/ WINTER 2025
November 2025
228 x 138 mm c.512pp 978-1-00-964220-0 Paperback c. £59.99 / c. US$80.00
MEDICINE
STAHL’S DEPRESCRIBER’S GUIDE
Jeffrey R. Strawn University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Stephen M. Stahl
University of California, San Diego and Riverside
For decades, psychiatry has focused on initiating treatment—which medication to prescribe, in what dose, and for how long. But what happens when treatment needs to stop? How a medication is stopped is just as important as how it is started, and abrupt discontinuation can lead to unnecessary suffering, relapse, and often preventable withdrawal symptoms. Based on the principles of the bestselling Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, this essential resource provides user-friendly guidance on deprescribing or switching psychotropic medications safely and effectively. 64 medications are presented in a consistent format to facilitate rapid access to deprescribing information. Divided into color coded sections, the book allows the reader to identify key details about when and why to deprescribe, the risks and mechanisms of withdrawal, tapering protocols, cross-titration strategies, and how to distinguish withdrawal symptoms from relapse. Evidence-based recommendations and expert clinical insights make this a must-have manual for all psychiatric prescribers.
KEY FEATURES
• Provides the most complete and up-to-date summary on deprescribing and/or switching psychotropic medications
• Presented in a template format, fully indexed, and cross-referenced for ease of navigation
• Written with the authority of evidence and the guidance of clinical wisdom
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jeffrey R. Strawn, MD is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience in the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Stephen M. Stahl is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside, and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. Alprazolam; 2. Amitriptyline; 3. Amphetamine salts (d,l); 4. Aripiprazole; 5. Atomoxetine; 6. Benztropine; 7. Brexpiprazole; 8. Bupropion; 9. Buspirone; 10. Cariprazine; 11. Carbamazepine; 12. Chlorpromazine; 13. Citalopram; 14. Clomipramine; 15. Clonazepam; 16. Clonidine; 17. Clozapine; 18. Daridorexant; 19. Desipramine; 20. Desvenlafaxine; 21. Diazepam; 22. Diphenhydramine; 23. Divalproex/valproate; 24. Doxylamine; 25. Donepezil; 26. Duloxetine; 27. Escitalopram; 28. Eszopiclone; 29. Fluoxetine; 30. Fluvoxamine; 31. Gabapentin; 32. Galantamine; 33. Guanfacine; 34. Hydroxyzine; 35. Imipramine; 36. Lamotrigine; 37. Lemborexant; 38. Lisdexamfetamine; 39. Lithium; 40. Lorazepam; 41. Lumateperone; 42. Lurasidone; 43. Methylphenidate; 44. Mirtazapine; 45. Nortriptyline; 46. Olanzapine; 47. Paroxetine; 48. Pimavanserin; 49. Prazosin; 50. Pregabalin; 51. Propranolol; 52. Quetiapine; 53. Risperidone; 54. Rivastigmine; 55. Sertraline; 56. Suvorexant; 57. Trihexyphenidyl; 58. Venlafaxine; 59. Vilazodone; 60. Viloxazine; 61. Vortioxetine; 62. Ziprasidone; 63. Zaleplon; 64. Zolpidem.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Specialist medical trainees, medical interns, medical specialists/consultants
Dr Brooke Vandermolen
February 2026
229 x 152 mm c.250pp
978-1-00-943548-2 Hardback
£25.00 / US$32.95
BLOODY POWERFUL
The taboo-busting guide to periods, menopause and everything in-between
Brooke Vandermolen
The OBGYN Mum
Illustrated by Hazel Mead
Brought to life with art from talented illustrator Hazel Mead, this incredible book is aimed at every woman stuck in the ‘information gap’ navigating the jargon and myths about their gynaecological health online. Bloody Powerful covers everything you didn’t get taught in school: giving you factually correct and reliable information coming from a practicing gynaecology doctor. It is a non-judgemental and insightful guide to empowering yourself to take charge of your body. Dr Brooke Vandermolen answers questions you have always wanted to ask, from ‘Do I need supplements to balance my hormones?’ to ‘How do I know if my period is too heavy?’ sprinkled with facts you may never have realised about your body. Thought-provoking, inspiring and inclusive, this book will show you how we’re all the same in wanting to know more about our own bodies, and we are each utterly and beautifully unique.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES
• Illustrated by talented illustrator Hazel Mead, this informative book is aimed at every woman and person with a uterus, stuck in the ‘information gap’, finding it challenging to digest the jargon on medical websites and unable discern the facts from misinformation across TikTok and Instagram
• Covers everything you didn’t get taught in school: factually correct and reliable information coming from a practicing gynaecology doctor
• Many women’s health books exist, but the concepts can sometimes feel complex and difficult to make sense of
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. Getting to Know Your Body; 2. Periods; 3. Let’s Talk About Sex; 4. Hormones; 5. Fertility; 6. Contraception; 7. Pregnancy; 8. Pregnancy Loss; 9. Menopause; Author’s Note; Acknowledgements; Endnotes; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, medical specialists/consultants
Illustrated by Hazel Mead
The taboo-busting guide to periods, menopause and everything in-between
June 2025
254 x 178 mm c.224pp
978-1-00-946850-3 Paperback
£19.99 / US$25.00
THE BFRB SURVIVAL GUIDE
A Workbook for Overcoming Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Suzanne Mouton-Odum
Psychology Houston, PC-The Center for Cognitive Behavioral Treatment, Texas
Ruth Goldfinger Golomb
Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, Maryland
Charles S. Mansueto
Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington, Maryland
Do you suffer with a body focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) such as skin picking or hair pulling that is causing you distress? You are not alone – BRFBs affect up to one in twenty people. With this practical and easy-to-follow workbook you can create your own step-by-step plan to overcome your BFRB in a user-friendly format with easy-to-use worksheets and practical exercises. You will be supported on your path to learning self-awareness, selfcompassion, and new skills to manage your behavior. Chapters will guide you through preparing for change, dealing with shame and self-criticism, utilizing new skills, maintaining gains, and preventing relapse. This workbook is the best single resource available for those suffering with a BFRB who are wanting to heal the scars of the past and move to a place of confidence, changed behavior, and self-acceptance.
KEY FEATURES
• Includes examples and worksheets, allowing the reader to utilize self-help skills in real time, as well as learn how to apply the skills in everyday situations
• Full of the most up-to-date and recent information regarding BFRBs, correct any misconceptions that may be present and laying the groundwork for successful outcomes
• Information is provided in an accessible and methodical format, allowing the reader to create their own step-by-step plan to overcome BFRB in a user-friendly format with easy-to-use worksheets and exercises
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Suzanne Mouton-Odum is a licensed psychologist and a leader in the field of BFRBs. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors for over twenty years and is currently the Vice-Chair of that board.
Ruth Goldfinger Golomb, LCPC, is a senior clinician, a leader in the field of treatment of BFRBs, and has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the TLC Foundation for BFRBs for over twenty years. She has authored many books on this topic.
Charles S. Mansueto, PhD is a psychologist, a pioneer in contemporary efforts to understand and treat BFRBs, and creator of the Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Model. He received the Christina Pearson Award for contributions to the field by the TLC Foundation for BFRBs and serves as their Scientific Advisory Board member and Director of Training.
CONTENTS
Part I. Preparation, Gaining Perspective, and Heightening Awareness of your BFRB: 1. Getting started on your BFRB journey; 2. Increasing awareness of your BFRB; 3. Gaining a better understanding of your BFRB; Part II. Interventions and Skill Building: Selecting and Using Interventions; 4. The sensory domain; 5. The cognitive domain; 6. The affective domain; 7. The motor domain; 8. The place domain; Part III. Lifestyle Changes and Maintenance of Recovery; 9. The importance of self-care; 10. Putting it all together to move forward; References; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, professionals, medical specialists/consultants
June 2025
198 x 129 mm 366pp
978-1-00-949290-4 Paperback
£26.99 / US$34.99
MEDICINE
DISORDERLY
MOVEMENTS
A Neurologist’s Adventures in the Lab and Life
Anne Buckingham Young Massachusetts General Hospital
In this captivating memoir, Anne Buckingham Young shares her trailblazing journey in the male-dominated world of 20th century medicine towards becoming the first female chief at a major United States academic teaching hospital. Anne recounts her remarkable laboratory experiences identifying new neurotransmitters and their receptors. She shares her life with husband and collaborator Jack Penney, their quest to understand the brain circuits responsible for disorderly movements and their adventures in the hunt for the Huntington’s disease gene with neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler. When Jack dies suddenly, Anne must confront her personal demons and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Through it all, Anne builds a cutting-edge research center, offering hope for new therapies for movement disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. This raw and honest portrayal is a testament to the power of perseverance and resilience. It is a must-read for anyone who has ever faced adversity and come out the other side stronger.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES
• Recounts the remarkable history of a woman navigating the male-dominated field of clinical neuroscience in the 20th century to becoming the first female chair of neurology at Mass General Hospital
• Follows the work of Anne Buckingham Young, her husband and collaborator Jack Penney and geneticist Nancy Wexler in their hunt for the Huntingdon’s disease gene in Venezuela
• In a raw and honest portrayal, the author shares her experience of the sudden death of her husband and long-term research partner and how it forced her to face her own personal demons, coming to terms with a late diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• A journey of resilience and determination
Dr. Anne Buckingham Young is a pioneering neuroscientist, the first female department chair at Mass General Hospital, and past president of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Neurological Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. A fascination with disorderly movements; 2. Chemistry major at all women’s college; 3. One of 10 women in a class of 114; 4. Surviving the courses and clinical rotations; 5. The car accident; 6. Neurotransmitters, drugs and receptors; 7. Training in disorderly movements; 8. Setting up our labs and clinic; 9. Neuros in the lagoon; 10. Exploring the neurotransmitters of basal ganglia; 11. Functional anatomy of basal ganglia disorders; 12. The boat trip, April 4, 1985; 13. Adventures in Peru; 14. Being recruited; 15. First woman chief at Mass General; 16. Ground-breaking discovery: The HD gene; 17. Scud missiles; 18. Designing a new research center; 19. Jack’s memorial service; 20. Recovery after Jack’s death; 21. The Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders (MIND); 22. Stepping down after 21 years; 23. Hope for the future of disorderly movements; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Medical specialists/consultants, specialist medical trainees, general readers
EMERGENCY MEDICINE THINKER
Pearls for the Frontlines
Alex Koyfman
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Brit Long
San Antonio Military Medical Center
March 2025
190 x 120 mm c.186pp
978-1-00-937991-5 Paperback
£22.99 / US$29.99
‘Emergency Medicine Thinker’ is a practical pocketbook that provides important considerations for the practice of emergency medicine. Based on the popular website created by the authors, ‘emDocs.net’, it covers practical thinking rules that can be applied on an emergency medicine shift and provides approaches to common and life-threatening diseases in the ED that physicians see on a regular basis. Easy to read with quick access to information, and full of essential tips and pearls from experts on the emergency frontlines, this is a handbook that can be used at the bedside on shift. Part 1 of the book explores the EM decision-making process and why it’s important from a myriad of central and talented emergency physicians. Part 2 features over 170 pearls for the frontline EM clinician. This book is a must-have for anyone working in emergency medicine.
KEY FEATURES
• Practical and easy to reference, this handbook is perfect for use on shift
• Over 170 pearls of wisdom for the frontline emergency medicine clinician
• Based on the popular website created by the authors, ‘emDocs. net’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alex Koyfman is EM Core Faculty at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr Koyfman is an author with more than 280 peer-reviewed publications and an editor of five books. He is Editor-in-Chief for emDocs.net.
Brit Long is an attending emergency physician and associate professor of emergency medicine. Dr Long is an author with over 520 peer-reviewed publications and an editor of four books. He is Editor-in-Chief – Clinical Content for emDocs.net.
CONTENTS
Introduction: editors; Part I. Decision Making: 1. On deciding to not decide; 2. What makes emergency medicine decision making unique and why?; 3. Paediatric EM approach: be vigilant but be reasonable; 4. Decision-making in emergency medicine: thinking differently; 5. EM medical decision making: different and essential; 6. Decisions; 7. Emergency thinking and behaviour; 8. EM decision-making: thinking beyond the disposition; 9. EM decision making: is this a bug or a feature?; 10. EM thinking & cognitive load considerations; 11. Decision making in uncertainty-the hallmark of emergency medicine; 12. Unlearning and thinking differently; 13. Decision making in emergency medicine; 14. An object in motion: decision-making and clinical inertia in the emergency department; 15. Too little or too much?; 16. Decision making in emergency medicine; 17. Medical decision making in the ED: balancing the patient’s health with the clinician’s perception of risk; Part II. Clinical Pearls: 18. Clinical pearls.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Medical interns, specialist medical trainees, primary care physicians/GPs
Emergency Medicine
Thinker
Koyfman and Long
PEARLS FOR
edited by Alex Koyfman Brit Long
Medicine Thinker THE FRONTLINES
RUNNING HEAD
TO RUN THE WORLD
The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT)
Sergey Radchenko
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe
Jessica Davies
University of Exeter
Paul Salkovskis
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
& University of Oxford
Kenneth Laidlaw University of Exeter
Foreword by Judith S. Beck
Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy & University of Pennsylvania
September 2025
May 2024
978-1-00-908835-0
229 x 152 mm 768pp
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin’s decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin’s postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev’s reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev’s jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev’s failed attempts to reinvent Moscow’s claims to greatness. Perennial insecurities, delusions of grandeur, and desire for recognition propelled Moscow on a headlong quest for global power, with dire consequences and painful legacies that continue to shape our world.
978-1-108-47735-2 Hardback
Paperback £34.99 / US$44.99
£30.00 / US$34.95
KEY FEATURES
• This is the comprehensive, contemporary and definitive guide to CBT practice, suitable for trainees and as an update for experienced practitioner
• An excellent training resource, written in an accessible and informative style and providing an excellent source of information on CBT across populations and conditions with sufficient detail to suit the training needs of psychology, psychiatry, nurse and CBT trainees. Additional reading is highlighted in every chapter
• Featuring contributions from experienced clinicians and practitioners of CBT with a substantial level of clinical experience collectively and individually, and providing a variety of real clinical examples throughout, making this a valid and informative treatment guide
This book provides a concise and up-to-date guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), from the history and supporting theory, through to the most recent empirical evidence and practical aspects of delivery. Starting with an overview of the structure of CBT, practitioners can utilise this detailed guide to deliver therapy in clinical practice, whilst its coverage of various adaptations of CBT, such as group therapy and working with older adults, allow therapy to be tailored to different settings with different timeframes attached. Covering all the major CBT protocols necessary to work with a wide range of common mental health conditions. A comprehensive resource for a wide range of practitioners providing practical approaches, goals, and strategies to manage mental health problems using CBT. Part of the Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies series, offering all the latest scientifically rigorous, and practical information on a range of key, evidence-based psychological interventions for clinicians.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jessica Davies is a BABCP accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer. She qualified as a CBT therapist in 2013 from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, and has since worked in NHSTT, student services and private practice. She is currently Portfolio Co-Director for the Masters in Clinical Associate in Psychology Degree Apprenticeship and CBT Lead for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, both at the University of Exeter. In addition, she works as a Research Therapist for the Accept Clinic at the Mood Disorders Centre, and is an Associate Editor of the BABCP Journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Paul Salkovskis is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford. From April 2018 he has been Director of the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health, the Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research and The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is President BABCP and Editor in Chief of the BABCP Journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and an Honorary Fellow of the Association.
Professor Ken Laidlaw, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with world-leading expertise in the psychology of ageing, cognitive behavioural therapy for older people and attitudes to ageing. He is Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the University of Exeter and part-time Consultant Clinical Psychologist with NHS Highland in Scotland. In 2025 he was made an honorary Fellow of the BABCP in recognition of outstanding contribution to the development of CBT in the UK. Ken is widely published in peer-reviewed academic journals and is the author and co-author of a number of the influential books on CBT with Older People, emotional disorders in late life and clinical geropsychology. He has worked as a clinical psychologist with older people in the NHS both in England and Scotland for more than three decades and in clinical psychology training since the late 1990s, leading two different Doctoral Training Programmes in Clinical Psychology. He has been responsible for developing manuals for various clinical trials and led the development of a cross-cultural Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ), which was trialed in no fewer than 20 countries across the world.
CONTENTS
Forword Judith S. Beck
Part I. An Overview of the Model:
1. An historical overview of cognitive behavioural therapy Ken Laidlaw
2. The supporting theory of cognitive behavioural therapy Ken Laidlaw
3. Efficacy of CBT: a brief outline and review Ken Laidlaw
Part II. The Model of CBT into Practice:
4. What is cognitive behaviour therapy Jessica Davies
5. The goals of cognitive behavioural therapy Jessica Davies
6. The specific techniques of cognitive behavioural therapy Jessica Davies
7. The structure of cognitive behavioural therapy Jessica Davies
8. Psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention in CBT Jessica Davies
Part III. Application and Adaptations for Mental Health Presentations:
9. Adaptations of the original model of cognitive behavioural therapy Jessica Davies and Ken Laidlaw
10. Anxiety disorders Jessica Davies
11. Specific phobias Ken Laidlaw
12. Panic disorder Jessica Davies and Paul Salkovskis
13. Social anxiety disorder Jessica Davies and Rachel Handley
14. Generalised anxiety disorder Saevar Már Gústavsson and Paul Salkovskis
15. Obsessive compulsive or related disorders Jessica Davies
16. Obsessive compulsive disorder Jessica Davies and Paul Salkovskis
17. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) Jessica Davies
18. Illness anxiety disorder Jessica Davies and Paul Salkovskis
19. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Jessica Davies and Rachel Handley
20. Depression Jessica Davies and Ken Laidlaw
21. CBT for psychosis and complex mental health (PCMH) Sean Harper and David Carmichael
Part IV. Application of CBT in Different Populations and Settings:
22. Adaptations for specific populations Ken Laidlaw
23. Evidenced-based age-appropriate CBT with older people Ken Laidlaw
24. Using CBT with family caregivers of persons living with dementia Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Jennifer Ramsey, Ann Choryan Bilbrey and Julian Montoro-Rodriguez
25. CBT for children and young people Mike Turnball and Markku Wood
26. Adaptations for specific events: immediately after a traumatic event Rachel Handley
27. Cognitive behavioural therapy in primary care Jessica Davies
28. Group cognitive behavioural therapy Jessica Davies
29. Conjoint format – couple's therapy Jessica Davies
30. Internet and telephone delivery Jessica Davies and Ken Laidlaw
31. Computerised CBT self-help approaches Jessica Davies, Ken Laidlaw and Bruno Kajiyama
32. Developing and progressing as a CBT therapist Jessica Davies and Paul Salkovskis Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Series: Cambridge Guides to the Psychological Therapies
May 2025
254 x 203 mm 435pp
978-1-316-51329-3 Hardback
£120.00 / US$160.00
NEUROSCIENCE OF ATTENTION
Joseph B. Hopfinger
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Attention is critical to our daily lives, from simple acts of reading or listening to a conversation to the more demanding situations of trying to concentrate in a noisy environment or driving on a busy roadway. This book offers a concise introduction to the science of attention, featuring real-world examples and fascinating studies of clinical disorders and brain injuries. It introduces cognitive neuroscience methods and covers the different types and core processes of attention. The links between attention, perception, and action are explained, along with exciting new insights into the brain mechanisms of attention revealed by cutting-edge research. Learning tools – including an extensive glossary, chapter reviews, and suggestions for further reading –highlight key points and provide a scaffolding for use in courses. This book is ideally suited for graduate or advanced undergraduate students as well as for anyone interested in the role attention plays in our lives.
KEY FEATURES
• Each chapter starts with clear ‘Learning Objectives’ and ends with ‘Chapter Summaries’, ‘Review Questions’, and ‘Suggested Readings’
• Boxes highlighting current controversies are included to spark interest in ongoing debates, and each chapter is broken down into accessible sections
• Full color reproductions of important neuroscience results and original figures explaining important methods and theories are integrated within each chapter
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph B. Hopfinger is a Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive Neuroscience. He has also received the Brain Research Young Investigator Award.
CONTENTS
1. What is attention?; 2. Attention in everyday life; 3. Investigating the brain: methods of cognitive neuroscience in attention research; 4. Deficits in attention; 5. The neural effects of attentional selection in the brain; 6. Voluntary versus involuntary attention; 7. The control of attention: neural systems and mechanisms; 8. Temporal attention: Timing and rhythmic processes in the brain; 9. Predictive coding models of attention: turning Perception on its head.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, general readers Series: Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology
June 2025
KEY FEATURES
• Challenges existing stereotypes associated with quantum physics, namely that physicists are men, and that scientific genius is a masculine trait
• Offers insight into the reasons for the invisibility of women in the history of science, examining the complex forces which sustain the heroic myth of fundamental science as the creation of solitary male prodigies
• Uses a broad definition of quantum physics to include old quantum theory and associated philosophical conundrums to highlight the richness and diversity of scientific discovery of the last century
POPULAR SCIENCE
WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
Beyond
Knabenphysik
Edited by Patrick Charbonneau
Duke University, North Carolina
Michelle Frank
Margriet van der
Heijden
Eindhoven University of Technology
Daniela Monaldi
York University, Toronto
Capturing the stories of sixteen women who made significant contributions to the development of quantum physics, this anthology highlights how, from the very beginning, women played a notable role in shaping one of the most fascinating and profound scientific fields of our time. Rigorously researched and written by historians, scientists, and philosophers of science, the findings in this interdisciplinary book transform traditional physics historiography. Entirely new sources are included alongside established sources that are examined from a fresh perspective. These concise biographies serve as a valuable counterweight to the prevailing narrative of male genius, and demonstrate that in the history of quantum physics, women of all backgrounds have been essential contributors all along. Accessible and engaging, this book is relevant for a wide audience including historians, scientists and science educators, gender theorists and sociologists.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Patrick Charbonneau is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Duke University. His research focuses on theoretical aspects of soft matter and statistical physics. He also co-curated an exhibit on macromolecular visualization, leads an oral history project, and lectures on the history of chemistry.
Michelle Frank is a 2024–2025 Public Scholar with the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was the 2023–2024 Sloan Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan and an MA from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a former fellow with the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Margriet van der Heijden is a particle physicist by training and a part time Professor of Science Communication in Physics at the Applied Physics Department of Eindhoven University of Technology. She is also a renowned science journalist and writer in the Netherlands, having published several nonfiction books on women's contributions to physics and mathematics.
Daniela Monaldi is Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology and Society Department of York University, Canada. She teaches science and technology studies, the history of science, gender in STEM, and science, technology, and food. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. The spectrum of He+ as a proving ground for Bohr’s Model of the atom: a legacy of Williamina Fleming’s astrophysical discovery; 2. H. Johanna van Leeuwen: the other scientist behind the Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem; 3. Hertha Sponer, Maven of quantum spectroscopy; 4. Angular and career momentum: what Lucy Mensing contributed to physics and why she left the field; 5. Discouraging Jane: Dewey among the lucky generation of US physicists; 6. Laura Chalk and the stark effect; 7. Elizabeth Monroe Boggs: from quantum chemistry to the Manhattan project; 8. Excelsior! John Wheeler, Katharine Way, and the role of women in the exploration of the microcosm; 9. Sonja Ashauer from São Paulo to Cambridge: a journey to quantum electrodynamics; 10. Untangling entanglement history: early quantum contributions of Chien-Shiung Wu; 11. From quantum physics to ethics: Grete Hermann on Heisenberg’s Cut; 12. Women take the lead: a physics laboratory under the dictatorship in Portugal, 1940s–1960s ; 13. Carolyn Parker’s electronic frequencies; 14. The Chew–Low–Salzman method and Freda Friedman Salzman: a physicist between nuclear and social interactions; 15. Out of the ivory tower: Maria Lluïsa Canut and X-ray crystallography; 16. Ana María Cetto Kramis: light in quantum mechanics and open science; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students, general readers
July 2025
254 x 178 mm 608pp
978-1-00-954651-5 Hardback
£125.00 / US$160.00
THE PATTERN OF CHANGE
A Mathematical and Philosophical Study of How We See the World
Robert V. Moody University of Alberta Ming-Dao Deng
One of life’s most fundamental revelations is change. Presenting the fascinating view that pattern is the manifestation of change, this unique book explores the science, mathematics, and philosophy of change and the ways in which they have come to inform our understanding of the world. Through discussions on chance and determinism, symmetry and invariance, information and entropy, quantum theory and paradox, the authors trace the history of science and bridge the gaps between mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspectives. Change as a foundational concept is deeply rooted in ancient Chinese thought, and this perspective is integrated into the narrative throughout, providing philosophical counterpoints to customary Western thought. Ultimately, this is a book about ideas. Intended for a wide audience, not so much as a book of answers, but rather an introduction to new ways of viewing the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
KEY FEATURES
• Combines mathematics and philosophy to explore the relationship between pattern and change
• Uses examples from the world around us to illustrate how thinking has developed over time and in different parts of the world
• Includes chapters on information, dynamics, symmetry, chance, order, the brain, and quantum mechanics, all introduced gently and building progressively toward deeper insights
• Accompanied online by additional chapters and endnotes to explore topics of further interest
Robert V. Moody is a mathematician and co-discoverer of the Kac–Moody algebras, significant in mathematics and physics. He is a co-winner of the Wigner Medal and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (1980). He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and was the Founding Scientific Director of the Banff International Research Station (2001). He has published more than 100 papers on Lie theory and long-range aperiodic order.
Deng Ming-Dao is an author, artist, graphic designer, martial artist, and teacher. He is the author of twelve books on Daoism, including '365 Tao' (1992) and 'The Living I Ching' (2006), a translation and commentary on the ancient Chinese classic, 'The Book of Changes.' He brings a unique insight into traditional ideas of change and how patterns can be discerned using a combination of discrete and holistic approaches.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction; 2. The patterns of heaven; 3. The pendulum; 4. Difference, change, and information; 5. Chance; 6. Pattern systems defined; 7. Exploring the definition of pattern; 8. Entropy and synthesis; 9. Symmetry and invariance; 10. Pattern systems and the brain; 11. Waves; 12. Return; 13. Quantum; 14. Quantum patterns; 15. Afterword; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009546515 four additional chapters, endnotes
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Amateurs/enthusiasts, undergraduate students, general readers
January 2026
229 x 152 mm c.478pp
978-1-00-966247-5 Paperback
£16.99 / US$24.95
POPULAR SCIENCE
STILL NO MIRACLES NEEDED
How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
Mark Z. Jacobson
Stanford University
What if we don’t need ‘miracle technologies’ to solve the climate problem? What if the technologies we need are already available? And what if we can use those existing technologies to ensure reliable electricity, heat supplies, and energy security? In a revised and updated edition of his award-winning climate bestseller, No Miracles Needed, the world’s premier thinker on energy futures and ‘one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy’, Mark Z. Jacobson reveals how nations, communities, and individuals can solve the climate crisis most effectively, while simultaneously eliminating air pollution and providing energy security. Mark explains how existing technologies can harness, store, and transmit energy from wind, water, and solar sources to ensure reliable electricity and heat supplies. It includes new, cutting-edge technologies, additional new real-life case-studies about the solutions, and additional references. Written for everyone who cares about the future of our planet, this book advises individuals, policymakers, communities, and nations about what they can do to solve the problems identified, and the economic, health, and climate benefits of the solutions.
KEY FEATURES
• Lays out the framework for how to solve the climate, air pollution and energy security problems of our times; including an honest analysis of what we should not be doing
• Provides up-to-date information on the technologies available now to solve these problems
• Provides suggestions on what individual communities, states and countries can do to solve these problems
• Discusses the policies needed and the cost benefits, land requirements, health benefits and climate benefits of a transition to wind, solar, and water sources of energy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. He has published seven books and 190 papers. He received the 2018 Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022, he was ranked the world's most impactful scientist in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and #6 in Energy among those first publishing past 1985. In 2023, he was named one Worth Magazine's top 100 globally 'who have made an impact on the world this year.' He was an expert witness in the first US climate trial to win, Held v. Montana, and first world climate case to settle, Navahine v. Hawai'i. He has appeared on the David Letterman Show and co-founded The Solutions Project. His work is the scientific basis of the Green New Deal and 100% renewable energy laws worldwide.
CONTENTS
Foreword; Preface; 1. What problems are we trying to solve?; 2. WWS solutions for electricity generation; 3. WWS solutions for electricity storage; 4. WWS solutions for transportation; 5. WWS solutions for buildings; 6. WWS solutions for industry; 7. Solutions for non-energy emissions; 8. What doesn’t help; 9. Electricity grids; 10. Photovoltaics and solar radiation; 11. Onshore and offshore wind energy; 12. Steps in developing 100 percent WWS roadmaps; 13. Keeping the grid stable with 100 percent WWS; 14. Timeline and policies needed to transition; 15. My journey.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, undergraduate students, professionals
December 2025
229 x 152 mm c.202pp
978-1-00-968735-5 Hardback
c. £105.00 / c. US$135.00
THE MATHEMATICS OF ORIGAMI
Joseph O’Rourke Smith College, Massachusetts
When you see a paper crane, what do you think of? A symbol of hope, a delicate craft, The Karate Kid? What you might not see, but is ever present, is the fascinating mathematics underlying it. Origami is increasingly applied to engineering problems, including origami-based stents, deployment of solar arrays in space, architecture, and even furniture design. The topic is actively developing, with recent discoveries at the frontier (e.g., in rigid origami and in curved-crease origami) and an infusion of techniques and algorithms from theoretical computer science. The mathematics is often advanced, but this book instead relies on geometric intuition, making it accessible to readers with only a high school geometry and trigonometry background. Through careful exposition, more than 150 color figures, and 49 exercises all completely solved in an Appendix, the beautiful mathematics leading to stunning origami designs can be appreciated by students, teachers, engineers, and artists alike.
KEY FEATURES
• Allows readers to visualize folding in action with 3D animations and to try techniques themselves with downloadable templates
• Introduces mathematical topics in asides to bring unfamiliar readers up to speed while advanced readers can skip ahead
• Reinforces concepts through 49 solved exercises graded into three categories
• Gives a glimpse of unsolved problems beyond the frontie
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph O'Rourke is Olin Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Smith College where he has a joint appointment in Mathematics. He has written or coauthored eight books, including two textbooks and two books written for high school students: 'How to Fold It' (2011) and 'Pop-Up Geometry' (2022). His research is in computational geometry, developing algorithms for geometric computations, and he has published 175 papers in journals and conference proceedings in this area. He has won several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987 and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2001. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2012.
CONTENTS
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Stamp folding; 3. Flat vertex folds; 4. Flat folding is hard; 5. Rigid origami and degree-4 vertices; 6. Origami design; 7. Fold & 1-cut; 8. Curved crease origami; 9. Self-folding origami; 10. Origamizer; 11. Beyond: topics not covered; 12. Solutions to exercises; References; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, academic researchers, undergraduate students
June 2025
198 x 129 mm 210pp
978-1-00-927771-6 Paperback
£12.99 / US$16.99
A PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT CLOTHES
Kate Moran Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Clothes are much more than just what we put on in the morning. They express our identity; they can be an independent statement or the result of coercion; and they have deeply entrenched historical, political, and social aspects. Kate Moran explores the connections between clothes and philosophy, showing how clothes can illustrate and pose philosophical problems, and how philosophical ideas influence clothing. She discusses what it might mean for an article of clothing to be beautiful; how we communicate with clothes; how we use clothes to navigate our social existence; and how our social existence leaves its mark on our clothes. She also considers the curious relationship between philosophers and children’s clothes, legal restrictions on clothing, textile waste, and labor conditions of textile workers. Her absorbing and engaging portrait of our clothes helps us to understand an important and underexplored aspect of our lives.
KEY FEATURES
• Considers discussions and debates surrounding cultural appropriation, the environmental impact of clothing production and consumption, and issues related to race and clothing
• Readers will have the opportunity to consider how these philosophical concepts are illustrated in concrete, everyday examples
• Explores examples from fashion history to illustrate philosophical concepts
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University. She is the author of Community and Progress in Kant's Moral Philosophy (2012) and Kant's Ethics (Cambridge, 2022).
CONTENTS
List of figures; Preface; 1. Fashion, function, and fine art; 2. Clothing, identity, and communication; 3. The social life of clothing; 4. Legislation and appropriation; 5. Gender and clothing; 6. Children’s clothing; 7. The ethics of clothing production; Notes; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, graduate students
Series: A Philosopher Looks At
October 2025
178 x 127 mm c.202pp c.150pp 978-1-00-920730-0 Paperback c. £14.99 / c. US$19.99
UNDERSTANDING THE TREE OF LIFE
Kevin Omland
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Challenge outdated views of evolution and embrace a clearer understanding of life’s incredible diversity with this enlightening exploration of evolutionary trees. Far from being a linear ladder of progress, evolution is a vast, branching tree where all species-humans included-are evolutionary cousins, not ancestors or descendants. Every organism alive today shares the same 3.5 billion years of evolutionary history, uniquely adapted to its own environment. This book takes readers on a journey through the tree of life, beginning with humanity’s closest relatives and expanding outward to the most distantly related organisms. By unravelling the misconceptions perpetuated by news articles and traditional depictions of evolution, it offers a fresh perspective on life’s interconnectedness. With engaging insights and vivid illustrations, this book fosters a deeper appreciation for the remarkable complexity and diversity of life on Earth, making it an essential read for anyone curious about our evolutionary story.
KEY FEATURES
• Presents illustrative examples of common misconceptions in tree thinking and guides readers toward a clearer understanding of evolutionary trees
• Highlights fascinating organisms across the tree of life, showing how evolutionary trees reveal the evolution of present-day species’ characteristics
• Features examples of organisms from around the world, making concepts relatable, with emphasis on implications for human medicine and conservation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Omland is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, specializing in avian evolution, behavior, and conservation. His research focuses on using phylogenies to explore the evolution of colour and song in birds, with particular interest in female song in New World orioles and the conservation of the endangered Bahama Oriole. Passionate about teaching, he emphasizes biodiversity, evolutionary trees, and understanding humanity's place in the tree of life. Kevin is an experienced author and has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed two book chapters on phylogeny and evolutionary biology.
CONTENTS
Foreword Kostas Kampourakis; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the tree of life – Drawing trees and why there is no trunk; 2. Human origins – We are African…mostly; 3. Primates – Our closest living cousins; 4. Which mammals are the most primitive – None of us; 5. Birds are reptiles, Birds are theropod dinosaurs; 6. The Crawl onto land – Tetrapod evolution and the gain and loss of limbs; 7. Which fishes are ‘primitive’? Do fish even exist?; 8. Animal evolution – Sponges and comb jellies are our cousins; 9. Plants, animals, fungi and ‘protists’ – We are eukaryotes; 10. Archaea then bacteria are our most distant cousins; Concluding remarks; Summary of common misunderstandings; References and further reading; Figure credits; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students Series: Understanding Life
July 2025 216 x 140 mm 270pp
978-1-00-959743-2
CHRISTIANITY AT THE CROSSROADS
The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era
David N. Hempton
Harvard
University
Combining expansive storytelling with striking analysis of ‘networks, nodes, and nuclei’, David Hempton’s new book explains major developments in global Christianity between two communication revolutions: print and the internet. His novel approach (replete with vivid metaphor – we read of wildflower gardens and fungi, of exploding fireworks sending sparks of possibility in all directions, and of forests with vast interconnected root systems hidden below our vision) allows him to look beyond institutional hierarchies, traverse national and denominational boundaries, and think more deeply about the underlying conditions promoting, or resisting, adaptation and change. It also enables him to explore the crossroads, or junction boxes, where individuals and ideas encountered different traditions and from which something fresh and dynamic emerged. Cogently addressing the rise of empires, transformation of gender relations, and demographic shifts in world Christianity from the West to the Global South, this book is a masterful contribution to contemporary religious history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES
• Allows readers to get a big-picture, bottom-up overview of some of the most important developments in global Christianity over the past five hundred years, looking beyond church hierarchies at the stories of the marginal, demotic and sometimes disenfranchised
• David Hempton is one of the foremost historians of religion and of church history currently at work, and this book is much anticipated
• A revised and expanded version of the 2021 Gifford Lectures, one of the most prestigious and famous lecture series in the worldwide humanities
• Introduces a new theory of change around the concepts of networks, nodes, and nuclei, while using ordinary, easily comprehensible, language and examples throughout
David N. Hempton is University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, Harvard University, where he also served as Dean from 2012–2023. An internationally acclaimed religious historian, he is the author of numerous books focused on the early modern and modern periods, several of them award winners. His publications include Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850 (Hutchinson, 1984, which in the same year won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society), Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press, 2005), Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (Yale University Press, 2008) and The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I. B. Tauris, 2011, winner of the 2012 Albert C. Outler Prize of the American Society of Church History). He has delivered, over the course of his career, several sets of endowed lectures including the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, the F. D. Maurice Lectures at King's College London, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, from which the present book is derived. He is in addition a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
CONTENTS
1. Towards a theory of transnational religious change; 2. Religious networks in the Reformation era; 3. Religious networks in the age of empire in New Spain and West Africa; The Protestant International: pietism, premillenialism, and pentecostalism; 5. Women’s networks: opportunities and limitations; 6. ‘Only Connect!’: Networked Christianity in the digital age.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students
READING BIBLICAL
READING BIBLICAL GREEK
A Graded Reader for Beginners
Steffen G. Jenkins
Union Theological Seminary, Oxford
A Graded Reader for Beginners
January 2026
229 x 152 mm c.308pp
978-1-108-84441-3 Hardback
c. £70.00 / c. US$90.00
KEY FEATURES
• This reader can be used to reinforce lessons in proven textbooks, namely The Elements of New Testament Greek by Jeremy Duff, teaching accents alongside each chapter and providing students with a with a supplemental section “Extra Material.” Students are able to re-read the same Greek texts, and they will find a separate set of comprehension questions and answers that help them grasp advanced matters
• Provides lengthy Greek texts that have a sustained plot, rather than disconnected sentences, which helps deepen student comprehension and engagement
• Uses Greek Texts from outside the New Testament, so that students engage with the texts instead of relying on memory to translate them Additional excercises
Foreword by Jeremy Duff
Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing what they once learned. Designed to supplement and reinforce The Elements of New Testament Greek, by Jeremy Duff, each chapter of this textbook provides lengthy, plot-driven texts that will be accessible as students study each chapter of The Elements. Each text is accompanied by detailed questions, which test comprehension of content from recent lessons and review challenging topics from previous chapters. The graded nature of the texts, together with the copious notes and comprehension questions, makes this an ideal resource for learning, reviewing or re-entering Greek. The focus of this resource is on reading with understanding, and the exercises highlight how Greek texts convey meaning. Finally, this book moves on from first-year Greek, with sections that cover the most important advanced topics thoroughly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steffen G. Jenkins is Lecturer in Greek and Old Testament at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom. He has served as Lecturer in Old Testament at various seminaries in Cuba and was previously a tutor in Biblical Languages at Tyndale House, in Cambridge, England. He is the author of Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places (2022), Scripture Is Inspired and a forthcoming commentary on Leviticus.
CONTENTS
1. The alphabet; 2. Basic sentences; 3. Cases and gender; 4. Prepositions; 5. Adjectives; 6. The tenses; 7. Moods; 8. Other patterns of nouns and verbs; 9. Pronouns and conjunctions; 10. Complex sentences; 11. Special verbs; 12. The third declension, part 1; 13. The third declension, part 2; 14. Participles; 15. The passive and voices; 16. The perfect; 17. The subjunctive; 18. Using verbs; 19. Extra verbs; 20. Final pieces; 21. Next steps.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students
STEFFEN G. JENKINS FOREWORD BY JEREMY DUFF
June 2025
229 x 152 mm 370pp
978-1-00-958288-9 Hardback
£35.00 / US$44.99
CLASSICS
THE WORLD OF HOMER
Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry
Michael B. Cosmopoulos
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origins remain the subject of heated debate. Were they composed in a single era or over the course of centuries? Were they crafted by one or by many poets? Do they reflect historical reality? These and other important questions are answered in this book. Using a fresh, dynamic approach, Michael Cosmopoulos reconstructs the world of the Homeric poems and explores the interplay between poetry, social memory, and material culture. By integrating key insights from archaeology, philology, anthropology, and oral tradition, he offers a nuanced perspective of the emergence and early development of Greek epic. His widecanvas approach enables readers to appreciate the complexity of the Homeric world and gain a deeper understanding of the intricate factors that shaped these magnificent poems.
KEY FEATURES
• Uses a unified-field approach, which combines archaeology, Homeric studies, textual analyses of Linear B tablets, social memory, and orality studies
• Provides comprehensive coverage of the entire Homeric world
• Provides readers with a nuanced explanation of the emergence of Greek epic poetry
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Missouri-St Louis. An acclaimed archaeologist specializing in the Greek Bronze Age, he has excavated at Mycenae, Eleusis, Iklaina, and other major sites, and has published numerous books and scholarly articles. His works include Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries (2015, also by Cambridge University Press). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academy of Athens. For his contributions to scholarship he has been decorated with the Gold Cross of the Order of Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic.
CONTENTS
Introduction; Part I. Homeric Scholarship; 1. Homer and Homeric studies; Part II. The World of Homer: 2. Historical background; 3. Society and politics; 4. Political geography; 5. Economy; 6. War; 7. Religion; Part III. History, Memory and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry: 8. Historical elements in the epics; 9. Social memory and epic composition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
JEREMY HARTNETT
THE REMARKABLE LIFE, DEATH, AND AFTERLIFE OF AN ORDINARY ROMAN
A Social History
Jeremy
Hartnett Wabash College, Indiana
THE REMARKABLE LIFE, DEATH, AND AFTERLIFE OF AN ORDINARY ROMAN
A Social History
January 2025
228 x 152 mm 204pp
978-1-00-953606-6
When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius’ biography, as well as his wife’s, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument’s scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries.
KEY FEATURES
• Explores the life of one individual who is otherwise little-known, offering readers greater depth and nuance of ancient life
• Showcases to readers the ways that ancient artwork has been granted different meanings through the centuries
• Offers a compelling narrative and explores many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, which modern readers are curious about
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremy Hartnett is Professor of Classics at Wabash College, where he holds the Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. His book The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome (2017) was awarded the James Henry Breasted Award by the American Historical Association.
CONTENTS
Introduction; Part I. The Life and Death of Flavius Agricola: 1. The Monument, The Epitaph, and Their Setting;	2. The Person, A Life, and Its Presentation; 3. Flavia Primitiva: Wife, Mother, Casta Cultrix; 4. Flavia Primitiva, Experience, and Community; 5. To Eat is to Be? Flavius’ Worldview in Perspective; 6. Meeting Flavius at the Tomb; Part II. The Many Afterlives of Flavius Agricola: 7. Flavius Agricola in Early Modern Rome; 8. Flavius in the Modern World; Epilogue.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
March 2026
216 x 140 mm c.250pp 30 b/w illus. 978-1-00-962769-6 Hardback c. £22.00 / c. US$29.95
WHITE SUPREMACY
A Short History
John Broich Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
When did whiteness begin? Was its rise inevitable? In this powerful history, John Broich traces the emergence, evolution and contradictions of white supremacy, from its roots in the British empire, to the racial politics of the present. Focussing on the English-speaking world, he examines how ideas of whiteness connect to the history of slavery, Enlightenment thought, European colonialism, Social Darwinism and eugenics, fascism and capitalism. Far from being the natural order of things, Broich demonstrates that white supremacy is a brittle concept. For centuries, it has been constantly shifting, rebranding, and justifying itself in the face of resistance. The oft-repeated excuse that its architects were simply “men of their time” collapses under scrutiny. With brutal honesty, Broich exposes the lies embedded in the grim biography of an invented race. White Supremacy calls for a deeper understanding of the past, that we might undo its grip on the present.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES
• A much-needed historical perspective on the roots and evolution of white supremacy
• Shows that white supremacy defies national borders and has never been a localised issue
• Breaks down the notion that white supremacy is timeless or natural
• Traces the emergence of white supremacy to reveal the the history-bound nature of invented races
CONTENTS
Introduction; Part I. The Long Evolution of a ‘Master Race’ and ‘Slave Race’: 1. Before Whiteness, 400s BCE–1600; 2. The Emergence of Whiteness – Gradually and Suddenly, 1400–1730s; 3. Defining Whiteness through the ‘Enlightenment,’ 1600–1800; Part II. Redefining the ‘Master’ and Inventing the White Man’s Burden: 4. The Empire of Whiteness, 1600–1830s; 5. Between White Father and Elimination, 1800–1865; 6. Creating the White Man’s Burden, 1865–1930s; 7. White Supremacy’s Death-Grip, 1930s–Present; Final Reflections and Prospects for the Future.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers
June 2025
229 x 152 mm 320pp
978-1-00-955052-9 Hardback
£30.00 / US$39.99
THE WOMEN WHO THREW CORN
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Martin Austin Nesvig
University of Miami
This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man’s mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god while sweeping at midnight; the wealthy Basque woman with a tattoo of a red devil; and many others – routinely adapted Native ritual into hybrid magic and cosmology. Through a radical rethinking of colonial knowledge, Martin Austin Nesvig uncovers a world previously left in the shadows of historical writing, revealing a fascinating and vibrant multi-ethnic community of witches, midwives, and healers.
KEY FEATURES
• Reveals that Mesoamerican culture had a profound impact on Spanish and African women in colonial Mexico
• Analyzes witchcraft, sorcery, and healing as performed by women in sixteenth-century Mexico
• Identifies the specific rituals, behaviors, and materials native to Mesoamerica that non-native peoples adopted into creolized society
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martin Austin Nesvig is Professor of History at the University of Miami, and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of five books including Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico (2009) and Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain (2018).
CONTENTS
Introduction; Part I. Witches and Their Enemies in the Early Modern World: 1. Demonological and anti-sorcery theories in Spain; 2. Mesoamerican magic-medicine; 3. Inquisitions, sorcery investigations, and the law in Mexico, 1521–1571; Part II. Magic in the 1520s and 1530s: 4. Nahua women teach Iberian women how to cast spells; 5. A multi-ethnic world of magic; 6. African witches in Mexico City; 7. Bad girls club: Moriscas, North Africans, and Canarians in Mexico; Part III. The Cultural Hybrid Healer-Witch: 8. The evil eye and a mysterious tattoo; 9. Healing and magic in Oaxaca and Michoacán, 1561–1562; 10. Mulatas incorporate Peyote and Patle; 11. Catalina de Peraza, Canarian bad girl personified; Afterword; Select bibliography; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, academic researchers, undergraduate students
November 2025
228 x 152 mm c.300pp
978-1-00-964080-0 Hardback
£95.00 / US$130.00
HISTORY
NEGOTIATING IMPERIALISM
Murakami Naojirō's Archival Diplomacy
Birgit Tremml-Werner
Stockholms Universitet
In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historiandiplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archive and translation in knowledge creation. Combining empirical examples including early modern diplomatic missions to Europe, indigenous Taiwanese history, colonial education and post-war cultural diplomacy, this work emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history and memory. She argues that the Japanese case also reveals wider questions around the myth-making of nation states, and the extent to which 'historiographical violence' has silenced the voices of actors, including Indigenous peoples and women, within the archival record. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
KEY FEATURES
• Introduces theories of imperialism and knowledge creation in the context of the Japanese Empire
• Demonstrates how empiricism and translation shaped ideas of the Japanese presence in Southeast Asia since the sixteenth century
• Asks wider questions of asymmetries in the narratives and concepts shaping global intellectual history
• This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Birgit Tremml-Werner is Senior Lecturer in global history at Stockholm University.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction; 2. Translator historian and scholar diplomat: Murakami’s life of global knowledge; 3. Formal diplomatic relations and the untranslatability of Gaikō; 4. Entangled biographies and the imperialist creation of historical knowledge; 5. Nan'yō shi: How to position Japan in Southeast Asian history; 6. From Takasago’s past to Taiwan’s history: Murakami between silencing and exaggerating; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
COLD WAR COMRADES COLD WAR COMRADES
December 2025
978-1-00-963331-4 Hardback
COLD WAR COMRADES
An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance
Gregg A. Brazinsky George Washington University, Washington DC
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
July 2025
229 x 152 mm 600pp
33 b/w illus. 9 maps
978-1-00-954119-0 Hardback
£30.00 / US$34.95
KEY FEATURES
• The fullest account of the campaign to-date including joint warfare, the role of Filipino guerrillas, and the development of combat effective forces on land, at sea, and in the air
• Provides new insights into military leadership by examining ground, air, and naval commanders in large-scale combat operations and their role in determining success or failure
• Offers a valuable case study of the efficacy of hybrid warfare in an extended military campaign
REDEMPTION
MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
Peter R. Mansoor
Ohio State University
Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested occupation to the US Army’s return to Leyte and the subsequent battles of liberation. Central to the book is a re-evaluation of the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial military commanders in US history. At times brilliant, courageous, and politically astute, MacArthur was also egotistical, publicity hungry, often ignorant of conditions at the front, and self-certain to a fault. In their return to the Philippines, MacArthur and his forces liberated millions of Filipinos and severed a critical Japanese resource lifeline. But he also achieved something much rarer – redemption on the same ground and against the same enemy that defeated him earlier in the war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter R. Mansoor is a retired US Army colonel and the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. His previous books include The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945 (1999) recipient of the Society for Military History and Army Historical Society distinguished book awards.
CONTENTS
Preface; Note on the Text; 1. Catastrophe; 2. The Long Road Back; 3. The Resistance; 4. The Decision; 5. Leyte Gulf; 6. The Battle for Leyte; 7. The Invasion of Luzon; 8. The Battle of Manila; 9. Clearing Luzon; 10. The Central and Southern Philippines; 11. Rebirth; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; US Division Nicknames; A Note on Sources; Endnotes; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: General readers
February 2026
229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-00-968067-7 Hardback c. £26.99 / c. US$34.99
STATISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
A History of China’s Reforms and Reversals Second edition
Yasheng Huang
MIT Sloan School of Management
Statism with Chinese Characteristics offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese economy and its impact on the world. By diving into details and data such as the private nature of rural enterprises, early financial reforms, and the critical role of initial political openness, Yasheng Huang challenges the popular view that credits China’s success to a unique blend of government interventions and autocratic governance. Huang shows how China’s growth was driven by private entrepreneurship and gradual liberalization, not by infrastructural development, statist finance, and meritocratic autocracy. He confronts assumptions regarding the conventional wisdom about the Chinese economy, explicitly engaging with the policy pivot from the 1980s to the 1990s and infrastructure as a crucial factor behind China’s growth. Underscoring the significant role of politics in shaping economic outcomes, this second edition explores the challenges facing the Chinese economy today, emphasizing how political changes dictate economic reforms, rather than the opposite.
KEY FEATURES
• Provides more data, detail and fact-driven information than typical books on this and related topics
• Offers a timely examination as the Chinese economy may be on a brink of some major developments
• Written in a style accessible to an educated general public
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of 12 books in Chinese and English, two of which have been selected as a Best Book of the Year, Foreign Affairs in 2023 and Economist in 2008. He is the recipient of the Sloan Foundation Grant, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, SSRCMacArthur Fellowship, US Institute of Peace Grant, and the Hoover Fellowship.
CONTENTS
1. A treadmill of reforms; 2. The true China miracle; 3. A tale of two decades; 4. What is wrong with Shanghai, and with its model?; 5. The state strikes back: the era of statism; 6. Statism with Chinese characteristics.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, general readers
January 2026
216 x 140 mm c.324pp
978-1-00-955977-5 Hardback
£30.00 / US$39.99
KEY FEATURES
• Presents the long-term historical view of China from medieval times to the present
• Provides a nuanced analysis of both academic knowledge and popular perceptions of China
• Suggests ways of moving beyond polarizing views on China
THE CHINA QUESTION
Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear
Ho-fung Hung
Johns Hopkins University
For centuries, Western scholars portrayed China either as a land of superior morality, economy, and governance or as a formidable country of pagans posing a global threat to Western values. Idealized images of China were used to shame rulers for incompetence, while China was demonized as an external threat to cover domestic political failures. In the twentieth century, the geopolitics of global capitalism have facilitated more nuanced perspectives, but the diversifying of knowledge about China is far from complete. In this thought-provoking study, Ho-fung Hung finds that both Western elites and China’s authoritarian regime today continue to promote many orientalist stereotypes to advance their economic interests and political projects. He shows how big-picture historical, social and economic changes are inextricably linked to fluctuations in the realm of ideas. Only open debate can overcome the extremes of fantasy and fear.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ho-fung Hung is Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
CONTENTS
Preface; Introduction: Orientalism in the longue durée; Part I. Catholic Scholarship: 1. From Pax Mongolica to the long sixteenth century; 2. The seventeenth-century crisis and the rise of Sinophilia; Part II. Enlightenment Philosophy: 3. Early Enlightenment Sinophilia; 4. Late Enlightenment Sinophobia; Part III. Institutionalized Orientalism: 5. Romantic Sinology after the French Revolution; 6. Scientific-racist Sinology in the age of empire; Part IV. Cold War Area Studies: 7. From Sinology to China Studies; 8. The ‘Asiatic mode of production’ myth; Part V. Self-Orientalism: 9. Self-orientalizing nation building; 10. Contested Confucianism; Conclusion: de-orientalizing triumph, re-orientalizing perils.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
May 2025
229 x 152 mm 215pp
978-1-00-959147-8 Hardback
£30.00 / US$39.99
HISTORY
NEW HEBREWS
Making National Culture in Zion
Yaron Peleg University of Cambridge
The literature on Zionism as a political ideology is extensive, but this book takes a different approach by focusing on the cultural dimensions of the movement and their profound impact on the history of Israel and the Jewish people. New Hebrews explores the cultural history of Zionism, starting from the meeting of the first Zionist congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, and culminating with the establishment of the State of Israel fifty-one years later in 1948. Yaron Peleg explores how innovative approaches in language, literature, architecture, art, music, and body culture transformed modern Jewish culture. His study delves into the contentious facets of early Zionist culture, such as colonialism, social engineering, minority discourse, and Jewish-Arab relations. New Hebrews presents an interdisciplinary examination of nationalism, drawing from a diverse array of primary sources to uncover the psychology of modern Israel. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
• Provides a unique perspective into the cultural formation of modern Israel
• Offers an interdisciplinary study of nationalism
• Brings in a wide variety of primary sources, including letters, diaries, poetry, prose, and visual images
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES CONTENTS
• This book is also available as open access
Yaron Peleg is Kennedy-Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies at the University of Cambridge. His monographs include Directed by God, Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television (2016) and Israeli Culture Between the Two Intifadas (2008). He is co-editor of numerous scholarly anthologies, including New Directions in Israeli Media, Film, Television & Digital Content (2025), with Eran Kaplan and Ido Rosen.
Introduction; 1. Modern Hebrew language and literature; 2. Hebrew space and architecture; 3. New Hebrew bodies; 4. A new Hebrew festival calendar; 5. New Hebrew aesthetics; 6. New Hebrew sounds; Afterword.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, academic researchers, general readers
July 2025
229 x 152 mm c.275pp
978-1-00-937089-9 Paperback
£25.00 / US$33.00
GOOD JEWS
Philosemitism in Europe since the Holocaust
Gerard Daniel Cohen
Rice University, Houston
The Holocaust is now widely recognized as a central event in twentiethcentury Europe. But how did the genocide of the Jews affect European attitudes towards Jews, Judaism and Jewishness after 1945? While many histories of antisemitism exist, Good Jews offers an investigation of philosemitism – defined as a politics of post-Holocaust friendship. Gerard Daniel Cohen presents a critical exploration of the languages of philosemitism in mainstream European politics and culture from 1945 to the present day, with particular emphasis on Germany and France. Within this framework Cohen explores how the ‘Jewish question’, or the problem of Jewish difference and incorporation in Western countries during the postwar decades, has been distinctively foregrounded in the language of philosemitism. Ultimately, Good Jews demonstrates that philosemitic Europe is not an idealised love story, but a reflection of European attitudes towards Jews from the Holocaust to the present.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KEY FEATURES
• Offers a counterpoint to histories of antisemitism in post-war Europe
• Illuminates contemporary debates on Holocaust memory and the Israel-Palestine conflict
• Provides an empirical history of philosemitism, with particular focus on national case studies
Gerard Daniel Cohen is the Samuel W. & Goldye Marian Spain Associate Professor of Modern European History and Jewish Studies at Rice University. He specializes in the history of forced displacement after 1945, humanitarianism, and philosemitism in European thought and politics since the Holocaust.
CONTENTS
1. ‘Philosemitic Europe’: A Contradiction in Terms?; 2. From Antisemitism to Tactical Philosemitism (1945–1960); 3. Genesis of a Struggle: Anti-Antisemitism (1945–1948); 4. From Humanism to Israelophilia (1948–1967); 5. Birth Pangs: ‘Judeo-Christian Europe’ (1945–1965); 6. The Long 1960s and the Jews (1960–1980); 7. Archetypal Friends: EuroPhilosemitism (1980–2020); Epilogue: New Philosemitism and Its Critics: From the Turn of the 21st Century to October 7th, 2023; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, undergraduate students
November 2025
228 x 152 mm 500pp
978-0-521-11105-8 Hardback
£35.00 / US$45.00
DISTANT FRIENDS
AND INTIMATE ENEMIES
A History of American-Russian Relations
David
S. Foglesong
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Ivan Kurilla
Victoria I. Zhuravleva
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or affirmation of their national identities. As well as examining diplomatic, economic, and military interactions between the two countries, they illuminate how filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, missionaries and political activists have admired, disparaged, lionized, envied, satirized, loved, and hated people in the other land. The book shows how the stories they told and the images they created have shaped how the two countries have understood each other from the eighteenth century to the present and how often their violent clashes have arisen from mutual misunderstanding and misrepresentations.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
KEY FEATURES
• A very timely and valuable history in the context of strained relations which is also unique in being written by both American and Russian scholars
• Shifts traditional focus on diplomatic, military and economic dimensions toward cultural, intellectual and ideological factors
• Draws on a wide range of sources and illustrations including paintings, political cartoons, propaganda posters, and magazine covers
David Foglesong is a professor of history at Rutgers University. He is the author of The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire': The Crusade for a 'Free Russia' Since 1881 (2007) and America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920 (2014).
Ivan Kurilla was a professor of history and international relations at the European University at St. Petersburg before he was forced to leave Russia in 2024. He is the author of Transoceanic Partners: America and Russia in the 1830-50s, Frenemies: History of Opinions, Phantasies, Contacts, Mutual (Mis)Understanding of Russia and the USA, Americans and All the Rest (all in Russian).
Victoria I. Zhuravleva is a professor of history and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. She is the author of Understanding Russia in the United States: Images and Myths (in Russian) and The Common Past of Russians and Americans (both in Russian and English).
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. From First Contacts to Fledgling Diplomatic Relations, 1607–1807; 2. Diplomacy and Rebellions, 1807–1841; 3. Beginning of a Friendship: Cooperation, Crisis, and Transformation, 1841–1860; 4. The Noonday of Friendship, 1861–1881; 5. Romance and Revulsion, 1881–1901; 6. Collision and Revolution, 1901–1905; 7. Interactions and Contradictions, 1906–1914; 8. Wartime Honeymoon, 1914–1917; 9. Revolution and Intervention, 1917–1920; 10. From Estrangement to Engagement, 1921–1933; 11. Hopes and Horror, 1934–1941; 12. Allies, 1941–1945; 13. From Alliance to Enmity, 1945–1953; 14. Crises and Coexistence, 1953–1963; 15. Détente, 1964–1979; 16. From Armageddon to Accommodation, 1980–1989; 17. Transformation and Reversion, 1989–1999; 18. From Partners to Archenemies, 2000–2020; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students
May 2025
229 x 152 mm 386pp
978-1-00-954264-7 Paperback
£38.00 / US$50.00
THE RISE OF THE RUSSIAN HAWKS
Ideology and Politics from the Late Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia
Juliette Faure
FNRS – Université Libre de Bruxelles
Studying the interplay between ideology and politics in Russian governance, from the former USSR to contemporary Russia, this book examines why, despite the prohibition of state ideology in the 1993 Russian Constitution, Russian hawks endured beyond the 1991 regime change and have risen to political prominence as the chief ideologues of Russia’s confrontation against the West. Departing from realist and constructivist explanations of foreign policy focused on Vladimir Putin, Juliette Faure highlights the influence of elite groups with diverse strategic cultures and reveals how, even under authoritarian rule, a competitive space exists where rival elites contest their visions of national interests. Demonstrating the regime’s strategic use of ideological ambiguity to maintain policy flexibility, Faure offers a fresh lens on the domestic factors that have played into the Russian regime’s decision to wage war against Ukraine and their implications for international security, regional stability and the global balance of power.
KEY FEATURES
• Covers a wide historical period encompassing the late Soviet Union to contemporary Russia, highlighting elements of continuity and evolution across the 1991 regime change
• Draws on the theoretical approach of social history of ideas, combining meticulous archival research with immersive fieldwork to include interviews and ethnographic observations
• Introduces the concepts of ‘idea networks’ and ‘managed ideological pluralism’ – a departure from both realist approaches focused on material interests as explanatory variables of policy choices and from classic constructivist approaches oblivious to the interactional and competitive process through which idea producers seek policy influence
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Juliette Faure is a FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles* and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po in 2022. She received the Michael Freeden Prize for best article published in the Journal of Political Ideologies and is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Ideology Analysis (2025).
CONTENTS
1. Introduction; 2. Re-enchanting Soviet modernity (1960–85); 3. The emergence of the Russian hawks as an idea network (1985–99); 4. From fringe to mainstream: Mister Hexogen’s controversy (2001–2); 5. The rise of next-generation hawks in the 2000s; 6. Inside the regime’s market for ideology (2005–12); 7. Competing for Russia’s grand strategy (2012–22); 8. Shaping Russia’s wartime ideology (2022–24); 9. Conclusion; Annex 1: List of interviews; Annex 2: Professional occupation and network connections of the Izborskii Klub’s founding members (2012–2013); Annex 3: Professional occupation and biographical details of the Izborskii Klub members added in the period 20132021; References.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
ECONOMICS
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE
Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present
Third edition
August 2025
244 x 170 mm c.334pp
36 b/w illus. 4 maps
978-1-00-961398-9 Hardback
£105.00 / US$135.00
KEY FEATURES
• A pan-European history of economic development, situated within its wider global context, helps students to appreciate broader trends
• Contains revised and expanded case studies demonstrating how students can put economic theories in historical practice
• Connects economic history to modern global challenges today, especially sustainability
• Expands the scope of traditional economic history to include welfare, reflecting a broader understanding of societal well-being
• Incorporates innovative new research in areas from pre-history to the Eurozone crisis, allowing students to keep ahead of the most current themes emerging in their field
Additional web resources include data sets, podcasts and lecture slides
Karl Gunnar Persson
University of Copenhagen
Paul Sharp
University of Southern Denmark
Markus Lampe
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien, Austria
In this revised and updated edition, An Economic History of Europe re-establishes itself as the leading textbook on European economic history. With an expanded scope, from prehistory to the present, it will be invaluable source for students, educators and researchers seeking to better understand Europe’s long-run economic development. The authors cover key themes including the rise of institutions, technological advancements, globalization, and the Industrial Revolution, with a fresh emphasis on the wider impact of economic policies on welfare reflecting a broader understanding of societal well-being. The chronological structure, clear explanations, case studies, and minimal use of complex mathematics make this an accessible approach that allows students to apply economic theories in historical practice. The new edition also connects historical development to urgent contemporary issues such as modern-day sustainability goals. This comprehensive guide provides students with both a historical narrative of Europe’s economic transformation, and the essential tools for analysing it.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Karl Gunnar Persson was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and taught comparative economic history and globalization studies over five decades. His works include Pre-Industrial Economic Growth (1988) and Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900 (2000).
Paul Sharp is a professor of economics at the University of Southern Denmark and an editor for academic journals such as the Scandinavian Economic History Review. He is the co-author of A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry (2019).
Markus Lampe is professor of economic and social history at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is the co-author of A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry (2019).
CONTENTS
Introduction; 1. The making of Europe; 2. Europe from obscurity to economic recovery; 3. Population and resource constraints; 4. The nature and extent of economic growth in the pre-industrial epoch; 5. Institutions and efficiency; 6. Knowledge, technology transfer and convergence; 7. Money, credit and banking; 8. Trade and globalization; 9. Factor markets and globalization; 10. What (should) governments do; 11. Inequalities between individuals, households and nations; Appendix; Glossary.
Additional Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/9781009613989
Data sets, podcasts and lecture slides
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students
Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History
Karl Gunnar Persson, Paul Sharp and Markus Lampe Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present
May 2025
216 x 140 mm 267pp
978-1-00-958626-9 Paperback
£26.99 / US$35.99
KEY FEATURES
• Traces the history of transnational civic initiatives and the fair trade movement in particular
• Introduces postcolonial globalisation as a lens for understanding the shaping of the post-1945 world
• Reconsiders the history of humanitarianism by emphasising the everyday, material aspects of activism
ECONOMICS
FAIR TRADE
Humanitarianism in the Age of Postcolonial Globalization
Peter van Dam
Universiteit van Amsterdam
The fair trade movement has been one of the most enduring and successful civic initiatives to come out of the 1960s. In the first transnational history of the movement, Peter van Dam charts its ascendance and highlights how activists attempted to transform the global market in the aftermath of decolonization. Through original archival research into the trade of handicrafts, sugar, paper, coffee and clothes, van Dam demonstrates how the everyday, material aspects of fair trade activism connected the international politics of decolonization with the daily realities of people across the globe. He explores the different scales at which activists operated and the instruments they employed in the pursuit of more equitable economic relations between the global South and North. Through careful analysis of a now ubiquitous global movement, van Dam provides a vital new lens through which to view the history of humanitarianism in the age of postcolonial globalization.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter van Dam is Professor of Dutch History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the history of fair trade activism, sustainable consumption, and the role of religion in civic engagement.
CONTENTS
Introduction: shaping postcolonial globalization from below; 1. Handicrafts: humanitarianism after empire; 2. Sugar: goodbye to grand politics; 3. Paper: the politics of everyday life; 4. Coffee: turning towards the market; 5. Clothes: activism in a network society; Conclusion: humanitarianism in the era of postcolonial globalization.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Academic researchers, graduate students
June 2025
254 x 178 mm 281pp
978-1-00-949996-5 Hardback
£75.00 / US$95.00
THE GREAT DISRUPTION
How Geopolitics is Changing Companies, Managers, and Work
Srividya Jandhyala ESSEC Business School
In an era marked by new challenges – from trade wars and sanctions, to supply chain disruptions and political instability – understanding the relationship between geopolitics and business is more crucial than ever. How are companies impacted and why should they care? This book explores how geopolitical shifts, including the rise of China, the US-China tech competition, and regional conflicts, affect markets, industries, companies, managers, and employees. Uncovering the structural changes reshaping the global business environment, the business risks from an increasing national security focus, and the implications of trade wars and global conflicts on innovation, Srividya Jandhyala offers practical strategies and skills for managers and employees to manage these risks. With a focus on real world case studies and actionable insights for businesses, The Great Disruption is as an essential resource, offering a roadmap for companies to navigate an evolving but unpredictable global business landscape.
KEY FEATURES
• Integrates business, economic and political perspectives to explore why and how geopolitics matters for companies
• Offers a structured framework for thinking about the issues of geopolitics and how they impact different business stakeholders –including implications for company level strategic decision making, how managerial tasks are affected, and the ways in which the future of work is being reshaped
• Connects research and practice through detailed real-world examples and case studies relating to e-commerce and green energy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Srividya Jandhyala is an Associate Professor at ESSEC Business School, specializing in global strategy, geopolitics, and international business. An award-winning researcher with a Ph.D. from The Wharton School, she has published widely for academic and practitioner audiences and also has extensive experience teaching executives and students in global business environments.
CONTENTS
1. Changing global order; 2. Corporate nationality; 3. Geopolitics and innovation; 4. Corporate strategies for managing geopolitics; 5. Managing geopolitics: whose job is it?; 6. Geopolitics and the future of work; 7. Computational geopolitics; 8. Geopolitics and e-commerce; 9. Geopolitics and green energy; 10. Looking ahead.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, academic researchers
June 2025
229 x 152 mm 267pp
978-1-00-957032-9 Hardback
£30.00 / US$39.99
LINGUISTICS
THE INTERACTION ENGINE
Language in Social Life and Human Evolution
Stephen C. Levinson
Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
Communicative interaction forms the core of human experience. In this fascinating book Levinson, one of the world’s leading scholars in the field, explores how human communicative interaction is structured, the demands it puts on our cognitive processing, and how its system evolved out of continuities with other primate systems. It celebrates the role of the ‘interaction engine’ which drives our social interaction, not only in human life, but also in the evolution of our species – showing how exchanges such as words, glances, laughter and face-to-face encounters bring us our greatest and most difficult experiences, and have come to define what it means to be human. It draws extensively on the author’s fieldwork with speakers across multiple cultures and communities, and was inspired by his own experiences during the Covid lockdown, when humans were starved of the very social interaction that shapes our lives. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
KEY FEATURES
• Explains how language evolved and points to possible precursors
• Explores how we can communicate even when we have no shared language, showing how language is built on an underlying interactive facility
• Dissects the major properties of the interaction engine and, the high demands of the cognitive processing involved
• This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen C. Levinson is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and author of over 400 publications on language, culture and cognition. He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, is the recipient the 2020 Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and he is a fellow of the British Academy, the Academia Europaea, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
CONTENTS
1. The role of social interaction in the human ‘carrying capacity’ for language and culture; 2. Human communication and the interaction engine; 3. Universal properties of interaction; 4. Origin of the interaction engine; 5. The interaction engine and social life; 6. Conclusions.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Graduate students, academic researchers
January 2026
229 x 152 mm c.350pp
978-1-00-935059-4 Hardback
£27.00 / US$35.00
THE WORLD OF LEONARD COHEN
David R. Shumway
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is still growing five years after his death. In The World of Leonard Cohen, a team of international scholars and writers explore the various dimensions of the artist’s life, work, persona, and legacy to offer an authoritative and accessible summation of Cohen’s extraordinary career. His relation to key themes and topics – Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zen and the East, the Folk tradition, Rock and roll, Canadian and World literature, film –are all addressed. The World of Leonard Cohen offers a comprehensive, uniquely informed and wholly fresh account of this iconic songwriter and artist, whose singular voice has permanently altered our cultural landscape.
KEY FEATURES
• Provides a comprehensive source for understanding Leonard Cohen’s work and its contexts
• Includes well-written and entertaining essays about Cohen’s music and writing
• Offers a comprehensive account of this singer, songwriter, poet, and star
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies. He wrote Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014), and contributed to The World of Bob Dylan (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, and The Cambridge Companion to the The Singer-Songwriter.
CONTENTS
Introduction: You Don’t Know Leonard Cohen; Part I. Creative Life: 1. The Life of a Troubadour; 2. The Poetry and Prose: ‘Almost Like the Blues’; 3. Songwriting: Hymn of the Heretic; 4. Assembling Albums in the Tower of Song; Part II. Musical Contexts: 5. Folk Music; 6. Singer-Songwriters; 7. Unrocking Rock and Roll: Hiding Songs, War Horses, and Cabaret Blues; Part III. Religious Contexts: 8. Judaism: At the Peripheral Center; 9. Zen and the East; 10. Christianity: The Little Jew Who Wrote the Bible and Much About Jesus; Part IV. Cultural Contexts: 11. Canadian Literature; 12. World Literature; 13. Cohen’s Cinematic Appeal; 14. Neurotic Affiliations: Montreal and Belonging; 15. Boudoir Poet: A Thousand Kisses Deep with Leonard Cohen; 16. For the Matriarchy: Women and the Music; 17. The Counterculture; 18. Politics: Insincerely L. Cohen; Part V. Reception and Legacy: 19. ‘You Know Who I Am’: from Writer to Rockstar; 20. Documentary (Re)presentations: ‘You Know Who I Am’; 21. ‘I’ll Wear a Mask for You’; 22. How to be an Aged Rock Star; 23. Covers: Six Hundred and FortyNine Broken ‘Hallelujah’s; 24. The Leonard Cohen Archives; Further Reading: A Bibliography.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, general readers
MUSIC
Bach: The Cello Suites
BACH: THE CELLO SUITES
Edward Klorman
McGill University, Montréal
August 2025
216 x 140 mm c.180pp
978-1-316-51177-0 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$74.99
KEY FEATURES
• Provides cellists and other musicians who play or study Bach’s Cello Suites with reliable information about such topics as when, why, and how they were composed
• Explains the dance styles used in Bach’s Cello Suites and what makes each suite cohesive
• Provides a detailed account of the first cellists to perform the Cello Suites and how their early audiences and critics responded to this unusual music
• Illuminates the wide range of ways Bach’s Cello Suites have been played and heard over the past three centuries, both in the concert hall and in popular music, theater, film, television, anime, and modern dance
Originally dismissed as curiosities, J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites are now understood as the pinnacle of composition for unaccompanied cello. This handbook examines how and why Bach composed these highly innovative works. It explains the characteristics of each of the dance types used in the suites and reveals the compositional methods that achieve cohesion within each suite. The author discusses the four manuscript copies of Bach’s lost original and the valuable evidence they contain on how the Suites might be performed. He explores how, after around 1860, the Cello Suites gradually entered the concert hall, where they initially received a mixed critical and audience reception. The Catalan cellist Pablo Casals extensively popularized them through his concerts and recordings, setting the paradigm for several generations to follow. The Cello Suites now have a global resonance, influencing music from Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suites to J-pop, and media from K-drama to Ingmar Bergman’s films.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Edward Klorman is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Department of Music Research, McGill University having previously taught at The Juilliard School and Queens College, CUNY. His award-winning first book is Mozart's Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (Cambridge, 2016).
CONTENTS
List of figures; List of examples; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Contexts: Cöthen, French style, ‘opus’ collections and the cello; 2. Dance types, preludes and analytical perspectives; 3. The four manuscript copies; 4. Transmission, performance and reception, 1720–c. 1900; 5. Pablo Casals and the Cello Suites in the cultural imagination; Bibliography; Index.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: Undergraduate students, graduate students, general readers Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
