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The Australia icon indicates content by Australian authors. The Gift of Aging Contraception Brooding over Bloody Revenge Resilience Hijacked Understanding Species Understanding Life Series Why not Moderation? Unwired Five Times Faster Hitler’s Panzer Generals The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook International Being You Day Order Form
9781009330732
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available June 2023
Marcy Cottrell Houle
Elizabeth Eckstrom, Oregon Health and Science University
About
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.
Key Features
• 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
9781009124386
Paperback
AUD $22.95 / NZD $24.95
Available May 2023
Paula Briggs, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Nicola Kersey, Liverpool Community Sexual Health Service
About
Choosing the right method of contraception can be confusing: you need to consider your lifestyle, personal preference, any health conditions you might have, and how effective each method is at preventing pregnancy. Discussing options with your doctor may seem daunting, and information on social media can be misinformed and overwhelming. This handy guide, written by two experts in Sexual and Reproductive Health, will answer all your questions about contraception, helping you decide what works best for you. The authors walk you through every method of contraception, with information on how it works, how to use it correctly and how effective it is. The authors also explain how and when conception can occur during the menstrual cycle, how life stage can affect your choice, and how hormonal contraception can be used to help other health conditions. From the pill to the condom and everything in between, pick what’s right for you.
Key Features
• The authors explore the topic logically, beginning with a back-to-basics explanation of the menstrual cycle and how and when conception can occur, aiding in understanding how each method prevents pregnancy
• Balances both the benefits and potential limitations of each method, allowing readers to assess whether a method would work for them personally, based on their lifestyle, preferences, medical history and how effective the method is
• Methods covered include hormonal (the pill, patch and ring), barrier (internal and external condoms) and long acting contraception (the implant, intrauterine contraception and injections) as well as fertility awareness methods and emergency contraception
American history
9781009276849
Hardback
AUD $35.95 / NZD $38.95
Available July 2023
Nikki M. Taylor, Howard University
About
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 pre-meditated. 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.
Reviews
‘Nikki Taylor presents a compelling narrative not only of Black women’s deadly force, but also of their organized and collective resistance. This study complicates the agency of women such as Nelly, Betsy, and Ellen, and dispels the idea that enslaved women were passive and powerless.’
Karen Cook Bell, author of Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
‘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
Medicine
9781009299749
Paperback
AUD $24.95 / NZD $26.95
Available August 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
About
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? Combining cutting-edge scientific research with the personal experiences of individuals who have survived some of the most traumatic events imaginable, including the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a practical resource that can be used time and time again. The experts describe ten key resilience factors, including facing fear, optimism, and relying on role models, through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. Each resilience factor will help you to adapt and grow from stressful life events and will bring hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.
Reviews
‘To paraphrase the bumper sticker “stuff happens” and it is how we respond to adversity that matters. Steven Southwick, Dennis Charney and Jonathan DePierro show us how, provide an expert’s guide to the science, and offer practical advice for navigating life’s challenges. In this deeply personal book, replete with juicy and often harrowing details of extraordinary hardships faced by both themselves and others they know, they provide living examples that will inspire. Resilience is a beautiful book that will benefit everyone.’
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., author of the New York Times bestseller The Emotional Life of Your BrainHistory
9781009275439
Hardback
AUD $47.95 / NZD $51.95
Available August 2023
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
About
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today’s neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.
Key Features
• Shows how the dominant way of thinking about work and socio-economic policies, neoliberalism, is rooted in centuries of distorted thinking about the work ethic
• Makes the history of political economy accessible to readers without specialized training in philosophy or economics
• Challenges the conventional Cold War historiography of political economy by exposing fissures within liberal thought and continuities between liberalism and the Marxist tradition
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Nigel Topping, High Level Climate Action Champion, UNFCCC COP26
