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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
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
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
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
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 timespurs insights into politics, culture, and historical change.
October 2023
9781009262989
Hardback 436pp
£80.00 / US$105.00
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
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
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
T WILIGHT
GODLINGS
The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings
FRANCIS YOUNG
Twilight of the Godlings
The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings
Francis Young
A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain’s small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings
March 2023
9781009330367
Hardback 350pp
£30.00 / US$39.99
Why the Ancient Greeks Matter
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
Silence of the Gods
The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
Francis Young
A masterful new history of Europe’s last, and sometimes forgotten, unchristianised peoples – from Fennoscandia to the Baltic and European Russia.
June 2025
9781009586573
Hardback 456pp
£25.00 / US$32.95
Born in Blood
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
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
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
LBJ’s America
The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Edited by Mark Atwood
Lawrence , Mark K. Updegrove
Delves into the life and presidency of LBJ, illustrating how his policies laid the foundations of contemporary America.
October 2023
9781009172530
Hardback 388pp
£25.00 / US$29.95
Bring Judgment Day
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
Uncertain Warriors
The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror
David Fitzgerald
Explores the identity crisis of the post-Cold War US Army and their struggles to adapt to profound geopolitical and cultural changes.
November 2023
9781009235808
Hardback 316pp
£30.00 / US$39.99
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
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.
March 2025
9781009572736
Hardback 238pp
£30.00 / US$39.99
Soviet
Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
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.
February 2024
9781316518465
Hardback 354pp
£30.00 / US39.99
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.
January 2024
9781009392983
Hardback 270pp
£30.00 / US$39.99
Operation Wrath of God
The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Aviva Guttmann
Reveals for the first time the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad’s Operation Wrath of God.
August 2025
9781009503075
Hardback 350pp
£25.00 / US$29.95
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
Chernobyl Children
A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster
Melanie Arndt
An insightful study of the Chernobyl children, witness to a vanishing world order and future of life in the Anthropocene.
June 2025
9781009457767
Hardback 316pp
£29.99 / US$39.99
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
Profits and Persecution
German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust
Peter Hayes
Explores how and why German big business became instrumental to the persecution of the European Jews during the Holocaust.
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 CEO
The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry
Michael Aldous, John D. Turner
The story of Britain’s CEOs from who has made it to the top and how to why they matter.
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
Pay Up!
Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich
John L. Campbell
Debunks five myths American conservatives have used for a half-century to justify cutting taxes, especially for corporations and the rich.
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
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
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
Our top picks from Cambridge University Press
Motherhood
Dark Justice
Change
Contemporary Transitions and Generational
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
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
A Primer in Christian Ethics
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?
Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture
David W. Congdon
Explores why the question of what defines Christianity has become so damagingly vexatious - and how believers might conceive of it differently.
February 2024
9781009428996
Hardback 404pp
£30.00 / US$39.99
The Bible’s First Kings
Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon Avraham Faust, Zev I. Farber
Using archaeological finds, critical Bible analysis, and ethnographic data, the book reconstructs the formation of the Bible’s United Monarchy.
February 2025
9781009526333
Hardback 464pp
£35.00 / US$49.99
picks from Cambridge University Press
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
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
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.
November 2023
9781009384612
Hardback 300pp
£30.00 / US39.99
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
