AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 This Is Happiness Niall Williams
The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain
Description The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets for which he needs to atone. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world. Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.
About the Author Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of the Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain and eight other novels including Four Letters of Love, which is set to be a major motion picture. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 This Is Happiness 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of This Is Happiness, plus a free reading copy
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Norse Mythology (Red) Neil Gaiman
'With the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life' JOANNE HARRIS 'The halls of Valhalla have been crying out for Gaiman to tell their stories' OBSERVER
Description THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF GOOD OMENS, NOW A MAJOR AMAZON PRIME SERIES
'With the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life' JOANNE HARRIS 'The halls of Valhalla have been crying out for Gaiman to tell their stories' OBSERVER
The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales of dwarfs and frost giants, of treasure and magic, and of Asgard, home to the gods: Odin the all-father, highest and oldest of the Aesir; his mighty son Thor, whose hammer Mjollnir makes the mountain giants tremble; Loki, wily and handsome, reliably unreliable in his lusts; and Freya, more beautiful than the sun or the moon, who spurns those who seek to control her. From the dawn of the world to the twilight of the gods, this is a thrilling, vivid retelling of the Norse mythology from the award-winning, bestselling Neil Gaiman. Bringing to life the epic myths that have inspired Gaiman's own writing, this glorious special edition for Christmas features a vibrant new red cover.
About the Author Neil Gaiman is the author of the bestselling National Book Awards 2013 Book of the Year The Ocean at the End of the Lane and the Carnegie Medal winning The Graveyard Book, as well as Coraline, Neverwhere, the essay collection The View from the Cheap Seats and The Sandman series of graphic novels, among many other works. His fiction has received many awards including the Carnegie and Newbery medals, and the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and Eisner awards. He has four children and one grandson. Originally from England, Neil now divides his time between the UK, where he is turning Good Omens, the novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett, into television, and the US, where he is Professor in the Arts at Bard College. Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781526619211 Format: Paperback - B format neilgaiman.com Dimensions: 0x0mm @neilhimself Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Norse Mythology (Red) 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of Norse Mythology (Red), plus a free reading copy
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Bloomsbury Pb AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Kinship of Secrets Eugenia Kim
The riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart
Description 'A gorgeous achievement' Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko 'Graceful, poignant and moving' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.
But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war? And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended?
Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister.
About the Author Eugenia Kim's debut novel, The Calligrapher's Daughter, won the 2009 Borders Original Voices Award, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a 2009 Best Historical Novel and Critic's Pick by the Washington Post. A Bennington College MFA graduate, Kim teaches at Fairfield University's MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 A People's History of Heaven Mathangi Subramnian
An atmospheric and deeply inspiring debut about five remarkable women in one of India's fastest-growing cities
Description A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women whom readers will come to love in the phenomenal debut novel, A People's History of Heaven.
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community made up almost entirely of women, mothers and daughters who have been abandoned by their men when no male heir was produced. Living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises, these women, young and old, gladly support one another, sharing whatever they can.
This is a story about geography, history, and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love even if no one else knows they exist. Elegant, poetic, bursting with colour, Mathangi Subramanian's novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.
About the Author Mathangi Subramanian is an award winning writer, author, and educator. A former public school teacher, senior policy analyst for the New York City Council, and assistant vice president at Sesame Workshop, her work has appeared in The Washington Post.com, The Indian Express, and the Seal Press anthology Click! When We Knew We Were Feminists, among others. A People's History of Heaven is her debut adult novel. She currently lives in New Delhi, India.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas Syd Moore
Christmas is around the corner...so too are all manner of spooky apparitions at the Essex Witch Museum
Description Christmas is around the corner...so too are all manner of spooky apparitions at the Essex Witch Museum Feisty Rosie Strange can't seem to catch a break. The past always seems to come knocking in Adders Fork, forcing her and partner Sam Stone to investigate. In this collection of twelve short stories, Rosie and Sam are seen to do battle with all manner of creepy ghosts.
About the Author Syd Moore lives in Essex where the Rosie Strange novels are set. Prior to writing, she was a lecturer and a presenter on Pulp, the Channel 4 books programme. She is the author of the mystery novels The Drowning Pool, Witch Hunt and the Essex Witch Museum Mysteries, Strange Magic, Strange Sight and Strange Fascination.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Eclipse - Concrete Poems Alan Riddell
Provides a unique perspective on the cutting-edge technique of concrete poetry.
Description In this volume of typographical poems, or 'concrete poems', Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the poems. When Eclipse was first published in 1972, concrete poetry was still a relatively new art form, and this book was the first substantial one-man collection to be published in Britain. Now, almost fifty years since its inception, this volume provides a unique perspective on the cutting-edge technique.
About the Author Alan Riddell (1927 77) was an Australian-born Scottish poet, artist and journalist who is mainly known for his concrete poems, as well as the Scottish poetry magazine he founded, Lines. His best-known books anthologies of works he produced are Eclipse and Typewriter Art.
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Babel Alan Burns
By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space.
Description Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heighten and undermine meaning, and characterized by extreme contrasts of mood and style and startling surrealist juxtapositions of images and ideas. By turns comic and tragic, tender and brutal, religious and blasphemous, the narrative rockets from London to the United States to Vietnam to interstellar space, familiar events are constantly fragmented and reset into new patterns, and ultimately Babel becomes a cautionary tale about the tragedy arising from attempting to build Utopia.
About the Author A trained lawyer, Alan Burns (1929 2013) became a celebrated novelist and playwright, loosely associated with the 1960s British experimental circle of writers led by B.S. Johnson. He is best known for Europe after the Rain (1965), Celebrations (1967), Babel (1969) and Dreamerika! (1972).
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Alma Classics AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 How to Teach Philosophy To Your Dog Anthony McGowan
Because man's best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too
Description 'We're doing philosophy now, and that means following the argument wherever it leads, like that time you chased a rabbit and ended up with your head stuck in a hole.' Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had a chat about what makes him a good or a bad dog. Taking his lead from Monty's canine antics, McGowan takes us on a hilarious and enlightening jaunt through the major debates of philosophy. Will Kant convince Monty to stop stealing cheesecake? How long will they put up with Socrates poking holes in every argument? In this uniquely entertaining take on morality and ethics, the dutiful duo set out to uncover who if anyone has the right end of the ethical stick and can tell us how best to live one's life.
About the Author Anthony McGowan has a BA, MPhil and PhD in philosophy, and has lectured widely on philosophy and creative writing. As an author for children and young adults he's won many awards, while The Art of Failing, a hilarious account of his life as a writer, was named an Observer Book of the Year. He lives in north London, with his wife, two children and a dog.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 How To Teach Philosophy To Your Dog 8 Copy Pack
Contains 8 copies of How To Teach Philosophy To Your Dog, plus a free reading copy
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Fabulists Michael Peel
We are not entering a new era of fake news we are finally facing up to the world we live in.
Description What do Rodrigo Duterte, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Aung San Suu Kyi have in common? Politicians around the world are weaving their own heroic fictions the strongmen, the apparently enlightened, apparently liberal reformers, the smiling kings and autocrats, the proud defenders of bygone empires. Used properly, these stories can act as a glue to bind us to one another as a community. But some citizens don't fit the mould, and others are willing to risk their lives to tell a different story altogether... Based on a decade of on the ground reporting and informed by exclusive interviews across four continents, acclaimed Financial Times journalist Michael Peel reveals the invisible threads connecting politics worldwide, exploding the myth that anyone is looking to the West for moral guidance.
About the Author Michael Peel is the Financial Times' European diplomatic correspondent, based in Brussels. An award-winning journalist, he has previously reported for the FT from South East Asia, the Middle East and west Africa. He is the author of A Swamp Full of Dollars, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the Orwell Prize.
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Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Keep Your Brain without Losing Your Heart Bryan Hall
A one of a kind introduction to ethics that uses a zombie outbreak to provide a fresh approach to thinking about and responding to a variety of moral problems.
Description When your base camp is overrun by zombies, whom do you save if you cannot save everyone? Is it permissible to sacrifice one survivor to an undead horde in order to save a greater number of the living? Do you have obligations to loved ones who have turned?
These are some of the troubling ethical questions you might face in a zombie apocalypse. Bryan Hall uses situations like these to creatively introduce the foundational theories of moral philosophy. Covering major thinkers such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, this is an introduction to Ethics like no other: a practical guidebook for surviving a zombie outbreak with your humanity intact. It shows you why moral reasoning matters as long as you still walk among the living.
The book is written entirely from the perspective of someone struggling to survive in a world overrun by the undead. Each chapter begins with graphic art and a 'field exercise' that uses a story from this world to illustrate an ethical problem. By considering moral controversies through the unfamiliar context of a zombie apocalypse, the morally irrelevant factors that get in the way of resolving these controversies are removed and you can better answer questions such as:
e Do we have a moral obligation to help those less fortunate than ourselves? e Is it ever morally permissible to intentionally kill an innocent person? e Are non-rational but sentient beings morally considerable?
Equipped with further reading sections and overviews of the theories that you would usually cover in an introductory Ethics course, this one-of-a-kind primer critically evaluates different procedures for moral action that you can use not only Price: $29.99 $32.99 to survive but flourish in an undead world. ISBN: 9781350083622 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm About the Author Extent: 256 pages Bryan Hall is Dean of the College of Contemporary Liberal Studies and Professor of Liberal Arts at Regis University, USA. Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad Anna Pavord
A twentieth anniversary edition of the classic, featuring new material by the author.
Description A twentieth anniversary edition of the classic, featuring new material by the author.
Anna Pavord's internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, the United States alone imports three thousand million tulip bulbs each year. No other flower has ever carried so much consequence; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behavior, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.
Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self- confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through Asia, India, and the Ottoman Empire to tell how a humble wildflower of the Asian steppes made its way to Turkey and from there took the whole of Western Europe by storm.
Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift book, and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a completely revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden, and a reorganized listing of tulip species, to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists.
About the Author Anna Pavord's books include The Naming of Names, The Curious Gardener, and, her most recent work, Landskipping. Her column in the Independent appeared from its launch in 1986 to the last print edition in 2016. She writes and presents
Price: $69.99 $75.00 programs for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as ISBN: 9781526602688 Chairman. For the past forty years she has lived in Dorset, England. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Gardening Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Life of Lucian Freud William Feaver
The story of an epic life, and the story of century told through one of its most important artists, The Life of Lucian Freud is a landmark not simply in the story of its subject but in the art of biography itself.
Description Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words. In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the Navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man's coming of age. An account of a century told through one of its most important artists, The Lives of Lucian Freud is a landmark in the story its subject and in the art of biography itself.
About the Author William Feaver is a painter, curator and author, and was the art critic for the Observer for 23 years. He is on the Academic Board of the Royal Drawing School where he also currently tutors. As well as extensive work as a broadcaster he has produced films with Jake Auerbach including Lucian Freud Portraits and The Last Art Film. His book Pitmen Painters (about the Ashington Group in Northumberland) was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall and has been performed throughout the world since 2007. He curated Lucian Freud's 2002 retrospective at Tate Britain, the Museo Correr and in Barcelona and Los Angeles, and the 2012 exhibition of Freud's drawings in London and New York. He also curated the John Constable exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2002 with Freud. He has sat, weekly, for Frank Auerbach since 2003. He lives in London.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Declassified: Kashmir's Untold Story Iqbal Malhotra, Maroof Raza
Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified reveals the roots and causes of the historical intrigue in the state of Kashmir over the last 163 years and its consequences of institutionalised cross-border militancy and argues how a unique case of the Sino-Pak nexus is going to continue with providing unyielding support to the militancy.
Description Why has this state of siege in the Kashmir valley continued for 72 years since the Partition of India? What role has Pakistan played in it all of these years? And will there ever be a resolution to the militancy in the state? How will Islamabad get the forces of Islamic jihad nurtured and based in Pakistan to ever reconcile to the existing boundaries of J&K? How important is the ownership of the waters of the rivers of the Indus system for Pakistan despite generous supplies under the Indus Waters Treaty in determining an end to the siege within Kashmir? What are China's interests in J&K and how does the success of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) for oil and gas supplies hinge on Pakistan's occupation of northern areas of Kashmir? Why does the future survival and growth of the Chinese microchip industry depend upon the continuance of China's control of the waters and dams in the Indus river system? Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified provides answers to these gripping questions and joins the dots in presenting the matrix of a consistent and compelling argument regarding the future of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Today, the state's water resources are coveted by the beleaguered Chinese microchip industry and it appears that this is going to determine the continuing militancy in the state. Malhotra and Raza argue that China and its client Pakistan will actively back the militancy, come what may. Delving deeper, the book also reveals amazing insights into the Government of India's policy towards the state, right from 1889, when it first imposed central rule and dispossessed the rule of the then Maharaja, till date. Owing to its strategic location, the intrigues within the state and the machinations of its neighbours have resulted in the government directly administering its affairs, one way or the other, for the last 130 years. It is a riveting account of the history of Jammu and Kashmir, from the time of its political and geographic consolidation Price: $27.99 $29.99 under Maharaja Gulab Singh to present-day India. ISBN: 9789388912846 Format: Hard Cover About the Author Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Iqbal Chand Malhotra holds a first-class degree in Economics from Queens' College, University of Cambridge. From 1993 Bic1: True stories to 1995, he was an advisor on India to media mogul Rupert Murdoch and has produced over 500 hours of television Bic2: programming for telecast worldwide. Currently, Malhotra is Chairman & Producer, AIM Television Pvt. Ltd. He is a black Illustrations: belt Sho Dan in Shotokan Karate-Do. Previous Titles: Author now living: Maroof Raza, a former Indian Army officer, was educated in India and the UK. A commentator on military and security issues, he is now Consulting Editor (Strategic Affairs), Times Now. He makes frequent TV appearances and hosts the weekend world affairs TV show, Latitude. Bloomsbury India AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Rifleman - New edition: A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall Victor Gregg
The astonishing war memoir of Victor Gregg, captured at Arnhem and a survivor of the Allied bombing raid on Dresden, published with exclusive new material to mark the author's 100th birthday
Description 'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow
'A classic' Mail on Sunday
'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert group and fought at the battle of Alamein. Taken into captivity at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, he was sentenced to death for sabotaging a Dresden factory; he escaped only when the Allies' infamous air raid blew apart his prison and very soon encountered the advancing Red Army. Revised and expanded with exclusive new material in time for Gregg's 100th birthday, Rifleman is the extraordinary story of an independent-minded and quick-witted survivor.
About the Author VICTOR GREGG was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and the Battle of Alamein, and then in the Parachute Regiment at the Battle of Arnhem. He was repatriated in 1946 and now lives in Winchester.
RICK STROUD is a film, television director and author. He lives on a houseboat in London.
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Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Here Is Real Magic: A Magician's Search for Wonder in the Modern World Nate Staniforth
An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth.
Description An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth.
Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't have to be about sequins and smoke machines--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astonishment.
But after years on the road as a professional magician, crisscrossing the country and performing four or five nights a week, every week, Nate was disillusioned, burned out, and ready to quit. Instead, he went to India in search of magic. Here Is Real Magic follows Nate Staniforth's evolution from an obsessed young magician to a broken wanderer and back again. It tells the story of his rediscovery of astonishment--and the importance of wonder in everyday life--during his trip to the slums of India, where he infiltrated a three-thousand-year-old clan of street magicians. Here Is Real Magic is a call to all of us--to welcome awe back into our lives, to marvel in the everyday, and to seek magic all around us.
About the Author Nate Staniforth is a magician, performer, writer, traveler, and former host of the Discovery Channel's international hit TV show Breaking Magic. For over a decade, Nate has toured the U.S. as one of the busiest working magicians in the country and shared the philosophical underpinnings of his work through both a TEDx Talk and a lecture at the world- famous Oxford Union. He lives in Iowa City.
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Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Yoga: A Manual for Life Naomi Annand
Yoga: A Manual for Life shows you how to use the ancient practice of yoga to live better in the modern world
Description Be calmer, happier and more creative. In Yoga: A Manual for Life Naomi Annand shows you how to use the ancient practice of yoga to live better in the modern world. Utilising simple, breath-led movement, this beautiful practice companion teaches you how to wake up feeling energised, calm an anxious mind, sleep better, feel inspired. Ideal for total beginners to more experienced yogis, this manual includes everything you'll need to live a more balanced, grounded life, from five-minute lifehacks to longer sequences with specific goals in mind. Always accessible, Yoga: A Manual for Life has at its centre the principle of authentic self-care.
About the Author Naomi Annand was a dancer in the Royal Ballet Company until her career was curtailed by injury. She then discovered the therapeutic power of yoga and has been teaching ever since. In 2012, Naomi set up her own studio in east London, Yoga on the Lane.
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BLM Sport AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Stay Sharp!: Advice, Puzzles and Activities to Keep Our Brains Active inLater Life Gareth Moore
From the creators of the bestselling Sod series, a fun, accessible brain training activity book designed to keep senior minds fit.
Description From the creators of the bestselling Sod series, a fun, accessible brain training activity book designed to keep senior minds fit. Ever walked into a room and then forgotten why you went in there? Are you forever misplacing your purse or car keys? Do you increasingly forget the names of people and places?
It doesn't have to be this way and Stay Sharp! is filled with practical advice and exercises created to keep our brains active in later life.
Based on the latest neuroscience, Stay Sharp! is packed with a range of entertaining puzzles including logic tests, mystery games and word games e- all specially designed to boost concentration, enhance memory and sharpen cognitive powers. For any of us who are unsure about how we should look after our ageing brains, and looking for puzzles and exercises to improve mental sharpness and brain fitness, this is the perfect book!
About the Author Dr Gareth Moore is the author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including the bestselling The Penguin Book of Puzzles and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, The Mammoth Book of Brain Games, The Brain Workout, The Mammoth Book of New Sudoku and The Rough Guide Book of Brain Training.
He is also the creator of online brain training site www.BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle website www.PuzzleMix. com. He gained his Ph.D from Cambridge University in the field of Machine Learning, and has contributed to various Price: $29.99 $32.99 advanced projects for leading technology companies. ISBN: 9781472961693 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Puzzles & quizzes Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Green Tree AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century Lydia Edwards
With lavish colour images and commentary on the key features of every major dress style across five centuries, How to Read a Dress is the ultimate guide to how fashions change and the ideal tool for identifying historical styles.
Description Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries.
Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Recamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.
About the Author Lydia Edwards is a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472533272 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 245x193mm Extent: 216 pages Bic1: Fashion & society Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Isms: Understanding Photography Emma Lewis
Clear and concise, this pocket-sized introduction to photography is perfect for the general reader and student, covering key trends and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Description Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy, attractive guide tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements from the invention of the photographic process to the post-internet age. Organised chronologically, this is a uniquely international, comprehensive guide to photography with concise, readable and jargon-free but scholarly insight into major photographers, movements and themes of the past 170 years.
In an age where photography is of more resonance and interest than ever before, Isms: Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student.
About the Author Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, UK, where she has worked on photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays including Italian Modernist Photography (2014) and Otto Steinert (2015) and is currently researching a major monographic photography exhibition opening in Spring 2017. Prior to joining Tate, she managed the archive of late photographer Terence Donovan and spent three years in the Department of Photographs at Phillips, London. Emma contributes to Photomonitor and Tate ETC. and has written catalogue essays for a number of artists and photographers.
Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781474277594 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 204x142mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Photography & photographs Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Circus: A Visual History Pascal Jacob
A beautiful, highly illustrated and authoritative history of the circus around the world, which charts the evolution of travelling entertainment from antiquity to the present day.
Description This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus related artworks from the French National Library's private collections, celebrated cultural historian Pascal Jacob tells the story of travelling entertainers and their art and trade. From nomadic animal tamers of the Dark Ages to European jugglers and acrobats of the 1800s, from the use of the circus as Soviet propaganda to the 20th- century Chinese performance art renaissance, this is an exhaustive history with a uniquely international scope. Jacob draws on both rare and famous artworks, including prints dating from the 13th century, and paintings by Picasso and Dore. In doing so he demonstrates the circus to be a visual and physical masterpiece, constantly moving and evolving, and just as exciting an experience for audiences now as it was 1,000 years ago.
About the Author Pascal Jacob is a prominent circus arts historian and lecturer at the Sorbonne, France. He has published over thirty popular and scholarly books on the circus, and is the artistic director of both the Cirques Phenix and the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain.
Price: $60.00 $66.00 ISBN: 9781350043107 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 294x217mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: History of art / art & design styles Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Hats Clair Hughes
A beautifully illustrated history of hats in culture and society from the 18th century to the present day
Description Bowlers, Bergeres, berets and beyond, this is the ultimate guide to hats through history. From the lavish fashion hats of Marie Antoinette's court to the experimental millinery of Stephen Jones and Philip Treacy, Hats takes us on a beautifully illustrated journey through class conflict, gendered etiquette and national allegiances to reveal the complex cultures from which each style emerged. Unlike any other element of dress, hats are able to confer a certain presence on the wearer, whilst working to a seemingly arcane system of codes that govern our behaviour. At which occasion is it appropriate to wear a hat? When is it respectful to take hats off? Why did hats fall out of favour? Structured thematically with issues such as power and disguise, Clair Hughes explores both historical and contemporary styles, as well as their depictions in art, literature and film, with sharp historical insights and playful narratives. Including head-turning designs at world-famous horse races, the hat habits of royal family members, literary mad hatters and French high-fashion millinery by the likes of Poiret, Vionnet and Chanel, this is the authoritative guide to one of the most culturally rich accessories in fashion. Hats is the first title in the Elements of Dress Series, edited by Susan Vincent.
About the Author Clair Hughes is an independent scholar. She previously held the position of Professor of English and American Literature at the International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
Price: $60.00 $66.00 ISBN: 9780857851611 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 254x199mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Cultural studies Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Paris Fashion: A Cultural History Valerie Steele
This beautifully illustrated new edition of Paris Fashion examines the history and culture of style in the fashion capital from the 14th century through to the present day.
Description Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers.
First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.
About the Author Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organized more than 25 exhibitions. She is also the founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power; and Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers. Described in The Washington Post as one of 'fashion's brainiest women' and by Suzy Menkes as 'The Freud of Fashion,' Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with the rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.
Price: $60.00 $66.00 ISBN: 9781474245487 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 282x227mm Extent: 344 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present Alison Matthews David
A beautifully illustrated and gruesome history of fashion, illness, injury and death by dress.
Description From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns. Fabulously gory and gruesome, Fashion Victims takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the lethal history of women's, men's and children's dress, in myth and reality. Drawing upon surviving fashion objects and numerous visual and textual sources, encompassing louse-ridden military uniforms, accounts of the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde's half- sisters and dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental strangulation by entangled scarf; the book explores how garments have tormented those who made and wore them, and harmed animals and the environment in the process. Vividly chronicling evidence from Greek mythology to the present day, Matthews David puts everyday apparel under the microscope and unpicks the dark side of fashion. Fashion Victims is lavishly illustrated with over 125 images and is a remarkable resource for everyone from scholars and students to fashion enthusiasts.
About the Author Alison Matthews David is Associate Professor in the School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781350005082 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 274x219mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: History of fashion Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Introduction to Modern Design: Its History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present George H. Marcus
A new introduction to one of the most important aspects of design history - modernism. Written clearly for the student audience, this book takes the reader from eighteenth century industrialism through to the cutting edge technology and techniques of today.
Description With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It offers a new understanding of the birth of modern design in the early nineteenth century and chronicles the way its meaning has changed over the decades. The narrative is supported by twenty-six readings from significant texts by designers and critics, offering readers an opportunity to learn about design from those who created it and those who commented on it as it was done. The focus of this book is on the objects themselves from industrial design, furniture, ceramics, textiles, graphics, electronics, to automobiles and explores the development of these designs in relation to industrialization, technology, environmental responsibility, diversity, consumerism, individual needs, and the expression of the social values of their day. Clearly written and free of jargon, Introduction to Modern Design provides a succinct history of, and fascinating insights into, the world of design.
About the Author George H. Marcus is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the pioneering survey Landmarks of Twentieth Century Design (1993). His other publications include Le Corbusier: Inside the Machine for Living (2001), What Is Design Today? (2002), and The Houses of Louis Kahn (2013), which received the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award. For over thirty years he was director of publications at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Price: $79.99 $87.99 ISBN: 9781474276658 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 352 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Christie's Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan
Fourth edition of the world's leading and most comprehensive work on Champagne and sparkling wine fully revised and expanded.
Description Originally written by multi-award winning wine writer Tom Stevenson, this luxurious fourth edition has been fully updated and once again significantly extended by Essi Avellan, Master of Wine, one of the world's most exciting and talented young wine writers. A country-by-country guide, from the finest Champagnes of France to the lesser-known sparkling wine producers of China, this extraordinary work takes you to five continents and to all the countries where serious sparkling wine is produced. More than 2,000 producers from around the world are rated on a 100-point global scale with an in-depth analysis of their history, method of production and style of wine. New photography and maps vividly enrich this beautiful edition of Christie's World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine.
About the Author Tom Stevenson has long been regarded as the world's leading authority on Champagne and sparkling wine and is one of the leading and most respected wine writers. He is also the author of Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia. Essi Avellan MW is one of the world's most exciting and talented young wine writers, and only the second Scandinavian to gain the coveted Master of Wine qualification. She is the editor of FINE Champagne Magazine.
Price: $380.00 $400.00 ISBN: 9781472956675 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 720 pages Bic1: Alcoholic beverages Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Absolute Press AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi returns to the theme of Fear in our society and culture
Description In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally commanding status in society today and how has the way we fear today changed from the way that it was experienced in the past? Furedi argues that one of the main drivers of the culture of fear is unravelling of moral authority. Fear appears to provide a provisional solution to moral uncertainty and is for that reason embraced by a variety of interests, parties and individuals. Furedi predicts that until society finds a more positive orientation towards uncertainty the politicisation of fear will flourish.
Society is continually bombarded with the message that the threats it faces are incalculable and cannot be managed or contained. The ascendancy of this outlook has been paralleled by the cultivation of helplessness and passivity all this has heightened people's sense of powerlessness and anxiety. As a consequence we are constantly searching for new forms of security, both physical and ontological. What are the drivers of fear, what is the role of the media in its promotion, and who actually benefits from this culture of fear? These are some of the issues Furedi tackles to explain the current predicament. He believes that through understanding how fear works, we can encourage attitudes that will help bring about a less fearful future.
About the Author Professor Frank Furedi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. A public intellectual and commentator greatly in demand, he is the author of a number of acclaimed books including The Culture of Fear, The Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? and Paranoid Parenting.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472972897 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Society & culture: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Alive in God: A Christian Imagination Timothy Radcliffe
Timothy Radcliffe considers the strength of the Christian imagination in its ability inspire others
Description How can we touch the imagination of our contemporaries with our faith? The disciples returning from Emmaus (Luke 24) said that when they met the stranger on the road, their hearts burnt within them as he expounded the Scriptures. What blocks the reception of Christianity today is not so much secularism or atheism but the banality of contemporary culture what could be called `the globalisation of superficiality'. We need the help of creative people to open up our minds to the transcendent. We will only excite people about our faith if we show that it is the response to an invitation to live fully. 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive' (St Irenaeus) Christianity is an adventure which takes the puzzled disciples to Jerusalem. Radcliffe describes aspects of being alive that the disciples encounter along the way: healing, struggling with negativity, growing up and forgiveness. These all relate to our coming alive in Christ. Radcliffe shows how thinking and study relate to our human and more than human flourishing. Doctrine is not indoctrination but the liberation of the heart and mind. A chapter called 'Affliction' explores the utter negation of life on Good Friday, embraced and overcome. The last section of the book called 'The Risen Life' explores what it means to be alive spiritually, physically, justly through liturgy and prayer.
About the Author Timothy Radcliffe is a former Master of the Dominican Order in Rome. Educated at Downside and St John's College, Oxford, he then joined the Dominican Order in 1968. He has written a string of bestselling books for Bloomsbury Continuum over the past 15 years most notably What's The Point of Being a Christian; Why Go to Church? and I Call You Friends. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oxford, a city in which he now lives with his Community.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472970206 Format: Paperback - Demy format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Religion: general Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Just Ask: Embrace the Power of Your Network to Transform Your Life at Work and Home Andy Lopata
Explores the change in mindset needed to embrace the power of our networks and the impact that transparency can have on individual and collective achievement.
Description As we have struggled to cope in recent years with greater competition for jobs, a global financial crisis and increasing economic uncertainty, people are now beginning to recognise that we have to move towards a more open, collaborative way of interacting with others around us. The dog-eat-dog world of the late 20th century lies, for most people, far in the past, and companies are encouraging their employees to work together more than they have before, breaking down silo- style management systems. Being transparent and comfortable sharing vulnerability with the right people, in the right way, allows us to enhance not just our sense of wellbeing but also our creativity, productivity, mental resilience and the likelihood of achieving our goals. It is important that each of us understands the role we have to play in making our whole network of connections effective and reciprocal. There is still a great deal of reticence to open up to our networks but the culture is changing and people are increasingly recognising the power of sharing. In Just Ask, Andy Lopata explores the change in mindset needed to embrace the power of our networks. He discusses the impact that transparency can have on individual and collective achievement, and illustrates with case studies based on exclusive interviews how it has already affected people from all walks of life. The successes, failures and challenges faced by the interviewees reveal key tips on developing strong, trust-based networks. Based on psychological and management insights, Just Ask is grounded in reality, belying the myths that you need to be positive all the time to achieve your goals and that the most successful people are self-sufficient in order to provide advice and tools that are practicable and manageable.
About the Author Andy Lopata is a business networking strategist, working with organizations across the world to help them develop and Price: $49.99 $54.99 effectively leverage their networks, encouraging more collaboration and openness within the organizations. Clients have ISBN: 9781472957924 included the BBC, Wembley Stadium, HSBC Securities, Wella and GlaxoSmithKline. Andy is a Member of the Global Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Speakers Federation. Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Organizational theory & behaviour Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Social CEO: How Social Media Can Make You A Stronger Leader Damian Corbet
Insights from experts on how and why CEOs need to get social for business success and become effective social leaders
Description There remains a huge gulf in understanding by many leaders of what some are calling the Social Age huge changes going on in society, enabling anyone with a smartphone to sign up to a social network and comment on anything and everything. Despite this revolution, which has been embraced by the masses, it is the people at the top of organizations who have been slowest to understand and adapt to it. While business leaders may feel that it's enough to hire social media managers and amend their marketing strategies, Damian Corbet shows why organizations need to do more to succeed in the Social Age why CEOs need to 'get social' to survive. The Social CEO sets out to educate and inspire senior leaders to embrace the Social Age, teaching them the hows and whys of utilising social media in order to make them stronger leaders. Social CEOs can effectively encourage engagement from their employees as well as other stakeholders and customers; they're better able to communicate their organization's objectives and values, gauge the climate in which they operate and improve their brand image. Offering invaluable contributions from industry-recognised experts in social business, The Social CEO explores the many aspects of leading in the Social Age, such as storytelling, personal branding, managing risk and public relations. With chapters also written by practising 'social CEOs' working across a variety of sectors, from healthcare to sport, the book provides a wealth of insight into how social media can be used to gain a competitive advantage.
About the Author Damian Corbet is a freelance social media manager, content writer and PR consultant. In his spare time, Damian runs The Social C-Suite, which he started in 2014, in order to promote social media to senior leaders. He interviews CEOs for his blog and occasionally speaks at conferences on the subject; he was invited to speak on the topic at a conference in Istanbul two years ago, and has organized and co-presented at a number of exclusive CEO events.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472967244 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 312 pages Bic1: Management & management techniques Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Business AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Tim Walker: Wonderful Things Tim Walker, Susanna Brown
A journey through the creative mind of one of the world's leading photographers, this book includes over 100 new photographs by Tim Walker
Description 'Each shoot is a total love letter to an object from the V&A, sometimes several objects. My relationship to objects is like falling in love with someone. It relates to how we interact as people, how you become best friends with someone. It's a search for a new friend -' TIM WALKER
Published to accompany the V&A's mesmerizing exhibition Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, this book is a journey through the creative mind of one of the world's most inventive photographers. It presents over 100 compelling photographs, from ten magical photoshoots inspired by objects from the V&A's enormous and eclectic collection. Featuring conversations between the set designers, stylists, hair and make-up artists, models and muses who bring Walker's imagination to life, it includes contributions by Jack Appleyard, Zoe Bedeaux, Terry Bloxham, Edie Campbell, Gwendoline Christie, Josephine Cowell, James Crewe, Malcolm Edwards, Karen Elson, Katy England, Edward Enninful OBE, Amanda Harlech, Shona Heath, Hungry/Johannes Jaruraak, Ibrahim Kamara, Kate Phelan, James Spencer, Jerry Stafford, Tilda Swinton and Gareth Wrighton. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes imagery and preliminary sketches combine to reveal Walker's extraordinary creative process, from his detailed research in the labyrinth of storerooms and galleries at the V&A, to his spectacular final pictures.
About the Author Tim Walker is one of the world's leading photographers. He shot his first fashion story for Vogue in 1995 and he has photographed for British, Italian and American editions, as well as W Magazine and LOVE Magazine, ever since.
Susanna Brown is a photography curator and writer. Her recent V&A projects include Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography, Horst: Photographer of Style, and Queen Elizabeth II: Portraits by Cecil Beaton.
Price: $59.99 $64.99 ISBN: 9781851779710 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: Individual photographers Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
V&A Publications AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Carlos Slim: Patron of Mexico's Power Mafia Diego Osorno
Can one of the richest men in the world be a good person?
Description The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not just the tale of the first man from a developing country to ever reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires. It is the story of a character who represents the neoliberal mentality of our times, who mistrusts politicians, believes that the market is the most efficient mechanism for everything (even to combat corruption), and sees philanthropy as a social investment with businesses as the exclusive form of collective wealth. In this new book, produced through years of thorough investigation, Osorno examines this symbol of twenty-first-century capitalism and of Mexico. Similar surreal dimensions lead Osorno to openly ask whether a man as rich as him can also be a good person.
About the Author Diego Osorno was born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1980. In his career as an author, he has written five books on drug trafficking and social movements in Mexico. As a journalist, he has received several awards, including the Latin American Prize for Journalism on Drugs 2011 and the International Prize for Journalism Process 2011.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781786634375 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Biography: business & industry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Verso Trade AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 A Court of Thorns and Roses Collector's Edition Sarah J. Maas
Experience Feyre Archeron s journey all over again with the beautiful collecto’s edition of A Court of Thorns and Roses, the seductive first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas, featuring a deluxe new package, an updated map, ribbon pull, and more!
Description Experience Feyre Archeron s journey all over again with the beautiful collecto s edition of A Court of Thorns and Roses, the seductive first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas, featuring a deluxe new package, an updated map, ribbon pull, and more! When nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamli one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow over the faerie lands is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it or doom Tamli and his worl forever.All of the magic of Feyr’s epic journey and romance is reflected in this enchanting, collectible edition of A Court of Thorns and Roses, which comes complete with a cloth slipcase featuring unique foil art on the case and book cover, ribbon pull, brand-new interior page designs, metallic endpapers, and a newly illustrated map.
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Price: $49.99 $52.00 ISBN: 9781547604173 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 432 pages Bic1: Fantasy romance (Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Children's USA AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 More Than a Princess E.D Baker
From beloved house author E. D. Baker comes a new middle-grade series about a princess who s more than what she seem—and the kingdom whose fate rests in her hands.
Description Aislin of Eliasind is more than just a princess -- she's half-fairy and half-pedrasi, with magical gifts from each side of her heritage! One day, as Aislin is venturing through the woods, she is alarmed to hear a band of humans coming through. How did they get past the guarded magical passageway that leads to her hidden kingdom? Mistaken for a human herself, Aislin is captured, and soon realizes she's in even bigger trouble--she's being used as a pawn to help the king of this nearby kingdom, Morrain, find a secret passageway to the warring land of Scarmander, so he can capture his enemies by surprise. Aislin must find a way to break free, while also minding the beautiful human princess and ladies-in-waiting she now shares a castle with, who are all too ready to point out her differences. Thankfully, Aislin's inner strength goes beyond her magical qualities. And with a few loyal friends by her side, she's ready to stand up for herself and her kingdom once and for all. A classic and original fairy-tale that celebrates beauty and goodness in all its shapes and sizes, More than a Princess will resonate with readers who love magic, suspense, girl power, and adventure.
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Price: $12.99 $14.99 ISBN: 9781547602117 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Sleeper and the Spindle Neil Gaiman
The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistibly twisty fairy-tale reboot, with glorious gold ink adding lustre to an amazingly beautiful book. Winner of The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016
Description A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents. Lavishly produced, packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift. Shortlisted for The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016
About the Author Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work The Graveyard Book. Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films; Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio; and American Gods and Good Omens have been adapted into major TV series. He has also written two episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. He has won the Costa Children's Book Award, the Nestle Gold Award is the only artist to have won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times, most recently for his illustrations in The Sleeper and the Spindle. He was Waterstones Children's Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and has illustrated the work of many celebrated children's authors, including five Neil Gaiman titles and J.K. Rowling's The Tales
Price: $16.99 $18.99 of Beedle the Bard. He is the author of the bestselling Goth Girl and Ottoline series and co-creator of The Edge ISBN: 9781408859650 Chronicles. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 72 pages Bic1: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Bic2: General fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Sleeper and the Spindle 6 copy pack NEIL GAIMAN
Contains 6 copies of Sleeper and the Spindle + free reading copy and a Neil Gaiman Master story teller counter pack.
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Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Odd and the Frost Giants Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Chris Riddell
The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited once more in this irresistible epic Nordic fable, with hauntingly lovely silver ink adding to the sheer brilliance of the illustration and story
Description A thrilling, wintry Nordic epic from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell, weaving a tale of legend, magic and adventure which will grip and enchant readers from beginning to end. Odd, a young Viking boy, is left fatherless following a raid and in his icy, ancient world there is no mercy for an unlucky soul with a crushed foot and no one to protect him. Fleeing to the woods, Odd stumbles upon and releases a trapped bear . and then Odd's destiny begins to change. The eagle, bear and fox Odd encounters are Norse gods, trapped in animal form by the evil frost giants who have conquered Asgard, the city of the gods. Now our hero must reclaim Thor's hammer, outwit the frost giants and release the gods . This rich and layered tale of courage is told with humour and in breathtaking style by two creators at the height of their powers: from the author of modern classics such as American Gods, Coraline and The Sleeper and the Spindle, Odd and the Frost Giants will leave you spellbound. Lavishly produced and packed with Chris Riddell's glorious illustration enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift.
About the Author Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won both the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work - The Graveyard Book. The L.A. Times has described his multimillion- selling graphic novel series Sandman as 'the greatest epic in the history of comic books'. Many of his books, including Coraline and Stardust, have been made into films; Neverwhere has been adapted for TV and radio and American Gods is in development as a major HBO series. He has also written two amazing episodes of Doctor Who and appeared in The Simpsons as himself. In 2013 he published his first adult novel for seven years, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which received stellar reviews and was a bestseller around the world. www.gaimanbooks.co.uk @neilhimself http://www.gaimanbooks.co.uk/ Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781408870600 Format: Hard Cover Chris Riddell is a much loved illustrator and acclaimed political cartoonist. He won the 2013 Costa Children's Book Prize Dimensions: 244x181mm for Goth Girl and has won the Nestl. Gold Award and two Kate Greenaway Medals. He is co-creator of the hugely Extent: 120 pages Bic1: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) successful New York Times bestseller The Edge Chronicles. Bic2: Classic fiction (Children’s/Teenage) Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Illustrated Kipling Classics Rudyard Kipling
Shrinkwrapped set of three of Rudyard Kipling's greatest stories
Description The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere Khan the tiger, have become so popular that they have achieved an almost mythical status throughout the world. They were collected by Kipling in The Jungle Book and its sequel, The Second Jungle Book, which also contain other stories set in India which prominently feature animals, such as the well-known 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', which describes the struggles of a mongoose against venomous cobras. Here presented with brand-new illustrations by Ian Beck, these hugely popular tales, inspired by ancient fables and Kipling's own experiences in India, form a vivid account of the relationship between humans and nature, and will continue to inspire readers young and old. Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, The Just-So Stories, a compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on.Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations. Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his father's old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he is soon catapulted among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas to play his part in the secret service's confrontation with Russia, the so-called 'Great Game'. With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth- century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kipling's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language.
About the Author Famous for his tales of adventure in British India, Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) is one of the most popular writers of all Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9780714549545 time and the first English-speaking recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Animal stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Classics AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Illustrated Hodgson Burnett Classics Francis Hodgson Burnett
A shrink-wrapped set of Hodgson Burnett's classics
Description After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from exploring her surroundings. One day she discovers a walled garden which has been locked up, and becomes determined to enter it and find out its secret and the source of the mysterious crying sound that can be heard nearby. A powerful tale of regeneration and personal transformation, The Secret Garden has become one of the most popular children's classics, and has continued to delight generations of young readers. Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his friends, Cedric must find a way to convince his grandfather to send him home and show him that there is more to nobility than titles and wealth. First published in 1886, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel, and was hugely popular in its day. It contains many of the themes that would recur in her masterpiece The Secret Garden, and remains a witty and charming tale of a transatlantic clash of cultures. When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet, despite having her own pony and carriage, private room and personal maid, Sara is never a snob to her fellow pupils. Instead, she is kind, thoughtful and generous, and soon she is friends with all the girls there. But when the terrible news of her father's death and failed financial investments arrives, Sara is suddenly left a penniless orphan. She is allowed to stay at the school, but as a servant, and the cruel Miss Minchin starves and ill-treats her. Faced with day after day of endless, exhausting work, Sara relies on her friendships and her imagination to get her through the misery of her circumstances. However, when Mr Carrisford and his assistant Ram Dass arrive from India and move in next door to the school, and warm blankets and delicious food mysteriously begin to appear in Sara's little room in the attic, it looks like her life is about to change for ever -
About the Author Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9780714549552 Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 1924) was born in England and moved to the United States as a teenager. She is best Format: Paperback remembered for her children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Alma Classics AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Magical Bookshop Katja Frixe
Clara's best friend is moving away. Disaster alert! The only thing that can help is a visit to Mrs Owl's magical bookshop.
Description This is Clara's favourite place in the whole world. Here, Clara can settle down and get lost in one of the many books, joke around with Gustaf the rhyming cat, and get advice from Mr King the talking mirror. Not only does Mrs Owl love to give out chocolate cake, she also has a book tip for every mood. But when an antiques dealer claims the mirror is actually his and tries to take it back, Mrs Owl is distraught. Clara and her new friends must find a way to save the bookshop and Mr King.
About the Author Katja Frixe was born in 1979 in Wolfenbue¨ttel and studied education in Braunschweig. She spent several years working as a reader for various children's and YA publishers, before becoming a freelance author and translator in 2013. Today she lives with her husband and twin daughters near Braunschweig. Illustrated by Florentine Prechtel.
Price: $14.99 $16.99 ISBN: 9781786075666 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Woodland Trust: Into The Forest Christian Dorion
Welcome to the woods, where the trees grow strong and tall and their branches, full of leaves, begin to form a dense canopy From leafy oak and maple trees to humid and warm tropical rainforests, learn all about the beauty of forests around the world in this stunningly illustrated book published in partnership with The Woodland Trust.
Description Christiane Dorion was born in Quebec City, Canada. After completing her PhD in Environmental Education, she coordinated the Primary Education programme at WWF-UK. She works with Forum for the Future, a non-profit organisation for sustainable development. Through her books, Christiane aims to inspire children to take positive action to protect our planet for future generations.Jane McGuinness recently completed an MA in Children s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Having grown up in Scotland, wildlife and nature are a key focus in Jan s work. In 2016, she was awarded the Sebastian Walker Prize for illustration.
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Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781526600707 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Child AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts Sara Evans
The story of a continent losing its most charismatic predator at unprecedented speed.
Description The illegal killing of Cecil a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion by an American big-game hunter in 2015 sparked international outrage. More significantly, it drew the world's attention to the devastating plight of Africa's lions. A century ago, there were more than 200,000 wild lions living in Africa. Today, with that population reduced by more than 90 per cent, many experts believe that without effective conservation plans, Africa's remaining wild lions could be completely wiped out by the mid-half of this century. When the Last Lion Roars explores the historic rise and fall of the lion as a global species, and examines the reasons behind its catastrophic decline. Interwoven with vivid personal encounters of Africa's last lions, Sara Evans questions what is being done to reverse (or at least stem) this population collapse, and she considers the importance of human responsibility in this decline and, more crucially, in their conservation. From the Lion Guardians in Kenya to the Living Walls of Tanzania, and the Hwange Lion Research Project in Zimbabwe, Sara meets both lions and their champions, people who are fighting to bring this iconic species back from the brink of extinction.
About the Author Sara Evans is an award-winning writer, specialising in travel and wildlife. Her work has featured in numerous publications around the globe, including the Sunday Telegraph, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Australian, The Boston Globe, BBC Wildlife Magazine and Africa Geographic. A former speaker at Bradt travel-writing seminars, she is also the author of The Travel Industry Uncovered and The Real Life Guide to Travel and Tourism. After spending much of her time travelling and looking for some of the world's most amazing animals, Sara now lives in the Fens with her family.
Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472916143 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Wildlife: mammals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 RSPB Garden Birds Marianne Taylor
A lavish celebration of 45 of the most frequent and familiar birds found in gardens around the British Isles.
Description A book for everyone who has found their way into enjoying wildlife through watching the birds in their garden. Even the smallest garden attracts some birdlife, and watching garden birds is a great joy for all nature lovers, especially those who cannot travel as widely as they might like. Garden birdwatchers are often new to birdwatching in general and can be daunted by the array of species covered in even a small field guide to British birds. This new coffee table book focuses wholly on those birds that are frequent garden visitors in the UK and reveals details of how they live, how you can bring them into your garden and boost their survival and breeding success, and how to identify them.
The book is divided into logical categories for the non-expert. Each species is treated in detail over two, four or six pages, with longer accounts for the most widely observed garden species. The author looks at their life history, behaviour, breeding habits, and advises how to attract and support each species in your garden, as well as sorting out all common identification conundrums. The chapters are interspersed with spreads on general practicalities of garden birdwatching and managing a wildlife garden. More than 200 spectacular photographs will reveal every detail of our garden birds' appearance and behaviour. There are also side-by-side images of the more difficult-to-identify species. The closing chapter deals with birds that are welcome but less regular garden visitors and draws the reader into the wider world of birdwatching.
About the Author Marianne Taylor has written many books about birds, including RSPB Birds of Prey, RSPB British Birdfinder and Spotlight Robins. David Tipling is one of the UK's best-known nature photographers and his garden bird photography collection is second to none.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472955913 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Natural History AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Guadalcanal 1942-43: Japan's bid to knock out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force Mark Stille
This new title tells the story of Japan's long-range air campaign to destroy the 'Cactus Air Force' on Guadalcanal, why Henderson Field was so vital to both sides, and how the Allies defeated the previously all- conquering Japanese.
Description The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on Henderson Field. The airfield was captured by the US on 8 August and placed into operation by 20 August. As long as the airfield was kept operational and stocked with sufficient striking power, the Japanese could not run convoys with heavy equipment and large amounts of supplies to the island. Instead, they were forced to rely on night runs by destroyers which could not carry enough men or supplies to shift the balance decisively against the American garrison on the island. The American air contingent on the island, named the 'Cactus Air Force', comprised Marine, Navy and Army Air Force units. It had the challenging mission of defending the airfield against constant Japanese attacks, and more importantly, of striking major Japanese attempts to reinforce the island. The mission of neutralizing Henderson Field fell primarily to the Imperial Navy's Air Force flying out of airfields in the Rabaul area. The units charged with this mission were among the most accomplished in the entire Imperial Navy with a high proportion of very experienced pilots and a superb air superiority fighter (the famous 'Zero'). However, the distance from Rabaul to Guadalcanal handicapped Japanese operations and their primary bomber was terribly vulnerable to interception.
This book traces the air campaign from both sides and explores the factors behind the American victory and the Japanese defeat. The text is supported by full-colour illustrations and contemporary photography.
About the Author Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) spent his naval career as an intelligence officer serving on the Joint Staff, the faculty of the Naval War College, and in the ship's company of two aircraft carriers. He is the author of over 40 Osprey titles, focusing on the naval history of the Pacific War. He recently retired from government service after a total Price: $32.99 $34.99 of 39 years in the intelligence community and now lives in Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN: 9781472835512 Format: Paperback Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974 to 1978, and since graduating with Honours, Dimensions: 0x0mm he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Extent: 96 pages Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. He is a native of New England and lives in Bic1: Military history New Hampshire. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Tirpitz in Norway: X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, OperationSource 1943 Angus Konstam
This study explores, in detail, the gripping tale of a handful of British X-Craft submarines which stole into one of the best-protected anchorages of World War II and crippled the great German battleship Tirpitz.
Description In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz. Numerous previous attempts to attack the ship from both air and sea had failed, and this mission was carefully strategized, and undertaken by skilled operatives who had undergone extensive training in an isolated sea loch. Though five of the six X-Craft submarines were either lost or captured, two crews had just enough time to lay their explosive charges, which detonated after they were forced to the surface, putting the Tirpitz out of action for a crucial six-month period. Masterminded from a top-secret naval headquarters on the east coast of Scotland, Operation Source has been memorialised as one of the most daring naval raids of World War II. This new study tells the complete story of this epic operation in unparalleled detail, supported by full-colour illustrations and contemporary photography.
About the Author Angus Konstam hails from the Orkney Islands, and is the author of over 80 books, most of which are published by Osprey. This acclaimed author has written widely on naval history, from Sovereigns of the Seas and Piracy: The Complete History to his recent bestseller, Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours to Win the War. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator in both the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He is now a full-time author and historian, and lives in Orkney, Scotland. Edouard Groult grew up inspired by watching historical documentaries with his father and developed a fascination for historical and fantasy art. Following art studies in both Paris and Belgium he worked as a concept artist in the videogame industry and in recent years has also undertaken historical commissions while working as a freelancer for historical magazines. He lives and works in Oxford, UK. Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472835857 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Hotchkiss Machine Guns: From Verdun to Iwo Jima John Walter
Featuring contemporary photographs and full-colour artwork, this title explores the action-packed history of the Hotchkiss machine gun and its derivatives, which were used around the globe for nearly fifty years.
Description Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was successful enough to persuade Laurence Benet and Henri Mercie to develop the Modele Portative: a man-portable version which, it was hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat. Though it served the French and US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where French and British units fought alongside each other), the Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima, battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was the 'Woodpecker' the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its characteristically slow rate of fire which cut swathes through their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.
About the Author John Walter is among the world's most prolific writers on small arms author of 70 books, translated into more than a dozen languages, and authoritative articles in Guns Digest, Shooter's Bible and The Armourer. He lives in East Sussex, UK.
Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world. He lives in East Sussex, UK. Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472836168 Format: Paperback Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of the Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in Dimensions: 0x0mm that time. He now writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com). He is based in Lincolnshire, UK. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Battle for Guadalcanal: Hell in the Pacific Georgia Ball
This colourful and evocative graphic novel chronicles the fierce struggle for control of the Solomon Islands, telling the story of this pivotal campaign through the eyes of the men who were there.
Description A New World power facing off against an ancient empire. A desperate struggle to control a Pacific archipelago. A high- stakes campaign that would tip the balance in a fiercely contested theatre of war. On 7 August, 1942, Guadalcanal was invaded, signalling the beginning of a campaign which would last over six months. The American troops who stormed the Solomon Islands forced the Imperial Japanese Navy to abandon Guadalcanal in a victory which marked the first step towards Japan's eventual defeat. This colourful graphic novel follows the stories of the troops on the ground, bringing the campaign vividly to life through the eyes of the soldiers, sailors, and pilots who fought on both sides. Combining an authentic historical story with striking visuals and expert storytelling, Guadalcanal reveals a campaign that changed the course of the War in the Pacific.
About the Author Georgia Ball is a writer and developer living in the Pacific Northwest. She launched her first webcomic, 'Scooter and Ferret', in 2004. Since 2010, Georgia has written licensed titles, including Transformers, Disney Princesses, and the horror-filled Evil Dead 2.
Esteve Polls started working in comics in 1965 at 15 with a soccer-themed title for a Scottish publisher, and never stopped working. In recent years, his work has included El Zorro and The Lone Ranger for Dynamic Forces.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472838735 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 332 pages Bic1: Graphic novels Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II Ian Gardner
This gripping, fully illustrated title follows the story of the men of 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, the comrades of the 'Band of Brothers', from their formation to their involvement in the D-Day landings, their part in the bitter fighting to hold Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and finally their occupation of Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountain retreat.
Description Following on from the success of Ian Gardner's critically acclaimed trilogy on the exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in World War II, Sent by the Iron Sky tells their exhilarating story for a new readership. From the moment they entered the war in June, 1944, the men of 3rd Battalion were faced with brutal fighting against horrendous odds. Later in the year, nearly five months in combat with no relief lead to heavy losses that reduced them to the size of a company. Their heroic defence of Bastogne saw their division awarded a Unit Citation, a first in the history of the US armed forces, and they subsequently fought on across Europe, finishing the war occupying Hitler's mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden. Drawing on years of research and interviews with veterans of some of the toughest battles of World War II, together with maps and over 200 vintage images, Ian Gardner brings to life some of the most bitter fighting of the war in Europe, laying bare the horrors of war, the deprivations of day-to-day living and the chaos of the front line. Additional material includes a chapter on the fate of the men captured in Normandy and a foreword by Lee Wolverton, the grandson of the commander of 3rd Battalion, Col Robert Wolverton.
About the Author Ian Gardner served for five years in Support Company, 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment as a medic before leaving the Territorial Army in 1993 due to injury. Always enthusiastic about military history, several years after leaving 10 Para Ian became interested in World War II US Paratroopers. After a visit to Normandy in 2000 he decided to focus on the 101st Airborne Division, and in particular the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which led to the critically acclaimed trilogy Tonight We Die As Men, Deliver Us From Darkness and No Victory in Valhalla. He is also the Price: $46.99 $49.99 author of Airborne: The Combat Biography of Ed Shames of Easy Company. Currently self-employed, he is married with ISBN: 9781472837387 Format: Hard Cover two grown-up children and lives near Aldershot in Hampshire. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 260 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices William Shepherd
Weaving together the accounts of the ancient historian Herodotus with other ancient sources, this is the engrossing story of the triumph of Greece over the mighty Persian Empire.
Description The victory of a few Greek city-states over the world's first superpower was an extraordinary military feat that secured the future of western civilization. All modern accounts of the war as a whole, and of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, the best-known battles, depend on the ancient sources, foremost amongst them Herodotus, but generally quote very little from them. This is the first book to bring together Herodotus' entire narrative and interweave it with other ancient voices to present the original texts that comprise almost all that is known about this immense clash of arms.
About the Author William Shepherd studied classics at Clare College, Cambridge, in the 1960s and then embarked on a career in publishing which finally brought him to Osprey, where he retired as chief executive in 2007. He is author of The Persian War (Cambridge, 1982), translated from Herodotus. He has also written reading books for children and articles in the Osprey Military Journal, of which he was joint editor, and makes regular contributions to the Osprey blog. He lives in the Cherwell Valley, north of Oxford.
Price: $49.99 $52.99 ISBN: 9781472808639 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 328 pages Bic1: Warfare & defence Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 MiG Alley: The US Air Force in Korea, 1950-53 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Titled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicentre of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the Korean Peninsula, MiG Alley offers an in-depth analysis of the US Air Force's war in Korea, packed with interesting and exciting personal stories based on first-person testimony from both American and Soviet sources.
Description Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, amongst other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. From that point onwards, a very different story began to emerge. Far from decisive American victories over an unsophisticated opponent, the aerial battles of the Korean War were, at least in the early years, evenly matched affairs, fought to an approximate 1:1 victory-loss ratio. Though the Soviet victories declined over the following years, this had more to do with home politics than American tactics. Regardless of the accuracy of claims and wartime propaganda, one fact stands clear: in the battle for air supremacy over Korea, the US Air Force denied to its opponents the opportunity to intervene over the battlefield. In the face of overwhelming enemy manpower superiority, this allowed the United Nations forces to hold the line in Korea until an armistice that protected South Korea could be put into effect In addition to the aerial combat over MiG Alley, this title covers the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, including the failed strategic bombing campaign and the escalating nuclear threat. Incorporating first-hand accounts from those involved, both US and Russian, this new history of the US Air Force in Korea reveals the full story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.
About the Author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has been a published writer for the past 40 years, with a lifelong interest in the Korean War, Price: $46.99 $49.99 and this work is the product of 25 years of research. He is the author of Aces of the 78th Fighter Group and F4F and F6F ISBN: 9781472836083 Aces of VF-2, as well as Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15 and The Bridgebusters: The True Format: Hard Cover Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Group. He is also a regular contributor to Flight Journal magazine. During his 30 years as a Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages screenwriter in Hollywood, he wrote the cult classic The Terror Within and worked as a supervising producer on a number Bic1: Military history of TV and cable series. He served in the US Navy in Vietnam and currently lives in Encino, California. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917-Present Chris McNab
The complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their involvement in pivotal historical events and in current controversial conflicts.
Description From the chaos of the civil war to the political manoeuvring of the Cold War, Russia's armed forces have shaped the future not only of Russia but of countless other countries around the globe. The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917 Present explores the development and struggles of Soviet and Russian armed forces across the numerous conflicts which mark its history. It charts the great historical events that have defined the Red/Russian Army, especially World War II and the Cold War, but also the post-communist insurgencies and wars in which the Russian military has redeveloped its outlook and mission. The post-Soviet development of the Russian military into a modern force is explored in detail, including its controversial campaigns in Chechnya (1999 2009), Georgia (2008), and Ukraine (from 2014). Sewn into the narrative are details about the equipment, uniforms, training, service conditions and weaponry of the Soviet/Russian soldiers, bringing personal experience and technological context to the broader history. At a time when the world is closely focused upon Russian military behaviour, The Great Bear at War is both timely and fascinating.
About the Author Dr Chris McNab is an author and historian who specializes in military history and related technology. Over the course of his twenty-year career, he has written more than one hundred titles, almost all with international distribution. Chris has also written extensively for major encyclopaedia series, magazines and newspapers, and he lives in South Wales.
Professor Mark Galeotti is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in the UK and a Senior Non- Resident Fellow with the Institute of International Relations Prague. Formerly Senior Lecturer in International History at Keele University and Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, he has also been a Senior Research Fellow with the Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO, the Russian foreign ministry's university. Mark's most recent books for Osprey are CAM 332 Kulikovo 1380 and ELI 228 Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine. He lives in the UK.
Price: $54.99 $56.99 ISBN: 9781472836533 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 384 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 German Guided Missiles of World War II: Fritz-X to Wasserfall and X4 Steven J. Zaloga
A detailed guide to German missile technology in the World War II period, including the development of some of the world's first guided missiles and the influence of German missile designs in the post-war era.
Description Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti- ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the Italian battleship Roma was sunk by a Fritz-X attack in September 1943 when Italy attempted to switch sides. The serious threat posed by these missiles led to a vigorous but little known 'Wizard War' by the Allies to develop electronic counter-measures, the first effort of its kind.
Besides the anti-ship missiles, the other major category of German missiles were the air-defence missiles. Germany suffered extremely heavy losses from Allied strategic bombing attacks, and German fighter and flak defences proved increasingly unsuccessful. As a result, the Luftwaffe began an extensive programme to deploy several families of new air defence missiles to counter the bomber threat, including the Wasserfall, Schmetterling, and others. This book traces the origins of these missile programmes and examines their development and use in combat. With full-colour illustrations and detailed explorations of the stories behind the missiles, this study offers a comprehensive overview of German guided missiles in the World War II era.
About the Author Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He lives in Maryland, USA. Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974 78, and since graduating with Honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. He is a native of New England and lives in New Price: $24.99 $26.99 ISBN: 9781472831798 Hampshire. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 48 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Samurai vs Ashigaru: Japan 1543-75 Stephen Turnbull
Featuring full-colour artwork and expert analysis, this book assesses the status and abilities of two groups of warriors who fought one another during the civil wars of Japan's Age of Warring States.
Description During the 16th century, Japan underwent a military revolution, characterized by the deployment of large armies, the introduction of firearms and an eventual shift towards fighting on foot. This study encapsulates these great changes through an exploration of the experience on the ground at three key battles, Uedahara (1548), Mikata ga Hara (1573) and Nagashino (1575), in which two very different types of warrior were pitted against each other. On one side were samurai, the elite aristocratic knights whose status was proclaimed by the possession and use of a horse. On the other side were the foot soldiers known as ashigaru, lower-class warriors who were initially attendants to the samurai but who joined the armies in increasing numbers, attracted by loot and glory. These two types of warrior battled for dominance across the period, changing and adapting their tactics as time went on. In this title, the development of the conflicts between samurai and ashigaru is explored across three key battles, where highly trained elite mounted samurai of the Takeda clan faced ashigaru at very different stages in their development. The profound and irreversible changes that took place as the conflicts progressed are analysed in detail, culminating in the eventual incorporation of the ashigaru as the lowest ranks of the samurai class in within the standing army of Tokugawa Japan.
About the Author Stephen Turnbull is one of the world's leading English-language authorities on samurai culture. Having lectured in East Asian Studies and Theology he is now retired and is an Honorary Lecturer at Leeds, a Research Associate at SOAS and Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at Akita International University. He has published more than 70 books and many journal articles. He is currently working on a major project tracing the historical evolution of the ninja as a cultural phenomenon. He is based in West Yorkshire, UK.
Johnny Shumate began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani and Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472832436 Edouard Detaille. He works as a freelance illustrator and lives in Tennessee. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Raiders of New France: North American Forest Warfare Tactics, 17th -18thCenturies Rene Chartrand
Supported by full-colour illustrations, this study explores in startling new detail the 'musket and tomahawk' forest warfare by which the French colonists and their allies battled to ensure the survival of 'New France'.
Description Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of 'New France' can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with Indian tribes and Canadian settlers. The ground-breaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the ad hoc opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen and allied Indian warriors. Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the 'hit-and-run' raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.
About the Author Rene Chartrand was born in Montreal and educated in Canada, the United States and the Bahamas. A senior curator with Canada's National Historic Sites for nearly three decades, he is now a freelance writer and historical consultant. He has written numerous articles and books including over 50 Osprey titles. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec, with his wife. Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on subjects as diverse as the Aztecs, the Ancient Greeks, Roman battle tactics, several 19th-century American subjects, the modern Chinese Army, and a number of books in the Fortress series. He lives in East Sussex, UK.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472833501 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 64 pages Bic1: History of the Americas Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Me 210/410 Zerstorer Units Robert Forsyth
This title tells the fascinating story of German airborne heavy weapons platform designs and the difficult history behind the types' development.
Description Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zersturer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the Me 210 suffered from a less than satisfactory reputation in respect to its flight characteristics and weak undercarriage. After enhancements were made to the fuselage and wings, and the power of the plane was increased, the Me 210 became the Me 410 in late 1942. By this stage of the war much was expected of the two types, which were forced to fly in very dangerous skies over North Africa and in the defence of the German homeland. Both aircraft were deployed as heavy fighters, fighter-bombers, reconnaissance platforms and interceptors, seeing service with a number of different units. The Me 410 was fitted with 30 mm cannon, 21 cm underwing mortars and the colossal 5 cm BK cannon that was intended to pack a punch against the USAAF's four-engined bombers which threatened the Reich in large numbers from 1943 onwards. In this title, supported by contemporary photography and full-colour artwork, Robert Forsyth tells the complex story of the Me 210 and 410, detailing their development and assessing their capabilities as combat aircraft.
About the Author Robert Forsyth is an author, editor and publisher, specialising in military aviation and military history. Born in Berkshire, England, he is the author of several books on the aircraft and units of the Luftwaffe, an interest he has held since boyhood. His articles have appeared in The Aviation Historian, Aeroplane Monthly, Aviation News and FlyPast and he is a member of the Editorial Board of The Aviation Historian. He has written over 20 books for Osprey and lives in Sussex, UK.
Jim Laurier has been drawing since he could hold a pencil and throughout his life he has worked in many mediums creating artwork on a variety of subjects. He has worked on the Osprey Aviation list since 2000, and in that time he has produced some of the finest artwork seen in these volumes. He is a native of New England and lives in New Hampshire. Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472829108 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: Military history Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 2.6251e+10 Robert Forsyth
This title explores the formidable Me 262 and P-51 Mustang, two planes which represented the state-of-the-art in terms of design, performance and combat capability for their respective air forces.
Description Arguably two of the finest fighters built during the course of World War II, the Me 262 and P-51 Mustang heralded new dawns in aircraft performance. Making its operational debut in the summer of 1944, and powered by the Jumo 004 jet engine, the Me 262 outclassed Allied planes in terms of speed and firepower ratio, offering a formidable punch with four 30 mm MK 108 nose-mounted cannons. However, in the P-51, fitted with the Rolls-Royce (Packard) Merlin engine and drop tanks, the USAAF finally had a fighter that had the 'legs' to escort its heavy bombers deep into Reich airspace and back. If flown to its strengths, the P-51 was more than capable of taking on the feared Me 262 on an equal footing, despite the differences in power and top speed. Indeed, the Mustang proved to be the Luftwaffe fighter arm's nemesis. When the P-51D sortied over Germany from the summer of 1944 onwards, it shredded through the ill-trained and depleted Gruppen of the Luftwaffe's defence wings. This book examines the two fighters in detail, exploring their history and development and containing accurate descriptions of the combats between the P-51 Mustang and the Me 262 in what were some of the most bitter and large- scale aerial actions fought over Europe in 1944 45.
About the Author Robert Forsyth is an author, editor and publisher, specialising in military aviation and military history. Born in Berkshire, England, he is the author of several books on the aircraft and units of the Luftwaffe, an interest he has held since boyhood. His articles have appeared in The Aviation Historian, Aeroplane Monthly, Aviation News and FlyPast and he is a member of the Editorial Board of The Aviation Historian. He has written over 20 books for Osprey and lives in Sussex, UK.
Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974 78, and since graduating with Honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. He is a native of New England and lives in New Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472829559 Hampshire. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Gareth Hector is a digital artist of international standing as well as an aviation history enthusiast. Gareth completed the Extent: 80 pages Bic1: Military history battlescene artwork and cover artwork in this title. He lives in Perthshire, UK. Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Java Sea 1942: Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies Mark Stille
A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Java Sea, a key Japanese victory in their advance throughout Southeast Asia.
Description The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and, to defend the territory, the Allies assembled a striking force comprised of Dutch, American, British and even an Australian ship, all under the command of a resolute Dutch admiral. On 27 February 1942, the Allied striking force set course to intercept the Japanese invasion force in the Java Sea. In one of the few such times during the whole of World War II a protracted surface engagement was fought unmolested by airpower. For over seven hours, the Allied force attempted to attack the Japanese invasion force, finally breaking off in the early evening. Some three hours later, the Allied force, now reduced to just four remaining cruisers and two destroyers, attempted another attack on the invasion convoy during which Japanese torpedoes scored heavily, sinking two Dutch cruisers and bringing the battle to a conclusion. Over the next two days, as the Allies attempted to flee, five more ships were sunk. From that point on, Allied naval power was eliminated from Southeast Asia. In this illustrated title, Mark Stille tells the full story of the battle of the Java Sea, explaining how and why the Japanese achieved such a resounding victory, and delving into the tremendous impact of the battle on the course of the Pacific War.
About the Author Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) spent his naval career as in intelligence officer serving on the Joint Staff, the faculty of the Naval War College, and in the ship's company of two aircraft carriers. He recently retired from government service after a total of 39 years in the intelligence community and now lives in Annapolis, Maryland. He is the author of over 40 Osprey titles, focusing on the naval history of the Pacific War. Jim Laurier attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974 to 1978, and since graduating with Honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. He is a native of New England and lives in New Hampshire. Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472831613 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 96 pages Bic1: History Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age Joseph A. McCullough
A mass-battle fantasy game in which players can field combined armies of humans, elves, goblins, dwarves, and more, and develop that army over the course of a campaign.
Description Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-present. Created by Joseph A. McCullough, designer of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, Oathmark is a mass-battle fantasy wargame that puts you in command of the fantasy army you've always wanted, whether a company of stalwart dwarves or a mixed force with proud elves, noble men, and wild goblins standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the battle-line. Fight through an integrated campaign system and develop your realms from battle to battle, adding new territories, recruiting new troop types, and growing to eclipse your rivals - or lose what you fought so hard to gain and fall as so many would-be emperors before you.
About the Author Joseph A. McCullough is the author of several non-fiction books including A Pocket History of Ireland, Zombies: A Hunter's Guide, and Dragonslayers: From Beowulf to St. George. In addition, his fantasy short stories have appeared in various books and magazines such as Black Gate, Lords of Swords, and Adventure Mystery Tales. He is also the creator of Frostgrave and Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, and co-wrote The Grey Mountains, a supplement for the Middle-Earth Role-Playing Game. His continued ramblings can be read at: therenaissancetroll.blogspot.co.uk Ralph Horsley is an award-winning artist who has worked in the print games industry for more than two decades. In that time, he has worked for leading games and game publishers, including Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, World of Warcraft, and Warhammer.
Price: $49.99 $54.99 ISBN: 9781472833044 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Romance of the Perilous Land: A Roleplaying Game of British Folklore Scott Malthouse
A roleplaying game of adventure and fantasy in the age of King Arthur and the Britain of folklore.
Description Romance of the Perilous Land is a roleplaying game of magic and adventure set in the world of British folklore, from the stories of King Arthur to the wonderful regional tales told throughout this green and pleasant land. It is a world of romantic chivalry, but also of great danger, with ambitious kings, evil knights, and thieving brigands terrorising the land, while greedy giants, malevolent sorcerers, and water-dwelling knuckers lurk in the shadows. As valiant knights, mighty barbarians, subtle cunning folk, and more, the players are heroes, roaming the land to fight evil, right wrongs, and create their own legends.
About the Author Scott Malthouse is a roleplaying game designer and folklore enthusiast who was born and bred in Yorkshire, where he currently lives. His work includes the award-winning Quill (Best Free Game 2016, Indie RPG Awards), In Darkest Warrens, and Unbelievably Simple Roleplaying. John McCambridge is a versatile artist, having worked a long time as a concept artist for video games such as Bulletstorm, Runescape, and Saga, Rage of Vikings. More recently he has worked on books and board games, including Elysium, T.I.M.E. Stories, and the illustrated edition of Game of Thrones. He lives in the Fens with his wonderful wife and son. Dave Needham lives between an Oak and a Hawthorn in the dark wilds of southern England, where he produces black and white artwork using traditional pen and ink techniques. Credits in the fantasy gaming genre include design, illustration and concept art for Otherworld Miniatures, Red Box Games, the Barrowmaze series and Games Sesh. Alan Lathwell is a freelance illustrator based in the UK. He specialises in fantasy art and has a passion for Celtic and Norse mythology, which began at an early age. He uses a mixture of traditional and digital methods to create his paintings and his work has been used to illustrate children's books, role-playing games and book covers.
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472834775 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Paleomythic: A Roleplaying Game of Stone and Sorcery Graham Rose
A roleplaying game of myth and survival at the dawn of history.
Description Paleomythic is a roleplaying game of grim survival and mythical adventures in the land of Ancient Mu, a harsh prehistoric world full of mysterious ruins and temples to explore, huge and terrible creatures that roam and spread fear across the land, and nefarious mystics and sorcerers who plot dark schemes from the shadows. It is a world of biting cold winters, of people hunting and foraging to survive, and tribes that wage relentless war. Taking on the roles of hunters, healers, warriors, soothsayers, and more, players will navigate a world of hostile tribes, otherworldly spirits, prehistoric beasts, and monstrous creatures lurking in the dark places of the world. Players have huge scope in sculpting the game experience that best suits them, whether it's a gritty survival story without a trace of the mystical or a tale of grand adventure and exploration in a mythic setting.
About the Author When Graham Rose discovered roleplaying games, he was hooked. He designed his first home-brew RPG in the 1980s and has continued tinkering with games ever since. It was whilst roleplaying that Graham decided to acquire as many of the abilities listed on his character sheet as possible. This quest has led to a wide range of interests, from archaeology to competition fencing, a career in the fields of intelligence and law enforcement, and has also resulted in him crashing a snowmobile in the Arctic Circle, enduring serious illness in Kathmandu, coming face to face with a silverback gorilla in Rwanda, and walking Hadrian's Wall during a storm. Graham lives in the UK with his wife, Nicola, and currently works as a cold case homicide investigator. John McCambridge is a versatile artist, having worked a long time as a concept artist for video games such as Bulletstorm, Runescape, and Saga, Rage of Vikings. More recently he has worked on books and board games, including Elysium, T.I.M.E. Stories, and the illustrated edition of Game of Thrones. He lives in the Fens with his wonderful wife and son. Mars Oosterveld graduated in creating comics and is working on making it his living. Inspired by prehistory, mythology, and creatures real and fantastical, his work focuses on action and dynamics, and is constantly looking to expand his repertoire of styles and forms. Mars was born and currently lives in the Netherlands. Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781472834812 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey Games AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Fringe, Frog and Tassel: The Art of the Trimmings Maker Annabel Westman
The first survey of the history, design and use of trimmings in the historic interior in Britain and Ireland which will become the standard work on the subject
Description Trimmings are often overlooked as mere details of a furnished interior but in the past they were seen as vital and costly elements in the decoration of a room. They were used not only on curtains and beds but also on wall hangings, upholstered seat furniture and cushions, providing a visual feast for the eye with their colour and intricate detail. Sometimes more expensive than the rich fabrics they enhanced, trimmings are often the only surviving evidence of a lost decorative scheme, reapplied to replacement textiles or found as fragments in the attic. This book, the first of its kind, traces their history in Britain and Ireland from 1320 to 1970, examining the design and usage of tassels, fringe, braid (woven lace), gimp and cord and their dependence on French fashion. Lavishly illustrated with new photography, the substantial text links surviving items in historic houses and museums to written evidence, paintings, drawings and other primary sources to provide a firm framework for dating pieces of less-certain provenance. The importance of the 'laceman', the maker of these trimmings, is also examined within an economic and social context, together with the relationship to the upholsterer and interior decorator in the creation of a fashionable room.
About the Author Annabel Westman is Executive Director of The Attingham Trust for the study of historic houses and collections and has a distinguished reputation as an independent textile historian and consultant. Since 1980, she has specialised in the reinstallation of historic interiors for heritage bodies, such as the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces, private houses and museums, carrying out extensive archival research and advising on numerous projects through to completion. Schemes have included the restoration of beds, window curtains, wall hangings and carpets on which she has published and lectured widely. She is a trustee of Stowe House Preservation Trust and was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1997.
Price: $105.00 $110.00 ISBN: 9781781300756 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 288 pages Bic1: Interior design, decor & style guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Philip Wilson AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company 1770 -1857 William Dalrymple
An exquisite record and exploration of some of the greatest masterpieces of Indian art by leading historian, William Dalrymple
Description As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.
About the Author William Dalrymple is guest curator of the exhibition Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company at the Wallace Collection. Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. In 2013 he co-curated the exhibition, Princes and Painters in Late Mughal Delhi 1739-1857, with Yuthika Sharma at the Asia Society in New York. In 2018, he was presented with the President's Medal by The British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. Price: $69.99 $74.99 ISBN: 9781781301012 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 192 pages Bic1: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Philip Wilson AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Rembrandt's Light Jennifer Scott
A unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling, published in the 350th year since Rembrandt's death
Description Rembrandt's Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings that focus on Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling, concentrating on his greatest years from 1639-1658, when he lived in his ideal house at Breestraat in the heart of Amsterdam (today the Museum Het Rembrandthuis). Its striking, light-infused studio was the site for the creation of Rembrandt's most exceptional paintings, prints and drawings including 'The Denial of St Peter' and 'The Artist's Studio'. Arranged thematically the book will trace Rembrandt's innovation: from evoking a meditative mood, to lighting people, to creating impact and drama. Highlights will include three of Rembrandt's most famous images of women: 'A Woman Bathing in a Stream', 'A Woman in Bed' and the inimitable 'Girl at a Window'. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2019 with celebrations taking place throughout Europe to mark 350 years since the artist's death (1669), this publication aims to refresh the way we look at works by this incomparable Dutch Master.
About the Author Jennifer Scott is the Sackler Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. She was previously the Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath and before that a curator of paintings at Royal Collection Trust having previously worked at National Gallery London and National Museums Liverpool. She has published and lectured extensively on 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish art and has organised many exhibitions. Her publications include Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty (PWP, 2017).
Price: $39.99 $42.99 ISBN: 9781781300930 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Art & design styles: Baroque Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Philip Wilson AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Rembrandt's Light Jennifer Scott
2019 is Rembrandt Year with celebrations taking place throughout Europe to mark the 350th anniversary of the artist's death in 1669. This book accompanies the only London exhibition of Rembrandt's work in this important year and paints a unique picture of Rembrandt's mastery of light and visual storytelling.
Description Rembrandt's Light brings together paintings, etchings and drawings that focus on Rembrandt's mastery of visual storytelling through light, concentrating on the period from 1639-58, when he lived in his 'dream house' on the Breestraat in the heart of Amsterdam (today the Rembrandt House Museum). The rooms on the first floor of the house, with their large windows and exceptional quality of light, offered new possibilities for the creation of art. Arranged thematically the book traces Rembrandt's innovation: from evoking a meditative mood, to lighting people, to creating impact and drama. Highlights include 'The Denial of St Peter', 'Pilgrims at Emmaus' and three of the artist's most famous images of women: 'A Woman Bathing in a Stream', 'A Woman in Bed' and 'Girl at a Window'. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the celebrations taking place throughout Europe to mark 350 years since the artist's death (1669), Rembrandt's Light aims to refresh the way we look at works by this incomparable Dutch Master.
About the Author Jennifer Scott is the Sackler Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. She was Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath, having previously worked as Curator of Paintings at Royal Collection Trust. Her publications include Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting (2007), Dutch Landscapes (2010), The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact (2010), The Northern Renaissance: Dorer to Holbein (2011) and Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty (ed., 2017).
Helen Hillyard is the Assistant Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, where her research is focused on the collection of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings. She previously worked in the curatorial departments at the National Gallery, London and Birmingham Museums, and studied at the University of Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Price: $69.99 $74.99 ISBN: 9781781300923 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 160 pages Bic1: Art & design styles: Baroque Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Philip Wilson AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Writers' & Artists' Guide to Writing for Children and YA: A writer's toolkit Linda Strachan
Description The W&A Guide to Writing for Children and YA provides informed, practical advice from a successful and experienced writer of children's books across all ages. Its coverage includes picture books through middle grade and young adult; fiction and non-fiction; books for reluctant readers and books for the education market. It is one author's lifetime of experience distilled into an engaging guide on how to manage, kickstart or begin your writing career. This is a heavily revised and expanded edition of Linda's Writing for Children (2008). Much has happened in both Linda's writing life and in the world of children's books since then. Staying true to the essence of the original, the new edition includes more advice and experience to reflect changes in digital publishing, self-publishing, and the explosion of YA and children's writing more broadly.
About the Author Linda Strachan is the author of over 60 books. She writes for a wide range of ages from picture books to Young Adult novels. These include the bestselling Hamish McHaggis series and award-winning Spider (Strident, 2008), Dead Boy Talking (Strident, 2010) and Don't Judge Me (Strident, 2012). Her educational books are used in schools worldwide. Linda is a former Chair of the Society of Authors in Scotland and an experienced creative writing tutor. Her website is www. lindastrachan.com.
Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472970053 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 208 pages Bic1: Creative writing & creative writing guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Yearbooks AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Writers' & Artists' Guide to Getting Published: Essentila advise for aspiring authors Alysoun Owen
The essential toolkit on how to prepare your manuscript for submission, how to find and negotiate with agents, how to work with publishers, what you can do to help market your book, and what to expect after publication
Description The W&A Guide to Getting Published provides the would-be published author with expert knowledge on securing a book deal from preparing a manuscript for submission, to finding an agent, from working with an Editor, to effective self- promotion. It considers all stages in the 'selling' of your idea, script and self and gives up-to-date information on how the publishing industry functions and how authors can best navigate its mysteries and complexities. Each chapter provides practical, how-to advice on what to do, where to seek additional help, what costs might be involved, cautionary dos and don'ts, and useful case studies. With expert input from writers, agents and publishing professionals, the new W&A Guide to Getting Published is the perfect toolkit for all aspiring writers.
About the Author Alysoun Owen has been the Editor of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook for six years and has worked in Publishing in the UK and overseas for more than 25 years as a commissioning editor and project lead on print and digital products. She runs a publishing consultancy and project management company. In her role as Yearbook Editor, Alysoun gives regular talks at literary events and writing conferences across the UK about how to get published.
Price: $32.99 $34.99 ISBN: 9781472950215 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 256 pages Bic1: Creative writing & creative writing guides Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Yearbooks AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Beauty Queen Of Leenane Martin McDonagh
The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
Description The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
About the Author Martin McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. In 2003, his play The Pillowman had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre and received the 2004 Olivier Award. In 2006, Martin McDonagh won an Oscar for his short film Six Shooter.
Price: $24.99 $29.99 ISBN: 9780413707307 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 200x132mm Extent: 84 pages Bic1: Plays, playscripts Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Methuen Drama AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Luxury and Visual Culture John Armitage
A wide-ranging examination of luxury in contemporary consumer culture that crosses a variety of fields, from haute couture to sumptuous works of art, fashion photography to luxury brands on social media
Description From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or rather the look of things? In this first study of luxury through the lens of visual culture, Armitage argues that luxury is undergoing a shift from material culture to the immaterial culture of the visual, offering new forms of luxury engagement and unparalleled levels of pleasure never before offered to the senses. Calling for a new understanding of luxury in the changing visual landscape of contemporary society, Luxury and Visual Culture embraces an extraordinary range of cultural forms, including fashion, photography, social media, television, and art. From the masterpieces of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, to Richard Avedon's photography and Louis Vuitton's Flagship stores, the book explores key issues of globalization, digitization, consumer identity, 'mass' luxury, and the role of art. This text is ideal for all students of contemporary luxury studies, as well as scholars and researchers in the field of visual culture.
About the Author John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is coeditor, with Joanne Roberts, of The Third Realm of Luxury: Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces (2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Culture.
Price: $39.99 $43.99 ISBN: 9781474246033 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene Patricia MacCormack
A radical political and philosophical manifesto defending and promoting a new term, the Ahuman.
Description We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of 'human' into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the 'ahuman'. An alternative to 'posthuman' thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning. In order to suggest vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores five key contemporary themes: e Identity e Spirituality e Art e Death e The apocalypse Collapsing activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of 'zombiedom', The Ahuman Manifesto navigates the ways in which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege. This is so that we can actively think and live viscerally, with connectivity (actual not virtual), and with passion and grace, toward a new world.
About the Author Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of Cinesexuality (2008), Post-Human Ethics (2012) and editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury, 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (2017) and the upcoming Ecophilosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2018). Price: $44.99 $49.99 ISBN: 9781350081109 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture edited by Molly C. O'Donnell & Anne Stevens
Microgenres: A Quick Survey presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper- specific.
Description Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry... microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life. Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term 'microgenre' classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- 'independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead' - - that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.
About the Author Molly C. O'Donnell is an instructor in the Department of English at James Madison University, USA. She was the recipient of the Gaskell Journal Joan Leach Memorial Prize (2016), and her work has appeared in publications like Victoriographies and the Norton anthology.
Anne H. Stevens is the author of British Historical Fiction before Scott (2010) and Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction (2015). She is chair of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies and professor of English at the University
Price: $44.99 $49.99 of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. ISBN: 9781501345807 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Literary theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Labels: Making Independent Music Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward
The first book dedicated to the study of record labels established in the digital music era of the 21st century, based on interviews with industry insiders and covering cutting-edge music scenes from around the globe.
Description The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive, but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful, and to whom? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how labels act as taste-makers and scene-markers that not only curate music, but project cultural values which challenge the mainstream capitalist music industry. Focusing mostly on labels that entered independent electronic music after 2000, the authors reconstruct their aesthetics and ethics. The book draws on multiple interviews with labels such as Ostgut Ton in Berlin, Argot in Chicago, 100% Silk in Los Angeles, Ninja Tune in London, and Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contemporary recording industry, independent music, material culture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.
About the Author Dominik Bartmanski works in the Sociology Department at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Ian Woodward is Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Price: $35.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781474280457 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro Mila Burns
A book-length investigation of the album Sorriso Negro (1982) by Dona Ivone Lara, a pathbreaking black woman in the heavily masculine world of samba.
Description More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the 'Opening' that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles introduced notions of civil rights and feminist thought to a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also happened to be composed by a black woman), Mila Burns explores the pathbreaking career of Dona Ivone, tracing the ways in which she navigated the tense gender and race relations of the samba universe to ultimately conquer the masculine world of samba composers. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music- basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
About the Author Mila Burns is a Brazilian journalist, anthropologist, and historian. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College (CUNY), USA, and the author of Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (2009). She is a reporter and anchor at TV Globo.
Price: $35.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781501324499 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Music reviews & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry, and New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers & Lisa Perrott
A look at the signature styles of well-known film and music video directors such as David Lynch, Wes Anderson, and Baz Luhrmann in their relationship to sound, music, and image.
Description Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's em/impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new contemporary aesthetics. The media they engage with enrich their practices through film and television (with its potential for world-building and sense of the past and future), music video (with its audiovisual aesthetics and rhythm), commercials (with their ability to project a message quickly) and the internet (with its refreshed concepts of audience and participation), to larger forms like restaurants and amusement parks (with their materiality alongside today's digital aesthetics). These directors encourage us to reassess concepts of authorship, assemblage, transmedia, audiovisual aesthetics and world-building.
Providing a vital resource for scholars and practitioners, this collection weaves together insights about artist-practitioners' collaborative processes as well as strategies for composition, representation, subversion and resistance.
About the Author Carol Vernallis is Affiliated Researcher in Music at Stanford University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Music at University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Experiencing Music Video (2004) and Unruly Media (2013) and co- editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013). Holly Rogers is Reader in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013) and editor of Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014) and The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017). Lisa Perrott is Senior Lecturer and Programme Convener of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Price: $57.99 $63.99 Zealand. Her publications include Navigating with the Blackstar: The Mediality of David Bowie (special issue of Celebrity ISBN: 9781501341007 Studies, 2019) and David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom (2019), both co-edited with Ana Cristina Mendes. Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Individual film directors, film-makers Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Masnavi of Rumi, Book 1: A New Annotated Edition and Translation Jalal al-Din Rumi
A definitive translation of one of the great works of Iranian and world literature, with accompanying Persian text
Description Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th century AD, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. Long before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi has been revered in the Islamic world. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, tales and fables, and deeply versed in religious teaching, it takes us on a rich, profound and playful journey along the Sufi path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with God. In Book 1 of the Masnavi, the first of six volumes, Rumi explores the lower, carnal self which must be resisted if one is to attain a higher spiritual understanding. Adam William's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated and edited with an introduction, notes and Persian text by Alan Williams
About the Author Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known to the West as Rumi is a Persian poet comparable to the greatest poets of Europe. In 1244, Rumi began the composition of a body (divan) of lyric poems (ghazals) totalling 35,000 verses. In his later years he turned to the composition his most mature and final work, the mystical masterpiece in six volumes of Persian verses known as the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi '. Alan Williams is Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester and the translator of Spiritual Verses (London, 2006).
Price: $80.00 $88.00 ISBN: 9781788311458 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 448 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Masnavi of Rumi, Book 2: A New Annotated Edition and Translation Jalal al-Din Rumi
A definitive translation of one of the great works of Iranian and world literature, with accompanying Persian text
Description Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma?navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th century AD, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. Long before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's Masnavi has been revered in the Islamic world. Drawing upon a vast array of characters, tales and fables, and deeply versed in religious teaching, it takes us on a rich, profound and playful journey along the Sufi path of divine love, toward its ultimate goal of union with God. In Book 2 of the Masnavi, the second of six volumes, we travel with Rumi toward an understanding of the deeper truth and reality, beyond the limits of the self. Adam William's authoritative new translation is rendered in highly readable blank verse and includes the original Persian text for reference. True to the spirit of Rumi's poem, this new translation establishes the Masnavi as one of the world's great literary achievements for a global readership. Translated and edited with an introduction, notes and Persian text by Alan Williams
About the Author Mowlana Jalaloddin Balkhi (1207-1273), known to the West as Rumi is a Persian poet comparable to the greatest poets of Europe. In 1244, Rumi began the composition of a body (divan) of lyric poems (ghazals) totalling 35,000 verses. In his later years he turned to the composition his most mature and final work, the mystical masterpiece in six volumes of Persian verses known as the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi '. Alan Williams is Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion. He has written nine books and many articles on Iranian Studies, the history of religions, comparative literature and translation studies, including The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan i Denig (Copenhagen, 1990), Spiritual Verses (London, 2006), a study of the Zoroastrian Qe??e-ye Sanjan (Leiden, 2009) and, with S. Stewart and A.Hintze, The Zoroastrian Flame (London, 2016). He was British Academy Wolfson Research Professor 2013-16, and is a holder of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016-19) for his work on Rumi's Masnavi. Price: $80.00 $88.00 ISBN: 9781788313148 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Poetry Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
I.B. Tauris AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 This Is Happiness Niall Williams
The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain
Description The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets for which he needs to atone. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world. Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.
About the Author Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of the Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain and eight other novels including Four Letters of Love, which is set to be a major motion picture. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com
Price: $37.99 $39.99 ISBN: 9781526609335 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 240x162mm Extent: 368 pages Bic1: Fiction & related items Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog Anthony McGowan
Because man's best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too
Description 'We're doing philosophy now, and that means following the argument wherever it leads, like that time you chased a rabbit and ended up with your head stuck in a hole.' Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had a chat about what makes him a good or a bad dog. Taking his lead from Monty's canine antics, McGowan takes us on a hilarious and enlightening jaunt through the major debates of philosophy. Will Kant convince Monty to stop stealing cheesecake? How long will they put up with Socrates poking holes in every argument? In this uniquely entertaining take on morality and ethics, the dutiful duo set out to uncover who if anyone has the right end of the ethical stick and can tell us how best to live one's life.
About the Author Anthony McGowan has a BA, MPhil and PhD in philosophy, and has lectured widely on philosophy and creative writing. As an author for children and young adults he's won many awards, while The Art of Failing, a hilarious account of his life as a writer, was named an Observer Book of the Year. He lives in north London, with his wife, two children and a dog.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781786076748 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Oneworld AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation Miriam Pawel
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century.
Description 'Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century.'--New York Times Book Review California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle's 'Best Books of the Year' List * Publishers Weekly Top Ten History Books for Fall * Berkeleyside Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for NCIBA Golden Poppy Award
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century.
Even in the land of reinvention, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times--and then returned three decades later as the oldest.
In The Browns of California, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance.
The magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos, many published for the first time. This book gives new insights to those steeped in California history, offers a corrective for those who confuse stereotypes and legend for fact, Price: $22.99 $24.99 and opens new vistas for readers familiar with only the sketchiest outlines of a place habitually viewed from afar with a ISBN: 9781632867346 Format: Paperback mix of envy and awe, disdain, and fascination. Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 496 pages About the Author Bic1: History of the Americas Miriam Pawel is the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Bic2: Illustrations: and California Book Award winner, and The Union of Their Dreams Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Previous Titles: Worker Movement. She is a Pulitzer-prize winning editor and reporter who spent twenty-five years at Newsday and the Author now living: Los Angeles Times. She lives in Southern California.
Bloomsbury USA AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Lodger Louisa Treger
The debut novel of Louisa Treger, author of The Dragon Lady
Description Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office and living in a seedy boarding house in Bloomsbury, when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend, Jane. Jane has recently married a writer who is on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him. Bertie appears unremarkable at first. But then Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly signalling approval. He tells her he and Jane have an agreement which allows them the freedom to take lovers, although Dorothy can tell her friend would not be happy with that arrangement. Not wanting to betray Jane, yet unable to draw back Dorothy free-falls into an affair with Bertie. Then a new boarder arrives at the house- beautiful Veronica Leslie-Jones-and Dorothy finds herself caught between Veronica and Bertie. Amidst the personal dramas and wreckage of a militant suffragette march, Dorothy finds her voice as a writer.
About the Author Louisa Treger, a classical violinist, studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and worked as a freelance orchestral player and teacher. She subsequently turned to literature, earning a Ph.D. in English at University College London, where she focused on early-twentieth-century women's writing and was awarded the West Scholarship and the Rosa Morison Scholarship 'for distinguished work in the study of English Language and Literature'. Louisa's first novel, The Lodger, was published by Macmillan in 2014. She lives in London.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781448217717 Format: Paperback - C format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 272 pages Bic1: Historical fiction Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Reader AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Good Funeral Guide: Everything you need to know - Everything you need to know Charles Cowling
This book could change (the end of) your life.
Description The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who:
- needs to arrange a funeral for someone now
- has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent
- wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself
- wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral
- would like to learn about deaths and funerals
Price: $34.99 $36.99 ISBN: 9781472975942 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony Extent: 216 pages and invaluable for those who do. This is a book we will all need - probably at least twice. Bic1: Self-help & personal development Bic2: Illustrations: About the Author Previous Titles: Author now living:
Continuum AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Black's Student Medical Dictionary Harvey Marcovitch
This reference presents over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and conceptswith over 1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations. There are also appendices on complementary and alternative medicines, common medical tests and an address list of support and professional organizations.
Description Black's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years. It is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professionals, students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists. It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations. It also provides helpful appendices on common medical tests and procedures, travel and health, measurements in medicine, health economics, complementary and alternative medicine, and an address list of supporting professional organisations. This new edition contains new material on:
- HPV vaccine: the vaccine now given to all young girls to protect against cervical cancer - Monoclonal Antibodies: the `designer' drugs of the future - The new guidelines for fibroid treatment - Endoscopy and laparoscopy - the more and more widely used types of keyhole surgery - Coronary angioplasty: the emergency treatment of heart attacks - The latest on MRSA and stem cell research
About the Author Editor Dr. Harvey Marcovitch was a consultant paediatrician for 25 years. He edited Europe's premier paediatric scientific journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood, and is now syndication editor for BMJ Publications. He is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Oxford University and an associate member of the General Medical Council.
Price: $29.99 $32.99 ISBN: 9781472975904 Format: Hardcover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 784 pages Bic1: Medicine: general issues Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Information AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Check Your English Vocabulary for Leisure, Travel and Tourism Rawdon Wyatt
This is a useful title for all non-native English speakers wishing to improve their language skills for these hugely popular and expanding industries.
Description This workbook provides exercises to help teach and build English vocabulary relevant to the hotel, tourism and catering industries. It has been written both for students studying towards professional exams and for those who want to improve their specialist communication skills. The material covers general and topic-specific vocabulary, as well as grammar and use of English, comprehension, pronunciation and spelling. Together with the companion Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism (0-7475-7222-4), this workbook provides a complete package to help students improve their specialist English.
About the Author
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781472976123 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 80 pages Bic1: ELT: learning material & coursework Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Bloomsbury Information AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands Rick Jolly
A unique first-hand narrative of the Falklands war. A conflict that inspired individual and collective heroism among British armed forces, inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home, but which also provoked and continues to provoke fierce debate.
Description Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory, hastily converted to treat incoming wounded both British and Argentine even though two unexploded bombs lay at the back of the building. Rick's diary of the campaign and its aftermath is a fast-paced and gripping account of war experience that covers the entire conflict from initial preparations and passage to the South Atlantic on the requisitioned liner Canberra to daily action reports, and observations and interaction with the key players of the conflict Col. H. Jones, Brian Hanrahan, Julian Thompson and Max Hastings. Incredible human stories abound, as Rick, a trained commando, dangles from the rescue winch of a Sea King helicopter, saving lives on a daily basis. Yet he also confronts death in a thoughtful, reflective and considered way, helping others to deal with the trauma of war. Now revised and brought fully up to date, this book is a unique first-hand narrative of a conflict that inspired individual and collective heroism among British armed forces, inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home, but which also provoked and continues to provoke fierce debate.
About the Author Rick Jolly was a former RM doctor. His first book told the story of the medical base at Ajax Bay in the Falkland Islands, which he commanded throughout the 1982 campaign. A legendary figure in the Navy, 'Doc' Jolly remains the only serviceman to be decorated by both sides: he received an OBE from the Queen and the Oficial Orden de Mayo from the Argentine Government. Rick was also the founding chairman of the South Atlantic Medal Association for Falklands veterans. He died in 2018. Price: $22.99 $24.99 ISBN: 9781472841384 Format: Paperback - B format Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 320 pages Bic1: Warfare & defence Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Nelson's Navy Brian Lavery
The perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet.
Description Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable and is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy the book contains considerable original research to give a clear and authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. With a foreword by one of the most successful maritime fiction authors of the current age, the book is also of interest to all those with enthusiasm for the literature based on the Nelsonic-era.
About the Author Brian Lavery is one of Britain's leading naval historians and a prolific author. A Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and a renowned expert on the sailing navy and the Royal Navy, in 2007 he won the prestigious Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award. His naval writing was further honoured in 2008 with the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal. His recent titles include Ship (2006), Royal Tars (2010), Conquest of the Ocean (2013), In Which They Served (2008), Churchill's Navy (2006), and the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Seas (2010).
Price: $74.99 $79.99 ISBN: 9781472841353 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 336 pages Bic1: Naval forces & warfare Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Osprey AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Reeds Vol 15: Electronics, Navigational Aids and Radio Theory for Electrotechnical Officers Steve Richards
This book is the essential text for students undertaking an ETO course leading to examinations in electronic principles, navigational aids and radio maintenance.
Description Divided into three sections, the book covers the complete syllabus for Electrotechnology Officers as specified by the Association of Marine Electronic and Radio Colleges (AMERC), with a series of worked examples and self-study questions to assist in student understanding. The book introduces basic electronics, the theory of how a range of navigational aids works, and radio communications including GMDSS. Fault finding to component and sub system level is also included. Importantly, this is the first textbook to be aimed primarily at ETOs, covering the changes to the STCW 2010. An essential buy.
About the Author Steve Richards is Senior Lecturer in Electrotechnology and Instrumentation & Control at Warsash Maritime Academy at Southampton Solent University, UK.
Price: $75.00 $85.00 ISBN: 9781472975287 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 200 pages Bic1: Electrical engineering Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Adlard Coles Nautica AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Mammals of Sri Lanka Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne
A neat series of truly portable guides designed for the nature-loving traveller.
Description A compact, easy-to-use mammal identification guide for any nature watcher on a visit to Sri Lanka. More than 40 species are described here in detail, from the Grey Slender Loris to the Giant Squirrel and the Fishing Cat. All of these animals are clearly illustrated in a collection of specially commissioned colour photographs. With more than 130 full-colour photographs, a regional distribution map and handy tips on the best localities for spotting animals. Illustrated with clear colour photography and brief but authoritative descriptions the Pocket Photo Guides highlight the species of animals from each region that the traveller is most likely to see, as well as those that are truly endemic (only to be seen in that country or region) or special rarities. The genuine pocket size allow the books to be carried around on trips and excursions and will take up minimal rucksack and suitcase space.
About the Author Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne has been passionate about Sri Lanka's wildlife since the age of three when he went on his first leopard safari in Yala. He has authored and photographed more than 300 articles for national and international newspapers and magazines on Sri Lankan biodiversity, travel and business topics along with 15 books.
Price: $19.99 $22.99 ISBN: 9781472975980 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 128 pages Bic1: Wildlife: mammals Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
Helm Ornithonoly AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Luxury and Visual Culture John Armitage
A wide-ranging examination of luxury in contemporary consumer culture that crosses a variety of fields, from haute couture to sumptuous works of art, fashion photography to luxury brands on social media
Description From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or rather the look of things? In this first study of luxury through the lens of visual culture, Armitage argues that luxury is undergoing a shift from material culture to the immaterial culture of the visual, offering new forms of luxury engagement and unparalleled levels of pleasure never before offered to the senses. Calling for a new understanding of luxury in the changing visual landscape of contemporary society, Luxury and Visual Culture embraces an extraordinary range of cultural forms, including fashion, photography, social media, television, and art. From the masterpieces of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, to Richard Avedon's photography and Louis Vuitton's Flagship stores, the book explores key issues of globalization, digitization, consumer identity, 'mass' luxury, and the role of art. This text is ideal for all students of contemporary luxury studies, as well as scholars and researchers in the field of visual culture.
About the Author John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is coeditor, with Joanne Roberts, of The Third Realm of Luxury: Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces (2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Culture.
Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781474239530 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Fashion & textiles: design Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Visual Arts AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Keep Your Brain without Losing Your Heart Bryan Hall
A one of a kind introduction to ethics that uses a zombie outbreak to provide a fresh approach to thinking about and responding to a variety of moral problems.
Description When your base camp is overrun by zombies, whom do you save if you cannot save everyone? Is it permissible to sacrifice one survivor to an undead horde in order to save a greater number of the living? Do you have obligations to loved ones who have turned?
These are some of the troubling ethical questions you might face in a zombie apocalypse. Bryan Hall uses situations like these to creatively introduce the foundational theories of moral philosophy. Covering major thinkers such as Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, this is an introduction to Ethics like no other: a practical guidebook for surviving a zombie outbreak with your humanity intact. It shows you why moral reasoning matters as long as you still walk among the living.
The book is written entirely from the perspective of someone struggling to survive in a world overrun by the undead. Each chapter begins with graphic art and a 'field exercise' that uses a story from this world to illustrate an ethical problem. By considering moral controversies through the unfamiliar context of a zombie apocalypse, the morally irrelevant factors that get in the way of resolving these controversies are removed and you can better answer questions such as:
e Do we have a moral obligation to help those less fortunate than ourselves? e Is it ever morally permissible to intentionally kill an innocent person? e Are non-rational but sentient beings morally considerable?
Equipped with further reading sections and overviews of the theories that you would usually cover in an introductory Ethics course, this one-of-a-kind primer critically evaluates different procedures for moral action that you can use not only Price: $90.00 $99.00 to survive but flourish in an undead world. ISBN: 9781350083615 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm About the Author Extent: 256 pages Bryan Hall is Dean of the College of Contemporary Liberal Studies and Professor of Liberal Arts at Regis University, USA. Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene Patricia MacCormack
A radical political and philosophical manifesto defending and promoting a new term, the Ahuman.
Description We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of 'human' into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the 'ahuman'. An alternative to 'posthuman' thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn't dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning. In order to suggest vitalistic, perhaps even optimistic, ways to negotiate some of the difficulties in thinking and acting in the world, this book explores five key contemporary themes: e Identity e Spirituality e Art e Death e The apocalypse Collapsing activism, artistic practice and affirmative ethics, while introducing some radical contemporary ideas and addressing specifically modern phenomena like death cults, intersectional identity politics and capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of 'zombiedom', The Ahuman Manifesto navigates the ways in which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege. This is so that we can actively think and live viscerally, with connectivity (actual not virtual), and with passion and grace, toward a new world.
About the Author Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the author of Cinesexuality (2008), Post-Human Ethics (2012) and editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury, 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (2017) and the upcoming Ecophilosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2018). Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781350081093 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Ethics & moral philosophy Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Labels: Making Independent Music Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward
The first book dedicated to the study of record labels established in the digital music era of the 21st century, based on interviews with industry insiders and covering cutting-edge music scenes from around the globe.
Description The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive, but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful, and to whom? Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward show how labels act as taste-makers and scene-markers that not only curate music, but project cultural values which challenge the mainstream capitalist music industry. Focusing mostly on labels that entered independent electronic music after 2000, the authors reconstruct their aesthetics and ethics. The book draws on multiple interviews with labels such as Ostgut Ton in Berlin, Argot in Chicago, 100% Silk in Los Angeles, Ninja Tune in London, and Goma Gringa in Sao Paulo. Written by the authors of Vinyl, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contemporary recording industry, independent music, material culture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.
About the Author Dominik Bartmanski works in the Sociology Department at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Ian Woodward is Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Price: $110.00 $121.00 ISBN: 9781474280464 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 240 pages Bic1: Music Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Academic UK AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture edited by Molly O'Donnell & Anne Stevens
Microgenres: A Quick Survey presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper- specific.
Description Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry... microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life. Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term 'microgenre' classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- 'independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead' - - that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.
About the Author Molly C. O'Donnell is an instructor in the Department of English at James Madison University, USA. She was the recipient of the Gaskell Journal Joan Leach Memorial Prize (2016), and her work has appeared in publications like Victoriographies and the Norton anthology.
Anne H. Stevens is the author of British Historical Fiction before Scott (2010) and Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction (2015). She is chair of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies and professor of English at the University
Price: $160.00 $176.00 of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. ISBN: 9781501345814 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 224 pages Bic1: Literary theory Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro Mila Burns
A book-length investigation of the album Sorriso Negro (1982) by Dona Ivone Lara, a pathbreaking black woman in the heavily masculine world of samba.
Description More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro (translated to Black Smile) is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the 'Opening' that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles introduced notions of civil rights and feminist thought to a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also happened to be composed by a black woman), Mila Burns explores the pathbreaking career of Dona Ivone, tracing the ways in which she navigated the tense gender and race relations of the samba universe to ultimately conquer the masculine world of samba composers. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music- basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
About the Author Mila Burns is a Brazilian journalist, anthropologist, and historian. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College (CUNY), USA, and the author of Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (2009). She is a reporter and anchor at TV Globo.
Price: $130.00 $143.00 ISBN: 9781501324482 Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 144 pages Bic1: Music reviews & criticism Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
BLM Acad US AUSTRALIA DECEMBER 2019 Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry, and New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers & Lisa Perrott
A look at the signature styles of well-known film and music video directors such as David Lynch, Wes Anderson, and Baz Luhrmann in their relationship to sound, music, and image.
Description Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's em/impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new contemporary aesthetics. The media they engage with enrich their practices through film and television (with its potential for world-building and sense of the past and future), music video (with its audiovisual aesthetics and rhythm), commercials (with their ability to project a message quickly) and the internet (with its refreshed concepts of audience and participation), to larger forms like restaurants and amusement parks (with their materiality alongside today's digital aesthetics). These directors encourage us to reassess concepts of authorship, assemblage, transmedia, audiovisual aesthetics and world-building.
Providing a vital resource for scholars and practitioners, this collection weaves together insights about artist-practitioners' collaborative processes as well as strategies for composition, representation, subversion and resistance.
About the Author Carol Vernallis is Affiliated Researcher in Music at Stanford University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Music at University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Experiencing Music Video (2004) and Unruly Media (2013) and co- editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013). Holly Rogers is Reader in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013) and editor of Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014) and The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017). Lisa Perrott is Senior Lecturer and Programme Convener of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Price: $195.00 $215.00 Zealand. Her publications include Navigating with the Blackstar: The Mediality of David Bowie (special issue of Celebrity ISBN: 9781501339271 Studies, 2019) and David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom (2019), both co-edited with Ana Cristina Mendes. Format: Hard Cover Dimensions: 0x0mm Extent: 304 pages Bic1: Individual film directors, film-makers Bic2: Illustrations: Previous Titles: Author now living:
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