Cambridge University Press spring 2025 highlights

2025 Spring Highlights

Berners-Lee

A Climate of Truth

the bestselling author of There is No Planet B

Mike Berners-Lee A Climate of Truth

A Climate of Truth

Why We Need It and How To Get It

Mike Berners-Lee

Why We Need It And How To Get It

By the

author

UK publication March 2025

US publication March 2025

9781009440066

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�95 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• The new book from Mike Berners-Lee, author of There Is No Planet B and How Bad Are Bananas?

• Finds new angles on the biggest challenges of our time - the Polycrisis, of which climate change is one symptom –by standing further back, digging deeper, joining up the issues and learning from failure�

• Tackles the root causes, rather than just the symptoms, of our climate and ecological emergency�

• To deal with the Polycrisis we need radically higher standards of honesty in public life than ever before� This book explains why and how to get them�

• Empowering and hopeful for readers: practical tips on how to maximise your impact, and be part of the evolution that humanity so urgently needs�

• Empowering for anyone who has been feeling hopelessly small in the face of such huge global problems�

• The engaging style makes overlooked but essential concepts dazzlingly clear�

• Packed full of perspective-forcing, jawdropping and illuminating diagrams�

We have all the technology we need to live better than ever before, and yet humanity is still accelerating into a climate and ecological emergency. To understand why, and to give ourselves a chance of doing better, we have to look at the challenge from new angles. Mike Berners-Lee does this by standing further back from the problem to gain perspective, by digging deeper under the surface to see the root causes, by joining up every element of the challenges we face, and by learning from our failures so far. The need for radically higher standards of honesty - especially in our politics, media and business - emerges as the single most critical point of leverage for those seeking change. This urgent and practical book points to what all of us can do to maximise our impact, and be part of the evolution that humanity so urgently needs.

About the Author

Mike Berners-Lee is a leading thinker, researcher, best-selling author and consultant on the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. About his first book – How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint Of Everything – Bill Bryson wrote ‘I can’t remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating, useful and enjoyable all at the same time’. His book There Is No Planet B, was described by the Financial Times as ‘a handbook for how humanity can thrive’. He founded and directs Small World Consulting, which helps organisations of every size and type to have a positive role in our world. Berners-Lee is a professor at Lancaster University, where his research includes emissions modelling, sustainable food systems and the impact of AI.

bestselling

of There is No Planet B

Living with Jane Austen

Janet Todd

UK publication March 2025

US publication March 2025

264 pages

9781009569316

Hardback

£16�99 | $22�95 USD | $25�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Janet Todd is a leading critic of Jane Austen and this accessible book distills the ‘essence’ of her thinking into readable and concentrated form, which can be read by anyone with an interest in Austen�

• Combines astute literary reflection with memoirs of a reading life�

• Shows how Austen’s books remain surprisingly applicable to contemporary settings, exploring themes such as self-regard and the obsession with our bodies, English patriotism and the destructive march of tourism�

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that ‘we have all a better guide in ourselves…than any other person can be’. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen’s own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen’s 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how – for over half a century – Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life. Part personal memoir, part expert interaction with all the letters, manuscripts and published novels, Janet Todd’s book reveals what living with Jane Austen has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen’s work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.

About the Author

Janet Todd has been thinking and writing about books for more than half a century. She has been a biographer, novelist, critic, editor and memoirist. In the 1970s, she opened up the study of early women writers by beginning a journal and compiling encyclopedias before editing the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn and Jane Austen. She has worked in English departments in Africa, the West Indies, the US and the UK. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish and Newnham Colleges and an Emerita Professor of the University of Aberdeen.

Advance Praise

“This is a book for all Jane Austen’s readers by one of the very best of those readers�”

Richard Cronin, author of Byron’s Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century

“Janet Todd shows us how to live with Austen’s novels, to read them and reread them and weave them into the texture of our lives� Witty and inviting, this book offers both a fresh perspective on Austen and a moving record of the struggles of feminist scholarship in the academy�”

Maud Ellmann, author of The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud

UK publication April 2025

US publication May 2025

9781009554114 Hardback

£22�95 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary

• Brings fresh understandings to the methods and motives behind the creation of this most famous of journals

• Offers new ways of reading the diary and new insights into what it can tell us about groups and people under-represented in the historical records

• Shows that Pepys’s diary continues profoundly to influence how we understand the Restoration period, history, and the question of whose stories are worth telling

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary

During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few people who can read Pepys’s shorthand –unlocks the riddles of the diary, investigating why he chose to preserve such private matters for later generations. She also casts fresh light on the women and sexual relationships in Pepys’s life and on Black Britons living in or near his household. Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys’s history became part of the history of the nation.

About the Author

Kate Loveman is Associate Professor in English 1600–1789 at the University of Leicester and an internationally recognised expert on Pepys and Restoration literature. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, Samuel Pepys and his Books, 1660–1703: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability and the editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys for Everyman.

Kate Loveman

TECHNOLOGY AND THE NEW GEOPOLITICS

World Builders Technology and the New Geopolitics

Bruno Maçães

UK publication February 2025

US publication February 2025

256 pages 9781009397384 Hardback

£22�95 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Identifies the full implications of technology for global politics�

• Interprets the contemporary world through discussions of major global challenges including tech wars, the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and climate change�

• An exciting and accessible writing style�

World politics has changed, claims Bruno Maçães. Geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory: in this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. At a moment when the old concepts no longer work, this book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology. Understood as ‘world building’, the most important events of our troubled times suddenly appear connected and their inner logic is revealed: technology wars between China and the United States, the pandemic,the war in Ukraine and the energy transition. In conclusion, Maçães considers the more distant future, when the metaverse and artificial intelligence become the world – one the great powers must struggle to build and control.

About the Author

Bruno Maçães is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, where he advises some of the world’s leading companies on geopolitics and technology, as well as a columnist for the New Statesman.  He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was the Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal during the eurozone crisis. His books include Belt and Road (2018), The Dawn of Eurasia (2019), History Has Begun (2020) and, most recently, Geopolitics for the End Time (2021).

Advance Praise

“Bruno Maçães is a truly original thinker� He pulls the world before your eyes before reassembling for you later� World Builders is not simply an important book, it is a great book�”

Ivan Krastev, author of Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic

The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzergald

Edited by James L. W. West, III and

with an introduction by

UK publication January 2025

US publication January 2025

230 pages

9781009414593

Hardback

£20 | $24�95 USD | $28�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Makes the authoritative scholarly edition of The Great Gatsby available to general readers in a beautiful, celebratory, collectible version

• Debunks myths and clichés about the Jazz Age, F� Scott Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby

• Full annotations identify literary works, songs, movie and stage stars, musical works, politicians, other public figures mentioned in the novel

• Includes extensive illustrations, including facsimiles from the MS and proofs of the novel

• Provides new readings of The Great Gatsby that explain ideas and details often overlooked or misunderstood

Sarah Churchwell

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical prose that revives a vanished world of glittering parties and vibrant jazz, where money and deceit walk hand in hand. Rich in humor, sharply observant of status and class, the book tells the story of Jay Gatsby’s efforts to keep his faith – in money, in love, in all the promises of America – amid the chaos and conflict of life on Long Island’s Gold Coast during the Roaring Twenties. This centennial edition presents the established version of the text in a collector’s volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations. The authoritative introduction examines persistent myths about Fitzgerald, his greatest work, and the age he embodies, while offering fresh ways of reading this iconic work.

About the Authors

James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. From 1994 to 2019, he was General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently completed in eighteen volumes (sixteen under his editorship). Professor West’s variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.

Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022), Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018), and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004).

Advance Praise

“I have always loved and admired The Great Gatsby, but this Cambridge edition gives us something quite unique and universal, offering more than a path into a literary masterpiece� This book is an extraordinary resource and a companion for life� A striking achievement�”

Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees and Booker Prize finalist for 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

“This fascinating and comprehensive new edition of The Great Gatsby, which includes detailed analysis in its riveting notes and introduction, will delight fans and newcomers alike�”

Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of Beautiful Little Fools

Dr Barbara J. Sahakian Dr Christelle Langley

Brain Boost

Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

UK publication January 2025

US publication January 2025

184 pages

9781009548434

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�95 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• By creating good lifestyle habits, everyone can live a fuller life� While many focus their attention on their physical health throughout their life, they rarely consider improving their brain health which is every bit as important� This book presents clear guidance about how everyone can improve their cognition, resilience and wellbeing

• Provides evidence-based lifestyle factors that promote good brain health, cognition and wellbeing to be adopted early in life and to be maintained throughout, promoting a healthier, longer and happier life

• Features information from authors who are expert in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience, helping readers to reduce stress and live an enriched and fuller life

Brain Boost Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley

Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it’s vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. This book is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to implement lifestyle strategies that will improve your brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing. Covering the benefits of exercise, diet, sleep, social interactions, kindness, mindfulness, and learning, you will discover how adopting habits to improve these areas of your life at an early age will lead to a longer, healthier life. Embracing these simple strategies to prioritise your brain health and wellbeing is essential for a fulfilling life, with lifestyle choices playing a significant role in promoting resilience, creativity, and overall quality of life across all ages. For anyone seeking to lead a fulfilling life through happiness, health, and personal growth, this is the book for you.

About the Authors

Dr Barbara J. Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. Professor Sahakian was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT before becoming an Associate Professor at the Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences and is one of the top female scientists in the world. She is the recipient of The Conversation’s Sir Paul Curran Award for 2023, and has written popular science books. Professor Sahakian is frequently interviewed on radio, newspapers and TV, including Netflix.

Dr Christelle Langley is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. She has been involved in several high-impact studies and is gaining a national and international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology. She has appeared on several podcasts and radio shows, and has also appeared in TV documentaries.”

Advance Praise

“In an easy, evidence-packed read, Brain Boost shows just how you can develop healthy lifestyle habits to improve your sleep, diet, exercise, cognition, and mood� Give yourself a boost and treat yourself to this book!”

Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FRS, FMedSci., Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

“This engaging and highly accessible book provides a treasure trove of information to increase wellbeing across the lifespan� To readers, my advice is, pay attention to this one!”

Terry L. Jernigan, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology, UC San Diego

The Complete Cambridge Jane Austen

The Collector’s Edition 8-vol Boxed Set Limited Edition

Jane Austen

Edited by Janet Todd

UK publication May 2025

US publication May 2025

9781009421256

Hardback

£145 | $225 USD | $245 CAD

At a Glance

• Provides authoritative texts of the six novels, childhood writings and all the unpublished manuscripts including the novella ‘Lady Susan’ and the unfinished ‘Sanditon’

• Includes original prefaces and helpful contextual notes, provided by one of the world’s leading Austen scholars, which illuminate Austen’s writing and guide the reader through her world

• A beautifully presented and produced collector’s edition

• Each volume also available separately

A treasure for those newly discovering Jane Austen as much as for those long familiar with her extraordinary oeuvre and its influence, this authoritative and attractive new edition is accessible and informative for readers at all levels. With helpful contextual notes and enlightening prefaces, it presents the reader with the six celebrated published novels alongside the unpublished writings, from Austen’s youth to her final years. Released to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, the set is beautifully presented, including illustrations drawn by Austen’s sister Cassandra to accompany her childhood piece ‘The History of England’, as well as Austen’s poems, unfinished novels and a selection of letters in which she offers advice on writing fiction. Taken together, the volumes allow the reader to follow Jane Austen’s creative development, observe her craft of fiction and experience her world with more clarity than ever before.

About the Author

Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden. Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

Childhood Writings

This complete collection of Jane Austen’s childhood writings, including her sister Cassandra’s illustrations to Jane’s ‘The History of England’, vividly showcases their rambunctious, indecorous and surreal character�

9781009432382

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Emma

Jane Austen’s stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind’s deception of itself� It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner�

9781009432719

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Sense and Sensibility

Appearing anonymously in 1811, Jane Austen’s first published novel is an edgy, contrapuntal tale� Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in a darkly humorous work that depicts sex and greed with breath-taking sharpness�

9781009432542

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Northanger Abbey

Austen’s ingenious Gothic parody illuminates the material and social conditions of genteel English society in the late eighteenth century� Through its naive young heroine, we delight in escapist fiction while learning its limitations�

9781009432429

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen’s six remarkable novels, achieving the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity� It is considered one of the great love stories of English literature�

9781009432580

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Persuasion

Persuasion is a powerful portrait of female grief triumphantly overcome� Opening with its heroine lamenting the loss of love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel, it transforms by degrees into a rapturous romantic comedy�

9781009432771

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen’s supreme achievement� Serious, even earnest, it shows that integrity is essential for individual and nation – but it comes at a cost� Comedy derives from the selfdeception of good and flawed characters�

9781009432665

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Later Manuscripts

This unique volume compiles Austen’s unpublished mature work� An enlightening companion to the published novels, it includes her comic poems, a novella, two unfinished novels, literary spoofs and letters giving advice on writing fiction�

9781009432818

Hardback

£16.99 / $22.95 / $25.95 CAD

Mansfield Park

Dark Justice Inside the World of Paedophile Hunters

Mark de Rond

UK publication March 2025

US publication March 2025

224 pages

9781009457040

Hardback

£20 | $25�95 USD | $29�95 CAD

At a Glance

• The author was granted unprecedented access for 4 years to one of the UK’s most prolific and successful paedophile hunting teams, through which he gained deep insight into the hunters’ personal reckoning with their work�

• Drawing on his own personal history, de Rond employs an engaging and compelling first-person narrative while offering a sensitive and thoughtful analysis of the organisational dynamics of civil activist groups formed around an extreme and highly affective cause�

• Provides suggestions for helping the police coexist and collaborate with paedophile hunters, in order to mitigate harm to the innocent and do a better job of keeping children safe�

• The incorporation of ‘screenplays’ and chat logs gives voice to the paedophile hunters, allowing them to make their case (which they feel is misunderstood and misrepresented by the police and media)�

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every 7 minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning themselves as ‘paedophile hunters.’ Operating outside the law, these groups use social media to bait and expose those seeking to engage children sexually, both on- and offline. Their work has been remarkably effective, but at what cost? Following four years of unprecedented access to the UK’s most prolific team of paedophile hunters, Mark de Rond offers balanced and insightful answers to the perplexing question of why these groups persist in using extreme methods to hold predators to account in view of less harmful alternatives. In doing so, he invites us to consider the societal impacts of paedophile hunters on our laws and institutions, as well as societal cohesion and safety.

About the Author

Mark de Rond is Professor of Organisational Ethnography at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is considered one of the most original and effective researchers in his field. He immerses himself in the life of his subjects, which include doctors and nurses at war, a ragtag band rowing the Amazon, peace activists and paedophile hunters. He seeks to engage with questions to which the answers can actually make a real difference to real people.

Advance Praise

“Mark de Rond may be the best writer in social science today� Grabbing your attention from the first line, he describes a world full of dangers — violent, criminal-legal and moral — where the wrongs are emphatic but doing something about them risks even more wrongs�”

Randall Collins, author of Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence

“Dark Justice is an ethnographic barnburner, a moral bombshell and a narrative page-turner all rolled into one� It will make you revise all your cherished beliefs about evil, justice and citizenship in the age of out-of-control social media�”

Loïc Wacquant, author of Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer and Punishing the Poor

Susan L. Carruthers

Making Do Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World

Susan L. Carruthers

Making Do

Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World

UK publication April 2025

US publication April 2025

9781009464284 Hardback

£25 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Provides an intimate and textured account of the aftermath of WWII in the UK and the British empire through focusing on what people wore�

• Foregrounds clothing as central to histories of postwar adjustment, including demobilization, humanitarianism and immigration�

• Draws on extensive original research ranging from personal diaries and memoirs to Mass Observation responses and declassified official records from the UK, US and UN�

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn’t superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of uprooted people struggled to subsist?

In this richly textured history, Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, ‘Make Do and Mend’, to reveal how central fabric was to postwar Britain. Clothes and footwear supplied a currency with which some were rewarded, while others went without. Making Do moves from Britain’s demob centres to liberated Belsen – from razed German cities to refugee camps and troopships – to uncover intimate ties between Britons and others bound together in new patterns of mutual need. Filled with original research and personal stories, Making Do illuminates how lives were refashioned after the most devastating war in human history.

About the Author

Susan L. Carruthers is Professor of US and International History at the University of Warwick. Much of her work focuses on war and the ways in which individuals, and societies more broadly, have made sense of conflict and its aftermath. She is the author of six previous books, including Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America (Cambridge, 2022) and The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (2016).

SILENCE OF T H E GODS † †

The Untold History of Europe’s

Last Pagan Peoples

FRANCIS YOUNG

UK publication May 2025

US publication June 2025

350 pages

9781009586573

Hardback

£25�00 | $34�95 USD | $39�95 CAD

At a Glance

• The first book in English about the late survival of pre-Christian religion in northern and eastern Europe, even after the climacteric Battle of Grunwald in 1410

• Francis Young is an established and internationally acclaimed authority on the history of pre-Christian belief and the intersection between history and myth: both his previous CUP books were academic bestsellers

• Brings entirely new and surprising perspectives to the interpretation of pagan religions in Europe in the period post-1387

• The history of paganism is a subject of considerable appeal and fascination, to readers in several fields: history, religion, myth and folklore, and the history of ideas

Silence of the Gods

The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples

Francis Young

The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last ‘pagan’ peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around the dusky edgelands, preChristian religions endured and indeed continued to flourish for an astonishing five centuries. Silence of the Gods tells, for the first time, the remarkable story of these forgotten peoples: belated adopters of Christian belief on the outer periphery of Christendom, from the Sámi of the frozen north to the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians around the Baltic, as well as the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia’s Volga-Ural Plain. These communities, Dr Young reveals, responded creatively to Christianity’s challenge, but for centuries stopped short of embracing it. His book addresses why this was so, uncovering stories of fierce resistance, unlikely survival and considerable ingenuity. He revolutionises understandings of the lost religions of the last pagans.

About the Author

Francis Young grew up in Bury St Edmunds, England, and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. He has written over twenty books in the fields of folklore and the history of religion and supernatural belief, including Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic (2022), Magic in Merlin’s Realm (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Twilight of the Godlings (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His work has also appeared in History Today, BBC History Magazine and The Catholic Herald, as well as other periodicals. A regular podcaster, and broadcaster on BBC Radio, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a lay canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and teaches courses in religious history and folklore for the Department for Continuing Education in the University of Oxford.

Advance Praise

“Provides, in lucid and accessible prose, the first comprehensive chronological story of the Christianization of these northern and north-eastern fringe areas of Europe�”

Ronald Hutton, author of Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe

The CEO The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry

Michael Aldous and John D. Turner

UK publication June 2025

US publication June 2025

304 pages

9781009489522 Hardback

£22�95 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Explains the 20th century evolution of the British CEO�

• Establishes why the dramatic rise in CEO pay has happened�

• Explores the influence of social mobility in making a CEO and vice versa�

• Unpacks the lack of diversity present in the CEOs of the FTSE 100, and of women in particular�

• Discusses whether CEOs are the heroes or villains of Britain’s economic story�

The CEOs of Britain’s largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they really worth that exorbitant salary? Michael Aldous and John Turner provide the answers by telling the story of the British CEO over the past century. From gentleman amateurs to professional managers, entrepreneurs, frauds, and fat cats, they reveal the characters who have made it to the top of the corporate ladder, how they got there, and what their rise tells us about British society. They show how the quality of their leadership influences productivity, innovation, economic development and, ultimately, Britain’s place in the world. More recently, issues have arisen regarding high CEO pay, poor performance, and a lack of professionalisation and diversity. Are there lessons from history for those who would seek to reform Britain’s flagging corporate economy?

About the Authors

Michael Aldous is a business historian and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast. He is a founder and co-director of the Long Run Institute (LRI), which uses historical analysis to help senior executives and policy makers make better decisions.

John D. Turner is Professor of Finance and Financial History, Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His previous book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles was named an Economics Book of the Year by The Financial Times.

OPERATION WRATH OF GOD

The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign

AVIVA GUTTMANN

UK publication July 2025

US publication July 2025

340 pages

9781009503075 Hardback

£25 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Offers pathbreaking new insights into the global Cold War, covert action, terrorism, and European involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict�

• Reveals how the international intelligence order pursued state relations independently of official foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny�

• Based on unique access to unredacted intelligence sources�

Operation Wrath of God

The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign

Aviva

Guttmann

In this unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War, Aviva Guttmann uncovers the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad’s Operation Wrath of God. She reveals how, in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism were hunted and killed by Mossad with active European cooperation. Through unique access to unredacted documents in the Club de Berne archive, she shows how a secret coalition of intelligence agencies supplied Mossad with information about Palestinians on a colossal scale and tacitly supported Israeli covert actions on European soil. These agencies helped to anticipate and thwart a number of Palestinian terrorist plots, including some revealed here for the first time. This extraordinary book reconstructs the hidden world of international intelligence, showing how this parallel order enabled state relations to be pursued independently of official foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny.

About the Author

Dr Aviva Guttmann is a Lecturer in Strategy and Intelligence at Aberystwyth University and author of The Origins of International Counterterrorism (2018).

Nikki M. Taylor

UK publication January 2025

US publication January 2025

256 pages

9781009276856

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�95 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, nonviolent forms of resistance

• Details the complex lives of enslaved women through case studies that span the colonial through the antebellum era

• Delves into each case study to illustrate the shared plight across time

• Illuminates how enslaved women were highly organized and responded consistently and powerfully to acts of injustice

• Contests much of the literature on slavery by detailing graphic violence committed by black women toward white enslavers

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

Nikki M. Taylor

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, nonviolent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully premeditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge opens a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.

About the Author

Nikki M. Taylor is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Howard University. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American history. This is her fourth book.

Praise

“…an extraordinary, and necessarily gruesome, account of the ways in which enslaved women resisted the violence and oppression they encountered daily� By challenging existing narratives, Taylor sheds new light on the lengths some went to for safety, dignity, revenge and justice�”

Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine - Best Books of 2023

“… a cogent reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the gendered experience of American slavery�”

Publishers Weekly

“Spanning from the colonial period through to the early national and antebellum eras, Taylor’s extensively researched book not only powerfully depicts the trauma endured by enslaved women, it also details how federal and state governments and judicial systems propped up the institution of slavery and allowed or enacted its overwhelming violence�”

Beth Farrell, Library Journal

UK publication May 2025

US publication May 2025

448 pages

9781316501832

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�95 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Major new account of the Troubles drawing on extensive new evidence including government and regimental records as well as contemporary politicians, civil servants, journalists, paramilitaries and human rights activists

• Uncovers the interactions between the British Army, the IRA and loyalist paramilitary groups, shedding new light on British decision-making, the nature of the violence and why the conflict lasted so long

• Shows how military strategy succeeded in suppressing the level of violence but only by making the conflict more geographically dispersed, more sectarian in character, and by radicalising the participants to the point where endless war seemed inevitable

Uncivil War

The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975

Huw Bennett

NEW IN PAPERBACK

When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent phase of the Troubles but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict. Huw Bennett shows how the army’s ambivalent response to loyalist violence undermined the prospects for peace and heightened Catholic distrust in the state. British strategy consistently underestimated community defence as a reason for people joining or supporting the IRA whilst senior commanders allowed the army to turn in on itself, hardening soldiers to the suffering of ordinary people. By 1975 military strategists considered the conflict unresolvable: the army could not convince Catholics or Protestants that it was there to protect them and settled instead for an unending war.

About the Author

Huw Bennett teaches International Relations at Cardiff University. He is the author of Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency (2012).

Praise

“…shatters many of the myths around the early years of the Troubles�”

Sam McBride, Belfast Telegraph (A) compelling read�

History Ireland

“This is a fascinating, provocative, humane and objective study which rewrites the history of the British Army in Northern Ireland in these pivotal years and more broadly suggests the way that military history can and should be written�” English Historical Review

UK publication February 2025

US publication February 2025

390 pages

9781009158190

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�95 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Explores what motivates serial murderers and addresses why society is so fascinated by them

• Provides data-driven analysis and meticulously researched case studies to illustrate key psychological phenomena among female serial killers

• Compares the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, crimes, and victims, showing why female killers’ crimes often go undetected despite being just as heinous as those committed by males

Just as Deadly The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

Marissa A. Harrison

NEW IN PAPERBACK

You’ve heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. In this riveting account, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison draws on original scientific research, various psychological perspectives, and richly detailed case studies to illuminate the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, and crimes. She also emphasizes the countless victims of this grisly phenomenon to capture the complexity and tragedy of serial murder. Meticulously weaving data-based evidence and insight with intimate storytelling, Just as Deadly reveals how and why these women murder—and why they often get away with it.

About the Author

Dr. Marissa A. Harrison is a research psychologist, author, and associate professor at Penn State Harrisburg. Her studies on serial murder and human sexuality have been covered in popular media such as The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Time.

Advance Praise

“���well worth reading for anyone wanting to understand how female serial killers work�”

Publishers Weekly

From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands

The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World

The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World

James Q. Whitman

JAMES Q. WHITMAN

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

456 pages 9781009497565 Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Offers a new account of the disappearance of lawful slavery�

• Requires us to reconsider some of our most basic ideas and assumptions about the nature of property�

• Places the long history of ownership in the West in its historical and social context�

Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form of ownership. Whitman dives deep into the long Western history of this transformation in the legal imagination – the transformation from the ownership of humans and other living creatures to the ownership of land. This change extended over many centuries, coming to fruition only on the threshold of the modern era. It brought with it profound changes, not only in the way we understand ownership but also in the way we understand the state. Its most dramatic consequence arrived in the nineteenth century, with the final disappearance of the lawful private ownership of humans, which had been taken for granted for thousands of years.

About the Author

James Q. Whitman is a professor at Yale Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Hitler’s American Model, The Verdict of Battle, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, and Harsh Justice, and the recipient of many awards.

Advance Praise

“A brilliant book with a bold thesis, monstrously erudite, spanning centuries of diverse legal cultures, and written with dazzling clarity and overwhelming authority� This is comparative legal history at its very best�”

Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School and author of Taming the Past: Essays on Law in History and History in Law

GR EE KS MATTER

The Problematic Miracle That Was Greece

REVIEL NETZ

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

200 pages

9781009505598 Hardback

£19�99 | $25 USD | $28�95 CAD

At a Glance

• An authoritative yet riveting exploration of the true place of ancient Greece in world history

• Argues for the uniquely consequential contribution of the Greeks, not as a resource for ‘timeless values’ but as the starting point of a continuing process of change

• Reviel Netz is one of the outstanding interpreters of ancient Greek science and culture, and many of his previous books have been prize winners

Why the Ancient Greeks Matter

The Problematic Miracle that was Greece

Reviel Netz

The ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of the Greek Miracle. It will appeal to anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning. Reviel Netz boldly argues that the traditional understanding of the Greek legacy as a store of timeless values is false to the Greek literary canon itself. The latter is in fact made up of contradictory texts, sharing no common core of beliefs. This is precisely, for the author, the canon’s significance: by presenting a system of works-inpolemic, it created a template for a culture of open debate, leading all the way down to modern civil society. The most lasting result of this practice of open discourse was in science, where Greek disputations paved the way for an autonomous scientific culture and opened the door both to the scientific revolution and the modern world.

About the Author

Reviel Netz is Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of many celebrated books, including (with William Noel) the bestselling The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secret of the World’s Greatest Palimpsest (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, winner of the Neumann Prize), and the path-breaking The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (1999, winner of the Runciman Award), Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (2020, winner of the 2021 Classical Studies category PROSE Award), and A New History of Greek Mathematics (2022, shortlisted for the Runciman Award), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Advance Praise

“This is a short and punchy book on a significant and controversial topic by one of the greatest Classical scholars of our time� It is clear-headed, clearly argued and robust� The book confronts – through the prism of a great expert’s command of Greek science and mathematics – a theme which was once completely normative but has now become highly contested� Its approach to the special exceptionalism of Classics in Western culture as something both necessary and problematic is superbly handled, as is the author’s willingness to extend way beyond Classics into the Classical Tradition, broadly interpreted, at much later moments and to confront scholarship’s awkwardness around de-colonizing the discipline, as well as the variety of insalubrious appropriations of Classics especially from the far right� It will be widely read and widely disagreed with�”

Jaś Elsne, University of Oxford

“In Why the Ancient Greeks Matter, Reviel Netz offers a lively and original discussion, interrogating the notions of the ‘Greek miracle’ and the Greek canon� As always, Netz is erudite, insightful, and engaging� Here he is also intentionally provocative, asking important and timely questions�”

Liba Taub, University of Cambridge

Atlantic Cataclysm Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

David Eltis

UK publication January 2025

US publication February 2025

442 pages

9781009518970

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Uses a two-thousand-year perspective to explain the origins and consequences of the slave trade

• Debunks established narratives by using new and underexplored data

• Moves the central focus of the Atlantic slave trades from Europe to the Americas, and from the North to the South Atlantic

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held assumptions, including how bilateral rather than triangular voyages were the norm, and how the Portuguese rather than the British were the leading slave traders. Eltis argues that twothirds of all enslaved people ended up in the Iberian Americas, where exports were most valuable throughout the slave trade era, and not in the Caribbean or the US. Tracing the mass involvement of people in the slave trade business from all parts of the Atlantic World, Eltis also examines the agency of Africans and their experiences in the aftermath of liberation.

About the Author

David Eltis is Professor Emeritus at Emory University and the University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of www.slavevoyages.org, a publicly accessible transatlantic slave trade database. His three sole authored books have won twelve prizes, including the Frederick Douglass Prize.

Advance Praise

“A tour de force by the world’s leading scholar of the slave trade� Atlantic Cataclysm challenges virtually every popular assumption about the transatlantic slave trade and its consequences for Atlantic and global history� David Eltis has demonstrated in stunningly brilliant detail the indispensable value of deep archival research and big databases for documenting the largest forced migration in human history, and for the important insights these data can yield� Drawing upon a deeply learned and truly commanding comparative approach, Eltis has written the definitive analysis of the slave trade in Africans to the New World�”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Harvard University

Queer Cambridge An Alternative History

Simon Goldhill

UK publication January 2025 US publication February 2025

316 pages

9781009528061

Hardback

£25�00 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• A politically charged history of ‘hidden’ sexuality in British culture, contributing to ongoing discussions about the implications and place of sex in public life

• Human and affecting, with deeply relatable stories about its subjects’ likes, lives and loves

• Sheds fascinating new light on the key roles played by major figures like E� M� Forster, M� R� James, Rupert Brooke and Alan Turing within an influential community of gay academics

• Simon Goldhill has an unrivalled grasp of the subject and a Cambridge insider’s authority that comes from his extensive knowledge of college archives and hitherto buried documents

Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of camaraderie and relationship. Goldhill examines too the huge influence that these individuals had on British culture, in its arts, politics, music, theatre and self-understanding. During difficult decades when homosexuality was unlawful, gay academics – who included celebrated literary and scientific figures like E. M. Forster, M. R. James, Rupert Brooke and Alan Turing – lived, loved, and grew old together, bringing new generations into their midst. Their remarkable stories add up not just to an alternative history of male homosexuality in Britain, but to an alternative history of Cambridge itself.

About the Author

Simon Goldhill, FBA, is a Professor of Classical Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, where he is also Director of Studies in Classics. One of world’s best-known authors on ancient Greek literature and culture, and their reception in the modern West, he has written more than twenty books which have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast around the world on both radio and on television.

Advance Praise

“Queer Cambridge succeeds on a number of fronts� It is a fascinating analysis of a remarkably coherent group identity and its transmission across generations� It is a revelatory work of institutional history, delivering rich insight both into one institution in particular and into how institutions in general work to create and solidify identity and values� And it is a book that says new and unusual things about the place of same-sex desire at the heart of the Victorian and Edwardian English cultural’ establishment� I agree with pretty much every word of Queer Cambridge, and learned something new and surprising on every page�”

Darryl Jones, Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin

Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

256 pages

9781009457590 Hardback

£25 | $29�95 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Rigorously scrutinizes the many proposals for human interstellar travel based on current scientific principles and advanced technologies

• Brings readers ‘down to Earth’ by identifying and correcting the many invalid assumptions and explaining some hard facts about the difficulty, cost and, hazards of interstellar travel

• Shows that the propulsion systems which some theorists say will be used to get to the stars are in reality unproven, and are unlikely to be invented soon

Starbound Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible

Ed Regis

This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage ‘to the stars.’ From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, the idea of human interstellar travel being easy or even inevitable has entered our popular consciousness. In this book, Ed Regis critically examines whether humankind is bound for distant stars, or if instead we are bound to our own star, for the indefinite future. How do we overcome the main challenge that even the nearest stars are unimaginably far away? He explores the proposed technologies and the many practical aspects of undertaking an interstellar journey, finishing with his reflections on whether such a journey should be planned for.

About the Author

Ed Regis holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University and is the author of ten previous books about science and technology. He has also written for Scientific American, Wired, Nature, Harper’s, Omni, Discover, and Air & Space Smithsonian. He lives with his wife, Pam, in the Maryland mountains.

BRYAN MCCANN

Rio de Janeiro

UK publication May 2025

US publication July 2025

9781009012041

Paperback

£17�99 | $26�99 USD | $30�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Covers the major, defining themes and trends of Brazilian history while presenting a host of unlikely, fascinating figures and lesser-known moments to readers�

• Offers a deep understanding of the ways in which the legacy of three hundred years of slavery shaped and continues to shape Rio de Janeiro�

• Ties together key innovations in art, literature, music, film, and television�

Rio de Janeiro

Bryan McCann

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in turn, mining their depths and drawing connections between artistic movements and political and economic transitions. The book explores the centrality of slavery to every aspect of life in nineteenth century Rio and its long legacy through to the current day, illuminating both the city’s grinding inequality and violence, as well as its triumphant cultural expressions. Rio de Janeiro is a unique and fascinating city, and through ten pivotal moments, McCann reveals its boundless creativity and contradictions, and shows how it has been continually remade by newcomers, strivers, and tricksters.

About the Author

Bryan McCann is a leading social and cultural historian of Brazil. He is the author of several books about the history of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular, including Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil and Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Georgetown University.

Liberty as Independence

The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

Quentin Skinner

UK publication March 2025

US publication March 2025

352 pages

9781107027732

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Illustrates the connections between philosophical debates surrounding liberty and the sociopolitical contexts in which they took place

• Provides a comprehensive analysis and bibliography of rival ways of thinking about liberty

• Explores the contribution of the American Revolution to discussions on the idea of liberty

Liberty as Independence The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

Quentin Skinner

What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into reality. Yet, with the Whig vision of a free state and civil society undermined by the American Revolution of 1776, Skinner explores how claims that liberty was fulfilled by an absence of physical or coercive restraint came to prominence. Liberty as Independence examines new dimensions of these rival views, considering the connections between debates on liberty and debates on slavery, and demonstrating how these ideas were harnessed in feminist discussions surrounding limitations on the liberty of women. The concept of liberty is inherently global, and Skinner argues strongly for the reinstatement of the understanding of liberty as independence.

About the Author

Quentin Skinner is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton between 1974 and 1979, and was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge between 1996 and 2008. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Renaissance and Modern Intellectual History, and the recipient of many awards including the Wolfson Prize for History and a Balzan Prize. Previous publications include the two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 1998) and, most recently, From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (Cambridge, 2018).

Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding

UK publication April 2025

US publication May 2025

250 pages 9781009466097

Paperback

£12�99 | $16�95 USD | $19�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Covers all available current knowledge, research, and understanding of hoarding disorder in simple and accessible language�

• Includes self-help guidance and advice for relatives and friends, guiding towards recovery�

• Personal narratives and case studies make this guide accessible and relatable for those affected by hoarding, as well as their loved ones and health professionals� Allows readers to find comfort in knowing that they’re not alone in their struggles�

Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding

Lynne M. Drummond and Laura J. Edwards

Are you or someone you know struggling with hoarding disorder, feeling ashamed or guilty about your belongings, and afraid to let them go? It’s more common than you might think, affecting up to 6% of the general population. But despite its prevalence, seeking help can be challenging. This new book provides a clear description of hoarding, exploring it as a symptom of other issues as well as a condition in its own right. You’ll learn about different treatment options and find step-by-step guidance and tools for recovery in the self-help section. Personal narratives and case studies make this guide accessible and relatable for those affected by hoarding, as well as their loved ones and health professionals. Don’t let hoarding disorder control your life - take the first step towards recovery today with this invaluable resource.

About the Authors

Dr Lynne M. Drummond is an internationally renowned psychiatrist and researcher, who has been helping people with OCD and hoarding for over 40 years. In addition to her roles as Honorary Consultant and Visiting Professor, Dr Drummond also works extensively with various charities involved with OCD and Hoarding. Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding is her fifth book.

Laura J. Edwards is a freelance writer with an interest in making science accessible to a wider readership. She is assistant author of three books on mental health.

Dr Lynne M. Drummond with Laura J. Edwards

Featuring self-help chapters

P rofessor Owen Bowden- Jones

How to Ta lk to Your Child About Dr ugs

UK publication February 2025

US publication February 2025

272 pages

9781009374811

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�99 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• With clear guidance and practical examples, this book empowers parents to have better conversations with their children about drugs, know what to look out for if they are worried, and when and how to seek help�

• Descriptions of different types of drugs as well as emerging trends helps parents quickly develop their knowledge and increase their confidence in having meaningful conversations�

• Inclusion of numerous case studies to illustrate different drug related problems�

How To Talk to Your Child About Drugs

Owen Bowden-Jones

Broaching the topic of drugs and drug use with your child can feel particularly daunting. With the illegal drug market constantly evolving, it can be difficult to stay up to date with the latest information. How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs is an evidence-based, practical guide from a leading addiction specialist. The book offers clear and accessible guidance for parents on how to have effective conversations with their child about this difficult topic. It provides a summary of both established and newly emerging drugs, how drugs work in the brain, how they cause harm, and why some people are more vulnerable than others to problems, including signs parents should be looking out for.

This is a book that all parents will need at some stage. It will help you feel better informed about drugs, more confident in talking to your child, and better equipped to tackle any problems.

About the Author

Owen Bowden-Jones is a psychiatrist who has spent nearly thirty years researching and treating mental health and addiction problems. He is the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, President of the Society for the Study of Addiction, and an Honorary Professor at University College London.

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

456 pages

9781009527064 Hardback

£35 | $44�99 USD | $51�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Offers a fresh and innovational interpretation of a key event in Athenian political history: the civil war of 404/403 BC and the refoundation of democracy

• Creative reflections on the past are now seen to have much contemporary resonance

• Boldly and controversially argues for sustained reflection on the necessary nature of conflict within any democratic regime

Athens, 403 BC A Democracy in Crisis?

Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard

Translated by Lorna Coing Preface by Robin Osborne

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens’ shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic institutions that for a century had governed the political life of the city and precipitated a year-long civil war. By autumn 403 BC, democracy was restored. Inspired by the model of the ancient chorus, this strikingly innovative book interprets a crucial moment in classical history through the prism of ten remarkable individuals and the shifting groups which formed around them. The former include more familiar names like the multifaceted Sokrates, the oligarch Kritias and the rhetorician Lysias, but also lesser-known figures like the scribe Nikomachos, the former slave Gerys and the priestess Lysimakhe. What leads a community to tear itself apart, even disintegrate, then rebuild itself? This question, explored through profound reflection on the past, echoes our tormented present.

About the Authors

Vincent Azoulay is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the current director of the international bilingual journal of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Prix du livre d’histoire du Sénat (2011). He is the author of several books already translated in English: Pericles of Athens (2014), The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens (2017) and Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2018).

Paulin Ismard is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Aix-Marseille University. He is a former member of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has received several awards: the Prix du livre d’histoire du Sénat (2014), Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l’Histoire de Blois (2016) and Prix François Millepierres de l’Académie Française (2016). He is also the author of Democracy’s Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017), La cité et ses esclaves (2019) and Les mondes de l’esclavage. Une histoire comparée (2021).

Advance Praise

“In Athens 403BC Azoulay and Ismard have produced a superb study of the critical period defined by the brief ascendancy and rapid fall of the Thirty in the aftermath of Athens’ defeat in 403 BC� This is an original study with a distinctive voice and a compelling thesis�”

Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania

The Ruins of Rome

A Cultural History

ROLAND MAYER

The Ruins of Rome A Cultural History

Roland Mayer

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

456 pages

9781009430104

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Shows how a developing sense of the significance of Rome’s ruins manifested itself in remarkably varied and fascinating ways over the centuries

• Argues that it was Rome’s ruins which led to the general fascination with ruins across the world and their conservation and effective presentation to visitors

• Fully accessible to general readers and especially to all visitors to the Eternal City

The beguiling ruins of Rome have a long history of allure. They first engaged the attention of later mediaeval tourists, just as they do today. The interest of travellers was captured in the Renaissance by artists, architects, topographers, antiquarians, archaeologists and writers. Once the ruins were seen to appeal to visitors, and to matter for their aesthetic quality, their protection and attractive presentation became imperative. Rome’s ruins were the first to be the object of preservation orders, and novel measures were devised for their conservation in innovative archaeological parks. The city’s remains provided models for souvenirs; paintings of them decorated the walls of eighteenth-century English country houses; and picturesque sham Roman ruins sprang up in landscape gardens across Europe. Writers responded in various ways to their emotional appeal. Roland Mayer’s attractive new history will delight all those interested in the remarkable survival and preservation of a unique urban environment.

About the Author

Roland Mayer is Emeritus Professor of Classics at King’s College London.

Advance Praise

“Roland Mayer charts the changing attitudes towards the monuments of ancient Rome and the emotional, aesthetic and intellectual responses to the city of Rome’s ruins over the past two millennia� The extraordinary simultaneity of Rome’s urban topography, in which the ancient Roman ruins are still integrated into the urban fabric strikes every visitor� This study elucidates the shifts in the perception of Rome’s ruins that are mirrored in imaginary visualisations, antiquarianism, guide books, souvenirs in many forms and media, the fashion for fake ruins, conservation, the development of archaeological knowledge, all of which are part of ‘ruinmindedness’, the leitmotif of this book�”

Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge

Profits and Persecution

German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust

Peter Hayes

UK publication January 2025

US publication February 2025

224 pages

9780521772884

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to examine how German big businesses became complicit in ideologies of the Third Reich

• Draws on evidence surrounding the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era

• Highlights how German corporate leaders attempted to falsify the historical record after 1945, to downplay or excuse their complicity

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany’s largest industrial and financial enterprises played a key part in the catastrophes and crimes of their nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on evidence concerning the roughly one hundred most significant German firms of the Nazi era, Peter Hayes explores how large German corporations dealt with Jews, their property, and their labor. This study unites business history and the history of the Holocaust to consider both the economic and personal motivations that rendered German corporate leaders complicit in the actions of the Nazi Party. In doing so, it demonstrates how ordinary, familiar thought processes came to serve the ideological purposes of the Third Reich with lethal consequences.

About the Author

Peter Hayes is Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University. He is the author of the bestselling Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2017), as well as thirteen other books and more than one hundred articles and chapters on the history of the Nazi era. Hayes served for twenty years on the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as its chair from 2014 to 2019.

UK publication March 2025

US publication March 2025

240 pages

9781009572736

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Places ideas of ‘greatness’ in historical context and explores the growth of ‘celebrity’ in the twentieth century

• Sheds light on lesser-known stories of America’s ‘greatest’ figures

• Provides an accessible yet thorough evaluation on greatness and American culture

The Greatest of All Time A History of an American Obsession

Zev Eleff

Americans love to talk about ‘greatness.’ In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of ‘greatness’ culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides a uniquely American language for participants to discuss their ‘ideal’ aspirational values and make meaning of their personal lives. The many incarnations and insinuations of ‘greatness’ suggest more about those carrying on the conversation than they do about those being discussed. An argument for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt over George Washington as America’s greatest statesman says as much about the speaker as it does about the legacies of former US presidents. Making a case for the Beatles, Michael Jordan, or Mickey Mouse involves the prioritization of politics and perspectives. The persistence of Henry Ford as a great American despite his toxic antisemitism offers another layer to this historical phenomenon. Using a variety of compelling examples, Eleff sheds new new light on “greatness” and its place in American culture.

About the Author

Zev Eleff is President and Professor of American Jewish History at Gratz College. He is the author, most recently, of Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America.

UK publication May 2025

US publication July 2025

9781108834490 Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• The first thoroughgoing examination of the history that lies behind the Amazon myths

• Examines, in engaging detail, key texts about Penthesilea, Hippolyta, Achilles, Heracles, and Alexander the Great while placing these narratives in context around the Mediterranean and Black Sea shores and making deft use of comparative history and archaeology

• David Braund, fluent in Georgian, is arguably the world’s leading expert on Black Sea antiquity: his analysis of the Amazons carries the weight of in-depth authority

• Will delight anyone with an interest in classical myth and history, not just classicists

Amazons The History Behind the Legend

David Braund

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

About the Author

David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. An internationally acclaimed authority on the ancient Black Sea, his books include Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC–AD 562 (Oxford University Press, 1994) and Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region: Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Advance Praise

“David Braund, in his rich and robust treatment of the topic, is throughout aware of the deficiencies of the extant ancient written sources and doesn’t make the mistake of telling us what they would or should have said� He retells versions of ancient myths extremely well� He is particularly strong on the gender and sexuality dimensions of his subject� And he correctly sees and shows that the Amazons were fundamental to the Athenians’ identity� This is a powerful and important study of an eternally fascinating and culturally significant subject�”

Paul Cartledge, Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, University of Cambridge, author of The Spartans: An Epic History and of Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World

UK publication May 2025

US publication July 2025

352 pages

9781009366779

Hardback

£21�99 | $29�99 USD | $33�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Summarizes established knowledge about the effects of music on health and well-being, making complex research accessible to anyone�

• Explores the deep connections between music, the brain, emotions, and human evolution�

• Offers practical strategies and actionable advice for harnessing the power of music to enhance emotional and physical well-being�

Good Vibrations Unlocking the Healing Power or Music

Stefan Koelsch

Though used as a healing practice for centuries, only recently have we begun to unravel the science behind music’s profound impact on the mind and body. In this book, neuroscientist Stefan Koelsch explores the groundbreaking research behind music’s influence on human wellbeing: emotional, physical, and psychological. Beginning with an account of the human brain’s innate capacity for music, Koelsch explains music’s potential to evoke emotions and change our moods, soothe anxiety and alleviate pain. Featuring case studies, he documents the potential of music therapy for a wide range of conditions like depression, stroke recovery, and Alzheimer’s. Filled with fascinating science and concrete tips and strategies, this book encourages anyone to harness the power of music for personal growth, healing, and joy.

About the Author

Stefan Koelsch is an internationally leading neuroscientist and music psychologist. He earned degrees in violin, psychology, and sociology before receiving his doctorate from the Max Planck Institute. He has held positions at Harvard University and is currently a professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

THE IDEA OF THE CITY IN LATE ANTI Q UITY

The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity A Study in Resilience

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

UK publication January 2025

US publication February 2025

456 pages 9781009527064 Hardback

£35 | $44�99 USD | $51�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Sheds fresh light on one of the most important social and cultural developments in the transition from classical antiquity to the world of the Middle Ages

• Explores developments through the eyes of contemporary writers and documents as well as the archaeological record

• Of interest to all those concerned with how cities can adapt in a radically changing world

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city ‘declined and fell’, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world. In the new kingdoms in Italy, France and Spain cities remained a key part of the structure of control, while to contemporary authors, such as Cassiodorus in Ostrogothic Italy, Gregory of Tours in Merovingian Gaul, and Isidore in Visigothic Spain, they remained as crucial as in antiquity. The archaeological evidence of New Cities founded in this period, from Constantinople to Reccopolis in Spain, also shows the deep influence of past models. This timely and exhilarating book reveals the adaptability of cities and the endurance of the Greek and Roman world.

About the Author

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He is a Roman cultural historian and his books include Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars (1983), Augustan Rome (1993), Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994), Rome’s Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, 2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011). Former Director of the British School at Rome, he has directed archaeological projects at Pompeii and Herculaneum. This book is the result of his project on the Impact of the Ancient City, which received funding from the European Research Council.

Advance Praise

“With exciting literary arguments that challenge the assumption of urban ‘decline and fall’ in the post-Roman West, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill illuminates the continuous bustle of activity in centres like Seville, Marseille and Ravenna� No seventh century collapse here, but a lively, highly readable story of proud city dwellers adapting to a new medieval world, in what is also an admirable and compelling homage to his father�”

Judith Herrin, King’s College London

UK publication June 2025

US publication July 2025

288 pages

9781009545495 Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Provides a new account of one of the most important books of literary criticism in the twentieth century, focusing on its reading of Renaissance writers including Dante, Shakespeare, and Marvell

• Establishes a new definition of Renaissance, imagining it as not only a scholarly period but also a rebirth of historical diversity

• Finds in Auerbach’s Renaissance an antidote to the pessimistic and resigned character of contemporary life, setting out a model for a future democratic criticism

Auerbach’s Renaissance Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante

Chris Warley

Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis is among the most admired works of literary criticism of the last hundred years. Amidst the horrors of the Second World War, Auerbach’s prodigious learning managed – almost miraculously – to give voice to a delicate, subtle optimism. Focusing on Auerbach’s account of Renaissance literature, Chris Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of Mimesis and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism. Analysing Auerbach’s account of Renaissance love lyric alongside Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, fifteenth-century Burgundian writing alongside Ferrante, and Shakespeare alongside Michelet, Ruskin and Burckhardt, Auerbach’s Renaissance traces an aesthetic that celebrates the diversity of human life. Simultaneously it locates in Auerbach’s reading of Renaissance writing a challenge to the pessimism of today, the sense that we live in an endless present where the future looms only as a threat. Auerbach’s scholarship, the art he learns from Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, is a Renaissance offering democratic possibility.

About the Author

Chris Warley teaches Renaissance literature and Critical Theory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton (2014) and Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England (2005), both published by Cambridge University Press.

GIUSEPPE PEZZINI

Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

UK publication May 2025

US publication July 2025

9781009479677

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• A comprehensive reconstruction of Tolkien’s theoretical views on the nature of literary creation, systematised for the first time through a painstaking analysis of fragments spanning his vast output

• Approaches Tolkien and his ‘theory’ on their own terms, making his notion of ‘sub-creation’ accessible to nonspecialised readers and allowing them to discover and appreciate the literary sophistication and theoretical significance of popular texts

• The essential reader for anyone interested in Tolkien’s views and thoughts on the nature and purpose of literature, explicitly or literarily expressed

Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Giuseppe Pezzini

Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazaddûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R. R. Tolkien’s vision of the ‘mystery of literary creation’. Through fragments garnered from across a scattered body of writing, and acute readings of primary texts (some well-known, others less familiar or recently published), the author divulges the unparalleled complexity of Tolkien’s work while demonstrating its rich exploration of literature’s very nature and purpose. Eschewing any overemphasis on context or comparisons, Pezzini offers rather a uniquely sustained, focused engagement with Tolkien and his ‘theory’ on their own terms. He helps us discover – or rediscover – a fascination for Tolkien’s literary accomplishment while correcting long-standing biases against its nature and merits that have persisted fifty years after his death.

About the Author

Giuseppe Pezzini is a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University. A classicist by training, he has published extensively on Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language, and fiction theory. With additional interests in textual criticism and the digital humanities, he is also a prominent Tolkien specialist, was the recipient of a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and currently serves as Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Moritz Föllmer

The Individual Quest for

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

264 pages

9781108834490 Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Considers the quest for individual freedom across a broad range of European countries and major colonial empires

• Engages with a range of personal stories and experiences, alongside explorations of art and literature

• Grounds the notion of freedom in concrete experiences and contexts, offering a twentieth-century European history from one key perspective

The Quest for Individual Freedom A Twentieth-Century

Moritz Föllmer

European History

What does it mean to see oneself as free? And how can this freedom be attained in times of conflict and social upheaval? In this ambitious study, Moritz Föllmer explores what twentieth-century Europeans understood by individual freedom and how they endeavoured to achieve it. Combining cultural, social, and political history, this book highlights the tension between ordinary people’s efforts to secure personal independence and the ambitious attempts of thinkers and activists to embed notions of freedom in political and cultural agendas. The quest to be a free individual was multi-faceted; no single concept predominated. Men and women articulated and pursued it against the backdrop of two world wars, the expanding power of the state, the constraints of working life, pre-established moral norms, the growing influence of America, and uncertain futures of colonial rule. But although claims to individual freedom could be steered and stymied, they could not, ultimately, be suppressed.

About the Author

Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has particular interests in Weimar and Nazi Germany, and concepts of individuality and urbanity in twentieth-century Europe. Previous publications include Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall (Cambridge, 2013), Culture in the Third Reich (2020), and, as co-editor, Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2022).

Advance Praise

“Moritz Föllmer explores the wide-ranging yearning for individual freedom in the twentieth century, beyond what any particular abstract theory or political position advocates� The result is a beautifully written and engaging book� The Quest for Individual Freedom is original, the writing is unlike most history that I read, and the topic is extremely important�”

Peter C. Caldwell, author of Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949–1989

UK publication April 2025

US publication June 2025

408 pages

9781009557221

Hardback

£35 | $44�99 USD | $51�95 CAD

At a Glance

• The story of Noah is one of the bestknown of all the biblical stories, and this book – the first complete exploration in English of all its rich receptions – brings to it a new depth and colour

• Philip Almond is an internationally fêted cultural and intellectual historian whose bestselling academic books have been widely reviewed and translated into several languages

• The topic – environmental disaster – has considerable contemporary relevance and appeal

• Brim-full of fascinating and little-known details about the flood story, from the Gnostics and Islamic readings of Noah to the New Science and recent attempts to find the lost ark

Noah and the Flood in Western Thought

Philip C. Almond

On a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha male intensity of Russell Crowe’s Noah, in Darren Aronofsky’s eponymous 2014 film, or other recent derivations, the biblical narrative has become a lightning rod for gathering environmental anxieties. However, Philip C. Almond’s masterful exploration of Western cultural history uncovers a far more complex Noah than is commonly recognised: not just the father of humanity but also the first shipbuilder, navigator, zookeeper, farmer, grape grower, and wine maker. Noah’s pivotal significance is revealed as much in his forgotten secular as in his religious receptions, and their major impact on such disciplines as geology, geography, biology, and zoology. While Noah’s many interpretations over two millennia might seem to offer a common message of hope, the author’s sober conclusion is that deliverance now lies not in divine but rather in human hands.

About the Author

Philip C. Almond is Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought at the University of Queensland. A noted authority in the history of religion and of ideas, he has written many books on subjects as diverse as God, the Devil, the afterlife, witchcraft and witches, Adam and Eve, heaven and hell in Enlightenment England, and early modern demonic possession. His recent works include The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West (2024), Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History (2023), and The Antichrist: A New Biography (2020), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Advance Praise

“Philip Almond is a world-leading authority on the history of religion and a highly versatile scholar� It is this versatility which makes him such a suitable choice for a subject as massive and multifarious as the reception history of Noachic themes in Western thought� There is nothing in the literature as broad-ranging and accessible as this book� It has the potential to become the established leader in the field, with a wide market and an enduring shelf life��� Philip Almond is a scholarly phenomenon, always arresting in the works I have read – as well as authoritative – and his latest book offers a compelling revisionist take on the conventional history of Western knowledge�”

Colin Kidd, Professor of History, University of St Andrews, author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600–2000

UK publication January 2025

US publication February 2025

9781009541664

Hardback

£35 | $44�99 USD | $51�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Provides a new understanding of Europe’s ability to be the first site where humanity revealed its capacity to remake its world, both in productive and destructive ways

• Traces Europe’s distinctiveness to enduring structural features of its social and political organization, and its evolution of autonomous spheres of activity

• Provides extended and substantive comparisons with corresponding features of other countries and regions, especially China, India, and the lands that came under the dominion of the Ottomans

Remaking the World European

Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy

Jerrold Seigel

How should we understand Europe’s special role in world history, and the enduring impact it made on the rest of the globe? Jerrold Seigel traces both the positive and negative sides of the continent’s special role to its absence of effective central authority, the division and competition between its states and peoples, and its propensity for developing autonomous spheres of activity. Remaking the World analyzes how these features fostered Europe’s characteristic preoccupation with a politics of liberty, its evolution of an aesthetic sphere animated by values specific to itself, its singular capacity to revolutionize scientific understanding, and its ability to prepare and carry out the first transition to a modern industrial economy. Extended and substantive comparisons with Africa, India, China, and the lands that came under the rule of the Ottomans demonstrate the absence of similar phenomena elsewhere, whereas in Europe they also helped generate the malign force of imperial expansion.

About the Author

Jerrold Seigel is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University. His work ranges from intellectual and cultural history to the evolution of society and politics. Previous publications include The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century (2005), and Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (2012), which won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize.

Advance Praise

“A work of breathtaking scope and erudition, this is macrohistory at its best, an original answer to the classic question of why Europe came to dominate the world� Europe’s advantages, Seigel convincingly shows, emerged from no inherent superiority but from the autonomous spaces for innovation that the continent’s political and religious disunity opened up”

Edward Berenson, New York University

UK publication July 2025

US publication July 2025

9781009597432

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Allows readers to get a big-picture, bottom-up overview of some of the most important developments in global Christianity over the past five hundred years, looking beyond church hierarchies at the stories of the marginal, demotic and sometimes disenfranchised

• David Hempton is one of the foremost historians of religion and of church history currently at work, and this book is much anticipated

• A revised and expanded version of the 2021 Gifford Lectures, one of the most prestigious and famous lecture series in the worldwide humanities

• Introduces a new theory of change around the concepts of networks, nodes, and nuclei, while using ordinary, easily comprehensible, language and examples throughout

Christianity at the Crossroads

The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era

David N. Hempton

Combining expansive storytelling with striking analysis of ‘networks, nodes, and nuclei’, David Hempton’s new book explains major developments in global Christianity between two communication revolutions: print and the internet. His novel approach (replete with vivid metaphor – we read of wildflower gardens and fungi, of exploding fireworks sending sparks of possibility in all directions, and of forests with vast interconnected root systems hidden below our vision) allows him to look beyond institutional hierarchies, traverse national and denominational boundaries, and think more deeply about the underlying conditions promoting, or resisting, adaptation and change. It also enables him to explore the crossroads, or junction boxes, where individuals and ideas encountered different traditions and from which something fresh and dynamic emerged. Cogently addressing the rise of empires, transformation of gender relations, and demographic shifts in world Christianity from the West to the Global South, this book is a masterful contribution to contemporary religious history.

About the Author

David N. Hempton is University Distinguished Service Professor and Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at the Divinity School, Harvard University, where he also served as Dean from 2012-2023. An internationally acclaimed religious historian, he is the author of numerous books focused on the early modern and modern periods, several of them award winners. His publications include Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850 (Hutchinson, 1984, which in the same year won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society), Religion and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland: From the Glorious Revolution to the Decline of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (Yale University Press, 2005), Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt (Yale University Press, 2008) and The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I. B. Tauris, 2011, winner of the 2012 Albert C. Outler Prize of the American Society of Church History).

UK publication July 2025

US publication July 2025

400 pages

9781009457767

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• An interdisciplinary analysis of a global disaster and the role of non-state actors in its aftermath�

• Demonstrates the impact of industrial disasters on everyday life�

• Brings together ecological and human histories�

Chernobyl Children A Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster

Melanie Arndt

In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. Aided by the unprecedented efforts of transnational NGOs and private individuals, these children were meant to escape and recover from radiation exposure, but also the increasing hardships of everyday life in post-Soviet society. Through this opening of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of people in over 40 countries witnessed the ecological, medical, social and political consequences of the disaster for the human beings involved. This awareness transformed the accident into a global catastrophe which could happen anywhere and have widespread impact. In this brilliantly insightful work, Melanie Arndt demonstrates that the Chernobyl children were both witness to and representative of a vanishing bi-polar world order and the future of life in the Anthropocene, an age in which the human impact on the planet is increasingly borderless.

About the Author

Melanie Arndt is Professor for economic, social and environmental history and Vice Rector at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany.

UK publication July 2025

US publication July 2025

250 pages

9781009595131

Hardback

£30 | $39�99 USD | $45�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Identifies and debunks five myths that American conservatives have used to justify cutting taxes, especially for corporations and the rich�

• Utilizes graphs and tables to illustrate arguments with U�S�, cross-national, and historical data�

• Combines academic rigor with accessible prose, making the book suitable for both specialists and nonspecialists�

Pay Up! Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich

John L. Campbell

Since the Reagan era, conservatives in the United States have championed cutting taxes, especially for wealthy individuals and corporations, as the best way to achieve economic prosperity. In his new book, Pay Up!, John L. Campbell shows that while these claims are highly influential, they are also wrong. Using historical and cross-national evidence, the book challenges and refutes every justification conservatives have made for tax cuts –that American taxes are too high; they hurt the economy; they facilitate government waste; they constitute an unfair downward redistribution of income; and they threaten individual freedom – and conversely shows that countries can actually benefit from higher taxes, especially when tax increases fall most heavily on those most able to pay them. Through clear prose and a well-reasoned argument, Campbell’s book provides an accessible, engaging, and much-needed perspective on the role of taxes in American society.

About the Author

John L. Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Dartmouth College. A leading scholar of how institutions and politics affect policymaking and economic performance in advanced capitalist countries, he is the author of several books including Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State (2023), What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (2021), and American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (2018).

UK publication Feb 2025

US publication Feb 2025

270 pages

9781009488167

Paperback

£25�99 | $34�99 USD | $39�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Shows that the political misuse of numbers typically involves the misuse of language�

• Provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of the different types of manipulation that politicians use to control statistics�

• Supplies the first detailed empirical examination of the statistical authorities of Britain and France, and their unique efforts to combat the political manipulation of statistics�

Politicians Manipulating Statistics

How They Do It and How to Oppose Them

Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho

Highly original and insightful, Billig and Marinho’s book investigates how politicians misuse official statistics. Setting this problem in its historical context – and offering vivid case studies of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Gérald Darmanin – the authors demonstrate that the manipulation of statistics involves the misuse of words as well as the misuse of numbers. Most importantly, the authors show that politicians will manipulate official statisticians to produce politically convenient, but statistically inappropriate, numbers. Another unique part of the book is that the authors are not content with analysing how statistics are manipulated, but they also rigorously analyse the efforts of statistical agencies in France and Britain to combat such manipulation. The chapters herald unsung heroes who operate largely ‘behind the scenes’ to expose and oppose the corruption of statistics. An indispensable read for anyone concerned with the intersection of power and data.

About the Author

Michael Billig is Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and received the British Psychological Society’s 2023 award for Lifetime Achievement.

Cristina Marinho is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. Together with Michael Billig, she is the author of The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration (2017).

Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon

AVRAHAM FAUST

ZEV I. FARBER

UK publication January 2025

US publication March 2025

464 pages

9781009526333 Hardback

£39�99 | $49�99 USD | $57�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Provides a detailed and sophisticated answer to the intriguing question of the historicity of the united monarchy, and the existence and actions of its famous biblical kings Saul, David, and Solomon

• Presents readers with a complex and complete picture of the United Monarchy, pieced together from innovative and thought-provoking ideas, many of which are presented in the book for the first time

• It is an interdisciplinary study that combines detailed and up-to-date archaeological information with critical Bible analysis, and ethnographic data

The Bible’s First Kings Uncovering

the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon

Avraham

Faust and Zev Farber

Saul, David, and Solomon are dominant figures in the Hebrew Bible, rulers of an expanding Israelite polity before it dissolved into two separate kingdoms. Saul’s paranoid jealousy, David’s killing the Philistine champion Goliath with a slingshot, and Solomon’s meeting the Queen of Sheba are familiar stories to many people, but what is the truth behind the texts? While scholars long believed these three monarchs to have been historical personalities, over the past three decades many have questioned the historicity of this United Monarchy, some doubting even the existence of its founding fathers. This book robustly argues that the Israelite kingdom of the Bible was a real miniempire, and that Saul, David, and Solomon were kings of consequence – even if the biblical stories reimagine their lives to glorify and vilify them. Combining fresh archaeological evidence with astute readings of key texts, the authors offer a compelling reconstruction of this fascinating ancient polity which, though it lasted less than a hundred years, has bequeathed a remarkable religious and cultural legacy to the western world. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike.

About the Author

Avraham Faust is Professor of Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. He directs the excavations at Tel ‘Eton, and ‘The National Knowledge Center on the History and Heritage of Jerusalem’. His 250 publications include Israel’s Ethnogenesis, which won three book awards, The Archaeology of Israelite Society, Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Period, and The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest.

Zev Farber is Research Fellow at the Kogod Center, Shalom Hartman Institute. He is senior editor at TheTorah.com and the author of Images of Joshua in the Bible and their Reception.

The Theological Imagination

Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith

Judith Wolfe

UK publication January 2025

US publication January 2025

210 pages

9781009526333

Hardback

£26�99 | $34�99 USD | $39�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Expanded version of the prestigious University of Cambridge Hulsean Lectures, 2022

• Wolfe is one of the most exciting and highly regarded theological talents currently at work in the British Isles

• Tackling as it does topical themes of imaginative creativity, art, literature and the end times (or eschatology), this is a book that will be highly appealing to readers in a number of fields, especially theology, philosophy, and literary studies

• Shows how theology is highly engaged with the world in that it illuminates modern problems even as it helps us to address them more deeply and constructively

How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We make sense of the world imaginatively, resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. Judith Wolfe argues that faith gives us courage both to shape our world creatively, and reverently to let things be more than we can imagine. Drawing on complementary materials from literature, psychology, art, and philosophy, her remarkable book demonstrates that Christian theology offers a potent way of imagining the world even as it brings us to the limits of our capacity to imagine. In revealing the significance of unseen depths – of what does not yet make sense to us, and the incomplete – Wolfe characterizes faith as trust in God that surpasses all imagination.

About the Author

Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews. She was educated in Vienna, Jerusalem, and Oxford, and has previously taught in Oxford and Berlin. She writes and edits extensively in theology and the arts. Her previous publications include Heidegger’s Eschatology (OUP, 2013) Heidegger and Theology (T&T Clark, 2014), and The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought (OUP, 2017, co-edited with Joel D S Rasmussen and Johannes Zachhuber). In 2022 she delivered the historic Hulsean Lectures (upon which this book is based) in the University of Cambridge.

UK publication January 2025

US publication January 2025

212 pages

9781108958165

Paperback

£14�99 | $19�99 USD | $22�95 CAD

At a Glance

• Demonstrates how the nature-nurture debate can be applied to our daily lives, from influencing how we parent to our own self-awareness

• Explains the basics of quantitative genetics of human twins, with examples, showing the reader what a heritability coefficient is, and how to compute it from simple twin data

• Follows the transformation of behavior genetics from a basis in twins to the collection of human DNA after the Human Genome Project- this transformation is one of the most important scientific revolutions in the history of biology and psychology, and the story has never been told from beginning to end

Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate

Eric Turkheimer

There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments or our genes? Is nature the governing force behind our behaviour or is it nurture? While it is now widely agreed that it is a mixture of both, discussions continue as to which is the dominant influence. This unique volume presents a clear explanation of heritability, the ongoing nature versus nurture debate and the evidence that is currently available. Starting at the beginning of the modern nature-nurture debate, with Darwin and Galton, this book describes how evolution posed a challenge to humanity by demonstrating that humans are animals, and how modern social science was necessitated when humans became an object of natural science. It clearly sets out the most common misconceptions such as the idea that heritability means that a trait is ‘genetic’ or that it is a justification for eugenics.

About the Author

Eric Turkheimer is a Clinical Psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Eric studies how interactions between genes and environments shape the development of human behaviour and has explored the scientific and philosophical basis of the nature-nurture debate for thirty-eight years. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association (2012), a winner of the James Shields Award for Twin Research (2009), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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