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Shakespeare’s First Folio
SHAKESPEARE’S QUARTERCENTENARY APRIL 2016
Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
EMMA SMITH
The story of one of the most important limited editions of all time
There have been countless biographies of Shakespeare. Emma Smith offers us something
different but just as interesting: a biography of the book that ensured the playwright’s
continuing fame – the first collected edition of his plays, printed in 1623 and known as
the First Folio. Just over a quarter of the number printed are still in circulation today.
Emma Smith has conducted a huge amount of research to discover the histories of these
surviving volumes, and to decode the evidence within the books to discover what they
have meant to their various owners.
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Ink blots and pet paw marks, notes in the margins and wineglass rings, grease spots and
doodles show us that the First Folios have certainly not always been treasured items kept
locked in a casket. They have been under auctioneers’ hammers, stocked on booksellers’
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See also Shakespeare’s Comedies:
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shelves, coveted by collectors, forged by counterfeiters, studied by scholars, pored over by
actors learning their lines – and each has left their mark. The volumes have travelled all over
the world, been stolen and become the subject of lurid headlines, been secreted in vaults,
lain unnoticed on shelves, and been sold at every price from £1 to more than £3 million.
This is a compelling new way to look at Shakespeare through the many kinds of value
his greatest work has accrued – literary, cultural, national, dramatic, economic, and, of
course, personal.
PR: Chloe Foster
About the Author
EMMA SMITH has been a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and Lecturer in
the Faculty of English since 1997. Before that she was at Somerville and All
Souls, Oxford and at New Hall (now Murray Edwards), Cambridge. She has
published and lectured widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and
on the reception of Shakespeare.
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Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean
Pronunciation
DAVID CRYSTAL
The first book to offer a comprehensive guide to Shakespearean original
pronunciation
The way words are pronounced in the works of Shakespeare has long caused puzzlement
and controversy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream ‘gone’ rhymes with ‘alone’, ‘anon’,
‘moane’, ‘none’, ‘on’, ‘Oberon’, and ‘upon’. Elsewhere ‘war’ rhymes with ‘jar’ and ‘far’ but
never with ‘more’ and ‘shore’.
David Crystal brings insight, advice, and aid with this new dictionary which represents the very
first comprehensive description of Shakespearean Original Pronunciation (OP). The heart of
the book is a complete set of the words that appear in the First Folio. There are well over
15,000 entries, and each features
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• the recommended pronunciation, transcribed using the International Phonetic Alphabet
• alternative pronunciations
• alternative spellings in the First Folio (with a frequency count for each variant)
• any rhymes and puns it is associated with (fully cited)
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978-0-19-966842-7
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How have the decisions been arrived at? In an extensive and illuminating introduction, Crystal
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gives a full account of the evidence, together with a history of the OP movement and the ways in
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which it is being used in productions of Shakespeare, and other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers.
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DAVID CRYSTAL is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer,
and broadcaster on language. His writings on Shakespeare include
Pronouncing Shakespeare, Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s
Languages, and with Ben Crystal Shakespeare’s Words, The Shakespeare
Miscellany, and the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary.
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Shakespeare’s Money
How much did he make and what did this mean?
ROBERT BEARMAN, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
How rich was the Bard?
Money was always important in Shakespeare’s life. But how much did he actually make
from his writing, and what does this tell us about the man, his career, his standing with
his contemporaries, and his position – and that of his family – in Elizabethan society?
Robert Bearman calculates, for the very first time, the Bard’s income from theatrical
sources. The result affords us a new perspective on Shakespeare that helps us come to a
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216x138 mm, AE
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better understanding of his social standing at different periods of his life. This groundbreaking work shows our greatest writer in a new light – as a man comfortably off, but
neither possessed of the great wealth that some have claimed, nor one who ever truly
attained the rank of gentleman.
PR: Chloe Foster
Shakespeare’s Binding Language
JOHN KERRIGAN, University of Cambridge
Promises and pledges, oaths, and imprecations
This remarkable book explores the significance in Shakespeare’s plays of oaths, vows,
contracts, pledges, and other such utterances and acts. In early modern England such binding
language was everywhere, and so this was the way in which Shakespeare’s characters
committed themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. Oaths of office,
marriage vows, legal bonds, and casual, everyday profanity gave shape and texture to life.
Across the sweep of Shakespeare’s career, from the early histories to the late romances,
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John Kerrigan’s exploration of this binding language both opens new perspectives on key
dramatic moments and illuminates language and action, giving us a truly transformative
account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays.
PR: Chloe Foster
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Keeping Their Marbles
How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – And
Why They Should Stay There
TIFFANY JENKINS
The new culture wars
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its
museums, so that visitors to the British Museum, the Louvre, and the New York Metropolitan –
to name but a few – can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages.
But all this came at a huge cost. From the Napoleonic campaigns that filled the Louvre with
Egyptian artefacts, to the plunder that accompanied British imperialism across the globe,
the amazing collections in the West’s great museums were wrenched from their original
contexts by means that often amounted to theft. Now the countries from which they came
want them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is only the tip of
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an iceberg that includes a host of historical artefacts, from the Benin Bronzes to the Bust
of Nefertiti.
In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of
how the West came to acquire its treasures. She analyses why museums have become the
target for repatriation claims in recent times and controversially argues that artefacts
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234x156 mm, TA
978-0-19-965759-9
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should remain where they are – in the museums of the West – and should not be returned
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knowledge are threatened by claims over ownership, and re-makes the case for the
museum, contending that precious artefacts belong in museums wherever they may be,
because: ‘No one culture owns culture’.
PR: Anna Silva
About the Author
TIFFANY JENKINS is a writer, cultural sociologist, and regular commentator on
social and cultural issues, with a weekly column in The Scotsman. In 2014,
she presented the Radio 4 programme Beauty and the Brain, which examined
what brain science can tell us about art.
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Democracy
A Life
PAUL CARTLEDGE
The 2,500-year story of people power
Democracy as a system of government is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a
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and what the Greeks would have understood by it.
Democracy: A Life is the first biography of the concept. It looks at democracy’s many
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and then describes the long, slow degradation of the original Greek conception and
practice of democracy through the Roman era to early Byzantium in the sixth century CE.
Democracy had to wait over two thousand years after its first flowering in the ancient world
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to be revived. Initially rekindled in seventeenth-century England, it was to undergo a
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and France – and has been constantly reconstituted and reinvented ever since.
Many books are written about democracy in its ancient and its modern manifestations, but
ALSO BY PAUL CARTLEDGE
this is the very first to explore the important differences between the two, enabling us to
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self
and Others
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reach a richer understanding of this pre-eminent political idea.
Ancient Greece: A Very Short
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After Thermopylae
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About the Author
PAUL CARTLEDGE was the inaugural A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture
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course of his distinguished career he has written and edited numerous books.
He was the historical consultant for the acclaimed BBC television series The
Greeks, and for four Channel 4 documentaries including The Spartans.
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Edited by JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM
The essential guide to understanding the history behind the world’s
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Modern Chinese history is richly interesting but largely unknown to most in the West. Few
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higher than the roughly contemporaneous American Civil War.
Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom leads a team of China experts in one of the first major efforts
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history. They take readers from the origins of modern China with the founding of the Qing
dynasty in 1644 right up through the dramatic events of the last few years – the Beijing
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Lavishly illustrated, the volume helps readers see in new ways the more familiar landmarks
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in Chinese history, such as the Opium War, the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to power of
the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen protests and Beijing Massacre of
1989. It will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower,
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CONTRIBUTORS: Anne Gerritsen, Stephen R. Platt, Robert Bickers, Peter Zarrow,
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June 2016
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ALSO BY JEFFERY WASSERSTROM:
China in the 21st Century:
What Everyone Needs to Know
Pb, 978-0-19-997496-2, £10.99
PR: Anna Silva
See also Modern China: A Very Short
Introduction by Rana Mitter, page 63,
and more books on modern China on
pages 27-8.
© Steven Zylius
About the Editor
JEFFREY WASSERSTROM is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University
of California, Irvine, and Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. A co-founder of
the influential China Beat blog, he co-edits the Asia section of the Los Angeles
Review of Books. A member of the Board of Directors of the National
Committee on US-China Relations, he has been travelling to China regularly
since the 1980s.
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Menagerie
The History of Exotic Animals in England
CAROLINE GRIGSON, UCL Institute of Archaeology (Honorary)
Extravagant, eccentric, and even downright bizarre – the story of exotic animals in Britain
From Henry III’s elephant to George IV’s love affair with Britain’s first giraffe, and Lady
Castlereagh’s recalcitrant ostriches, zoologist Caroline Grigson gives us the first detailed
history of exotic animals in Britain. We encounter a panoply of outlandish creatures, including
the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More’s monkey, James I’s cassowaries in St James’s
Park, and Lord Clive’s zebra. We meet, too, the people who owned these extraordinary beasts,
January 2016
Hardback
400 pp, 8 pages of colour plates,
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234x153 mm, TA
978-0-19-871470-5
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the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen who carried them, the naturalists who
wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with
them, the collectors who collected them, and above all those – from kings and queens to
ordinary men, women, and children – who simply came to see and wonder at them.
PR: Anna Silva
This Mortal Coil
The Human Body in History and Culture
FAY BOUND ALBERTI, Queen Mary University of London
The first cultural history of our key organs and systems
The way that our bodies move, feel, breathe, and engage with the world has been viewed very
differently across times and cultures, just as the way we understand the material structure of
the body has also changed radically. From the bones to the skin, from the senses to the
organs of sexual reproduction, our relationship to each part of the body has an ever-changing
June 2016
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304 pp, 12 black-and-white halftones,
234x156 mm, TA
978-0-19-959903-5
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See also The Body: A Very Short
Introduction, page 62.
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history. This Mortal Coil is an exploration of that history from earliest times to the twenty-first
century. From ‘Beauty and the Breast’ to ‘Mind the Brain’ and from ‘Getting it Straight’ to
‘Tongue-Tied?’, Fay Bound Alberti tells the cultural history of our key organs and systems from
the inside out.
PR: Anna Silva
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Images of the Ice Age
NEW EDITION
PAUL G. BAHN, independent researcher
The most comprehensive guide to the world’s earliest artistic imagery
Paul Bahn led the team that discovered the first Ice Age cave art in Britain. Lavishly
illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs and highly accessible, Images of the Ice
Age takes his classic work on prehistoric art throughout the world, and radically updates it.
The third edition includes discoveries made during the last two decades, including the
expanding phenomenon of open-air Ice Age art, and information gathered from advanced
dating methods which have revolutionized our knowledge of how cave art was created.
Bahn also reveals his own view of the possible function of Ice Age art based on forty years
of experience in the field.
PR: Anna Silva
February 2016
Hardback
496 pp, 350 colour illustrations,
246x189 mm, TA
978-0-19-968600-1
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Luxury
A Rich History
PETER MCNEIL, University of Technology, Sydney and Stockholm University,
and GIORGIO RIELLO, University of Warwick
From Roman villas to Russian oligarchs
We live in a world obsessed by luxury, but the worship of extravagance is no recent phenomenon.
Egyptian alabaster make-up urns and Roman rock crystal perfume flasks were the last word in
luxury in the ancient world, while through the ages conspicuous consumption has been
represented in gorgeous clothes, ornate buildings, extravagant interior decor, luxury travel, costly
entertainments, fabulous food and drink, and much more. This is the first global history of luxury,
from the decadence of ancient Rome to the sumptuous court of Louis XIV, the opulence of Mughal
India to the wonders of the Renaissance. It brings the story up to date by looking at today’s global
rich, and how Asia and Latin America are pursuing their share of the world’s luxuries.
May 2016
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336 pp, 64 black-and-white halftones,
234x156 mm, TA
978-0-19-966324-8
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PR: Anna Silva
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The Hellenistic Age
PETER THONEMANN, Wadham College, Oxford
Discover the most exhilarating period of ancient history
The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander the Great are perhaps the
most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely
over vast areas, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander’s great empire. Drawing
on inscriptions, papyri, coinage, poetry, art, and archaeology, Peter Thonemann introduces
readers to the vast wonders of this rich, globalized Hellenistic world, where a single
language could carry you from the Rhône to the Indus, where scientists of Ptolemaic
April 2016
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176 pp, 17 black-and-white halftones, TA
978-0-19-875901-0
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Alexandria measured the circumference of the earth, and where pioneering Greek argonauts
explored the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic coast of Africa.
PR: Anna Silva
See also Hellenistic Lives by Plutarch,
page 57.
The Treasures of Alexander the Great
How One Man’s Wealth Changed the World
FRANK L. HOLT, University of Houston
Plunder, pillage and the spoils of war
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire in the late fourth century BC. For all of
its savagery and the extensive plundering of Persian wealth that took place, many
historians believe that Alexander’s triumph liberated the moribund resources of the East.
But is this true? Frank Holt puts the contention to the test by exploring the kinds and
quantities of treasure seized by the Macedonian king, from gold and silver to land and
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slaves. He reveals what became of this wealth, and what Alexander’s redistribution of these
vast resources can tell us about his much-disputed policies and personality. He also forces
us to reassess the notion that Alexander the Great used the profits of war to improve the
ancient economies in the lands that he conquered.
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Napoleon
A Concise Biography
DAVID A. BELL, Princeton University
The first reliable, concise biography of Napoleon in half a century
By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European
history. At thirty, he had become absolute master of Europe’s most powerful country. In his
early forties, he ruled a European empire more powerful than any since Rome, fighting wars
that changed the shape of the continent and brought death to millions.
David Bell’s lively, colourful, and highly readable portrait, based on the most up-to-date
scholarship, sets him firmly against the backdrop of the French Revolution, and explains
how the Revolution made possible much of what Napoleon achieved. Yet, as Bell shows,
Napoleon betrayed much of the Revolution’s heritage of liberty and equality, and ruled as a
virtual dictator.
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January 2016
Hardback
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See also Shadows of Revolution
by David A. Bell, page 20.
Eisenhower’s Guerillas
The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France
BENJAMIN F. JONES, Dakota State University
American Special Forces’ vital role in Operation Overlord
In the run-up to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Allies depended on French
guerrillas and partisans, but transforming highly independent resistance groups into a
fighting force was a formidable task. The situation was further complicated by Roosevelt’s
refusal to support the Free French government, or to give key details of Operation Overlord.
It was into this storm of mistrust and confusion that General Eisenhower sent the
Jedburghs, teams of young Special Forces who played a crucial role behind enemy lines,
one of whose members was William Colby, future director of the CIA. This is the exciting
story of the Jedburghs, a riveting account of their part in the battle for France, and the
political complexities that threatened to undermine the operation from within.
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The Rising
CENTENARY EDITION
Ireland: Easter 1916
FEARGHAL MCGARRY, Queen’s University Belfast
‘A very readable, yet historically important book.’ Mary E. Daly, The Irish Times
The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin, it changed the
course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this
extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims?
Fearghal McGarry’s important work answers many of the questions that have divided
historians of modern Ireland. He looks at the rising from the perspective of those who made
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it, focusing on the experiences of rank-and-file revolutionaries, and exploiting a unique and
recently released collection of over 1,700 eye-witness statements. Published to mark the
centenary of the Easter Rising, this edition also includes a new preface reflecting on its
importance as a symbol of Irish nationhood in the twenty-first century.
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Ireland’s Exiled Children
Ireland’s Exiled
Children
America and the 1916 Easter Rising
ROBERT SCHMUHL, University of Notre Dame
How much did the Easter Rising owe to the American Revolution?
The American Revolution and the struggle for Irish independence share a number of
similarities – separation from Great Britain took several years to achieve, it required
revolutionary warfare, and it tested long-established allegiances. Yet few historians
have considered the extent to which the roots of the Easter Rising grew in American soil.
Robert Schmuhl offers the first focused study of the United States’ role in the Easter
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uprising and the event’s significance in the evolution of Irish America. He captures the
complexities of American politics, Irish-Americanism, and Anglo-American relations in the
unprecedented war and post-war circumstances. This is an important contribution to a
much-neglected aspect of the struggle for Irish independence.
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Churchill and Ireland
PAUL BEW, Queen’s University Belfast
The first major study of Churchill’s lifelong engagement with Ireland
Winston Churchill spent his early years in Ireland, had Irish relatives, and was himself much
involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously,
yet, in the fifty years since his death, there has not been a single major book on his
relationship to the country. Distinguished historian of Ireland, Paul Bew at long last puts
this right, telling the full story of Churchill’s connection with the country, from his childhood
in Dublin to his gradual rapprochement with his old enemy Eamon de Valera towards the
end of his life. As this long overdue book points out, Ireland was the first piece in the
Churchill jigsaw and, in some respects, also the last.
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ALREADY PUBLISHED
The Oxford History of
Ireland
Sport and Ireland
Modern Ireland
Ireland
A History
A Very Short Introduction
Edited by R. F. FOSTER
PAUL ROUSE
SENIA PASETA
The Politics of Enmity
1789-2006
368 pages, pb, 978-0-19-280202-6,
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£7.99, TE, 2003
PAUL BEW
640 pages, pb, 978-0-19-956126-1,
£27.49, AE, 2009
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the
First World War
NEW IN PAPERBACK
HEW STRACHAN, University of St Andrews
‘A truly modern perspective on the First World War that breaks the bounds of the parochial
and national debate.’ Times Literary Supplement
The First World War still shapes the world in which we live: its legacy lives on in poetry, in
prose, in collective memory, and in political culture. Hew Strachan brings together many of the
most distinguished historians of the First World War in a single volume that provides an
account that matches the scale of the events. They chart both the military course of the war
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and its profound political and human consequences, from the trenches of Flanders to the
deserts of the Middle East. This new edition includes more than forty new illustrations, and
features additional chapters on the strategy of the Central Powers, the role of women in the
war, mutinies and military morale, and post-war conflicts in the years immediately after 1918.
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See also Margot Asquith's Great War Diary
1914-1916, page 20.
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The University of Oxford
A History
L. W. B. BROCKLISS, University of Oxford
The definitive one-volume work on the university
This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from
its beginnings in the eleventh century to the present day. Written by one of the leading
authorities on the history of universities internationally, it traces Oxford’s improbable rise
from provincial backwater to a position as one of the world’s leading centres of research
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and teaching.
Professor Brockliss places Oxford’s history in the wider context of the history of higher
education globally. This helps to show how singular Oxford’s evolution has been a story not
of entitlement but of hard work, difficult decisions, and a creative use of limited resources
and advantages to keep its destiny in its own hands.
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H I S TO RY
Theodora
Marie von Clausewitz
Bad Queen Bess?
Actress, Empress, Saint
The Woman Behind the
Making of On War
Libels, Secret Histories, and
the Politics of Publicity in the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
DAVID POTTER, University of
Michigan
The story of one of history’s most
intriguing and powerful women
VANYA EFTIMOVA BELLINGER,
independent scholar
PETER LAKE, Vanderbilt University
The first biography of Clausewitz’s
influential wife
Smears and slander at the
Elizabethan court
influential women in Byzantine history.
The marriage between Carl von Clausewitz
Through libellous secret histories to
Raised in a family of circus performers, it
and Countess Marie von Brühl was a
English political discourse, various
was as an actress that she caught the
remarkable intellectual partnership.
(usually anonymous) Catholic authors
Theodora became one of the most
attention of the future emperor Justinian,
Marie played an important role in many
claimed to reveal to the public what was
with whom she later ruled the Byzantine
aspects of her husband’s greatest work,
‘really happening’ at the Elizabethan
Empire. David Potter provides a uniquely
On War. Highly intelligent, politically
court. Elements at court, centred on
comprehensive new account of the life
engaged, and an intimate of the royal
William Cecil and his circle, responded in
and times of this important historical
family, she was undoubtedly an
kind. Peter Lake provides the first
figure, whose story will continue to
impressive figure in her own right. Vanya
comprehensive account of the role of the
intrigue scholars and others fascinated
Eftimova Bellinger draws upon the recent
plot talk, conspiracy theory, and libellous
by Byzantine history.
discovery of a vast archive of material –
secret history that was exchanged, and
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including hundreds of previously
the effect this had on the political,
unknown letters between husband and
cultural, intellectual, and religious
wife – to give us the first comprehensive
history of the time, both in England and
biography of Marie von Clausewitz.
in Europe.
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Fall of the Sultanate
The Great War and the End
of the Ottoman Empire
1908-1922
RYAN GINGERAS, Naval Postgraduate
School
The downfall of one of the greatest
of all empires
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Margot
Asquith’s Great War
Diary 1914-1916
The View from Downing
Street
Edited by MICHAEL BROCK and
ELEANOR BROCK
‘Sharply observant, witty, tactless,
Shadows of
Revolution
Reflections on France, Past
and Present
DAVID A. BELL, Princeton University
Collected for the first time – major
essays by a leading historian of
France
The Ottoman Empire finally collapsed
idiosyncratic, lacking in judgment,
David Bell is acknowledged as one of the
after six hundred years in 1922; its death
acerbic… Margot Asquith, was a peerless
great modern historians of France.
throes encompassed wars, insurrections,
diarist…Superb’. Juliet Gardiner
Published in the New Republic, New York
and revolutions. Following on from his
This is a Downing Street diary with a
Review of Books, and London Review of
acclaimed Sorrowful Shores, Ryan Gingeras
difference. Margot Asquith was the wife
Books, these essays were written over
describes the political, economic, social,
of Prime Minister Asquith who led Britain
the course of more than fifteen years,
and international forces that brought
to war in August 1914 but was forced
each in response to a new book or
about the passing of the Ottoman state.
from office in 1916. Her wonderful diary
political event. They reflect in different
This is a retelling of history seen through
teems with character sketches, including
ways upon how the political and cultural
the eyes of those who lived it – we learn,
Lloyd George (‘a natural adventurer who
patterns first set in the age of the French
for the first time, the whole story of how
may make or mar himself any day’),
Revolution continue to resonate, not just
and why imperial rule ended in
Churchill (‘Winston’s vanity is septic'),
in France, but throughout the world.
bloodshed and disillusionment.
and Kitchener (‘a man brutal by nature
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and by pose’).
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See also Napoleon by
David A. Bell, page 15.
H I S TO RY
The Great Fear
Stalin’s Terror of the 1930s
JAMES HARRIS, University of Leeds
The first major new work on Stalin’s
Terror for nearly 20 years
Stalin’s
Curse
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Battling for Communism in
War and Cold War
ROBERT GELLATELY, Florida State
University
James Harris presents a highly original
picture of Stalin’s Great Terror based on
newly revealed intelligence materials in
Russian archives. Between 1936 and
‘It has a good claim to be the best
period in Russian history.’ The Economist
‘An outstanding work…a compelling
people were executed or imprisoned. Few
narrative of deception, brutality,
of those punished were guilty, and the
foolishness and betrayed idealism.’
Vladimir Tismaneanu,
result of the carnage was that industry
Times Higher Education Supplement
A groundbreaking work in a fastgrowing field
Global history looks for the common
patterns and themes that emerge across
all cultures. The Prospect of Global
History is an important new work in this
growing field. Its chapters range from
historical sociology to economic history,
from medieval to modern times, from
depleted, and the Soviet state teetered
This is the story of how Stalin ruthlessly
on the brink of not being able to function
built his ‘Red Empire’, and what inspired
at all. In short, as Harris demonstrates,
him to do so. Using a wealth of
the Terror was wholly destructive.
previously unavailable documentation,
Robert Gellately shows that, far from
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Edited by JAMES BELICH,
JOHN DARWIN, MARGRET FRENZ,
and CHRIS WICKHAM, all University
of Oxford
single-volume account of the darkest
1938, over one-and-three-quarter million
ground to a standstill, the army became
The Prospect of
Global History
European expansion to constitutional
history, and from the United States across
South Asia to China. It will be a must-read
book for everyone involved in this
exciting new approach to history.
being a latter day 'Red Tsar', Stalin had a
deep-seated and lifelong ideological
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commitment to spreading Communism.
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Women
and the Vote
NEW IN PAPERBACK
A World History
JAD ADAMS, University of London
‘The collective story of thousands of
The American President
From Teddy Roosevelt to
Bill Clinton
half breathless adventure.’
Melissa Benn, New Statesman
Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the
world had the vote in a national election
– a century later almost all countries had
enfranchised women. This is the story of
how this momentous change came
about. The first genuinely global history
of women and the vote, it takes the story
of women in politics from the earliest
times to the present day, revealing
startling new connections across time
and national boundaries – from Europe
and North America to Africa, and the
Muslim world post-9/11.
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Go-Betweens for Hitler
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knuckle anxiety as Soviet vessels
approach an American naval blockade in
Agincourt
ANNE CURRY
the Atlantic; Richard Nixon conspiring to
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suppress evidence of the Watergate
break-in; grievously wounded Ronald
Contagious Communities
Reagan quipping with nurses while
Medicine, Migration, and the NHS
in Post War Britain
fighting for his life; Bill Clinton seeking to
ROBERTA BIVINS
survive his affair with Monica Lewinsky…
The American President is a riveting
account of the actions of American
presidents in the twentieth century from
the assassination of McKinley in 1901 to
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The Oxford Illustrated History
of World War Two
KARINA URBACH
John F. Kennedy coping with white-
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SUSAN DORAN
RICHARD OVERY
As the race to the White House
begins discover the best – and worst
– of 20th-century presidents
Clinton’s last night in office in 2001.
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
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WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
tenacious battlers, clamouring for a place
in the seats of power…half encyclopaedia,
BESTSELLING HISTORY BOOKS
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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
Blood Oil
Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
LEIF WENAR
Lift the world’s resource curse with clean trade policies
Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the
world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression,
while militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend it on radicalization and ammunition. Resourcefuelled authoritarians and extremists present endless crises to the West – and the source of
their resource power is ultimately ordinary consumers doing their everyday shopping.
One of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar reveals how a hidden global rule
that once licensed the slave trade, apartheid, and genocide now licenses tyranny, war, and
terrorism through today’s multi-trillion dollar resource trade. He shows how the West can
lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, and by getting
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consumers out of business with the men of blood. He gives practical strategies for
choosing new rules that will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, and
better able to solve pressing global problems like climate change. Citizens, consumers and
leaders can act together today to create a more united human future.
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Advance praise:
‘Philosophers rarely write big books that could change the world, but Blood Oil is such
a book.’ Peter Singer
‘Courageous and forceful…a serious and urgent appeal to the conscience of the West.’
ALSO BY LEIF WENAR
Giving Well: The Ethics of
Philanthropy (co-ed.)
PB, 978-0-19-995858-0, £21.49
Rowan Williams
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About the Author
LEIF WENAR holds the Chair of Ethics at King’s College London. After
earning his Bachelor’s degree from Stanford, he went to Harvard to study
with John Rawls, and wrote his doctoral thesis on property rights with
Robert Nozick and T. M. Scanlon.
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Slippery Slope
Europe’s Troubled Future
GILES MERRITT
A hard-hitting analysis of Europe’s vulnerabilities and the EU’s challenges
Giles Merritt describes himself as a ‘sceptical europhile’. For many years he was among the
leading journalists covering contemporary European politics, and he is still at the forefront
of thinking on European issues. His new book, Slippery Slope will set alarm bells ringing
across Europe with its revealing insights into the European Union’s increasingly troubled
future. Merritt pulls no punches in this tough and uncompromising analysis, arguing that
the depth and speed of Europe’s decline in the ‘Asian century’ will depend on the actions
we Europeans undertake. He puts forward an ambitious ‘to do’ list for European
policymakers, and not just those in Brussels, if the privileged lifestyles of future
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generations in Europe are not to be jeopardised.
This book is an important warning: unless Europeans shake themselves awake their future
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will be increasingly gloomy. Anyone who believes that the economic crisis that began in
2008 is just a blip will find this book a salutary lesson.
“
The two key lessons that Europe faces are that the ‘good times’ aren’t
coming back unless Europeans undertake a massive effort, and that in
tomorrow’s world of more than nine billion people no single EU country can
defend its interests on its own.
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”
About the Author
GILES MERRITT was named by the Financial Times as one of 30 ‘Eurostars’
who most influence thinking on Europe’s future, along with the European
Commission’s president and the secretary-general of NATO. For fifteen years
a Financial Times foreign correspondent, Merritt has reported and
commented on European affairs since the early 1970s. He went on to found
‘Friends of Europe’, one of the leading think-tanks in Brussels, and the
policy journal Europe’s World, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief.
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Happiness Explained
Human Flourishing and Global Progress
PAUL ANAND, Open University and University of Oxford
What is human happiness and how can we promote it?
Rather than focus solely on money as a marker of progress, Happiness Explained goes
‘beyond GDP’ to show how parenting, decent employment, friendship, education, health,
money, autonomy, and fairness all contribute to better and happier lives, and how, together,
they provide a new blueprint for the assessment of personal wellbeing.
This compelling and accessible book draws on the latest evidence from psychology and economics,
as well as recent thinking in ethics, to explore what happiness is and how we take account of it
in our everyday lives. The individual pursuit of happiness can be a highly personal issue. But,
Anand argues, our new levels of understanding about the drivers of wellbeing mean we can –
and should – make happiness a key component of education, health, and economic policy.
March 2016
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978-0-19-873545-8
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The Pursuit of Development
Economic Growth, Social Change and Ideas
IAN GOLDIN, Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Development is not someone else’s issue, it concerns us ALL
As a former member of the highest echelons of the World Bank, The Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development, and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development,
Ian Goldin’s credentials in the field of development could not be more impressive. He believes that
the future of advanced and developing countries are intertwined. In this concise and powerful
book, he distils his enormous experience to help us understand where development is today and
what its future holds. By summarizing the latest research, he explains why the current political
agenda worldwide has swung from state-led development to a preoccupation with market forces.
He warns that only with cooperation and partnership will developed and developing countries
conquer the evils of global pandemics, climate change, conflict, and fundamentalism.
May 2016
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144 pp, 10 black-and-white halftones,
120x170 mm, TA
978-0-19-877803-5
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A Few Hares to Chase
The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips
ALAN BOLLARD, Secretariat of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
The extraordinary story of one of the leading economists of the 20th century
Economists know him for the Phillips Curve, which tracks the relationship between the
unemployment rate and wage inflation; for his work on stabilising volatile economies; and
for MONIAC, his remarkable invention which was a hydraulic forerunner of computer
econometric modelling. But Bill Phillips’s youthful adventures shaped much of the genius
he would become. Born on a remote New Zealand farm in the Depression; gold mining and
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crocodile hunting in the Australian outback; serving with the RAF; and incarcerated in a
Japanese POW camp. After the War, an inauspicious start at the LSE led – in just nine years
– to becoming chair of economics, where his creativity and ingenuity in striving for order
and stability would become his legacy.
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The Economics of Chocolate
Edited by MARA P. SQUICCIARINI, and JOHAN SWINNEN, Licos-Centre for
Institutions and Economic Performance, Ku Leuven
Our favourite taste – and its 3,000-year history
The world is currently experiencing a ‘Second Great Chocolate Boom’. Systematic
overconsumption of chocolate in the USA and Europe continues, but it is the rapidly
growing demand from developing and emerging countries, including China, India and Africa,
that is responsible for the boom. This is just one of the fascinating facts to emerge from this
enthralling book, which also tackles the history of chocolate, its raw materials, the
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organization of the industry, consumer choice, policies, and regulatory issues.
The Economics of Chocolate is the second volume in a new series that explores the financial
aspects of key commodities, following Johan Swinnen’s The Economics of Beer, which was
praised by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘informative and thought provoking’.
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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
Nations Torn Asunder
The Challenge of Civil War
BILL KISSANE, London School of Economics
What makes a war a civil war?
Civil wars have occurred throughout history, but since 1945 their number has grown
steadily, bringing devastation on a scale more traditionally associated with international
wars. Bill Kissane explores what the recent social science literature adds to what we already
know about civil war, and how insights from the historical literature – from the ancient
Greeks onwards – can help explain the violent experience of so many parts of the world
since World War II. This important work is the first to look at what makes a civil war, and to
ask what, if anything, is new about the contemporary experience of civil war at the dawn of
the twenty-first century.
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The Dictator’s Dilemma
The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival
BRUCE DICKSON, George Washington University
Why the Chinese Communist Party still has the people’s support
Following the events of Tiananmen Square and the collapse of other communist regimes,
many observers felt that the days of the Chinese Communist Party were numbered. But they
were wrong. Bruce Dickson explains just why the regime has survived and prospered, and
even enjoys a surprisingly high level of popular support. The majority of Chinese people see
it as increasingly democratic even though its leaders are not accountable to the electorate.
In short, while the Chinese people may want change, they prefer that it occurs within the
existing political framework. Refuting the commonly held belief in the West that democracy
is inevitable in China, Dickson draws upon a wealth of original material to explain why there
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is still so much popular support for the Communist regime.
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Will Africa Feed China?
DEBORAH BRAUTIGAM, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
Could China’s need to feed its people destroy Africa?
Over the past decade, China’s meteoric rise on the continent of Africa has caused great
alarm. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the
Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow
food to ship back to China.
Deborah Brautigam, one of the world’s leading experts on China and Africa, has written a
landmark work that overturns conventional wisdom about the ‘Chinese land grab’. Chinese
farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying
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security and Africa’s possibilities for structural transformation.
See also The Oxford Illustrated History
of Modern China, page 11.
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expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Brautigam probes
the myths and realities to reveal the truth behind China’s evolving global quest for food
The China Triangle
Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington
Consensus
KEVIN P. GALLAGHER, Boston University
The first comprehensive account of China’s economic penetration into Latin America
Chinese trade expansion – from East Asia to Australasia, Africa to the US – is well known. But
China’s extensive penetration of Latin America is little understood, and yet highly significant.
From the turn of the century, when China entered the World Trade Organization, until 2013,
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Latin America supplied the country with key commodities and contributed to its booming
economy. But, Kevin Gallagher argues, Latin American nations have little to show for riding the
coat-tails of the ‘China Boom’, and now face significant challenges as China’s economy slows
down. He shows how future decades of China-Latin America economic activity can become more
prosperous while avoiding the social and environmental conflicts that have afflicted the continent.
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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
The Future of Foreign Intelligence
Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age
LAURA DONOHUE, Georgetown University
Is US Intelligence running out of control?
The United States intelligence community scrutinizes massive amounts of data for potential threats.
What few US citizens realize is that with the Internet, and new technologies such as biometric
identification systems, the information that the government can obtain has radically expanded.
Information collected for foreign intelligence purposes is also now being used for domestic criminal
prosecutions, and, where the Fourth Amendment rule gave some protection in the past, this is no
longer true. In a book that is both alarming and penetrating, Laura Donohue offers an agenda for
reining in the national security state's expansive reach, primarily through Congressional statutory
reform that will force the executive and judicial branches to take privacy seriously, even as it provides
for the continued collection of intelligence central to US national security.
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Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring
JOHN L. ESPOSITO, TAMARA SONN, and JOHN O. VOLL, all Georgetown University
A 21st-century perspective on the question: is Islam compatible with democracy?
In late 2010, the wave of civil resistance known as the Arab Spring stunned the world,
provoking questions about equality, economic justice, democratic participation, and the
relationship between Islam and democracy in the countries concerned. Renowned Islamic
Studies and History scholars, John Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John Voll examine these
uprisings and the democratic process in the Muslim world, while also analysing the larger
relationship between religion and politics. They revisit the question of whether or not Islam
is ‘compatible’ with democracy by redirecting the conversation towards a new politic of
democracy that transcends both secular authoritarianism and Political Islam.
‘This is a very timely book…The authors invite the reader to avoid simplistic conclusions.
A critical achievement.’ Advance praise from Tariq Ramadan, University of Oxford
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Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring, page 30.
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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
Civil Resistance in the
Arab Spring
Climate Change
Military Ethics
What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Triumphs and Disasters
JOSEPH ROMM, Chief Science Advisor
for ‘Years of Living Dangerously’
GEORGE LUCAS, Naval Postgraduate
School (Emeritus)
Edited by ADAM ROBERTS,
MICHAEL J. WILLIS, RORY MCCARTHY,
and TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, all
University of Oxford
Examines the most
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likely climate solutions,
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especially in the crucial
energy sector, as well
Why were Arab hopes for freedom
crushed?
as potential political
Inequality
and policy issues
What Everyone Needs to Know
The Arab Spring offered fresh hope for
surrounding them.
many. So why did so much go wrong?
This book provides a vivid, illustrated
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account and rigorous scholarly analysis
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of this extraordinary series of events and
JAMES K. GALBRAITH, University of
Texas, Austin
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its aftermath. The authors, who are all
prominent experts in the field, draw clear
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and challenging conclusions. Above all,
What Everyone Needs to Know
they show how civil resistance aiming at
regime change is not enough: building
the institutions and the trust necessary
STEPHEN P. HINSHAW, University
of California Berkeley, and
KATHERINE ELLISON
Addresses all the
democracy to develop is a more difficult,
questions about
but equally crucial, task.
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What Everyone Needs to Know
MICHAEL SNYDER, Stanford University
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for reforms to be implemented and
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educators,
Drones
policymakers, and
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health professionals
SARAH KREPS, Cornell University
need to know.
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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S
Mission Failure
Realpolitik
Fighting Hurt
America and the World Since
the End of the Cold War
A Brief History
Rule and Exception in
Torture and War
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, Johns
Hopkins-SAIS
How US foreign policy aims have
changed – for the worse
America’s decision to provide air defence
JOHN BEW, King’s College London
The first concise history of the most
intangible of political concepts
HENRY SHUE, University of Oxford
When does war become immoral?
Realpolitik is based on power and practical
Some of our most fundamental moral
and material factors rather than on ideology
rules are violated by the practices of
or ethics, and, as such, has often had a bad
torture and war. Examining real cases,
to oppressed Kurds in Iraq after the Gulf
press. Associated with important thinkers
including the US bombing of Iraq in 1991,
War ushered in an entirely new era in
and statesmen, from Machiavelli, Cardinal
the Clinton Administration’s decision not
American foreign policy. Until then the
de Richelieu, and Thomas Hobbes to Carl
to intervene in the 1994 Rwandan
US had only used military power against
Schmitt and Henry Kissinger, it is deeply
genocide, the NATO bombing of Serbia in
threats that would weaken its position or
rooted in the history of diplomacy yet also
1999, and CIA torture after 9/11 and its
threaten the homeland. Now it became
remains strikingly relevant to debates on
alternatives, this book brings together
actively involved in states that
contemporary foreign policy. So it is
key essays by a leading scholar of
represented no threat, and with missions
surprising that it remains such an elusive
international distributive justice on the
that were largely humanitarian and
notion. In this concise book, John Bew aims
issue of torture, and the moral
socio-political. Michael Mandelbaum
to bring clarity to the concept of Realpolitik
challenges surrounding the initiation and
provides a sweeping interpretive history
by offering a history of its practice in the
conduct of war.
of American foreign policy in the post-
English-speaking world: its origins as an
Cold War era to show why this new
idea, its practical application to statecraft
approach is doomed to failure.
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in the recent past, and its relevance to
foreign policy challenges today.
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Mission
Failure
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HENRY SHUE
FIGHTING
HURT
Rule and Exception in
Torture and War
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What Everyone Needs to
Know, page 30.
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SCIENCE
Cheats and Deceits
How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead
MARTIN STEVENS
Unravelling the story of natural deception
It’s not just in human society that trickery and deception are widespread. In the natural
world the struggle to survive and reproduce means that any advantage in getting a mate,
finding food, or avoiding predators pays dividends.
• The snake-shaped tail of a Peruvian caterpillar scares off potential predators.
• There are orchids which develop the smell of female insects in order to attract
pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays.
• The male Bluegill Sunfish alters its appearance to look like a female in order to sneak
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past rivals in mating.
• Caterpillars of the Large Blue butterfly mimic ants’ chemical profiles, in order to be
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carried into their nests, where they eat them.
• The deep-sea Angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure in front of its mouth to draw the
attention of potential prey.
In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Martin Stevens describes the huge
range of these extraordinary phenomena. And he explores the deeper questions: how did
the adaptations evolve? And what equally ingenious methods have scientists used to
unravel the secrets of natural deception?
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About the Author
MARTIN STEVENS is Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology
in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. He has
authored many research papers, in addition to two textbooks.
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SCIENCE
The Age of Em
Work, Love, And Life When Robots Rule The Earth
ROBIN HANSON
Who will our descendants share their world with?
Robots may one day rule the Earth. But what is robot-ruled Earth like? If you think that the
answer is about as scientific as staring into a crystal ball, think again. Robin Hanson
applies hard scientific theories to the question to create a detailed picture of a future ruled
by a certain kind of smart robot. If today is the age of globalization and social media,
tomorrow will be the ‘Age of Em’.
Why Em? Short for ‘brain emulation’, an ‘Em’ would result from taking a particular human
brain and scanning it to record its particular cell features and connections, and then
building a robot that processes signals in the same way. Pie in the sky? In fact, Ems will
probably be feasible in around a century from now.
So what will our great great great grandchildren make of the Ems with which they will share
the earth? To answer that question, Hanson draws on standard analytical tools across
economics, engineering, computing, physical sciences, and the human and social sciences
to paint a picture that is almost encyclopedic in scope. Mind speeds, body sizes, labour
market organization, career paths, wage competition, friendships, aging, reproduction,
conversation, wealth, law and war, and even death: this and much more is described by
Hanson in a book that will surely become a classic.
“
Aside from forced retirement, human lives don’t change greatly in the em
era. But em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of
our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of
moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear.
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by Nick Bostrom, page 35, and
Here Be Dragons by Olle Häggström,
page 41.
”
ROBIN HANSON is an associate professor of economics at George Mason
University, and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute at
the University of Oxford. Hanson’s blog OvercomingBias.com receives over
50,000 visitors per month.
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SCIENCE
AI
Its Nature and Future
MARGARET A. BODEN
A concise guide by one of the world’s leading authorities
The term ‘artificial intelligence’ was coined as long ago as 1956 to describe ‘the science and
engineering of making intelligent machines’. The work that has happened in the subject since
then has had enormous impact.
At a technological level, intelligent machines are now everywhere – in the home, the car, the
office, the bank, the hospital, the sky, and, of course, the Internet. Robots sent to Mars,
Hollywood animations, Google, video- and computer-games, sat-nav systems, the apps on
mobile phones: all are based on AI techniques.
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At a theoretical level, the concept of Artificial Intelligence has fuelled and sharpened the
philosophical debates on the nature of the mind, intelligence, and the uniqueness of human
beings. And insights from the field have proved invaluable to biologists, psychologists, and
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linguists in helping to understand the processes of memory, learning, and language.
Margaret Boden is a world authority on cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Her
guide to the achievements, failures, and future of AI in a single, concise volume will be
essential reading for those who want to think about the technological possibilities, and the
philosophical questions. What do we mean by ‘intelligent’, ‘creative’ or even ‘conscious’ – in
the case of humans, animals, or machines? Are we really in danger of being taken over by
intelligent robots – is ‘the Singularity’ as near as some people suggest?
“
Military drones and robot soldiers roam today’s battlefields – but,
thankfully, so do robot minesweepers.
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About the Author
”
MARGARET BODEN, OBE, is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, and one of
the best known figures in the field of Artificial Intelligence. She has written extensively on the subject, most
recently the two-volume work Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006). She has lectured
widely, to both specialist and general audiences across the world, and has appeared on many radio and TV
programmes, in the UK and elsewhere. She was awarded an OBE in 2001 for ‘services to cognitive science’.
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SCIENCE
Superintelligence
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Paths, Dangers, Strategies
NICK BOSTROM
‘I highly recommend this book.’ Bill Gates
‘It may turn out the most important alarm bell since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring…or ever.’
Olle Häggström
Nick Bostrom’s bestseller is one of the most talked-about books in the world of science. Why?
If you think that artificial intelligence is still an ‘if’, you’re wrong. It is a ‘when’ – and it could be
soon. Bostrom argues that it will be the greatest change in human history – and that the
creation of a superintelligent machine could also make it the end of human history.
How could machines programmed by us become our foes? Nick Bostrom imagines creating an
intelligent, and superficially harmless, machine that makes steel paper-clips. If it is insufficiently,
incorrectly, or maliciously programmed, it might end up smashing the Earth to pieces and
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turning everything into paper-clips. And we can’t stop it, because it has become cleverer than
us. And, Bostrom argues, it will be very difficult to create a superintelligence that is friendly to
humans or one that can ever be sufficiently controlled. He shows that a safe future for mankind
is a challenge that can only be met by research on artificial intelligence that is managed within a
very strict ethical framework.
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Superintelligence takes us on an engrossing journey that encompasses physics, neuroscience,
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mathematical logic as well as philosophy to discover what could be the future of intelligent life –
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a life made safer and better for all by intelligent machines, or existential catastrophe?
“
Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like
small children playing with a bomb.
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About the Author
”
NICK BOSTROM is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford
University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of
the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford
Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Global
Catastrophic Risks and Human Enhancement.
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SCIENCE
Eyes on the Sky
A Spectrum of Telescopes
FRANCIS GRAHAM-SMITH, University of Manchester (Emeritus)
The machines that open a window on the universe
Four centuries ago, Galileo first turned a telescope to look up at the night sky. His discoveries
opened the cosmos, revealing the geometry and dynamics of the solar system. Today’s telescopic
equipment, stretching over the whole spectrum from visible light to radio and millimetre
astronomy, through infrared to ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays, continues to transform our
understanding of the whole Universe. One of the leading pioneers in radio astronomy, Francis
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and Astrophysics: A Very Short
Introduction, page 65.
Graham-Smith tells the story from Galileo to the latest international collaborations of space-based
and terrestrial technologies, such as the Square Kilometre Array. At each step he explains the
science and technology behind the telescopes, the challenges of seeing further and clearer, and
the discoveries they have revealed – from new planets and pulsars to secrets of cosmology.
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Earth Matters
How soil underlies civilization
RICHARD BARDGETT, University of Manchester
How soil really does support life
Every inch of soil on Earth has probably been affected by human action in some way, and
entire societies have risen, and collapsed, through its management or mismanagement.
Earth really does matter.
Editor of the highly respected Journal of Ecology, Richard Bardgett shows how soil plays a
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Short Introduction, page 64.
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crucial role in the life of the planet. He explores how farmers and gardeners worldwide nurture
it; how battles have been affected by its condition; how murder trials have been solved with
evidence from it. Richard Bardgett’s mission is to educate us about soil’s importance – we
debase it at our peril. He shows how superior soil management could combat global issues
such as climate change, water resources, food shortages, and even the extinction of species.
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SCIENCE
On the Scent
A journey through the science of smell
PAOLO PELOSI, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
How science is decoding the mysterious language of scent
The scent of herbs, freshly ground coffee, a madeleine… The fifth sense can be a delightful
part of human experience, and for many other species it is a vital means of communication.
Yet it is only very recently – thanks to molecular biology and neuroscience – that scientists
have been able to piece together how smell actually works. Paolo Pelosi has been one of
the leading figures in that exploration, and his engaging narrative combines science,
anecdote, and evocative description. He considers how many odours humans can
distinguish, and how that compares with say a dog or a butterfly. And he looks at new
developments that olfaction science is exploring, from the development of ‘electronic noses’
to broadcasting ‘Smell-o-Vision’.
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The Science of the Perfect Swing
PETER DEWHURST, University of Rhode Island (Emeritus)
An accessible guide to the hard science of golf
Golf is not just a game, it is an applied science. The seemingly simple act of striking a golf
ball involves physics principles such as energy transfer, kinetics, launch angles, spin, and
momentum.
Peter Dewhurst provides the first truly comprehensive work on the fledgling field of ‘golf
science’. Based on three decades of experience in the physics of golf, Dewhurst examines
topics such as the interaction between club face and ball, various aspects of trajectory and
impact, and the physics of putting. Rich in illustrations, graphs, and charts, the book also
features ‘Findings and Consequences’, which draw conclusions based on the science, and
make recommendations on ball-striking and other facets of the game.
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SCIENCE
God Is Watching You
How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
DOMINIC JOHNSON, University of Oxford
How even atheists are ‘God-fearing’
Do you have a sense that someone or something is observing your every move, thought and
intention, and is perhaps poised to deliver a punishment for your transgressions? Surprisingly,
such feelings are common in both those who believe in a deity and those who don’t. God Is
Watching You is an exploration of this belief, and how it has shaped the course of human
evolution. Drawing on new research from across the sciences, Dominic Johnson presents a
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new theory of supernatural punishment that offers fresh insight into the origins and evolution
of not only religion, but human cooperation and society. He shows that belief in supernatural
reward and punishment is no quirk of western or Christian culture, but a ubiquitous part of
human nature that spans geographical regions, cultures, and human history.
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Humanity in a Creative Universe
STUART KAUFFMAN, The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Why science should see the universe as unpredictable
One of founding fathers of the science of complexity, Stuart Kauffman’s writings on the
philosophy of evolutionary biology have been described as ‘challenging and audacious’
(The Economist ) and ‘highly imaginative and provocative’ (Lewis Wolpert). In this major new
work he sets out to ‘revise our scientific world view of the universe as entirely entailed by
law’. Challenging ideas we have lived with since Kant and Descartes, Newton and Darwin,
he argues that no theory could ever fully account for the limitless variability of evolution;
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the biological universe’s primary trait is that it is creative. Acknowledging this
unpredictability will give us a radically different view of ourselves and all other living
beings, and allow us to fully realize our creative selves.
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SCIENCE
Marconi
The Man Behind the Birth of Modern Communication
MARC RABOY, McGill University
The first biography to connect Marconi to our own electronic age
Guglielmo Marconi is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of technology. He was a
man of astonishing talents and energy: inventor of radio, entrepreneur, statesman and diplomat.
He established his international business, was knighted by King George V, and awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize – all before the age of 40. Yet there are many aspects of Marconi’s life that are
relatively unknown. Utilizing new archival sources, Mark Raboy connects many aspects of his
story, from Marconi’s early days in Italy through the launch of his corporate empire in pre-WWI
England to his role as a diplomatic go-between in the intense period leading up to the Second
World War. He shows how the extraordinarily rich life and career of this technological genius was
fundamental to our present networked system of global communication.
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You Belong to the Universe
The Life and Legacy of Buckminster Fuller
JONATHON KEATS, critic, journalist, and artist
Maverick or pioneer?
The American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller had one of the most brilliant minds
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of his day, solving global problems of housing, transportation, education, energy, and much
more. His creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction – the geodesic dome, the
three-wheel Dymaxion car, and even a bathroom without plumbing. Yet in spite of his
brilliance, Fuller is now famous for the wrong reasons, and even regarded as a crackpot.
Jonathon Keats sets out to restore Fuller’s good name, placing the inventor’s philosophy in a
modern context and dispelling much of the mythology surrounding his life. He argues that
Fuller’s mission to do ‘the most with the least’ is now more relevant than ever as humanity
struggles to meet the demands of an exploding world population with finite resources.
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SCIENCE
John Bell and
Twentieth Century
Physics
Vision and Integrity
ANDREW WHITAKER, Queen’s
University Belfast
The first full biography of the
scientist who proved Einstein wrong
John Stewart Bell was one of the most
important figures in twentieth-century
physics. He was the originator of Bell’s
Theorem, first published in 1964, which
demonstrated that Einstein’s views on
quantum mechanics were incorrect.
Andrew Whitaker gives a nonmathematical account of how Bell, who
came from an impoverished background
in Belfast, went on to make major
contributions to quantum theory, and do
important work in the physics of
Extreme
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Why some people thrive at
the limits
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Imperial College London
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How Water Shaped Human
Evolution
CLIVE FINLAYSON, Director of the
Gibraltar Museum
‘A rich and often compelling book.’
Daily Mail
‘Did water make people human?
Mr Finlayson certainly makes a
convincing case.’
The Economist
Mountaineers, astronauts, polar
In this fresh and provocative book,
explorers, long-distance solo-sailors –
Clive Finlayson argues that the critical
why do some people thrive in extreme
factor that shaped the emergence of
and hostile environments? Using
homo sapiens was water. As the climate
numerous examples and personal
became warmer and drier, our ancestors
accounts plus the latest psychological
left the forest and forced their way into a
research, Emma Barrett and Paul Martin
long-established community of
investigate the traits that make some
carnivores in a tropical savannah. To
people succeed and others fail. They
succeed there, water was vital; the
argue that we can all learn lessons from
challenges of seeking it in a drying
these extreme super-achievers.
accelerators, and nuclear and elementary
particle physics.
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The
Improbable Primate
landscape moulded the evolution of their
minds and bodies, and directed their
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migrations and eventual settlements.
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SCIENCE
The Fourth
Revolution
NEW IN PAPERBACK
How the Infosphere is
Reshaping Human Reality
LUCIANO FLORIDI, University of
Oxford
‘A searing study…Non-alarmist and very,
very smart.’
Barbara Keiser, Nature
Evolving Insights
Here Be Dragons
How it is we can think
about why things happen
Science, Technology and the
Future of Humanity
RICHARD W. BYRNE, University of
St Andrews
OLLE HÄGGSTRÖM, Chalmers
University of Technology
How a key human attribute developed
Outside-the-box thinking about
the future
In the thirty years since it was first
published, Richard Byrne’s The Thinking
Will progress in science and technology
Ape has proved itself a seminal work on
be our salvation? The potential benefits of
Who are we, and how do we relate to each
the evolution of cognitive and social
technological development in areas such
other? Luciano Floridi argues that the
behaviour. Byrne now turns to the
as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and
explosive developments in information and
concept of insight, its place in our
machine intelligence are enormous, but
communication technologies are changing
psychology, and the extent to which it
so are the risks, including the possibility
the answers to these fundamental human
might exist in other animals. Insight is
of human extinction. This book is both a
questions. He poses a different question:
highly important in human life, so finding
balanced discussion and a passionate
are our technologies going to enable and
out how it has evolved will give us new
plea for doing our best to map the
empower us, or constrain us? His answer
ways to understand this important
territories ahead of us, and for acting with
shows how we must expand our ecological
aspect of our behaviour.
foresight, so as to maximize our chances
and ethical approach to cover both natural
and man-made realities, putting the ‘e’ into an
of reaping the benefits of the new
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technologies while avoiding the dangers.
environmentalism that can deal successfully
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with the new challenges posed by our digital
technologies and information society.
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See also Superintelligence,
page 35, and The Age of Em,
page 33.
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SCIENCE
Images of Time
Mind, Science, Reality
The New ABCs of
Research
The Penultimate
Curiosity
GEORGE JAROSZKIEWICZ, The
University of Nottingham
Achieving Breakthrough
Collaborations
Time fact or time fiction
BEN SHNEIDERMAN, University of
Maryland
How Science Swims in the
Slipstream of Ultimate
Questions
Throughout history time has been the
A surer route towards tomorrow’s
great advancements
subject of theories in many fields. So
how can we distinguish between those
How science and religion are entwined
‘Here is magnificence. This book will
magnify the heart and mind.’
‘images of time’ that are metaphysical
Researchers who take on the immense
and those that could in principle be put
problems of our time face great
to empirical test? George Jaroszkiewicz
challenges. Ben Shneiderman argues
ranges from ancient Greece and
that it is more important than ever before
Mesopotamia to the theories of relativity
that all those involved in research should
This book sets out to answer one of the
and quantum mechanics, from
adopt potent guiding principles and
most profound questions about the
cosmology to thermodynamics, from
effective research lifecycle strategies,
development of human thought: why it is
Plato to Star Trek, and from geology and
most notably collaborations. His New
that throughout the long journey from cave
evolution to natural clocks and the Julian
ABCs of Research is both a guide to
painting to quantum physics what we now
calendar, in his quest for time theories
students and junior researchers, as well
refer to as ‘science’ and ‘religion’ have been
that are science fact not science fiction.
as a manifesto for senior researchers and
so closely entangled? Using many
policy makers. It questions widely held
illustrations to make their points, Roger
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Advance praise from Justin Welby,
Archbishop of Canterbury
beliefs about how applied innovations
Wagner and Andrew Briggs, collaborate to
evolve and how basic breakthroughs
explain the nature of the long entanglement
are made.
between religion and science.
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ROGER WAGNER, artist, and
ANDREW BRIGGS, University of Oxford
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SCIENCE
Quite Right
Exploring the Planets
The Story of Mathematics,
Measurement and Money
FRED TAYLOR, University of Oxford
Origins
How the space programme evolved by
someone who’s been there all the way
The scientific story of creation
NORMAN BIGGS, London School of
Economics
How maths evolved to measure,
hoard, tax and more
Mathematics didn’t spring spontaneously
to life. Its story has connections with
measurement and money that have often
shaped its development and driven its
progress, a process that continues to this
day. Norman Biggs debunks many
assumptions about its history to present a
far-reaching account that takes in topics
such as the origins of banking in
Mesopotamia, how tax and trade have
played their part in the history of
mathematics, and how mathematics helps
keep us all safe today.
RECENT SCIENCE BESTSELLERS
JIM BAGGOTT
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A leading scholar in the field of planetary
physics, Fred Taylor spent a decade in
the Space Science Division of the
California Institute of Technology, where
he made the first systematic study of the
meteorology of the atmosphere of Venus.
His book offers a personal account of
how the space programme evolved, a
process in which science and politics
The Deeper Genome
JOHN PARRINGTON
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Moonstruck
How lunar cycles affect life
ERNEST NAYLOR
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Testosterone
Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
have often been closely entwined.
JOE HERBERT
Beginning in the era of the first blurry
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views of our Earth as seen from space,
and ending with current plans for
Biocode
The new age of genomics
sophisticated robots on places as far
DAWN FIELD and NEIL DAVIES
away as Titan, Taylor describes a life
Hb, 978-0-19-968775-6, £16.99
spent in the world's space agencies,
research labs, and conferences, and at
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places as diverse as Cape Canaveral and
No. 10 Downing Street.
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See also Combinatorics:
A Very Short Introduction,
page 66.
See also Eyes on the Sky,
page 36, and Astrophysics:
A Very Short Introduction,
page 65.
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P H I LO S O P H Y
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
PETER SINGER
Foreword by BILL GATES, and MELINDA GATES
New edition of an iconic work
‘You might suggest that Singer’s article was ahead of its time when it was originally
published. But perhaps its time has now come.’
Bill and Melinda Gates in the Foreword
Time magazine ranked the moral philosopher Peter Singer among the world’s 100 most
influential people. Why? One particularly important and iconic essay has ensured his place
as a leading opinion maker. Published in 1972, ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ rapidly
became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics ever. In it he presents
the controversial view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do
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to those close to us. He argues that choosing not to send life-saving money to starving
people on the other side of the earth is the moral equivalent of neglecting to save drowning
children because we prefer not to muddy our shoes. If we can help, we must – and any
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excuse is hypocrisy. Singer’s stand on the subject has become a powerful topic of
discussion in modern philosophy and continues to challenge people’s attitudes towards
extreme poverty.
ALSO BY PETER SINGER
This new edition includes the original article together with two of Singer’s additional
How Are We to Live?
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popular writings on our obligations to those in poverty, and a new introduction that places
the topic in the context of his current thinking.
Rethinking Life and Death
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© Photo by Tony Phillips – ICEL 2014
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About the Author
PETER SINGER has been described as the world’s most influential
philosopher. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, One
World, The Life You Can Save, and The Point of View of the Universe.
In 2014 the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him third on its list of
Global Thought Leaders.
P H I LO S O P H Y
Classical
Philosophy
NEW IN PAPERBACK
A history of philosophy
without any gaps, Volume 1
PETER ADAMSON, LudwigMaximilians-Universität München
‘Sets out to achieve the impossible and
does a great job of it...ideal for
introducing readers...to the delights and
the fascination of Greek philosophy.’
John Godwin, Classics for All
How to be Good
Surfing Uncertainty
The Possibility of Moral
Enhancement
Prediction, Action, and the
Embodied Mind
JOHN HARRIS, University of
Manchester
ANDY CLARK, University of
Edinburgh
Is it possible to create perfect
people?
Are our minds ‘prediction
machines’?
Knowing how to be good is immensely
In this ground-breaking work,
important. The same goes for knowing
philosopher and cognitive scientist
how to make others be good – otherwise
Andy Clark turns a common view of the
known as ‘moral enhancement’. John
human mind upside down. Exploring
Classical Philosophy is the first of a series
Harris explores the many varied
exciting new theories in neuroscience,
of books in which Peter Adamson aims
approaches to moral enhancement, from
psychology, and artificial intelligence, he
ultimately to present a complete history of
setting a good example to imbibing
reveals that our minds are ‘prediction
philosophy. The story is told ‘without any
mood-altering substances, and creating
machines’, devices that have evolved to
gaps’, discussing not only the major
political and social systems to make the
anticipate the incoming streams of
figures but also less commonly discussed
world a better place or people more
sensory stimulation before they arrive. In
topics like the Hippocratic Corpus, the
perfect. This authoritative work on a
place of cognitive couch potatoes idly
Platonic Academy, and the role of women
hotly debated topic asks: is moral
awaiting the next sensory inputs, Clark’s
in ancient philosophy. This is a new kind of
enhancement really possible?
journey reveals us as proactive
history which will bring philosophy to life
for all readers, including those coming to
‘predictavores’, skilfully surfing the
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waves of sensory stimulation.
the subject for the first time.
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P H I LO S O P H Y
French Philosophy,
1572-1675
DESMOND M. CLARKE, National
University of Ireland, Cork
New in the acclaimed Oxford History
of Philosophy
One Child
Do We Have a Right to
More?
SARAH CONLY, Bowdoin College
Should we stop at one?
The Natural and the
Human
Science and the Shaping of
Modernity, 1739-1841
STEPHEN GAUKROGER, University
of Sydney
This book tackles a highly controversial
This is a thematic history of French
philosophy from the middle of the
sixteenth century to the beginning of
Louis XIV’s reign. It reveals that
throughout this period a whole
generation of writers who were not
professional philosophers – some of
whom never even attended a school or
college – addressed issues ranging from
political theory, and scepticism and
ethics, to philosophy of mind and
women’s equality. Brief biographies of all
topic: in an era of hugely increasing
population, is having unlimited children
a right? If it continues to be a right, will it
Stephen Gaukroger is a leading historian
reduce the welfare of future generations to
of the intellect. Here he presents an
unacceptable levels? Sarah Conly defends
original account of the development of
a one-child-per-family limit as a moral
empirical science and the understanding
imperative and, if necessary, also as a
of human behaviour during a period
legal requirement. She suggests that
which saw a fundamental shift in how the
government regulations could be one
role of science was seen. As Gaukroger
method we might use to reduce the
shows, at the core of the shift lay the aim
fertility rate. This is a brave, bold book that
of understanding human behaviour and
addresses a difficult and emotive subject.
motivations in empirical rather than
twenty-two authors who feature in the
book are given, from lawyers and political
When we began to understand how
human beings function in a new way
theological and metaphysical terms. This
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is a highly original work that presents a
leaders to theologians and scholars.
fascinating new perspective on
intellectual history and accounts of
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human behaviour.
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Revelation, by Jean-Luc
Marion, page 51.
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P H I LO S O P H Y
Thought in Action
The Minority Body
Expertise and the Conscious
Mind
ELIZABETH BARNES, University of
Virginia
BARBARA GAIL MONTERO, The City
University of New York
A powerful defence of disability
against the idea that it is a defect
Dispels the myth of ‘just do it’
How does thinking affect doing? It is
widely held that thinking about what you
are doing, as you are doing it, hinders
performance. Once you have acquired
the ability to putt a golf ball or play an
arpeggio on the piano, does reflecting
on your actions lead to blunders, and
sometimes even utter paralysis? Barbara
Gail Montero says ‘no’. She explores
real-life examples and draws on
psychology, neuroscience and literature
to develop a theory of expertise that
emphasizes the role of the conscious
mind in expert action.
The idea that disability is not inherently
bad is one that philosophers often treat
LATE ADDITION
Redeeming the
Kamasutra
WENDY DONIGER, University of
Chicago
Fresh insights into one of the most
well-known ancient Indian texts
with scepticism, and even scorn. Many
disabled people think differently. They
see being disabled as primarily a social
phenomenon – one that causes them to
face problems within society, but not one
that necessarily makes them inherently
or intrinsically worse off. Drawing on
real-life experience, the philosopher
Elizabeth Barnes argues that to be
physically disabled is not to have a
defective body, but rather to have a
Composed in the third century CE, the
Kamasutra is the world’s most famous
textbook of erotic love. Wendy Doniger
shows how it was much more, as well:
an astonishingly sophisticated guide to
the art of living for the cosmopolitan
beau monde of India. Its guidance
ranged from grooming and etiquette to
the practice of the arts, and advice on
how to conduct affairs. Its insights into
relationships, gender, female sexuality,
minority body.
and homosexual desire challenged the
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conventions of its time – and continue
to challenge today.
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Thought in
Action
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L A N G UAG E
How English Became English
A Short History of a Global Language
SIMON HOROBIN
From hail to hashtag – everything you need to know about our language
‘Belonging to England; thence English is the language of England’, wrote Dr Johnson. How
times have changed. Today the English Language is spoken by more than a billion people
throughout the world. Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language
from its very beginnings, showing how it continues to adapt today as it finds new speakers
and new uses.
Professor Horobin is no stranger to controversy where English is concerned. He caused
audible gasps from the audience at the 2013 Hay Festival when he questioned the need for
a standard spelling system and suggested that no harm would be done if we dropped the
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apostrophe. He uses examples from real life – from Prince Charles to Nigel Farage, from
President Obama to Tesco management – to explore the many issues that arise from our
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ever-changing language. Are standards of English slipping? Do we rely too much on foreign
words? ‘In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth’ – is such text speak a crime or a
useful short form of the language? And if bad things are happening to English, what can we
do? And who should make such judgements? (Or should that be judgments?)
This is a book for anyone who wants a short history by a leading scholar with a talent for
ALSO BY SIMON HOROBIN
Does Spelling Matter?
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making the latest research on our wonderfully mongrel language accessible.
See also Fowler’s Concise
Dictionary of Modern English
Usage, page 72, and Slang: A Very
Short Introduction, page 64.
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© John Cairns
About the Author
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SIMON HOROBIN is Professor of English Language and Literature at the
University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He has written
extensively on the history, structure, and uses of the English language.
L A N G UAG E
From Skedaddle to Selfie
Words of the Generations
ALLAN METCALF, MacMurray College
‘Dude’, ‘streaking’, ‘friends with benefits’ – words that characterize a generation
Allan Metcalf contends that each generation of those born within a particular time period of
about twenty years can be identified and characterized by the words it chooses to use.
‘Selfie’, for example, is associated with the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s.
‘Slackers’ come from the ‘Generation X’ of the 1960s and 1970s. ‘Groovy’ was a way that
their predecessors, the ‘Baby Boomers’, expressed approval. Metcalf, author of OK: The
Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, samples these and other words that define
thirteen generations of Americans from 1742 to 2005. He also offers a new explanation for
the spread of the ‘f-word’ by the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation.
January 2016
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New Oxford Style Manual
The one-stop toolkit for editors and writers
Combining the recently updated editions of New Hart’s Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary
for Writers and Editors in a single volume, the New Oxford Style Manual is the ultimate
authority on written style, copy, and spelling.
New Hart’s Rules gives authoritative and expert advice on how to prepare copy for
publication in print and electronically, while the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and
Editors features 25,000 A–Z entries giving comprehensive help with those words and names
which raise questions time and time again. Together they provide an indispensable
handbook for all writers and editors, and anyone else who works with words.
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L A N G UAG E
Holy Sh*t
Also see page 6, David Crystal
A Brief History of Swearing
Are Some Languages
Better than Others?
MELISSA MOHR, independent
researcher
R. M. W. DIXON, James Cook
University
‘Bloody hell, this is a good book!...pithy,
amusing and thoughtful.’
Is there a perfect language?
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Mark Fisher, The Independent
‘Learned, charming and – if one had read
it 50 years ago – utterly filthy...a dead cert
for the next loo book of the year.’
Dictating to the Mob
The History of the BBC
Advisory Committee on
Spoken English
JÜRG R. SCHWYTER, University of Lausanne
and Robinson College, Cambridge
This book sets out to answer a question
that many linguists have been hesitant to
ask: are some languages better than
others? Can we say, for example, that
The first history of the BBC’s attempt
to control the language
The BBC’s Advisory Committee on Spoken
because German has three genders and
English was set up to provide an
French only two, German is a better
authoritative guide to pronunciation and
language? Dixon begins by outlining
the use of language for BBC announcers.
fascinating, this gem of lexicography and
what he feels are the essential
The results of its deliberations were
cultural history is a serious exploration of
components of any language, and then
published for general consumption in a
taboo words from ancient Rome to the
discusses some desirable features before
pamphlet called Spoken English. Based on
John Sutherland, Sunday Times
Humorous, trenchant and entirely
present day.
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putting forward his view of what the
primary sources, the compelling story of the
ideal language would look like – and an
Advisory Board during its crucial first 13
explanation of why it does not and
years is told here for the first time. It reveals
probably never will exist.
how board members, including George
Bernard Shaw and Julian Huxley, soon
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discovered that standardization and
regulation of spoken language is extremely
challenging and highly controversial.
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RELIGION
On Purpose
How We Create the
Meaning of Life
PAUL FROESE, University of Baylor
Investigating the concept of purpose
Our Lady of the
Nations
Givenness and
Revelation
Apparitions of Mary in 20thCentury Catholic Europe
JEAN-LUC MARION, Université ParisSorbonne (Emeritus) and University
of Chicago
CHRIS MAUNDER, York St John
University
On Purpose is a sociological investigation
of the meaning of life. While life’s purpose
What do apparitions of Mary tell us
about modern life?
is the theme of many self-help books,
philosophical texts, and religious tracts,
This important new work on the
it is rarely addressed from a sociological
apparitions of Mary in twentieth-century
perspective. Froese explores how people
Catholic Europe covers both well-known
talk about, think about, and conceptualize
and unpublicized cases. It explores how
the meaning of their lives demonstrating
such appearances can be related to major
that we instinctually imagine a moral
twentieth-century movements and trends,
meaning in personal narratives as well as
such as communism, Nazism, liberalism,
in timeless cosmologies.
consumerism, and even the growth of
information technology. Chris Maunder
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explains what apparitions are: movements
of renewal amid falling numbers of
Catholic adherents that continue to be
signs of the maternal presence of Mary
and her concern for the world.
Translated by STEPHEN E. LEWIS,
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Major new work by one of the
pre-eminent thinkers of our age
Jean-Luc Marion is a postmodern
philosopher who is a major scholar in the
philosophy of religion. His new work
offers innovative ways of thinking about
revelation through the use of his
trademark philosophical approach.
Based on his 2014 Gifford Lecture Series,
it explores the relation between divine
revelation, as Christians understand it,
and ‘givenness’, as phenomenologists
regard it. Marion sheds light on major
thinkers including Aquinas and Kant,
while also offering a fascinating
treatment of lesser known figures.
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235x156 mm, AE
978-0-19-994890-1
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section, 234x156 mm, AE
978-0-19-871838-3
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See also God is
Watching You, page 38.
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L I T E R AT U R E
Reading in the Digital Age
The Literary Agenda
MARYANNE WOLF, Tufts University
Is the concept of the reader changing?
There are many questions to be asked about the activity of reading in our new, digital age.
How does literacy change the human brain? What does it mean to be a literate or nonliterate person in the present digital culture? What are the consequences of a digital reading
brain for the literary mind and for writing itself?
By using research from cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, child development, and
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education, and considering examples from world literature, Maryanne Wolf attempts to
answer these and other key questions. She plots a course that seeks to preserve the
deepest forms of reading from the past, while developing the cognitive skills necessary for
this century’s next generation.
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Everyday Stories
The Literary Agenda
RACHEL BOWLBY, University College London
How the everyday can be extraordinary
What’s in a day? They begin and they end. They each have their small stories, non-stories,
ephemeral stories… At the same time, any single day is also a unique date, with its multidigit identity, its moment – at last, and never again – of here and now, today. Everyday
Stories makes us think again about the ordinary life we are in. Entering into the single day,
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drawing out the stories that surround us, it goes into everyday stories of many descriptions,
old and new: both in literature and in that story-laden place and time we call real life.
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L I T E R AT U R E
Common Writing
Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate
STEFAN COLLINI, University of Cambridge
A new collection from one of our finest essayists
Stefan Collini has been acclaimed as one of the most brilliant essayists of our time: this
collection shows him at his subtle, perceptive, and trenchant best. It focuses chiefly on
writers, critics, historians, and journalists who have occupied wider public roles as cultural
commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which
they attempted to reach such audiences. Among the figures discussed are T. S. Eliot, Graham
Greene, J. B. Priestley, C. S. Lewis, Kingsley Amis, Nikolaus Pevsner, Hugh Trevor-Roper,
Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Ignatieff – together their life and work shows us many
aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain of the last hundred years.
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The Found Voice
Writers’ Beginnings
DENIS SAMPSON
What makes a breakthrough book?
V. S. Naipaul, Alice Munro, J. M. Coetzee, William Trevor and Mavis Gallant are five highly
acclaimed novelists who each had an important turning point in their career. How did one
book enable them to find their unique voice? Denis Sampson has been writing for thirty
years, including an acclaimed critical work on John McGahern. Here he investigates the
energies, needs, and talents that converged at a key creative moment, so that one
particular book by each of these writers can be seen as the foundation for a long career of
major achievements.
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L I T E R AT U R E
Also see Shakespeare, pages 6-8
The Face of the
Buddha
Thinking with
Literature
WILLIAM EMPSON
Towards a Cognitive
Criticism
Edited by RUPERT ARROWSMITH,
University College London; preface by
PARTHA MITTER, University of Sussex
TERENCE CAVE, St John’s College,
Oxford
The first publication of an important
lost book
An exciting new perspective on
mainstream literary criticism
William Empson considered The Face of the
Terence Cave’s work has made a major
Buddha to be one of his finest works, and
Left Out
The Forgotten Radical
Tradition of Publishing
for Children in Britain
1910–1949
KIMBERLEY REYNOLDS, Newcastle
University
How radical children’s literature
bloomed in the interwar years
contribution to the rethinking of the
Between 1910 and 1949 a number of
he was heartbroken when he lost his only
relationship between literature, history,
British publishers, writers, and illustrators
copy of the manuscript in the wake of World
and culture. In his new book, discussions
produced politically and aesthetically
War Two. Its recent rediscovery means the
of topics, arguments, and hypotheses from
radical publications for children and young
book can now be published for the first
the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the
people. This ‘radical children’s literature’
time. It is an engaging record of Empson’s
theory of communication are woven into
was designed to ignite and underpin the
reactions to the great Eastern cultures and
the fabric of a critical analysis which insists
work of making a new Britain for a new
artworks he encountered during his travels,
on the value of close reading: a poem by
kind of Briton. Kimberley Reynolds shows
as well as in the museums of the West. This
Yeats, a scene from Shakespeare, novels
that the accepted characterisation of inter-
edition comes with a comprehensive
by Madame de La Fayette, Conrad, or
war children's literature as anti-modernist,
introduction, and is illustrated with the
Frantzen, stories from Winnie-the-Pooh,
and apolitical is too sweeping and that the
author’s original photographs.
and many others appear here on their own
relationship between children’s literature
terms, with their own cognitive energies.
and modernism, left-wing politics, and
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progressive education has been neglected.
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MUSIC
Alla Osipenko
On Sondheim
Verdi
Beauty and Subversion in
Soviet Ballet
An Opinionated Guide
JULIAN BUDDEN
ETHAN MORDDEN, freelance writer
JOEL LOBENTHAL, independent
scholar
New insights from a great critic
‘Well written and exhaustively
researched, full of insight and leavened
with humour.’
The story of one of the greatest of
Russian ballerinas – told for the first
time
Alla Osipenko was one of history’s
greatest ballerinas, and a courageous
rebel who paid the price for speaking the
truth. Throughout the book, she talks
frankly and freely about her traumatic
relationship with the Soviet state, her
four husbands, her lovers, her
colleagues, and her son’s arrest for
selling dollars in Leningrad and
subsequent death. This biography
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John Amis, The Guardian
Writing with his usual blend of the
scholarly and the popular, and with his
The late Julian Budden was one of the
trademark sense of humour, Ethan
great Verdi scholars. The third edition of
Mordden reveals why Stephen Sondheim
his acclaimed biography is a
has become Broadway’s most significant
comprehensive overview of Verdi the man
voice in the last fifty years. Each of
and the artist, tracing his ascent from
Sondheim’s musicals gets its own
humble beginnings to the status of a
chapter packed with fresh insights and
cultural patriarch of the new Italy. This is
analysis, and there are also articles on
an accessible and engaging work in the
his life and major influences, while
Master Musicians series, which aims to
comprehensive bibliographical and
make the latest scholarship on composers
discographical essays place the
accessible to non-specialists.
Sondheim literature and recordings
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in perspective.
features a cast of characters drawn from
all sectors of Soviet and post-Perestroika
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society; it is as encyclopedic and
encompassing as a great Russian novel.
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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S
The Monk
NEW EDITION
MATTHEW LEWIS
Edited by NICK GROOM, University of Exeter
‘He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at
any price’
The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed
with desire for a young girl; having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent
into immorality and violence. The first horror novel in English literature, The Monk is a sensational
story of temptation and depravity. Lewis’s extraordinary tale drew on folklore, legendary ghost stories,
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and contemporary dread inspired by the terrors of the French Revolution. Its excesses shocked the
reading public and it was condemned as obscene. Now made available in a new edition, the novel
continues to beguile readers, while at the same time giving a profound insight into the deep anxieties
experienced by British citizens during one of the most turbulent periods in the nation’s history.
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Anna Karenina
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LEO TOLSTOY
Translated and edited by ROSAMUND BARTLETT
‘Love...it means too much to me, far more than you can understand.’
‘Much the best English rendering which has ever appeared.’
A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
‘Bartlett’s [version] seems to me as ecstatic as the Russian language feels.’
Bob Blaisdell, Los Angeles Review of Books
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One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose
passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties. It combines penetrating
psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. This major new
translation by acclaimed translator and biographer Rosamund Bartlett conveys Tolstoy’s precision of
meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful.
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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S
Jezebel’s Daughter
WILKIE COLLINS
Edited by JASON DAVID HALL,
University of Exeter
‘The power that I have dreamed of
all my life is mine at last!’
Can the scheming Madame Fontaine
bring her daughter’s marriage plans to
fruition, and has she met her match in
Jack Straw, one-time inmate of Bedlam
The Natural NEW IN PAPERBACK
History of Selborne
Hellenistic
Lives
GILBERT WHITE
Edited by ANNE SECORD, University of
Cambridge
including Alexander the Great
‘I was much entertained last summer
with a tame bat, which would take
flies out of a person’s hand’
NEW TRANSLATION
PLUTARCH
Translated by ROBIN WATERFIELD,
and introduced by ANDREW ERSKINE,
University of Edinburgh
Lives of the greatest of the Greeks
‘A natural history must-read in a new
edition.’
New Scientist
lunatic asylum? Jezebel’s Daughter is a
This selection of ten Lives traces the
history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise
of Macedon and Alexander’s conquest of
suspenseful case study in Victorian
Written as a series of letters, The Natural
villainy. With its intricate plot and
History of Selborne describes with wit
memorable characters, it shares its
and in minute detail the flora and fauna
the Persian empire to the arrival of the
Romans. Plutarch's biographies of
eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers
sensational nature with Wilkie Collins’s
Gilbert White observed through the
major novels. This is the only critical
changing seasons in the rural Hampshire
combine vivid portraits of their subjects
with a wealth of historical information,
edition of a tale that displays the
parish of Selborne. A classic of nature
author’s fascination with science and the
writing, this edition includes
female poisoner.
contemporary illustrations, a
and together constitute a uniquely
important source for the period.
Plutarch's elegant style combines
contextualizing introduction, and an
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anecdote and erudition, humour and
appendix of readers’ responses over 200
psychological insight, here consummately
years with a lively new introduction
translated by Robin Waterfield and
and notes.
introduced by Andrew Erskine.
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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S
NEW IN PAPERBACK
The
Compleat Angler
NEW EDITION
King
Solomon’s Mines
Sentimental
Education
IZAAK WALTON and CHARLES COTTON
Edited by MARJORIE SWANN, Hendrix
College, Arkansas
H. RIDER HAGGARD
Edited by ROGER LUCKHURST,
Birkbeck College, University of London
‘I envy no body but him, and him
only, that catches more fish than I do’
‘Don’t you see that we are buried
alive?’
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Translated by HELEN CONSTANTINE,
freelance translator, and edited by
PATRICK COLEMAN, University of
California, Los Angeles
‘A fascinating snapshot of 17th-century
England...far more of a page turner than
I ever dared hope’
Allan Quatermain leads an expedition in
Trout Fisherman
NEW TRANSLATION
‘For certain men the stronger their
desire, the less likely they are to act.’
search of a missing man and fabled
mines in deepest Africa. Haggard’s
With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux,
exciting adventure story captivated
Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has
The most famous work in the literature of
readers when it was first published in
found his romantic destiny, but can the
sport. The Compleat Angler is a unique
1885, and helped inaugurate a wave of
young student translate his passion into
portrait of the English countryside. This
‘lost world’ romances inspired by the
decisive action? Flaubert’s innovations in
new edition celebrates its appeal as a
exploits of British explorers in colonial
narrative plot and perspective marked a
fishing manual, work of pastoral
Africa. This new edition looks at
turning-point in the development of
literature, portrait of the natural world,
Haggard’s own African experiences and
literary modernism. This is a faithful and
and environmental champion. It includes
unlikely literary success, and at his
eminently readable new translation of
the original illustrations and four maps
ambivalent attitude to the native tribes
one of the most important of all French
showing the locations visited by Walton’s
and the ravages of the British Empire.
novels, admired for its artistry and its
impact on the history of the genre.
and Cotton’s characters.
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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S
Oedipus the NEW TRANSLATION
King and Other
Tragedies
SOPHOCLES
Translated and edited by OLIVER TAPLIN,
University of Oxford
‘Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctes,
Oedipus at Colonus’
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest
dramatists of all time, influencing a vast
array of artists and thinkers. This original
and distinctive new verse translation of
four of Sophocles’ plays conveys the
vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the
plays as performed showpieces,
encouraging the reader to relish the sound
of the spoken verse and the potential for
song within the lyrics. Each play is
accompanied by an introduction and
substantial notes on topographical and
mythical references and interpretation.
Earth
NEW TRANSLATION
ÉMILE ZOLA
Translated by JULIE ROSE,
freelance translator, and edited by
BRIAN NELSON, Monash University
‘Only the earth is immortal...the
earth we love enough to commit
murder for her.’
Zola’s novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in
the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally
regarded as one of his finest
achievements, comparable to Germinal
and L’Assommoir. It describes the
disintegration of the Fouan family when
Papa Fouan decides to divide his land
between his three children. Greed and
violence feed a bitter struggle for
supremacy. This compelling new
translation captures the novel’s blend of
brutality and lyricism in its evocation of
NEW TRANSLATION
The
Notebooks of Malte
Laurids Brigge
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Translated by ROBERT VILAIN,
University of Bristol
‘An indescribable, aching, futile
longing for myself’
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids
Brigge has been left rootless by the early
death of his parents. Now living in Paris,
Malte begins to record his life in a series of
loosely connected notes, diary entries,
prose poems, parables and stories,
ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to
form the Notebooks. This is a compelling
new translation of the only extended prose
work by the German poet Rainer Maria
Rilke, a landmark in the development of the
twentieth-century novel.
the inexorable cycle of the natural world.
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978-0-19-280685-7
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978-0-19-967787-0
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978-0-19-964603-6
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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S
NEW IN PAPERBACK
An
Autobiography
Victorian
Fairy Tales
and Other Writings
Edited by MICHAEL NEWTON,
University of Leiden
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Edited by NICHOLAS SHRIMPTON,
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
‘I hated the office. I hated my
work...the only career in life within
my reach was that of an author’
This classic study of the working life of a
NEW IN PAPERBACK
'The Queen and the bat had been
talking a good deal that afternoon...'
‘Fairy tales to be read and enjoyed for
their own sake…and [a] fascinating
window into the Victorian mind.’
Moira Briggs, Vulpes Libris
Second Treatise of
Government and
A Letter Concerning
Toleration
JOHN LOCKE
Edited by MARK GOLDIE, University of
Cambridge
‘Man being born...to perfect
freedom...hath by nature a
power...to preserve his property,
that is, his life, liberty and estate.’
professional writer is one of the most
This anthology brings together fourteen
interesting autobiographies ever written.
of the best Victorian fairy tales by
This volume combines two of Western
Anthony Trollope describes his writing
authors central to the nineteenth-century
philosophy’s greatest texts on just
habits, showing a deep preoccupation
canon as well as specialists in the genre
government and tolerance. Locke’s Second
with contracts, deadlines, and earnings.
like George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing,
Treatise is a classic of political philosophy
This, and his account of the remorseless
and Andrew Lang. From whimsy to satire,
which helped entrench ideas of a social
regularity with which he produced his
the stories, which are illustrated with a
contract, human rights, and consent as
daily quota of words, has divided opinion
selection of original illustrations, reveal
guiding principles for modern Western
ever since. This new edition includes a
the preoccupations of the age and
democracy. His Letter calls for religious
selection of Trollope's critical writings
celebrate the value of the imagination.
tolerance and separation of church and
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importance of Locke’s texts and the
state. This new edition considers the
that display his subtle and complex
approach to literature.
contested nature of his reputation.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Shakespeare’s Comedies
A Very Short Introduction
BART VAN ES, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Published for Shakespeare’s Quartercentenary
William Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called ‘comedies’– a far higher
number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what defines a Shakespearean
comedy? Bart Van Es answers this question by exploring the full range of the Bard’s comic
writing. He looks at the history of the plays in performance, from the biographies of
Shakespeare’s original actors to the plays' endless reinvention in modern stage productions
and in films. Identifying the key qualities that make Shakespearean comedy distinctive, Van
Es traces the changing nature of the comic writing over the course of a career that spanned
nearly a quarter of a century.
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978-0-19-872335-6
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Goethe
Modern Drama
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
RITCHIE ROBERTSON, University of Oxford
KIRSTEN E. SHEPHERD-BARR, University of Oxford
Scientist, administrator, artist, art critic
Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten
and supreme literary writer, Goethe
Shepherd-Barr tells the story of modern
worked in a wide variety of genres.
drama through its seminal, trail-blazing
Dispelling the misconception of him as a
plays and performances, and the artistic
sedate Victorian sage, Robertson shows
diversity that they represent. She tracks
how much of Goethe’s art was rooted in
the emergence of new theories from the
turbulent personal conflicts, and draws on
likes of Brecht and Beckett alongside
recent research to present a complete portrait of the scientific
ground-breaking productions to illuminate the fascinating
work and political activity which accompanied Goethe’s
evolution of drama over more than a century, revealing just
writings.
what it is that makes it ‘modern’.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Medieval Philosophy
The Body
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
JOHN MARENBON, University of Cambridge
CHRIS SHILLING, University of Kent
For many of us, the term ‘medieval
philosophy’ conjures up the figure of
importance of the body both throughout
Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined
history and for our identities and social
with religion. John Marenbon shows how
relationships. Dealing with issues ranging
medieval philosophy had a far broader
from cosmetic and transplant surgery, the
reach than the thirteenth- and fourteenth-
performance of gendered identities, and the
century universities of Christian Europe,
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This is a compelling introduction to the
commodification of bodies and body parts,
and involves coexisting strands of Christian, Muslim, and
Shilling provides a compelling account of why body matters
Jewish philosophy, making it one of the most exciting and
present contemporary societies with a series of urgent and
diversified periods in the history of thought.
inescapable challenges.
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The Mexican Revolution
Environmental Politics
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
ALAN KNIGHT, University of Oxford
ANDREW DOBSON
The Mexican Revolution was a ‘great’
Environmental politics is an established part
revolution, decisive for Mexico, important
of the political landscape, covering a host of
within Latin America, and comparable to
different issues and impacting society,
the other major revolutions of modern
businesses, and individuals. Choosing a
history. Drawing on carefully considered
wide range of lively examples illustrating key
evidence and sources, Alan Knight offers a
issues, Andrew Dobson explores the various
succinct account of the period, from the
actions, ideas, and dimensions that shape
initial uprising against Porfirio Díaz and the ensuing decade of
environmental politics – both on a local and global scale – and
civil war, to the Revolution’s enduring legacy.
considers the role it will play in our future.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Fungi
Modern China
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
NICHOLAS P. MONEY, Miami University
RANA MITTER, University of Oxford
NEW EDITION
‘The product of a serious historian…an
immensely enjoyable read.’
The variety of the mycological world is far
greater than most people imagine. Fungi
Journal of Contemporary History
form an entire biological kingdom – in the
soil, in the air, and on the surfaces of
A peasant society with some of the world’s
plants and animals. Nicholas P. Money
most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient
highlights the variety and extraordinary
civilization that is still trying to find a modern
identity – Rana Mitter helps us unravel the
natures of fungi, revealing the remarkable
facts of fungal biology and the global significance of these
enigma that is China, providing an updated account of its
enchanting organisms.
foreign policy, and its unique engagement with the Internet.
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The History of Chemistry
Hinduism
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
WILLIAM H. BROCK, University of Leicester
KIM KNOTT, Lancaster University
William H. Brock traces the unique appeal of
NEW EDITION
The second edition of Kim Knott’s succinct
chemistry throughout history. Covering
and authoritative overview considers the
alchemy, early modern chemistry, pneumatic
impact of changes in technology and the
chemistry and Lavoisier’s re-interpretation of
flourishing of social media on Hinduism,
chemical change, the rise of organic and
and also looks at the presence of Hinduism
physical chemistry, and the transforming
in popular culture. Analysing recent
power of synthesis, he explores the
developments in India, she considers the
extraordinary and often puzzling transformations of natural and
impact issues such as Hindu nationalism and the politicization
artificial materials, and the chemists who discovered them.
of Hinduism have on Hindus worldwide.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Slang
The Welfare State
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
JONATHON GREEN, independent scholar
DAVID GARLAND, New York University
Typically associated with noir fiction,
Created as a solution to the problem of
teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the
mass poverty, the welfare state is now
works of Shakespeare and Dickens, slang
perceived by many as being a problem in
has been recorded for at least 500 years.
itself. In his accessible and entertaining
What words qualify as slang? Should it be
introduction, David Garland cuts through
acknowledged as a language in itself? And
the fog of misunderstandings to explain in
what does the digital revolution mean for its
clear and simple terms what the welfare
future? Jonathon Green addresses these questions, considering
state is, how it works, why it matters, and why modern
the etymology, dating, and spelling of slang words.
capitalist societies need them.
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174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-967266-0, £7.99, Available as an Ebook,
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Earth System Science
Crystallography
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
TIM LENTON, University of Exeter
A. M. GLAZER, Jesus College, Oxford (Emeritus) and
University of Warwick
The Earth’s atmosphere, biosphere,
oceans, soil, and rocks operate as a closely
Crystallography is a vital field that
interacting system. This has given rise to a
underlies much research in chemistry and
new field known as Earth System Science,
materials science, and has played a central
involving geographers, geologists,
role in molecular biology. Mike Glazer
biologists, oceanographers, and
introduces the field, tracing its history and
atmospheric physicists. Tim Lenton
explaining its basic concepts. He analyses
introduces this growing interdisciplinary area of research, and
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astonishing developments in such areas as
shows how understanding the fragility of the Earth system and
new sources of X-rays, and considers the impact they have on
its past history can help humanity achieve sustainability.
the study of crystals today.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Astrophysics
BRICS
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
JAMES BINNEY, University of Oxford
ANDREW F. COOPER, University of Waterloo
Astrophysics is the physics of the stars,
Few commentators expected the recent
and more widely the physics of the
reshaping of the global system towards
Universe. James Binney shows how the
multipolarity and away from the United
field has expanded rapidly in the past
States. And yet, the BRICS – Brazil, Russia,
century, and illustrates how the application
India, China and South Africa – has
of fundamental principles of physics and
emerged as a challenge to the international
the two pillars of relativity and quantum
status quo. Andrew Cooper considers its
mechanics has provided insights into phenomena ranging from
capacity as a transformative force, and explores whether it can
rapidly spinning millisecond pulsars to the collision of giant
move away from the Western-dominated global order in a
spiral galaxies.
significant new direction.
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Computer Science
Agriculture
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
SUBRATA DASGUPTA, Computer Science Trust Fund
PAUL BRASSLEY, University of Exeter, and
RICHARD SOFFE, Duchy College
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular
growth of the technologies associated with
How many of us understand how the food
the computer is visible for all to see and
in our supermarket shopping basket gets
experience. Yet, the science underpinning
there? Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe
this technology is less visible and little
explain what farmers do and why they do
understood outside the professional
it, and look at some of the controversial
computer science community. Subrata
issues facing contemporary agriculture:
Dasgupta provides a clear, succinct, and thought-provoking
introduction to the field and its core principles.
sustainability, its impact on wildlife and
landscape, issues of animal welfare, climate change, and the
development of genetically modified organisms.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Sikhism
NEW EDITION
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
ELEANOR NESBITT, University of Warwick
ROBIN WILSON, The Open University
‘A little gem. Nesbitt writes beautifully and succinctly.’
How many possible sudoku puzzles are
Carrie Mercer, SHAP World Religions in Education
there? In the lottery, what is the chance
(praise for the 1st edition)
that two winning balls have consecutive
Eleanor Nesbitt describes the key threads in
numbers? The answers to such questions
the history of Sikhism, from the late fifteenth
are found in combinatorics, a branch of
century to the present day. She examines the
mathematics concerned with selecting,
development of a distinct Sikh identity, and
explores Sikhism’s meanings and myths, the
arranging, listing, and counting. Robin
Wilson gives an overview of combinatorics and its applications
teachings these embody, and its practices, rituals, and festivals.
in mathematics and computer theory.
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Isotopes
Decolonization
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
ROB ELLAM, University of Glasgow
DANE KENNEDY, George Washington University
An isotope is a variant form of a chemical
Millions of people were the subject of
element, containing a different number of
colonial rule during the mid-twentieth
neutrons in its nucleus. They have proved
century, but by the century’s end nearly all
enormously important in answering questions
had undergone decolonization to become
and tackling challenges – from climate
citizens of independent nation-states. This
change and cancer treatment to Earth’s age
tumultuous, even tragic, upheaval
and the origin of the solar system. Drawing on
profoundly shaped the world we live in.
the latest research, Ellam provides an overview of the nature of
Dane Kennedy highlights both the promises and the limits of
isotopes, and considers their wide range of applications.
nation-states, and shows that considerable violence and
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Combinatorics
instability often accompanied the end of empire.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
The U.S. Congress
NEW EDITION
Savannas
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
DONALD RITCHIE, United States Senate
PETER A. FURLEY, University of Edinburgh
The world's most powerful national
Covering one fifth of the Earth’s land surface,
legislature, the US Congress, remains hazy
savannas form one of the largest and most
as an institution. This behind-the-scenes
important of the world’s ecological zones.
tour of Capitol Hill highlights the rules,
Discussing their origin, topography, and
precedents, and practices of the Senate
global distribution, Peter A. Furley explores
and House of Representatives, and offers
the dynamic nature of savannas and
glimpses into their committees and floor
illustrates how they have shaped human
proceedings to reveal the complex processes by which they
evolution and movements. He goes on to discuss the unrelenting
enact legislation.
pressures that confront conservation and management, and
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considers the future for savannas.
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Adolescence
The Old Testament as Literature
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
PETER K. SMITH, University of London
TOD LINAFELT, Georgetown University
Adolescence can be a turbulent period.
The Bible can be celebrated not only as
Peter K. Smith provides an engaging and
religious literature but, quite simply, as
informative overview of what we know and
literature. Tod Linafelt introduces readers
what we are still learning about this
to the tools to fully experience and
transitional phase. Encompassing both
appreciate the Old Testament's literary
classic and modern research, Smith
achievement. He offers a thorough and
explores its cultural and historical context,
lively introduction to the Bible’s two
the biological changes to the adolescent brain, and the
primary literary modes, narrative and poetry, foregrounding
difficulties – the search for identity, relationship changes, risk-
the nuances of plot, character, metaphor, structure and design,
taking and anti-social behaviours – that adolescence brings.
and intertextual allusions.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
International Migration
NEW EDITION
Islamic Ethics
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
KHALID KOSER, Global Community Engagement and
Resilience Fund
TARIQ RAMADAN, University of Oxford
The Arabic terms used to describe ethics cover a
Khalid Koser looks at the phenomenon of
whole range of complimentary teachings and
international human migration – both legal and
legal traditions about which Islamic legal
illegal – and offers an objective stance on the
scholars, thinkers and mystics have by no means
topic, and its benefits and challenges. Using
always agreed. These traditions have, more often
interviews with migrants from around the world,
than not, been ignored in the West, particularly in
Koser presents the human side of issues such as
demonstrates the rich core of ethical teachings at the heart of Islam,
international labour force, inviting readers to come to their own
and underlines the lesser-known aspects of the objectives of Islamic
conclusions on the international migration situation today.
teachings with regard to dignity, justice, and equality.
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Drugs
Learning
NEW EDITION
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
LES IVERSEN, University of Oxford
MARK HASELGROVE, The University of Nottingham
‘A vade mecum of drugs of all kinds, bursting
with facts presented succinctly in a userfriendly style…Highly recommended.’
Gill Ewing, Nurturing Potential
(praise for the 1st edition)
Now thoroughly revised and up to date, Les
Iversen’s non-technical account of what drugs
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their flexibility and inclusiveness. Tariq Ramadan
asylum, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the
Without learning there can be no memory,
no language, and no intelligence.
Mark Haselgrove looks at the nature of
learning and how it takes place in both
humans and other animals. He explores
how it has been studied, from the early
experiments of Pavlov and others to the
are and how they work encompasses both pharmaceutical drugs
most recent studies in social learning, and considers its
and legal and illegal recreational drugs.
overwhelming importance for our behaviour and survival.
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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S
Circadian Rhythms
The American Presidency
A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
RUSSELL FOSTER and LEON KREITZMAN, both
University of Oxford
CHARLES O. JONES, University of Wisconsin-Madison
NEW EDITION
As Obama’s presidency draws to a close,
This Very Short Introduction explains how
this Very Short Introduction focuses on the
organisms can ‘know’ the time and reveals
challenges facing American presidents in
what we now understand of the nature and
meeting the high expectations of the
operation of chronobiological processes.
position. The new edition introduces case
Covering variables such as light, the metabolism,
studies from the Obama administration,
human health, and the seasons, Foster and
Kreitzman illustrate how jet lag and shift work
can impact on human well-being, and consider circadian rhythms
providing insights into such issues as
military power, the role of the First Lady, and the new trends in
electoral campaigning.
alongside a wide range of disorders, from schizophrenia to obesity.
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American Political Parties
and Elections
NEW EDITION
A Very Short Introduction
L. SANDY MAISEL, Colby College
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The Harlem Renaissance
A Very Short Introduction
CHERYL A. WALL, Rutgers University
A profound cultural awakening among
As the 2016 presidential elections draw closer,
African Americans between the two world
what better time to gain an insider’s view of
wars has become known as the Harlem
how the elections work. Former Congress
Renaissance. It promoted a proud racial
candidate and political activist, Sandy Maisel
identity, economic independence, and
presents a fully revised edition of his
progressive politics. Cheryl Wall explores
introduction to the system and its flaws. He
the Harlem of the 1920s to identify the
illustrates the growing impact of social media,
cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, performers,
the changes in campaign financing, and the Tea Party’s influence
musicians, and visual artists alike, from Langston Hughes to
on the sub-presidential nominating process.
Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson to W. E. B. Du Bois.
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OX F O R D Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E
A Dictionary
of Marketing
NEW EDITION
CHARLES DOYLE
Now with the latest social media
marketing techniques
A Dictionary
of Chemistry
NEW EDITION
Edited by RICHARD RENNIE,
University of Cambridge
A bestselling dictionary, now with
even broader coverage
This is an accessible, practical, and
internationally focused A-Z reference
Fully revised and updated, the seventh
work, providing over 2,400 entries on
edition of this popular dictionary is the
NEW EDITION
A Dictionary
of Computer Science
Edited by ANDREW BUTTERFIELD,
Trinity College, Dublin, and
GERARD EKEMBE NGONDI,
University of York
The most up-to-date and
authoritative guide to computer
science available
topics spanning terms for traditional and
ideal reference resource for students of
modern marketing techniques, as well as
chemistry, either at school or at
Previously titled A Dictionary of
leading marketing theories and concepts.
university. With over 5,000 entries – over
Computing, this bestselling dictionary has
This new edition contains more Asian
175 new to this edition – it covers all
been renamed A Dictionary of Computer
and non-Western case studies and
aspects of chemistry, from physical
Science for the new edition. It contains
entries, including examples from China,
chemistry to biochemistry. It boasts
over 6,500 entries, with expanded
India, and Japan, and has an even more
broader coverage in areas such as
coverage of multimedia, computer
extensive coverage of modern Internet-
nuclear magnetic resonance, polymer
applications, networking, and personal
based marketing techniques in entries
chemistry, and nanotechnology, with
computing. It has been fully revised by a
such as blog marketing, clickstream,
new entries including graphene,
team of computer specialists, with around
newsjacking, and Tumblr.
nanocluster, polyprotic acid, and silicene.
150 new entries added, including cloud
PR: Ellen Grady
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computing, cross-sitescripting, iPad,
semantic attack, smartphone, and virtual
learning environment.
PR: Ellen Grady
March 2016
Paperback
464 pp, 35 line drawings
(charts and graphs),
6 tables, 196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-873642-4
£11.99
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978-0-19-959023-0
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January 2016
Paperback
640 pp, 196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-872282-3
£12.99
Available as an Ebook
Previous edition:
978-0-19-920463-2
See also The History of
Chemistry: A Very Short
Introduction, page 63.
January 2016
Paperback
640 pp, 14 figures,
196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-968897-5
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OX F O R D Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E
The Oxford
Dictionary of
Architecture
NEW IN PAPERBACK
JAMES STEVENS CURL, University of
Ulster, and SUSAN WILSON,
Landscape Institute
NEW EDITION
A Dictionary
of Business and
Management
The Oxford
Dictionary of
Philosophy
Unscramble bothersome business
jargon and buzzwords
SIMON BLACKBURN, New College of
the Humanities
This wide-ranging and authoritative
‘Simply the best dictionary of
dictionary contains over 7,100 entries
‘The most comprehensive dictionary of
philosophy in English.’
architecture on the market...a delight.’
Times Literary Supplement
covering all areas of business and
Gwyn Headley, Follies
NEW EDITION
management, including marketing,
This dictionary is written by one of the
With over 6,000 entries from Aalto to
organizational behaviour, business
leading philosophers of our time, and it
Zwinger, this is the most authoritative
strategy, law, and taxation. In its sixth
is recognized as the best of its kind. It
dictionary of architectural history
edition, it features recent developments
includes over 3,300 lively and accessible
available. Over 900 entries are new to
such as social media and peer-to-peer
alphabetical entries covering every
this edition, including dozens of new
lending, as well as the financial crisis and
aspect of philosophy from Western
biographical entries as well as numerous
subsequent sovereign debt crisis. There
philosophical traditions, as well as
entries on garden and landscape
is expanded coverage of financial
themes from Chinese, Indian, Islamic,
architecture, such as battle-garden,
regulation and corporate social
and Jewish philosophy. New entries on
hameau, New Perennials, and snail-
responsibility. Over 100 new entries have
the philosophy of economics, social
mount. The text is complemented by over
been added including bitcoin, Cog’s
theory, neuroscience, philosophy of the
260 beautiful and detailed line drawings,
Ladder, mobile lending, Six Sigma, and
mind, and moral conceptions bring this
labelled cross-sections, and diagrams.
zero-hours contract.
new edition fully up to date.
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January 2016
Paperback
896 pp, 260 line drawings,
196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-967499-2
£11.99
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Hardback:
978-0-19-967498-5
February 2016
Paperback
672 pp, 196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-968498-4
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February 2016
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978-0-19-873530-4
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OX F O R D Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E / R E F E R E N C E
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern
English Usage
NEW EDITION
Edited by JEREMY BUTTERFIELD
Infer or imply? Who or whom? Your language questions answered
This invaluable reference work offers the best advice on English usage. Known previously as
the ‘Pocket Fowler’ and now in its third edition, the work is a descendant of that great volume
on the language, The Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler. Drawing on the
unrivalled evidence and research of the Oxford Dictionaries Programme, the new edition has
been judiciously revised to reflect the usage practices and concerns of the twenty-first century.
March 2016
Paperback
688 pp, 196x129 mm, TC
978-0-19-966631-7
£11.99
Available as an Ebook
Over 4,000 entries offer clear recommendations on issues of grammar, pronunciation, spelling,
confusable words, and written style.
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See also Slang: A Very Short
Introduction, page 64.
Savoring Gotham
A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
Editor-in-Chief: ANDREW F. SMITH, New School University, New York,
with a foreword by GARRETT OLIVER
The most comprehensive reference work on NYC food and drink
New York is perhaps the world’s greatest food mecca. Its rich culinary credentials are
explored in 570 accessible A-Z entries by experts and scholars who take the reader from the
crops Native Americans planted in the area 5,000 years before New York got its name to the
upscale restaurants and celebrity chefs of today. There are entries on the bodegas, the chop
January 2016
Paperback Original
952 pp, 100 colour illustrations,
254x178 mm, AC
978-0-19-939702-0
£25.00
Available as an Ebook
suey joints, the automats, and the Italian ice vendors, not to mention on the city’s more
unusual culinary realities – urban farming, dumpster diving, and the phenomenon of
foraging for food in Central Park. Every aspect of New York’s extraordinary food heritage is
covered, with around 100 attractive pictures to further whet the appetite.
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INDEX
A
Adams, Jad
Adamson, Peter
ADHD
Adolescence
Age of Em, The
Agriculture
Alla Osipenko
American Political Parties and Elections
American Presidency, The
American President, The
Anand, Paul
Anna Karenina
Are Some Languages Better Than Others?
Arrowsmith, Rupert
AI
Astrophysics
Autobiography, An
B
Bad Queen Bess?
Bahn, Paul G.
Bardgett, Richard
Barnes, Elizabeth
Barrett, Emma
Bartlett, Rosamund
Bearman, Robert
Belich, James
Bell, David A.
Bellinger, Vanya Eftimova
Bew, John
Bew, Paul
Biggs, Norman
Binney, James
Blackburn, Simon
Blood Oil
Boden, Margaret A.
Body, The
Bollard, Alan
Bostrom, Nick
Bound Alberti, Fay
Bowlby, Rachel
Brassley, Paul
Brautigam, Deborah
BRICS
Briggs, Andrew
Brock, Eleanor
Brock, Michael
22
45
30
67
33
65
55
69
69
22
25
56
50
54
34
65
60
19
13
36
47
40
56
8
21
15, 20
19
31
17
43
65
71
23
34
62
26
35
12
52
65
28
65
42
20
20
Brock, William H.
Brockliss, L. W. B.
Budden, Julian
Butterfield, Andrew
Butterfield, Jeremy
Byrne, Richard W.
63
18
55
70
72
41
C
Cartledge, Paul
Cave, Terence
Cheats and Deceits
China Triangle, The
Churchill and Ireland
Circadian Rhythms
Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring
Clark, Andy
Clarke, Desmond M.
Classical Philosophy
Climate Change
Coleman, Patrick
Collini, Stefan
Collins, Wilkie
Combinatorics
Common Writing
Compleat Angler, The
Computer Science
Conly, Sarah
Constantine, Helen
Cooper, Andrew F.
Cotton, Charles
Crystal, David
Crystallography
Curl, James Stevens
10
54
32
28
17
69
30
45
46
45
30
58
53
57
66
53
58
65
46
58
65
58
7
64
71
D
Darwin, John
21
Dasgupta, Subrata
65
Decolonization
66
Democracy
10
Dewhurst, Peter
37
Dickson, Bruce
27
Dictating to the Mob
50
Dictator’s Dilemma, The
27
Dictionary of Business and Management, A 71
Dictionary of Chemistry, A
70
Dictionary of Computer Science, A
70
Dictionary of Marketing, A
70
Dixon, R. M. W.
50
Dobson, Andrew
Donohue, Laura
Doyle, Charles
Drones
Drugs
62
29
70
30
68
E
Earth
Earth Matters
Earth System Science
Economics of Chocolate, The
Eisenhower’s Guerillas
Ellam, Rob
Ellison, Katherine
Empson, William
Environmental Politics
Erskine, Andrew
Esposito, John L.
Everyday Stories
Evolving Insights
Exploring the Planets
Extreme
Eyes on the Sky
59
36
64
26
15
66
30
54
62
57
29
52
41
43
40
36
F
Face of the Buddha, The
Fall of the Sultanate
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Few Hares to Chase, A
Fighting Hurt
Finlayson, Clive
Flaubert, Gustave
Floridi, Luciano
Foster, Russell
Found Voice, The
Fourth Revolution, The
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern
English Usage
French Philosophy 1572-1675
Frenz, Margret
Froese, Paul
From Skedaddle to Selfie
Fungi
Furley, Peter A.
Future of Foreign Intelligence, The
54
20
44
26
31
40
58
41
69
53
41
72
46
21
51
49
63
67
29
73
INDEX
74
G
Galbraith, James K.
Gallagher, Kevin P.
Garland, David
Garton-Ash, Timothy
Gates, Bill
Gates, Melinda
Gaukroger, Stephen
Gellately, Robert
Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Gingeras, Ryan
Givenness and Revelation
Glazer, A. M.
God is Watching You
Goethe
Goldie, Mark
Goldin, Ian
Graham-Smith, Francis
Great Fear, The
Green, Jonathon
Grigson, Caroline
Groom, Nick
30
28
64
30
44
44
46
21
30
20
51
64
38
61
60
25
36
21
64
12
56
H
Haggard, H. Rider
Häggström, Olle
Hall, Jason David
Hanson, Robin 3
Happiness Explained
Harlem Renaissance, The
Harris, James
Harris, John
Haselgrove, Mark
Hellenistic Age, The
Hellenistic Lives
Here Be Dragons
Hinduism
Hinshaw, Stephen P.
History of Chemistry, The
Holt, Frank L.
Holy Sh*t
Horobin, Simon
How English Became English
How to be Good
Humanity in a Creative Universe
58
41
57
3
25
69
21
45
68
14
57
41
63
30
63
14
50
48
48
45
38
I
Images of the Ice Age
Images of Time
Improbable Primate, The
Inequality
International Migration
Ireland’s Exiled Children
Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring
Islamic Ethics
Isotopes
Iversen, Les
13
42
40
30
68
16
29
68
66
68
J
Jaroszkiewicz, George
Jenkins, Tiffany
Jezebel’s Daughter
John Bell and Twentieth Century Physics
Johnson, Dominic
Jones, Benjamin F.
Jones, Charles O.
42
9
57
40
38
15
69
K
Kauffman, Stuart A.
Keats, Jonathon
Keeping Their Marbles
Kennedy, Dane
Kerrigan, John
King Solomon’s Mines
Kissane, Bill
Knight, Alan
Knott, Kim
Koser, Khalid
Kreitzman, Leon
Kreps, Sarah
38
39
9
66
8
58
27
62
63
68
69
30
L
Lake, Peter
Learning
Left Over
Lenton, Tim
Letter Concerning Toleration, A
Leuchtenburg, William E.
Lewis, Matthew
Lewis, Stephen E.
Linafelt, Tod
Literary Agenda, The
Lobenthal, Joel
Locke, John
Lucas, George
19
68
54
64
60
22
56
51
67
52
55
60
30
Luckhurst, Roger
Luxury
58
13
M
Maisel, L. Sandy
69
Mandelbaum, Michael
31
Marconi
39
Marenbon, John
62
Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-1916 20
Marie von Clausewitz
19
Marion, Jean-Luc
51
Martin, Paul
40
Maunder, Chris
51
McCarthy, Rory
30
McGarry, Fearghal
16
McNeil, Peter
13
Medieval Philosophy
62
Menagerie
12
Merritt, Giles
24
Metcalf, Allan
49
Mexican Revolution, The
62
Military Ethics
30
Minority Body, The
47
Mission Failure
31
Mitter, Partha
54
Mitter, Rana
63
Modern China
63
Modern Drama
61
Mohr, Melissa
50
Money, Nicholas P.
63
Monk, The
56
Montero, Barbara Gail
47
Mordden, Ethan
55
N
Napoleon
Nations Torn Asunder
Natural and the Human, The
Natural History of Selborne, The
Nelson, Brian
Nesbitt, Eleanor
New ABCs of Research, The
New Oxford Style Manual
Newton, Michael
Ngondi, Gerard Ekembe
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The
15
27
46
57
59
66
42
49
60
70
59
INDEX
O
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies
59
Old Testament as Literature, The
67
Oliver, Garrett
72
On Purpose
51
On Sondheim
55
On the Scent
37
One Child
46
Our Lady of the Nations
51
Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, The
71
Oxford Dictionary of Original
Shakespearean Pronunciation
7
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The
71
Oxford Illustrated History of Modern
China, The
11
Oxford Illustrated History of the First World
War, The
18
P
Pelosi, Paolo
Penultimate Curiosity, The
Plutarch
Potter, David
Prospect of Global History, The
Pursuit of Development, The
37
42
57
19
21
25
Q
Quite Right
32
R
Raboy, Marc
Ramadan, Tariq
Reading in the Digital Age
Realpolitik
Rennie, Richard
Reynolds, Kimberley
Riello, Giorgio
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rising, The
Ritchie, Donald
Roberts, Adam
Robertson, Ritchie
Romm, Joseph
Rose, Julie
39
68
52
31
70
54
13
59
16
67
30
61
30
59
S
Sampson, Denis
Savannas
Savoring Gotham
Schmuhl, Robert
Schwyter, Jürg R.
Science of the Perfect Swing, The
Second Treatise of Government
Secord, Anne 57
Sentimental Education
Shadows of Revolution
Shakespeare’s Binding Language
Shakespeare’s Comedies
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Shakespeare’s Money
Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten E.
Shilling, Chris
Shneiderman, Ben
Shrimpton, Nicholas
Shue, Henry
Sikhism
Singer, Peter
Slang
Slippery Slope
Smith, Andrew F.
Smith, Emma
Smith, Peter K.
Snyder, Michael
Soffe, Richard
Sonn, Tamara
Sophocles
Squicciarini, Mara P.
Stalin’s Curse
Stevens, Martin
Strachan, Hew
Superintelligence
Surfing Uncertainty
Swann, Marjorie
Swinnen, Johan
53
67
72
16
50
37
60
58
20
8
61
6
8
61
62
42
60
31
66
44
64
24
72
6
67
30
65
29
59
26
21
32
18
35
45
58
26
T
Taplin, Oliver
Taylor, Fred
Theodora
Thinking with Literature
This Mortal Coil
Thonemann, Peter
Thought in Action
Tolstoy, Leo
Treasures of Alexander the Great, The
Trollope, Anthony
59
43
19
54
12
14
47
56
14
60
U
University of Oxford, The
U.S. Congress, The
18
67
V
Van Es, Bart
Verdi
Victorian Fairy Tales
Vilain, Robert
Voll, John O.
61
55
60
59
29
W
Wagner, Roger
Wall, Cheryl A.
Walton, Izaak
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
Waterfield, Robin
Welfare State, The
Wenar, Leif
What Everyone Needs to Know
Whitaker, Andrew
White, Gilbert
Wickham, Chris
Will Africa Feed China?
Willis, Michael J.
Wilson, Robin
Wilson, Susan
Wolf, Maryanne
Women and the Vote
42
69
58
11
57
64
23
30
40
57
21
28
30
66
71
52
22
Y
You Belong to the Universe
39
Z
Zola, Émile
59
75
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