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How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

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REZZOLLA

“The compelling story of one of the most beautiful adventures in physics” CARLO ROVELLI

THE IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY

The mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries. But what is gravity and how does it work? This engaging book delves into the bizarre and often counter-intuitive world of gravitational physics. Join distinguished astrophysicist Professor Luciano Rezzolla on this virtual journey into Einstein’s world of gravity, with each milestone presenting ever more fascinating aspects of gravitation. Through gentle exposure to concepts such as spacetime curvature and general relativity, you will discover some‘Indispensible’ of the most curious consequences Sunday of gravitational physics, such as black Times holes, neutron stars and gravitational waves. The author presents and explains one of the most impressive scientific achievements of recent times: the first image of a supermassive black hole.

Written by one of the key scientists involved in producing these results, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes view of how the image was captured and discover what happens to matter and light near a black hole.

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The Paradox of Free Speech

You Can’t Always Say What You Want

Dennis Baron

Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University

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MARK Z. JACOBSON

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This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today’s calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech.

Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result.

Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less‑powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

STUART WARD

KINGDOM A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE END OF BRITAIN

“... a brilliant tour-de-force ... offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.”

Catherine Clinton

Nikki M. Taylor

Dublin THE IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION OF

GRAVITY A Journey to Discover Black Holes

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Chris Chris Morash Morash

Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

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Contents This Is Not Who We Are............................................................. 4

Dicing with Death....................................................................... 28

No Miracles Needed.................................................................. 5

Montesquieu............................................................................... 29

Impulse......................................................................................... 6

Understanding Natural Selection............................................. 30

Just as Deadly............................................................................. 7

Lifescapes.................................................................................... 31

You Can’t Always Say What You Want...................................... 8

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity........................................... 32

Untied Kingdom.......................................................................... 9

Shanghai Tai Chi......................................................................... 33

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity......................................... 10

Mary Magdalene......................................................................... 34

Unwired........................................................................................ 11

Keynes in Action.......................................................................... 35

Dublin........................................................................................... 12

How to Fix a Broken Planet........................................................ 36

New Orleans ............................................................................... 13

Why Populism?............................................................................ 37

Five Times Faster......................................................................... 14

A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety.............................. 38

The Gift of Aging......................................................................... 15

The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro...................... 39

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge .............................................. 16

The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill................. 40

A Tattoo on my Brain ................................................................. 17

Twilight of the Godlings............................................................. 41

Running from Bondage ............................................................. 18

Marx in the Anthropocene......................................................... 42

Seven Deadly Economic Sins ................................................... 19

Ukraine and Russia..................................................................... 43

The Economist’s View of the World ......................................... 20

Sappho......................................................................................... 44

The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook .................................. 21

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time................................ 45

Purpose and Power..................................................................... 22 Hitler’s Panzer Generals............................................................. 23 Israel............................................................................................. 24

Customer Services...................................................................... 46

The Witches of St Osyth............................................................. 25

Cambridge University Press Around the World...................... 46

The Great Plague Scare of 1720............................................... 26

Retail and wholesale representatives....................................... 47

Royal Heirs................................................................................... 27

Publicity........................................................................................ 47

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“What would we see if we held a mirror to America? Zachary Shore uses key moments in history to find out. He examines the country at its best—and its worst, exploring the roots of both smart and senseless decisions. In the process, he points us toward who we really are.”

DAYNA BARNES, National Defense University and author of Architects of Occupation: American Experts and the Planning for Postwar Japan

“In this elegantly narrated tale, Zachary Shore weaves together a rich tapestry of heroes and villains, some of whom often switch roles.

That alone would make for fascinating reading, but the surprises that Shore reveals do more than entertain. They spotlight the moral quandaries that plagued Americans as their wartime thirst for vengeance wrestled with their loftier ideals.”

ADAM HOCHSCHILD, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

This Is Not Who We Are

“As America emerges from the traumas of recent years, it will be important to restore confidence in our common identity and strengthen our social fabric. Zachary Shore’s This Is Not Who We Are has arrived just in time to foster thoughtful introspection and meaningful discussion of how our past can help us to understand the present and build a better future.”

H. R. MCMASTER, former US National Security Advisor and author of Battlegrounds and Dereliction of Duty

“By examining several difficult decisions made during the World War II, Zachary Shore’s thoughtful and original book sheds new light not only on wartime policymaking, but also on the deep moral conflicts at the core of Americans’ aspirations and experience.”

America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue JAMES SHEEHAN, Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University

Zachary Shore

SHORE THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE

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Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies, and a National Security Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of five previous books, including Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions and A Sense of the Enemy: The High-Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind.

AMERICAN HISTORY / 20TH CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT

What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the west coast to prevent sabotage?

Should the German people be made to starve as punishment for launching the war? Should America drop atomic bombs to break Japan’s will to fight?

Surprisingly, despite wartime anger, most Americans and key officials favored mercy over revenge, yet a minority managed to push their punitive policies through. After the war, by feeding the hungry, rebuilding Western Europe and Japan, and airlifting supplies to a blockaded Berlin, America strove to restore the country’s humanity, transforming its image in the eyes of the world.

A compelling story of the struggle over racism and revenge, This Is Not Who We Are asks crucial questions about the nation’s most agonizing divides.

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UK £25.00 US $27.95 CAD $31.95

Cover illustration: Image of the eagle courtesy of Daniel Hernanz Ramos/Moment/Getty Images.

Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies, and a National Security Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of five previous books, including Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions and A Sense of the Enemy: The High-Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind.

Advance praise ‘In this elegantly narrated tale, Zachary Shore weaves together a rich tapestry of heroes and villains, some of whom often switch roles...the surprises that Shore reveals do more than entertain. They spotlight the moral quandaries that plagued Americans as their wartime thirst for vengeance wrestled with their loftier ideals.’

Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars

‘Zachary Shore’s This Is Not Who We Are has arrived just in time to foster thoughtful introspection and meaningful discussion of how our past can help us to understand the present and build a better future.’

H. R. McMaster, former US National Security Advisor and author of Battlegrounds and Dereliction of Duty ‘Full of fascinating historical tidbits and sharp character sketches...this is a potent survey of America’s ongoing battle to live up to its ideals.’

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ZACHARY SHORE

America’s Struggle Between VENGEANCE and VIRTUE UK publication January 2023 US publication January 2023 348 pages 9781009203449 Hardback £25.00 | $27.95 USD | $31.95 CAD

At a glance • Asks why America treated its enemies so cruelly throughout WWII, despite public and government support for mercy • Suggests that America’s wartime acts resulted less from racism than revenge

• Offers a fresh perspective into wellknown characters in US history

• Presents the interconnections of each vengeful and virtuous act • Reveals how Americans came together to rebuild a shattered world

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MARK Z. JACOBSON Foreword by BILL MCKIBBEN ‘Pollution, climate catastrophe and energy security can all be addressed with his simple plan... This book is a godsend.’

MARK RUFFALO

No Miracles Needed

How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air Mark Z. Jacobson The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage sooner than you might think, leading to loss of biodiversity and economic and political instability. But all is not lost! We still have time to save the planet without resorting to ‘miracle’ technologies. We need to wave goodbye to outdated technologies, such as natural gas and carbon capture, and repurpose the technologies that we already have at our disposal. We can use existing technologies to harness, store, and transmit energy from wind, water, and solar sources to ensure reliable electricity, heat supplies, and energy security. Find out what you can do to improve the health, climate, and economic state of our planet. Together, we can solve the climate crisis, eliminate air pollution and safely secure energy supplies for everyone.

Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. He has published six books and over 175 peer-reviewed papers. His work forms the scientific basis of the Green New Deal and many laws and commitments for cities, states, and countries to transition to 100% renewable electricity and heat generation. He received the 2018 Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2019, was selected as ‘one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy’ by Apolitical. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, appeared in a TED talk, appeared on the David Letterman Show, and co-founded The Solutions Project.

Advance praise ‘Pollution, climate catastrophe and energy security can all be addressed with his simple plan...This book is a godsend.’

Mark Ruffalo

‘Many people believe or fear that we can’t solve the climate crisis, because we just don’t have the technologies in hand to do so. This book should lay that fear to rest, once and for all.’

Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Big Myth

How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 454 pages 9781009249546 Paperback £11.99 | $14.95 USD | $16.95 CAD

At a glance • Lays out the framework for how to solve the climate, air pollution and energy security problems of our times, including an honest analysis of what we should not be doing

• Shares up-to-date information on the technologies available to solve these problems, providing actionable solutions to help fight the climate crisis • Provides suggestions on what individuals, communities and nations can do to solve energy issues, helping the reader take steps to save our planet • Explores the implications of the policies needed to fight climate change, providing insights into the current landscape and the solutions available

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Naomi Fineberg, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Hertfordshire, and Consultant Psychiatrist, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Konstantinos Ioannidis, Consultant Psychiatrist, Eating Disorders, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

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Impulse

“Grant and Chamberlain are master clinician-scientists, and they provide a readable, informed, practical approach. They burst many myths about sex, and they offer a balanced approach for both lay readers and the field as a whole.”

Impulse

“Brings to the forefront a critically important issue, impulse, by brilliantly navigating through a minefield of taboo questions, which most people, including health professionals or scientists, are too shy, afraid, or unconcerned to ask.”

Grant and Chamberlain

“Skillfully written in an accessible style, this book is a ‘must-read’ for anyone interested in understanding more about the fundamentals of sex and desire, as well as for a variety of professionals, including health professionals, counselors, social workers, and others who educate people about sex.”

Dan Stein, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town

The Science of Sex and Desire

Jon E. Grant and Samuel R. Chamberlain Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask – how do we get reliable answers? In this go-to guide Drs Grant and Chamberlain use their clinical expertise to answer the questions you wish you could ask about sex. Questions like: Is my sex drive or sex behavior normal? Can someone have too much sex? Or too little? How has Internet dating and pornography changed sex? This go-to guide will help you understand common sexual issues, know when to worry (or not) about different sexual behaviors, and learn how our sex lives adapt to changing technology or in times of crisis. It also provides step-by-step advice for dealing with a range of sexual issues, and practical strategies for strengthening relationships.

Cover image: Two figs.

Isabelle Rozenbaum / Getty Images.

Cover design: Andrew Ward

Jon E. Grant is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago where he directs a clinic and research lab on addictive, compulsive and impulsive disorders.

Samuel Chamberlain is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Southampton. His research and clinical work focus on the neurobiology and treatment of behaviourally-addictive disorders – including compulsive sexual behavior problems.

Advance praise ‘...a must-read for anyone interested in understanding more about the fundamentals of sex and desire...’

Naomi Fineberg, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Hertfordshire

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Impulse THE SCIENCE OF SEX AND DESIRE Jon E. Grant and Samuel R. Chamberlain UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 250 pages 9781009107976 Paperback £12.99 | $14.95 USD | $16.95 CAD

At a glance • Examines the latest clinical and neuroscience evidence and offers an accurate and informed understanding of sex

• Real-life stories aid understanding of sexual experiences that are common but rarely talked about

• Provides practical advice for a variety of sexual issues, helping people to understand the diverse nature of sex, when to worry (or not) and how to seek help about sexual issues when they occur

Marissa A. Harrison

Just as Deadly The Psychology of Female Serial Killers Marissa A. Harrison 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.

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 ‘Fascinating, ground-breaking, and long overdue. Harrison fills the inexcusable gap in the serial murder literature with her own original research on female killers, in what is sure to become a seminal work in criminology. A must-read.’

Patricia Pearson, author of When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder and Wish You Were Here: A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s Grief and the Hunt for a Serial Killer

‘[Dr. Harrison’s] seminal work will stand the test of time, scrutiny, and reliability. Her scholarship, insightful analysis, and penchant for detail make this book the best on the market. Excellent reading for those interested in why and how women become serial killers.’

Just as Deadly The Psychology of Female Serial Killers UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 280 pages 9781009158206 Hardback £20.00 | $25.95 USD | $29.95 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

Eric W. Hickey, author of Serial Murderers and their Victims

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9781009198905: Baron: Jacket: C M Y K

The Paradox of Free Speech Dennis Baron

POLITICS/LANGUAGE The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated UK £20.00 US $27.95 a pushback of regulation and censorship. This the thorny question: to what CAN raises $31.95 extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today’s calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.

Cover design: Andrew Ward

Dennis Baron is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a frequent commentator on language issues in the national media and written a number of popular books, including What’s Your Pronoun? (2020).

Advance praise ‘With characteristic insight and wit, Dennis Baron validates his reputation as one of the preeminent scholars of language and law working today. Through an engaging tour of some of the most revealing episodes in the history of free speech and its regulation, You Can’t Always Say What You Want skillfully illustrates the ambiguities, uncertainties, and complexities that have long defined our language, our law, and ultimately our public lives.’

Jonathan Gienapp, author of The Second Creation

‘Dennis Baron has written a book that is as elegant as it is urgent. By measuring the distance between the meanings of words and the meanings of laws, he sheds much-needed light on the paradox of interpreting permanent documents with an ever-changing language.‘ Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large, Merriam-Webster

‘The landscape of free speech is in constant flux, and Baron provides important context to the current debates.’

Kirkus Reviews

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The Paradox of Free Speech

You Can’t Always Say What You Want

You Can’t Always Say What You Want

Dennis Baron

Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University

You Can’t Always Say What You Want

“With characteristic insight and wit, Dennis Baron validates his reputation as one of the preeminent scholars of language and law working today. Through an engaging tour of some of the most revealing episodes in the history of free speech and its regulation, You Can’t Always Say What You Want skillfully illustrates the ambiguities, uncertainties, and complexities that have long defined our language, our law, and ultimately our public lives.”

Baron

Dennis Baron is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign. He is a frequent commentator on language issues in the national media and written a number of popular books, including What’s Your Pronoun? (2020).

UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 240 pages 9781009198905 Hardback £20.00 | $27.95 USD | $31.95 CAD

At a glance • Places key present-day concerns about free speech and speech regulation in a historical setting to reveal the ways that the past is prelude to the present

• A study of the protections and limitations placed on political speech, strong language, threatening words, ‘foreign’ language, and compelled speech, as well as a look at some current dangers to protecting speech in liberal democracies going forward • Explores issues between the First and Second Amendments; the right to free speech and the right to bear arms

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'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long, slow waning of Britishness.' Fintan O’Toole

STUART WARD

KINGDOM

Untied Kingdom

A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE END OF BRITAIN

A Global History of the End of Britain Stuart Ward How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness was imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian Independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonisation to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished ‘global reach’ in Britain itself from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain’s imaginative frontiers.

Stuart Ward is a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Originally from Australia, his career has spanned appointments in Italy, the UK, Ireland and Denmark, including visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, the University of Exeter and the University of Greenland. His previous publications include The Unknown Nation (2010), shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s History Prize. He was awarded the Royal Historical Society’s Scottish History prize (2014) for his work on the SNP at empire’s end.”

Advance praise ‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long, slow waning of Britishness.’

UK publication February 2023 US publication April 2023 550 pages 9781107145993 Hardback £25.00 | $35.00 USD | $39.95 CAD

At a glance • A timely new history of the transformation of Britain’s place in the world over the last century

• Casts the contemporary crisis of the Union in a whole new light by uncovering the long-term demise of British allegiances all around the world

• The first major study to forge connections between the end of empire and the ‘break-up of Britain’

Fintan O’Toole

‘Eloquent, erudite, and sophisticated, Untied Kingdom is essential reading for those interested in imperial history and in the past, present and future of the union.’

Duncan Bell, author of The Idea of Greater Britain

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LUCIANO REZZOLLA is the Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Frankfurt, Germany. His main research topics are the physics and astrophysics of compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC), where he sits on the Executive Board. He has received numerous prizes including the Karl Schwarzschild Prize, the Frankfurt Physics Prize, the Golden Seal of the University of Bari, the 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics (with EHTC), and the Einstein Medal (with EHTC). Since 2019 he has been the Andrews Professor in Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin.

“In recent years there’s been a real surge in our knowledge of black holes and their role in the cosmos. Luciano Rezzolla clearly explains the new results, their contexts and the future prospects for research. …He conveys his enthusiasm to the reader through his personal perspective on what it’s like to participate in these important discoveries.”

PROF. MARTIN REES, University of Cambridge; author of Gravity’s Fatal Attraction

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity

“… an engaging overview of the powerful role of gravity, as the weakest but most consequential interaction shaping our universe. Overall, Rezzolla offers the unique gift of a comprehensive, yet pedagogical summary of the latest exciting developments…”

PROF. AVI LOEB, Harvard University; author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

“Black holes are mysterious objects. Some of their secrets have now been revealed, not least due to the work of this author. … [He] describes this fascinating story in an understandable, even entertaining, yet scientifically exact way. You will not stop reading until you have reached the final page!”

PROF. DR. CLAUS KIEFER, University of Cologne; author of Quantum Gravity and Gravitation

A Journey to Discover Black Holes Luciano Rezzolla

“Why do things fall? Starting from this simple question, Rezzolla takes us on a whirlwind tour of gravity, from Galileo and Newton … [to] the latest news on gravitational waves and black hole imaging, covering a lot of ground in an engaging style.”

PROF. GERAINT LEWIS, Sydney Institute for Astronomy; author of The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook

THE IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY

PROF. REINHARD GENZEL, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics; Nobel laureate in Physics

REZZOLLA

“What are ‘black holes’ and do they exist in our Universe?

Prof. Luciano Rezzolla explains to the non-expert reader the basic theoretical ideas and the evolution of the scientific research over the past century. …a good read from a top expert in the field.”

SCIENCE/ASTRONOMY But what is gravity and how The mystery of gravity has captivated us forPOPULAR centuries. does it work? This engaging book delves into the bizarre and often counter-intuitive world of gravitational physics. Join distinguished astrophysicist Professor Luciano Rezzolla on this virtual journey into Einstein’s world of gravity, with each milestone presenting ever more fascinating aspects of gravitation. Through gentle exposure to concepts such as spacetime curvature and general relativity, you will discover some of the most curious consequences of gravitational physics, such as black holes, neutron stars and gravitational waves. The author presents and explains one of the most impressive scientific achievements of recent times: the first image of a supermassive black hole. Written by one of the key scientists involved in producing these results, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes view of how the image was captured and discover what happens to matter and light near a black hole.

Front cover image: Ziri Younsi Author image: Dominik Rezzolla Printed in the United Kingdom Designed by Dani Leigh Design

UK £20.00 US $24.95 CAD $28.95

Luciano Rezzolla is the Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Frankfurt, Germany. His main research topics are the physics and astrophysics of compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars. He is a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC), where he sits on the Executive Board. He has received numerous prizes including the Karl Schwarzschild Prize, the Frankfurt Physics Prize, the Golden Seal of the University of Bari, the 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics (with EHTC), and the Einstein Medal (with EHTC). Since 2019 he has been the Andrews Professor in Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin.

Advance praise ‘The compelling story of one of the most beautiful adventures in physics’ Carlo Rovelli

‘In recent years there’s been a real surge in our knowledge of black holes and their role in the cosmos. Luciano Rezzolla clearly explains the new results, their contexts and the future prospects for research. Having himself been involved in the intricate computer modelling and imaging, he conveys his enthusiasm to the reader through his personal perspective on what it’s like to participate in these important discoveries.’

Martin Rees, University of Cambridge; author of Gravity’s Fatal Attraction

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“The compelling story of one of the most beautiful adventures in physics” CARLO ROVELLI

THE IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION OF

GRAVITY A Journey to Discover Black Holes

LUCIANO REZZOLLA UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 350 pages 8 colour illus.

9781009198752 Hardback £20.00 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Written by an expert with first-hand experience in the experimental and theoretical challenges encountered, so the reader has a knowledgeable guide in their journey to understanding the mysteries of black holes, neutrons stars and gravitational waves • Uses numerous examples and analogies from everyday experience to explore the fascinating and bizarre aspects of general relativity in a very accessible, easily digestible way • Through the gradual exposure to concepts such as spacetime curvature and gravity, the reader will become familiar with terminology that is often misused in the media

• Carefully explains how the first image of a supermassive black hole, M87, was made, which has been hailed as ‘the photo of the century’

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“Bernstein shows us how to reclaim our power and our humanity from Big Tech.”

NICHOLAS KARDARAS

Unwired

Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies Gaia Bernstein Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can’t help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online.

It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations.

Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

Gaia Bernstein is the Technology, Privacy and Policy Professor of Law, CoDirector of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. She writes, teaches, and lectures on subjects at the intersections of law, technology, health, and privacy. Professor Bernstein developed a nationally recognized outreach program on technology overuse for school-aged children and their parents. She is also a mother of three children who grew up in the era of smartphones, screens, and social media.

Advance praise ‘Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we and our children will spend between fifteen and twenty years glued to our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory remedies at hand to help us retain our time and our wellbeing.’

Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

GAIA BERNSTEIN

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 220 pages 9781009257930 Hardback £20.00 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • First book to address how to resolve technology overuse through legal means

• Connects the problem of technology addiction to historical battles surrounding cigarettes, unhealthy food, and online privacy

• Provides the tools and outlines the options for anyone who wants to fight against technology overuse

Adam Alter, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, NYU Stern School of Business, author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink ‘In this important and powerful book, Gaia Bernstein shows us how to reclaim our power and our humanity from the Big Tech cartel that have intentionally addicted us to their devices and platforms.’

Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D., Author of Glow Kids and Digital Madness, former Clinical Professor, Stony Brook Medicine “This trenchant clarion call rings loud and clear.’

Publishers Weekly www.cambridge.org

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A Writer’s City

Dublin ‘Indispensible’ Sunday Times

Dublin A Writer’s City

Christopher Morash The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce’s characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born.

Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses.

But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer’s City unfolds a book-lover’s map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature. The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.

Chris Morash has published widely on Irish studies, with books on Irish Famine literature, Irish theatre history, media history, and spatial theory; he has collaborated with the Abbey Theatre, and chairs the judging panel for the Dublin Literary Award, one of the world’s richest literary prizes.

Advance praise ‘Dublin: A Writer’s City is a comprehensive guide to this incomprehensibly graphomane capital, less city than town, less town than village, less village than inkpot. Christopher Morash’s book is engrossing, enlightening, relaxedly scholarly and splendidly entertaining.’

John Banville

Chris Chris Morash Morash

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 9781108831642 Hardback £19.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Organised spatially, by zones or areas within the city, allowing readers to explore the city, cutting across historical periods without a preliminary knowledge of the city’s history

• Contains numerous maps, black and white, and colour illustrations, which provides readers with an immersive experience of the city, allowing them to connect the visual with the stories of the city • This book is written in a lively, personal writing style with the nonspecialist reader in mind

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A Writer’s City

New Orleans “Dazzling” Jesmyn Ward

New Orleans A Writer’s City T. R. Johnson The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city’s precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city’s literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.

T. R. Johnson has taught at universities in Louisville and Boston and is now a Professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University. He has written books on Lacanian psychoanalysis, the teaching of writing, and prose style and is the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History. Since the late 1990s, he has lived in the 9th Ward of New Orleans near the Mississippi River and hosted a contemporary jazz radio program.

Advance praise ‘A thoughtful, comprehensive stations-of-the-cross journey through the literary history and traditions of a city that has done more, pound for pound, to create our American culture than any other. If you love New Orleans, you need this compendium in your library. If you don’t love New Orleans, there is something wrong with you and this volume is as valuable a medicinal as a Wild Tchoupitoulas album, a Zulu golden coconut or the middle section of the menu at Mosca’s.’

T. R. Johnson

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 9781316512067 Hardback £19.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Organizes the recent literary history of the city by neighborhoods and particular blocks of streets, allowing readers to navigate the city in the most literal sense through its most important and most inspired writing

• Brings together relatively remote historical territories with up-to-the minute contemporary developments.

Readers will be able to engage contemporary and future phenemona in the city with a rich grasp of their deep roots

David Simon, The Wire and Tremé

‘Dazzling in depth and breadth, this book sings with the voices of those who have been moved to create art about New Orleans, from Walt Whitman to Zora Neale Hurston to Beyonce to Maurice Carlos Ruffin. An outstanding endeavor, for anyone who loves New Orleans, anyone who loves literature, and of course, for anyone who loves both.’

Jesmyn Ward, two-time winner of the National Book Award

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‘Pace is truly what matters in the climate fight’ Bill McKibben

SIMON SHARPE

Five Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change Simon Sharpe As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, diplomacy, and economics, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.

Simon Sharpe is Director of Economics at UNFCCC Climate Champions, and Senior Fellow of the World Resources Institute. He led international policy campaigns as part of the UK’s Presidency of the UN climate change talks in 2020-2021; worked as the head of private office to a minister of energy and climate change (UK Government), and served on diplomatic postings in China and India.

Advance praise ‘As the world is suffocating under extreme weather events, widespread food and water scarcity, destruction of ecosystems, and a series of other interrelated climatelinked crises, Simon Sharpe’s book is a breath of fresh air. It provides a sobering risk assessment of what’s going to happen if we don’t free our global economy from fossil fuels, Five Times Faster takes you on a captivating - yet alarming - journey through the complexities of climate change. More than ever, we need global cooperation, built on valuing what matters and that’s oriented towards the supreme outcome: our global common good. The tools, public capacity, and ideas needed for navigating an increasingly challenging field are key, and Simon’s book is an important leap in the right direction.’

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, University College, London, and author of Mission Economy

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RETHINKING THE SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND DIPLOMACY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

UK publication March 2023 US publication June 2023 336 pages 9781009326490 Hardback £20.00 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • A policy insider’s compelling views on science, economics, showing how changes in each could lead to faster progress in addressing climate change • Many examples from Sharpe’s personal experiences in climate diplomacy

• Goes against conventional wisdom and contradicts some mainstream narratives about climate change solutions, providing a fresh perspective and new ideas “

From the authors of the award winning book, The Gift of Caring

The Gift of Aging Growing Older with Purpose, Planning, and Positivity Marcy Cottrell Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom Award-winning authors Marcy Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom have teamed up again following the success of their critically acclaimed book The Gift of Caring, winner of the 2016 National Christopher Award. This new book blends frontline science with inspirational stories and insights from wise elders for aging with health, joy, and purpose.

The book explains how our bodies and brains age, defining what can be expected with aging and what is unusual. It demonstrates ways we can significantly increase our chances for a positive aging experience into our 80s, 90s and 100s. It offers key strategies for meeting the challenges of aging, informs us of issues of inclusion and equity, and advises on handling legal and financial affairs.

The Gift of Aging illustrates how we can make the third act of our lives meaningful and fulfilling, ensuring we as elders can make a difference in our world.

Marcy Cottrell Houle, MS, is a professional wildlife biologist and the author of eight award-winning books. Two of her books received the Christopher Award “for books that affirm the highest values of the human spirit.” Her work has been selected by the New York Times as a Best Book for Earth Day. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, LA Times, and Globe and Mail. Marcy lives with her family on a small farm on Sauvies Island, Oregon.

Elizabeth Eckstrom is Chief of Geriatrics in the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research focuses on healthy aging and has shown that tai chi reduces falls by at least 50% and improves memory test scores (she recommends tai chi for everyone!).

She is thrilled to call Oregon home and can frequently be found in her garden, windsurfing on the Columbia River, and hiking and skiing on Mt. Hood.

Advance praise ‘The Gift of Aging (Italics) is itself a gift. It’s packed with research-based strategies and motivating stories of elders that can help make growing older the most meaningful ride of a lifetime.’

Daniel Pink, best selling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

The Gift of

Aging Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

Marcy Cottrell Houle and Elizabeth Eckstrom

UK publication June 2023 US publication June 2023 9781009330732 Paperback c. £11.99 | c. $15.95 USD | $17.95 CAD

At a glance • Illuminates how we can make a difference in our later years, not only physically but also in preparing our finances and legal affairs for our later years. Equipping ourselves to meet aging benchmarks head on can allow us to find joy and meaning throughout our lives • Defines what can be expected from aging and what is unusual.

Demonstrates how we can increase our chances for a positive aging experience into our 80s, 90s, and 100s

• Uses case studies of those who have faced times of grief, loss, retirement, illness, isolation, and pain, and how they rose above the challenges to find quality of life and renewed joy

‘This wonderful book is filled with lots of practical advice--but none more practical than ‘have a purpose.’ The last decades of our lives can be the most important, productive, and fulfilling, but only if we take them with the seriousness (and the good humor) they deserve.’

Bill McKibben, best selling author of The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon

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“... a brilliant tour-de-force ... offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.”

Catherine Clinton

Nikki M. Taylor

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, non-violent 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 presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.

Nikki M. Taylor is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Howard University. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American History. She is the author of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio, America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark, and Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802-68.

Advance praise ‘Brooding Over Bloody Revenge is a brilliant tour-de-force. This powerful set of case studies create a prism for illuminating African American women’s intellectual arc, their lived experience as enslaved bodies, and their powerful response to slavery’s lash and legacy. Nikki Taylor’s voice offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.’

Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

‘This book is a powerful, gripping, and violent telling of enslaved women’s resistance. It is hard, but necessary scholarship. The past five years have led to an explosion of cutting-edge research that centers black women in nuanced ways. I count Nikki Taylor’s new book as part of this welcome wave.’

Kellie Carter Jackson, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

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Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

UK publication July 2023 US publication July 2023 239 pages 9781009276849 Hardback £18.99 | $24.95 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent 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

NEW IN PAPERBACK “Essential reading for any family living with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.”

LISA GENOVA, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice

DANIEL GIBBS WITH TERESA H. BARKER

A TATTOO A Tattoo on my Brain A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H. Barker Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer’s, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer’s several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer’s. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man’s journey with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Soon to be a documentary film on MTV/Paramount +.

Daniel Gibbs is a retired neurologist in Portland, Oregon, with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Having spent twenty-five years caring for patients, many with dementia themselves, he is now an active advocate for the early recognition and management of Alzheimer’s.

Teresa H. Barker is a journalist and nonfiction cowriter whose collaborations include books by author experts in strong narrative treatments of subjects including medical science, creative aging, child and adult development, parenting, and life in the digital age.

Praise for the hardback ‘As a neurologist with early-stage Alzheimer’s, Dr Daniel Gibbs offers a uniquely insightful, candid, and compassionate view from both seats. A Tattoo on My Brain is essential reading for any family living with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.’

Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

ON MY

BRAIN A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease Soon to be a documentary film on MTV/Paramount+

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 228 pages 9781009325189 Paperback £9.99 | $12.95 USD | $14.95 CAD

At a glance • The combined narrative of Dr Gibbs’ clinical knowledge and his engaging personal experience with the disease ensures the book will appeal to both professional and lay audiences with an interest in brain health • Lived-experience commentary from a patient living with Alzheimer’s disease provides an insight into the uncertainty and lack of information before and after a diagnosis, and offers reassurance to other patients about what lies ahead

• An optimistic call-to-action for further investment in the research of earlystage Alzheimer’s disease, where patients who are otherwise presymptomatic still have the chance to slow the progression of the disease with lifestyle changes and potential medical treatments

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NEW IN PAPERBACK

Karen Cook Bell

Running from Bondage

RUNNING FROM BONDAGE

Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America Karen Cook Bell Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell’s enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these ‘Black founding mothers’ and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University.

She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in NineteenthCentury Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. She specializes in the studies of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history.

Reviews for the hardback ‘Karen Cook Bell’s research brilliantly shows that the phenomenon of Black female flight in the period of slavery was not idiosyncratic but was, in fact, pervasive. This pathbreaking and beautifully written work centers the voices of Black women in slavery and abolition. A must-read.’

Anne C. Bailey, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, and Director of the Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity, Binghamton University

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ENSLAVED WOMEN AND THEIR REMARKABLE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN

REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

UK publication January 2023 US publication January 2023 9781108926720 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Sheds light on the untold stories of enslaved Black women who escaped bondage during the Revolutionary era

• Reconstructs fugitive women’s stories through newspaper advertisements, first-person accounts in trial records, antebellum memories and interviews with former slaves • Underscores the centrality of women’s self-emancipation during the Revolution

NEW IN PAPERBACK It is lucid, generous, open-handed yet thorough, and solidly based scientifically. Come to think of it, most economists should read it,

Otteson

“Otteson, a philosopher, has written for non-economists the best short introduction to economics, and to a wider political economy.

too. They might stop using ‘philosophical’ as a term of contempt, and get back to an Adam-Smithian depth of understanding.”

Seven Deadly Economic Sins

“The word ‘Deadly’ in Otteson’s title is no exaggeration.

The great frustrations and famines of recent decades have

been failures of state management, rather than contradictions of capitalism. Otteson’s contribution is to explain why

these catastrophes are the result of good intentions, moral

misunderstandings, and confusions about what markets can do.

As society moves toward reopening the economy and restoring

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prosperity, this book is essential reading for what might be done, what can’t be done, and the things that lie in between.”

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James R. Otteson is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (2002), Actual Ethics (2006), The End of Socialism (2014), and Honorable Business (2019).

Reviews for the hardback ‘James R. Otteson’s Seven Deadly Economic Sins is a fine effort to introduce readers to the basic principles of market economics. The hamartiological framing - the ‘sins’ are bad assumptions about how markets work - is part of the author’s effort to make the subject more engaging than a typical treatise on economics. It works.

Mr. Otteson, a professor of business ethics at Notre Dame, writes with an apt combination of casual wit and rigorous logic.’

Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal

James R. Otteson UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 9781108824385 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides a comprehensive introduction, in non-specialist language, to the basic principles of economics

• Relates economics to our abiding moral concerns

• Explores where wealth comes from, and how genuine prosperity can be enabled

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NEW IN PAPERBACK RHOADS

And the Quest for Well-Being Steven E. Rhoads

T H E EC ONOM IST’S V I EW OF T H E WOR L D

The Economist’s View of the World

Released in 1984, Steven E. Rhoads’ classic was considered by many to be among the best introductions to the economic way of thinking and its applications. This anniversary edition has been updated to account for political and economic developments - from the greater interest in redistributing income and the ascendancy of behaviorism to the Trump presidency. Rhoads explores opportunity cost, marginalism, and economic incentives and explains why mainstream economists - even those well to the left - still value free markets. He critiques economics for its unbalanced emphasis on narrow self-interest as controlling motive and route to happiness, highlighting philosophers and positive psychologists’ findings that happiness is far more dependent on friends and family than on income or wealth. This thought-provoking tour of the economist’s mind is a must read for our times, providing a clear, lively, non-technical insight into how economists think and why they shouldn’t be ignored.

Steven E. Rhoads is professor emeritus in politics at the University of Virginia.

He received his AB in history from Princeton University in 1961. Steve then spent time in the US Navy, and at the US Bureau of the Budget as the Secretary of the Director’s Review. At Cornell University he studied economics, American politics and the history of political philosophy, receiving the PhD in government in 1973.

Steve and his wife Peggy live just outside Charlottesville, Virginia.

Reviews for the hardback ‘This is a 35th anniversary version of a classic. Rhoads, an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Virginia, has built upon the best explanation I know of how orthodox economists think about choice, markets, externalities and other concepts. The new edition will be valuable to non-economists and economists alike: the former will learn how economists think; and the latter will learn some of the limits to how they think.’

Martin Wolf, A Financial Times Book of the Year

‘Rhoads puts the discipline’s core concepts in wonderfully accessible form.’

Barton Swaim, A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year

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THE ECONOM IST’S VIEW OF T H E WOR L D And the Qu est fo r Well - B e ing STE V E N E . R HOA DS “A remarkable book [that] non-economists should read to understand what economists know. But [one] economists should also read to understand what they do not.”

M A RT I N WO L F, Financial Times

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 9781108994071 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Explains economics with accessible language without using diagrams or equations

• Simultaneously explains and critiques various facets of economics • More ideologically balanced than most treatments, contrasting economic thinking with positive psychology and virtue ethics

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Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang?

Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the Big Bang, this handbook gives you ‘just the facts’: the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories. While the Big Bang holds the attention of scientists, it isn’t perfect. The authors pull back the curtains, and show how cosmology really works. With this, you will know your enemy, cosmic revolutionary - arm yourself for the scientific arena where ideas must fight for survival! This uniquely-framed tour of modern cosmology gives a deeper understanding of the inner workings of this fascinating field.

The portrait painted is realistic and raw, not idealized and airbrushed - it is science in all its messy detail, which doesn’t pretend to have all the answers.

Luke A. Barnes is a postdoctoral researcher at Western Sydney University.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, before undertaking Ph.D. research at the University of Cambridge. The focus of his research has been the cosmic evolution of matter, and he has published papers in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, and on the fine-tuning of the Universe for life. He returned to the University of Sydney in 2008 as a Super Science Fellow, before being awarded a prestigious Templeton Fellowship to expand his research on the physics of fine-tuning of the laws of physics for complexity and ultimately life.

Geraint F. Lewis is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. The focus of his research is cosmology and the dark side of the universe, namely the dark matter and dark energy that dominate cosmological evolution. He has published more than three hundred academic papers and is an acclaimed teacher. He also has a significant outreach profile, writing regularly for New Scientist and The Conversation, as well as regularly speaking publicly on all aspects of cosmology and astronomy, including speaking that the Royal Institution in London.

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‘a great starting point for budding astronomers’ BBC Sky at Night

GER AINT F. L E W I S

UK publication May 2023 US publication May 2023 36 b/w illus. 9781009245784 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Presents a unique angle on cosmology - a toolkit for bringing down established cosmological theories, for would-be revolutionaries • Addresses alternative theories to the big bang and the latest observational evidence that needs to be accounted for • An accessible, non-mathematical introduction as to why cosmologists believe the things they do, and how scientific theories get accepted or discarded

Reviews for the hardback ‘… a great starting point for budding astronomers or cosmologists who want to be able to ‘debunk’ would-be revolutionaries - or answer the ‘but how do we know …’ they’re likely to get asked.’

Chris North, BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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

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

Donald Stoker is Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School in Washington, DC. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (2010), winner of the Fletcher Pratt award, and Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and U.S. Strategy from the Korean War to the Present (2022).

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

William Inboden, author of The Peacemaker

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E T FROM TH TR ATEGYA TO THE PRESEN S D N A R US G TIONARY ER R E V OL U

UK publication April 2023 US publication August 2023 9781009257275 Hardback £29.99 | $34.95 USD | $39.95 CAD

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

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

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

DAVID STAHEL

Hitler’s Panzer Generals

Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded David Stahel German success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces, however many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives. David Stahel offers a far more complete picture of the men conducting Hitler’s war in the East, with an emphasis on the private fears and public pressures they operated under. He also illuminates their response to the criminal dimension of the war as well as their role as leading military commanders conducting large-scale operations. While the focus is on four of Germany’s most important panzer generals – Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt – the evidence from their private correspondence sheds new light on the broader institutional norms and cultural ethos of the Wehrmacht’s Panzertruppe.

David Stahel is a leading authority on German military history in the Second World War. He is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales in Australia. His previous publications include Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East (2009), Kiev 1941 (2012), The Battle for Moscow (2015), and Retreat from Moscow (2019).

HITLER'S PANZER GENERALS GUDERIAN, HOEPNER, REINHARDT AND SCHMIDT UNGUARDED

UK publication April 2023 US publication April 2023 336 pages 25 b/w illus. 10 maps 9781009282819 Hardback £25 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Reveals the inner lives of four of Germany’s key panzer commanders on the Eastern Front through their intimate letters • Provides a deeper insight into the generals and the role they played in the Barbarossa campaign and in German criminality in the east

• Sheds new light on the wider culture within the Panzertruppe

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ISRAEL A History in 100 Cartoons

Israel

A History in 100 Cartoons Colin Shindler Since its establishment in 1948, the state of Israel has not ceased to be a unique and controversial entity: vehemently opposed by some, and loyally supported by others.

In this novel and original study, Colin Shindler tells the history of Israel through the unusual vehicle of cartoons - all drawn by different generations of irreverent and contrarian Israeli cartoonists. Richly illustrated with a cartoon for every year since Israel’s establishment until 2020, Shindler offers new perspectives on Israel’s past, politics, and people. At once incisive and hilarious, these cartoons, mainly published in the Israeli press, capture significant flashpoints, and show how the country’s citizens felt about and responded to major events in Israel’s history. A leading authority on Israel Studies, Shindler contextualises the cartoons with detailed timelines and commentaries for every year. Sometimes funny and sometimes tinged with tragedy, Shindler offers a new, visually exciting, and accessible way to understand Israel’s complex history and, in particular, the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Colin Shindler is Emeritus Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He became the first professor of Israel Studies in the UK in 2008 and was the founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS) in 2009. He has published 12 books and his most recent publications include Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimisation (2012) and The Rise of the Israeli Right (2015).

Advance praise ‘Professor Shindler uses the medium of cartoons to reflect on the major issues that have faced Israel. Selecting just one cartoon for each year out of many thousands is no easy task, but Shindler’s selections and commentary highlight the key issues and personalities in a way which no other previous political analysis has attempted.’

David Newman, Ben-Gurion University

‘It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Colin Shindler’s outstanding collection of cartoons, with comments and timelines, sheds light on the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict. This innovative format makes it an outstanding teaching resource and a must-read for those interested in gaining greater insight into this conflict.’

Suzanne D. Rutland, University of Sydney

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Colin Shindler

UK publication December 2023 US publication March 2023 288 pages 9781107170131 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Employs cartoons as an original and accessible way to understand Israel’s complex history from 1948 to 2020 • Features detailed timelines and narrative summaries written by a leading authority on Israel Studies

• Richly illustrated with 100 cartoons to offer a rare and visually exciting history

THE WITCHES OF

The Witches of St Osyth

Persecution, Betrayal and Murder in Elizabethan England

Marion Gibson An emotive, haunting story of a community torn apart, the Essex witch accusations and trial of 1581-2 are, taken together, one of the pivotal instances of that malign and destructive wave of misogynistic persecution which periodically broke over early modern England. Yet, for all their importance in the overall study of witchcraft, the so-called witches of St Osyth have largely been overlooked by scholars. Marion Gibson now sets right that neglect. Using fresh archival sources – and investigating not just the village itself, but also its neighbouring Elizabethan hamlets and habitations – the author offers revelatory new insights into the sixteen women and one man accused of sorcery while asking wider, provocative questions about the way history is recollected and interpreted. Combining landscape detective work, a reconstruction of lost spaces and authoritative readings of crucial documents, Gibson skilfully unlocks the poignant personal histories of those denied the chance to speak for themselves.

Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Fascinated by witches’ stories for nearly thirty years, she is the author of Reading Witchcraft (1999), Early Modern Witches (2000), Witchcraft and Society (2003), Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (2007), Imagining the Pagan Past (2013), Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (2017) and Witchcraft: The Basics (2018).

In addition she serves as General Editor of the Cambridge University Press series Elements in Magic.

Advance praise ‘This terrific book is that of a historian at the top of her game, bringing all her knowledge, research skills, and writing ability to the task. It demonstrates that good history can be erudite as well as entertaining.’

M A R ION G I B SON UK publication November 2022 US publication January 2023 256 pages 9781108494670 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Essential reading for all those engaged in the study of early modern witchcraft

• Marion Gibson is a foremost authority on the subject, with particular expertise in magical texts, history and folk memory • The first full history of the topic, it brings new insights not just to its subject but also to the study of witchcraft as a whole – as well as to our understanding of history and its interpretation

Philip Almond, University of Queensland

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Global Health Histories “Historians of colonial medicine and anthropologists of pharmaceuticals have been eagerly awaiting this book. With exceptional panache, Monnais transforms the history of global health into a genealogy of our pharmaceutical present. Just like mosquitoes, it seems, drugs have life cycles and ecological niches, and can serve as vectors – not of disease, but rather of European medicine and modernity.”

Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney

The Great Plague Scare of 1720

“From colonial indifference and toxic fears to avid consumerism and hybrid therapeutics, Monnais reveals the dynamic history behind Vietnam’s pharmaceutical pasts. Her meticulous research highlights Vietnamese agency in the making of a modern medical culture and provides an exemplary study of the origins of medicalization in the global south.”

David Arnold, University of Warwick

“Brilliantly crafted and ingeniously researched, this is an absorbing exploration of medicalization and modernization under colonial rule that underscores the foundational agency of the colonized and the persistence of therapeutic pluralism. A richly textured study of Vietnam, it also offers a compelling model for understanding the vital role of medicines as vectors of social change across the Global South.”

John Harley Warner, Yale University

Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

The COLONIAL LIFE of PHARMACEUTICALS

History and Director of the Center for Asian Studies (CETASE) at Université de Montréal, Canada. She specializes in the history of medicine in Southeast Asia, global histories of health, and the history of alternative medicines. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is also co-founder and president of HOMSEA (History of Medicine in Southeast Asia).

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PLAGUE SCARE1720 of

Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Cindy Ermus From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe.

The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as new understandings about the nature of contagion and the best ways to manage its threat. In this transnational study, Cindy Ermus focuses on the social, commercial, and diplomatic impact of the epidemic beyond French borders, examining reactions to this public health crisis from Italy to Great Britain to Spain and the overseas colonies. She reveals how a crisis in one part of the globe can transcend geographic boundaries and influence society, politics, and public health policy in regions far from the epicentre of disaster.

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Cindy Ermus is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Advance praise ‘Ermus’s important new study shows how a regional disaster that caused catastrophic loss of life only within Provence and Languedoc created novel opportunities for nation-state authorities to centralize power and implement policies that led to trade advantages over their economic rivals. Plague in Provence provided rulers a powerful tool: fear’ Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University, Bloomington

‘This authoritative account of the impact of the great plague of Provence in the 1720s across Europe, and even across the Atlantic, makes a highly original and immensely rewarding exercise in comparative history on a grand scale.’

Paul Slack, Oxford University

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Cindy Ermus UK publication November 2022 US publication February 2023 300 pages 9781108489546 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Offers new ways of thinking about epidemics at a time when the world is learning how to cope with new diseases • Stresses the relevance of disaster studies to contemporary responses

• For scholars and students of the history of medicine, disaster studies, and the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

Situated at the cr of colonialism, of of medical plural and health traces in Vietnam unde Monnais examin pharmaceutical in circulation and c access to drugs an therapeutic optio argues that colon worldwide diffus speaks to contem overreliance on p self-medication, a effective medicin which pharmaceu distributed, reade the process - from pharmacists, from traders and heale a history of medi science, but rathe tools of social cha

Royal Heirs Royal Heirs

Succession and the Future of Monarchy in NineteenthCentury Europe

Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe Frank Lorenz Müller Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic change and revolutionary upheaval, Europe’s monarchies experienced an unexpected late flowering. Royal Heirs focuses on the roles and personalities of the heirs to the throne from more than a dozen different dynasties that ruled the continent between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. The book explores how these individuals contributed to the remarkable survival of the crowns they were born to wear. Constitutions, family relationships, education, politics, the media, the need to generate ‘soft power’ and the militarisation of monarchy all shaped the lives of princes and princesses while they were playing their part to embody and secure the future of monarchy. Ranging from Norway to Spain and from Greece to Britain, Royal Heirs not only paints a vivid picture of a monarchical age, but also explores how such disparate monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.

Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Between 2012 and 2017, he led a major research project on the role of heirs in nineteenth-century monarchies. His publications include Britain and the German Question (2002), Our Fritz. Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany (2011) and, as co-editor, Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2016).

Frank Lorenz Müller UK publication November 2022 US publication March 2023 375 pages 9781316512913 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Combines a broad panorama of European monarchy in the nineteenth century with a clear analytical focus • Offers a vivid group biography of individuals in an extraordinary yet similar situation - men/women waiting to inherit a throne in a constitutional monarchy

• Enables readers to re-assess the place of monarchy in the modernisation of Europe and invites thinking about the mechanisms that sustain monarchy in the twenty-first century

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Dicing with

Death

Living by Data

Dicing with Death Living by Data Second edition Stephen Senn Second Edition

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical statistics and public health data have become staples of newsfeeds worldwide, with infection rates, deaths, case fatality and the mysterious R figure featuring regularly. However, we don’t all have the statistical background needed to translate this information into knowledge.

In this lively account, Stephen Senn explains these statistical phenomena and demonstrates how statistics is essential to making rational decisions about medical care. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover developments of the last two decades and includes a new chapter on medical statistical challenges of COVID-19, along with additional material on infectious disease modelling and representation of women in clinical trials. Senn entertains with anecdotes, puzzles and paradoxes, while tackling big themes including: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer, and even the power of prayer.

Stephen Senn has worked as a statistician and as an academic in Switzerland, Scotland, England and Luxembourg. He is the author of Statistical Issues in Drug Development (1997, 2007, 2021) and Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (1993, 2002). He was awarded the Bradford Hill Medal of the Royal Statistical Society in 2009 and holds honorary chairs at the University of Sheffield and at the University of Edinburgh.

Stephen Senn

UK publication November 2022 US publication March 2023 354 pages 9781108999861 Paperback £19.99 | $24.99 USD | $28.95 CAD

At a glance • Explains the vital importance of statistical and probabilistic reasoning in scientific medicine, for example in the MMR debate • Includes a brand new chapter on the statistics of COVID-19 and new material on the representation of women in clinical trials and on infectious disease modelling

• Written in a humorous style, illustrating its complex themes with accounts of puzzling, paradoxical and potentially misleading phenomena

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“This is an engaging and erudite account of the life and work of Montesquieu.

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger has worked many years in the editing of Montesquieu’s writings and letters and she brings her valuable expertise to correct many previous myths and ill-formed judgements in previous scholarship. This book is a must for anyone seeking further insight into and understanding of Montesquieu’s life and intellectual development.”

REBECCA KINGSTON, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

Montesquieu

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“Volpilhac-Auger serves up a veritable feast for afficionados and connoisseurs of the great Frenchman. She debunks longstanding myths, presents new facts and discoveries unavailable to Robert Shackleton when he published his noteworthy biography in 1961, and prioritizes Montesquieu’s lesser-known writings that hold the key to understanding the origins of his various intellectual journeys. We can say of her work what she herself remarks of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters: ‘a sense of delight permeates the whole book.’ An added plus is the skillful translation by Philip Stewart.”

DAVID W. CARRITHERS, Adolph Ochs Professor of Government Emeritus, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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Catherine Volpilhac-Auger is professor emerita at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lyon) and is the president of the Montesquieu Society.

“Catherine Volpihac-Auger’s new biography of Montesquieu – ably translated by Philip Stewart – is the perfect foil to Robert Shackleton’s Montesquieu, the English language standard for more than half a century. Among the virtues of her writing, she urges the reader to consider the silences in Montesquieu’s own rendering of his past. She shows us how we should be surprised at the choices he made. At the same time, she dispels the old legends uncritically repeated from one generation to the next. It is all done in a delightful style, which combines opposites in contrapuntal rhythm. She has the staccato wit of the salon, supported by an ostinato bass of informed skepticism that establishes distance and aids in readers coming to their own conclusions about the plausibilities of narrative.”

MICHAEL MOSHER, University of Tulsa

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Let There Be Enlightenment Catherine Volpilhac-Auger Translated by Philip Stewart

Let There Be Enlightenment

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, translated by Philip Stewart Cover image: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689–10 February 1755) Nastasic / Getty Images

Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion.

Since 1998, this new edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography, originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu’s thought and a synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda.

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Catherine Volpilhac-Auger is professor emerita at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Lyon) and is the president of the Montesquieu Society.

Philip Stewart, Duke University

UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 262 pages 9781009249096 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Contextualizes a body of work that is foundational for modern political thought

• Addresses and dismisses an accretion of false information that has constantly been repeated • Guides through the opening processes, ideas and phases of what was later styled Enlightenment

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UNDERSTANDING

natural selection

Understanding Natural Selection Michael Ruse

Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin’s theory of evolution in historical context showing that, in important respects, his central mechanism of natural selection gives the clue to understanding the nature of organisms. Natural selection has important implications, not just for the understanding of life’s history – single-celled organism to man – but also for our understanding of contemporary social norms, as well as the nature of religious belief.

Michael Ruse is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Gifford Lecturer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of four honorary degrees. He is the author/editor of over sixty books, including The Gaia Hypothesis: Life on a Pagan Planet (University of Chicago Press, 2013); Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Cambridge History of Atheism (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Advance praise ‘Michael Ruse has written many books on evolutionary theory, but this may well be his best: succinct, clear, and comprehensive. Your interpretation of Darwin’s accomplishment may differ from Ruse’s - mine does - but he offers the classic view of Darwin as having introduced mechanism into biology. His treatment of natural selection runs from an intense examination of Darwin’s development of the concept to its role in population genetics and morality. It’s a gem of a book.’

Robert J. Richards, Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science, University of Chicago

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MICHAEL RUSE

UK publication November 2022 US publication February 2023 225 pages 9781009088329 Paperback £11.99 | $14.95 USD | $16.95 CAD

At a glance • Part of the Understanding Life series, discussions are clear, non-technical and jargon-free, making it accessible to the non-expert

• Provides a comprehensive explanation of an important and often misunderstood concept and its full ramifications • Covers broader issues of science and culture in relation to the notion that evolutionary biology threatens cultural mores and religion

JEREMY BURCHARDT

Lifescapes

Lifescapes

The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870–1960

The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960

Jeremy Burchardt Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by personal circumstances, especially those experienced in childhood and youth. Four major patterns are identified: ‘Adherers’ valued landscape for its continuity; ‘Withdrawers’ as a refuge from perceived threats; ‘Restorers’ as a means of sustaining core value systems; and ‘Explorers’ for selfdiscovery and development. Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history, based on comparative biography and deep contextualization, which has far-reaching implications. It foregrounds family structures and relationships and the psychological dynamics they generate. These, it is argued, were usually a more decisive presence in landscape encounters than wider cultural influences. Seen in this way, landscape can be understood as a mirror that reflects both ourselves and the psychosocial forces that have shaped us. This is a compelling and original study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes.

Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives’ and was P.H. Ditchfield Fellow at the Museum of English Rural Life, 2019-20. His previous publications include The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 (2002) and Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800 (2002).

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UK publication March 2023 US publication June 2023 522 pages 9781009199872 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Develops a new approach to landscape history, based on in-depth biographical contextualisation • Offers new insights into the reasons the countryside became so popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries • Explains why people related to landscape in such varied and personal ways

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‘A new book by Jerome McGann is an event. A new book by him about Byron is a special kind of event.’ – James Chandler

BYRON AND THE

POETICS OF ADVERSITY

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity Jerome McGann

A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world’s foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron’s great subject is what he called ‘Cant’: the habit of abusing the world through misusing language. Setting up his poetry as a laboratory to investigate failures of writing, reading, and thinking, Byron delivered sharp critical judgment on the costs exacted by a careless approach to his Mother Tongue.

Perspicuous readings of Byron alongside some of his Romantic contemporaries – Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley – reveal Byron’s startling reconfiguration of poetry as a ‘broken mirror’ and shattered lamp. The paradoxical result was to argue that his age’s contradictions, and his own, offered both ethical opportunities and a promise of poetic – broadly cultural – emancipation. This book represents a major contribution to ideas about Romanticism.

Jerome McGann is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of Byron’s Complete Poetical Works (seven volumes, 1980–1993) and is one of the leading authorities on Romanticism and its aftermath. This book is a major addition to his influential argument for a ‘Literature of Knowledge’, which he first outlined in his 1989 Clark Lectures (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Carpenter Lectures (University of Chicago).

Advance praise ‘A new book by Jerome McGann is an event, though there have been many such events over his long career. But a new book by him about Byron is a special kind of event. No other scholar has done as much for Byron as McGann has, and few living scholars as much for any single author as he has done for Byron. This book marks a kind of return to origins since, like McGann’s first book, Fiery Dust, this one focuses on Byron’s work before Don Juan. The new emphasis, however, falls on Byron’s relationship to language and poetic craft and on how it differs from that of his major contemporaries. Playful, allusive, and itself ‘adverse,’ McGann’s style in this book, like Byron’s own, means to set our language free.’

James K. Chandler, William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

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JEROME MCGANN

UK publication December 2022 US publication February 2023 150 pages 9781009232951 Hardback £19.99 | $25.99 USD | $29.95 CAD

At a glance • Offers numerous close readings of passages throughout Byron’s work, as well as a series of comparisons with poets such as Blake, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Burns, to explain how Byron challenged the limits of what poetry could achieve

• Provides numerous examples of how Byron used his verse to mount a broad critique of the contradictions and hypocrisies of his age and audience, and of the ‘wrong revolutionary poetical system’ of Romantic Enlightenment • Explores Byron’s ideal of a ‘poetics’ delivered from the inner standing point of verse itself, as opposed to the abstracted form of prose explanation

Shanghai Tai Chi The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China Hanchao Lu

SHANGHAI TAI CHI The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture. This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai’s streets and back alleyways.

Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the China Research Center in Atlanta. He is the author of three award-winning books Beyond the Neon Lights (1999) Street Criers (2005), and The Birth of a Republic (2010).

HANCHAO LU UK publication February 2023 US publication May 2023 354 pages 9781009180986 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides fresh insights on the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China • For all readers interested in interdisciplinary China studies, PRC studies, world communism, and urban history • Deeply researched and highly readable contribution to the field

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M A RY M AG DAL E NE A Cultural History P H I L I P C. A L M O N D

Mary Magdalene A Cultural History Philip C. Almond Mary Magdalene is a key figure in the history of Christianity. After Mary, the mother of Jesus, she remains the most important female saint in her guise both as primary witness to the resurrection and ‘apostle of the apostles’. This volume, the first major work on the Magdalene in more than thirty years, focuses on her ‘lives’ as these have been imagined and reimagined within Christian tradition. Philip Almond expertly disentangles the numerous narratives that have shaped the story of Mary over the past two millennia. Exploring the ‘idea’ of the Magdalene – her cult, her relics, her legacy – the author deftly peels back complex layers of history and myth to reveal many different Maries, including penitent prostitute; demoniac; miracle worker; wife and lover of Jesus; symbol of the erotic; and New Age goddess. By challenging uniform or homogenised readings of the Magdalene, this absorbing new book brings fascinating insights to its subject.

Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus in the History of Religious Thought at The University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His recent books include The Antichrist: A New Biography (2020), God: A New Biography (2018), and Afterlife: A History of Life after Death (2016).

Advance praise ‘Almond’s research is meticulously detailed, yet entertainingly delivered...’

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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UK publication November 2022 US publication February 2023 350 pages 9781009221696 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides the first complete history of Mary Magdalene in thirty years

• Brings the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Western thought, both religious and secular right up to the present

• Ensures that the non-specialist reader will find what they want to know and what they need to know about Mary Magdalene

PETER CL ARKE

Keynes in Action Truth and Expediency in Public Policy Peter Clarke John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes’s own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor.

Though rightly credited for reshaping economic theory, Keynes’s influence was more broadly based and is assessed here in a rounded historical, political and cultural context. Peter Clarke re-examines the full trajectory of Keynes public career from his role at Versailles to Bretton Woods. He reveals how Keynes’s insights as an economic theorist were rooted in his wider intellectual and cultural milieu including Bloomsbury and his friendship with Virginia Woolf as well as his involvement in government business. Keynes in Action uncovers a much more pragmatic Keynes whose concept of ‘truth’ needs to be interpreted in tension with an acknowledgement of ‘expediency’ in implementing public policy.

Peter Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989. His previous publications include Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–2000 (2004), The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt (2017) and studies on John Maynard Keynes including The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936 (1990) and Keynes (2009).

Advance praise ‘This readable and lively book by the eminent modern historian and Keynes scholar Peter Clarke provides an important insight into ‘the historical Keynes,’ both academic theorist and public intellectual, by examining the complex relation between truth and expediency in policy advising from Versailles to Bretton Woods and in probability theory.’

KEYNES IN

ACTION

T RU T H A ND E X PEDIENCY IN PU BLIC PO LICY UK publication November 2022 US publication February 2023 230 pages 9781009255011 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Illustrates the trajectory of Keynes’s unique career path through a narrative couched in non-technical language • Shows Keynes’s crucial role in the making of the ‘War Guilt Clause’

• For a wide interdisciplinary market across economic history, modern British history, public policy, economics and economic thought

Robert Dimand, Brock University

‘A sparkling and learned exploration of Keynes’s beliefs about probability, truth, and expediency.’

Richard Toye, University of Exeter

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Julian Cribb

How to Fix a Broken Planet

Advice for Surviving the 21st Century

How to Fix a Broken Planet Advice for Surviving the 21st Century

Julian Cribb Do you want to help save human civilisation? If so, this book is for you. How to Fix a Broken Planet describes the ten catastrophic risks that menace human civilisation and our planet, and what we can all do to overcome or mitigate them. It explains what must be done globally to avert each megathreat, and what each of us can do in our own lives to help preserve a habitable world. It offers the first truly integrated world plan-of-action for a more sustainable human society - and fresh hope. A mustread for anyone seeking sound practical advice on what citizens, governments, companies, and community groups can do to safeguard our future.

Julian Cribb AM is an Australian author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian newspaper, director of national awareness for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), editor of several newspapers, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and ten books. He has received thirty-two awards for journalism. His previous books include Earth Detox (2021), Food or War (2019), Poisoned Planet (2014), and The Coming Famine (2010). As a science writer and a grandparent, Julian Cribb is deeply concerned at the existential emergency facing humanity, and his latest books map hopeful pathways out of our predicament.

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UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 218 pages 9781009333412 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides hands-on solutions and practical advice for everyone on how to tackle the greatest threats facing humanity and our home planet in the modern age

• Explains the nature and scale of the ten catastrophic threats facing humanity

• Introduces an integrated world planof-action for avoiding the collapse of civilisation

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“A true tour-de-force! Kenny marshals vast historical knowledge to show how populist politics has flourished through the ages, from Ancient Greek democracy to the French Revolution, the rise of Hitler, and the irruption of Trump. Drawing on transaction cost economics, this impressive book demonstrates why charismatic authority often has huge political payoffs and how mass support can vault ambitious outsiders to supreme leadership. Crucial for understanding the present age of populism!”

– Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin “This compelling book argues that populism is a particularly efficient political strategy, directly mobilizing popular support without heavy investments in organization or ideology. Drawing on historical analyses ranging from ancient Athens and Rome to revolutionary France to modern America, this is a rich and fascinating argument.”

– Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Why Populism?

The rise to power of populists like Donald Trump is attributed to the shifting values and policy preferences of voters—the demand side. Why Populism shifts the public debate on populism and examines the other half of the equation— the supply side. Kenny argues that to understand the rise of populism is to understand the cost of different strategies for winning and keeping power.

For the aspiring leader, populism—appealing directly to the people through mass communication—can be a quicker, cheaper, and more effective strategy than working through a political party. Probing the long history of populism in the West from its Ancient Greek roots to the present, this highly readable book shows that the “economic laws of populism are constant.” “Forget ideology.

Forget resentment. Forget racism or sexism.” Populism, the author writes, is not a question of ideology, but of a hidden strategic calculus.

PAUL D. KENNY

Why

Why Populism?

9781009275293. Kenny. Jacket. C M Y K

“Understanding the lure of populism is vital for anyone who cares about the strength of democracy. Applying an economic lens to two millennia of evidence, Paul Kenny shows how factors such as communications technologies, crises, and party factions have shaped the rise of populists. A bold book on a big topic.”

– Andrew Leigh, MP and author of What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Existential Risk and Extreme Politics

KENNY

PAUL KENNY is an award-winning author of two previous books, Populism and Patronage: Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond and Populism in Southeast Asia.

He holds a PhD in political science from Yale University and degrees in economics and political economy from Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics.

Populism?

Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present

Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present Paul Kenny

The rise to power of populists like Donald Trump is usually attributed to the shifting values and policy preferences of voters—the demand side. Why Populism shifts the public debate on populism and examines the other half of the equation—the supply side. Kenny argues that to understand the rise of populism is to understand the cost of different strategies for winning and keeping power. For the aspiring leader, populism—appealing directly to the people through mass communication—can be a quicker, cheaper, and more effective strategy than working through a political party.

Probing the long history of populism in the West from its Ancient Greek roots to the present, this highly readable book shows that the “economic laws of populism are constant.” “Forget ideology. Forget resentment. Forget racism or sexism.” Populism, the author writes, is the result of a hidden strategic calculus.

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Paul Kenny is an award-winning author of two previous books, Populism and Patronage: Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond and Populism in Southeast Asia. He holds a PhD in political science from Yale University and degrees in economics and political economy from Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics.

Advance praise ‘Understanding the lure of populism is vital for anyone who cares about the strength of democracy. Applying an economic lens to two millennia of evidence, Paul Kenny shows how factors such as communications technologies, crises, and party factions have shaped the rise of populists. A bold book on a big topic.’

Andrew Leigh, MP and author of What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

UK publication January 2023 US publication April 2023 9781009275293 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • The first book to examine how populism works across more than 2,500 years of democratic history in the West

• Translates economic models of politics into non-technical language that is accessible to a wider audience • By viewing populism as a strategy, not an ideology, this book shifts the debate on democracy’s legitimacy crisis to one about incentives rather than ideas

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STEPHEN J TOOPE

A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety

A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety

Stephen J. Toope Taking Auden’s Age of Anxiety as a leitmotiv and drawing on literature from law, philosophy, political theory, international relations, and sociology, Toope argues with passion that a renewed faith in the rule of law can address troubling developments in our own anxious times: populist nationalism; globalisation; and disruptive technologies with their dominating platforms.

We can address anxiety by bolstering social resilience, drawing upon a plural intellectual heritage. That heritage reveals a unique type of “authority” in society, “epistemic practical authority” built up continuously through social discourse and action, shifting focus from the state of ‘being’ to the dynamic of ‘becoming.’

What is law’s role in this world? The modest, yet powerful, version of the rule of law advocated here is one that draws on a wellspring of practical wisdom – prudence gleaned from pragmatic experience. It chastens power, while not disconnecting law from other sources of social action and human agency.

Stephen J Toope OC, FRSC, LL.D. is President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. Previously, Professor Toope was Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and President of the University of British Columbia. A former Dean of Law at McGill University, Toope chaired the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

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UK publication June 2023 US publication July 2023 9781009299459 Hardback c. £29.99 | c. $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • A multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on law, legal theory, philosophy, sociology and international relations

• Connects theoretical insights to real world issues • Endorses a pragmatic, problemsolving approach to world issues”

EDITED BY

ANDREW BENNETT

The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro

The Cambridge Companion to

Kazuo Ishiguro

Edited by Andrew Bennett The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist’s remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro’s engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory and historical documentation, and with questions of family, home, and homelessness. Focused through the personal experiences of some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, Ishiguro’s writing speaks to the major communitarian questions of our time – questions of nationalism and colonialism, race and ethnicity, migration, war, and cultural memory and social justice. The chapters attend to Ishiguro’s highly readable novels while also ranging across his other creative output. Gathering together established and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe, the USA, and East Asia, the volume offers a survey of key works and themes while also moving critical discussion forward in new and challenging ways.

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is co-author, with Nicholas Royle, of the best-selling textbooks Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th edn., 2022), and This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (2nd edn., 2023).

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UK publication April 2023 US publication April 2023 294 pages 9781108822022 Paperback £22.99 | $29.99 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance • A reliable, authoritative, accessible and clearly-written guide to Ishiguro’s novels and short stories • Covers all the major works and key themes and topics to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ishiguro and his work

• Collects up-to-date and innovative chapters from distinguished Ishiguro scholars and emerging experts in the field, specially commissioned to reflect current concerns in Ishiguro criticism and to move critical discussion forward in new and innovative ways

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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO

WINSTON CHURCHILL Edited by Allen Packwood

The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill Edited by Allen Packwood

Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill’s life and legacy in a broader context.

It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.

Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), is a Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded an OBE for services to archives and scholarship in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His book, How Churchill Waged War, was published in 2018.

UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 486 pages 9781108794169 Paperback £22.99 | $29.99 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Provides an accessible general introduction to a complex and controversial individual and an overview of the debates about his life and legacy

• By focusing on Churchill’s whole life and career, not just the Second World War, readers can see Churchill in a broader context and understand how his thoughts and actions evolved over time • Presents a useful summary and synthesis of the current state of Churchill scholarship

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Francis Young

Twilight of the Godlings The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings Francis Young Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the home and human destiny has been a feature of successive cultures.

From the localised deities of Britannia to the Anglo-Saxons’ elves and the fairies of late medieval England, Britain’s godlings have populated a shadowy, secretive realm of ritual and belief running parallel to authorised religion. Twilight of the Godlings delves deep into the elusive history of these supernatural beings, tracing their evolution from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the end of the Middle Ages. Arguing that accreted cultural assumptions must be cast aside in order to understand the godlings – including the cherished idea that these folkloric creatures are the decayed remnants of pagan gods and goddesses – this bold, revisionist book traces Britain’s ‘small gods’ to a popular religiosity influenced by classical learning. It offers an exciting new way of grasping the island’s most mysterious mythical inhabitants.

Francis Young has written eighteen previous books in the fields of folklore and the history of religion and supernatural belief, including – most recently – Magic in Merlin’s Realm (Cambridge University Press, 2022). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he teaches courses on history, myth and religion for the Department for Continuing Education in the University of Oxford. In addition, he broadcasts regularly on folkloric and religious subjects for the BBC, and has twice been shortlisted for the prestigious Katharine Briggs Folklore Award awarded annually by the UK Folklore Society.

Advance praise ‘This is a bold, erudite, exciting and genuinely original attempt to solve one of the most intractable of questions concerning medieval British culture. It is very readable and enjoyable, and undoubtedly makes a notable contribution to debate.’

Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol, author of Pagan Britain (2014)

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UK publication May 2023 US publication August 2023 348 pages 9781009330367 Hardback £29.99 | $39.99 USD | $45.95 CAD

At a glance • Needed: the holistic history of Britain’s small gods which arguably the field has long been looking for • Controversial: consistently brings new and exciting interpretations to folkloric questions about origins which have been long contested

• Comprehensive: explores Britain’s godlings in the longue durée of the millennium between the Claudian and Norman invasions, and into the High Middle Ages up to around 1400 • Ambitious and bold: moves dexterously beyond the usual ‘Celtic myth’, pointing instead to Roman paganism as the most likely cultural background of the godlings • Attractively interdisciplinary: mandatory reading for scholars in folklore, history, mythology, religion and the history of ideas

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‘Marx in the Anthropocene is a deeply restorative project, both analytically and politically. Through a detailed examination of Marx’s notebooks on the natural sciences, Kohei Saito reminds us why Marx insisted that the relationship between nature and capitalism was fundamentally unsustainable. The book restores to us a forgotten Marx, one who is eager to learn from precapitalist societies, one who is beginning to see destruction in development. Taking his lead from this longneglected Marx, Saito then builds a powerful argument for degrowth communism, a theoretical approach that aims to reorganize the very notion of abundance to fit the common weal, rather than fit an abstract notion of luxury communism.

Marx in the Anthropocene reminds us, again, why anticapitalism is the nutrient that must be urgently added to nature’

Marx in the Anthropocene

– Tithi Bhattacharya, author of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

‘A masterpiece. This is the book we have been waiting for. Saito draws on Marx to deliver a thrilling synthesis of degrowth and ecosocialism. Herein lies the secret to post-capitalist transition. A must-read for every socialist and every environmentalist – it will change both forever’ – Jason Hickel, author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

‘A fter his brilliant essay on Marx’s ecology, Kohei Saito shows in his new pathbreaking book how different Marxist thinkers tried to deal with the environmental, challenges, from an anti-capitalist perspective. As in his previous essay, Saito is able to grasp Marxism as thought in movement, and not as a closed system.

His courageous appeal for a “degrowth communism” is a decisive contribution for an ecological Marxism of our times, a communism for the Anthropocene’

Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

– Michael Löwy, author of Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist

Catastrophe

Kohei Saito Cover art: Takumi Sugiyama Cover design: Minami Hirayama

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx’s ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx and Engels (Marx-EngelsGesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel idea of Marx’s alternative to capitalism that should be adequately characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a postcapitalist society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth century.

Kohei Saito is an associate professor at University of Tokyo. His book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017) won the Deutscher Memorial Prize. His second book, Capital in the Anthropocene (Shueisha, 2020), has sold over 400,000 copies in Japan and received the Asia Book Award.

UK publication January 2023 US publication March 2023 300 pages 9781009366182 Paperback c. £22.99 | c. $29.99 USD | c. $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Offers a wholly new understanding of the late Marx’s vision of postcapitalist society

• Reconstructs the history of Marxism from an ecological perspective in order to answer why Marx’s ecology has been neglected for such a long time

• Offers a thorough critique of monist approach to the societynature-relationship that is popular in political ecology

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SECOND EDITION

PAUL D’ANIERI

Ukraine and Russia From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War 2nd edition Paul D’Anieri In this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D’Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union and eventually resulted in Russia’s invasion in 2022. Proceeding chronologically, this book shows how Ukraine’s separation from Russia in 1991, at the time called a “civilized divorce,” led to Europe’s most violent conflict since WWII. It argues the conflict came about because of three underlying factors—the security dilemma, the impact of democratization on geopolitics, and the incompatible goals of a post-Cold War Europe. Rather than a peaceful situation that was squandered, D’Anieri argues that these were deep-seated pre-existing disagreements that could not be bridged, with concerning implications for the prospects of resolution of the Ukraine conflict.

Paul D’Anieri is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of Understanding Ukrainian Politics (2007) and Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations (1999), as well as a widely-used textbook on international politics. D’Anieri is Vice President of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies.

Reviews for the first edition ‘Who or what is responsible for the war in Ukraine and the new crisis in the East-West relations? Paul D’Anieri is not looking for simple answers to this seemingly simple question. His response is rooted in the examination of the Russo-Ukrainian relations over the past thirty years and points to profound differences in the way Russian and Ukrainian elites understand and pursue their interests in the post-Cold War world. A work of great erudition, this book contributes to more than one field of study and is a must read for anyone who is interested in the origins of the current crisis.’

Ukraine and Russia From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War final cover coming soon

UK publication March 2023 US publication March 2023 340 pages 9781009315548 Paperback c. £22.99 | c. $29.99 USD | c. $33.95 CAD

At a glance • Fully revised and updated analysis of the 2022 war in Ukraine • Provides a chronological history of Ukraine-Russia relations since 1991

• Reshapes our understanding of when and why Ukraine became such an object of contention, showing that the events of 2013-14 were the spark, but the fuel was put in place over many years

Serhii Plokhy - Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

‘… this volume offers a very detailed account of developments from the 1990s to 2019, covering agreements between the two states, the role of economic factors … this book provides a sophisticated analysis, supported by cogent facts, to understand this troubling conflict.’

T. R. Weeks, Choice

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Sappho A New Translation of the Complete Works Second edition Diane J. Rayor and André Lardinois Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments, including three poems discovered in the last two decades. The power of Sappho’s poetry – her direct style, rich imagery, and passion – is apparent even in these remnants. Diane Rayor’s translations of Greek poetry are graceful, modern in diction yet faithful to the originals. Sappho’s voice is heard in these poems about love, friendship, rivalry, and family. In the introduction and notes, André Lardinois plausibly reconstructs Sappho’s life and work, the performance of her songs, and how these fragments survived. This second edition incorporates thirty-two more fragments primarily based on Camillo Neri’s 2021 Greek edition and revisions of over seventy fragments.

Diane J. Rayor is Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, where she received the Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service, and the Women’s Impact Award. She was granted the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for translating Euripides’ Helen and served as the University of Colorado’s Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist for Euripides’ Hecuba. Her published translations include Euripides’ ‘Medea’ (Cambridge, 2013); Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (Cambridge, 2011); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). She is coeditor of Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (2nd ed. 2018).

André Lardinois is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. He has published extensively on Sappho and other Greek poetry. He is co-author of Tragic Ambiguity: Philosophy and Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ (1987) and co-editor of Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society (2001), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (2005), Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion (2011), The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P.GC inv. 105, frs. 1-4 (2016).

Reviews of the first edition ‘This is the best version of Sappho in English.’

Thomas L. Cooksey, Library Journal ‘Diane J. Rayor captures the distinctively plainspoken quality of Sappho’s Greek, which, for all the poet’s naked emotionality and love of luxe, is never overwrought or baroque.’

Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker

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S A P P H O

A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS

DIANE J. RAYOR ANDRÉ LARDINOIS

UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 218 pages 9781108926973 Paperback £12.99 | $16.95 USD | $19.95 CAD

At a glance • Gives readers access to the most complete collection yet of Sappho’s poetry in English, eloquently translated to speak to the modern audience whilst remaining accurate to the original Greek

• The thorough Introduction and notes provide all the contextual information and detailed explanations required for the reader to engage with the poems effectively • Professional recordings of the poems are freely available for readers to enjoy at www.cambridge.org/sappho

The Large Scale Structure of SpaceTime

THE LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF SPACE-TIME 50th Anniversary Edition STEPHEN W. HAWKING GEORGE F. R. ELLIS Foreword by Abhay Ashtekar

50th Anniversary Edition

Stephen W. Hawking, Preface by George F. R. Ellis First published in 1973, this influential work discusses Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity to show how two of its predictions arise: first, that the ultimate fate of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse to form ‘black holes’; and second, that there was a singularity in the past at the beginning of the universe.

Starting with a precise formulation of the theory, including the necessary differential geometry, the authors discuss the significance of space-time curvature and examine the properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations. They develop the theory of the causal structure of a general space-time, and use it to prove a number of theorems establishing the inevitability of singularities under certain conditions. A Foreword contributed by Abhay Ashtekar and a new Preface from George Ellis help put the volume into context of the developments in the field over the past fifty years.

Stephen W. Hawking (1942–2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009 and is the author of numerous books, including the international best-seller A Brief History of Time (189).

George F. R. Ellis is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is considered one of the world’s leading theorists in cosmology and, in recent years, he has been prolific in areas relating to the philosophy of science. He is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Relativistic Cosmology (with Roy Maartens and Malcolm MacCallum, 2012).

CA M BR IDGE MONOGR A PHS ON M AT H E M AT IC A L P H Y S I C S

UK publication February 2023 US publication February 2023 416 pages 9781009253154 Hardback £24.99 | $32.99 USD | $37.95 CAD

At a glance • A seminal volume on General Relativity from Stephen Hawking and George Ellis, written early in their scientific careers: this was Hawking’s first published book • One of the first explorations of singularities, places where spacetime begins or ends, and the known laws of physics break down

• Includes a specially commissioned Foreword written by Abhay Ashtekar and a new Preface by George Ellis

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