ANZ 2021 Trade Highlights of the Year

Trade Highlights 2021

CONTENTS

Highlights from 2021 Environmental Science Earth Detox Extinctions Drought, Flood, Fire There Is No Planet B Ultrasocial History Female Husbands Boom and Bust The World of Bob Dylan June Fourth Empires of the Mind The Chinese Communist Party Law Runaway Technology Philosophy A Philosopher Looks at Work A Philosopher Looks at Sport A Philosopher Looks at Architecture A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings Politics Fighting the First Wave The Impossible Office?

Sciences Understanding Coronavirus A Tattoo on my Brain Nobel Life General Relativity: The Essentials

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Environmental science

EARTH DETOX

Earth Detox

How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet Julian Cribb How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet

JULIAN CRIBB ‘Starkly engaging, beautifully written, and deeply unnerving’ - Geoffrey Holland

9781108931083 Paperback $19.95 AUD / $21.95 NZD Published July 2021

Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions.

They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.

‘Science policy expert Julian Cribb’s latest, deeply-documented, systemic overview of humanity’s self inflicted global crises is essential reading.’

- Hazel Henderson, author of Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age, CEO of Ethical Markets Media, LLC

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Environmental science le guide who knows all the locals along the way. Visit-

hlings and vanished ecosystems is heady – and deeply

r of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks

‘ M i cha el H a n na h s hows vivi d ly i n th i s book

HA N N A H

nt road trip through the history of life on Earth, led by a

that the 8.7 million species on Earth today are profoundly at risk; the lessons of the fossil record tell us what will surely happen if we continue pushing species after species to the brink.’

MICHAEL BENTON Author of Dinosaurs Rediscovered

e past clearly have relevance to the current approaching

ocene, and the careful appraisal of exactly where we are

‘ … there is something dread fully menacing

s extinctions will be of great concern to those interested

ed Biography History and Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution ative guide to the past, present, and future of extinctions

evant to understanding the predicament we are in today,

ure.’

es best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

s extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth’s

hropocene? What do mass extinction events look like, and

er from them? The fossil record reveals periods when biodi-

intervals when much of life was wiped out. In comparison

day’s biotic crisis has not yet reached the level of extinction

on. But we are certainly in crisis, and current parallels with

nts are profound and deeply worrying. Humanity’s actions

s of pressures – on similar scales – that in the past pushed

ilibrium and triggered mass extinction events. Analysis of

hat we still have some time to avert this disaster: but we

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about the massive species loss and climate

EXTINCTIONS

arly appreciated the focus on the notion of the intercon-

ms.’

change the world is currently experiencing,

M I CHAE L HAN NAH

EXTINCTIONS Living and Dying in the Margin of Error

making this book a balanced yet deeply unsettling account of what humans are unwittingly doing to the world.’

IAN TATTERSALL

Extinctions

Co-author of The Accidental Homo Sapiens

Living and Dying in the Margin of Error Michael Hannah

‘ … asks us to consider whether we wish to join

asteroid strikes and massive volcanic eruptions

as causes of mass extinction. Or whether we can change our relationships with the wonder-

‘ … an exuberant road trip through the history of life on Earth’ MARCIA BJORN ERU D Author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks

ful diversity of life around us to avoid such an ignominious outcome.’

MARK WILLIAMS University of Leicester

9781108843539 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published September 2021 Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth’s history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover from them?

The fossil record reveals periods when biodiversity exploded, and short intervals when much of life was wiped out in mass extinction events. In comparison with these ancient events, today’s biotic crisis hasn’t (yet) reached the level of extinction to be called a mass extinction. But we are certainly in crisis, and current parallels with ancient mass extinction events are profound and deeply worrying. Humanity’s actions are applying the same sorts of pressures - on similar scales - that in the past pushed the Earth system out of equilibrium and triggered mass extinction events. Analysis of the fossil record suggests that we still have some time to avert this disaster: but we must act now.

‘Despite its somber title and topic, Extinctions is an exuberant road trip through the history of life on Earth, led by a friendly and knowledgeable guide who knows all the locals along the way. Visiting so many ancestral Earthlings and vanished ecosystems is heady - and deeply humbling.’

- Marcia Bjornerud, Lawrence University, author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks

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Environmental science ‘a compelling mix of storytelling and fact-finding to communicate the very real impacts ... from climate change’ - Michael Mann

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE

Drought, Flood, Fire CONTRIBUTES TO CATASTROPHES

CHRIS FUNK

How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes Chris C. Funk

9781108839877 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published May 2021

Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous.

Now. Not in the future: NOW. This book describes how and why climate change is already fomenting dire consequences, and will certainly make climate disasters worse in the near future.

Chris C. Funk combines the latest science with compelling stories, providing a timely, accessible, and beautifully-written synopsis of this critical topic. The book describes our unique and fragile Earth system, and the negative impacts humans are having on our support systems. It then examines recent disasters, including heat waves, extreme precipitation, hurricanes, fires, El Niños and La Niñas, and their human consequences.

By clearly describing the dangerous impacts that are already occurring, Funk provides a clarion call for social change, yet also conveys the beauty and wonder of our planet, and hope for our collective future.

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Environmental science

s joined-up thinking on climate, food, ecology, population, mapped out in an accessible, robust, and entertaining way. actical ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity hrive on this – our only – planet.

ated edition includes coverage of environmental protests, ments, a sense check on ‘offsets’ and ‘net zeros’ – and even advice in expanded ‘What can I do?’ sections.

mprehensive, trenchant, and entertaining guidebook.’ ndering Paradise: The Hand of Man on the Galapagos Islands

... did not just change my life, but caused me to completely ... Read it now.’ – James Watt, Captain, BrewDog plc

s No Planet B? Everyone.’ – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of xth Extinction: An Unnatural History

ul for this information-packed and wide-ranging primer.’

Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

ok ... stands out as a beacon of common sense, clarity hope.’ – Caroline Lucas, Member of Parliament

m, served with a smiley face and sparkler ... a rallying cry r a generation.’ – New Scientist

PLANET B

pleasure as well as a guide to action ... It would be best if ey Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy and New York 2140

ealthier, and also entertained ... could not be more timely.’ avid Shukman, BBC Science Editor

MIKE BERNERS-LEE THERE IS N

ce to live better than ever on Planet Earth. ome ever more powerful, how can we avoid lundering into disaster?

MIKE BERNERS-LEE

THERE IS N

PLANET B

‘massively important and massively entertaining’ - Bill McKibben ‘a handbook for how humanity can thrive’ - Financial Times

on Vectors/ ki/

There Is No Planet B

A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition Mike Berners-Lee

9781108821575 Paperback $19.95 AUD / $21.95 NZD Published January 2021

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. This is the big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of our day, laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This updated edition has new material on protests, pandemics, wildfires, investments, carbon targets and of course, on the key question: given all this, what can I do?

‘Who should read There is No Planet B? Everyone. Mike Berners-Lee has written a far-ranging and truth-telling handbook that is as readable as it is instructive.’

- Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker and author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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University

THE NATURAL WORLD ARE IN CRISIS.

rgues that rather than environmental destruction g due to human nature, they are the result of y our ancestors. Human economy has become (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the m taking precedence over the individuals ow an autonomous, highly integrated network and belief systems dedicated to the expansion ognizing that we live in an ultrasocial system d a radically new interpretation of free market ch—far from advocating personal freedom—is he well-being of individuals for the benefit of

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GOWDY

xploration of what this means for the future prise: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, anging this socio-economic—and ultimately xplores how this might be achieved.

ULTRASOCIAL

ulating, and provocative interdisciplinary analysis, icultural societies of African mound-building ng ants with human nature to generate deep mics and sustainability.”

“… revolutionizes our understanding of the past …

A tour de force.”

ULTRA S CIAL

neoliberal ideology and market fundamentalism of view.”

of Connecticut and author of Ultrasociety: Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

Environmental science

PETER G. BROWN

JOHN GOWDY

“Gowdy puts forward the provocative case that as we came under the yoke of states, humans became closer to ants and termites. Individually we may still be social primates, but collectively we are now closer to a leafcutter ant colony.

A stimulating read that reworks the fabric of history away from a simple narrative of increasing complexity and prosperity, to one in which we have traded autonomy and humanity for power. A book that might just change your mind on what it means to be human.”

LUKE KEMP, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge

Ultrasocial

“Building on fresh understandings of evolution, this amazing book revolutionizes our understanding of the past and explores a future in which our humanity may be rekindled on a planet likely to be too hot to sustain conventional agriculture. A tour de force.”

The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future John M. Gowdy

PETER G. BROWN, McGill University

9781108838269 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published August 2021

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, highly integrated network of technologies, institutions, and belief systems dedicated to the expansion of economic production.

Recognising this allows a radically new interpretation of free market and neoliberal ideology which - far from advocating personal freedom - leads to sacrificing the wellbeing of individuals for the benefit of the global market. Ultrasocial is a fascinating exploration of what this means for the future direction of the humanity: can we forge a better, more egalitarian, and sustainable future by changing this socio-economic - and ultimately destructive - path? Gowdy explores how this might be achieved.

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History

Female Husbands

FEMALE HUSBANDS A TRANS HISTORY

JEN MANION

A Trans History Jen Manion

9781108718271 Paperback $22.95 AUD / $24.95 NZD Published May 2021

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers.

Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women’s rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of ‘female husband’ in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

‘Manion’s female husbands are brought to life by energetic prose and an insistence on their continued cultural and political impact.’

- Hannah Roche, Times Literary Supplement

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Quinn and Turner

es and draws lessons from ten financial Sea Bubble to “Casino Capitalism with ”. It also explains bubbles with what the triangle”. Its three sides consists of oxygen, lity” of assets, fuel, which is “money and is “speculation”. This combination recurs bbles. Just like fires, financial manias and but they can also be useful, by clearing out

History A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

William Quinn John D. Turner

ial Times, Best Books of the Year

Boom and Bust

through ten of the biggest bubbles and busts ies … Some (most) finance books are arid e I couldn’t put down.’ e Critic

A Global History of Financial Bubbles William Quinn, John D. Turner

oncision and packing a wealth of detail and er, Boom and Bust is an instant classic.’ es Literary Supplement

n financial history, Boom and Bust is essential

cial Times

ively researched title to be enjoyed by the

rish Times

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

9781108431651 Paperback $24.95 AUD / $26.95 NZD Published October 2021

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently?

In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.

‘An action-packed romp through ten of the biggest bubbles and busts of the past three centuries ... Some (most) finance books are arid and hard-going; this one I couldn’t put down.’

- Alistair Haimes, The Critic

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History

The World of Bob Dylan

THE WORLD OF BOB DYLAN EDITED BY SEAN LATHAM

Edited by Sean Latham

9781108499514 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published May 2021

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact.

Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan’s life and work: the Blues, his religious faith, Civil Rights, Gender, Race, and American and World literature. Incorporating a rich array of new archival material from never before accessed archives, The World of Bob Dylan offers a comprehensive, uniquely informed and wholly fresh account of the songwriter, artist, filmmaker, and Nobel Laureate whose unique voice has permanently reshaped our cultural landscape. ‘(The World of Bob Dylan) offers a comprehensive overview of Bobdom - musical influences from sea shanties and highland ballads to blues and gospel, his interest in Brecht and the Beat poets, the politics of the civil rights movement and the counterculture, and more.’

- Neil Spencer, The Observer

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History

JUNE FOURTH THE TIANANMEN PROTESTS AND BEIJING MASSACRE OF 1989

JEREMY BROWN

June Fourth

The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 Jeremy Brown

9781107657809 Paperback $43.95 AUD / $47.95 NZD Published April 2021

The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it.

At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently.

The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.

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History

Empires of the Mind

The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present Robert Gildea

9781316612330 Paperback $24.95 AUD / $26.95 NZD Published April 2021 ‘The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind’ declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers.

The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit.

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History

The Chinese Communist Party Edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, Hans van de Ven

9781108822619 Paperback $34.95 AUD / $37.95 NZD Published May 2021 Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party.

Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party’s relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability through the transformative decades since 1921. Demonstrating that the history of the Chinese Communist Party is not one story but many stories, readers learn about paths not taken, the role of chance, ideas and persons silenced, hopes both lost and fulfilled. This vivid mosaic of lives and voices draws together one hundred years of modern Chinese history - and illuminates possible paths for China’s future. ‘… impressive in calling for, and offering, a more nuanced and historically grounded response.’

- Christopher Harding, The Daily Telegraph ‘Dickson’s book gives a useful overview of the various bodies that run China and the party’s involvement in them.’

- Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books

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Law

JOSHUA A. T. FAIRFIELD

RUNAWAY TECHNOLOGY CAN LAW KEEP UP?

Runaway Technology Can Law Keep Up? Joshua A. T. Fairfield

9781108444576 Paperback $29.95 AUD / $32.95 NZD Published February 2021

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there’s nothing any of us can do about it.

In this riveting work, Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology - a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

‘Runaway Technology is a must-read not just because of its insight into whether the law can keep up with modern technology, but because of its perspective on the law itself as a tool for human flourishing.’

- Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University

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Philosophy

A Philosopher Looks at Work Raymond Geuss

9781108930611 Paperback $18.95 AUD / $20.95 NZD Published May 2021 Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary.

Geuss explores our concept of work and its origins in industrial production, the incentives and compulsions which societies use to get us to work, and the powerful hold which the work ethic has over so many of us. He also looks at dissatisfaction with work which is as old as work itself - and at various radical proposals for doing away with it, and at the seemingly irreversible growth of unemployment as a result of mechanisation. His book will interest anyone who wishes to understand the place of work in our world. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.

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Philosophy

A Philosopher Looks at Sport Stephen Mumford

9781108994934 Paperback $18.95 AUD / $20.95 NZD Published May 2021 Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford’s book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human experiences - including important values that we continue to contest.

The author explores physicality, competition, how sport is best defined, ethics in sport, and issues of inclusion such as disability sports, the gender divide, and transgender athletes. His book is written for anyone who is thoughtful, a sports enthusiast, or both, and will deepen our understanding of sport and its place in our lives. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.

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Philosophy

A Philosopher Looks at Architecture Paul Guyer

9781108820424 Paperback $18.95 AUD / $20.95 NZD Published May 2021 What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in artistic styles and cultures.

Guyer discusses philosophers and architects throughout history, including Alberti, Kant, Ruskin, Wright, and Loos, and surveys the ways in which their ideas are brought to life in buildings across the world. He also considers the works and words of contemporary architects including Annabelle Selldorf, Herzog and de Meuron, and Steven Holl, and shows that - despite changing times and fashions - good architecture continues to be something worth striving for. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.

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Philosophy

A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings Michael Ruse

9781108820431 Paperback $18.95 AUD / $20.95 NZD Published May 2021 Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some people think that the world is an organism - and that humans, as its highest part, have a natural value (this view appeals particularly to people of religion). Others think that the world is a machine - and that we therefore have responsibility for making our own value judgements (including judgements about ourselves).

Ruse provides a compelling analysis of these two rival views and the age-old conflict between them. In a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion, he draws on Darwinism and existentialism to argue that only the view that the world is a machine does justice to our humanity. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.

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Politics

Fighting the First Wave

Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe Peter Baldwin

9781316518335 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published March 2021 COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic.

He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available - how firmly could the authorities order citizens’ lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the virus’s spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion. Whether citizens would follow their leaders’ requests and how soon they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming the pandemic.

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Politics

sterial book, informed and underpinned cal and political insight. A triumph.’ of Trio, Restless and Any Human Heart

vey of the fifty-five individuals who have been Walpole - and their families too... A must read.’ er transport minister, education minister it, and author of Ernest Bevin, Labour’s Churchill

of one of the world’s most difficult jobs is and there is no better way to go about that lent book... There is much here to inform general reader to the political addict.’ der of the Opposition, First Secretary of State, and Leader of the House of Commons

of the role of the prime minister and those ny Seldon also suggests some improvements 10 more streamlined, agile and diverse ministers and those around them understand is book would give them a good start.’ i Smith, former Home Secretary

brilliant ability to capture the humanity of heir role in history which is why this fascinating s well as authoritative. It is essential reading to understand both how Downing Street ry characters of those who have lived there.’ hel Sylvester, The Times

SELDON THE IMPOSSBLE OFFICE

ur understanding of what it takes to run Britain, g ideas for improving the Premiership.’ h, former Head of No. 10 Policy Unit, me: Ten Lessons for Living Longer Better

ANTHONY SELDON THE

IMPOSSIBLE OFFICE? THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

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with Jonathan Meakin and Illias Thoms

Marking the third centenary of the office of prime minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10 Downing Street, explores the lives and careers, loves and scandals, successes and failures, of all our great prime ministers.

From Robert Walpole and William Pitt the Younger, to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, Seldon discusses which of our prime ministers have been most effective and why.

He reveals the changing relationship between the monarchy and the office of the prime minister in intimate detail, describing how the increasing power of the prime minister in becoming leader of Britain coincided with the steadily falling influence of the monarchy. This book celebrates the humanity and frailty, work and achievement, of these fifty-five remarkable individuals, who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis, and war.

The Impossible Office?

The History of the British Prime Minister Anthony Seldon, Assisted by Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms

9781316515327 Hardback $37.95 AUD / $40.95 NZD Published April 2021

Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office in world history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10 Downing Street, explores the lives and careers, loves and scandals, successes and failures, of all the great UK Prime Ministers.

From Robert Walpole and William Pitt the Younger, to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher, Seldon discusses which Prime Ministers have been most effective and why.

He reveals the changing relationship between the Monarchy and the office of the Prime Minister in intimate detail, describing how the increasing power of the Prime Minister in becoming leader of Britain coincided with the steadily falling influence of the Monarchy.

This book celebrates the humanity and frailty, work and achievement, of these 55 remarkable individuals, who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through times of peace, crisis and war.

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Sciences

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UNDERSTANDING CORONAVIRUS

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es to Understanding Life

Revised and Updated

UNDERSTANDING

coronavirus

Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called “coronavirus”, SARS-CoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19.

Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate sources of information, unfounded conspiracy theories on the origins of the virus, unproven therapies, and inconsistent public health measures, have all served to increase anxiety in the population.

Where did the virus come from? How is it transmitted? How does it cause disease? Is it like flu? What is a pandemic? In this concise and accessible introduction, a leading expert provides answers to these commonly asked questions.

This revised and updated edition now also covers how the virus mutates, how important these mutations are, how vaccines work, and what we can expect in the near and long-term future.

Understanding Coronavirus Raul Rabadan

9781009088572 Paperback $22.95 AUD / $24.95 NZD Published October 2021

cambridge.org/understanding

R AuL R ABADaN

Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called ‘coronavirus’, SARS-CoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19. Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate sources of information, unfounded conspiracy theories on the origins of the virus, unproven therapies, and inconsistent public health measures, have all served to increase anxiety in the population.

Where did the virus come from? How is it transmitted? How does it cause disease? Is it like flu? What is a pandemic? In this concise and accessible introduction, a leading expert provides answers to these commonly asked questions. This revised and updated edition now also covers how the virus mutates, how important these mutations are, how vaccines work, and what we can expect in the near and long-term future.

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Sciences

A Tattoo myBrain A Tattooon on my A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Brain Alzheimer’s Disease

GIBBS

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

ogist and now a patient, Dr. Gibbs writes with great passion, severance. His resolve reminds me of William Ernest Henley’s y head is bloody, but unbowed.’ A Tattoo on my Brain is a must read for the world.”

for twenty‑five years, caring for

patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that

n, author of On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s

Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he

e major appeal to lay people, especially those caring for an mber but also to neurologists, neuropsychologists and those involved in trial of new medications.”

had Alzheimer’s several years before

any official diagnosis could be made.

Forewarned by genetic testing showing

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