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9781009340236
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Available August 2025
Alan McDougall, University of Guelph
Key Features
• Tells the history of Liverpool FC through the voices of its supporters
• Draws on over 50 interviews with fans from around the world
• The first history of Liverpool FC to incorporate the history of women’s football
Dreams and Songs to Sing
A People’s History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp
History
About
Dreams and Songs to Sing is a unique people’s history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall takes us on a global tour of Liverpool FC’s history, viewed through the eyes of the people who’ve been there all along: the supporters. He weaves together interviews with fans from around the world, poignant farewells to Shankly, birthday cards to Michael Owen, letters from grieving Italians after Heysel, and eyewitness accounts of Hillsborough to tell the inseparable story of the club and the city. This is a history which crosses borders of class, gender, race, and nation, ranging well beyond the pitch but never forgetting the crowds and matches at the heart of it all. Rarely does sports writing have this much intelligence and soul, powerfully combining the personal with the universal, and the everyday with the epic.
About the Author
Alan McDougall is a leading sports historian and a lifelong Liverpool fan. He is author of The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany (2016) and Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football (2020).
Advance Praise
Never before has a book cast the net so wide to try and capture what truly makes this football club so special. One minute you are in Turin, the next in Toronto, but always with Liverpool in your heart. I came away from reading it with an even greater sense of pride and wonder at my club.’
John Gibbons, The Anfield Wrap
‘This latest book on Liverpool FC is superbly researched and quotes the comments of die-hard Reds. It takes you from the Shankly years to the Klopp generation - and not just the good parts.’
John Pearman, Red All Over The Land
9781009620215
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Available August 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University
Key Features
• Offers a definition of what manipulation is and why manipulation is bad
• Explains how manipulation reduces freedom and what we should do to reduce it
• Shows how governments, companies, and ordinary people should combat manipulation
Manipulation What
It Is, Why It’s Bad, What to Do About It
About
New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power - of freedom - through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy. In, Manipulation, nudge theory pioneer and New York Times bestselling author, Cass Sunstein, offers a new definition of manipulation for the digital age, explains why it is wrong; and shows what we can do about it. He reveals how manipulation compromises freedom and personal agency, while threatening to reduce our well-being; he explains the difference between manipulation and unobjectionable forms of influence, including ‘nudges’; and he lifts the lid on online manipulation and manipulation by artificial intelligence, algorithms, and generative AI, as well as threats posed by deepfakes, social media, and ‘dark patterns,’ which can trick people into giving up time and money. Drawing on decades of groundbreaking research in behavioral science, this landmark book outlines steps we can take to counteract manipulation in our daily lives and offers guidance to protect consumers, investors, and workers.
About the Author
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. The most cited law professor in the world, he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. During the Obama Administration, he served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including several New York Times bestsellers.
9781009503075 Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95 August 2025
Dr. Aviva Guttmann, Aberystwyth University
Key Features
• Offers pathbreaking new insights into the global Cold War, covert action, terrorism, and European involvement in the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Reveals how the international intelligence order pursued state relations independently of official foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny
• Based on unique access to unredacted intelligence sources
Operation Wrath of God
The Secret History of European Intelligence and Mossad’s Assassination Campaign
History
About
In this unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War, Aviva Guttmann uncovers the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad’s Operation Wrath of God. She reveals how, in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre, Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism were hunted and killed by Mossad with active European cooperation. Through unique access to unredacted documents in the Club de Berne archive, she shows how a secret coalition of intelligence agencies supplied Mossad with information about Palestinians on a colossal scale and tacitly supported Israeli covert actions on European soil. These agencies helped to anticipate and thwart a number of Palestinian terrorist plots, including some revealed here for the first time. This extraordinary book reconstructs the hidden world of international intelligence, showing how this parallel order enabled state relations to be pursued independently of official foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny.
About the Authors
Dr Aviva Guttmann is a lecturer in strategy and intelligence at Aberystwyth University and author of The Origins of International Counterterrorism (2018).
9781009457767
Hardback
AUD $51.95 / NZD $56.95 August 2025
Melanie Arndt, Albert-LudwigsUniversität Freiburg
Chernobyl Children A
Transnational History of a Nuclear Disaster
History
About
In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, more than a million Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian children were sent abroad. Aided by the unprecedented efforts of transnational NGOs and private individuals, these children were meant to escape and recover from radiation exposure, but also from the increasing hardships of everyday life in post-Soviet society. Through this opening of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of people in over forty countries witnessed the ecological, medical, social and political consequences of the disaster for the human beings involved. This awareness transformed the accident into a global catastrophe which could happen anywhere and have widespread impact. In this brilliantly insightful work, Melanie Arndt demonstrates that the Chernobyl children were both witness to and representative of a vanishing bipolar world order and the future of life in the Anthropocene, an age in which the human impact on the planet is increasingly borderless.
Key Features
• An interdisciplinary analysis of a global disaster and the role of nonstate actors in its aftermath
• Demonstrates the impact of industrial disasters on everyday life
• Brings together ecological and human histories
About the Author
Melanie Arndt is Professor of Economic, Social and Environmental History and Vice Rector at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Advance Praise
‘Melanie Arndt places children at the centre of the Chernobyl catastrophe to reveal the ways Soviets built a civil society and faced the Anthropocene head-on. Brilliant research, a stunning work.’
Kate Brown, author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
9781009541190
Hardback
AUD $57.95 / NZD $62.95 August 2025
Peter R. Mansoor, Ohio State University
Key Features
• The fullest account of the campaign to-date including joint warfare, the role of Filipino guerrillas, and the development of combat effective forces on land, at sea, and in the air
• Provides new insights into military leadership by examining ground, air, and naval commanders in large-scale combat operations and their role in determining success or failure
• Offers a valuable case study of the efficacy of hybrid warfare in an extended military campaign
Redemption
MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines
About
Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested occupation to the US Army’s return to Leyte and the subsequent battles of liberation. Central to the book is a re-evaluation of the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial military commanders in US history. At times brilliant, courageous, and politically astute, MacArthur was also egotistical, publicity hungry, often ignorant of conditions at the front, and self-certain to a fault. In their return to the Philippines, MacArthur and his forces liberated millions of Filipinos and severed a critical Japanese resource lifeline. But he also achieved something much rarer – redemption on the same ground and against the same enemy that defeated him earlier in the war.
About the Author
Peter R. Mansoor is a retired US Army colonel and the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. His previous books include The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945 (1999) recipient of the Society for Military History and Army Historical Society distinguished book awards. American literature
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Paperback
AUD $34.95 / NZD $37.95
September 2025
Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
About
Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice – as if we have opened a letter from the poet himself – followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that missive touches. This gripping life traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day. 9781009599412
Key Features
• Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets
• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life, and his continuing importance, studded as it is with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form
• Immersive: affords to its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as one of his correspondents
About the Author
Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the first recipient in 2021 of the inaugural Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. He is in addition the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023). Literature NEW in Paperback
9781009457132
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available October 2025
Robert Bartlett, University of St Andrews
Key Features
• Emphasizes the precariousness of our knowledge of the past
• Draws on detailed case studies from France, Ireland, Italy and Germany, between 1870 and 1944
• Highlights the importance of the efforts made to preserve and protect manuscript sources
History in Flames
The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
About
To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn’t occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing. This book examines the political and military events that preceded the moment of destruction, from the FrancoPrussian War and the Irish Civil War to the complexities of World War II; it analyses the material lost and how it came to be where it was. At the same time, it discusses the heroic efforts made by scholars and archivists to preserve these manuscripts, even partially. History in Flames reminds us that historical knowledge rests on material remains, and that these remains are vulnerable.
About the Author
Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950–1350, which won the Wolfson Literary Prize for History. He has written and presented three television series for the BBC, “Inside the Medieval Mind” (2008), ‘The Normans’ (2010), and ‘The Plantagenets’ (2014).
History
NEW in Paperback
9781108833899
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Available October 2025
Pamela Walker Laird, University of
Colorado
Key Features
• Traces the evolution of the ‘selfmade’ myth from a sin to a source of individualist esteem
• Demonstrates that this myth is neither natural nor uncontested in America’s history and culture
• Locates the origins of the term ‘self-made’ before industrialization as praise for citizens who sought to serve the common good
• Highlights long-standing, often marginalized, traditions of selfimprovement for communityimprovement
Self-Made
The Stories That Forged an American Myth
Economic history
About
‘Self-Made’ success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four centuries ago, our foundational stories actually disparaged ambitious upstarts as dangerous and selfish threats to a healthy society. In Pamela Walker Laird’s fascinating history of why and how storytellers forged this American myth, she reveals how the goals for self-improvement evolved from serving the community to supporting individualist dreams of wealth and esteem. Simplistic stories of self-made success and failure emerged that disregarded people’s advantages and disadvantages and fostered inequality. Fortunately, Self-Made also recovers long-standing, alternative traditions of self-improvement to serve the common good. These challenges to the myth have offered inspiration, often coming, surprisingly, from Americans associated with self-made success, such as Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Horatio Alger. Here are real stories that show that no one lives – no one succeeds or fails – in a vacuum.
About the Author
Pamela Walker Laird is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Colorado Denver. Her publications include Pull: Networking and Success Since Benjamin Franklin, which won the Hagley Prize; and Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing.
9781009350594
Hardback
AUD $51.95 / NZD $56.95
Available January 2026
David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University
Key Features
• Provides a comprehensive source for understanding Leonard Cohen’s work and its contexts
• Includes well-written and entertaining essays about Cohen’s music and writing
• Offers a comprehensive account of this singer, songwriter, poet, and star
The World of Leonard Cohen
About
Leonard Cohen’s artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star’s career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen’s did. Cohen’s popularity is still growing five years after his death. In The World of Leonard Cohen, a team of international scholars and writers explore the various dimensions of the artist’s life, work, persona, and legacy to offer an authoritative and accessible summation of Cohen’s extraordinary career. His relation to key themes and topics – Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zen and the East, the Folk tradition, Rock and roll, Canadian and World literature, film –are all addressed. The World of Leonard Cohen offers a comprehensive, uniquely informed and wholly fresh account of this iconic songwriter and artist, whose singular voice has permanently altered our cultural landscape.
About the Author
David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies. He wrote Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014), and contributed to The World of Bob Dylan (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, and The Cambridge Companion to the The Singer-Songwriter
The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book
Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
9781108796170
Paperback
AUD $24.95 / NZD $26.95
August 2021
Jennifer J. Thomas, Harvard Medical School
Kendra R. Becker, Harvard Medical School
Kamryn T. Eddy, Harvard Medical School
You may have been told that you eat like a child, but ARFID affects people right across the lifespan, and this book is the first specifically written to support adults. Join Drs. Jennifer Thomas, Kendra Becker, and Kamryn Eddy - three ARFID experts at Harvard Medical School - to learn how to beat your ARFID at home and unlock a healthier relationship with food. Real-life examples show that you are not alone, while practical tips, quizzes, worksheets, and structured activities, take you step-by-step through the latest evidence-based treatment techniques to support your recovery.
Resilience
The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges
9781009299749
Paperback
AUD $26.95 / NZD $29.95 September 2023
Steven M. Southwick, Yale University Medical School
Dennis S. Charney, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jonathan M. DePierro, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Life presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond. In this important book, three experts in trauma and resilience answer key questions such as What helps people adapt to life’s most challenging situations?, How can you build up your own resilience?, and What do we know about the science of resilience?
