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A History of the Church through its Buildings
ALLAN DOIG, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Taking the reader on a fascinating journey through history to meet the people who lived during momentous religious changes in the very spaces where the story of the Church took shape, A History of the Church through its Buildings is an architectural tour de force through Christianity’s most representative buildings and long-forgotten hidden gems.
This historical overview allows us to establish a tangible connection with the lives of the people involved in some of the key moments and movements that shaped that history—and perhaps even share a degree of intimacy with them. The author takes the reader through time and space, as we move through centuries and continents to uncover crucial moments in history, from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the Mosque- Cathedral of Córdoba, amongst many others.
• An architectural history that takes readers beyond architecture itself, reconnecting LEAD each building with its history and context. TITLE • Studies the building on site, giving the reader a holistic view of its history.
9780199575367 • An analysis that allows us to establish an intimate connection with those involved Dec-20 | £30.00 | 320pp in some key historical moments for the Church.
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Byzantine Saving The Oxford Art, Second the Holy History of Edition Sepulchre Christianity Robin Cormack Raymond Cohen Edited by John 9780198778790 9780195189667 McManners Mar-18 | 272pp Mar-08 | 320pp 9780192803368 £19.99 $39.95 Aug-02 | 784pp £19.99
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Norse America T H E S T O RY The Story of a Founding Myth O F A F O U N D I N G GORDON CAMPBELL, Professor Emeritus and Fellow in Renaissance Studies, MYTH University of Leicester • Tracks the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, setting the record NORSE straight about the idea that the Vikings ‘discovered’ America. AMERICA • Provides a description of this journey as a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. GORDON • Discusses sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, CAMPBELL real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. 9780198861553 Mar-21 | £20.00 | 256pp
Old Norse Mythology
JOHN LINDOW, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
This concise and entertaining volume provides a unique survey of the mythology of Scandinavia. The stories of now ever-popular gods such as Thor and Loki were the mythology of the Vikings, but were not written down until long after the conversion to Christianity, mostly in Iceland.
• A broad overview of Nordic myths with a case study of the myth of Thor and the World Serpent. • Explores the debt we owe to medieval intellectuals, who were able to incorporate the old myths into new paradigms that helped them to survive when they were no longer part of a religious system. • Traces the use of the mythology in ideological contexts, from the Viking Age until the 9780190852252 21st century, as well as in entertainment. Dec-20 | $99.00 | 240pp
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Author previously Love Lives translated into Portuguese dyhouseand Carol From Cinderella to Frozen Russian LOVE CAROL DYHOUSE, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Sussex
Cinderella-esque stories have captured the imagination of girls since the 1950s, when dreams fromcinderell a frozen to of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life’s problems. But over the next 50 years, women’s lives have been transformed, not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother, nor by marrying princes, but by education, work, birth control and feminism. However, while widening opportunities for women was viewed as progress by most, feminists were regularly caricatured as man-haters, cast in the role of ugly sisters, witches or wicked fairies in fairy tales.
Love Lives is about the reshaping of women’s lives, loves, and dreams since that fateful year of 1950, the year in which Cinderella gave expression to popular ideas of romance. The narrative ends with the runaway success of Disney’s Frozen, in 2013 – a film with relevance to very LEAD different times. TITLE • Illuminates how women’s expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted, asking
9780198855460 bold questions about how women’s lives have been transformed: How have women’s life Feb-21 | £20.00 | 288pp experiences been mirrored in new expectations about marriage, intimacy, and family life? How have new forms of independence through education and work, and greater control over childbearing, altered women’s life ambitions? • Includes hitherto unpublished data from the Mass Observation Archive about ‘close relationships’, and people’s reactions to changes in male-female relations and to feminism.
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Heartthrobs Why Women Down Girl Carol Dyhouse Read Fiction Kate Manne 9780198765837 Helen Taylor 9780190604981 Feb-17 | 288pp 9780198827689 Nov-17 | 368pp £20.00 Dec-19 | 304pp $29.95 £14.99
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Gender A World History
SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT, Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction in the Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organising its people. It is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privileges to some, and to deny them to others. In Gender: A World History, Kingsley Kent tells the story of this seemingly simple, but in fact quite complex, concept. With historical perspective, she critically examines our everyday understandings of women and men, masculinity and femininity, and sexual difference in general. A WORLD HISTORY
Central to this account is the conviction that gender is neither natural nor innocent. What passes SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT for masculinity and femininity in one society might not do so in another. Even the passing of
time can change what gender looks like in a particular culture. 9780190621988_1.indd 1 22-Apr-20 07:40:29
• Looks at the history of gender, shedding light on other types of relations, such as those LEAD between governments and their peoples, between different social classes, and between TITLE a colony and its coloniser.
• Ranging from prehistory to the present, this book presents a chronological picture of 9780190621971 gender across the globe. From Hatshepsut and the rise of patriarchy in the ancient world, to Nov-20 | $99.00 | 168pp the Bushido code of the samurai in wartime, to Susan B. Anthony and the women’s rights movement in the United States, to the gay and trans rights movements of today.
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Gender, Sex, Gender Categories and Sexualities What Everyone We Live By Needs to Know® Ásta Edited by Nancy Dess, Jeanne Laura Erickson- 9780190256791 Marecek, and Schroth and Aug-18 | 156pp Leslie Bell Benjamin Davis $105.00 9780190658540 9780190880033 Feb-18 | 376pp Jan-21 | 256pp $82.00 $74.00
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Beethoven: Variations on a Life
MARK EVAN BONDS, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career, Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. The author argues that this inner consistency provides the key to understanding the composer’s life and works.
• Shows how Beethoven’s ability to unlock so many melodic possibilities from each moment in his life explains the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington’s Victory. • Argues that Beethoven’s works are a series of variations on his life. Discarding tired 9780190054083 myths about the composer, the author proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by Aug-20 | $18.95 | 160pp considering his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.
Author previously Pirating and Publishing translated into six languages The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
ROBERT DARNTON, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what Darnton calls the ‘Fertile Crescent’ — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of ‘copyright’ was very much in its infancy. Piracy was entirely legal and everyone acknowledged that these pirated editions of works by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, among other luminaries, supplied a growing readership within France.
• Offers a sweeping view of the world of writing, publishing and bookselling in pre- Revolutionary France, providing a vibrantly detailed look at a cut-throat industry that was 9780195144529 Feb-21 | $34.95 | 392pp struggling to keep up with the times. • Examines how book piracy helped to expand literary culture. • Focuses on one of the largest publishers in Switzerland, whose archives are the most complete.
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The Churchill Myths
STEVEN FIELDING, University of Nottingham, BILL SCHWARZ, Queen Mary University of London, and RICHARD TOYE, University of Exeter
• Addresses Winston Churchill’s legacy, and the mythologies which have built up around him. • Using the figure of Churchill as a prism, the authors reconstruct a map of the major ideological shifts in post-war British politics. • Analyses Churchill’s portrayal in social memory, explaining the ways in which politicians have often used the idea of Churchill as a means of self-validation. • Reflects on the man dramatised in film and television, often the product of a mixing of fact and fantasy.
“The Churchill Myths is a brilliantly provocative take-down of the Churchill industry. Fielding, 9780198851967 Schwarz, and Toye show how and why British history has so often been crystalized into the Aug-20 | £20.00 | 224pp story of one man.” Richard Aldous, Bard College, Author of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship
Fortress Dark and Stern The Soviet Home Front during World War II
DONALD FILTZER, Emeritus Professor of Russian History, University of East London, and WENDY GOLDMAN, Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
After Hitler’s invasion in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east.
• This volume looks at how Soviet workers built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers and discusses how ordinary people withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to supply the front and make possible the Allied victory. 9780190618414 May-21 | $34.95 | 504pp • Examines the dark and painful war years from a new perspective, telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees.
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Author previously Athens After Empire translated into Simplified A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian Chinese IAN WORTHINGTON, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
To many, the history of post-classical Athens is one of decline. However, Athens did recover from its perilous position in the closing quarter of the 4th century and became once again a player in Greek affairs, even during the Roman occupation.
• First major history of post-classical Athens in more than twenty years. • Covers a longer period of time than other such histories, offering a new narrative history of post-classical Athens and extending the period down to the aftermath of Hadrian’s reign. • Explores military and philosophical history as well as socio-cultural changes. 9780190633981 • Discusses how Athenian democracy survived and evolved, even through its dealings with Nov-20 | $39.95 | 424pp Hellenistic Kings, its military clashes with Macedonia, and its alliance with Rome.
Forever Prisoners How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System
ELLIOTT YOUNG, Professor of History, Lewis and Clark College
• The first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. • Focuses on five case studies to show how foreigners have been caged for immigration violations, and held in prisons for criminal offenses, as well as in insane asylums and refugee camps. • Provides critical historical context for today’s news cycle by focusing on the sites of limbo, where America’s immigration population have been and continue to be held.
“Forever Prisoners is crucial book for anyone interested in the convergence of prison 9780190085957 and immigration regimes.” Jan-21 | $34.95 | 280pp A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
“This is an essential read for anyone invested in building a more just society.” Erika Lee, author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
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Killing Strangers How Political Violence Became Modern
TIM K. WILSON, Director, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews
A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre becomes a potential shooting gallery and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
• A unique and accessible 250-year overview of the development of political violence, focusing on how violence became ‘unchained’ from interpersonal relationships. • Discusses violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities, with a focus on deeds, not propaganda. 9780198863502 • Encourages readers to reflect upon the changing roles of technology and communication Sep-20 | £25.00 | 288pp in fuelling the diffusion of forms of violence.
The Cause of Freedom A Concise History of African Americans
JONATHAN SCOTT HOLLOWAY, President, Rutgers University
What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
• Traces the complex history of African Americans from the arrival of enslaved Africans at Jamestown to the Black Lives Matter movement. • Highlights the contributions of such notable African Americans as David Walker, Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson, Nina Simone, and Barack Obama. • Analyses African Americans’ active role in making this nation and in articulating their own past. 9780190915193 Feb-21 | $18.95 | 160pp
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Violence against Women in Politics
MONA LENA KROOK, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics Ph.D. Program, Rutgers University
Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent decades, but in many parts of the world their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a name: violence against women in politics.
Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines – political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science – to develop a more robust version of this concept in an effort to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work.
The author argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it LEAD is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as TITLE political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms.
• Incorporates a wide range of country examples, illustrating what this violence looks like 9780190088460 Sep-20 | $99.00 | 330pp in practice. • Discusses emerging solutions around the world, ranging from individual to state and global measures, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. • Highlights its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality. • Advances theoretical debates on this topic and clarifies differences with other forms of political violence.
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The Political The Struggle Restorative Justice Economy for Freedom and Violence of Violence from Fear Against Women against Alison Brysk Edited by James Ptacek Women 9780190901516 9780195335484 Jacqui True Aug-18 | 386pp Nov-09 | 312pp $105.00 $59.00 9780199755929 Aug-12 | 256pp $145.00
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Predict and Surveil Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
SARAH BRAYNE, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
This is an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies, leveraging on-the-ground fieldwork with one of the most technologically advanced law enforcement agencies in the world: the Los Angeles Police Department.
• Drawing on original interviews and ethnographic observations from over two years of fieldwork with the LAPD, the author examines the causes and consequences of big data and algorithmic control. • Reveals the collaboration between public law enforcement, private data brokers, and technology companies. 9780190684099 • Provides a new understanding of the scope of police surveillance in today’s digital world. Nov-20 | $29.95 | 224pp
Story Movements How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
CATY BORUM CHATTOO, Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
This study explores how documentaries disrupt dominant cultural narratives through complex, creative, often investigative storytelling, influencing media agendas, mobilising communities and capturing the attention of policy makers.
• Features never-before-published interviews with award-winning documentary filmmakers and field leaders. • Contains original analysis of documentary stories and their functions in democracy.
• Offers lively insider stories about what motivated major documentaries and how they 9780190943417 were made. Sep-20 | $125.00 | 298pp
“A must-read for anyone interested in social change and the relevancy of the documentary form.” Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer, MTV Documentary Films
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Russia Resurrected Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
KATHRYN E. STONER, Deputy Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But perhaps the nation’s cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Yet 25 years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has become a supremely disruptive force in world politics.
The author assesses the resurrection of Russia and argues that we should look beyond traditional means of power to assess its strength in global affairs. Taking into account how Russian domestic politics under Vladimir Putin influence its foreign policy, this volume shows how Russia has
LEAD battled its way back to international prominence. From Russia’s seizure of the Crimea from TITLE Ukraine to its military support for the Assad regime in Syria, the country has reasserted itself as a major global power. 9780190860714 Feb-21 | $29.95 | 320pp • Argues that Russia is more than a regional power and that its international reach and influence, while in no way as extensive as that of the Soviet Union, are far more significant than often realised. • Includes extensive primary data evaluating Russia’s politics in order to show its political, economic, and social development. • Shows that we too often underestimate Russia’s varied abilities and intentions to extend its influence abroad.
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Russia Rich Russians The Code What Everyone Elisabeth of Putinism Needs to Know® Schimpfössl Brian D. Taylor Timothy J. Colton 9780190677763 9780190867317 9780199917808 Jun-18 | 248pp Jul-18 | 264pp Oct-16 | 288pp $41.95 $105.00 $78.00
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The Wretched Atom America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
JACOB DARWIN HAMBLIN, Professor of History, Oregon State University
After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, and provide abundant energy for all. It was destined for the formerly colonised, recently occupied, and mostly non-white parts of the world.
• Examines how this ‘peaceful atom’ had so much propaganda potential and considers how promoting civilian atomic energy was never truly peaceful.
• Includes formerly secret documents from the CIA and State Department about American image Awaiting jacket efforts to shape nuclear programs in Japan, Iran, Israel, and many other countries. 9780197526903 • Analyses documents never published before about cover-ups at the International Atomic Jul-21 | $34.95 | 312pp Energy Agency.
Pax Transatlantica America and Europe in the post-Cold War Era
JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI, Professor of International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Following the twin shocks of Brexit and Trump’s election, the concept of a unified Western transatlantic community seems to be a relic. However, this volume shows why the West is not eroding and is actually far from over.
• Challenges the prevailing pessimism about the direction of transatlantic relations and the future of the West, discussing the role of NATO and underlining how the transatlantic relationship boasts the richest and most closely connected transcontinental economy in the world. • Goes beyond the crisis-prone headlines by highlighting the structural connections that prevail even in times of transatlantic public disagreements and argues that not only will the 9780190922160 ‘Pax Transatlantica’ continue to exist, but it is also likely to thrive in the future. Mar-21 | $29.95 | 240pp
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How China Loses The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions
LUKE PATEY, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies, and Lead Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, University of Oxford
China is advancing its own interests with increasing aggression and rapidly expanding its influence around the globe. Many fear that China’s economic clout, tech innovations, and military power will allow it to remake the world in its own authoritarian image. But despite all these strengths, a future with China in charge is far from certain. Rich and poor, big and small, countries around the world are recognising that engaging China produces new strategic vulnerabilities to their independence and competitiveness.
This volume tells the story of China’s struggles to overcome new risks and endure the global backlash against its assertive reach. Patey argues that China’s predatory economic agenda, headstrong diplomacy, and military expansion undermine its ambitions to dominate the LEAD global economy and world affairs. In travels to Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Europe, his TITLE encounters with activists, business managers, diplomats, and thinkers reveal the challenges threatening to ground China’s rising power. 9780190061081 Jan-21 | $29.95 | 368pp • Provides the first comprehensive account of how China is struggling to expand its reach as a global power. • Presents on-the-ground reporting on and analysis of how the world is responding to, and even pushing back against, China’s rise. • Challenges the idea that China’s rise is leading to a West versus Asia divide. • Shows how the individual agendas of powerful Chinese corporations, policy banks, and top diplomats and officials interact with China’s broader foreign policy.
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China and China’s China the World Western The Bubble that Horizon Never Pops Edited by David Thomas Orlik Shambaugh Daniel Markey 9780190877408 9780190062316 9780190680190 Jun-20 | 240pp Jan-20 | 416pp Mar-20 | 336pp $29.95 $99.00 $29.95
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The Securitarian Personality What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era
JOHN R. HIBBING, Foundation Regents Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Offers a novel theoretical claim that strong Trump supporters strive for protection from threats they perceive to be emanating from human outsiders, not fear or authoritarianism. • Draws on participant observation, focus groups, and a unique national survey that includes over 1,000 ardent Trump supporters. • Explains why modern politics is so intense, explosive, and polarising and provides insight into the approaches likely to increase levels of political civility in the future. 9780190096489 • Considers what will happen to hardcore Trump supporters in the post-Trump era. Sep-20 | $29.95 | 304pp “[T]his is an insightful psychological profile of the voters Trump is counting on in 2020.” Publishers Weekly
Innovation in Real Places Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
DAN BREZNITZ, Professor and Munk Chair of Innovation Studies, University of Toronto
Are there models of economic growth creation that don’t rely on a flourishing high-tech industry? Leaders might think the answer lies in high-tech or high-end manufacturing, but more often than not, they’re wrong.
• Explains how to create a regional strategy for innovation that benefits as many people as possible. • Shows how to avoid innovation policy that rewards the wealthy but is unhelpful and possibly harmful for the majority of the population.
• Examines second-tier cities from around the world to show how they can innovate in their 9780197508114 own unique way and increase both local growth and broad-based prosperity. Feb-21 | $29.95 | 280pp • Aims to serve as a tool to encourage local leaders into pursuing realistic and regionally appropriate models for growth and innovation.
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The Making of Black Bearing Witness While Black Lives Matter African Americans, Smartphones, A Brief History of an Idea and the New Protest #Journalism
CHRISTOPHER J. LEBRON, ALLISSA V. RICHARDSON, USC Annenberg Johns Hopkins University This book tells the story of this century’s most This title presents a concise and accessible powerful Black social movement through the eyes history of the rhetoric and activism that has laid the foundation of 15 activists who documented it. It reveals how smartphones, for the modern #BlackLivesMatter movement. It argues for a social media, and social justice empowered Black activists to create renewed focus on the idea of equal standing in society for African their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African Americans, rather than the current focus on policing and laws. American tradition of using the news to challenge racism.
“[A] deep, compelling dive into the intellectual and cultural “[R]aises the bar for studying how ordinary people work for background of the Black Lives Matter movement.” social justice in their everyday lives.” Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs Patricia Hill Collins, author of Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory 9780190910754 9780190935535 Oct-18 | $20.95 | 216pp May-20 | $27.95 | 296pp
A Duty to Resist The Movement When Disobedience The African American Should Be Uncivil Struggle for Civil Rights
CANDICE DELMAS, Northeastern University THOMAS C. HOLT, University of Chicago
Uncivil disobedience can sometimes be not Providing an informed and nuanced only permissible but required in the effort to understanding of the origins, character, and resist injustice. In this title, Delmas offers the first philosophical objectives of the civil rights movement, this volume treatment of uncivil disobedience, its defensibility, and its limits. emphasises the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people involved. “Insightful, gripping, and analytically sharp, Delmas’s work is both a valuable contribution and a call to action.” This ground-breaking book reinserts the critical concept of Kimberley Brownlee, Professor of Philosophy, ‘movement’ back into our image and understanding of the mid- University of Warwick 20th century freedom struggle.
9780190872199 9780197525791 Sep-18 | $31.95 | 312pp Jan-21 | $18.95 | 152pp
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Author Marx in Motion previously translated into A New Materialist Marxism Spanish
THOMAS NAIL, Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver
Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalism, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers.
In this new reading, Nail argues that Marx was a new materialist avant la lettre, suggesting that Marx did not believe history was determined, that matter was passive, or that humans were separate or superior to nature. Marx did not even have a labour theory of value. Marxists argue that new materialists lack a sufficient political and economic theory, and new materialists argue that Marx’s materialism is human-centric and mechanistic. This book aims to solve both problems by proposing a new materialist Marxism. LEAD • A return to Marx’s writings, including his under-appreciated dissertation, through the lens TITLE of the pressing philosophical and political problems of our time: ecological crisis, gender
inequality, colonialism, and global mobility. 9780197526484 • The first book-length treatment to offer a new materialist reading of Marx, by examining Aug-20 | $29.95 | 264pp Capital as if it were already a response to the present rather than aiming to make Marxism relevant by ‘applying’ it to contemporary issues. • Provides a significant new interpretation of Marx’s work. • Examines the theme of motion and movement in Marx.
“It is rare to find a genuinely novel reading of Marx and yet that is exactly what Thomas Nail provides in this remarkable book. In an ambitious, pathbreaking, and admirably lucid analysis, Nail offers us a ‘new materialist’ Marx that both resonates with ecological, feminist, and postcolonial Marxisms and suggests answers to some of the central political problems of our age.” Simon Choat, author of Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze
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Writing and Righting Literature in the Age of Human Rights
LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
The obvious humanity of books would seem to make literature and human rights natural allies. But what is the real connection between literature and human rights? In this short polemical book, Stonebridge shows how the history of human rights owes much to the creative imagining of writers.
• A timely and topical work from an important literary critic. • A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times. • Establishes connections between literary cultures and the development of human rights. 9780198814054 Nov-20 | £18.99 | 160pp • Introduces the sub-discipline of literature and human rights to a general audience.
What’s Wrong with Rights?
NIGEL BIGGAR, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Director, McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, University of Oxford
• Raises and addresses questions about the concepts of rights — natural, moral, legal, universal, absolute — and about rights-talk. • Considers these questions across a variety of disciplines and genres of literature -- intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, moral theology, human rights literature, and the judgments of courts. • Ranges from debates about property in medieval Christendom, through Confucian rights- scepticism, to contemporary discussions about the remedy for global hunger and the justification of killing. 9780198861973 • Concludes that, while natural, moral rights do not exist, legal rights may be justified by Sep-20 | £30.00 | 384pp natural morality, according to circumstances.
“[O]riginal, thought-provoking, and carefully reasoned.” Lord Jonathan Sumption, QC, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the UK
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Seeing Clearly A Buddhist Guide to Life
NICOLAS BOMMARITO, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Distracted or misled by our preoccupations, misconceptions, and, most of all, our obsession with ourselves, we don’t see the world clearly. In our search for happiness and the good life, this is the main problem we face. But luckily there is a solution, and on the path to understanding it, we can make use of the rich and varied teachings that have developed over centuries of Buddhist thought.
• Shows readers how, by adopting ideas and practices from Buddhism, they can overcome the dissatisfaction and hopelessness that plague modern life. • Covers a wide range of Buddhist ideas and practices, never focusing on a particular school or technique. 9780190887506 “[T]his useful work provides a happy harmony of temporal wisdom and transcendent habits Jul-20 | $19.95 | 320pp for Buddhist beginners.” Publishers Weekly
On Being and Becoming An Existentialist Approach to Life
JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI, Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
• Demonstrates the exquisite breadth of existentialism’s possibilities for an authentic life, including its prospects for hope, happiness, and community. • Offers a new theory of existentialism as a heterogeneous movement, involving diverse thinkers from around the world, challenging received ideas about the meaning of human existence. • Breaks through clichés of existential thinking and expands the prospects for existentialist authenticity. • Shows that existentialist attention to the human self can be intertwined with ways of conceiving the world, our being with others, the Earth, and the encompassing concept 9780190913656 Nov-20 | $18.95 | 336pp of being.
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The Solace Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life
JOSHUA GLASGOW, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Sonoma State University
How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones? How can we find solace in our own death? When Glasgow’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, he struggled to answer these questions for her and for himself. Though death and immortality introduce some of the most basic and existentially compelling questions in philosophy, Glasgow found that the dominant theories came up short.
Recalling the last months of his mother’s life, Glasgow reveals the breakthrough he finally arrived at for himself, from which readers can learn and find solace. When we are grateful for life, we value all of it, and this includes death, its natural culmination. This is how to face death in a way that is both rational and comforting -- in a way that provides solace.
• Shows a new way of thinking about death that is positive and consoling, focusing on how LEAD TITLE the goodness of life radiates to all its parts, even to death itself. • Re-frames existing ways of thinking about death in order to hone in on where we can find 9780190074302 solace in death, in a way that is equally relevant for the religious and non-religious. Nov-20 | $19.95 | 128pp • Offers several new theories, including an examination of how we can be grateful for life’s most difficult aspects.
“[This] book is accessible to a wide range of readers, from beginners in philosophy to those who are more advanced. It is a deeply original book, developing a fascinating suggestion for the appropriate attitude toward death, based on the ‘radiant value’ of life. This is a humane, thoughtful exploration of deeply important issues.” John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside
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Finishing Aging Death and Our Story Thoughtfully Nonexistence
Gregory L. Martha C. Palle Yourgrau Eastwood Nussbaum and 9780190247478 Saul Levmore 9780190888084 Aug-19 | 232pp Mar-19 | 152pp 9780190600235 $78.00 $15.95 Nov-17 | 264pp $24.95
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Practicing Forgiveness A Path Toward Healing
RICHARD S. BALKIN, Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator in the Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi • Utilises an easy-to-understand model to work through issues of conflict and forgiveness. • Presents the Forgiveness Reconciliation Inventory - a tool readers can use in deciding whether forgiveness is possible in a given scenario. • Does not assume forgiveness is always the goal, and shares tools for moving forward when reconciliation is impossible. • Draws on the perspectives of counselling professionals, with stories, humour, clinical examples, research, and empirical findings, while also considering the influence of environment and religion. 9780190937201 Dec-20 | $24.95 | 240pp “Balkin’s approach is refreshingly nonjudgmental; he emphasizes that each situation has many different factors, and refuses to endorse a one-size-fits-all resolution.” Publishers Weekly
Stoic Wisdom Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
NANCY SHERMAN, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
The popular image of the Stoic is someone who manages adversity through strict emotional control, but this is not the real Stoicism. Sherman, one of the top scholars of Stoicism, presents Stoic thought as it really is and examines what it would be to live a truly Stoic life.
• A deeply informed look at the true nature of a popular approach to living a good life. Author • An accessible, critical ‘field guide’ that explains who the Stoics were, what they really taught, previously and what their teachings really mean in a variety of modern day contexts, including the translated into Arabic and military and the tech world. Spanish • Shows how the Stoics provide a powerful guide to living, one that is not just about individual 9780197501832 grit and stamina in the face of adversity, but one where true resilience means being ‘at home Jun-21 | $24.95 | 288pp in the world’, connected to others who sustain and support you.
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Author previously Can I Believe? translated into Indonesian An Invitation to the Hesitant
JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, Jr., Samuel J. Mikolaski Chair of Religious Studies, Crandall University
Maybe Christianity is actually true. Maybe it is what believers say it is. But at least two problems make the thoughtful person hesitate. Firstly, there are so many other options. Secondly, why do so many people choose to be Christian in the face of so many reasons not to be Christian? Christianity has become the most popular religion in the world. Why?
• Discusses the Christian story provocatively for believers and inquirers alike. • Deals with central questions raised about Christianity such as: “Why is it often insisted that Jesus is the only way to God?” and “How do we respond to the Problem of Evil?” 9780190922856 Oct-20 | $24.95 | 224pp “Here is a book for everyone who wants their life to be in harmony with reality. If you are ready for your beliefs - and your reasons for choosing them - to be challenged to the core, then you should read this.” Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford
The Future of Christian Marriage
MARK REGNERUS, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
• Explores how today’s Christians find a partner in a world in which people are less interested in marriage. • Draws on in-depth interviews with nearly 200 young-adult Christians from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, and Nigeria, in order to understand the state of matrimony in global Christian circles today. • Argues that the future of marriage will be a religious one.
“In this incisive and provocative book, Mark Regnerus argues that the renewal of marriage — and by implication, family life — will depend upon the revival of a faith that lends normative, ritual, and communal support to this relationship, our most fundamental social institution.” 9780190064938 Sep-20 | $29.95 | 280pp W. Bradford Wilcox, Director, National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia
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Author previously The Beauty of Jesus Christ translated into Bulgarian, Filling out a Scheme of St Augustine Spanish and Italian GERALD O’COLLINS, S.J., Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
This book anchors its account of the beauty of Jesus Christ to a scheme found in St Augustine of Hippo’s Expositions of the Psalms. There, Augustine recognised the beauty of Christ at every stage - from his pre-existence (“beautiful in heaven”), through his incarnation, the public ministry (“beautiful in his miracles, beautiful in calling to life”), passion, crucifixion, burial, resurrection (“beautiful in taking up his life again”), and glorious life “in heaven”.
• A comprehensive study of Christ’s beauty, illustrated from every stage of his story. • Draws on the Scriptures to illustrate and justify Augustine’s brief claims about the beauty revealed in the whole story of Christ, from his pre-existence to his risen ‘post-existence.’ 9780198853633 • Cites the witness to Christ’s beauty that has come from artists, composers of sacred music, Apr-20 | £25.00 | 176pp creators of icons, and writers.
Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life
JOEL ROBBINS, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity.
• Reconsiders key topics in anthropological theory through the categories of theological argument. • Offers careful readings of works by major theologians that put them into dialogue both with anthropological theory and with rich ethnographic materials from around the world. • Explores how recent debates about the nature of the secular can open up rich spaces of interdisciplinary dialogue. 9780198845041 • Clearly argued throughout and written to be accessible to all readers in the social sciences, Jul-20 | £25.00 | 208pp theology, and religious studies interested in the place of religion in social life and human experience.
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Teams That Work The Seven Drivers of Team Effectiveness
SCOTT TANNENBAUM, President, Group for Organizational Effectiveness, and EDUARDO SALAS, Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University
In the modern workplace, employees collaborate. Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. But many teams struggle.
This title presents the seven drivers of team effectiveness and the clearest recommendations on what really makes teams great. The authors apply the lessons they’ve learned from working with high-stakes, high-risk team situations to any kind of organisation in order to dispel some of the most enduring myths (e.g., can you be both a star and a great team player?)
• Draws on psychological research and real-world examples to reveal what really drives team effectiveness. LEAD TITLE • Applies the authors’ experiences advising a wide range of organisations, from corporate environments to medical, military, and aerospace.
9780190056964 • Provides actionable, evidence-based tips for being an effective team leader, a great team Oct-20 | $29.95 | 272pp member, a supportive senior leader, or an impactful consultant.
“Too many teams are less than the sum of their parts. Scott Tannenbaum and Eduardo Salas are here to change that. Their book makes the science of team effectiveness accessible and actionable.” Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
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Cary Cherniss and Robert E. Ployhart, Samuel A. Culbert Cornelia Roche Jeff A. Weekley, 9780190652395 and Julian Dalzell 9780190698942 Jul-17 | 208pp Jul-20 | 224pp 9780199746897 £18.99 $29.95 Apr-18 | 400pp £26.99
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Japan’s Far More Female Future Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger
BILL EMMOTT, former editor-in-chief of The Economist
The Japan on show in the 2019 Rugby World Cup was an admirably safe, stable, resilient, and efficient society. However, that appearance disguises crucial vulnerabilities and social ailments, including an extreme level of gender inequality. • Examines the critical issue of gender inequality in Japan and its impact on the nation’s economic and social future. • Suggests gradual change is occurring, thanks not only to demographic necessity but also to a significant rise in female access to university education since the 1990s, and the emergence 9780198865551 of a wide range of role models to inspire and empower the next generation. Sep-20 | £30.00 | 224pp • Personal interviews provide a novel insight into the lives and perspectives of female leaders in Japan, from business, the arts, academia, government, media, and more.
Authors previously Taming the Corporation translated into Simplified How to Regulate for Success Chinese, Thai, and Spanish ROBERT BALDWIN, Professor of Law Emeritus and Director of the Executive Education Course on Regulation, LSE, and MARTIN CAVE, Chair of Ofgem and a visiting professor, LSE
Virtually all enterprises are regulated. Regulation is crucial not only to economic success but also to protecting consumer, worker, environmental, and other interests. Yet it is often considered a tiresome interference with entrepreneurial activity. This negative vision is unhelpful in addressing business and other needs for productive forms of regulation.
• Offers a concise, positive approach to regulation and a method of designing regulation in its most productive form. • Stresses the role of good regulation in allowing businesses to flourish, serve markets 9780198836186 effectively, and respect broader interests. Nov-20 | £25.00 | 240pp • Supplements theory with real-world case studies to provide a practical guide to regulation. • Address three key regulatory challenges in the modern world: regulating for sustainability, addressing global warming, and controlling digital platforms.
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Digital Nomads In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy
RACHAEL A. WOLDOFF, Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University, and ROBERT C. LITCHFIELD, Associate Professor of Economics and Business, Washington & Jefferson College
A small but growing group of today’s knowledge workers actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their jobs, travelling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. These digital nomads have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly post their ‘office of the day’ photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like?
This volume takes readers into an expatriate digital nomad community in Bali, Indonesia, to better understand this growing demographic of typically millennial workers. Through dozens of interviews and several stints living in a digital nomad hub, the authors present new answers to classic questions about community, creativity, and work. They show why digital nomads leave their conventional lives LEAD behind, arguing that creative class and millennial workers, though successful, often feel that their TITLE ‘world class cities’ and desirable jobs are anything but paradise. They first follow their transitions into freelancing, entrepreneurship, and remote work, then explain how digital nomads create a fluid but 9780190931780 intimate community abroad in the company of like-minded others. Jan-21 | $29.95 | 224pp • Offers a detailed, dynamic, and vivid ethnographic portrait of digital nomads, a new and growing group of mostly younger professionals seeking satisfaction in work and life. • Integrates research on sociology, business, and technology to explore the relationships between work, creativity, and location. • Describes the mindset of a class of millennial workers, their aspirations, what drives them to relocate, and how they create a new work culture and community. • Provides a revealing take on the changing nature of work and the problems of the new economy.
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Where the The Meaning The Platform Millennials of Travel Society Will Take Us Emily Thomas José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, and Barbara J. Risman 9780198835400 Martijn de Waal 9780199324392 Feb-20 | 272pp Feb-18 | 376pp £14.99 9780190889760 $28.95 Nov-18 | 240pp $31.95
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The Data Imperative How Digitalization is Reshaping Management, Organizing, and Work
HENRI SCHILDT, Professor of Strategy and Head of Department, Aalto University School of Business
Companies across all industries are engaging in digital transformation to harness the power of advanced information technologies. Building on interviews and diverse case studies, this book provides an in-depth look at how data and algorithms are reshaping management practices, organisational structures, corporate culture, and work roles.
• Develops a broad framework for understanding digitalisation not as a technological change but as a new normative mindset, here called ‘the data imperative.’ • Presents an objective and balanced survey of various aspects of digitalisation, including 9780198840817 artificial intelligence, and their effects. Oct-20 | £25.00 | 240pp • Provides a forward-looking view at the future of work and the skills and expertise that professionals will need in the coming decade.
The Future of the Professions First edition licensed into How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts 10 languages Updated Edition RICHARD SUSSKIND, Honorary Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London, and DANIEL SUSSKIND, Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
• Presents groundbreaking research on how technology will transform the work, and relevancy, of professionals. • Provides key insights for policymakers, professionals, and academics alike. • Surveys the future challenges faced across a variety of sectors and industries, and the new opportunities these may bring.
“I know of no better book for anyone interested in the future of skilled jobs and society. 9780198841890 Drawing on an astounding range of sources and the latest research, The Future of the Oct-20 | £9.99 | 480pp Professions offers vital insights into the unprecedented disruption facing all the professions.” Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development and Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Authors previously The Phantom Pattern Problem translated into Simplified The Mirage of Big Data Chinese GARY SMITH, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, Pomona College, and JAY CORDES, Data Scientist
Today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. When it comes to data, we tend to notice patterns and we are inclined to think that these are meaningful. Patterns in data are often used as evidence, but how can you tell if that evidence is worth believing?
• Through countless examples, this title offers readers the opportunity to engage critically with Big Data and helps us avoid being duped by these patterns. • An engaging read that covers a wide range of real-world examples, such as stock trading 9780198864165 strategies, vaccine reluctance, crime rates in small towns and the correlations between iPod Sep-20 | £25.00 | 240pp sales and murders.
Poems That Solve Puzzles The History and Science of Algorithms
CHRIS BLEAKLEY, Head of School of Computer Science, University College Dublin
Nowadays our lives are run by algorithms. They determine what news we see. They influence which products we buy. They may even be determining the outcome of national elections.
This compelling and impactful study tells the story of algorithms from their ancient origins to the present day and beyond. By focusing on the inventors and the inspirational events behind the genesis of the world’s most important algorithms, the author takes the reader on a journey through tales of ancient inscriptions, top secret military projects, tech billionaires, superhuman artificial intelligences, and quantum computing.
9780198853732 Through useful examples and illustrations, Poems That Solve Puzzles is the first book for the Aug-20 | £25.00 | 288pp general reader that examines both the history and the science of algorithms.
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The Wonder Book of Geometry Already licensed into A Mathematical Story Korean
DAVID ACHESON, Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Acheson transports us into the world of geometry by taking the reader on an illustrated tour through the history of this fundamental and ancient branch of mathematics. This study is an engaging and well-documented read that provides a lively account of the history of geometry from ancient Greece to the present day.
In this volume, the author presents geometry as the quickest route to the whole spirit of mathematics at its best, and – with many illustrations of original mathematical documents and sources – he passionately emphasises the elegant deduction involved in geometry as well as the practical applications of the subject.
Along the way, the reader will encounter the quirky and the unexpected and meet the great personalities in the field. Readers will be able to answer questions such as How can we be sure LEAD that Pythagoras’ theorem is really true? Why is the ‘angle in a semicircle’ always 90 degrees? And TITLE How can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? – uncovering some of the loveliest surprises in mathematics. 9780198846383 Oct-20 | £12.99 | 288pp “There is no better tour guide to the wonders of geometry than the delightful David Acheson.” Matt Parker, author of Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors and Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
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Tsunami The World’s Greatest Waves
JAMES GOFF, Honorary Professor, University of New South Wales, and former Director, Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre, and WALTER DUDLEY, Professor Emeritus of Marine Geology and Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Hilo
Tsunamis have plagued Earth for around 3.5 billion years and they’re not going away any time soon. As years pass, the odds of another catastrophic tsunami increase. The question is not if we will experience a tsunami in coming years, but rather when. We must focus on emergency preparedness now to ensure we know what to do when disaster does eventually strike.
Two tsunami specialists take readers on a rollercoaster ride through the most famous and devastating tsunamis in human history by discussing emergency preparedness to ensure that humanity knows what to do when disaster strikes. Through a balanced combination of personal experience, scientific stories of natural disasters, and tales of tragedy and heroism, this volume
LEAD allows readers to engage with a new scientific approach to these overwhelming waves by TITLE considering cases such as the 1755 tsunami in Portugal, the 1946 Aleutian tsunami, and even a tsunami that occurred in Lake Geneva in 563 CE. 9780197546123 Mar-21 | $34.95 | 304pp The authors discuss how we can use what previous tsunamis left behind to determine the level of emergency-preparedness necessary in certain areas of the world, providing the example of a Samoan school in 2009 that protected students safely from a tsunami.
• Pulls historically significant tsunamis of the past together, using science, personal survivor accounts, and clues left from prehistoric times. • Dives into lesser-known stories about scientists who fought government ignorance and statewide reluctance to implement better emergency-preparedness initiatives. • Combines the work of two tsunami researchers and educators, creating a wealth of experience and knowledge, never before published.
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Author Celestial Tapestry previously translated into The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics Simplified Chinese NICHOLAS MEE, Director, Virtual Image Publishing Ltd and Quantum Wave Publishing Ltd
Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical designs is also seen in the sacred mathematical patterns created by the world’s great religions, such as Buddhism and Islam.
Celestial Tapestry presents brief, digestible accounts of the influences that have occurred between maths and the arts by focusing on very intriguing characters, such as the soldier who laid the foundations for fractals and computer art while recovering in hospital after suffering serious injury in the First World War; the mathematician imprisoned for bigamy whose books had a huge influence on 20th century art; the pioneer clockmaker who suffered from leprosy; and the Victorian housewife who amazed mathematicians with her intuition for higher-dimensional space. LEAD • An engaging presentation of mathematical ideas for easy consumption. TITLE • Enables the reader to understand maths and science in a broader cultural and historical context. 9780198851950 “Celestial Tapestry is an invaluable overview of what we know about art and science, and Sep-20 | £16.99 | 336pp the myriad great minds throughout history that wove our knowledge. Dr. Mee’s strength is bringing the people of the past alive, and the history of art and science is brilliantly condensed here into a book that summarises the last two thousand years of human development.” Mark Sheeky, The Barracks Trust Award Winner
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Nicholas Mee Nicholas Manton David Albertson and Nicholas Mee 9780198831860 9780199989737 Jan-19 | 224pp 9780198795933 Jun-14 | 512pp £16.99 Apr-17 | 576pp £69.00 £67.50
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Author previously translated into Mind Shift Arabic, Simplified Chinese, and How Culture Transformed the Human Brain Japanese JOHN PARRINGTON, Associate Professor in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Oxford
This volume draws on the latest research on the human brain to show how it differs strikingly from those of other animals in its structure and function at a molecular and cellular level. The author argues that the ‘shift’ that enlarged the human brain was driven especially by the development of one remarkable tool: language. • Argues that the complex social interaction brought by language enabled humans to leap ahead of all other species. • Explores how language, culture, and society mediate brain function, and what this view 9780198801634 of the human mind may bring to our understanding and treatment of mental illness. Apr-21 | £25.00 | 512pp • Poses important questions about how humanity can use new awareness about human consciousness to develop a truly sustainable civilisation.
First Woman Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere
JAMES RODGER FLEMING, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College
Clouds are the spark plugs in the heat engine of the tropical atmosphere, and heat from the tropics drives the planet’s general circulation. Atmospheric scientists didn’t know this in the 1950s, but Joanne Simpson, the first American woman to earn a PhD in meteorology, did.
This is the first book to explore the significance of Simpson’s contribution to women in science, focusing on her personal and professional life, her career prospects as a woman in science, and her relationship to the tropical atmosphere. It is also the first historical study of tropical meteorology accessible to all readers, thus emphasising how Simpson was both a pioneer woman scientist and the best tropical scientist of her generation. 9780198862734 Aug-20 | £25.00 | 224pp “Joanne Simpson’s biography is not only the story of a woman that had to force her way through a male dominated field […] but also the story of the mentor to a generation of scientists. Fleming does her the justice that she deserves by weaving together this nuanced story of the most prominent tropical meteorologist of her generation.” Lourdes B. Avilés, PhD., Professor of Meteorology, Plymouth State University
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Multisensory Experiences Where the Senses Meet Technology
CARLOS VELASCO, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School, and MARIANNA OBRIST, Professor of Multisensory Experiences, UCL
Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature: they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and much more. In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly transformed and capitalised on through advancements that adapt the world around us to suit our ever more computerised environment.
• Based on advances on the senses and technology, this work presents a significant new interpretation of multisensory experiences. • Provides the reader with insights as to how to understand multisensory experiences, create 9780198849629 them, and how new technologies are allowing new multisensory experiences beyond the Oct-20 | £29.99 | 112pp imaginable. • Sets out a call for action based on the implications of multisensory experiences for individuals and society.
Bioprinting To Make Ourselves Anew
KENNETH DOUGLAS, Research Faculty Member, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
Bioprinting originated around the turn of the 21st century, and it builds off of 3D printing – the technology that allows a computer-controlled device to build three-dimensional objects layer by layer. Scientists can use living cells to make human tissue, and their ultimate quest now is to print a transplantable organ.
• Spans the emergence of 3D printing and how this enabled scientists to print tissues.
• A captivating tale that goes beyond the history and science to the potential utility of this image Awaiting jacket technology for individuals. 9780190943547 • A crystal clear, yet rigorous, examination of the history of bioprinting, the present limitations Jun-21 | $39.95 | 288pp of the technology, and what scientists will need to do in the coming decades to successfully imitate nature. • Perfect for experts and science enthusiasts alike.
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Already Pandemics, Publics, Already Deadly Companions licensed licensed into into Simplified Chinese, Greek, and Narrative Arabic How Microbes Shaped Korean, Russian, and Turkish MARK DAVIS and DAVINA LOHM, our History both at Monash University DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD, Emeritus Research suggests that future influenza Professor of Medical Microbiology, pandemics are inevitable as strains of the virus University of Edinburgh mutate in new ways. This volume examines how The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the general public experienced the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus the story of microbes. Beginning with a dramatic account of the outbreak. It brings together stories about individuals’ perception SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, the author takes of their illness, reflections on news, vaccinations, social isolation, us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and other infection control measures. and humans, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and This book develops a novel ‘public health narrative’ approach, epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way we live. which is of interest to health communicators and researchers “Admirably clear and engaging.” - BBC History across the social and health sciences.
9780190683764 9780198815440 Mar-20 | $70.00 | 228pp Feb-18 | £9.99 | 272pp
Viruses, Plagues, Already American Pandemic licensed into and History Russian The Lost Worlds of the Past, Present, and Future 1918 Influenza Epidemic Second Edition NANCY BRISTOW, Professor of History, MICHAEL B. A. OLDSTONE, Viral- University of Puget Sound Immunobiology Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute This book offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the 1918 influenza outbreak. It sheds light on This fully updated edition looks at human successes in controlling the social and cultural history of Americans during the pandemic, viruses, as well as continued dangers such as HIV and Ebola. uncovering both the causes of the nation’s public amnesia and the It presents new chapters on hepatitis, the possible return of a depth of the quiet remembering that endured. Through a diverse catastrophic influenza, and the impact of vaccine reluctance. range of primary sources, it highlights the complex interplay It explores how viruses have altered the course of human between social identity, cultural norms, the role of race, gender history, including discussions on the role played by pandemics in and class, and the epidemic. conquests of the Americas and the African slave trade.
9780190056780 9780190238551 Sep-20 | $19.95 | 512pp Jan-17 | $28.95 | 296pp
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Already Already licensed Already licensed into licensed into into Simplified Arabic, Simplified Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Greek, Chinese, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, and Japanese Spanish, and and Thai Thai
Pandemics Viruses Infectious Disease CHRISTIAN W. MCMILLEN Second Edition MARTA WAYNE and BENJAMIN BOLKER 9780199340071 DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD 9780199688937 Dec-16 | $11.95 | 176pp 9780198811718 Jun-15 | £8.99 | 144pp Mar-18 | £8.99 | 176pp
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Plague Epidemiology Vaccines Second Edition RODOLFO SARACCI What Everyone Needs to Know® PAUL SLACK 9780199543335 KRISTEN A. FEEMSTER 9780198871118 Feb-10 | £8.99 | 160pp 9780190277918 Jun-21 | £8.99 | 160pp Nov-17 | $16.95 | 208pp
more information? www.oup.co.uk/academic/rights/translations VIRUSES & PANDEMICS 37 FIFTY STUDIES EVERY DOCTOR SHOULD KNOW SERIES
50 Studies Every 50 Studies Every 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know Ophthalmologist Should Know Anesthesiologist Should Know ISH P. BHALLA et al. ALAN PENMAN et al. ANITA GUPTA et al. 9780190625085 9780190050726 9780190237691 Jun-18 | $53.00 | 376pp May-20 | $69.95 | 336pp Feb-19 | $63.00 | 304pp
50 Studies Every 50 Studies Every 50 Studies Every Palliative Surgeon Should Know Intensivist Should Know Care Doctor Should Know SREYRAM KUY et al. EDWARD A. BITTNER DAVID HUI et al. 9780199384075 9780190467654 9780190658618 Oct-17 | $56.00 | 304pp Feb-18 | $56.00 | 360pp May-18 | $53.00 | 344pp
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Critical Epidemiology and the People’s Health
JAIME BREILH, Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation of Collective Health and Environment, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador
Bold and incisive, this book is an indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and global human health and environmental crises. It invites readers to the next great paradigm in public health by promoting a transdisciplinary and intercultural community-building approach.
This volume focuses on key questions such as: • What are the real challenges facing critical epidemiology during the current time of immense turmoil and inequity? • How can we conduct responsible public health research? 9780190492786 • How can we create a more rigorous, updated, and effective epidemiology? Jan-21 | $32.95 | 280pp
Author previously Your Brain on Exercise translated intoGARY L. WENK, PhD Simplified Chinese, GARY WENK French, Latvian , Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Neuroscience and, Polish Programs, Ohio State University
Your body benefits in many ways from regular exercise. Does your brain benefit as well? Does regular exercise positively affect brain function? Does our thinking become faster because we exercise? Does running a marathon make us more intelligent? Y O U R B R A I N This accessible book provides a realistic perspective on what benefits your brain should expect to O N achieve from exercise. Without requiring any specialised knowledge about the brain, this volume EXERCISE entertainingly illustrates the intersection between brain health, the consequences of exercise, and our need to eat in an entirely new light.
• Reveals which aspects of brain function and aging are affected by regular daily exercise. 9780190051051 • Illustrates how exercise can mitigate ill effects of obesity on the brain. Apr-21 | $29.95 | 208pp • Illuminates the harmful effects of extreme exercise on the body, brain, and the aging process.
more information? www.oup.co.uk/academic/rights/translations PSYCHOLOGY & POPULAR MEDICINE 39 PSYCHOLOGY & POPULAR MEDICINE Author previously translated Threats into Simplified Chinese and, Intimidation and Its Discontents Korean DAVID P. BARASH, Evolutionary Biologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington
Threats are so widespread that we often don’t realise how deeply they are ingrained in our minds or how profoundly and counter-productively they operate. Animals, humans, societies, and even countries internalise threats, behind which lie a myriad of intriguing questions: • How do we know when to take a threat seriously? • When do threats make things worse? • What can we do to use them wisely rather than destructively?
9780190055295 This volume explores the dynamic of threat and counter-threat and analyses many fraught Oct-20 | $27.95 | 248pp human situations by discussing fears around the spectre of eternal damnation, the murderous culture of guns and capital punishment, the emergence of right-wing nationalist populism, and nuclear deterrence.
Author previously translated Reset into Arabic, Japanese, and An Introduction to Behavior Centered Design Turkish ROBERT AUNGER, Associate Professor in Evolutionary Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Many of us would like to change one or more of our own behaviours, or those of others. Governments and public health officials frequently initiate programmes to promote behaviour change on a broad scale. But behaviour change is difficult, and success frequently eludes us.
• Offers a new framework for achieving behaviour change that draws on recent advances in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and ecological psychology: Behaviour Centered Design. • Presents both the theory behind the model and a step-by-step manual for conceiving, creating, and implementing a behaviour change programme by providing numerous real-life examples. 9780197532638 Sep-20 | $34.95 | 176pp • Encourages practitioners to think differently about behaviour and how to design programmes to change it.
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Parenting for a Digital Future How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives
SONIA LIVINGSTONE, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, and ALICIA BLUM-ROSS, Public Policy Lead for Kids & Families, Google In this volume, the authors draw on extensive, diverse qualitative and quantitative research conducted with a range of parents in the UK to reveal how digital technologies characterise parenting in late modernity, as parents navigate this new territory with little precedent or support. • Offers a deeply researched exploration of what it means to parent in a period of significant social and technological change. • Critiques popular screen time advice and offers an alternative vision of digital families. • Links parenting studies to social influence of class, which is often under-discussed in relationship to the impact of technology. 9780190874704 Jul-20 | $27.95 | 272pp “This book is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how digital technology intersects in unexpected and varied ways with the everyday lives of diverse families.” Mimi Ito, Director of the Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine
Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents
ELI R. LEBOWITZ, Director of the Program for Anxiety Disorders, Yale Child Study Center
This is the first and only book to provide a completely parent-based treatment programme for child and adolescent anxiety. Parents will learn how to alleviate their children’s anxiety by changing the way they themselves respond to their children’s symptoms. Parents are shown how to replace their own accommodating behaviours with supportive responses that demonstrate both acceptance of children’s difficulties and confidence in their ability to cope.
• Full of detailed guidance and practical suggestions to help with understanding child anxiety and OCD, learning how to talk with an anxious child, and avoiding common traps and pitfalls. • Includes worksheets to help parents translate these suggestions into action. 9780190883522 • Accessible and personable, this book is a welcoming resource for any concerned parent. Jan-21 | $17.95 | 256pp
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Violence Against International Trade The Internet of Things Women ANNE O. KRUEGER SCOTT J. SHACKELFORD 9780190900458 9780190943806 JACQUI TRUE Sep-20 | $18.95 | 368pp Jun-20 | $16.95 | 256pp 9780199378937 Nov-20 | $18.95 | 272pp
Yemen The Amazon Origin of Life ASHER ORKABY MARK J. PLOTKIN DAVID W. DEAMER 9780190932275 9780190668280 9780190099008 Jan-21 | $18.95 | 192pp Mar-20 | $16.95 | 256pp Sep-20 | $18.95| 108pp
42 WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW more information? www.oup.co.uk/academic/rights/translations VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS
Zalasiewicz previously translated into eight languages
Modern Brazil Volcanoes Religion ANTHONY W. PEREIRA MICHAEL J BRANNEY THOMAS A. TWEED 9780198812081 and JAN ZALASIEWICZ 9780190064679 Sep-20 | £8.99 | 176pp 9780199582204 Nov-20 | $11.95 | 168pp Nov-20 | £8.99 | 144pp
Restall previously translated into six languages
The Maya Enzymes Global Islam MATTHEW RESTALL and AMARA SOLARI PAUL ENGEL NILE GREEN 9780190645021 9780198824985 9780190917234 Oct-20 | $11.95 | 152pp Nov-20 | £8.99 | 192pp Nov-20 | $11.95 | 184pp
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Previous Social Research Methods editions Chemistry³ translated Sixth Edition into seven languages Introducing inorganic, organic TOM CLARK and LIAM FOSTER, and physical chemistry both at The University of Sheffield, Fourth Edition LUKE SLOAN, Cardiff University, and ALAN BRYMAN, formerly A. BURROWS et al. Previous edition of The University of Leicester Written by a team of inorganic, organic, and translated into Greek This sixth edition reflects the current social science landscape and physical chemists, together with specialists in carefully streamlines previous content to make it relevant and chemical education, this edition equips students with both appealing to today’s students. In addition to many new examples the knowledge and the skills to engage with and tackle chemical of published research, this edition features the insights of a problems across the full breadth of the field. A uniformly authoritative panel of recent graduates from their experiences of researching and engaging introduction to the fundamental principles of chemistry, a variety of fascinating topics, including attitudes towards the this textbook brings together all three branches of chemistry and LGBT+ community on social media, the experiences of Pakistani shows the connections between them, helping students develop an Muslim single mothers, and the impact of screen time on sleep. understanding of the subject as a single unified discipline.
9780198796053 9780198829980 May-21 | £39.99 | 784pp Apr-21 | £52.99 | 1440pp
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Your A to Z of Research Global Politics Ecology Methods and Statistics in STEPHANIE LAWSON International Fifth Edition Psychology Made Simple 9780198844327 WILLIAM D. BOWMAN and SALLY D. HACKER Feb-21 | £28.99 | 304pp 9781605359281 BARBARA KINGSLEY and JULIA ROBERTSON Oct-20 | £49.99 | 744pp 9780198812944 Sep-20 | £14.99 | 120pp
Previous Previous editions edition translated into translated six languages into Italian Awaiting jacket image Awaiting jacket Principles of Neuroanatomy The Mind’s Machine Biomedical Ethics through Clinical Cases International Fourth Edition Eighth Edition International Edition NEIL V. WATSON and S. MARC BREEDLOVE TOM L. BEAUCHAMP and JAMES F. CHILDRESS HAL BLUMENFELD 9780197542811 9780190640873 9781605359670 Oct-21 | $150.95 | 624pp Oct-19 | $74.95 | 512pp Mar-21 | $105.95 | 1250pp more information? www.oup.co.uk/academic/rights/translations HIGHER EDUCATION 45 FORTHCOMING
Author Future War and the Already After the Black Death previously licensed into translated into After the BLACK German Simplified Defence of Europe MARK BAILEY, Professor of Late DEATH Chinese Economy, society, and the law JOHN R. ALLEN, Brookings Institution, Medieval History, University in fourteenth-century England FREDERICK BEN HODGES, Center for of East Anglia European Policy Analysis (CEPA), and JULIAN FUTURE a n d t h e This book studies how the English government LINDLEY-FRENCH DEFENCE MARK BAILEY , Institute for Statescraft WAR OF EUROPE john r. frederick ben julian ALLEN HODGES LINDLEY-FRENCH reacted to the crisis of the Black Death of 1348- 2 Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 9, and how communities adapted in its wake. pandemic and how it will inevitably accelerate some key global It places the pandemic within the wider context of extreme dynamics already in play, this book goes on to weave history, weather and epidemiological events, the institutional framework strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical of markets and serfdom, and the role of law in reducing risks and narrative offering a major new analysis of how peace and security conditioning behaviour. can be maintained in Europe. The volume upends foundational Bailey rescues the end of the 14th century from a little-understood assumptions about how Europe’s defence is organised, the role of paradox between plague and revolt and elevates it to a critical period a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their of profound and irreversible change in English and global history. constituent nation-states.
9780198855835 9780198857884 Mar-21 | £25.00 | 352pp Feb-21 | £35.00 | 384pp
Author Western Jihadism previously A Most Peculiar Book translated into A Thirty Year History Turkish The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible JYTTE KLAUSEN, Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation, KRISTIN SWENSON, Visiting Professor Brandeis University of Religious Studies, University of Virginia This is the most comprehensive account yet of The Bible is full of surprises and contradictions, the origins of Western Jihadism and its role in unexplained impossibilities, terrifying the global movement. It tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in supernatural creatures, and heroes doing horrible deeds. Rather the West by tracing how Islamist revolutionaries, exiled in Europe than dismissing the Bible as an outlandish or irrelevant relic of and North America in the 1990s, helped create and control one of antiquity, the author leans into its messiness full-throttle, guiding the world’s most impactful terrorist movements. her readers through a Bible that will feel brand new to many. Drawing on her unique research and database of terrorist activity, For religious and non-religious readers alike, this study is Klausen also shows how Western Jihadists helped rebuild the an admirable response to the Bible’s current status quo. organisation after its near-obliteration during the aftermath of 9/11.
9780198870791 9780190651732 Jun-21 | £30.00 | 584pp Feb-21 | $24.95 | 280pp
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