In Challenging Anzac, leading historians explore some of these stories: Aboriginal activists, deserters on the Western Front, veterans who took their own lives and soldiers who became radicalized by their service. They reveal how episodes in Australia's war history that unsettled the Anzac legend from the relief of Tobruk, nuclear testing on Australian soil and feminist protests against war, to alleged atrocities in Afghanistan have been elided or adapted to 'fit' the legend.
Edited by award-winning historians Mia Martin Hobbs, Carolyn Holbrook and Joan Beaumont, Challenging Anzac examines how the reality of warfare has always been at odds with mythic representation and considers why, despite this, the Anzac legend has survived.
]]>Carolyn Holbrook is a historian at Deakin University. Her latest books are Australia Fair? Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Making of Modern Australia with James Walter, and Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke Government, co-edited with Frank Bongiorno and Joshua Black. She is the director of the Australian Policy and History network and the Australian Health and History digital archive.
Joan Beaumont is an internationally recognised historian of Australia in the two world wars, the history of prisoners of war, and the memory and heritage of war. Her publications include Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 194145; Australia's Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis It Has Ever Faced; and the critically acclaimed Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War, joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History), and winner of the 2014 NSW Premier's Award (Australian History), the 2014 Queensland Literary Award for History and the Australian Society of Authors' 2015 Asher Award.
]]>Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. Bringing together memoir, essays and poetry, these writers explore creativity, care, rage and refusal. Together, they offer a celebration of disability pride and community.
Contributors include Irina Frolova, Sharleigh Crittenden, Sandra Collins, Angela Costi, Hannah Hall, Carly Findlay, Julie Dickson, Marina Sano, Mario Licn Cabrera, Kerri Shying, TextaQueen, CB Mako, Hem Sid Chandran, Ari Spanos, Franklyn Hudson, Skye Cusack, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Judith Huang, Ariel Riveros, Akii Ngo, Arty Owens, Ethan Patrick, Paris Rosemont, Katie Hansord, Sam Hamad, Pat Gia Han Bui, Ann Nguyen, BS Windon, Misbah Wolf, Priya Gore Johnson, Mona Zahra Attamimi, Rosie Putland, Jenny Hedley, J Marahuyo, Laura Pettenuzzo, Joey Harper.
'Weaving together audacious truth-telling, tender lyricism, startling humour and uncategorisable wildness, Crip Stories leaves all the stale tropes about disability and neurodivergence far behind in the dust. These stories create a myriad of alluring desire lines for us all to follow, and artful, handcrafted bowers in which to find rest along the way. A spacious resource for now and for the future.' Andy Jackson
'Crip Stories is the perfect kaleidoscope of human experience, shimmering and illuminating; it is an absolute gift to read.' Fiona Murphy
'Refreshing takes from the criptastic community I know and love. Crip Stories welcomes the reader into a shared divergent consciousness. Radical, radiant and raring to rip the mould to shreds. Far more real than condescending disability trauma porn, this collection embraces and eviscerates, rebuilding perspective outside the pervasive ableist lens.' Jasper Peach
]]>Troy Bramston and Andrew Podger explain how Hawke masterfully managed the work of government and administration; Michelle Grattan and Meghan Hopper analyse how the government and prime minister dealt with the media; Frank Bongiorno shows how the Labor Party won four elections on the trot; while Marija Taflaga looks at how unprepared Hawke's opponents were for their period in the wilderness. Bruce Chapman and Liam Byrne discuss the competing legacies of the LaborUnion Accords of the 1980s; Meredith Edwards and Carolyn Holbrook demonstrate that social justice and health reform were still possible in the context of fiscal restraint; Marian Sawer shows how women's policy mattered; while Peter Yu recalls the major disappointments of the era for First Nations Australians. Gareth Evans and Ian Macphee offer their perspectives on the Hawke government's legacies and impact; Barrie Cassidy and Craig Emerson share their recollections of the Hawke office; and Joshua Black shows that memories of the Hawke era were not so rosy in its immediate aftermath.
'A thoughtful, readable collection on the ambitions, arguments, achievements and political courage of Australia's best post-war government.' Judith Brett
'This multifaceted diagnosis of Australia's most revered government bristles with fresh insights and analysis. It is at once comprehensive in scope and yet brilliantly engaging. For anyone seeking to understand modern Australia's achievements and shortcomings, Gold Standard? is the place to start. Editors Bongiorno, Holbrook and Black have thoughtfully augmented their own expertise with a panoply of writers, some with unique experience within the Hawke government. The result makes for a telling prequel to the policy challenges and political paralysis bedevilling Australia today.' Mark Kenny
'The Hawke government was a winning government the winner of big public debates it initiated, persuasively framed and mustered public support for, and the winner of four elections in a row as a result. It excelled at both the substance and theatre of politics. This book shows how easily its winning playbook could be carried over and adapted by today's politicians to meet contemporary challenges with the deeper solutions Australians so clearly want. Compulsory reading.' Chris Wallace
'This multidimensional analysis of Bob Hawke's skilful distributed leadership responsibility delegated to talented individuals pursuing disparate objectives, deliberation debated and contested within a disciplined reformist framework reminds us that formidable challenges can be transformed into opportunities for productive change. It is the antidote for our troubled times.' James Walter
]]>Carolyn Holbrook is a historian at Deakin University. Her latest books are Challenging Anzac: Stories that Don't Fit the Legend, co-edited with Mia Martin Hobbs and Joan Beaumont (2026), and Australia Fair? Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Making of Modern Australia, co-authored with James Walter (2026). She is the director of the Australian Policy and History network and the Australian Health and History digital archive.
Joshua Black is a political historian, policy researcher and media adviser. His PhD on the history of Australian political memoir and autobiography was completed at the Australian National University in 2023. Josh has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australia Institute and a Palace Letters Fellow at the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University.
]]>The Vietnam War sparked the largest public demonstrations Australia had ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of citizens actively opposed the war in the 1960s and 70s.
Quiet Protest uncovers a hidden side of this movement, telling the story of activism that was powered by letter-writing, legal aid, fundraising and everyday conversations. The public anti-Vietnam War protest movement was unprecedented, but so was the 'quieter' movement. By focusing on the anti-Vietnam War movement in NSW, this book offers a case study which re-imagines our understanding of protest.
These quieter acts of dissent reshaped political engagement and laid the groundwork for future movements from feminist organising to climate justice. Historian Effie Karageorgos offers a captivating new perspective on what it means to protest, and who gets remembered.
'A new and original history of protests against the Vietnam War that also broadens our understanding of the meaning and forms of "protest" itself.' Professor Sean Scalmer, University of Melbourne School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
'Effie Karageorgos dives deep in the archives, revealing the mechanics and diversities of a mass protest movement. There is nothing else like it.' Rowan Cahill, historian and co-author of Radical Sydney
'An absorbing history, this book sizzles with thought-provoking insights into opposition to Australia's role in the Vietnam War. It is history that evokes a tumultuous past and speaks to our troubled present.' Ann Curthoys, historian and protester
'Effie Karageorgos takes us under the bonnet of the anti-Vietnam War protests to provide a fresh perspective on Australia's democracy. Behind the familiar names and big protests, there were many thousands of Australians quietly debating and donating, writing to the papers and signing petitions, maintaining silent vigils and offering conscientious objectors their sympathy, understanding and moral support. This is a vivid account of a living democracy confronting one of the biggest controversies of the twentieth century.' Frank Bongiorno, Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
'More than a history book, Quiet Protest provides great insights into how protests deliver wins for progressive movements.' Lee Rhiannon, former Australian Greens Senator
]]>The Papunya readers are full of humour, as in Kata yurilpa (Bald Head), which is about a man who uses special plants to grow his hair for a Midnight Oil concert and turns up looking like a long-haired rocker, only to find that the lead singer has a bald head. And they are full of drama, as in the many stories about the first plane ever sighted by the Papunya community, which some believed was a 'stumpy winged devil', or in Walypalalitju Lurtjurinytjaku (Me and a Whitefella Meeting), which is a unique document of one man's personal journey from first contact.
In Pintupi-Luritja, Wangka Wakanutja (pronounced WUN-ka WUK-a-noo-tja) means 'the story has been told'. Richly illustrated with photos of the artists, authors and students in action, as well as artwork from the readers themselves, this is the definitive story of a radical bilingual literature movement, powered by collective creativity and cultural pride.
]]>Charlotte Phillipus is a retired teacher, community linguist, renowned artist and authority on Pintupi-Luritja. She was a leading writer for the PLPC and guided Vivien and Samantha in all stages of this book.
Dr Samantha Disbray is a lecturer in endangered languages and involved with Indigenous language revitalisation.
]]>The result is a rich botanical encyclopaedia informed by Ngarranggarni 'the Dreamtime' or 'creation time' which both preserves and shares traditional knowledge, now and into the future. Birrmarriya and co-author, linguist, artist and gardener Frances Kofod, share a love for Gija Country and its flora. They collaborated over many years to create this richly layered book which includes stories in both Gija and English, new maps of Gija Country and useful appendices containing plant descriptions, species names and photographs. Birrmarriya Shirley Purdie won the Blake Prize in 2007. The paintings in this book are part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
]]>Frances Kofod was born in Sydney in 1948 and grew up there and in Armidale in northern New South Wales. In 1978, she completed her Master of Arts thesis on the Miriwoong language. Frances first met Birrmarrya Shirley Purdie in 1987 when working as a linguist in the Gija language program at Ngalangangpum School at Warrmarn. Frances's first recordings of Birrmarriya relating the stories of her paintings date from this time. From the late 1980s to the present, Frances continues to work on many language projects involving Miriwoong, Gija and Gajirrabeng languages, and was the main compiler of the Gija Dictionary (ASP, 2022).
]]>Celebrating the landmark presentation of Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, London, this vibrantly illustrated publication is reissued in paperback featuring Kngwarray's monumental The Alhalker Suite.
Offering insights into Emily Kam Kngwarray's life and work, the book features original research from curators and academics and reflections from the artist's Community. From early vibrant batiks to her later paintings on canvas, the publication brings together Kngwarray's most significant works. It includes rare archival images and a visual record of Community consultations and visits to Kngwarray's Country.
Emily Kam Kngwarray is published following major retrospectives at the National Gallery of Australia and Tate Modern, London.
]]>Hetti Perkins, Arrernte/Kalkadoon peoples, is a curator, writer, advisor and presenter with 30 years of national and international experience working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts.
Jennifer Green is a linguist based in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
]]>Her kitchen sojourn takes her across the country: from wild-harvesting bush foods with an Indigenous Elder in Broome, cheese-making in country New South Wales and butchering pasture-raised pigs in Victoria, to stomping grapes in Tasmania and shucking oysters near Jervis Bay. As she develops a new understanding of the land and the women who work it, she finds herself transformed. Fed Up takes readers on a journey from paddock to plate, exploring the role of women in food production and prompting us to think more deeply about the people responsible for our dinner.
'Lucy gains new skills, meets some fascinating women and appreciates the effort and dedication required to champion quality above all. The careful reader will come away with new understanding of process and respect for these farmers and growers who demonstrate care for country at the same time as following their own passions.' Stephanie Alexander, cook, restauranteur and food writer
]]>Josef Rosensaft, the political leader of the Jewish organisation in Belsen DP camp, described the first twelve months of freedom as being 'more oppressive to our souls than the years in the hell of Auschwitz and Belsen'. He added that when the hoped-for 'day of Liberation' came, 'we saw before us a new kind of world, cold and strange'.
Strange New World takes the reader into the untold story of the survivors' first year of freedom. Despite the alienating circumstances of the post-war world, this is also a story of new life and hope, and of survivors asserting their own agency and independence.
'A huge step forward in the historiography of Bergen-Belsen.' Dr Thomas Rahe, former director of the documentation centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
'Strange New World is a harrowing, forensic and compassionate investigation of the afterlife of Bergen-Belsen as the Belsen Camp for Displaced Persons the good done, the mistakes made, the moral conundrums and persistent prejudices that left Jews who had barely survived the concentration camps feeling 'saved but not liberated'. Her interest sparked by an unlikely, unexpected family connection, the author's examination of this extraordinary moment in history helps illuminate the heated politics around Israel and Palestine today.' Linda Jaivin
'One tragedy of war is that its destructive effects continue long after the fighting stops. Nadia Wheatley's powerful study of Belsen's liberation and post-war existence tells of this sad truth, but also of the human capacity to endure and to find hope in the darkest circumstances.' Seumas Spark
'What happened in those first days, weeks and months when the British threw open the gates of Bergen Belsen and stumbled upon the horrific reality of the Nazi genocide? This book tells a startling new history of the aftermath of the Bergen Belsen liberation and the encounters between the mostly Jewish survivors and the well-meaning but often ill-equipped British personnel who arrived to aid in their recovery. Who better to tell this story than Nadia Wheatley, an accomplished writer, an astute historian and remarkably, the daughter of one of the British medics who was there. It is a moving and exacting testimony to the Jewish survivors who defied the Final Solution, and to those who came after them and are still to come. At its heart is also a story of a daughter wrestling with the legacy of a difficult father. This is an astonishing book.' Ruth Balint
]]>Meticulously researched and beautifully written by museum curator, biologist and writer Jane Melville AM, this enthralling biography follows the extraordinary life of Jane Ward Tost (18161889), Australia's first salaried female museum employee. Forgotten by history, she left an indelible legacy.
]]>Jane is the author of Dragon Lizards of Australia: Evolution, ecology and a comprehensive field guide, along with numerous popular science articles in magazines such as The Conversation, Cosmos, Australasian Science and Science Victoria. Jane now spends much of her spare time uncovering stories about the people who have shaped our knowledge of the natural world.
]]>This richly illustrated book by tea master Soryo Matsumura shows you how to use the ancient Japanese tea ceremony to reduce stress and live a more enriching life. It is written for complete novices and explains all aspects of the tea ceremony with a focus on three major themes:
As well as showing you all the basics how to sit, what to wear and how to follow the etiquette of tea preparation, drinking and conversation Matsumura explains in a warm and friendly tone how this meditative practice has wider benefits. He encourages you to reflect on the importance of things like:
Filled with beautiful colour illustrations throughout, this book is perfect for anyone seeking to bring greater peace and mindfulness into their everyday life.
]]>Sisters can be best friends, mother figures, rivals, heroes, sounding boards or partners in crime, depending on literary genre, era, or the demands of plot. They can bring into focus the changing roles of women in society, especially in literature that predates the twentieth century, such as Middlemarch, The Woman in White and The Old Wives' Tale. Their bonds with younger or older siblings, like those of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in Little Women, are often complex and nuanced, and occasionally devastating.
Covering childhood, adventure, affairs of the heart and mental health, this book explores the role of sisters in twenty individual entries, each one providing a synopsis and analysis of the work in question. Including writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, J. D. Salinger, Toni Morrison and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it makes the perfect read for book-loving sisters whatever their connection.
]]>This book explores twenty-four literary friendships and, together with character studies and publication history, describes how each key relationship influences character, determines plot, promotes or disguises romance, preserves a reputation, sometimes results in betrayal, or underlines the theme of each literary work. It shows how authors from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante have by turns celebrated, lamented or transformed friendships throughout the ages, and how some friends Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Holmes and Watson or even Bridget Jones and pals have taken on creative lives beyond the bounds of their original narrative.
Including a broad scope of literature spanning a period of 400 years from writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck and Alice Walker, this book is the ideal gift for your literature-loving friend.
]]>Cats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children's books, and from classic tales to contemporary novels.
Featuring such famous feline characters as Puss in Boots, Tom Kitten, Pangur Bn, the Cheshire Cat, Macavity, Pluto and Bob the street cat, this light-hearted book is a whirlwind journey through the history of literary cats, uncovering their domestication, early cultural beginnings and religious associations, exploring their roles in different literary genres and revealing some real-life authors' cats, including those belonging to Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith and Muriel Spark. A section on cats in world literature introduces narrator cats and cat companions from Japan, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Germany and Finland, demonstrating their enduring worldwide appeal.
A must for all cat-lovers, this book celebrates the inspirational connections between our favourite feline friends and the literary imagination.
]]>Scott Pack is a writer, editor and publisher.
]]>This great conversation between the wild and the tame is human history, human psychology, human politics and human sociology. Pets feature in art, poetry and some of our most popular stories. Is it because we ourselves are wild and so we want furry, feathered and scaly wildness in our lives? But on what terms? Have we tamed the wolves, or are wolves wilding us?
Pets and their People looks at the strange rapport between humans and their pets or pets and their humans at each stage of our lives. It takes bearings from every era of human history, asking how the special bond between owners and their pets has evolved, and what that evolution tells us about our own changing identity. Do we look to animals as moral or other role models? Do pets help us to communicate? Do they teach us about birth and death? Can they show us who we really are?
]]>Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract and create rich blue and purple pigments from them. Humans have been extracting dyes and inks from natural materials for millennia, and the practice was firmly established during the medieval era, recorded in manuscripts that survive today. Gold from Newton's Apple Tree brings together recipes for making natural colours according to season, method, and ingredients.
This unique book takes its title from an ink recipe derived from a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree, in which ingredients extracted from the bark are transformed, seemingly by magic, from brown to a yellow gold. But gold pigments can also be extracted from cornflower, crocus, greater celandine, myrrh, and turmeric. Nabil Ali shares his own accessible adaptations for preparing these and other recipes rooted in medieval craft traditions. Along the way, he provides an engaging and informative natural history of the plants used, alongside the broad spectrum of marvelous colors they produce.
Presenting original translations of medieval recipes taken from painters' and illuminators' technical manuscripts from the third century BCE through to the twenty-first century, alongside stunning botanical illustrations, Gold from Newton's Apple Tree is a captivating celebration of colors derived from nature.
]]>The geological processes that underlie all life on Earth can seem intimidatingly vast, ancient, and sometimes even alien. Our planet's dynamics have fascinated humans for millennia, yet only recently have we developed a clear picture of how they work. This book presents the discoveries and critical scientific advances that inform our understanding of Earth's origins and the forces driving geological change. Each chapter tells a key piece of the story, focusing on a major aspect of geology that shapes how we experience our world time, energy, processes, use, and the interplay between geology and life. Geology: An Illustrated History takes readers from antiquity to the Anthropocene, providing an essential introduction to the subject.
Today, Phar Lap continues to attract new generations of visitors to his home at Melbourne Museum. This anniversary edition of Phar Lap: A True Legend marks the occasion of Big Red's 100th birthday, bringing together memorabilia, letters and a wealth of photographs to celebrate this great horse.
]]>In the 2000s, Michael was able to move across to the Curatorial team; first as a generalist curator and then establishing his own area, which he was able to christen `Leisure and Social Spaces'. His areas of particular interest include post 1900 fashion, film and television production and distribution, festivals and events (such as Moomba, Olympic Games and Melbourne Cup), Australian toys and games and local jewellery design. Michael is also curatorially responsible for the museum's iconic Phar Lap and related exhibition.
]]>Tatsukuri Origami is a one-man folding sensation on YouTube, with over 140,000 subscribers and over 40 million views. His book presents over 40 of his most popular animal models with incredibly clear and simple photographic instructions. He even provides a free online video tutorial for each model.
These models can be created by folders of all ages. Tatsukuri also provides lots of tips on how to decorate your finished models to supercharge their cuteness factor!
Here are just some of the unique models you can make with this book:
Once you fold each model, you can apply eye stickers to give the animal an expressive Kawaii face!
]]>Comprehensive and definitive, Dangerous Snakes of Australia is essential for both snake enthusiasts and professionals who are looking to learn more about and help protect these fascinating creatures.
]]>This fully revised and expanded second edition of Australian Grasses describes around 270 species and forms. Most of the photos are new and show each species in diverse settings, from wild places to farm dams, as dramatic specimens and as potted plants. The book goes beyond the garden uses of these plants to consider their roles as habitat, their adaptations to fire, their use by Indigenous peoples, and how some are even a significant genetic resource for improving edible grains.
]]>Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil products that don't work, and probably never will.
While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it's being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organisations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.
By revealing AI's limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.
]]>Sayash Kapoor is a PhD candidate in computer science at Princeton. He previously worked as a software engineer at Facebook, where he helped create AI for content moderation. To learn more, please visit AISnakeOil.com.
]]>PSYCHOGAMES is a fascinating compendium of playful picture tests, games and questionnaires that holds a revealing mirror up to your inner self.
What sort of person are you? We think we know what we are like. But do we? Do others see us as we see ourselves? Do we see others as they see themselves?
Relax: PSYCHOGAMES may do nothing more than change your life (for the better).
'A beautifully-produced compendium of personality tests used by psychologists.' Daily Mail, Weekend Magazine
'...another couple of classic unclassifiables, PSYCHOGAMES (...) might make a nice alternative to post-Christmas dinner Monopoly.' Ian Sansom, The Guardian
]]>Julian Rothenstein is the publisher of Redstone Press, an editor, and designer. His prior books include Psychobook (2016), The Blind Photographer (2016), and Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition (2019; all Redstone Press).
]]>Jessica 'Decca' Mitford was raised to marry well, not fight for others' rights. Yet she rejected her eccentric, blue-blooded roots, running away from England to become an anti-fascist and anti-racist. Why is this rebellious heroine less famous than her glamorous sisters, who ranged from naughty to Nazi?
Troublemaker is the remarkable story of Decca's life in pursuit of justice, in the Spanish Civil War and the Communist Party USA; her intrepid social reporting, and her relentless antics. Carla Kaplan celebrates a fierce intellect and powerful ally who brought joy to the struggle, unearthing fascinating details through interviews with the Mitford family, and exploring Decca's thousands of witty letters. From Vietnam War dissident Dr Spock to Decca's close friend Maya Angelou, this Mitford sister's irreverent anti-authoritarianism deeply influenced American culture. Back home in Britain, her activism shamed those of her class and her family on the wrong side of history.
This passionate, often hilarious biography captures an extraordinary woman, and an extraordinary time in world history. Facing today's injustices, we need Decca's vibrant, committed example more than ever.
'Too much writing about the Mitfords has been trivia. But Carla Kaplan's impressive study of Jessica Mitford's troublemaking life and political activities on the American left proves once and for all that she was the only Mitford sister worth taking seriously.' Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist
'Jessica Mitford was the best, brightest and most dynamic of the Mitford sisters. Her commitment to social justice and civil rights meant she had more impact than all the rest.' Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, leading international lawyer
'A perceptive, sympathetic biography of activist, unabashed communist, and muckraker Jessica Mitford [...] Kaplan captures Decca's energy and verve, her complicated relationship with her aristocratic family, and her unwavering devotion to fighting injustice, racism, and inequality. A brisk, engaging biography.' Kirkus Reviews(starred review)
'A long overdue tome dedicated to putting Decca front and centre.' Town & Country, 'Must-Read Books of Fall 2025'
'Brilliantly researched. Every paragraph is a fit to the struggle for civil rights decency. Illuminating. Joyful!' Blanche Wiesen Cook, award-winning author ofEleanor Roosevelt(3 vol.)
'Beautifully written, utterly transporting and relentlessly vivid by the recovery of amazing circumstances and astonishing human relationships, Carla Kaplan's remarkable biography of Jessica Mitford is a journey through the many social and political worlds contained in a single family, from British feudal aristocracy and pro-Hitler fascist enthusiasm to the American Civil Rights Movement and card-carrying American Communism. This captivating story empathetic and yet clear-eyed of a fascinating woman, her sisters and their lives in the twentieth century is a breathtaking and singular achievement.' Jamie Raskin, congressman and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
'Marvelous, enchanting and hilarious. Carla Kaplan has triumphed, bringing to life the delightful odyssey of Jessica Mitford, the mischievous British aristocrat turned American radical and celebrated muckraker. An inspiring biography by a master biographer.' Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography
'Here's a book as infectious, stylish and hard-hitting as its subject the glamorous and rebellious Jessica Mitford. Carla Kaplan writes with the flair of a novelist and backs it up with relentless research and keen insight. Troublemaker is one of those rare books produced from the marriage of a fascinating, timely story and a wonderful storyteller. An absolute treasure.' Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life
'Carla Kaplan's deeply researched account chronicles Jessica Mitford's fascinating transformation from a British aristocrat to an American Communist, journalist, writer and educator. She unveils a unique angle of "good trouble" and civil rights allyship, told with the drama and humour of Mitford's unique personality.' Tamara Payne, Pulitzer Prizewinning co-author of The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
'A remarkable book about a remarkable woman. If you don't know a lot about Decca (and her exceptionally weird family), you're in for a treat. If you think you already know a lot about her, think again: you're in for a bracing helping of shock and awe. Because Kaplan's research is so impressively deep, and her prose so pleasingly fleet, her complicated and compelling subject now has the biography she has long deserved.' Daniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate
]]>Gathering 46 stories from writers around the globe, this collection explores the twin themes of women and daring through the lives of monarchs, prophets, suffragists, soldiers, scientists, activists and artists. From the infamous to the forgotten, these trailblazers have much to tell us about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today.
]]>Jo Shaw is the Head of the School of Law, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions.
Sara Sheridan is Scottish activist and writer.
]]>In this new edition, the authors provide an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening accompanied by drawings, paintings and many new colour photographs.
The new foreword by Japanese garden expert Hugo Torii, the Garden Curator at Portland Japanese Garden, explains the sacred importance of stones in Japanese garden design.
Written by a Japanese court noble during the Heian period (794-1184), the Sakuteiki includes technical advice on gardening much of it still followed by today's Japanese gardeners and examines the four central threads of meaning which were central to Heian-era garden design. For those seeking inspiration to build a rock garden or just better understand the Japanese stone garden, the Sakuteiki is an enduring classic.
]]>Marc P. Keane is an American landscape architect who has been designing gardens from his studio in Kyoto, Japan for twenty- five years. He is also the author of many books on gardens and nature including Japanese Garden Design (Tuttle). His work can be viewed at www.mpkeane.com
Hugo Torii (foreword writer) is the Garden Curator at Portland Japanese Garden (USA). Prior to this, Torii worked at Peter Berg Landscape Design in Rheinland Pfalz, Germany, and at UeyaKato Landscape Co. Ltd. in Kyoto, Japan as a garden designer and builder. He now oversees a dedicated team of gardeners and is actively involved in training programs as well as garden maintenance and projects, keeping in mind short term needs as well as longer term implications for a garden that receives around 500,000 annual visitors.
]]>In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. From roofs, walls and floors to door pulls and kettle hangers, Japanese Architecture situates these elements firmly within the natural environment and traditional Japanese culture.
Japanese architecture developed with influences from abroad and particular socio- political situations at home. The resulting forms and construction materials soaring roofs with long eaves, heavy timber structures of stout columns supporting thick beams, mud plaster walls flecked with straw and sand and the refined paper-covered lattice shoji screen are recognisable as being of distinctly Japanese design. These constructed forms, designed with strong connections to the surrounding environment, utilise natural construction materials in ways that are both practical and inventive.
This fascinating architecture book provides a comprehensive perspective of traditional Japanese architecture, relating the historical development and context of buildings and the Japanese garden while examining the stories of the individual architectural elements, from foundation to roof.
]]>Ben Simmons grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He studied photography and psychology in Upstate New York before completing a Master of Fine Arts in photography and art history at the University of Florida. Simmons taught photography at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina before relocating to Japan. Ben Simmons Photography Inc. is based on the Miura Peninsula seacoast at Sagami Bay, just south of Tokyo. Ben specialises in photo essays and book projects. Recent books include Tokyo Desire; Hong Kong: The City of Dreams; Thailand: 9 Days in the Kingdom; Platinum Images of Thai Buddhism, Tokyo Megacity and Kyoto: City of Zen. Visit his website at www.bensimmonsphoto.com.
Kengo Kuma was born in Kanagawa, Japan, and completed a major in architecture at the University of Tokyo. Kengo Kuma & Associates, his own studio, was established in 1990. He also worked as a visiting professor on the faculty of environmental information at Keio University. In 1997 he won the prestigious Architectural Institute of Japan Award for his work on 'recovering the tradition of Japanese buildings' and reinterpreting it for the 21st century. In 2008, Kuma earned his Ph.D. from Keio University, and he is currently a professor on the faculty of science and technology there, in the department of system design engineering.
]]>Weather is bad; wait until the storm is over.Waylay
Baggage was not found.Bagpiped
There will be no delay.Dishonest
In the early days of railway transport, telegrams were an essential means of communication to keep trains running on time, manage passengers, organise freight transport and deal with unexpected events. Prearranged codes enabled railway staff around the world to communicate quickly with station masters, head office and guards. Each company developed its own code book in which these shorthand messages and corresponding descriptive words were published. The codes give a fascinating insight into the running of the railways at this time, such as the favourable weather for the liberation of pigeons, the spread of cholera, the glamour of Pullman dining cars and the involvement of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
With sections on horses, weather, accidents, livestock, lost property and strikes, among many more, this quirky book, drawn from code books published in the UK, America, Australia and the former British Empire, gives us an intriguing glimpse into a world where communication was rapidly changing and all manner of life could be found on the railways.
]]>Novel Crime Scenes explores the landscapes of twenty crime novels in forensic detail. Beginning with the Devon moorland of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1899) and ending with London's Brick Lane as described in Ajay Chowdhury's The Waiter (2021), it ranges from John Buchan's Galloway Hills and Gwen Moffat's Cape Wrath to Ellis Peters's Shropshire, Margery Allingham's Essex, Colin Dexter's Oxford and Sam Llewellyn's Isles of Scilly. Each chapter also delves into the author's background and discovers what the setting of the book meant to them, often by following in the footsteps of Britain's best-known crime writers.
Whether you are an armchair detective or an intrepid investigator, this book will inspire you to appreciate old favourites with deeper insights and discover thrilling new literary destinations.
]]>When it comes to speaking more naturally, there's only so much you can learn from your Japanese textbooks and favourite anime. Why not supplement your knowledge and sound like a native with Dirty Japanese?
Fully updated for the modern age, Dirty Japanese will up your speaking game by teaching you:
Written by Japanese language influencer Onomappu Hikoki, Dirty Japanese will take your Japanese to the next level and have you speaking like a true native in no time!
]]>Korean language learning textbooks can be helpful, but when it comes to really immersing yourself in culture and learning how native Koreans speak in their daily lives, they often fall short. That's where Dirty Korean comes in.
In this updated second edition, you'll learn all the latest slang Korea has to offer so that the next time you travel to Korea, you can chat casually with your friends, impress your new date, and join in on all the juicy gossip. So get ready to drop the textbook formality and bust out expressions they never teach you in school, including:
Whether you're charming oppas or winning over gracious eonnis, Dirty Korean is your key to unlocking the cultural richness of South Korea.
]]>Jinny Baek is a passionate linguist and cultural enthusiast with a deep love for the Korean language. Having studied English literature in the United States, Jinny Baek moved back to Koera and has spent years immersing herself in the intricacies of Korean culture. As the author of Dirty Korean, Jinny Baek brings together her expertise in language and culture to offer readers an entertaining and insightful journey into the world of Korean slang.
When not writing, Jinny Baek shares her passion for providing easier ways for Koreans to learn English on Instagram.
]]>Since its inception decades ago, the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, to walk in new shoes, and be part of immersive, imaginative tales as they unfold. For its LGBTQ+ players, it is also a vessel for exploration, joy, and self-discovery.
Journey on, adventurer, as Dungeon Master Thom James Carter invites you into DnD's exciting queer and utopian possibilities. Traverse its history and contemporary evolution, discover stories from queer players and the homebrewers making it their own, and unlock DnD's power to explore and examine identity how people want to lead their lives in real and imagined worlds alike.
]]>He holds a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Creative Writing, both from Goldsmiths, University of London.
]]>Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.
Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard.
Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mche unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
'One delight after another. Told with an open heart, a questing curiosity, and a healthy sense of mischief, Queer as Folklore is essential for every seeker of hidden histories.' Patrick Ness, author of the Chaos Walking series
]]>Bryce's portfolio spans a range of roles including illustrator and concept artist, contributing to projects such as Homestead Arcana and Aegis Defenders. After a first collaboration with Sabotage doing illustrations for The Messenger, Bryce joined the team as Lead Concept Artist to handle all things concept art and character design on Sea of Stars, a retro-inspired RPG that has captivated over 5 million players worldwide. The popularity of 3dtotal's recent publication Sea of Stars: The Concept Art of Bryce Kho (over 12,000 copies sold), which is based solely on his work for development of the video game, has raised the artist's profile and proven his popularity among our readership and further afield.
In Overflow: The Art of Bryce Kho, based entirely on the artist's personal art career and journey, he takes the reader behind the scenes into his studio and personal sketchbooks, and also reveals his creative process from start to finish in detailed step-by-step tutorials. Existing fans will be thrilled to discover new insights into Bryce's working methods and creative story, while those just discovering his art will love delving into galleries of his artwork, new and old.
]]>Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, England, UK. 3dtotal publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skillfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>Sea of Stars was released on all platforms in August 2023. It has since been played by over 6 million players worldwide and won 'Best Independent Game' at The Game Awards 2023. Throes of the Watchmaker was released for free in May 2025 as a thank-you gift to the fans of the game who made it such a success.
Bryce Kho has been on the Sabotage Studio team as lead concept artist since 2020. Known for his colourful and complex, retro-anime inspired illustrations, it's no mystery as to why Bryce and Sabotage Studio collaborated to make this turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker The Concept Art of Bryce Kho showcases all the incredible characters that Bryce has lovingly brought to life through discussions with creative director Thierry Boulanger, and is a book to enjoy for gamers and art-lovers alike.
To find out more and buy the game, check out Sabotage's Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244090/Sea_of_Stars/
The Sea of Stars game is also available on Nintendo Switch, PS4/5 and Xbox Series X|S + Xbox One.
]]>Sabotage Studio is a Canadian development team founded in 2016. Committed to creating awe-inspiring original universes recalling the greatest moments in classic gaming, Sabotage Studio rethinks the conventions of well-established genres to unlock new potential, creating distinct, modernized titles that reach beyond traditional expectations of what a genre can offer. Creator of the critically lauded turn-based RPG Sea of Stars, voted Best Indie Game at the 2023 The Game Awards, and acclaimed sidescrolling action platformer The Messenger, winner of Best Debut Indie Game at the 2018 The Game Awards, Sabotage Studio has established itself as one of the gaming industry's most promising developers. Sabotage Studio is currently working on Sea of Stars' upcoming DLC, Throes of the Watchmaker, along with their unannounced next title. They are located in Quebec City, Canada.
Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, who publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skillfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation. They are based in Worcester, England, UK.
]]>The Secrets of Artistic Anatomy transforms the complex world of human anatomy into an accessible, visually engaging, and fun learning experience. Written by accomplished artist and medical illustrator Yuki Toy, this book offers artists a unique approach to understanding the human form.
Key features include:
Created for visual artists, animators, and design professionals, the book bridges technical anatomical knowledge with artistic expression. Toy doesn't just present information; she tells stories that make complex concepts approachable. Being both an expressive artist and a medical illustrator, Toy brings a unique combination of artistic skill and scientific precision as she explores the human body through detailed chapters on:
Beautifully illustrated and packed with practical information, The Secrets of Artistic Anatomy is more than an instructional reference book it's a journey into understanding the human body's remarkable design. Whether you're a student or a professional, this book will be a versatile resource for anyone fascinated by human anatomy.
]]>Yuki received an MFA from USC Los Angeles, and a BFA from SUNY New Paltz, and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post Japan. She is known for her anatomical illustration in muted, pastel tones, and her photorealistic charcoal drawings. Her work creates a subdued and nostalgic feel, evoking a tradition that spans from Nicolas Henri Jacob to Charles Bargue. Find her online at yukitoy.com and @yukitoyanatomy.
]]>You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Nardi guides you through the innermost unseen world that trees share with a wondrous array of creatures. With their elaborate immune responses, trees recruit a host of allies as predators and parasites to defend against uninvited advances from organisms that chew on leaves, drain sap, and bore into wood. Microbial life thrives in the hidden spaces of leaf scales, twigs, and bark, while birds, mammals, and insects benefit from the more visible resources trees provide. In return, animals help with pollination, seed dispersal, and recycling of nutrients.
The Hidden Company That Trees Keep blends marvelous storytelling with beautiful illustrations and the latest science to reveal how the lives of trees are intertwined with those of their diverse companions.
'[A] wonderful book...[This] timely and beautifully written work has the potential of enlightening potential learners on all levels.' Steve Dixon, Library Journal, starred review
]]>The five-day workweek is a pillar of modern life, but it isn't backed by science, ancient wisdom, or divine decree. It's simply a relic of the industrial age and it's time for an upgrade. What if we could accomplish more while working fewer days?
A shortened workweek once seemed like a radical idea. Today, it's embraced by innovative business leaders, forward-thinking politicians, and a new generation of workers demanding more meaningful work.
In Do More in Four, Joe O'Connor, a pioneer in designing and leading four-day-workweek pilots around the globe, and journalist Jared Lindzon, whose work has appeared in theNew York Times,Fortune, andTIMEmagazine, present a groundbreaking, data-driven exploration of why a four-day workweek isn't merely possible it's necessary in the age of artificial intelligence.
O'Connor and Lindzon draw on extensive research, compelling case studies, and personal interviews with experts including a Nobel Prizewinning economist and Bill Gates to reveal how organizations are reimagining work. From a consumer products giant in New Zealand to a global nonprofit, a Canadian law firm, and a Midwestern architecture firm, they take readers inside the companies transforming their work models to improve employee outcomes while driving revenue growth.
Do More in Fouroffers a battle-tested blueprint for a smarter, more humane approach to work.
]]>Jared Lindzonis a journalist and public speaker based in Toronto, widely recognised as a thought leader on the 'future of work' for his reporting over the last twelve years.His writing is regularly featured in leading national and global publications, includingFast Company,TIME, theGlobe and Mail, and theToronto Star,among many others.
]]>It's time to stop treating projects as side work. In the age of constant transformation, projects are the primary way organisations create value and accelerate innovation. In this new paradigm the project economy traditional agile approaches are no longer enough. The next evolution is the project-driven organisation, where projects sit at the center of how companies are structured, led, and rewarded.
Powered by Projects: Leading Your Organization in the Transformation Age explores this bold new model. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, the worldwide expert on project-based work, reveals the leadership styles and organisational structures necessary to drive success today. You'll learn to:
Filled with practical strategies and detailed case studies, this book is a new manifesto for CEOs, transformation drivers, and project leaders. Embrace the project-driven organization, become a project-driven leader, and turn your company into a highly engaged growth engine, powered by projects.
]]>Think about the last time you said, 'I love that'. Maybe it was about a product that exceeded expectations, a service experience that built instant loyalty, or a moment when your work brought out the best in you. That reaction isn't just emotional it's electric. In the workplace, it fuels engagement, strengthens performance, and drives lasting success. Yet most leaders don't acknowledge it, let alone try to measure or make use of it.
In Design Love In, leading researcher on human performance and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham reveals how love the deep connection that makes people feel seen, valued, and inspired isn't a soft feeling but a practical, measurable force. He shows how leaders, as experience makers, can intentionally 'design love in' to everything we do: our interactions with team members, our company policies and practices, the products and services and experiences we create for those we lead and serve. When we do this, it not only generates positive feeling toward us and our products, it energizes our teams and organizations, strengthens the connections between us as humans, and creates a better world.
Featuring vivid stories of global brands, current research, and personal experiences, Buckingham illustrates that tapping this force is not simply about being more 'warm and fuzzy' it's a concrete matter of utilizing loving experiences to drive behaviors to drive outcomes, and the book provides step-by-step advice on how to "design love in" to all your actions as a leader.
Love it's the most powerful force in business. This book shows how you as a leader can unleash it.
]]>Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional.
The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilisational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance of the auto industry to the state of electric vehicle manufacturing today, with absorbing detours into the evolution of precision in manufacturing, the enduring importance of manuals, sustainment in the military, and the never-ending battle against corrosion.
Maintenance: Of Everything is a wide-ranging and provocative call to expand what we mean by 'maintenance' not just the tiresome preventative tasks but the whole grand process of keeping a thing going. It invites us to understand not only the profound impact maintenance has on our daily lives but also why taking responsibility for maintaining something whether a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet can be a radical act.
]]>In a rare turn from the norm, this book positions older workers as revolutionaries and reveals how intergenerational organisations that engage employees across all life stages will outperform their competitors. In this updated paperback edition, authors Lisa Taylor and Fern Lebo draw on their expertise in leadership and career development to offer a timely picture of the post-pandemic modern workplace defined by hybrid arrangements, shifting expectations, and evolving employee-employer dynamics. With clarity and precision, they describe new models, debunk commonly held myths about older workers, demolish justifications for traditional structures and attitudes, and build the case for a reset that will help smart companies profit from their most valuable assets, all while taking into consideration our current realities. Through case studies, metrics, strategies, and tactics, The Talent Revolution explores the impact of supercharged workforce demographics on the future of work, and offers new, actionable strategies for transforming an aging workforce into a competitive advantage.
Plotting new directions for both organisations and employees, Taylor and Lebo guide us towards the opportunities that come with leaving behind outdated career models and embracing longer working life expectancies in the workplace.
]]>Fern Lebo, formerly President of Frontrunner Communications, is retired from a rewarding career in corporate training and is now focused on writing.
]]>With the rise of artificial intelligence, digital design, and collaborative platforms, organisations face new opportunities and challenges in managing their innovation processes. Renowned entrepreneurial academics Tucker Marion and Sebastian Fixson present a comprehensive update to their groundbreaking guide, including new chapters on AI's role in enhancing creativity, decision-making, and product development; new metrics for managing innovation; and thoughts on employee skill development. The second edition of The Innovation Navigator also features updated and illustrative case studies of companies such as Microsoft, Ford, Merck, and OpenAI.
This updated edition provides practical frameworks for applying AI across the original four key innovation modes specialist, venture, community, and network and offers insights on adopting multimodal strategies to stay ahead in today's competitive environment. Whether you're a corporate leader or a novice entrepreneur, this book will equip you with the tools to navigate the challenges of AI-driven digital transformation and seize new opportunities in a powerfully evolving market.
]]>Sebastian Fixson is the founding faculty director of Babson's DBA program and a professor of Innovation and Design at Babson College.
]]>Even beyond the heartache, embarrassment, and logistical strain of the moment, breakups can summon up all our old baggage to come play havoc with our lives and heads.
Dr. Faith G. Harper, bestselling author of books like Unfuck Your Brain and Unfuck Your Intimacy, brings you a kind, relatable, and plain-language guide to all things break-up: deciding to do it (or not), doing the thing, and picking up the pieces afterward to build a life that suits you better than ever. Whether or not the breakup was your idea, whether the partnership was romantic, platonic, or a secret third thing, no matter the seriousness of the bond or the shared responsibilities and finances involved, parting ways can be a canon life event with powerful transformational potential as you rise from the wreckage.
And it's never too late to come back to your best self.
]]>Find a quiet corner and a box of coloured pencils and unlock the hows and whys behind your feelings.
Bestselling Unfuck Your Brain author Dr. Faith G. Harper returns to help you explore your emotions through brain science-backed art therapy, using exercises to draw out your inner creativity and enhance your mental wellbeing.
Colour in hearts and assess what works and doesn't for your attachment style. Reflect on how you want to be remembered and if you're in alignment with your goals by decorating your tombstone. No special supplies or artistic talent required-all you need to get started is a pen or pencil, and your own innately creative self.
]]>Gerta Oparaku Egy is an Albanian artist residing in Springfield, Oregon. She studied Set and Costume Design in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, Albania. She worked as a costume designer in film and theater, storyboard artist, and illustrator. From her work in film, she developed an interest in writing and drawing her own stories. She is the author and illustrator of several comics and illustrated stories.
River Katz is a genderflexible kitty disguised as a human artist in the 3D world. They are the comic artist for Do Not Pet: A Service Dog's Graphic Tale Vol 1 and Weird Western: Tall Tale, cover designer and contributor to True Trans Bike Rebel, and contributor to other zines like Cat Party and We've All Got Baggage. River enjoys making art related to gender, cannabis, magic and spirituality, music, mental health, fur-people, and occasional fan art. When not doodling away on their ipad, they're designing handmade tarot cards, collaging vision boards, obsessively sketchbooking, writing music, thinking up zine ideas or teaching themself animation.
]]>Through stunning, intimate images from 19 talented photographers, The Reader showcases readers in a wide variety of settings, from cosy cafes to serene parks, city benches to sandy beaches. And despite the diversity of locations, each photograph portrays the universal yet deeply personal connection between a reader and the printed word. Four original essays written by independent bookstore owners and quotes from authors interspersed throughout the book explore the significance of reading, the emotions it evokes, and the escapism it provides.
The Reader invites you to pause and reflect on the quiet beauty of reading, both as a solitary act and a shared human experience.
Featured photographers include Elisabeth Argillier, Tiffany Bell, Boena Budzyska, Oliver Bunica, Graham Chapman, Christian Dumont, David Gonzalez, Greg Goyo Vargas, Lucy Hamidzadeh, Peter Jonker, Ian Kobylanski, Sam Landers, Judit Prat Mart, Declan McWhinney, Meg Miller, John Michael Rivera, Selene Sar, Andy Shigekawa, and Jeffery Xin.
]]>Michelle Fitzgerald is a veteran of the book publishing industry and the Associate Publisher at Trope Publishing Co. A fierce advocate for books, she served as editor on New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Rome, all titles in Trope's City Edition series.
]]>Seoul is one of the world's most exciting cities. A city on the cutting edge, it is a unique blend of historic and modern, traditional and cutting edge. Seoul Days and Nights captures this dichotomy, showcasing Seoul's unique personality and charm.
Featuring images of Seoul from photographers James Choi, Kim Sangjun (aka Bigg Jun), and Sam Landers, Seoul Days and Nights includes the neon lights of Hongdae, the sleek skyscrapers of Gangnam, and the bustling markets of Namdaemun, as well as street shots of the people who call Seoul home. Essays throughout the book written by Seoul natives and residents give additional context to the photographs and add insight into the customs, traditions, and landmarks of the city.
This unforgettable new collection captures the urban energy and timeless traditions of Korea's capital city.
]]>Family photography presents unique challenges that can leave even experienced photographers feeling overwhelmed. Capturing genuine connections while managing multiple subjects at different developmental stages requires technical skill, creative vision, and the ability to direct with confidence. Family photographers must master multiple skills that go far beyond simply understanding their camera settings.
In this comprehensive guide, photographer Sandra Coan draws from over two decades of professional experience to offer a proven system for creating beautiful, timeless family portraits. Through clear instruction and beautiful photographic examples, Sandra demonstrates how to develop a consistent, predictable routine that will help you work efficiently while producing exceptional results.
Whether you work in a studio, on location, or in clients' homes, you'll learn how to confidently pose and light subjects of all ages from newborns and babies to children and their parents while capturing authentic connections and creating images families will treasure for generations.
You'll learn:
With Sandra's guidance and The Complete Guide to Family Photography by your side, you'll develop the skills and confidence you need to create beautiful, classic family portraits in any setting while providing an exceptional experience for the families you photograph.
]]>In addition to running her busy studio, she teaches thousands of photographers each year on respected platforms like CreativeLive and Kelby One as well as at industry events, like WPPI. She is also a regular contributor to Rangefinder magazine, Professional Photographer magazine, Click magazine, and many more. Sandra also hosts a robust community of portrait photographers invested in growing their photography skills and building profitable businesses they love at www.sandracoaneducation.com.
]]>This shorter-form book from 3dtotal Publishing, from our new series Create & Learn Collection, takes readers through clear and simple methods to achieving top-quality lighting in their drawing and digital paintings.
The invaluable content is written and illustrated by professional artists, including an in-depth introduction by Kenneth Anderson (aka Character Cube), a character designer and illustrator based in Scotland, UK, who specialises in the creation of characters for animation, gaming, and traditional publishing. After covering the fundamentals of light and shade, he explores the ways lighting and shading can be used to describe form, push character stylisation, and enhance storytelling.
This is followed by eight invaluable tutorials from global artists, including Iranian concept artist Taraneh Karimi, Serbian illustrator Ognjen Sporin, and Italian character designer Isabella Agosti. They cover a range of topics, including 'Controlling tonal structure of a character with light and shade', 'Using light within a character design', and 'Using light and shade in a stylized 3D character'.
With a compact format and short, clear tutorial steps, this book is ideal for those wanting a quick reference guide or more relaxed approach from a tutorial book. It's an ideal gift for an artist friend just discovering their digital-painting skills, or a must-buy for artists wanting to discover how the professionals create spot-on lighting and shade in their designs.
]]>Contributor Taraneh Karimi is an Iranian artist living in Spain. She has 149K Instagram followers (@taraneh.artworks). She is a self-taught concept artist and character designer with over a decade of experience, working with renowned companies like Disney Animation, Netflix, and various game and animation studios. She primarily uses digital tools, such as Procreate on the iPad and Photoshop on screen tablets.
Contributor Ognjen Sporin is from Serbia and has 118K Instagram followers (@o.sporin). Ognjen is a freelance illustrator and concept artist who has created art for video games, animated movies, books, and tabletop games. Notable past clients include Netflix, Blizzard, Marvel, and NetEase.
Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, England, UK. 3dtotal publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skillfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>This shorter-form book from 3dtotal Publishing, from our new series Create & Learn Collection, takes readers through a clear and simple guide to achieving top-quality prints with the linocutting technique.
The invaluable content is written and illustrated by professional artists, including an in-depth introduction by Gareth Barnes (aka Spindle Printer), a printmaker who works from his home studio in Leeds, UK. His work is inspired by history, folklore, the natural world, and vintage illustration, and he sells his work at print fairs around the UK. He discusses the materials used for linocutting, followed by techniques from start to finish, including carving, prepping paper, tips for mixing colours, and pressing and drying. All accompanying by stunning photography of the process in action.
We then have specific projects from global artists, including Dutch printmaker Esther van Dam, Anna Hermsdorf from Germany, and Mary Ann Testagrossa from California, USA. Their tutorials include simple and more advanced version of multiblock prints and reduction prints, as well as a jigsaw print and the technique of reprinting a pattern on fabric. Photographs accompany each step of each process, alongside clear written instructions from the artist.
With a compact format and short, clear tutorial steps, this book is ideal for those wanting a quick reference guide or more relaxed approach from a tutorial book. It's an ideal gift for an artist friend just discovering their printmaking passion, or a must-buy for linocutters wanting to discover how the professionals create their stunning prints.
]]>Contributor Esther van Dam aka Studio Tokek has 199K Instagram followers (@studio.tokek). She is an illustrator, printmaker, and pattern-lover based in the Netherlands. She makes stamps for her own collection of print fabrics and for various customers all over the world.
Contributor Anna Hermsdorf is based in Germany and has 121K Instagram followers. She is a printmaker and tattoo artist and works on personal projects such as linoprints of themed girls portraits, custom tattoo work for clients, and an online course for linoprint beginners.
Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, England, UK. 3dtotal publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skillfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>Class struggle is everywhere, and it influences everything and everyone in our society. Marx is the person who first explained this struggle systematically. For Marx, capitalism signified not the end of history, but rather the latest phase of human development that leads ordinary people to rid themselves of 'all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.'
Marx's theories are deeply prescient and relevant in our efforts to understand and cope with the crises of our time. Every day, we see more evidence that the capitalist system is both undermining itself and those whose labour it depends on, as Marx predicted.
Understanding Marxismis an essential resource for looking at the power and usefulness of Marx's criticism of the capitalist economic system and how we can move beyond it to a truly sustainable and democratic society based on workers' self-management.
]]>Understanding Socialismis a plainspoken text that disarms false narratives, confronts past failures, and offers a path to a fresh and modern understanding of socialism, by outlining what democracy in the workplace could look like.
Wolff not only explains what socialism is and has meant to its various proponents, he also looks at the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a model to help us visualise an evolution from our current socioeconomic state.
Understanding Socialism explores how socialist theory was used and applied to help shape the histories of countries such as Russia and China, and beyond. Wolff also analyses the successes and defeats of those countries, the world's reactions to them, and how they offer important lessons for the building of a democratic, worker-controlled 21st-century socialism.
]]>Understanding Capitalismexplores the different definitions of what capitalism is and is not, and dissolves the many myths that, Wolff argues, are designed to confuse and disorient us. Wolff doesn't simply identify the crises and harms manufactured by capitalism, he details a path forward by outlining alternative economic models that combat the exploitation and oppression inherent in capitalism.
Capitalism oftentimes feels as permanent as the sky above. Understanding Capitalism shows that our current economic system is only as strong as the ordinary people who enable its existence, and that capitalism's demise requires an organised, collective effort by those who can identify its vulnerabilities and limitations, but also understand that another world is indeed possible.
]]>Many households and communities strive for egalitarian relationships and challenge the conflation of women with motherhood; however, essentialist notions of the maternal persist. Norms of 'good motherhood' continue to limit the identities available to mothers, and structural responses to gender inequities often fall short. Tensions are therefore present in cultural representations of women and families, workplace and sector policies and practices, government initiatives, and lived experiences of motherhood.
Intersectional inequalities compound these challenges. Indigenous, sole, and migrant mothers face additional barriers that workplace and welfare policies have failed to adequately address. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified these pressures, while simultaneously presenting opportunities to restructure work and care.
With contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines including history, sociology, criminology, human geography, media and communication, and business and management Motherhood, Labour and Care in the 21stCentury: Contradictions in focus interrogates these substantive themes in diverse communities across Australia and New Zealand. It offers a critical reflection on motherhood, labour and care, uncovering taken-for-granted assumptions about gender and family life, and redressing stubborn inequities.
Motherhood, Labour and Care in the 21stCentury hopes to encourage individuals and households to think differently about motherhood, and to inform government perspectives and social policy on gender ideologies, families, workplaces, and the broader care deficit.
]]>Professor Kate Huppatz is Associate Dean, Research (School of Social Sciences) at Western Sydney University. Her research explores the role of labour and culture in the production and reproduction of gender inequality, with a focus on workplaces and families.
]]>In various traditions around the world, divination is not a stopping point; it's the beginning. A querent may come to tarot (or other forms of divination) to receive insight into their situation but also to glean a diagnosis and treatments to remedy problems. These 'treatments' are often magical rituals or ceremonies the querent could perform for themselves or have someone else perform on their behalf. Each tarot card has specific recommendations for what kind of magic and ritual might be appropriate to address a specific concern you just need to learn how to read them with an eye to their inner magic.
'The reward of friendship is itself-the joy of being together, the mutual confidence, the shared virtue.'
Released in 44 BC, these philosophical works represent what life was like for Romans at the time, detailing the dynamics of human relationships and the acceptance of aging. Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote numerous treatises, but these two were the most prominent and widespread. Inspired by his personal experiences and philosophical traditions, the works were dedicated to Cicero's close friend Atticus.
]]>The world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years. These counterempires or shadow empires, which changed the course of history, include the imperial nomad confederacies that arose in Mongolia and extorted resources from China rather than attempting to conquer it, as well as maritime empires such as ancient Athens that controlled trade without seeking territorial hegemony. In Shadow Empires, Thomas Barfield identifies seven kinds of counterempire and explores their rise, politics, economics, and longevity.
What all these counterempires had in common was their interactions with existing empires that created the conditions for their development. When highly successful, these counterempires left the shadows to become the world's largest empires for example, those of the medieval Muslim Arabs and of the Mongol heirs of Chinggis Khan. Three former shadow empires Manchu Qing China, Tsarist Russia, and British India made this transformation in the late eighteenth century and came to rule most of Eurasia. However, the DNA of their origins endured in their unique ruling strategies. Indeed, world powers still use these strategies today, long after their roots in shadow empires have been forgotten.
Looking afresh at the histories of important types of empires that are often ignored, Shadow Empires provides an original account of empire formation from the ancient world to the early modern period.
]]>Blending personal narrative with ethnographic insight, Life Lines invites readers to reflect on the profound and often challenging journey of caring for an aging parent. As generations age and more families navigate the realities of advanced old age, this book offers a hopeful vision: caregiving can be more than a duty it can become an opportunity for parents and adult children to forge deeper, more emotionally enriching relationships.
Through art, conversation, and shared discovery, Life Lines shows how we can move beyond care fatigue and disconnection, transforming the later years of life into a time of renewed connection, understanding, and appreciation.
]]>Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalised, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimised their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust.
By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories, People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well.
]]>William Ross Jones is a freelance German-to-English translator and a historian of the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, and sexual violence, currently based at the University of Warwick.
]]>Caught between wars raging in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Greece is an island of relative stability. Popularly considered the cradle of Western civilisation, this is a Christian Orthodox state on the edge of the Islamic world. And, after a half-century of integration into NATO and the EU, Greece is now reabsorbing into the Near East, as the West fractures and new Middle Eastern powers rise. The country's importance as a cultural and geopolitical hybrid is growing.
Travelling through the region, Sean Mathews explores at ground level the tectonic shifts reshaping Europe and the Middle East. He meets the last Greek merchants in Cairo, and hears from Istanbul's remaining Greeks about Turkey's break with the West. In Jerusalem, he discovers a budding alliance between Greece and Israel; and in a faded Ottoman port, he encounters football hooligans loyal to a Russian oligarch.
This bold reappraisal of Greece as a Near Eastern nation uncovers its Byzantine and Ottoman past as a key to survival in today's chaotic, shrinking world.
'A major contribution to a slim field of books about modern Greece. Colourfully written and deeply researched, Mathews' travels through the country reveal a compelling cast of characters and a story about how a small country on the fringe of Europe is transforming itself into a cultural and diplomatic powerhouse.' Hannah Lucinda Smith, Istanbul correspondent and author ofErdoan Rising
'The eastern Mediterranean or greater Levant has been a pivotal region in imperial history and now again in postmodern geopolitics. Mathews expertly guides the reader through not only the sights and smells of the region, but its political and cultural layers. This is what travel writing is supposed to do: blend description with analysis.' Robert D. Kaplan, author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis
'A sweeping, historically rich and provocative book that will challenge conventional thinking about both geography and politics.' David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorkerstaff writer and author of Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
'Highly enjoyable. With sharp reporting and narrative flair, Mathews uncovers Greece's enduring entanglement with the Middle East. His fresh, insightful revelations made me want to book a flight immediately: Greece will never seem quite the same again.' Erika Fatland, author of The Border,Sovietistanand High
'A timely and colourful journey through Greece's oriental past and increasingly Middle Eastern future. The author identifies the new frontier between Europe and the Middle East and it runs through Greece.' Michael Vatikiotis, author of Lives Between the Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
]]>Each of the thirty-nine colourful cards in the No Bad Days oracle deck provides an affirmation as well as daily exercises. Further details are included in the accompanying guidebook, where you'll find suggestions for yoga positions, breathing techniques, an inspiring playlist, tips for personal development, prompts for intuitive writing, and more so you can make the most of your message.
The deck is broken down into three themes referenced by the card's colour:
Make this warm and sunny oracle part of your daily practice and let No Bad Days guide you with gentle wisdom toward joy, inner harmony, and a radiant sense of well-being.
]]>My Bloody Valentine have released only three albums in their forty-year career, but each of them has made a seismic impact. Isn't Anything (1988) is often cited as an Ur-text of shoegaze and dream rock; Loveless (1991) is an undisputed masterpiece heralded by many as the greatest album of the 1990s; m b v (2013) is one of the best-loved comeback albums in recent memory.
For those who know Kevin Shields and his work already, he is an indie-rock icon, but by other measures he's still a relatively obscure figure in the musical mainstream, and to date there has been no full-length appraisal of his work or his band's career. Until now.
Turn My Head Into Sound is based on research gathered over decades as well as interviews with people who were there, some of them speaking on the record for the first time. Longtime fans of the band will find plenty of new information here, including the full story of the tumultuous period at Island Records following the release of Loveless.
Shields is truly a one-of-a-kind musician, and this book which fills in the gaps, corrects errors, and takes an objective look at his and the band's entire career, warts and all paints the full picture of one of the most revolutionary sonic artists of our time, including his work outside of MBV as an engineer, producer, remixer, and auxiliary member of Primal Scream, as well as his contributions to several films by Sofia Coppola.
]]>The Spanish Civil War was a war of firsts: the first in which civilians were targeted, through the bombing of cities. It was also the first 'photogenic' war in history, the growth in photo-journalism bringing images of the fighting and of the huge number of refugees that were created by the conflict to the newspapers and newsreels of other European countries. New weapons, technologies and strategies were tried out, rehearsing for the increasingly inevitable war on European soil.
War Without Mercy examines the origins of this deadly conflagration which date back to the nineteenth century and which finds its causes in the issues of mass suffrage, social welfare reform, and land reform, as well as in the increasing tensions between urbanism and rural tradition. The course of the war is laid out, including descriptions of the major battles and incidents, incorporating details of the bombing of major cities, most harrowingly, of course, the bombing of civilians at Guernica, famously depicted in Pablo Picasso's painting of the atrocity. The reaction of the other nations of Europe is also examined the 'non-intervention' promulgated by Great Britain and France, and the direct intervention of the fascist nations, Germany and Italy, in support of the Nationalist cause, support that took the form of troops, planes and armaments.
]]>When China embarked on its transformative journey of modernisation in 1979, many believed the country's turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and mark the birth of a democratic, open society. Instead, China reverted to a neo-totalitarian state, one backed by one of the fastest-growing, most formidable economies on earth. The Broken China Dream pulls back the curtain on the regime of strongman Xi Jinping, revealing why the reforms of the post-Mao era have been reversed on nearly every front and why the world failed to see it coming.
Exposing the truth behind China's economic ascendency after the Cultural Revolution, Minxin Pei shows how, following Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping strategically deployed the tools of capitalism to preserve the Chinese Communist Party. Deng kept intact the institutional foundations of totalitarianism even as he unleashed private entrepreneurship and courted foreign investment, giving China's one-party state control of a vast repressive apparatus and the most critical sectors of the economy. Only a fragile balance of power among dueling factions prevented the rise of a totalitarian leader in the two decades after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 but this temporary equilibrium collapsed.
Essential to understanding today's China, this meticulously researched book is a sobering account of why the country's reformers and institutions could not stop a shrewd and ruthless politician like Xi from resurrecting dormant totalitarian practices that, for the foreseeable future, have spelled the end of the dream of a free and prosperous China.
]]>Marking the 150th anniversary of Jung's birth, this new English translation captures the cadence and subtlety of the brilliant psychologist in his own words, giving voice to a thinker and teacher who is by turns witty and intellectually daring but also vulnerable and humbled by the world's great mysteries. It restores numerous passages that were originally omitted or heavily edited and toned down for publication, 'auntified' as Jung himself put it. Taken together, these talks reveal Jung actively discovering meaningful new connections in his life's work. He shares his impressions of notable figures he encountered throughout his life such as Sigmund Freud, William James, Albert Einstein, and H. G. Wells and describes his striking visions, religious and paranormal experiences, and pioneering self-experimentation. Aided by Jaffe's skillful questioning, Jung reflects on subjects ranging from Christianity and Buddhism and the fate of the West to the experiences that led to the formulation of his signature concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, and the shadow as well as on karma, the afterlife, and much more.
With an introduction and extensive annotations by acclaimed Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani that provide invaluable historical perspective, Jung's Life and Work includes previously unpublished extracts from Jung's letters and a completely reorganised text.
]]>Aniela Jaffe (19031991) was an analyst and longtime collaborator with Jung.
Sonu Shamdasani is Professor of Jung History and Co-Director of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and the editor of Jung's Red Book.
Thomas Fischer is an editor at the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung and a great-grandson of Jung.
Heather McCartney is a Jungian analyst and the translator of Analytical Psychology in Exile (Princeton).
John Peck is a Jungian analyst and acclaimed poet.
]]>Designed for artists who are starting out on their painting journey, or those who just need a refresher on the basics, this handy and ultra-portable reference guide helps you create beautiful artwork whether in your studio or out and about.
Noted painting instructor Rachael Broadwell demystifies oil painting and distills her years of knowledge into this handy guide for all aspiring artists.
]]>Learning Japanese is a complete language learning package designed for people who want to learn to communicate in Japanese quickly and easily whether on your own or with a teacher. The book introduces all the basics of the language including pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence patterns so you can engage in simple conversations right from the start!
Useful explanations of the Japanese script, greetings and requests, verb conjugations, honorific forms and etiquette dos and don'ts are all included. A dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases is provided at the back.
The carefully-constructed lessons in this book all relate to useful everyday topics such as:
Hours of free native-speaker online audio recordings accompany the dialogues, vocabulary and exercises enabling you to practice pronouncing and understanding all the Japanese words and sentences! Free downloadable flashcards available online are also a great help in memorising the vocabulary and phrases, and memorable manga-style comic strips provide helpful visual prompts for the dialogues.
This ultimate language has everything you need at a fraction of the price of expensive language kits!
]]>A powerful investigation into plastic's impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back
Plastic is everywhere wrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it can seem impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.
The Problem with Plastic critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognised for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. With clarity and urgency, the book reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and overwhelming waste, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities who bear the brunt of petrochemical pollution.
Revealing the alarming extent of microplastics infiltrating both the natural world and the human body, this compelling narrative challenges the illusion that recycling alone will save us. It unpacks the mechanisms of environmental racism and the deceptive greenwashing strategies used by the plastics industry to maintain the status quo.
More than a critique, The Problem with Plastic emphasises the urgent need for action against plastic's toxic legacy. It highlights powerful stories of frontline resistance in places like Louisiana, Texas, and Appalachia, and equips readers with practical tools including a 'Household Waste Audit' to track and reduce plastic consumption, as well as model policy guides for driving legislative change.
Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately empowering, The Problem with Plastic reminds us: plastic is a problem but together, we can be the solution.
]]>Adam Mahoneyis a climate and environmental reporter who has reported from more than a dozen U.S. states and Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, and Vietnam for newspapers and magazines includingThe New York Times and The Guardian. The co-author (with Judith Enck and Beyond Plastics) of The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late (The New Press), he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
]]>Fodor's Las Vegas travel guide includes:
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]]>Fodor's Hong Kong travel guide includes:
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]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Egypt travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting any other regional destinations on this trip? Check out Fodor's Essential Israel, Fodor's Essential Turkey, and Fodor's Essential Morocco
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\Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!
]]>Insider advice on the best travel experiences, like visiting Naoshima (Japan's Art Island); exploring Kyoto's Gion District; making a pilgrimage to Sensoji Temple; skiing in Honshu and Hokkaido; or riding the Skinkansen Bullet Train. Plus tips for navigating the country's lovely but less-travelled corners.
About Frommer's: There's a reason Frommer's has been the most trusted name in travel for more than 65 years. Arthur Frommer created the best-selling guide series in 1957 to help American servicemen fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe, and since then, we have published thousands of titles, become a household name, and helped millions upon millions of people realize their own dreams of seeing our planet. Travel is easy with Frommer's.
]]>He contributes regularly to Japan's longest-running English-language magazine, Tokyo Weekender, and its premier English-language newspaper, The Japan Times. His work has also been published in The Belfast Telegraph, The Independent, The Irish Independent, Al Jazeera, CNN Travel, Business Insider, Metropolis, INTOUCH Magazine, andIntrepid Times.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020.
Fodor's Essential Spain 2026 travel guide includes:
Planning on spending more time in Spain's most exciting cities? Check out Fodor's Barcelona and Fodor's Madrid.
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ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor's has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!
]]>You've made the decision to explore what sober living is all about. Maybe you don't like how you feel after drinking, maybe you don't like who you become when you drink, or maybe you're just trying to be a little healthier. Whatever the reasons behind your decision, this activity book is here to help you stay entertained, inspired, and on the right track. The friendly advice, proven tips, fun activities and games, and convenient organisational tools will help you during your year of sober curious living. In a world that can seem completely centred around drinking, this little book can be something you come back to now and then, or something you incorporate into your weekly routine. No matter how you decide to use The Sober Curious Activity Book, it is the perfect thing to have on hand if you're looking for a bit of fun and friendly companionship on your journey!
]]>'The most powerful tools are not invented; they are rediscovered. Jorge Luis Delgado, one of my teachers, unearths a timeless, potent formula for a life of purpose: Love, Service, Wisdom. This book will change how you see your place in the world.' don Jose Ruiz, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Fifth Agreement
In the heart of the Andes, the ancient Inkas cultivated a spiritual philosophy that created one of the most harmonious and advanced civilisations on Earth. For them, the secrets to a life of meaning, purpose, and connection were found in three simple, yet profound principles: munay (love), llankay (service), and yachay (wisdom).
Author Jorge Luis Delgado was a modern man, determined to pursue material success and leave the 'old ways' behind. But the wisdom of his ancestors had other plans. From his beginnings as a suitcase-toting child on the streets of Peru to his awakening as a respected chakaruna a bridge person between worlds Delgado's extraordinary journey reveals how these timeless principles are not relics of the past, but urgently needed guides for navigating modern crisis and change. In this book, Delgado will teach you how to:
Cultivate munay, the unconditional love that recognises the sacred in all beings.
Practice llankay, transforming your daily actions into a prayer of sacred service.
Access yachay, the deep wisdom that flows from your connection to the cosmos.
More than a philosophy, this is a practical path to inner and outer transformation. Through personal stories, insightful teachings, and accessible practices, you will discover how to build bridges from your mind to your heart, from your personal life to the collective whole, and from a world of separation to one of unity.
]]>Whether you are looking to read your own birth chart, create drills according to the energy of each zodiac sign, or establish rituals to connect with yourself, Self-Love Astrology Journal serves as an invaluable tool for personal growth.
Your purpose is waiting to be uncovered, and the completion of this magical journal culminates in an oasis of self-reception where abundance awaits you.
]]>A collection of over 250 open-ended prompts to inspire your past-life journey, Past Life Prompts by M. Belanger is your personal journal for self-directed memory work. Explore deep sensory and emotional triggers on your own schedule, taking time to reflect on and record everything that comes to mind. Bookending the prompts are instructions for how to approach memory work, why it's important, and how to avoid common pitfalls such as cryptomnesia and wish fulfillment.
]]>Financial Sorcery will give you step-by-step instructions on how to improve your fiscal situation combining timeless financial wisdom with enhanced sorcery. Author Jason Miller teaches not only magical exercises to improve your finances but also the mindset for financial wellness and tools for traditional financial planning so you can continue to grow your wealth.
This life-changing book goes far beyond simple 'money magic', sharing not only the magic skills needed to succeed but also the money mindset. This is a tome of true financial sorcery that will show you how to ensure success no matter what life throws at you.
This revised edition of Financial Sorcery contains a new introduction, an all-new chapter, and updates throughout.
]]>Nonmonogamy can assume many shapes, none of which can claim to be a 'safe' model of intimacy. The jet-setting passport paramour who fits the needs of many far-flung lovers into a single carryon has as many opportunities to do right or wrong by their partners as the members of a homebound triad who prefer raising a family to raising hell on the nightlife scene.
Even the most casual of connections requires trust, and where there is trust, there is the potential for betrayal. As long as there have been love stories, there has been love lost through deception, abandonment, or callous disregard of intimate bonds. Intimacy, exclusive or otherwise, can be exploratory or confined, collaborative or autonomous, but one thing it can never be is risk free.
Yes, there is cheating in nonmonogamous relationships. There are other forms of betrayal, too: the cliquish injustices of in-group bullying, the violation of having personal information shared by a trusted partner, the humiliation of seeing someone who claimed to love you 'trade up' for a partner with more social, sexual or plain old economic capital. Trust can be broken, and in turn break people, in a great number of ways.
In Nonmonogamy and Betrayal, Eve Rickert, co-author of More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity, explores a regrettable inclination among many who practise nonmonogamy: to downplay or minimise the destructive capacity of broken trust, both to the betrayed partner and to the larger community. Nonmonogamy and Betrayal not only unravels the varieties of betrayal that can occur in nonmonogamy, but explores pathways to recognition and healing.
]]>Shannon Knight's approach to shadow work is deeply rooted in secular, therapeutic, and psychological principles, but she recognised the valuable role that magick, archetypes, and symbolism play in this process.
Unlike other books on the subject, Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow incorporates the use of tarot as a prominent tool that serves as a method of self-reflection, offering a portal to our subconscious and helping us access parts of ourselves that we otherwise may have been unable to. The imagery and archetypes help facilitate a dialogue with our shadow, making it easier to converse with the repressed and hidden parts of ourselves.
To create harmony and reduce tension between the logical and mystical aspects of ourselves, we need to be curious about multiple ways of being, experimenting with how these impact us for better or for worse and then figuring out what to do with this information. Through exercises, techniques, and insights, Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow allows you to gently explore the depths of your psyche, uncover different parts of yourself, and navigate the path toward greater self-acceptance. It's the ultimate process of 'looking in the mirror'.
]]>In this book, Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretical examination of how economic factors influence security affairs. Empirically, he analyses how economic variables of all kinds affect interstate war, terrorism, and civil war; in total, sixteen pathways are examined. Brooks shows that the relationship between economic factors and conflict is complex and multifaceted; discrete economic factors such as international trade, economic development, and globalised manufacturing, to name a few are sometimes helpful for promoting peace and stability, but at other times are detrimental. Brooks also develops a stronger theoretical foundation for guiding future research on the economics-security interaction. Drawing on Adam Smith, he provides a more complete range of answers to the three key conceptual questions analysts must consider: how economic goals relate to security goals; what economic factors to focus on; and how economic actors influence security policies.
Combining an innovative theoretical understanding with empirical rigour, Brooks's account will reshape our understanding of the political economy of security.
]]>In 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named Peire Huguet. Daniel Lord Smail tells the extraordinary story of Magdalena Coline, a woman who dared to file suit against the man who called himself her master, and whose passage from servitude to freedom raises tantalising questions about how the people of her time made sense of slavery as a social category.
In a masterful narrative that takes readers from the waters of the Mediterranean to the court of the Angevin King Louis II, claimant to the throne of Naples, Smail describes how Peire, pressed by Magdalena's supporters, reluctantly granted her a tacit manumission through her marriage to her first husband, whose death two years later placed her in a state of considerable ambiguity. In 1406, following her second marriage to an immigrant shoemaker, a dispute with Peire exploded in the law courts of Marseille, where it played out over two tumultuous years through numerous suits and appeals. In a dramatic turn of events, Magdalena traveled to the royal court in nearby Aix-en-Provence, where she successfully petitioned the king and returned home victorious.
Drawing on court records and an array of other archival sources from the period, Magdalena Coline brings these remarkable legal proceedings vividly to life, shedding new light on the ways slavery was understood and practiced in the late medieval Mediterranean world.
]]>In this classic text from 1909, Alexandra Kollontai, a leading early figure in the Marxist feminist movement, discusses the history and socioeconomic roots of the struggle for women's equality. Examining the movement for women's equality in late 19th century Russia, she discusses how upper-class liberal feminists ignored or patronized working-class women. The interests of upper-class women and their focus on suffrage and philanthropy meant that their organisations and movements could not be reliable allies to women of the working class.
Many of the issues that Kollontai touches on in this book remain alive today, as the struggle for gender equality is dominated by liberal bourgeois groups while revolutionary leftists attempt to address intersecting systems of oppression without being co-opted by neoliberal feminism. Kollontai's argument that the feminist movement needs to be part of broader working class struggles for liberation is as important and powerful today as it was in the early twentieth century.
]]>lise Hendrick has been working as a freelance translator of a wide variety of medical, legal, technical, literary, and political material since the late 1990s. Her working languages include Russian, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, English, Swedish, Danish, Flemish, Afrikaans, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Korean, Catalan, and Yiddish, and are likely to expand soon to include Chinese (simplified and traditional) and Finnish.
]]>Wartime Russia is drowning in fascist symbols. Zealous patriots attack journalists, opposition activists, and anyone suspected of betraying the motherland. Hordes of online trolls and sleek videos of angry young men urge citizens to join the cause. State television terrifies viewers with false tales of anti-Russian conspiracies and genocidal yearnings. Child soldiers proudly parade across Red Square. This is Russia in the 2020s: a land of performative rage and nationalist untruth, where pretence and broken promises are a way of life, and an apocalyptic mindset is seizing tomorrow's Russians.
As compelling as it is chilling, Z Generation shows how Russia has ended up here, and where its young people may be headed: a fascist generation more violent and ideological than anything the country has seen before.
]]>The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the result of early failings in institutional design, reflecting an American inclination to pursue short-term policy approaches that created perverse incentives thus interfering with the long-term objective of stability.
This book exposes the true factors underpinning Kabul's fall. The Afghan Republic came under relentless attack from Taliban insurgents who depended critically on Pakistani support. It also suffered a creeping invasion that put the government on the back foot as the US tried and failed to deal with Pakistan's perfidy. The fatal blow came when bored US leaders naively cut an exit deal with the enemy, fatally compromising the operation of the Afghan army and air force and triggering the final collapse, with top leaders at odds over whether to make a final stand in Kabul.
The Afghan Republic did not simply decline and fall. It was betrayed.
]]>This is the remarkable life story of Denis D. Gray, born Zdenek Mecir in communist Czechoslovakia, who went on to a celebrated career as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press.
From the front lines of the Vietnam War and the 'Killing Fields' of Cambodia to foxholes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gray chronicles eight decades of upheaval and resilience in this highly personal memoir. He reflects on a world of relentless change and fleeting beauty, torn between the urge to seek a quiet refuge a 'lost horizon' of peace and the irresistible pull of life on the edge.
'In Lost Horizons, I try to make sense of it all as best I can. I tell my story and those of others not only people but cities, countries and conflicts through imperfect eyes. I chose not to present these accounts as a strictly chronological narrative but by subject and theme. In so doing, I hope to have captured the unique period in history during which I lived, loved and lost.' Denis D. Gray
]]>Abdulmejid II was a talented painter, music enthusiast and Francophile. He was also the last Ottoman Caliph, expelled from Istanbul in March 1924 when Turkey abolished the 1,300-year-old Caliphate.
From his villa on the French Riviera, Abdulmejid launched a plan to resurrect the institution and transform world history. Indian politician Shaukat Ali brokered a marital alliance between the Ottomans and the Nizam of Hyderabad, the world's richest prince, who governed a state the size of Italy in the Indian subcontinent.
This saw the union of Islam's two greatest houses, and of the Islamic west and east. It cemented Hyderabad's status as a global Muslim capital, and left Abdulmejid's grandson, the Ottoman prince and the designated Nizam-in-waiting, perfectly placed to claim the Caliphate. But Partition in 1947 and the annexation of Hyderabad the following year spelled the end of this prospect.
Exploring the lives, cultures and sensibilities of an amazing cast of players, The Indian Caliphate details this extraordinary history, which for decades has been consigned to near oblivion. This story of the downfall of two Muslim dynasties reveals a forgotten fact: that India was, in many ways, the very epicentre of the Islamic world in the early twentieth century.
]]>In this history, Nicholas Hewitt explores Marseille's extraordinary cultural wealth from the Revolution to the present century, charting the development of its bad reputation, its 'rogue status' within France, and its international importance. The narratives devoted to this great port city range from the legend of its football team to The Count of Monte Cristo. Hewitt discovers Marseille through the eyes of writers, painters and sculptors, film-makers, music hall stars, architects and rappers; from the viewpoints of French, German, British and American visitors; and as a celebration of its humane cosmopolitanism, often in contrast with national French sentiment.
Wicked City is a vivid and complex portrait of one of the Mediterranean's great cities, going beyond the popular stereotypes to uncover the true Marseille in its full richness.
]]>In the 2010s, as China slid deeper into authoritarianism and the UK veered towards political uncertainty, the two countries declared a 'Golden Era' of relations. This challenge to the established international order came amid rising global concern around Chinese party-state intrusions abroad.
All That Glistens peels away the shiny exterior of the Sino-British 'golden age' to reveal a relationship built on global capitalism, British corruption and Chinese Communist Party influence over UK affairs to the disquiet of London's allies.
Drawing on his years on the ground in Beijing, as well as investigative research using open-source intelligence, Martin Thorley's timely book sheds light on a murky aspect of international relations. He reveals coordinated Chinese state actions reaching into the heart of Parliament, and the widespread compromise of British politics by Chinese commercial entities particularly nuclear energy, property development and currency-trading enterprises. Exposing the close connections between Western financialisation and China's geopolitical interference, this book offers a cautionary tale for all liberal democracies.
]]>Greenland is no ordinary island. From its discovery by Norsemen to its contemporary strategic significance, it has been a frontier for human exploration and empire, today emerging as a facilitator of geoeconomic competition. This book delves into the rich history and complex politics of Greenland, revealing how this icy expanse has shaped and been shaped by the world.
This short history begins with the Vikings, whose mysterious disappearance from Greenland in the 1400s remains one of history's great puzzles. It then explores the island's gradual transformation from a Danish possession to an autonomous territory, charting its role during the World Wars and its strategic importance during the Cold War.
Greenland finds itself at the centre of a renewed 'great game', balancing transatlantic ties, rising Chinese influence, and mounting domestic pressures for independence. And that's before President Trump's agenda is factored in.
Starting from Trump's plan to purchase Greenland, Elizabeth Buchanan dissects the island's contemporary role and poses four provocative scenarios for its future from full independence to an icy geopolitical standoff with Denmark.So You Want to Own Greenland? is an essential read for anyone curious about the future of this frozen frontier and its place on the global stage.
]]>This groundbreaking book reveals why today's economic model is failing and how a regenerative approach can unlock resilience, justice, and health for people and the planet. Instead of reacting to crisis after crisis, a regenerative economy creates the conditions for systems to thrive, adapt, and evolve.
This bold rethinking of economics for a world in crisis:
Why this book matters now
As climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and inequality accelerate, this work provides a hopeful, rigorous framework for redesigning our economic future one grounded in science, values, and the deep wisdom of natural systems.
After a successful 20-year career on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director of what he calls 'the old JPMorgan', John listened to a persistent inner voice and walked away in 2001 with no plan, but many questions. A few months later he experienced the events of 9/11 firsthand, and after the 2008 Financial Crisis, John created the Capital Institute to explore ever deepening questions about the future of capitalism.
John's revolutionary ideas have been met with wide, global acclaim through his writings, talks, and his 8-week online course 'Introduction to Regenerative Economics'. A member of the Club of Rome, John was featured in the 2021 award winning documentary, Going Circular, with James Lovelock. He lives in Stonington, CT.
]]>This book provides a self-guided 2-3 hour tour of this landmark area which was Sydney's first exclusive suburb. It still retains remnants of its 19th century glory with some nine colonial mansions, but is even more distinctive because of its 20th century Art Deco and Modernist built heritage.
Important Australian architects are represented with five beautiful Art Deco buildings by Emil Sodersten and five Modernist gems by Harry Seidler.
Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay is sited only 2 kms from the city on the harbour with beautiful parks and views. It has a village ambience and contains some of the best restaurants in Sydney.
]]>Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show?
Fewer women are running governments, and the small proportion who make it as CEO has barely budged. The major culprit is right under our noses. Entrenched gender bias about who should be the boss means leadership is mainly seen as a masculine endeavour. And no matter how well qualified and experienced, women continue to be underestimated and face an obstacle course of sexism to get to the decision-making table.
In Breaking the Boss Bias, Catherine Fox sounds the alarm. She argues that toxic sexism woven through processes, beliefs, management, education and leadership norms is keeping privileged men in power, making decisions for us all. It's time for a new way to lead and to unlock the talent being wasted from boss bias.
'Forensically researched, tightly argued, suffused with Fox's trademark wit, Breaking the Boss Bias presents a compelling case for more women leaders and asks the question why are they still so rare?' Jane Caro
'What a wake-up call! We are moving backwards on gender, and the stats for women who come from diverse backgrounds are staggering. This is compulsory reading for all leaders.' Shirley Chowdhary
'No matter what they do or how high they fly, most women know what it feels like to be ignored or left out of decision-making. Instead of being fobbed off with excuses, this important and practical book outlines why it happens and what we can all do about it.' Melissa Doyle AM
'This book isn't just about women but about building a better future for everyone. A powerful and important book for our times and must-read for all leaders.' Kirstin Ferguson AM
'This meticulously researched case for change is exactly what we need to move us from incrementally playing around the edges to sustainable, systemic progress towards gender equality in leadership.' Michelle Ryan
'Catherine cuts through the crippling stereotypes, exposes backlash and bias, delivers disruption and serves up seven steps for real change. She has proven to be Australia's corporate gender equality whisperer.' Natasha Stott Despoja AO
]]>'If we were different people, to write down these words might be to leave them behind us. But words are our artifacts, and I am seeding a trail for the journey, home.'
What does the daughter of a Nakba survivor inherit? It is not property or tangible heirlooms, nor the streets and neighbourhoods of a father's childhood and the deep roots of family who have lived in one place, Jerusalem, for generation upon generation.
Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home.
'Micaela Sahhar's Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is one of the most inventive, thought-provoking and captivating chronicles of Palestinian diasporic life I've had the pleasure of reading. It is a memoir written by a poet, poetry written by a novelist, literature written by an academic it is all these things at once, insisting with a gentle yet unwavering confidence in the power of its unique, brilliantly evocative and genre-defying voice. Sahhar's love for her family, homeland, the details and intimacies of everyday life; for language, history, archives, photographs and the treasured ephemera of a life in diaspora, shine through every line. The result is a book in which every word is deliberate, each line commands attention, each chapter is a world within a world.' Randa Abdel-Fattah, academic and writer, author of 11 Words for Love
'Micaela Sahhar's family history has everything that makes any Palestinian family history worth telling and reading about. On the one hand, a rich culture that ranges from distinctive culinary practices to a distinctive sense of humour, and on the other hand, a tragic settler-colonial history of dispossession and oppression leading to a transnational diasporic existence, and that makes for a characteristic sense of space and place. But this is not any book about Palestine. Sahhar is a superior storyteller with a knack for highlighting evocative details. Storytelling, like any craft, embodies in different degrees the labour of the many people who have told stories about one's subject matter in the past. The more a writer is well-read the more this shows in the historical density and the social complexity of their storytelling. Sahhar's book is definitely dense and socially complex in this way. This could make for 'heavy' reading if it wasn't for Sahhar's superior writing skills. Indeed, I would say that more than anything else, this is a book for people who enjoy good writing, regardless of what the story is about. But of course, it matters what this story is about. This is a book about Palestine and Palestinians, and in the way the book is grounded in both the Palestinian tragedy and the Palestinian unlimited capacity to affirm life, the spirit of anti-colonial resistance animates every one of its pages. Sahhar finishes the book saying that like Mahmoud Darwish's father she hopes that one day she will be able to go to Palestine, to the streets where her family originates from, and shout I am I. And I am here. But in a way, by writing this book, she already does that, if not from Palestine at least from the position she occupies within the transnational space of western colonialism.' Ghassan Hage, professor of anthropology at the University of Melbourne and author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is an aching and tender study of diaspora, grief, memory and history. Sahhar has a masterful voice, playing subtly with tense and form to give agency to a beautifully layered narrative, interwoven with fragments, records and intimate moments of lives permanently changed by Nakba. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate tells an unmissable story of Palestinian survival and resistance across space and time.' Evelyn Araluen, Bundjalung poet and author of Dropbear
'Sahhar chronicles the essential truths of Palestine with intricacy and finesse and in doing so, has crafted a mighty text that demands unbroken attention. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a book that will be read, re-read, dog-eared, underlined and recited.' Hasib Hourani, author of rock flight
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate opens with a recollection of the five-year-old Micaela bobbing off to preparatory school with pigtails, glasses and missing teeth. As she enters the classroom, her sense of self is shattered in a nation that is home but not home, when a teacher butchers her family name and is visibly appalled when told the name is Palestinian. As the child of diaspora, born on the unceded lands of Australia, Micaela is ever conscious of the tension between being in exile on homelands now occupied; and living, working and writing on the occupied lands of Naarm in colonial Australia a site of invasion, and genocide. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate writes of and to dispossession, displacement, trauma, loss, resilience and is testimony to the power of intergenerational story and memory that survives, and lives on so that all those who remain, and their children and children's children remember. In this polyphonic narrative, we hear many voices some still living, others passed, now scattered across nations and continents, yet still connected through home Palestine.' Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri writer, critic, poet and author of Gawimarra: Gathering
'At a time when Israel is literally trying to wipe Palestinians off the map, this book lands with a powerful thud of fury, beauty and resistance. Weaving personal stories with history in all its unvarnished details, Micaela Sahhar delivers a deeply affecting story that articulates one of the great outrages of our time.' Antony Loewenstein, independent journalist, film-maker and author of The Palestine Laboratory
'Find me at the Jaffa Gate is more than a lyrical memoir that binds personal storytelling with global history; Sahhar has built an archive for future generations. Readers interested in tales of migration and ancestral history will find a treasure trove in Sahhar's emotive and detailed offering.' Hellai Gul, Books+Publishing
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate has been one of my favourite books of the year.' Alex Creece, author of Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth and Online Editor at Archer
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a story that traverses time and place, love and hate; it's a story of ongoing and unforgettable Palestinian survival.' Readings
'[Through] beautiful prose, Sahhar pulls together a story, full of gaps and questions, about her Palestinian family, their memories and their connection to home.' Celina Ribeiro, Guardian Australia
'This is a book that is about more than displacement it's about resilience, truth-telling and the fragments of stories that are often forgotten but which form the bones and heart of what it means to Palestinian diaspora.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
'Author and poet Micaela Sahhar's lyrical story of generations of Palestinian diaspora is as timely as ever.' Cheryl Akle, The Weekend Australian
'Sahhar not only reconstitutes an archive of her own family's past, she creates a new archive for the generations that follow.' This Week in Palestine
'Through the lens of her family's history Sahhar successfully immerses the reader in the big history and culture of Palestine, and the experience of being Palestinian.' Rowan Cahill, Journal of Intercultural Studies
'One knows that Find Me at the Jaffa Gate has been percolating for a long time when they read it. Within 48 short chapters, Micaela Sahhar pieces fragments of memory, speculation, and archival research to tell a story of both the construction of her selfhood and Palestinian family: 'not a story about wounds but about the preservation of something all its own'. It is a book full of brilliances even as occupation and exile cause history and geography to cut loose and spin around each other and as Sahhar herself asks, 'What does it mean to be exiled and how do we take our revenge?' Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a gift, a remarkable debut memoir that is simultaneously a work of poetry in its lyricism and feeling; humour, anger, warmth, grief and love eddy in a whirlpool to form a work about sumud and survival.' VPLA judges' report
'No book is as essential for these past two years as Micaela Sahhar's Find Me at the Jaffa Gate.' Winnie Dunn, Sydney Morning Herald
]]>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
]]>In The Power of Choice, award-winning photographer Julian Kingma turns his camera on those who choose assisted dying, and those who help them on their final journey. These intimate portraits, along with essays from Andrew Denton and Richard Flanagan, invite us to ask, perhaps for the first time, what makes a good death.
'Mute and frozen witnesses, we watched Death take this strong man my father and shake him out until he was nothing.'
Andrew Denton
'They choose voluntary assisted dying because they want a good death and not a bad death. Because, dying, they want an end to their suffering, not its indefinite continuation and worsening.'
Richard Flanagan
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]]>Unfinished Revolution tells a fresh story of feminist action in this country, from the largest women's protest rally March4Justice in 2021 to the dynamic Australian Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s. With a focus on gender and power in politics and the media, from national consciousness raising to shifting media narratives, this book is an exploration of what feminist change looks like.
'Here is contemporary history at its best. Virginia Haussegger presents Australian feminism as a promise of liberation that gutsy, passionate and brilliant women have pursued not in waves but persistently, across eras and generations. Unfinished Revolution should be compulsory reading for anyone serious about understanding, in its historical and global context, Australia's own #MeToo "moment" of 2021 as well as the wider possibilities for a resurgent feminism amid continuing gender discrimination, male violence against women and anti-feminist backlash.' Frank Bongiorno AM
'Virginia Haussegger is not just a brilliant journalist, but an original and insightful thinker and feminist. I will read anything she writes. And I recommend you do too.' Jane Caro AM
'In Unfinished Revolution, Virginia Haussegger stares down a terrifying global swing to the far-right and yells: Enough. This is the battle cry we desperately need right now, one that refuses to be watered down into niceties that ask politely for equity. This is a book that dares to fight back, and pulls no punches.' Hannah Ferguson
'At a time of global backlash against women and the women's movement, Unfinished Revolution is a spirited piece of feminist scholarship. It practically hums with righteous fury. For those who were at the pointy end of some of the historical changes in the Australian cultural zeitgeist that it charts, it is a timely reminder of what can, and has been, achieved. It acknowledges that there have been some painful moments along the way. That change is not always linear, that setbacks abound, but none of these things are cause for despondency and complacency. There is a relentless, almost bloody-minded optimism in these pages. It feels like a book which urges women to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and just keep marching.' Louise Milligan
'A brilliant read. And a reminder that feminist change is possible and it's happening right now. Unfinished Revolution honours the Australian feminist movements past and present that have shaped our lives today. A must-read for every young Australian woman ready to build the next chapter of the feminist fight.' Yasmin Poole
'There are fascinating stories here, celebrating revolutions and revolutionaries small and large...Haussegger has done her research thoroughly.' Marian Quartly, Inside Story
]]>A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing so, they reoriented Australia towards the United States years before politicians began to lumber down the same path.
For the artist Mary Cecil Allen, this meant spreading the word about American abstract expressionism. For the naturopath Alice Caporn, it meant evangelising fruit juices and salads. For the swimmer Isabel Letham, it was teaching synchronised swimming. Others imported the latest thinking in dentistry, fashion, design, economics, law, music, medicine and more. They were rebels, they were trailblazers, they were disruptors. Individually, they have extraordinary stories; together, they change the narrative of Australian history.
'Thoughtful and curious, critical and kind, Yves Rees's study of these globetrotting Australian women richly renders their lives and times, as well as contemplating how we reach across time to read them today.' Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
'Fresh, captivating, and full of fantastic women. Yves has somehow managed to assemble the greatest fantasy dinner party you never knew you needed, whilst also uncovering a fascinating and untold side of our history. A real treat.' Zoe Coombs Marr, comedian, performer and actor
'Yves Rees has the remarkable ability to bring history into the present, reminding us all that the only thing that really separates the generations is a linear notion of time. Travelling to Tomorrow gives voice to the women at the forefront of Australia's own "American Revolution". What I love most about Yves is how they bring an unwavering commitment to human rights in their exploration of history, the language of equality ever-present in their handling of the past. In Rees, we have found a historian of rare skill they possess the ability to tell us something we didn't know about something we thought we did.' Clementine Ford, feminist writer, columnist and broadcaster
'This book is a knockout. Yves Rees is that rare historian who thinks like a scholar and writes like a dream the literary equivalent to floating like a butterflying and stinging like a bee. You will want to meet these fearless and feisty women: women not only before their time in forging new geocultural paths to independence but also making their times by putting flesh to the bones of modernity. Rees gives us their stories in full-bodied, hot-blooded fashion. A sheer delight.' Professor Clare Wright OAM, Professor of History, La Trobe University
'Travelling to Tomorrow is a rollicking, bouncing read.' Rachelle Unreich, SMH/The Age (Book of the Week)
'Accessible, entertaining...Rees has a storyteller's knack for engaging the reader.' Kirsten Tranter, Australian Book Review
'a cracking, never-before-told tale.' Nicole Abadee, Spectrum
'Rees' narrative voice is chatty, empathetic, [and] wise. The reader feels like a charming guide is leading a tour of interwar America. All of this makes the book an engrossing read.' Inside Story
]]>The Whitlam government of 197275 appointed a women's advisor to national government - a world first - and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for women, introduced the single mother's benefit and paid maternity leave in the public service, ensured cheap and accessible contraception, funded women's refuges and women's health centres, introduced accessible, no-fault divorce and the Family Court, and much more.
Women and Whitlam brings together three generations - including Elizabeth Evatt, Eva Cox, Patricia Amphlett, Elizabeth Reid, Tanya Plibersek, Heidi Norman, Blair Williams and Ranuka Tandan - to revisit the Whitlam revolution and to build on it for the future.
'Political history at its best.' - Jenny Hocking
'... a reminder that politics can be radical, feminist and one that we can be proud of.' - Yasmin Poole
'Invaluable ... a clarion call to younger generations.' - Virginia Haussegger
'This very readable volume documents a pivotal, revolutionary period in our history.' - Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
]]>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).
]]>Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly blended the personal and the political.
In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift found her opinions were far more progressive than those of many of her fellow Australians.
This new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, is drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. In these 'sneaky little revolutions', as Clift once called them, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for a local film industry - and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.
'My regard for Charmian Clift veers uncomfortably close to veneration, which appals me. The figure of Clift as a messy morality tale about what happens when you run off to be a writer comes at the expense of the work she produced, which is to the contrary searing in its clarity. This collection is a reminder of the work behind the legend: her bent, her conviction, and her cool. And the sentences! Clift's essays evince an ardent attention to life in all its vagaries, which is really the most a person can give.' - Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries
'Charmian Clift was ahead of her time and yet also representative of them. Her essays are a fascinating, thoughtful sometimes judgemental, sometimes lyrical window into an Australia on the brink of change. Whether you always agree with her opinions or not, she writes like a dream and her voice is wry, insightful and self-aware. It is lovely to see her gaining the recognition she has long deserved.' - Jane Caro, Walkley Award winning columnist and author
'When I first stumbled on Clift's essays, twenty or more years ago, these trashy essays written for a disposable occasion seemed to me to have more lightning and quicksilver, more brilliance and more skill of execution, than any Australian writing other than the great novels of Patrick White and Christina Stead.' - Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald
'Reading these essays, it's easy to see why Clift became a cult figure. The chatty, charming and sometimes slightly dippy persona distracts attention just enough from the steely intelligence, the sophisticated sentence structure and the passion for causes that characterise these pieces but might otherwise rather have alarmed her readers ... In an era that hadn't yet thought too much about these things, her columns demonstrated that a woman ... could and should be an active citizen of the world.' - Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Book Review
'From the women's pages of the Sydney Morning Herald, among advertisements for wrinkle cream and mini-skirts ... Clift challenged a complacent society, fashioned a sly and elegant sedition: opposing Vietnam, unmasking materialism, championing equality for women.' - Mark Tredinnick, The Book Bulletin
'These are essays unabashed in their sensuality and liveliness, keenly curious and attuned to mystery and marvel, and they are almost always full of joy.' - Fiona Wright, Sydney Review of Books
]]>Nadia Wheatley is the author of The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift. Described by critic Peter Craven as 'one of the greatest Australian biographies,' this was the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2001, and won the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize (2002). After twenty years it remains the classic account of the life and work of this transformational Australian writer. Nadia Wheatley's other works include the award-winning memoir Her Mother's Daughter. Her most recent book, Radicals Remembering the Sixties, written in partnership with Meredith Burgmann, was published by NewSouth in 2021
]]>Throughout the twentieth century, a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation's status quo. Miles Franklin's forceful voice invigorated the emerging women's movement, Mary Gilmore was a groundbreaking feminist journalist, and novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark explored the colonial displacement of Australia's Indigenous people. Kylie Tennant spoke up for battlers during the Depression. Dymphna Cusack, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Dorothy Hewett, all members of Australia's Communist Party, advocated for social reform. Ruth Park's The Harp in the South jolted the NSW government into developing slum clearance programs. And the work of First Nations poet and activist Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) was crucial in achieving constitutional reform for Indigenous peoples.
Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces these women's stories, shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time, and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.
'Kent brings her cast of writers effortlessly to life.' Jason Steger
'Each of these seven women writers set out, in her own way, to change the world, and this well-researched and engagingly written book makes clear their individual and collective bravery, curiosity and fearlessness.' Heidi Maier, InDaily
'Highly informed, engaging, often wittily observed, this is also an impressively orchestrated study of groundbreaking writers and the tumultuous times they mirrored and interpreted.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
'Inconvenient Women is a fluent stream of fascinating detail. It brings to the fore names half-remembered now, their collaborations with activist men such as Guido Baracchi and Egon Kisch as well as other women, and the political environment they all operated in. Once begun, it is difficult to put down: you'll finish with dozens of notes to follow up.' Miriam Cosic, The Saturday Paper
]]>Together, stories of women from Anna Blackwell and Flora Shaw to Janet Mitchell and Caroline Isaacson, illustrate the gains and setbacks of women journalists over nearly a century. In each successive story, the tenacious determination of these women stands clear against the background of the prevailing patriarchy.
Patricia Clarke was a trailblazer herself as the only woman on the Melbourne staff at the Australian News and Information Bureau in the early 1950s. In a detailed epilogue, Patricia shares stories of her own life and career in the days of crowded newsrooms, clattering typewriters, and overflowing cigarette trays.
The book also features an introduction by Amy Remeikis, political reporter at Guardian Australia, who reflects on the struggles and achievements of her early counterparts as well as the current working environment for women journalists.
Bold Types is a book that will resound with and inspire today's audience, in a world where women are still fighting for equal rights and often, respect in the workplace.
]]>Amy Remeikisis the political reporter for The Guardian. She writes on the major political issues in Australia, crime, the courts and the environment. She is a regular panellist on the ABC's Insiders program and was the inaugural nominee for the Young Walkley awards.
]]>What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes even if they are also motivated by racism, antisemitism, or xenophobia. The antigovernment militiamen charged with plotting to kidnap and execute Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer used language saturated with misogyny, with one telling an FBI informant, 'Just grab the bitch'. The men who killed scores at Virginia Tech, the Pulse nightclub, and a Maryland newsroom all had prior reports of stalking, domestic violence, or harassment of women. And in dozens of other incidents from North America to Norway to New Zealand an increasing number of misogynist incel (involuntary celibate) and male supremacist attackers have explicitly targeted and killed women, blaming feminism or sexual frustration with women as motivation for their attacks.
Yet, despite all evidence, the bright red thread of misogyny running through these attacks is barely acknowledged by the media or even experts and this failing leaves us powerless to stop the violence. In Man Up, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, addresses this crucial oversight head-on, revealing how an epidemic of misogyny both online and off and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence. She also offers essential strategies that all of us including parents, teachers, and counselors can use to fight the rising tide of violence, beginning with recognising the misogyny that pervades our everyday lives.
]]>Sarah is a brown female doctor who emigrated to Australia in the 1990s. Her journey to becoming a paediatrician has been challenging, right from the schoolyard. As a minority, she was perceived as different. She tried hard to blend in, but she was unfamiliar to her peers. No brown heroines in the fairytales she was exposed to left her with few role models. As an adult, a graduate in the medical world, she experienced a new kind of obstacle: being female in a male-driven hospital environment.
When she eventually walked across the stage to get her paediatric letters, with a drip in her arm, a pregnant belly, a toddler on her hip and heels that could shatter a glass ceiling, victory was bittersweet.
In the spirit of Dr Neela Janakiramanan's The Registrar, Sarah Malik's Desi Girl and Anita Rani's The Right Sort of Girl, this is a story of grit and determination, hope and self-discovery. It is a powerful call for social change and a greater acceptance of diversity.
]]>From the earliest days of civilization, alcohol has been at the centre of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? And why have bars long been considered 'places for men' when, without women, they might not even exist?
With whip-smart insight and boundless curiosity, Girly Drinks unveils an entire untold history of the female distillers, drinkers and brewers who have played a vital role in the creation and consumption of alcohol, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to iconic 1920s bartender Ada Coleman. Filling a crucial gap in culinary history, O'Meara dismantles the long-standing patriarchal traditions at the heart of these very drinking cultures, in the hope that readers everywhere can look to each celebrated woman in this book - and proudly have what she's having.
'Girly Drinks is anything but - a raw shot of boozy history that stings as well as it soothes!' - Patton Oswalt
'[A] thorough, and thoroughly entertaining, history... Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context... O'Meara glides easily from the 17th-century pulquerias of Mexico to the feminine 'fern bars' of the 1970s, making sure to not to forget the queen of girly drinks: the Cosmopolitan. Provoking both thought and laughter, this serves as bracing refreshment from a master textual mixologist.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
'At last, the feminist history of booze we've been waiting for!' - Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
'Feminist and very funny... O'Meara deftly blends in equal measures of social history, gossip, and solid research, and adds enjoyable footnotes... women have discovered, invented, advanced, championed, and celebrated alcohol.' Booklist
'This is a book that should be on any beverage alcohol enthusiast's shelf.' American Whiskey Magazine
'[In Girly Drinks] Mallory O'Meara... returns to the realm of historically overlooked women who did extremely cool sh*t with a feminist history of drinking through the ages.' Lit Hub
'An insightful, entertaining feminist history of women and alcohol through the ages.' USA Today
'With this lively book Mallory O'Meara has provided a real service, giving us not only a long-overdue new perspective on a great many familiar issues, but also raising all kinds of other issues that are unfamiliar and shouldn't be.' - David Wondrich, author of Imbibe
'Cheers to Mallory O'Meara and her serious yet seriously entertaining treatise on the history of gendered drinks. Girly Drinks will introduce you to queens and nuns, bootleggers and bartenders, telling their stories and proving the point that all drinks are girly drinks.' - Jeanette Hurt, author of Wisconsin Cocktails and Drink Like a Woman
]]>In recent years, 'white feminism' and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.
Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategising that is truly antifascist.
At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.
'Touring different feminisms over time like those that are steeped in transphobia and anti-sex sentiment, Lewis asserts that not all feminism is net good, and we need to watch out for the types that are counterproductive at best, violent and hateful at worst.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
]]>The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women's ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.
]]>In Tasmania, strange lights appear in the skies every summer, signalling we're part of something bigger than the world of our worries. Bigger even than our hopes. When economic pressures force the Greys to live together for one season the first time in 12 years since Noah left home after college tensions are high.
Things get weird as locals become increasingly convinced the residents at this Hobart address have been targeted for alien abduction. As the summer unfolds Noah accepts things will never be normal again, even though his measure is the simplest of all. Family love.
Brendan Colley's The Season for Flying Saucers is strange, alluring and tender a love letter to hope.
]]>Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart family home. Geo needs the money to finance his musical career in Italy. For Wes the house represents the memory of their father, and what it means to live an honest, working life.
But then a ghost train appears in Hobart, often on the tram tracks that once existed, along with the Swedish man who has been pursuing it for 40 years.
Everyone it seems is chasing their dreams. Or are they running from the truth?
The Signal Line is a warm-hearted, unforgettable novel about what we are all searching for, even when our personal dreams and aspirations have collapsed: love and acceptance.
'My favourite kind of book one that lets you see the world differently. It relocates the line between reality and fantasy, letting through an exhilarating strangeness. I felt the unbelievable become entirely natural. I loved every minute of it.' - Rohan Wilson, author of To Name Those Lost and Daughter of Bad Times
]]>Now, with a bottle of premixed margarita jiggling in the cupholder and the narrator's brand-new garbage goth bestie, Yivi, screaming through night terrors in the passenger seat, our hero hurtles toward a family reunion from hell. Along the way, they experiment with Yivi's mystery pills, elude a relentless stalker and outrun some cops who believe the narrator committed a tragic murder.
An unflinching interrogation of class rage, economic (im)mobility, gender expression, the rot at the heart of capitalism and the political bloodbath dividing so many American families, Make Sure You Die Screaming is the loud, funny, suspenseful road trip novel of our times.
'Make Sure You Die Screaming roars to life from page one and never lets up. It's a Fear and Loathing for the generation devastated by the generation that brought us Fear and Loathing.' Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
'Zee Carlstrom's chaotic joyride had me holding on for dear life. This iconic road-trip novel is a balm for a bleak, uncertain world.' Vanessa Walters, author of The Lagos Wife
'I loved every loud, messy page. Zee Carlstrom is the first writer to make me feel better about my own life choices.' Sam Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You
'Make Sure You Die Screaming is the debut novel our country needs (but doesn't deserve). It's a tight little banger about the shared delusion of family that left my heart, as Zee Carlstrom's head-wounded narrator would say, "as full as my bladder", because putting it down long enough to pee was out of the question.' Ruth Madievsky, bestselling author of All-Night Pharmacy
'Zee Carlstrom's debut blends asphalt-black comedy with the greasy darkness pervading the nuclear family, the workplace, and the US itself. They should hand this book to anyone who leaves a hair salon with a mullet on purpose.' Calvin Kalsulke, author of Several People Are Typing
'Whether you're grieving a person or a country, Make Sure You Die Screaming is the novel for you.' Holly Wilson, author of Kittentits
]]>First published in 1961, The Way to Colonos recasts three seminal plays by Sophocles into tales of modern women and warfare, probing their characters with savage intimacy. Antigone a stylish woman in her thirties wheeling her father, Oedipus, onto the ferry to Colonos, is disgusted by his self-absorption, guilt, and evasions. A suburban Electra dreams of a bloody confrontation with her mother, Clytemnestra, that may never come to pass. Philoctetes, a castaway soldier, navigates shifting allegiances in a guerrilla war that divided Greece after World War II.
As Rachel Cusk writes in her foreword to this new edition, Cicellis was a woman before her time, whose work written in English, her second language offers particularly 'shocking insight into the secret lives of young women' and is only now 'free to reach readers with an appetite for female artistic authority, who wish to see the world through sharp fresh eyes.'
]]>Rachel Cusk is the author of Second Place, the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Paris.
]]>Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama is a collection of prose poems that invites the reader to consider the relationships between internalised beliefs and the development of illness, drawing on psychology texts and the language of self-help, and the exploration of character traits and dramatic tropes. Wheels fall off to create drama. Through shifting frames of reference, wordplay, aphorism, and inversions, the poems reform, unfold and rebound to create a collage of melancholy and comic transformations. One thing leads to a mother. Butcher-McGunnigle's poems explore the relationship between unexamined subconscious thinking and physical and mental health, resisting singular, fixed meanings and inviting the reader to reflect on their own experiences.
Praise for Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life:
'Full of moments that, to me, are perfect...consummately whole, exactly right, every element in glowering harmony, as densely fixed as a neutron star.' Ursula Robinson-Shaw, Sydney Review of Books
]]>In Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, an unnamed young woman in her late twenties navigates unemployment, boredom, chronic illness and online dating. Her activities are banal - applying for jobs, looking up horoscopes, managing depression, going on Tinder dates.
'I want to tell someone I love them but there is no one to tell,' she says. 'Except my sister maybe. I want to pick blackberries on a farm and then die.' She observes the ambiguities of social interactions, the absurd intimacies of sex and the indignity of everyday events, with a skepticism about the possibility of genuine emotion, or enlightenment. Like life, things are just unfolding, and sometimes, like life, they don't actually get better. Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's novella-in-fragments blends artifice with sincerity, is darkly funny, and alive to the incongruous performance that constitutes getting by.
'Written in a fragmentary form reminiscent of Renata Adler, Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Zarah Butcher-McCunningle's deadpan fiction debut, documents an unnamed young protagonist's listless existence in an unnamed city. The book's droll dispatches from daily life under late capitalism recall the writing of the author's New Zealand contemporaries Hera Lindsay Bird and Eamonn Marra, but Butcher-McCunnigle's distinctive voice is her own... Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life is a grimly funny rendering of the absurdity of life in the 2020s-an era in which, with nowhere to turn, the hopeless millennial turns in on herself.' - Kelsey Oldham, Books+Publishing
Praise for Autobiography of a Marguerite:
'Workbook for surviving illness, guide to familial dysfunction and an intersection between fact and fiction...one of the most innovative New Zealand books published in recent years.' - Booknotes 'Books of the Year'
'The writing goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repair...Butcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards.' - takah magazine
]]>'One of the most innovative New Zealand books published in recent years.' Siobhan Harvey, Booknotes 'Books of the Year 2014'
'Astonishing...This poetry is unlike anything I have seen.' Paula Green
'A grand achievement. The writing goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repair...Butcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards.' Sue Wootton, Takahe
]]>This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvellous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family.
The renowned poet and literature professor Refaat Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside his brother, sister, and nephews in December 2023. He was just forty-four years old, but had already established a worldwide reputation that was further enhanced when, in the wake of his death, the poem that gives this book its title became a global sensation. 'If I Must Die' is included here, alongside Refaat's other poetry.
Refaat wrote extensively about a range of topics: teaching Shakespeare and the way Shylock could be appreciated by young Palestinian students; the horrors of living under repeated brutal assaults in Gaza, one of which, in 2014, killed another of his brothers; and the generosity of Palestinians to each other, fighting, in the face of it all, to be the one paying at the supermarket checkout.
Such pieces, some never before published, have been curated here by one of Refaat's closest friends and collaborators. This collection forms a fitting testament to a remarkable writer, educator, and activist, one whose voice will not be silenced by death but will continue to assert the power of learning and humanism in the face of barbarity.
]]>Through the dialogue of two consciousnesses intimate, questioning, and profoundly attuned Jaireth explores the porous boundaries between the human and the elemental. Rivers become voices, rocks become listeners, and words themselves turn liquid, carrying echoes of the world's oldest stories.
A work of rare beauty and wisdom, Lamentations is both a hymn to water and a quiet reckoning with what it means to belong to a place, to another, and to the earth itself.
]]>His published works include three books of poems: Golee Lagne se Pahle (Before the Bullet Hit Me) (Vani Prakashan, 1994); Unfinished Poems for Your Violin (Penguin Australia, 1996); Yashodhara: Six Seasons Without You (Wild Peony, 2003); and five books of prose fiction and non-fiction: To Silence: Three Autobiographies (Puncher & Wattmann, 2011); After Love (Transit Lounge, 2012); Moments (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014); Incantations (Recent Work Press, 2016).
His most recent books include a collection of essays titled Spinoza's Overcoat: Travels with Writers and Poets (Transit Lounge, 2020), which won the 2021 ACT Book of the Year, a book of translation from Hindi, Rain Clouds: Love Songs of Meerabai (Recent Work Press, 2020), Aflame (Gazebo Books/Life Before Man, 2021), and George Orwell's Elephant and Other Essays (Gazebo Books, 2024).
]]>A Little Better Elsewhere is a poignant anthology that grapples with the complexities of nostalgia. From intimate reflections on childhood innocence to powerful depictions of grief, love and change, this collection of short stories, essays and poetry celebrates the diverse insights of Australia's emerging writers.
With a foreword written by Sarah Ayoub, A Little Better Elsewhere weaves together experiences of joy, longing, sadness and comfort, challenging us to consider whether nostalgia helps us make peace with the past or keeps us trapped in its shadow.
]]>Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist and best-selling author based in Sydney. Sarah attained her PhD with a thesis examining migrant narratives in Australian teen lit and currently lectures in journalism and writing at the University of Sydney and the University of Notre Dame. She has been a Stella Prize Schools Ambassador, hosted writing workshops with the Australian High Commission in Brunei, and most recently been a judge for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards. She is a former writer-in-residence of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and currently sits on the board of the Australian Society of Authors. Her work has appeared in various print and online publications. Her books include Hate is Such a Strong Word, and The Yearbook Committee and The Cult of Romance.
]]>First published in 1927, this novel by husband-and-wife writing duo Rosalie and Edward Synton (real surname Corse-Scott) has been lost for nearly a century and returns now from the Library collections to deliver its occult thrills anew.
]]>'Very little human company,' she replied.
On a moonlit night, a wearied traveller dressed as the Devil calls at the mossy gates of Holcot Grange. Fleeing some bloody misadventure in London, the stranger claims to be heir to the manor which for generations has remained lordless. But among its benighted tenants the enthralling beauty Julia Roseingrave has been waiting and now her means of escape has arrived. As whispers of witchcraft echo through the grounds and the boundaries between lord and servant fray, a cursed romance begins to smoulder and the spectre of death draws near.
First published in 1933, this historical novella of Gothic love returns to print alongside six deliciously dark short tales from the British Library vaults, bubbling with wickedness and the occult.
]]>What are they going to do with that boy? A large farm family has been cursed: they have a son with artistic talent! Yet it's a very specific calling: he's obsessed with drawing cats. When they pack him off to the temple for some serious monk training, his doodling only increases.
But talent and fortitude save the day. Threatened by a ferocious rat goblin, his fantastic felines come to life in the night and defend their creator. These artsy kittens have real claws!
A powerful testament to being yourself and finding your true calling, The Boy Who Drew Cats will delight readers of all ages. Lafcadio Hearn's classic retelling finds the perfect pairing in Kreituse's fabulous and whimsical artwork.
]]>Anita Kreituse is a Latvian artist, painter and illustrator. She worked as a magazine art director, book illustrator, illustrator for package design, stage and costume designer and is a member of Aritsts' Union of Latvia since 1992 and has participated in numerous important art exhibitions. Her illustrations of Puika, kas zimeja kakus (The Boy Who Drew Cats) were nominated for Janis Baltvilks Prize in 2017.
]]>This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynamic voice in Japanese early Modernist poetry to English-language readers. Goat Songs and Songs of Bygone Days the two volumes that Chuya prepared for publication during his brief lifetime are presented in luminous translations by poet Christian Nagle that capture the music, formal integrity and soul of the original poems.
With an extensive biographical and critical introduction, foreword by leading Chuya scholar Mikiro Sasaki, rare archival photographs and informative notes, this volume offers an indispensable gateway to one of Japan's most brilliant writers.
With free online audio recordings of the poems in Japanese and English.
]]>Christian Nagle, PhD, is a poet, musician and filmmaker. His award-winning work has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Raritan, Subtropics, AGNI, and other leading publications. For more than two decades he has divided his time between Tokyo and Alexandria, Virginia, translating the poetry of Chuya Nakahara and co-directing The Brothers Murasaki film group, whose documentaries about Japanese culture include Carriers and Six Beats to Heaven.
Mikiro Sasaki is a poet and leading authority on Chuya Nakahara. He is the editor of Chuya's collected works and the author of Chuya Nakahara: The Music of Silence, as well as over ten volumes of poetry, essays and criticism.
]]>Whether you're a die-hard gearhead or a lover of cinematic spectacle, this collector's edition is a must-have tribute to the artistry of F1 The Movie and the adrenaline-fuelled world of FORMULA 1 itself. Through in-depth interviews with director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun: Maverick), star and producer Brad Pitt, and cast members Damson Idris, Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon, readers will discover how Hollywood's biggest filmmakers and stars brought the world of FORMULA 1 to the big screen. From casting and training, to innovative filming techniquest, to filming at actual Grand Prix events around the world, the book reveals how precision, preparation, and passion collided in this groundbreaking production.
Packed with stunning and exclusive photos of the film and its production, storyboards, concept drawings, and behind-the-scenes imagery of the cars and the featured racing tracks, props, costumes, set designs and much more, F1 The Movie is both a celebration of an epic film and an homage to FORMULA 1.
F1 The Movie also includes special 'under the hood' access that will appeal to FORMULA 1 fans, delving into the cutting-edge engineering and innovation that define the sport of racing. Racing enthusiasts and cinephiles will revel in explorations of the cars' design and capabilities, from detailed sketches, to interviews with the design team, to exclusive documentation of the film's scenes at Grand Prix weekends, and beyond.
]]>Considered to be one of America's first ghost stories, the 1820 short story follows a schoolteacher who is competing against a farmer for a woman's hand. One night, he is haunted by the ghost of a headless horseman.
Inspired by folk stories he'd heard when travelling abroad, Washington Irving incorporated themes of superstition and greed into the short story. The legend has been celebrated for 200 years, and every Halloween, the headless horseman can be seen in the village of Sleepy Hollow.
]]>These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses into the poet's own everyday life from nit-combing and laundry to pollen counts and cocktails, watching school plays to shopping on Rye Lane all whilst in conversation with female poets through the ages.Playing with forms from the version to the glosa, these are poems that remix, adapt and channel figures from Enheduanna, the first recorded poet, through to Wanda Coleman. Probing the idea of the 'Poetess' over time, there are also poems about writers' lives sonnets for Anne Locke, who wrote the first English sonnet sequence; a sestina for Elizabeth Bishop; a series of prose poems about Emily Bronte; and a look at the tragic life of L.E.L.
Whether imagining a 'three-martini afternoon' at the Ritz with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, or exploring the ways women writers have been erased from the canon in the book's long, closing poem, Clare Pollard's playful sixth collection celebrates and commemorates all those female poets who have come before.
]]>What does love look like when you are not interested in sex?
Growing up, Caitlin Cook knew the recipe for social success from watching television and reading books: two best friends, two enemies, and a boyfriend. So she arranged her life accordingly: making friends and dreaming of the boys she met in school.
But she felt that inside, something was wrong with her. Because though she wanted to get close to people, every time she experimented with sex, she just felt bored.
This graphic novel follows Caitlin Cook, who is asexual but does not yet fully realise it. From evangelical purity politics to the footloose college campus, Caitlin navigates different worlds each with their own sexual orthodoxies, and clumsily attempts to fit into each of them. A thoughtful and immersive coming-of-age memoir about one girl's struggle to figure out and then claim her asexual identity.
]]>MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Vol. 6 celebrates HORROR, from demons and ghosts to the myriad existential and environmental fears that come with living in our troubled times. MONKEY offers short fiction and poetry by writers such as Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, and Hiromi Kawakami; graphic stories by Satoshi Kitamura; new translations of modern classics; and contributions from authors outside Japan.
]]>Motoyuki Shibata translates American literature and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY. He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson, Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers, among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018. His recent translations include Eric McCormack's Cloud and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. He is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.
]]>Set against a backdrop of Australia's central deserts, The Dingo's Noctuary explores themes of identity, belonging, and the fragile threads that connect all living beings. At the heart of the tale is a soul's dark night, the flight of a lady motorcyclist, in the prime of her invisibility, and her mongrel dingo Moon, into the Tanami desert. She's searching for a caravan of miraculous dog-headed beings, glimpsed in dreams and the dementia tales of an old desert lady.
The Dingo's Noctuary is an illustrated verse novel, complete at 70,500 words. It includes accurate hand drawn maps of the Australian central deserts, pressings of rare plants, and forty-seven lumachrome glass prints, afterlife portraits of animals and birds. The story unfolds through combinations of poetry and prose, alongside visual images- maps of land and stars, plant pressings, and forty-seven afterlife portraits of animals and birds. It is a single-authored book in which the images and texts are equally weighted. The book was written over thirty-seven desert crossings, sometimes on the motorcycle with the dog on the back. The entire second half of the book was written on a typewriter after a motorcycle crash (the unsuccessful 37th crossing) left me unable to use a computer. I made a motorcycle blog about one of the journeys in this book here https://judithnangalacrispin.medium.com.
Work from The Dingo's Noctuary has received a number of awards and prizes including the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry. It was highly commended in the 2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Milburn Art Prize, the 2023 and 2025 Ravenswood Prizes for Australian Women's Art, and the 2019 Olive Cotton Prize. Images and texts from this book were included in the Lunar Codex time-capsule which was deposited on the moon as part of the Blue Ghost mission in 2024. A mock-up of the complete book was shortlisted for the 2023 Arles Luma Recontres Dummy Book Prize.
]]>Ender Bakan's debut poetry collection depicts the intensity of life as a parent of young children. It maps the shifting trains of thought which go with the experience of being a new parent, when one's attention is drawn in many different directions between child-rearing and house-keeping, domestic crises, the need to earn a living, and the responsibilities you have to the past as well as to the future, to your own parents and grandparents, as well as to your children. Work, friendships, social life and creative practice are all altered. The poet reflects on his own childhood, and his grandparents' exile from their homeland in Turkey, to which he returns several times in the course of the book, with his own young family. But there is also an increased awareness of the future, not only to the world his children will grow up in, but to the kind of world that is being built right now, in homes, workplaces, and in social and political allegiances.
Perhaps most tellingly, since Ender Bakan is a poet, he is subsumed in the flood of language, as it emerges from the mouths of his youngsters, indeed from his own mouth, as he talks to them. Words and sounds and the effects of language come to the fore. The imagination of children lends its own wonder and surrealism to that of the poet. His writing is direct, playful, absurd, staunch and political. In these respects, Bakan follows in the footsteps of the previous generation of Australia's poets of migrant background, all of them masters of language Pi.O., Chris Mann, Antigone Kefala and above all the late Ania Walwicz, his close friend and mentor.
'Two Hundred Million Musketeers is a compelling debut which weaves the idiosyncrasies of the world into its pages. Bakan's poetics are lively and utterly ungovernable, in his refusal to bend to the idea of what a poetry collection should be. Bakan's spirited stream-of-consciousness invites the reader into the family of this collection, by drawing from the imaginative language of children, the peculiarities of waged labour and the return to his ancestral home of Turkey. The lived world, with its clamour and complexity, spills out of the book in unexpected ways.' VPLA judges' report
]]>KONTRA enacts a poetics of clashing decadences, testing the tightrope between 'feminine' goodness and deviance, desire and refusal, reverence and repulsion. It casts a female gaze on the kontrabida a Filipina soap opera villain stuck in a rise-and-fall cycle. The poet reimagines the kontrabida as a figure driven not by revenge, but by wild desire. Oscillating in and out of character, Andrada navigates the tension between poet and persona. Alongside the shapeshifting, spectral force of the kontrabida, the poet invokes a chorus of voices to trace a lineage of opposition and the alternate futures it holds.
The collection is in the form of a narrative triptych. The opening section 'KONTRA' explores the power and fate of the oppositional figure. In 'OPER', two characters speak alongside each other to excise painful histories of domination and sexual assault; which moves us forward to the final section 'BIDA', to a more genuine, queer persona that is free from domination.
Praise for Eunice Andrada:
'Brilliant and devastating, TAKE CARE is no doubt one of the most important poetry releases in years, weaving complex themes with intelligence and innovation of form...A poet whose courage is necessary and whose words we all need.' Ellen van Neerven
'TAKE CARE is the live wire of poetry that does not spare us...each poem both a surrender and a severing, each page an urgent demand we do not look away from violence, from its banal to its most grotesque, and each word filled with as much purpose and energy as it is with tenderness and care.' Sara Saleh
]]>The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife.
We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heatwave, we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, she destroyed it. The horror-scape left in her wake is not unlike the films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror movies on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their relationship. In high school, they were each other's lifeline two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down. Yet when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself very uncharacteristically surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her out
In Cannon, Lee Lai's follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a part of what is on offer. Lai's sharp sense of humour and sensitive eye produce a story that explores the intimacy of queer friendship and weight of family responsibility, and breaks open the question of what we owe both to each other and to ourselves.
'In Cannon, Lee Lai has performed a rare and powerful act of alchemy the images, narrative, and writing not only capture a life, but combine so that the book itself feels alive.' Torrey Peters
'Beguilingly drawn, Cannon depicts a wide spectrum of adulthood with nuance and complexity. From one story unravels many stories, about friendships, situationships, work, familial obligations. I was struck by its attention and care.' Ling Ma
'A beautifully drawn slice of life, filled with the kind of intimate, specific details that make the best fiction seem autobiographical.' Adrian Tomine
'It's rare, and precious, when a moment in a movie, in a poem, in a comic surges up at you as being True. And in Cannon, Lee Lai does it again and again.' Eleanor Davis
]]>Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri.
Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil Dracula.
The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society's monsters and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
'A really charming and fun reworking of the Dracula story.' Sian Cain, The Guardian Australia
'This is absolutely one of my favourite reads ever it's adventurous, imaginative, emotional, humorous, palpably queer and full of characters that I would follow into the furthest reaches of space just for the banter. Anyone who loves imaginative fiction full of adventure and lovable characters will love this book.' Jemimah Brewster, ArtsHub
'I'm normally not too interested in reboots and remakes (God knows we are in a crisis of unoriginality right now) but this bonkers re-telling of Dracula has me intrigued.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
]]>He can, if he is accompanied by a black rooster, his protector and friend. And if he is Martin, orphaned after a massacre, full of wisdom, courage and a pure heart. Too good for the selfish and idiotic villagers around him, his integrity entrances an itinerant painter with whom he departs on a quest. His heroic adventures through a morally abhorrent landscape, physically ravaged by war and famine, keep the reader cheering for him and his companion as this fairy tale for adults unfolds.
Set against a pseudo-medieval post-apocalyptic backdrop reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Angela Carter and Missouri Williams, this bestselling novel shines with the inner radiance of good deed in a naughty world that will leave you haunted, horrified, and completely riveted.
'This novel is a danse macabre, a memento mori, a vision of good and evil pared down to the bones. Boy with a Black Rooster beckons the reader into a nightmare landscape of war, famine, plague and madness, and Stefanie vor Schulte's storytelling verve is such that we make the journey gladly.' Sam Thompson, author of Communion Town, Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
'Wow, what a book! Fabular but true, this meticulously crafted and deceptively simple tale stole my heart, broke it, and put it back together again. Vor Schulte is unflinching in her depiction of the worst of humankind, its cruelty and violence, but she also shows how love and kindness can flourish in even the darkest times. A beautiful, heart-rending book.' Victoria MacKenzie, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
'This appears light as a feather, yet elaborately crafted all the same.' Rose-Maria Gropp
'It feels like an old story, one of those that stays with you forever, but every part of it is surprising and wonderful. I want to go straight back and read it all again.' Sin Hughes, author of Pearl
'A debut that is both admirable and truly unique.' Jean-Baptiste Hamelin, Page des Libraires
'Halfway between macabre tale and surrealist epic.' Camille Thomine, Lire magazine litteraire
]]>Alexandra Roesch studied languages and business and worked in banking before becoming a literary translator. In 2018, she was long-listed for the Goethe Institute's Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize. Previously translated authors include Hans Fallada, Seraina Kobler and Merle Krger.
]]>Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritage, with profiling one of the last living witnesses of the Nakba, the violent expulsion of native Palestinians by the nascent state of Israel in 1948. Confident that the old man will be all too happy to go on record, the reporters are nonplussed when they are repeatedly, and obscenely, rebuffed. This living witness to history, this secular saint, has no desire to be interviewed, no desire for his memories to be preserved, no desire to serve as an inspiration for the youth of tomorrow. What he wants is to be left alone.
As threats from the team's editor-in-chief put more and more pressure on the journalists, they must decide just how far they're willing to go to get the old man on the record. After all, what possible weight can one stubborn demand for privacy have when balanced against the imperative to bear witness?
Omar Khalifah's debut novel Sand-Catcher is at once a polyphonic satire and a tightly plotted tale of suspense. Walking the line between gallows humour, rage, and depthless heartbreak, it is a unique reflection of contemporary Palestinian identity in all its facets.
]]>Barbara Romaine is an academic and literary translator. She has published translations of five novels, most recently Waiting for the Past (Syracuse University Press, 2022), by the Iraqi novelist Hadiya Hussein. She has held two NEA fellowships in translation, one of which was for her work on Radwa Ashour's Spectres (Interlink Books, 2011). Spectres went on to place second in the 2011 Saif Ghobash-Banipal international translation competition. Romaine's translations of essays, short stories, and classical poetry have appeared in a variety of literary periodicals.
]]>More than a hundred years have passed since the Smi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba's ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts, Labba shares, citing the Smi poet illoha. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Smi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today's world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.
When Norway became a country independent from Sweden in 1905, the two nations came to an agreement that called for the displacement of the Northern Smi, who spent summers on the Norwegian coast and winters in Sweden. This "dislocation," as the authorities called it, gave rise to a new word in Smi language, bggojohtin, forced displacement. The first of the sirdolaat, or "the displaced," left their homes fully believing they would soon return. Through stories, photographs, letters, and joik lyrics, Labba gathers a chorus of Smi expression that resonates across the years, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship and challenges they endured: children left behind with relatives, reindeer lost when they returned to familiar territory, sorrow and estrangement that linger through generations.
Starkly poetic and emotionally heart-wrenching, this dark history is told through the voices of the sirdolaat, echoing the displacements of other Indigenous people around the world as it depicts the singular experience of the Northern Smi. For her extraordinary work, Labba was awarded Sweden's most important national book prize in 2020, the August Prize for Best Nonfiction.
]]>Fiona Graham is a British translator living in Belgium. She translated Elisabeth sbrink's 1947: When Now Begins, which was an English PEN award winner and a National Public Radio Best Book of the Year.
]]>The stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning.
With gravity and humor, against the backdrop of a violent civilisation, people are depicted as fallen, or waiting to fall, rendered by Tich with the fury, compassion and emotional complexity of Kendrick Lamar.
]]>Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. Her translation of Andrzej Tich's novel Wretchedness won the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2021 Bernard Shaw Prize. She has a PhD in the use of slang in contemporary Swedish and English literature.
]]>Set between the Blue Mountains and a Sydney hospital, Lisa Kenway's All You Took From Me is a thriller brimming with great characters and nail-biting tension.
Anaesthetist Clare Carpenter has just lost her husband and her memory in a single-vehicle accident. So why is a stranger following her? After questioning patients about their dreams, she becomes convinced that an anaesthetic drug might help her access missing memories. But there's no way to be certain without jeopardising her career or her life.
As unexplained threats escalate, Clare realises she must take matters into her own hands to learn the uncomfortable truth about her secretive husband, his connection to a mysterious club and what she did to trigger a stranger's crusade for vengeance. But how far will she go?
'Truly exciting. It's a rare treat to read a book that I am still thinking about long after the last page - the surprising reveals are both earned and satisfying. Readers are destined to fall in love with the ways Kenway brings such expertise and a unique perspective to the psychological thriller genre.' - Shelley Burr, author of Wake and Ripper
'A taut psychological thriller with a driving plot, All You Took From Me interrogates the limits of memory, both lost and recovered. From its compelling opening mystery, every page bristles with threat and intrigue.' - Ashley Kalagian Blunt, bestselling author of Dark Mode
'Kenway brings an exciting level of insider authenticity to this simmering drama about an anaesthetist struggling to make sense of a life unspooling in the aftermath of a tragic accident. Tense, twisty and unique, this is an unforgettable debut.' - Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place and Red River Road
'I found myself first pulled in by the prose - Kenway writes like a dream - but soon I was consumed by the mystery at the heart of the story the question of where we go and what happens to us under the narcotic oblivion of anaesthesia. Charged with menace and paranoia, this is a masterfully plotted psychological thriller.' - J. P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing and 17 Years Later
]]>When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town of Ballina, she finds that there is more than a physical distance separating her from her adult daughters. Bernie loves her daughters, but the problem she realises is with the way she loved them.
Bernie's daughter Susie is professionally successful, but her feelings remain distant, even to herself. When she takes on the responsibility for caring for her niece, the pieces of her life finally snap into place. The inexplicable disappearance of an aeroplane though, plunges her life into mystery once again.
Morally acute and dazzlingly accomplished, this is an affecting novel about loneliness, love, family and the need to feel.
'Deeply rewarding. Shirm dances with a light step across the delicate territory between laughing and weeping.' - Helen Garner
'Deft, original and clever; this novel unfolds a drama of family distance, kindness and the surprising endurance of love.' - Gail Jones
]]>In a novel haunted by the strangeness and yearnings of a displaced community both beautiful and fractured Ch'anzu is forced to confront hir many demons. Back in the city, brother Tex has gone missing. In Serengotti violence and infidelity simmer.
This is a novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything. It's also a tender remembrance of the many who haven't or couldn't survive the dislocations and tragedies of their turbulent pasts.
'Thrillingly alive, visceral, funny, and poetic, this is a story of what happens after your world falls apart, and you are forced to piece together a new one - a bittersweet tale of love, desire and kin, of what we carry and what holds us afloat. A novel that dances with a haunted grace, with characters who will sear themselves into your memory.' - David Carlin, award-winning author and editor of eight books, including The After-Normal, Our Father Who Wasn't There and AZ of Creative Writing Method
'An energetic, provocative exploration of racial identity, sexuality and the crucial need for community. The novel brilliantly combines crime and romance, gritty realist dialogue and sumptuous language, caustic humour and emotional gravity, to evoke different and unexpected ways of seeing and being in the world.' - Susan Midalia, award-winning author of A History of the Beanbag, An Unknown Sky and Feet to the Star
'Bacon's voice is unique. Her African Australian perspective resonates ... Characters living on the edge, love lost and found, here's a story of striking honesty.' - Anne Maria Nicholson, journalist and author of Poker Protocol, Pliny's Warning and Weeping Water
]]>Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections. She's a finalist in the 2022 World Fantasy Award. Eugen was announced in the honour list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. Her short story collection Danged Black Thing made the 2021 Otherwise Honor List. Eugen has won, been longlisted or commended in international awards, including the Aurealis Award, Foreword Indies, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise, Rhysling, Elgin, Australian Shadows, Ditmar Award and Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Visit her website at eugenbacon.com and Twitter feed @EugenBacon
]]>Overcome with guilt about a love affair she can't give up, Anna confesses to her husband, Brendan. He is shocked and devastated but makes the unusual decision to try to accept the lover, Jeremy, as part of their family.
Told from three perspectives, Double Happiness is a story about sex, honesty and jealousy and the challenges of forging a new kind of romance.
Set in Melbourne over seven years, this lyrical contemporary love story explores the complexities of non-monogamy with humour and heart, asking what it's like to love two, or more, people equally but differently. What is the effect of time on erotic love? And what happens when your new lover wants someone else too
'Fascinating, fearless and frank.' Paul Dalgarno, author of A Country of Eternal Light
'Rochelle Siemienowicz dissects with surgical precision the murky territory of the 'happily ever after', and does so with wisdom, humour and grace. Her lyrical and oh-so-sexy novel does what best novels do makes you think deeper about how to live your own life. Double Happiness is a sophisticated, mature debut and Siemienowicz is a dazzling writer.' Lee Kofman, author of The Writer Laid Bare, The Dangerous Bride
'Wise, affecting and damned sexy.' Dmetri Kakmi, author of The Door and Other Uncanny Tales
]]>The book opens with her gently rolling up a swimsuit. A beginning swimmer, she loves going to the pool, eavesdropping on conversations in the changing room, shopping for swimsuits. As this routine pleasure is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi's mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. In a conversational, even humorous, manner, she describes her previous blinkered life of the mind before she came into her body and learned its language.
Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she coaxes and confesses, confronts society's failings, and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. Mourning a Breast was heralded as the first Chinese-language book to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. A radical and generous book about creating in the midst of mourning.
'Using language that was deceptively simple, almost childlike, Xi Xi infused her fiction and poetry with eclectic references to literature, cinema, art, architecture and fairy tales...Her work captured the unease of Hong Kong's transition to Chinese rule, gave voice to the city's children and working-class residents, and helped put it on the literary map.' - New York Times
]]>**Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024**
**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Poetry**
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her wayward husband, armed with a vacuum cleaner to 'suck all the bad thing out'. Her four children are a brood of monolingual aliens. Eldest daughter Cherry struggles with her mother's unhappiness and the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings, especially the rage-prone, meat-cleaver-wielding Baby Joseph.
Chinese Fish is a family saga that spans the 1960s through to the 1980s. Narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, it offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a 'yellow peril' menace and an exotic 'model minority'.
'a major poetic work of feminist, so-called 'minority' writing, its originality and brilliance more than earning its space alongside such works as Kathleen Fallon's Working Hot, Gloria Anzalda's Borderlands, and Alison Whittakers's BlakWork.' - Marion May Campbell
'As visually provocative as it is poetic, Chinese Fish portrays the fractured, multilayered, imperiled body of the immigrant story in a stunning work of genre-bending prose poetry. Yee has given the Chin family a literary resting place as complex and as searing as the New Zealand in which they survived.' - Juli Min
'an unflinchingly honest look at life behind closed doors, where resentment simmers, generations clash, and individual dreams are set aside for the interests of family.' - Chris Tse, New Zealand Poet Laureate
'There's a wry humour to the book, sometimes shocking, but often subtle. The narrative is epic, fragmentary and suggestive.' - Andy Jackson, Meanjin
]]>Grace Yee lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. Her poetry has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally, and has been awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a Creative Fellowship at the State Library Victoria, and grants from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. Grace has taught in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, and in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Melbourne, where she completed a PhD on settler Chinese women's storytelling in Aotearoa New Zealand. graceyeepoet.com
]]>Twining the drama of the everyday school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents with the surreal rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
'I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel.' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties
'The Book of X traverses the mundane and the surreal from grocery lists to blooming meat, menstrual blood to a jealousy removal shop laying bare the absurdities of womanhood. A truly original writer, Etter continues to push the boundaries of her imagination...and ours.' Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley
'Utterly unique and remarkable...Sarah Rose Etter takes the surreal and expertly shapes it into a portrait that is as beautiful and compelling as it is horrifying and unbearable...Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.' Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
'Insightful and incisive, this book cuts deep into the failing heart of the feminine mystique.' Amelia Gray, author of Isadora
'Sarah Rose Etter is a visionary. Perfectly paced, structurally audacious, and endlessly inventive, The Book of X is our new Revelation.' Scott McCLanahan, author of The Sarah Book
]]>Julia Walden a Synth was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is controversial, but Julia seems to get her fairy-tale ending when Josh gets down on one knee.
Fast-forward fifteen months, and Julia and Josh are married and raising their baby in small-town Indiana. But with haters around every corner, Julia's life is a far cry from the domestic bliss she imagined. Then her splintering world shatters: Josh goes missing, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.
With no one left she can trust, Julia takes the investigation into her own hands. But the explosive truths she uncovers will drive her to her breaking point and isn't that where a person's true nature is revealed? That is...if Julia truly is a person.
'The Bachelor meets Black Mirror (with a splash of Barbie gone dark) in this captivating, empowering, and wildly original thriller... A spectacular debut.' Megan Collins, author of Thicker Than Water
'A deftly crafted, stunningly original debut. I loved it from the clever first pages all the way to the jaw-dropping conclusion.' Andrea Bartz, author of The Spare Room
'Made for You is a thrill ride that never stops twisting and turning. With its smart fusion of reality TV, murder mystery, and social commentary, this story promises an addictive and thought-provoking reading experience, while feeling unlike any other book you've ever read.' Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here
'It's Mary Shelley in the Bachelor era, as unpredictable as it is inevitable, and feminist as hell.' Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know
'A genre-blending romp that kept me riveted. Satterthwaite has established herself as a force in the mystery universe, and I can't wait to see what she does next.' Kristen Bird, author of Watch It Burn
'A Black Mirror-esque story combining AI, reality TV drama and a murder mystery...' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
]]>This entertaining novel is full of acute and humorous observations of male and female attitudes to love and marriage. Sally is a spirited heroine, who is determined to settle into a comfortable life now that she is in her early thirties. But in securing her future, Sally must also face her past.
]]>David Tompkins thinks it is a splendid idea to open a tea garden at his Kentish cottage. His wife, Germayne, is not so sure. The local villagers are divided on the matter, and not necessarily supportive, particularly Mr Perch at the Dolphin, who sees it as direct competition to Mrs Perch's own tea garden. It doesn't bode well when the official opening coincides with a break in the beautiful weather. Things are further complicated by the arrival of the 'cake cook' Mimi, a Viennese girl with a mysterious past, Germayne's daughter Ducks, and finally her 'rather stolid' ex-husband Digby. With rumour rife that the couple are whisper it not actually married, the lady of the manor, who has failed to realise that nowadays that title carries no real weight, makes it her mission to shut the enterprise down.
]]>Penelope Shadow is quite hopeless at female pursuits, such as housework, looking after children or darning a sock. One day she buys a typewriter and realises that she has a flare for writing romantic novels. As one bestseller after another springs from her fertile mind, she is able to buy a house and live a comfortable life.
Being equally inept at managing staff, she loses a number of housekeepers before employing a capable and attentive young man. When local gossip ensues, he declares his love and they are married. But are his motives true? Is she in danger? As events twist and turn, she has to summon the strength of her feisty heroines to work out what they would do in the novel's denouement.
]]>When a peculiar curator and an equally strange cat turn up in the gallery where Mimi works, she is pulled into an extraordinary adventure that will force her to make a life-changing choice.
What would you give up to become famous?
A fantasy adventure for young adults and dreamers alike.
]]>When a peculiar curator and an equally strange cat turn up in the gallery where Mimi works, she is pulled into an extraordinary adventure that will force her to make a life-changing choice.
What would you give up to become famous?
A fantasy adventure for young adults and dreamers alike.
]]>What will happen when one of Daisy's ideas grows out ofcontrol?
]]>Kim lives on Guringai Land in Sydney's Northern Beaches. If she's not busy creating stories, she's probably crafting, cooking something delicious, or enjoying a hard earned nap something Bug would definitely approve of.
]]>Vibrantly illustrated by Deb Hudson, award-winning author Katrina Germein's gorgeous Girls Like is a joyous celebration of all the ways to be a girl.
]]>Deb Hudson is an illustrator and designer based in beautiful Melbourne, Australia. Creating for both children and the young at heart, her illustrations are whimsical and nature-inspired with a sweet, cheerful, and handmade feel. Her work has appeared in over 20 books, as well as stationery, home goods, and greeting cards. Since her 2018 debut with The Golden Thread, Deb has worked on many beloved projects, including the What Zola Did series. Her clients include Penguin Books, Hachette, MidnightSun, Disney Plus, and La La Land Gifts. She was also the featured illustrator for the 2021 Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge.
]]>TAP, DA-DUM, TAP, TAP, DA-DUM!
But when Sammy turns five, she feels silly wearing her tutu and gumboots and so she stops dancing altogether.
Eventually, Sammy can't hear her beat any more the very beat that makes her special. How does Sammy find her beat again?
]]>Blithe Fielden is an illustrator from the UK but is now based in Brisbane, Australia. Inspired by the beauty of nature, animals and the environment, Blithe loves to create playful illustrations, depicting the world through the eyes of children. Since graduating from Leeds Arts University with a BA in Illustration in 2021, Blithe has worked alongside several small businesses and clients, showcasing her illustrations to a range of audiences. You can contact Blithe via Instagram @ blithe_illustrations
]]>What will it take for Bear to feel better?
An uplifting tale about a bear discovering what truly matters at the end of the day.
]]>Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian children's author. With a background in media, Coral has always delighted in telling stories and has been writing books for more than ten years. Her titles include bestselling Goodnight Possum and the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Eve Powell winner, Sorry Day (illustrated by Dub Leffer). She loves to visit schools, often running writing workshops and inspiring young people with a love for literature. Coral is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.
Tull Suwannakit is an Australian book illustrator and author for children with a background in animation and fine art. After receiving a BA degree from The Savannah College Art and Design in Georgia, US, he began his artistic career as a set designer and character sculptor for animation studios in New York City. He then migrated to Australia, where he got a distinction on the Master of Fine Art program at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His books have been published in Australia, the US and Thailand, as well as being translated into numerous languages throughout the world. Working predominantly with watercolour, graphite and coloured pencils, Tull's books have been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Mornings Radio, Play School on ABC4Kids and The New York Times.
]]>One bright autumn morning, Rose and her cheeky companion, Banjo, head off to fly their kite.
]]>A long admirer of illustrators like Freya Backwood and Emily Gravett, Karen Erasmus was delighted to illustrate her first children's picture book in 2011, and has now completed more than ten books. She works in watercolour, ink and pastel, and aims to create images that are engaging and lively for young readers.
]]>A magical tale that will delight all ages.
]]>When the boys win a bet, the girls cry 'Unfair!' However, their plan for revenge backfires and leads to the principal banning all e-scooters from school premises and insisting students must follow government regulations, which means they can only ride a scooter with an adult. How can they get to school? To their jobs?
Jolie and her friends want to fix things, but what can they achieve on their own? Is the only person who can help the one person Jolie doesn't want to turn to?
The e-Revolution is in the Rhiza Shorts series a short read designed to engage teenage reluctant readers, including those who struggle with confidence in reading. With a reading age of 10+ and an interest age of 14+, The e-Revolution features relatable situations and fun characters who teens can identify with. It also tackles the issues surrounding e-scooters with realism and compassion while still focusing on responsibility and safety.
]]>Joel's mum is diagnosed with cancer - again - sending him into a spiral. He is already feeling the burden of caring for Holly's grave; how could he possibly care for his mum's grave as well? Then, he is confronted by his arch-nemesis, Trent, and his buddies in Joel's most sacred place - the local cemetery. While Joel is striving to understand how family members can 'forget' their loved one by abandoning their grave, Trent wants everyone to know that graves are an important part of our human community. When Joel is given the opportunity, he champions green burials in a science presentation. The public opposition from Trent is almost more than he can take. Joel is forced to fight for himself and his beliefs, while trying to hide his biggest secret. New and old friends support him in his quest to protect the environment and find peace and his parents see his struggles and make changes to support him.
In Ways to Die Right, the author wants to highlight how deeply teens feel about things affecting them, like death, the environment, and peers they perceive as a threat. Teenagers will be able to identify with interactions happening in everyday life at school, when conflict arises, and with family. Ways to Die Right is for all teenages who want to read about real people struggling with real issues they will be able to identify with. It will especially appeal to teens who love shorter, easy to read stories, but who want to read about teenagers just like them.
Reading age of 10 +, Interest age 14+
]]>Then amidst the glitz and glamour, tragedy strikes 'the millionaire's club', raising unsettling questions: was it an accident, or a deliberate act, fuelled by hidden secrets? As the group begin to discover the truth behind their extraordinary good fortune, they unwittingly unravel a complex web of lies concealing not only their improbable win but also other so-called luck happening around them.
In this heart-pounding tale of wealth, deceit, and moral reckoning, the millionaires club find themselves entangled in a treacherous game where the price of fortune is higher than they ever imagined. As they attempt to shield their newfound riches and each other from the relentless pursuit of the truth, they begin to realise that luck can be far from good, and lies, once buried, have a way of clawing their way back to the surface.
]]>Her voyage to overturn an ancient hunting law means sailing the perilous Starstruck Straits and dealing with sabotage. But who is threatening Scree's mission, and are others in danger too?
Can the Wildkin captain and Patch, her plucky ship's mate, untangle a magical plot, help the lost creatures find their way home, and save the animals?
Dugongs of the Sky is an exciting seafaring adventure for middle-grade readers about magic, mystery and friendship.
In the Realm of Tides, hunters threaten the gentle flying dugongs and Captain Scree Barnacle is determined to save them. But on her voyage to petition the Wavebearers' Council, misfortunes plague the crew. The ship's artist is injured, secrets abound, and the timid ship's boy is more than he seems. Who is threatening Scree's mission, and are others in danger too? Can the Wildkin captain and Patch, her plucky ship's mate, untangle a magical plot, help lost creatures find their way home, and save the animals?
Dugongs of the Sky is about friendship, animals and the meaning of courage. It's ideal for readers who love the high adventure of Claire Fayers's The Accidental Pirates duology and the magical whimsy of Liz Flanagan's Wildsmith series. It's an exciting seafaring adventure with magic, mystery and friendship. And, of course, flying dugongs! Dugongs of the Sky is great for animal lovers and everyone who loves twists and turns! It will soar into your heart.
]]>Emily writes in a variety of genres and is the author of the picture book The Whirlpool, illustrated by Helene Magisson and published by Wombat Books (2017), and the young-adult dystopian novel Within the Ward, published by Rhiza Edge (2021). Her short fiction and poetry features in Australian and international literary journals, including Meniscus, Idiom 23, Seizure, Trove, Literary Orphans, The Write Launch, Number Eleven Magazine, Flumes, The Zodiac Review, Sad Girls Club, Streetlight Magazine, After the Pause, and Black Fox Literary Magazine. Emily has also contributed short stories to the Rhiza Edge anthologies Crossed Spaces, Dust Makers and Stepping Sideways, and co-edited Stepping Sideways with author Lynne Stringer.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys being with family members (both human and animal), playing Dungeons and Dragons, and reading and writing.
]]>Within the Ward is a young adult novel that includes themes such as mental health, depression, suicide, friendships and relationships, grief and loss, and identity and perception. It explores the way people might perceive mental health struggles such as depression, and challenges readers to think about how they personally perceive such matters, including stigma. Within the Ward is set in a dystopian future where people like Paige are told that if they finish a dream reality called 'the Journey', then they can go home. But perception is challenged and the heaviness of depression is weighed as Paige navigates the world, trying to find the difference between what things are and what they seem. But not only does she have to find a way to escape the ward, but she must also discover herself for who she really is and find her own reason to live.
]]>Chloe is here to teach you about networks! She has a dot on her shirt called a node. So do her siblings, Jack and Willow. As family, their nodes are connected by an edge. Each of them are connected to their friends by edges, and then their friends' friends, until the network is expanded further and further. In maths, this is called a spanning tree, where no node is left unconnected!
This book sits somewhere between fiction and non-fiction with an easy-to-understand introduction to the mathematical concept of networks, as well as a reassurance to readers that they're never alone. Connected will particularly appeal to visual and spatial learners, with a sentimental quality making it enjoyable as a leisure read.
]]>Tamlyn Teow is an artist, illustrator and props designer. In 2013, she left a corporate career to learn how stories are told through art. Tamlyn's passion is to create works that give hope in challenging times, spark curiosity and bring individuals together by opening their eyes to truth and meaning. Tamlyn has worked in the art department for various productions, including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Peter Rabbit 2, Shang-Chi (Marvel Studios) and North Shore. She has illustrated a number of picture books, designs book covers and illustrates chapter books.
]]>Join the adventurous cat and her friends for an interactive counting and adding challenge. But don't get too mixed up!
In this quirky maths breaking counting book readers can engage with all the different ways you can go WRONG in adding like terms In this quirky maths following and slightly maths breaking counting book readers engage with all the different ways you can go wrong in adding like terms. Maths teachers can use this book to help children understand basics as they are introduced to algebra and patterns. Written in a way that you can interact with the reader. An alternate counting book with a fun outlook demonstrating why you can't add things that aren't the same.
Children and teens easily mix up their addition in algebra. In this fun picture book for kids it's fun to learn that apples and oranges don't make orples!This book can be used with older children, learning support and in other areas to help students with understanding why you can't mix and match.
]]>This collection from an outstanding poet, Rachel Rooney, winner of the CLiPPA Award, is perfectly matched by the amazing witty and inventive illustrations by Chris Riddell, the former UK Children's Laureate.
'This moreish collection of poems about a class full of characters is beautifully written and illustrated and will ring bells with all children about their own behaviour and that of their schoolmates.' The Sunday Times
'Rooney evokes children's perspectives with empathy. The poignancy and humour of these character sketches are heightened by their illustrations.' Guardian
'I absolutely love this children's poetry book.' David Walliams
'Thought-provoking and fun.' The Week Junior
'Full of both emotion, and knowledge of the classroom, this is a superb collection, brilliantly illustrated. Poetry has never seemed more alive and more relevant.' Minerva Reads
'There is not one weak point in this wonderful collection.' Poetry Zone
]]>Chris Riddell, Children's Laureate 2015-17, is internationally renowned both as artist and author. His awards include the Kate Greenaway Medal (2002, 2004), the Costa Children's Book Award (2013), and the Hay Festival Medal for Illustration (2015). He is currently president of the School Library Association. His bestselling books include theGoth Girlseries, theCoralineseries,The Sleeper and the Spindlewith Neil Gaiman andA Great Big Cuddlewith Michael Rosen. He lives in Brighton, UK.
]]>This stunning counting book, illustrating numbers 1 to 10 in beautiful animal paintings, is now presented as a very special board book, embellished with gold leaf as in the original hardback edition, bringing this gorgeous book to a younger readership.
With playful words and stunning pictures with lots of detail to pore over, the book depicts dogs, bears, foxes, elephants, tigers, pandas, otters, mice and of course one cheetah and a cherry making this a perfect introduction to numbers and counting.
'A book to pore over with delight' Parents in Touch
'A particularly decorative counting book' Observer
]]>Here are eight majestic wildbears, brought to life in breathtakingwatercolour paintings. Brown Bear, Black Bear, Polar Bear, Sloth Bear, Spectacled Bear, Sun Bear, Moon Bear. All are gloriously depicted, with lyrical descriptions of their lives in the wild.
But of all thebearsin the wild, wide world, which is the bestbearof all? Your teddy bear, of course!
Kate Greenaway medallist Jackie Morris, acclaimed illustrator of the international bestseller, The Lost Words,has created this spectacular gallery ofbearsto instil a love of wild places and a respect for all creatures.
]]>The people say he must go to King School, but the king hates wearing heavy robes and remembering difficult rules.
So the king says, 'NO!'
And he takes the people into the forest and shows them a different way to be king...
A brilliant new story from the internationally acclaimed author of Beegu and Slow Loris.
'One of the most subtle and innovative writers working today.' Waterstones
]]>The stories included are: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (England), Little Red Riding Hood (Germany), The Billy Goats Gruff (Norway), The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (England), The Enormous Turnip (Ukraine), The Tortoise and the Hare (Ancient Greece), The Gingerbread Man (North America), The Vain Little Mouse (Spain).
Using the same technique of colourful cut-outs and collage as in his bestselling Once Upon a Tune: Stories from the Orchestra,James Mayhew has created another spectacular gift book, this time for a very young audience.
]]>Just flip the pages and see ten remarkable animals become 1,000 crazy creatures, taking on new names and astonishing new identities as their heads, bodies and tails are swapped around.
Devised and brilliantly executed by master-artist Tony Meeuwissen, this is a book that will be treasured by readers of all ages.
'Clever and eye-catching.' The Sunday Times
'Beautiful and great fun.' Guardian
'A delight.' LoveReading4Kids
'Great for tweaking even the most timid imaginations.' School Library Journal
]]>A gentle tale about reaching for the stars and being extraordinary...but remembering the ordinary too. Extraordinary! celebrates the best moments in life: the ones we share with friends and family. They may be simple, they may be ordinary, but they are moments we will cherish forever.
]]>Katie Wilson is an illustrator and designer based in beautiful New Zealand. Creating for both adults and children, her illustrations are sweet and cheerful with a handmade feel. Her work has appeared in magazines, greeting cards and books. Katie's clients include Hallmark, Papyrus, Rotovision, Quartet and Woodmansterne. Katie can be contacted via her website: www.katiewilsonillustration.com
]]>when all of the clocks no longer tick-tock.
and all of the maps are starting to fade,
as the need to be somewhere drifts far away.
A glorious celebration of nature's healing powers and a timely reminder for us all to slow down.
]]>Jennifer Goldsmith came to visual storytelling trailing fluff and threads from years of toy making. She used to bring characters to life in her hands one stitch at a time, but now scribbles them into the world with a 2B pencil on satisfyingly heavy paper. She's always drawn to gentle stories that are comforting and tread lightly on the hearts of children. For Jennifer, the process of sitting with a story and letting it wash over her as they get to know each other is a privilege she tries not to take for granted. Spending days losing track of time, chasing watercolours across paper while clutching coloured pencils is a dream come true.
]]>Blue Monster does something you should NEVER do and then...he does it again and again!
Now he DEFINITELY has no one to play with! He feels sad, lonely and VERY guilty. But when Blue Monster opens his mouth and YAWNS...what a surprise!
Things may get better after all! If Blue Monster only says he's sorry...
'A wonderfully funny and surprising picture book.' Reading Zone
'OUTRAGEOULY good.' Achuka
'A terrific read-aloud that will both shock and amuse young listeners.' Red Reading Hub
]]>Only Neal Zetter could create a collection of short poems that includes 'The Loooooooooongest Poem in the Universe'. His new volume makes a great introduction to the fun, enjoyment and new understandings that poetry can bring. All are short, direct and entertaining. Whether reading with a single child or a group, they arouse immediate interest and are perfect for reading aloud. Year 6 children in a London primary school foolowed the production from draft to publication: here are some of the things they said about it. 'A book where you go up and down and swirl around', 'Neal's poems challenge me, but I enjoy figuring out the jokes', 'His poems inspire me and make me want to ROAR with joy".
]]>Will Hughes is an illustrator and author of children's books. His strongly graphic, comic images perfectly complement Neal's poems.
]]>Written for first readers, about a Black British extended family Jake, older sister Ellie, little brother Sam, Mum, Dad and Grandad, all living in Maple Street.Jake in the Middle has four delightful interlinked stories about home and school life Shoes, Shoes, Shoes! where naughty Sam runs off with Jake's new trainers;Catchof the Day, where a favourite toy falls into the pigsty at the city farm; The Class Museum, featuring a special fossil Jake'borrowed' from Ellie's bedroom; and All Fall Down, where Grandpa displays his amazing cricket skills.
'Brilliant new chapter book for early readers, with a collection of four interlinked stories set around home and school life. Delightfully illustrated by Shanarama, the antics of middle-sibling Jake and his extended Black-British family are written with warmth and humour.' The Bookseller
]]>Shanarama is a new illustrator, living in London. Jake in the Middle is the first story book she has illustrated. With a background in architecture, film and TV, she is adept in a variety of genres. She uses both traditional and digital methods, often combining the two.
]]>Get ready for a whirlwind of fun and heartwarming moments with Nico and his amazing Grandpa Rodrigo! From fishing expeditions and bike rides to tackling tricky homework and even a close call with a whole lot of piranhas, life is never boring when these two are together. Grandpas, Piranhas, and Other Stories is a joyful celebration of the unique bond, endless laughter, and quiet wisdom that grandparents bring to our lives. It's a perfect way to honor the incredible connection between generations and share the warmth of family love with the little ones in your life. Prepare for giggles, heartwarming moments, and maybe even a few ideas for your own grand adventures with this beautifully written and illustrated picture book.
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.
]]>From the award-winning illustrator of The Stars comes a story about the power of art, and about how being different and true to yourself can change the world.
Sketch is a little boy like no other. His imagination runs wild and he is more rambunctious and creative than most kids his age. He also looks different very different. As the doctors say, he's 'not drawn like other people.'
In a perfectly ordered town, where everything has its place and everyone behaves properly at all times, Sketch stands out. While others walk in perfect lines and write in perfect letters, Sketch's creativity spills out everywhere. But despite the support of his parents and his art teacher, he sometimes feels alone.
One day, Sketch changes schools and meets a new group of friends, each different in their own way. Together, they form an inseparable team, ready to explore the world while celebrating who they are.
This charming and powerful book features:
Sketch's vibrant personality and unconventional approach to life's challenges is an inspiring reminder that sometimes, doing what everyone else expects, dims our own creativity and joy. This charming book has a simple, but hopeful message: how being true to yourself can change the world.
]]>Maxime is ten years old. Her favorite things are her books and cats especially her own cat, Turmeric. Like Matilda, the heroine of her favorite book, she feels different. She wouldn't mind being like other kids but they make so much noise, it hurts her ears. So, her friends are the characters in her books, and her cat. If she were brave enough, she would talk to the new girl at school, who carries a copy of Matilda in her book bag.
One day, she finds some mysterious bowls in the alley behind her house. She dresses up like a detective in order to investigate and meets an older woman, Catamou, who feeds the neighborhood's stray cats. Soon enough, the two become friends. Maxime confides in Catamou, who encourages her to introduce herself to the new girl at school.
This heartwarming story by award-winning author Lucile de Pesloan is told alongside graphic-style illustrations by celebrated artist Jacques Goldstyn.
An ode to cat-lovers, The World of Maxime is a celebration of friendship and an inspiring story about finding confidence in yourself.
]]>Jacques Goldstyn is an illustrator and a political cartoonist who began life as a geologist. He received the Governor General's Award in 2017 for his book Azadah and was inducted to the Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2018. His graphic novel, The Stars, was also published by Aldana Libros.
Helen Mixter is a translator who lives in Toronto.
Zazie Todd is an animal behaviour expert and award-winning author of Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy.
]]>But she knows that can't be true!
Because Lulu is a rhinoceros!
Kids will love this inspiring and funny picture book about a spunky bulldog who has the courage to be herself.
Lulu knows she is a rhinoceros. She may have soft, fuzzy fur and a little nub that wiggles when she's happy but in her heart, she has thick gray skin and a tail that whips and twirls. And more than anything, Lulu would like her very own rhinoceros horn! 'If only I had my horn, they would finally see the REAL me!'
As Lulu sets out to find her horn, she meets all sorts of dogs and even pigeons who don't understand her. To them, Lulu does not look like a rhinoceros! But Lulu doesn't let others stand in her way. Soon, she meets a small friend that makes a big difference in her life. With help from her new friend, Lulu realizes that the courage to be herself was inside her all along...
The first picture book in a new series, Lulu is a Rhinoceros takes readers on an adventure through New York City and into Central Park Zoo to fetch and retrieve the most important possession Lulu owns her identity! With adorable and vibrant artwork by acclaimed illustrator Sophie Corrigan, Lulu is a Rhinoceros conveys gentle messages for young readers about diversity, tolerance, self-expression, radical acceptance, and interdependence.
'The perfect storyline to talk to kids about so many topics!' Neuroclastic
]]>Jason Flom is a music executive and public speaker. He is devoted to reforming the criminal legal system and to various animal rights causes including saving the rhinos. He serves on many charitable boards, including VETPAW, whose work inspired Lulu Is a Rhinoceros.
Sophie Corrigan is a children's book illustrator and author whose many books include I'm a Little Monkey, which was selected as a Highly Commended Book in the Macmillan Prize for Children's Literature. When she's not creating books or working as a freelance illustrator for clients like Hallmark, Corrigan hangs out with her pet cockatiels and occasionally makes cute things from wool and clay.
]]>I'd like to tell you a rather true story about a big black cat who started out gray. Her name was May.
Margaux and her cat May became friends when Margaux was just six years old. They grew up together, sharing countless memories along the way. But one day, May is late coming home. Where is May? Is she under the porch? Maybe on the roof?
Margaux's nitsis (the Cree word for auntie) helps search for May in the tall grass. But soon nitsis needs to leave: she's moving away to the big city, and has to pack her things into boxes. Margaux helps nitsis, but she can't take her mind off May. Will she ever return? nitsis is worried, too. But little do they know, May has a surprise in store for both of them!
This fun and heartwarming story with a surprise happy ending invites readers to share their own cat stories. My Friend May is a tribute to love and the balance between all beings, and the experiences and emotions that connect us all.
My Friend May features:
A powerful and wise story about finding the courage to be yourself, despite the pressure to conform.
Abtin is nothing like the rest of his family. The Moleskis are fiercely competitive sports champions, and they expect Abtin to become a great athlete too. But Abtin is a reader, an artist, and has his own way of doing things. Despite his family's best efforts, Abtin remains stubbornly himself. Wanting his family to be proud of him, he comes up with a plan to make them happy: a plan that doesn't go quite as expected...
Written and illustrated by two celebrated Iranian creators, Champ is a book for anyone who marches to the beat of their own drum: for the artists in a science family, or the readers in a sports family. It is a book for those around the world who have resisted and continue to do so, no matter what.
Reza Dalvand is a member of the Iranian Society of Illustrators and has published more than 15 picture books in Iran, Europe, and Asia. He lives in Tehran.
]]>Let's go on an insect expedition for kids ages 4 to 8! This adventure into the extraordinary world of bugs is inspired by David Suzuki's adventures with his own grandkids.
It's time for the twins to go on a nature expedition with Bompa. What marvellous place will they explore this time? Tidepools at the sea? The pond full of frogs' eggs? Maybe deep in the forest? But to their disappointment, they are just exploring outside the door. Yet, as they begin to search for insects, they find world-champion flyers, eaters, and weightlifters. And more tiny surprises at every turn!
With their Bompa at their side, they find a way to recognise the amazing feats and important role of all insects...even the annoying ones! Featuring gorgeous art by Qin Leng, this picture book is a lush, colourful tour through a world we too often overlook.
This exciting and educational tribute to bugs features:
After reading Bompa's Insect Expedition, kids will come away understanding how essential bugs are to our world.
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
]]>Tanya Lloyd Kyi is the author of more than 30 books for children and young adults. Tanya's most recent books include What Will I Discover?, Our Green City, and Better Connected (written with her daughter, Julia Kyi). She lives in Vancouver, and teaches for the University of British Columbia's School of Creative Writing.
Qin Leng has illustrated picture books and magazines with publishers around the world. Recent books include her author-illustrator debut I Am Small, and Clover written by Nadine Robert, which received the Governor General's Literary Award for a French Language Illustrated Book. She lives in Toronto.
]]>From the extraordinary Hans Christian Andersen award winner Suzy Lee comes an inventive retelling of a Korean folk tale about a young traveler who outwits a rich, selfish man to ensure that villagers will always be able to rest in the shade of a magnificent tree.
Villagers like to come to rest and cool down in the shade of a huge, old tree. But when a young traveler decides to join them one day, a rich man on whose land the tree stands demands they leave because he owns the tree and therefore its shade. Thinking fast, the traveler strikes a deal: one that will enable him to outsmart the rich man - and ensure that the villagers will always have access to the shade tree's shade, wherever it may fall.
With simple, elegant illustrations, The Shade Tree is a striking story about one person's quest to combat greed for the greater good.
]]>Helen Mixter is a writer and the translator of several children's books, including the Governor General's Award-winning Harvey.
**Winner of the 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books**
An illustrated book about the digestive system and microbiome for young readers, from famous (and funny) scientist Dr. Jennifer Gardy.
Everybody eats, and everybody poops. Pretty ordinary stuff, right?
But what happens in between is far from ordinary! That's where your digestive system-also known as your gut-works its magic.
It Takes Guts is an excellent, science-based resource for classroom learning and home-schooling for kids age 9 to 13, with information about:
Dr. Jennifer Gardy also takes stomach-turning detours to investigate the science behind burps, barfs, and farts, proving that learning about the wonderful world of your gut - takes guts!
]]>Belle Wuthrich is an illustrator and designer specializing in books for young readers. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Belle has contributed to more than a dozen books for kids, a number of which have won awards or been republished internationally.
]]>A dazzling story about love - for the stars, and for one another - between two young people, set in the multicultural city of Montreal.
Every day, Yakov takes his sisters to the park. He's supposed to look after them, but their games are boring, so he reads about space and dreams of becoming an astronaut instead. His father, though, has other plans: he wants Yakov to take over his grocery store when he grows up.
Yakov's world changes when at the park one day, he comes across a girl also reading a book about space. Acha has moved into the house right behind his, and the two become inseparable. Together, they search for constellations, check out astronomy books from the library, and marvel at the night sky. However, their fathers fear they are growing too close. They are forbidden from spending time together, and Acha eventually moves away.
Years later, Yakov has achieved his dream: he works for NASA and builds space probes. Will he and Acha ever see each other again?
The Stars features:
From award-winning picture book creator and cartoonist Jacques Goldstyn, The Stars is a brilliant and heartwarming hymn to friendship, the infinity of the sky, and following what you love.
]]>Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne's CBD. It's cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home.
When winter drives her to the City Library one morning, Grace meets Louie, a weird kid with his own problems, and discovers a community piano. The piano reminds Grace of her mum, a celebrated pianist whose mental illness makes life a rollercoaster - and not always a fun one.
When Grace comes up with a plan to find the help she and Mum need, life begins to look up. But things don't work out as Grace imagines and suddenly her world's turned upside down again, and maybe for good this time.
A Way Home is a big-hearted novel that explores the complexities of growing up with a parent who is struggling, and about the places and people we call home.
'A page-turning, gritty story full of hope and compassion. The writing is assured and gripping, and Grace is a memorable and compelling character, beautifully realised. A Way Home is a riveting story of resilience and hope against the odds, both insightful and heartbreakingly real.' - Mark Smith, award-winning author of the Winter Trilogy
'A gritty and moving novel about a vulnerable young woman's capacity to endure, and to find courage, despite the shocking dysfunction in the lives of those she depends on.' - Ingrid Laguna, award-winning writer of Kit and Arlo
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'A real feel-good story that beautifully captures the power of friendship.' Danielle Brown MBE, 2 x Paralympic gold medallist, speaker, inclusion champion, award-winning author
]]>Joanna Bartel is an Australian illustrator with a background in graphic design and secondary school art/design and English teaching. She draws much of her inspiration from everyday family life with three young kids, experiences in teaching, and childhood memories of fun with three brothers and lots of cousins. Joanna has a particular love for character design and celebrating diversity. Joanna can be contacted on Instagram: @joanna_emily_illustrates or on her website: joanna-emily.com
]]>This non-fiction picture book brings to life the fascinating but little-known story of Jessie Hickman (18901936), Australia's so-called 'Lady Bushranger'.
A women who lived outside the norms of her time, Jessie was a brave and formidable woman, with a life full of adventure, action and danger. At the age of 8, she joined a travelling bush circus, learning to perform as a whip cracker, sharpshooter and rough rider. She would perform dangerous feats, like tightrope walking or handstands on bare-backed ponies. When the circus closed, became an outlaw and cattle rustler, famous for her daring escapes.
The endmatter includes information on travelling circuses in Australia, bushrangers and buckjumping, as well as a timeline of Jessie's life and accomplishments accompanied by historic images.
This lavishly illustrated picture book immerses the reader in the wilderness of what is now the Wollemi National Park as Jessie's life unfolds with every turn of the page.
]]>Frane Lessac is an author and illustrator of over 50 books in the UK, US and Australia. She has won numerous awards, including the Muriel Barwell Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature in 2010.
Mark and Frane frequently collaborate to produce wonderful stories, such as Simpson and His Donkey and Midnight the Story of a Light Horse and the Our Country series. Their award-winning books tackling Australian bushranger legends include Ned Kelly and the Green Sash and The Legend of Moondyne Joe. Their latest collaboration is The Legend of Jessie Hickman.
]]>The barge had delivered the Forty Thieves onto the ship!
Marion's life is anything but ordinary. The daughter of the principal, Captain Neitenstein, she is the only girl aboard a magnificent floating boys' school, anchored permanently in Sydney Harbour in the late 1800s. Her best friend has boarded a steamship to France and now it's just her and this ship full of ragtag schoolboys. One night, Marion discovers that a new student, Alexander Walker, is escaping the ship to meet up with his vicious gang, the Forty Thieves. Marion bravely follows Walker into the frightening Rocks neighbourhood to investigate...What are the Forty Thieves up to and will Marion be able to stop them before it's too late?
Based on the real life Marion Neitenstein, this middle-grade 'faction', which offers an immersive and historically accurate experience of an unusual nineteenth-century institution for neglected boys. Marion's middle-class life is contrasted with Sydney slum life and wharf culture. Other important real characters appear, including businessman Quong Tart and the head of the Forty Thieves gang Joseph Bragg.
The author used primary sources to research the story, such as old gaol inmate records and even Quong Tart's original menus, and delves into these sources in the endmatter, covering topics such as the Nautical school-ships Vernon and Sobraon and their captains, the Rocks, Quong Tart and more. The text is accompanied by real photographs from the ship, portraits of three Sobraon boys from the admissions book and images of Sydney street scene from the period.
]]>Aussie STEM Stars is an inspiring children's series that celebrates Australia's experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Gisela Kaplan's story begins in post-World War II Germany. Despite incredible challenges as a child, she retained a profound curiosity, care and compassion for all living things. Her captivating, ground-breaking scientific research on Australian magpies, tawny frogmouths and other iconic bird species, as well as primates, make Prof. Kaplan a world-leading expert in animal behaviour, especially of Australian birds.
Professor Kaplan is on a mission to spread the word about how intelligent and surprising birds are, before time runs out for many of them.
]]>Johnston's research group at UNSW investigates the ecology of human impacts in marine systems, combining the diverse disciplines of ecology, microbiology and ecotoxicology to expand fundamental understanding and provide recommendations for management. Her research is conducted in such diverse field environments as Sydney Harbour, Antarctica, the Great Barrier Reef and temperate Australian estuaries.
She is a regular media commentator and, as co-presenter of the Foxtel/BBC television series Coast Australia, which has helped take Australian marine science to an international audience. She also launched a Sydney Harbour cruise called Underwater Secrets' Sydney Harbour Revealed, which focuses on scientific research into the waterway.
]]>In 2018 Michelle became Australian of the Year and is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is passionate about encouraging girls to pursue a career in science and technology: 'Seeing women in leadership roles and competing internationally ... gives them the sense that anything is possible'.
]]>This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Swift's numerous public statements interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more, specifically geared toward middle and high school readers. It's a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly outspoken perspective on the music world and beyond. This edition includes educational materials and resources for lesson plans designed to provoke discussion and thought for readers in grades 712 about Taylor Swift's ideas.
Swift's catchy, chart-topping songs have propelled her to become one of the bestselling musicians of all time. But in the nearly 20 years she's been making music, she has also amassed enough power to buck the norms of an industry notorious for controlling the images of its often very young female artists.
Her latest, unprecedented record deal gives her ownership of all her master records, the ability to dictate the terms of her albums' streaming releases in order to maximise her profits, and a requirement that her label share proceeds from the sale of its stake in Spotify with its musicians. She has championed the rights of artists to earn fair royalties, and more recently, she has inspired tens of thousands of fans to register to vote.
Swift's achievements have earned her spots on both Forbes's Most Powerful Women and Time's 100 Most Influential People lists. Now, for the first time, young readers find her most inspirational, thought-provoking quotes in one place.
]]>Soft Power and Public Diplomacy in the Age of AI explores how AI is reshaping the dynamics of influence in international affairs. Bridging theory and practice, the Handbook examines the close relationship between soft power and public diplomacy through the lens of AI's expanding role. Covering themes of theory, narrative, conflict, culture, and governance, the volume features contributions from leading international scholars as well as fresh voices introducing cutting-edge ideas. Topics range from bioelectronic measures of attraction to AI's impact on digital diplomacy, narrative warfare, and cultural projection. This timely resource will appeal to students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who want to understand how influence, persuasion, and power are being transformed in our digitally networked world.
]]>Craig Hayden chairs the Security Studies Department at the Marine Corps University (USA). He co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power (2016).
Hendrik Ohnesorge is Managing Director, Center for Global Studies, University of Bonn (Germany). His latest book is titled Soft Power and the Future of US Foreign Policy (2023).
Chenjun Wang teaches at Sydney University (Australia) and is a researcher at the SPARC at Macquarie University (Australia) where she is a PhD candidate in international studies.
]]>After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape, the former slave-owners were paid compensation for the loss of their 'property'. New research has begun to show that many beneficiaries had ties to other parts of the British Empire, including the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. Through a range of case studies, contributors to this collection trace the movement of people, goods, capital, and practices from the Caribbean to the new Australasian settler colonies. Chapters consider a range of places, people and themes to reveal the varied ways that slavery continued to shape imperial relationships, economic networks, and racial labour regimes after 1833.
]]>Jane Lydon is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.
]]>This collection of articles by one of the leading philosophers of education in the English-speaking world takes up themes in the philosophy of language, epistemology and the philosophy of learning to shed light on philosophical puzzles concerning learning, concept formation, knowing how, the following of norms and whether there is a single concept of rationality that can be applied universally. Winch writes from a Wittgensteinian perspective, seeking dissolution rather than solution to philosophical problems. The collection also has a strong practical emphasis; the topics chosen are nearly all related to practical problems of educational policy and practice as well as have intrinsic philosophical interest.
]]>This book explores fourteen case studies of state crime, crimes/immoralities of the powerful, including disasters caused by neglect, pharmaceutical fraud, state sponsored or instigated crime, corporate crime, organisational crime and state terrorism. The book offers a valuable contribution to critical social science perspectives on criminality, providing analysis which explores issues of accountability and social harm and linking these to wider structural contexts, particularly the role of neoliberal ideologies. At the same time, the book will provide a critical perspective on historical case studies which continue to have legacies in the present, and which help to shed light on histories of domination and inequalities and to illustrate continuities and changes in crimes of the powerful over time.
]]>Simon Prideaux is an assistant professor of social welfare and crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.
]]>Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organises the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.
]]>The philosophical biography penned by the eminent Polish philosopher and translator Professor Piotr Nowak presents the difficult fate of Polish thinkers who reflected and created their philosophies in the 20th century the century of three Polands, three wars, and two totalitarian regimes. Building his narrative around three key words, the author presents the lives and work of Wadysaw Tatarkiewicz, Tadeusz Kroski, Leszek Koakowski, Andrzej Walicki, Adam Schaff, Bronisaw Baczko, Krzysztof Pomian, Zbigniew Kuderowicz, Stefan Amsterdamski, Jerzy Szacki, Zygmunt Bauman, Jan Garewicz, Barbara Skarga, Juliusz Domaski, Ryszard Legutko, Krzysztof Michalski, Marek J. Siemek, Jzef Tischner, Roman Ingarden, Henryk Elzenberger, Tadeusz Kotarbiski, Kazimierz Adjunkiewicz, Marian Przecki, Bogusaw Wolniewicz, Jzef Maria Bocheski, Alfred Tarski, Leon Chwistek, and Stanisaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. The book concludes with a transcript of a conversation between Zbigniew Janowski (an American philosopher of Polish descent) and the author of this book, discussing the influence of two powerful ideologies born in the 19th century, Marxism and liberalism, on the intellectual and political life of contemporary nations.
]]>This book examines the definitional differences between classical and modern political theory as they relate to the constituent parts of justice. Since the earliest days of political philosophy, justice has been understood as the goal of the state. And most thinkers have spent a considerable time addressing the components of justice nature, happiness, freedom, equality, and virtue. This book looks at these terms using both the classical and modern conceptions and argues that modern thinkers' redefinition of the terms has changed the way we conceive of justice and thus, transformed the ways states evaluate issues of right and wrong.
]]>Beethoven's Freude theme or 'Ode to Joy' is perhaps the most iconic melody ever created. This book sets out to show why the Freude theme has acquired this almost mythic status and what its use in the finale of the Ninth Symphony reveals about the mechanics of tonal composition. The book explains how the finale of the Ninth Symphony offers a crash course in music theory made possible by Beethoven's extensive training with Neefe, Haydn, Albrechtsberger, and others, and his enormous library of theory treatises, by the likes of Fux, C. P. E. Bach, Riepel, and Koch. That course covers everything from the basics of tonal voice leading and motivic development to advanced topics such as double counterpoint, canon, and ars combinatoria. The book also draws on details from his own students such as Ries and Czerny.
]]>In the last thirty to forty years, interdisciplinary scholarship on law has significantly increased. Law has a number of different potential disciplinary bed fellows. It can be seen as a social science but also as part of the humanities.
Given how ubiquitous social scientific theories and methods are within legal studies, this collection explores law's place within the humanities. It examines a number of 'law and' interactions in turn with the aim of exploring what these different fields can learn from each other and what this reveals about the law and humanities approach in general.
Law and Humanities provides the first accessible, introductory but critical guide to this emerging area of scholarship. Unlike the existing works that adopt a thematic approach, this is the only edited collection that explores law and humanities field by field. Experts in each 'law and field' will analyse the nature, development and future of their respective fields, placing this within the law and humanities context for the first time. Each chapter provides a seminal contribution to the respective field while the volume as a whole will represent a major work in the development of law and humanities, as well as to interdisciplinary legal studies generally.
]]>Russell Sandberg is Professor of Law at Cardiff University. His research interrogates the interaction between law and humanities, with particular reference to law and religion and legal history.
]]>The study of modern Mediterranean history and society has long featured debates over cross-cultural values, norms and perspectives in the region. The rise of nationalism in the Mediterranean in the 19th and early 20th centuries has led scholars to explore the tension between national and transnational group identities across the sea and its basin. As numerous Mediterranean sub-regions entered the nationalist era expressing intercultural characteristics, many questions remain to be answered about, first, the repurposing of pre-nationalist shared identities for nation-building causes and, second, attempts by nationalist forces to divide and erase those same shared identities. This book engages in this debate and provides five historical case studies, centred on the national experiences of Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Libya.
]]>Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest. Land, water and natural resources were causes of conflict, sources of funding to combatants, weapons of war, reasons to make peace and incentives to make peace. Nine of the cases ended in a negotiated, written peace accord which lasted more than 5 years. While some of the conflict areas saw a resurgence of armed conflict, other cases are exemplars of lasting peace agreements. The analysis shows what was successfully addressed in peace accords, as related to land and natural resources; what was addressed in aspirational terms that were never fully implemented; and what decisions were left to political processes that were agreed to, ending extensive armed conflict.
]]>This anthology includes chapters that explore case studies covering a wide range of societies of the Old and the New World ranging from ancient to modern contexts. Respectively, the chapters are based on different kinds of sources archaeological, historical, anthropological (ethnographic), and sociological. This analysis of pre-modern and modern societies sheds valuable light on the variety of ways in which social institutions were developing through time and space and of how these institutions may have fostered social evolution. Therefore, this publication may enhance our understanding of social evolution at the world-system, regional, and local-culture levels via the integration of various kinds of evidence within a unified conceptual framework.
Societies are systems composed of a great number of various social institutions. Societies change as a result of emergence, transformation, and interaction of institutions. As systems of social institutions, societies have a fundamental characteristic that can be called a 'basic principle of societal organization'. The principle of organisation a society embodies depends on the way its institutions are arranged with respect to one another. Two basic principles can be distinguished: heterarchical, at which institutions interact being unranked with respect to one another or can be ranked in different ways, and the opposite principle, homoarchical, at which institutions interact being rigidly ranked in the only way and have no or very limited potential for being unranked or ranked in other ways. Societies of the same level of overall cultural complexity and with the same basic principle of organization can take different specific forms, as alternativeness exists not only between but also within the heterarchical and homoarchical macrogroups of societies. The division of societies into predominantly heterarchical and homoarchical is a constant fact of human sociocultural history. The dichotomy of heterarchy and homoarchy has considerably determined the non-linear and alternative nature of the global sociocultural process.
Transformations in the ways social institutions and their sets, societal subsystems, are ranked (homoarchically or heterarchically) on one hand and changes in the overall sociocultural complexity on the other are two different, largely unrelated processes. Homoarchy and heterarchy are not evolutionary lines: a society can pass from a predominantly heterarchical way of ranking institutions to predominantly homoarchical or vice versa, and can do it both with and without a change in level of complexity. At any level of overall cultural complexity, one can observe both heterarchical and homoarchical societies, because an equal level of complexity (which makes it possible to solve equally difficult problems societies face) can be achieved in various forms on essentially different (though intersecting in the history of many societies and regions) principles of societal organisation.
]]>Gleb V. Aleksandrov, PhD, is Deputy Director of the International Centre of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
]]>This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, economics, and science. It explains the roles and interactions of Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts in protecting the environment and public health from pollution. Topics include common law; administrative law; the role of environmental impact assessments and endangered species protection; and the principal legislation and court decisions dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, conventional and toxic air pollution, water pollution, the control of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste, pollution prevention and primary accident prevention, and community right-to-know. The text also explores various alternatives to regulation and concludes with a brief treatise on sustainability.
The evolving role of science and economics in legislative, regulatory, and judicial decision making is explored. The text analyzes pollution as an economic problem and a failure of markets, discusses the role of technological innovation and the concept of "dynamic" economic equilibrium, and evaluates economic incentives as an alternative or supplement to regulation. The book also provides an introduction to basic legal skills: how to read and understand judicial opinions, regulations, and statutes; how to discover the current state of the law in a specific area; and how to take action toward resolution of environmental problems. Throughout, the role of national and local politics in shaping and implementing environmental policy is acknowledged and evaluated.
Charles C. Caldart holds a law degree from the University of Washington and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He is a lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the litigation director of the National Environmental Law Center in Boston and Seattle.
]]>This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualises Ukraine's 2014 EU-IMF aid deal and provides up to date empirical information and analysis through the lens of a socially connected global elite network. It contributes to the understanding of how power operates in international politics.
Using as case studies the three key outcomes during Ukraine's Euromaidan moment (late 2013 early 2014) namely, the introduction of GM agriculture; the opening up of the country's energy industry to TNC-led fracking (shale gas extraction); and, the sudden and violent 'regime change' this book examines the processes by which such foreign policy and international development outcomes came about; it does so by focussing on configurations of multiple influential actors political, corporate, philanthropic, and intellectual actors (e.g., academics, researchers at think tanks) all of whom are connected by various combinations of social, personal, structural, and political ties.
More specifically, these outcomes are best explained by focusing on global webs of diverse social relations between elites spanning governments, international institutions, philanthropic foundations, research institutions and think tanks, 'civil society' organisations, and multi-national corporations. Some of the actors in this global elite network may be state or corporate actors, but their connections are not based just on 'national interest' or structural affiliation, and their primary allegiance is to the global elite network. Elites can exercise forms of power within policy settings, but only a global elite network can influence policy to the extent that all three of these outcomes were produced.
The overall outcomes were broken down into the processes and the events that produced them. These events include conferences, parties, business meetings and mergers, political speeches, policies, etc. The key players in each of these events are identified and analysed, along with the multiple types of connections that link the various actors. The connections that link the different types of nodes into a cohesive global elite network were generated into maps as a visual aid to help follow the strong analysis of these relations and interactions.
First, this book details the multiple types of relationships, especially social and personal that enabled the outcomes. This is crucial in demonstrating how sensitive information flows along informal ties in a network. For example, social relations allow for the transfer of insider knowledge that is unregulated and has no oversight- information that the rest of the population (the masses) is not privy to. Social relations can allow for collusion, including in ways that may be legal, but unethical and thus potentially damaging in the public domain. This book also deploys a groundbreaking definition of the term "gatekeepers" used throughout the analysis. Gatekeepers link people together, they link think tanks, corporations, politicians, and foundations together, and also link nodes in different industries and sectors together (e.g., the development and foreign policy sectors, the philanthropic and corporate sectors, etc.). They bridge multiple industries, sectors, events, and processes.
Second, this book focuses on the spaces where these social connections were fostered, revealing the key places for global elites to convene, align diverse agendas, collaborate, and thus produce outcomes and agendas. Such spaces are crucial in enabling structural connections to become social connections. Mutual membership to think tanks and foundations and attending the same conferences/panels at places like Davos or Bilderberg, can serve as a space for meetings, exchange of information and ideas outside of a state capacity context and regulation.Third, this book explains how the official narrative surrounding the unusual outcome differs from the motives and actions of the members of the global elite network. There are discrepancies with expressed intent in narratives and the outcome.
Questioning political narratives with a focus on relations helps to explore how political elites can control the mainstream narrative. Identifying the linkages of political actors (social, personal, financial, professional, and political) outwards to TNCs, organisations, institutions, councils, and other elites reveals the process by which a dominant narrative is re/produced, and thus shows an alternate reality behind political and development narratives. It is important to study these connections to understand how opposition groups are forced to exist within a dualistic narrative so that anything going against the mainstream and accepted narrative is not only wrong, but also suppressed and sometimes erased.
]]>This study concerns a Gothic realism in the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo-documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary horror cinema, the films examined here express generalized millennial and 21st-century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated reality. Part I focuses on gothumentaries, nonfiction works evoking the Gothic's unreadable subjects and undetected realities. Case studies show key documentary films such as Capturing the Friedmans, Cropsey, and The Hellstrom Chronicle bringing Gothic-horror tropes and conventions to bear upon documentary subject matter to produce skepticism of American environmental, social, and national stability from the 1970s onward. Part II explores mockumentary, fake found-footage, and screenlife horror cinema that turns to strategies of documentary and factual discourse to express an archival anxiety around human interaction with recording technologies. Case studies of pivotal films such as The Blair Witch Project, Diary of the Dead, Lake Mungo, Unfriended, Sickhouse, and We Are All Going to the World's Fair turn to Gothic reflexivity as a way of expressing the subject's relationship to, and experience of, a modernity that overwhelms in terms of its immensity, speed, and recordability.
]]>This book highlights the roles of culture and institutions on economic change. In particular, it compares cultures between the United States and China and examines their impacts on entrepreneurship, innovation capabilities, and economic and social changes. It also covers their impacts on everyday life performance.
]]>Fu-Lai Tony Yu was former adjunct professor at the Department of Land Management, Feng Chia University, and emeritus professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
]]>From the mid-1740s on, imaginative depictions of mining scenes increasingly adorned vessels from the Meissen Royal Porcelain Manufactory. Prior to this, sculptural depictions of mining folk can even be found on Boettger stoneware and Boettger porcelain with artists George Fritzsche Sr (probably 1697-1756) and Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-1775) later each dedicating a series to them. The unique combination of mining and porcelain also informed and inspired other manufactories in the German-speaking realm, for example in Berlin, Furstenberg and Vienna.
Achim and Beate Middelschulte have assembled what is probably the world's most extensive collection of porcelain featuring the subject of mining. A significant selection of this has been transferred to a foundation and incorporated as a permanent loan into the collection at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (German Mining Museum in Bochum). An in-depth presentation of these pieces is now available in this publication.
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]]>If we understand 'transcendence' as a multidimensional experience, can light as a medium grant us access to invisible realms? The artist Fabian Gatermann uses light as the key material for his installations, objects, and multiples in order to investigate new dimensions. Over the course of his work, Gatermann disengages himself from the classic scientific engineering system of testing; instead his works can be seen as open-ended unconventional experiments. During this creative process, light oscillates between amorphous and crystalline states, taking the viewer on a transcendental voyage of discovery. The central reference throughout remains the human being: the works provoke active participation and invite the viewer to become part of a multi-perspective game of light and space. Text in English and German.
]]>Their jewellery pieces open up new, often surprising perspectives on their artistic production. Some pieces captivate with minimalist elegance, others with their expressive, sculptural presence or playful humour, with each unique work consolidating an artistic vision into a small personal statement. With its exhibition of the same name, the Museum fr Angewandte Kunst Kln (MAKK; Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne) deliberately focuses on female standpoints, thus breaking with the male-dominated perception of avant-garde art jewellery.
Artists featured include: Lynda Benglis; Pierrette Bloch; Barbara Bloom; Katinka Bock; Louise Bourgeois; Helen Britton; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Claudia Comte; Sheila Concari; Sonia Delaunay; Nathalia Edenmont; Aube Elleouet; Claire von Falkenstein; Ruth Francken; Marcia Grostein; Jenny Holzer; Rebecca Horn; Annabelle d'Huart; Leiko Ikemura; Jacqueline de Jong; Yayoi Kusama; Alicja Kwade; Claude Lalanne; Liliane Lijn; Rita McBride; Blanca Munos; Brigitte Nahon; Eva Renee Nele [E. R. Nele]; Louise Nevelson; Michele Oka Doner; Yoko Ono; Meret Oppenheim; Francoise Petrovitch; Niki de Saint Phalle; Armelle de Sainte Marie; Elodie Seguin; Mailys Seydoux-Dumas; Kiki Smith; Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Dorothea Tanning; Sissel Tolaas; Rosemarie Trockel; Paloma Varga Weisz; Sophia Vari; Joana Vasconcelos; Zhou Yiyan.
Text in English and German.
]]>Concentrating on the difference between the two types of Arabic the classical standard language and the dialects Kees Versteegh charts the history and development of the Arabic language from its earliest beginnings to the modern age. The reader is given a solid grounding in the structure of the language, its historical context and its use in various literary and non-literary genres, as well as an understanding of the role of Arabic as a cultural, religious and political world language.
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At its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to critically reflect on where their assumptions about vision come from, and a joint recognition of the fruitful problems of working together to understand the algorithmic governance of the visual.
]]>Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History and Dean of Leiden University College, Leiden University.
]]>Sarah Gibson is Associate Professor in the Centre for Communication and Media in Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
]]>The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first nor the only Black music to be targeted this way.
Policing the beats rewinds the tape to demonstrate how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery to the present day, revealing the racist legal processes that make crimes out of rhymes.
This original and readable book offers the first in-depth account of the policing of Black music in Britain, highlighting the relationship between politics, culture and criminal (in)justice and inviting music lovers, scholars and activists to tune in.
]]>Looking to recent events in Britain and beyond, the book offers timely insight into the cultural processes underpinning the punitive systems that disproportionately harm racially minoritised and marginalised communities.
]]>Eric Shaw is Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Stirling.
]]>Paul Meerts is deputy general-director emeritus of Clingendael Institute in The Hague.
The editors are members of the Processes of International Negotiations (PIN) Steering Committee at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP: www.pin-negotiation.org).
]]>Simon MacLean is Professor in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
]]>Christianna Bonin is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at American University of Sharjah.
Gabriella A. Ferrari is an independent scholar of Russian and Soviet visual culture.
]]>Marius Buning is Professor of European History at the University of Oslo.
Mala Loth is a postdoctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.
]]>Carl Marklund is affiliated scholar at Institute of Contemporary History, Sdertrn University, and senior researcher at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyvskyl.
Andreas Mrkved Hellenes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and research fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Byron Zachary Rom-Jensen is post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo.
]]>Emma Weitkamp is Professor of Science Communication and Deputy Director of the Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol. With a background in both practical science communication and science communication research, she has published widely for both academic and practitioner audiences. Emma coauthored or edited three books, her work has been included in 11 book chapters and she has published around 40 peer reviewed journal articles. She was editor of the peer reviewed journal, Journal of Science Communication from 2014 - 2022.
]]>In this collection, the first on this subject, a group of distinguished film scholars analyse some key performances in Hitchcock's work, covering his career from the British silent era to the last years of the Hollywood studio system. The actors covered range from Ivor Novello to Tippi Hedren, with classic, and less well-known films discussed including Notorious, Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
This book reflects the growing academic interest in film performance, and opens new perspectives on the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
]]>Victoria Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Film Studies, University of Manchester.
]]>In Black Socialities: urban resistance and the struggle beyond recognition in Paris, Vanessa E. Thompson argues that black urban politics in the French banlieues are multi-racial and spatially grounded towards abolition. Based on a close engagement with urban black activist practices against racial imagery in the city, policing and state racism, and housing insecurity, she shows how radical anti-racism goes beyond struggles for recognition and unfolds alongside new formations of political blackness that is based on urban conviviality.
This form of black politics has much to teach us in this current conjuncture of liberal anti-racism and state recognition politics.
]]>Focused on the concept of artistic remediation, the book unravels the diverse capacities of art to combat systemic anthropogenic destruction to the environment and ecology. At its core, the book articulates the ongoing ecological transformation in art and art history that embraces a paradigm shift in human-nature relationships, emphasising interconnectedness of all life forms of the Earth. Bridging art studies, activism, and environmental studies, the book examines how artistic practices in the region have engaged with ecocritical reflection, biodiversity advocacy, sustainable practices, and environmental justice, among others. Providing a platform for critical and timely analysis of artistic interventions in the face of existential crises, the book acknowledges diverse voices of scholars who have situated their scholarship in the cultural and artistic specificities of various societies, locales, and communities in the region.
]]>The book draws on Czech and Slovak scholarship as well as primary research in archives, interviews, and fieldwork to dispel misreadings of visual and cultural idioms in pre-existing Anglophone scholarship about the region. Although the former Soviet Bloc is often equated with repression and lack of experimental art in public spaces, performance artists within the former Socialist Czechoslovakia often used public, semi-public and clandestine spheres to create their performances. By analysing both works of established artists such as Aktual, Alex Mlynrcik, Petr tembera, Jan Mlcoch, as well as under-theorised practitioners including Luba Lauffov, Karel Miler, Temporary Society of Intense Living, and Crusaders School of Pure Humour with no Joke, this book analyses how performance can survive and sometimes even thrive on the background of a politically oppressive regime. Cermak tells a unique story of localised resistance to a monolithic public sphere through artistic intervention, a closely knit community, artistic exchange, and agonistic reframing of socialism as a philosophy rather than state ideology.
]]>The Irish poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) led a life defiantly at odds with her aristocratic origins. Choosing to live and work among the poor of Manchester, she campaigned on behalf of barmaids, circus performers, flower sellers and pit-brow lasses, her partner, Esther Roper, at her side.
Gore-Booth was tireless in her pursuit of justice. She was a militant pacifist during the First World War, a champion of Irish independence and a pioneering thinker on gender and sexuality. She was also a prolific author, publishing nineteen volumes of poetry and prose that reflect the full force of her radical convictions.
Featuring a new preface that situates Gore-Booth's life and work in the context of our current political climate, this biography reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo-Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history.
'We are all so indebted to Sonja Tiernan...Eva Gore-Booth's extraordinary path of engagement is one that remains deeply inspiring to us today.' Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
'A well-researched and illuminating first full biography.' Caitriona Crowe, Irish Times
'Sensational anecdotes and quirky details abound... [a] magisterial and definitive study.' Maureen O'Connor, New Hibernia Review
'A deeply researched, important and readable account of Gore-Booth's life which links many of the issues of her day.' Carla King, Irish Literary Supplement
]]>A queer scrapbook offers a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland. Packed with materials, from interviews and newspaper articles to photographs and flyers, the book explores urban, rural and regional queer life since 1945.
Commentaries and short essays introduce a changing queer landscape, spotlighting four broad themes: home and family, sex and socialising, arts and culture and politics and activism. The book delves into the meaning and experiences of domesticity and parenting and explores the sometimes unexpected places LGBTIQ+ people met to have fun. It examines the importance of creative work in forming community and identity and shows how people fought injustice and advocated for equal rights.
Collecting has been a way for the marginalised to explore and assert identity and community. A queer scrapbook vividly illustrates the diversity of queer and trans lives across the British and Irish isles since the Second World War.
]]>Matt Cook is Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexuality at the University of Oxford
Rebecca Jennings is Associate Professor of Modern Gender History at University College London.
E. J. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
]]>With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Artificially Intelligent answers today's most pressing questions about AI from the fundamental to the futuristic offering readers a new, informed worldview.
In an age of unparalleled innovation and change, artificial intelligence has become the heart of our fears, discussions, and debates. Thus, AI researcher and award-winner David Eliot takes readers on a journey through the key moments and decisions that have shaped its creation and our world. A socially driven history, the book explores its technical breakthroughs and the social forces that made them possible.
But this book isn't just about the past it's about you. Artificially Intelligent invites readers to find their place in the story of AI, to understand its impact on their lives, and to decide what kind of future they want to help create.
Artificially Intelligent tells the story of the technology the way it was meant to be told: not as an exhaustive retelling of history, nor as a prophecy of doom and gloom, but as a human story that is not yet complete.
]]>Award-winning author and physician Brodie Ramin, trained in prevention through his work in primary care and addiction, explores how we can scale up preventative strategies and apply them at a societal level: from the wreckage of plane crashes and pandemics to nuclear catastrophes, industrial accidents, and natural disasters.
Through gripping case studies from the Notre Dame fire to Fukushima Ramin dissects the human errors, systemic failures, and overlooked warning signs that lead to catastrophe. At its core, the book argues that prevention is not only possible but essential we must act before disaster strikes, rather than learning only in its aftermath. Drawing on frameworks like James Reason's Swiss cheese model of error and insights from high-reliability organisations, Ramin shows how risk compounds when safeguards fail and how layered defenses can save lives. He offers a critical intervention: by adopting a prevention mindset and overcoming our cognitive biases, we can proactively solve problems in our personal lives, our organisations, and our society, before the next crisis unfolds.
Blending history, psychology, and public policy, Written in Blood is a compelling call to rethink how we manage risk, before it's too late.
]]>Despite advances in technology, CO poisoning remains a persistent threat today, arising from water heaters, gas stoves, charcoal barbecues, Zambonis, camp stoves, tent heaters, diesel generators, and power washers. Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide provides a comprehensive, well-organised, and thought-provoking examination of this deadly gas, tracing its impact on humans from antiquity to the present. Backed by over 600 studies, long-time forensic toxicologist James G. Wigmore presents complex information in an easily understandable manner for professionals such as lawyers, judges, scientists, coroners, unexplained death investigators, police officers, and students.
Through historical accounts, scientific discoveries, and medicolegal cases, this book illuminates the enduring dangers of carbon monoxide and underscores the importance of awareness and prevention in our modern world.
]]>With academic rigour and accessible prose, Kwong documents the ordinary fears, worries, and urgencies of cancer treatment. She takes readers through the emotional turmoil of her experiences as she undergoes complex surgery and radiation treatment. Kwong manages to complete her treatment just in time to return to Hong Kong and see her father one last time.
Crossing the Phantom Pass explores the uniqueness, as well as the commonalities, embedded in each cancer patient's experience. Centring knowledge as power and resilience, Kwong integrates practical information and unfiltered realities into the emotional narrative of the book.
Questions of hope, death, and grief intertwine with critiques and commentary on the healthcare system, offering an honest portrayal of one woman's journey and a source of solace for others facing similar trials.
]]>The Art of Being a Stranger is a darkly funny narrative told in poetry, prose, and mixed-media drawings. While her father taught her how to save herself, Bermann realised early on that what she truly needed was to be saved from him. Set against the backdrop of 1960s and 1970s New York City, The Art of Being a Stranger is a poignant comic-drama that offers an intimate, layered exploration of parents and children in the shadow of history.
]]>Through the perspectives of patients, physicians, clinicians, medical students, and nurses, The Making of a Doctor highlights the challenges faced by both patients and healthcare providers. This collection of essays uncovers pivotal moments from the denial of essential medical care by insurance companies to the emotional toll that this work has had on clinicians, some of whom have considered leaving medicine due to the pressures they face to demonstrate the dire state of our medical systems.
The Making of a Doctor sheds light on the harmful impact of a system that prioritizes profits over people, exposing the widespread issues of patient neglect and clinician burnout seen in healthcare systems around the world. Despite these challenges, the collection also points to a path forward offering solutions for reform and a sustainable approach to providing medical care that places humanity at the centre of the practice.
]]>Deeply personal and brutally honest, this extended analysis intertwines Grabowski's experiences and those of his family in Poland with a sharp critique of the state's long-standing policy of Holocaust distortion. Carried out over decades by successive political parties, this campaign has become a powerful unifying force in Polish society. To protect the narrative of 'political innocence' during the Holocaust, Poland has enacted criminal and civil laws designed to silence independent scholars, including Grabowski, who was sued for defamation in Polish court. In Whitewash, Grabowski examines Holocaust envy, distortion, denial, and de-Judaisation in a searing call to protect the integrity of Holocaust memory.
Whitewash effectively weaves together the history and politics of Holocaust distortion, grounding them in Grabowski's own lived experience to underscore the immediate need for collective reckoning and action.
]]>Through many trips, calls, and emails to his Zaidy, Heller uncovers dozens of previously unknown stories of lost friendships, personal tragedies, acts of heroism, and emotional reunions. These men played key roles in the defining events of their time fighting against Nazism and contributing to the establishment of Israel. Their voices, however, are not mere relics of the past. The dilemmas they faced faith, belonging, courage, and sacrifice continue to resonate today.
Part memoir, part historical biography, and part mystery, Zaidy's Band reveals how even the humblest acts of World War II service shaped a generation of men and left a lasting impact on their families for years to come.
]]>Not a day goes by without breathless commentary on the increasing power of this innovative technology. Hype flows from the sages of Silicon Valley. But who is behind the evolution of this technology, and how does it really work? In Humans of AI, anthropologist Joseph Wilson details his efforts to understand the process and customs of AI development.
Wilson introduces readers to the hidden world of AI behind the doors of chip design labs, coding bootcamps, and organisations teaching AI to speak dozens of languages. He meets philosophers envisioning a future without disease or death, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who warns of AI's existential risks, and ghost workers whose invisible labor powers the world's biggest tech platforms. He also speaks with writers, artists, and developers wrestling with the promise and peril of AI to find out what they really think of ChatGPT. Wilson's empathetic and thoughtful investigation provides readers a front row view on how AI is actually made.
Humans of AI is indispensable in reminding people that the work of AI is not miraculous or magical, but vividly human.
]]>With most of these changes expected within the next decade or two, Automata offers timely use cases and practical strategies to help individuals and organisations navigate this new era. It highlights needed changes in education such as the importance of learning-to-learn and emotional intelligence to help society prepare for this new age.
Automata is a vital guide for anyone seeking to thrive rather than just survive as human work, society, and daily life are redefined by the rise of machine intelligence.
]]>In line with growing movements to decolonize the academy, the essays in Affect as Cultural Critique feature ethnographic accounts of people actively describing, experimenting with, and otherwise exercising affect in ways that challenge the academy's inherited models for analyzing emotional life. Through an experimental collection of traditional ethnographic essays and artist-activist-generated critiques, this volume explores how everyday modes of feeling function as methods of knowing. By centering non-academic and non-Western affective practices as answers to traditional theoretical problems generated primarily by Western theorists, Affect as Cultural Critique seeks new trajectories for the discipline through a reciprocal practice of uncovering itself as a guiding professional aim, as methodological inspiration, and as a source of reflexive critique of the discipline's philosophical and theory-heavy analytics.
]]>Emma E. Cook is a professor of Modern Japanese Studies at Hokkaido University.
Andrea De Antoni is an associate professor in cultural anthropology at Kyoto University and research coordinator of the Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Kyoto.
]]>For about a decade, the somewhat unprecedented occurrence of double migration has been observed in Italian Bangladeshis engaging in a second move to London. Told through the lens of a fictionalised ethnographer and presented in the form of accessible and captivating comics, this book traces the concept of onward migration and the lives shaped by it.
Through interviews with Italian Bangladeshis who made the difficult decision to re-uproot their lives in search of better, social scientists and comic artists Francesco Della Puppa, Francesco Matteuzzi, and Francesco Saresin come together to highlight the joys and struggles of this new (e)migration. The authors offer insights on the dynamism of these 'new Italian citizens' and on the migration routes shaped by the continuous global transformations, and on the social, political, and economic situation of Italy and the Southern European countries. Moreover, by following the trajectories of Stefano the researcher, the book provides valuable insight into the modalities, processes, difficulties and turning points of conducting ethnographic research.
gives voice to diasporic communities and sheds light on their most current trials and tribulations.
Francesco Matteuzzi is a screenwriter and journalist, and he collaborates with Sergio Bonelli Editore.
Francesco Saresin is a cartoonist and illustrator who has published two books.
Clara Pope is a freelance Italian-to-English translator and editor based in Bologna.
]]>In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rzia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland. Alone and terrified, she flees to a neighbour's house and is reunited with her aunt, Rza Finkielsztajn. With the help of friends and strangers, the two Roses adopt false identities and disguise themselves as Polish gentile sisters. Against all odds, they survive the war in a forced-labor camp in Nazi Germany.
A collaboration between award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Libicki and Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, this book illuminates a crucial part of our shared history with care, honesty, and creativity.
]]>Holocaust educator and survivor Rose Lipszyc was awarded the Order of Canada in 2021. Lipszyc still meets with Canadian and Polish youth to recount her wartime fate as a witness to history.
Award-winning author Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Executive Director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Charlotte Schallie is a professor of Germanic Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interests include memory studies, visual culture studies, genocide education, care ethics, and more. She also edited the award-winning collection of graphic novels But I Live.
Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
]]>In Volume One, historian Mathew Kuefler delves into the eras from prehistory to the sixteenth century, touching upon themes including patriarchy, gender diversity, sexual norms in religious and medical traditions, and perceptions of sexual 'others'. Volume Two focuses on the modern period, addressing topics such as sexual thought among puritans and libertines, scientific influences, censorship, and sexuality as self-expression and liberation. Each volume is structured around thematic chapters, with twenty sources per chapter and five chapters per volume, allowing for use in both chronological and thematic teaching. This collection is ideal for courses in the history of sexuality or world history, gender and women's studies, sociology, or cultural studies.
The Global History of Sexuality Sourcebook emphasises both the universal aspects of human sexuality and the particularities of individual and cultural experience, challenging students and readers to think critically about how sexual norms, identities, and practices have been shaped across time and place.
]]>In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted and dismembered two people in a mini crime spree. Her actions both fascinated and terrified the public how could this woman, a nurse, commit such a violent act?
West Berlin detectives attempted to run an efficient investigation under new democratic rules. Their East Berlin counterparts, newly structured along Soviet lines, employed their restricted resources to solve the case and prove the advantages of their socialist system. Both tried to use the investigation to demonstrate their distance from the Third Reich and build a brighter future.
Based on the true story of Elisabeth Kusian, Death in the Rubble explores shifting identities, evolving gender expectations, post-fascist politics and norms, and the violence lurking beneath a city struggling to redefine itself.
]]>This book proposes that a renewed emphasis on history education, taught with depth and rigour, can foster civic reason, empathy, and a shared sense of civic truth. Through detailed frameworks and practical approaches, the book outlines how history can be taught to develop students' abilities in civic reasoning and engagement, ultimately strengthening democracy.
Rescuing Reason makes a compelling case for the vital role of history education in nurturing civic competencies. The book offers a clear, actionable plan for educators, policymakers, and the public to reorient education towards preparing students not just for the workforce, but for active, thoughtful citizenship in a complex democratic society.
]]>Carla L. Peck is a professor in the Faculty of Education and an adjunct professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta.
]]>For Roth and Morgenstern, Galicia encapsulates the rich interplay between contemporary developments including urbanisation, secularisation, embourgeoisement, political self-determination, and new technologies and traditional Jewish life in Eastern European villages and shtetls, characterised by tight-knit families and communities, religious observance and ritual, Yiddish language and culture, and Hasidic belief systems. Despite the tensions between these elements, this book presents them as a complex network rather than a battle between old and new, east and west, or tradition and modernity. German and Jewish studies scholar, Kata Gellen, also traces the shifting attachments of Galician Jews to German, a language that symbolised emancipation, culture, empire, and, ultimately, disillusionment and persecution.
Through original readings of well-known and neglected works by Roth and Morgenstern, Gellen shows how the literary idea of Galicia is shaped by continuous struggle and emergent hope, whether as earthly possibility or redemptive promise. This book thereby uncovers the complex relationship between center and periphery in Jewish modernity and reanimates a dimension of modern Jewish literary history that has been obscured by the dark shadow of the Holocaust.
]]>Drawing on materials from KGB archives and Soviet publications long out of print, KGB Literati offers the first-ever account of spy fiction written, frequently with institutional support, by Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence officers. Spy fiction can give insights into the operational workings of clandestine agencies and the personal dimensions of secret service work. By analysing the literary output of KGB spies and counterspies, the book shows that for the KGB, this type of intervention into Soviet popular culture was a crucial component of their overall counterintelligence strategy. These texts played an instrumental role in the Soviet state's efforts to neutralise and counter Western cultural influences on the Soviet population.
Filip Kovacevic's research is of great relevance today, given that a large segment of the Russian ruling elite is still composed of former KGB officers, including Russian president Vladimir Putin. KGB Literati illuminates the deep-seated KGB myths, values, aspirations, and fears that continue to have a profound impact on the foreign and domestic policies of the Russian Federation.
]]>In Democracy's Second Act, Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson argue that the First Act of democracy anchored in voting rights and representative government achieved extraordinary gains. Free elections, near-universal suffrage, and the peaceful transfer of power reshaped societies and expanded human freedom. But these achievements represent the promise of democracy, not its completion.
Their book offers a hopeful, clear-eyed vision for what comes next. Drawing on ground-breaking citizens' assemblies in Ireland, Canada and France as well as democratic innovations from more than a dozen countries MacLeod and Johnson show how we can build on the legacy of the First Act by creating new institutions that tap into the talents, judgement, and capabilities of ordinary people. They make the case that the public isn't a risk to be managed, but a powerful resource ready to be harnessed and that the future depends on giving citizens real responsibility, not just a periodic vote.
Smart, story-driven, and deeply grounded in political theory and practice, Democracy's Second Act is for change-makers ready to move beyond cynicism and rebuild democracy for a new era.
]]>Richard Johnson is a former journalist and current policy director at MASS LBP. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Walrus, Reader's Digest, This Magazine, The New Quarterly, and many others. A former Fellow in Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, he was also a longtime writer for the award-winning podcast Trailblazers, with Walter Isaacson.
]]>Drawing from her upbringing in Antwerp's Jewish community and her later life in America, Cassen weaves together historical events, family narratives, and contemporary challenges to paint a vivid portrait of Jewish experience in modern Europe. At once intimate and analytical, she reflects on childhood fears of being identified as Jewish, connecting these anxieties to the trauma of historical persecution and the Holocaust.
The book also offers a comparative analysis of Jewish life in Europe and America, highlighting the vibrancy of American Judaism while acknowledging rising concerns about antisemitism in the United States. By juxtaposing these experiences, Stained Glass invites readers to reflect on the future of Jewish communities in a world that is increasingly fractured and uncertain.
]]>With enhanced autofocus subject-detection features, this 24MP camera shares many of the advanced photography capabilities of Nikon's top tier Z9 and Z8 flagship cameras, including vibration reduction for up to 7.5 stops of stabilisation linked to the active autofocus point for superb low-light and long lens photography.
Add cutting-edge video features that include 6K/60p recording and N-RAW, N-log, and HLG 10-bit options, you'll see why photographers and videographers are so excited about the Nikon Z5 II. With this book in hand, you'll master all these impressive features, and fine tune your camera skills as you develop your creativity while taking great photographs with your new Z5 II.
Filled with detailed how-to steps and full-colour illustrations, David Busch's Nikon Z5 II Guide to Digital Photography covers the cameras' photography capabilities in depth, from taking your first photos through advanced details of setup, exposure, lens selection, lighting, and more, and relates each feature to specific photographic techniques and situations. A handy visual guide to the Z5 II offers close-up photos and descriptions of the cameras' essential features and controls. Learn when to use each option and, more importantly, when not to use them, by following the author's recommended settings for every menu entry. With best-selling photographer and mentor David Busch as your guide, you'll quickly have full creative mastery of your camera's capabilities, whether you're shooting on the job, as an advanced enthusiast, or are just out for fun. Start building your knowledge and confidence, while bringing your vision to light with the Nikon Z5 II today.
]]>The graduate of Kent State University is a former newspaper reporter/photographer, and operated his own commercial photo studio, shooting sports, weddings, portraits, fashion, architecture, product photography, and travel images. For 22 years he was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations/marketing firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles for Eastman Kodak Company and other imaging companies. His 2500 articles and accompanying photos have appeared inside and on the covers of hundreds of magazines, including Popular Photography, Rangefinder, and Professional Photographer.
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