ANZ Spring Trade Catalogue 2023

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

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9781009340373

Hardback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Available September 2023

Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Key Features

• The question of what Shakespeare was actually like – what really made him tick – is one of the great mysteries of modern Shakespearean scholarship, now addressed head-on

• Can be read and enjoyed with anyone with the slightest interest in Shakespeare and his immense literary legacy of sonnets and plays

About the Author

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

English literature

About

Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world’s greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging study wrestles with fundamental debates concerning Shakespeare’s personality and life. The mysteries of how Shakespeare lived, whom and how he loved, how he worked, how he produced some of the greatest and most abidingly popular works in the history of world literature and drama, have fascinated readers for centuries. This concise, crystalline book conjures illuminating insights to reveal Shakespeare as he was. Wells brings the writer and dramatist alive, in all his fascinating humanity, for readers of today.

Advance praise

‘It is, I think, incontestable to claim that no single person in history has done more for the study and appreciation of Shakespeare than Stanley Wells. This book asks four beguilingly simple questions which result in deeply fascinating and exciting journeys into Shakespeare’s mind and practice. As you read, you are very likely to exclaim, as I did, ‘Why the hell didn’t my English teacher talk like this? Actors, directors, producers, lecturers, teachers, students, and all who want to know and understand more will hug this book to them.’

Stephen Fry

Professor Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, is a foremost writer and authority on Shakespeare & Honorary President at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. His many successful books include Shakespeare: For All Time (2002), Looking for Sex in Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare & Co. (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010) and Great Shakespeare Actors (2015).

9781009384162

Hardback

AUD $56.95 / NZD $61.95

Available October 2023

David Sterling Brown, Trinity College

Shakespeare’s White Others

English literature

About

Examining the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’ – this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare’s plays. In exploring Shakespeare’s determinative role and strategic investment in identity politics (while drawing powerfully on his own life experiences, including adolescence), the author argues that even as Shakespearean theatrical texts functioned as engines of white identity formation, they expose the illusion of white racial solidarity. This essential contribution to Shakespeare studies, critical whiteness studies and critical race studies is an authoritative, urgent dismantling of dramatized racial profiling.

Key Features

• Focuses on racial whiteness to promote anti-racism, providing readers with new techniques to critically examine whiteness both in their reading practices and in their everyday lives

• Strong appeal to readers in drama, race studies, critical whiteness studies, media studies, Black feminism, history of ideas, politics and the social sciences

About the Author

Advance praise

‘Premodern critical race studies is the most significant call to action for all Shakespeareans right now. David Sterling Brown’s intervention is timely, unflinching, and provocative. It advances the field by bringing forward the figure of the white other, and draws together critical, personal and experiential modes of reading.’

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford

‘Brown’s much needed study powerfully and persuasively demonstrates how the policing of whiteness within Shakespeare’s plays recruits and reproduces antiblackness at the heart of early modern English culture.’

Patricia Akhimie, Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library

David Sterling Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of the Curatorial Team for The Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by Claudia Rankine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society fellowship and the Shakespeare Association of America’s Publics Award.

9781107136380

Hardback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95

Available October 2023

Huw Bennett, Cardiff University

Uncivil War

The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975

History

About

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

Key Features

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

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

About the Author

Advance praise

‘A vivid, compelling book on a dramatic and important subject. A major contribution.’

Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

‘This deeply researched and lucid book provides new and sometimes challenging perspectives on a vital topic: it deserves to be widely read.’

Helen Parr, author of Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

‘Huw Bennett’s determined pursuit of key political and military records – in the teeth of substantial official obstruction – has enabled him to write the most authoritative account so far of British military action in the early 1970s, the period when the shape of the Northern conflict was largely fixed.’

Charles Townshend, author of The Partition: Ireland Divided 1885–1925

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

9781108971454

Paperback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Available May 2023

Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge

Conspiracy on Cato Street

A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency

London

British and Irish history

About

Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre the whole British cabinet at its monthly dinner. The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It ended in betrayal, arrest, and trial, and with five conspirators publicly hanged and decapitated for treason. Vic Gatrell explores this dramatic yet neglected event in unprecedented detail through spy reports, trial interrogations, letters, speeches, songs, maps, and images. Attending to the ‘real lives’ and habitats of the men, women, and children involved, he throws fresh light on the troubled and tragic world of Regency Britain, and on one of the most compelling and poignant episodes in British history.

Key Features

• Debunks our fantasies about Regency England and presents a compelling, gritty alternative

• Uses exceptionally rich source material to present sympathetic portraits of the would-be terrorists

• Gives a voice to the impoverished, disenfranchised, and cruelly exploited London underclass

About the Author

Reviews

‘Gatrell’s intense study of the men’s lives - and what brought them to believe that violently overthrowing the government could solve their problems - is forensic and vivid in its detail.’

Stephen Bates, BBC History Magazine

‘a panoramic and thrilling study of an overlooked part of British history.’

Catherine Ostler, Daily Telegraph

‘This is micro-history at its richest and its most penetrating. More than giving us a social history in a few lives, Gatrell has told us a human story with the depth of a novel.’

D. H. Robinson, The Critic

Vic Gatrell’s previous books include The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People (1997) which was awarded the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society; City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (2009) which was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize; and The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age (2013) which was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

9781108799904

Paperback

AUD $53.99 / NZD $57.99

Available August 2023

Naoko Wake, Michigan State University

Key Features

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

• Draws on fascinating oral histories of Japanese and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombings to tell a story that is peoplecentered rather than nationcentered

• Provides a gendered analysis to the history of nuclear weaponry

About

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the public understanding of nuclear weaponry. A truly trans-Pacific history, American Survivors challenges the dualistic distinction between Americans-as-victors and Japanese-as-victims often assumed by scholars of the nuclear war. Using more than 130 oral histories of Japanese American and Korean American survivors, their family members, community activists, and physicians - most of which appear here for the first time - Naoko Wake reveals a cross-national history of war, illness, immigration, gender, family, and community from intimately personal perspectives. American Survivors brings to light the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that connects, as much as separates, people across time and national boundaries.

Advance praise

American history About the Author

‘Naoko Wake’s American Survivors is a beautifully written portrayal of the traumas suffered by atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She offers lyrical depictions of the visceral experience and the profound significance of silence. The work also foregrounds the cross-national and gendered experience of being hibakusha and the ways in which they and their allies engaged in transnational forms of activism.’

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

‘This deeply researched, sensitively analyzed, and beautifully written book rests on a source base of 132 interviews with American atomic-bomb survivors. Wake respectfully shows the range of ways that these individuals navigated their complicated lives and made sense of the enormous tragedy at their center.’

Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor

of History

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

9781009226417

Hardback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95

Available November 2023

Raymond Hickey, University of Limerick

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Language and linguistics

About

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if lifeforms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly original, thought-provoking book takes us on an electrifying journey over billions of years, from the formation of galaxies and solar systems, to the appearance of planets in the habitable zones of their parent stars, and then to how biology and, ultimately, human life arose on our own planet. It delves into how our brains and our language developed, in order to explore the likelihood of communication beyond Earth and whether it would evolve along similar lines. In the process, fascinating insights from the fields of astronomy, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience and linguistics are uncovered, shedding new light on life as we know it on Earth, and beyond.

Key Features

• Explores how human life and language evolved on our own planet in order to analyse the likelihood of life and language beyond Earth

• Considers the likelihood of intelligent beings existing on planetary systems beyond our Earth and considers how they might have evolved, developed societies, and built civilisations

About the Author

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His main research interests are varieties of English, language contact, variation and change and issues in phonology. Some of his recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020) and The Handbook of Language Contact (2020).

9781009257275

Hardback

AUD $53.99 / NZD $57.99

Available November 2023

Donald Stoker, National Defense University

Key Features

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

• llustrates 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

About the Author

History

About

Across the full span of the nation’s history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand strategies underpinning the nation’s pursuit of sovereignty, security, expansion, and democracy abroad. He shows how successive administrations have projected diplomatic, military, and economic power, and mobilized ideas and information to preserve American freedoms at home and secure US aims abroad. He exposes the myth of American isolationism, the good and ill of America’s quest for democracy overseas, and how too often its administrations have lacked clear political aims or a concrete vision for where they want to go. Understanding this history is vital if America is to relearn how to use its power to meet the challenges ahead and to think more clearly about political aims and grand strategy.

Advance praise

‘Purpose and Power is the most comprehensive and complete discussion of America’s grand strategy that has been published. Donald Stoker has provided historians and scholars of international relations with a provocative and insightful examination of two centuries of American thinking about its role in the world. This book is likely to become an instant classic in the field.’

Thomas Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

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

9781108490931

Hardback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95

Available October 2023

Jacob L. Wright, Emory University

Why the Bible Began

An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Religion

About

Why did no other ancient society produce a text remotely like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community, could have produced a text so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable.For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged during Babylonian exile after the shattering destruction of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible turned to the golden ages of the past, reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible is a resonant blueprint for the inspiring creation of a nation. As a response to catastrophe, it offers a powerful, message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds.

Key Features

• Compellingly conveys why we are still reading the Bible – two millenia after it was written

• Interrogates why no other ancient society – Babylon, Assyria, and Rome – produced any comparable text

• Conveys a story of triumph over defeat and explains how the scribes who wrote the Bible inspired the creation of a nation

About the Author

Advance praise

‘In this profoundly insightful book Wright demonstrates how ancient Israel and Judah developed the resources to construct a resilient nationhood not in spite of but, paradoxically, because of the experience of military defeat, economic devastation, and diaspora. No other kingdom of the ancient Near East was able to do so. Today, as so many communities, peoples and nations face similar critical threats to their existence, Wright’s book provides a fascinating and incisively argued case study of how one people drew upon its cultural resources not simply to survive but to generate a vibrantly creative intellectual and spiritual tradition.’

Carol A. Newsom, C. H. Candler Professor Emerita of Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible, Emory University

Jacob L. Wright is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His first book, Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter, 2004), won the 2008 Templeton prize for a first book in the field of religion. He is also the author of David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which won The Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research, and most recently, War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

9781009277365

Paperback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Available July 2023

Raymond Noble, University College London

Denis Noble, University of Oxford

Key Features

• Corrects fundamental misunderstandings about the role of genes in living systems. Organisms use genes functionally and are not controlled by them

• Explains why the gene-centric view of evolution is a mistake

• Presents a new understanding of how living systems function and evolve creatively

Understanding Living Systems

Life sciences

About

Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms make choices, influencing their behaviour, their development and evolution, and act as agents of natural selection. It presents a novel approach to fundamental philosophical and cultural issues, such as free-will. Reading this book will make you see life in a new light, as a marvellous phenomenon, and in some sense a triumph of evolution. We are not in our genes, our genes are in us.

Reviews

‘This spirited, delightfully readable and accessible refutation of genecentred biological orthodoxy offers a convincing account of living organisms as active agents and living systems, creatively shaping and responding and adapting to their environments. The authors propose that life resides in the purpose and creativity of the whole organism. Living organisms are not their genes, nor are they determined by - or reducible to - their genes. Instead, genes are tools that the organism actively adapts to further the ends chosen by the organism itself. Written for the non-specialist, while founded on decades of highly respected academic research, the authors’ systems approach to our understanding of living organisms heralds a welcome return to common sense and an urgent resetting of our relationship to the natural world in the face of imminent environmental collapse.’

Pauline Phemister, Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK

About the Authors

Raymond Noble is Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London.

Denis Noble is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

9781009338592

Paperback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Available October 2023

Understanding Charles Darwin

General science

About

The legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines key questions such as what did Darwin’s work change about the world? In what ways is ‘Darwinism’ reflective of Darwin’s own views? What problems were left unsolved? In our elevation of Darwin to this iconic status, have we neglected to recognise the work of other scientists? The book also examines Darwin’s struggle with his religious beliefs, considering his findings, and whether he was truly an atheist. In this engaging account, Peterson paints an intimate portrait of Darwin from his own words in private correspondence and journals. The result is the Darwin you never knew.

Key Features

• Provides a myth-busting account of five major misconceptions surrounding Darwin’s work and his views

• Examines the use of Darwin and ‘Darwinism’ in the 20th century and today

• Part of the Understanding Life series, jargon-free and nontechnical making it accessible to the non-expert

About the Author

Erik L. Peterson is an award-winning Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Alabama (USA), and a co-host of the podcast ‘Speaking of Race.’ Erik researches the conceptual foundations of genetics, evolutionary biology, and anthropology, and is especially interested in the persistence of race science. His book, The Life Organic: the Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics (2017), told the forgotten story of British scientists who discovered epigenetics before the Second World War70 years before it revolutionized American biology. He also co-authored A Deeper Sickness (2022), a daily history of 2020, which critics have called ‘harrowing’ and a call for a ‘national reckoning.’

Erik L. Peterson, University of Alabama

9781009172530

Hardback

AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95

Available October 2023

Mark Atwood Lawrence, LBJ Presidential Library and Museum

Mark K. Updegrove, LBJ Foundation

Key Features

• Expands on the notion that we are still living in LBJ’s America

• Provokes readers to consider the ways in which mid-century American liberalism and the controversies of the 1960s resonate in the 2020s

• Differs from other recent biographies of LBJ by emphasizing the impact of his policymaking and legislative initiatives

About the Editors

LBJ’s America

The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson

American history

About

In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ’s America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments—protecting civil rights, fighting poverty, expanding access to medical care, lowering barriers to immigration—as well as his struggles in Vietnam and his difficulty responding to other challenges in an era of declining US influence on the global stage. Sweeping and influential, LBJ’s America probes the ways in which the accomplishments, setbacks, controversies and crises of 1963 to 1969 laid the foundations of contemporary America and set the stage for our own era of policy debates, political contention, distrust of government, and hyper-partisanship.

Advance praise

‘LBJ’s America provides an essential understanding of the profound impact Lyndon Johnson has had on our country. This superb collection of essays by a remarkable array of authors is seamlessly curated by Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove. Taken together, the wide-ranging essays provide a distinctive and multi-dimensional portrait of one of the most fascinating and consequential presidents in American history.’

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Mark Atwood Lawrence, LBJ Presidential Library and Museum

Mark Atwood Lawrence is an award-winning historian who’s taught for two decades at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library. His books include The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era, which won the highest book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Mark K. Updegrove, LBJ Foundation

Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian for ABC News and author of five books on the presidency, including most recently Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency. He is a former director of the LBJ Presidential Library and now serves as President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.

9781316512852

Hardback

AUD $56.95 / NZD $61.95

Available April 2023

Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University

An Iranian Childhood Rethinking History

and Memory

History

About

Hamid Dabashi was born and raised in southern Iran in the 1950s and 1960s. During this time, his homeland was changed beyond recognition, from the 1953 coup d’état to the 1963 political protests and the beginning of the Marxist rebellions against the Shah in 1971. In this vibrant, unique and personal study, Dabashi recounts his experience of this defining period in modern Iranian history, deftly blending the personal with the political, the ordinary with the extraordinary. Lyrically written, he combines vivid childhood memories with careful reflection to explore the intersection of history and memory. The book draws upon a rich tapestry of themes and sources, including art, literature, and folklore. In doing so, Dabashi asserts the power and place of the knowing postcolonial subject. Redrawing the limits of modern literary historiography, he asks what it means to be a Muslim and an Iranian, and, indeed, what it is that forms the humanity of a person.

Key Features

• Advances debates concerning the intersection of history and memory

• Centres the importance of childhood recollections in the construction of identity and selfhood

• Offers a unique, vivid and personal account of historical events in Iran

Reviews

‘In a prose both intimate and critical, Dabashi creates a language - dare I say the language - for Iranians to articulate their collective experiences. Yet in his indelible textual mosaic, organically interweaving Rumi with Ricoeur, Bollywood with Hollywood via a personal and intellectual history, he communes with all his readers, no matter their origins’

Atefeh Akbari, Barnard College

‘’It is not the son who kills the father, but the father who kills the son’: this memorable takeaway from a thousand-year-old Persian epic echoes through a great scholar’s account of his bookish postcolonial childhood. Compulsively readable, a charismatic teacher in love with the freshness of children and their love of stories, Dabashi offers an accelerated course in Great Books and tenderness for the world.’

Bruce Robbins, Columbia University

About the Author

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books and scholarly essays on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of arts.

The Gift of Aging Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity

9781009330732

Paperback

AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95

Published June 2023

Marcy Cottrell Houle

Elizabeth Eckstrom, Oregon Health and Science University

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.

Five

Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

9781009326490

Hardback

AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95

Published April 2023

Simon Sharpe, World Resources Institute

We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. 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.

There is No Planet B

A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition

9781108821575

Paperback

AUD $19.95 / NZD $21.95

Published January 2021

Mike Berners-Lee, Lancaster University

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, pandemics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? How can we take control of technology? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do, as individuals? Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is full of hope, practical, and enjoyable.

Unwired

Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

9781009257930

Hardback

AUD $35.95 / NZD $38.95

Published March 2023

Gaia Bernstein, Seton Hall University

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. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

The Joy of Abstraction

An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life

9781108477222

Hardback

AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95

Published October 2022

Eugenia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed.

The Body Image Book for Girls

Love Yourself and Grow up Fearless

9781108718776

Paperback

AUD $18.95 / NZD $20.95

Published September 2020

Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University

It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those body image worries be eased? Body image expert and psychology professor Dr Charlotte Markey helps girls aged 9-15 to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. She provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with social media, and everything in-between.

Being You The Body Image Book for Boys

9781108949378

Paperback

AUD $18.95 / NZD $20.95

Published April 2022

Charlotte Markey, Rutgers University

Daniel Hart, Rutgers University

Douglas N. Zacher, Rutgers University

From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental wellbeing through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to ‘bulk up’ due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being themselves? Being You has the answers! It’s an easy-to-read, evidence-based guide to developing a positive body image for boys aged 12+.

No Miracles Needed

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

9781009249546

Paperback

AUD $22.95 / NZD $24.95

Publishing February 2023

Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University

Foreword by Bill McKibben

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! 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.

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