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Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 For full details of all OUP’s centenary publishing and promotion, go to www.oup.com/history/ww1 TIM HARRIS Already available Publishing Architects of their own destruction? January – June 2014 Tim Harris’s ground-breaking works on the Stuart monarchs after the – HISTORY OXFORD WORLD’S and Revolution – have rewritten the history of the period. His new book is CLASSICS MICHAEL HOWARD The Oxford Illustrated History of equally original, bringing new insights to the period that sowed the seeds of discontent. The First : A the First World War 2/e JOHN BUCHAN James VI and I and his son Charles I were both reforming monarchs who endeavoured to Very Short Introduction Greenmantle April 2014, see page 9 bolster the authority of the crown in Scotland, Ireland, and England. James’s initiatives proved 978-0-19-920559-2, £7.99 978-0-19-953785-3, £8.99 HEW STRACHAN HEW STRACHAN controversial – the Ulster plantation, church rule in Scotland, financial and foreign policy in The First World War: To Arms (Reissue) England – yet he survived to the end. It was Charles, continuing his father’s policies, who ran ALAN KRAMER Dynamic of Destruction into grave difficulties, eventually provoking all three of his kingdoms to rise in rebellion. Was ERSKINE CHILDERS ‘One of the most THE FIRST impressive books of 978-0-19-954377-9, £20.00 The Riddle of the Sands WORLD WART O Charles simply not up to the job? Or had James left him an impossible legacy? modern history in a TITLE 978-0-19-954971-9, £7.99 ARMS RICHARD ROBERTS generation.’ Rebellion is both strong narrative history and enthralling biography. It is the story of high Saving the Max , January 2014 RUDYARD KIPLING London Evening Standard and low; affairs of state and the lives of ordinary citizens; constitutional and 978-0-19-964654-8, £20 War Stories and Poems Hardback April 2014, pb, 978-0-19926191-8, £25 religious conflict; propaganda and public opinion. It presents the last period in British 592 pp, 24 black and white halftones, THOMAS WEBER 978-0-19-955550-5, £10.99 234x156 mm, TA Hitler’s First War history in which the monarch had the power to shape the fate of the nation. 978-0-19-920900-2 FORD MADOX FORD CHRISTOPHER BELL Churchill and Sea Power £30.00 978-0-19-922638-2, £10.99 The Good Soldier Advance praise: Available as an Ebook May 2014, see page 18 978-0-19-958594-6, £7.99 ‘Tim Harris brings a wonderful freshness, directness, and authority to this account of the MICHAEL AND ELEANOR reigns of two contentious monarchs. Combining depth and breadth of reading, he offers BROCK LITERATURE ’s Great War Diary much to the specialist and to someone new to the period.’ WOOLF May 2014, see page 8 ALAIN-FOURNIER Mrs Dalloway The Lost Domain 978-0-19-953600-9, £7.99 GORDON MARTEL 978-0-19-967868-6, £12.99 July 1914: The Month that PR: Anna Silva VIRGINA WOOLF Changed the World PAUL FUSSELL ’s Room The Great War and Modern June 2014, see page 7 About the Author Memory 978-0-19-953658-0, £7.99 JON STALLWORTHY TIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at 978-0-19-997195-4, £12.99 The New Oxford Book of War Brown University. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books Poetry TIM KENDALL on British history in the , including Restoration: Charles June 2014, see page 24 Poetry of the First World War II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 and Revolution: The Great Crisis of the 978-0-19-958144-3, £14.99 British Monarchy, 1685-1720 . 5 HISTORY HISTORY Taken at the Flood July 1914 The Roman Conquest of Greece The month that changed the world ROBIN WATERFIELD GORDON MARTEL

How Ancient Greece fell to the Roman colossus Recreated moment by moment – the days that led to the Great War

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, on to fortune.’ These On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five words from Brutus in deftly describe the swift, brutal, and determined fateful weeks later Europe was at war. How did a minor Balkan problem become a cataclysm? conquest by the Romans of the Greeks in a little over six decades. Gordon Martel answers that question in a history book that reads like a thriller, recreating the drama of the crisis as it was experienced by those who were caught up in it. Rome’s defeat of the civilization from which it had learned so much is a tale of brutality. But apart from the thrilling military action, the story is also central to that of Rome itself and Devoting a chapter to each of the final ten days – the infamous ‘July Crisis’ – Martel sweeps the it created. Robin Waterfield’s engrossing new book raises a number of intriguing away traditional concepts of ‘guilt’, ‘responsibility’, and ‘the inevitability of war’, turning questions: To what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy? What instead to the contemporary diplomatic, military, and political records to show how the was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest? And what was the effect catastrophe really unfurled. His gripping, step-by-step account of these crucial days makes LEAD LEAD TITLE on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with clear just how little the conflict was in fact premeditated, preordained, or even predictable. TITLE an older Greek civilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme? What emerges is the story of a terrible, unnecessary tragedy – one that can be understood April 2014 June 2014 Hardback At the start of this account, the Mediterranean is home to six superpowers. Six decades only by retracing the steps taken by those who went down the road to war. Martel shows how Hardback 336 pp, 25 black and white halftones, later, there is only one. The story of this astounding transition is pivotal to the history of the hopes and fears of those at the heart of the unfolding crisis – Kaiser Wilhelm II, the 416 pp, 55 black and white halftones, 234x153 mm, TA 234x153 mm, TA 978-0-19-965646-2 Rome, her empire, and the whole subsequent development of Europe. Emperor Franz Joseph, Tsar Nicholas II, Sir Edward Grey, and Raymond Poincaré – intersected 978-0-19-966538-9 £20.00 as events unfolded, and how each new decision produced a response that complicated or £25.00 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook PR: Anna Silva escalated matters to the point where they became almost impossible to contain. See also Robin Waterfield’s new Published for the 100th anniversary of translation of Selected Speeches by Advance praise: ‘In an avalanche of books on the First World War’s origins, Gordon the assassination of the Archduke Demosthenes, page 51. Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 2014 Martel’s will stand out for its authoritative judgements… and detailed but compelling narrative based overwhelmingly on first-hand and contemporary evidence.’

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PR: Anna Silva About the Author About the Author ROBIN WATERFIELD has translated numerous Greek classics, including GORDON MARTEL is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of works by , , Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, and . He Northern British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor of History at the lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm. University of Victoria. His numerous publications include studies of the origins of the first and second world wars, modern imperialism, and the nature of diplomacy. 6 7 HISTORY HISTORY

Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary, 1914-1916 The Oxford Illustrated History of the NEW EDITION The View from Downing Street First World War Selected and edited by and ELEANOR BROCK Edited by HEW STRACHAN

The politics of war, observed from the inside A new edition of a classic history to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1914 Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith’s early war leadership drew praise from all By 1918, millions lay dead, three major were shattered, and a fourth, Russia, was quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The First David Lloyd , whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the World War was a momentous event, and it still shapes the world in which we live. literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of record of her husband’s fall from grace. the most distinguished historians of the conflict in an account that the scale of the An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an artistocrat, Margot was both a events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from spectator and participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or politicians to generals, from strategy to tactics, they chart the course of the war and assess LEAD an embarrassment – sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as its profound political and consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the LEAD TITLE TITLE experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of establish the wider June 2014 warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing context. April 2014 Hardback Hardback 520 pp, 6 black and white halftones, teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George (‘a natural adventurer who may make or First published in 2000, the book has become a highly prized guide to the many 416 pp, 23 colour plates, 130 black 234x156 mm, TA mar himself any day’), Churchill (‘Winston’s vanity is septic’), and Kitchener (‘a man brutal by and white illustrations, 7 maps, 978-0-19-822977-3 dimensions of the Great War. Every part of this new edition has been revised and updated 246x189 mm, TA £30.00 nature and by pose’). in the light of the latest scholarship: there are completely new chapters on the strategy of 978-0-19-966338-5 Available as an Ebook £25.00 Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider’s the Central Powers, the role of women in the war, mutinies and military morale, and the Available as an Ebook view of the centre of power. Explanatory footnotes and an introduction by Michael and post-war conflicts in the years immediately after 1918; and over 40 new illustrations have Eleanor Brock provide the context and background information we need to appreciate it to been added. the full. PR: Anna Silva PR: Anna Silva Reissue About the Editors The First World War: To Arms MICHAEL BROCK is a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college HEW STRACHAN head. He was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of April 2014, Paperback, Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and About the Editor 248 pp, 234x156 mm, TA 978-0-19926191-8 Warden of St George’s House, Windsor . He is the author of The Great HEW STRACHAN is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University £25.00 of Oxford, and directed the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of Reform Act , and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenth- Available as an Ebook century volumes in the History of the . With his wife, War. He is a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, a Trustee of the ELEANOR BROCK , a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP Imperial War , and serves on the British, Scottish, and French edition of H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley . national committees advising on the centenary of the First World War. 8 9 HISTORY HISTORY

The Gestapo Neptune CRAIG L. SYMONDS Power and Terror in the Third Reich The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings CARSTEN DAMS and MICHAEL STOLLE CRAIG L. SYMONDS THE ALLIED INVASION OF EUROPE Hitler’s secret state police force was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Giving the naval arm its rightful place in the history of the Normandy landings AND THE D-DAY LANDINGS Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the D-Day could not have taken place without Operation Neptune. 160,000 Allied troops landed Nazi regime: Socialists, Communists, , homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be along 50 of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, an ‘anti-social element’. Its prisons soon became infamous – many of those who suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation of disappeared into them were never seen again. Western Europe. Histories of D-Day have typically overlooked the incredible naval operation But is this an accurate view of the Gestapo? Was it really an all-pervasive, all-powerful, all- that played a crucial role, yet it involved over five thousand ships and nearly half-a-million knowing instrument of terror? How much did it depend upon the cooperation and help of personnel. Indeed, Operation Neptune was the largest seaborne assault in human history, ordinary Germans? And did its networks extend further into the everyday life of German without which the battles at Normandy never could have taken place. society than most Germans after 1945 ever wanted to admit? Neptune brilliantly traces the central thread of this Olympian event from the first tentative LEAD LEAD TITLE Answering all these questions and more, this succinct and highly accessible work by conversations by British and American officers in Washington in the winter of 1941. With TITLE German historians uses the very latest research to tell the true story behind this secretive characteristically vivid narration, Craig L. Symonds uncovers the various components of the May 2014 and fearsome institution. Tracing the history of the organization from its origins in the operation, and follows key personalities such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eisenhower May 2014 Hardback Weimar Republic, through the of the Nazi period, to the fate of former officers after Hardback 256 pp, 216x135 mm, TA involved in this exceptional campaign. 432 pp, 25 black and white 978-0-19-966921-9 World War II, Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle investigate how the Gestapo really worked – illustrations, 235x156 mm, TA £18.99 This superb book is a study of how the sometimes disputatious Anglo-American allies 978-0-19-998611-8 and question many of the that have long surrounded it. Available as an Ebook managed to overcome differing views, Russian demands, German U-boats, logistical £20.00 Available as an Ebook See also : A Very Short Advance praise: ‘An excellent short introduction to one of the most bottlenecks, and a thousand other obstacles, to bring the allied armies to Normandy. Published for the 70th anniversary Introduction , page 55, and complex issues in the history of the Third Reich.’ Burning the Reichstag , page 14. of D-Day PR: Anna Silva Richard Overy

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About the Author About the Authors CRAIG L. SYMONDS is Professor of History Emeritus at the United States CARSTEN DAMS is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public Naval Academy. He is the author of many books on American naval history, Management of North-Rhine Westphalia. including Lincoln and His Admirals , co-winner of the Lincoln Prize. MICHAEL STOLLE is an Executive Director of the multidisciplinary ‘House of Competence’ at the Institute of . 10 11 HISTORY HISTORY The Story of Pain Visions of Science From to Painkillers Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age JOANNA BOURKE JAMES A. SECORD ,

Instrument of perfection, or an evil to be eliminated? Revolutionary ideas and the birth of popular science

Experiencing pain is something we all share. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving In the first half of the nineteenth century, new scientific disciplines and revolutionary scientific birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches – pain permeates our entire lives. We might say concepts – , and the vastness of geological time –began to take shape. At the same time that ‘it was ever so’ – but, in truth, it wasn’t: our understanding of pain has undergone a there was political unrest in continental Europe, and debates in Britain regarding education, the massive transformation during the last three centuries. lives of working class people, and the new industrial, machine-dominated world. Jim Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures the changing by looking at the This book is the first to look at the history of pain in the English-speaking world over the last impact of twelve influential ‘popular science’ books, including Charles Lyell’s Principles of March 2014 300 years. For much of this period, pain was seen as serving a specific (and positive) function Geology , ’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences , and Thomas Carlyle’s satirical Hardback – it was a message from or Nature that would perfect the spirit and must be submitted 312 pp, 8 pp colour plate section, work, Sartor Resartus . How did genteel ladies, working men, and the intelligentsia respond to 9 black and white illustrations, to. In the twenty-first century pain is viewed as an unremitting evil – something to be ‘fought’ 234x156 mm, TA LEAD them, and how were the books published and disseminated, admired, attacked, and satirized? 978-0-19-967526-5 TITLE and ‘conquered’. Joanna Bourke, author of many outstanding works on the history of £18.99 Available as an Ebook medicine, provides an enthralling analysis of pain’s many transformations over time. PR: Dan Parker June 2014 Hardback How have those in pain interpreted their suffering – and how have these interpretations 336 pp, 31 black and white halftones, changed? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends 234x153 mm, TA Ancient 978-0-19-968942-2 and family react? Is professional detachment the right response for doctors? The Story of £20.00 Pain explores these questions, showing us how we might respond to our own suffering – A Three Thousand Year History Available as an Ebook and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us. TREVOR BRYCE , University of Queensland Battleground background – the road to modern Syria PR: Anna Silva Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, , cultures, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria. Across the centuries we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations: from the March 2014 Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings to the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Hardback About the Author 392 pp, 28 black and white halftones, JOANNA BOURKE is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of Great to some of Rome’s most distinguished and most infamous emperors. The conclusion 12 maps, 234x156 mm, TA London. She is the author of a number of important works on the history of looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD, in many ways the opening 978-0-19-964667-8 £25.00 medicine, a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria. Available as an Ebook newspaper correspondent. PR: Anna Silva 12 13 HISTORY HISTORY

Worlds of Arthur NEW IN PAPERBACK Death from the Skies Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages How the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War II GUY HALSALL , University of York DIETMAR SÜSS , Friedrich Schiller University

‘Cuts through all the fantasy Arthuriana ... shows us that behind that image is a reality The first major comparison of British and German response to mass bombing which is no less fascinating.’ Michael Wood The debate over the rights and the wrongs of the mass bombing of British and German cities during ‘Brilliant ... Those who desire a surprisingly witty, intellectually rigorous and historically World War II remains a highly emotive subject even today. The ‘Blitz’ killed tens of thousands and laid captivating journey deep into the crucible of medieval Britain will enjoy this book immensely.’ waste to large areas of many British cities. But the British and American response was incomparably Dan Jones, Sunday Times more devastating – with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and

In recent times there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to unlock the secret of Berlin. In this ground-breaking new book, Dietmar Süss focuses on the effects of the bombing on May 2014 the ‘once and future king’. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all civilians in both Britain and Nazi Germany, showing how two very different societies coped with the February 2014 Paperback onslaught and kept up morale amidst the devastation and psychological trauma visited on them. Hardback 384 pp, 20 black and white halftones, books claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ can safely be ignored. What Guy Halsall uncovers in his 736 pp, 9 black and white in-text 15 maps, 216x135 mm, TA half-tones, 234x153 mm, TA 978-0-19-870084-5 enthralling investigation is both radically different – and also a good deal more intriguing. Advance praise: ‘A remarkable book by an outstanding German scholar.’ 978-0-19-966851-9 £10.99 Richard J. Overy £30.00 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook PR: Chloe Foster Hardback: 978-0-19-965817-6 PR: Dan Parker

Burning the Reichstag Fight or Flight An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire BENJAMIN CARTER HETT MARTIN THOMAS ,

One of the last secrets of the Nazi era uncovered Winds of change and storms of destruction

On 27 February 1933, the German Reichstag went up in flames. Five thousand people were Although shattered by World War II, Britain and France still controlled the world’s two largest colonial immediately arrested, a catastrophe that marked the true beginning of the Third Reich. The empires, stretching over four . And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of origin of the fire is one of the last mysteries of the Nazi period. Benjamin Hett challenges those who promised to defend their colonial possessions at all costs is a long one. Yet, within twenty orthodoxy by reopening the case of Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist years both empires had almost completely disappeared. Hundreds of millions of people were caught stonemason, who, since the 1950s, has been largely blamed for setting it. Making use of up in the biggest reconfiguration of the international system ever seen. Peaceable ‘transfers of power’ February 2014 March 2014 Hardback many new sources and archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context, providing were eclipsed by territorial partition and mass violence whose bitter aftermath still lingers. How Hardback 416 pp, 16 black and white illustrations, 560 pp, 23 black and white 235x156 mm, TA vivid portraits of key figures, including Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels. This differently did France and Britain manage the process? And what influence did the changes in the halftones, 11 maps, 234x153 mm, TA 978-0-19-932232-9 enthralling book reveals how and why the event is still one of the most controversial and world at large have – the rise of mass communications, consumerism, and economic globalization? 978-0-19-969827-1 £19.99 £25.00 Available as an Ebook contested events of the twentieth century. Advance praise: ‘A masterpiece.’ Available as an Ebook See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction , page 55, and The Gestapo , page 10. Wm Louis, editor of The Oxford History of the British Empire PR: Anna Silva 14 15 PR: Anna Silva HISTORY HISTORY Goodbye to All That? A New History of the The and Revolutions from The Story of Europe Since 1945 Humanities Empire Grub Street DAN STONE , University of London The Search for Principles DAVID BATES , University of A History of Magazine East Anglia How fascism refused to die and Patterns from Antiquity Publishing in Britain to the Present A new approach to the history of the HOWARD COX , University of The post-War years were in many ways golden ones for western Europe as it continued to be RENS BOD , University of Amsterdam Norman period Worcester, and SIMON MOWATT , sustained by the broad anti-fascist consensus. However, as Dan Stone shows in his valuable new AUT Business School The first overarching history of the In his acclaimed 2010 Ford Lecture in history of the , this fundamental consensus began to break down in the wake of the oil humanities British History, given at the University of The first comprehensive business shocks of the 1970s, and accelerated rapidly after the end of the Cold War. He argues that the history of Britain’s consumer Oxford, David Bates proposed that postwar consensus went hand in hand with particular ways of remembering World War II. By Many histories of science have been magazine publishing industry historians of the Norman period can learn January 2014 looking at how ‘memory’ is intimately tied to issues of power and social change, the book written, but surprisingly there is no from the methods of social scientists and Spanning over 300 years, Revolutions from Hardback provides a historical background to contemporary ills afflicting Europe, and helps readers to comparable history of the humanities – 416 pp, 15 black and white halftones, historians of other periods in making use Grub Street is the first comprehensive 3 maps, 234x156 mm, TA understand why current crises and the politics emerging from them take the shape they do. until now. Rens Bod has created the first 978-0-19-969771-7 overarching history of the humanities of such tools as life-stories and business history of magazine-making in £25.00 Available as an Ebook Advance praise: ‘Bold and discerning.’ Geoff Eley from Antiquity to the present. He brings biographies. He uses these new Britain. From the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to our attention figures such as Panini, approaches to create this enthralling, new that saw the beginnings of publishing in the PR: Anna Silva Valla, Bopp, and countless others who interpretative history of the Normans. Grub Street area of London (later to become Fleet Street) to today’s multi-million pound PUBLISHED FOR THE are often overlooked, and gives them The People’s Republic of Amnesia PR: Lorna Richerby 25TH ANNIVERSARY their rightful place next to scientific industry which has embraced the world-wide The Legacy of Tiananmen Square titans like Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. web, this is a highly readable narrative LOUISA LIM , former BBC correspondent in account of the people, technology and A view of the Tiananmen Square tragedy from inside China PR: Lorna Richerby industrial organization behind one of Britain’s most successful creative industries. Twenty-five years after the People’s Army crushed unarmed protestors in Tiananmen Square on 4 June, 1989, the defining event of China’s modern history remains a taboo subject in the PR: Kirsty Doole country. National Public Radio’s award-winning China correspondent, Louisa Lim provides a window into Tiananmen Sqaure unlike anything written before. With fluid prose and an eye January 2014 January 2014 March 2014 for detail, she presents the event from the perspective of the survivors, student leaders, Hardback Hardback Hardback May 2014 464 pp, 14 black and 272 pp, 234x156 mm, AJ 280 pp, 234x156 mm, AE Hardback and others involved, choosing to focus on eight individuals, including a soldier, a diplomat, white images, 978-0-19-967441-1 978-0-19-960163-9 240pp, 235x156 mm, TA and a student. Drawing on new sources made available in recent years, including Wikileaks 234x156 mm, AJ £35.00 £35.00 978-0-19-934770-4 978-0-19-966521-1 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook £16.99 cables, Lim discusses the quarter-century campaign on the part of Chinese officials to £45.00 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook control memory of the event, and considers the legacy of Tiananmen in China today. See also By all Means Necessary , page 41. PR: Anna Silva 16 17 HISTORY BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

Churchill NEW IN PAPERBACK The Pursuit NEW IN PAPERBACK Six Moments NEW IN PAPERBACK One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper and Sea Power of the Nazi of Crisis Edited by RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES and ADAM SISMAN CHRISTOPHER M. BELL , Dalhousie Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts Inside British Foreign Policy One of the most gifted historians and finest letter-writers of the twentieth century University DANIEL PICK , University of London GILL BENNETT The literary fame of Hugh Trevor-Roper, which in his lifetime arose from his historical writings, ‘Far-ranging, elegantly written and ‘Gill Bennett… takes us into Number 10 ‘Fascinating ... an exceptionally rich and has been widened by the publication of letters and journals that have come to light since his insightful.’ thought-provoking book.’ and the Cabinet room and we are Matthew Seligmann , death in 2003. The one hundred letters brought together for this book, on the occasion of the Richard Overy, Literary Review literally transported – we can see and Journal of Strategic Studies centenary of his birth, illustrate the range of his extraordinary life. hear the people, feel the tension, and ‘This is a terrific book ... soberly and clearly ‘a cogent and important study based on a hear the arguments.’ We meet him as historian, controversialist, public intellectual, connoisseur of poetry, traveller, written ... profoundly illuminating.’ great deal of research.’ Peter Hennessy countryman. In mood the letters range from comic exuberance to melancholy reflection, from Eli Zaretsky, Jewish Quarterly N. A. M. Rodger, hard-headed analysis to pastoral evocation. In subject-matter they take us from his inside Former Whitehall historian Gill Bennett The Journal of Military History Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the knowledge and close observation of affairs of state – his friendship with the spy Kim Philby, unravels the story of six crucial British historian and the trained psychoanalyst to the Suez affair, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, or the regime of Mrs Thatcher – to the private As First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 foreign policy challenges, from the Korean the story of how psychoanalysis was used pleasures of reading and thinking and to his fondness for the natural world. We also LEAD to 1915, and again from 1939, Churchill War to the Falklands conflict, offering an TITLE in the war against Nazi Germany in the encounter, especially in letters to members of his family, an emotional intensity which will had a defining impact on Britain’s naval inside account of episodes that shaped crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. surprise those who knew only the cool and confident exterior he presented to the world. power in two world wars. And his January 2014 Britain’s position in the world for decades Hardback achievements as naval strategist, Bell His correspondence depicts a life of rich diversity, a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager 480 pp, 8 pp colour and black and PR: Dan Parker to come – and in some cases still arouse curiosity, a character who relished the absurdities and vanities of his contemporaries, and a white plates, 234x156 mm, TA argues, have been undervalued. controversy to this day. 978-0-19-870311-2 See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction, never-failing mastery of precise, delicate, and subtle prose. He is rightly considered to be one £25.00 page 55, The Gestapo , page 10, and Burning the Available as an Ebook PR: Chloe Foster Reichstag , page 14. PR: Chloe Foster of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century. The centenary of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s PR: Anna Silva birth is 15 January 2014. Advance praise:

‘This latest anthology is by turns memorable, fascinating, wicked and malicious, and impossible to put down.’ May 2014 May 2014 June 2014 Sir David Cannadine Paperback Paperback Paperback 448 pp, 16 pp black 368 pp, 27 black and white 240 pp, 7 integrated and white plates, plates, 216x135 mm, TA halftones, 216x135 mm, AC 234x153 mm, TA 978-0-19-967851-8 978-0-19-870089-0 About the Editors 978-0-19-967850-1 £10.99 £10.99 RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES has edited two previous collections of £14.99 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook Trevor-Roper’s writings, Letters from Oxford and Wartime Journals . Available as an Ebook Hardback: Hardback: ADAM SISMAN is the author of the authorized biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Hardback: 978-0-19-954168-3 978-0-19-958375-1 He is currently at work on a life of John le Carré. 978-0-19-969357-3 18 19 BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS Piero della Francesca The Newton Artist and Man The Strange Tale of the Documents of History’s Greatest Scientist JAMES R. BANKER SARAH DRY

The first full biography of one of the greatest artists Told for the first time – the story of Newton’s controversial legacy

Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death in 1492, the Italian artist Piero della When died in 1727, he left a mass of disorganized papers – more than 8 million Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective words – that revealed him as heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even unbalanced. painter, with an artistic importance comparable with that of and As a result, the private papers of the world’s greatest scientist remained hidden to all but a Michelangelo. select few. Sarah Dry has uncovered the extraordinary 300-year story of the disappearance, dispersal and eventual rediscovery of the papers and of the eclectic group of collectors, But who was he, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, these scholars, and scientists who tracked them down, from the economist to questions have remained largely unanswered. James R. Banker puts that situation right, June 2014 Abraham Yahuda, a key figure in the founding of Israel. Her enthralling book reveals Newton Hardback integrating the story of Piero’s artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle 352 pp, 20 black and white illustrations, as a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend. 235x156 mm,TA of his life for the first time. Fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown 978-0-19-995104-8 LEAD documents, most of which he unearthed himself, he presents us with Piero’s friends, family, £25.00 TITLE PR: Anna Silva and collaborators, within the context of the various cities and courts in which he lived. We February 2014 gain fascinating insights into the artist’s life and development – from early masterpieces such Hardback as the of through to later, Flemish-influenced works such as the Nativity . 304 pp, 10 colour plates, 30 black NEW IN PAPERBACK and white halftones, 246x171 mm, TA Jane Austen’s Letters Debussy Banker addresses persistent myths about the year of Piero’s birth, and big questions about 978-0-19-960931-4 Edited by DEIRDRE LE FAYE ERIC FREDERICK JENSEN £25.00 the dates of some of his major works. He also presents a persuasive new interpretation of the Available as an Ebook ‘Jane at her most direct ... a generous and comprehensive book.’ The life and work of the master of impressionist music much-debated Flagellation of Christ . Max Davidson, Daily Telegraph Nearly one hundred years after Claude Advance praise: ‘A superb study of Piero’s life, times and achievements.’ Jane Austen’s letters afford a unique insight Debussy’s death, his music has lost none of Donald Weinstein, author of Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and its appeal. In this authoritative biography, gossipy, observant and informative, they bring PR: Anna Silva part of the acclaimed Master Musicians alive her family and friends, her surroundings, series, Jensen brings together the most and contemporary events with a freshness recent biographical research, including a unparalleled in biography. This fourth edition revised catalogue of Debussy’s About the Author incorporates the findings of new scholarship compositions and the first complete edition of his JAMES R. BANKER is Professor of History, Emeritus, North Carolina State to enrich our understanding of her. correspondence. The book is equally accessible for the reader University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also the author of The Culture of of biography, and to music students and musicians. San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero Della Francesca , described by June 2014, Paperback, 688 pp, 216x135 mm, TA, 978-0-19-870449-2 , £16.99, Hardback, 978-0-19-957607-4 , PR: Kirsty Doole Burlington Magazine as ‘masterly’. March 2014, Hardback, 368 pp, 15 halftones, 31 music examples, 234x156 mm, AC, 978-0-19-973005-6 , £25.00, PR: Dan Parker 20 21 LITERATURE LITERATURE

The Compleat Angler Selected Fables NEW TRANSLATION IZAAK WALTON and CHARLES An Anthology Edited by MARJORIE SWANN

‘I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.’ Translated by CHRISTOPHER BETTS Illustrated by GUSTAVE DORÉ The Compleat Angler is the most famous book ever published in the literature of sport. It is also a work whose unique celebration of the English countryside has won it many admirers. ‘Deceivers, you’re the target for my pen:

Izaak Walton issued the final version of his beloved book in 1676, accompanied by Charles if you play tricks, you can expect the same.’ Cotton’s pioneering exploration of fly-fishing. It is both a manual of instruction and a vision La Fontaine’s verse fables turned traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of of society in harmony with nature. It guides the novice fisherman on every aspect of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His fishing: how to catch and cook a variety of fish, on how to select and prepare the best bait versions of stories such as ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ and ‘The Wolf and the Lamb’ are witty and make artificial flies, and on the habits of freshwater fish. It also promotes angling as a and sophisticated, satirizing in miniature dramas in which the outcome is communal activity in which the bonds of friendship are forged through shared experience always unpredictable. The fables have long been popular with all ages, though their ironic LEAD LEAD TITLE of the natural world. take on contemporary society in French aristocratic circles is best appreciated by adults. TITLE

Walton lived through turbulent times, and found in nature the best salve for national Christopher Betts’s translations are notable for their sensitivity and sophistication, and his February 2014 March 2013 Hardback tragedy and personal sorrow. His writing embraces literature, poetry, anecdote, and a impressive new translation of La Fontaine matches the original in inventiveness and Hardback 336 pp, 10 black and white illustrations, commitment to conservation. It also encodes his passionate royalist Anglican sympathies 272 pp, 23 engravings, 216x138 mm, TA 4 maps, 196x129 mm, TA subtlety. This edition includes half of the fables first published in twelve books between 978-0-19-965072-9 978-0-19-965074-3 in the aftermath of the Civil War. 1668 and 1693, across the full range of subjects and themes. The fables are illustrated with £14.99 £14.99 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook This new edition, illustrated with contemporary line drawings, is the first to highlight the a selection of Gustave Doré’s majestic engravings, and an introduction offers insights into book’s importance as an influential and provocative meditation on humanity’s relationship La Fontaine’s life and literary artistry. to the environment. PR: Kirsty Doole

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About the Editor About the Editor MARJORIE SWANN grew up fishing for perch and pike on St Joseph Island, CHRISTOPHER BETTS was Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the Ontario. With degrees from Queen’s University and Oxford, she is now University of Warwick. He has translated Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. She is Rousseau’s Social Contract , and in 2009 published an acclaimed translation currently writing a book about Walton’s Compleat Angler and its post- of Perrault’s The Complete Fairy Tales . seventeenth-century afterlives. 22 23 LITERATURE LITERATURE

The New Oxford Book NEW EDITION The Oxford Companion to NEW IN PAPERBACK of War Poetry Modern Poetry in English Edited by JON STALLWORTHY Edited by JEREMY NOEL-TOD , University of East Anglia, and IAN HAMILTON

Reviews of the first edition ‘Indispensable.’ John Sutherland, The Sunday Times

‘Full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises.’ The impressive new edition of this classic Companion, first published as The Oxford Companion to , Twentieth Century Poetry , provides over 1,500 biographical entries on poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, from 1910 to the present day. It illuminates the influences, inspirations, and ‘Quite simply the most rewardingly anthology of battle verse.’ movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. A-Z biographies are Times Educational Supplement complemented by new appendices including coverage of poetry events, poetry prizes and prize- There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful winners. Many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the February 2014 feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy’s classic anthology spans centuries of human experience of dedicated companion website. Compiled by a team of 230 experts, including and Paperback 736 pp, 196x129 mm, TC conflict, from David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan and Homer’s to the finest poems of Andrew Motion, it is accessible and authoritative – a must-have for anyone with an interest in poetry. 978-0-19-870485-0 the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. The roll-call of writers is huge – more than 150 £12.99 LEAD Available as an Ebook TITLE – and the arc of the book charts a great shift in human awareness from man’s early PR: Kirsty Doole celebratory ‘war-songs’ to the twentieth century’s darker poetic responses to ‘man’s Hardback: 978-0-19-964025-6 June 2014 inhumanity to man’. Here are and Chaucer, Spenser and Donne, Marvell and Dryden; Hardback 390 pp, 196x129 mm, TA Coleridge, Shelley and Browning; Hugo, Whitman, and Rilke, as well as the whole sweep of 978-0-19-870447-8 The Shepherd’s Calendar twentieth-century writers. £16.99 Ten years on from the first edition, Jon Stallworthy has now included more poems on the Edited by ERIC ROBINSON , DAVID POWELL , and GEOFFREY SUMMERFIELD wars of the twentieth century. The 42 additional poems include works by David Harsent, Anthony Hecht, Miroslav Holub, John Jarmain, Stanley Kunitz, Michael Longley, Czeslaw The only hardback gift edition of Clare’s masterpiece – illustrated by Milosz, Andrew Motion, and Patrick Shaw-Stewart. A century and a half after his death, John Clare is regarded as one of the greatest English Romantic poets – The Shepherd’s Calendar is his masterpiece. A classic of English poetry, it PR: Kirsty Doole is also a fascinating work of social history, recording long-vanished aspects of nineteenth- century rural life. The poem provides a calendar of the country year – ploughing in February,

lambing in March, hay-making in June – punctuated by celebrations and festivals, such as April 2014 About the Editor May Day games, sheep-shearing feasts, Harvest Home, and . Rooted in popular Hardback 176 pp, 13 wood engravings, JON STALLWORTHY is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of culture, the poem has many vivid descriptions of the flowers, , and beasts of the 196x129 mm, TA Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, an acclaimed poet and hedgerow and field. This beautiful gift edition with ribbon marker is charmingly illustrated 978-0-19-967222-6 £12.99 literary critic, and biographer of . with wood engravings by David Gentleman. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of John Clare’s death PR: Kirsty Doole 24 25 LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY A Will to Believe Classical Philosophy Shakespeare and Religion A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps DAVID SCOTT KASTAN , PETER ADAMSON

A provocative new account of the Bard’s A unique history of thought

Religion was inescapable in Shakespeare’s England, but its place in his life and art is ‘In an undergraduate philosophy course, you might reasonably expect to jump from Aristotle to, ambiguous. The plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare’s own perhaps, Descartes, leaping over about 2000 years of history in the process. A more enlightened disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian approach might include looking at Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century – still omitting the better commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, part of two millennia.’ Peter Adamson A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how In his ‘History of Philosophy without any gaps’ podcasts, Peter Adamson fulfils his dream of January 2014 religion actually functions in his dramas. It shows what we know and can't know about offering the whole picture of the history of thought, and not just the famous bits. Classical Hardback Shakespeare’s own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile 192 pp, 196x129 mm, AE Philosophy is the first of a series of books to be based on these acclaimed podcasts in which 978-0-19-957289-2 readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post- £25.00 Adamson will present a complete history of philosophy more thoroughly, but also more England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare’s imagination. Available as an Ebook LEAD enjoyably, than ever before. TITLE PR: Kirsty Doole In the first volume, short, lively, conversational chapters with vivid examples offer an accessible, June 2014 humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy, from Thales to Aristotle. Along the Hardback way, we meet a fascinating range of individuals and schools – Anaximander, Xenophanes, 400 pp, 234x156 mm, TA The Cold of May Day Monday 978-0-19-967453-4 Parmenides, the Eleatics, The Atomists, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the Platonic Academy. £20.00 An Approach to Irish Literary History Available as an Ebook This is a new kind of history that assumes no prior knowledge, which makes it for those who wants to read philosophy for pleasure. It will bring the extraordinary history of thought to life A new history of Irish literature by one of its major scholars for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time. Robert Anthony Welch, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland’s most important scholars – a poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature . PR: Dan Parker The Cold of May Day Monday is his long-awaited account of one of the most interesting literary histories in the world, that of his . He reveals the story of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, framing his study around themes and April 2014 Hardback clusters rather than chronology, seeking to retain coherence by means of a sustained 316 pp, 216x138 mm, AE About the Author attention to the thematic strains. He concludes by discussing his contemporaries – 978-0-19-968684-1 PETER ADAMSON is Professor of Late Ancient and Philosophy at £19.99 Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, and John Banville. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. An American by birth, he taught Available as an Ebook for ten years at the London School of Economics. He has published widely in PR: Kirsty Doole ancient and medieval philosophy, especially on Neoplatonism and on philosophy in the Islamic world. 26 27 PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy at 3:AM Philosophy NEW IN PAPERBACK Being Realistic about Beyond Art Questions and Answers with 25 Philosophers Bites Back DOMINIC MCIVER LOPES , University RICHARD MARSHALL DAVID EDMUNDS , Oxford University, T. M. SCANLON , Harvard University of British Columbia and NIGEL WARBURTON , Open Leading modern philosophers explain their ideas One of the world’s leading A radical and original treatment of University philosophers brings new insights art and aesthetics Richard Marshall is a contributing editor to the fashionable online cultural magazine 27 leading philosophers on the to This book offers a bold new approach to 3ammagazine.com. In 2011, he set himself the task of bringing philosophy to his readers who most important thinkers in Western Is what we have reason to do a matter of the philosophy of art. General theories of were not philosophers but who were eager to know more. His interviews with prominent thought art don’t work, argues Dominic McIver thinkers about why they chose to enter the field and on their own ideas have become fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, In this collection of lively interviews Lopes, because they can’t deal with something of a legend. This book brings together his favourite 25 articles, 18 by men and 7 how can we know it, and how do reasons derived fom the hugely successful motivate and explain action? In this book problem cases. Instead he articulates May 2014 by women. They encompass giants of the field, such as Kit Fine and , alongside podcast Philosophy Bites , leading and defends a ‘buck-passing theory of Hardback many emerging younger philosophers. Serious, fun, thoughtful and thought-provoking, the based on his prestigious Locke Lectures, 368 pp, 234x156 mm, TA philosophers of our time discuss the Thomas Scanlon offers answers, with a art’, namely that a work of art is nothing 978-0-19-996953-1 interviews invite anyone with a hunger for philosophical questions to engage with the ideas. ideas and works of some of the most but a work in one of the arts. Written not £20.00 It is a wonderful showcase for philosophy as it is practiced today. qualified defense of normative cognitivism Available as an Ebook important thinkers in history. From the – the view that there are normative truths just for philosophers but for theorists of ancient classics to ground-breaking PR: Dan Parker about reasons for action. This is a highly art, music, or literature, Beyond Art modern thought, and from happiness original work by one of the world’s leading discusses a wide range of works from and love in ancient Greece to truth and moral philosophers. contemporary arts and culture. Change forgiveness in the twentieth century, this What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation volume spans over two and a half PR: Hannah McGuffie PR: Andrew Allen JEFFREY A. KOTTLER , State University millennia of western philosophy and illuminates its most fascinating ideas. It’s never too late to change your life

Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us PR: Dan Parker never escape our self-destructive behaviours even when we desperately want to? And what is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning and development that

persist over time? Jeffrey A. Kottler is an accomplished therapist and author who he May 2014 January 2014 January 2014 has the answers to these questions. He weaves together inspiring stories and the latest Paperback Hardback Hardback January 2014 304 pages, 196x129 mm, TA 160 pp, 216x135 mm, AJ 240 pp, 216x138 mm, AJ Hardback research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behaviour while 978-0-19-870596-3 978-0-19-967848-8 978-0-19-959155-8 376 pp, 19 black and white illustrations, highlighting what does – and does not – lead to lasting change. Throughout the book £7.99 £18.99 £25.00 235x156 mm, AE Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook 978-0-19-998138-0 Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients whose tales of remarkable, unexpected, £20.00 Hardback: Available as an Ebook and lasting transformation enthrall and move. 978-0-19-969300-9

PR: Dan Parker 28 29 SCIENCE SCIENCE Life Unfolding The Improbable Primate How the human body creates itself How shaped human evolution JAMIE A. DAVIES

The journey from egg to human New insights into the course of human evolution

Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right A primate that walks on two legs, is naked and has a taste for meat – humankind really is a one? How do boys become different from girls? How did each of the ten trillion cells in my highly remarkable species. The Improbable Primate tells the extraordinary story of how we body know how to become the part it is? got to be that way.

The picture now emerging of the extraordinary journey from a single fertilized egg to the At the heart of the story is water – the critical factor that Clive Finlayson believes has shaped complexity of a human being draws not only on embryology and genetics, but on ideas us. He argues that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving the and from physics, networks, and control theory. The central principle is that o f ‘adaptive self- forcing their way into a long-established community of carnivores in a tropical savannah, as organization’: individual cells do not need to know where they are in the plan, they just climate changes opened up the landscape. They took their chance at high noon, when most respond to local cues, organizing themselves into tissues and interconnecting systems, other predators were asleep, and so avoided competition or being eaten by the large and LEAD LEAD TITLE correcting errors as they go along. From the application of a few relatively simple hyenas. Adapting to this new lifestyle involved shedding their hair and developing an active TITLE behaviours, orchestrated and regulated by layers of genes and their proteins in sweating system to keep cool. Being close to fresh water was critical, and as the climate dried February 2014 combination with basic physical principles, layer upon layer of complexity arises of its our ancestors, already bipedal, became taller and slimmer, more adept at travelling farther. March 2014 Hardback Hardback 336 pp, 90 black and white line own accord. The challenges of seeking water in a drying landscape moulded the minds and bodies of early 256 pp, 13 black and white illustrations, 234x156 mm, TA , and directed their migrations and eventual settlements. illustrations, 216x138 mm, TA 978-0-19-967353-7 Life Unfolding brings the results of this area of intense current research to the lay reader, 978-0-19-965879-4 £20.00 £16.99 Available as an Ebook showing how our whole understanding of how we come to be has been transformed in This ground-breaking book presents a fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year Available as an Ebook recent years. This is modern biology at its most exciting. The resulting insights are already evolutionary journey. It has radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and having a profound impact on medicine. , of the spread of early humans, and of the emergence and domination of homo sapiens . PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

About the Author About the Author JAMIE A. DAVIES is Professor of Experimental Anatomy at the University of CLIVE FINLAYSON is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and Adjunct Professor at Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Institute of Biologists, of the Royal Society of the . His previous book for OUP, The Humans Who Went Medicine, and of the Higher Education Academy. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Extinct, was described by the Independent as ‘revelatory’. the journal, Organogenesis .

30 31 SCIENCE SCIENCE The Amoeba in the Room One Plus One Equals One Lives of the Microbes Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life NICHOLAS P. MONEY JOHN ARCHIBALD , Dalhousie University

Invisible rulers of our planet How molecular biology is uncovering the strange origins of complex life

Animals and plants rule the world – or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells The latest tools of molecular biology enable us to investigate the living world in ways which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes unimaginable a few decades ago. One Plus One Equals One focuses on an area in which our whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons of fungal spores are released into the understanding has been revolutionized: the mechanisms of evolution which led to the atmosphere every year and affect the weather; and human beings are mobile ecosystems development of complex life more than three billion years ago. All living organisms use the that farm, and are farmed by, vast populations of bacteria and viruses involved with almost same molecular processes to replicate their genetic material and the same basic code to every aspect of our wellbeing. Microorganisms are the vast, unnoticed, unmentioned 'read' their genes; the similarities can be seen in their DNA. John Archibald shows how from June 2014 Hardback ‘elephants in the room’ of planet . the very beginning evolution has been 'plugging-and-playing' with the subcellular 288 pp, 216x138 mm, TA components of life in a process of microbial mergers and acquisitions. He tells the story of 978-0-19-966059-9 The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, the less important do animals and plants £16.99 LEAD how we have come to this realization and its implications. Available as an Ebook TITLE become in our understanding life on earth. The flowering of microbial science is

revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined even a decade or two ago, and is PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson April 2014 inspiring a new view of what it means to be human. Nicholas Money explores the Hardback 224 pp, 216x138 mm, TA extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity 978-0-19-966593-8 that can be detected only by using molecular methods. He argues for nothing less than a The Fourth Revolution £16.99 Available as an Ebook revolution in our perception of the living world: the big lumbering forms we see are just How the infosphere is reshaping human reality froth on a vast ocean of protists, bacteria, and viruses that constitute most of life on earth. , University of Oxford

Online, offline, onlife PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. Life online and life offline are coalescing into ‘onlife’ – the new reality of how we work, shop, learn, communicate; how we connect with law, finance, health, and politics; even the way we conduct war. Humans, Floridi asserts, are now June 2014 About the Author just one part of an 'infosphere'. Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this Hardback 256 pp, 22 black and white NICHOLAS P. MONEY is Professor of Botany and Western Program Director metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. How can we ensure that illustrations, 216x138 mm, TA at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of a number of works we shall reap the benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable 978-0-19-960672-6 £16.99 including Mushroom , described by Nature magazine as a ‘brilliant scientific and empower us, or constrain us? Available as an Ebook and cultural exploration’.

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Cancer Virus PUBLISHED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVER OF EBV The Origin of Ideas The story of Epstein-Barr Virus Blending, , and the Human Spark DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD , INGÓLFUR JOHANNESSEN , both University of MARK TURNER , Case Western Reserve University Edinburgh, and ALAN B. RICKINSON , University of The first general work on a major new theory in cognitive science How the first human cancer virus was discovered It is humankind’s ability to innovate that sets our species apart from other animals. Mark The idea of a human cancer virus was shocking enough when the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Turner is the co-founder of ‘conceptual blending’, a theory that proposes that the source of was discovered fifty years ago, but the story proved stranger still. Almost everyone, it turns this ability is our unique capacity to take two ideas or more and create a new one by out, carries EBV. Only under some circumstances does it cause disease. What’s more, EBV ‘blending’, almost without effort and usually unconsciously. This important book is the first produces seemingly unrelated ailments in different populations: a cancer of the jaw in African to present the ground-breaking theory of ‘blending’ in detail for both a general audience March 2014 February 2014 children, a cancer of post-nasal passages in the Far East, Hodgkin’s Disease and glandular and scholars. Both controversial and provocative, it claims that it was our virtuosity in Hardback Hardback 304 pp, 235x156 mm, AU 224 pp, 12 black and white fever in the West. Written by three leading virologists working on EBV, this book is an exciting ‘blending’ that gave us a unique idea-generating tool that took us from being just a group of 978-0-19-998882-2 illustrations, 216x138 mm, TA detective story, recounting how the clues emerged through luck, serendipity, and the large mammals to world domination. £19.99 978-0-19-965311-9 Available as an Ebook £16.99 imagination and dedicated work of a cast of scientists spanning the world. Available as an Ebook PR: Lauren Small PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

Superintelligence Drugged The Coming Machine Intelligence Revolution The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs , University of Oxford RICHARD J. MILLER , Northwestern University

Intelligent machines – pipe dream or real threat? The only complete guide to all classes of psychotropic drugs

If machine brains come to surpass human brains as ours surpass those of other animals, then The vast array of chemicals that can cross the blood-brain barrier is literally mind-boggling: they could become as powerful relative to us as we are to other animals. Such extreme levels cannabis and cocaine, morphine and heroin, mescaline and LSD, alcohol, amphetamines, of machine intelligence – superintelligence – would potentially be in a position to shape the Ecstasy – and many more. In Drugged , Richard Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour future. What happens to humanity (whether humanity would even survive) would then depend of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and on the goals of the superintelligence. The possibility of a machine intelligence revolution is developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Entertaining June 2014 January 2014 Hardback therefore an extremely important topic. Perhaps it is the most important topic... and authoritative, the book brims with surprises: it reveals that antidepressant drugs Hardback 336 pp, 10 black and white line drawings, evolved from the rocket fuel that shot V2 rockets into London during World War II; it 384 pp, 235x156 mm, AU 10 black and white halftones, 234x156 mm, AC 978-0-19-995797-2 978-0-19-967811-2 This groundbreaking book places superintelligence in the mainstream of both scholarly and highlights the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion; and it asks whether Prozac can £25.99 £18.99 popular consciousness and shows us how to protect humanity against its risks. help depressed cats! This is a truly fascinating book. Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook

Previously announced November 2013 PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson PR: Dan Parker 34 35 SCIENCE SCIENCE Warriors and Worriers The Proust Effect Cracking the Particle Nuclear Dawn The Survival of the Sexes The Senses as Doorways to Code of the Universe F. E. Simon and the Race for JOYCE F. BENENSON , Emmanuel College, with HENRY MARKOVITS , University of Quebec Lost Memories , University of Toronto Atomic Weapons in World CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN , Netherlands War II Sexual stereotypes turned upside down What if there is no Higgs Boson... Institute for Social Research and KENNETH D. MCRAE , Carleton Based on thirty years of research, Warriors and Worriers presents a new theory of sex Windesheim University of Applied John Moffat is one of a small minority in the University, Ottawa Sciences field of physics who believes that there is differences that focuses on the different ways in which men and women ensure their survival. The first full biography of a key Boys and men have strategies to deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants How our senses can trigger memories no Higgs Boson particle. He is also of the figure in the creation of the to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders; males form cooperative groups that opinion that extra dimensions of space do atomic bomb The best-known example of the power of compete against out-groups, while human females exclude other females in their quest to not exist as verifiable phenomena, the senses to evoke memories is in This is the first full biography of February 2014 find mates. Such differences, contends psychologist Joyce Benenson, produce different social supersymmetry is a nice mathematical Hardback Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way . Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon (1893- worlds for each sex. In this enthralling exploration, Benenson turns upside down the familiar construct, and there is no such thing as 200 pp, 235x156 mm, AU Cretien van Campen throws new light on 1956), a German-born Jewish scientist 978-0-19-997223-4 that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than dark matter. In Cracking the Particle Code £16.99 why sense memories are special and who made a major contribution to the Available as an Ebook women. of the Universe he turns today’s theories on how they work in the brain. Exploring the creation of the atomic bomb. From their heads and explores some highly senses in thought-provoking scientific Simon’s early years, through his move to PR: Dan Parker intriguing alternatives. experiments and artistic projects, he Oxford in 1933 to escape the Nazi threat,

offers new insights into memory – drawn PR: Hannah McGuffie and his important, experimental The Science of Cheese from neuroscience, the arts, and contributions to low-temperature physics, MICHAEL H. TUNICK , U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service professions such as education, elderly it provides many new insights. The book is The surprising science of cheesemaking care, health care therapy and the based on important, new source culinary profession. materials, such as Simon’s diary and There are more than 2,000 varieties of cheese but few of us understand the scientific correspondence with his wife, that were , involving , biology, and physics, that turns milk into an astonishing variety PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson not available to previous researchers. of delicious foods. As a researcher who creates cheeses, Michael H. Tunick is superbly equipped to present the technical science behind creating a new cheese. His new book takes PR: Hannah McGuffie

us back in time to some 8000 years ago to show us how cheese was first made. He then January 2014 February 2014 March 2014 explores how this led to other forms of cheese: Gorgonzola (first noted in AD 879), Roquefort Hardback Hardback Hardback February 2014 192 pp, 234x156 mm, AJ 224 pp, 15 black and 376 pp, 30 black and Hardback (AD 1070), Cheddar (AD 1500), and many more. Food scientists, amateur cheesemakers, and 978-0-19-968587-5 white line artwork, white illustrations, 256 pp, 32 halftones, 5 line cheese lovers will all value this unique and wonderfully interesting book. £19.99 15 black and white 240x168 mm, AJ illustrations, 235x156 mm, AE Available as an Ebook halftones, 978-0-19-968718-3 978-0-19-992230-7 235x156 mm, AE £35.00 £19.99 PR: Dan Parker 978-0-19-991552-1 Available as an Ebook £19.99

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James Clerk Maxwell 50 Visions of The Man in the Faith and Wisdom What is Life? NEW IN PAPERBACK Discord NEW IN PAPERBACK Perspectives on his Life Mathematics Monkeynut Coat in Science How chemistry becomes The Story of Noise and Work Edited by SAM PARC , Institute of William Astbury and the TOM MCLEISH , University of Durham biology MIKE GOLDSMITH , National Physical Mathematics and Its Applications Edited by RAYMOND FLOOD , Forgotten Road to the Science can be a deeply ADDY PROSS , Ben-Gurion University of Laboratory Gresham College, MARK MCCARTNEY , the Negev 50 original articles celebrate a Double-Helix religious activity ‘A spectacularly good book..’ University of Ulster, and KERSTEN T. HALL , University of Leeds ‘A lucid, thoughtful, and accessible New Scientist sparkling half century of the IMA Faith and Wisdom in Science takes a ANDREW WHITAKER , Queen’s exploration of the very foundations of Forgotten pioneer with a pivotal role ‘A of curious facts and University Here is a book that is designed to showcase much-needed new approach to the that most exquisite and extraordinary in DNA discovery anecdotes ... extremely attractive and the beauty of mathematics without frying your ‘science and religion’ debate. Tom property of matter, life.’ The first work to fully reveal accessible, well-written and engaging.’ Maxwell’s multiple talents brain! Published to celebrate the 50th Isaac Newton declared that his McLeish presents a scientist’s reading of Peter Pesic, American Scientist anniversary of the founding of the Institute of momentous discoveries were made the enigmatic and beautiful Book of Job After Newton and Einstein, James Clerk ‘A stimulating and thought-provoking Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), it thanks to having ‘stood on the shoulders as his centrepiece, and uses it to make As humankind creates ever more noise, Maxwell (1831 -1879) is a contender for read.’ contains 50 articles by some of the best writers of giants’. The same might be said of DNA the case for science as a deeply human the battle to manage and control it the title of most important mathematical Chemistry World on maths, such as , Simon pioneers , Francis Crick, and and ancient activity, embedded in some intensifies. Mike Goldsmith considers the physicist. But, as this book shows, there Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger Singh and Ian Stewart. The topics covered are Rosalind Franklin, because it was scientist of the oldest stories told about the long history of the battle between people was much more to Maxwell than his work posed a profound question: ‘What is life, deliberately diverse, from simple numerology William T. Astbury (1898-1961) who human desire to understand the natural and noise, explaining the science and on electromagnetism, both in terms of his and how did it emerge from non-life?’ to the very cutting edge of mathematics pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography world. He insists that rather than physiology, and exploring how new science and his wider life. This new Scientists have puzzled over it ever since. research. Highly illustrated, the book also essential to their work. Astbury has debating ‘science and ’ we need scientific approaches may affect the account gives a range of physicists, Addy Pross uses insights from the new includes 50 pictorial ‘visions of mathematics’. largely, and quite unjustly, been forgotten, both a ‘science of theology’ and a future of sound. He also looks at how mathematicians, and historians of science field of systems chemistry to show how but this book now rights that wrong by ‘theology of science’. discord and dissonance are put to use in and literature the chance to do him chemistry can become biology, and that PR: Hannah McGuffie revealing the story of this neglected genius music, medicine, and even the military. , revealing among much else PR: Dan Parker Darwinian evolution is the expression of a who also led the field in the powerful new Maxwell’s wider work on many aspects of See also The Concise Oxford Dictionary of deeper physical principle. PR: Chloe Foster Mathematics , page 59. science of molecular biology. science, his poetry, and his Christian faith. PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson PR: Hannah McGuffie

January 2014 May 2014 June 2014 May 2014 January 2014 January 2014 Hardback Hardback Hardback Hardback Paperback Paperback 368 pp, 10 colour 224 pp, 50 colour images, 320 pp, 35 black and 296 pp, 13 black and 224 pp, 10 black and 336 pp, 43 black and illustrations, 77 black and 79 black and white white illustrations, white illustrations, white illustrations, white illustrations white illustrations, illustrations, 246x189 mm, 234x156 mm, AJ 216x138 mm, 196x129 mm, TA 196x129 mm, TA 246x189 mm, AE AE 978-0-19-870459-1 13 black and white 978-0-19-968777-0 978-0-19-968779-4 978-0-19-966437-5 978-0-19-870181-1 £25.00 illustrations, AE £9.99 £11.99 £39.99 £24.99 Available as an Ebook 978-0-19-870261-0 Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook £18.99 Hardback: Available as an Ebook 978-0-19-964101-7 Hardback: 978-0-19-960068-7 38 39 CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS Wrong By All Means Necessary Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them How China’s Resource Quest is Changing the World RICHARD S. GROSSMAN , Wesleyan University ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY and MICHAEL LEVI , both Council on Foreign Relations

How rather than economics causes financial crises The first full account of China’s race to acquire raw materials

The Irish famine, the Great Depression, Japan’s lost decade of the 1990s, Lehman Brothers and The last twenty-five years has seen China transformed from an impoverished country to one the American subprime crisis ... What is it that sparks such vast economic calamities? Why do with more millionaires than anywhere else in the world. In the beginning, that growth was our economic policy makers fail to protect us from such upheavals? Writing for a wide fuelled by internal resources, but now China has been forced to look outward to find the audience, economist Richard Grossman shines a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the massive quantities of resources it needs. It is now engaged in a quest around the world for worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, telling the story behind each fuel, water, and land for farming, while the country’s military secures sea lanes and focuses

January 2014 misconceived economic move, explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was on advanced military technologies to protect its interests abroad. Clear, authoritative, and March 2014 Hardback implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. In each case, he shows that the main provocative, By All Means Necessary is the first comprehensive account of the likely impact Hardback 296 pp, 210x140 mm, TA 272 pp, 235x156 mm, TA 978-0-19-932219-0 culprits were policy makers who were guided by ideology rather than economics. of China’s pursuit of raw materials in the coming years – a crucial issue, not just for China, 978-0-19-992178-2 £18.99 £18.99 but for the whole world. PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson See also The People's Republic of Amnesia , page 16. PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

The Euro-Crisis and Its Aftermath The Locust Effect JEAN PISANI-FERRY , Université Paris-Dauphine Why the End of Requires the End of Violence Translated by CHRISTOPHE GOUARDO GARY A. HAUGEN and VICTOR BOUTROS , both University of Chicago Law School

Understanding the economics of the Euro The first book on the key role of violence in perpetuating poverty ‘This is not a book for economists, because the time when the pros and cons of European If people aren’t safe, nothing else matters. Corrupt police forces, out-of-control armies, private monetary unification were topics for controversies between economists only has long passed’ militias, organized criminals, and failed justice systems: all plague poor countries. Gary Haugen writes Jean Pisani-Ferry. As chief economic advisor to the Prime Minister of France and former and Victor Boutros use real-world stories from countries ranging from Thailand to Bolivia and director of the Brussels-based economic think tank, Bruegel, he has been at the forefront of India to Nigeria to show how violence undercuts antipoverty efforts. Drawing upon their debate about the travails of the euro area. He is excellently placed to write this book which experience running the International Justice Mission, they show that ground-up efforts to June 2014 aims to help non-economists decipher the euro crisis and form their opinions about potential March 2014 Hardback reform legal and public justice systems can generate real, positive results. Sweeping in Hardback solutions. Not only does he make sense of the crisis itself, he also scrutinizes and evaluates the 224 pp, 235x156 mm, TA geographical scope and filled with unforgettable stories of individuals trapped within the 384 pp, 26 black and white illustrations 978-0-19-999333-8 chief alternative proposals for ending it. 235x156 mm, TA £20.00 mutually reinforcing cycle of poverty and violence, The Locust Effect will force us to rethink 978-0-19-993787-5 £18.99 what we know about the causes of poverty and why it is so difficult to root out. PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

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The Cultivation of Taste Business Strategy Is the Planet Full? Divided NEW IN PAPERBACK Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining Managing Uncertainty, Edited by , University of Nations CHRISTEL LANE , University of Cambridge Opportunity, and Enterprise Oxford Why global governance is What makes a Michelin-starred restaurant? JOHN-CHRISTOPHER SPENDER , The most wide-ranging exploration failing, and what we can do Universität Ramon Llull available of a planet-sized problem about it Britain was once a culinary desert, but in recent years it has experienced an explosion of interest CEOs are the key to better IAN GOLDIN , University of Oxford in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane’s book charts the process of this transformation Can our planet support the demands of business strategy ‘A state-of-the-art view of contemporary through her enthralling new comparative study of Michelin-starred restaurants in Britain and the ten billion people anticipated to be issues in global cooperation.’ Germany, both countries which have no indigenous ‘haute cuisine’ but nevertheless maintain a Drawing on a wide range of ideas from the world’s population by the middle of Dries Lesage , strategy, economics, entrepreneurship and this century? Can we harness the great interest in fine dining. It draws on a large number of interviews with renowned chefs, Times Higher Education Supplement philosophy, John-Christopher. Spender potential benefits brought by a healthier, February 2014 diners, and Michelin inspectors to bring the reader an unprecedented insight into what goes on It is becoming increasingly apparent that Hardback in Michelin-starred restaurants – what makes their chefs tick, intrigues their critics, and beguiles develops an exciting new approach to wealthier and larger population? In this 392 pp, 234x156 mm, AE book, ten scholars, each of whom is a the UN, IMF, and World Bank are 978-0-19-965165-8 or annoys their customers. Lane presents restaurants as not simply businesses but as cultural business strategy. He argues that a key inadequate to the task of managing £30.00 enterprises that shape our taste in food, ambience, and sociality. element of both an entrepreneur’s and an leader in their own discipline, attempt to Available as an Ebook executive's task is to engage chosen answer these questions. By offering a today’s emergencies like climate change, PR: Andrew Allen uncertainties, develop a language to variety of different lenses through which pandemics, cybersecurity, and migration. express the firm’s particular business to view this overwhelmingly important Former Vice President of the World Bank, Nature in the Balance model for dealing with them, and thus topic, the book is able to challenge Ian Goldin explores whether the answer is create and value. The book is commonplace assumptions and bring to reform the existing structures or to The Economics of Biodiversity an important contribution to the field of important new insights. consider a new approach. He highlights Edited by DIETER HELM , University of Oxford and CAMERON HEPBURN , London management studies. the challenges that we must overcome and School of Economics PR: Chloe Foster considers a road map for the future. Putting a price on biodiversity protection PR: Andrew Allen PR: Chloe Foster Whilst there has been an enormous growth in research focus on climate change, less attention has been paid to biodiversity. In Nature in the Balance twenty-six leading scholars from the areas of economics, philosophy, and conservation biology set out the building January 2014 June 2014 April 2014 blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular bring together conceptual Hardback Hardback Paperback January 2014 and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, policy instruments, and 340 pp, 234x156 mm, AE 224 pp, 234x156 mm, AJ 224 pp, 12 black and Hardback 978-0-19-968654-4 978-0-19-967777-1 white illustrations, 376 pp, 47 figures and tables, institutions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and £25.00 £30.00 196x129 mm, TA Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook 234x156 mm, AE suggests how this very urgent problem should be addressed. While focusing on the 978-0-19-968903-3 978-0-19-967688-0 £9.99 £30.00 economics, it incorporates the underpinning science and philosophy, combining the Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook application of a number of theoretical ideas with a series of policy cases. Hardback: 978-0-19-969390-0 42 PR: Andrew Allen 43 CURRENT AFFAIRS CURRENT AFFAIRS

Lethal But Legal How the NEW IN PAPERBACK Venezuela Modern Greece Economic Development , Consumption, Economy Works What Everyone Needs What Everyone Needs to Know What Everyone Needs to Know and Protecting Public Health Confidence, Crashes and to Know STATHIS KALYVAS , Yale University MARCELO GIUGALE , World Bank NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG , Hunter Self-Fulfilling Prophecies MIGUEL TINKER-SALAS Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be Marcelo Giugale tackles the major College School of Public Health ROGER E. A. FARMER , UCLA Oil-rich nation increasingly a politically secure nation with a healthy challenges of economic development, How big business could be making ‘In the morass of me-too books about important on the world stage economy. Today, the country is at the centre illlustrating his account with real-life us ill the financial crisis, How the Economy of Europe’s economic maelstrom. Stathis examples from all over the globe. He looks Venezuela is among the top ten oil r MODERN GREECE Works stands out as a truly big idea.’ e v WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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Borrowed Words Book Smart The Life of NEW IN PAPERBACK Oxford NEW EDITION A History of Loanwords in English How to Support Successful, Slang Russian Mini PHILIP DURKIN Motivated Readers JULIE COLEMAN Dictionary Advance praise: ANNE E. CUNNINGHAM , University ‘Completely fascinating ... immensely Russian vocabulary, phrases, and of California, Berkeley, and enjoyable.’ expressions at your fingertips ‘This is an important and engaging book.’ JAMIE ZIBULSKY , Fairleigh Dickinson James McConnachie, The Sunday Times Richard Dance, University of Cambridge University This small Russian-English and English- Bad-ass , bee’s knees , and bomb-diggity : Russian dictionary offers the most The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has taken Jumpstart the careers of successful slang has been around for centuries, accurate and up-to-date coverage of from other languages, ranging from Latin and Greek to Japanese and Yiddish. Philip Durkin, early readers plaguing and troubling those who take a essential, everyday vocabulary with over Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary , whose Oxford Guide to Etymology Reading aloud to and with young children purist line when it comes to the English 40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000 January 2014 has become the standard work in the field, shows how to discover the origins of loanwords, language. In this highly entertaining book, Hardback is a crucial way in which parents and translations. An easy-to-use design and a 480 pp, line drawings, graphs, and when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. This carers can foster the social and emotional Julie Coleman traces the development of centre section of useful words and tables, 246x171 mm, AE outstanding book will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a 978-0-19-957499-5 development of children – and it is also a slang across the English-speaking world expressions listed by topic make this £30.00 valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English. lot of fun. Written by two psychologists and explores why and how it flourishes by Available as an Ebook dictionary ideal for travel and quick and educators, this book is a how-to making use of a marvellous array of PR: Nicola Burton reference. It also includes Russian guide rich with stories, lessons, and sources, including newly available online help such as tables of noun activities providing multiple suggestions records of the Old Bailey, historical COLIN SWATRIDGE and adjective declensions, and The Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and for simple and playful ways to build newspapers, and the latest tweets. verb conjugations. Critical Thinking specific reading skills. A highly PR: Chloe Foster COLIN SWATRIDGE informative but light-hearted read, it will PR: Nicola Burton encourage parents to bring the joy of The key to exemplary essays and dynamic debates reading into every home. What is the best way to approach an essay or discussion question? How do you review what claims others have made and offer counter-claims? And how do you weigh up the strengths PR: Nicola Burton and weaknesses of your own argument before putting together a persuasive conclusion? THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED REFERENCE BOOKS This highly accessible book by an A-level chief examiner with many years’ experience February 2014 February 2014 May 2014 lecturing at universities takes you step by step through the entire process of the art of Paperback Paperback Paperback June 2014 264 pp, 235x156 mm, AU 374 pp, 216x135 mm, TA 768 pp, 114x78 mm, RB Paperback Original argument. Engagingly written, its strength lies in its use of real-life examples and essay 978-0-19-984393-0 978-0-19-967917-1 978-0-19-870235-1 256 pp, 234x156 mm, TA £16.99 £10.99 £5.99 978-0-19-967172-4 questions from a variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. It is sure Available as an Ebook Available as an Ebook £12.99 to improve the written work of any student, scholar, or professional required to demonstrate Available as an Ebook Hardback: the key skills of critical writing and thinking. 978-0-19-957199-4

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The NEW TRANSLATION Discourses, NEW TRANSLATION Theaetetus Kidnapped Selected NEW TRANSLATION Domestic Manners of Confusions of Young Fragments, PLATO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Speeches the Americans Törless Handbook Translated by JOHN MCDOWELL , Edited by IAN DUNCAN , University of DEMOSTHENES FRANCES TROLLOPE University of Pittsburgh; introduction California, Berkeley ROBERT MUSIL EPICTETUS Translated by ROBIN WATERFIELD , Edited by ELSIE B. MICHIE , Louisiana by LESLEY BROWN , University of Translated by MIKE MITCHELL , Translated by ROBIN HARD , ‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, introduction by CHRIS CAREY , State University Oxford and your life shall be like the hunted University College London introduction by RITCHIE ROBERTSON , introduction by CHRISTOPHER GILL , ‘It appeared to me that the greatest deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your University of Oxford University of Exeter ‘What exactly is knowledge?’ ‘Even if everyone else succumbs and best feelings of the human hand upon your weapons’ ‘Between the life we live and the life ‘About things that are within our The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the to slavery, we must still fight for heart were paralyzed by the relative Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, our freedom’ positions of slave and owner.’ we feel ... there is the invisible power and those that are not.’ philosophy of knowledge, and is Kidnapped transforms the Romantic border, like a narrow gate’ acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest Admired by many in the ancient world as Anthony Trollope’s mother, Frances, Epictetus’ Discourses teach that the historical novel into the modern thriller. Its Based on the author’s own experiences at works. This new edition uses the the greatest of the classic Athenian travelled extensively through America, basis of happiness is up to us. From heart-stopping scenes of cross-country an Austrian military academy, The acclaimed translation by John McDowell, orators, Demosthenes was intimately and wrote one of the most influential antiquity onwards, they have been the pursuit have become a staple of Confusions of Young Törless is a and includes a valuable introduction by involved in the political events of his day. travel books of the nineteenth century. most widely read and influential of all adventure stories from John Buchan to profoundly disturbing exploration of a Lesley Brown that explains some of the As well as showing a master orator at Her witty, satirical, and entertaining writings of Stoic philosophy. Robin Hard’s Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. This non-moral outlook on life and of competing interpretations of its overall work, his speeches are a prime source for dissection of American manners new, accurate, and accessible translation new edition is based on the 1895 text, dictatorial attitudes that prefigure the meaning. The notes elucidate Plato’s the history of the period. This selection, in demonstrated her abhorrence of slavery is the only modern one available of the incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts outbreak of the First World War and the arguments and draw connections within a sparkling new translation by Robin and fuelled abolitionist debate on both complete work. It is accompanied by about the novel before his death, and rise of fascism. This new translation the work and with other philosophical Waterfield, includes the fullest range of sides of the Atlantic. This new edition Christopher Gill's full introduction and includes his ‘Note to Kidnapped’, restores the original layout approved by discussions. Demothenes’ oratory in a single volume. considers the work’s transatlantic success comprehensive notes. reprinted for the first time since 1922. Musil, and is the only edition to provide a and its political significance at a time of PR: Kirsty Doole PR: Kirsty Doole PR: Kirsty Doole full, contextualizing introduction. PR: Kirsty Doole social change in England.

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Teeth Physical Chemistry Fascism NEW EDITION Landscape Architecture A Very Short Introduction A Very Short Introduction A Very Short Introduction A Very Short Introduction PETER S. UNGAR , University of Arkansas PETER ATKINS , University of Oxford KEVIN PASSMORE , University of Cardiff IAN THOMPSON , Newcastle University

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Geopolitics NEW EDITION Nutrition Dictionary of A Dictionary of A Dictionary NEW EDITION A Very Short Introduction A Very Short Introduction Journalism Chemical Engineering of Nursing KLAUS DODDS , Royal Holloway, University of London DAVID BENDER , University College London TONY HARCUP , University of Sheffield CARL SCHASCHKE , University of ‘As a student Nurse, this has become my Strathclyde A brand-new reference work , I don’t leave for class without it.’ Using examples from historical maps to In spite of health campaigns such as ‘five-a- The most up-to-date reference of Amazon reviewer James Bond films and the rhetoric of day’ vegetables and fruit, many people are This is a new, accessible, and authoritative its kind political leaders, this engrossing study of a puzzled by conflicting information, quick-reference dictionary containing over The seventh edition of this best-selling complex area shows why, for a full particularly from the media, about what 1,200 wide-ranging entries on the terms This brand-new dictionary contains over dictionary has been fully updated and understanding of contemporary global and what not to eat. David Bender comes to that are likely to be encountered by 3,400 concise and authoritative A-to-Z revised to take account of recent politics, it is not just smart – it is essential the rescue with clear information on all students of journalism, media studies, TV entries, providing definitions and developments in nursing practice and – to be geopolitical. The fully updated aspects of food, including the balance and radio production. Assuming little or no explanations for chemical engineering related fields, with a particular focus on second edition takes into account recent political between energy intake and exercise, the problems of over- and prior knowledge, it covers terminology terms in areas including materials, energy risk assessement tools and terms developments in the Eurozone and more recent examples. under-nutrition, and the safety of nutritional supplements. relating to the practice, business, and balances, reactions, separations, relating to the Mental Health Act 2005, technology of journalism, its concepts and sustainability, safety, and . It also as well as recent NHS initiatives to June 2014, Paperback, 200 pp, 25 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm, June 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 10 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm, covers many pertinent terms from the improve care standards. Written by TE, 978-0-19-967678-1 , £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster TE, 978-0-19-968192-1 , £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster theories, organizations and institutions, publications, and key events. Relevant fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and medical and nursing specialists and web links are accessible on a companion mathematics. Comprehensively cross- offering 10,200 clear and concise entries Coral Reefs African American Religion website that is regularly updated . referenced and complemented by line on the theory and practice of nursing, the drawings, it features entry-level web links dictionary provides comprehensive A Very Short Introduction A Very Short Introduction PR: Chloe Foster listed and regularly updated on a coverage of the ever-expanding CHARLES SHEPPARD , University of Warwick EDDIE S. GLAUDE Jr , Princeton University dedicated companion website. vocabulary of the nursing professions. Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse Eddie S. Glaude argues that the phrase See also Oxford Companion to Modern PR: Chloe Foster PR: Chloe Foster of ecosystems. Charles Sheppard tells the ‘African American religion’ is meaningful only Poetry , page 25. enthralling story of how and where coral insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways reefs are formed and the diversity of religion has been leveraged by African marine life they support. Today, reefs are Americans to respond to different racial not just suffering from over-exploitation regimes in the United States. Slavery, Jim May 2014 January 2014 January 2014 Paperback Original Paperback Original Paperback but also ocean acidification due to Crow, and current appeals to colour blindness 384 pp, 196x129 mm, TC 448 pp, 75 illustrations, 640 pp, 196x129 mm, TC 978-0-19-964624-1 196x129 mm, TC 978-0-19-966637-9 pollution and climate change – many are already dying. serve as a backdrop for his treatment of conjure (also known as £12.99 978-0-19-965145-0 £8.99 Sheppard describes how these problems are being tackled. hoodoo), African-American and in this £12.99 controversial Very Short Introduction . June 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 15 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-968277-5 , £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster June 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-518289-7 , £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster 56 57 OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE

A Dictionary NEW EDITION The Oxford NEW EDITION The Concise NEW EDITION A Dictionary NEW EDITION A Dictionary NEW EDITION The Concise NEW EDITION of Finance and Dictionary of English Oxford Dictionary of of Zoology of Statistics Oxford Dictionary Banking Grammar Linguistics MICHAEL ALLABY GRAHAM UPTON and IAN COOK , both of Mathematics Edited by E. A. LIVINGSTONE BAS AARTS , University College P. H. MATTHEWS , St. John’s College, ‘A fine compendium of unquestionable use University of Essex CHRISTOPHER CLAPHAM and London, SYLVIA CHALKER , and Cambridge JAMES NICHOLSON , Durham The most up-to-date reference in a ... Make sure you have an Allaby handy.’ ‘This gem ... is highly recommended to EDMUND WEINER University fast-moving subject area New edition of the standard quick Nature users of statistics at all levels.’ ‘Well defined and well illustrated with reference work on linguistics Significance (Royal Statistical Society) ‘The depth of information provided is This best-selling dictionary includes over This best-selling dictionary is the most quotations from grammarians ancient admirable.’ 5,200 entries and defines terms from all This authoritative dictionary covers every comprehensive and up to date of its This wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary and modern’ New Scientist aspects of personal and international aspect of its wide-ranging field. In 3,250 kind, containing over 6,000 entries on all contains over 2,300 entries on all aspects TLS finance. The fifth edition has been fully thoroughly revised and updated entries it aspects of zoology. Complemented by of statistics, including terms used in Authoritative and reliable, this A-Z revised and updated with more than 150 This book is an accessible and authoritative spans grammar, phonetics, semantics, numerous illustrations, it includes terms computing, mathematics, and probability. reference work provides jargon-free new entries. These particularly focus A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex languages (spoken and written), dialects, from ecology, animal behaviour, It also includes biographical information definitions for even the most technical upon recent terminology, institutions, and terminology of . It contains and sociolinguistics. Clear examples – and evolution, earth history, zoogeography, on over 200 key figures in the field and mathematical terms. With over 3,000 safety measures coined or introduced 1,600 entries with clear and concise diagrams where appropriate – help to genetics, and physiology, and provides coverage of statistical journals and entries ranging from Achilles paradox to since the economic crash of 2008-9, definitions, enhanced by numerous example convey the meanings of even the most full taxonomic coverage of arthropods, societies. This new edition features zero matrix , it covers all commonly including reactions to the crisis such as sentences, as well as relevant quotations technical terms. With existing entries other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, expanded treatment of applied statistics. encountered terms and concepts from the Asset Protection Scheme and the from the scholarly literature of the field. thoroughly revised and updated, and the amphibians, birds, and mammals. The While embracing the whole multi- pure and applied mathematics and Financial Stability Oversight Council . Up- There are over 150 new entries that cover addition of 100 new entries, this new edition fourth edition has been fully revised and disciplinary spectrum of this complex statistics. 200 new entries have been to-date web links for many entries can be current terminology which has arisen since greatly expands its coverage. Up-to-date updated and includes many new entries. subject, information is presented in a added to this edition, which uses graphs, accessed via a companion website. the publication of the first edition, and there web links for many entries can be accessed Recommended web links can be clear and practical manner. Recommended diagrams, and charts to render definitions are also new entries on the most important via a companion website. accessed via a companion website. web links for many entries are accessible as comprehensible as possible. PR: Chloe Foster English published since the start via a companion website. Recommended web links at entry level are of the twentieth century. PR: Chloe Foster PR: Chloe Foster accessible via a companion website. PR: Chloe Foster PR: Chloe Foster PR: Chloe Foster

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A C D F I M Aarts, Bas 58 Cancer Virus 34 Dams, Carsten 10 Faith and Wisdom in Science 39 Ice Age, The 53 Man in the Monkeynut Coat, The 38 Accounting 54 Carey, Chris 51 Davenport-Hines, Richard 19 Family Law 53 Improbable Primate, The 31 Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 8 Adamson, Peter 27 Carroll, Noel 52 Davies, Jamie A. 30 Farmer, Roger E. A. 44 Irvine, Robert P. 49 Markovits, Henry 36 African American Religion 56 Chalker, Sylvia 58 Death from the Skies 15 Fascism 55 Is the Planet Full? 43 Marshall, Richard 28 Allaby, Michael 59 Change 28 Debussy 21 50 Visions of Mathematics 38 Martel, Gordon 7 Allan, William 54 Churchill and Sea Power 18 Demosthenes 51 Fight or Flight 15 J Matthews, P. H. 58 38 Amoeba in the Room, The 32 Clapham, Christopher 59 Dictionary of Chemical Engineering, A 57 Finlayson, Clive 31 McCartney, Mark 38 Jane Austen’s Letters 21 Ancient Syria 13 Clare, John 25 Dictionary of Finance and Banking, A 58 First World War, The 9 McCrea, Barry 49 Japan 45 Archibald, John 33 Classical Literature 54 Dictionary of Journalism, A 57 Flood, Raymond 38 McDowell, John 50 Jensen, Eric Frederick 21 Atkins, Peter 54 Classical Philosophy 27 Dictionary of Nursing, A 57 Floridi, Luciano 33 McGuinness, Patrick 48 Johannessen, Ingólfur 34 Cold of May Day Monday, The 26 Dictionary of Statistics, A 59 Fourth Revolution, The 33 McLeish, Tom 39 July 1914 7 B Coleman, Julie 47 Dictionary of Zoology, A 59 Freudenberg, Nicholas 44 McManus, Freda 52 Banker, James R. 20 Compleat Angler, The 22 Discord 39 Friedman, Allan 45 McRae, Kenneth D. 37 Bates, David 17 K Conan Doyle, Arthur 49 Discourses, Fragments, Handbook 50 Kalyvas, Stathis 45 Michie, Elsie B. 51 Being Realistic about Reasons 29 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Divided Nations 43 G Microeconomics 52 Bell, Christopher M. 18 Gadd, Ian 63 Kidnapped 51 The 58 Dixit, Avinash 52 Miller, Richard J. 35 Bender, David 56 Geopolitics 56 Kottler, Jeffrey A. 29 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, Dodds, Klaus 56 Minogue, Valerie 48 Benenson, Joyce F. 36 The 59 Gestapo, The 10 Domestic Manners of the Americans 51 L Mitchell, Mike 50 Bennett, Gill 18 Confusions of Young Torless, The 50 Giugale, Marcelo 45 Drugged 35 La Fontaine, Jean de 23 Modern Greece 45 Betts, Christopher 23 Conquest of Plassans, The 48 Gill, Christopher 50 Dry, Sarah 21 Land, Michael F. 55 Moffatt, John 37 Beyond Art 29 Constantine, Helen 48 Glaude Jr, Eddie S. 56 Duncan, Ian 51 Landscape Architecture 55 Money 48 Bod, Rens 17 Cook, Ian 59 Goldin, Ian 43 Durkin, Philip 46 Lane, Christel 42 Money, Nicholas P. 32 Book Smart 47 Coral Reefs 56 Goldsmith, Mike 39 Le Faye, Deirdre 21 Mortimer, Anthony 49 Borrowed Words 46 Cotton, Charles 22 Goldstone, Jack A. 53 E Lethal But Legal 44 Mowatt, Simon 17 Bostrom, Nick 34 Cox, Howard 17 Economic Development 45 Goodbye to All That? 16 Levi, Michael 41 Murphy, R. Taggart 45 Bourke, Joanna 12 Cracking the Particle Code of the Economy, Elizabeth C. 41 Gouardo, Christopher 40 Life of Slang, The 47 Universe 37 Musil, Robert 50 Boutros, Victor 41 Edmunds, David 29 Grossman, Richard S. 40 Life Unfolding 30 Crawford, Dorothy H. 34 Brock, Eleanor 8 Eliot, Simon 63 Lim, Louisa 16 N Brock, Michael 8 Cultivation of Taste, The 42 Epictetus 50 H Nature in the Balance 42 Hall, Kersten T. 38 Livingstone, E. A. 58 Brown, Lesley 50 Cunningham, Anne E. 47 Etruscans, The 55 Neptune 11 Halsall, Guy 14 Locust Effect, The 41 Bryce, Trevor 13 Cybersecurity and Cyberwar 45 Euro Crisis and its Aftermath 40 New History of the Humanities, A 17 Hamilton, Ian 25 Lopes, Dominic McIver 29 Burning the Reichstag 14 Eye, The 55 New Oxford Book of War Poetry, The 24 Harcup, Tony 57 Louis, Wm Roger 63 Burns, Robert 49 Newton Papers, The 21 Hard, Robin 50 Business Strategy 43 Nicholson, James 59 Harris, Tim 5 Butler, Gillian 52 Nobes, Christopher 54 Haugen, Gary A. 41 By All Means Necessary 41 Noel-Tod, Jeremy 25 Helm, Dieter 42 Normans and Empire, The 17 Hepburn, Cameron 42 Nuclear Dawn 37 Herring, Jonathan 53 Nutrition 56 Hett, Benjamin Carter 14 History of Oxford University Press, The 63 How the Economy Works 44 Humour 52 60 61 INDEX

O S T One Hundred Letters from Scanlon, T. M. 29 Taken at the Flood 6 Hugh Trevor-Roper 19 Schaschke, Carl 57 Teeth 54 One Plus One Equals One 33 Science of Cheese, The 36 Theaetetus 50 Origin of Ideas, The 35 Scott Kastan, David 26 Thomas, Martin 15 Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in Secord, James A. 13 Thompson, Ian 55 English, The 25 Selected Fables 23 Three Plays 49 Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, The 58 Selected Poems and Songs 49 Tinker-Salas, Miguel 44 Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Selected Speeches 51 Trevor-Roper, Hugh 19 Critical Thinking, The 46 Selected Stories 49 Trollope, Frances 51 Oxford Illustrated History of the First World Shepherd’s Calendar, The 25 Tunick, Michael H. 36 War, The 9 Sheppard, Charles 56 Turner, Mark 35 Oxford Russian Mini Dictionary 47 Sherlock Holmes 49 U Singer, Peter W. 45 P Ungar, Peter S. 54 Sisman, Adam 19 Parc, Sam 38 Upton, Graham 59 Passmore, Kevin 55 Six Moments of Crisis 18 People’s Republic of Amnesia, The 16 Smith, Christopher 55 V Philosophy at 3:AM 28 Spender, John-Christopher 43 Van Campen, Chretien 37 Philosophy Bites Back 29 Stallworthy, Jon 24 Venezuela 44 Philosophy of Law 53 Stevenson, Robert Louis 51 Visions of Science 13 Physical Chemistry 54 Stolle, Michael 10 Stone, Dan 16 W Pick, Daniel 18 Wacks, Raymond 53 Story of Pain, The 12 Piero della Francesca 20 Walton, Izaak 22 Strachan, Hew 9 Pirandello, Luigi 49 Warburton, Nigel 29 Summerfield, Geoffrey 25 Pisani-Ferry, Jean 40 Warriors and Worriers 36 Superintelligence 34 Plato 50 Waterfield, Robin 6, 51 Süss, Dietmar 15 Powell, David 25 Weiner, Edmund 58 Swann, Marjorie 22 Pross, Addy 39 Welch, Robert Anthony 26 Swatridge, Colin 46 Proust Effect, The 37 What Everyone Needs to Know 44 Symonds, Craig L. 11 Psychology 52 What is Life? 39 Pursuit of the Nazi Mind, The 18 Whitaker, Andrew 38 R Will to Believe, A 26 Rebellion 5 Woodward, Jamie 53 Revolutions 53 Worlds of Arthur 14 Revolutions from Grub Street 17 Wrong 40 Rickinson, Alan B. 34 Z Robertson, Ritchie 50 Zibulsky, Jamie 47 Robinson, Eric 25 Zola, Émile 48

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