Nuclear Archipelago tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weapons test series held at Western Australia's Monte Bello Islands in 1952 and 1956. Operation Hurricane and Operation Mosaic took place at a rugged archipelago 100 kilometres off the Pilbara coast, and each of the three bombs sent fallout over vast distances across the country. One of the tests, Mosaic G2 in June 1956, the largest nuclear weapon test ever held in Australia, sparked panic at the time that it had been a nuclear accident. In both the Mosaic tests, the crew of a British ship was deliberately positioned in the path of fallout. The biodiverse natural environment of the islands was left contaminated and has never been cleaned up.
The book explores the politics, the secrecy and the controversies, including the true nature of Mosaic G2 and its role in the clandestine development of the British hydrogen bomb.
'An excoriating examination of nuclear politics, atomic colonialism and shameful cover-up a definite must-read.' Peter Garrett
'This multi-volume work must rate as one of the most significant projects currently being undertaken in the study of Australian history.' Simon Caterson, The Australian
]]>*Winner of the CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017*
In September 2016 it will be 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision. After earlier tests at Monte Bello and Emu Field, in 1956 Australia dutifully provided 3200 square kilometres of South Australian desert to the British Government, along with logistics and personnel.
How could a democracy such as Australia host another country's nuclear program in the midst of the Cold War? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals how Australia allowed itself to be duped. Maralinga was born in secret atomic business, and has continued to be shrouded in mystery decades after the atomic thunder stopped rolling across the South Australian test site. This book is the most comprehensive account of the whole saga, from the time that the explosive potential of splitting uranium atoms was discovered, to the uncovering of the extensive secrecy around the British tests in Australia many years after the British had departed, leaving an unholy mess behind.
'Just as witnesses to our A-bomb tests turned their backs on the blasts, Australia turned its back on the memory of one of the most diabolical times in our history. Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.' Phillip Adams
]]>Elizabeth Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, reveals the story of a cataclysmic collision between an ancient Aboriginal land and the post-war Britain of Winston Churchill and his gung-ho scientific advisor Frederick Lindemann. The presence of local Aangu people did not interfere with Churchill's geopolitical aims and they are still paying the price. The British undertook Operation Totem at Emu Field under cover of extreme remoteness and secrecy, a shroud of mystery that continues to this day.
'A must-read to understand a cold war history, an arrogant officialdom and an unfathomable desecration of Aboriginal land.' - Larissa Behrendt
'This important book brings back from the far edges of living memory the extraordinary story of Britain's atomic bomb tests in Australia.' - Henry Reynolds
'Tynan's razor-sharp prose and forensic level historical research ensure that Emu Field will be remembered alongside Maralinga as sites of treachery, suffering, and anxiety on the long road towards healing.' - Lynette Russell
'Fastidiously researched and brimming with detail' - Books+Publishing
'Tynan's deft study ensures another lesser-known aspect of Australia's role in the global history of nuclear testing remains accounted for.' Kyle Harvey, History Australia
]]>Today, Tullamarine remains cutting-edge, with new and expanding terminals, upgraded car parks, more efficient roads, a third runway recently approved and a rail link in the works.
Discover the story of Tullamarine, from its planning and opening to its modern status as a benchmark for all international Airport Cities.
'This is the book that I had no idea that I needed! Now that I've found it, I can't let it go. It's magnificent!' Tim Ross
'An outstanding contribution to Australia's cultural history, superbly illustrated and brilliantly written.' Michael Buxton
'This is a dazzling and comprehensive account of Australia's, indeed the world's first purpose-built Airport City. Tullamarine (Melbourne Airport) shines here in its glory as never before. This pioneering development of the 1970s has long deserved such an intense study and Arun Chandu delivers a fascinating story of engineers, air travel, airport design, interior design and urban planning. Scholarly, engaging, rich in detail and full of stunning images, this is a must-read book for anyone interested in Australian ingenuity and the rocky romance of reaching for the skies.' Philip Goad
]]>Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner, Julie Vivas and many more.
]]>In his latest works, world-renowned visual artist Dennis Del Favero interrogates our evolving relationship with increasingly unpredictable and extreme climate events. Equinox, an installation that immerses audiences inside larger-than-life wildfire scenarios, offers a visceral reimagining of their unanticipated dynamics. iFire provides a training system for Australia's largest urban firefighting service, enabling responders to adjust variables such as wind speed, so they can rehearse their response to future fires under the escalating uncertainty of climate conditions.
In Picturing the Climate Emergency, leading international art scholars and experts in artificial intelligence, fire science and emergency response analyse these works and explore their implications for artists, art audiences, scientists, frontline personnel and at-risk communities.
]]>The author is drawn to the different and the marginalised. Her insight into herself and others arises from her deep understanding of the flawed nature of the human condition. And the company of great books. She writes 'books were my real teachers. I can't remember learning a single thing in a classroom. The craft of reading was the only one I really took away from that dreadful time.'
Just perhaps hurt can be both our undoing and our making, as this story of sliding time illuminates. The Hurt is a remarkably honest and captivating work of literature.
Praise for Saint Phalle's Writing
'Saint Phalle writes with a clear-eyed humanity and wisdom about human nature that is reminiscent of Nabokov's account of memory and childhood.' Stella Judges
'The narrating voice of the book is intensely likeable gentle, witty, well-read and highly articulate. Yet the story it unearths circles back and back to the bewildered innocence of a small girl who is lied to, neglected, palmed off on a hired minder, then suddenly, breathtakingly indulged in ways that only a city like Paris can provide.' Helen Garner on Poum and Alexandre
]]>The Memory Tapes brings together hundreds of interview excerpts, organised into chapters on broad themes, from domestic life to politics. The excerpts capture lived experiences in all their complexities, emotion and contradictions. Readers will get a sense of the textures of memory tone, hesitation, reflection learning about the past from the people who lived it. Through the voices of Elders, prime ministers, migrants, scientists, athletes, centenarians, artists and more, this is our national memory.
This book, an empathy-building doorway to discovery, is essential for classrooms, historians, writers and anyone who wants to understand more about this nation.
]]>This edition of Griffith Review goes on the record to reveal the spoils and surprises of the archive.
]]>Nathan mudyi Sentance is Wiradjuri man from the Mowgee clan who grew up on Darkinjung Country, NSW. Nathan works to ensure that First Nations stories being told cultural and memory institutions, such galleries, libraries, archives, and museums are being told and controlled by First Nations people. He is a member of the Indigenous Archive Collective.
]]>The Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, has inspired millions with its timeless insights into the changing nature of existence. First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the I Ching grew into a book of wisdom, eventually becoming one of the Five Classics of Confucianism and providing a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy. With this groundbreaking translation, the ancient Classic came to the West, where it has influenced countless artists and writers, from Bob Dylan and Philip K. Dick to John Cage and Octavio Paz. Organised for easy reference, it presents the sixty-four hexagrams alongside their commentaries and interpretations, including the Ten Wings, supplemental writings traditionally ascribed to Confucius that provide indispensable perspectives on the symbolic structure of the hexagrams. Featuring C. G. Jung's illuminating foreword, and now with a new introduction by internationally acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger, this essential edition preserves the spirit of the ancient text while providing a vital key for anyone seeking to live harmoniously with the immutable law of change.
]]>This extraordinary compilation showcases weird, mysterious and bizarre plants from around the world. Plants trick, kill, steal and kidnap, and this unique book explores a fascinating world in which plants have turned the tables on animals.
Familiar plants such as the Venus fly trap and bird of paradise are featured, along with a host of the unfamiliar, such as the parasitic devil's guts, the monkey-face orchid and a tropical tree with flowers that resemble a pair of ruby red lips.
The book is illustrated throughout with a unique collection of life-like oil paintings by the author, who has encountered these weird plants around the world.
]]>In the midst of the chaos, Hassan began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, started collecting his posts without a clear plan only the conviction that his story needed to be seen and that somehow, it might help raise funds for him. By chance, those posts found their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh, who helped Hassan frame them for a book.
Hassan's missives are a vivid, heartbreaking account of war and its toll on families, on children, on innocent civilians. These are stories of hunger, survival, and death. These are stories that demand to be heard. And yet, stories like these are not being told: mainstream media has largely remained silent. Foreign journalists are barred from Gaza. Local journalists are being killed. In this vacuum, Hassan's voice manages to break through out of the darkness and into the light.
Pizza Before We Die is literary journalism at its rawest and most urgent clear-eyed, unflinching, and deeply humane. Hassan captures the unspeakable horror of the tragedy in Gaza with restraint and precision, never sensationalising, always bearing witness. It is a work of raw power and emotion, and a reminder that in the midst of chaos and tragedy, our shared humanity remains intact.
Yasuko Thanh, who edited this book, has also written the foreword.
A portion of proceeds from the sale of Pizza Before We Die will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres.
]]>Yasuko Thanh (she/her) is a writer and a creative writing instructor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. She is the author of the novels Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize), To the Bridge, and The Falling Maria (forthcoming in 2027), and the memoir Mistakes to Run With.
]]>Led by Vincent Lingiari, this landmark action in 1966 precipitated the equal wages case in the pastoral industry and the establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.
While it is well known that the Walk-Off was driven by the poor treatment of Aboriginal workers, what is less well known is the previous decades of massacres and killings, stolen children and other abuses by early colonists.
Told in both English and Gurindji, these compelling and detailed oral accounts of the events that Gurindji Elders either witnessed or heard from their parents and grandparents, has ignited the interest of audiences nationally and internationally and challenged revisionist historians who question the extent of frontier battles and the legitimacy of the Stolen Generations.
'It is widely acknowledged that the 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off with Vincent Lingiari leading the Gurnidji people was a seminal moment in the history of Aboriginal society's tragic encounters with the European occupiers of Australia. Still, up to now, few Gurindji voices have been heard, especially on the period preceding the Walk-Off. The 'new' history contained here: oral accounts, maps, paintings, photos and citations, does much to fill the chasm in our understanding of the circumstances preceding that fateful moment when Lingiari and Gurindji stood their ground. I highly commend this intimate, heart wrenching, and informative account of one of the single
most important events in our recent past.' Peter Garrett, musician, activist and former federal minister
In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive.
Out of the Depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers. Based on a copy of Mima'amakim discovered in 2013, it contains not only the songs' melodies and lyrics, the latter in a new translation by Joseph Toltz, but also short biographies of the composers, drawn from painstaking original research. Introductory essays provide historical and musicological background, deepening our knowledge of this terrible event and the creative means by which the Jewish people responded to and endured it.
Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.
]]>In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in that century Leonardo da Vinci sketched a design for a faster-firing, more portable handgun that could be hidden beneath a cloak. As the gun proliferated in society, it became both a means of self-defence and a threat to civic order. In The Firearm Revolution, historian Catherine Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy and beyond, describing the social transformations that accompanied the evolution of the handgun from innovative military technology to widely used personal accessory.
Fletcher shows that as guns became smaller and the new wheellock mechanism made concealed carry possible, Italian states increasingly tried to control their use even as they viewed firearms as necessary for their militias. In the end, Fletcher reports, the importance of civic defence trumped the concern for social order. As guns became ever more acceptable, stories of how firearms aided Europeans' overseas conquests created a new and more positive image for a weapon once considered the devil's work. Debates over the regulation of firearms five centuries ago which included arguments over the restriction of gun ownership, the use of guns for self-defence and the regulation of an armed militia in many ways anticipate discussions about gun control today. Fletcher's groundbreaking account sheds new light on how governments weighed the competing priorities of defence and social order as they set out to build empires.
]]>The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic spectacle. The Roman World War recasts the struggle for Rome as a global conflict that engulfed millions of non-Romans across Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.
Shedding new light on the pivotal years spanning Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE and the suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BCE, Giusto Traina introduces readers to lesser-known figures such as the Cilician dynast Tarcondimotus, the king of the Moors Bogud, and the Armenian king Artawazd, men who influenced Rome's politics and who played consequential roles in battles waged far beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum. Traina demonstrates how the violence unleashed by Caesar's death was a direct consequence of his expansionist plans. From Spain to Mesopotamia, peoples such as Berbers, Hispanics, Gauls, Greeks, Thracians, and Armenians were drawn into a global war in which the fate of Rome was tied to their own.
A global, 'connected' history that transforms our understanding of the Republic's final years, The Roman World War demonstrates how foreign nations and peoples were not merely pawns in the Roman civil wars but active protagonists in a great power struggle that shook the ancient world for fourteen intense years.
]]>How did the world as we know it from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices the physical and the biological to understand how we and our planet became possible.
In this captivating book, Andrew Knoll traces how all life is sustained by Earth's geological and atmospheric dynamics, and how life itself shapes the physical environment. Taking readers on a thrilling journey across four billion years of Earth history, he shows how Earth and life interact to cycle the very elements of life from rocks, water, and air, and how these and related processes control our climate, regulate our atmosphere, and support the diversification of life-forms great and small. Along the way, Knoll explains how we can draw on this history as we navigate the challenges of the Anthropocene, and how it can aid our search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Blending cutting-edge science with illuminating insights from a leading expert, Earth and Life explains how this ongoing interplay holds vital lessons for us today as humanity becomes an increasingly major voice in the conversation.
]]>In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimisation, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning. He explains why, now more than ever, we need to resist efforts by powerful tech interests to drive public policy and essentially rule our lives.
While mathematical rationality has proven valuable in accelerating computers, regulating pharmaceuticals, and deploying electronic commerce, it fails to solve messy human problems and has given rise to a view of a rational world that is not only overquantified but surprisingly limited. Recht shows how these mathematical methods emerged from wartime research and influenced fields ranging from economics to health care, drawing on illuminating examples ranging from diet planning to chess to self-driving cars.
Highlighting both the power and limitations of mathematical rationality, The Irrational Decision reveals why only humans can resolve fundamentally political or value-based questions and proposes a more expansive approach to decision making that is appropriately supported by computational tools yet firmly rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment.
]]>Though a founding member of NATO and the euro, Portugal is often overlooked, a small country on Europe's southwestern edge. In The Portuguese, veteran journalist Barry Hatton blends historical insight with personal anecdotes to explore this enigmatic nation.
During the 1400s and 1500s, Portuguese explorers led Europe into the Atlantic and helped connect Asia with Europe, creating a vast four-continent empire. This legacy still resonates today, particularly through the Portuguese language, spoken by over 220 million people worldwide. Hatton examines Portugal's vibrant yet turbulent past from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which shook European thinking and began a long decline, through Antnio Salazar's dictatorship, to its end in the 1974 Carnation Revolution, briefly thrusting Portugal into Cold War geopolitics. Hatton also explores the country's complex ties with neighbouring Spain, and its oldest ally, England.
With diverse landscapes, rich cultural heritage, a love of food and fine wine, an easy-going lifestyle and a rebellious streak, the Portuguese are uniquely compelling. Hatton's portrait is intimate and revealing, capturing the charms and contradictions of a fascinating country.
'Engaging, delightful.' Publishers Weekly
'A must-read for first-timers ... [and] a constant delight for those already well-versed in a fascinating nation.' Iberosphere
]]>Widespread pessimism and fear of the future are everywhere. With times to come often seeming threatening and uncertain, this book offers new perspectives and fresh ways of thinking. Futurologist Florence Gaub shows that everyone can influence what lies ahead in their personal or professional life, or in society. Her ideas are for those who refuse to be paralysed by fear, instead seeing the future as a space full of possibilities.
Gaub explores how humanity's visions of tomorrow have changed throughout history; she explains what the future is, how it works, what disruptions may arise and how to fix them. She draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy to show how humans conceive and construct the future, as individuals and as a society.
A bestseller in Germany, this smart, snappy handbook of ideas is an antidote to passive fatalism. It challenges our lack of faith in our own ability to shape what is to come, or how it will affect our lives. After all, we're the only beings who can imagine the future in such detail that we can actually create it. Gaub is a brilliant guide to rediscovering that gift.
'Finally! A strategic foresight manual that doesn't require top secret clearance. Florence Gaub fights uncertainty and she's winning.' Clark Gregg, Hollywood actor (The Avengers, Captain Marvel and Iron Man)
'Climate change, war, inflation: It's not easy to believe in a bright future right now. Political scientist and futurologist Florence Gaub explains why we nevertheless have every reason to do so and how we can gain more confidence in our own lives.' Merle Hubert, Sddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
'An original and essential guide to thinking about tomorrow. Gaub shows that the future is not something that happens to us, but something we actively create through our choices, our imagination and our courage.' Mark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
]]>Their changeability has made them mainstays of the fantasy genre: at once capricious and ethereal, wielding arcane laws to reward and exploit human nature, and dolling out blessings and curses in equal measure. From protective fairy godmothers to uncanny fairy changelings, and from Tam Lin to Tinkerbell, Carolyne Larrington unravels a plethora of fairy tales in this shimmering guide to the fae, accompanied with beautiful illustrations from the British Library collections.
]]>As belief in the unicorn's reality waned, a renewed interest in the medieval past provided a context for it to flourish once again as a subject for art, literature and mystical meditation. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism infused pictorial and poetic unicorn imagery with an aura of romantic nostalgia that paved the way for its dramatic revival: it gained wings and took flight within the genre of fantasy literature. More recently unicorns have inspired a variety of contemporary trends, from merchandising to financial rhetoric, and the 'animal that never was' shows no sign of disappearing.
]]>'Not only is this a book that answers, fact for fact, everything you ever wanted to know about Pere-Lachaise but were afraid to ask, it is also a portrait of a person who truly loves his work.' The New York Times
For Benot Gallot, Pere Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You're guaranteed to lose your way. You'll feel as though you've stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Pere Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones.
In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Pere Lachaise its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Pere-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death.
Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot's daily photographs of Pere-Lachaise's flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.
A bestseller in France, lauded as 'a superb book ... full of humour, empathy, and great sweetness' by the French literary press, The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a life-affirming read that will stand the test of time.
]]>A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats external aggression and internal dissolution
Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.
Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, and original in-depth interviews with Iranian decision makers, Nasr brings to light facts and events in Iran's political history that have been overlooked until now. He traces the roots of Iran's strategic outlook to its experiences over the past four decades of war with Iraq in the 1980s and the subsequent American containment of Iran, invasion of Iraq in 2003, and posture toward Iran thereafter. Nasr reveals how these experiences have shaped a geopolitical outlook driven by pervasive fear of America and its plans for the Middle East.
Challenging the notion that Iran's foreign policy simply reflects its revolutionary values or theocratic government, Iran's Grand Strategy provides invaluable new insights into what Iran wants and why, explaining the country's resistance to the United States, its nuclear ambitions, and its pursuit of influence and proxies across the Middle East.
]]>The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about whom they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalised. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
]]>Thomas Patteson is a teacher, writer, and musician based in Philadelphia. He is the author of Instruments for New Music and cofounder of People's Music Supply.
]]>'A brilliantly raw book that reveals the truth of what really matters.' Fearne Cotton
Many of us areliving with the sense that things are not right with the world and are in a state of spiritual post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it.
Inaradical spiritual guidebook, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living.Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some of the world's leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson offers a hopeful path forward to the life we love.
The time has come to boldly, wildly imagine better. We are being called upon, individually and as a society, to forge a new path and to find a new way of living. Will you join the journey?
'Sarah Wilson is a force of nature. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemised it intoaction, advocacy, adventure, poetry and love. I admire her with all my soul.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love
'I began writing "Yes!" in margins, so well does Sarah Wilson articulate the problems of our time. Speaking as someone who has spent much of the past few years despairing about the state of the world, I believe we need more people like her.' Marianne Power, The Times
'Sarah Wilson's mission is our joyful survival. With curiosity and heart, she delves into the biggest questions facing ourplanet. Essential reading I defy you not to feel deeply inspired.' Katherine May, author of Wintering
'This practical, actionable, spiritual guidebook proposes a path to joy even amid pandemics, climate change, social injustice,and other profound crises.' USA Today
'I've encountered no other book that articulates with so much passion or clarity the unique feeling of this moment in history. The ideal guidebook for our long overdue journey back to nature, to each other, and to sanity in the deepest sense of the word.' Oliver Burkeman
'This One Wild and Precious Life is what the UK has been waiting for; Sarah Wilson's journey is inspiring.' Rio Ferdinand
]]>Exploring subjects like work and comedy, history and sport, the beauty industry and domesticity, anonymous author Man Who Has It All imagines a world in which men are bombarded with the same stereotypical bullshit as women. What if men's T-shirts were emblazoned with slogans encouraging them to be smiley, positive and kind? What if we laughed at jokes about fathers-in-law, male drivers and middle-class men of a certain age? What if men's history was a niche topic? Behind the jokes about crazy cat gentlemen, testerical men and the twenty-four-hour moustache, lies a deeper, darker message about language, power and control.
Smart and provocative, Man Who Has It All shines a powerful light on the prejudice ingrained in our society. Told through fictionalised scenarios and wider cultural analysis, this is a feminist handbook that will arm you against the patriarchy.
'I love this book' Fern Britton
'Laugh out loud funny' Kate Bottley
'Funny and insightful, but also fiercely radical' Victoria Smith
'Takes on patriarchy with wit, verve and a mighty dose of good old British sarcasm' Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room
'We need to hide copies in every locker room, Wetherspoons and B&Q' Eleanor Morton, comedian and actor
'Man Who Has It All does a remarkable job of channelling anger into humour...a galvanising read' Rachel Hewitt, author of In Her Nature
]]>For generations, we've accepted aging as an inevitable decline, measuring our years by birthdays while ignoring the more crucial metric our biological age. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptoms of age-related diseases rather than addressing their root cause: cellular aging itself. Too often, healthcare systems intervene only after disease has taken hold, managing decline rather than preventing it.
In Choose Your Age, Jean-Marc Lemaitre a renowned biogerontologist (a scientist of biological aging and age-related diseases) presents a revolutionary alternative: a personalised, proactive approach to longevity that targets the fundamental mechanisms of aging before disease begins.
This is not speculation or trendy 'biohacking' it's cutting-edge science: a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy for extending not just lifespan but healthspan, the years you spend free from disease and decline. Lemaitre's approach isn't prescriptive but educational, empowering you to understand the science of aging so you can make informed decisions about your health journey. In Choose Your Age, readers will discover:
Choose Your Age provides a new paradigm for thinking about aging, transforming it from an inevitable decline into a manageable process that you can influence at every stage of life. With this roadmap in hand, you can chart a different course for your future one where each decade brings not just more years, but better ones.
]]>Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and cognitive capacities of animals from the humble sea squirt to the socially minded fox and the tiny shrew.
By examining the challenges that different animals and their ancestors faced, Mars shows that we can understand what drove the evolution of their brains. Early vertebrates became predators of the sea; mammals evolved a complex neocortex to deal with foraging for high-energy food; and social primates adapted to contend with a fast-changing environment in which groups of individuals team up to get food. Over the course of a long evolutionary road, the ancestors of present-day animals and their descendants continually adapted to challenges, modifying their brains again and again. For us humans, this process gradually led to a brain that is capable of so much, from inventing language to traveling into space.
Mars leads readers across eras and species, showing us how we resemble our animal cousins, how we differ from them, and how animals in one branch of the evolutionary tree did the hard evolutionary work of becoming human.
]]>In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified 'horrifying heresies', but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain a mystery. When he published his Theological-Political Treatise in 1670, which was condemned as 'the most atheistic book ever written', he began to reveal to the world what his heresies may have been. Yet ever since the eighteenth century, most readers and scholars have assumed that Spinoza was a pantheist even a 'God-intoxicated man', as the poet Novalis put it. After all, how could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? In Spinoza, Atheist, Steven Nadler, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that's exactly what he was.
Nadler makes a powerful case that there is no real divinity for Spinoza. God is Nature, and isn't an object of worshipful awe or religious reverence but can only be understood through philosophy and science. There is nothing supernatural no mystery, ineffability, or sublimity. Spinoza does speak of 'blessedness' and 'salvation', but these, too, are to be understood in natural and rational terms, as the peace of mind and happiness that come from understanding ourselves and the world.
Whether Spinoza believed in God is a fascinating and enduring controversy. Spinoza, Atheist promises to transform our understanding of his views and to make clear just how radical a thinker he was and remains.
]]>Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50
Named as recommended reading by Fortune's CEO Daily
The ex-Unilever CEO who increased his shareholders' returns by 300% while ensuring the company ranked #1 in the world for sustainability for eleven years running has, for the first time, revealed how to do it. Teaming up with Andrew Winston, one of the world's most authoritative voices on corporate sustainability, Paul Polman shows business leaders how to take on humanity's greatest and most urgent challenges climate change and inequality and build a thriving business as a result.
In this candid and straight-talking handbook, Polman and Winston reveal the secrets of Unilever's success and pull back the curtain on some of the world's most powerful c-suites. Net Positive boldly argues that the companies of the future will profit by fixing the world's problems, not creating them.
Together the authors explode our most prevalent corporate myths: from the idea that business' only function is to maximise profits, to the nave hope that Corporate Social Responsibility will save our species from disaster. These approaches, they argue, are destined for the graveyard. Instead, they show corporate leaders how to make their companies 'Net Positive' thriving by giving back more to the world than they take. Net Positive companies unleash innovation, build trust, attract the best people, thrill customers, and secure lasting success, all by helping create stronger, more inclusive societies and a healthier planet. Heal the world first, they argue, and you'll satisfy your investors as a result.
With ambitious vision and compelling stories, Net Positive will teach you how to find the inner purpose and courage you need to embrace the only business model that will matter in the years ahead. You will learn how to lead others and unlock your company's soul, while setting and delivering big and aggressive goals, and taking responsibility for all of your company's impacts. You'll find out the secrets to partnering with others, including your competition and critics, to drive transformative change from which you will prosper. You'll build a company that serves your people, your customers, your communities, your shareholders and your children and grandchildren will thank you for it.
Is this win-win for business and humanity too good to be true? Don't believe it. The world's smartest CEOs are already taking their companies on the Net Positive journey and benefiting as a result. Will you be left behind?
Join the movement at netpositive.world
'An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done.' The Economist
'Polman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew Winston...argues that it's profitable to do business with the goal of making the world better.' The New York Times
'...Polman has been one of the most significant chief executives of his era and that his approach to business and its role in society has been both valuable and path-breaking.' Financial Times
]]>Andrew Winston is one of the world's most widely read writers and leading thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy, including Green to Gold and The Big Pivot, have sold more than 150,000 copies in seven languages. Winston has also written cover stories for Harvard Business Review and published hundreds of articles in HBR, MIT Sloan Management Review, and other top publications. He was recently selected for the Thinkers50 Radar 2020, a list of "30 thinkers to watch out for in the coming year." His views on strategy have been sought after by many of the world's leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, HP, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, PwC, and Unilever.
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How to exude confidence. Present with style. Overcome overthinking. Give difficult feedback. To succeed at work, you need accessible, actionable, succinct ideas to help you solve your most common challenges. Drawing from Management Tip of the Day, HBR's most popular newsletter, this concise, handy annual collection is packed with easy-to-read tips on a broad range of topics.
Management Tips 2026 puts the best management practices and insights, from top thinkers in the field, right at your fingertips. Pick it up any time you have a few minutes to spare, and you'll have a fresh, powerful idea you can immediately put into action.
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The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 49 languages, and is a bestseller across 5 continents now expanded with new case studies on Nvidia and Taylor Swift.
In this perennial bestseller, recognised as one of the most iconic and impactful business books ever written, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Lasting success, they argue, comes not from battling competitors but from creating 'blue oceans' untapped market spaces ripe for growth.
Now in its 20th anniversary, Blue Ocean Strategy is enhanced with timely, in-depth case studies on Nvidia and on Taylor Swift and a new preface from the authors that highlights the book's impact around the world and why the rise of AI only reinforces the importance of this monumental work today.
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach and a variety of tools that any organisation can use to create and capture blue oceans. This enhanced edition includes:
An international phenomenon that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this landmark book will help you chart a bold new path into the future. Consider this your indispensable guide to creating uncontested market space and making the competition irrelevant.
]]>If you read nothing else on artificial intelligence, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you make sense of the evolving generative AI landscape, manage regulation and risk, and develop a strategy that keeps pace with technological change.
This book will inspire you to:
This collection of articles includes 'For Success with AI, Bring Everyone on Board,' by David De Cremer; 'Bring Human Values to AI,' by Jacob Abernethy, Francois Candelon, Theodoros Evgeniou, Abhishek Gupta, and Yves Lostanlen; 'From Prediction to Transformation,' by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb; 'How AI Can Help Managers Think Through Problems,' by Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani; 'The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations,' by Bharat N. Anand and Andy Wu; 'Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce,' by Jen Stave, Ryan Kurt, and John Winsor; 'Keep Your AI Projects on Track,' by Iavor Bojinov; 'How to Marry Process Management and AI,' by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman; 'The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work,' by Oguz A. Acar, Phyliss Jia Gai, Yanping Tu, and Jiayi Hou; 'Heavy Machinery Meets AI,' by Vijay Govindarajan and Venkat Venkatraman; 'AI Is Changing the Structure of Consulting Firms,' by David S. Duncan, Tyler Anderson, and Jeffrey Saviano; 'Stop Running So Many AI Pilots,' by Goutam Challagalla, Mahwesh Khan, and Fabrice Beaulieu; 'Addressing Gen AI's Quality-Control Problem,' by Stefan Thomke, Philipp Eisenhauer, and Puneet Sahni; 'AI's Growing Waste Problem and How to Solve It,' by Samsurin Welch, Khaled Soufani, and Eva Morales; and 'Don't Let an AI Failure Harm Your Brand,' by Julian De Freitas.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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A stirring account of how to gain and own your power.
From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, and Nickelodeon, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like.
In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've been taught about power. Through raw, behind-the-scenes stories from both her childhood and her trailblazing career, she reveals that real power isn't handed to you it's forged through strategy, courage, and an unshakable belief in your own worth.
She takes readers inside high-stakes situations where she refused to settle for less and pivotal moments where audacity became her greatest asset. From her earliest dreams of success to the executive offices where she made those dreams real, Sharif-Drinkard reveals the moments that shaped her and the strategies that helped her lead with impact and integrity.
Part fearless memoir, part inspirational guide, Power Reimagined is for anyone who's ever been overlooked, undervalued, or told they didn't belong. This book will inspire you to own your power and use it without apology.
]]>Market volatility. AI. Regulatory uncertainty. Geopolitical risk. Leaders know they must adapt faster than ever yet most transformation programs still fail to deliver their expected outcomes, with enormous costs to companies, shareholders, and the broader economy.
But some companies succeed. In How Change Really Works, Boston Consulting Group experts Julia Dhar, Kristy Ellmer, and Philip Jameson show that these successes are not random they are connected by a common set of principles and practices. Interweaving illuminating examples, decades of behavioural science research, and new interviews with executives and employees, as well as the authors' own experiences leading change with BCG, they offer seven principles that constitute the core of a truly human-centered approach to successful organisational change. These range from 'Get true agreement, not false alignment' to 'Give people agency, not just involvement' to 'Expect take-up to be earned, not automatic.'
The second part of the book shifts into execution mode, providing a five-phase practical manual for putting the principles to work that is filled with tips, checklists, advice, and smart hacks for helping your transformation beat the odds, succeed, and stick.
Change doesn't fail because people resist it fails because leaders misunderstand how people really change. Whether you're launching a new initiative, stuck in a stalled transformation, or trying to rescue a failing one, How Change Really Works is your essential leader's guide.
]]>Kristy R. Ellmer is a global authority on transformation. A Managing Director and Partner at BCG, she is the global lead, emeritus, for Culture and Change Management and leads the firm's North America Transformation practice and global Behavioral Science team. She guides organizations through their largest and most complex changes, delivering multibillion-dollar value.
Philip Jameson is a senior expert in organizational change at BCG, where he serves companies undertaking transformation. He is a classical musician and was Chief of Staff for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Philip draws on his passions for economics and group decision-making to help leaders navigate complexity.
]]>This classic memoir tells the story of a remarkable Asian-American woman navigating two very different cultures a loyal wife, a widowed mother, and a bilingual breadwinner who finds her voice in a strange new world.
Follow her journey as she:
An international bestseller when first published a century ago, A Daughter of the Samurai remains a testament to a woman's resolve, strength, and endurance. This edition includes a new foreword by 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Janice P. Nimura.
]]>Janice P. Nimura is the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable book in 2015. More recently, she received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on The Doctors Blackwell, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a journalist, author, lecturer and theatrical producer best known for the novels Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop and Kitty Foyle.
]]>The Morpho collection of anatomy drawing books has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide, as it has helped amateur, student, and professional artists alike propel their imaginative drawing and observational skills forward. Collectively, they have become today's go-to resource for artistic anatomy drawing.
This beautiful, large-format book brings together three key volumes from the Morpho collection. The shapes of the human body are explored from depth to surface, as the bone, muscle, and fat systems are covered. The book's beautiful layout and presentation make it a perfect gift for any artist.
This book includes these three volumes:
It is illustrated with over 800 drawings and accompanied by helpful and precise text. Additionally, more than 150 previously unpublished drawings complete this anthology.
]]>In this gorgeously illustrated artist's deck, creator Kevin Jay Stanton explores the biological roots of the Arcana. 78 fully painted symbolic cards rooted in classical Tarot interpretations are joined by 33 brand new Oracle cards to explore the lore and mythology of the plant kingdom. Packaged in a collectible gift box with a helpful guidebook explaining the meanings of the deck, this gorgeous box set is the perfect gift for Tarot enthusiasts, plant lovers, and all those intrigued by the symbolism and spirituality of the natural world.
]]>Love is Resistance is a collection of 77 commissioned posters by artists, musicians, writers, designers, filmmakers, actors, digital creators and voices from across the world standing in solidarity with Palestine. Each poster tells its own story recalling iconic figures, pivotal moments, poems and personal acts of remembrance and bears witness to grief while insisting on life, justice and liberation.
The posters can be torn out, framed and hung, taken to peaceful protests or kept together as an archive. This art book also includes a double-sided fold-out sticker insert, a signed set of Kyle Goen's iconic GAZA Love stamps and three posters drawn by children in Gaza, collected by the Ajyal Foundation.
Bold, heartbreaking and defiantly hopeful, Love is Resistance is a tribute to Palestinian resilience and a tool for global solidarity. This is art as resistance and solidarity in action.
]]>Forest bathing isn't just about being outside it's about truly feeling it. Well-being begins with your first steps. This deck provides activities to begin your own practice and transform any natural setting a sprawling forest, urban green spaces, or your garden into a sanctuary for your senses. Discover a unique path to peace and presence.
Note: Please be mindful of all living beings and respect all land rules. All invitations can be adapted to Leave No Trace guidelines.
Contains fifty-two full-colour cards to inspire an active connection to nature, created by two certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guides.
]]>Roxanne Cte is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide and a partner in Association Francophone. She is also a social worker and psychotherapist who has run a private practice for more than a decade.
]]>Each page of Your Guide to Forest Bathing A Journal offers space to record your experiences, thoughts, and emotions as you engage in forest bathing, whether in the woods, a public park, or your own backyard.
Through regular practice, you will realise the full benefit of forest bathing. Whether you're just beginning or already rooted in the process, this journal supports you in finding presence and healing. It helps reawaken your senses and deepen your relationship with the more-than-human world.
]]>Simply being present in the natural world, with all of our senses fully alive, can have a remarkably healing effect. It can also awaken in us our latent but profound connection with all living things. This is "forest bathing," a practice inspired by the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku. It is a gentle, meditative approach to being with nature and an antidote to our nature-starved lives that can heal our relationship with the more-than-human world.
In Your Guide to Forest Bathing, you'll discover a path that you can use to begin a practice of your own that includes specific activities presented by Amos Clifford, one of the world's most experienced forest bathing experts. Whether you're in a forest or woodland, public park, or just your own backyard, this book will be your personal guide as you explore the natural world in a way you may have never thought possible.
]]>In this lively polemic, Paul B. Jaskot confronts art history's ideological preoccupation with the art object. To unbind art history from this fixation, Jaskot proposes centring our art-historical inquiry on systems of power, rather than on the art object. Modelling this shift, Jaskot asks: what might an art history of oppression, power and barbarism look like? The study that follows is divided into three parts empire, war and labour which each draw from a constellation of examples, ranging from the architecture of the early modern era to that of Nazi Germany, from the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary exhibition making.
Also featuring a photo essay by Steve Harp, this book presents a prescient case for how art history can make a meaningful contribution to understanding systems of power and why such a project is needed now more than ever.
Paul B. Jaskot's The Tyranny of the Object is the third title for Power Polemics, a series that puts art hard up against political and personal viewpoints from some of the leading thinkers and writers in the field today.
]]>Steve Harp is an Associate Professor of Photography and Media Art in the Art School at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in studio practice as well as seminars on photography, contemporary art, cultural studies, and literature. His artwork primarily investigates questions of history, place, ephemerality, transience, and liminality. His work is most often presented in the form of the photographic artist's book.
]]>In 2008, he founded the UK government's In Harmony programme, facilitating access to music for children from less privileged backgrounds. Julian was the only classical musician chosen to play at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
In 2015, following his forced retirement due to injury, he was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a role he held for five years.
Julian is a lifelong Leyton Orient supporter and was the London Underground's first official busker.
]]>From vivid descriptions of Julian's childhood in one of the world's most famous musical dynasties to unfiltered stories from his collaborations with such stars as Elton John, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelli, Philip Glass, and his brother, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bows and Arrows reveals a cut-throat world of agents, promoters, record companies, violin dealers and substance abuse, laying bare the classical music profession as never before.
With refreshing honesty and humour, Julian recounts the break-up of three of his four marriages, his lifelong passion for ensuring that every child should have a chance to play a musical instrument and his devastation at the 2014 injury that forced him to stop playing and sell his Stradivarius cello. This earth-shattering loss, however, led to a new calling, prompting Julian's appointment as principal of a leading royal conservatoire and his re-emergence as a tireless champion of music education, working closely with politicians including Gordon Brown, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.
Culminating in Julian's return to the stage for the first time in twelve years, this is a powerful story of passion, loss and a life reborn.
]]>In 2008, he founded the UK government's In Harmony programme, facilitating access to music for children from less privileged backgrounds. Julian was the only classical musician chosen to play at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
In 2015, following his forced retirement due to injury, he was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a role he held for five years.
Julian is a lifelong Leyton Orient supporter and was the London Underground's first official busker.
]]>Despite a relationship historically marred by mistrust and unmet expectations, the two regimes have worked together to promote their common interests in Syria, where battlefield coordination soon developed into much deeper political alignment. Drawing on extensive Russian and Persian primary sources, and interviews with elites from both countries, Nicole Grajewski uncovers the drivers of ever-closer cooperation between the Kremlin and the Islamic Republic. Detailing the internal structures, shared anxieties and broader ambitions underpinning this alignment, she explores the genesis of Russia and Iran's mutual antagonism towards the Western-led global order; the impact of deep-seated leadership concerns over regime security and domestic protests; and the future trajectory of the partnership within the larger world order.
Examining both military dynamics and economic endeavours, as well as elaborate sanctions evasion schemes and collaboration within international organisations, this is the definitive account of contemporary Russia-Iran relations.
]]>Qaddafi: Beyond the Myth provides a comprehensive look at the forces that shaped Qaddafi and enabled him to become the world's longest-ruling head of state. It also provides essential information for anyone attempting to understand the division, confusion and chaos that has dominated post-Qaddafi Libya.
]]>Civil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons. By contrast, the major forms of interpersonal violence homicide, intimate partner violence, and severe physical punishment of children generally have a much lower profile.
In Worse than War, Anke Hoeffler and James Fearon assemble and analyze the data on the global prevalence and costs of collective and interpersonal violence. They show that interpersonal violence is vastly more widespread and imposes far greater societal costs than collective violence. Wars tend to be concentrated in a small number of countries, and often relatively small areas within them. By contrast, almost all countries have rates of homicide and nonfatal assault, particularly of women and children, that far exceed the global average rates of death and injury in wars and terrorism.
Hoeffler and Fearon argue that high rates of interpersonal violence are not simply fixed by culture or other structural factors. Evidence from a host of program evaluations, natural experiments, and longer-term social movements make it clear that rates of homicide, intimate partner violence, and severe physical punishment of children can be reduced if they are effectively targeted. Interventions that promote peace in civil wartorn countries are also possible, but the opportunities are few and increasingly far between. Drawing on ideas and methods from many fields economics, political science, public health, psychology, sociology, and others the authors show that money and policy efforts directed toward reducing interpersonal violence thus merit higher priority both within countries and by international donors.
]]>From the celebrated author of Limber, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist or embrace evolution a book about time, for our time.
Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched tadpoles transform. She basked in the warmth of her father's love but was burned by his rage, and she witnessed a sudden, unnamable change occur in her older sister after an encounter with a stranger in a white van. In adulthood, she survived the explosion of her marriage, the destruction of her burning home, and a year spent as the single mother of a toddler without a home of their own. And like us all, she has weathered the upheaval of our current atmosphere political instability, climate change, mass extinction.
But in spite of the world's violence, Pelster manages to remain open to its beauty, deciding not to resist change, but to give herself over to it and let evolution make her into a new animal. She plumbs the depths of ancestral knowledge to uncover the scale of our ancient capacity for adaptation, from humankind's early harnessing of fire to the grandmothers responsible for our continued existence.
Meditative and curious, pulsing with fascination, fear, and the untameable human spirit, The Evolution of Fire contemplates who we are now and what we still might become.
]]>These basic techniques help you survive in the wild and be prepared for everyday challenges and extreme situations. The Ultimate Wilderness Survival Guide enables you to always be fully prepared...for fun!
]]>A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they're set. Travelling mostly on foot, and camping along the way amid some of Scotland's most beautiful and rugged landscapes, Dougie Strang encounters a depth of meaning to the tales he tracks one that offers a unique perspective on place, culture, land ownership and ecological stewardship, as well as insights into his own entanglement with place.
Dougie sets out on his walk at the beginning of October, which also marks the start of the red deer rut. The bellowing of stags forms the soundtrack to his journey and is a reminder that, as well as mapping invisible landscapes of story, he is also exploring the tangible, living landscape of the present.
]]>Author of multiple bestselling craft books and creator of hundreds of DIY tutorials, Lia believes that making something beautiful with your hands is one of life's most meaningful acts. Her work has been featured in major publications and her online community continues to flourish as a space for creativity, connection, and joy.
From her studio in Portland, Oregon, Lia designs with intention creating not just projects, but experiences that bring calm and beauty into everyday life.
]]>Her background in design and her patient, methodical approach to flower making have elevated the craft to new heights of realism and beauty. Meagan's flowers seem to breathe with life each petal carefully considered, each colour choice deliberate and inspired.
Together, Lia and Meagan have created a body of work that honours both the meditative process of making and the joy of sharing handmade beauty with others. Their collaboration represents the heart of what community crafting can be generous, inspiring, and deeply connected to the simple pleasure of creating something wonderful with your hands.
]]>Transform your creative space into a blooming sanctuary with this comprehensive guide to crafting stunning crepe paper flowers. In Paper Flower Garden, renowned paper artist Lia Griffith, along with paper flower designer Meagan Donnelly, share their techniques for creating lifelike botanical beauties.
This immersive garden-themed experience features 28 unique flower designs organised into seven seasonal garden sections. Each project includes beautiful photography, detailed step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and QR codes that link to exclusive video demonstrations of techniques. Learn to work with premium crepe paper like a master, understanding grain direction, stretch properties, and advanced colouring techniques that bring depth and realism to every petal. Beyond individual flowers, discover the art of arrangement with seasonal palettes, styling techniques, and complete flower 'recipes' for bouquets and centrepieces.
Here's what you'll learn:
Complete with templates, supply resources, and access to bonus online content, Paper Flower Garden is your entry into a world of story, place, and imagination as you learn to master the art of making crepe paper flowers and arrangements. As you learn this craft, you will also learn to slow down, reconnect with your creativity, and bring more beauty into your daily life.
Welcome to your paper garden, where patience blooms into beauty, and every flower holds a moment of peace.
]]>Native artists have always been central to hard, heavy music: surf rock, hard rock, heavy funk, straight edge, thrash, rap metal, grunge, grind core, and especially black metal. Natives have made their own uniquely Indigenous hard music forms, pre-Hispanic metal in Latin America, Navajo rez metal, and experimental ambient metal in the far north.
Beginning with Link Wray's trailblazing guitar sound that gave birth to punk and metal as we know them today and culminating in contemporary acts like the all-female, Maori doom metal and punk band Death and Hatred to Mankind, this eye-opening, encyclopaedic history of Native bands and musicians spans the last 60 years. Historian and professor Al Carroll teaches us to listen critically to spot imposters and bigotry, while celebrating the explosion of Indigenous bands during the rise of thrash and later nu-metal, how Native artists in the so-called U.S. gained popularity and radio play overseas while their releases were censored in the States, and the 'harder than you' grit of bands originating on Pacific islands.
There's something in this book for every hard music fan. Pick it up if you're looking for a new way to see the music and culture around you or inspiration to create something of meaning to your own community and roots. Get ready to learn about your new favourite band, deepen your understanding of the music you love, and think critically about the dominant culture.
]]>Who says you need a film degree, fancy equipment, or studio backing to fulfil your filmmaking dreams? Make your own movies, music videos, documentaries, vlogs, and more with the expert guidance of this approachable, illustrated guide to doing it yourself.
This revised edition of the beloved classic now with a new introduction provides all the essential information a budding filmmaker needs, free of jargon or elitist obstacles. With Professor Know-It-All as your lively guide, you'll learn why movies move us, how film and video cameras work, how to light and expose shots, how to create eye-catching compositions, how to record crystal-clear sound, and more.
Designed for video artists, journalists, content creators, or anyone inspired to pick up a camera (including the one on your phone!), the Professor and his helpful cast of companions give you all the technical knowledge you need to bring your brightest ideas to life-and to the screen.
]]>Tired of the mansplaining? Ready to smile when and only when you feel like it? Cheers to that! It's time to celebrate the ladies who lift you up and roast the societal expectations that bring you down.
When They Go Low, We Go Highball features all your favourite tipples but with a feminist twist from a Mai Time Has Come to a Cointreau v. Wade to a Catcall Crusher plus all-new concoctions to refresh, delight, and fuel your inner fire. Sip an Old-Fashioned: 19th Amendment Edition, or stir up a pitcher of Aperol Spritzerhoods to share with your book club, your cat ladies, and all the important women in your life.
With fifty easy-to-make cocktails and mocktails, you'll be toasting to a female future in no time, so gather your coven, stock up your home bar, and get ready to smash that patriarchy.
]]>Amy Palmer is a former early childhood educator and lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, and has published on children's literature and education.
]]>At a time of biodiversity loss and climate grief, we need to reset our relationship with the natural world. Cynefin helps us hear the voices of people down the centuries who have, through poetry, expressed a different way of connecting with the living world around us.
Carwyn Graves explores how the Welsh poetic tradition offers a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world, and demonstrates its power to help us address the challenges we face.
Find fresh perspectives from themes of grief and loss mediated through snow and the cuckoo's song, to ecological sensibilities in medieval poems and the generosity of the water that drives the water wheel. In a thousand years of poetry we see the natural world portrayed not as a pristine realm but a human home; bittersweet as well as welcoming. Above all Carwyn invites us through these poems, to encounter the living world in seagulls and sheepflocks, a lake or wheatfield not in the abstract but in all its sparkling specificity
]]>Nicole is both a queer artist and graphic designer and is widely known for her iconic work on the Women's March on Washington logo. She is the author, designer and illustrator of a number of books including Girl Almighty and Small & Mighty, interactive activist journals for kids as well as Kids' Guide to Backyard Birds, Bugs and Trees, field guides for kids. She has recently collaborated with human rights lawyer, Kate Kelly on a book titled Ordinary Equality, a brilliantly graphic story of the women and queer people of the ERA. Nicole is also a tattoo artist apprentice and uses her brilliant illustration skills in this new work!
She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
]]>Follow your heart's wisdom with these artfully crafted and drop-dead-gorgeous tarot cards. This unique deck features beautiful, original illustrations incorporating the shape of the human heart and elements of the natural world into each tarot archetype. Rendered in a striking block print style, with rich textures and a black and red colour palette, the powerful imagery of these cards will call forth your heart's true interpretations. For readings, divination, inspiration, or as part of a creative practice, use this deck to feel into the answers you seek, with your heart as your wise guide.
]]>Nicole is both a queer artist and graphic designer and is widely known for her iconic work on the Women's March on Washington logo. She is the author, designer and illustrator of a number of books including Girl Almighty and Small & Mighty, interactive activist journals for kids as well as Kids' Guide to Backyard Birds, Bugs and Trees, field guides for kids. She has recently collaborated with human rights lawyer, Kate Kelly on a book titled Ordinary Equality, a brilliantly graphic story of the women and queer people of the ERA. Nicole is also a tattoo artist apprentice and uses her brilliant illustration skills in this new work!
She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
]]>Anchored in the tradition of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, Crystal Keys Tarot pairs the symbolism of the cards with the colourful imagery of powerful crystals from all over the world. Each card, beautifully rendered as if seemingly carved from the stone itself, echoes the energy, aura, and texture of a crystal specifically chosen to match the card's archetype and imagery.
With Crystal Keys Tarot, the tarot reader will now learn about the metaphysical properties of a variety of crystals, while those interested in crystal healing can use the relationship with precious stones to learn the ways of all seventy-eight cards. By combining tarot and crystals, you can better comprehend the archetypes of each card and discover something new.
This deluxe boxed set contains 78 gilt-edged cards and a 176-page full-colour guidebook.
]]>Amalia Drewes is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator deeply inspired by the natural world, divine femininity, and spiritual oneness. Through her art, she invites viewers to open their intuitive hearts to the beauty of life and the sacredness of death. Amalia graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in illustration. She continues to explore oracle symbolism, mysticism, and the unseen worlds. As a graphic designer, she has collaborated on a variety of creative projects, including the album Immigrance by Grammy Award-winner Snarky Puppy and the poetry book The Mandala Meditations by Maddi Cheers. Additionally, Amalia is a storyteller of traditional myths and legends, as well as a dedicated teacher of art and meditation. She founded her own business, Visual Remedies, to support individuals during times of grief and loss through the transformative healing powers of art and nature combined. To view her work please visit amaliadrewes.com.
]]>In the wild, windswept lands of the North, myths were never mere stories. They were living wisdom a map of the soul, a dialogue with the animate world, and a source of primal strength. Tales of Odin's quest for wisdom, Freyja's fierce magic, Thor's thunderous journeys, and the World Tree Yggdrasil connecting all realms were told not to escape reality, but to plunge more deeply into its vibrant, sacred heart.
Whispers of the Elder Gods is an invitation to experience Norse mythology as it was meant to be alive, transformative, and deeply personal. This is not a history book or an archaeological study. It is a practical guide to animistic spirituality and shamanic practice, rooted in the oldest traditions of Northern Europe. Here, you will learn how to:
Step out of the mundane and into the circle of the hearthfire. Let the whispers of the Elder Gods guide you back to your wild, wise, and untamed core.
Are you ready to answer the call?
]]>Each page of Ancient Spells and Incantations holds verses adapted from text unearthed through extensive research grimoires, letters, and trial transcripts from across the ages and around the world. Many of these were tucked away in university libraries not easily accessible even to one actively in search of them. Enid Baxter Ryce painstakingly researched this collection, finding fragments from across the centuries.
Translating some from Latin and Old English herself, Enid has made the spells accessible to today's witches. What was once whispered or chanted, spiraling in cursive, or carved in stone, still echoes like a song. The words that survived connect us to that ancient magic, and we can feel the truth and power.
As we marvel at these ancient magical words, we think of our ancestors. Thanks to them, scraps of papyrus, shards of pottery, secret books, and hissed recipes can, hundreds of years later, still show themselves to those who seek them.
]]>China's most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country's leaders is only growing today. Yet these timeless debates which are very likely to influence the answers to such questions as whether China should use military force to take control of Taiwan are still far too little understood in the West. In this enlightening and entertaining book, Daniel Bell, a leading expert on Chinese political thought, takes the greatest thinkers from China's past Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang, Han Feizi, Zhuangzi, and Mozi and puts them in dialogue with each other in modern settings. The result is a creative and engaging introduction to ancient Chinese political thought that reveals its relevance to the future of China and the rest of the world.
Before China's unification in 221 BCE, the brilliant political thinkers who founded Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Mohism roamed from state to state, argued with each other, and tried to persuade rulers to follow their ideas. Bell draws on their debates about such perennial issues as war, corruption, government involvement in family life, and whether the state should subsidise culture to create vivid imaginative dialogues about important contemporary social and political controversies.
China's political thinking is rooted in its past. Understanding what ancient Chinese political thought can teach us about today's critical debates is essential to understanding the future of China and the world.
]]>The Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling excursion across science and history to explore how evolution generates new and enduring features in biology, culture, and technology.
Erwin begins by tracing how thinkers from Darwin's time to the present day have sought to discover the driving mechanisms of evolutionary novelty. He then lays out compelling empirical evidence for separating novelty from innovation, showing how novelty involves the emergence of unique characteristics while innovation has to do with the success of those characteristics across time. Erwin develops a unifying conceptual framework for these powerful dynamics, demonstrating how they have shaped everything from the evolution of avian feathers and flight to the creation of human language and the breathtaking advances in digital computing we're witnessing today.
A landmark work that redefines our understanding of the changes happening all around us, The Origins of the New reveals how the forces of novelty and innovation are the same across nature and culture, continually producing new forms and refashioning the world as we know it.
Published in association with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
]]>'Can machines think?' Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing's paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson was actually smarter than Jeopardy! champions, or if ChatGPT really knows what it's talking about. In Thinking AI, computer scientist John MacCormick explores Turing's question from a perspective informed by a detailed understanding of the way modern AI systems work. MacCormick explains, in accessible fashion, the ideas behind the two main pillars of the twenty-first century AI revolution: deep neural networks and reinforcement learning.
MacCormick offers a tour of the most famous AI systems, including AlexNet and VGG16, deep neural networks for object recognition that led to a Nobel prize; DeepMind's AlphaGo, which shocked AI researchers with its superhuman performance in the game of Go; and OpenAI's ChatGPT, which stunned the world with its natural language capabilities. He describes how each system works, and points to parallels with human brain processes. Both human minds and computer programs, MacCormick explains, can induce intelligence through emergence: the capability for new phenomena to emerge from the interactions of many small, simple components. Does this mean that a computer program can think like a human? In many ways, MacCormick argues, the answer is yes. In Thinking AI, he reveals a new landscape of emergent intelligence a world in which computer programs can emulate many or all aspects of human thinking but humanity retains its meaning and purpose.
]]>The story behind the mythical figure of 'the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award-winning historian Yair Mintzker traces the tale back to its source, follows its many metamorphoses through five centuries, and relates it to the fraught present moment.
According to a mysterious pamphlet published in 1602, the Wandering Jew was a real person, named Ahasversus, who was cursed by Jesus to eternal wandering after refusing to help him as he was led to his crucifixion. For more than four hundred years, many otherwise reliable witnesses have claimed to have seen the Wandering Jew. Moving in reverse chronological order, I, Wandering Jew explores crucial episodes in the story of this figure. We meet an unforgettable, Wandering Jew-like character who appeared out of nowhere in Israel in the 1950s; a nineteenth-century novelist who was the first Jew to favourably describe the Wandering Jew; an eighteenth-century German scholar who saw the Wandering Jew emerging from a devastating fire; and the man who likely inspired the 1602 pamphlet.
A work of history that reads like a detective story, I, Wandering Jew is also part memoir. As Mintzker discovers affinities between his own story and that of the Wandering Jew, the surprising history of an old antisemitic trope and its meanings becomes a profound meditation on home and exile, Judaism and Christianity, poetry and truth, the deep past and the present.
]]>This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful colour photos.
Fodor's 'Essential' guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Portugal travel guide includes:
This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful colour photos.
Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Iceland travel guide includes:
In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.
McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territory only to be surprised by their benevolent actions.
Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humans even once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.
This book chronicles Rick's journey, explains his values, and brings readers up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Rick's calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humour like the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an...Arctic ground squirrel.
'There is literally no one else who could tell these stories.' NBC
'The chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world.' Washington Post
'Like Darwin, McIntyre is an inclusionist and is thus able to enter the hearts and minds of wolves.' Mountain Journal
'Rick McIntyre is the ultimate guru of wolf behaviour.' Jane Goodall
]]>Part of our everyday lives, full of flavour and shifting with the seasons, vegetables are a diverse and integral plant group that we depend on for nutrients and sustenance. From cabbages to sweetcorn, delicious plants from around the world are celebrated in this pocketbook with beautiful historical illustrations.
The Library and Archives at Kew is one of the most extensive botanical libraries in the world, with the oldest item dating back to the 1370s. An introductory chapter by Kew expert Helena Dove provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting.
A must-have gift item printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil luxury finish.
]]>This book uncovers the broad variety of China's plants, from the everyday staples of rice and tea to the sacred significance of lotus and peony flowers. For millennia, plants have played an important role in Chinese culture, with rich histories and symbolic weight. Even a humble houseplant like the lucky 'money plant', with round leaves resembling coins, is attached to multiple legends and utilised in Feng Shui to attract prosperity and abundance.
An introductory chapter by Kew expert Alex Summers provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting. A must-have gift item printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil luxury finish.
]]>Staying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the lessons and inheritances of being raised by survivors of complex traumas, the book challenges the notion that one must be healed in order to parent well and celebrates the transformative power of queer family-making beyond gay marriage and assimilation into the nuclear family.
The book, which recounts the author's experiences of raising three children in a four-parent queer family, asks, 'If leaving has helped you survive, how do you learn to stay?' Sharman finds answers in queer kinship, femme erotics, leatherdyke lineages, and the radical possibilities inherent in doing motherwork outside of motherhood, recognising that sometimes you fight the thing you want most.
Staying Power is a moving, deeply personal account of one person's journey of unlearning independence through an experiment in queer collective care.
]]>Pregnancy can be a wild ride full of changes, unknowns, and excitement. Capture the moments big and small in this keepsake journal. Inside you'll find guidance for each week of pregnancy from the experts at Mayo Clinic, to help you manage each phase of your baby's development with confidence including when to expect to feel baby kicks, how to relieve nausea and back pain, how to care for your mental health during and after pregnancy, and what's 'normal' in each trimester.Reflective prompts empower you as you prepare to meet your baby. Monthly pages provide a spot for tracking key measurements from your prenatal checkups.
Inside you'll also find:
Whether you're tracking each day or just the highlights, Mayo Clinic Pregnancy Journal is your one-stop personalised resource for a healthy pregnancy and a confident, empowered start to your journey in parenthood.
]]>Since it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Cole reconsiders some central questions of authorship and shares the major discoveries that have been made since this influential book first came out.
The daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house, Sofonisba produced more self-portraits than any known painter before her. She was the first known artist to use her parents and siblings as primary subjects and may have painted the first group portrait featuring only women. Recent research also reveals her to have been not only a key model for painters around her but also the rare Italian Renaissance artist to take up a subject demonstrably related to the reform of the Catholic Church.
The expanded volume offers new assessments of paintings whose status has long been uncertain. Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date illustrated catalog of the more than two hundred known paintings and drawings that writers have associated with Sofonisba over the centuries, Sofonisba's Lesson will remain the definitive account of the artist and her work for decades to come.
]]>When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new attractions. In this fascinating book, Roland Betancourt tells the story of how the visionary engineers and designers at Disney transformed the technologies of the postwar assembly line into an entertainment experience unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation traces the origins and evolution of these technical innovations during the theme park's first three decades in operation, exploring how engineers reimagined the systems and machines of industrial manufacturing and the military. The magnetic tape used to test ballistic missiles was repurposed to animate the talking macaws in the Enchanted Tiki Room. Programmable Logic Controllers, widely used on automotive assembly lines, brought to life the spectacular rides of the Matterhorn Bobsleds and Space Mountain. Betancourt shows how these and other attractions helped to allay fears about automation and job displacement in 1950s America. Along the way, he situates Disneyland's remarkable creations within a broader history of the technologies that increasingly order and construct the world around us, from the Fordist factory to artificial intelligence.
Essential reading for anyone interested in engineering, corporate histories, or popular culture, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation invites us to consider how technology and the logic of automation become integrated into our lives through entertainment.
]]>Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney's 'imagineers' have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement parks, and merchandising. Drawing on extensive interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, union organisers, and Disney 'adults' alike, Osterweil unearths reactionary political commitments and maleficent legal manoeuvres so cartoonishly evil they would make one of Walt's own animated villains blush.
Along the way, Osterweil braids together corporate skullduggery with a not entirely unsympathetic analysis of some of Disney's most famous movies. The result is an entertaining and convincing case that Disney's entire business model has been built upon a ruthless and fanatical insistence on intellectual property rights from Steamboat Willie to Avengers: Infinity War and beyond!
]]>Around 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive vocal training. Castrati were long mired in secrecy, obfuscations, and lies about their origin and conditions, not least the last of them, Alessandro Moreschi. Musicologist Martha Feldman declines to accept these deep-seated mysteries and concealments. After a decade and more of digging through archives and family histories comes her exciting transdisciplinary and quasi-cinematic account of Moreschi, whose recordings preserve the only sonic trace of a solo castrato.
Yet Moreschi's story extends far beyond him. It opens up intrigues, politics, and histories of the Vatican, everyday histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Rome, the world of Roman opera, the city's unique melange of sacred and vernacular tropes, and representations of Rome by iconic film director Federico Fellini. Moreschi and Fellini turn out to have been related by marriage, but also to share synergies grounded in Rome's persistent inclination to vernacularise the sacred. Far from telling of one anomalous figure, Feldman's gripping history convinces readers that Moreschi, like Fellini, can be read as an improbable index of Roman consciousness, both during his own life and well beyond.
]]>The First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on the lives of key leaders, including Mirabeau, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, and Napoleon. Acclaimed historian Jeremy D. Popkin brings this often-forgotten story to life, highlighting the arguments put forward by French abolitionists and their opponents and the profound repercussions of the first abolition of slavery in a Western empire.
When the French revolutionaries passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, they immediately faced a burning question: did that document's first article "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" apply to the 800,000 enslaved Black people in the country's colonies? Over the next dozen years, revolutionary leaders fought over this question. The First Emancipation tells how French lawmakers initially protected slavery in their constitution but reversed themselves in 1794, making France the first western country to abolish slavery throughout its empire. Yet only eight years later, in 1802, Napoleon tried to force the emancipated Black populations of the colonies back into slavery. His decision led to his first major military defeat and to the proclamation of the independence of the Black nation of Haiti, but also to the reestablishment of slavery in other French colonies, where it would not finally be abolished until 1848.
The story of how France emancipated its enslaved people and declared them full citizens only to return many of them to bondage, The First Emancipation reveals that the course of abolition in the modern world was more winding and halting than is often remembered.
]]>Navigations reexamines these Portuguese quests by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. Malyn Newitt also narrates these voyages of discovery in the framework of Portuguese politics, describing the role of the Portuguese ruling dynasty including its female members in the flowering of the Portuguese Renaissance, the creation of the Renaissance state with its distinctive ideology, and in the cultural changes that took place within a wider European context.
]]>After a night behind bars in Miami, Froelich lands in Guatemala City. Riotous road trips follow, with our man perpetually wasted on booze and cocaine but fuelled by a passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life.
His guide? Antonio, a sweet-natured, streetwise hotel concierge who shepherds him through Antigua, Lake Atitln, Monterrico and ultimately into the interior, where gringos are rare and deeply suspect.
Next, Froelich strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anabella, a glamorous, garrulous, middle-aged woman, and mooches a stay in her elite gated community, which bristles with armed guards and famous eccentrics.
Unapologetically raw and darkly funny, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, Guatemala-style. Ever wondered what it's like to go completely off the map of sanity and sense? Here's your ticket.
]]>As ever, the characters with whom Steven ingratiates himself become his surrogate (dysfunctional) family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of kids led by the feral Molokai soon have Steven suspecting that his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, ensnaring him in a web of scams. Will he be left for broke, stranded in this shabby paradise? Is his paranoia justifiable, or the result of continuous cocaine use? His response is to embark with the gang on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail.
Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully uninformed, Froelich is nevertheless observant and interested. Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where they're from or where they're headed.
]]>Silman joined the British Army in 1939 as a medical officer. In 1940, he was one of the last soldiers to be shipped out during the mass retreat from Dunkirk. In 1942, his division was assigned to assist in the defence of Singapore, but arrived just before the island fell to Japan. Captain Silman spent the rest of the war in the notorious Changi POW camp as well as in the northernmost camps of the notorious Burma Railway, where he tended to Allied forced-labourers.
Throughout, Silman kept diaries in secret illegal and dangerous for a POW. He wrote regular accounts of his harrowing experiences in the camps when he himself was weakened and exhausted, caring as best he could for hundreds of ill, wounded and dying men. Articulate, graphic, compassionate and lit with good humour, the diaries have been edited with care and illuminating commentary by Silman's daughter, Jacqueline Passman.
'A first-hand account of major events in the Second World War, rich with personal anecdotes and stories of friendship and faith.' Jewish Telegraph
]]>The unravelling of the post-Cold War order has intensified geopolitical tensions, driving a global increase in defence spending. Most military organisations are engaged in a process of drastic transformation, trying to scale their activities, learn from contemporary battlefields, and improve readiness. Yet armed forces engaged in such reforms must solve a major dilemma: how to adapt to an uncertain future without losing their current identity, coherence or operational effectiveness.
In this incisive and timely study, Olivier Schmitt explores how modern militaries adapt, or fail to adapt, to evolving threats, technologies and political constraints. Drawing on global case-studies from the trenches of Ukraine to the halls of the People's Liberation Army leadership he investigates how social expectations, political constraints and organisational cultures collide in the worldwide quest to reform the military.
Essential reading for defence professionals, policymakers and scholars of international security, Preparing for War equips readers with the tools to grasp not only the 'how' but the 'why' behind military transformation. In an era of rising defence budgets and shrinking certainties, this book delivers crucial insights into the future of war and the institutions that must be ready for it.
'Effective military change is central to success in war. Schmitt provides a powerful analytical framework for understanding how armed forces adapt and when they innovate. He shows how technology, civilmilitary relations and organisational flexibility interact to drive change. In the era of the Ukraine War, this book is indispensable.' Theo Farrell, Vice-Chancellor and President, La Trobe University
'Schmitt's dissection of the mechanics and dynamics of military transformation are particularly helpful for planners and practitioners. He offers a timeless analytical grid focusing on cognitive, institutional and relational structures applicable to our current context of major and multi-dimensional systemic change. A tall task and an original approach, masterfully accomplished.' Beatrice Heuser, Head of Strategy, General Staff College of the German Bundeswehr, and author of Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions
'A first-rate analysis of change across the full spectrum of war, from adapting to various types of conflict to understanding the influence of military cultures. Schmitt examines the latest developments for the integration of AI, dual-use technologies and future systems warfare: essential reading for the modern strategist.' Rob Johnson, Director of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford
'An indispensable guide for leaders who must resolve the enduring tension between exploiting existing capabilities and exploring novel solutions. Comprehensive yet practical, enthusiastically recommended for institutional leaders and students of innovation.' Frank Hoffman, author of Mars Adapting: Military Change During War
'In this incisive study, Olivier Schmitt, one of our most readable and informative scholars of modern warfare, explores how modern militaries adapt to evolving threats and technologies. Drawing on global case studies, he examines the collision of organisational culture and political constraints in the quest for transformation.' Peter J. Dombrowski, William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics, U.S. Naval War College
]]>Colonial history, floral symbolism and the mythologies surrounding plants are explored in new mediums which invite readers to engage in a nuanced dialogue about the intersections of politics, botany, culture, art and colonial heritage. An introduction to the Singh Twins is provided by best-selling author Janina Ramirez.
]]>If you've ever felt lost, stuck in a downward spiral, or longed for something deeper and more meaningful, New Moon Life Design is for you. With the moon's cycles as your guide, learn how to harness lunar energy to create practical, personal pathways to manifest the life you've always wanted.
New Moon Life Design guides you through a full year, beginning with a new moon of your choosing. The new moon is a dark and invisible portal and serves as the most potent time for setting intentions and defining personal goals. From there, follow the lunar rhythm waxing, full, waning and returning again, spiraling deeper each time. You'll learn:
New Moon Life Design has everything you need to understand the interworking of tarot and astrology, plus instructions for keeping a journal for your spiral practice.
This isn't just a system. It's a devotion. A practice of returning to yourself again and again. You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be present.
]]>Kamden also teaches classes on foraging, survival, and field herbalism in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as classes on tarot, alchemy, and witchcraft practices. They own a small, witchcraft-based business called Heart & Vine Apothecary that focuses on herbal remedies and ritual goods. They are also the author of Ars Granorum: The Six Seed Arts of Witchcraft. They are a regular columnist for Noumenia News, the periodical publication released by the Covenant of Hekate.
]]>On Pins and Needles is a practical, grounded guide to the powerful magic of poppets and dolls. Blending deep traditional roots with insights from years of personal work, Kamden Cornell offers a thorough exploration of the creation, empowerment, and use of magical figures across a wide range of practices.
Inside the book, you'll find overviews of materia, construction methods, activation techniques, and deployment strategies-everything needed to bring these magical constructs to life with purpose and precision. The author shares not only time-tested practices but also original charms and workings, many of which appear here for the first time, providing readers with fresh tools to add to their craft.
Whether you are new to doll magic or seeking to deepen an existing practice, On Pins and Needles serves as both a complete workbook and an inspiring source of ideas. Each page invites you to view effigies and simulacra not simply as vessels of intent but as living participants in your magical work.
Rooted in traditional frameworks while offering a contemporary, flexible approach, this book supports practitioners across different paths, including witchcraft, folk magic, ceremonial practice, and beyond. Through careful instruction and practical wisdom, it opens the door to a richer, more dynamic relationship with the figures you create and the forces you call upon.
]]>Kamden also teaches classes on foraging, survival, and field herbalism in theSandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as classes on tarot,alchemy, and witchcraft practices. They own a small, witchcraft-based business called Heart & Vine Apothecary that focuses on herbal remedies and ritual goods. They are also the author of Ars Granorum: The Six Seed Arts of Witchcraft. They are a regular columnist for Noumenia News, the periodical publication released by the Covenant of Hekate.
]]>Discover the Secrets of the Future
In times of uncertainty, people have always looked for signs. Fate or Fortune by Icy Sedgwick is a captivating exploration of divination throughout history, blending folklore, cultural context, and practical application. From tarot cards and animal omens to divining meaning from food and clouds, this book examines how ordinary people sought to understand their lives through signs and symbols.
Grounded in historical research and rich with fascinating folklore, Sedgwick revives ancient methods for today's world. Whether it's cruelty-free adaptations of entrail readings or seasonal divinations tied to holidays, Fate or Fortune shows how traditional practices can be reimagined for contemporary life.
Perfect for modern diviners, folklore fans, and anyone fascinated by the intersection of belief and storytelling, Fate or Fortune offers a thoughtful, accessible, and engaging guide to both the why and how of divination. With a balance between fate and free will, this is an essential companion for those seeking insight past, present, and future.
]]>Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by more than 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge worn-out stereotypes. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others. Headlines written about care often entrench negative ideas and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it's been chosen.
'Incredible read and desperately important...This perfectly structured and perfectly edited collection should be on everybody's must-read list for 2024' Lucy Easthope, Sunday Times-bestselling author of When the Dust Settles
'The most important book you will read in 2024. Absolutely gripped from the first page. It is more than just a book' Chris Wild, author of The State of It and Damaged
'Please do read Free Loaves on Fridays, it's an emotional journey that will make you cry and laugh. But most of all understand the reality of our care system and why it absolutely must change' Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields and former social worker
]]>Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills. The Career Arts provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills. Ben Wildavsky cuts through the noise and anxiety surrounding this issue to offer sensible, clear-eyed guidance for anyone who is making decisions about education and career preparation with a view to getting ahead in the workforce.
Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits, and preparing for the world as it is, not as you wish it could be. He explains why college remains the gold standard of credentials, and presents the most promising high-quality supplements and alternatives to college that can help learners combine general and job-specific skills. He shows how building social capital is also critical to success, particularly for disadvantaged students.
An invaluable guidebook for students, parents, counsellors, and educators, The Career Arts reveals why college education and job preparation are not either-or propositions and identifies the blend of education and networking needed to support real-world career aspirations.
]]>Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister's destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mother's hoarding, and her own struggles with binge eating. As for so many of us, addiction brought about self-loathing, reflecting her individual failure to exercise self-control, to keep it together. But during her fieldwork studying chemical exposure in Mexico City, her sense of addiction got turned upside down. She witnessed her neighbours, both young and old, defiantly celebrate their compulsive dependencies on alcohol, drugs, and junk food instead of hiding them in shame. Roberts began to wonder if everything she thought she knew about addiction was wrong.
In Praise of Addiction shares the unexpected journey that led Roberts to a new understanding of addiction. Taking lessons from her years in Mexico City as well as from addiction researchers, harm reduction activists, and scholars of religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Roberts pays close attention to the external forces that so often fuel the damage of addiction. As her neighbors in Mexico City suggest, the adverse health effects brought on by their dependencies on Coca-Cola, processed foods, drugs, and alcohol have more to do with the ongoing effects of the drug war and NAFTA than any personal failings. Taking up this ecological framework, Roberts draws a line between vice that isolates and addiction that connects, a distinction she movingly integrates into her own life and family, making a case for sharing in the pleasures and suffering of dependency.
Provocative and deeply humane, In Praise of Addiction invites readers to cast aside the shame, self-hatred, and judgment associated with addiction and discover how dependency can serve as a binding force worthy of our most profound devotion.
]]>While generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counsellors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern takes readers into the workspaces of the music industry to show how internships, especially unpaid ones, are problematic introductions to the working world that often provide little valuable training and are unlikely to lead to a job.
Since the 1980s, shifts in labour markets and careers have made employers less prone to invest in training entry-level employees who may quickly change jobs anyway. In recent decades, higher education has filled the gap, fuelling an explosive growth of internships to facilitate the transition from college to a career. Drawing on in-depth interviews with interns, record label employees, and college personnel, as well as his own experiences as an unpaid intern at two music industry firms in New York City, Alexandre Frenette sheds light on who benefits from the intern economy, who suffers, and why. He finds that internships are rife with ambiguity because employers are neither trained nor greatly rewarded to mentor and colleges are ill-equipped to provide workplace guidance. As a result, there is little consensus about what interns should be doing or what benefits they should be gaining from their experience, which can often lead to inequality, exploitation, and disappointment.
Timely and provocative, Blame the Intern demonstrates how employers and institutions of higher learning are redefining what it means to break in and reveals what happens when few can.
]]>Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century and one of the most controversial. Working in Germany in the aftermath of World War II, he explored a radically expanded concept of art through a practice that ranged from performative actions to large-scale sculptural ensembles. While some contemporaries found his claim that 'everyone is an artist' liberating, even revolutionary, others accused him of fostering a dangerous cult of personality. In Joseph Beuys and History, the first rigorous art historical study of the artist in English, Daniel Spaulding presents a striking new interpretation of Beuys's work and career.
By putting Beuys in the context of Germany's postwar recovery, Spaulding shows that the artist's superimposed biological, political, and economic metaphors offered a powerful way to think about the trajectory of human freedom, the place of art in capitalist modernity, and the possibility of an ecological aesthetics. At the same time, his oeuvre's disquieting echoes of the Nazi past suggest that not everything could be reconciled in what Beuys called 'social sculpture.'
A definitive account of an often-misunderstood figure, Joseph Beuys and History proposes an ambitious rewriting of the dominant narrative of modern and contemporary art, drawing from Marxian value-form theory, Hans Blumenberg's 'metaphorology,' and ecological thought. Precisely because Beuys went to the extremes of art, the book demonstrates, he belongs at the center of its history.
]]>Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonising world offered new visions of liberation that centred the ideas and lives of women. Galvanised by International Women's Year in 1975 and the UN's Decade of Women, Third World women developed novel ideas of equality and self-determination, building a new internationalism in opposition to neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism. In The Future That Was, feminist historian Durba Mitra offers a pathbreaking account of how these women wrote Third World feminism into being, catalysing a momentous expansion of knowledge about women, gender, and sexuality that transformed emancipatory politics across the globe.
Mitra shows how women from former colonies in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond envisioned a radically just world and did so by insisting that research on the world's women lay at the heart of debates about global inequality, development, and human rights. Women gathered at international conferences, wrote reports on the dangers facing women, and took to the streets in protest, building a world of knowledge that contested the devastating effects of patriarchy and colonialism. Yet, despite hundreds of laws, institutions, and publications created through the efforts of these women, the future they imagined was never fully realised. The Future That Was transforms the story of decolonisation and its aftermath through the history and ideas of women. By excavating these vital pasts, Mitra shows how we might envision a future of our own that is freer than the present.
]]>Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated taken into the body as solids or liquids.
How can we explain such behaviour? Why take an image into one's own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and what are their effects? What therapeutic, religious, symbolic, and social functions can we attribute to these forms of relations with icons? These are a few of the questions raised in this investigation into iconophagy.
Iconophages aims to retrace, for the first time, the history of iconophagy. Jeremie Koering examines this unexplored facet of the history of images through an interdisciplinary approach that ranges across art history, cultural and material history, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of the body and the senses. He analyses the human investment, in terms of culture and imagination, at stake in this seemingly paradoxical way of experiencing images. Beyond the hidden knowledge unearthed here, these pages bring to light a new way of understanding images, just as they illuminate the occasionally outlandish relations we maintain with them.
]]>You can find her online at alpenglowdepththerapy.com
]]>Perimenopause is a time when our souls long for change. The mood swings and physical discomfort can make it feel like our bodies and brains are betraying and victimising us. Our Sacred Cycle author Mary McDonald, a therapist who works with people with PMS, PMDD, trauma, and other reproductive health issues, reframes that betrayal as an intervention. With inclusive language and compassionate, practical understanding, she brings affirmation, insight, and science to help us navigate our out-of-control emotions, let go of what no longer serves us, and step fully into our power and wisdom.
McDonald invites us to examine what the huge moods of midlife are really telling us. She offers tools to pick apart the facts behind our feelings from the internalised patriarchal messages that lead us to mistrust and mistreat our bodies and minds. The map she draws for our journey is one of shadow work and soul retrieval, a hero's journey in which we stop trying to 'fix' ourselves and rediscover the person we were supposed to be. The greatest prize is to finally get to meet the wise, experienced, and unapologetically authentic soul we were always meant to become.
]]>You can find her online at alpenglowdepththerapy.com
]]>Carefully chosen and researched for their interest and variety, they make a fascinating record: 150 vignettes form a 'family album' of the Scottish people from the Romans in Scotland in the first century CE to climate change in the 2020s. And everything in between.
]]>At first, Hala's baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of trying for a baby, with one miscarriage followed by another, Hala watches from afar as her daughter grows in the body of another woman, in another country.
Halais not just awaiting news from the surrogate. She is also holding her breath as Palestine and Lebanon, her estranged homelands, are under fire. She goes for long runs to distract herself. She remembers family stories of grandmothers mapping their lives through a tangle of borders; of eradicated villages, invading armies and places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men who left, women who stayed, and the legacies passed down from one to another.Haladecides to name her unborn child Leila, a thread connecting her daughter toThe Thousand and One Nightsand the women who save by storytelling.
A stunningly lyrical and honest quest for motherhood and peoplehood,I'll Tell You When I'm Homeis a powerful story of unravelling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.
'A beautiful and intimate memoir of a life in the embrace of stories, Alyan weaves the fine threads of torn and fragmented lives into an irresistible, intergenerational tapestry. I was spellbound from the first page.' Naomi Klein
'A roaring cyclone of memory and imagination and harrowing tribulation. Surrogacy as metaphor for exile. Exile not as a dream for a better life, but as concession, a begrudging necessity. Gaza, San Miguel, Beirut, New York, Damascus traveling with Alyan's prose is a thrill. I'll Tell You When I'm Home feels as rich and supersaturated as contemporary consciousness itself I can't stop talking about it.' Kaveh Akbar
'Gorgeously written and compelling, I'll Tell You When I'm Home connects the threads of personal and family histories as its author prepares for motherhood. Hala Alyan is a writer of astounding talent.' Lisa Ko
'A story of the violence of exile over generations, a profound desire for motherhood, as well as surrogacy, addiction and the importance of remembering...a story of war and loss of country, but also of friends, lovers and ultimately her marriage...questioning and lyrical.' The Guardian
'[A] gorgeous, lyrical memoir...I'll Tell You When I'm Home shows the power of even a single narrative to resist the deliberate erasure of a people and their homeland, the violence of colonisation.' The New York Times Book Review
'[A] lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity.' Los Angeles Times
'A poignant exploration of her tumultuous path to parenthood, identity, and displacement...More than a story of motherhood and exile, I'll Tell You When I'm Home is a testimony of everything at once...a moving tribute to the strength of those forced from their homelands and ruthlessly exploited, as well as a celebration of women's determination to survive and thrive.' The New Arab
'Alyan's poetic prose encapsulates miles in each sentence and paragraph; joyfully, revisiting a passage is another chance at uncovering a new gift. Her nonfiction narrative voice allows the poet in her to shine, especially as each chapter is told in a series of short glimpses weaving together past and present, the old and the new Hala... WithI'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan has created a record, a story to communicate with those departed and those new to life. In the process, her work is an antidote for others searching for a home they never asked to lose.' Chicago Review of Books
'Hala Alyan writes with sinew and tender force as she masterfully braids the delicate filaments that make a self body, home, labor, loss in such a way that the reader can never again disentangle them. This book is a gift, an offering of abundant beauty, full of deep insight into the intricacies of motherhood.' Alexandra Kleeman
'I'll Tell You When I'm Home is an exquisitely written and unforgettable memoir about what it means to live with the violence and theft of exile and one woman's devotion to restoring her daughter's inheritance through the power of narrative.' Nadia Owusu
'A powerful, magnificently haunting memoir from a writer I always want to read. It's great luck to live in a time when Hala Alyan is writing. Get ready to be astonished.' R. O. Kwon
'This memoir of pregnancy loss and surrogacy is frantic, intimate, brutal, tender and beautiful. Over the arc of a pregnancy by surrogate, the poet offers up her fragmented heartbreak and kaleidoscopic life. I kept gasping, wanting to close in around Hala, to protect her across time and space from the sharp edges of mother-need inside a body that cannot birth a living baby. She wants her readers in the wound with her, inside the stories that don't get told enough, inside the body-mind of a displaced woman struggling to create something bigger than herself. Brilliant.' adrienne maree brown
'Alyan's writing doesn't offer easy answers; it gives voice to the ache and beauty of diasporic existence.' VOGUE Arabia
]]>'As an artist I produce a visual journal for most of my works. The journal for After the Rain became my tool for communicating with artists, highlighting the immersive potential of the exhibition spaces, and encouraging artists to utilise these fully.
As the first artist-led Triennial, thinking and working differently was important. The journal was a visual medium to express ideas, and the publication grew from that, becoming a deeper exploration and reflection of the exhibition.'
Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples
After the Rain documents the creative processes of 10 contemporary art projects commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia's major recurrent exhibition dedicated to First Nations art and artists in Australia the National Indigenous Art Triennial.
Edited by the Triennial's Artistic Director Tony Albert and long-time collaborator Sally Brand, the publication shares stories of artistic collaborations, longstanding friendships and generational practices from Erub, the most north-eastern island in Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait, to Ntaria/Hermannsburg in Central Australia and Naarm/Narrm/Melbourne.
Alongside artist profiles, the publication includes commissioned essays addressing legacies, identities and climate change by contributing First Nations writers Bruce Johnson McLean, Jilda Andrews, Daniel Browning and Yessie Mosby. Original portraits of the exhibition's artists by the celebrated Western Aranda painter Vincent Namatjira punctuate a vibrantly illustrated publication.
The publication is accompanied by a pull-out map created by Tony Albert showcasing his travels across Australia to meet with artists and their communities.
After the Rain invites readers to engage with First Nations art and artists and acknowledge and celebrate the cultural warriors of the past, present and future.
]]>Albert is acknowledged industry wide as a valued ambassador for Indigenous community and culture. He was recently announced as the inaugural Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain First Nations Curatorial Fellow. He is the first Indigenous Trustee for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a member of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Indigenous advisory, a board member forthe City of Sydney's Public Art Panel and member of the Art & Place Board at the Queensland Children's Hospital and in January 2023 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Griffith University for his significant contribution to the arts.
Sally Brand is Coordinator, National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, a role that builds upon a long-standing professional relationship with Artistic Director Tony Albert.
]]>Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy, this collection draws attention to every when showing us that history is not as straightforward as some might think.
'"Everywhen" is a term less known to most Australians than its close relation, "The Dreaming", but it evokes something of the richness of Indigenous understandings of time, place and spirit. This impressive collection of essays - the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors writing from a range of fields and perspectives - invites us to rethink how we imagine not only Australian history but the nature, meaning and purpose of history itself.' - Frank Bongiorno
'A timely book that challenges ways of thinking about the past and of historical practice. It speaks to the individual via first-person narratives and the collective - discussing groups and populations, and weaves the two together in a meaningful, informative manner. Everywhen offers a fresh reflection on languages, histories and practices that readers will find interesting and informative.' - Bronwyn Fredericks
'A powerful book about the inter-connectedness of story, language, time, Country, and heart.' - Terri Janke
'At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, Everywhen highlights the limitations of conventional history and significantly expands our understanding of Indigenous concepts of time. This is a path-breaking collection of essays that is essential reading for Australian and international scholars.' - Mark McKenna
]]>Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission.
Jakelin Troy is the director of Indigenous research at the University of Sydney. She is editor in chief of ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures.
]]>Henry Reynolds' ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down.
When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the period covered very little about northern Australia and First Nations peoples. He set out to help remedy the situation and ended up transforming Australian history in ways he could never have imagined.
In Looking from the North, Reynolds again turns Australian history on its axis with an exploration of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Reynolds tells the stories of the European, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islander people who were vital to the settlement of the north. Along with the experience of First Nations peoples, from employment on stations and as native police to the land rights and homelands movements, Reynolds shows how the colonisation of the north, officially beginning in 1861, was a very different venture to settlement in the south. He argues that it provides profoundly important lessons for the world we live in today.
'This book is another masterpiece by Henry Reynolds. It combines the personal with the professional historiography that trademarks his work. The skilful and meticulous detail of his writing will once again inform Australians that truth can heal this nation.' Jackie Huggins
'Henry Reynolds was at the vanguard of young historians who burst onto the scene in the 1970s to shake the foundations of Australian history. Looking from the North explores "national history from the north down", yet again challenging Australia's past. Meticulously researched and written, this latest work by Reynolds deserves its place alongside his other groundbreaking histories.' John Maynard
'Henry Reynolds' map-flipping, mind-bending, gravity-defying book turns our colonial and national history on its stubborn head. By geolocating the axis of Australia's imperial enterprise in the continent's north, Reynolds challenges conventional assumptions of centre and margin; the value-laden hierarchy of proximate and remote. In doing so, the master storyteller changes the status of the people, power and perspectives that have shaped the nation's political trajectory. A radical revision of the past and a timely cartographic and conceptual blueprint for repositioning future relationships to law, sovereignty and country.' Clare Wright
'What we call history is a thing greatly influenced by perspective. In his extraordinary career, historian Henry Reynolds has done more than most to change the perspectives that have led to accepted accounts of post-colonial Australia that have ignored the true and often violent nature of colonial occupation and dispossession in this country. With this new book, Looking from the North, he flips the map to show just how much of the story of Australian colonialism and Indigenous post-colonial history is told from the vantage point of south eastern Australia. Looked at from north of the Tropic of Capricorn a new, revelatory and profoundly significant perspective emerges. That is the story of this remarkable book.' VPLA judges' report
'This book is yet another of Reynolds' deeply rewarding studies.' Raymond Evans, The Conversation
'I can't recommend this book highly enough.' Judith Brett, The Saturday Paper
'In Looking from the North, Reynolds returns to his point of departure. What began in 1965 as the researching, writing, and teaching of 'local history' gradually came to spur the rewriting of the nation's history.' Mark McKenna, ABR
'Looking from the North is hailed as an immediate classic.' Glyn Davis, Inside Story
'The shift in perspective induced by this revelatory work of Australian history is nothing short of vertiginous.' The Sydney Morning Herald
]]>The Aboriginal Land Rights Act in NSW includes unique features that remain unrealised in other parts of the country. The laws announced the policy of self-determination, compensation for loss, a land claims process, support for enterprises and the establishment of a network of land councils. Today there are 120 land councils that operate across the state.
Yet significant features of the land rights promise remain outstanding. Less than 1 per cent of the state has been restituted to Aboriginal land councils, with tens of thousands of land claims yet to be determined.
In Land Back, Professor Heidi Norman, a leading expert on Aboriginal political history, has brought together voices at the forefront of the land rights movement, including lawyers, NSW Aboriginal Land Council Youth Committee members, students, academics, activists and organisers, to share the successes, failures and possible futures of NSW land rights.
]]>Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), begun in 1924 under the leadership of Frederick Maynard.
For the first time Aboriginal people voiced their disapproval in public in a well-organised way. They opened offices in Sydney, held street rallies, conducted public meetings, gained newspaper coverage, wrote letters and petitions to Government at all levels, and collaborated with the international black labour movement. The AAPA's demands still resonate today. They centred on Aboriginal rights to land, stopping Aboriginal children being taken from their families, the acquisition of citizenship rights, and defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity.
This form of resistance and organised action has now endured for more than 100 years. In this exploration of the life and times of his grandfather, John Maynard uncovers the AAPA's invaluable legacy.
]]>In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a major contribution to our knowledge of this period by providing a superbly researched, finely grained local history of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria.
The story is a shocking one, of destruction, decimation and dispossession, but, equally powerfully, it is not one of unceasing conflict. With reference to an unusually rich historical record, concepts such as the frontier and resistance emerge as inadequate in this context. Attwood recovers a good deal of the modus vivendi that the Djadja Wurrung reached with sympathetic protectors, pastoralists and gold diggers, showing how they both adopted and adapted to these intruders to remain in their own country, at least for a time.
Finally, drawing past and present together, Attwood relates the remarkable story of the revival of the Djadja Wurrung in recent times as they have sought to become their own historians.
]]>The song cycle relates to a women's jukurrpa Dreaming narrative, and tells the story of a group of ancestral women on a journey across the country. Jakamarra performed the songs (recorded by Carmel O'Shannessy) to make them available to the Warlpiri community and the wider public.
Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle includes the words of the songs in Warlpiri, interpretation in English as given by the singer, Jakamarra, and Warlpiri Elders Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, Wanta Stephen Patrick Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa and Steven Dixon Japanangka, and detailed musical notation by ethnomusicologist Myfany Turpin. It includes a foreword by two senior custodians, Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, and Wanta Jampijinpa
]]>Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore from an early age.Through his eyes we see a Sydney of totemic landscapes resonating with ceremonial sites and ancestral activity, song-lines and walking tracks, habitat caves and middens, and share memories of what has been lost.
At Narrabeen camp in the 1950s we meet Uncle Willie de Serve, a man who wore the scarifications of his ritual life and mentored the young Dennis. 'His face was alive with a thousand stories.'
Dennis also introduces us to Nanna Watson, who lived in a little humpy at Car-rang gel (North Head). 'On a hot summer's afternoon, she would hitch her dress up round her knees and wriggle around in the sand to get a couple of ugaries (pipis), chew one up and spit it into the water and put the other one on the line, and before you knew it she'd have a big whiting or a bream.'
Through the stories so generously told we may reflect on what it means to be a stolen child and one of the 'silent generations', and to fight to safeguard culture and identity. We can sense the responsibility of being the senior Gai-mariagal and the last of the storytellers, and the urgency to document and share the knowledge bestowed on him by generations of his family.
'This is a mesmerising read. It flows from rich anecdotal remembrance loaded with song and lore to incisive commentary about legislation and then slips seamlessly into detailed evocation of pre-colonial life. I have always loved Foley's ability to bring a story to life and Read's measured but uncompromising analysis ... I love this bloody book.' - Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu
'There has never been a book like this before. Dazzling, revelatory, unheralded.' - Melissa Lucashenko, author of Mullumbimby and Too Much Lip
'Come into this book to find a Sydney that many of us have never seen. This is a Sydney which to this day belongs to a network of vivid, tenacious, funny and courageous Aboriginal people. Dennis and Peter are both master storytellers and they bring to us the rich and moving stories of people who lived on and travelled around the paths and waterways of the city, to keep close to the people and country they cared about.' - Heather Goodall, author of Invasion to Embassy and Rivers and Resilience
This book tells the gripping tale of a mighty four-year effort to take a rag-tag bunch of footy part-timers and community Countrymen head-to-head against their semi-professional city-cousin counterparts.
Coming up against the 'butterfly effect' of a rising bloc of south Asian nations, a footy chief whose inbox was redlining, flight timetable changes and a Red Centre 'jewel' that sat so close yet so agonisingly far, local representative football has never been so thrilling.
Wadjarri-Tharrgari man and long-time sportswriter Darren Moncrieff brings together his journalistic skills, love for Australian rules football and keen eye for humour to tell the inspiring story of the Redtails.
To this day, the Redtails legacy lives on through the Redtails Pinktails Right Tracks Foundation, which mentors and helps young people in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and remote communities gain employment and become community leaders. Now a Central Australian success story, this is where its story began.
]]>A lifelong footy fan, Darren has played Aussie rules football for almost 40 years, reluctantly hanging up his boots only a few years ago. He has written about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and extensively on Indigenous sport since the late 1990s.
Darren has held the roles of sports editor and sports reporter for Koori Mail, Torres News and Yamaji News. This is his first book.
]]>A guiding theme is the creative practice of internationally renowned artist Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wamba Wamba/ Yorta Yorta/ Boonwurrung). Maree's talent for collaborations and passion for reclaiming and reviving arts practices over almost forty years has seen her recognised as a leading southeast Australian artist, with invitations to work in France, Italy, Japan, Cuba, UK, Canada and the USA.
ngargee is a collection of intercultural partnerships that prioritise learning with and about First Nations artists to support Indigenous knowledge systems. These engagements take us from possum skin cloak-making in modern-day Melbourne, to 19th century German paintings, to sharing the knowledge and art of feather flower-making revivified in Maree's backyard. Each chapter showcases southeast Australian contemporary Aboriginal creatives with international and Australian co-producers.
ngargee presents a model of intercultural collaboration led by Aboriginal artists and knowledge holders. Southeast Australian Aboriginal art here receives the attention and celebration it so richly deserves. This vibrant and multivocal collection is an indispensable resource for all Australian museums and galleries, and anyone who wants to learn more about contemporary First Nations art.
ngargee means coming together to celebrate in Boonwurrung language, where celebrations are accompanied and demonstrated through the act of making art. Just as art and culture cannot be separated, neither can celebration and art-making.
]]>Sabra Thorner is a cultural anthropologist who has worked with Indigenous Australians for more than twenty years, focusing on photography, digital technologies and archiving as forms of cultural activism. In the past few years, her work has increasingly turned towards collaborative and decolonising methodologies in both research/writing and in teaching/learning. She is especially interested in contemporary arts and cultural production, matriarchal forms of knowledge transmission, and storytelling as an expression of Indigenous sovereignty. She's held fellowships from AIATSIS, Fulbright, Mellon, the Smithsonian and Wenner-Gren, and has published her work in Museum Anthropology, AnthroVision, The Journal of Material Culture, Oceania and Visual Anthropology Review. She is an assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Maree Clarke (Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung) is an artist and curator who grew up in Mildura (northwest Victoria), on the banks of the Murray River, and who has been living and working in Melbourne for over 30 years. She has become a pivotal figure in the revitalisation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices. This includes possum skin cloaks, kangaroo teeth necklaces, eel traps, kopi mourning caps and much more in both traditional materials and contemporary, such as glass and 3D printing. Her practice includes lenticular prints, 3D photographs and photographic holograms, as well as painting, sculpture and video installation. The through line of her work is to facilitate intercultural dialogue and collaboration about the ongoing effects of colonisation, while simultaneously providing space for Aboriginal people and communities to engage with and mourn the impact of dispossession and loss. She is deeply committed to transmitting knowledge to younger generations (and anyone else who is willing to learn). Clarke has exhibited her work widely in Australia and beyond, and her work is held by the Koorie Heritage Trust, Museums Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. In 2021, her work was featured in a major retrospective, Ancestral Memories, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
]]>Ikuntji Artists presents Ikuntji Textiles, a book about the development of the designs, their stories and the artists behind them, and the collaborations.
This full colour publication gives an insight into our range of wearable art textiles. Texts included range from interviews with our artists in Luritja and English, expert voices in the field of textile design, collaborators and our staff who have been on this journey with us.
This book is the result of years of artistic workshops and the recording of stories with the artists. It is self published by Ikuntji Artists through the support of donors. The research is funded by Indigenous Languages and Arts funding.
]]>From May 1981 to June 1982, ethnochoreologist Megan Morais lived in Willowra in the Northern Territory, working with the Warlpiri community. The Warlpiri women and Megan worked as an impromptu team documenting their dances as performed in yawulyu women's ceremony as well as documenting traditional movement patterns.
Warlpiri women in Willowra generously and with trust, shared their music, songs, dances, designs and associated knowledge of yawulyu which is now being returned to them.
A recent collaboration between Megan and musicologist Myfany Turpin and the Willowra community has resulted in this book which provides the means for current and future generations to access the knowledge shared by the Warlpiri women.
Women of land-owning groups who have inherited sovereignty, and other important women in the community, have granted permission to publish the designs, songs and jukurrpa stories in this book. More than that, they urged publication so they would have a resource to teach their children and grandchildren. The co-authors each contributed to the book according to their authority, knowledge and strengths.
Proceeds from sales of this book will be returned to the Warlpiri community.
]]>The late Lucy Nampijinpa Martin was an integral part of the women's business (ritual ceremony and activity) documented in 1981-82. She has been essential in the repatriation of materials to the community. As one of the leading business women in Willowra she was the one who knew the songs, designs and dances. Lucy's work features throughout this book it includes the designs she drew from 1981-82 and the songs she sang then, and sang later for recording purposes. Sadly, Lucy passed away in 2024. Her legacy lives on in the ceremonial knowledge she has shared in this book
Myfany Turpin is a musicologist, linguist and associate professor at The University of Sydney where she conducts fieldwork on languages and songs of Central Australia. She has published extensively on Aboriginal song-poetry and publishes in the fields of music, linguistics and ethnobiology. She is the co-author of Yaru! Gudjal learner's guide and dictionary (Aboriginal Studies Press 2023).
]]>marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary Indigenous artists and their communities are revealing hidden histories and finding pathways to healing.
marramarra shares conversations with leading contemporary artists, including Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin (Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Australia), Judy Watson (Waanyi, Australia), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe, Canada), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit and Unangax, Alaska) and Pauliina Feodoroff (Skolt Smi, Finland). Indigenous Elders and knowledge holders also provide insights about important community projects, places of memory and history lessons about colonisation.
Led by Indigenous voices and presenting ground-breaking artworks from the Pacific, Turtle Island (North and Central America), Brazil, Finland, Taiwan, Afghanistan and beyond, marramarra provides new ways to think about the past and imagine a planet that is bright for Indigenous futures a place that is better for all.
'Groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary.' The Australian Women's Weekly
'This is art as activism that seeks to open the eyes and hearts of its audience to the vibrancy and wisdom of Indigenous culture, the wrongs of the past and the holistic worldview of these diverse peoples.' Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
]]>Dr Jessica Neath is a non-Indigenous Australian art historian of settler descent living and working on Boonwurrung Country in Melbourne. She is a Research Fellow in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab at Monash University.
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