DECEMBER 2016 The Blind Astronomer's Daughter John Pipkin
A transporting new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Woodsburner.
Description In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now, gone blind from staring at the sun, he has chosen death over a darkened life.
Grief-stricken, Caroline abandons the vain search, leaves Ireland for London, and tries to forget her love for Finnegan O'Siodha, the tinkering blacksmith who was helping her father build a telescope larger than his rival's. But her father has left her more than the wreck of that unfinished instrument: his cryptic atlas holds the secret to finding a new world at the edge of the sky. As Caroline reluctantly resumes her father's work and confronts her own longings, Ireland is swept into rebellion, and Caroline and Finnegan are plunged into its violence.
This is a novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy, the mapping of the solar system and beyond. It is a novel of the quest for knowledge and for human connection -- rich, far-reaching, and unforgettable.
About the Author John Pipkin was born in Baltimore and received his Ph.D. in British Literature from Rice University. His first novel, Woodsburner, was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle. It won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Pipkin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 The Blind Astronomer's Daughter 8 copy pack
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 Mr. Eternity Aaron Thier, introduction by Miriam Gillinson
A novel of exuberance and ambition, spanning one thousand years of high-seas adventure, environmental and cultural catastrophe, and enduring love.
Description Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to hell. It's here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in: an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe and claims to be five hundred and sixty years old.
In fact, old Dan is in the prime of his life -- an incredible, perhaps eternal American life. The story unfold over the course of a millennium, picking up in the sixteenth century in the Viceroyalty of New Granada and continuing into the twenty- sixth, where, in the future Democratic Federation of Mississippi States, Dan serves as an advisor to the King of St. Louis. Some things remain constant throughout the centuries, and being on the edge of ruin may be one. In 1560, the Spaniards have destroyed the Aztec and Inca civilizations. In 2500, we've destroyed our own: the cities of the Atlantic coast are underwater, the union has fallen apart, and cars, plastics, and air conditioning are relegated to history. But there are other constants too: love, humor, and old Dan himself, always adapting and inspiring others with dreams of a better life.
An ingenious, hilarious, and genre-bending page-turner, Mr. Eternity is multiple novels in one. Together they form an uncommon work -- about our changing planet and its remarkable continuities.
About the Author Aaron Thier is the author of the novel The Ghost Apple, a semifinalist for the 2015 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He writes a column, Food & Consequences, for Lucky Peach and he is a regular book critic for the Nation. He lives with his wife in Massachusetts. www.aaron-thier.com
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 Lady of Fortune Graham Masterton
Description They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifestyle was opulent, and they could stab each other in the back or drive a competitor to ruin as calmly as a bank clerk counting out change. In time, their empire was to encompass the great financial capitals of the world. As it grew, so too did their power and influence.
First published in 1984, Lady of Fortune is the story of the Watson family, and of the remarkable woman at its head. Graham Masterton has created a pulsating saga of seven decades of ambition and ruthlessness, of public feuding and private passions, of a will to succeed so powerful that not even the ties of kinship could hope to contain it.
About the Author Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946 in Edinburgh) is a British horror author. Originally editor of Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse, Graham Masterton's first novel The Manitou was released in 1976. This novel was adapted in 1978 for the film The Manitou. Further works garnered critical acclaim, including a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for Charnel House and a Silver Medal by the West Coast Review of Books for Mirror. He is also the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger for his novel Family Portrait, an imaginative reworking of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Masterton was also the editor of Scare Care, a horror anthology published for the benefit of abused children in Europe and the USA.
Masterton's novels often contain visceral sex and horror. In addition to his novels Masterton has written a number of sex instruction books, including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed and Wild Sex for New Lovers.
Masterton currently lives in Surrey, England. His wife and agent Wiescka died on 27 April 2011, aged 65.
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Bloomsbury Reader DECEMBER 2016 Lady Susan Plays the Game Janet Todd
A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.
Description A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.
Austen's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man.
Accurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.
About the Author Janet Todd is an internationally renowned scholar of early women writers. She has edited the complete works of England's first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn, and the Enlightenment feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as novels by Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley and Eliza Fenwick and memoirs of the confidence trickster Mary Carleton.
Janet Todd is the general editor of the 9-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen and editor ofJane Austen in Context and the Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice. Among her critical works areWomen's Friendship in Literature, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction 1660-1800 and theCambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. She has written four biographies: of Aphra Behn and three linked women, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter, and her aristocratic Irish pupils. Lady Susan Plays the Game is her first foray into fiction. Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781448216604 Format: Paperback In the 1970s Janet Todd taught in the USA, during which time she began the first journal devoted to women's writing. Dimensions: 234x153mm Back in the UK in the 1990s she co-founded the journal Women's Writing. Janet has had a peripatetic and busy life, Extent: 388 pages working at universities in Ghana, the US, and Puerto Rico, as well as England and Scotland. She is now an emeritus Main Category: F Fiction Sub Category: F Fiction professor at the University of Aberdeen and lives in Cambridge. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Reader DECEMBER 2016 Scarpia Piers Paul Read
Based on one of the central figures from Tosca, Puccini's classic opera, Scarpia is a powerful story of love, lust and political intrigue set in Rome after the French Revolution
Description Man is a delicate mechanism... he can easily be set off course.
It is the late 18th century and a young Sicilian nobleman, Vitellio Scarpia, finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home to pursue a military career, his impulsive and undisciplined nature has led to his expulsion from Spanish royal guard, and he must now seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound up with the ruler of the Eternal City, the Pope.
Scarpia enrols in the Papal army and becomes the lover of an alluring countess who introduces him into Roman society with its blend of religiosity, sophistication and intrigue. Half-enthralled, half-appalled, Scarpia enjoys the life of the decadent city, learning in due course that as an unsophisticated provincial he is no match for the worldliness of Rome.
Patronized by a powerful Cardinal, Scarpia is sent on a mission to Venice, where he encounters the beautiful, exquisitely gifted singer, Floria Tosca. As the armies of revolutionary France invade Italy, and war and revolution engulf the whole peninsula, the lives of the two become fatefully entwined.
Piers Paul Read brilliantly reimagines the infamous villain of Puccini's opera, Tosca, telling a story that shines a light into the dusty corridors of history and the dark corners of the human soul.
About the Author Piers Paul Read is best known for his book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into a film in 1993. He has won a number of prizes for his fiction, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 The Hermit K.E. Semmel and Thomas Rydahl
For fans of Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene comes this bold, prize-winning literary thriller
Description A car is found crashed on a beach in the Canary Island resort of Fuerteventura. In the trunk is a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy - no one knows his name, and there is no trace of a driver.
The last thing Fuerteventura needs is a murder. The island's already got half-empty bars and windswept beaches, and the local police are under pressure to cut the investigation short.
But long-time islander Erhard, who sees more than most people, won't let the investigation drop - and he has nothing to lose. He has severed ties with his wife and child in Denmark, and has cut himself off from the modern world. The question is: can an old man who knows nothing about mobile phones, the internet or social media possibly solve a murder in the modern world, especially one that stretches far beyond the sandy beaches of Fuerteventura?
About the Author Thomas Rydahl has translated Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and Outliers into Danish. The Hermit is his first novel. He lives in Fredensborg, Denmark.
K.E. Semmel is a writer and translator who has received numerous grants from the Danish Arts Foundation for his work. A 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow, he lives in Milwaukee, USA.
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 War Primer Bertolt Brecht
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world's leading playwrights, set to images of the Second World War
Description In this singular book written during the Second World War, the renowned playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht has taken photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and montaged short epigraph poems to each, in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media.
From catastrophic bombings, to propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, to scenes of unbearable tragedy on the battlefield, this is an anthology of horror, but accompanied by Brecht's razor-sharp deconstruction of what we see, through his taut and direct poems. Part Dada project, part proto- Situationist detournement, this book reveals the horror of war, and the cynicism in which it can be presented to us.
About the Author BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956), the German poet and playwright, was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the USA to Switzerland in 1947, and to east Berlin in 1949. One of his country's greatest 20th century poets, among his most famous plays are The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage, Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk-Circle.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Rivals of the Republic: A Blood of Rome Novel Annelise Freisenbruch
Discover a captivating new voice and a great new heroine of Roman historical fiction in this fast moving page- turner.
Description The body of a Vestal Virgin is dragged out of the River Tiber. A senator bleeds to death in his bath.
As the authorities turn a blind eye, Hortensia, daughter of the capital's most celebrated orator, feels compelled to investigate a trail of murders that lead to the dark heart of Rome.
Flying in the face of her husband's and father's attempts to protect her, rebelling against the constraints imposed upon her sex, she is drawn ever deeper into the corrupt underworld that lurks in the shadows cast by the city's all-powerful elite. When fires begin to rage in the slums and more key witnesses are silenced, only one man can save Hortensia from becoming the next victim of a conspiracy to destroy the Republic: Lucrio, the damaged ex-gladiator to whom she already owes her life. But will the secrets of his own tragic past threaten to subsume them both...
About the Author Annelise Freisenbruch was born in Bermuda in 1977. She has a PhD in Classics from Newnham College, Cambridge, and is the author of The First Ladies of Rome the highly-acclaimed history of Rome's empresses. Rivals of the Republic is her first novel.
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BLM Overlook DECEMBER 2016 Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula Bram Stoker
The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula.
Description Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Asmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, 'Powers of Darkness'), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself.
Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Asmundsson's story. In 2014, researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Asmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a totally reworked plot. The resulting narrative is one that is shorter, punchier, more erotic, and perhaps even more suspenseful than Stoker's Dracula.
Incredibly, Makt Myrkranna has never been translated or even read outside of Iceland until now. Powers of Darkness will amaze and entertain legions of fans of Gothic literature, horror, and vampire fiction. Contains a forward by Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew and author of the bestseller Dracula: The Un-dead, and easy-to-read story annotations that add fascinating insight into the differences between this work and Stoker's original Dracula.
About the Author Hans Corneel de Roos is an independent researcher specialising in French and British art of the second half of the 19th Century. He is author of The Ultimate Dracula and numerous other articles on Dracula. He is a recipient of the Research Award of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula. He lives in Munich.
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$44.99) ISBN: 9780715651278 Valdimir Asmundsson (1852-1902) was the founder and editor of the Icelandic literary journal, Lady of the Mountains. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 352 pages
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BLM Overlook DECEMBER 2016 The Comeback B.I. Taylor
What price would you be willing to pay for fame? An utterly compulsive psychological thriller that cannot fail to move.
Description Rosemary Paul used to be a celebrated singer, but now she is aging and past her prime. Living an isolated life, her only companion is Carrie Markham, her live-in assistant who panders to Rosemary's every need and looks up to her older mentor.
When Rosemary hears news from London that one of her albums is getting an unexpected re-release the old hunger for fame and success is reignited, and with Carrie's help she plans her big comeback to relaunch herself into the public stratosphere. But as preparations commence, long buried secrets begin to resurface and signs of strain show in Rosemary and Carrie's relationship, until reaching its dramatic breaking-point... Slowly building its uneasy tension throughout until revealing its shocking twist, The Comeback is an eerie psychological thriller with strong female characters; ideal for fans of The Girl on the Train and The Ice Twins, it is perfect for book clubs, and will leave readers on the edge of their seats.
About the Author B.I. Taylor is an award-winning author who lives in London. The author has written several plays for the theatre and has also written for television and radio.
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Duckworth DECEMBER 2016 Sonnets William Shakespeare
A beautiful collection of William Shakespeare's timeless sonnets
Description Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, the Sonnets have been the subject of literary curiosity ever since, mainly concerning the identity of the two addressees, 'Mr W.H.' and the 'Dark Lady', and the light they could shine on Shakespeare's life. This collection constitutes one of English literature's most profound poetic meditations on life and love, and is a vital complement to the plays, offering clues to Shakespeare's own biography. Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth- century readers, these poems are worth returning to again and again.
About the Author An English poet and playwright of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in English literature and the national poet of England. His plays are the most performed of any playwright, and have been translated into every living language.
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Alma Books DECEMBER 2016 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation.
Description After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for his childlike naivety yet valued for his openness and understanding, Prince Myshkin finds himself entangled with two women in a position he cannot bring himself to resolve. Dostoevsky, who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to portray a 'wholly virtuous man', shows the workings of the human mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation.
About the Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
'I rang the bell before a mahogany door on the first floor, and while I waited he seemed to stare at me out of the glassy panel - stare with that wide and immense stare embracing, condemning, loathing all the universe. I seemed to hear the whispered cry, 'The horror! The horror!' '
Description On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but also the deterioration of his state of mind as he is confronted with a world that is hostile and alien to him. Renowned for its stylistic boldness and dramatic descriptions, Heart of Darkness is a stark yet subtle examination of the powers of the subconscious and the workings of western imperialism.
About the Author Considered one of the greatest prose stylists, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) chose to write in English instead of his native Polish. His work, drawn from his own adventurous experiences, is seen as a forerunner of literary modernism.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Description Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutininzes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of it's eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Levin is struggling to reconcile reason with passion, espousing a Christian anarchism that Tolstoy himself believed in.
Acclaimed by critics and readers alike, Anna Karenina presents a poignant blend of realism and lyricism that makes it one of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time.
About the Author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is regarded by some as the greatest novelist of all time. With such masterpieces as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he influenced generations of writers and changed the course of world literature.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
"The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect."
Description Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait, rather than on Dorian's own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the ultimate burden of conscience.
Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.
About the Author Famed for his brilliant wit, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a prolific writer and one of the most successful playwrights of Victorian Britain, as well as a champion for the values of Aestheticism.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes and Tom Lathrop
'So, having lost his wits, he came up with the strangest idea ever concocted by a crazy man, and that was that he thought it right and necessary, both to increase his honour and to serve the republic, to roam the world on horseback, dressed in his armour, seeking adventures.'
Description When an ageing, impoverished nobelman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between realisty and the fantasy world of literary romance has broken down. His exploits turn into comic misadventures, in which everyday objects are transformed into the accoutrements of chivalry, peasant girls become princesses and windmills are mistaken for formiddable giants, leading the hero and his squire Sancho Panza into the realms of absurdity and humiliation.
Renowned for its comical set pieces, Don Quixote is a profound meditation on the relationship between truth and fiction and the morality of deceptiom, as well as the foundation stone of the modern novel.
About the Author Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was a novelist, playwright and poet, and is arguably the most eminent figure in Spanish literature. He is best known for Don Quixote, which is one of the most widely read books in world literature.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
'In his 1513 work, The Prince, Machiavelli created a monster that has haunted politics ever since. The Prince is not a practical advice manual aimed at any specific individual - rather it creates a fantastic creature, a kind of armoured colossus bestriding (and in Machiavelli's precocious dream, uniting) Italy.' The Guardian
Description At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.
About the Author Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a quintessential Renaissance man. Interested in music, poetry and theatre, he was above all a diplomat and a historian. He is most famous for his treatise The Prince, which has become a cornerstone of modern political thought.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Brand-new translation of one of the world's all-time bestsellers
Description Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the 'Little Prince' and tells him the story of how he grew up on a tiny asteroid before travelling across the galaxies and coming to Earth. His encounters and discoveries, seen through childlike, innocent eyes, give rise to candid reflections on life and human nature.
About the Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-44) was a French writer and aviator, who disappeared on a reconnaissance mission during the Second World War. The author of several memoirs about flying, he is best remembered today for the novella The Little Prince.
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Alma Books DECEMBER 2016 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
'It has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone.' Henry James
Description Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and contemplating adultery. As Emma's efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her must face the shattering consequences of her actions. Causing widespread scandal when it was published in 1857, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece and one of the landmark works of nineteenth-century realist fiction.
About the Author Born in Rouen in northern France, Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for his works Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education, and for his stylistic perfectionism.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'
Description Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.
Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
About the Author Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F.Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781847492586 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 197x133mm Extent: 384 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
'If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.'
Description One of Stevenson's most famous and enduring popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split personality and obscure science, with its chilling final revelation, became an instant horror classic when it was first publsihed in 1886 and has enthralled and terrified generations of readers ever since.
This volume also contains seven other Gothic stories by Stevenson - such as 'The Body Snatchers', 'Markjeim' and 'Olalla' - showcasing the author's mastery of the horror genre and his interest in both the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can distort reality.
About the Author The prolific author of seminal works such as Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -94) remains one of the most enduringly popular storytellers in the English language.
Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847493781 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 144 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
'She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.'
Description As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.
One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society.
About the Author The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic, whose writings established her as one of Modernism's leading exponents, as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847494009 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Inferno Dante Alighieri
'For sheer liveliness, combined with accuracy and closeness to the text, it will be hard to rival.' A.N. Wilson 'J. G. Nichols has done superb translations of Inferno and Purgatory.' The Financial Times
Description Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with the original text facing, extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on the author's life and works.
About the Author Born in Florence, Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) is considered to be the father of Italian poetry and one of the greatest influences in world literature. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is the zenith of medieval knowledge and a paragon of poetic imagination. Its first part, Inferno, remains one of the most popular books of all time.
Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847493408 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
'I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.'
Description One of Dicken's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a genteman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith's career in ruarl Kent. In the butsling, unforgiving capital he must learn for himslef the pitfalls of love and wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies.
Through the lives of its unforgettable and iconic characters - such as Magwitch, Miss Havisham and Estella - Great Expectations charts the course of an England undergoing rapid social and economic change, and tells a tale that is among the foremost classics of the English language.
About the Author A literary phenomenon in his lifetime and renowned as much for his journalism and public speaking as for his novels, Charles Dickens (1812-70) now ranks as the most important Victorian writer and one of the most influential and popular authors in the English language. His memorable and vividly rendered characters and his combination of humour, trenchant satire and compassion have left an indelible mark on our collective imagination.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
'I'm a sick man. a spiteful man. an unattractive man, that's what I am.'
Description The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans to exact revenge on an offiver who has shown him disrespect and a dramatic encounter with a prostitute.
Seen by many as the first existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsk's dry humour, Notes from Underground was a pivotal moment in the development of modern literature and has inspired countless novelists, thinkers and film-makers.
"The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Larl Marx." Albert Camus
About the Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Immediately I put a hundred guilders on rouge - it won; all four hundred noir - it won; all eight hundred on mangue - it won; including what there had been previously, that was one thousand seven hundred guilders, and that in less than five minutes!"
Description Inspired by Dosteoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. As he succumbs to the temptations of the roulette table, he finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with Polina, the woman he unrequitedly loves.
With an unforgettable cast of fellow gamblers and figures from European high society, this darkly comic novel of greed and self-destruction reveals Dostoevsky at his satirical and psychological best.
About the Author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.
Price: $11.99 (NZ$14.99) ISBN: 9781847493828 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Selfish Giant and Other Stories Oscar Wilde
Stunning pictures by acclaimed illustrator Philip Waechter
Description When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpertual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, ‘The Selfish Giant’ is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde’s other fairy stories – ‘The Happy Prince’, ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’, ‘The Devoted Friend’, ‘The Remarkable Rocket’, ‘The Young King’, ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, ‘The Fisherman and His Soul’ and ‘The Star-Child’ – brought to life by Philip Waechter’s bright and imaginative illustrations.
About the Author Famed for his brilliant wit, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a prolific writer and one of the most successful playwrights of Victorian Britain, as well as a champion for the values of Aestheticism.
Price: $16.99 (NZ$18.99) ISBN: 9781847494979 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 256 pages
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Alma Books DECEMBER 2016 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
'J.G. Nichols has done superb translations of Inferno and Purgatory.' The Financial Times
Description Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time.
The Divine Comedy is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, together with extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on the author's life and works.
About the Author Born in Florence, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is considered to be the father of Italian poetry and one of the greatest influences in world literature. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is the zenith of medieval knowledge and a paragon of poetic imagination. Its first part, Inferno, remains one of the most popular books of all time.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847493200 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 600 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Under Ground Lewis Carroll
Published to coincide with Alice in Wonderland's 150th anniversary
Description Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, has captured the imaginations of young and old throughout the world since it was first published in 1865. In addition to the vivid and unforgettable characters, it is the book's experimental style, linguistic inventiveness and myriad of WC jokes and puzzles that account for the timeless fascination it inspires.
About the Author Lewis Carroll was an English Mathematician, logician and author, most famous for his contributions to the genre of literary nonsense. His novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as his poems The Jabberwocky and Hunting the Snark have proved extremely popular, and have embedded themselves in modern cultural consciousness in Britain and abroad.
Price: $15.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781847494078 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 384 pages
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Alma Books DECEMBER 2016 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
'A masterpiece. I still get shivers down my spine whenever I read the words of Cathy: 'I am Heathcliff!'' Bonnie Greer
Description The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte wondering 'whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff '. Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Bronte's intense masterpiece is one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature.
About the Author Emily Bronte (1818-48) was the second of the three Bronte sisters. Although she wrote poems and stories from a young age, Wuthering Heights was her only novel. Her life was tragically cut short by tuberculosis.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Orlando Virginia Woolf
"Orlando had become a woman - there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained as precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity."
Description Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any thoughts of marriage. Having obtained an ambassadorial past in Constantinople, Orlando falls into a long sleep and wakes up suddenly transformed into a woman. Also blessed with the gift of never ageing, she embarks on adventurous travels throughout Europe and the following centuries, observing what is like to be female.
A "fantastical biography" inspired by the life of the flamboyant writer Vita Sackvilee-West, Orlando is an amusing and eccentric jeu d'esprit, as well as a groundbreaking exploration of gender issues.
About the Author The most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist, essayist and critic, whose writings established her as one of Modernism’s leading exponents as well as a pioneering feminist. Her most famous works include To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$17.99) ISBN: 9781847493705 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Ulysses James Joyce
"Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies."
Description Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904 - in the lives of three inhabitants of Dublin, the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom, the artist Stephen Dedalus and Bloom's wife Molly. Their peregrinations, thoughts and encounters form the basis of the narrative, which becomes a celebration of all human experience through the lives of specific individuals in a specific place at a specific time. Ulysses is both an experimental novel and a book intimately concerned with the events of modern life. A lively repository of literary allusion and colloquial realism, this dazzlingly innovative, ambitious novel is here presented in its 1939 version, which contains notable textual differences from the standard editions currently in print. This edition also includes comprehensive and all-new annotations by Joyce scholar Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner.
About the Author Born in Dublin in modest circumstances, James Joyce (1882-1941) spent most of his life abroad, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. His writings, however mainly centre on Dublin - most famously Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He pioneered and perfected avantgarde prose techniques that saw him rise to the rank of one of Europe's foremost Modernists.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781847493996 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 880 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
Description The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.
One of the most cherished love stories in English Literature, Jane Austen's 1813 master-piece has a lasting effect on everyone who reads it.
About the Author Jane Austen began writing at a very early age, and went on to produce some of the greatest works of English literature, with Pride and Prejudice and Emma among her masterpieces. Her novels, brimming with wit and populated by unforgettable characters, serve as a trenchant satire on the pretensions and foibles of provincial society.
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories H.P. Lovecraft
The twentieth century's master of terror.
Description When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying within its walls. As the sound begins to haunt his dreams, he investigates the house and discovers a horrific secret underneath, which will bring him to the point of madness.
About the Author Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive American author who published his stories in pulp magazines in his lifetime and was only recognized after his death as a pioneer of the horror genre.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781847494153 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 210x150mm Extent: 320 pages
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Alma Classics DECEMBER 2016 We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent John Simpson
From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world.
Description In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is difficult, exciting and undeniably glamorous.
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife brings us pivotal moments in our history - from the Crimean War to Vietnam; the siege of Sarajevo to the fall of Baghdad - through the eyes of those who risked life and limb to witness them first hand, and the astonishing tales of what it took to report them. These stories celebrate an endangered tradition. Where once despatches were trusted to the hands of a willing sea- captain, telegraph operator or stranger in an airport queue prepared to spirit a can of undeveloped film back to London, today the digital realm has transformed the relaying of the news - even if the work of gathering it in the field has changed little.
Weaving the tales of the greats of yesterday and today, such as Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, Don McCullin and Marie Colvin, with extraordinary accounts from his own lifetime on the frontlines, this is a deeply personal book from a master of the profession, the most distinguished foreign correspondent of our time.
About the Author John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. In a BBC career spanning fifty years he has reported on major world events from all corners of the globe, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict, and, in 2001, an Emmy for his report on the fall of Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) Kabul. He has written four bestselling volumes of autobiography: Strange Places, Questionable People; A Mad World, My ISBN: 9781408872239 Masters; News from No Man's Land and, more recently, Not Quite World's End. He lives in Oxford. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 We Chose to Speak of War and Strife 8 copy pack
Includes 8 copies of We Chose to Speak of War and Strife plus a free reading copy.
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton
From the authors of Pen & Ink--New York Times bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and BuzzFeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald--the stories behind the tattoos that chefs proudly wear, with their signature recipes.
Description Chefs take their tattoos almost as seriously as their knives. From gritty grill cooks in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world's most popular restaurants, it's hard to find a cook who doesn't sport some ink. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more than sixty-five chefs from all walks of life and every kind of kitchen, including 2014 James Beard Award-winner Jamie Bissonnette, Alaska-fishing-boat cook Mandy Lamb, Toro Bravo's John Gorham, and many more. Each tattoo has a rich, personal story behind it: Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food remembers his mother with fiery angel wings on his forearms, and Dominique Crenn of Michelin two-starred Atelier Crenn bears ink that reminds her to do anything in life that you put your heart into. Like the dishes these chefs have crafted over the years, these tattoos are beautiful works of art. Knives & Ink delves into the wide and wonderful world of chef tattoos and shares their fascinating backstories, along with personal recipes from many of the chefs.
About the Author Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He is the editor of BuzzFeed Books and co-author of Pen & Ink. He lives in New York City.
Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Pen & Ink, Lost Cat, The Essential Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in places such as the New York Times, Bon App.tit, Lucky Peach, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald
Together, [these pictures and stories] do the work of great literature-gathering a force so true they ultimately tell a story that includes us all. -Cheryl Strayed, from the Introduction
Description Why did you get that tattoo?
Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent and intimate of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirttails, emblazoned on knuckles, or tucked inside mouths. They are battle scars and beauty marks, totems and mementos.
Pen & Ink grants us access to the tattoos-and the stories behind them-of writers Cheryl Strayed, Tao Lin, and Roxane Gay; rockers in the bands Korn, Otep, and Five Finger Death Punch; and even a porn star. But it also illuminates the tattoos of the ordinary people living in our midst-from professors to thrift store salespeople, cafe owners to librarians, union organizers to administrators-and their extraordinary lives.
Curated and edited by Isaac Fitzgerald, who sports twelve tattoos himself, each story is like being let in on . . . secrets by . . . strangers who passed you on the street or sat across from you on the train (Strayed) and features Wendy MacNaughton's gorgeously rendered full-color illustrations of the tattoos on black-and-white drawings of the bearer's body. At its heart, beneath its colorful skin, Pen & Ink is an exploration of the decision to scar one's self with a symbol and a story.
About the Author Isaac Fitzgerald is co-owner of The Rumpus and books editor at BuzzFeed. Visit him at isaacfitzgerald.net and follow him @isaacfitzgerald. He lives in New York City.
Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781620404904 Desperation, and GPS Technology, and whose work has appeared in places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Format: Hard Cover Journal, Lucky Peach, and Print Magazine. Visit her at wendymacnaughton.com and follow her @wendymac. She lives in Dimensions: 216x181mm San Francisco, CA. Extent: 144 pages
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Sebastian Mallaby
The definitive biography of one of the most important figures in global finance
Description This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for eighteen years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation, was revered by economists, adored by investors and consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt. Both data-hound and eligible society bachelor, Greenspan was a man of contradictions. His great success was to prove the very idea he, an advocate of the Gold standard, doubted: that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy. He resigned in 2006, having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy. Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him, even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place. Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety and complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy. Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and stories, The Man Who Knew is superbly researched, enormously gripping and the story of the making of modern finance.
About the Author Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. He spent thirteen years on the Economist, covering international finance in London and serving as bureau chief in southern Africa, Japan and Washington. From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post, focusing on globalisation and political economy. He lives in Washington with his wife, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor of the Economist.
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes Paul Staiti
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
Description The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual shape to Revolutionary events and symbolized an entirely new concept of leadership and government. Since then they have endured as indispensable icons, serving as historical documents and timeless reminders of the nation's unprecedented beginnings.
As Paul Staiti reveals in Of Arms and Artists, the lives of the five great American artists of the Revolutionary period-- Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Benjamin West, and Gilbert Stuart--were every bit as eventful as those of the Founders with whom they continually interacted, and their works contributed mightily to America's founding spirit. Living in a time of breathtaking change, each in his own way came to grips with the history being made by turning to brushes and canvases, the results often eliciting awe and praise, and sometimes scorn. Ever since the passing of the last eyewitnesses to the Revolution, their imagery has connected Americans to 1776, allowing us to interpret and reinterpret the nation's beginning generation after generation. The collective stories of these five artists open a fresh window on the Revolutionary era, making more human the figures we have long honored as our Founders, and deepening our understanding of the whirlwind out of which the United States emerged.
About the Author Paul Staiti teaches at Mount Holyoke College and is the author of several books and essays on American artists. He has co-curated exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a two-time Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Staiti has spoken internationally on the intersection of American art and history. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the Robber Baron Culture of Texas Joan Mellen
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace's life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president.
Description Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues and turned bills into law better than anyone. But he was trailed by a legacy of underhanded dealings, from his stolen Senate election in 1948 to kickbacks he artfully concealed from deals engineered with Texas wheeler-dealer Billie Sol Estes and defense contractors like his longtime supporter Brown & Root. On the verge of investigation, Johnson was reprieved when he became president upon JFK's assassination. Among the remaining mysteries has been LBJ's relationship to Mac Wallace who, in 1951, shot a Texas man having an affair with LBJ's loose-cannon sister Josefa, also Wallace's lover. When arrested, Wallace cooly said I work for Johnson.I need to get back to Washington. Charged with murder, he was overnight defended by LBJ's powerful lawyer John Cofer, and though convicted, amazingly received a suspended sentence. He then got high-security clearance from LBJ friend and defense contractor D.H. Byrd, which the Office of Naval Intelligence tried to revoke for 11 years without success.
Using crucial Life magazine and Naval Intelligence files and the unredacted FBI files on Mac Wallace, never before utilized by others, investigative writer Joan Mellen skillfully connects these two disparate Texas lives and lends stark credence to the dark side of Lyndon Johnson that has largely gone unsubstantiated.
About the Author Joan Mellen has written more than twenty books on subjects ranging from history and true crime to biography and sports. Her profile of then-Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight was a New York Times bestseller, and her joint biography of Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman was highly praised. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University, and lives in New Jersey.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781620408063 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 235x156mm Extent: 384 pages
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals John Lahr
A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New York's senior drama critic emeritus and the author of Tennessee Williams
Description 'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tony Kushner and August Wilson, through the work of directors like Nicholas Hytner and Ingmar Bergman, to Shakespeare himself, the depth of Lahr's understanding is plain to see and extraordinary to read. He brings the reader up close and personal to the artists and their art. Whether you are a regular theatre-goer, or just starting out, Lahr's book delights as both a celebration and a guide.
About the Author John Lahr was the senior drama critic for the New Yorker for twenty years. He is a critic, novelist and biographer and is the author of seventeen books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion, the biography of Bert Lahr and, most recently, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, which was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014. He lives in North London.
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway Siobhan Roberts
John Horton Conway [is] perhaps the greatest living genius unknown to the general public.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Description John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a rock star's charisma and a polymath's boundless curiosity-- Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one. He also has a sly sense of humor and a burning desire to explain everything about the world to everyone in it. Born in Liverpool in 1937, Conway discovered the Conway groups in mathematical symmetry and invented the aptly named surreal numbers as well as the cult classic Game of Life, which demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity, providing an analogy not only for mathematics but for the entire universe. As a mathemagician at Princeton, he used cards, ropes, dice, coat hangers, and even the occasional Slinky as props to illustrate what was happening in his powerful brain. Conway granted Roberts full access to his idiosyncratic life and mind, though not without the occasional grumble: Oh hell, he'd say. You're not going to put that in the book. Are you?!?
About the Author Siobhan Roberts is a science writer and winner of four National Magazine Awards. While writing this book, she was a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her first book, KING OF INFINITE SPACE, won the Mathematical Association of America's Euler Prize for expanding the public's view of mathematics. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 A Card From Angela Carter Susannah Clapp
An enchanting, compact and eloquent portrait of the beloved author by her friend and literary executor
Description 'There will be other, bigger biographies, but none more evocative than this sampler precisely stitched in literary petit-point' The Times
Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.
Angela Carter sent her great friend Susannah Clapp postcards from all over the world - missives which form a paper trail through her life. The pictures she chose were sometimes domestic, sometimes flights of fantasy and surrealism. The messages were always pungent. Here, Susannah Clapp uses postcards - the emails of the twentieth century - to evoke Angela Carter's anarchic intelligence, her fierce politics, the richness of her language, her ribaldry, the great swoops of her imagination, and to say something about her life. Intimate, funny and unexpected, this is a miniature portrait of a unique artist.
About the Author Susannah Clapp is the literary executor for Angela Carter and Bruce Chatwin, and is the author of With Chatwin, an acclaimed portrait of Bruce Chatwin. She helped to found the London Review of Books, has worked as a publisher's reader and editor, as the radio critic of the Sunday Times and as the theatre critic of the New Statesman. She has reviewed novels and non-fiction for the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves, and has been the theatre critic of the Observer since 1997. Susannah Clapp lives in London.
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction Helen Pilcher
A unique blend of the science of de-extinction, cloning and comedy
Description If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher has thought about this problem, a lot. In Bring back the King, Helen explains the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, and highlights her choices from eras gone by, from the King of the Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley,
From dinosaurs to Dodos, Neanderthals to rock legends, Bring Back the King explains how the burgeoning field of DNA science is being used to help resurrect not just individual animals but entire species from their stony graves.
Funny, intriguing and informative, Bring Back the King describes current initiatives and future plans to restore deceased animals, and uses both science and willful irreverence to assess how these genetic Lazarus's might fare in their brave new world. Could a pet dinosaur be trained to roll over? Would Neanderthals enjoy opera? Could a returning Dodo seek vengeance upon humanity?
Blending the very latest de-extinction technology with cloning, dinosaurs with rock legends, and hard-core popular science with plenty of gags, Bring Back the King is a book that you will simply have to read.
About the Author Helen Pilcher was a stand-up comedian for more than ten years, before the arrival of children meant she couldn't physically stay awake beyond 9pm. During this time, she performed at the Edinburgh comedy festival, at London's Comedy Store, and at various smoky pubs and clubs across Britain. She was a finalist for Jongleurs New Act of the Year (1998, 1999), the BBC New Stand Up Competition (1999) and Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny (1999). In 2002, she teamed up with fellow comedian Timandra Harkness to write and perform 'The Comedy Research Project' a stand-up comedy show commissioned for the very first Cheltenham Science Festival.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472912268 Unusually, Helen is also a professional science writer, with a PhD in stem-cell biology. She was formerly a journalist for Format: Paperback Nature online, specialising in genetics; before that, she ran the Science in Society programme at the Royal Society, and Dimensions: 216x135mm before that, she worked as a senior scientist for a biotechnology company, engineering a series of human stem cell lines Extent: 288 pages for transplantation into damaged human brains, this following on from her doctoral research into stem-cell therapy for Main Category: PDZ Popular Science
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Sigma DECEMBER 2016 Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher
How animals use cool physics as part of their daily battle to survive
Description Furry Logic looks in detail at the animals that use cool physics in weird and intriguing ways as part of their daily battle to survive. It details the role of physics in the lives of a number of animals, as uncovered by scientists researching the field of biomechanics.
The book is divided into seven chapters, each representing a separate arm of physics. Each chapter examines the animals' key features before describing the ways they use physics, how this was discovered, and what remains to be found out. We learn:
. how pistol shrimps can generate a force strong enough to destroy aquarium glass using their claws . how whales hear using fat . how cats and dogs lap up milk thanks to the laws of surface tension . why reindeer use ultraviolet light for foraging . how a male peacock's train generates infrasound' to attract a mate . how ants navigate thanks to magnetic fields . how mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops.
Furry Logic makes the incredible interdisciplinary world of animal biomechanics accessible to all, in an enthralling and entertaining read.
About the Author Matin Durrani is the Editor of the international magazine Physics World. After his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (on polymers), Matin did a postdoc before moving into publishing in the late nineties. He has been editor of Physics World since 2006. Liz Kalaugher also has a PhD in physics, along with qualifications in Biological Sciences. She is the editor of environmentalresearchweb.org, a leading news resource on environmental issues. Price: $33.99 (NZ$37.99) ISBN: 9781472914095 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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Sigma DECEMBER 2016 A is for Arsenic Kathryn Harkup
Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ...
Description Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random - the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer. With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but this is not the case with poisons. How is it that some compounds prove so deadly, and in such tiny amounts?
Christie's extensive chemical knowledge provides the backdrop for A is for Arsenic, in which Kathryn Harkup investigates the poisons used by the murderer in fourteen classic Agatha Christie mysteries. It looks at why certain chemicals kill, how they interact with the body, the cases that may have inspired Christie, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering and detecting these poisons, both at the time the novel was written and today. A is for Arsenic is a celebration of the use of science by the undisputed Queen of Crime.
About the Author Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realising that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed a bit more than hours slaving over a hot fume- hood. For six years she ran the outreach in engineering, computing, physics and maths at the University of Surrey, which involved writing talks on science topics that would appeal to bored teenagers (anything disgusting or dangerous was usually the most popular). Kathryn is now a freelance science communicator delivering talks and workshops on the quirky side of science.
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Sigma DECEMBER 2016 Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories Rob Brotherton
The psychology of our belief in conspiracy theories
Description 'A first class book' Sunday Times
We're all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.
Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us.
Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspiracy theories are not a recent invention. And they are not always a harmless curiosity. In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain's built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world.
The fascinating and often surprising psychology of conspiracy theories tells us a lot - not just why we are drawn to theories about sinister schemes, but about how our minds are wired and, indeed, why we believe anything at all. Conspiracy theories are not some psychological aberration - they're a predictable product of how brains work. This book will tell you why, and what it means.
Of course, just because your brain's biased doesn't always mean you're wrong. Sometimes conspiracies are real. Sometimes, paranoia is prudent.
About the Author Rob Brotherton is an academic psychologist and science writer who likes to walk on the weird side of psychology. Rob Price: $21.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781472915634 completed a doctoral degree on the psychology of conspiracy theories, and taught classes on why people believe weird Format: Paperback stuff and science communication as a member of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of Dimensions: 198x129mm London. He now lives in New York City. Extent: 304 pages Main Category: PDZ Popular Science Sub Category: Rob writes about conspiracy theories on his website ConspiracyPsychology.com. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Sigma DECEMBER 2016 The Weakest Link: Why Your Employees Might Be Your Biggest Cyber Risk Jeremy Swinfen Green and Professor Paul Dorey
The Weakest Link shows how information security has become the responsibility of individual employees and shows what organisations and individuals can do to protect company systems and data.
Description The Weakest Link looks at one of the biggest issues in cyber security: how to protect organisations from their own employees. Many cyber threats don't involve hackers using clever software to penetrate company networks; threats can often involve employees acting in ways that, accidentally or deliberately, leak information or damage assets without a hacker being involved at all. Emerging technologies and behavioural changes - driven by cloud computing and people using their own smartphones and tablets for work - are starting to make these threats more common and far more serious.
Written to help anyone understand how information security has become the responsibility of individual employees, it shows exactly what they can do to protect company systems and data. Effective solutions need to go beyond simple security awareness and show how to create a complete culture of security. Individuals can then use this learned behaviour to keep themselves digitally safe at work and in their personal lives.
About the Author Jeremy Swinfen Green has worked in digital business for over 20 years, with a specialism in social media risk. He is a member of the Finance and Performance board of TechUK (the trade body for the UK's technology industry).
Paul Dorey has worked in the cyber-security industry for over 25 years, including senior posts at Barclays, BP and GlaxoSmithKline. He is Chairman Emeritus at the Institute of Information Security Professionals, and is a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
Price: $37.99 (NZ$41.99) ISBN: 9781472943026 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 256 pages
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Sub Category: KJ Business Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 A Good Disruption: Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century Martin Stuchtey, Per-Anders Enkvist and Klaus Zumwinkel
A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age - faltering growth, rising inequality and environmental depletion - and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.
Description Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does it really have the potential to solve global problems such as low growth, inequality and environmental degradation? The provocative answer is that such disruption could indeed solve many of these issues, but that it won't... at least, not on its current trajectory.
A Good Disruption highlights some of the huge costs that are at stake, and argues that managing such disruption will be the defining business challenge of the next decade. In order for us to meet that challenge, the book sets out a bold and inspirational vision for a more robust and sustainable economic model.
Rich in relevant case studies, and incorporating industry examples from around the world, A Good Disruption accomplishes the remarkable feat of synthesizing key contemporary trends into a coherent world view of how to seize the potential of our collective futures. This is essential reading for policy makers, politicians, business executives and social scientists, as well as anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the impact of disruptive technology and how it can be transformed into a major force for the global good.
About the Author Martin R. Stuchtey is founder and managing partner of SystemiQ Ltd, a specialist for large-scale environmental programs. Previously, he worked at McKinsey in various leadership positions, most recently as Director of the Center for Business & Environment. He is a strategic advisor to the World Economic Forum and a professor for resource strategies.
Per-Anders Enkvist was a consultant with McKinsey for 15 years, for the last seven of which he was a partner in its
Price: $50.00 (NZ$55.00) sustainability practice. He was the global leader of McKinsey's work on climate change and a co-leader of its work on the ISBN: 9781472939784 circular economy. Per-Anders recently founded his own consultancy, Material Economics. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm After 10 years as a senior partner at McKinsey, Klaus Zumwinkel became CEO of Germany's largest mail order group, Extent: 304 pages
Main Category: KJ Business/managemnt and subsequently of the German postal service, now Deutsche Post DHL. He has also served on numerous boards, Sub Category: KJ Business including Lufthansa, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Telekom. Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Sports Geek: A visual tour of sporting myths, debate and data Rob Minto
A stunning visual and numerical tour through sporting debates and ideas.
Description Sport revolves around two things: narrative and numbers. You need the narrative, otherwise why would anyone care about sport? Rivalries, emotions, and sporting legends all require it. But sport also needs numbers. Without them, we have no idea who has won. We need numbers to tell which team is top of the table, or who is the world champion.
Sport Geek is a visual and numerical tour through sporting debates and ideas. Teams in all sports use data to create extraordinary analysis of how their players perform, to assess tactics and to get an edge over arch rivals; but fans are rarely presented with challenging and informative data that would help them to further understand sport.
Find out why Usain Bolt's 200m world record is really a big disappointment, whether big sports stars earn more from prize money or sponsorship, learn what the best sport to make a film about is, and what the Flo-Jo problem is.
In Sport Geek Rob Minto brings together an encyclopaedic knowledge and love of sport, a rigorous and painstaking understanding and research of statistics with passionate and serious analysis. There's nothing academic about the way in which Sport Geek is presented, nor the way Rob has unfolded its many stories, but it has been written with the knowledge of an expert with access to cutting edge quantitative analysis and difficult to uncover data.
With international breadth and appeal and covering almost every imaginable sport, Sport Geek embraces our global enthusiasm for competitive sport and will arm any sports fan with invaluable information that will give the edge in any sporting debate.
Sport Geek is packed with success stories and failures, with anomalies and surprises. What makes this stand out from competing titles is the analysis and contextualisation of the data - in other words, until now it's not yet been clear why the data is interesting to fans.
Price: $26.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781472927491 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Rob Minto is a journalist who has worked at the Financial Times for 10 years. In 2006 he became the paper's first Dimensions: 246x189mm Interactive Editor. He has also been Technology Correspondent, and most recently Emerging Markets Assistant Editor, as Extent: 192 pages well as writing occasional features and columns. Main Category: WS Sport Sub Category: Illustrations: Rob has been obsessed about sport and statistics for many years. He is a journalist who can also design, write code, Previous Titles: and crunch data using strange programmes. Author now living:
He has four children and lives in London. DECEMBER 2016 The End of the Road: The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling Alasdair Fotheringham
The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the 1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling
Description The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were riders' strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported to have doped. The 1998 'Tour de Farce's' status as one of the most scandal- struck sporting events in history was confirmed.
Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy - what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question and the cycling family began to split apart. And yet, ironically, the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years.
The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world's biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees. He explores its long-term consequences - and what, if any, lessons were learned.
About the Author Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist, and was the cycling correspondent for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday from 2001 to 2016. He has covered 24 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, the Olympics in 2008 and 2012 and numerous other major bike races. He is also a regular contributor to Cyclingnews and ProCycling.His Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) previous books are The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of Spain's first Tour de France winner Federico Mart.n Bahamontes, ISBN: 9781472913036 and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Oca.a. Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages
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BLM Sport DECEMBER 2016 Make Your Own Bird Food: Simple Recipes to Entice Birds to Your Garden Mark Golley
Simple and successful bird food recipes with helpful hints on exactly what to feed birds when.
Description Birds are the life and soul of any garden, whatever its size or location, and one thing can be guaranteed: if food is on offer, birds will visit.
With this in mind, Cooking for Birds brings you some of the most popular and successful bird food recipes ever served up, ensuring your bird feeder or table will be the toast of avian gourmet for years to come.
With 40 quick, easy and cheap meal ideas and a range of useful cookery tips and helpful hints on what to feed and when, it won't be long before you'll have birds flocking to your garden.
About the Author Mark Golley is a regular contributor to birding magazines and is well known for his refreshing and easy approach to bird identification. He spent four years as warden of the world-famous Cley Marshes nature reserve, close to where he lives in North Norfolk.
Price: $14.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781472937612 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 170x170mm Extent: 96 pages
Main Category: WN Natural History
Sub Category: WNCB Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds: Second Edition Peter Holden and Stuart Housden
This definitive handbook of Scottish birds covers the 252 most common Scottish species in detailed text, complemented by 1000 illustrations and fully updated distributed maps for each.
Description The RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds is the ideal reference for keen birdwatchers and visitors to Scotland alike, and this fully updated second edition is richer and more comprehensive than ever. Over 250 species are covered in detail with each account including information on identification, voice, habits, habitat, food, breeding, ecology, seasonal movements, population and conservation. More than 1,000 superb colour illustrations by some of the world's leading bird artists are integrated into the text for easy reference. This second edition features newly added Gaelic names, updated distribution maps, and also incorporates the latest information on the conservation status of each species.
- Concise text offers a 'biography' of each species in simple, non-technical language - Practical, easy-to-use format - Updated distribution maps show resident species, summer and winter visitors, and passage migrants
About the Author Peter Holden worked for the RSPB for more than 30 years and is the author of several books including the bestselling RSPB Handbook of British Birds and the RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife. Stuart Housden is the Director of RSPB Scotland.
Price: $27.99 (NZ$29.99) ISBN: 9781472927286 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 256 pages
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Bloomsbury Natural History DECEMBER 2016 In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-year Affair Matthew Oates
The butterflies of Britain, in the words of one of their greatest champions
Description Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of this life.
Oates leads the reader through a lifetime of butterflying, across the mountain tops, the peat bogs, sea cliffs, meadows, heaths, the chalk downs and great forests of the British Isles. Full of humour, zeal, digression, expertise and anecdote, this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers, and with a half-century of butterflies in Britain.
About the Author Matthew Oates is a naturalist, writer and poet who has been obsessed by Britain's butterflies since he was at school. Intimately acquainted with all of Britain's native species, he has made particular studies of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Mountain Ringlet and Duke of Burgundy. But no butterfly has entranced him so much as the elusive, beautiful Purple Emperor - a butterfly we now understand much better thanks to his detailed and tireless observation. Since 1992 Matthew has worked for the National Trust, where he is currently National Specialist for Nature. Matthew has written widely for newspapers and magazines, and is a regular writer for the Nature Notes column in The Times. He lives in Gloucestershire.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781472924520 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 480 pages
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Sub Category: WNCN Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses Bess Lovejoy
A marvellously macabre look at how some of the world's favourite historical figures got even more interesting past their expiration dates...
Description In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influenti al figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a lawyer's office.
Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs and nether regions have embarked on voyages that criss-cross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln's corpse. Einstein's brain went on a cross- country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy- which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards death.
About the Author Bess Lovejoy is a writer, researcher and editor. She worked on the Schott's Almanac series for five years, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Believer, and the Boston Globe. Visit her at BessLovejoy.com.
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Duckworth DECEMBER 2016 The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher Peter Stothard
The latest, unique and inspiring book from former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, blending memoir, Thatcherist politics and stoic philosophy.
Description During his time reporting for and editing The Times, Peter Stothard met with many interesting political characters. So when Miss Robbins (whom he suspects has given him a false name) arrives to interview him on his experiences, Peter weaves a colourful tale set against the backdrop of the inner circle of the Thatcher government.
In the form of a series of fictional interview sessions, Peter shares and ponders on Thatcherite politics, recalling his close friendships with four of the Prime Minister's most trusted advisors: David Hart, Frank Johnson, Sir Ronald Millar, and Lord Woodrow Wyatt. Stothard and the cast of characters he conjures delve into the meaning and implications of Thatcherism, sharing a fascination for Emperor Nero's speech-writer and political advisor, Senaca the Younger.
Blending memoir with history, philosophy and political intrigue, The Senecans is a beautifully written, wistful book haunted by spectres of loss and change.
About the Author Peter Stothard was Editor of The Times from 1992 to 2002, the period of its greatest commercial success for a century, and recently retired as Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He was knighted for his services to newspapers in 2003. His books include On the Spartacus Road and Alexandria.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$44.99) ISBN: 9780715651377 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 304 pages
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BLM Overlook DECEMBER 2016 Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinkner, Matt Ridley and Alain de Botton
Is humanity approaching a Golden Age, driven by technology and ever-closer global networks? Or is the notion of progress an illusion born in the West?
Description From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality.
So is the cup half full or half empty? As part of the Munk Debates series, held in Toronto biannually, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, giving us an entertaining and thought-provoking face-off between four of the world's most renowned thinkers.
About the Author MALCOLM GLADWELL is a Canadian journalist and the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, What the Dog Saw, and his latest, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine and one of Foreign Policy magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers." Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has won a National Magazine Award and been honoured by the American Psychological Society and the American Sociological Society.
STEVEN PINKER is a pioneering cognitive scientist who has written a number of of bestselling books, including The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, as well as the landmark study on human progress The Better Angels of Our Nature, which won the New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Award Price: $16.99 (NZ$17.99) ISBN: 9781786070760 and was chosen for Mark Zuckerberg's book club. The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works were both finalists for the Format: Paperback Pulitzer Prize. Dimensions: 178x111mm Extent: 144 pages MATT RIDLEY's books have been finalists for nine major literary prizes, won several awards, been translated into thirty Main Category: JHB Sociology Sub Category: JHB languages, and sold over one million copies. He currently writes the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal Illustrations: and writes regularly for The Times. As Viscount Ridley, he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013 and is a fellow of Previous Titles: Author now living: the Royal Society of Literature, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honourary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
ALAIN DE BOTTON is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a "philosophy of everyday life." He has Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East Christopher Davidson
Who is to blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic State? The answer lies far closer to home than you might dare imagine...
Description The primary blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic extremism must rest with successive US and UK governments. This is the devastating argument put forward by Middle East expert Christopher M. Davidson who has travelled the world to unearth archived government reports, declassified intelligence, leaked secret documents, and to interview former officials, academics, journalists and activists. His aim: to expose how the West has sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East for more than a century.
Shadow Wars reveals how the US used Islamic extremists against the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how even after 9/11 the revenue streams of groups like al-Qaeda were left largely intact as the real targets of the 'War on Terror' were the regimes who stood in the way of Western investment. Most shocking for us today, however, is Davidson's argument that US intelligence agencies and their regional clients regard Islamic State, like al-Qaeda before it, as a strategic but volatile asset to be wielded against their enemies in the region. Alarming, provocative and utterly compelling, Shadow Wars is a book that demands to be read - now.
About the Author Christopher Davidson is a Reader in Middle East Politics at Durham University. He is credited with predicting the 2009 Dubai crash and his last book, After the Sheikhs, was one of the Foreign Policy Association's 'most significant books' of 2013.
Price: $52.99 (NZ$55.99) ISBN: 9781786070012 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 225x146mm Extent: 560 pages
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart
A New York Times bestseller with over 300,000 copies sold worldwide
Description Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time.
Crammed with over one hundred jokes and graced by the occasional cartoon, written in a Marxist style (Groucho's, not Karl's) and featuring frequent appearances from a comic two-man Greek chorus, Plato and a Platypus is a hilarious romp through the classic areas of philosophy. Don't be put off by the seriousness of the contents page, what follows is anything but.
About the Author Daniel Klein and Tom Cathcart pursued the usual careers after majoring in philosophy at Harvard. Dan wrote jokes for comedians, designed stunts for Candid Camera. Tom worked with street gangs in Chicago and dropped in and out of various divinity schools. They both live with their respective wives in New England.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781786070180 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 224 pages
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 A History of Britain in 21 Women Jenni Murray
The history of Britain, presented as you've never seen it before, through twenty-one women whose lives enthral and beguile, intrigue and inspire
Description Britain has been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. To say that it's high time that it was defined by its women falls some way short of an understatement.
Jenni Murray draws together the lives twenty-one women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history. In lively prose Murray reinvigorates the stories behind the names we all know and reveals the fascinating tales behind those less familiar, ultimately producing a unique history of Britain that is as long- overdue as it is absorbing. From famous queens to forgotten visionaries, and from great artists to our most influential political actors, A History of Britain in 21 Women is a veritable feast of page-turning history.
A History of Britain in 21 Women will profile Boudicca, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth I (this chapter will also feature Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots), Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor, Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gwen John, Mary Seacole, Ethel Smyth, Margaret Thatcher, Nicola Sturgeon, Mary Quant, Barbara Castle and Mary Somerville.
About the Author Jenni Murray is a journalist and broadcaster who has presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour since 1987. She regularly contributes to various newspapers and magazines, and is the author of several books, including Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter. She lives in London.
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair Emma Tarlo
Hair - we all have it, but have you ever really thought about it?
Description When no longer attached to the head, human hair is disconcerting. Whether it's being harvested in Indian temples, crafted into wigs in China or sold as extensions in the United States, hair is part of a hidden but expanding global trade most of us know nothing about. A commodity entangled in religion, politics and cultural identity, it finds second lives in wigs, toupees, rope, embroidery, paintbrushes, fertiliser and proteins. But what happens when different hair worlds collide?
Entanglement is a fascinating look at the intimate stories that connect the lives of people with different aspirations and needs in distant parts of the world. Anthropologist Emma Tarlo unveils the secret global journeys of hair as she traces its paths through India, Myanmar, Africa, the United States and Europe and investigates the wide range of meanings hair has for us. A fascinating look inside a little-known industry, this book ensures you will never look at hair in quite the same way again.
About the Author Emma Tarlo is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She regularly gives public lectures worldwide and contributes to BBC Radio programmes and news articles. Her previous books include Clothing Matters, winner of the 1998 Coomaraswamy Prize, and Visibly Muslim.
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 Game of Queens: The Women Who Ruled Sixteenth-Century Europe Sarah Gristwood
Not even the twentieth century can compare with the sixteenth century's explosion of female rule
Description In sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary set of women created a unique culture of feminine power that saw them run the continent for decades. Despite often being on opposing sides of power struggles both armed and otherwise, through family ties and patronage they educated and supported each other in a brutal world where the price of failure was disgrace, exile or even death.
Following the passage of power from mother to daughter and mentor to protege, Gristwood reveals the unorthodox practices these women adopted to avoid patriarchal control and assesses the impact they had on shaping the world around them. Epic in scale, this game of queens is a remarkable spectacle of skill and ingenuity, confronting the challenges faced by women in power - many of which still hold relevant today.
The players in this Game of Queens are: Isabella of Castile, Margaret of Austria, Louise of Savoy, Anne de Beaujeu, Katherine of Aragon, Marguerite of Navarre, Anne Boleyn, Catherine de Medici, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, Jeanne d'Albret and Mary Stuart.
About the Author Sarah Gristwood has written bestselling biographies of Arbella Stuart, Elizabeth and Leicester. Her previous book, Blood Sisters, was a dramatic portrait of the women whose dynastic ambitions and rivalries fuelled the Wars of the Roses. She lives in London and Kent.
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 Stalin Abraham Ascher
A rigorous introduction to the infamous despot and one of the key figures of modern history
Description Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were both responsible for the deaths of millions of people and for inflicting barbaric cruelty upon many more. Yet while Hitler is readily seen as evil incarnate, Stalin has, broadly speaking, never been subject to quite the same level of vitriol. Distinguished historian Abraham Ascher addresses this issue, and others, head-on in this introductory text.
From Stalin's days as a young Bolshevik idealist to the isolated, paranoid dictator of his final years, Ascher vigorously examines the sources, separating truths from falsehoods to present an unvarnished portrait of the Soviet dictator. For students of history and lay readers alike this is an ideal starting point, providing an incisive study of one of modern history's most infamous figures.
About the Author Abraham Ascher is Distinguished emeritus Professor of History at the Graduate School of the city University of New York. A highly respected scholar, he is the recipient of numerous awards, and the author of seven books and over thirty articles. He lives in New York
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Oneworld DECEMBER 2016 V&A Gallery of Fashion Claire Wilcox and Jenny Lister
Newly revised and updated edition of the complete V&A's Gallery of Fashion
Description Spanning four centuries, the V&A's Fashion Collection is the most comprehensive in the world, housing unrivaled collections of dress, accessories, shoes and hats from the seventeenth century to the present day. This thoroughly revised and redesigned edition shows the collection, from rare eighteenth-century gowns and exquisite bodices to 1930s evening wear, post-war couture, and show-stopping ensembles by contemporary designers. Among the designers featured are Charles Frederick Worth, Madeleine Vionnet, Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Mary Quant, Stephen Jones, Vivienne Westwood, and Alexander McQueen.
About the Author Claire Wilcox is Senior Curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion at the V&A and Professor in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has curated many exhibitions including Vivienne Westwood (2004) and The Golden Age of Couture (2007) and co- curated Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2014).
Jenny Lister is a Curator of Textiles and Fashion at the V&A. She co-curated the V&A exhibitions Swinging Sixties and Grace Kelly Style and co-edited the accompanying books.
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V&A Publications DECEMBER 2016 American Style and Spirit Jane Bradbury and Edward Maeder
A unique look at the history of American style and fashion through the snapshot of one family
Description Shown here for the first time outside the attic in which they were stored for generations are more than 300 perfectly preserved garments and accessories, complemented by archival objects, family photographs, and letters. The book is packed with evocative descriptions of the garments' original owners; when the clothes were made or bought; and even where they were worn - all by members of the Roddis family of Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Author Jane Bradbury describes the joy of discovering the clothes when her aunt, Augusta Denton Roddis, showed her the astonishing collection. A remarkable resource, the book presents the garments and their designers in the context of the various eras in which they were created, from the turn of the twentieth century, spanning the 1920s and the Depression, through to the late 1990s. Beautifully designed, this is a must-have for every fashion enthusiast.
About the Author Jane Bradbury studied at Sotheby's in London and has an MA from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
Edward Maeder has held curatorial positions at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was Founding Director of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
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V&A Publications DECEMBER 2016 Garnitures: Vase Sets from National Trust Houses Patricia Ferguson
Garnitures are matching sets of ceramic vases, and this book shows their rise and fall in popularity
Description This exquisite gift book explores the phenomenon of 'garnitures', or matching sets of ceramic vases. From the 1650s such sets were used in elite European interiors as an integral part of the decorative scheme: displayed on chimney-pieces, cupboards, tables or over doors, they 'garnished' the interior and so enhanced the status of the owner.
The fashion began in Europe using mismatched Chinese porcelain beakers and jars. As imports of Chinese porcelain ceased between 1657 and 1683, European potters at Nevers and Delft copied the originally exotic forms, unifying the sets with matching patterns, or with metal mounts. The fashion continued throughout the 1700s, with almost every ceramic manufactory producing examples, but came to its conclusion during the Arts and Crafts period, when the singular vase became the rage and many sets were broken up and dispersed.
This book brings together some of the National Trust's most important sets of garnitures, showing them in their historic context; many have never been published before.
About the Author Patricia F. Ferguson, an adviser on ceramics to the National Trust, has been researching their ceramics collection for a publication on elite ceramic patronage in Britain. She has an MA in Chinese ceramics from the School of Oriental and African Studies and works as a curatorial consultant in the Asian department of the V&A.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$23.99) ISBN: 9781851779000 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 64 pages
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V&A Publications DECEMBER 2016 Age of Jihad Patrick Cockburn
Award winning Independent journalist charts the collapse of the Middle East and the rise of Islamic State.
Description This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Age of Jihad Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of our time-the Sunni-Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows this did not explode suddenly in Syria after the Arab Spring as the conventional view holds, but over several years in occupied Iraq. It is in the sectarian conflict that engulfed Iraq following the war of 2003 that patterns were established that would later spill over into Syria with such devastating results. Since July 2014, the dominance of ISIS threatens the stability of the whole region. Cockburn was the first Western commentator to warn of ISIS, so far ahead of everyone else that last year the judges of the British Journalism Awards advised the UK government to 'consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead.' Age of Jihad will be the most in-depth analysis of the failure of the Middle East to date.
About the Author PATRICK COCKBURN is Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. Winner of the Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award 2014.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 No Such Thing as a Free Gift Linsey McGoey
Philanthro-capitalism: Is it always a good thing when the super rich give their money away?
Description The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before. In No Such Thing as a Free Gift, author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope-paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve. We are entering an age when the ideals of social justice are dependent on the strained rectitude and questionable generosity of the mega-rich.
About the Author LINSEY MCGOEY is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Molecular Red McKenzie Wark
Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century: how to think about the Anthropocene
Description In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other.
Wark explores the implications of Anthropocene through the story of two empires, the Soviet and then the American. The fall of the former prefigures that of the latter. From the ruins of these mighty histories, Wark salvages ideas to help us picture what kind of worlds collective labor might yet build. The Soviet experiment emerges from the past as an allegory for the new organizational challenges of our time. From deep within the Californian military-entertainment complex, Wark retrieves Donna Haraway's cyborg critique and science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian utopia as powerful resources for rethinking and remaking the world that climate change has wrought. Molecular Red proposes an alternative realism, where hope is found in what remains and endures.
About the Author MCKENZIE WARK is the author of many books. He teaches at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Vertical: The City From Above And Below Stephen Graham
From the penthouse to the sewers-the political geography of the vertical city
Description Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two- dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for a a new understanding of our surroundings that takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth; how the superrich in Sao Paulo live their penthouse lives far from the street; why London billionaires build vast subterranean basements rather than move house. Vertical will make you look at the city anew: from the viewfinders of drones, satellites, from the top of skyscrapers, at street-level and from underground bunkers: this is a new politics of space and geography.
About the Author STEPHEN GRAHAM is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit and is based in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Hitler’s Beneficiaries GÖTZ ALY
A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich-and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state
Description In this groundbreaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale- and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally 'bought' his people's consent. Drawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and people of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed a much- improved standard of living. Buoyed by the millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of conquered territory and the transfer of Jewish possessions into their homes and pockets. Any qualms were swept away by waves of governmenthandouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation. Gripping and significant, Hitler's Beneficiaries makes a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust, and the complicity of a people.
About the Author Respected historian of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, GOTZ ALY'S books include Architects of Annihilation. Winner of Germany's prestigious Heinrich Mann prize, Aly currently teaches at the University of Frankfurt.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin introduced by Tariq Ali
A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with Lenin's key revolutionary tract
Description The Communist Manifesto is the most influential political book ever written - few other books can claim to have fundamentally changed the world, but after the Russian Revolution this book has become the key text for radicals the world over. Now, in the wake of a punishing financial crisis and on the centenary of the Revolution that it helped to spark, the book remains both an essential guide to the transformations wrought by capitalism - and offers the solution to its inequality and exploitation.
There have been many editions of this book before, but this is a beautifully presented hardback edition and with one key addition - as this book was established by the Russian Revolution it has been coupled with Lenin's April Theses as an attractive 'flip' book (i.e. turn the book upside down and you have another). These ten directives were presented by Lenin after he returned from exile in 1917, and are the key program for the revolution that was carried out that year.
It has a new introduction by acclaimed author Taqiq Ali, showing how the Russian Revolution changed the world and the horizon of political change, and why its ambition is still relevant today.
About the Author KARL MARX was born in 1818. Expelled from Prussia in the same year, Marx took up residence first in Paris and then in London where, in 1867 he published his magnum opus Capital. A co-founder of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864, Marx died in London in 1883.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS was born in 1820. He moved to England in 1842 to work in his father's Manchester textile firm. After joining the fight against the counter revolution in Germany in 1848 he returned to Manchester and the family business. In subsequent years he provided financial support for Marx and edited the second and third volumes of Capital. He died in 1895.
Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781784786908 V.I. LENIN was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, and founder of the Bolshevik political Format: Hard Cover party. He died in 1924. Dimensions: xmm Extent: 128 pages
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Rebel Crossings Sheila Rowbotham
The story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the 20th century
Description Rebel Crossing opens up a forgotten chapter in the history of radicalism, shedding new light on lives committed to change and hope for a better future. This is an extraordinary work of archival history of great ambition: Rowbotham uncovered six lives that have been overlooked by history and reconstructs their lives, dreams, loves and struggles.
The lives of these six radical pioneers span the end of the 19th century and travels across continents: from the slums of Bristol to the wildernesses of California. This collective biography is a jigsaw of ideas, passions, transatlantic voyages, loves and radical hopes. It is a story that travels from across nations and oceans, interweaving lives dedicated to seeking new hope in revolutionary ideas. All six sought to combine their quest for the personal development of individuals with the creation of a society based on co-operative association, rather than competition and profit, and establishing new ways of living: feminism, secularism, socialism, anarchism, free love, health foods, and rational dress. In turn, the uncovering of these partially hidden lives reveals insights in this age of radical ideas and action, offering new understanding of key figures such as Edward Carpenter; Kropotkin, Patrick Geddes, Eleanor Marx, Emma Goldman and the young Bernard Shaw.
About the Author SHEILA ROWBOTHAM is one of the leading historians and theorists of feminism. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2012 was awarded the Eccles Centre writer in residence at the British Library. She currently lives in Bristol.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Inventing the Future Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams
A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work
Description Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.
Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms.
About the Author NICK SRNICEK is the author of Postcapitalist Technologies and the co-editor of The Speculative Turn.
ALEX WILLIAMS teaches at the University of East London.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Revolution in Our Lifetime Donna Murch
A new history of the Black Panther Party, for the 50th anniversary of its founding.
Description The Black Panther Party and the movement that spawned it is one of the most storied episodes in the history of the Black freedom struggle in America, and in the history of the American Left. And yet, argues the brilliant historian Donna Murch, the Panthers' radical moment and meaning have become obscured - first, by government repression, and then by the narrowing of demands and alternative politics in the fifty years since the founding of the party in Oakland in October, 1966. Revolution in Our Lifetime restores the anti-capitalism and internationalist perspective - the revolutionary imagination and farreaching politics - of the Panthers to our understanding of this crucial and fascinating movement.
Written as a succinct and accessible essay, this new history of the Panthers provides the sharpest picture of the Panthers while reflecting on their legacy and relevance today, in a renewed era of Black and youth protest.
About the Author DONNA MURCH is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize. She has published articles in the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, OAH Magazine of History, Black Scholar, Souls, Perspectives, New Politics, Jacobin, and Boston Review. Her research and analysis is featured in the awardwinning documentary on the Black Panthers, 'Vanguard of the Revolution'
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics Manning Marable
Highly acclaimed dissection of the 'new racism', from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
Description Many in the US, including Barack Obama, have called for a 'post-racial' politics: yet race still divides the country politically, economically and socially.
In this highly acclaimed work, Manning Marable rejects both liberal inclusionist strategies and the separatist politics of the likes of Louis Farrakhan. Beginning by looking back at African-American politics and the fight against racism of the recent past, outlining a trenchant analysis of the 'New Racial Domain' that must be uprooted, he argues powerfully for a 'transformationist' strategy, which retains a distinctive black cultural identity but draws together all the poor and exploited in a united struggle against oppression.
About the Author MANNING MARABLE was a Professor of African- American Studies and of Public Affairs, History and Political Science at Columbia University. His books include Black American Politics, Black Leadership, Living Black History and Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance Angela Davis
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power
Description The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America's most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis's incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis's arrest and imprisonment-the political prisoner.
Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.
About the Author ANGELA Y. DAVIS is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil W. E. B. du Bois
Essential reading for students of African-American history
Description The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. Part essay, part autobiography, Darkwater explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of women and Eurocentric standards of beauty, the historical rise of the idea of whiteness, and the abridgement of democracy along race, class, and gender lines. Reflecting the author's ideas as a politician,historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans.
About the Author W. E. B. DU BOIS was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Peter Frase
Bold exploration of our future utopias and dystopias through a science fiction lens.
Description 'It is easier to imagine the end of the world,' the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, 'than to imagine the end of capitalism.' Jacobin editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now experience, and drawing upon speculative fictions to illustrate how these futures might look, Four Futures examines communism, rentism, socialism and exterminism-or in other words, the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
About the Author PETER FRASE is an editor at Jacobin magazine, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has written for In These Times and Al Jazeera. He lives in New York City.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela George Cicciarello-Maher
A journey through Venezuela's experiments in radical democracy, after the age of Chavez
Description Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to experiment with new forms of organization to achieve this. In fact, the countries of Latin America have been experimenting with such projects since 1989-just as left projects of all stripes fell into decline across Europe-in what was a moment of rebirth. Poor residents of Venezuela's barrios took history into their own hands in a mass popular rebellion against neoliberalism,much as the movements appearing worldwide are doing today.
Twenty-five years since the experiments began, Latin America is hardly recognizable, with leftist governments consolidating a new hegemony and radical movements surging forth from below. In Building the Commune, George Cicciarello-Maher travels through the many radical experiments of Venezuela, assessing how they have succeeded and failed, and how they are continuing to operate. Speaking to community members, workers, students and government officials, Cicciarello-Maher provides a balance sheet of these projects, that movements throughout the world can look to for lessons and inspiration.
About the Author GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER is assistant professor of political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is the author of We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, and a forthcoming volume called Decolonizing Dialectics.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 The Essence of Nihilism Emanuele Severino
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation
Description In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. Essenza del Nichilismo, published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and to firmly establish Severino's preeminent position within the constellation of contemporary philosophy.
In this groundbreaking book, Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of 'the greatest folly', that is, of the belief that 'things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing'. According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has produced a belief in the radical 'nothingness' of things. This, in turn has justified the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction.
To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all 'return to Parmenides'. Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes the 'path of night' of nihilism, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent.
About the Author EMANUELE SEVERINO is professor hemeritus at Venezia's Ca' Foscari University and professor of Fundamental Ontology at Milan's San Raffaele University. He is now widely considered the most important living Italian philosopher.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" Michael Lowy
This illuminating study of Benjamin's final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Description Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an 'unclassifiable' philosopher. His essay 'On the Concept of History' was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide.
In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Lowy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin's celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Lowy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin's philosophy of history.
About the Author MICHAEL LOWY is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in Latin America and The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition Sigmund Freud
The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis
Description The traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, first published in 1905 and never before translated into English, we find no reference whatsoever to the Oedipus complex. Is there a Freudian psychoanalysis that is not Oedipal?
This first version of Freud's Three Essays articulates just such a non-Oedipal psychoanalysis. As such, it still has a definite 'emancipatory' potential; Freudian psychoanalysis is not Oedipal in its very nature. It is only from 1909 onwards that psychoanalysis tends to become a sophisticated defence of what Freud first called the 'popular opinion' about sexuality. It was precisely this 'popular opinion' that psychoanalysis originally was meant to deconstruct. Is there a Freudian escape - that is an escape that remains not so much within Freudian orthodoxy, but at least within its inspiration - from this impasse?
If Freud has respected more systematically his own original thesis, could it be that the Oedipus complex wouldn't be the shibboleth of psychoanalysis? Not only is this first edition less Oedipal than is generally believed, but it also contains the elements for thinking a 'non- Oedipal' psychoanalysis; a Freud against Oedipus.
About the Author SIGMUND FREUD was born in Freiberg, which is now known as the Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856. Freud developed the method of psychoanalysis, and his theories on child sexuality, libido and the ego, among other topics, were some of the most influential academic concepts of the 20th century.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 Simple Forms: Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke Andre Jolles
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time
Description Legend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: Andre Jolles understands each of these nine 'simple forms' as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Long recognized as a classic of genre theory, Simple Forms (1929) has been called a significant precursor to structuralist and narratological approaches to literature. Like Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale,with which it is often compared, Jolles's work is not only foundational for the later development of genre theory but of continuing relevance today. A major influence on literary genre studies since its publication, Simple Forms is now available for the first time in English.
About the Author ANDRE JOLLES (1874-1946) was a scholar of ethnology, folklore and aesthetics, and is considered by many to be a precursor of structuralism.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 Weightless Sarah Bannan
Prep meets The Virgin Suicides in a haunting coming-of-age story for the digital generation and an examination of the hypocrisy of small town life, where no one quite knows where rumour ends and truth begins
Description Adamsville wasn't a place that people came to. It was a place you were from, where you were born, where you were raised, where you stayed.
Before Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville, Alabama. Each week, at dinner tables and in the high school assembly, everyone would pray for the football team to win. Each year, the Adams High hotlist would be updated, and girls would rise and fall within its ranks. Each day, everyone lived by the unwritten rules that cheerleaders did not hang out with the swim team, seniors did not date freshmen and the blistering heat was something that should never be remarked upon. But then the new girl came.
All Carolyn's social media could reveal was that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1075 friends - and she didn't have a relationship status. In beach photos with boys who looked like Abercrombie models she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was so much more. She was perfect.
This was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon Festival, when someone swore they saw the captain of the football team with his arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth.
About the Author Sarah Bannan, was born in 1978 in upstate New York. She moved frequently when she was growing up, living in Texas, in Florida and in Alabama, where she attended high school. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2000 and then moved to Ireland, where she has lived ever since. She has worked in various roles in the arts and, since 2007 she has been Head of Literature with the Arts Council. In 2010, she took part in the Faber Academy's novel-writing course. Weightless is her first novel and has been shortlisted for the Newcomer of the Year in the Irish Book Awards. Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781408856314 @sarahkeegs Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages Main Category: FA
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream Katharine Norbury
Part travelogue, part memoir, this deeply moving story of self-discovery - told through journeys on foot along the glittering rivers of Britain - is nature writing at its finest and destined to be a classic of memoir
Description LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine and her nine-year-old daughter Evie decide to follow a river from the sea to its source. But a chance circumstance forces Katharine to the door of the woman who gave her up all those years ago.
Combining travelogue, memoir, exquisite nature writing, fragments of poetry and tales from Celtic mythology, The Fish Ladder is a captivating and life-affirming story about motherhood, marriage, family, and self-discovery, illuminated by the extraordinary majesty of the natural world.
About the Author Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA. The Fish Ladder is her first book. It was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2015. Katharine was chosen as the Observer's Rising Star in non-fiction for 2015. She lives in London with her family.
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Fives and Twenty-Fives Michael Pitre
Following three ex-Marines battling with their experiences once home, this is a heart-stopping, heartbreaking debut novel of war and its aftermath
Description It is the early months of the Arab Spring, 2011. But for three young men, two American and one Iraqi, their minds return again and again to 2006, to the bloodiest stretch of the Iraq War. Members of the same platoon, they were tasked with the often deadly job of repairing potholes in the roads of the Al Anbar Province: potholes that almost always concealed a home-made bomb. They have survived the war but now they must learn to live with themselves.
As they struggle to find their place in a world that no longer knows them, they realise that the war has left nothing in their lives untouched and that salvation may come from an unexpected quarter.
About the Author Michael Pitre is a graduate of LSU, where, as a double major in history and creative writing, he studied with Andrei Codrescu and Mark Jude Poirier. He joined the US Marines in 2002, deploying twice to Iraq and attaining the rank of Captain before leaving the service in 2010 to get his MBA at Loyola. He lives in New Orleans. Fives and Twenty-Fives is his first novel.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408854464 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 400 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 China Dolls Lisa See
New York Times bestselling author of Dreams of Joy, Shanghai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Description It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives.
All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese.
Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.
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Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408853276 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198 x129mm Extent: 488 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Miss Carter's War Sheila Hancock
The war is over but her story has just begun
Description It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls, draws a pencil seam up her legs, ties the laces on her sensible black shoes, and sets out towards her future as an English teacher in a girls' grammar school. Outside the classroom Britain is changing fast, and Miss Carter finds herself caught up in social upheaval, swept in and out of love and forging deep, enduring friendships.
About the Author Sheila Hancock is one of Britain's most highly regarded and popular actors, and received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across Film, Television, Theatre and Radio. Her first big television role was in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade in the early 1960s. She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
Following the death of her husband, John Thaw, she wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a number one bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me, also a bestseller, was published in 2007. She lives in London and France.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781408843604 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 432 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie
A gloriously funny and charming debut novel about the joys and challenges of living abroad from one of the nation's best-loved actresses
Description Sunday Times Bestseller
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-Sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of expats. Settling to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall out of several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared .
About the Author Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress. She is best known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. On stage, she won Best Actress in a Musical for Acorn Antiques: The Musical and was nominated for Best Actress inNoises Off. Celia Imrie's upcoming films are A Cure for Wellness, Year by the Sea and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, all due for release in 2016. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in 2011.
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Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781408846896 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 352 pages
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Vanessa and Her Sister Priya Parmar
In the vein of The Paris Wife and the BBC's Life in Squares: a compelling and dazzling story of sisters and art, love and betrayal - of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Description London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer.
Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London.
But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia's happiness or her own.
About the Author Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She lives in London and Hawaii.
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison
From the prize-winning author of Clay, an exquisite novel about four people's lives, our changing relationship with the landscape and what it means to belong
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016
Description SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins.
Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong.
Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.
About the Author Melissa Harrison's debut novel Clay won the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, was selected for Amazon's 'Rising Stars' programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year for 2013. Her second novel At Hawthorn Time was shortlisted Price: $19.99 (NZ$20.99) for the Costa Novel Award 2015 and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016. A freelance writer, ISBN: 9781408859070 occasional photographer and columnist for The Times, the Weekend FT and the Guardian, she lives in South London. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 288 pages @M_Z_Harrison
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Bloomsbury Pb DECEMBER 2016 Tom Diaper's Logbook: Memoirs of a Racing Skipper Captain Tom Diaper, foreword by Tom Cunliffe
A fascinating memoir from one of the most renowned racing skippers of the early 20th century
Description Tom Diaper's Logbook is the memoir of a remarkable man and a rare opportunity to read first-hand about the drama, conflict and fascinating details that made up the life of a for-hire racing skipper during the glory days of racing. Tom Diaper wrote his memoirs on scraps of paper and old cigarette papers and these were pulled together to give a narrative of his life from a toddler on his father's yacht until his retirement as a skipper. The book tells of dramatic races with the German Kaiser, working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, both World Wars and other exciting adventures over Tom's lifetime.
The book was first published in 1950, a year after Tom's death, and has been popular amongst sailors and sailing enthusiasts ever since. Now reissued with the original photos plus explanatory footnotes and a foreword from renowned sailor and fan of the book, Tom Cunliffe, Tom Diaper's Logbook is an ideal gift for lovers of sea stories, action and real-life adventure.
About the Author Captain Tom Diaper (1867-1949) was one of the most renowned racing skippers of the late 19th and early 20th century. His family can trace their roots back to 1066. The family is intrinsically linked with Itchen Ferry village and Southampton and is a major part of the area's maritime history.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472930804 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 192 pages
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Sub Category: WSSN Boating Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 In the Wake of Heroes: Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe edited by Tom Cunliffe
Tom Cunliffe's name represents the gold standard of good yachting advice, and this book collects together his favourite extracts, all focusing on good seamanship in one way or another, from the classic and much-loved books that have instructed and inspired him over the decades.
Description Tom Cunliffe is one of the biggest names in the sailing world - an internationally renowned journalist and speaker, and the go-to guru when the BBC wants a presenter for a new TV series about maritime interests.
For the last ten years he has edited the 'Great Seamanship' column of Yachting World magazine. Each column features an extract from a classic yachting book that covers an aspect of great seamanship. Tom introduces each extract by giving insightful background on the writer, their book and what makes their experience so worth reading about - and learning from.
This book comprises Tom's 40 favourite extracts, and covers the entire scope of yachting concerns, from small-boat handling to yacht racing to long-distance cruising and exploring.
Introduced in Tom's quintessential lively, engaging fashion, and illustrated with photos both from the original books and Tom's own archives, this book contains a wealth of yachting wisdom and is a collection to be treasured.
About the Author Tom Cunliffe is one of the maritime world's most popular writers and presenters. He has been sailing for most of his life, is a RYA Yachtmaster Examiner, and a training consultant for the governing body of yachting in the USA. He is a regular columnist for Yachting Monthly and Yachting World in Britain, and SAIL in the USA. His first television series was Island Race for BBC2, in which he sailed round Britain with John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig as his crew, his next series Boatyard was shown on Discovery and is often repeated on Quest, and his more recent series The Boats that Built Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) Britain was shown on BBC2. He is the author of numerous books, including The Complete Day Skipper and The ISBN: 9781472936004 Format: Paperback - B format Complete Yachtmaster, two of the bestselling books on the Adlard Coles list. Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 272 pages
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Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2016 The Complete Day Skipper: Skippering with Confidence Right From the Start Tom Cunliffe
A practical hands-on manual that covers the Day Skipper syllabus in a step-by-step learning system designed to get you straight on the water.
Description The Complete Day Skipper is a totally practical hands-on manual that covers the RYA Day Skipper syllabus in a way that reflects a skipper's growing experience at sea, beginning with yacht handling under power, moving on to boat husbandry and sailing skills, and from there to the realistic use of modern electronic navigation systems. Eminently readable and very down to earth, this fully revised fifth edition has become required reading for all skippers in their early years as well as more experienced sailors who choose not to venture far afield. As one of Britain's best-known instructors and writers on seamanship, Tom Cunliffe provides just the right blend of advice, instruction, inspiration and encouragement.
About the Author Tom Cunliffe may be a household name as a sailor, a TV presenter and a Yachtmaster Instructor Examiner, but he remains a family sailor by choice. Self-taught as a teenager in 'engineless' 25-footers, he has built a life around cruising with his wife and daughter to the faraway places of which dreams are made. Years of teaching offshore at the National Sailing Centre have given him a remarkable knack of explaining how skippering can be low-stress and safe, while never forgetting that, above all, it has to be fun. Cruising remains Tom Cunliffe's passion. He currently owns a classic 44-foot cutter, and has sailed his yachts with friends and family from the Caribbean to Russia and from Brazil to the Arctic. When not sailing or working, he grows roses and rides a large motorcycle. His website is www.tomcunliffe.com
Price: $50.00 (NZ$54.99) ISBN: 9781472924162 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 246x171mm Extent: 208 pages
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Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2016 Untie the Lines: Setting Sail and Breaking Free Emma Bamford
The next instalment of the sailing and travel adventures of Emma Bamford, author of the popular Casting Off
Description Former stressed-out city girl and journalist Emma is living the dream. She's in Malaysia, living on a yacht with handsome traveller Guy, and together they have plans to explore the world's most remote and exotic places. Alright, so she has to ignore the niggling doubt that things didn't quite work out the last time she went to stay with a stranger on his boat in Asia, but she's quietly confident that this time things will be different.
She and Guy are literally sailing into the sunset together. Adventures in Asia, America and the Caribbean beckon. Life, free from the rat race and nine-to-five grind, couldn't be more perfect. Or could it?
Eventually forced to return to London, to her old, crippling, fast-paced world, Emma finds herself struggling with anxiety and panic attacks and losing the battle between head and heart. Running, or sailing, away is just not an option any more.
Untie the Lines, the sequel to Casting Off, is a beautifully written, often funny, story for those who dream of escape, adventure and an unshackled life. But it is also a deeply moving tale about recognising the need to be true to yourself, and to live a balanced life - for without balance, we fall.
About the Author Emma Bamford is an author and journalist. She has worked at The Independent and the Daily Express and is currently Deputy Editor of Sailing Today magazine. Find out more at www.emmabamford.com.
Price: $18.99 (NZ$19.99) ISBN: 9781472928320 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 320 pages
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Sub Category: WSSN Boating Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Conway's The War At Sea in Photographs: 1939-1945 Stuart Robertson and Stephen Dent
Showing the realities of the Second World War through photographs, this is a moving and informative addition to the library of anyone interested in the Second World War.
Description The small, lightweight, 35mm cameras that were available by the time of the Second World War revolutionised war photography. Unencumbered by heavy equipment, including tripods and photographic plates, the photographer could now get much closer to the action and respond instinctively to changing situations, shooting a series of pictures on a single film. Although their smaller format meant that technically the images were usually grainier and less sharp, this tonal harshness gave the pictures a gritty realism and immediacy. And with the easing of censorship, the photographers were able to publish unflinching images of conflict and the catastrophic consequences of war as never before. From a naval point of view, developments in submarine and aircraft carrier technology completely changed how a war would be fought at sea. Navies of the protagonists were expected to provide many support services, from the protection of convoys to the landing of troops on hostile shores, which literally enabled the war to go global.
Conway's The War at Sea in Photographs describes the Second World War through the chronology of naval events. Chapters are organised by year, with a concise introduction followed by pages of photographs, each accompanied by an informative caption. They include the work of photojournalists on assignment and specialist naval photographers attached to a particular unit or ship, who captured the confusion of a sinking vessel or the moment of impact of a kamikaze attack. Often grainy, blurred, damaged, these intense images are balanced by the more organised, framed shots of naval personnel in training, in preparation for battle, and planning operations in shore bases, as well as dockyard workers and harbour facilities. From the scuttling of the Graf Spee and the Channel Dash of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the Operations Room at Western Approaches, and the US Marines wading ashore at Iwo Jima; from the amateur photography of a serviceman on board a destroyer to Robert Capa's images of the mayhem on Omaha Beach, this collection is a moving and informative addition to the library of anyone interested in the Second World War.
About the Author Stuart Robertson is a former staff editor at Conway. He is a co-author of Conway's The War at Sea and compiled The Price: $50.00 (NZ$60.00) ISBN: 9781844860456 Pirate's Pocket-Book. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 196x129mm Extent: 240 pages
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Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 The Voyages of Captain Cook: 101 Questions and Answers About the Explorer and His Three Great Scientific Expeditions Anthony Cornish
Captain James Cook is probably the most famous explorer of all time, this book is the first to explore Cook's voyages and maritime career from the point of view of the reader with a healthy curiosity.
Description Captain James Cook is probably the most famous explorer of all time, and not without good reason. The three Pacific voyages of discovery he made between 1768 and 1779 set new standards in navigation, surveying and shipboard health; and he discovered and charted numerous lands, resulting in lasting trade and the development of British interests abroad. The interest and influence of the Royal Society in the expeditions meant that a group of scientists and artists accompanied Cook and his crew to record the people and places that they encountered. In turn, the samples they collected and catalogued and the paintings and drawings they made not only advanced the botanical and natural sciences, but left us with a vivid visual reminder of those voyages.
Many books have been written on the subject of Cook's voyages and his maritime career, but this is the first to approach them from the point of view of the reader with a healthy curiosity rather than a scholarly interest. Similarly, for someone who has been been inspired and intrigued by a visit to the Endeavour replica, or to one of the many museums devoted to Captain Cook, this is a concise and readable guide that pulls out the key questions and provides clear, engaging answers, detailing essential information on the many aspects of Cook's voyages. The 101 Questions and Answers structure is an ideal format for dealing with such diverse yet frequently-asked questions as:
How many ships took part in the voyages? What were their names? What is a collier? What were Cook's secret instructions? Did Cook discover Antarctica? Where did Cook learn his surveying techniques? How did they measure longitude? Which voyage did the artist William Hodges accompany Captain Cook on? What is breadfruit?
All these questions and many more are answered simply and engagingly, employing contemporary paintings, charts and other images to illustrate each point. Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781844860609 About the Author Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 215x153mm Extent: 112 pages
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Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt: Master Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian Geoff Hunt
A superb collection of 150 paintings and sketches by Geoff Hunt, one of the leading marine artists of his generation.
Description Geoff Hunt is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and more recently for those of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd books. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading marine artists of his generation.
More than a showcase of the versatility and creativity of his work, this book, written by the artist himself, also reveals its accuracy, through five key case studies that explain the initial inspirations, gathering of source material and often lengthy artistic progression that leads to the creation of a finished painting. The artist has selected over 150 paintings and sketches to illustrate his prolific career, painting techniques and influences, dividing them into sections on Nelson's Navy, The American War of Independence, illustrating the naval writers and the Modern Maritime Scene, which includes recent commissions from the commercial sector and yachting community.
About the Author Geoff Hunt is a former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide, and Geoff is an expert on the Navy of Nelson and Patrick O'Brian. In 2004 The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt was published to much acclaim, presenting over 100 of the artist's key works from a thirty year career. Geoff's studio is on the site of Nelson's house at Merton Place.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.00) ISBN: 9781844860807 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 300x280mm Extent: 144 pages
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Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 Hornby Book of Model Railways Chris Ellis
An in-depth look at the Hornby model railway range.
Description Hornby is a household name with a history that goes back over 80 years. This book looks at the Hornby range in depth, and shows how Hornby models can be used to build a model railway layout to suit the space available and all levels of modelling skill.
Now completely revised and updated, it is packed with hints and tips for easy layout building, scenic structure modelling, track laying and wiring and extra detailing, and provides ideas for working at the simplest level, including a layout for very young enthusiasts, through to the more experienced modeller. Extra sections relating to recent developments in the hobby are included, along with new photography, new layouts and recent additions to Hornby rolling stock and the Skaledale range.
About the Author Chris Ellis has been a steam and model railway enthusiast since his school days. He has nearly fifty years of experience as a writer and editor, having started out in the early 1960s as editor of Airfix Magazine. In 1980 he founded Model Trains, which he continues to edit today as Model Trains International. He has also written numerous railway and scenic modelling books along with articles on military, aviation and transport subjects.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781844860951 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 190x120mm Extent: 176 pages
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Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 Able Seamen: The lower deck of the Royal Navy 1850 to 1939 Brian Lavery
A fascinating account of the evolution of the seaman through 89 years of change.
Description Brian Lavery returns with the second volume of his engaging social history of the Royal Navy's 'lower deck', exploring the world of the seamen (as opposed to the officers of the quarterdeck). Following on from Royal Tars (covering the years 875-1850) it now precedes the third volume All Hands (covering the years from 1939).
In Able Seamen the author addresses a range of issues central to the evolution of the seaman through 89 years of change, including 'Jacky' Fisher's sweeping reforms and the concept of the 'new seaman'; the rise of stokers, artificers and engineers and the traditional seaman's 'crisis of identity' as the navy moved from sail to steam. The 'lower deck' also had to deal with the changing social structure of the Navy; the great demands made on the Service throughout the British Empire; the move from broadside batteries to sophisticated turretsand fire-control systems; the modernization and standardisation of signals and telegraphy; the rise of 'small ships' as a destroyer fleet was created to fulfil new strategic requirements; and the creation of the submarine service. Brian Lavery also highlights the repercussions of the First World War and the grand fleet engagement at Jutland; the expressions of discontent (such as the infamous Invergordon mutiny), and the lead-up to the Second World War.
Readable, engaging and authoritative, this book chronicles an important stage in the history of the Royal Navy and illuminates the inherent adaptability of the lower deck, as new technologies demanded increased professionalism, specialization and training.
About the Author Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His recent titles include Ship, Royal Tars, Conquest of the Ocean, In Which They Served, Churchill's Navy, and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas.
Price: $50.00 (NZ$55.00) ISBN: 9781844861408 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x165mm Extent: 368 pages
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Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 Himalaya: The exploration and conquest of the greatest mountains on earth Phillip Parker, Peter Hillary and Philip Parker
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first successful summiting of Mount Everest, Himalaya brings together an esteemed selection of award-winning writers and respected climbers, including Stewart Weaver, Stephen Venables, Mick Conefrey, Peter Gillman and Doug Scott, to produce a compelling, accessible and comprehensive survey of the Himalaya in all its aspects.
Description At some 1500 miles long and 250 miles at its widest, the Himalaya range is home to the fourteen greatest mountain peaks on the planet each of which towers over 8,000 metres. Celebrated by the region's early ancient kingdoms, many of these peaks remain sacred in both the Hindu and Buddhist religions and have additionally inspired western explorers and adventurers for some 300 years.
Himalaya examines the geographical origins of the region, its earliest peoples and the onward western discovery and exploration commencing with the Jesuits, progressing through myriad nineteenth century gentlemen surveyors, culminating in Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norgay's ascent of Everest in 1953 and continuing to the present day with extreme mountaineers and adventure tourists. However the book does not solely deal with the attempts to summit the majestic Everest. Its broader brief, and chronological structure, allows the inclusion of narrative and journal extracts from the equally heroic pioneering ascents of Himalayan peaks including K2 (1954), Nanga Parbat (1953), Annapurna (1950), Kangchenjunga (1955), and Lhotse (1956) as well as subsequent new frontiers, peaks, routes and mountaineering techniques.
The volume includes specially commissioned pieces where legendary climbers reflect on their intrepid experiences and heroism on the highest mountains on earth. These accounts are set beside stunning commissioned cartography, historical photographs, newly shot stills of ephemera and artifacts as well as the most recent Himalayan work from some of the world's leading adventure photographers.
Price: $39.99 (NZ$45.99) About the Author ISBN: 9781844862214 Format: Hard Cover Himalaya is edited by writer and historian Philip Parker. Formerly publisher of the Times books list, Philip was responsible Dimensions: 272x202mm for The Times History of the World and numerous titles on ancient civilizations. He is also the author of The Empire Stops Extent: 192 pages Here (2009), a book acclaimed as 'engaging' (FT), 'awe-inspiring' (The Scotsman) and 'a quite breathtaking and eccentric Main Category: WTL Travel edifice of scholarship... extraordinary' (The Guardian). Sub Category: WTL Travel Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Conway Publishing DECEMBER 2016 Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield Innes McCartney
Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney solves the mysterious fate of the lost ships of Jutland and reveals - for the first time - the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the battle
Description The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory.
In this book, marine archaeologist and historian Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time what became of the warships that vanished on the night of 31st May 1916, examining the circumstances behind the loss of each ship and reconciling what was known in 1916 to what the archaeology is revealing today. The knowledge of what was present was transformed in 2015 by a groundbreaking survey using the modern technology of multi-beam. This greatly assisted in unravelling the details behind several Jutland enigmas, not least the devastating explosions which claimed five major British warships, the details of the wrecks of the 13 destroyers lost in the battle and the German warships scuttled during the night phase.
This is the first book to identify the locations of many of the wrecks, and - scandalously - how more than half of these sites have been illegally plundered for salvage, despite their status as war graves. An essential and revelatory read for anyone interested in naval history and marine archaeology.
About the Author Dr Innes McCartney is a nautical archaeologist, explorer, historian and author. Over the last 25 years he has specialised in the discovery of and investigation into twentieth century shipwrecks including the wrecks of the Battle of Jutland and many British and German submarines. He has appeared regularly on documentaries such as Time Team Special and is a popular speaker at conferences.
Price: $59.99 (NZ$62.99) ISBN: 9781844864164 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 246x189mm Extent: 272 pages
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Sub Category: JW Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Chosen Men: Military Skirmish Games in the Napoleonic Wars Mark Latham, illustrated by Mark Stacey
A set of Napoleonic wargames rules for small and large skirmishes.
Description Chosen Men is a set of fast-action skirmish rules detailing the bloody skirmishes between light troops in the Napoleonic Wars. The primary focus of the game is on soldiers and NCOs in light 'flank' companies, as they scout ahead of larger forces and take part in man-to-man actions against enemy skirmishers.
Although the game allows for the formation of accurately sized companies of light infantry and cavalry if you wish, these formations are broken down into small groups of up to a dozen men. For the most part, officers are not swashbuckling super-heroes, but staunch commanders who rally and direct their men to achieve the battlefield objectives. Although the game uses an alternating action turn sequence, officers can use their influence on multiple units at the same time in an effort to steal the initiative. With all rolls resolved using standard 6-sided dice, this game combines a classic wargaming feel with modern wargame mechanics.
About the Author Mark Latham is a writer, editor and games designer from Staffordshire, UK. After graduating with an MA in English literature from the University of Sheffield, Mark went on to become the editor of White Dwarf magazine, and then the managing editor of Games Workshop's games development team, before finally becoming a full-time author of novels, short stories and games. A keen amateur historian, Mark is fascinated by the nineteenth century, leading to the production of the popular tabletop games Legends of the Old West, Trafalgar and Waterloo for Warhammer Historical.
Mark Stacey was born in Manchester in 1964 and has been a freelance illustrator since 1987. He has a lifelong interest in all periods of history, particularly military history, and has specialized in this area throughout his career. He now lives and works in Cornwall.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781472810809 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 64 pages
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Sub Category: WD Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden Ian Gardner, introduction by Ed Shames foreword by James Martin
This final installment of the story of the 3/506 PIR covers its involvement in the bitter fighting to hold Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, is liberation of Nazi concentration camps and occupation of the Berchtesgarden, Hitler's mountain retreat.
Description The final volume of Gardner's critically acclaimed biography of the Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment - the sister company to the famed Band of Brothers - this book traces the battalion's actions in the frantic final days of the war in Europe. Exhausted and battered following the disastrous Market-Garden campaign, the 506th were due three months of R&R, but were rushed back in to halt the desperate German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. When the offensive was finally halted after months of fighting the 506th pushed on into Germany where Ed Shames was the first Allied soldier to enter Dachau before the unit were sent to occupy Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgarden. Based on extensive interviews and first-hand accounts, this volume relives the struggles of the paratroopers of the renowned 'Screaming Eagles' in some of the toughest fighting of World War II, bringing the story of their defiant unit to its conclusion.
About the Author Ian Gardner served for five years in Support Company, 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment as a medic before leaving the Territorial Army in 1993 due to injury. Always enthusiastic about military history, several years after leaving 10 Para Ian became interested in World War II US Paratroopers. After a visit to Normandy in 2000 he decided to focus on the 101st Airborne Division, and in particular the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which led to the critically acclaimed Tonight We Die As Men, co-written with Roger Day. This, his second historical work, continues their story. Currently self-employed, he is married with two grown up children and lives near Aldershot in Hampshire.
Col. Ed Shames is a 'Band of Brothers' veteran. He received a battlefield commission into E ('Easy') Company of the 506th PIR on 13 June 1944 in Carentan, France. He survived the war before eventually retiring as a Colonel. He is an active member of veterans' societies. Price: $19.99 (NZ$21.99) ISBN: 9781472816818 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 344 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Operation Market-Garden 1944 (2): The British Airborne Missions Ken Ford, illustrated by Graham Turner
Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with a fascinating account of the British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Ken Ford's detailed analysis of the doomed operation is ideal for those interested in World War II and the operational history of the British military.
Description With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market- Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance consisted of an armoured thrust by the British XXX Corps, while the US 82nd and 101st US Airborne Divisions secured the bridges at Eindhoven and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st Airborne Brigade were tasked with seizing the final bridge at Arnhem to secure the route. What they did not realise was that the 9. SS and 10. SS-Panzer Divisions were nearby, ready to reinforce the local garrison and fend off the Allied assault.
Focusing on the role played by these British and Polish troops, Ken Ford examines Operation Market-Garden in its entirety, from the early planning through to the early setbacks and eventual catastrophic conclusion.
About the Author Ken Ford trained as an engineer and spent almost 30 years in the telecommunications industry before a change in career led him to become a full-time military historian. He is the author of over 30 books on various aspects of World War II. Ken now lives in Southampton.
Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$32.99) ISBN: 9781472814302 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 The Thames 1813: The War of 1812 on the Northwest Frontier John F Winkler, illustrated by Peter Dennis
The battle of the Thames was a fierce clash that saw the famous Native American commander Tecumseh fall as the American forces secured control of the North-West frontier during the War of 1812. With detailed profiles of the commanders and accounts of the battles, this highly illustrated title is a must for those interested in the colonial and revolutionary history of the US.
Description The battle of the Thames was the culmination of a bloody campaign that saw American forces clash with the British and their Native American allies on multiple occasions. In a battle that included the future US president William Henry Harrison, American naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry and the legendary Shawnee leader Tecumseh the Americans prevailed, due in part to their imaginative use of Kentucky mounted riflemen to charge British regular infantry and artillery. Their victory allowed them to secure the North-West frontier, a crucial strategic gain in the War of 1812. Drawing on his expertise of US-Native American conflicts, historian John F. Winkler investigates the battle of the Thames, bringing the conflict to life through detailed analysis, combat reports and stunning specially commissioned illustrations.
About the Author John F. Winkler lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife of more than 40 years. They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. He has written many works on the history of Roman, English and American law. He also explores forgotten historical sites in Ohio and neighboring states.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Price: $29.99 (NZ$36.99) ISBN: 9781472814333 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas, illustrated by Chris Thomas
In the final six months of World War 2 the Tempest V was pitted against some of the Luftwaffe's most advanced fighter types. Focusing on these epic clashes, this title will appeal to aviation enthusiasts, modellers and anyone interested in the aerial combat of World War 2.
Description Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then crossed the Channel to lock horns with the best the Luftwaffe had to offer - Fw 190D-9s, Ta 152s, Me 262s and Bf 109G/Ks - achieving an impressive kill/loss ratio in aerial combat. With incredibly detailed aircraft profiles and exciting combat reports this title covers the full history of Tempest squadrons, from their initial design and combat experience in World War 2 through to their post-war role and the eventual decline of this iconic British fighter.
About the Author This will be Chris Thomas' third book for Osprey (the first being the highly successful ACE 27 Typhoon and Tempest Aces, followed by COM 86 - Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF). He is the Air-Britain specialist on the Hawker Typhoon.
Chris Thomas has had profile illustrations published in Air Enthusiast, Aeroplane Monthly, Flypast and Le Fana de l'Aviation, as well as illustrating recent Osprey titles COM 86 and ACE 122. Producing the artwork for this volume will enable him to utilise his specialist knowledge of the markings and detailed appearance of the subject aircraft. Mark Postlethwaite first worked as a photographer before turning his attention solely to artwork, and is now highly regarded in his field for the quality and accuracy of his work. He became the youngest elected member of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1991. Mark is a valued Osprey artist and has contributed to more than 80 of its books.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$34.99) ISBN: 9781472814548 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages
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Sub Category: JW Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas, illustrated by Chris Thomas
In the final six months of World War 2 the Tempest V was pitted against some of the Luftwaffe's most advanced fighter types. Focusing on these epic clashes, this title will appeal to aviation enthusiasts, modellers and anyone interested in the aerial combat of World War 2.
Description Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then crossed the Channel to lock horns with the best the Luftwaffe had to offer - Fw 190D-9s, Ta 152s, Me 262s and Bf 109G/Ks - achieving an impressive kill/loss ratio in aerial combat. With incredibly detailed aircraft profiles and exciting combat reports this title covers the full history of Tempest squadrons, from their initial design and combat experience in World War 2 through to their post-war role and the eventual decline of this iconic British fighter.
About the Author This will be Chris Thomas' third book for Osprey (the first being the highly successful ACE 27 Typhoon and Tempest Aces, followed by COM 86 - Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF). He is the Air-Britain specialist on the Hawker Typhoon.
Chris Thomas has had profile illustrations published in Air Enthusiast, Aeroplane Monthly, Flypast and Le Fana de l'Aviation, as well as illustrating recent Osprey titles COM 86 and ACE 122. Producing the artwork for this volume will enable him to utilise his specialist knowledge of the markings and detailed appearance of the subject aircraft. Mark Postlethwaite first worked as a photographer before turning his attention solely to artwork, and is now highly regarded in his field for the quality and accuracy of his work. He became the youngest elected member of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1991. Mark is a valued Osprey artist and has contributed to more than 80 of its books.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$34.99) ISBN: 9781472814548 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages
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Sub Category: JW Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 He 162 Volksjager Units Robert Forsyth, illustrated by Jim Laurier and Mark Postlethwaite
One of Hitler's 'vengeance weapons', the Volksj.ger (People's Fighter) was a single-engine, jet powered interceptor that could be easily and cheaply manufactured for one final fight against the Allies. Aimed at aviation enthusiasts and historians of World War 2, this volume explores the operational history of the revolutionary He 162.
Description With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat Hitler's instructions to his designers were clear. He wanted a Volksj.ger - a People's Fighter that was quick to produce and used minimal quantities of strategic materials. Heinkel rose to the challenge with the He 162, a fighter constructed of wood and metal that was designed, built and flown in the staggeringly short time of ten weeks. Professional pilots were in short supply, and so the Luftwaffe was ordered to man the He 162 with hastily trained members of the Hitler Youth - a flawed plan that fortunately never came to fruition. Detailed aircraft profiles and never before seen photographs perfectly complement the analysis of the revolutionary Heinkel He 162 as author Robert Forsyth traces its entire history, from the early design and production through to its limited combat experience.
About the Author Robert Forsyth has studied the history and operations of the Luftwaffe for many years. He is the author of Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerikabomber (2006 - with Eddie J Creek), and He 162 Volksj.ger (2008 - with Eddie J Creek); for Osprey Publishing, Jagdverband 44 and Jagdgeschwader 7 (Aviation Elite Units), Fw 190 vs B-17 (Duel), Aces of the Legion Condor and Luftwaffe Viermot Aces (Aircraft of the Aces) and Me 262 Bomber and Reconnaissance Units (Combat Aircraft). He works in publishing, having founded Classic Publications and the imprint Tattered Flag.
Jim Laurier is a native of New England, growing up in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes. Price: $22.99 (NZ$33.99) ISBN: 9781472814579 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 96 pages
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Sub Category: JW Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 World War II Croatian Legionaries: Croatian Troops under Axis Command 1941-45 Vladimir Brnardic, illustrated by Viseslav Aralica
Written by Croatian historian Vladimir Brnardic, this detailed volume offers a comprehensive guide to the uniforms and equipment of the significant yet little known Croatian units that fought alongside Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II.
Description As Europe descended into war the newly formed state of Croatia found itself an ally in Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged units created within the Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and Police force. When Hitler turned his attention to Stalin's Soviet Union many of these men found themselves thrown into the fray, with Croatian soldiers serving at Stalingrad, fighting Tito's Partisans in the Balkans and battling against the advancing Red Army in Hungary. Aided by detailed illustrations, author Vladimir Brnardic explores the uniforms and equipment of World War II Croatian Legionaries.
About the Author Vladimir Brnardic was born in Zagreb, the capital city of the Republic of Croatia, in 1973. After graduating from the University of Zagreb with a History degree, he trained as a journalist in the Documentary Program of Croatian Television. He has a keen interest in the history of Central and Eastern European military organisations from the 15th to 19th century, especially those of the Napoleonic period. He is married and currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
Viseslav Aralica was born in Zadar in 1972. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Zagreb, where he currently teaches. He served as a soldier in the Croatian War of Independence (1993-95); and has illustrated four books in a series on Croatian warriors through the centuries. Some of these 150 illustrations were exhibited at the Bologna Illustration Exhibition (Bologna 2001 and 2002) as well as at the fourth Florence Biennale 2003.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$26.99) ISBN: 9781472817679 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 48 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 French Foreign Legion 1831-71 Martin Windrow, illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Written by a leading expert on the French Foreign Legion, this comprehensive study explores the uniforms and equipment used by the Legion in the first 40 years of their history. Featuring full colour artwork, this volume is an invaluable resource for modellers and wargamers of 19th century campaigns, as well as students of this famous international corps.
Description Concluding his bestselling series on the French Foreign Legion, Martin Windrow explores the formation and development of the Legion during its 'first generation'. Raised in 1831, the Legion's formative years would see it fight continuous and savage campaigns in Algeria, aid the Spanish government in the Carlist War, join the British in the Crimean campaign and fight alongside the Swiss in the bloody battles of Magenta and Solferino. With the ever-changing combat environments they found themselves in, the Legion had to constantly adapt in order to survive. Taking advantage of the latest research, this lavishly illustrated study explores the evolution of the uniforms and kit of the French Foreign Legion, from their early campaigns in Algeria through to their iconic Battle of Camerone in Mexico and their role in the Franco-Prussian war.
About the Author Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the very successful Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945, and Men-at-Arms 322: The French War Indochina War 1946-54, and the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).
Gerry Embleton has been a leading illustrator and researcher of historical costume since the 1970s, and has illustrated and written Osprey titles on a wide range of subjects for more than 20 years. He is an internationally respected authority on 15th and 18th century costumes in particular. He lives in Switzerland, where since 1988 he has also become well known for designing and creating life-size historical figures for museums.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$28.99) ISBN: 9781472817709 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 48 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey DECEMBER 2016 M50 Ontos and M56 Scorpion 1956-70: US Tank Destroyers of the Vietnam War Kenneth W Estes, illustrated by Henry Morshead illustrated by Johnny Shumate
Designed as fast, light tank destroyers for the Cold War battlefield, the agile, heavily armed M50 Ontos and M56 Scorpion instead found their raison d'.tre in the jungles of Vietnam. This book offers a technical and combat history of these intriguing vehicles that will appeal to historians of the Vietnam War and US tank enthusiasts.
Description Designed in the 1950s, the US Marines' M50 Ontos and the US Army's M56 Scorpion were both intended to be fast, light, air-droppable tank-killers for the Cold War battlefield - an answer to the cumbersome and ineffective World War II-vintage tanks that had taken to the battlefield during the Korean War. Although they shared the aim of bringing light, mobile and lethal antitank firepower to the infantry the two vehicles varied wildly in design to cater for their unique mission demands. They first saw service in the Lebanon intervention of 1958 but it was in the Vietnam War that they made their name, with the M50 Ontos seeing intense combat action in the Battle of Hue in 1968. Detailed illustrations and expert analysis provide the reader with a comprehensive history of these deadly antitank vehicles, from early development through to their combat history and the eventual disbandment of the Marine Corps' last antitank battalion with M50A1s in 1971.
About the Author Kenneth W Estes is a 1969 Naval Academy graduate who served in the US Marine Corps until 1993. He earned his doctorate in European History in 1984 and has taught at Duke University, the US Naval Academy, and local schools. He is the editor of several books, and has written extensively in military and academic journals throughout his career.
Henry Morshead is a design consultant in the European automotive and aerospace sectors, with clients including Jaguar, Bentley, Citro.n and Airbus. He is also a technical sponsor of the Bloodhound supersonic car, contributing digital surfacing Price: $22.99 (NZ$26.99) and design services. A former officer in the Royal Engineers and illustrator for Jane's, he maintains a keen interest in the ISBN: 9781472814739 design and use of military land and air vehicles. Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Format: Paperback Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 48 pages in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 A History of the Irish Guards in the Afghan and Iraq Campaigns 2001 -2014 Marcus Cowper
The official history of the Irish Guards in the wake of 9/11. From their role as armoured infantry in the battle for Basra in 2003, through to the counter-insurgency operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and the British withdrawal.
Description Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq - from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the eventual withdrawal in 2009, and the campaign in Helmand from 2006 to 2014. This participation has been at every level from individual to battalion and widely dispersed - a complete picture of the British Army's experience in the post 9/11 years. This study, based on official records and numerous interviews with those who took part - from the brigade commanders down to the guardsmen on the ground - is a unique picture of one battalion's experiences through some of the most testing times the British Army has faced.
About the Author Marcus Cowper was born in London, UK, and studied history at the universities of Manchester and Birmingham. He was worked for Osprey Publishing as an editor since 1998, as well as running his own publishing business, Ilios Publishing, since 2002. He has written a number of works of military history, including Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300 (Osprey), Henry V (Osprey) and The Words of War: British Forces' Personal Letters and Diaries During the Second World War (Mainstream).
Price: $49.99 (NZ$55.99) ISBN: 9781472817747 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 384 pages Main Category: HBWS5 Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey DECEMBER 2016 Bolt Action: Armies of Germany: 2nd Edition Warlord Games
A detailed guide to German forces for Bolt Action, updated and expanded for the second edition of the rules.
Description Revised and expanded for Bolt Action 2nd Edition, this book provides players with all of the information they need to command Germany's military might. Detailed unit options and theatre selectors allow players to build armies for any of Germany's campaigns, from the Blitzkrieg against Poland and France, through North Africa and the Eastern Front, to the fall of Normandy and the defence of Germany.
About the Author Warlord Games is one of the world's leading producers of wargaming miniatures, as well as the publisher of the successful Black Powder and Hail Caesar rule sets. Their Bolt Action range of 28mm World War II miniatures is the most extensive on the market and continues to grow and develop.
Price: $34.99 (NZ$35.99) ISBN: 9781472817808 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 242x190mm Extent: 96 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions (Revised Edition) Paul F Crickmore
The SR-71 Blackbird is an iconic aircraft that has come to symbolize America's technological superiority during the Cold War. Using previously unpublished information, globally renowned expert Paul Crickmore builds upon his definitive account of the SR-71 Blackbird, creating a volume that will appeal to military and aviation enthusiasts around the world.
Description In 1986 Paul Crickmore's first groundbreaking book about the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was published. At that time, the Cold War was at its height and the SR-71 was an integral element in securing crucial intelligence from all parts of the globe. The highly sensitive nature of its missions couldn't be compromised, and it wasn't until the end of the Cold War that the operational exploits of this incredible aeronautical masterpiece could be openly written about. As time passed has more and more information has come to light, with a vast number of official documents declassified and key military figures able to talk openly about the Blackbird programme. Paul Crickmore has used these updated facts to revise his previous history of one of the world's most iconic aircraft of all time, creating what will surely be considered the definitive, timeless volume about the SR-71 Blackbird.
About the Author During his time as an air traffic controller at the London Air Traffic Control Centre, Paul Crickmore gained a unique introduction into SR-71 operations from RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk. Teaming up with Osprey produced the first detailed book ever to be published on the subject. When additional information became available to him in 1990 following the initial shut down of SR-71 operations, Crickmore produced an even more detailed book, Lockheed SR-71 The Secret Missions Exposed - the standard reference work on the subject. The work was acclaimed both by the aviation press, Ben Rich (late president of the Skunk Works) and the crews that flew the SR-71. He is also the author of the first detailed book about the '117, written in partnership with his wife Alison; published by Motorbooks International in 1999.
Price: $69.99 (NZ$85.00) ISBN: 9781472815231 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 269x198mm Extent: 432 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944 Steven J. Zaloga, illustrated by Alan Gilliland illustrated by Johnny Shumate
During World War II the revolutionary bazooka allowed US infantry to destroy enemy armour at close range, while the Germans developed new hardware and tactics to counter this threat to their tanks. Focusing on the savage winter fighting during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, this book will appeal to tank enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in World War II.
Description World War II saw tanks assume a dominant role in warfare, capable of tearing through the enemy lines if left unchecked. To combat the threat posed by these armoured behemoths the United States developed the M1 Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher, better known as the Bazooka. First employed in combat during 1942, the weapon required a great deal of skill and courage to use effectively. By late 1944 it was a mainstay of the US infantry's anti-tank capabilities, alongside towed weapons, anti-tank grenades and other longer-established measures.
Focusing on the savage close-quarters fighting between Germany's armoured divisions and the US infantry during the Battle of the Bulge, Steven Zaloga's absorbing study compares and assesses the strengths and limitations of the cutting- edge technology used by both sides. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and explosive battle reports, this volume casts new light on the evolving nature of infantry-versus-tank combat in the closing months of World War II.
About the Author Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of The Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in Price: $22.99 (NZ$31.99) that time. He now writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of ISBN: 9781472812490 Format: Paperback publishers (www.alangilliland.com). Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He Dimensions: 248x184mm began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Extent: 80 pages Don Troiani, and .douard Detaille. Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Frostgrave: Forgotten Pacts Joseph A. McCullough, illustrated by Dmitry Burmak
A campaign supplement for Frostgrave, offering new scenarios, an expanded bestiary and additional warband options.
Description In this supplement for Frostgrave, players lead their warbands into the northern reaches of the city, exploring the ruined temples of the Frozen City to search for the lost secrets of evocation - the art of summoning demons. While the lure of such knowledge is great, few wizards have ventured into this region as it is overrun by barbaric northern tribesmen who have descended from the hills in their own search for treasure. Marking themselves with demonic sigils, many of these barbarians have aligned with ancient powers discovered amongst the temples. Along with a host of new scenarios focusing on the exploration of the temples, the book also contains new treasures, spells, soldiers, and creatures that can be found amongst the ruins.
About the Author Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter's Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of the wargame, Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing game.
Dmitry Burmak is a freelance artist from Moscow, Russia. After graduating as an engineer, he decided to change his career plans and took another degree in Fine Art. Dmitry started as an artist in the video games industry and now works as a freelance illustrator with his wife Kate, who is also an artist. Dmitry specializes in fantasy and sci-fi art for roleplaying games, card games and video games.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$24.99) ISBN: 9781472815774 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 242x190mm Extent: 64 pages
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Sub Category: WD Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 The Gladius: The Roman Short Sword M.C. Bishop, illustrated by Peter Dennis
Central to the Romans' conquest of the known world, the gladius has become an emblem of the legions that helped secure the empire. This fully illustrated study draws upon the latest findings to tell the enthralling story of the Roman short sword at war, and will appeal to historians interested in the Roman military and reenactors and wargamers eager to recreate it.
Description One of the most feared weapons in the ancient world, the gladius was lethal both on the battlefield and in the arena. Literary sources tell of the terror it inspired, while archaeological evidence of wounds inflicted is testament to its deadly effect. By pulling together strands of literary, sculptural and archaeological evidence renowned expert M.C. Bishop creates a narrative of the gladius' development, exploring the way in which the shape of the short sword changed as soldiers and gladiators evolved their fighting style. Drawing together historical accounts, excavated artefacts and the results of the latest scientific analyses of the blades, this volume reveals the development, technology, training and use of the gladius hispaniensis: the sword that conquered the Mediterranean.
About the Author Writer, publisher and archaeologist M.C. Bishop is an authority of all aspects of Ancient Rome at war, with particular emphasis on arms and armour of the era. He has written, co-written or edited dozens of books and articles on the subject, and leads tours of Hadrian's Wall and other Roman sites. This is Mike's first book for Osprey.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$31.99) ISBN: 9781472815859 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 80 pages Main Category: HBW Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 The Cthulhu Wars: Ancient Rome Mark Latham
A detailed account of the ancient Roman Empire's operations against the forces of Cthulhu and other entities of the Mythos.
Description Rome, the greatest empire the world has ever known, limitless in breadth and power, magnificent in its glory! But something evil, ancient and unknowable gnaws at the heart of the empire. Dark gods, trapped for centuries in thrice- warded tombs, have been disturbed by Roman plunderers. A secret war is fought daily between those who would harness this strange power for themselves, and those who fear it signals the very end of the empire. Across the sea, roused from eternal slumber by a world awash with war, by omens and pagan slaughter, a Great Old One waits for the way to be opened. A cosmic terror that man was not meant to know. Those who know its name tremble, and only the very brave-or very foolish-incant it for their own ends. They whisper it in darkness; they cry it from atop blasted hills; they scream it to the raging oceans. Cthulhu.
About the Author Mark Latham is a writer, editor and games designer from Staffordshire, UK. After graduating with an MA in English literature from the University of Sheffield, Mark went on to become the editor of White Dwarf magazine, and then the managing editor of Games Workshop's games development team, before finally becoming a full-time author of novels, short stories and games. A keen amateur historian, Mark is fascinated by the nineteenth century, leading to the production of the popular tabletop games Legends of the Old West, Trafalgar and Waterloo for Warhammer Historical.
Price: $22.99 (NZ$26.99) ISBN: 9781472816009 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 248x184mm Extent: 76 pages
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Sub Category: FM Fantasy Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18 Dennis Showalter
An engaging new history and fresh perspective of the German Army in World War I written by a pre-eminent military historian.
Description Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by - warfare in the modern age, which struggled to capitalise on its victories and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat. Exploring the internal dynamics of the German army and detailing how the soldiers coped with the many new forms of warfare, Showalter shows how the army's institutions responded to and how Germany itself was changed by war. Detailing the major campaigns on the Western and Eastern fronts and the forgotten war fought in the Middle East and Africa, this comprehensive new volume reveals operational strategy, the complexities of campaigns of movement versus static trench warfare, and the changes in warfare.
About the Author Dennis Showalter has been a professor of history at Colorado College since 1969 and specializes in German military history. He was President of the American Society of Military History from 1997 to 2001 and is Joint Editor of War in History specializing in comparative military history. In addition, Showalter is an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas and has previously taught at the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Military Academy and the Marine Corps University. He has written or edited two dozen books and over a 150 articles. Recent monographs include The Wars of German Unification(London: Arnold, 2004), Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berkeley, 2005.), and Hitler's Panzers (New York: Berkeley, 2009). Tannenberg won the American Historical Association's Paul M. Birdsall Prize for best new book of 1992 and Dennis Showalter was also the recipient of a Festschrift, Arms and the Man: Military History Essays in Honor of Dennis Showalter, ed. Michael Neiberg (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011).
Price: $34.99 (NZ$43.99) ISBN: 9781472813008 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 233x152mm Extent: 320 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Whitaker's Concise 2017
A UK-centric version of its big sister Whitaker's 2017; packed with thousands of facts and figures. Great value for money!
Description Whitaker's Concise 2017 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. The concise edition is a UK-centric gold-mine of information with enormous breadth of coverage. At half the price of the standard edition the reader with an interest in UK facts and figures is really getting value for money.
The concise edition contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2017, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, Defence, MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume!
Our dedicated team of both in-house editors and specialist contributors spend a total of 6,000 hours, updating Whitaker's annually - this includes contacting over 5,000 people to update their own organisation's details, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date authoritative sources available. For last year's edition, one editor spent an entire day contacting individual departments of HM Treasury to ascertain the correct name of each minister's Private Secretary - information which is just not available elsewhere, including the gov.uk website. Of the 6,000 hours spent updating Whitaker's annually around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable. Completely revised and updated every year at least 50% of the contents are newly compiled specifically for this edition.
'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys
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Price: $50.00 (NZ$60.00) ISBN: 9781472909343 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 228x148mm Extent: 688 pages Main Category: GBCY Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Yearbooks DECEMBER 2016 Titles and Forms of Address: A Guide to Correct Use
A guide to correct forms of address in speech and correspondence. It covers both formal and social occasions, and includes the forms of address for bishops, peers, privy counsellors, ambassadors, JPs and mayors. This edition is updated to cover changing conventions.
Description A guide to correct forms of address in speech and correspondence. It covers both formal and social occasions, and includes the forms of address for bishops, peers, privy counsellors, ambassadors, JPs and mayors. Where honours, decorations and degrees appear after the name as letters, an explanation and the correct sequence is given. This edition is revised and updated to cover changing conventions.
Now in its 23rd edition, this book has been in constant demand for over 90 years.
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Price: $32.99 (NZ$34.99) ISBN: 9781472924339 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Yearbooks DECEMBER 2016 Independent Schools Yearbook 2015-2016 Piers Feltham and Tom Leech
The highly-respected book of reference of sought-after Independent Schools in membership of the Independent Schools Council's Associations: HMC, GSA, The Society of Heads, IAPS and ISA.
Description The Independent Schools Yearbook is the highly-respected book of reference of Independent Schools whose Heads are in membership of the Independent Schools Council's Constituent Associations: HMC, GSA, The Society of Heads, IAPS and ISA.
Published and updated annually since 1889 the 'Blue Book' is often referred to as the 'Bible' of information on independent schools.
More than 1,400 School Profiles with information on Contact details, Location, Facilities, Numbers, Admission, Fees, Scholarships and Bursaries, Staff, Curriculum, Sports/Games, The Arts, Extra-Curricular Activities, Community Service, Recent/Planned Developments, News and Events.
Entries in book arranged by ISC Association with alphabetical and geographical indexes.
With unrivalled depth of coverage, the ISYB is invaluable to anyone working in the independent schools sector and any parent wanting to make an informed choice about which independent school to send their child to.
May I say how valuable and useful your publication proves itself to be - I regularly direct parents to it when considering senior school options as well as using it extensively myself. Head of an IAPS School (Jan 2011)
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Price: $121.99 (NZ$129.99) ISBN: 9781472924315 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 1264 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Yearbooks DECEMBER 2016 Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy John Boyle
The first book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every angle, and to hear the voices from every side of the war - from pirate to president, from hostage to those fighting the battle.
Description For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one knows how many die at sea. But occasionally they hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews to be ransomed for millions of dollars. This is a war that has estimated to have cost the global economy as much as $18 billion in a single year.
Lawyer turned award-winning filmmaker John Boyle takes us with him in this investigation into modern-day piracy. We meet all those involved - from pirates to presidents, naval commanders to negotiators,and heroes to hostages. He addresses why these young men are choosing to risk their lives and freedom; the reality of life as a pirate; the defence tactics used by the international navies and shipping vessels; and what happens next.
About the Author After studying PPE at Oxford John Boyle ran his own criminal law firm for 15 years before selling up to focus on documentary film-making. Over the past 25 years he has made more than 30 documentaries, which have been sold worldwide via National Geographic. He scriptwrites all his own films, as well as writing and narrating for other producers. Current projects include an underwater series in Mexico as well as documentaries in Indonesia and Cuba.
Price: $19.99 (NZ$22.99) ISBN: 9781472927682 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 198x129mm Extent: 304 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica DECEMBER 2016 Who's Who 2017
The 169th annual edition of the internationally respected and renowned source book of information on people of influence and interest in every area of public life.
Description Who's Who 2017 is the 169th edition of the world's longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 169 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves.
'The famous red covers of Who's Who are exclusive and only the enduringly notable get into them..After a week with the new Who's Who (and though it's heavy to pick up) you can't put it down best describes my feeling.' - Matthew Parris, The Times 'The unrivalled compendium of the good and the great' - The Daily Telegraph 'Who's Who is a mirror in which society glimpses a reflection of its own achievement.' -The Times 'Britain's most famous reference book ...a biographical record of the great and the good.' - Daily Mail
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Price: $596.00 (NZ$638.00) ISBN: 9781472913609 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 270x200mm Extent: 2624 pages
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Walker Books DECEMBER 2016 Whitaker's 2017
Quite simply, Whitaker's 2017 is the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge.
Description First published in 1868, Whitaker's is the ultimate single-volume reference source - packed with thousands of facts, figures, overviews and statistics relating to the UK and the world.
Whitaker's 2017 contains a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2017, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of the water, energy and transport industries, essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, MPs, government departments and public bodies, directory listings of societies and institutions, sports results and records - including complete Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics results, reviews of the year 2015-16 - covering the arts, science and politics - and monthly summaries of the year's news. Whitaker's is also an excellent introduction to world politics with in-depth profiles of international organisations, the European Union and every country of the world.
Our dedicated team of both in-house editors and specialist contributors spend a total of 6,000 hours updating Whitaker's annually - this includes contacting over 5,000 people to update their own organisation's details, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date authoritative sources available. For last year's edition, one editor spent an entire day contacting individual departments of HM Treasury to ascertain the correct name of each minister's Private Secretary - information which is just not available elsewhere, including the gov.uk website. Of the 6,000 hours spent updating Whitaker's annually around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable. Now in its 149th edition, the book is completely revised and updated every year with at least 60% of the contents - including maps, diagrams and colour infographics - newly compiled specifically for this edition.
A totally unique combination of every aspect of UK infrastructure, current affairs, world politics, history, finance, astronomical data and reviews of the year, 'Whitaker's remains the most comprehensive compendium of information in Price: $161.99 (NZ$172.00) the English language' (Jon Snow) and will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources. ISBN: 9781472909336 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 228x148mm About the Author Extent: 1184 pages Main Category: GBCY Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Walker Books DECEMBER 2016 Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction Helen Pilcher
A unique blend of the science of de-extinction, cloning and comedy
Description If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T. rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, and beyond.
De-extinction - the ability to bring extinct species back to life - is fast becoming reality. Around the globe, scientists are trying to de-extinct all manner of animals, including the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon and a bizarre species of flatulent frog. But de-extinction is more than just bringing back the dead. It's a science that can be used to save species, shape evolution and sculpt the future of life on our planet.
In Bring Back the King, scientist and comedy writer Helen Pilcher goes on a quest to identify the perfect de-extinction candidate. Along the way, she asks if Elvis could be recreated from the DNA inside a pickled wart, investigates whether it's possible to raise a pet dodo, and considers the odds of a 21st century Neanderthal turning heads on public transport.
Pondering the practicalities and the point of de-extinction, Bring Back the King is a witty and wry exploration of what is bound to become one of the hottest topics in conservation - if not in science as a whole - in the years to come. READ THIS BOOK - the King commands it.
About the Author Helen Pilcher is a tea-drinking, biscuit-nibbling science and comedy writer. She has a PhD in Cell Biology from London's Institute of Psychiatry. A former reporter for Nature, she now specializes in biology, medicine and quirky off-the-wall science, and writes for outlets including New Scientist and BBC Focus. Unusually for a self-proclaimed geek, Helen also used to be a stand-up comedian before the arrival of children meant she couldn't physically stay awake past 9pm. She now gigs from time to time, and lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, three kids and besotted dog.
@HelenPilcher1 Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781472912251 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 216x135mm Extent: 288 pages
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Sigma DECEMBER 2016 The Weakest Link: Why Your Employees Might Be Your Biggest Cyber Risk Jeremy Swinfen Green and Professor Paul Dorey
The Weakest Link shows how information security has become the responsibility of individual employees and shows what organisations and individuals can do to protect company systems and data.
Description The Weakest Link looks at one of the biggest issues in cyber security: how to protect organisations from their own employees. Many cyber threats don't involve hackers using clever software to penetrate company networks; threats can often involve employees acting in ways that, accidentally or deliberately, leak information or damage assets without a hacker being involved at all. Emerging technologies and behavioural changes - driven by cloud computing and people using their own smartphones and tablets for work - are starting to make these threats more common and far more serious.
Written to help anyone understand how information security has become the responsibility of individual employees, it shows exactly what they can do to protect company systems and data. Effective solutions need to go beyond simple security awareness and show how to create a complete culture of security. Individuals can then use this learned behaviour to keep themselves digitally safe at work and in their personal lives.
About the Author Jeremy Swinfen Green has worked in digital business for over 20 years, with a specialism in social media risk. He is a member of the Finance and Performance board of TechUK (the trade body for the UK's technology industry).
Paul Dorey has worked in the cyber-security industry for over 25 years, including senior posts at Barclays, BP and GlaxoSmithKline. He is Chairman Emeritus at the Institute of Information Security Professionals, and is a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) ISBN: 9781472936257 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x156mm Extent: 240 pages Main Category: Sub Category: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living: DECEMBER 2016 Simple Forms Andre Jolles
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time
Description Legend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: Andre Jolles understands each of these nine 'simple forms' as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Long recognized as a classic of genre theory, Simple Forms (1929) has been called a significant precursor to structuralist and narratological approaches to literature. Like Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale,with which it is often compared, Jolles's work is not only foundational for the later development of genre theory but of continuing relevance today. A major influence on literary genre studies since its publication, Simple Forms is now available for the first time in English.
About the Author ANDRE JOLLES (1874-1946) was a scholar of ethnology, folklore and aesthetics, and is considered by many to be a precursor of structuralism.
Price: $110.00 (NZ$120.00) ISBN: 9781784784928 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: xmm Extent: 272 pages
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 The Essence of Nihilism Emanuele Severino
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation
Description In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. Essenza del Nichilismo, published in 1972, was the first book to follow his expulsion, and to firmly establish Severino's preeminent position within the constellation of contemporary philosophy.
In this groundbreaking book, Severino reinterprets the history of Western philosophy as the unfolding of 'the greatest folly', that is, of the belief that 'things come out of nothing and fall back into nothing'. According to Severino, such a typically Western understanding of reality has produced a belief in the radical 'nothingness' of things. This, in turn has justified the treatment of the world as an object of exploitation, degradation and destruction.
To move beyond Western nihilism, suggests Severino, we must first of all 'return to Parmenides'. Joining forces with the most venerable of Greek philosophers, Severino confutes the 'path of night' of nihilism, and develops a new philosophy grounded on the principle of the eternity of reality and of every single existent.
About the Author EMANUELE SEVERINO is professor hemeritus at Venezia's Ca' Foscari University and professor of Fundamental Ontology at Milan's San Raffaele University. He is now widely considered the most important living Italian philosopher.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition Sigmund Freud
The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis
Description The traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, first published in 1905 and never before translated into English, we find no reference whatsoever to the Oedipus complex. Is there a Freudian psychoanalysis that is not Oedipal?
This first version of Freud's Three Essays articulates just such a non-Oedipal psychoanalysis. As such, it still has a definite 'emancipatory' potential; Freudian psychoanalysis is not Oedipal in its very nature. It is only from 1909 onwards that psychoanalysis tends to become a sophisticated defence of what Freud first called the 'popular opinion' about sexuality. It was precisely this 'popular opinion' that psychoanalysis originally was meant to deconstruct. Is there a Freudian escape - that is an escape that remains not so much within Freudian orthodoxy, but at least within its inspiration - from this impasse?
If Freud has respected more systematically his own original thesis, could it be that the Oedipus complex wouldn't be the shibboleth of psychoanalysis? Not only is this first edition less Oedipal than is generally believed, but it also contains the elements for thinking a 'non- Oedipal' psychoanalysis; a Freud against Oedipus.
About the Author SIGMUND FREUD was born in Freiberg, which is now known as the Czech Republic, on May 6, 1856. Freud developed the method of psychoanalysis, and his theories on child sexuality, libido and the ego, among other topics, were some of the most influential academic concepts of the 20th century.
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Verso Academic DECEMBER 2016 The Age of Jihad Patrick Cockburn
PATRICK COCKBURN is Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. Winner of the Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award 2014.
Description This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Age of Jihad Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of our time-the Sunni-Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows this did not explode suddenly in Syria after the Arab Spring as the conventional view holds, but over several years in occupied Iraq. It is in the sectarian conflict that engulfed Iraq following the war of 2003 that patterns were established that would later spill over into Syria with such devastating results. Since July 2014, the dominance of ISIS threatens the stability of the whole region. Cockburn was the first Western commentator to warn of ISIS, so far ahead of everyone else that last year the judges of the British Journalism Awards advised the UK government to 'consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead.' Age of Jihad will be the most in-depth analysis of the failure of the Middle East to date.
About the Author PATRICK COCKBURN is Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. Winner of the Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award 2014.
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Verso Trade DECEMBER 2016 The Blind Astronomer's Daughter John Pipkin
A transporting new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Woodsburner.
Description In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Now, gone blind from staring at the sun, he has chosen death over a darkened life.
Grief-stricken, Caroline abandons the vain search, leaves Ireland for London, and tries to forget her love for Finnegan O'Siodha, the tinkering blacksmith who was helping her father build a telescope larger than his rival's. But her father has left her more than the wreck of that unfinished instrument: his cryptic atlas holds the secret to finding a new world at the edge of the sky. As Caroline reluctantly resumes her father's work and confronts her own longings, Ireland is swept into rebellion, and Caroline and Finnegan are plunged into its violence.
This is a novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy, the mapping of the solar system and beyond. It is a novel of the quest for knowledge and for human connection -- rich, far-reaching, and unforgettable.
About the Author John Pipkin was born in Baltimore and received his Ph.D. in British Literature from Rice University. His first novel, Woodsburner, was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle. It won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Pipkin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and son.
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Bloomsbury USA DECEMBER 2016 We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent John Simpson
From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world.
Description In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is difficult, exciting and undeniably glamorous.
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife brings us pivotal moments in our history - from the Crimean War to Vietnam; the siege of Sarajevo to the fall of Baghdad - through the eyes of those who risked life and limb to witness them first hand, and the astonishing tales of what it took to report them. These stories celebrate an endangered tradition. Where once despatches were trusted to the hands of a willing sea- captain, telegraph operator or stranger in an airport queue prepared to spirit a can of undeveloped film back to London, today the digital realm has transformed the relaying of the news - even if the work of gathering it in the field has changed little.
Weaving the tales of the greats of yesterday and today, such as Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, Don McCullin and Marie Colvin, with extraordinary accounts from his own lifetime on the frontlines, this is a deeply personal book from a master of the profession, the most distinguished foreign correspondent of our time.
About the Author John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. In a BBC career spanning fifty years he has reported on major world events from all corners of the globe, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage, with the BBC News team, of the Kosovo conflict, and, in 2001, an Emmy for his report on the fall of Price: $45.00 (NZ$49.99) Kabul. He has written four bestselling volumes of autobiography: Strange Places, Questionable People; A Mad World, My ISBN: 9781408872222 Masters; News from No Man's Land and, more recently, Not Quite World's End. He lives in Oxford. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 384 pages
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Sebastian Mallaby
The definitive biography of one of the most important figures in global finance
Description This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for eighteen years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation, was revered by economists, adored by investors and consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt. Both data-hound and eligible society bachelor, Greenspan was a man of contradictions. His great success was to prove the very idea he, an advocate of the Gold standard, doubted: that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy. He resigned in 2006, having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy. Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him, even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place. Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety and complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy. Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and stories, The Man Who Knew is superbly researched, enormously gripping and the story of the making of modern finance.
About the Author Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. He spent thirteen years on the Economist, covering international finance in London and serving as bureau chief in southern Africa, Japan and Washington. From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post, focusing on globalisation and political economy. He lives in Washington with his wife, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor of the Economist.
Price: $35.00 (NZ$39.99) ISBN: 9781408855775 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 800 pages
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Bloomsbury DECEMBER 2016 The End of the Road: The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling Alasdair Fotheringham
The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the 1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling
Description The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were riders' strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported to have doped. The 1998 'Tour de Farce's' status as one of the most scandal- struck sporting events in history was confirmed.
Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy - what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question and the cycling family began to split apart. And yet, ironically, the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years.
The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world's biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees. He explores its long-term consequences - and what, if any, lessons were learned.
About the Author Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist, and was the cycling correspondent for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday from 2001 to 2016. He has covered 24 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, the Olympics in 2008 and 2012 and numerous other major bike races. He is also a regular contributor to Cyclingnews and ProCycling.His Price: $38.99 (NZ$42.99) previous books are The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of Spain's first Tour de France winner Federico Mart.n Bahamontes, ISBN: 9781472913029 and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Oca.a. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 234x153mm Extent: 352 pages
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