of letters

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Hemingway’s first two books are published by small avant-garde presses in Paris, and his groundbreaking story collection In Our Time (1925) is published in New York. And he discovers a lifelong passion for Spain and the bullfight, quickly transforming his experiences into fiction as The Sun Also Rises (1926). The volume features many previously unpublished letters and a humorous sketch on bullfighting that he sent to Vanity Fair in 1924 and that was promptly rejected.

The letters testify to his love for his wife Hadley and their son Bumby, and they hint at his growing attraction to Pauline Pfeiffer, who would become his second wife.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. During this intensely active period, Hemingway hunts in Arkansas and Wyoming, fishes the waters off Key West and Cuba, revisits Madrid and Paris, and undertakes a long-anticipated African safari. He witnesses transitions at home and abroad: the deepening Great Depression, Prohibition-era rumrunning, revolution in Cuba, and political unrest in Spain. His readership and celebrity continue to expand as he begins writing for the new men’s magazine Esquire. As the volume ends, Hemingway has just acquired his beloved boat, Pilar. The letters detail these events as well as his relationships with his family, friends, publishers, critics and literary contemporaries including editor Maxwell Perkins, Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together the letters paint an intimate self-portrait of this multi-faceted, self-confident, energetic artist in his prime.

Sandra Spanier, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and co-editor of the first four volumes. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015), Process: A Novel by Kay Boyle (2001) and Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles’s rediscovered play, Love Goes to Press (1995; revised edition 2010).

Miriam B. Mandel, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Culture at Tel Aviv University, served as Associate Editor of earlier volumes and co-editor of the fourth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995, re-issued 2011), Hemingway’s ‘Death in the Afternoon’: The Complete Annotations (2008), and Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations (2008).

UNDERSTANDING

Evolution

KOSTAS KAMPOUR AKIS

UK publication August 2020 US publication September 2020 300 pages 7 tables 9781108746083 Paperback £11.99 / $14.99

Understanding Evolution Kostas Kampourakis Why do the debates about evolution persist, despite the plentiful evidence for it? Breaking down the notion that public resistance to evolution is strictly due to its perceived conflict with religion, this concise book shows that evolution is in fact a counterintuitive idea that is difficult to understand. Kostas Kampourakis, an experienced science educator, takes an insightful, interdisciplinary approach, providing an introduction to evolutionary theory written with clarity and thoughtful reasoning. Topics discussed include evolution in the public sphere, evolution and religion, the conceptual obstacles to understanding evolution, the development of Darwin’s theory, the most important evolutionary concepts, as well as evolution and the nature of science. Understanding Evolution presents evolutionary theory with a lucidity and vision that readers will quickly appreciate, and is intended for anyone wanting an accessible and concise guide to evolution.

Kostas Kampourakis is the author and editor of books about evolution, genetics, philosophy, and history of science, and the editor of the Cambridge book series Understanding Life. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science and Education, and two other science education book series. He is currently a researcher at the University of Geneva, where he also teaches at the Section of Biology and the University Institute for Teacher Education.

At a glance • Provides a thoughtful, balanced and sensitive introduction to the major conceptual obstacles to understanding evolutionary biology • Combines simple thoughtexperiments with actual examples, enabling the reader to engage with evolutionary concepts themselves • Contains clear illustrations to help the reader understand research conclusions, processes and concepts

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THE BIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE LIFE IN THE MILKY WAY AND BEYOND

WALLACE ARTHUR UK publication September 2020 US publication November 2020 300 pages 21 b/w illus.

9781108836944 Hardback £19.99 / $24.99

At a glance • Estimates the likely extent of the Biological Universe (all life-forms everywhere) • Paints a broad-brush picture of the current state of knowledge about exoplanets and the possible existence of life on many of them; and provides a series of key hypotheses about such life • Discusses current and planned space telescopes that will lead to discoveries in the next couple of decades

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The Biological Universe Life in the Milky Way and Beyond Wallace Arthur Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms ‘out there’? This is one of the most scientifically and philosophically important questions that humanity can ask. Now, in the early 2020s, we are tantalizingly close to an answer. As this book shows, the answer will almost certainly be that life forms are to be found across the Milky Way and beyond. They will be thinly spread, to be sure. Yet the number of inhabited planets probably runs into the trillions. Some are close enough for us to detect evidence of life by analysing their atmospheres. This evidence may be found within a couple of decades. Its arrival will be momentous.

But even before it arrives we can anticipate what life elsewhere will be like by examining the ecology and evolution of life on Earth. This book considers the current state of play in relation to these titanic issues.

Wallace Arthur is an evolutionary biologist who is fascinated by the possibility of evolution occurring on other planets. His first book on this subject was Life through Time and Space (2017), of which the Astronomer Royal Sir Arnold Wolfendale said: ‘brilliant and thought-provoking in every way’.

Feeding the People The Politics of the Potato Rebecca Earle Potatoes are the world’s fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato’s global history reveals the ways in which our ideas about eating are entangled with the emergence of capitalism and its celebration of the free market. It also reminds us that ordinary people make history in ways that continue to shape our lives. Feeding the People tells the story of how eating became part of statecraft, and provides a new account of the global spread of one of the world’s most successful foods.

UK publication June 2020 US publication June 2020 228 x 152 x 22mm (HxWxD) 0.580kg 308 pages 33 b/w illus.

9781108484060 Hardback £17.99 / $24.95

Rebecca Earle teaches history at the University of Warwick. Her publications include The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (2012) and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810–1930 (2007). She has also edited a cookery book.

Advance praise ‘In following the global travels of the peripatetic potato, Earle brilliantly illuminates both the origins of dietary advice that promised the key to happiness and the everyday ingenuity of farmers and cooks who really do feed the people.’

Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food

At a glance • Offers a fresh account of how a plant that in 1500 was eaten by less than 5% of the world’s population is now the fourth most important global food crop • Places food (and especially potatoes) at the heart of the profound transformations that have created the world we live in today

‘If they’re delicious when you choose to eat them, but penitentially bland when you’re told you have to, you may be eating potatoes, which, as Rebecca Earle argues in her brilliant study of the shape-shifting tubers, provided the first taste of the tension between personal freedom and public well-being within the modern state.’

Joyce E. Chaplin, author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

• Demonstrates the central role played by ordinary people in shaping how we eat today and the historical importance of mundane activities (such as eating) and ordinary things (such as potatoes)

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Brexitland MARIA SOBOLEWSKA ROBERT FORD

Brexitland Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics

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UK publication September 2020 US publication September 2020 240 pages 9781108461900 Paperback £15.99 / $19.99

Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics Maria Sobolewska, Robert Ford Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union, culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in which we live.

Maria Sobolewska FRSA is a Professor of Political Science, and Deputy Director of the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, at the University of Manchester, and a Specialist Adviser to a House of Lords Select Committee on electoral registration. She is co-author of The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain (2013).

Robert Ford FRSA is Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester.

He is an expert on immigration, public opinion, and party politics in Britain.

His first book, Revolt on the Right (2013), was named Political Book of the Year in 2015. He writes regularly on British electoral politics for national and international media outlets.

At a glance • An accessible account of the political history and social trends that led to Brexit • Provides a detailed worked analysis of how identity conflicts have influenced party competition in Britain • Extends the analysis of the 2016 referendum to the wider electoral context

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In the Know RUSSELL T. WARNE

In the Know Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence final cover coming soon

UK publication October 2020 US publication October 2020 c. 440 pages 9781108717816 Paperback £29.99 / $37.99

Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence Russell T. Warne Emotional intelligence is an important trait for success at work. IQ tests are biased against minorities. Every child is gifted. Preschool makes children smarter.

Western understandings of intelligence are inappropriate for other cultures.

These are some of the statements about intelligence that are common in the media and in popular culture. But none of them are true. In the Know is a tour of the most common incorrect beliefs about intelligence and IQ. Written in a fantastically engaging way, each chapter is dedicated to correcting a misconception and explains the real science behind intelligence. Controversies related to IQ will wither away in the face of the facts, leaving readers with a clear understanding about the truth of intelligence.

Russell T. Warne is Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah Valley University, and an educational psychologist. He is the author of the successful textbook for undergraduates Statistics for the Social Sciences (Cambridge, 2018).

Advance praise ‘If I was King of the World, everyone would have to read this book. Those in the social sciences and education would have to read it twice. In the course of debunking myths, readers incidentally learn the truth about human intelligence.

Even those who know intelligence research thoroughly will find this book worthwhile.’

Douglas K. Detterman, Louis D. Beaumont University Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University

At a glance • Highlights the severe mismatch between popular beliefs about intelligence/IQ and the scientific research on the topic • Gives non-experts a firm understanding of intelligence • Shows how the willingness of people to deny the existence of intelligence and/or its importance in everyday life is harmful • Outlines why intelligence matters and the importance of acknowledging IQ differences

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Leaders Who Lust BARBARA KELLERMAN TODD L. PITTINSKY

Leaders Who Lust Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy final cover coming soon

UK publication December 2020 US publication December 2020 9781108491167 Hardback £18.99 / $29.95

At a glance • Exposes the various and variegated lusts that drive some of the world’s greatest leaders • Reveals the links between leadership and lust • Explores the inextricable ties between leaders who lust and their followers - some willing, some unwilling • Tells tales of leaders who lust - from Xi Jinping to Hillary Clinton, from Silvio Berlusconi to Tom Brady, and from Charles Koch to Melinda Gates • Highlights the real-world implications for the followers of lustful leaders - for individuals and institutions, for policies and practices, for groups and organizations worldwide

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Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy Barbara Kellerman, Todd L. Pittinsky Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given the impact of leaders who lust, is essential to extract. This book identifies six types of lust with which leaders are linked: 1. Power: the ceaseless craving to control. 2. Money: the limitless desire to accrue great wealth. 3. Sex: the constant hunt for sexual gratification. 4. Success: the unstoppable need to achieve. 5. Legitimacy: the tireless claim to identity and equity. 6. Legacy: the endless quest to leave a permanent imprint. Each of the core chapters focuses on different lusts and features a cast of characters who bring lust to life. In the real world leaders who lust can and often do have an enduring impact.

This book therefore is counterintuitive - it focuses not on moderation, but on immoderation.

Barbara Kellerman is James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, USA, and Founding Executive Director of the school’s Center for Public Leadership. She is the winner of the International Leadership Association Lifetime Achievement Award and has authored or edited many books and articles on leadership and followership.

Todd L. Pittinsky is Professor at Stony Brook University (SUNY), USA, and Faculty Director of its College of Leadership and Service. He is also Associate Faculty Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, USA. Previously, he served on the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education.

On Justice Philosophy, History, Foundations M AT H I A S R I S S E

ON JUSTICE Philosophy, History, Foundations

UK publication September 2020 US publication September 2020 c. 440 pages 9781108481977 Hardback £29.99 / $39.99

Mathias Risse Though much attention has been paid to different principles of justice, far less has been done reflecting on what the larger concern behind the notion is. In this work, Mathias Risse proposes that the perennial quest for justice is about ensuring that each individual has an appropriate place in what our uniquely human capacities permit us to build, produce, and maintain, and is appropriately respected for the capacity to hold such a place to begin with. Risse begins by investigating the role of political philosophers and exploring how to think about the global context where philosophical inquiry occurs. Next, he offers a quasihistorical narrative about how the notion of distributive justice identifies a genuinely human concern that arises independently of cultural context and has developed into the one we should adopt now. Finally, he investigates the core terms of this view, including stringency, moral value, ground and duties of justice.

Mathias Risse is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade, and immigration to climate change and the future of technology. He has also worked on issues in ethics, decision theory, and 19th century German philosophy. Risse is the author of On Global Justice, Global Political Philosophy, and On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal (with Gabriel Wollner).

At a glance • Provides a comprehensive look at the work of political philosophers • Will appeal to readers with questions about justice that go beyond narrow conceptions of the term • Reflects on how ideas of justice are produced and connected to power

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Alberto Espay • Benjamin Stecher

Brain Fables The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them Alberto Espay, Benjamin Stecher

THE HIDDE N HISTORY OF N E U RODEGE N E R ATIVE DIS E A S ES AND A BLUEPRINT TO CONQUER THEM

UK publication June 2020 US publication July 2020 c. 180 pages 9781108744621 Paperback £14.99 / $19.99

At a glance • The combined narrative of an acclaimed neurodegenerative disease researcher and an expert patient advocate ensures this never-before-told important story appeals to both professional and lay audiences with an interest in brain health • Lived-experience commentary from a patient living with Parkinson’s provides an insight into the uncertainty and lack of information after a diagnosis, and offers reassurance to other patients about what lies ahead • A wakeup call to the scientific community and society, the authors present evidence-based arguments on how and why we must reimagine and treat neurodegenerative diseases in a convincing and engaging narrative

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An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050. Despite decades of research and billions in funding, there are no medications that can slow, much less stop, the progress of these diseases. The time to rethink degenerative brain disorders has come.

With no biological boundaries between neurodegenerative diseases, illnesses such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s result from a large spectrum of biological abnormalities, hampering effective treatment. Acclaimed neurologist Dr Alberto Espay and Parkinson’s advocate Benjamin Stecher present compelling evidence that these diseases should be targeted according to genetic and molecular signatures rather than clinical diagnoses. There is no Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, simply people with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. An incredibly important story never before told, Brain Fables is a wakeup call to the scientific community and society, explaining why we have no effective disease-modifying treatments, and how we can get back on track.

Alberto Espay is Professor of Neurology and Endowed Chair of the University of Cincinnati James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research articles and leads the first phenotype-agnostic biomarker development program (CCBP), designed to deploy bioassays aiming at matching available therapies with those most likely to benefit, regardless of their clinical diagnosis.

Benjamin Stecher was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease aged 29 and has since become actively involved in Parkinson’s Disease research and advocacy.

He is the founder of Tomorrow Edition, where he has interviewed close to 80 experts in Parkinson’s disease, and he sits on several patient advisory boards.

He now speaks and consults regularly at academic labs, biotech companies and pharmaceutical giants working to bring better therapies for people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

On the Offensive KAREN STOLLZNOW

On the Offensive Prejudice in Language Past and Present final cover coming soon

Prejudice in Language Past and Present Karen Stollznow I’m not a racist, but... You look good, for your age... She was asking for it...

You’re crazy... That’s so gay... Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other –isms) that hide in our everyday discourse. This book sheds light on the derogatory phrases, insults, slurs, stereotypes, tropes and more that make up linguistic discrimination. Each chapter addresses a different area of prejudice: race and ethnicity; gender identity; sexuality; religion; health and disability; physical appearance; and age. Drawing on hot button topics and reallife case studies, and delving into the history of offensive terms, a vivid picture of modern discrimination in language emerges. By identifying offensive language, both overt and hidden, past and present, we uncover vast amounts about our own attitudes, beliefs and values and reveal exactly how and why words can offend.

UK publication October 2020 US publication October 2020 c. 330 pages 9781108791786 Paperback c. £11.99 / c. 15.95

Karen Stollznow is an Australian-American linguist and author. She is a Researcher at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and was formerly a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic (2014), Would You Believe It? (2017) and God Bless America (2013). Karen is a host of the popular science podcast Monster Talk.

Advance praise At a glance • Covering racism to ageism, gender bias to religious intolerance, the book provides an overview of discriminatory language both past and present

‘I don’t think there is any more difficult topic in present-day language study than the vocabulary of offence. Karen Stollznow has done us all a great service in bringing together the largest collection of usages I have ever seen, in all the main areas of linguistic prejudice, and treating them in an enlightened, informative, and sensitive manner. It will help anyone who has ever offended others or been offended by a use of language – which means all of us.’

David Crystal, University of Wales

• Uses highly topical and thoughtprovoking examples, to analyze how and why language can offend • Enables the reader to evaluate and engage with their own language use, suggesting ways in which we can be more inclusive in the terms we choose to use

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UK publication June 2020 US publication July 2020 350 pages 9781108419406 Hardback £26.99 / $34.99

Andreas Jungherr is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Konstanz. His research addresses strategic adaptation to digital technology by organizations, political actors, and citizens in international comparison; he also focuses on harnessing the potential of computational social science. He is author of the books Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data and Das Internet in Wahlkämpfen (with Harald Schoen).

Gonzalo Rivero is a research data scientist at the Statistics and Evaluation Sciences Unit at Westat. His research focuses on political representation, electoral behavior, and quantitative methods for public opinion research.

At a glance • Detailed examples - including the Arab Spring, Barack Obama, Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump - illustrate the uses and effects of digital media • Takes a broad, interdisciplinary view, examining long-term trends as well as recent events • Uses a consistent interpretative framework to analyze the impact of digital media in politics

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Daniel Gayo-Avello is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Oviedo. His main area of interest is Web Mining with a focus on social media. He has published in venues such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Internet Computing, and IEEE Multimedia. He co-edited a special issue of Internet Research on the predictive power of social media, and contributed a chapter on Political Opinion to the book Twitter: A Digital Socioscope.

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Seeking Virtue in Finance Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry JC de Swaan Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for a generational shift in how the finance industry operates and is perceived. J.C. de Swaan seeks to channel the forces of well-intentioned finance professionals to improve finance from within and help restore its focus on serving society.

Drawing from inspiring individuals in the field, de Swaan proposes a framework for pursuing a viable career in finance while benefiting society and upholding humanistic values. In doing so, he challenges traditional concepts of success in the industry. This will also engage readers outside of finance who are concerned about the industry’s impact on society.

JC de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Bendheim Center for Finance, and a partner at Cornwall Capital, a New York-based investment fund. He also teaches at the University of Cambridge and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

At a glance • Challenges traditional concepts of success in finance and business more broadly.

• Counters the narrative of badly behaving, self-serving finance professionals by shining a light on inspiring individuals in the industry.

• Will appeal to those who either contemplate working in the finance industry or currently work in it and are concerned about being corrupted by the industry • Suggests a path to help improve finance from within and restore its focus on serving society

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‘Edmans’s superb book makes the case, compellingly and comprehensively, for a radical rethink of how companies operate, and indeed why they exist.

PIE How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

ALEX EDMANS

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What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it’s one that sacrifices profit for social outcomes.

But while it’s crucial for companies to serve society, they also have a duty to generate profit for investors – savers, retirees and pension funds. Based on the highest-quality evidence and real-life examples spanning industries and countries, Alex Edmans shows that it’s not an either-or choice – companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don’t target profit directly, but are driven by purpose – the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment. The book explains how to embed purpose into practice so that it’s more than just a mission statement, and discusses the critical role of working collaboratively with a company’s investors, employees and customers.

Rigorous research also uncovers surprising results on how executive pay, shareholder activism and share buybacks can be used for the common good.

How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit Alex Edmans What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it’s one that sacrifices profit for social outcomes. But while it’s crucial for companies to serve society, they also have a duty to generate profit for investors - savers, retirees, and pension funds. Based on the highest-quality evidence and real-life examples spanning industries and countries, Alex Edmans shows that it’s not an either-or choice - companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don’t target profit directly, but are driven by purpose - the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment. The book explains how to embed purpose into practice so that it’s more than just a mission statement, and discusses the critical role of working collaboratively with a company’s investors, employees, and customers. Rigorous research also uncovers surprising results on how executive pay, shareholder activism, and share buybacks can be used for the common good.

UK publication March 2020 US publication April 2020 228 x 152 x 27mm (HxWxD) 0.660kg 382 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 table 9781108494854 Hardback £18.99 / $24.95

At a glance • Business has lost the public’s trust. Citizens are calling for crackdowns against business, viewing it as the enemy, and voting for populist leaders. But this book shows how companies can be a force for good - and how to reform them so that this becomes a reality • Many managers run their business primarily for profit.

While most companies have CSR departments, they’re often ancillary and disconnected from the core business. This book shows how a purpose-driven approach not only serves society, but also makes businesses more profitable in the long-term • Executive pay, shareholder activism, and share buybacks are hugely unpopular. But they’re also hugely misportrayed. This book uses the highest-quality evidence to uncover surprising results - in particular, how they can be used to serve wider society rather than only the elites

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Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School and a leading authority on reforming business to serve the common good – but using solutions based on rigorous evidence and recognising the importance of both investors and stakeholders. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, presented to the World Bank Board of Directors as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series, and given the TED talk ‘What to Trust in a Post-Truth World’ and the TEDx talk ‘The Social Responsibility of Business’. He also serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, London, where he gave a public lecture series on ‘How Business Can Better Serve Society’.

He has published in all the leading academic finance journals, written for the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and appeared live on Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ITV, and Sky News.

Praise ‘I do not know whether capitalism is in crisis. But I do know Alex Edmans’ superb book makes the case, compellingly and comprehensively, for a radical rethink of how companies operate and indeed why they exist. It is the definitive account of the analytical case for responsible business, but is at the same time practical and grounded in real business experience. It is a tour de force.’

Andy Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England ‘This is an original and important book that will help transform how business sees itself - and how we see busi­ness...Read it: it will challenge how you think.’

Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford and Observer columnist ‘Politicians are calling for large companies to be regulated or split up. In this compelling book Alex Edmans argues that there is indeed a problem with corporate behavior but that the solution may be simpler: change corporate purpose so that companies focus on growing the pie rather than grabbing more of it. Edmans’s arguments are a powerful and persuasive antidote to much of the conventional wisdom about the corporate world.’

Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics

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Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the complex history of the LGBTQ past.

United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women’s rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of ‘female husband’ in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past. weaves the story of their lives in relation

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UK publication March 2020 US publication March 2020 Jen Manion is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College, Massachusetts, the author of Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015), and a lifelong LGBTQ rights advocate.

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At a glance • Charts the rise and fall of female husbands from the 1740s to the 1910s in a clear and accessible way • Reveals key turning points in the history of gender and sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom • Draws on a diverse source base that includes all references to female husbands in US and British print culture

Praise ‘... fascinating ... extremely thought-provoking.’

Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times ‘In this painstakingly researched study, Jen Manion opens a window into a previously unseen dimension of the British and American past. Female Husbands explores the lives of people who transed gender, lived as men, and married women between the colonial period and World War I, situating them in the context of broader political and social developments including changing understandings of gender and women’s rights. The book is a stunning and path breaking achievement.’

Drew Faust, President Emeritus and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University, Massachusetts ‘Female Husbands combines intellectual rigor and impeccable historical research with sensitivity and even imagination to illuminate this fascinatingly varied cohort of gender rebels.’

Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Akin

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At a glance • Draws on the latest research to suggest achievable changes we can all make to help prevent climate catastrophe • Empowers climate-concerned citizens to distinguish effective from ineffective actions and policies • Uses interesting and humourous examples to make a lighthearted but essential read

The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress Mark Jaccard Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rather than feeling paralyzed and pursuing ineffective efforts, we can all make a few key changes in our lifestyles to reduce emissions, to contribute to the urgently needed affordable energy transition in developed and developing countries. More importantly, Jaccard shows how to distinguish climate-sincere from insincere politicians and increase the chance of electing and sustaining these leaders in power. In combining the personal and the political, The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success offers a clear and simple strategic path to solving the greatest problem of our times.

A professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Jaccard has a Ph.D. in economics from Université de Grenoble. He has helped many governments with climate-energy policy, including serving on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the 1990s, he chaired British Columbia’s utilities commission and in the 2000s he helped design its famous carbon tax, clean electricity standard and other climateenergy policies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his research, and a frequent media presence in Canada and the US. His book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels (Cambridge, 2005), won the Donner Prize. His efforts on the climate challenge range from testifying before the US Congress and the European Commission to being arrested for blocking a coal train, as he explains in this book.

Praise ‘I cannot think of another book that covers this ground. Mark Jaccard has done a huge service, helping to lay out the vexed ground of climate information, disinformation, and conflicting conclusions. In doing so, he helps pave the way for a meaningful conversation on effective solutions to the climate crisis. This is a must-read and must-teach book.’

Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, and author of Why Trust Science?

‘There could not be a more timely guide to taking effective climate action.’

Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers ‘A refreshingly peppy writer ... Jaccard is persuasive.’

Pilita Clark, Financial Times

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UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 18mm (HxWxD) 0.480kg 330 pages 90 b/w illus.

9781316638071 Paperback £18.99 / $24.99

At a glance • Offers the first comprehensive analysis of women’s voting behavior over the last 100 years • Places women’s electoral behavior within changing political, economic, and social contexts to show both how women were shaped by their times and how popular understandings of women shaped campaigns and contemporary analysis • Debunks popular and scholarly myths about women voters to show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’

How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women’s (and men’s) voting behavior, and traces how women’s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular.

Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.

Christina Wolbrecht is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She is author of the award-winning books Counting Women’s Ballots (with J. Kevin Corder, Cambridge, 2016) and The Politics of Women’s Rights (2000).

J. Kevin Corder is Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University. His books include Counting Women’s Ballots (with Christina Wolbrecht, Cambridge, 2016), which received the 2017 Victoria Schuck Award, and The Fed and the Credit Crisis (2012).

Praise ‘Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder have provided a remarkable and fitting tribute to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Their unprecedented, comprehensive, analytic overview of women’s voting behavior is an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and citizens interested in understanding the important and changing roles women voters have played in our elections over time.’

Susan Carroll, Rutgers University, New Jersey ‘Wolbrecht and Corder offer an examination of the consequences of Women’s Suffrage that fundamentally changes how we think about this question. The hallmarks of their approach to scholarship - deep and thoughtful embedding in existing literature on voting and vote choice, constant and careful engagement with context, continual and detailed and precise attention to what data of what quality were available for previous analyses - give this book the powerful counterfactuals that drive their fascinating analyzes.’

Nancy Burns, University of Michigan

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Outsiders at Home The Politics of American Islamophobia Nazita Lajevardi Discrimination against Muslim Americans has soared over the last two decades with hostility growing especially acute since 2016 - in no small part due to targeted attacks by policymakers and media. Outsiders at Home offers the first systematic, empirically driven examination of status of Muslim Americans in US democracy, evaluating the topic from a variety of perspectives. To what extent do Muslim Americans face discrimination by legislators, the media, and the general public? What trends do we see over time, and how have conditions shifted?

What, if anything, can be done to reverse course? How do Muslim Americans view their position, and what are the psychic and sociopolitical tolls? Answering each of these questions, Nazita Lajevardi shows that the rampant, mostly negative discussion of Muslims in media and national discourse has yielded devastating political and social consequences.

UK publication June 2020 US publication May 2020 304 pages 9781108749503 Paperback £18.99 / $24.99

Nazita Lajevardi is an attorney and political scientist based at Michigan State University. Her research has been featured in outlets including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Huffington Post.

Praise At a glance • Assesses the status of Muslim Americans in US democracy from a variety of perspectives considering political elites, mass attitudes, and media - to provide a comprehensive picture that is empirically grounded • Tracks trends over time, providing a pre-9/11 baseline to show that the current situation developed rapidly and continues to deteriorate • Shows the extent to which the media is responsible for negative public attitudes • Opens a new course of study, bringing to bear insights from the race and politics literature

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‘Outsiders at Home is a deep and expansive investigation into the nature of US Islamophobia. At the heart of this book is a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of an incredible variety of sources that help us to understand public attitudes toward Muslims. At the same time, Lajevardi’s book, including her attention to the perceptions of Muslims related to discrimination and hostility, is a poignant reflection on the nature of belonging in the United States.’

Janelle Wong, University of Maryland ‘An outstanding and comprehensive treatment of the discrimination and racialization of Muslim Americans today. Lajevardi illustrates with sophisticated empirical data and methodologies the ways in which Muslim Americans are discriminated against by society, elected officials and the media. She also demonstrates the consequences of this racialization and discrimination on Muslim Americans. It’s a must read!’

Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Princeton University ‘This urgent book constitutes a powerful, landmark study of the status of Muslims within the American political system. Innovative theory and remarkable empirical data underpin Lajevardi’s exploration of widespread discrimination and exclusion in the United States.’

Dalia Mogahed, co-author of Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think

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Giving the Devil his Due

Who is the “Devil”? And what is he due?

The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety’s sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn’t you be censored?

If we put barriers up to silence “unpleasant” ideas, what’s to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the devil his due.

Reflections of a Scientific Humanist Michael Shermer Who is the ‘Devil’? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety’s sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn’t you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence ‘unpleasant’ ideas, what’s to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.

The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.

Michael Shermer is Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, California, the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the host of the Science Salon podcast, and for eighteen years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of a number of New York Times bestselling books including Heavens on Earth (2018), The Moral Arc (2015), The Believing Brain (2011), and Why People Believe Weird Things (2000). His two TED talks, viewed over nine million times, were voted into the top 100 out of more than 2,000 TED talks.

Praise At a glance • Outlines a ten-point defence of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture • Presents numerous real-world examples of how science and reason can be employed for solving moral dilemmas and determining human values • Supplies many examples of heretics and heterodox thinkers, who challenged the orthodoxy and were punished for it, and how we should think about people whose claims challenge mainstream ideas today

‘Michael Shermer is our most fearless explorer of alternative, crackpot, and dangerous ideas, and at the same time one of our most powerful voices for science, sanity, and humane values. In this engrossing collection, Shermer shows why these missions are consistent: it’s the searchlight of reason that best exposes errors and evil.’

Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now ‘This is a rather difficult book for me to blurb, given that an entire chapter is devoted to criticizing my claims about pragmatic truth vis-à-vis scientific truth.

However, Dr. Michael Shermer is a very clear thinker, and the kind of skeptic that is always necessary to ensure that public thought, scientific and otherwise, maintains a certain clarity...Despite our disagreements, this is a necessary book for our times. Read it. And thank God and the powers that be that you have the right to do so.’

Jordan B. Peterson, University of Toronto, and author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos ‘Michael Shermer is a fearless defender of free speech, open inquiry, and freedom of thought and conscience, including - and especially - for those with whom he disagrees. Giving the Devil His Due is one of the strongest bulwarks against the tyranny of censorship that I have read.’

Nadine Strossen, New York University, former President of the ACLU, and author of Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship

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How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people’s lives – not just in the member states, but also beyond? Did the predecessors of today’s EU really create peace after the Second World War, as is often argued? How about its contribution to creating prosperity? What was the role of citizens in this process, and can the EU justifiably claim to be a ‘community of values’? Kiran Klaus Patel’s bracing look back at the myths and realities of integration challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Euro‑sceptics alike and shows that the future of Project Europe will depend on the lessons that Europeans derive from its past.

A History

Kiran Klaus Patel

A HISTORY

UK publication April 2020 US publication May 2020 228 x 152 x 25mm (HxWxD) 0.680kg 388 pages 11 b/w illus. 4 maps 6 tables 9781108494960 Hardback £19.99 / $26.95

Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bureaucratic monster eroding national sovereignty: at best wasteful, at worst dangerous.

How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people’s lives - not just in the member states, but also beyond? Did the predecessors of today’s EU really create peace after World War II, as is often argued? How about its contribution to creating prosperity? What was the role of citizens in this process, and can the EU justifiably claim to be a ‘community of values’? Kiran Klaus Patel’s bracing look back at the myths and realities of integration challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike and shows that the future of Project Europe will depend on the lessons that Europeans derive from its past.

Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European History at Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität Munchen. His previous publications include The New Deal: A Global History (2016) which was co-winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize.

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At a glance • Provides an ambitious and innovative analysis of the impact of European integration on peoples’ lives • Assesses each of the core dimensions associated with European integration on a chapter-by-chapter basis to offer fresh insights on the EU’s strengths and weaknesses • Discusses technical issues regarding European integration in an accessible way to make the topic more appealing to a broader audience

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‘Confused about the EU? How it has morphed through seventy years of committees, changing names and structures, accessions of new members, successive treaties, evolving capacities, and its current existential tensions? Kiran Klaus Patel’s Project Europe is the essential institutional history and user’s manual for making it as clear as it can ever be.’

Charles S. Maier, author of Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging ‘Project Europe is a fascinating reflection on themes in the history of the European Community. It is authoritative, insightful, entertaining, thought provoking, original, and highly readable. The acuity of Patel’s approach to the subject leaps out of every page.’

Desmond Dinan, author of Europe Recast: A History of European Union

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THE CARAVAN

THE CARAVAN ABDALLAH AZZAM AND THE RISE OF GLOBAL JIHAD

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The Caravan

Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement.

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Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad

Peshawar in Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologues of all time.

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Thomas Hegghammer

Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam’s extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his

Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, which suggests that jihadism went global for Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologues of all time. fundamentally local reasons.

Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam’s extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons. time and frequented princes, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression

Thomas Hegghammer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Universitetet i Oslo. Trained in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and Sciences Po, Paris, he is the author of the prize-winning book Jihad in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge, 2010) and is the editor of Jihadi Culture (Cambridge, 2017). He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Middle East, including interviews with former militants, and he has testified on jihadism in front of the US Congress and the British Parliament.

Praise ‘Meticulously researched, this reads like a Graham Greene thriller – only it’s true.’

At a glance

James L. Gelvin

• Tells the entertaining story of Azzam’s extremely eventful life, culminating in his extremely mysterious death

‘Thomas Hegghammer’s long-awaited biography of Abdallah Azzam turns out to be more than an interesting account of his life. It is about the rise of global jihadism, an entirely new phenomenon in the 20th century. Azzam’s role cannot be fully appreciated without this valuable book.’

• Explains why the jihadi movement went international in the 1980s, improving our understanding about this ideology and the people behind it

Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

• Revises early history of al-Qaida through the use of previously untapped primary sources

‘The Caravan makes a number of very useful historical arguments with powerful resonance today.’

The Guardian ‘...meticulous and vivid.’

Times Literary Supplement

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“Overthrowing all of modern cosmology isn’t easy, but it could happen. Maybe you will be the one to do it! If you’re up for the challenge, Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis tell you exactly what you have to accomplish. Even if you don’t topple the stodgy edifice of modern science, you’ll certainly learn some exciting things about the universe along the way.”

Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

(Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)

“If you are looking for a fun rendezvous with the universe, this is the book for you! Barnes and Lewis help you understand the basics of cosmology with simplicity and clarity – quite a feat given the complexity of our universe.”

Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis

Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

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UK publication March 2020 US publication March 2020 216 x 138 x 19mm (HxWxD) 0.470kg 286 pages 36 b/w illus.

9781108486705 Hardback £17.99 / $22.95

At a glance • Presents a unique angle on cosmology - a toolkit for bringing down established cosmological theories, for wouldbe revolutionaries • Addresses alternative theories to the big bang and the latest observational evidence that needs to be accounted for • An accessible, non-mathematical introduction as to why cosmologists believe the things they do, and how scientific theories get accepted or discarded

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang?

Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the Big Bang, this handbook gives you ‘just the facts’: the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories. While the Big Bang holds the attention of scientists, it isn’t perfect. The authors pull back the curtains, and show how cosmology really works. With this, you will know your enemy, cosmic revolutionary - arm yourself for the scientific arena where ideas must fight for survival! This uniquely-framed tour of modern cosmology gives a deeper understanding of the inner workings of this fascinating field. The portrait painted is realistic and raw, not idealized and airbrushed - it is science in all its messy detail, which doesn’t pretend to have all the answers.

Luke A. Barnes is a postdoctoral researcher at Western Sydney University.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, before undertaking Ph.D. research at the University of Cambridge. The focus of his research has been the cosmic evolution of matter, and he has published papers in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, and on the fine-tuning of the Universe for life. He returned to the University of Sydney in 2008 as a Super Science Fellow, before being awarded a prestigious Templeton Fellowship to expand his research on the physics of fine-tuning of the laws of physics for complexity and ultimately life.

Geraint F. Lewis is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. The focus of his research is cosmology and the dark side of the universe, namely the dark matter and dark energy that dominate cosmological evolution. He currently is Deputy Director of the Sydney Informatics Hub, developing the infrastructure and knowledge-base to support big data, informatics, deep learning and artificial intelligence at the University of Sydney.

Praise ‘If you are looking for a fun rendezvous with the universe, this is the book for you! Barnes and Lewis help you understand the basics of cosmology with simplicity and clarity - quite a feat given the complexity of our universe.’

Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos ‘... a great starting point for budding astronomers or cosmologists who want to be able to ‘debunk’ would-be revolutionaries - or answer the ‘but how do we know ...’ they’re likely to get asked.’

Chris North, BBC Sky at Night

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Trump and Us What He Says and Why People Listen Roderick P. Hart

WHAT HE SAYS AND WHY PEOPLE LISTEN

RODERICK P. HART

UK publication March 2020 US publication February 2020 228 x 152 x 17mm (HxWxD) 0.460kg 280 pages 9 b/w illus. 26 tables 9781108796415 Paperback £18.99 / $24.99

Why did 62 million Americans vote for Donald Trump? Trump and Us offers a fresh perspective on this question, taking seriously the depth and breadth of Trump’s support. An expert in political language, Roderick P. Hart turns to Trump’s words, voters’ remarks, and media commentary for insight. The book offers the first systematic rhetorical analysis of Trump’s 2016 campaign and early presidency, using text analysis and archives of earlier presidential campaigns to uncover deep emotional undercurrents in the country and provide historical comparison. Trump and Us pays close attention to the emotional dimensions of politics, above and beyond cognition and ideology. Hart argues it was not partisanship, policy, or economic factors that landed Trump in the Oval Office but rather how Trump made people feel.

Roderick P. Hart holds the Shivers Chair in Communication and is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. Former dean of the Moody College of Communication and founding director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, Hart is the author or editor of fifteen books, most recently Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive (2018).

Praise At a glance • Pays attention to the emotional dimensions of politics, above and beyond politics’ cognitive and ideological aspects • Presents a vast array of data pertaining to the 2016 election and the resulting Trump presidency, using human and computerized text analysis of Trump’s words, voters’ remarks, and media commentary, as well as text archives of past presidential campaigns for historical comparison

‘Roderick Hart casts a sharp eye on a divided America in the era of President Trump. He is unsparing in his assessment of the president but doesn’t stop there.

His insights into the gulf between the president’s advocates and detractors, and what each could learn from the other, plus his analysis of the relationship between Trump and the media, add significantly to this work.’

Dan Balz, Washington Post ‘Trump and Us is a paradigm-shifting work that clearly illuminates why and how Donald Trump has been able to win over so many average Americans. Hart assembles a wide range of compelling evidence to demonstrate that Trump, with his one-of-a-kind populism, has crafted a message predicated upon stories that tap into strong emotional undercurrents. Meticulously researched, keenly argued, highly objective, and written in vivid prose, this book is a must-read for all who seek to understand the Trump phenomenon.’

Diana Owen, Georgetown University

• Listens carefully to those who support Donald Trump, a constituency that is often ignored, misunderstood, or reviled

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Karl Gerth UK publication May 2020 US publication July 2020 382 pages 9780521688468 Paperback £18.99 / $24.99

What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949–1976) down to the present.

Through topics related to state attempts to manage what people began to desire - wristwatches and bicycles, films and fashion, leisure travel and Mao badges Gerth challenges fundamental assumptions about capitalism, communism, and countries conventionally labeled as socialist. In so doing, his provocative history of China suggests how larger forces related to the desire for mass-produced consumer goods reshaped the twentieth-century world and remade people’s lives.

Karl Gerth is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds the Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies. His earlier books are As China Goes, So Goes the World (2010) and China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation (2003).

Praise

At a glance • Challenges conventional histories of capitalism and consumerism • Presents a provocative new interpretation of China - and the world - in the Mao era • Provides fresh, engaging material to explain complex concepts and topics

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‘A brilliantly researched and analysed account of consumerism during the Mao era. It richly documents the survival of consumer impulses and behaviour amid the puritanical ideology of the early People’s Republic. This is a crucial book for understanding the social, economic and political history of the Mao era, and the tensions and tragedies resulting from the Communist Party’s state capitalism.’

Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History ‘Hugely stimulating and deeply researched, this book shows just how important material possessions and desires were in Mao’s China. Essential reading for anyone who is trying to understand how consumption became as powerful as it is.’

Frank Trentmann, author of Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

“Smith offers new and creative legal arguments to protect voters from political candidates who use racism and racial stereotyping.”

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Terry Smith If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything, it’s that many voters discriminate on the basis of race, which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections, should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared 2016 portended.

Terry Smith has spent twenty-five years teaching at national law schools, most recently as a Distinguished Research Professor. His legal scholarship has been cited by federal courts, and he is the author of the book Barack Obama, Post-racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation (2012).

Praise

At a glance • Examines racist voting patterns in the 2016 US presidential election and shows the potential impact of similar patterns for 2020 and beyond • Uses analogies to antidiscrimination law in employment and jury-selection contexts to show how racist election results can be invalidated in the future

‘In Whitelash, Professor Terry Smith’s clearly written and cogently argued book, he offers new and creative legal arguments of how to use the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause to protect voters from political candidates who use racism and racial stereotyping to advance their policies or sway a citizen’s vote. He wants to make it illegal to do so.’

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr ‘Whitelash is a boldly imaginative and insightful book. Terry Smith reveals how racial resentments lead white voters to support candidates who corrupt the ideals of democratic and inclusive citizenship...Whitelash is both an accurate description of, and a remedial prescription for, the racist nightmares that plague the nation.’

George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

• Redefines the meaning of the right to vote

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WILLIAMS’ GANG

WILLIAMS’ GANG

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UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 30mm (HxWxD) 0.820kg 482 pages 9 b/w illus. 5 maps 3 tables 9781108493031 Hardback £22 / $29.95

Williams’ Gang

William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, D.C., known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children for more than twenty

A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts

years. His slave-trading activities took an extraordinary turn in 1840 when he purchased twenty-seven enslaved convicts out of the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond with the understanding that he carry them

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William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children for more than twenty years. His slave trading activities took an extraordinary turn data, Williams’ Gang examines slave criminality, coastwisewhen domestic slavehe purchased twenty-seven enslaved convicts from the Virginia in the 1840 trade, and southern jurisprudence as State Penitentiary in Richmond with the understanding that he could carry it supplies a compelling portrait of the economy, society, and politics of the them outside of the United States for sale. When Williams conveyed his captives Old South. illegally into New Orleans, allegedly while en route to the foreign country of Texas, he prompted a series of courtroom dramas that would last for almost three decades. Based on court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, and penitentiary data, Williams’ Gang examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and southern jurisprudence as it supplies a compelling portrait of the economy, society, and politics of the Old South. court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, and penitentiary

Jeff Forret is Professor of History at Lamar University, Texas. He won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South (2015) and has authored Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (2006), among other works.

Praise At a glance • Provides the first study of a shipment of convict slaves, delving into previously unexplored legal issues surrounding the slave trade • Offers a comprehensive portrait of the Antebellum era by situating the slave trade within the economy, society, and politics of the time • Draws on a variety of resources, including court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers’ accounts, and penitentiary data

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‘... meticulously researched and superbly crafted ... This is a vivid and absorbing account of the exploitation of human beings whose suffering meant profit for others, all of which is part of our nation’s history.’

Roger Bishop, BookPage ‘An expert autopsy of crime and punishment in the Old South with striking relevance for today. Leading historian of Southern history Jeff Forret meticulously narrates the ordeals of twenty-seven Black Virginians, whose enslavement was compounded by convictions and whose transport to Louisiana at the hands of a Washington, DC slave trader led to a dozen years each in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Forret shows the guts of a horrific injustice that supports ongoing structural violence against African Americans.’

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UK publication May 2020 US publication June 2020 296 pages 9781108441360 Paperback £18.99 / $24.99

Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and creative responses and resistances by colonized peoples. This book describes some of the most salient political, social, and cultural constellations of our present times across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. By exploring the dissimilar, yet entwined, histories of conquest, settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire, Manjapra exposes the enduring role of colonial force and freedom struggle in the making of our modern world.

Kris Manjapra is Associate Professor of History and founding Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism (2009) and Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (2014), and editor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (with Sugata Bose, 2010).

Praise At a glance • Introduces interlocking histories and dynamics of colonialism and its contestation - Reveals the entangled legacies of settler colonialism, racial slavery, and empire across Asia through to the present day - Communicates the research of expansive and interdisciplinary fields of study in a clear and accessible way

‘If I had to choose one book to explain the development of the modern world, this would be it. Kris Manjapra’s devastating treatise goes to the heart of the matter, proving that colonialism - with its racist logics and drive for war and wealth - and the struggles against it, are what makes the world go round. A genuine tour de force.’

Robin D. G. Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles ‘Kris Manjapra’s global history of colonialism turns the most complex scholarship on colonial experience into a lucid and enjoyable narrative. He shows how legacies of colonialism in race relations and unequal economic structures still shape the most crucial issues of today, and demonstrates how a renewal of global humanities is needed to face these problems.’

Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies.

Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies.

The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip, with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement.

Often the women most affected are poor and of color. Goodwin warns, however, poor women are simply the canaries in the coal mine, as some legislators now claim that women’s constitutional rights equal those of embryos and fetuses. In this timely book, Michele Goodwin brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s reproduction has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for pregnant women.

Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Michele Goodwin

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UK publication March 2020 US publication March 2020 228 x 152 x 23mm (HxWxD) 0.630kg 334 pages 1 b/w illus.

9781107030176 Hardback £22.99 / $29.99

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies.

Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies.

The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets. In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. This timely book brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s bodies have led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world to be pregnant.

“In this brilliant, shocking book, Michele Goodwin makes clear the heartbreaking irony of laws that, in the name of protecting life, divide women’s bodies against themselves and implement profound violations of medical ethics and privacy, and ruptures in constitutional process and equal protection.”

Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita, Columbia Law School

Michele Goodwin is an Executive Committee member of the American Civil Liberties Union and elected member of the American Law Institute. She is also a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine where she teaches constitutional law and directs the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is an internationally recognized voice on women’s rights, reproductive health, and constitutional law and lectures worldwide on matters relating to the exploitation of women and girls and the rising regulation of pregnancy and criminalization of women.

At a glance • Offers a new lens to understand the state’s policing of pregnant women’s bodies • Exposes the laws that undermine women’s civil rights and the rise in these laws that seek to punish women during their pregnancies • Brings to the forefront how racism in healthcare continues to harm women of color, including during pregnancy, and how a focus on the rights of middleclass white women has obscured the more deadly attacks on poor women and their reproductive health

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Praise ‘Astounding.’

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Abortion and the Law in America Roe v. Wade to the Present Mary Ziegler

UK publication March 2020 US publication March 2020 228 x 152 x 17mm (HxWxD) 0.470kg 326 pages 9781108735599 Paperback £22.99 / $29.99

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights.

The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed. Never abandoning their constitutional demands, pro-choice and pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts. Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants, Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms American law and politics to this day.

Mary Ziegler is Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law and one of the leading authorities on the legal history of abortion in America. She is the author of Beyond Abortion (2018) and the award-winning After Roe (2015). She often lends her expertise to mass media outlets across the world.

At a glance • Offers the first legal history of a crucial chapter in the American abortion debate from 1973 to the present • Uncovers an unknown but crucial shift in the terms of the legal and political debate toward claims about the costs and benefits of abortion • Combines intricate legal analysis with moving oral histories, original insights, and broader contextualization • Mines new primary sources, including the private collections of pro-life and pro-choice lawyers and activists, and unexplored papers of social movement organizations

Praise ‘Mary Ziegler’s latest book offers an impressively detailed, even-handed history of the policy debates and legal developments that continue to shape abortion policy. This is the essential one-volume guide to the history behind current headlines. No matter what happens with Roe, Ziegler’s perceptive analysis, based on extensive primary source evidence, explains why the nation’s polarizing debate over abortion policy will likely remain far more complicated and intractable than partisans on either side imagine.’

Daniel K. Williams, author of Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade ‘Ziegler is one of the foremost historians of abortion law in America, and this book will prove indispensable for anyone interested in the subject.’

I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard University ‘This is an exhaustive - and fascinating - account of how we got to where we are today. A ‘must have’ for anyone wanting to know how and why abortion has polarized America.’

Kristin Luker, University of California, Berkeley

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UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 20mm (HxWxD) 0.550kg 294 pages 17 b/w illus. 6 maps 2 tables 9781108480642 Hardback £19.99 / $24.95

At a glance • Examines the development of the legal regimes of slavery and race in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the dawn of the Civil War • Demonstrates that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way race developed over time • Draws on a variety of primary sources, including local court records, original trial records of freedom suits, legislative cases, and petitions

Becoming Free, Becoming Black

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ow did Africans become ‘blacks’ in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones.

Their communities challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery.

Looking closely at three slave societies – Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana – Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom, not slavery, established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.

Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. Gross How did Africans become ‘blacks’ in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity.

Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.

Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies, and the Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University, Massachusetts. He is the author of Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (2018), Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2008), and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (2001).

Ariela J. Gross is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History and the Co-Director of the Center for Law, History, and Culture at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is the author of What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (2008) and Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (2000).

Praise ‘At a moment when ‘Send Them Back’ has reemerged as a nativist rallying cry, Becoming Free, Becoming Black is a brilliantly lucid guide to the deep history of how race and ethnic origin came to be potent ciphers for civic belonging. …This indispensable book shows how knowing the past might aid us to intelligently reform our fu­ture.’

Patricia J. Williams, The Nation ‘In this incisive and spell-binding study, Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross meticulously investigate the archives of the ‘legal regimes of slavery and race’ in the culturally disparate locations of Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia, thus exposing the differences and similarities between Spanish, French, and English approaches to manumission and interracial relationships...Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells many fascinating stories of heroic efforts to attain freedom through legal regimes.’

Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

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FRANCINE M. DEUTSCH RUTH A. GAUNT

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CREATING EQUALITY AT H ME How 25 Couples Around the World Share Housework and Childcare

Creating Equality at Home How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare Edited by Francine M. Deutsch, Ruth A. Gaunt Creating Equality at Home tells the fascinating stories of 25 couples around the world whose everyday decisions about sharing the housework and childcare - from who cooks the food, washes the dishes, and helps with homework, to who cuts back on paid work - all add up to a gender revolution. From North and South America to Europe, Asia, and Australia, these couples tell a story of similarity despite vast cultural differences. By rejecting the prescription that men’s identities are determined by paid work and women’s by motherhood, the couples show that men can put family first and are as capable of nurturing as women, and that women can pursue careers as seriously as their husbands do - bringing profound rewards for men, women, marriage, and children. Working couples with children will discover that equality is possible and exists right now.

UK publication June 2020 US publication June 2020 228 x 152 x 23mm (HxWxD) 0.620kg 442 pages 23 maps 9781108708845 Paperback £19.99 / $24.99

Francine M. Deutsch, author of Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works (1999), is Emerita Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College, USA. She has published extensively on issues of gender justice. She and her husband equally shared the care of their son.

Ruth A. Gaunt, Associate Professor at the University of Lincoln, previously held a tenured senior lectureship at Bar Ilan University, Israel, and prestigious fellowships at both Harvard University, Massachusetts, and the University of Cambridge. Her published research focuses on the social psychology of gender and families. She and her husband have three children and share childcare equally.

At a glance • Gives fascinating, real-life examples of how couples around the world are creating equality in family work • Demonstrates that individual choices and decisions can thwart traditional social norms and structural forces • Reveals that equality in family work is not just a woman’s issue, as men also benefit from equal sharing • Shows that gender equality is not an impossible dream, but exists right now in unlikely places

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Dangerously Divided How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics Zoltan L. Hajnal

UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 23mm (HxWxD) 0.550kg 370 pages 23 b/w illus.

9781108719728 Paperback £21.99 / $27.95

As America has become more racially diverse and economic inequality has increased, American politics has also become more clearly divided by race and less clearly divided by class. In this landmark book, Zoltan L. Hajnal draws on sweeping data to assess the political impact of the two most significant demographic trends of last fifty years. Examining federal and local elections over many decades, as well as policy, Hajnal shows that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses when the votes are counted and policies are enacted. America has become a racial democracy, with non-Whites and especially African Americans regularly on the losing side. A close look at trends over time shows that these divisions are worsening, yet also reveals that electing Democrats to office can make democracy more even and ultimately reduce inequality in well-being.

Zoltan L. Hajnal is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the award-winning books White Backlash (with Marisa Abrajano, 2015), Why Americans Don’t Join the Party (with Taeku Lee, 2011), and America’s Uneven Democracy (Cambridge, 2009), and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is actively involved in voting rights litigation and local election law reform.

Praise At a glance • Rigorously compares the effects of race, class, and other demographic factors on partisanship and representation in American democracy, tracking trends over time • Measures representation across both electoral and policy outcomes, drawing on data collected over many decades at federal and local levels • Suggests practical changes to make democracy more even and to reduce racial inequality

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‘This is an authoritative, systematic, and important book that will be an agenda setter for years to come. The arguments are powerful and frequently counter-intuitive.’

Paul Frymer, Princeton University, New Jersey ‘Dangerously Divided is a powerful and convincing account of the fundamental role that race plays in American politics. At all levels of government, across varied institutional settings, and over time, Hajnal demonstrates that divisions by race eclipse other potential cleavages. Consequently, whites tend to win in elections and in policy making, while people of color lose.’

Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced

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Diagnosing from a Distance Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump John Martin-Joy Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, mental health professionals have sought to use their knowledge of human psychology to understand - and intervene in political developments. From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, psychiatrists have commented, sometimes brashly, on public figures’ mental health. But is the practice ethical? While the American Psychiatric Association prohibits psychiatric comment on public figures under its ‘Goldwater Rule’, others disagree.

Diagnosing from a Distance is the first in-depth exploration of this controversy.

Making extensive use of archival sources and original interviews, John MartinJoy reconstructs the historical debates between psychiatrists, journalists, and politicians in an era when libel law and professional standards have undergone dramatic change. Charting the Goldwater Rule’s crucial role in the current furor over Trump’s fitness for office, Martin-Joy assesses the Rule’s impact and offers a more liberal alternative. This remarkable book will change the way we think about psychiatric ethics and public life.

John Martin-Joy, M.D., is a psychiatrist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a parttime lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts.

Praise At a glance • A lively and engaging narration of a series of historical episodes in which psychiatric ethics and libel were vigorously and publicly debated • The first book to examine the still-raging ethics debate over psychiatric comment on President Donald Trump, using numerous original interviews with the participants

‘Psychiatrists are often asked in casual conversation for a diagnosis without a personal examination. Using many primary sources rarely discussed in previous surveys, John Martin-Joy provides a detailed and far-reaching analysis of the implications of such a scenario. Fascinating, thought-provoking, and highly recommended.’

Thomas G. Gutheil, Harvard University ‘With compelling prose, page-turning narrative, and sophisticated analysis, John Martin-Joy uses a little-known, but important, libel case to discuss an issue of great political significance: the ethical, professional, social, and legal ramifications of psychiatrists commenting publicly on the mental health of public figures.’

Samantha Barbas, University of Buffalo

• Makes extensive use of archival sources that have rarely been explored in detail before • Advances a philosophically supported case for a more liberal approach to the ethics of psychiatric comment

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Give Yourself a Nudge Helping Smart People Make Smarter Personal and Business Decisions Ralph L. Keeney

UK publication April 2020 US publication April 2020 228 x 152 x 16mm (HxWxD) 0.410kg 274 pages 13 b/w illus. 21 tables 9781108715621 Paperback £14.99 / $19.99

At a glance • Introduces and explains practical concepts and procedures that can be used by anyone to make smarter decisions • Explains and illustrates how the use of the concepts and procedures are applicable to improve any business or organizational decision • Shows individuals the critical role that their decision-making has on all aspects of their quality of life

The best way to improve your quality of life is through the decisions you make.

This book teaches several fundamental decision-making skills, provides numerous applications and examples, and ultimately nudges you toward smarter decisions.

These nudges frame more desirable decisions for you to face by identifying the objectives for your decisions and generating superior alternatives to those initially considered. All of the nudges are based on psychology and behavioral economics research and are accessible to all readers. The new concept of a decision opportunity is introduced, which involves creating a decision that you desire to face. Solving a decision opportunity improves your life, whereas resolving a decision problem only restores the quality of your life to that before the decision problem occurred. We all can improve our decision-making and reap the better quality of life that results. This book shows you how.

Ralph L. Keeney is Professor Emeritus at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University, USA. Throughout his career, he has been a professor and consultant on making important decisions for policy makers, businesses, and individuals. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and the author or co-author of several books, including Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions (with John S. Hammond and Howard Raiffa, 2015), Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decision Making (1992), and Decisions with Multiple Objectives (with Howard Raiffa, Cambridge, 1993).

Praise ‘Even though people make hundreds of choices each day, they rarely consider how to improve their decision-making skills. A good place to start is to read Ralph Keeney’s new book, which is chock-full of wisdom, stories, and highly practical advice. By the time you finish it, you will have the author whispering in your ear the next time you face a big decision.’

Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, co-author of Nudge, and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences ‘Please ‘give yourself a nudge’ to read this book. If you are not yet sure how, you soon will be. Decision-making really is a learnable skill and Ralph Keeney is a master teacher with compelling examples, exercises, concepts, and steps to share.’

Daniel Goroff, Vice President and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ‘No one has more hands-on experience than Ralph Keeney about what it takes for each of us to take charge of our lives. In a book full of instructive anecdotes, the author distills a career’s worth of insight that will move you - finally - to action.’

David E. Bell, Harvard University

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Fighting the People’s War The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War Jonathan Fennell

THE BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH ARMIES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR

JONATHAN FENNELL ‘a fascinating and important book’ Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

UK publication May 2020 US publication May 2020 227 x 153 x 52mm (HxWxD) 1.380kg 42 b/w illus. 38 maps 21 tables 9781107609877 Paperback £18.99 / $24.95

Fighting the People’s War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the ‘citizen armies’ of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime experience of the ordinary rank and file, Jonathan Fennell fundamentally challenges our understanding of the War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change. He uncovers how fractures on the home front had profound implications for the performance of the British and Commonwealth armies and he traces how soldiers’ political beliefs, many of which emerged as a consequence of their combat experience, proved instrumental to the socio-political changes of the postwar era. Fighting the People’s War transforms our understanding of how the great battles were won and lost as well as how the postwar societies were forged.

Jonathan Fennell is a Senior Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. He is a Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War and a Director and Co-Founder of the Second World War Research Group.

His first book, Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign (Cambridge, 2011) was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize, was joint runner-up for the Society for Army Historical Research’s Templer Medal and was selected as one of BBC History Magazine’s ‘Books of the Year’ 2011.

At a glance • Integrates the military, political and social histories of Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa • Uses 925 censorship reports based on 17 million soldiers’ letters to shed new light on their experiences, performance and political beliefs • Provides new explanations for the performance of the British and Commonwealth armies in campaigns, including the crises of 1940–42, Cassino, D-Day and Normandy • The first comprehensive history of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War

Praise ‘[A] weighty, admirably uncomfortable account [by] an impressively diligent and thoughtful young historian ... This is a fascinating and important book, which brings together a mass of information ... never before assembled under one roof.’

Max Hastings, The Sunday Times ‘Incredibly well-researched, brilliantly written and quite frankly, an outstanding book.’

History of War ‘Jonathan Fennell has produced a compelling and magisterial history of the British and Commonwealth armies between 1939 and 1945 ... Fighting the People’s War establishes Fennell as among the leaders of the next generation of Second World War scholars.’

Jonathan Boff, History Today

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UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 21mm (HxWxD) 0.540kg 374 pages 12 b/w illus.

9781316643471 Paperback £12.99 / $15.95

LBJ’s 1968 Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval Kyle Longley 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the ‘year of a continuous nightmare’. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ’s refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ’s 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.

Kyle Longley is the Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books, including In the Eagle’s Shadow: The United States and Latin America (2002), Senator Albert Gore, Sr. (2004), and The Morenci Marines: A Tale of a Small Town and the Vietnam War (2015).

Praise At a glance

‘Countless historians have picked apart 1968, but Kyle Longley is the first to go inside the head of the man who, more than anyone else, defined that year – and with a style and precision that somehow makes an account of a terrible time a joy to read.’

• Analyzes the crisis management style of a President

Clay Risen, The New York Times

• Features modern continuities in policymaking and political discourse, providing readers with a better understanding of the ongoing debates in today’s political sphere

‘1968 was a turbulent year in our country and a year when President Lyndon Johnson encountered what seemed like an endless series of crises. Kyle Longley has depicted the tone of the times and captured the dilemmas and decisions of LBJ in this compelling book that should be read by any student of that eventful year.’

• Highlights the challenges facing a president after five years of almost non-stop change and a rising conservative backlash

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Larry Temple, Special Counsel to President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, Chairman of the LBJ Foundation

My Opposition The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich Friedrich Kellner, Edited and translated by Robert Scott Kellner

My OppOsitiOn t h e D i a ry O f f r i eD r ich K elln er a German against the third reich E d i t E d by

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UK publication January 2020 US publication January 2020 228 x 152 x 25mm (HxWxD) 0.880kg 620 pages 53 b/w illus.

9781108406963 Paperback £13.99 / $17.95

At a glance • A remarkable first-hand account of everyday life under National Socialism during the Second World War which documents just how widespread awareness was of the unfolding of the Holocaust • A timeless portrayal of the individual’s struggle against totalitarianism which still resonates today • Includes the dramatic story of the Kellner family and of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich’s grandson

This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man’s struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany’s path to dictatorship and genocide, and to protest his countrymen’s complicity in the regime’s brutalities. Just one month into the war he notes how soldiers on leave spoke openly about the extermination of the Jews and the murder of POWs, while he also documents the Gestapo’s merciless rule at home from euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped and mentally ill to the execution of anyone found listening to foreign broadcasts. This essential testimony of everyday life under the Third Reich is accompanied by a foreword by Alan Steinweis and the remarkable story of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich’s grandson.

Robert Scott Kellner discovered his grandfather’s diary in 1960 and has worked tirelessly to bring it to the attention of the world through exhibits at the Dwight Eisenhower and George H. W. Bush Presidential Libraries, a documentary film screened at the United Nations, and the publication of a complete edition of the diary in German and abridgments in Russian and Polish.

Praise ‘A remarkable testament ... Reading it is a reminder that not all Germans under the Third Reich were Nazis; some at least managed to retain a sense of decency and human values.’

Richard J. Evans, Guardian ‘An important piece of historical literature ... this book has vital things to say not just about the history of the war but what it was to be a decent human being and yet be forced to live through terrible times.’

Laurence Rees, Daily Telegraph ‘[Kellner] berates Germans for their blind gullibility, incorporating newspaper propaganda and detailing daily life, his diary like someone to confide in: its existence, an act of stirring, quiet defiance.’

Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald

• The author’s writings are interspersed with contemporary clippings from the German press

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BEATS A LITERARY HISTORY

Steven Belletto UK publication March 2020 US publication April 2020 229 x 152 x 30mm (HxWxD) 0.790kg 476 pages 9781107176683 Hardback £26.99 / $34.99

The Beats A Literary History Steven Belletto Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wideranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss dozens more writers and their works, showing how they all contributed to one of the most far-reaching literary movements of the post-World War II era. Moving from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, this book explores key aesthetic and thematic innovations of the Beat writers, the pervasiveness of the Beatnik caricature, the role of the counterculture in the post-war era, the involvement of women in the Beat project, and the changing face of Beat political engagement during the Vietnam War era.

Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012).

Praise

At a glance • Offers a new synthetic history of the Beat literary movement • Expands the ‘Beat canon’ beyond the most well-known names • Focuses on texts rather than biographies

‘If you’re thinking ‘Not another book about the Beats!’, then think again.

Steven Belletto’s literary history is surely the first to bring together the rigorous command of scholarly and critical analysis found in specialist studies with the capacious engagement found in cultural histories or essay collections. The book’s double achievement is to read deeply and yet wonder broadly, keeping the writing always center stage. Grasping both how the Beats have been represented and how ‘representation’ was itself the subject of their literary innovations, this is at once a sophisticated self-reflexive inquiry and a highly readable vademecum for anyone with an interest in the field.’

Oliver Harris, President, European Beat Studies Association ‘Deeply researched and artfully composed, Steven Belletto’s The Beats: A Literary History presents along a historical arc a detailed and thorough exposition of the languages and literatures of Beat and Beat-influenced mid-twentieth-century American writers in literary and political contexts. Belletto’s comprehensive vision of Beat production will well serve scholars, graduate students, Beat course instructors, and serious fans of this critical school in American literary history putting the field of Beat Studies forever in his debt.’

Nancy M. Grace, editor, Journal of Beat Studies

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Rogue Diplomats The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy

DIPLOMATS

Seth Jacobs

The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy

Many of America’s most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because a U.S. diplomat disobeyed orders. The magnificent terms granted to the infant republic by Britain at the close of the American Revolution, the bloodless acquisition of France’s massive Louisiana territory in 1803, the procurement of an even vaster expanse of land from Mexico forty years later, the preservation of the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ during World War I – these and other milestones in the history of U.S. geopolitics derived in large part from the refusal of ambassadors, ministers, and envoys to heed the instructions given to them by their superiors back home. Historians have neglected this pattern of insubordination – until now. Rogue Diplomats makes a seminal contribution to scholarship on U.S. geopolitics and provides a provocative response to the question that has vexed so many diplomatic historians: is there a distinctively ‘American’ foreign policy?

SETH JACOBS UK publication April 2020 US publication June 2020 320 pages 9781107079472 Hardback £26.99 / $34.99

Seth Jacobs is Professor of History at Boston College and the author of The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos (2012), Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America’s War in Vietnam, 19501963 (2006), and America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (2004).

At a glance • Finds that many of the most important political, territorial, economic, and geostrategic triumphs during America’s first two hundred years of national existence came about because American diplomats intentionally disobeyed orders • Adopts a biographical approach, with each chapter focusing on the actions of one diplomat during one a pivotal foreign relations crisis • Draws on a variety of sources, including government archives, presidential libraries, and the private papers of diplomats

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