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TRADEJune 2020

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of SailStephen Taylor

British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like

Nelson but has given little voice to plain, “illiterate” seamen. Now Stephen

Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval

records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their

own words.

In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless

sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion,

with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority,

they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots.

Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and

expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas

with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation,

from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the

1797 mutinies, these “sons of the waves” held the nation’s destiny in their

calloused hands. 16 colour and 20 black and white illustrations and 1 map.

“An excellent book, combining an original approach to the subject with

original research. Jack Tar, the quintessential British hero, emerges from this

collective biography as a self-confident fellow, part of the collective body

that sustained national prosperity, security and power.”—Andrew Lambert,

author of Nelson

“This enthusiastic account gives a vivid picture of life below decks in the era of the sailing navy. It is a classic of its kind, brimful with

riotous episodes and gripping anecdotes anchored in detailed research.”—Margarette Lincoln, author of Trading in War

“The Royal Navy had some great leaders but what made their achievements possible was the thousands of unknown and unheard-from

seamen who manned these vessels. This book starts the exploration of those fascinating lives.”—Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

Stephen Taylor is a writer of maritime history, biography, and travel. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times, The

Observer, and The Economist, and is the author of The Caliban Shore, Storm and Conquest, and Commander.

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Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World MegacropCATHERINE ZABINSKI

On our breakfast tables and in our bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. Amber Waves is a biography of a group of species that grew in scattered stands in the foothills of the Middle East until our ancestors discovered their value as a source of food. Over thousands of years, we moved their seeds to all but the polar regions, slowly cultivating what we now know as wheat, and in the process creating a world of cuisines that use wheat seeds as a staple food. Wheat spread across the world, but as ecologist Catherine Zabinski shows us, a biography of wheat is not only the story of how plants ensure their own success: from the earliest breads to the most mouthwatering pastas, it is also a story of our own species’ ingenuity in producing enough food for ourselves and our communities. 11 halftones.“For a sustainability-conscious readership, Zabinski looks at how wheat both enabled the food security necessary for civilization and created new ecological problems.”—Publishers Weekly

Hbk | 216pp | 9780226553719 | 2020.03 University of Chicago Press | A$53.99 | NZ$62

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Pbk | 208pp | 9781787753259 | 2020.05 Jessica Kingsley Publishers | A$35.99 | NZ$41.99

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10 Steps to Reducing Your Child’s Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum: The CBT-Based ‘Fun with Feelings’ Parent ManualMICHELLE GARNETT, TONY ATTWOOD, LOUISE FORD, STEFANIE RUNHAM AND JULIA COOK

Recognising, expressing and understanding emotions helps young children make sense of their life experiences. Children diagnosed with autism can have significant difficulties with recognising and processing emotions which can lead to high levels of anxiety as they struggle to make sense of the unpredictable world around them.The ‘Fun with Feelings’ programme is designed to help parents support their children with emotional regulation and to decrease anxiety. This guide is structured around 10 stages. The initial four stages prepare parents to implement the programme with their child. These stages help parents understand the causes of anxiety and provide practical strategies for creating a toolbox to reduce anxiety. The final six stages are used in conjunction with Having Fun with Feelings on the Autism Spectrum: A CBT Activity Book for Kids Age 4-8, allowing parents to support their child while working through the activity book.Written by world-leading experts in the field, 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child’s Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum provides the steppingstones for parents of young children with autism to better understand their child’s emotional skill set and empower them to understand and articulate their feelings.

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Having Fun with Feelings on the Autism Spectrum: A CBT Activity Book for Kids Age 4-8MICHELLE GARNETT, TONY ATTWOOD, LOUISE FORD, STEFANIE RUNHAM AND JULIA COOK

This activity book is designed to be used by children on the autism spectrum aged 4-8. The workbook introduces them to 6 ‘feelings’ characters who help them to recognise and express different emotions to reduce anxiety. It is intended to be used with the accompanying guidebook, 10 Steps to Reducing Your Child’s Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum. Michelle Garnett, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and founder and Director of Minds & Hearts: A Specialist Clinic for Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism. Tony Attwood, PhD, is a clinical psychologist from Brisbane with over 30 years of experience with individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Louise Ford, DPsych, is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Brighter Futures Psychology clinic in Brisbane. Stefanie Runham, DPsych, is a clinical psychologist working in private practice in Brisbane. Julia Cook, DPsych, is a clinical psychologist who previously worked with Professor Tony Attwood and Dr Michelle Garnett at Minds and Hearts Clinic in Brisbane.

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JUNE FEATURE TITLES

DIY City: The Collective Power of Small ActionsHANK DITTMAR

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities—from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighborhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both their character and the ability to respond to sudden change.Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest of town planning” to the Prince of Wales, believed in letting small things happen. Dittmar concluded that big plans were often the problem. Looking at the global cities of the world, he saw a crisis of success, with gentrification and global capital driving up home prices in some cities, while others decayed for lack of investment.In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, using lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history, such as the revival of Camden Lock in London and the nascent rebirth of Detroit. 8 page color insert and 25 photos.

Pbk | 200pp | 9781642830521 | 2020.06 Island Press | A$52.99 | NZ$59.99

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Birds: An AnthologyJAQUELINE MITCHELL

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush’s ‘full-hearted evensong of joy illimited’, Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts ‘dash round in circles’ and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean’s edge, scurrying ‘across the beach like little ghosts’. From early times, we have been entranced by the bird life around us.This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the seasons and in different habitats - in woodland and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea - and our own interaction with them. From India to America, from China to Rwanda, writers marvel at birds - the building of a long-tailed tit’s nest, the soaring eagle, the extraordinary feats of migration and the pleasures to be found in our own gardens.Including extracts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dorothy Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies, Charles Darwin, James Joyce, John Keats, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov, Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Franzen and Barbara Kingsolver among many others, this rich anthology will be welcomed by bird-lovers, country ramblers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight. 25 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 272pp | 9781851245291 | 2020.05 Bodleian Library | A$44.99 | NZ$52.99

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The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan SontagPETER BURKE

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has led to increased specialisation and to an environment that is less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists.Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species. 22 color illustrations.Included in the Financial Times’ round up “2020 visions: the year ahead in books.”


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Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph CablePAUL J. NAHIN

Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and universe, from how milk dissolves in coffee to how molten planets cool. The heat equation, a cornerstone of modern physics, demystifies such processes, painting a mathematical picture of the way heat diffuses through matter. Presenting the mathematics and history behind the heat equation, Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons tells the remarkable story of how a foundational idea brought about one of the greatest technological advancements of the modern era.Paul Nahin vividly recounts the heat equation’s tremendous influence on society, showing how French mathematical physicist Joseph Fourier discovered, derived, and solved the equation in the early nineteenth century. A testament to the intricate links between mathematics and physics, Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons offers a fascinating glimpse into a formative equation’s relationship with one of the most important developments in human communication. 37 black and white illustrations.

Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few ScoundrelsSTEPHEN B. HEARD

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.Ever since Carl Linnaeus’s binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxonomic nomenclature, from Linnaeus himself naming a small and unpleasant weed after a rival botanist to the recent influx of scientific names based on pop-culture icons—including David Bowie’s spider, Frank Zappa’s jellyfish, and Beyoncé’s fly.Exploring the naming process as an opportunity for scientists to express themselves in creative ways, Stephen B. Heard’s fresh approach shows how scientific names function as a window into both the passions and foibles of the scientific community and as a more general indicator of the ways in which humans relate to, and impose order on, the natural world. 25 black and white illustrations.


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Hbk | 232pp | 9780691191720 | 2020.03 Princeton University Press | A$45.99 | NZ$52.99

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Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of SpaceKEVIN PETER HAND

Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the most habitable real estate may actually lie farther out. Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? Alien Oceans reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out.Kevin Peter Hand is one of today’s leading NASA scientists whose pioneering research has taken him on expeditions around the world. In this captivating account of scientific exploration, he brings together insights from planetary science, biology, and the adventures of scientists like himself to explain how we know that oceans exist within moons of the outer solar system, like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. Alien Oceans describes what lies ahead in our search for life in our solar system and beyond, setting the stage for the transformative discoveries that may await us. 15 color and 22 black and white illustrations.

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Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past

MARK D. MCCOY

Popular culture is rife with movies, books, and television shows that address our collective curiosity about what the world was like long ago. From historical dramas to science fiction tales of time travel, audiences love stories that reimagine the world before our time. But what if there were a field that, through the advancements in technology, could bring us closer to the past than ever before?

Written by a preeminent expert in geospatial archaeology, Maps for Time Travelers is a guide to how technology is revolutionizing the way archaeologists study and reconstruct humanity’s distant past. From satellite imagery to 3D modeling, today archaeologists are answering questions about human history that could previously only be imagined. As archaeologists create a better and more complete picture of the past, they sometimes find that truth is stranger than fiction. 21 black and white images.“An eye-opening and engaging look at the science and technology of modern archaeology.”—Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

Sin

JOOST JOUSTRA

The depiction of sin has been fundamental to European visual culture for hundreds of years, especially—but not only—in Christian art. Addressing the mutable and often ambiguous representation of sin, this book highlights its theological underpinnings, cultural afterlife, and contradictory and controversial aspects from the 15th to the 21st century. Drawing on paintings from the National Gallery and elsewhere, including pictures by Cranach, Gossaert, and Velázquez, as well as contemporary art and sculpture, the author explores

complex theological ideas—Original Sin, the Immaculate Conception, and confession, for example—that show familiar human behavior through moralizing or seductive images; in the process, Sin shows how art can blur the boundaries between our modern categories, religious and secular. 80 color and black and white illustrations. Exhibition: National Gallery, London, (April 15–July 5, 2020).

The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection

SADAKO OHKI AND ADAM HALIBURTON

This beautiful volume celebrates the tradition of the Japanese surimono print. Produced from around 1800 until 1840, during the Edo period, surimono (“printed thing” in Japanese)

combine intricate artwork and playful poetry, and their small print runs and exclusive audiences allowed for lavish yet subtle surface treatments, such as embossing and gilding. Enjoyed for their learned allusions to literature and contemporary culture, surimono continue to delight and perplex scholars with their visual puns and wordplay. Imagery ranges from delicate, domestic still lifes to spirited vignettes of the natural world, while the poems are often lighthearted takes on the classical Japanese waka form. With its rich text and scholarly apparatus—including names and titles in kanji characters as well as transliterations and translations of the poems on the catalogued prints—The Private World of Surimono serves as a critical resource for scholars of Japanese art and history and offers general readers insight into this rare and innovative print form. 302 color illustrations including 1 gatefold.

Shell Art & Advertising

SCOTT ANTHONY, OLIVER GREEN AND

MARGARET TIMMERS

Exploring Shell’s remarkable archive of advertising art, this book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the company’s artistic heritage.Examinations of the historical, political and social contexts of Shell art and advertising enable the authors to

assess the work’s broader cultural significance. By delving into the ways in which Shell’s publicity was conceived, commissioned, produced and disseminated, the particular contributions made by artists and designers including Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and Edward McKnight Kauffer, are highlighted, while broader questions such as Shell’s position within contemporary debates regarding the aesthetics and proper purpose of ‘Commercial Art’ are explored.Drawing primarily on Shell’s extensive poster collection, as well as other contemporary sources, Shell Art & Advertising provides valuable insights into the development of commercial art in the UK. Featuring a wealth of fascinating images, this original publication will appeal to cultural historians, as well as fans of Modern British Art. 120 colour and 50 black and white illustrations.

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Pbk | 96pp | 9781857096651 | 2020.04 National Gallery London | A$29.99 | NZ$33.99

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Trade, June, New Releases, 2020

Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine

MASON KLEIN

This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper’s Bazaar and

Vogue—whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers—emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism.Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media. 155 color and black and white illustrations.Exhibition: Jewish Museum, New York, (May 1–September 13, 2020).

The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings

MICHAEL PEPPIATT

The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation.” For more than 50 years, he has written trenchant and lively dispatches from the center of the international art world. In this new volume of key works, Peppiatt gives his unique insight into the making, collection, display, and interpretation of modern art.Covering the whole spectrum of modern art—from pioneers such as Gustav Klimt

and Chaim Soutine, to collectors and dealers who played a pivotal role in the modern art world, to artists such as Francis Bacon, Bill Jacklin, and Frank Auerbach, with whom he had close relationships—Peppiatt interweaves personal anecdote with critical judgment. Each text is accompanied by a new short introduction, written in Peppiatt’s signature vivid and jargon-free style, in which he contextualizes his writings and reflects on significant moments in a lifetime of artistic engagement. This volume will provide readers with an exhilarating tour of 20th-century art.

Houdini: The Elusive American

ADAM BEGLEY

In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American, provides a succinct summary of the Master Mystifier’s life.Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, Houdini grew up an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the Midwest and became world-famous thanks to talent, industry, and ferocious determination.

He concealed as a matter of temperament and professional ethics the secrets of his sensational success. Nobody knows how Houdini performed some of his dazzling, death-defying tricks, and nobody knows, finally, why he felt compelled to punish and imprison himself over and over again. Must a self-liberator also be a self-torturer? Tracking the restless Houdini’s wide-ranging exploits, acclaimed biographer Adam Begley asks the essential question: What kind of man was this? 27 black and white illustrations.Jewish Lives.

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Hbk | 192pp | 9780300247190 | 2020.05 Yale University Press | A$94 | NZ$106

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The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America

ELLEN WAYLAND-SMITH

The postwar American advertising agency was an unusually powerful institution. Ads and the desires they articulated (or created) played outsized roles in shaping a new suburban order and the gender relations it embodied. Jean Wade Rindlaub, a pathbreaking and strong but perhaps alienated woman, made her name on ad campaigns for Chiquita and other companies that ironically encouraged other women to stay in the kitchen. Ellen

Wayland-Smith will use Rindlaub’s story as a framework for a cultural history of how women’s desires were codified and packaged by the postwar advertising industry—and how they came to have unexpected geopolitical impact. 15 halftones.“Wayland-Smith’s lively history tells the unusual story of pioneering adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub, who climbed the ladder from secretary to executive in the mid-twentieth century. Wayland-Smith insightfully shows how Rindlaub touted motherhood, home, love, and Christian service as the cornerstones of the free market and free world, but how late in life she became a campaigner for social justice. The Angel in the Marketplace illuminates one woman’s journey from advocating traditional notions of women’s place and the benefits of capitalism to questioning the underlying message of the ads she produced.”—Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture

Moses: A Human Life

AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG

No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book.Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses’s vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people

are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.Jewish Lives.“The author has perfected a distinctive approach to the biblical text that is both traditional and post-modern, playful and profound, imaginative but also truthful.”—Steven Weitzman, author of Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom“For those wishing to engage the legacy of Moses more deeply, this is a must-read.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia

W. J. T. MITCHELL

How does a parent make sense of a child’s severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell’s memoir tells the story—at once representative and unique—of one family’s encounter with mental illness and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son.Gabriel Mitchell was diagnosed with

schizophrenia at age twenty-one and died by suicide eighteen years later. He left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to honor his son’s attempts to conquer his own illness. Shot through with love and pain, Mental Traveler shows how Gabe drew his father into his quest for enlightenment within madness. 18 halftones.“Mitchell’s Mental Traveler combines a scholar’s intellect with a father’s intimate perspective on the life, work, and suicide of his son, Gabriel Mitchell. A kaleidoscopic and erudite memoir of madness and sanity, this is also, at its core, a stunning account of what endures in the wake of catastrophic tragedies: love, art, and vast stores of human hope.”—Rachel DeWoskin, author of Banshee and Someday We Will Fly

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Finding Dora Maar

BRIGITTE BENKEMOUN AND JODY

GLADDING

Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermes agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses

for Balthus, Brassai, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. Exhibition: J. Paul Getty Museum, The Getty Center, April 21–July 26, 2020.

Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln

RICHARD STRINER

Where previous Lincoln biographers describe his temperament as “moderate,” “passive,” or even “conservative,” historian Richard Striner offers a stunningly original perspective that will shed significant new light on one of the most studied figures in American history. Striner shows Lincoln’s audacity as no other book has ever done. By emphasizing the workings of Lincoln’s mind—stressing his cunning, his overall honesty, strategic thinking—even his ability to change his mind—Striner looks

anew at many topics and themes important to Lincoln’s story that either revise or add new meaning to the work of previous biographers. His insights into Lincoln’s life, but also into antebellum America, and the military and political history of the Civil War, make this book indispensable for well-read armchair historians, seasoned students of Lincoln, the Civil War, or the American presidency and newcomers alike.

Chairing a Meeting: The Quick and Essential Guide

KEVIN PAUL

Do you need help running a meeting? The rules of order used to run formal meetings can be confusing and intimidating. Why, then, do we use them? Because they work! This is a simple guide on how to run a meeting according to rules of order used to run formal meetings. It is intended for people who have little or no experience running meetings, and as such, is written clearly and concisely without unnecessary jargon or obscure references. The basic

concepts, skills, and information discussed throughout this book are applicable to virtually any type of meeting, large or small. It covers, among other topics: preparation for the meeting; calling the meeting to order; the agenda; forms of address and making main motions and amendments.Chairing a Meeting is designed to serve as a slim, handy pocketbook reference for those with little to no experience chairing any size meeting. The principles in this book are applicable to virtually any type of meeting, from large business meetings to smaller and less formal gatherings of community groups, strata councils, and so on. Reference Series.

Valuing Nature: A Handbook for Impact Investing

WILLIAM J. GINN

As the world faces unprecedented challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss, the resources needed far outstrip the capabilities of nonprofits and even governments. Yet there are seeds of hope—and much of that hope comes from the efforts of the private sector. Impact investing is rapidly becoming an essential tool, alongside philanthropy and government funding, in tackling these major problems. Valuing Nature presents a new set of nature-based investment areas

to help conservationists and investors work together.NatureVest founder William Ginn outlines the emerging private sector investing opportunities in natural assets such as green infrastructure, forests, soils, and fisheries. The first part of Valuing Nature examines the scope of nature-based impact investing while also presenting a practical overview of its limitations and the challenges facing the private sector. The second part of the book offers tools for investors and organizations to consider as they develop their own projects and tips on how nonprofits can successfully navigate this new space. Case studies from around the world demonstrate how we can use private capital to achieve more sustainable uses of our natural resources without the unintended consequences plaguing so many of our current efforts. 30 illustrations.

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Leader: Know, love and inspire your people

KATY GRANVILLE-CHAPMAN AND

EMMIE BIDSTON

Practical, evidence-based and optimistic, Leader will inspire leaders in any setting to lead through service and empower them with the tools to help their team flourish. In this wide-ranging book, Katy Granville-Chapman and Emmie Bidston eloquently combine up-to-date research in

psychology and neuroscience with inspiring examples of success to show that leadership can be learnt and that it is all about looking after your people. The book takes you on a journey to meet a diverse selection of great leaders from multiple different spheres – from the sports field to the corporate world. Katy and Emmie talk you through how all of these effective leaders have become great having mastered three key lessons: know your people, love your people, and inspire your people. These three principles form the core of the book, which also features a wide range of practical activities designed to help the reader reflect on both their own and their team’s points of action for future progress.The book provides a range of activities for readers to complete, both on their own and with their teams, that have been shown to help everyone to flourish.

The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions

JEFFREY D. SACHS

Jeffrey D. Sachs turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. He takes readers through a series of six distinct waves of technological and ideological change, starting with the very beginnings of our species and ending with reflections on present-day globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the spread of land-based empires; the

opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs contends, give us new perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—and how we should work to guide the change we need. In light of this new understanding of globalization, Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world. 88 figures.

Swipe for Success: Apps and Advice to Make Your Business Fly

ANNE BODEN

Swipe for Success is your guide to turning a brilliant idea into a tremendous commercial success. Written by fintech entrepreneur and founder of the award-winning Starling Bank, Anne Boden, this book will transform the way business owners tackle the day-to-day running of their companies. The entrepreneurial workspace is an exciting place to be. The start-up spirit shows no sign of waning and throughout

the world, 70 new firms, of every type, are registered every hour. It’s a thrilling time to branch out on your own or grow your business. Swipe for Success provides straight-talking advice from a fellow business owner. It will revolutionize the fortunes of your company and introduces tried-and-tested digital solutions that will resolve all sorts of business, productivity, finance, management and customer difficulties that you may encounter. Anne Boden takes the hard work out of running your company, to leave you to do what you do best: make your business fly.

An Illustrated Kalevala: Myths and Legends from Finland

KIRSTI MAKINEN

Encounter magical shamans, mighty eagles and terrifying dragons in this lavishly illustrated adaptation of the classic Finnish epic. This superb prose retelling of Finland’s national folk saga is brought

to life with exquisitely detailed artwork of magical creatures, snowy mountains, adventurous heroes and dark forests by renowned illustrator Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin. Thrilling and inspiring, An Illustrated Kalevala is the perfect collection to share and give a lifetime of enjoyment to children and adults alike. Colour illustrations throughout. Age Range: 9+ years.

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My Maddy

GAYLE E. PITMAN

Some of the best things in the world are not one thing or the other but entirely their own.Most mommies are girls. Most daddies are boys. But lots of parents are like my Maddy.My Maddy has hazel eyes which are not brown or green. And my Maddy likes sporks because they are not quite a spoon or a fork.The best things in the world are not one thing or the other. They are something in between and entirely their own. Age Range: 4-8 years.

A Feel Better Book for Little Poopers

HOLLY BROCHMANN AND LEAH BOWEN

Pooping can feel like a BIG deal to a LITTLE kid!It’s very confusingwhen your head says nobut your body is sayingI really need to go!In lively, soothing rhyming text, this Feel Better Book helps little ones who are first learning to use the bathroom to understand that pooping doesn’t have to

be uncomfortable or scary. The gentle and calming narration gives readers concrete coping strategies and practical advice.Authors Holly Brochmann and Leah Bowen offer an insightful note to readers with more information about helping little poopers to stay calm and have success! Age Range: 2-5 years.Feel Better Books for Little Kids Series.

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My Trans Parent: A User Guide for When Your Parent Transitions

HEATHER BRYANT

Maybe you just found out your mom, or your dad, is transgender, or maybe you’ve known for a while. But now what?This guide covers everything you need to know. With chapters on navigating the changes in your family, coming out, or not, the many ways to transition both inside and out, and much, much more, you’ll see how other people have handled these experiences. From definitions to names and pronouns, you’ll find all you need to support yourself and your family through the

transition and beyond.With real-life stories from people whose parents have also transitioned, and tips and advice throughout, this essential book will be your companion every step of the way and shows that there are others just like you. Age Range: Young people aged 14+ .“Heather Bryant is the wiser older sister that children of all ages need when their parent transitions. Filled with practical advice and personal stories, My Trans Parent reassures, nurtures, and inspires, providing space and permission to process any and all feelings you may experience.”— Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home

Being a Super Trans Ally!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young People

PHOENIX SCHNEIDER AND SHERRY

PARIS

If you care about making your home, school and community a safer and more accepting place for people of all genders, then this book is for you!What can you do to be an ally to your transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive friends and family? Everyone needs allies who can support them through challenges, and through engaging with the activities in this book

you can develop into an action-oriented Super Trans Ally! Packed full of activities such as self-reflective questions, journal prompts and role plays, this interactive workbook is perfect for helping young people aged 10+ to reflect on gender, develop their compassion, and discover what skills and talents they can bring to being a Super Trans Ally. 11 black and white illustrations.

You and the Internet of Things: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Integrating the IoT into Your Daily Life

VICKI MCLEOD

As a result of advances in sophisticated artificial intelligence and machine learning, automation and augmented reality, the Internet landscape is undergoing massive change. It’s no longer just about accessing information via electronic devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets. From toasters to transit systems, we are now in the age of the Internet of Things where interconnected devices and

objects are fully networked and communicate data back and forth. Devices and objects learn from these data exchanges and adapt and respond to our personal needs and preferences.What does this mean for you? This book is a guide to understanding the way soon-to-be common technologies affect your daily life and how to use these technologies for increased safety, security, convenience, and quality of life. If you are a mainstream user of technology, part of the sandwich generation, or a baby boomer trying to navigate the IoT age, this book is your roadmap.Reference Series.

Making Soft Dolls: Simple Waldorf designs to sew and love

STEFFI STERN

So why do Waldorf dolls have few facial features? What is it about dolls that captures the imagination of children and adults around the world? This book answers these questions and highlights the power of dolls used for therapeutic purposes, recognising that soft dolls aren’t just for children. From the simplest rag doll to curly-haired characters, this book gives straight-forward instructions, a guide

to buying your materials and upcycling materials you already own. A lovingly hand-made doll makes the perfect present and these dolls are easy to make and will be much loved for generations.• Large and small, knitted and sewn, beautiful dolls for making at

home• Full step-by-step instructions with clear drawings and templates • Detailed directions to make 9 character dolls and their accessories• Basic body part instructions enable you to create your own

characters• Create a charming dolls’ house doll family plus their clothes and

accessories• Create accessories and even pets for your dolls• Simple and easy to achieve sewing for beginners • No sewing machine required


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Crochet Ragdolls: 30 Animals and Friends to Snuggle

SASCHA BLASE VAN WAGTENDONK

Every child should have a soft, crocheted buddy to love and cuddle!These crochet ragdolls are specially designed to be huggable lovies for the little ones or loyal playmates for slightly older children. Many of the animals have patterns for both a large “mom or dad” version and a baby version, including the monkey, frog, cat, bunny, crocodile, dog, hippo, owl, kangaroo, fox, sheep,

and penguin. There are also patterns for a mouse, horse, panda, unicorn, princess, and robot, and even a section on how to make little clothes for them to wear. Step-by-step instructions are given for all of the crocheted parts, as well as details on how to assemble. In addition, all of the crochet techniques used in the book are explained so that even beginners can make these ragdolls.

Keeping Time: A Novel

THOMAS LEGENDRE

A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past...When archaeologist Aaron Keeler finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, he becomes swept up in a strangely illicit liaison with his younger wife. A brilliant musician, Violet is captivated by the attentive, “weathered” version of her husband. The Aaron she recently married—an American expat—has become distant, absorbed by his excavation of a prehistoric site at Kilmartin Glen on Scotland’s west coast, where he will

soon make the discovery that launches his career. As Aaron travels back and forth across the span of nearly two decades, with time passing in both worlds, he faces a threat to his revelatory dig, a crisis with the older Violet—mother of his two young children—and a sudden deterioration of his health. Meanwhile, Violet’s musical performances take on a resonance related to the secrets the two are uncovering in both time frames. With their children and Aaron’s lives at risk, he and Violet try to repair the damage before it’s too late.ACRE.

The Nature of Remains

GINGER EAGER

In the tiny town of Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss, who is also her lover, intends to fire her in order to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from him. Her plan just might work too, if she is not thwarted by a small town’s enmeshed histories and her own dark secrets.Set during the 2009 recession, The Nature of Remains rests at the intersection of class, gender, education and place. Eager’s deeply drawn

characters endow this novel with profound authenticity. Through extended geological metaphor, we witness the orogeny, crystallization, and weathering of the human soul. The forces impacting Doreen reflect how even a woman’s most precious connections—her children, her grandchildren, her lover—operate within larger social structures that challenge her sovereignty.

Getting the Best Out of College for Students on the Autism Spectrum: A Workbook for Entering Further Education

KATE RIPLEY AND REBECCA MURPHY

This interactive workbook provides guidance for your entire journey through college and further education.

Full of handy tips and strategies for your entire journey through college, it helps you handle early hurdles such as preparing for a new sensory environment, planning your transport and making friends. Chapters also cover life in college, so you’ll know how to properly manage your time

studying and socialising, how to get a grip on social media and have the confidence to tackle exams head on!The book includes 100 pages of interactive elements, which develop decision-making, reflection and strategy-building skills, and you can work through it all with an older adult for help.

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Autism, Bullying and Me: The Really Useful Stuff You Need to Know About Coping Brilliantly with Bullying

EMILY LOVEGROVE

This accessible guide for autistic children and teens is full of advice for coping successfully with bullying. It helps the reader understand what bullying is and debunks myths such as ‘bullying makes you stronger’. It also lays out self-empowering strategies and practical tips on how to deal with situations where they are being bullied. It’s not always easy to stand out from the crowd, especially if you’re a teenager. There’s a lot of information out there on

how to deal with bullying, but a lot of it is contradictory or seems like it won’t work… But this guidebook is different! Helping you sort fact from fiction, the book looks at the different forms bullying can take. You’ll learn techniques to clear your mind so that you can respond to bullying situations calmly and confidently and be positive about who you are. Finally, it’s packed with self-empowering strategies for coping with being autistic in a neurotypical world, and practical tips so you can handle any bullying scenario.

Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection

NOAH ADAMS AND BRIDGET LIANG

This ground-breaking book foregrounds the voices of autistic trans people as they speak candidly about how their autism and gender identity intersects and the impact this has on their life. Drawing upon a wealth of interviews with transgender people on the autism spectrum, the book explores experiences of coming out, with self-discovery, healthcare, family, work, religion and community support, to help dispel common misunderstandings around gender identity and autism,

whilst allowing autistic trans people to see their own neurodiverse experiences reflected in these interviews. An incisive introduction clearly sets out up-to-date research and thinking, before each chapter draws together key findings from the interviews, along with advice and support for those providing support to autistic trans individuals. Both accessible and authoritative, Trans and Autistic is an essential publication for autistic trans people, their families, and professionals wanting to understand and support their clients better.

Launching Your Autistic Youth to Successful Adulthood: Everything You Need to Know About Promoting Independence and Planning for the Future

KATHARINA MANASSIS

The transition from high school to adulthood is one of the most challenging times for young people on the autism spectrum. What will happen when all their familiar teachers, educational assistants and friends disappear after graduation? Who will replace them in the adult world? How will they manage this drastic change?

Drawing on her experiences as the mother of a child on the autism spectrum and a child psychiatrist, Katharina Manassis shares common transition-related challenges and offers real solutions for each. The book helps parents and teens plan for every stage of the journey. The book includes discussion of what a successful transition means and how to set realistic goals. It explores specific aspects of the transition such as employment, independence and social life, and looks at how to address long-term concerns such as living arrangements and financial support.

Coping with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): A Guide to Managing Memory Loss, Effective Brain Training and Reducing the Risk of Dementia

MARY JORDAN

Adults are being increasingly diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and this book provides strategies for concerned individuals to help slow the onset of the condition.Around 50% of adults with MCI go on to develop dementia, but research shows that self-help through early intervention and preventative measures can hugely slow this down.

The self-help measures in this book include memory aids, health and lifestyle changes, activities, therapies and technological aids. All of them are known to improve cognition and can be incorporated into daily life. Every measure is firmly based in current research, and this book is also applicable to those with early-stage dementia wishing to delay the onset of more severe cognitive impairment.Given the paramount importance of early intervention to prevent cognitive impairment worsening, this book is essential reading for any older individual wanting the best strategies to help with how to do this in practice.


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Creative Engagement: A Handbook of Activities for People with Dementia

RACHAEL WONDERLIN AND GERI M.

LOTZE

Whether they are cared for at home or in an assisted living community, adults living with dementia should be offered a life that is interesting and fun. But what can you do to enhance the everyday experience of a loved one who is losing interest in or is unable to participate in their old hobbies and pursuits?In Creative Engagement, dementia activity expert Rachael Wonderlin and

developmental psychology professor Geri M. Lotze provide dozens of creative, hands-on ways to engage with people living with cognitive loss. Teaching caregivers how to find dementia-friendly daily activities and introduce them into a person’s life, this comprehensive, empathetic guide is aimed at both family members and professionals. Twelve chapters full of useful, tangible activities touch on a range of topics, including exercise, technology, cooking and baking, memory games, and arts and crafts. Focusing on both group and individual dynamics, mundane activities and specially tailored pursuits, Wonderlin and Lotze offer proven strategies for interacting with people living with dementia. 44 halftones and 3 line drawings. A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book.

The CBT Art Workbook for Managing Anger

JENNIFER GUEST

Using the principles of CBT, these illustrated worksheets help clients to understand and manage their anger and associated issues.The activities follow the framework of a typical CBT course: how it works, looking at the nature of anger, linking thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physiology cycles, exploring different levels of thinking and beliefs, and identifying goals and future planning. It presents these theories in an

accessible way so that clients are familiar with the foundations of CBT they will be using in the worksheets. They can complete them by writing or drawing, alongside the opportunity to colour in parts of the pages as they consider ideas.Suitable for adults in individual or group work, this is an excellent resource to use as a standalone resource or in conjunction with professional therapy to deal with anger issues. 149 illustrated worksheets with black and white line drawings.CBT Art Workbooks for Mental and Emotional Wellbeing.

Unlock Your Resilience: Strategies for Dealing with Life’s Challenges

STEPHANIE AZRI

Resilience has never been more important in helping us navigate the stresses and adversity of modern life. Resilience acts as a protective armour that helps us deal with the toughest challenges that life throws at us. The best thing about resilience? It is a skill that you can develop at any age.This book lays out a 12-session programme that covers everything you need to unlock and develop your resilience, from self-esteem and self-care to emotional regulation andstress management. Each

chapter supports skill development and includes exercises, activities and discussion topics as well as case studies from people who have used the programme to improve their lives. Every session draws on various psychological techniques including CBT, positive psychology and solution-focused interventions.Stephanie Azri is a clinical social worker from Brisbane. She has over 10 years’ experience teaching resilience skills and addressing early symptoms of depression, anxiety and mental health issues in children and young people.


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Baroque Prague

VIT VLNAS

Baroque Prague is a lavish excursion through Prague’s important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the philosophical era of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. In this book, acclaimed art historian Vít Vlnas explores both the material and spiritual transformations the city went through during this boisterous period, treating the baroque epoch as a

cultural phenomenon vital to the current genius loci of the great Central European capital.Vlnas guides readers through the city from Prague Castle to the Lesser Town, Old Town, and New Town, as well as Vyšehrad, the important historic fortress. In a special section, he takes us to equally important baroque monuments outside of the historical city center. Lushly illustrated with over 200 color plates, including both historical images and contemporary photographs of architectural exteriors, the text is accompanied by helpful maps indicating the location of the monuments, as well as a glossary of prominent figures during the period. 200 color plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings and 3 maps.Prague.

Kafka’s Prague

KLAUS WAGENBACH

Nearly one hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. While the significance of his fiction is wide-reaching, Kafka’s writing remains inextricably bound up with his life and work in a particular place: Prague. It is here that the author spent every one of his forty years.Drawing from a range of documents and historical materials, this is the first book specifically dedicated to the relationship between Kafka and Prague. Klaus Wagenbach’s account of Kafka’s life in

the city is a meticulously researched insight into the author’s family background, his education and employment, his attitude toward the town of his birth, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. The result is a fascinating portrait of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic writer and the city that provided him with so much inspiration. W. G. Sebald recognized that “literary and life experience overlap” in Kafka’s works, and the same is true of this book. 48 halftones.Armchair Traveller.

Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump (Updated Edition)

D. J. MULLOY

The rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump’s candidacy may be seen as unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American Bund to the modern militia movement, D. J. Mulloy provides a guide for anyone interested in examining the roots of the radical right in the U.S.—in all its many varied forms—going back

to the days of the Great Depression, the New Deal and the extraordinary political achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Enemies of the State offers an informative and highly readable introduction to some of the key developments and events of recent American history.American Ways Series.Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2018).

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Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

HANNA ROSE SHELL

You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made from reclaimed wool. Shoddy was, in fact, one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling as old rags and fabric clippings were ground

into “devil’s dust” and respun to be used in the making of suits, army uniforms, carpet lining, mattress stuffing, and more.In Shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes readers on a vivid ride beginning in West Yorkshire’s Heavy Woollen District and its “shoddy towns,” and traveling to the United States, the developing world, and waste dumps, textile labs, and rag-shredding factories, in order to unravel the threads of this story and its long history. Introducing us to many richly drawn characters along the way, Shell reveals an interwoven tale of industrial espionage, political infighting, scientific inquiry, ethnic prejudices, and war profiteering. 4 color plates and 65 halftones.

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Fronts

AARON HILTNER

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly

invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia.With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.

The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

BRIAN LADD

Merchants’ shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided.Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from

a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities—London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today’s world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. 60 halftones and 4 maps.


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Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

JAIPREET VIRDI

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the “normal” majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn’t until her thirties, exasperated by problems

with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi combs archives and museums in order to understand the long history of curious cures: hearing trumpets, violet-ray apparatuses, pneumomassages, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and many more. 40 halftones.

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

ROBERT HOLLAND

Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as “Magick Land” by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation.Written by one of the world’s leading

historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron’s poetry to Damien Hirst’s installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.“Holland begins with Shelley and ends with Damien Hirst, but as no discussion of the Mediterranean and its influence on British life can fail to encompass the ancient world, since ancient and modern are “inseparable”, he flings his net over classical times, too.”—Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement

Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

WENDY A. WOLOSON

In Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, Wendy A. Woloson takes seriously the history of objects that are often cynically-made and easy to dismiss: things not made to last; things we don’t really need; things we often don’t even really want. Woloson does not mock these ordinary, everyday possessions but seeks to understand them as a way to understand aspects of ourselves, socially, culturally, and economically: Why do we—as individuals and as a culture—

possess these things? Where do they come from? Why do we want them? And what is the true cost of owning them?Woloson tells the history of crap from the late eighteenth century up through today, exploring its many categories: gadgets, knickknacks, novelty goods, mass-produced collectibles, giftware, variety store merchandise. As Woloson shows, not all crap is crappy in the same way—bric-a-brac is crappy in a different way from, say, advertising giveaways, which are differently crappy from commemorative plates. Taking on the full brilliant and depressing array of crappy material goods, the book explores the overlooked corners of the American market and mindset, revealing the complexity of our relationship with commodity culture over time. 11 color plates and 105 halftones.


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The Crusader Armies – 1099–1187

STEVE TIBBLE

During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and archaeological evidence as well as more commonly cited Western sources to analyze the respective armies’ strategy, adaptation, evolution, and cultural diversity and show just how sophisticated the Crusader armies were even by today’s standards.

In the first comprehensive account of the subject in sixty years, Tibble takes a fresh approach to Templars, Hospitallers, and other key Orders and makes the controversial proposition that the Crusades were driven as much by sedentary versus nomadic tribal concerns as by religious conflict. This fluently written, broad-ranging narrative provides a crucial missing piece in the study of the West’s attempts to colonize the Middle East during the Middle Ages.“An extraordinarily vivid and scholarly picture of the clash of arms in the age of the crusades. Tibble demolishes old ideas about crusading warfare with élan.”—John France, author of Perilous Glory

Grant’s Victory: How Ulysses Grant Won the Civil War

BRUCE L. BRAGER

Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant’s Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from Bull Run to Gettysburg, Union commanders—whom Lincoln replaced after virtually every major battle—had struggled to best Lee, either suffering embarrassing defeat or failing to follow

up success. Meanwhile, in the West, Grant had been refining his art of war at places like Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, and in early 1864, Lincoln made him general-in-chief. Arriving in the East almost deus ex machina, and immediately recognizing what his predecessors never could, Grant pressed Lee in nearly continuous battle for the next eleven months—a series of battles and sieges that ended at Appomattox.

Blood in the Hills: The Story of Khe Sanh, the Most Savage Fight of the Vietnam War

ROBERT MARAS AND CHARLES W.

SASSER

A soldier’s eye view of Vietnam’s fiercest close-quarters battle.Khe Sanh’s Hill Fights of 1967—as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day account—were carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark. Thanks to the brave Marines of the 9th and 3rd, Khe Sanh survived the first concentrated attack by the North Vietnamese to invade the

South. After the Hill Fights, American forces pulled back and held out against constant enemy shelling and frequent attacks until the siege was broken. Combining Maras’ personal experiences with the war’s bigger picture, Blood in the Hills honors the heroic actions of U.S. soldiers and shows how Khe Sanh was a microcosm of the entire Vietnam War. (Originally published: November 2011).

Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History

SUSANNA LEE

Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force—and sometimes even the law—is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction. He only asks questions—never answers them. In his stories he is both the main character and the narrator.

America has had a love affair with the hard-boiled detective since the 1920s, when Prohibition called into question who really stood on the right and wrong side of the law. And nowhere did this hero shine more than in crime fiction. In Detectives in the Shadows, literary and cultural critic Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of this truly American character type—from Race Williams to Philip Marlowe and from Mike Hammer to Jessica Jones.Lee explores how this character type morphs to fit an increasingly troubled world, offering compelling interpretations of The Wire, True Detective, and Jessica Jones.


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Why Writing Matters

NICHOLAS DELBANCO

Drawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time.In this new contribution to Yale University Press’s Why X Matters Series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and James Baldwin, and in turn having taught such rising stars as Jesmyn Ward, Delbanco looks in particular at questions of influence and the contradictory, simultaneous impulses toward imitation

and originality. Part memoir, part literary history, and part analysis, this unique text will resonate with students, writers, writing teachers, and bibliophiles.Why X Matters Series.“This book is a tribute to rigor, to close reading, to paying attention. Reading it is like participating in an exclusive workshop taught by a master of the craft.”—Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train

The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David Thoreau subverted both clock and calendar, using them not to regulate time’s passing but to open up and explore its presence. This little volume thus embodies,

in small compass, Thoreau’s own ambition to “live in season”—to turn with the living sundial of the world, and, by attuning ourselves to nature, to heal our modern sense of discontinuity with our surroundings.Drawn from the full range of Thoreau’s journals and published writings, and arranged according to season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows us to discover the endless variation and surprise to be found in the repetitions of mundane cycles. Thoreau saw in the kernel of each day an earth enchanted, one he honed into sentences tuned with an artist’s eye and a musician’s ear. Thoreau’s world lives on in his writing so that we, too, may discover, even in a fallen world, a beauty worth defending.A Year of Quotes.

America, the Band: An Authorized Biography

JUDE WARNE

As if recovering from a raucous dream of the 1960s, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek arrived on 1970s American radio with a sound that echoed disenchanted hearts of young people everywhere. The three boys named their band after a country they’d watched and dreamt of from their London childhood Air Force base homes. What was this country? This new band? Classic and timeless, America embodied the dreams of a nation desperate to emerge from the desert and finally give their horse a name.

Celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell share stories of growing up, growing together, and growing older. Journalist Jude Warne weaves original interviews with Beckley, Bunnell, and many others into a dynamic cultural history of America, the band, and America, the nation. Reliving hits like “Ventura Highway,” “Tin Man,” and of course, “A Horse with No Name” from their 19 studio albums and incomparable live recordings, this book offers readers a new appreciation of what makes some music unforgettable and timeless. “America defined the sonic landscape of the Southern California sound.”—Christopher Cross“I’ll always remember how happy my dad was producing America. The records they made together blossomed with creative spark that great collaborations have. My father was always so proud of the great albums they made, as they are so full of beauty, love, and happiness.”—Giles Martin, son of America and Beatles producer Sir George Martin“This finely crafted biography is a fitting tribute to one of the finest American bands. It reads like one of their songs: mythic, winding, and full of American soul.”—Daniel Roher, director, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band


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Supporting Young Children Through Change and Everyday Transitions: Practical Strategies for Practitioners and Parents

SONIA MAINSTONE-COTTON

Explaining the importance of supporting children through change for their wellbeing and social and emotional development, this practical guide gives early years practitioners and parents the tools to help children cope with change and everyday transitions.The book looks at different types of change that children can encounter, such as moving homes, new siblings, starting school, bereavement and divorce, and

gives advice on best practice for early years practitioners and parents. With ideas and activities that can easily be implemented, this book is the ultimate handbook for supporting young children through changes big and small.

Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

JAMES DAVISON HUNTER AND PAUL

NEDELISKY

In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The “new moral science” led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene is only the newest manifestation

of that quest. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. But rather than giving up in the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded, ironically, that right and wrong don’t actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a feeble program to achieve arbitrary societal goals. Foundational Questions in Science.

That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

MUSONIUS RUFUS

The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his era, imperial Rome, and his message still resonates with startling clarity today. Alongside Stoics like Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, he emphasized ethics in action, displayed in all aspects of life. Merely learning philosophical doctrine and listening to lectures, they believed, will not do one any good unless one manages to interiorize the teachings and apply them to daily life.

In Musonius Rufus’s words, “Philosophy is nothing else than to search out by reason what is right and proper and by deeds to put it into practice.” At a time of renewed interest in Stoicism, this collection of Musonius Rufus’s lectures and sayings, beautifully translated by Cora E. Lutz and introduced by Gretchen Reydams-Schils, offers readers access to the thought of one of history’s most influential and remarkable Stoic thinkers.“[Musonius Rufus] deserves to be more widely read, especially by people looking to Stoicism for guidance today.”—John Sellars, author of The Pocket Stoic

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

ZENA HITZ

In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on

inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz’s own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought.Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.“Lost in Thought is a moving declaration of faith in the intellectual act at a time when everything we do seems to conspire against it.”—Alberto Manguel, author of Packing My Library


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Against Fairness

STEPHEN T. ASMA

From the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “You’re being unfair!” Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics—Lady Justice—wears a blindfold as she weighs the law on her impartial scale. In our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma

drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through playful, witty, but always serious arguments and examples, he vindicates our unspoken and undeniable instinct to favor, making the case that we would all be better off if we showed our unfair tendencies a little more kindness—indeed, if we favored favoritism.Fed up with the blue-ribbons-for-all absurdity of “fairness” today, and wary of the psychological paralysis it creates, Asma resets our moral compass with favoritism as its lodestar, providing a strikingly new and remarkably positive way to think through all our actions, big and small. 23 line drawings.

Arms and Influence

THOMAS C. SCHELLING

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.Veritas Paperbacks.“This is a brilliant and hardheaded

book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review“Well worth reading and there will be few who do so that do not find an idea or line of inquiry emerging in their own later thinking that owes its inspiration to Professor Schelling’s lively analysis.”—American Political Science Review

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

JAMES C. SCOTT

Political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail, sometimes catastrophically, in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.Veritas Paperbacks.“A broad-ranging, theoretically important, and empirically grounded

treatment of the modern state and its propensity to simplify and make legible a society which by nature is complex and opaque. For anyone interested in learning about this fundamental tension of modernity and about the destruction wrought in the twentieth century as a consequence of the dominant development ideology of the simplifying state, this is a must-read.”—Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of Hitler’s Willing Executioners

The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

DANIEL W. DREZNER

Every president faces criticism and caricature. Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler. What’s more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protestors who compare the president to a child; Trump’s staffers, subordinates, and allies on Capitol Hill also describe Trump like a small, badly behaved preschooler. In April 2017, Daniel W. Drezner began curating every example he

could find of a Trump ally describing the president like a toddler. So far, he’s collected more than one thousand tweets—a rate of more than one a day. In The Toddler-in-Chief, Drezner draws on these examples to take readers through the different dimensions of Trump’s infantile behavior, from temper tantrums to poor impulse control to the possibility that the President has had too much screen time. How much damage can really be done by a giant man-baby? Quite a lot, Drezner argues, due to the winnowing away of presidential checks and balances over the past fifty years. In these pages, Drezner follows his theme—the specific ways in which sharing some of the traits of a toddler makes a person ill-suited to the presidency—to show the lasting, deleterious impact the Trump administration will have on American foreign policy and democracy.


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The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of

Discontent

MARTIN LUKACS

After a decade of Stephen Harper, the arrival of Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada felt like a relief. But as Canadians reckon with the gulf between the dazzling promise of Trudeau’s election and the grim reality of his government, journalist Martin Lukacs makes the case that “real change” was never part of the agenda.Drawing on investigative research and first-hand reporting, Lukacs reveals that behind the latest wave

of Trudeaumania was a slick status-quo political machine, backed by a cast of corporate elites and lobbyists who expected a pay-off from Liberal rule in Ottawa. He sheds light on a climate plan hatched in collaboration with Big Oil, the arming of a bloody Saudi war in Yemen, a reconciliation industry masking the ongoing theft of Indigenous lands, and the off-loading of public infrastructure to private profiteers—together these signal not a break from Harper, but a continuation of his destructive legacy. Trudeau’s much-hyped new politics, Lukacs argues, were in fact an Instagram-era spin on an old Liberal approach: playing to people’s desire for far-reaching change in order to ward off a backlash against the Canadian elite.

The New Despotism

JOHN KEANE

Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of government based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth,

sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents.Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old term “despotism” to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other’s resources while breeding global anxieties and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) Berlin.

Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself

FRANCES MCCALL ROSENBLUTH AND

IAN SHAPIRO

Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones. Yet voters keep getting angrier. There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians,

parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem, not the solution. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making make governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. To revive confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party. 12 black and white illustrations.

Mathematical Muffin Morsels: Nobody Wants A Small Piece

WILLIAM GASARCH, ERIK METZ, JACOB

PRINZ AND DANIEL SMOLYAK

Suppose you have five muffins that you want to divide and give to Alice, Bob, and Carol. You want each of them to get 5/3. You could cut each muffin into 1/3-1/3-1/3 and give each student five 1/3-sized pieces. But Alice objects! She has large hands! She wants everyone to have pieces larger than 1/3.Is there a way to divide five muffins for three students so that everyone gets 5/3, and all pieces are larger than 1/3?

Spoiler alert: Yes! In fact, there is a division where the smallest piece is 5/12. Is there a better division? Spoiler alert: No.In this book we consider THE MUFFIN PROBLEM: what is the best way to divide up m muffins for s students so that everyone gets m/s muffins, with the smallest pieces maximized. We look at both procedures for the problem and proofs that these procedures are optimal.This problem takes us through much mathematics of interest, for example, combinatorics and optimization theory. However, the math is elementary enough for an advanced high school student.Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond.

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Understanding Mathematics Through Problem Solving

ALFRED S. POSAMENTIER AND PETER

POOLE

This book will present a collection of mathematical problems—lighthearted in nature—intended to entertain the general readership. Problems will be selected largely for the unusual and unexpected solutions to which they lend themselves. All in all, the book is meant to entertain the general readership and to convince them about the power and beauty of mathematics.

Some interesting contents included:• counterintuitive solutions to simple mathematical problems;• entertaining mathematical problems;• important and useful mathematical solutions to problems;• problem solutions for mathematics to general usage;• visual mathematical problems;• timely mathematical problems.

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The Two-Minute Puzzle Book: Puzzles To Train Your Brain

DAVID HILLEL GOODMAN AND ILAN

GARIBI

Many of the puzzles will seem as though they will take longer than two minutes to solve, but... there are shortcuts if you can find them!! There are faster ways to solve each problem and dilemma. The Two-Minute Puzzle Book will teach you to look for such loopholes and shortcuts! From Chapter One’s “The One and Only” through Chapter Nine’s “The Whole Nine Yards”, each chapter

contains puzzles related to the chapter’s theme. For example, in the second chapter, you will find mechanical puzzles with double pieces, riddles about couples, line puzzles and more. There are match puzzles, tangram-related puzzles, paper puzzles, geometric puzzles and mathematical puzzles to tease and occupy all types of puzzlists. Some require intuition but all are two minutes away from a solution. As with their previous puzzle books, the authors, David Goodman and Ilan Garibi, aim to provide a fresh and original book. Many of the puzzles are coming from their heads and are not retreads!! There are some classic puzzles too, but the authors present them in an original way.

The Eastern Orthodox Church: A New History

JOHN ANTHONY MCGUCKIN

An insider’s account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, from its beginning in the era of Jesus and the Apostles to the modern age.In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question “What is the Church?” His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianity and how it differs from Western Christians’ expectations.

McGuckin explores the lived faith of generations, including sketches of some of the most important theological themes and individual personalities of the ancient and modern Church. He interweaves a personal approach throughout, offering to readers the experience of what it is like to enter an Orthodox church and witness its liturgy. In this astute and insightful book, he grapples with the reasons why many Western historians and societies have overlooked Orthodox Christianity and provides an important introduction to the Orthodox Church and the Eastern Christian World.

The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

FRANK A. VON HIPPEL

The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. With depth and verve, Frank A. von Hippel explores humanity’s uneasy coexistence with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato blight tragedy of the 1840s, which led scientists on an urgent

mission to prevent famine using pesticides, von Hippel traces the history of pesticide use to the 1960s, when Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring revealed that those same chemicals were insidiously damaging our health and driving species toward extinction. Telling the story of these pesticides in vivid detail, von Hippel showcases the thrills and complex consequences of scientific discovery. For fans of Jared Diamond and Rachel Carson, The Chemical Age is a dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind’s affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible—while also threatening its essential fabric.


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Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and

More

ELLEN PRAGER

Today, we know more than ever before about the powerful forces that can cause catastrophe, but significant questions remain. Why can’t we better predict some natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already? What do they wish they knew? In Dangerous Earth, marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and—maybe the most perilous hazard

of all—climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event (like the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens or the landfall and impacts of Hurricane Harvey), and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena. Along the way, we hear from scientists trying to read Earth’s warning signs, pass its messages along to the rest of us, and prevent catastrophic loss.A sweeping tour of some of the most awesome forces on our planet, Dangerous Earth is an illuminating journey through the undiscovered, unresolved, and in some cases unimagined mysteries that continue to frustrate and fascinate the world’s leading scientists: the “wish-we-knews” that ignite both our curiosity and global change. 9 color plates and 24 halftones.

The Oceans: A Deep History

EELCO J. ROHLING

It has often been said that we know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. In fact, we know a great deal more about the oceans than many people realize. Scientists know that our actions today are shaping the oceans and climate of tomorrow—and that if we continue to act recklessly, the consequences will be dire. Eelco Rohling traces the 4.4-billion-year history of Earth’s oceans while also shedding light on the critical role they play in our planet’s climate system.

This timely and accessible book explores the close interrelationships of the oceans, climate, solid Earth processes, and life, using the context of Earth and ocean history to provide perspective on humankind’s impacts on the health and habitability of our planet.“Exhilarating reading, not least because [Rohling’s] delight in his subject matter is so palpable.”—The AustralianEelco J. Rohling is professor of ocean and climate change in the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University and at the University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre Southampton.

Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond

TULLIS C. ONSTOTT

Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth’s crust in search of life in extreme environments, and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are aiding the quest to find life in the solar system. Tullis Onstott provides an insider’s look at the pioneering fieldwork that is shining new light on Earth’s hidden biology, a subterranean biosphere thriving with rare and exotic life forms. Join Onstott and his team on epic descents into South African

gold mines, and travel deep beneath the frozen wastelands of the Arctic tundra to discover life as it could exist on Mars. An unforgettable scientific adventure, Deep Life takes you to the biotic fringe, where today’s scientists hope to discover the very origins of life itself. 51 black and white illustrations.“Onstott so beautifully conveys his excitement that laypeople and scientists alike will find [Deep Life] a worthwhile read.”—Publishers Weekly“The real strength of this book is an almost encyclopedic description of field work in some of the most difficult sampling environments in the world.”—Karen Lloyd, Quarterly Review of Biology


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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World

DAVID KAISER

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombie-like states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share entangled fates. For more than a century, physicists have grappled with these conceptual uncertainties while enmeshed in the larger uncertainties of the social and political worlds, a time pocked by the rise of fascism, cataclysmic world wars, and a new nuclear age.

In Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists’ still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of the era—Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Stephen Hawking, and many more who have indelibly shaped our understanding of nature—as they have tried to make sense of a messy world. 47 halftones.

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

JEANNIE GAINSBURG

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including:• Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language• Tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you

• LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations• Common bloopers to avoid• Tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations...“This is it. You found it—the very best guide on how not to make mistakes with LGBTQ+ employees, customers, students, congregants, patients, and family members. If you want to be an effective ally for LGBTQ+ people, buy and read The Savvy Ally. I very enthusiastically endorse this book.”—Brian McNaught, named by The New York Times “The Godfather of Gay Diversity Training”

Hard Driving: The 1908 Auto Race From New York to Paris 2ed

DERMOT COLE

In the winter of 1908, six cars left Times Square bound for Paris. They were embarking on a remarkable motor race across the world that would capture everyone’s imagination. In this book, Dermot Cole weaves a thrilling account of the improbable journey west from New York to Paris, the varied characters, and the nascent automobile industry. Drawing from the drivers’ journals and extensive newspaper reports, Cole details the many hardships, triangulations, and physical extremes encountered along the route as

the drivers attempted to race from coast to coast, cross the Bering Strait to Russia, traverse Siberia, and onward.Hard Driving delves beyond the riveting headlines to explore the race’s implications for global politics and diplomacy and how the automobile became a viable mode of transportation. 49 halftones and 1 map.Classic Reprint Series.

Tales of Swordfish and Tuna

ZANE GREY

Zane Grey fished up to 300 days a year. But, with all that time on the water there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish— the giants of the sea. Tales of Swordfish and Tuna will dazzle and thrill any fishing heart! Tales of Swordfish and Tuna is well worth reading for pleasure and instruction. Just as he invented the Western, Grey also pioneered sporting fishing for the large ocean species of game fish. (Originally published in 1927.)

Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872. He attended the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship where he became a dentist. However, his heart was not in dentistry, it was in writing. In 1905 he married Lina Roth. They had three children, and eventually moved to California where Zane could both experience the West and write about it. He was one of America’s most prolific authors, writing almost 90 books.


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As Told At the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

GEORGE PLIMPTON

For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It’s a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung. Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including: Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear; Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight; Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic; Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D.

on cannibalism; Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson; Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions; Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding; Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing; E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull’s mysterious death.It’s some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives. (Copyright date: 2003.).

The Last Train Robber: The Life and Times of Willis Newton

W.C. JAMESON

For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. Willis Newton has never enjoyed the recognition and fame of the better-known train robbing outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Daltons, and the Doolins, but he was the most prolific and successful train robber in the history of North America. Newton stole more

money from the railroads than all of the others put together.So unknown was he that, despite all of his success as a robber, he was rarely identified as a suspect. Following his greatest heist, Newton and his gang members, composed of his brothers, were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to serve long terms at Leavenworth Prison. When they were granted early release for good behavior, they lost no time in returning to robbing banks. Willis Newton’s life and times has been gleaned and developed from extensive interviews he granted during the 1970s when he was in his eighties. In addition, newspaper reports of his numerous train and bank robberies have been obtained and researched for precise details of robberies and pursuit.

Elsa Beskow Calendar 2021

ELSA BESKOW

• Nostalgic seasonal illustrations from the ‘Beatrix Potter of Sweden’• Calendar comes shrink-wrapped with a cardboard strengthener• Includes illustrations from Children of the Forest, Ollie’s Ski Trip, Thumbelina, Christopher’s Garden, The Sun Egg, and many more

This month-to-view calendar is beautifully illustrated with seasonal artwork from Elsa Beskow’s books. The main British, American and Swedish public holidays are marked, and space is included for writing in appointments.

Stories, Poems and Meditations

KARL KONIG

Alongside his work with the Camphill movement, Karl König was a prolific writer of stories, poems and meditative verses. This book contains: • A selection of his creative work • Verses for specific occasions • Twenty-four poems • Four stories for children • Ten other short stories, including ‘Also a Christmas Story’ An extensive introductory essay explores the cultural environments in which König was writing—including

Vienna in the early twentieth century, and the challenging times leading up to the Second World War—and discusses the creative development of his literary work.Karl Konig Archive.

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TRUE CRIME


Bridges Between Life and Death

IRIS PAXINO

How can we change the way we think about dying and death? Can we build a new relationship with loved ones who have passed? Iris Paxino, psychologist and professional counsellor, has spent her adult life exploring near-death experiences. In this book she shares insights from her studies, as well as her own personal thoughts on dying, near-death experiences, and life after death. Paxino leads the reader through the process of dying and the moment of death and goes on to explore

different aspects of death, from fear of death, to meeting with Christ, to materialistic and atheist outlooks. These thoughtful insights help readers to understand more about death and dying, as well as the journey of the soul after life, leading to the possibility of a new connection with lost loved ones.

From Yoga to the Rose Cross

MASSIMO SCALIGERO

This book recounts a life experience, one whose only meaning for Massimo Scaligero was to carry out that experience itself. Thus, there is no concession to any existential element unless it proves indispensable for introducing or clarifying essential passages of the cognitive and realizable path—as if the situations and personalities remembered are not random, but archetypes of many levels and forms of knowledge, the importance of which is not exhausted in personal characteristics but required as objective facts, susceptible to proof

and comparison for any spiritual investigators today who seriously inquire into the meaning of our human adventure together on Earth. Using an autobiographical form as his framework, the author shows how the experience of Yoga is actually the most esoteric path—that of the Rose Cross—when taken to its ultimate conclusion by flowing into a “modern” initiatory path that manifests formally as Spiritual Science.

Interdisciplinary Astronomy: Third Scientific Course (CW 323)

RUDOLF STEINER

What is the relationship between the human being and the world of the stars? Can we comprehend the structure and movement of celestial bodies solely through advanced mathematics, or is there a point beyond which mathematical functions no longer apply in reality? Can we, in fact, transcend the limits of three-dimensional space through our thinking? The subject of these lectures is not astronomy, broadly considered, but the relationship of astronomy to the other fields of natural science. As elsewhere, Steiner here maintains that the rigid

specialization so prevalent in scientific endeavors will not bring us closer to reaching an integrated, singularly comprehensible understanding of the reality of our world. In particular, a true grasp of the working of the cosmos will not be possible until its mirror, the study of human embryology, is recognized as such and penetrated with this reflective relationship in mind. Steiner once again shows himself to be both an utterly unique and masterful commentator on scientific and intellectual history and a living light, shining a possible path forward for human progress and self-knowledge.

Waldorf Mathematics for Grades 1-8: Engaging the maths genius in every child

RON JARMAN

Ron Jarman believes there is a maths genius in every child and adult. Educators can use this comprehensive resource to teach maths with imagination, laying the foundations for life. This resource helps educators develop confidence. It has been time tested for over 100 years by Waldorf teachers. Drawing number work from everyday life stimulates children’s interest. Ron shows how children can easily grasp maths principles, so that

educators are relieved of endless worksheets. Uniquely, Ron draws on Pythagoras, the ancient Greeks and Rudolf Steiner for re-imagining the vital importance of mathematical learning for human growth. Chapters include an overview of the Waldorf Maths Curriculum, maths and personal development, maths and education and what engages children at different stages of development. Chapters then cover the maths learning journey from Grades 1-8, with tips, worked examples, exercises, questions and diagrams.


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ALICE IN WONDERLAND JOURNALS

Alice in Wonderland Journal - ‘Too Late,’ said the Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland Journal - Alice in Court

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Beautifully produced in hardback with lined paper, coloured page edges, ribbon marker and printed endpapers, these Alice in Wonderland journals - featuring the White Rabbit and Alice in Court - are the perfect gift for Wonderland fans. Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat-trips down the river Thames in Oxford, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most famous and influential works of children’s literature of all time.It is hard to imagine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland without picturing the illustrations made by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of the story. Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) was the principal satirical cartoonist for Punch magazine for over fifty years and much in demand as an illustrator in Victorian Britain. At Lewis Carroll’s request, he illustrated the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by Macmillan in 1865. Four years later, he made coloured versions of the drawings for The Nursery Alice, a version of the story created especially for 0-5 year-olds. In 1899, Gertrude E. Thompson adapted Tenniel’s illustrations for a card entitled ‘The New and Diverting Game of Alice in Wonderland’. These unforgettable illustrations, including the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle and the Queen of Hearts, among many others, are featured in these special journals.

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