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I N S P I R I N G D I S C O V E R Y. BUILDING KNOWLEDGE. UNLOCKING POTENTIAL. We publish books and journals and are dedicated to serving customers in higher education through world-leading research and education products and services. Together with our academic community, we are playing a leading role in advancing open research to drive greater collaboration, transparency and accessibility. As a not-for-profit organisation, we are continually reinvesting our success into the Cambridge mission. Combining publishing excellence with innovation ensures we meet the constantly evolving needs of our customers, authors and partners. Together we are discovering exciting possibilities and helping people across the world to unlock their potential, benefitting society and the planet. We are looking for audiobook partners to help bring Cambridge titles to an even wider audience. Here are some highlights from our recent publications. If you would like to discuss an audio licence for these books, or any other Cambridge work, please contact rights@cambridge.org

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CONTENTS Living with Jane Austen ����������������������������������������������2 The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’ Diary ����2

Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 6

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland ��������������������2

We Choose You ����������������������������������������������������������������7

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism �����2

It Takes More Than a Candidate ���������������������������7

Queer Cambridge ���������������������������������������������������������2

Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice ���������������������������������������7

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining �����������������������2 The Witches of St Osyth ���������������������������������������������3 Twilight of the Godlings ����������������������������������������������3 Silence of the Gods �������������������������������������������������������3 Amazons �����������������������������������������������������������������������������3 Why the Ancient Greeks Matter ����������������������������3 Born in Blood ��������������������������������������������������������������������3 Atlantic Cataclysm ���������������������������������������������������������4 The Gift ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 Bring Judgment Day �����������������������������������������������������4 Citizen Cowboy ���������������������������������������������������������������4 LBJ’s America ��������������������������������������������������������������������4 Uncertain Warriors ��������������������������������������������������������4 The Greatest of All Time ���������������������������������������������5 Mungo Park’s Ghost ������������������������������������������������������5

Good Vibrations �������������������������������������������������������������7 Out of Her Mind ��������������������������������������������������������������7 How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs ���������������7 Motherhood ���������������������������������������������������������������������8 Dark Justice �����������������������������������������������������������������������8 A Primer in Christian Ethics ����������������������������������������8 The Buddha �����������������������������������������������������������������������8 Who Is a True Christian? ���������������������������������������������8 The Bible’s First Kings ����������������������������������������������������8 Noah and the Flood ���������������������������������������������������� 9 The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism �������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Starbound ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Gospel Thrillers ��������������������������������������������������������������� 9

The German Empire ������������������������������������������������������5 Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists ���������������������������������������������������������������5 Operation Wrath of God �������������������������������������������5 Chernobyl Children �������������������������������������������������������5 Profits and Persecution ���������������������������������������������� 6 The CEO ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Pay Up! �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 World Builders ����������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Good Soldiers Don’t Rape ���������������������������������������� 6

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Our top picks from Cambridge University Press

Living with Jane Austen Janet Todd

An eminent Austen authority shows us how living with Jane Austen can transform the way we look at our world. March 2025 9781009569316 Hardback 246pp £18.99 / US$25.95

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism

A Literary History of the Studio System Jordan Brower

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States. January 2024 9781009419154 Hardback 262pp £85.00 / US$110.00

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary Kate Loveman

Engagingly explores the creation, publication, and reception of England’s most famous diary. April 2025 9781009554114 Hardback 254pp £22.00 / US$29.95

Queer Cambridge An Alternative History Simon Goldhill

A remarkable portrait of the hidden history of Cambridge’s gay academic community and its impact on wider politics and culture. January 2025 9781009528061 Hardback 316pp £25.00 / US$29.95

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The Vanished Settlers of Greenland

In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy Robert W. Rix

A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland’s vanished Viking settlers? July 2023 9781009359474 Hardback 217pp £30.00 / US$39.99

The Dangerous Art of Text Mining

A Methodology for Digital History Jo Guldi

Shows how text mining - the art of counting words over time spurs insights into politics, culture, and historical change. October 2023 9781009262989 Hardback 436pp £80.00 / US$105.00


‘Bold, erudite, exciting and genuinely original.’ Ronald Hutton, author of Pagan Britain

T WILIGHT OF THE

GODLINGS The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings

FR ANCIS YOUNG

The Witches of St Osyth Marion Gibson

The first substantive history of a neglected subject, this is a compelling account of one of England’s most important witchtrials. December 2022 9781108494670 Hardback 256pp £30.00 / US$39.99

DAVID BRAUND BRAUND

bust treatment of the topic, is es of the extant ancient written e of telling us what they would or of ancient myths extremely well. der and sexuality dimensions of nd shows that the Amazons were y. This is a powerful and important d culturally significant subject.’

Our top picks from Cambridge University Press

eventis Professor of Greek Culture, The Spartans: An Epic History e that Changed the World

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AMAZONS

ek Amazon myth from renowned es David Braund is an important ” rhetoric which equates ancient omen. Braund treats the Amazon oduct, but also brings out its on of the way women’s capacities emininity. Scrupulous attention ual and material evidence enables edges the power of the myth’s feminine potential. The Amazons dy Greek myth and culture: this set the baseline for future ful for student readers.’

AMAZONS

Twilight of the Godlings

Silence of the Gods

A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain’s small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings

A masterful new history of Europe’s last, and sometimes forgotten, unchristianised peoples – from Fennoscandia to the Baltic and European Russia.

March 2023 9781009330367 Hardback 350pp £30.00 / US$39.99

June 2025 9781009586573 Hardback 456pp £25.00 / US$32.95

Why the Ancient Greeks Matter

Born in Blood

The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings Francis Young

The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples Francis Young

The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles’ duel with Penthesilea was a clash of superman and superwoman. Achilles won the fight, but the queen’s dying beauty had torn into his soul. This vibrant new book offers the first complete picture of the reality behind the legends. It shows there was much more to the Amazons than a race of implacable warrior women. David Braund casts the Amazons in a new light: as figures of potent agency, founders of cities, guileful and clever as well as physically impressive and sexually alluring to men. Black Sea mythologies become key to unlocking the Amazons’ mystery. Investigating legend through history, literature, and archaeology, the author uncovers a truth as surprising and evocative as any fiction told through story or myth.

THE HISTORY BEHIND THE LEGEND

Amazons

The History Behind the Legend David Braund

The Amazon myth is one of the most romantic and resonant in antiquity. Amazons reveals the truth behind the legends. April 2025 9781108834490 Hardback 250pp £29.99 / US39.99

The Problematic Miracle that was Greece Reviel Netz

The Greeks were consequential, not by creating ‘timeless values’ but by questioning them, thereby laying the foundations of modern science. February 2025 9781009505598 Hardback 206pp £19.99 / US$25.00

Violence and the Making of America Scott Gac

Reveals how a political culture of violence centered on racial hierarchy has shaped the United States from its earliest days. March 2024 9781316511886 Hardback 330pp £25.00 / US$29.95

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Atlantic Cataclysm

Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades David Eltis

A major intervention in traditional interpretations of the Atlantic slave trades, using new and underexplored data, that debunks established narratives. February 2025 9781009518970 Hardback 442pp £30.00 / US$39.99

Citizen Cowboy Will Rogers and the American People Steven Watts

A compelling look at the life of Will Rogers and how his work helped ease Americans into the modern world. August 2024 9781108495936 Hardback 477pp £30.00 / US34.95

The Gift

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Ana Lucia Araujo

Reveals how gifts of prestige shaped interactions between Africans and Europeans during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. November 2023 9781108839297 Hardback 307pp £30.00 / US$39.99

Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies Sheila Curran Bernard

A stunning rebuttal of the mythology surrounding American music legend Lead Belly that reveals painful details about America’s racial history. July 2024 9781009098120 Hardback 253pp £25.00 / US$27.95

LBJ’s America

Uncertain Warriors

Delves into the life and presidency of LBJ, illustrating how his policies laid the foundations of contemporary America.

Explores the identity crisis of the post-Cold War US Army and their struggles to adapt to profound geopolitical and cultural changes.

October 2023 9781009172530 Hardback 388pp £25.00 / US$29.95

November 2023 9781009235808 Hardback 316pp £30.00 / US$39.99

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson Edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence , Mark K. Updegrove

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Bring Judgment Day

The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror David Fitzgerald


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The Greatest of All Time

A History of an American Obsession Zev Eleff

Explores America’s obsession with ‘greatness’ and what it suggests about those who can’t stop talking about it.

Mungo Park’s Ghost

The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa Dane Kennedy

The forgotten story of two British expeditions to Africa that went disastrously wrong and left a hidden legacy.

The German Empire, 1871–1918 Roger Chickering

This broad historical survey of imperial Germany explores the social, cultural and political foundations of domestic conflict. January 2025 9781107026742 Hardback 665pp £40.00 / US$49.99

March 2025 9781009572736 Hardback 238pp £30.00 / US$39.99

January 2024 9781009392983 Hardback 270pp £30.00 / US$39.99

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Operation Wrath of God

Chernobyl Children

Reveals for the first time the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad’s Operation Wrath of God.

An insightful study of the Chernobyl children, witness to a vanishing world order and future of life in the Anthropocene.

August 2025 9781009503075 Hardback 350pp £25.00 / US$29.95

June 2025 9781009457767 Hardback 316pp £29.99 / US$39.99

Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Unique account of how ordinary people shaped Soviet-American relations in the 1930s told through the adventures of two Russian humourists.

The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Aviva Guttmann

A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster Melanie Arndt

February 2024 9781316518465 Hardback 354pp £30.00 / US39.99

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Profits and Persecution

The CEO

Pay Up!

Explores how and why German big business became instrumental to the persecution of the European Jews during the Holocaust.

The story of Britain’s CEOs from who has made it to the top and how to why they matter.

Debunks five myths American conservatives have used for a half-century to justify cutting taxes, especially for corporations and the rich.

German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust Peter Hayes

January 2025 9780521772884 Hardback 224pp £25.00 / US$29.99

World Builders

Technology and the New Geopolitics Bruno Maçães

Examines geopolitics as a battle of visions whose outcome will be determined by technological dominance rather than physical territorial control. February 2025 9781009397384 Hardback 274pp £22.99 / US29.95

The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry Michael Aldous, John D. Turner

June 2025 9781009489522 Hardback 296pp £25.00 / US$29.95

Good Soldiers Don’t Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence Megan MacKenzie

Connects military sexual violence (MSV) to conversations about #MeToo and ‘rape culture,’ highlighting the misconceptions about MSV that have obstructed addressing and preventing it. July 2023 9781009273961 Hardback 180pp £70.00 / US90.00

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Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich John L. Campbell

May 2025 9781009595131 Hardback 250pp £30.00 / US$39.99

Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat

Countering Global Alarmism Kurt Weyland

Analyzes contemporary Latin America, Europe, and the United States to show the many ways democracies withstand populism’s threat. January 2025 9781009432467 Hardback 322pp £30.00 / US$39.99


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We Choose You

How Black Voters Decide Which Candidates to Support Julian J. Wamble

Analyzes Black votership to explain the candidate selection process and demonstrate how various identity groups choose who to vote for. February 2025 9781009483124 Hardback 246pp £80.00 / US$105.00

Good Vibrations

Unlocking the Healing Power of Music Stefan Koelsch

Neuroscientist Stefan Koelsch explores music’s profound effects on brain, emotions, and health, blending science with practical wisdom. May 2025 9781009366779 Hardback 300pp £22.00 / US29.99

It Takes More Than a Candidate

Why Women Don’t Run for Office Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox

Examines the persistent gender gap in political ambition, despite changes to the electoral environment over the last 20 years. March 2025 9781009598231 Hardback 182pp £75.00 / US$95.00

Out of Her Mind

How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change Linda Gask

Despite advances in mental healthcare, women and girls remain disproportionately disadvantaged. Gask explains what must change and why. October 2024 9781009382465 Hardback 312pp £20.00 / US25.95

Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice Laura Wray-Lake, Elan C. Hope, Laura S. Abrams

Young Black changemakers work toward racial justice every day for themselves, their families, their communities, and future generations. February 2024 9781009244220 Hardback 244pp £80.00 / US$105.00

How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs Owen Bowden-Jones

A practical and accessible guide for parents, empowering them to have supportive and effective conversations with their children about drugs March 2025 9781009374811 Paperback 272pp £14.99 / US$19.99

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Motherhood

Contemporary Transitions and Generational Change Tina Miller

Explores the experiences of first-time mothers across two generations, illuminating key social changes and identifying what remains unchanged and why. November 2023 9781009413343 Paperback 280pp £22.99 / US$29.99

The Buddha

Life and Afterlife Between East and West Philip C. Almond

The first book both to tell the story of the Buddha’s life and how the Buddha came to the West. November 2023 9781009346795 Hardback 300pp £30.00 / US39.99

Dark Justice

Inside the World of Paedophile Hunters Mark de Rond

Reports the findings of the author’s unprecedented access to one of the UK’s most prolific paedophile hunting groups. March 2025 9781009457040 Hardback 208pp £20..00 / US$25.95

Christ and the Struggle to Live Well Luke Bretherton

An introduction to Christian ethics that provides a new critical and constructive framework for Christian moral and political deliberation. November 2023 9781009328975 Hardback 300pp £80.00 / US$105.00

Who Is a True Christian?

The Bible’s First Kings

Explores why the question of what defines Christianity has become so damagingly vexatious - and how believers might conceive of it differently.

Using archaeological finds, critical Bible analysis, and ethnographic data, the book reconstructs the formation of the Bible’s United Monarchy.

Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture David W. Congdon

February 2024 9781009428996 Hardback 404pp £30.00 / US$39.99

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A Primer in Christian Ethics

Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon Avraham Faust, Zev I. Farber

February 2025 9781009526333 Hardback 464pp £35.00 / US$49.99


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Noah and the Flood in Western Thought Philip C Almond

Almond’s masterful new book offers the first comprehensive cultural and intellectual history of Noah and the flood in Western thought. April 2025 9781009557221 Hardback 396pp £35.00 / US$44.99

Gospel Thrillers

Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible Andrew S. Jacobs

Conspiratorial fears and desires about biblical discoveries are amplified and contained within the covers of a formulaic fiction genre.

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity Jason A. Staples

A new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel impacted early Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration. May 2021 9781108842860 Hardback 450pp £34.99 / US$44.99

Starbound

Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible Ed Regis

Science writer Ed Regis critically explores of the proposed technologies and practicalities of undertaking an interstellar journey. January 2025 9781009457590 Hardback 300pp £25.00 / US$29.95

We are looking for audiobook partners to help bring Cambridge titles to an even wider audience. Here are some highlights from our recent publications. If you would like to discuss an audio licence for these books, or any other Cambridge work, please contact

rights@cambridge.org

November 2023 9781009384612 Hardback 300pp £30.00 / US39.99

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