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Contents To Run the World........................................................................ 4

Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s................................ 30

Adultish........................................................................................ 5

The Gift......................................................................................... 31

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters........................................................ 6

The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script........................ 32

Enough......................................................................................... 7

The Truth About Energy............................................................. 33

Born in Blood.............................................................................. 8

How To Think About Climate Change...................................... 34

Bring Judgment Day.................................................................. 9

Mungo Park’s Ghost.................................................................... 35

Toxic Stress.................................................................................. 10

Jazz and American Culture........................................................ 36

Solitude........................................................................................ 11

Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters......................................................... 37

Yukikaze’s War............................................................................. 12 The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024......................................... 13 The Trojan Horse and Other Stories......................................... 14 The Letters of Ernest Hemingway............................................. 15 American Survivors..................................................................... 16 The Joy of Abstraction............................................................... 17 The Impossible Office................................................................ 18 On a Knife Edge.......................................................................... 19 The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy........................................ 20 Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists.................... 21 City of Intellect............................................................................ 22 The Buddha................................................................................. 23 Purpose and Power..................................................................... 24 Netanyahu vs The Generals....................................................... 25

Who Is a True Christian?............................................................. 38 Learning from Other Religions.................................................. 39 Sparta and the Commemoration of War.................................. 40 Choices in a Chaotic Campaign............................................... 41 Uncertain Warriors...................................................................... 42 We Hold These Truths................................................................ 43 Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat.......................... 44 The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency....... 45 Silicon Valley Bank...................................................................... 46 The Russia Sanctions.................................................................. 47 In Search of a Moral Foundation for Capitalism...................... 48 Dog Economics........................................................................... 49 The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great............ 50

Lucky Valley................................................................................. 26

Customer Services...................................................................... 54

Resistance and Liberation.......................................................... 27

Cambridge University Press Around the World...................... 54

Understanding Obesity.............................................................. 28

Retail and Wholesale Representatives..................................... 55

Sorting It Out............................................................................... 29

Publicity........................................................................................ 55

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NIALL FERGUSON, author of Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist

KRISTINA SPOHR, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

SERGEY RADCHENKO is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a historian of the Cold War, and an expert on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. Previous publications include Two Suns in the Heavens: the SinoSoviet Struggle for Supremacy and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia.

“If we are entering a new cold war with China, then we should study the lessons from the last Cold War. Radchenko’s To Run the World is the place to start.

Drawing on new archival material, insightful analysis, and brilliant writing, Radchenko’s book will instantly become the go-to source for understanding Soviet behavior during the Cold War.” MICHAEL MCFAUL, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia

To Run the World

“... an invaluable and ‘magisterial’ book ... His final observations on the USSR’s craving for ‘greatness before history’ and its leaders’ assertions of the ‘right to exceptionalism,’ help explain why Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine and confront the West. Putin has the same drivers and motivations as his Soviet forebears.”

FIONA HILL, author of There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century

The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power Sergey Radchenko

“... reassesses the big questions of the Cold War from Stalin and Mao to Reagan, Deng, Gorbachev and onto Putin, and illuminates not only the superpowers but also the global players from Vietnam to Cuba and Angola: magisterial world history at its finest.”

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity

TO RUN THE WORLD

“A tour de force. Based on a plethora of previously unmined Soviet (and Chinese) sources, To Run the World is thought-provoking, comprehensive narrative of the Soviet Union’s place and aspirations in the global Cold War.”

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“... a model of historical writing: scrupulously researched and elegantly presented, To Run the World shows how a volatile interplay of ideological, geopolitical and psychological forces drove the Cold War on its erratic path.”

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Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a historian of the Cold War, and an expert on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. Previous publications include Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy and Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia.

Advance praise ‘This a model of historical writing: scrupulously researched and elegantly presented, To Run the World shows how a volatile interplay of ideological, geopolitical and psychological forces drove the Cold War on its erratic path.’

Niall Ferguson, author of Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist.

‘Sergey Radchenko has produced what can only be described as an invaluable and “magisterial” book—the fitting culmination of a 10 year odyssey to plumb the archival depths for new insight into the bases of the Soviet Union’s power and global ambitions during the Cold War. Radchenko’s incisive analysis, crisp prose and vivid descriptions make for pleasurable and rewarding reading. His final observations on the USSR’s craving for “greatness before history” and it’s leaders’ assertions of the “right to exceptionalism,” help explain why Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine and confront the West in 2022. Putin has the same drivers and motivations as his Soviet forebears.’

Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

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SERGEY RADCHENKO

TO RUN THE WORLD ‘Enthralling and masterful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

THE KREMLIN'S COLD WAR BID FOR GLOBAL POWER

UK publication May 2024 US publication May 2024 720 pages 9781108477352 Hardback £30.00 // $34.95 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • A sweeping new history of Soviet foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union which uncovers the inner workings of the Kremlin

• Reveals the role that political legitimacy, and the accompanying desire for recognition, played and continue to play in Soviet and Russian foreign policies • Provides new insights into key episodes of the Cold War on the basis of previously unknown archival materials

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CHARLOTTE MARKEY

Adultish

Adultish

The Body Image Book for Life

The Body Image Book for Life Charlotte Markey Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults. This inclusive book provides evidence-based information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. Packed with valuable features like Q&As, myth-busting, real-life stories, and expert advice, it is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you’re in.

Dr. Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Health Sciences Center at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a world-leading expert in body image research, having studied body image, eating behaviour and weight management for over twenty-five years. Through all her roles as a scientist, teacher, writer and parent she is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping others to develop a healthy body image. Dr. Markey is the author of four books, including The Body Image Book for Girls and Being You: The Body Image Book for Boys (with Daniel Hart and Douglas Zacher). Her research has gained widespread media attention, having been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, ABC News and Time Magazine.

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UK publication June 2024 US publication June 2024 300 pages 9781009228961 Paperback £12.99 // $17.95 USD // $20.95 CAD

At a glance • Chapters include relatable and inspiring personal stories from real people

• Q&A and myth-busting sections in each chapter provide easily accessible answers to common questions

• Offers evidence-based, reliable information at a time where there is so much misinformation about body image and other related issues like nutrition, eating disorders and mental health

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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters Andrew Stauffer

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice—as if we are personally receiving a fresh letter from the iconic poet—followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that the missive touches upon. This gripping volume traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.

Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the inaugural recipient of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the WordsworthColeridge Association. He is the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023).

Advance praise ‘We have had many flings at a ‘Life of Byron’, all of them more or less successful because all of them failing to hand over a dead man to us. This little book is as good as such a venture gets because it puts front and center what Shelley might have called the Life of the Life of Byron:his very self and voice in ten remarkable letters. They sketch the story of a life whose riches taught him poverty.‘I have spent my life both interest and principal,/ And deem not, what I deem’d, my soul invincible’. A mortal life well spent.’

Jerome McGann, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia

UK publication February 2024 US publication February 2024 417 pages 9781009200165 Hardback £25.00 // $29.95 USD // $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets

• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life and his continuing importance, studded with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form • Immersive: affords its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as one of his correspondents • Groundbreaking: draws on the most recent research to reveal Byron as a modern figure with great relevance to our era, while also emphasizing the historical specifics of his own • Distinguished: the author is one of the foremost Byron scholars

• Timely: released to coincide with the bicentennial of Byron’s death

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Enough

Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer Linda Eckert This disease, which has killed millions, is nearly 100% preventable. It’s no secret that healthcare is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs.

But women’s health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention, Dr. Linda Eckert takes her years of experience and weaves it together with the voices of the courageous women who use their own experience of cervical cancer to advocate for change. This heartbreaking yet hopeful book takes us through the world of cervical cancer with the latest research, personal stories and actionable outcomes. Society flourishes when women have access to safe and affordable healthcare. Together we can make this need a reality and eliminate the world’s most preventable cancer.

Dr. Linda O. Eckert is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington and an internationally recognized expert in immunizations and cervical cancer prevention. For over thirty years, Dr. Eckert has worked at Seattle’s Harborview Hospital, treating people from all around the world. Frequently in the spotlight for her expertise in HPV vaccinations and cervical cancer screenings, Dr. Eckert is passionate in her drive to eliminate this deadly disease.

Advance praise ‘Beautifully written, Enough is a searing call to arms, for too many women are dying of cervical cancer when we have the tools to save their lives. The unnecessary human cost of cervical cancer is a scandal, and one that Dr. Eckert is determined to fix.’

Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times and co-author of Half the Sky

‘Eckert presents an urgent and powerful call to action to save lives, based on her decades of practice and research around the world. Enough is an essential resource for anyone concerned with public health, women’s rights, and addressing racial and national inequities in healthcare.’

Anjli Parrin, Director, Global Human Rights Clinic, University of Chicago Law School ‘This is a beautifully written powerful tale of truth and hope, as Dr. Eckert combines her authoritative work with cervical cancer prevention alongside the inspiring voices of women from all over the world.’

Princess Nono Simelela, Former WHO Assistant Director General for Strategic Priorities

UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 352 pages 9781009412650 Hardback £20.00 // $24.95 USD // $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Grounded in Dr. Eckert’s decades of experience working with women around the world. Information is evidence-based but accessible as she explores the reasons for such a persistently high death toll and the barriers to changing it

• Stories told by survivors or patients’ families paint a picture of the impact this deadly disease has on women and their communities. These powerful tales are both heartbreaking in their portrayal of loss, as well as passionate and optimistic in their advocacy for change • Outlines steps to improve access to safe and affordable healthcare for everyone with a cervix, as well as the societal benefits of doing so. Shows readers myriad ways they can help in their own communities, and how men can dismantle wider patriarchal barriers and support the cause more broadly

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Born in Blood

Violence and the Making of America Scott Gac Born in Blood investigates one of history’s most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. This book offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Native Americans, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

Scott Gac is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Trinity College and the author of Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform.

Advance praise ‘Scott Gac’s ambitious and passionate book traces the emergence of a particularly American idea of when, why, for whom and against whom the powerful, and particularly the government, ought to use violence. Gac proposes the growth of this violent tradition as a throughline with which to rethink our national narrative, particularly through 1877, but also beyond. He reveals continuities among the violence of enslavement and lynching, capitalist violence, military violence, and frontier violence, and in doing so dramatically changes the significance of people and events you thought you knew, from George Washington to Revolutionary soldiers, to Robert Smalls, to striking railroad workers.’

Elaine Frantz, author of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction

‘Scott Gac’s Born in Blood illuminates the endemic violence along the front edge of the catastrophe more commonly known as American Freedom.’

Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

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UK publication March 2024 US publication January 2024 368 pages 9781316511886 Hardback £25.00 // $29.95 USD // $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Presents American violence as the product of political and social structure

• Provides historical context for understanding the recent spate of police killings and the violence and White self-determination behind antigovernment action in America • Helps readers understand how many forms of violence in the American past persist to this day

• Centers the experiences and choices of oppressed civilian populations throughout American history

SHEILA CURRAN BERNARD

Bring Judgment Day

Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies Sheila Curran Bernard Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous – as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South’s most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who ‘discovered’ Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to audiences beyond the South. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past.

Sheila Curran Bernard is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, author, and educator whose works include the feature documentary Slavery by Another Name. The recipient of an NEH Public Scholars Award, Bernard is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Bring Judgment Day Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies final cover coming soon

UK publication July 2024 US publication July 2024 243 pages 9781009098120 Hardback £20.00 // $27.95 USD // $31.95 CAD

At a glance • An eye-opening examination of the legendary musician Lead Belly within the context of the Jim Crow era.

• Offers a powerful story of Black agency and ambition in the first decades of the 20th century.

• A case study of systemic racism and its role in thwarting Black advancement and the ability to build generational wealth in the decades after the US Civil War. • Through one man’s experience, an indictment of the history and consequences of a system of incarceration built on the legacy of slavery.

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Toxic Stress

How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It Lawson R. Wulsin “Our stress response system is magnificent - it operates beneath our awareness, like an orchestra of organs playing a hidden symphony. When we are healthy, the orchestra plays effortlessly, but what happens when our bodies face chronic stress, and the music slips out of tune? The alarming rise of stress-related conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and depression, show the price we’re paying for our high-pressure living, while global warming, pandemics and technology have brought new kinds of stress into all our lives. But what can we do about it?

Explore the fascinating mysteries of our hidden stress response system with Dr. Wulsin, who uses his decades of experience to show how toxic stress impacts our bodies; he gives us the expert advice and tools needed to prevent toxic stress from taking over. Chapter by chapter, learn to help your body and mind recover from toxic stress.”

Dr. Lawson R. Wulsin is a Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, specializing in the care and study of the mind and body (psychosomatic medicine). He provides psychiatric care in medical and psychiatric settings, training physicians to combine family medicine and psychiatry. His passion is translating the science of stress into terms that help people to understand and treat their stress-related conditions.

Advance praise ‘Wulsin’s Toxic Stress is a tour de force. His writing style is refreshing and vivid, and his understanding of contemporary research is encyclopedic and up to date. This is a terrific book.’

Dr. Joel E Dimsdale, Editor-Emeritus of Psychosomatic Medicine and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

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UK publication April 2024 US publication April 2024 360 pages 9781009306584 Paperback £14.99 // $19.95 USD // $22.95 CAD

At a glance • Presents the stress response system in plain language, showing how it plays a major role in health and illness

• Provides hope and understanding for readers, showing the process for preventing and healing from the effects of toxic stress

• Blends the science of stress with stories from real people, bringing complex ideas into meaningful focus”

Solitude

The Science and Power of Being Alone Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen and Thuy-vy T. Nguyen The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits.

Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotion regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. Learning what makes us better at spending time alone can help us move toward our best possible selves.

Netta Weinstein is an internationally recognized psychologist and director of the European Research Council’s “Solitude: Alone but Resilient” (SOAR) project.

Her research focuses on motivation and well-being. She is also Professor of Psychology at the University of Reading and an associate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

UK publication April 2024 US publication April 2024 296 pages 9781009256605 Hardback £20.00 // $25.95 USD // $29.95 CAD

At a glance

Heather Hansen is an independent science writer and author. She joined SOAR in 2020 to lend her expertise in interviewing and communication. She has won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Colorado Authors League.

• Showcases different perspectives, traditions, stories, and research methods on solitude from people around the world

Thuy-vy T. Nguyen is a pioneer and expert in studying solitude in laboratory experiments and investipioneer and expert in studying solitude in laboratory experiments and investigating the factors that lead to different concepts of solitude. She is also Associate Professor in Psychology at Durham University, a fellow at Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Well-being, and principal investigator of the Solitude Lab at Durham University, UK.

• Clearly defines ‘solitude’ and demonstrates how it plays a role in the move toward our best possible selves

Advance praise ‘This book is full of wisdom. Kind, conversational, and profoundly practical.’

Michael Harris, author of Solitude and The End of Absence

• Explains how we can balance our social and solo needs

• Highlights some of the research conducted by the Solitude Lab and others before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Explores a wide range of topics connected to solitude, including but not limited to: creativity, anxiety, authenticity, ageing, and emotional regulation

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Yukikaze’s War

The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific Brett L. Walker Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination, illustrating the daily realities of war for Yukikaze and her crew. By shifting our perspective of the Pacific War away from grand Imperial strategies, and toward the intricacies of fighting on the water, Walker allows us to see the war from Yukikaze’s bridge during the most harrowing battles, from Midway to Okinawa.

Walker uncovers the ordinary sailor’s experience, and we see sailors fight while deep-running currents of Japanese history unfold before their war-weary eyes. As memories of World War II fade, Yukikaze’s story becomes ever more important, providing valuable lessons in our contemporary world of looming energy shortfalls, menacing climate uncertainties, and aggressive totalitarian regimes.

Brett L. Walker is a historian of Japan, medicine, the environment and World War II, as well as an experienced captain.

UK publication June 2024 US publication June 2024 328 pages 9781108837293 Hardback £25.00 // $29.95 USD // $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides a unique perspective on World War II as it was experienced by individual sailors

• Shifts the history of World War II away from a traditional western narrative • A naval history told by an experienced US Merchant Mariner with in-depth understanding of life at sea

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ANTHONY SELDON TOM EGERTON

The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024 14 Wasted Years?

Edited by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton As we enter the fourteenth year of Conservative government, many of us are left pondering what has actually happened during this period of power. The country has encountered momentous challenges and experienced significant transformations but what exactly is the lasting impact of over a decade of Conservative leadership?

Focusing on fourteen topics, ranging from politics to policy, Anthony Seldon and his team uncover the ultimate ‘Conservative Effect’ on the United Kingdom. With powerful insights and fresh perspectives, this is an intriguing read for anyone seeking to understand the full scope of the Conservative government’s influence on our nation. For our next government, whether Labour or Conservative, learning lessons from the last fourteen years will be pivotal if the country is to rejuvenate and flourish.

Sir Anthony Seldon is the acknowledged national authority on 10 Downing Street and prime ministers. His first book on a prime minister, Churchill’s Indian Summer: The Conservative Government, 1951-55 (1981), was published forty years ago and, since then, he has written or edited many more, including the definitive insider accounts of the last six prime ministers. He has been the honorary historian at Number 10 Downing Street, chair of the National Archives Trust and has analysed and spoken to the leading figures in every single premiership over the last fifty years.

Tom Egerton has authored and researched numerous publications with Anthony Seldon, including Sunday Times bestseller Johnson at 10 and The Impossible Office. He is the Editor and founder of The Political Inquiry, a digital media platform reshaping how political research and discourse is delivered to wider audiences and was educated in history and politics at the University of Warwick.

Contributors

Anthony Seldon, Tom Egerton, Peter Kellner, Paul Johnson, Michael Clarke, Rachel Sylvester, Alan Smithers, Dieter Helm, Brendan O’Leary, Michael Marmot, Meg Russell, Tim Bale, Paula Surridge, John Curtice

The Conservative Effect, 2010-2024 14 Wasted Years? final cover coming soon

UK publication July 2024 US publication July 2024 320 pages 9781009473088 Paperback £16.99 // $21.95 USD // $24.95 CAD

At a glance • With a general election on the horizon, this is the authoritative guide to the last fourteen successive years of Conservative power, capturing a distinct moment in historical and political discourse

• Unrivalled near-universal coverage of the entire governing program in each policy and political area • Edited by two experienced political historians who continue to play an active role in the creation of contemporary history • Chapters by fourteen of the top academics on UK politics and policy areas

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The Trojan Horse and Other Stories

Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human Julia Kindt

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TROJAN HORSE AND OTHER STORIES Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human

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What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures?

Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human, has a much longer history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly reveals how the ancient world mobilised concepts of ‘the animal’ and ‘animality’ to conceive of the human in a variety of illuminating ways.

Through ten stories about marvelous mythical beings – from the Trojan Horse to the Cyclops, and from Androcles’ lion to the Minotaur – Julia Kindt unlocks fresh ways of thinking about humanity that extend from antiquity to the present and that ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.

Julia Kindt is a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney, a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (2018-22), and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religions (ORE), and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Ancient History and Antichthon. She is also a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, Meanjin, The Conversation and other periodicals. Her previous, highly regarded, books include Rethinking Greek Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Revisiting Delphi.

Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Advance praise ‘Julia Kindt has found a miraculous new lens through which to scrutinise our oldest, most loved stories and find in them colours, shapes and qualities that we have never really seen before. Humankind’s relationship with animals has been examined through archaeology, history and art, but never before, to my knowledge, through myth, legend and story. The insights that this absorbing and imaginative approach reveal are enthralling and profound. The stories are told with wit, imagination and sparkle; the animals who star in them brought wondrously to life.’

Stephen Fry

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UK publication January 2024 US publication February 2024 384 pages, 35 colour illustrations 9781009411387 Hardback £25.00 // $34.99 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • Uses some of the most famous ancient stories and the marvelous creatures at their core to address one of the biggest questions of all time: what makes us human • Entertainingly unpacks perennially fascinating myths – such as those about the Trojan Horse, the Sphinx, and the Minotaur – to shed new light on existential discussions of ‘the human’ and ‘the animal’ • Explores the transporting power of storytelling to think about humanity while constructing its own arresting narrative of revelatory tale-telling

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 6, 1934-1936

Ernest Hemingway, Edited by Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale and Miriam B. Mandel The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6, 1934-1936 traces the completion and publication of Hemingway’s experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ and ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro.’ In more than twenty pieces in Esquire, he relates his hunting and fishing exploits, discusses writing and writers, and becomes more politically vocal, addressing topical concerns. During this period he immerses himself in big game fishing off Key West, Cuba, and Bimini, gathering specimens for scientific study and making record catches, as well as taking on boxing challengers. He maintains longstanding literary friendships, advises and helps aspiring writers and contemporary artists, and makes public his disdain of critics. Volume 6 also features for the first time an Appendix of Earlier Letters (1918-1934) that have come to light since publication of previous volumes. Writing his epistolary autobiography, Hemingway himself reveals the many and sometimes contradictory facets of his wide-ranging genius.

Sandra Spanier is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and a co-editor of the previous five volumes. Her essays have appeared in Earnest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: Modern Critical Interpretations (1987), Cambridge’s New Essays on A Farewell to Arms (1990), Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (2002), Ernest Hemingway in Context (2013), and The New Hemingway Studies (2020), and she serves on the editorial board of the Hemingway Review. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015), Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist (1986), as well as editions of Boyle’s Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988) and Process: A Novel (2001).

Verna Kale is Associate Research Professor in English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. She is the author of the critical biography Ernest Hemingway (2016) and editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender (2016).

Miriam B. Mandel is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of English and American Culture of Tel Aviv University. She served as co-editor of the fourth and fifth volumes of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and as Associate Editor of the first two volumes. Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995, reissued 2011), Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon: The Complete Annotations (2001), and Hemingway’s The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations (2008).

UK publication June 2024 US publication June 2024 700 pages 9780521897389 Hardback £35.00 // $39.95 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • Volume 6 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from June 1934 through June 1936

• Of the 366 letters of this period in the volume, about 85% are appearing in print for the first time • Includes, for the first time in the series, an Appendix of Earlier Letters that have come to light since publication of the previous volumes

• Contains 47 items dating back to 1918, with recipients including a high school girlfriend, members of his 1921 wedding party, writers Morley Callaghan and Donald Ogden Stewart, and Spanish painter Joan Miró

• Visual material includes maps of significant locations and travels, facsimile reproductions, Hemingway’s own in-text drawings and sketches and a 16-page plate section with photos of Hemingway and his correspondents, family and friends www.cambridge.org

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American Survivors

Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Naoko Wake American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry.

A truly trans-Pacific history, American Survivors challenges the dualistic distinction between Americans-as-victors and Japanese-as-victims often assumed by scholars of the nuclear war. Using more than 130 oral histories of Japanese American and Korean American survivors, their family members, community activists, and physicians - most of which appear here for the first time - Naoko Wake reveals a cross-national history of war, illness, immigration, gender, family, and community from intimately personal perspectives. American Survivors brings to light the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that connects, as much as separates, people across time and national boundaries.

Naoko Wake is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. A historian of gender, sexuality, and illness in the Pacific region, she has authored Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism and co-authored with Shinpei Takeda Hiroshima/Nagasaki Beyond the Ocean. She was born and raised in Japan.

Praise ‘Ghostly figures, American survivors of their nation’s nuclear holocaust, speak for themselves and for those who failed to survive in profound utterances and silences, the living and the dead. Their haunting testimonies, in translation, speak of the unspeakable and of life - remembering, forging connections with families and other survivors, and working for peace in and across the Pacific. Indeed, as Naoko Wake astutely observes, nuclear holocaust is by definition a global phenomenon for all times.’

Gary Y. Okihiro, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University

‘Naoko Wake’s American Survivors is a beautifully written portrayal of the traumas suffered by atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She offers lyrical depictions of the visceral experience and the profound significance of silence.

The work also foregrounds the cross-national and gendered experience of being hibakusha and the ways in which they and their allies engaged in transnational forms of activism.’

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Professor of Asian American Studies, and Director of the Humanities Center, University of California, Irvine

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UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 414 pages 9781108799904 Paperback £21.99 // $19.95 USD // $22.95 CAD

At a glance • The first book-length study of U.S. casualties of the 1945 atomic bombings

• Draws on fascinating oral histories of Japanese and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombings to tell a story that is people-centered rather than nation-centered • Provides a gendered analysis to the history of nuclear weaponry

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The Joy of Abstraction An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life Eugenia Cheng Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current events, and everyday life – from privilege to COVID-19 to driving routes. The journey begins with the ideas and workings of abstract mathematics, after which you will gently climb toward more technical material, learning everything needed to understand category theory, and then key concepts in category theory like natural transformations, duality, and even a glimpse of ongoing research in higher-dimensional category theory. For fans of How to Bake Pi, this will help you dig deeper into mathematical concepts and build your mathematical background.

Dr. Eugenia Cheng is world-renowned as both a researcher in category theory and an expositor of mathematics. She has written several popular mathematics books including How to Bake Pi (2015), The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2017), and two children’s books. She also writes the ‘Everyday Math’ column for the Wall Street Journal. She is Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches abstract mathematics to art students.

She holds a Ph.D. in category theory from the University of Cambridge, and won tenure in pure mathematics at the University of Sheffield. You can follow her @DrEugeniaCheng.

Praise ‘This book is an educational tour de force that presents mathematical thinking as a right-brained activity. Most ‘left brain/right brain’ education-talk is at best a crude metaphor; but by putting the main focus on the process of (mathematical) abstraction, Eugenia Cheng supplies the reader (whatever their ‘brain-type’) with the mental tools to make that distinction precise and potentially useful. The book takes the reader along in small steps; but make no mistake, this is a major intellectual journey. Starting not with numbers, but everyday experiences, it develops what is regarded as a very advanced branch of abstract mathematics (category theory, though Cheng really uses this as a proxy for mathematical thinking generally). This is not watered-down math; it’s the real thing. And it challenges the reader to think-deeply at times. We ‘left-brainers’ can learn plenty from it too.’

UK publication April 2024 US publication April 2024 440 pages 9781108708449 Paperback £14.99 // $19.95 USD // $22.95 CAD

At a glance • Demystifies mathematical thought processes, helping readers develop mathematical thinking even if they have no mathematical background

• Provides further insight into the mathematical concepts and examples presented in Cheng’s How to Bake Pi, gently building on those simple ideas to develop more formal mathematics • Features examples from life, not just from other areas of mathematics, showing how math is relevant to social and political questions

• Includes ‘Things to think about’ boxes with full explanations, a glossary, and footnotes with informal reminders for readers getting used to the material and terminology • Provides diagrams to help readers who are visual thinkers absorb the material

Keith Devlin, Stanford University (Emeritus), author of The Joy of Sets

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ANTHONY SELDON with JONATHAN MEAKIN, ILLIAS THOMS and TOM EGERTON

The Impossible Office The History of the British Prime Minister

Anthony Seldon with Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms and Tom Egerton A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year.

The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10, explores the lives and careers, crises and scandals, and successes and failures of our great Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, up to the recent churn of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Seldon discusses which of our PMs have been most effective and why, as well as probing the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the Prime Minister in intimate detail. A celebration of the humanity, frailty, work and achievements of 57 remarkable individuals who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.

Sir Anthony Seldon is widely regarded as the national authority on all matters to do with Number 10 and prime ministers. His first book on a prime minister, Churchill’s Indian Summer (1981), was published forty years ago, and since then he has written or edited many books, including the definitive insider accounts of the last five prime ministers. He is the honorary historian at Number 10 Downing Street, chair of the National Archives Trust, and has interviewed virtually all senior figures who have worked in Number 10 in the last fifty years.

Jonathan Meakin was educated at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the University of St Andrews. He has had a lifelong interest in history. He has worked on many publications with Anthony Seldon, including Cameron at 10 and The Cabinet Office, 1916–2016.

Illias Thoms has worked with Anthony Seldon for over ten years and this is their fourth book together, including Cameron at 10 and Brown at 10. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in history and politics in 2014 and works as an assistant director in the UK film and television industries.

Tom Egerton has worked with Anthony Seldon on various publications, including Johnson at 10. He is the Editor and founder of The Political Inquiry and was educated in history and politics at the University of Warwick.

Praise ‘It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand both how Downing Street works and the extraordinary characters of those who have lived there.’

Rachel Sylvester, The Times

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THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

‘Tremendous’ WILLIAM BOYD

UK publication March 2024 US publication March 2024 440 pages 9781009429771 Paperback £14.99 // $17.99 USD // $20.95 CAD

At a glance • Features a new chapter on the recent three premierships of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

• Looks forward to the coming General Election and asks what could the next Prime Minister do differently?

• Reveals how and why the Prime Minister took over from the Crown as the most powerful figure in Britain • Explains why the Chancellor has become the second most powerful figure in Britain, and why the job of Foreign Secretary lost its way • Looks at Prime Ministers as human beings, their spouses and families, and the pathos of the postpremiership

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On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War Holger Afflerbach A Daily Telegraph Best History Book of the Year.

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war.

Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany’s war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.

Holger Afflerbach is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include a biography of Erich von Falkenhayn, and a study of the Triple Alliance.

Praise ‘WWI scholars and enthusiasts will relish this exhaustive deep dive.’

Publishers Weekly

‘An impressive, well-researched and readable book which advances an important argument.’

Andrew Mulholland, Military History Magazine

HOLGER AFFLERBACH

On a Knife Edge How Germany Lost the First World War final cover coming soon

UK publication May 2024 US publication May 2024 576 pages 40 b/w illustrations, 11 maps 9781108965866 Paperback £16.99 // $22.95 USD // $25.95 CAD

At a glance • A thorough reassessment of why Germany was defeated and of lost opportunities to make peace before 1918

• Reveals divisions in Germany and how these influenced the outcome of the war

• Offers a new framework for understanding of warfare and politics in Imperial Germany

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The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village Stephen G. Rabe The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in defense of liberty and freedom.

On D-Day, when transport planes dropped paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions hopelessly off-target into marshy waters in northwestern France, the 900 villagers of Graignes welcomed them with open arms. These villagers – predominantly women – provided food, gathered intelligence, and navigated the floods to retrieve the paratroopers’ equipment at great risk to themselves. When the attack by German forces on 11 June forced the overwhelmed paratroopers to withdraw, many made it to safety thanks to the help and resistance of the villagers.

In this moving book, historian Stephen G. Rabe, son of one of the paratroopers, meticulously documents the forgotten lives of those who participated in this integral part of D-Day history.

Stephen G. Rabe is the Emeritus Ashbel Smith Professor in History at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy is his thirteenth book.

Praise ‘Such heroism deserves the majestic narrative it gets in these pages.’

Kitty Kelley, The Washington Independent Review of Books

‘...this history combines heroism and tragedy in equal measure. WWII buffs will be engrossed.’

Publishers Weekly

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UK publication June 2024 US publication June 2024 264 pages 9781009206402 Paperback £12.99 // $16.95 USD // $22.95 CAD

At a glance • Inspired by his own father’s experience, Rabe sheds light on a compelling yet forgotten part of D-Day history

• Expertly researched in interviews with paratrooper veterans and the citizens of Graignes, Rabe tells the story of how ordinary people did extraordinary things in defense of liberty

• First person accounts highlight the integral role local women played in harboring allied forces

• Provides unique insight into the effect of war on civilian populations

LISA A. KIRSCHENBAUM

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

SOVIET ADVENTURES in the Land of the

CAPITALISTS Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip

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

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors’ notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum is an award-winning author whose research explores how individuals navigated the traumas of the twentieth century. Her books include Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (2000); The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995 (2006); and International Communism and the Spanish Civil War (2015).

UK publication February 2024 US publication May 2024 376 pages 35 b/w illustrations, 1 map 9781316518465 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Challenges a simplistic view of Soviet-US relations in the 1930s, foregrounding ordinary individuals as drivers of cultural exchange • Provides an engaging panorama of the United States during the Great Depression from the perspective of two perceptive and funny Soviet observers • Illuminates the understudied question of how Soviet travellers in the United States interacted with Russian and Jewish American immigrant communities

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City of Intellect

The Uses and Abuses of the University Nicholas B. Dirks During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013-17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent time in office, offers not just a gripping insider’s account of the febrile politics of his time as Berkeley’s leader, but also decades of nuanced reflection on the university’s true meaning (at its best, to be an aspirational ‘city of intellect’). Dirks wrestles with some of the most urgent questions with which educational leaders are presently having to engage: including free speech, campus safe spaces, the humanities’ contested future, and the real cost and value of liberal arts learning. His visionary intervention – part autobiography, part practical manifesto – is a passionate cri de cœur for structural changes in higher education that are both significant and profound.

Nicholas B. Dirks served as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, between 2013 and 2017. He is currently President and CEO of the historic New York Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1817. Previous positions he has held include Executive VP and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, where he was also the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and History. Professor Dirks is the author of Autobiography of an Archive (2015), The Scandal of Empire (2006), Castes of Mind (2001, for which he won the Lionel Trilling Award), and The Hollow Crown (Cambridge University Press, 1987). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a senior member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he has been a MacArthur fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has also held a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Advance praise ‘City of Intellect is a beautifully written book that combines memoir with wellresearched analysis to address the current place and crisis of the American university. Dirks tells the story of his brief and controversial chancellorship at Berkeley, while offering a full-throated defense of his actions and views that will be of deep interest to the many observers who have wondered about the details of the conflict. But the book is about much more than the highly visible and contentious battles at Berkeley. Dirks’ long experience in higher education serves as the foundation for thoughtful observations about why universities are in crisis and why they seem so resistant to necessary change.’

Drew Gilpin Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor and President Emerita (2007-18), Harvard University

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UK publication November 2023 US publication February 2024 390 pages 9781009394468 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • During his time as Chancellor of Berkeley, Nicholas Dirks had to contend with: the major funding crises for public universities after the great recession, the Trump presidency, #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, campus harassment claims and the increasingly bitter conflict between so-called ‘cancel culture’ and academic freedom. This book is an unputdownable account of that volatile time, married to a bold and visionary intervention on the future of the modern university • Offers a candid, in-depth portrayal of the present crisis of educational governance and parallel loss of intellectual values, set against the university’s neo-liberal expansion: mandatory reading for anyone involved in college leadership and administration, whether in the US or elsewhere

The Buddha

Life and Afterlife Between East and West Philip C. Almond Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is one of the most significant figures in the history of religion. Philip Almond’s engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about Siddhartha Gautama’s life with an authoritative account of how he and the tantalizing philosophy inspired by him came to the attention of the West. It takes the reader on a remarkable journey encompassing (among other topics) Alexander the Great, the courts of the Mongol Khans, Jesuit missions to China and Japan, and intrepid European travellers and scholars from the modern era. Melding Pali and Sanskrit sources with vivid reception, Almond presents the Buddha’s story as multi-layered: one of transition from a world of angels and demons, water and tree spirits, to an altogether different context where Buddhism mixed with the cultural preoccupations of those who tentatively – sometimes following false trails – tried to make sense of its fascinating complexity.

Philip C. Almond is Emeritus Professor in Religious Thought at the University of Queensland and a renowned specialist in the nexus between religion and the history of ideas. His recent publications include Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Antichrist: A New Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2020), God: A New Biography (2018); Afterlife: A History of Life after Death (2016), and The Devil: A New Biography (2014).

His earlier, pioneering book The British Discovery of Buddhism (Cambridge University Press, 1988) has gained a reputation as a landmark study in comparative religion and intellectual history.

Advance praise ‘Philip Almond is an excellent cultural historian and his research into the early centuries of the encounter between Buddhism and the West is fascinating. There has been no single book that both gives a composite account of the life of the Buddha and narrates how the Buddha came to the West – and Almond offers us precisely this. The author’s prose is accessible and engaging throughout and the breadth of his historical reading highly commendable.’

Elizabeth J. Harris, President, UK Association for Buddhist Studies

UK publication January 2024 US publication February 2024 378 pages 9781009346795 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • The new book by the author of The British Discovery of Buddhism: arguably the most celebrated work of Western Buddhist reception • The first general account of how Buddhism reached the West and what happened to the religion as it did so

• A masterly summation of the key facets of Buddhist history and synthesis of complex Buddhist texts

• Brings together a wealth of current literature on the life of the Buddha and his reception over the past 2,500 years which will appeal to all those with a passing interest in Buddhism

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Purpose and Power

US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present Donald Stoker Across the full span of the nation’s history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand strategies underpinning the nation’s pursuit of sovereignty, security, expansion, and democracy abroad. He shows how successive administrations have projected diplomatic, military, and economic power, and mobilized ideas and information to preserve American freedoms at home and secure US aims abroad.

He exposes the myth of American isolationism, the good and ill of America’s quest for democracy overseas, and how too often its administrations have lacked clear political aims or a concrete vision for where they want to go. Understanding this history is vital if America is to relearn how to use its power to meet the challenges ahead and to think more clearly about political aims and grand strategy.

Donald Stoker is Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School in Washington, DC. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including The Grand Design: Strategy and the US Civil War, 1861-1865 (2010), winner of the Fletcher Pratt award, and Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present (2022).

Advance praise ‘With singular breadth and subtle depth, Donald Stoker provides a magisterial treatment of American grand strategy. Combining historical insight and analytical clarity, he synthesizes the enduring principles and evolving practices that have shaped the United States’ interests, power, and role in the world. Scholars and policymakers alike should welcome this book.’

William Inboden, author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink ‘Stoker’s work is an excellent primer on the evolution of America’s use of power from the Revolutionary War to the present. His perceptive analysis illuminates the difficulties the US government has had in combining diplomatic, informational, economic, and military power to craft appropriate grand strategy since the nation’s founding. Highly recommended for graduate and professional military education.’

Peter Mansoor, author of Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

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UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 896 pages 9781009257275 Hardback £35.00 // $44.99 USD // $51.95 CAD

At a glance • Identifies how the US has used its power throughout its history and for what purposes

• Illustrates pitfalls that current leaders should avoid when making decisions on political aims and grand strategy

• Covers America’s aims and strategies in each of its wars

Netanyahu vs The Generals The Battle for Israel’s Future Guy Ziv Benjamin Netanyahu has carefully cultivated a self-image as Israel’s ‘Mr. Security’ during his decades of political activity. His reputation as a security-minded leader has resonated with large swathes of the Israeli public, enabling him to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Yet the Israeli security community has long questioned Netanyahu’s approach to national security. The Netanyahu era has seen unprecedented civil-military tensions, while retired generals and former heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies, some of whom were appointed by Netanyahu, have publicly rejected both his leadership and his policies. Drawing on interviews with dozens of senior veterans of the Israeli security establishment, this book addresses this intriguing paradox. It sets out to explain the mutual distrust and intense disagreements between Netanyahu and the security community, as well as the underlying reasons behind the Israeli public’s inattention to the collective judgment of hundreds of ex-generals and former spymasters.

Guy Ziv is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security, School of International Service at American University, where he has been the recipient of two “Outstanding Teaching” awards. A regular commentator on major media outlets, Ziv’s articles have been published in both scholarly journals and leading newspapers. His first book, Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel, was published in 2014.

Netanyahu vs The Generals THE BATTLE FOR ISRAEL’S FUTURE

GU Y Z I V UK publication February 2024 US publication February 2024 268 pages 9781009425704 Paperback £22.99 // $29.99 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • Elucidates the relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longestserving prime minister, and the Israeli security establishment – providing a window into the attitudes of security officials toward Netanyahu’s leadership and his approach to national security issues

• Candid personal interviews with retired senior security officials and academic experts provide a unique insight into the predominant perspectives in the Israeli security community on major national security issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran’s nuclear ambitions

• Examines the era of populist nationalism in Israel and its impact on the status of the IDF, the Mossad intelligence agency, and the Shin Bet security service in Israeli society – highlighting important implications for the future of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state

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Lucky Valley

Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism Catherine Hall Why does Edward Long’s History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long’s History, that most ‘civilised’ of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family sat at the heart of Jamaican planter society and the West India trade in sugar, which provided the economic bedrock of this eighteenth-century system of racial capitalism. Catherine Hall tells the story behind Long’s History – the tale of a slave-owning family that prospered across generations together with the destruction of such possibilities for enslaved people. She unpicks the many contradictions in Long’s thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have poisoned social relations over generations and allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History at UCL and a prize-winning author.

Her work focuses on Britain and empire. She is the author of Civilizing Subjects (2002), Macaulay and Son (2012), and a co-author of Legacies of British Slaveownership (2014). Between 2009-15 she was the Principal Investigator in the ESRC/AHRC project ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership.’

UK publication January 2024 US publication May 2024 516 pages 9781009098854 Hardback £35.00 // $44.99 USD // $51.95 CAD

At a glance • The first critical exploration of Long’s History of Jamaica in its full political and economic context • Essential to understanding the history of racial difference through ‘enlightenment’ definitions and how these have shaped society even to the present day • Explores the concept of racial capitalism and how race and wealth could not be disentangled

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Resistance and Liberation France at War, 1942-1945 Douglas Porch In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence.

While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France’s memory of those traumatic years.

Douglas Porch is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His previous books include Defeat and Division, France at War, 1939-1942 (2022), Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (2013), The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (published in the UK as Hitler’s Mediterranean Gamble, 2004), and The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (1995).

UK publication February 2024 US publication April 2024 832 pages 9781009161145 Hardback £35.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Definitive new history of France at war showing how de Gaulle sought to forge a new French army, prevent the country falling into civil war and reassert French power on the world stage

• Goes beyond the binaries of resistance and collaboration to show French society as a whole experienced war, defeat, occupation and liberation

• Reveals how de Gaulle attempted to establish a triumphalist French “memory” of the war by emphasizing the role of resistance in France’s liberation while minimizing that of the Allies and the colonial forces of the l’Armée d’Afrique

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UNDERSTANDING

obesity

Understanding Obesity Stanley Ulijaszek

Most people have some dissatisfaction or concern about body weight, fatness, or obesity. This book shows how the popular understanding of obesity is often at odds with scientific understandings, and how misunderstandings about people with obesity can further contribute to the problem. It describes, in an approachable way, interconnected debates about obesity in public policy, medicine and public health, and how media and social media engage people in everyday life in those debates. In chapters considering body fat and fatness, genetics, metabolism, food and eating, inequality, blame and stigma, and physical activity, this book brings separate domains of obesity research into the field of complexity. By doing so, it aids navigation through the minefield of misunderstandings about body weight, fatness, and obesity that exist today, after decades of mostly failed policies and interventions.

Stanley Ulijaszek is an anthropologist studying obesity from evolutionary and cultural perspectives. He has undertaken research internationally, in both the Global North and South. He is Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), University of Oxford, which focuses on cultural and policy aspects of body fatness and obesity.

STANLEY ULIJASZEK

UK publication February 2024 US publication February 2024 196 pages 9781009218214 Paperback £14.99 // $19.99 USD // $22.95 CAD

At a glance • Conveys the complexity of obesity in everyday terms offering ‘instruments of change’ in how people think and act in relation to body weight, fatness, and obesity • Highlights popular understandings of body weight, fatness and obesity and relates them to scientific understandings, in a soft mythbusting way • Informs in an approachable way the interconnected debates about obesity in policy, medicine, public health

• Summarizes popular misunderstandings about obesity, chapter by chapter, with summaries and end-sections in each about what can be done

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Sorting It Out

Supporting Teenage Decision Making Robin Gregory and Brooke Moore Written for parents, teachers and others who live or work with teenagers, this science-based guide describes how you can become a confident ‘decision mentor’.

Learn to support young people in making good decisions for themselves. Treating decision making as an essential and learnable skill, the six-step ‘decision-maker moves’ highlight the power and promise of young people as they shape their lives through the options they choose. Stories, examples, and practical tips show how decisions can transform problems into opportunities. Each chapter provides common-sense advice on when and how to talk with teenagers as they weigh up the often-conflicting values, emotions, and trade-offs affecting their choices. We cannot provide young minds with all the answers, but we can help them as they navigate both life-changing and everyday decisions.

Robin Gregory is a grandparent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Senior Research Scientist at Decision Research. He helps families, communities, and governments worldwide (not to mention his own grandchildren) address difficult decisions involving diverse values and perspectives, uncertainty, and tough trade-offs.

Brooke Moore is a parent, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the District Principal of Inquiry and Innovation in the Delta School District. Throughout these roles, both professional and personal, she is motivated by a vision where all young people can move into adulthood with dignity, purpose, and options.

SORTING IT OUT Supporting Teenage Decision Making

RO B I N G REG O RY

B RO O K E M OOR E

UK publication February 2024 US publication May 2024 240 pages 9781009382205 Paperback £19.99 // $29.99 USD // $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides guidance to parents, teachers, and coaches on when and how to support teenagers as they make both everyday and once-in-alifetime choices • Introduces and explains a widely applicable method for organizing choices and improving decisionmaking skills

• Translates complex research findings into accessible, interesting advice for readers with no specialized training or academic background • Presents friendly, engaging anecdotes and examples of the decision-making approach in action, encouraging readers to compare them to their own experiences • Contains chapter summaries and practical tips for parents and teachers, highlighting best practices for mentoring

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Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer’s Daniel Gibbs

In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/ Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which he now knows to have been early signs of his Alzheimer’s Disease. Daniel still writes every day, something he credits with keeping his mind sharper and his demons at bay. This book is a personal collection of essays written over the past two years that describe his own personal experiences, first treating patients with Alzheimer’s, and now living with the disease himself. The book presents an up-to-date discussion of recent advances and setbacks in Alzheimer’s research. Humane and hopeful, this book offers evidencebased information on how it may be possible even now to slow progression of the disease.

Daniel Gibbs is a retired general neurologist with mild Alzheimer’s dementia.

He has written previously about his experiences as seen from two points of view, doctor and patient, in A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, Cambridge University Press, 2021 and 2023 (revised edition).

UK publication January 2024 US publication May 2024 192 pages 9781009430050 Paperback £17.99 // $22.95 USD // $25.95 CAD

At a glance • Presents a collection of essays which reflect on the lived experience of navigating Alzheimer’s Disease, combined with essays summarising new findings and how they shape our understanding of the disease • Evidence-based strategies that may slow the progression of Alzheimer’s pathology in the brain, particularly for those with a genetic risk for developing Alzheimer’s • An up-to-date explanation of where we stand in the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease

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The Gift

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Ana Lucia Araujo The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenthcentury silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century’s Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted EuropeanAfrican relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa.

Ana Lucia Araujo is a Professor of History at Howard University. A specialist on the history and memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, she has authored and edited thirteen books. Slavery in the Age of Memory (2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade (2017), Museums and Atlantic Slavery (2021).

Advance praise ‘A remarkable counternarrative told through the history of material objects troubles what we know about commodification in West and West Central Africa. The Gift brilliantly reframes the best thinking on circulation at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In the expansive tapestry woven by Ana Lucia Araujo, readers will discern new ways of seeing and thinking about cultural objects and the elaboration of power in the Atlantic World. A rewarding and necessary book.’

Herman Bennett, author of African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic

UK publication November 2023 US publication January 2024 248 pages 9781108839297 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Explains how French and African agents in West Africa and West Central Africa interacted in the era of the Atlantic slave trade • Reveals how gifts of prestige produced in Europe facilitated and complicated relations between Africans and Europeans

• Helps readers to understand the role gifts of prestige played in the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa and West Central Africa

‘A brilliant fusion of social and art history, this gem of a book dazzles with scholarly depth. A testament to dual training, an exquisite narrative captivates, enlightens, and transcends conventional boundaries. A truly enriching, must-read gift.’

Roquinaldo Ferreira, author of Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade

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The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script Edited by James L. W. West III and Anne Margaret Daniel

The cultural ubiquity of The Great Gatsby is such that it is tempting to think we know almost all there is to say about it. But F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work still has the capacity to surprise us. Perhaps few admirers of the novel know that it was also adapted for the stage by Owen Davis. In 1926 a successful production ran at the Ambassador Theater in New York City. This edition presents, for the first time in print, the original Broadway script: a fascinating social and literary document, now all but forgotten. The play re-forged Fitzgerald’s novel into a fast-moving dramatization of parties and bootlegging, dancing and drinking, hot jazz, adultery and violence. It afforded an evening of first-rate entertainment for Manhattan theatergoers. Incorporating photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews, and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald’s scrapbooks, this volume lifts the curtain anew on a singular drama.

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He was the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, complete in eighteen volumes. The final volume was his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (2019).

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at The New School University. She is the editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories (2017) and the Norton Library edition of The Great Gatsby (2022). She and Jackson Bryer are preparing the selected letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald for publication.

Advance praise ‘Owen Davis’s play The Great Gatsby, which had a successful Broadway run in 1926, reimagined and even recast Fitzgerald’s book in ways that gave it resonance both as an expression of the Roaring Twenties zeitgeist, and after, as an approach to the ways the novel, in a new form, still tells the American story. With Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West III’s perceptive and instructive introduction providing context, this engrossing script has its own story to tell and insights to Fitzgerald to reveal. And like the novel, it cuts to the heart of America.’

Linda Patterson Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State Abington

‘Anne Margaret Daniel and James L. W. West have unearthed a fascinating curiosity.

Their introduction provides just the right amount of confidential information the audience needs, before the play begins.’

James Campbell, author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin

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UK publication February 2024 US publication April 2024 144 pages 9781009385220 Hardback £19.99 // $26.99 USD // $30.95 CAD

At a glance • This edition makes available in print for the first time the script for this fascinating and lively 1926 Broadway adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel

• Includes an introduction that explores how director George Cukor played up the elements of jazz, adultery, and crime for the theater audience • Includes photographs of the actors and stage sets from the 1926 production, as well as reviews and publicity pasted into Fitzgerald’s scrapbook, making it an essential purchase for all who cherish The Great Gatsby and admire its author

The Truth About Energy

Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction and the Transition to Renewables John K. White The transition to renewable energy is vital and fast-paced, but how do we choose which technologies to drive this energy transition? This timely book provides everyone interested in the renewable energy transition with an introduction to and technical foundation for understanding modern energy technology. It traces everyday power generation through history, from the Industrial Revolution to today. It examines the use of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear to produce energy, before discussing renewable energy sources such as biomass, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, wave, and geothermal. The book examines to what extent and how each technology can contribute to a clean, green infrastructure. The Truth About Energy explains the science and engineering of energy to help everyone understand and compare current and future advances in renewable energy, providing the context to critically examine the different technologies that are competing in a fast-evolving engineering, political, and economic landscape.

John K. White is a physicist, writer, and educator, who has worked in the engineering, science, and education fields in Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Spain. He is the editor of the website E21NS (Energy in the 21st Century News Service) and author of Do The Math! On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking (2013). He was a lecturer in the School of Physics, University College Dublin, and the Department of Education, University of Oviedo, where he taught courses in atomic physics, optics, and science education.

UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 720 pages 9781009433198 Paperback £39.99 // $49.99 USD // $56.95 CAD

At a glance • Introduces the fundamentals of renewable energy using historical examples and jargon-free language throughout, giving readers a technical foundation to understand new energy technologies

• Offers examples spanning from the Industrial Revolution to today, discussing both renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and their contribution to a green infrastructure • Examines the evolving engineering, political, and economic contexts in which new technologies are developed to better understand the fast-paced changes in the transition to renewables

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How To Think About Climate Change

Insights from Economics for the Perplexed But Openminded Citizen Riccardo Rebonato Caught in the crossfire between climate deniers and catastrophists, the intelligent layperson is understandably bewildered when faced with the complexity of climate change. How To Think About Climate Change shows that economics provides not just a suitable, but an indispensable perspective to understand the root causes of the climate-change problem: scarcity of resources, externalities and free riding. Riccardo Rebonato argues that there are no silver bullets or easy solutions.

However, he shows that the new-generation economics models offer a radically different insight about our best course of action from what most early models recommended – in particular, they suggest that fast and large-scale climate action can now be justified as the most cost-effective strategy without requiring the ‘infinite altruism’ of earlier models. Given the conceptual tools provided in this book, readers can decide whether they agree with these conclusions – and, if they do, what the most effective courses of action are.

Riccardo Rebonato is Professor of Finance at EDHEC and Scientific Director at the EDHEC Risk Climate Institute. He worked as a researcher at the nuclear research reactor at the Institut Laue Langevin, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at Oxford University, and has authored 11 books on finance, risk management and political economics. He is a current Board member of Nine Dots Prize with Cambridge University Press and a former Board member of ISDA and GARP.

UK publication December 2023 US publication March 2024 250 pages 9781009405003 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides introduction to relatively advanced concepts in the economics of climate change

• Provides conceptual tools rather than ready-made conclusions allowing the reader to come to their own conclusions • Draws on interdisciplinary treatment allowing the reader to appreciate the complexity of the problem from different angles

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Mungo Park’s Ghost The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa Dane Kennedy In 1816 the British sent two large, ambitious expeditions to Africa, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. Their shared goal was to complete the unfinished mission of Mungo Park, who had disappeared during a journey to determine whether the Niger and the Congo were the same river. Both quests ended disastrously and were soon forgotten. Telling the full story of these failed expeditions for the first time, Dane Kennedy argues that they provide fresh insight into British ambitions in Africa. He places them in the contexts of the imperial rivalry with France, the slave trade and the abolition campaign, and the independent power wielded by African states and peoples. He also shows that they were haunted by the same sense of hubris that would afflict many of the expeditions that followed. This hubris was Mungo Park’s ghost.

Dane Kennedy is a historian of the British imperial world who has written eight books, including The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia (2013), and has edited or co-edited three others. An emeritus professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University, he has served as Director of the National History Center and President of the North American Conference of British Studies and he has been awarded Guggenheim and National Humanities Center fellowships.

Advance praise ‘Mungo Park’s Ghost is a brilliantly executed account one of the most ambitious expeditionary bids ever made by the British government to explore the African continent - and almost certainly the most disastrous. Written with verve and rigour, Kennedy wonderfully documents geographical exploration as imperial hubris.’

Charles W. J. Withers, Professor Emeritus in University of Edinburgh and former Geographer Royal for Scotland

UK publication November 2023 US publication February 2024 252 pages 25 b/w illustrations, 5 maps 9781009392983 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Places these two expeditions in the wider contexts of the slave trade and its abolition, imperial rivalry with France, and British economic interests • Highlights the various roles that Africans played in shaping the outcomes of these expeditions

• Shows how domestic British interest groups used the media to shape the public’s perception of the expeditions

‘Dane Kennedy creatively and insightfully depicts the ignorance and ineptitude of Britain’s early, all-but-forgotten attempts to explore an African interior torn apart by the brutality of the slave trade. What initially appears comically misguided evolves into a tale of rapaciousness and aggression that set the tone for later British misadventures in Africa.’

Stephanie Barczewski, Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of History, Clemson University

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Jazz and American Culture Edited by Michael Borshuk

Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of American life, including books, films, language, and politics. Observing how jazz has become a cultural institution, widely celebrated as ‘America’s classical music,’ the book also never loses sight of its beginnings in Black expressive culture and its enduring ability to critique problems of democracy or speak back to violence and inequality, from Jim Crow to George Floyd. Taking the reader through time and across expressive forms, this volume traces jazz as an aesthetic influence, a political force, and a representational focus in American literature and culture. It shows how jazz has long been a rich source of aesthetic stimulation, influencing writers as stylistically wide-ranging as Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, and James Baldwin, or artists as diverse as Aaron Douglas, Jackson Pollock, and Gordon Parks.

Michael Borshuk is the author of Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature (2006), which won the Texas Tech University President’s Book Award for Outstanding Faculty Publication. He has written widely on African American literature, American modernism, and music. For ten years, he wrote on jazz for Coda magazine.

Contributors

Michael Borshuk, Ajay Heble, Chris Tonelli, Charles Hersch, Fiona Ngo, Steven Tracy, Michael Coyle, Michael Hrebeniak, Amor Kohli, Joel Dinerstein, Dale Chapman, Jurgen Grandt, Herman Beavers, Jessica Teague, Timothy Gray, Daniel Stein, Katherine Williams, Amy Abugo Ongiri, Krin Gabbard, Nicolas Pillai, Will Finch, Benjamin Cawthra

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UK publication December 2023 US publication March 2024 432 pages 9781009420198 Hardback £34.99 // $44.99 USD // $51.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides readers an introduction to jazz expression as music and as cultural influence on other artistic forms

• Discusses many lesser known jazz artists and works while also referencing famous musicians in the jazz tradition • Shows how the meaning of jazz has changed across time and context in American culture

Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters Baidik Bhattacharya

In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial histories. It offers a comprehensive account of the colonial inception of the literary sovereign – how the realm of literature was thought to be separate from history and politics – and then follows it through a wide array of different cultures, multilingual archives, and geographical locations. Providing close studies of colonial archives, German philosophy of aesthetics, French realist novels, and English literary history, this book shows how colonialism shaped and reshaped modern literary cultures in decisive ways. It breaks fresh grounds across disciplines such as literary studies, anthropology, history, and philosophy, and invites one to rethink the history of literature in a new light.

Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018). His works have appeared in some of the leading journals of our times: Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Modern Philology, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, among others.

COLONIALISM, WORLD LITERATURE, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters B A IDIK BH AT TA CH A RYA UK publication March 2024 US publication April 2024 306 pages 9781009422642 Hardback £30.00 // $39.95 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides in-depth accounts of postcolonialism and world literature studies

• Introduces the idea of decolonization as a central rubric • Offers a rethinking of literary studies

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WHO IS A TRUE

CHRISTIAN?

Who Is a True Christian?

Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture

Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture

David W. Congdon ‘No true Christian could vote for Donald Trump.’ ‘Real Christians are pro-life.’ ‘You can’t be a Christian and support gay marriage.’ Assertive statements like these not only reflect growing religious polarization but also express the anxiety over religious identity that pervades modern American Christianity. To address this disquiet, conservative Christians have sought security and stability: whether by retrieving ‘historic Christian’ doctrines, reconceptualizing their faith as a distinct culture, or reinforcing a political vision of what it means to be a follower of God in a corrupt world. The result is a concerted effort ‘Make Christianity Great Again’: a religious project predating the corresponding political effort to ‘Make America Great Again.’ Part intellectual history, part nuanced argument for change, this timely book explores why the question of what defines Christianity has become, over the last century, so damagingly vexatious - and how believers might conceive of it differently in the future.

David W. Congdon is a Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he acquires new titles in political science, and an Instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of three books, including The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology (2015, which won the Rudolf Bultmann Prize in Hermeneutics from the Philipps University of Marburg), and the editor of Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views (2023).

Advance praise ‘In Who Is a True Christian, David Congdon tells the story of how 20 -century American Christians have repeatedly sought and failed to define and defend a pristine ‘orthodox’ or ‘historic’ or ‘biblical’ Christianity. In contrast to such efforts, Congdon offers his own challenging and inspiring vision of a supple Christianity consciously constructed around an inclusive norm of polydoxy.’ th

Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University

‘In this work of exceptional erudition, David W. Congdon shows that Christian apologists from ancient times to the present have failed to acknowledge the historicity of their own constructions of Christianity. Although Who Is a True Christian? is primarily a work of intellectual history, it is also a vigorous critique of recent and contemporary Protestant and Catholic efforts to clarify the essence of the faith. Written in the grand tradition of Harvey Cox, Peter Berger, and Charles Taylor, this capacious and contentious book promises to enliven and instruct a generation’s debates about the destiny of the Christian faith in the United States and beyond.’

David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley

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DAVID W. CONGDON

UK publication December 2023 US publication March 2024 408 pages 9781009428996 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • A crucial and timely intervention in online disputes over whether, for example, voting for Trump or supporting abortion rights makes one a #FakeChristian (a hashtag used especially by progressive Christians against MAGA conservatives) • A coolheaded and authoritative treatment of the connections and interconnections between contemporary conservative and modern liberal Christianity

• Argues persuasively for a ‘polydox model of religion’ that supports pluralism as distinct from authoritarianism: especially important in a political situation where democracy is under threat • Shifts polarized discussion of religion in the US away from ‘historic’ versus ‘modern’ Christianity towards a more nuanced conversation about the different ways of being ‘modern’

Learning from Other Religions David Brown

One common argument against taking the notion of divine revelation seriously is the extraordinrary diversity which exists betwen the world’s major religions. How can God be thought to have spoken to humanity when the conclusions drawn are so very different? David Brown authoritatively and persuasively tackles this issue headon. He refutes the idea that all faiths necessarily culminate in Christianity, or that they can be reduced to some facile lowest common denominator, arguing instead that ideas may emerge more naturally in one context than another. Sometimes, because of its own singular situation, another religion has proved to be more perceptive on a particular issue than Christianity. At other times, no religion will hold the ultimate answer because what can be asserted is heavily dependent on what is viable both scientifically and philosophically. Although complete reconciliation is impossible, a richer notion of revelation can be the result.

David Brown, FBA, is Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Theology, Aesthetics and Culture at the University of St Andrews. He was previously Fellow and Chaplain at Oriel College, Oxford, and Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University. An Anglo-Catholic of wide and sympathetic interests, he has also served as President of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST) and Deputy Chair of the Church of England’s Doctrine Commission. His many substantial publications on theology, aspects of biblical revelation and art and culture have garnered much critical acclaim.

Advance praise ‘Learning from Other Religions brings new impetus to the debate about relations between other religions and one’s own. Written by a leading Christian theologian, it contests the conventional classifications of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism and raises the challenging prospect that God’s activities can be seen in all religions.

It urges followers of each religion to appreciate the insights achieved in others and to discover the massive wealth and variety within them. The book takes this wellworn discussion in an appealing if demanding new direction.’

David Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Christianity and Islam, University of Birmingham

UK publication December 2023 US publication February 2024 408 pages 9781009367707 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • The author writes from a respectful Christian theological viewpoint that takes all religions with appropriate seriousness – while also recognising and acknowledging their deep differences – but without reducing them to uniform if uneven manifestations of divinity • David Brown is one of the foremost theologians of our times and the author of many ground-breaking books addressing aspects of theology, art, biblical studies and culture

• Will have significant appeal to scholars of theology, philosophy and comparative religion, as well as to ministers of religion and to lay and non-specialist readers beyond religious studies

• The individual chapters on each major faith tradition means the book will be invaluable as a handbook for those who seek

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MATTHEW A. SEARS

Sparta and the Commemoration of War Matthew A. Sears

The tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspiring soldiers with rousing verse in the seventh century BCE to inscriptions celebrating the 300’s last stand at Thermopylae, and from Spartan imperialists posing as liberators during the Peloponnesian War to the modern reception of the Spartan as a brave warrior defending the “West”, Sparta has had an outsized role in how warfare is framed and remembered. This image was also distorted by the Spartans themselves and their later interpreters. While debates continue to rage about the appropriateness of monuments to supposed war heroes in our civic squares, this authoritative and engaging book has perhaps never been more pertinent.

Matthew A. Sears is Professor of Classics at the University of New Brunswick.

He is the author of Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and of Understanding Greek Warfare (2019).

He is also the co-author (with C. Jacob Butera) of Battles and Battlefields of Ancient Greece: A Guide to their History, Topography, and Archaeology (2019).

Advance praise ‘At a time when the image of the Spartan has been used to justify white supremacy, military aggression, and controversial commemorative monuments, this book takes an in-depth look not only at Spartan society, military practice, and history, but also at the ways in which the Spartans viewed themselves. Through an examination of ancient literature, art, and archaeology, Matthew A. Sears calls into question many modern presumptions and assumptions about what we ‘know’ of the Spartans.

This volume is certainly a must read for any historian studying the Spartans, but more importantly also for those attempting to use the Spartans as a model for contemporary practice.’

C. Jacob Butera, University of North Carolina, Asheville

‘It would be an exaggeration to say that commemoration of war is all the rage today, but there does seem to be an awful lot of it about, as war remains sadly something we humans can’t yet do without. Same goes for the ancient Greeks, only more so, and the Spartans fought more wars than most of the other thousand or so Greek states, so it was a brilliant idea of Prof. Sears to construct an intelligent and thoughtful monograph around this centrally important theme of ancient historical studies.’

Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

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SPARTA COMMEMORATION OF WAR AND THE

UK publication December 2023 US publication March 2024 272 pages 10 b/w illus. 1 map 9781316519455 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Bold and original: the first comprehensive exploration of how Sparta remembered war and death, shedding light on Spartan and classical Greek history more broadly • Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary: discusses all kinds of fascinating evidence from literature and inscriptions to monuments and archaeological excavations • Stimulating and thoughtprovoking: sheds light on our own commemorative ideas, spaces, and civic monuments

• Lively and appealing: ancient military history and the social questions connected to it comprise perennially popular territory

KIM L. FRIDKIN PATRICK J. KENNEY

Choices in a Chaotic Campaign

Choices in a Chaotic Campaign

Kim L. Fridkin and Patrick J. Kenney

Understanding Citizens’ Decisions in the 2020 Election

Understanding Citizens’ Decisions in the 2020 Election

In Choices in a Chaotic Campaign, Kim Fridkin and Patrick Kenney explore the dynamic nature of citizens’ beliefs and behaviors in response to the historic 2020 presidential campaign. In today’s political environment where citizens can effortlessly gather information, it is important to move beyond standard political characteristics and consider the impact of pre-existing psychological predispositions. Fridkin and Kenney argue these predispositions influence assessments of campaign events and issues, and ultimately alter citizens’ voting decisions. The book relies on data from an original three-wave panel study of over 4,000 people interviewed in September, October, and immediately after Election Day in November 2020. The timing of the surveys provides the analytical leverage to explore how views of the campaign alter citizens’ impressions of the candidates.

The book demonstrates that expanding the relevant citizen characteristics to include psychological predispositions increases our ability to understand how campaigns influence voters’ decisions at the ballot box.

Kim L. Fridkin is a Foundation Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. With Patrick J. Kenney, she is the author of Taking Aim at Attack Advertising (2019) and The Changing Face of Representation: The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications (2014).

Patrick J. Kenney is Foundation Professor of Political Science and an Executive Vice Provost at Arizona State University. With Kim L. Fridkin, he is the author of Taking Aim at Attack Advertising (2019) and The Changing Face of Representation: The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications (2014).

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UK publication April 2024 US publication April 2024 265 pages 9781009445870 Paperback £25.99 // $34.99 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • Improves our understanding of how campaigns influence people’s assessments of candidates.

• Describes and analyzes the major events and issues of the 2020 US presidential campaign.

• Introduces and explains the citizencentered theory of campaigns.

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Uncertain Warriors

The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror David Fitzgerald In an era where ‘history’ had supposedly ended, what was an Army for? This question confronted the US Army at the end of the Cold War. Although public support for the military remained high, fewer were sending their children to enlist and questions were raised about the uncertainty of future operations: How would Army leaders prepare soldiers for difficult peacekeeping operations that called for a more human-oriented approach in light of the promises of high-tech warfare? How best to navigate the broader debates about changing gender and sexual norms in American society? Pulled in different directions, the Army struggled to put forward a compelling vision of who and what the American soldier should be. In Uncertain Warriors, David Fitzgerald reveals how, in response to this uncertainty, they eventually fell back on an older vision of martial masculinity, embracing a ‘warrior ethos’ that was meant to define the contemporary American soldier.

David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Relations at University College Cork. His first book, Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq (2013), was a finalist for the Society of Military History’s Edward M. Coffman prize.

Advance praise ‘What’s an Army without an enemy? David Fitzgerald skilfully probes the predicament of the US military after the collapse of its Soviet nemesis and before an elusive new enemy-’terror’-took its place. Deeply researched and briskly paced, Uncertain Warriors uncovers a fraught decade of armed intervention overseas and culture war skirmishes at home. Essential reading for anyone looking to better understand the contradictions of contemporary America.’

Susan Carruthers, author of Dear John: Love and Loyalty in America

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UK publication November 2023 US publication February 2024 288 pages 9781009235808 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Taps into previously unexplored archives to offer the first history of the post-Cold War US Army • Amplifies the voices of ordinary soldiers and citizens to show how they felt about the Army’s changing role in society

• Reveals how cultural products such as Saving Private Ryan and Tom Clancy novels influenced Army doctrine and policy

We Hold These Truths

Updating the Framers’ Vision of American Democracy Stephen M. Maurer The Federalist remains the best single account of how American democracy is supposed to work. That said, it remains incomplete. While generations of scholars from Alexis de Tocqueville to Anthony Downs have worked hard to fill these gaps, America’s constantly-changing society and political institutions continue to encounter new puzzles and challenges. We Hold These Truths provides a comprehensive survey of recent scholarship about the Framers’ vision, stressing how long-established political patterns can abruptly change as voters become more polarized, and even lead to feedbacks that amplify public anger still further.

Developing a theory of American democracy for the age of the internet, Trump, and polarization, this study mixes modern social science with a detailed knowledge of history, asking where the Framers’ scheme has gone wrong – and what can be done to fix it.

Stephen M. Maurer is Adjunct Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Trained as a lawyer, he has been associated with Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy since 1999. His books include WMD Terrorism (2009), On the Shoulders of Giants (Cambridge, 2017), and Self-Governance in Science (Cambridge, 2017).

UK publication January 2024 US publication April 2024 420 pages 12 b/w illustrations 9781108845700 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Presents a fully modern and selfcontained theory of American government starting from Madison’s original assumptions and design principles

• Expands Madison’s ideas to reflect insights from modern economics and American and European history • Profiles different sectors of the American political system and explains how they shape rational politicians’ behaviors

• Explains how Madison’s theories of human behavior anticipate modern economics

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Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat Countering Global Alarmism Kurt Weyland The recent global wave of populist governments, which culminated in Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, has convinced many observers that populism is a grave threat to democracy. In his new book, Kurt Weyland critiques recent scholarship for focusing too closely on cases where populist leaders have crushed democracy, and instead turns to the many cases where would populist-authoritarians have failed to overthrow democracy. Through a systematic comparative analysis of thirty populist chief executives in Latin America and Europe over the last four decades, Weyland reveals that populist leaders can only destroy democracy under special, restrictive conditions. Left-wing populists suffocate democracy only when benefitting from huge revenue windfalls, whereas right-wing populists must perform the heroic feat of resolving acute, severe crises. Because many populist chief executives do not face these propitious conditions, Weyland proves that despite populism’s threat, democracy remains resilient.

Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has studied populism across Latin America over the last thirty-five years. He is the author of The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies (2002), Making Waves (2014), and Assault on Democracy (2021).

UK publication January 2024 US publication April 2024 324 pages 9781009432467 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Offers the most thorough, systematic, and wide-ranging empirical analysis of populist governments of the last four decades • Develops a systematic theoretical account to demonstrate that populism’s threat to democracy is not as severe as often feared • Incorporates a cross-regional comparative perspective, including case studies of thirty populist leaders

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The Rise, Fall, and Influence of the Tea Party Insurgency Patrick Rafail and John D. McCarthy

Emerging in 2009, the Tea Party movement had an immediate and profound impact on American politics and society. This book draws on a decade’s worth of original, extensive data collection to understand why the Tea Party emerged, where it was active, and why it disappeared so quickly. Patrick Rafail and John McCarthy link the Tea Party’s rise to prominence following the economic collapse that came to be known as the Great Recession. Paying special attention to the importance of space and time in shaping the Tea Party’s activities, Rafail and McCarthy identify and explain the movement’s disappearance from the political stage. Even though grassroots Tea Party activism largely ceased by 2014, they demonstrate the movement’s effect on the Republican Party and American democracy that continues today.

Patrick Rafail is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University. His work focuses on social movements, collective behavior, social control, and computational social science.

John D. McCarthy is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the Pennsylvania State University. His diverse and extensive research began with resource mobilization, including numerous studies of social movement organizations. Notre Dame’s Social Movement Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award is named in his honor.

UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 266 pages 9781009423731 Paperback £25.99 // $34.99 USD // $39.95 CAD

At a glance • Draws on extensive original data collection to analyze the Tea Party movement

• Provides the most comprehensive assessment of the Tea Party movement to date, tracing its origins, maturation, and decline • Makes a major contribution to the literature on conservative social movements

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Silicon Valley Bank

The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech

Silicon Valley Bank The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech

Xuan-Thao Nguyen This book provides a first-hand account of the founding, ascent, and dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a tech community bank founded in 1982 with five million dollars that became the tech industry’s lender and bank. In this pathbreaking work, which challenges conventional understanding of risky tech lending by showing how an independent community bank became the go-to bank for the tech industry in the United States, Xuan-Thao Nguyen includes interviews with key players, ranging from the original founders and early employees to the current CEO of SVB. Chapters explore how the relationship between the venture capital industry and SVB transformed the way commercial banks comply with banking regulators while lending and nurturing young tech clients. The book demonstrates why the relationships between investors, start-ups, experts, accountants, lawyers, regulators, and community leaders are key ingredients for ongoing innovation in the tech industry. The book concludes with the covering dissection of SVB’s sudden death by a million cuts – inflicted by tech bros, social media,, and the Federal Reserve Bank’s successive interest rate hikes to squash the overheated economy.

Xuan-Thao Nguyen is the Pendleton Miller Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has authored numerous books, treatises, and law review articles in the areas of intellectual property, finance, business, and taxation. She also serves as a senior consultant to the World Bank Group IFC.

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Xuan-Thao Nguyen UK publication April 2024 US publication April 2024 298 pages 9781009416160 Paperback £29.99 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Describes the founding and ascent of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) • Analyzes the special relationship between the VC industry and Silicon Valley Bank, from 1983 to the present • Utilizes interviews and first-hand accounts to paint an intimate picture of the impact of banking and lending on startups’ growth

The Russia Sanctions The Economic Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Christine Abely In The Russia Sanctions, Christine Abely examines the international trade measures and sanctions deployed against Russia in response to its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Abely situates contemporary sanctions within their larger historical and economic backgrounds and provides a uniquely accessible analysis of the historic export controls and import restrictions enacted since 2022. She argues that these sanctions have affected, and will continue to affect, global trading patterns, financial integration, and foreign policy in novel ways. In particular, she examines the effects of sanctions on energy, food, fertilizer, the financial system, and the global use of the US dollar, including trends of de-dollarization. Coverage includes sanctions against oligarchs, the freezing and seizure of assets, and steps taken to make sanctions more effective by promoting financial transparency worldwide.

Christine Abely is an assistant professor at New England Law | Boston. She previously practiced international trade and sanctions law and is a licensed customs broker. Her work has appeared in The Hill, Just Security, and numerous academic journals.

UK publication February 2024 US publication February 2024 226 pages 9781009361194 Paperback £29.99 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Describes the historic sanctions enacted against Russia in response to its 2022 invasion of Ukraine • Highlights similarities and variations in the economic responses to Russia across jurisdictions

• Simplifies international economic law concepts such as sanctions, import restrictions, and export controls

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In Search of a Moral Foundation for Capitalism From Adam Smith to Amartya Sen Douglas E. Stevens The search for a moral foundation for capitalism has a long history that continues to unfold, yet many are unaware of this search or its implications for the future of capitalism. The recent pandemic has uncovered cracks in the foundation of capitalism and raised doubts regarding its ability to meet the broader needs of society. In Search of a Moral Foundation for Capitalism explains the continuing demand for a moral foundation from the perspective of business leaders, business educators, and policymakers, and tells the story of the search for that moral foundation through its leading characters. By presenting the life stories and writings of these leading characters – from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen – this book reveals the rich moral critique provided by these great thinkers and explains how that rich critique was lost through the influence of the Chicago School and its emphasis on self-interest.

Douglas E. Stevens is Professor and Copeland-Deloitte Chair in Accountancy at Georgia State University. His research extents traditional economic theory by incorporating social and moral norms. His previous book, Social Norms and the Theory of the Firm, was published by Cambridge in 2019.

UK publication January 2024 US publication April 2024 258 pages 9781009434393 Hardback £30.00 // $39.99 USD // $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Exposes the reader to the rich moral critique of capitalism that existed before the influence of the Chicago School and its emphasis on selfinterest

• Reveals why the search for a moral foundation for capitalism may be the critical issue of our times • Tells the story of the search for a moral foundation for capitalism through the lives and writings of leading characters in that search

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DAVID L. WEIMER AIDAN R. VINING

Dog Economics

Dog Economics

Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining Archeologists, anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists study the origins of our relationship with dogs and how it has evolved over time. Sociologists and legal scholars study the roles of dogs in the modern family. Veterinarian researchers address the relationship in the context of professional practice, yet economists have produced scant scholarship on the relationship between humans and dogs. Dog Economics applies economic concepts to relationships between people and dogs to inform our understanding of their domestication. It interprets their contemporary role as both property and family members and explores factors that affect the demand for dogs as well as market failures of the American puppy market. Offering economic perspectives on our varied relationships with dogs, this book assesses mortality risks and addresses end-of-life issues that commonly arise. It develops a framework for classifying canine occupations, considers the impact of pet insurance on euthanasia, and assesses the social value of guide dogs.

David L. Weimer is Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

His contributions to public policy scholarship have been widely recognized as he has received the Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis.

Aidan R. Vining is Emeritus CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations, Simon Fraser University. He is a winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize (Canadian Economics Association) and the J.E. Hodgetts Award (Institute of Public Administration of Canada). His family fosters candidate dogs for guide training.

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UK publication January 2024 US publication January 2024 216 pages 9781009445535 Paperback £18.99 // $24.99 USD // $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Introduces and applies the basic economic concepts useful for understanding human relationships with dogs

• Helps canine researchers identify potentially useful work in other fields and provides a policy-relevant framework for their contributions toward improving dog welfare • Deepens dog lovers’ understanding of the origin of the human-dog relationship and how it plays out in contemporary society

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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great Edited by Daniel Ogden

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Here, an international team of experts clearly explains the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. They introduce key themes of his campaign as well as describe aspects of his court and government and explore the very different natures of his engagements with the various peoples he encountered and their responses to him. The reader is also introduced to the key sources, including the important fragmentary historians, especially Ptolemy, Aristobulus and Clitarchus, with their different perspectives. The book closes by considering how Alexander’s image was manipulated in antiquity itself.

Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter. His previous publications include: Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties (1999), The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (2002), Philip and Alexander: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (2010), Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality (2011), and the Legend of Seleucus (Cambridge, 2017).

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Daniel Ogden, Borja Antela Bernárdez, Ed Anson, Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller,Richard Stoneman, Joseph Roisman, Carol J. King, Bill Greenwalt, Jeanne Reames, Elizabeth Carney, Hugh Bowden, Carolyn Willekes, F. S. Naiden, Kyle Erickson, Maxim Kholod, Ignacio Molina Marín, Daniel W. Leon, Philip Bosman, Elizabeth Baynham, Frances Pownall, Luisa Prandi, Christian Djurslev, Daniel Ogden, Sulochana Asirvatham, Christian Djurslev, Aleksandra Kleczar, Agnieszka Fulińska

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UK publication January 2024 US publication March 2024 598 pages 9781108744676 Paperback £34.99 // $44.99 USD // $51.95 CAD

At a glance • Offers a detailed survey of Alexander’s career articulated principally in terms of the regions he conquered or with which he interacted in the course of his campaign

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