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LEAD TITLES Baba Didi and the Godwits Fly Nicola Muir (author) is a teacher, writer and regular columnist for New Zealand newspaper, Northern Advocate. Annie Hayward (illustrator) is an abstract and figurative painter. She exhibits widely and she has been commissioned by many in New Zealand and internationally. This is an illustrated story for children aimed at children aged 5-9. The godwits are an iconic bird species with a long bill that migrate each year from New Zealand/Aotearoa through East Asia and the Pacific to the Alaskan Arctic regions. A girl and her grandmother are on a beach watching the godwits feeding and the story of the godwit's epic migration is charmingly told, touching on waves of human migration on the way - of the Maori to Aotearoa as well as the grandmother's own (Baba Didi is a migrant from Croatia). The book has a foreword by Helen Clark, the former NZ prime minister who is now head of the UN Development Programme. $15.95 Hb, ISBN 9781780261300 Published July 2013, 32 pages New Internationalist NZRRP$19.95
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The Rocket Man And Other Extraordinary Characters in the History of Flight Science writer and astronomer David Darling is the author of the bestselling Equations of Eternity and the vastly popular online resource Internet Encyclopedia of Science. With Dirk Schulze-Makuch he is the author of Megacastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End (9781851689477). The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history - ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond - astronomer David Darling tells the stories of the true life adventurers whose wonder has translated into bizarre contraptions, magnificent achievements and, sometimes, startling folly. Discover outrageous attempts to fly like a bird, early hair-raising balloon trips, and the secret military planes that never made it off the ground - including the "flying pancake" and the plane with thirty wings. Meet Napoleonic ballooniste Sophie Blanchard who planned an aerial invasion of England, stuntman Lincoln Beachey, looping-the-loop in a pinstripe suit and, of course, The Rocket Man himself: the very enviable Yves Rossy, who in 2006 was the first person to fly with the aid of a jet-pack. Eccentric and imaginative, reckless and resourceful - Darling's daring cast of dreamers is guaranteed to entertain and inspire. $29.95 Hb, ISBN 9781780742977 Publish October 2013, 224 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$34.95
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HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY The Poppy A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance & Redemption Nicholas Saunders is the world's leading authority on the anthropology and archaeology of the First World War. His exhibition of trench art from the war was for five years a centrepiece of the ‘In Flanders Fields Museum' in Ypres, Belgium. The author of more than twenty books and dozens of academic monographs, he has appeared in numerous documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic Channel. Where the earth is churned, poppies grow. In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalized in John McCrae's moving poem - became a symbol of loss, remembrance, and redemption. Yet the poppy has been intricately entwined in human conflict, suffering, and spiritual cleansing for millennia. From the ancient Egyptian fights over prized dream-potions to the morphine addicts of the American Civil War, to the British entanglements in the Opium Wars with China and the struggle today to hold at bay Afghanistan's tribal narcotics trade, there is the poppy. Now, Nicholas Saunders shares the definitive history of this ever-enduring icon - a story that is at turns tragic, provocative, eye-opening, and, most essentially, uplifting. $34.95 Hb, ISBN 9781851687053 Publish October 2013, 288 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$44.95 From the book: “For the soldiers of the Great War, the proliferation of the wild flowers came to symbolise the conflict’s goals of freedom and regeneration. The flowers were also seen to provide a literally tactile connection between the living and the dead – the roots reaching into graves below and the petals reaching into hands above. Writing about nature helped many infantrymen to cope with the horror of their experience. Here was a means for measuring their sufferings, but also for protecting themselves against utter oblivion; their words might survive if nothing else.” Quantity
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Why We Argue (And How We Should) A Guide to Political Disagreement Robert B. Talisse is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of five books, including Pluralism and Liberal Politics (Routledge, 2011), and Democracy and Moral Conflict (2009), which was a finalist for the 2011 APA Book Prize. Why We Argue (And How We Should) presents an accessible and engaging introduction to the theory of argument, with special emphasis on the way argument works in public political debate. The authors develop a view according to which proper argument is necessary for one's individual cognitive health; this insight is then expanded to the collective health of one's society. Proper argumentation, then, is seen to play a central role in a well-functioning democracy. Written in a lively style and filled with examples drawn from the real world of contemporary politics, and questions following each chapter to encourage discussion, Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement reads like a guide for the participation in, and maintenance of, modern democracy. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9780415859059 Publish October 2013, 160 pages Routledge NZRRP$44.95 From the book: “Accordingly, this book is a contribution to the area of logic known as critical thinking. However, this book differs in several respects from what is typical of works in that genre. For one thing, we employ an expansive conception of what argument is. Throughout the following chapters, we take argument to be any attempt to discover, discern, and evaluate reasons for belief or action. Argument also includes our responses to others’ attempts to examine reasons. Argument in the sense to be employed here refers to any attempt to think things through, talk things over, or figure things out, by means of processes aimed at sharing and evaluating reasons.” Quantity
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$44.95 Pb ISBN 9780415622493 Publish October 2013 464 pages Routledge NZRRP$59.95
Aristotle
Azerbaijan
Second Edition
A Political History
Christopher Shields, University of Oxford, UK.
Suha Bolukbasi, Middle East Technical University, Turkey.
Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics and the arts. Beginning with a brief biography, Shields carefully explains the fundamental elements of Aristotle's thought: his explanatory framework, his philosophical methodology and his four-causal explanatory scheme. He discusses Aristotle's metaphysics and the theory of categories and logical theory and his conception of the human being and soul and body. The last part concentrates on Aristotle's value theory as applied to ethics and politics, and assesses his approach to happiness, virtues and the best life for human beings. It concludes with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today. This second edition includes five new sections on key issues such as Luck, Perception, and Mimêsis; as well an expanded treatment of Aristotle's historical legacy.
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781780767598 Publish October 2013 312 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$52.00
Azerbaijan's Soviet and post-Soviet political history has been tumultuous and varied, particularly with regards to the struggle for independence, democracy, and sovereignty. Suha Bolukbasi illustrates how post-Stalin resilience, the tolerance shown toward subtle nationalist expression and Gorbachev's relaxation of central control from Moscow were all-in-part responsible for the initial emergence of a more liberal atmosphere in Azerbaijan. As a result, issues such as Moscow's responsibility for environmental degradation, the depletion of Azerbaijan's oil, and unfavourable terms of trade have all begun to be freely discussed. However, the Azerbaijan-Armenia dispute over Karabagh has had a dramatic impact on the political discourse. The dispute has become not only an international conflict, but one which involves the lives of more than one million refugees. Quantity
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$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415806879 Publish April 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
Ethics and the Golden Rule
Hearts and Minds
Harry J. Gensler, John Carroll University, USA.
A People’s History of Counterinsurgency
It is commonly accepted that the golden rulemost often formulated as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"-is a unifying element between many diverse religious traditions, both Eastern and Western. Yet, while it is extraordinarily important and widespread, the golden rule is often dismissed by scholars as a vague proverb. This book defends the golden rule and addresses all of the major philosophic objections, pointing out several common misunderstanding and misapplications. Gensler first discusses golden-rule reasoning and how to avoid the main pitfalls. He then relates the golden rule to world religions and history, and to areas like moral education, egoism, evolution, society, racism, business, and medicine. The book ends with a discussion of theoretical issues (like whether all morality reduces to the golden rule, which the author argues against).
Hannah Gurman, New York University, USA.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781595588258 Publish October 2013 336 pages The New Press NZRRP$39.95
The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds retells the history of counterinsurgency from the perspective of the populations whose hearts and minds have been fought over since the end of World War II. With contributions from economists, anthropoligists, social historians, and journalists, the book examines key examples of counterinsurgency campaigns in Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan - detailing not only the real sources of discontent behind the insurgencies but also the negative impact of supposedly benevolent counterinsurgency programs on the everyday lives of the people in these regions. A wealth of primary sources and gripping documentary photographs give readers a rare glimpse into the experiences of the many civilians - children, mothers, farmers, and workers - caught in the conflicts.
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$51.00 Pb ISBN 9780415692113 Publish October 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$64.00
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A Global History of the Developing World
A People's History of the U.S. Military
Dr. Christopher M. White, Marshall University, USA.
Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book centralizes the struggle for self-determination in an attempt to understand how the current nation-states have been formed and what their future may hold. Although concentrating on the modern era, its scope is broad: it covers geography, ancient and modern history, economics, politics and recent events. Christopher M. White presents a wide-ranging study of the major themes in studies of the developing world, including slavery, imperialism, religion, free and fair trade, democratization and economic development. Including detailed profiles of key figures as well as maps and illustrations, this book vividly illustrates the culture, personalities and histories of a key subject area.
Michael A. Bellesiles, Central Connecticut State University, USA.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781595589354 Publish October 2013 384 pages The New Press NZRRP$39.95
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Herbert Spencer
Identity and Difference
Legacies
John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness
Mark Francis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
$89.95 Pb ISBN 9781844655878 Publish October 2013 288 pages Acumen NZRRP$110.00
Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat-through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs-to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand, from the American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The often dramatic and always richly textured first-person accounts collected in this book cover a wide range of perspectives, from ardent patriots to disillusioned cynics; barely literate farm boys to urbane college graduates; and women disguising themselves as men in order to serve their country to African Americans fighting for their freedom through military service.
Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher.
Herbert Spencer: Legacies explores and assesses the impact of the ideas and work of the great Victorian polymath Herbert Spencer across a wide range of disciplines. In the course of the essays a significant re-evaluation of his influence on Victorian and Edwardian thought is provided. Spencer's contribution to the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, biology and ecology are considered, alongside his influence on key figures in science and philosophy. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore Spencer's nuanced and complex ideas and will be invaluable for historians of science and ideas, and all those interested in the intellectual culture of the late Victorian and Edwardian period.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681343 Publish October 2013 208 pages Verso NZRRP$43.95
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John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher? Identity and Difference argues for reassessing this canonical figure. Closely examining the "treatise on identity" added to the second edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Étienne Balibar demonstrates Locke's role in the formation of two concepts central to the metaphysics of the subjectconsciousness and the self-and the complex philosophical, legal, moral and political nature of his terms. With an accompanying essay by Stella Sandford, situating Balibar's reading of Locke in the history of the reception of the Essay and within Balibar's other writings on "the subject," this book rethinks a crucial moment in the history of Western philosophy. Quantity
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$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463367 Publish October 2013 226 pages Haymarket NZRRP$53.00
Marx and Singularity
Jerusalem
From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse
From the Ottomans to the British
Luca Basso Ph.D. University of Pisa, studied in Padua and in Berlin. He is Researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published many articles and three monographs: Individuo e comunità nella filosofia politica di Leibniz (Rubbettino, 2005), Socialità e isolamento: la singolarità in Marx (Carocci, 2008) of which the current book is a revised edition, and Agire in comune.
Roberto Mazza gained his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2007 and is now a Teaching Fellow at SOAS.
The productivity of the notion of singularity is argued to be based on the fact that it allows us to highlight the element of individual realisation, simultaneously stressing its distance from the modern conception of individuality. The "correlate" of singularity is the reciprocity, moving and unstable, between the "individual" and the "collective," which occurs in class struggles.
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781780767086 Publish October 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$52.00
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$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463398 Publish October 2013 206 pages Haymarket NZRRP$53.00
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Marx's Temporalities
Qatar
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A Modern History
Massimiliano Tomba is Professor of Philosophy of Human Rights at the University of Padua. He has published many books, translations and articles, including Crisis and Critique in Bruno Bauer (2002) and La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin (2006).
Allen J. Fromherz, Georgia State University, USA.
Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. By integrating the paradigm of the spatialisation of time with that of the temporalisation of space, Tomba shows that an adequate historiographical paradigm for capitalism must consider the plurality of temporal layers that come into conflict in modernity.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781780767819 Publish October 2013 224 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$43.00
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Qatar plays a crucial part in the Middle East today. With the second greatest natural gas resources in the region, Qatar's economic clout is considerable. At the same time the Qatar story is replete with paradoxes: the state hosts the Al-Jazeera media network, an influential expression of Arab nationalism and anti-Americanism, while also hosting the principal US naval base in the region. It is a fervent champion of the Palestinian cause, yet welcomes the Israeli Foreign Minister to present the Jewish state's case in its capital, Doha. Allen Fromherz presents a full portrait which analyses these paradoxes and Qatar's growing regional influence within a broader historical context.
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Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Reaching for the Stars A New History of Bomber Command in World War II
Toward a United Theory
Mark Connelly, University of Kent, UK.
Lise Vogel, Rider University, USA; David McNally Ph.D , York University, Canada and Susan Ferguson, Ph.D. Brantford University, Canada
$42.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463404 Publish October 2013 266 pages Haymarket NZRRP$53.00
In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. Roberto Mazza discusses the period of transition from Ottoman rule to the British administration, focusing on the sociopolitical changes from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, the impact of the First World War and the ongoing development of Jerusalem into the vibrant city it has become. He considers the impact of the change in administration on the local population and uses case studies to provide new perspectives on this often overlooked period in Jerusalem's history.
Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of "the woman question" in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categories of Marx's Capital to open up an original theorization of gender and the social production and reproduction of material life. The book also includes Vogel's article, Domestic Labor Revisited, which extends and clarifies her main theoretical innovations.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766805 Publish October 2013 216 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$37.00
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The role of Bomber Command in the Second World War is still shrouded in mystery. This book provides a new story of the campaign and is both a military history and an investigation as to how the modern image has come about. There have been hundreds of books about the RAF and Bomber Command ranging from highly researched histories, technical studies of the aircraft, to popular works; as well as countless films, television shows and newspaper reportage. Mark Connelly draws together all the strands to look at the image created by this outpouring. Reaching for the Stars shows why Bomber Command, in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war - with 55,000 aircrew lost and more officer fatalities than in World War I - has received so much attention yet is still a ‘lost and black sheep' among British wartime glories. Quantity
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$79.95 Pb ISBN 9780415858397 Publish July 2013 680 pages Routledge NZRRP$99.95
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music
The Royal Navy
Theodore Gracyk, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA and Andrew Kania, Trinity University, USA.
Duncan Redford, National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN), UK and Philip D. Grove, Britannia Royal Naval College, UK.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections which are general issues, emotion, history, figures, kinds of music, music, philosophy and related disciplines. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.
Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast operational changes. This book tells the story, not just of victory and defeat, but also of how the Navy has adjusted to a century of rapid technological and social change. The extensive reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the dawn of the twentieth century saw the navy's nineteenth-century wooden fleet replaced with the latest modern technology. However it was the development of nuclear and missile technology during the Cold War era which drastically changed the face of naval warfare. This book places the wars and battles fought by the navy - from Jutland to the Falklands - within a wider context, looking at political, economic, social and cultural issues, as well as providing a thorough operational history.
A History Since 1900
$57.00 Hb ISBN 9781780767826 Publish October 2013 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$72.00
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science
A Short History of Muslim Spain
Second Edition
The ‘golden age' of Muslim Spain represents one of the most dazzling periods in European history: in its architecture, philosophy, literature, poetry and urbanism. For much of this period, the territory of modern-day Spain was dominated by the Muslim rulers of the Province of Al-Andalus, particularly the Emirate and then Caliphate of Córdoba, when the city of Córdoba became the most culturally creative and most prosperous cosmopolitan centre in Europe. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this co-existence was the unique intermingling of three civilizations in one. Some have even viewed multicultural Muslim Spain as a lost and tolerant arcadia. Popular interest in the period has grown also, fuelled in part by the tensions of the modern world, where many people anxiously mull the future of interfaith relations.
Alex J Novikoff, Rhodes College, USA.
Martin Curd, Purdue University, USA and Stathis Psillos, University of Athens, Greece.
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized into four parts it covers historical and philosophical context, debates, concepts, the individual sciences. This book addresses all of the essential topics that students of philosophy of science need to know - from empiricism, explanation and experiment to causation, observation, prediction and more - and contains many helpful features including chapters on individual sciences (such as biology, chemistry, physics and psychology), further reading and cross-referencing at the end of each chapter.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781848858718 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
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The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
Silent Accomplice The Untold story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide
Maurice Finocchiaro, University of Nevada, USA.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9780415503686 Publish October 2013 352 pages Routledge NZRRP$44.95
The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the ‘scientific revolution'. The Dialogue contains Galileo's mature synthesis of astronomy, physics, and methodology, and a critical confirmation of Copernicus's hypothesis of the earth's motion. However, the book also led Galileo to stand trial with the Inquisition, in what became known as ‘the greatest scandal in Christendom'. This book introduces and analyzes the intellectual background and historical context of the Copernican controversy and Inquisition trial; the key arguments and critiques that Galileo presents on both sides of the ‘dialogue'; the Dialogue's content and significance from three special points of view: science, methodology, and rhetoric; the enduring legacy of the Dialogue and the ongoing application of its approach to other areas.
Andrew Wallis, University of Bradford, UK.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767727 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$37.00
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The massacre of 1 million Rwandan Tutsis by ethnic Hutus in 1994 has become a symbol of the international community's helplessness in the face of human rights atrocities. It is assumed that the West was well-intentioned, but ultimately ineffectual. But as Andrew Wallis reveals in this shocking book, one country France - was secretly providing military, financial and diplomatic support to the genocidaires all along. Based on new interviews with key players and eye-witneses, and previously unreleased documents, Walliss' book tells a story which many have suspected, but ever seen set out before. Wallis' riveting expose of the French role in one of the darkest chapters of human history will provoke furious debate, denials, and outrage.
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$79.95 Pb ISBN 9780415518758 Publish July 2013 752 pages Routledge NZRRP$99.95
A History of the Royal Navy
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Four Degrees of Global Warming
Terrible Exile
Australia in a Hot World
The Last Days of Napoleon on St Helena
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Instead, the ‘ambition gap’ between climate science and climate policy is likely to lead to average global warming of around four degrees Celsius by or before 2100. If a ‘Four Degree World’ is the de facto goal of policy, we urgently need to understand what this world might look like. This book outlines the expected consequences of this world for Australia and its region. Its contributors provide an accessible, detailed, dramatic, and disturbing examination of the likely impacts of a Four Degree World on Australia’s social, economic and ecological systems. Author Peter Christoff will be appearing at events marking the publication of the book.
Sir Brian Unwin studied at the universities of Oxford and Yale.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767383 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$37.00
Tracing events from the dramatic defeat at Waterloo to his death six years later, this is the first modern comprehensive account of the last phase of Napoleon's life. Drawing on many previously overlooked journals and letters, Brian Unwin has pieced together a remarkably vivid account of Napoleon's final years which also offers fresh insights into the character of this giant of European history. Terrible Exile brilliantly evokes the claustrophobic atmosphere of life on St Helena, offering a colourful and original history of the period as well as a persuasive psychological portrait of a great man in reduced circumstances.
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$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415824583 October 2013 288 pages Earthscan NZRP$49.95
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Extremely Loud Sound as a Weapon Juliette Volcler is a producer and journalist for French independent radio, as well as a regular contributor to independent newspapers. Carol Volk has translated over three dozen books from the French. Volk has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the MacDowell Colony and the French Ministry of Culture.
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In this disturbing and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts by military and police forces to deploy sound against enemies, criminals, and law-abiding citizens. During the 2004 battle over the Iraqi city of Fallujah, U.S. Marines bolted large speakers to the roofs of their Humvees blasting AC/DC, Eminem, and Metallica songs through the city's narrow streets as part of a targeted psychological operation against militants that has now become standard practice in American military operations in Afghanistan. In the historic center of Brussels, nausea-inducing sound waves are unleashed to prevent teenagers from lingering after hours. High-decibel, "nonlethal" sonic weapons have become the tools of choice for crowd control at major political demonstrations from Gaza to Wall Street and as a form of torture at Guantánamo and elsewhere. In an insidious merger of music, technology, and political repression, loud sound has emerged in the last decade as an unlikely mechanism for intimidating individuals as well as controlling large groups. Extremely Loud documents and interrogates this littleknown modern phenomenon, exposing it as a sinister threat to the "peace and quiet" that societies have traditionally craved. $34.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595588739 Published July 2013, 208 pages The New Press NZRRP$47.00 From the book: “The second half of the twentieth century saw the development of scientific research on the military and law enforcement uses of sound. The aim was no longer to use sound just to send out an alarm, intimidate the enemy, or rally the troops, but to exploit sound’s biological effects, since sound waves—which are nothing more nor less than mechanical vibrations—can harm the ear and the entire body at certain frequencies and certain intensities.” Quantity
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The Village Against the World Dan Hancox is a journalist who has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, Independent, Frieze, New Inquiry, National, Dazed & Confused, Q magazine, Mute and The Wire. He is the author of two ebooks: Kettled Youth and Utopia and the Valley of Dreams. One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sánchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the Andalucian unemployed. $32.95 Hb, ISBN 9781781681305 Publish October 2013, 288 pages Verso NZRRP$39.95 From the book: “The land itself, Sanchez Gordillo wrote in his 1980 book, Andaluces Levantaos, is the centre of gravity in Andalusia - “it is on the land that the future will be built”. He was fond of comparing the situation of Andalusian peasant towns like Marinaleda to that of Native American reservations. The native tribes driven from the plains where once they dwelt and worked, and contained in miserable isolation, surrounded by the land which belongs to them – producing and reproducing poverty, humiliation and cultural degradation.”
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$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780745334325 Publish October 2013 216 pages Pluto NZRRP$49.95
Bad News for Refugees
Black Star
Greg Philo, Glasgow University, UK; and Emma Briant and Pauline Donald, both from Glasgow Media Group.
Britain's Asian Youth Movements
Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts act to legitimise political action which can have terrible consequences both on the lives of refugees and also on established migrant communities. Based on new research by the renowned Glasgow Media Group, Bad News for Refugees is essential reading for those concerned with the negative effects of media on public understanding and for the safety of vulnerable groups and communities in our society.
Black Star documents the Asian Youth Movements that emerged in 1970s and 1980s Britain. These organisations, established by the children of early migrants, were determined to struggle against both the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from black power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers' struggles across the globe. Ramamurthy traces how they saw themselves as part of a wider collective of people struggling for social justice and national liberation. In their struggle to make Britain their home they identified with a broad-based black unity where 'black' was a political colour inspiring unity amongst all those struggling against racism. The book documents how by the late 1980s this broad based black identity disintegrated as Islamophobia became a new form of racism.
Anandi Ramamurthy, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9780745333489 Publish October 2013 272 pages Pluto NZRRP$54.95
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The Beast
Capital Accumulation and Migration
Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Volume 46
Óscar Martínez.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781608463428 Publish October 2013 258 pages Haymarket NZRRP$49.95
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Betting on Famine
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781595588494 Publish October 2013 304 pages The New Press NZRRP$49.95
Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation. This timely and provocative book analyzes the existing literature and adds a critical dimension by examining the financialization of migration processes.
Why the World Still Goes Hungry
Economic Nationalism and Globalization
Jean Ziegler was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008).
Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe, Volume 48
Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. In an extensive investigation of this disturbing shift, Jean Ziegler lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. Ziegler's wideranging and fascinating examination focuses on how the new sustainable revolution in energy production has diverted millions of acres of corn, soy, wheat, and other grain crops from food to fuel. The results, he shows, have been sudden and startling, with declining food reserves sending prices to record highs and a new global commodities market in ethanol and other biofuels gobbling up arable lands in nearly every continent on earth.
Henryk Szlajfer, Ph.D., Warsaw University, Poland.
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Henryk Szlajfer offers, against the background of developments in Latin America (mainly Brazil) and Central Europe (mainly Poland) in times of first globalization from late 19th century until late 1930s, a reinterpretation of economic nationalism both as an analytical category and historical experience. Critically explored are attempts at proto-economic nationalism in early 19th century Poland and Latin America.
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences
$34.95 Hb ISBN 9781781681329 Publish October 2013 224 pages Verso NZRRP$44.95
Dennis C. Canterbury, Ph.D., Eastern Connecticut State University., USA He has published extensively on development issues including Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism (Ashgate 2005). He has been a visiting Professor in the Institute of Development Studies and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and winner of the Connecticut State University 2009 System-Wide Research Award
One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he tells after spending two years traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans alone make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and last year 18,000 of them were kidnapped. Martínez writes in beautiful, lyrical prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol.
CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS Divided
Inside African Politics
The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College, USA and Kevin C. Dunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.
David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781595589231 Publish October 2013 256 pages The New Press NZRRP$49.95
The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the super-rich. How bad is it? According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Shockingly, from 2009 to 2011, the top 1 percent got 121 percent of the income gains while the bottom 99 percent saw their income fall. Yet in this most unequal of developed nations, every aspect of inequality remains hotly contested and poorly understood. Divided collects the writings of leading scholars, activists, and journalists to provide an illuminating, multifaceted look at inequality in America, exploring its devastating implications in areas as diverse as education, health care, social mobility, and political representation.
$49.95 Pb ISBN 9781588269058 Publish October 2013 475 pages Lynne Rienner NZRRP$59.95
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The Europe Dilemma
Islamic Movements of Europe
Britain and the Challenges of EU Integration
Frank Peter, University of Berne, Switzerland and Rafael Ortega, Casa Ă rabe, Spain.
Lord (Roger) Liddle was formerly Tony Blair's Special Advisor on European Policy and subsequently worked for three years in the European Commission, first in the Trade Commissioner's cabinet and then advising the President of the Commission.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781780762234 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$43.00
What is Britain's future in Europe? This book revisits an old argument but for dramatically new times. The old argument is about Britain's 'semi-detachedness' from Europe and whether that posture could ever change. The new times are the crisis in the Eurozone and its wider impact on the European Union's future. While logic may point to deeper integration, the politics associated with the EU's problems make this a significant and possibly insurmountable challenge. Where should Britain stand? What future should Britain want for the EU? And how important is continued membership of the EU for Britain's future?
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781848858459 Publish October 2013 416 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$52.00
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$26.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463343 Publish October 2013 200 pages Haymarket NZRRP$32.00
This state-of-the-art introduction to contemporary African politics has been carefully designed to provide not only thorough coverage of the full range of core topics, but also an awareness and understanding of key theoretical issues and controversies. Drawing on their extensive teaching and fieldwork experience, Pierre Englebert and Kevin Dunn offer a straightforward, accessible style, making even complex ideas easy to understand, a balanced approach, exposing multiple perspectives on contested issues, a focus on both states and citizens, politics from above and below, discussions of existing policies, as well as policy implications of different approaches, and an abundance of rich data and illustrative examples.
'Islam in Europe' and 'Islamophobia' are subjects of vital global importance which currently preoccupy policy-makers and academics alike. Examining various European Muslim groups and institutions that have branched off from Islamic movements - including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jama'at-i Islami - this book outlines the configuration of social, political and religious processes that have given rise to new kinds of European Muslim organisations. It considers the relationship of these organisations to their 'parent' movements, their connections with transnational Islamic networks, their impact on European states, the presence of Islam in European education and higher education institutions and the connection between Islamic movements and the perceived surge of 'Islamophobia' in Europe.
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Higher Education After Neoliberalism
Obama and the Middle East
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include: Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories and the Culture of Cruelty and Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future.
Fawaz A. Gerges, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
The End of America's Moment?
Higher Education After Neoliberalism reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education. Giroux charts a clear minded and inspired course of action out of the dark wood of market-driven education policy.
$24.95 Pb ISBN 9781137278395 Publish October 2013 304 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$34.95
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During his campaign, Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. In fact, Obama is not committed to redefining U.S. foreign policy in a transformational way, but correcting the Bush policies, and reclaiming the neorealist approach that defined America's foreign policy since WWII. Taking stock of Obama's first two and a half years in the White House, this book places his engagement in the Middle East within the broader context of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 and examines key areas that have posed a challenge to his administration: negotiation with Israel and Palestine, troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan, engagement with the Arab Spring, intervention in Libya, and the death of Osama bin Laden. Quantity
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$57.00 Pb ISBN 9781780760599 Publish October 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$72.00
Original Spin
Predisposed
Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
Paul Brighton, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
John R. Hibbing and Kevin B. Smith, both at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA and John R. Alford, Rice University, USA.
Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightlyorganised media launches - the well-known world of modern political spin. In this important new book, Paul Brighton shows that spin is not something dreamed up by modern, mediasavvy politicians. In fact, it was one of the best-kept political secrets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Peel and Palmerston to Gladstone and Disraeli, Prime Ministers have all tried to manipulate the press to a greater or lesser extent. Brighton uncovers the covert contacts between Westminster and Fleet Street and reveals how the Victorian occupants of 10 Downing Street secretly conveyed their viewpoints via the newspapers. For the first time, Original Spin tells the whole, unvarnished, story.
$46.00 Hb ISBN 9780415535878 Publish October 2013 320 pages Routledge NZRRP$58.00
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The Politics of Compassion
Re-Imagining Humane Governance
Michael Ure, University of Queensland, Australia and Mervyn Frost, King's College London, UK.
Fixing the Global Center
The Politics of Compassion provides a critical overview of the role of the emotions in politics. Compassion is a politically charged virtue, and yet we know suprisingly little about the uses (and abuses) of compassion in political environments. Covering sociology, political theory and psychology, and with contributions from Martha Nussbaum and Andrew Linklater amongst others, the book gives a succinct overview of the main theories of political compassion and the emotions in politics. It covers key concepts such as humanitarianism, political emotion and agency in relation to compassion as a political virtue. The Politics of Compassion will provide readers in political theory, international relations, political sociology and psychology with a comprehensive exposition and assessment of the politics of compassion.
Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane. Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including, Geopolitics, The Future of International law, Climate Change and Nuclear weapons, 9/11, Global Democracy and the UN. In the last part, Falk moves the discussion on to the search for Progressive Politics, the Israel/Palestinian conflict and the World Order Models Project. He examines the urgent challenges that we must face to counter imperialism, injustice, global poverty, militarism and environmental disaster. In so doing, he outlines the radical reforms that are needed on an institutional level and within global civil society if we are to realize the dream of a world that is more just, equitable and peaceful.
Richard Falk, Princeton University, USA.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9780415815574 Publish October 2013 248 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
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Power in a Changing World Economy
Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance
Lessions from East Asia
Rodney Bruce Hall, Oxford University, UK.
Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, USA and Eric M.P. Chiu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.
NGOs have proliferated in number and become increasingly influential players in world politics in the past three decades. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis whether, or the extent to which, NGOs can contribute as private actors to authoritative governance outcomes in the security realm, and thereby help mitigate armed violence by plugging governance gaps in this arena that state actors, or international governmental organizations (IGOs) either neglect, or can better address with NGO assistance. This book examines the current and future issues surrounding this objective in four sections: a practitioner's perspective of the potentials of conflict governance NGOs, global civil society and legitimation of conflict governance NGO activities, conflict governance NGOs as norm entrepreneurs and norm diffusion in global governance, and conflict governance NGOs in action.
$62.00 Pb ISBN 9780415831338 Publish October 2013 240 pages Routledge NZRRP$78.00
This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia to advance our theoretic understanding of state power in IPE. The volume's nine essays, contributed by leading scholars in the United States, Britain and Taiwan, aim to extract relevant inferences and insights from these developments for the study of state power. All are framed by a core agenda encompassing four key clusters of questions concerning the meaning, sources, uses, and limits of power. These essays ask: What new lessons are offered for power analysis in International Political Economy? Quantity
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Global Horizons
$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415671590 Publish October 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
The persistence and intensity of political conflict seems surprising in light of people's oft expressed longing for consensus, unity, and peace. Predisposed presents evidence that people differ politically not just because they grew up in different cultures or were presented with different information. Our story suggests instead that political opponents simply experience, process, and respond to the world differently. It follows, then, that the key to getting along politically is not the ability of one side to persuade the other side to see the error of its ways but rather the ability of each side to see that the other side is different, not just politically, but physically. Predisposed will change the way you think about politics and partisan conflict.
CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs
Understanding Civil Wars Continuity and Change in Intra-State Conflict
Robert W. Bradnock, King’s College London, UK.
$54.95 Pb ISBN 9780415545136 Publish October 2013 240 pages Routledge NZRRP$69.95
This Atlas highlights the global significance of South Asia in relation to economic, geopolitical and strategic interests. It provides a coherent descriptive and analytical account of the key elements of the complex societies that make up the region and its component countries. Illustrated with 80 maps and offering concise entries on key issues, the book is structured thematically in these sections: South Asia in Global Context, The Geographical Environment, The Historical Evolution of Modern South Asia, Key Issues in Contemporary South Asia, The Economy, Defence and Security, and South Asia, its Neighbours and the World.
Edward Newman, University of Birmingham, UK.
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780415855174 Publish October 2013 224 pages Routledge NZRRP$75.00
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This book explores a range of debates and topics about intrastate conflict and civil war. Using a wide range of illustrative case studies, it explores debates about the causes, onset, nature, duration, impact, social context and the termination (and recurrence) of civil wars. It also considers a number of key questions which confront the academic and policy worlds in relation to intrastate conflict, such as: have civil wars fundamentally changed in nature in recent years, in terms of their causes, nature, social context and human impact? The book also explores debates about the methodology of how to study, understand and explain intrastate conflict. and the question of whether the concept of ‘civil wars'is empirically meaningful in an era of globalization and transnational war.
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Howard Zinn A Life on the Left Martin Duberman, CUNY Graduate School, USA. Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one of America's most recognizable and admired progressive voices. His rich, complicated, and fascinating life placed Zinn at the heart of the signal events of modern American history-from the battlefields of World War II to the McCarthy era, the civil rights and the antiwar movements, and beyond. A bombardier who later renounced war, a son of working-class parents who earned a doctorate at Columbia, a white professor who taught at the historically black Spelman College in Atlanta, a committed scholar who will be forever remembered as a devoted "people's historian," Howard Zinn blazed a bold, iconoclastic path through the turbulent second half of the twentieth century. For the millions who were moved by Zinn's personal example of political engagement and by his inspiring "bottom up" history, here is an authoritative biography of this towering figure-by Martin Duberman, recipient of the American Historical Association's 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. Given exclusive access to the previously closed Zinn archives, Duberman's impeccably researched biography is illustrated with never-before-published photos from the Zinn family collection. Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left is a major publishing event that brings to life one of the most inspiring figures of our time. $24.95 Pb, ISBN 9781595589347 Publish October 2013, 400 pages The New Press NZRRP$34.95 “Profoundly moving and perfectly timed.” -Blanche Wiesen Cook “Compulsively readable and elegant.” -ForeWord Quantity
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Scattered Ghosts One Family’s Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution Nick Barlay has written award-winning radio plays, contributed to short story anthologies and his journalism has appeared in many publications, including The Times and Time Out. He was named as one of Granta's 20 best young British novelists in 2003, until it was discovered he was too old to be young. When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Resurrecting 200 years of wars and revolutions, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire via two totalitarianisms to contemporary Britain, and through the remnants of family possessions and old memories, Nick Barlay retraces the footsteps of the vanished. There is the death march of a grandfather, the military manoeuvres of a great uncle, the final weeks and moments of a great grandmother deported to Auschwitz, two boys' survival of an untold massacre and codenamed spies operating in Cold War Britain. Scattered Ghosts is the poignant, powerful story of an all but disappeared world, told through the extraordinary experiences of a single family ruptured by great forces and occasionally brought together by cherry strudel. $39.95 Pb, ISBN 9781780766621 Publish October 2013, 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95 From the book: “In Hungary, in the autumn of 1956, everyone was given the same choice. The revolution, in that sense, was egalitarian. Each choice was accompanied by a story, and stories of the revolution were sprayed like bullet holes across the country. There were a lot of bullet holes. Some, especially in the capital, are still there. You can see them on random buildings, around window frames, above doors, on fifth-floor balconies, at street level, at head level, from any angle, as if the whole city was pock-marked or porous, as if the whole city was a giant sponge.” Quantity
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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Biko
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767857 Publish October 2013 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
A Life
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
Xolela Mangcu, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Mark Francis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history. As a leading anti-apartheid activist and thinker, Biko created the Black Consciousness Movement, the grassroots organisation which would mobilise a large proportion of the black urban population. His death in policy custody at the age of just 30 robbed South Africa of one of its most gifted leaders. Although the rudimentary facts of his life - and death - are well known, there has until now been no indepth book on this major political figure and the impact of his life and tragic death. Xolela Mangcu, who knew Biko, provides the first in-depth look at the life of one of the most iconic figures of the anti-apartheid movement, whose legacy is still strongly felt today, both in South Africa, and worldwide in the global struggle for civil rights, today.
The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (18201903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. His unique system of knowledge, which bridged the gap between empiricism and metaphysics, offered modern and scientific answers to questions about the meaning of life and made him a world philosopher of the late nineteenth century. In this major new study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781844656783 Publish October 2013 464 pages Acumen NZRRP$49.95
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Celestial Revolutionary
The Hero of Budapest
Copernicus, the Man and His Universe
The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg
John Freely is author of Children of Achilles, The Cyclades, The Ionian Islands (all I.B.Tauris).
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781780763507 Publish October 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95
Bengt Jangfeldt is the author biography Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele which won the Swedish Academy's prize for biography.
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of modern era: the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. This biography would be a natural follow-up to John's books on Islamic and Greek science, because Copernicus wove together the two strands that had threaded their way through the ancient Greek and medieval Islamic worlds, combining the heliocentric theory of the Greek astronomer Aristarchus with the mathematical methods developed by Islamic astronomers, opening the way for the new astronomy and science that emerged in western Europe in the seventeenth century. Most of the books written on Copernicus during the last 50 years have concentrated on his theories; John proposes to write about the enigmatic man.
$54.95 Hb ISBN 9781780766829 Publish October 2013 352 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$69.95
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The story of Raoul Wallenberg is one of the most remarkable of World War II. Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, recruited by the War Refugee Board to rescue thousands of Hungarian Jews. Once in Budapest, he created and distributed so called 'protection passports' among the Jewish population, thus managing to save up to 7,000 people. Yet, when Budapest was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945, Wallenberg was arrested, taken to Moscow and disappeared into the Soviet prison system. Using previously unseen sources, Jangfeldt has been able to reconstruct the events surrounding Wallenberg's arrest almost hour by hour and, for the first time, he presents evidence of why Wallenberg was arrested and what happened to him after he disappeared. Quantity
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Paul Robeson
Place-Hacking the City from Tunnels to Skyscrapers
A Watched Man
Bradley L. Garrett, University of Oxford, UK.
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African American singer was the voice of the people, both on stage and as a political activist who refused to be silenced as he fought for the rights of the oppressed. His message of peace, equality and justice was understood as much on the streets of Manchester, Moscow, Johannesburg and Bombay as it was in Harlem and Washington, DC. Jordan Goodman tells the story of Robeson during the tumultuous Cold War when the United States government became so worried by his impact abroad that it tried to silence him.
Jordan Goodman, University College London, UK.
What does it feel like to find the city's edges, to explore its hidden tunnels and scale its skyscrapers? In Explore Everything, Bradley L. Garrett tells the story of his adventures with the London Consolidation Crew, an infamous urban exploration collective, as they cross boundaries, uncover ruins and experience the city in new ways that shatter conventions of everyday life. In a series of narratives, including stories of how the LCC found the lost underground stations of London, discovered abandoned bunkers and ruins in Eastern Europe and scaled the tallest buildings in London, Paris, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Las Vegas, Garrett explores the various motivations for illicit trespass and what it might mean. The book is a passionate manifesto for rights to the city as well as new ways of belonging in and understanding the metropolis.
$39.95 Hb ISBN 9781781681312 Publish October 2013 320 pages Verso NZRRP$54.95
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$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766812 Publish October 2013 328 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
A Quest in the Middle East
Unspeakable Awfulness
Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq
America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900
Liora Lukitz, Harvard University, USA.
Kenneth D. Rose, California State University, UK.
Belonging to the tradition of the great British Middle East enthusiasts of the early 20th century, Gertrude Bell explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I and was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the Arab states in the Middle East. This book offers a contribution to the study of Bell's colourful life - exploring the personal passions, desires and relationships that drove her - as well as to an understanding of the creation of a country so central to the instability of today's Middle East. Using various sources, including Bell's own diaries and letters, Liora Lukitz provides a portrait of this influential character and the tragedy, vulnerability and frustrations that were key to her quest for both a British-dominated Middle East, and relief from the torture of her romantic failures.
The period from 1865 to 1900 was the golden age for European travel in the United States. A journey to America was far from the stale and predictable European tour, promising encounters with vast, wild terrain, and people whose culture was similiar enough to theirs to be familiar, but different enough to be interesting, if a bit rough and uncomfortable. Ken Rose has gathered the most interesting observations of European travelers to the United States from this time period, and by cataloging their descriptions, provides another lens by which Americans can judge themselves and their own history. Helpfully organized by clearly relatable topics like 'transportation' or 'lodging', the historiography and excerpts will help readers compare their own travel experiences with those of people long gone.
$44.95 Pb ISBN 9780415817653 Publish October 2013 224 pages Routledge NZRRP$59.95
Revolutionary Lives
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$24.95 Pb ISBN 9780745333229 Publish October 2013 176 pages Pluto NZRRP$34.95
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Where Hornbills Fly
Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo
Katherine Connelly, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Erik Jensen, Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK.
Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine Connelly charts Pankhurst's activism from her teens as a member of the Independent Labour Party, to her time as a leading suffragette before the WWI, through to her revolutionary socialist, anti-fascist and antiimperialist campaigning in later years. Connelly analyses the frustrating aspects of Pankhurst's political practice: why she did not speak out earlier in the suffragette movement, why she let herself be forced out of the Women's Social and Political Union and why she ended her days under the patronage of the Emperor of Ethiopia. This lively and accessible biography presents Pankhurst, despite her flaws, as a courageous and inspiring campaigner, of huge relevance to those engaged in political struggles today.
Once headhunters under the rule of White Rajahs and briefly colonised before independence within Malaysia, the Iban Dayaks of Borneo are one of the world's most extraordinary indigenous tribes, possessing ancient traditions and a unique way of life. As a young man Erik Jensen settled in Sarawak where he lived with the Iban for seven years, learning their language and the varied rites and practices of their lives. In this compelling and beautifully-wrought memoir, Erik Jensen reveals the challenges facing the Iban as they adapt to another century, whilst fighting to preserve their identity and singular place in the world. Haunting, yet hopeful, Where Hornbills Fly opens a window onto a vanishing world and paints a remarkable portrait of this fragile tribe, which continues to survive deep in Borneo.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767741 Publish October 2013 304 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
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The Nomad's Path
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Travels in the Sahel Alistair Carr, Royal Geographical Society, UK.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9781780766898 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$49.95
Whistler in London
The Manga is one of Africa's most wild and remote regions: a hostile and unforgiving landscape inhabited by nomads. The Nomad's Path is a beautifully rendered account of a journey across this inhospitable region at a time of Tuareg insurgency in 2004 and 2008. Carr sets out to explore the centuries-old link between the Barbary Coast and the Sahel along the Old Salt Road, while conjuring to life a lost wilderness and those who survive within it. At its heart is the story of a daring journey across the Sahel with the Tubu nomads. With tales of rebellion, lost civilisations, explorers - both intrepid and eccentric - and an epic seventeenth-century odyssey, Carr captures a sense of the intangible nature of the Sahel and delivers an evocative portrait of the Tubu - a people living on the tide-line of the Sahara and the edge of the world.
Battersea Bridge and the Thames Margaret F. MacDonald and Patricia de Montford, both at University of Glasgow, UK.
$74.95 Hb ISBN 9781781300060 Publish October 2013 160 pages Philip Wilson Publishers NZRRP$99.95
In the 1860s and 1870s Whistler produced a body of work based on Battersea Bridge, London. Pivotal to his career, this beautiful group of paintings permits a detailed examination of his approach to composition, subject and technique. This comprehensive and handsomely illustrated study presents the definitive examples of Whistler's radical new approach to the time-honoured subject of the city and river. The works reveal to us Whistler's world - the exhibitions, personalities, buildings, style and atmosphere which inform his art and root this American cosmopolitan securely in the ranks of noted artists inspired by London and the Thames. Quantity
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SOCIETY & CULTURE Amateur Media
Cultural Adaptation
Social, cultural and legal perspectives
Albert Moran, Griffith University, Australia and Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Dan Hunter, New York Law School, USA; Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas both at, Swinburne University, Australia; and Megan Richardson, University of Melbourne, Australia.
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780415709071 Published July 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
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This book provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics and media studies based in the UK, Europe and Singapore. Each section of the book contains a detailed case study on a selected topic, followed by two further pieces providing additional analysis and commentary. Using an extraordinary array of case studies and examples, this book presents a critical dialogue across law and the humanities, exploring the dynamic tensions and interdependencies between amateur and professional creative production.
$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415852999 Published June 2013 192 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
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Bible and Cinema
The Culture of People's Democracy
An Introduction
Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948
Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Tyrus Miller Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, USA.
This is a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which the Bible has been used and represented in mainstream cinema. Adele Reinhartz considers the pervasive use of the Bible in feature films, and the medium of film as part of the Bible's reception history. The book examines how films draw on the Old and New Testament and the figure of Jesus Christ in various direct and indirect ways to develop their plots, characters, and themes. As well as movies that set out explicitly to retell biblical stories in their ancient context, it explores the ways in which contemporary, fictional feature films make use of biblical narrative.
Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukรกcs most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentiethcentury. $42.00 Pb ISBN 9781608463374 Publish October 2013 374 pages Haymarket NZRRP$53.00
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Compassionate Light in Asia
Cyberpsychology and New Media
A Dialogue
A Thematic Reader
Jin Yong is China's bestselling living novelist.
$63.00 Hb ISBN 9781848851986 Publish October 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$80.00
Andrew Power and Grรกinne Kirwan, both at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Ireland.
'Beautiful encounters. Momentary encounters. Each person's drama is unique.' This particular encounter, between a celebrated Chinese novelist and prominent Japanese religious leader, illustrates the truth of that reflection: for in the discussion that resulted from their meetings, Jin Yong and Daisaku Ikeda were able to find remarkable common ground - what they refer to as a 'karmic bond' - resulting from the particularity of their experiences in wartime and mutual resistance to adversity. The interlocutors explore such topics as the nature of friendship; theories of civilization; world literatures that have inspired them; the importance of free speech; Buddhist perspectives on life and death; and the spiritual search for truth. Demonstrating a remarkable capacity for empathy throughout, the authors incarnate in their lives and work an intelligent and sympathetic compassion that represents a beacon of hope to the future direction of Sino-Japanese relations.
$57.00 Pb ISBN 9781848721661 Publish October 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$72.00
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Cyberpsychology is the study of human interactions with the internet, mobile computing and telephony, games consoles, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other contemporary electronic technologies. The field has grown substantially over the past few years and this book surveys how researchers are tackling the impact of new technology on human behaviour and how people interact with this technology. Examining topics as diverse as online dating, social networking, online communications, artificial intelligence, health-information seeking behaviour, education online, online therapies and cybercrime, this book provides an in-depth overview of this burgeoning field, and allows those with little previous knowledge to gain an appreciation of the diversity of the research in the area. Quantity
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Historical Materialism
$51.00 Pb ISBN 9780415779487 Publish October 2013 320 pages Routledge NZRRP$64.00
Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. This intriguing, engrossing, and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative borrowing world wide with an international cast of contributors and case studies from India to Ireland, Canada to China. Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste, maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones, and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles.
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SOCIETY & CULTURE Dreams and Modernity
On Camera
A Cultural History
How to Report, Anchor and Interview, Second Edition
Helen Groth, University of New South Wales, Australia and Natalya Lusty, University of Sydney, Australia.
$59.95 Pb ISBN 9780415606950 Publish October 2013 240 pages Routledge NZRRP$74.95
Nancy Reardon, New York University, USA.
Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History explores the dream as a distinctively modern object of inquiry and as a fundamental aspect of identity and culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Authors Helen Groth and Natalya Lusty examine how the intensification and cross-fertilization of ideas about dreams in this period became a catalyst for new kinds of networks of knowledge across aesthetic, psychological, philosophical and vernacular domains. In uncovering a complex and diverse archive, Dreams and Modernity reveals how the explosion of interest in dreams informed the psychic, imaginative and intimate life of the modern subject.
$69.00 Pb ISBN 9780415831826 Publish October 2013 400 pages Focal Press NZRRP$87.00
Reardon's On Camera: How to Report, Anchor & Interview teaches you how to become professional and effective on camera. You'll learn how to appear and feel at ease whether doing an interview, reporting in the field, reading from a prompter, or giving a video presentation. It'll give you the nuts and bolts of how to do the job at the network level or as a backpack journalist, so you feel confident that when you're standing in front of the camera you will know what you're doing. Whether new to television or experienced in front of a camera, you will improve on your current skills through careerfocused tips and tried-and-true principles-all oriented to skills development-in this book.
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From Trafficking to Terror
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
Constructing a Global Social Problem
Victoria Bestor and Theodore C. Bestor, both at Harvard University, UK and Akiko Yamagata, Harvard Art Museum, USA.
Framing 21st Century Social Issues
Pardis Mahdavi, PhD, Pomona College, USA. A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed 'war on terror' and ‘war on trafficking' are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From Trafficking to Terror presents the need to challenge the trafficking and terror paradigm, and rethink approaches to the large scale challenges these discourses have created. $14.95 Pb ISBN 9780415642125 Publish October 2013 112 pages Routledge NZRRP$19.95
$69.00 Pb ISBN 9780415709149 Publish July 2013 344 pages Routledge NZRRP$87.00
This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. Written by an international team of Japan experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into Japanese culture and society. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese. Students, teachers and professionals alike will benefit from the broad ranging discussions, useful links to online resources and suggested reading lists.
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New Age Spirituality
Striking Back in Chicago
Rethinking Religion
How Teachers took on City Hall and Pushed Back Corporate Edu cation 'Reform'
Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh, UK and Ingvild SĂŚlid Gilhus, University of Bergen, Norway.
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9781844657148 Publish October 2013 288 pages Acumen NZRRP$58.00
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movements a very challenging field to understand using traditional models of religious analysis. Rather than treating new age as an exotic specimen on the margins of "proper" religion, New Age Spirituality examines these movements as a form of everyday or lived religion. The book brings together an international range of scholars to explore the key issues: insight, healing, divination, meditation, gnosis, extraordinary experiences, and interactions with gods, spirits and superhuman powers. Combining discussion of contemporary beliefs and practices with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, the book repositions new age spirituality at the forefront of the contemporary study of religion.
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Lee Sustar is labor editor for Socialist Worker (SocialistWorker.org). His writings on economics and international affairs have appeared in the International Socialist Review, New Labor Forum, Znet, Counterpunch and other publications. After years in which teachers have been blamed for the problems of underfunded and understaffed schools, the Chicago teachers' strike of 2012 transformed the debate. From the overwhelming strike authorization vote that overcame anti-union legislation to repeated mass marches and protests, the Chicago Teachers Union showed teachers were determined to maker their voices heard in response to corporate-driven education reform.
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Subcultures
The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower
The Basics
The Basics
Ross Haenfler, University of Mississippi, USA.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9780415530293 Publish October 2013 208 pages Routledge NZRRP$34.95
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As Private Bradley Manning’s trial unfolds, Chase Madar’s The Passion of Bradley Manning continues to receive some great publicity.
Subcultures is an accessible, engaging introduction to youth cultures in a global context. Blending theory and practice to examine a range of subcultural movements including hip hop in Japan, global graffiti writing crews, heavy metal in Europe and straight edge movements in the USA, this book answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject, including: What is a subculture? How do subcultures emerge, who participates and why? What is the relationship between deviance, resistance and the ‘mainstream'? How has global media and virtual networking influenced subcultures?
“’Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom.’ The opening of Chase Madar’s book leaves us in no doubt as to the author’s view on his subject: whistleblower Bradley Manning, the man said to have supplied half a million classified documents to WikiLeaks... Madar suggests Manning’s case reflects a changing political climate. The Pentagon Papers came out at the high-water mark of US liberalism. Today, tolerance for dissent has become much lower.” – The Age, May 11th 2013. Full article here: www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books $19.95 Pb ISBN 9781781680698 February 2013 188 pages Verso NZRP$24.95
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS The End of the Performance Review A New Approach to Appraising Employee Performance Tim Baker is an international consultant with 17 years of experience, and Managing Director of WINNERS-AT-WORK Pty Ltd. He has degrees in education and psychology and was awarded a doctoral degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia where his thesis was recognised by the prestigious international Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in 2007. He serves on the QUT Council, is a Fellow of both the Australian Human Resource Institute and the Australian Institute of Professional Facilitators. Most organizational leaders are locked into conducting annual or bi-annual performance reviews with their staff although they know the system is not working. Performance reviews are costly, time consuming and often a one-way experience without follow up. Companies need an entirely new approach to performance management. The End of the Performance Review is a thoroughly tested, distinctive alternative that draws on well established principles of organizational behavior. Based around Tim Baker's unique '5 Conversations', each lasting ten minutes, the reader is offered a new model for performance management that better reflects the changing needs of both sides of the employment relationship. With a timely focus on fostering innovation, the book is practical and easy to use - featuring case studies, interviews and useful templates. $35.00 Pb, ISBN 9781137347497 Publish October 2013, 160 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$45.00
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“Tim Baker’s new book revolutionizes the way to view and conduct employee appraisals. His method is brilliant in its simplicity and highly effective in its approach. ‘The End’ for the traditional performance review but just the beginning for a groundbreaking new model.” - Marshall Goldsmith, the author of MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Quantity
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Austerity Ireland
Crucible of Resistance
The Failure of Irish Capitalism
Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economy
Kieran Allen, University College Dublin, Ireland and Brian O'Boyle, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9780745334011 Publish October 2013 192 pages Pluto NZRRP$44.95
Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos co-authored 22 Things That They Tell You About the Greek Crisis That Aren’t So (2013).
Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery. In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish state's response to the crash has primarily been designed to protect economic privilege. The resulting austerity has been a failure and is likely to produce a decade of hardship. The book offers a deeply informed and penetrating diagnosis of Ireland's current socio-economic and political malaise, suggesting that a political earthquake is underway which may benefit the left.
$34.95 Pb ISBN 9780745333809 Publish October 2013 192 pages Pluto NZRRP$44.95
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Crucible of Resistance seeks to challenge the mainstream account of the 'Greek Crisis' and situate it within a broader regional context and ultimately a critique of the world economic system. The authors argue that Greece's exceptionalism is largely a myth. They show how the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis lie in key features of the neo-liberal economic order, including income and wealth inequalities and the hollowing out of democratic and deliberative institutions. A progressive exit from the crisis, for Greece and the eurozone as a whole, entails meeting head on the limitations of the neo-liberal order. This book argues that an effective response entails confronting not just the neo-liberal order, but also the earlier social-democratic Keynesian regime. Quantity
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Getting to We
Ten Crises
Negotiating Agreements for Highly Collaborative Relationships
Peter Montiel, Williams College, USA.
Kate Vitasek, Wright State University, USA; Jeanette Nyden, J.D., the author of Negotiation Rules! A Practical Approach to Big Deal Negotiations and David Frydlinger is the head of the group for Strategic Contracts at Lindahl law firm in Sweden.
$49.95 Hb ISBN 9781137297181 Publish October 2013 256 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$59.95
Bestselling author Kate Vitasek shows how companies can work together to create value in the market place. Drawing on best practices and real examples from companies who are achieving record results, Getting to We flips conventional negotiation on its head, shifting the perspective from a tug of war between parties to a collaborative partnership where both sides effectively pull against a business problem.
$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415539739 Publish October 2013 288 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
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Understanding Management in China
Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World
Past, Present and Future
Laurence Cockcroft is a Founder of Transparency International.
Malcolm Warner, University of Cambridge, UK.
Corruption has played a pivotal role in determining the current state of the world from mass poverty in developing countries, to the destruction of natural resources and to the erosion of trust in political parties. Laurence Cockcroft here argues that corruption has to be seen as the result of the interplay between elite 'embedded networks', greed and organised crime. He shows how the growth of corruption has been facilitated by globalisation, the integration of new and expanding markets into the world economy, and by the rapid expansion of 'offshore' financial facilities. By identifying the main drivers of corruption world-wide and analyzing the current action to control them, this book suggests ways in which the problems caused by corruption can be addressed and ultimately prevented.
$64.95 Pb ISBN 9780415506120 Publish October 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$79.95
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The Making of Global Capitalism
THE ARTS
The Political Economy of American Empire
Bad Boy Bubby Gabrielle Murray is Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. Her publications include This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah (2004) and various articles in academic journals such as Jumpcut: A Review of Media, Screening the Past and Metro Magazine.
Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch, both at York University, UK.
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The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twentyfirst century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren't straightforwardly opposing forces. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state. The Making of Global Capitalism identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements that might transcend global markets.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9780230296763 Publish October 2013 160 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$43.00
Bad Boy Bubby focuses on a 35 year-old man-child whose 'mother/keeper' keeps him imprisoned in a windowless hovel. From the moment it entered the festival cycle in 1993, the film has polarized audiences. This volume examines how and why the film produced such conflicting responses, as well as reviewing its current relevance.
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Controversies
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781781681367 Publish October 2013 464 pages Verso NZRRP$39.95
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Malcolm Warner explores the past, present and future of Chinese management. The first part of the work examines the history of management practices in the ‘Middle Kingdom', outlining the influence of traditional Chinese values, especially the Confucian inheritance, and also the legacy of the imperial bureaucracy with its meritocratic examination system, and the impact of industrialization and the influx of foreign-owned businesses in the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century. It next goes on to consider the current state of China's management. The final part of the book concludes with reflections on how management in China is likely to develop in the near-future, especially on how far it will converge with global practices.
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Global Corruption
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780767604 Publish October 2013 288 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$39.95
This book analyses ten of the most important financial crises of the last thirty years. The specific crises covered in the book are the 1982 Chilean crisis, the 1992 ERM crisis, the 1994 Mexican crisis, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 1998 Russian crisis, the 1999 Brazilian crisis, the 1999 Ecuadorian crisis, the 2000 Turkish crisis, the 2002 Argentine crisis, and the 2008 crisis in Iceland. The set includes the most important emerging-market crises of the last three decades as well as two particularly informative advanced-country crises, the ERM crisis of 1992 and the Icelandic crisis of 2008. A separate chapter is devoted to each crisis, and a brief concluding chapter sums up some of the key lessons that we can draw from these events.
THE ARTS
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9781844574155 Publish July 2013 232 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$49.00
British Trash Cinema
Doris Day Confidential
I.Q. Hunter is Reader in Film Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Hollywood, Sex and Stardom
British Trash Cinema is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-house camp, Hammer's prehistoric fantasies and the worst British films ever made, author I.Q. Hunter draws on rare archival material and new primary research to take us through the weird and wonderful world of British trash cinema. Beginning by outlining the definitions of trash films and their place in British film history, Hunter explores topics including: Hammer's overlooked fantasy films, the emergence of the sexploitation film in the 1950s and 60s, the sex industry in the 1970s, Ken Russell's high camp Gothic and erotic adaptations since the 1980s, gross-out comedies, revenge films, and contemporary straight-to-DVD horror and erotica.
Doris Day was a major star during the 1950s and '60s. Today, forty years after her last film, the star (who was ninety in April 2012) is often still invoked as shorthand for a kind of sexuality now felt outmoded, being typecast as 'the forty year old virgin'. Close attention to the facts of Day's own life (three times married) challenges this assumption and the majority of her film roles also prove otherwise, with Day most frequently portraying a woman of maturely sexual desires. How did such pejorative labelling arise, and why has it stuck so tenaciously to Day, even now? This book addresses these questions through closely examining Day's characters and performances across her thirtyeight films and her TV work, as well as material from other popular media for the source of the virgin myth.
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, University of Kent, UK.
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781848855823 Publish October 2013 256 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$43.00
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Caryl Churchill
The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens
Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
Professor Mary Luckhurst, University of York, UK.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415345781 Publish October 2013 192 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. Always unpredictable in her stage experiments, her plays have stretched the relationships between form and content, actor and spectator to their limits. This new critical introduction to Churchill examines her political agendas, her collaborations with other practitioners, and looks at specific production histories of her plays. Churchill's work continues to have profound resonances with her audiences and this book explores her preoccupation with representing such phenomena as capitalism, genocide, environmental issues, identity, psychiatry and mental illness, parenting, violence and terrorism. It includes new interviews with actors and directors of her work, and gathers together source material from her wide-ranging career.
The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image Gustavo Mercado, Hunter College, USA
$39.00 Pb ISBN 9780415821315 Publish October 2013 210 pages Focal Press NZRRP$49.00
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Mark Ravenhill
German Cinema - Terror and Trauma Since 1945
John F. Deeney, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
$39.95 Pb ISBN 9780415375115 Publish October 2013 192 pages Routledge NZRRP$49.95
Today, interchangeable lens systems are more accessible than ever due to their decreasing prices and the increasing amounts of cameras that allow for interchangeable lens use. While some cinematography books touch on the use of different lenses, this is the first book to treat the topic with the breadth it commands. Following the same format of the author's first book, the very successful, Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition, this book shows readers in a visually-stunning way how crucial lens selection is to the design and intentions of a filmmaker's visual story. Scenes from a wide range of movies are shown in 4-color, and broken down to convey what lens was used, and how the reader can use that lense on their own film to achieve the story, and emotions they seek.
Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Mark Ravenhill is the first book to provide a detailed analysis of the work of arguably the most important dramatist to have emerged from the British theatre over the past twenty years. Shopping and F***ing (1996) was seen by many to uniquely capture the social and political fallout of a decade, and Ravenhill fast attained a status as the ‘rude boy' of British theatre. Using original interview material with the dramatist and his collaborators, together with reviews and criticism, the book argues how Ravenhill has sought not only to redefine the terms of engagement between the playwright and the contemporary theatre, but that his evolving dramaturgy opens up new and important questions about the relationship between playwriting and politics, culture and society in the new millennium.
$64.00 Pb ISBN 9780415709279 Publish October 2013 350 pages Routledge NZRRP$81.00
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Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. Against the background of universalized victimhood, a cinema of commemoration has, if anything, confirmed the violence that the past continues to exert on the present, in the form of missed encounters, retroactive incidents, unintended slippages and uncanny parallels, which Elsaesser-reviving the full meaning of Freud's Fehlleistung-calls the parapractic performativity of cultural memory.
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THE ARTS
$32.00 Pb ISBN 9780240823775 Publish October 2013 300 pages Focal Press NZRRP$41.00
How to Manage Your Agent
Joss Whedon, A Creative Protrait
A Writer s Guide to Hollywood Representation
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel’s The Avengers
Chad Gervich is a television writer/producer, bestselling author, and award-winning playwright.
David Lavery, Brunel University, UK.
How to Manage Your Agent is a fun, friendly guide to the world of literary representation. Enter the inner sanctums of Hollywood's powerbrokers and learn how they influence what pitches get bought, what projects get sold, and which writers get hired. Find tips from toplevel executives, agents, managers, producers, and writers to help you maximize your own representation and kick your career into overdrive! You'll learn how agents prioritize their client list… and ways to guarantee you're at the top; when to approach new representation… and what you need to capture their interest; Hollywood's secret buying schedule… and how to ensure you're on it and many others.
$25.00 Pb ISBN 9781848850309 Publish October 2013 272 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$32.00
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Inside the Tardis
Le Jour Se Leve
The Worlds of Doctor Who
French Film Guide
James Chapman, University of Leicester, UK.
Ben McCann, University of Adelaide, Australia.
In this new study of a television institution - the first to draw extensively on the full riches of the BBC Written Archives - James Chapman explores the history of Doctor Who from its origins to the present day. He shows how the series has evolved to meet changing contexts inside the BBC and in the wider culture, while all the time retaining its quirky, eccentric and distinctively British characteristics. And he demonstrates how the production history of the series has allowed it to renew and refresh its format in response to developments in the wider world of science fiction. Chapman writes from the perspective of a fan as well as a historian: this will be the essential reading for all serious Doctor Who aficionados.
Le Jour se Leve (1939), directed by Marcel Carne, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Carne shuttles between different registers, tones, and textures throughout, marshalling the studio's resources to create striking pictorial compositions. Ben McCann's perceptive and lively book traces the evolution of Le Jour se Leve and situates it in a very specific historical moment. He also underlines the importance of actors Jules Berry and Arletty, production designer Alexandre Trauner, writer Jacques Prevert, and cinematographer Curt Courant in establishing the film's tone, mood, and visual style. He charts the national and international reception of the film, uncovering a work that deeply divided critics at a time of national crisis. He also reveals Le Jour se Leve to be a key transitional work between European and American noir.
$29.95 Pb ISBN 9781780765921 Publish October 2013 136 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$34.95
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Mulholland Drive
In the Studio and on Stage
Zina Giannopoulou, University of California, USA.
Mark Jenkins is a writer for Melody Maker, Keyboard, and Music Week.
Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years. It occupies a central and controversial position in the work of its director, David Lynch, who won the best director award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for the movie. This book is the first full philosophical appraisal of Lynch's film. It discusses the following topics: the identity of the self and its persistence through time, the central, dual roles played by fantasy and reality throughout the film, whether Mulholland Drive is best understood epistemologically via reason and language, or whether, as Lynch himself argues, by one's 'inner feelings' and emotions, parallels between Mulholland Drive and Kafka's The Castle, both of which pit their protagonists at the mercy of unseen forces, Mulholland Drive and romanticism.
Just as computer software changed the face of performing and recording over the past decades, Apple's iPad® tablet has the power to change how you produce music today. Author Mark Jenkins summarizes the iPad tablet's massive potential for music creation, explaining in detail how all iPad models can connect to musically oriented accessories and reviewing the vast range of audio inputs. Mark Jenkins explains and reviews the musical potential of iPad-oriented music equipment from dozens of manufacturers, including Akai, Alesis, IK Multimedia, Korg, Line 6, M-Audio, Novation, Roland, TASCAM, and many others. The potential of Android tablets for music creation is also examined. Appendices list in detail the specifications for the iPad interface sockets and include links to Apple's schemes for software and hardware developers.
$51.00 Pb ISBN 9780415824668 Publish October 2013 176 pages Routledge NZRRP$64.00
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Philosophers on Film
$22.95 Pb ISBN 9780415656801 Publish December 2012 60 pages Focal Press NZRRP$29.95
Ciné-File French Film Guides
$34.00 Pb ISBN 9781780761404 Publish October 2013 336 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$43.00
For millions of fans around the world, Joss Whedon is known as the cult creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, television designed to be, as he says, 'an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved'. Whedon's works, the "Whedonverses", have generated astonishing critical and scholarly interest, but nothing has hitherto investigated in depth their source: the mind of Joss Whedon. An intellectual biography written by world expert on the Whedonverse David Lavery, this book tracks Whedon's multifaceted magic from the source - early influences of parents and teachers, comics, books, films, television, collaborators - to artistic incarnation.
THE ARTS Philosophy and Theatre
$46.00 Pb ISBN 9780415604512 Publish October 2013 256 pages Routledge NZRRP$58.00
An Introduction
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
Tom Stern, University College London, UK.
Fifth Edition
The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Despite this rich history the study of philosophy and theatre has been largely overlooked in contemporary philosophy. This is the first book to introduce philosophy and theatre. It covers key topics and debates, presenting the contributions of major figures in the history of philosophy, including: what is theatre?; how does theatre compare with other arts?; theatre as imitation, including Plato on mimesis; truth and illusion in the theatre, including Nietzsche on tragedy; theatre as history; theatre and morality, including Rousseau's criticisms of theatre; audience and emotion, including Aristotle on catharsis; theatre and politics, including Brecht's Epic Theatre.
James Thomas, Professor of Theatre, Wayne State University. USA. $51.00 Pb ISBN 9780415663250 Publish October 2013 392 pages Focal Press NZRRP$64.00
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A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
Seeing from Above
Third Edition
A Cultural History of the Aerial View
Steven Louis Shelley is the inventor and patent holder of the award-winning Field Templates™ and SoftSymbols™.
Mark Dorrian, University of Newcastle, UK and Frédéric Pousin, Université de Paris, France.
In this third edition, Shelley throws the door wide open and shows step-by-step how to construct every lighting system in the light plot. Combining his diacritical analysis, killer drafting, and analytic use of the Slinky Method and Slinky Calculations, he presents the Periodic Table of Fundamental Lighting Systems and shows the basic recipes used to create multiinstrument lighting systems. Highlights include over 100 new topics and forums, including analysis and application of the three categories of collaboration; a detailed examination of production meetings and one-on-one meetings; and meeting checklists with management and the creative team.
$36.00 Pb ISBN 9781780764610 Publish October 2013 320 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$46.00
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The aerial view - the image of everywhere- has become naturaland omnipresent, yet its rise to pre-eminence as a ‘way of seeing' raises pressing questions about its effects and meanings that have not yet been explored. Aerial imagery gives us- and supports our idea of- a totalising overview, a world-view, and thus in turn requires that its implications be explored as the ‘symbolic form' of the global era. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this book examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism, and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Using examples of specific cultural moments to elucidate the wider theory, this is the only book to provide a cultural history of the aerial imagination and its centrality to visual culture. Quantity
Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western
Stanislavsky: A Life in Letters
Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema
Laurence Senelick, one of the world's foremost scholars of Russian literature, mines the Moscow archives and the definitive Russian edition of Stanislavsky's letters, to produce the fullest collection of the letters in any language other than Russian. He sheds new light on this fascinating field. Senelick takes us from the earliest extant letter of an eleven-year-old Konstantin in 1874, through his work as actor, director and actor trainer with the Moscow Art Theatre, to messages written just before his death in 1938 at the age of seventy-five. Senelick shares key insights into Stanislavsky's work on such important productions as The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Othello, and The Marriage of Figaro.
Laurence Senelick, Tufts University, USA.
Austin Fisher, University of Bedfordshire, UK.
$41.00 Pb ISBN 9781780767116 Publish October 2013 320 pages I.B.Tauris Publishers NZRRP$52.00
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers teaches the skills of script analysis using a formalist approach that examines the written part of a play to gauge how the play should be performed and designed. Treatments of both classic and unconventional plays are combined with clear examples, end of chapter questions, and stimulating summaries that will allow actors, directors, and designers to immediately incorporate the concepts and processes into their theatre production work. Now thoroughly revised, the fifth edition contains a new section on postmodernism and postdramatic methods of script analysis, along with additional material for designers.
Establishing the backdrop of post-war Italy in which the Roman studio system actively blended Italian and American culture, Austin Fisher looks in detail at the works of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima, Sergio Corbucci, Giulio Questi and Giulio Petroni and how these directors reformatted the Hollywood Western to yield new resonance for militant constituencies and radical groups. Reclaiming the Spaghetti Western from the domain of the merely cool and repositioning it within the spectrum of late-1960s radical cinema, Radical Frontiers analyses the genre's narrative and cinematographic inscriptions in their political context to uncover Far Left doctrines in these tales of outlaws and sheriffs, banditry and redemptive violence.
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Theatre and Race
Glaciers
Harvey Young is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience, editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre and co-editor of Performance in the Borderlands and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays.
Alexis M. Smith attended Mount Holyoke College, Portland State University, and Goddard College, where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing.
The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance from Ancient Athens to the present day.
$19.95 Pb ISBN 9781780743226 Publish October 2013 176 pages Oneworld Publications NZRRP$24.95
$12.95 Pb ISBN 9780230390966 Publish May 2013 88 pages Palgrave Macmillan NZRRP$14.95
Isabel lives in Portland, Oregon and works in a library, repairing damaged books. She longs to visit the destinations revealed in their pages. Her daydreams are peopled by memories from her Alaskan childhood, the glaciers that are being lost. Meanwhile, she's just the tiniest bit lonely and lovelorn. The object of her affection, a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan who also works in the basement of the library, seems equally quiet and so perhaps it's no surprise that their contact has been limited to only snatched moments. But today is the day that will all change. Isabel is determined to finally open up to him, to find the perfect vintage dress for this evening's party, and to invite him along. But, of course, life rarely happens as we plan it.
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Jenny Cullen, with an Introduction by Professor Geoffrey Blainey. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and then at the Slade in London. As grandson of the founder of David Jones Ltd., he eventually returned from London to play many important roles in the firm – firstly by revolutionising its advertising and later as Chairman of the Board for almost 40 years until his death in 1958. Thought of as a friend by the firm’s employees, he encouraged sporting and social activities, installed health care facilities and took a personal interest in their families’ welfare in times of war or depression. He also instigated the expansion of the firm into new purpose-built architectually significant buildings in Sydney’s business centre and introduced Australia’s first mail-order service with delivery to regional NSW by air. If his innovative approach to many areas of retailing has become legendary, his contribution to the arts in Australia was equally profound. He shared with founder Sydney Ure Smith the publication of Art in Australia and The Home, both magazines of extreme importance to Australia’s cultural development. He was appointed first Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and an initial director of the Australian National Travel Association, now known as Tourism Australia. He became a long-term Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, established David Jones’ Art Gallery and through the Gallery and Art in Australia helped bring local and overseas artists to increasingly arts-interested Australian audiences. All the while, he continued to paint – albeit on a very much parttime basis. This biography, written and researched by Sydney author Jenny Cullen and introduced by Professor Geoffrey Blainey, provides an exciting documentation of the life of a remarkable citizen, described in the title of the book as ‘Painter, Patron and Patriot’. $110.00 Case-bound Hardback ISBN 9781921394836 June 2013, 240 pages Macmillan Art Publishing NZRRP$140.00
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