What would it mean to be able to live a plain life? Would a plain life just be an unambitious one a drab or routine life, without colour, variation, unknowing or luck? Or would a plain life be one in which we'd fret slightly less, suspect ourselves less, and thus listen to ourselves and others in new ways? We may not need to do more and be more in the quiet spaces already within us, lurking in the interstices of our days and conversations, there are ways and choreographies to nurture a plainer, saner, odder, less reactive and therefore less terrifying life.
In Plain Life, Antonia Pont questions our thinking about capacities, virtue, envy, wanting, love and kindness suggesting that it might be fine, more than enough, indeed so much, to live a plain life.
'Read this precise, wild and tender offering, and be sure to ask yourself how you feel after ... Plain Life is challenging and generous.' Debra Dank
'Fizzing with energy and ideas, Plain Life is a practical, philosophical heart to heart with your most spirited friend. Alain de Botton for hot anti-capitalists.' Briohny Doyle
'Deeply alert to the challenges of our times, and extraordinarily well read, Antonia Pont delivers us a handbook for life that is politically radical, refreshingly intellectual, and wholly attentive to embodiment and being. Informed and informing, it is a seriously joyful tour de force.' Julienne van Loon
'An intriguing volume that is reminiscent of the works of Alain de Botton, Maggie Nelson and Rebecca Solnit.' Heidi Maier, InDaily QLD
'Pont's elliptical, playful, philosophical style requires readers slow down and observe the workings of their own minds, be curious about the fears they've suppressed and dare to feel them, and become aware of how they collude in their own misery.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
'Mixing academic reflection with engaging prose, Plain Life is a thought-provoking book.' Jeff Popple, The Canberra Daily
]]>It was a chance encounter in the forest with a purple mushroom that completely changed photographer Stephen Axford's view of the world. He became obsessed with documenting the largely unexplored kingdom of fungi and, alongside his partner, Catherine Marciniak, capturing the beauty and diversity of fungi in some of the most remote regions on Earth. There are an estimated 25 million species of fungi found all over the world, yet with only around 155,000 described so far, there is so much left to discover.
From glowing mushrooms in ancient forests to bizarre, alien-like forms, these extraordinary organisms will challenge how you see the natural world.
'A stunning exploration of a hidden world. These are among the most remarkable images of fungi I've ever seen, woven into relation by a series of writings that beautifully illuminate the mysteries and wonders of fungal life.' Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life
'A wondrous journey through epic fungal encounters, with sublime photography and beautiful tales.' Giuliana Furci, Founding Director, Fungi Foundation
]]>Stephen Axford is renowned for his macro fungi photography, which has been published and exhibited worldwide. His fungi time-lapses appear in award-winning documentaries such as Planet Earth 2, Fantastic Fungi and Fungi: Web of Life. He co-writes and presents Planet Fungi's documentaries, capturing the intricate beauty of fungi globally.
Dr Tom May is a mycologist at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia, with a distinguished research career and a passion for communicating and educating about fungi. Former President of Fungimap, he co-authored Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers and was awarded the Nancy T. Burbidge Medal and the Australian Natural History Medallion.
]]>Do trees talk to one another? Can a plant use up the oxygen in a room while you sleep? What is a native plant and what is a weed? Are some plants truly immortal?
Through 50 beautifully crafted essays, former director of preeminent botanic gardens and self-confessed plant punk Tim Entwisle shines a gentle light on everyday questions about plants and gardens, guiding the reader through fact and fiction.
Including the best of his contributions to gardening magazines and newspapers over four decades, as well as 24 pieces written specially for this book, The Sceptical Botanist is a tour de force of investigative writing from one of Australia's most thoughtful and inquisitive botanical minds.
Pick up The Sceptical Botanist and you'll never look at a plant or garden in the same way again!
'Entwisle is a confident explorer and guide. Whether he's exploring our relationships with plants, the way that scientists think, or the reasons for some very unnatural beliefs about nature, his humour, integrity and lightly-worn knowledge shine through.' Professor Jonathan Drori, CBE
]]>By putting this collection in dialogue with the National Gallery of Australia's rich collection of modernist artists, such as Cossington Smith, John Passmore, Grace Crowley, Hirschfeld Mack, Inge King and Rosemary Madigan, we can illuminate the electrifying way in which ideas, techniques and artists moved across the borders of space, time and culture.
This authoritative publication stages a conversation between European and Australian art across a period of revolution and reinvention throughout the twentieth century. A major collaborative essay researched and written by exhibition curators David Greenhalgh, Natalie Zimmer and Deirdre Cannon explores how these artists took inspiration from one other and the circulation of images, objects and artworks that marked the modern age. This curatorial team are joined by other scholars including Dr Gabriel Montua, Head of Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie Stiftung Preuischer Kulturbesitz and Simeran Maxwell also examine key artists and their works in details through a selection of annotated plates.
Featuring over 140 colour reproductions and a conveniently compact flat-reading format with gatefold, this rich publication not only demonstrates how these artists envisioned new ways of looking at the world, but provides a new way of seeing these artists within transnational contexts.
]]>Griffith Review 89: Here Be Monsters surveys beasts and bogeymen past and present, real and imagined, to peel back the layers of our social and cultural anxieties. What are we most afraid of? When is monstrosity alluring rather than frightening? And what form might the monsters of the future take?
]]>Lisa Fuller is an award-winning Murri writer living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra). She won the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer and the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, and she was a joint winner of the 2018 Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers. Lisa's young adult novel, Ghost Bird, won the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award and the Readings Young Adult Prize in 2020, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature and 2022 Indigenous Writers' Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
]]>The first comprehensive cookbook to fully cover all aspects of Japanese cuisine with 600 recipes!
This book has been a lifetime in the making. Bicultural author Makiko Itoh was born in Tokyo and grew up in New York, where her mother ran the leading Japanese restaurant for two decades. She has since developed a career as a successful bilingual food writer and translator, uniquely positioned to explain the cuisine to non-Japanese.
Her book answers all the questions foreigners typically have about one of the world's greatest cuisines, including:
Itoh's mission is to demystify Japanese cuisine for non-Japanese. Her book contains 400 beautiful colour photos with clearly-presented recipes interspersed with fascinating essays and sidebars explaining all aspects of Japan's unique food culture. A must-read book for every Japanese food lover!
]]>Insects are the most abundant wildlife on the planet but also the least observed. This incisive field companion highlights the basic tools for watching insects with all of our senses, covers some best habitats and circumstances for seeing the most diversity, and shares tips for attracting desirable insects to your yard and garden. With wonderful illustrations by Samantha Gallagher, Bugwatching explains why this rewarding activity is for everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender identity, level of affluence, ability, or disability. When you become a bugwatcher, you join a community of supportive and energetic people. The potential for personal and scientific discovery is virtually limitless.
]]>Samantha Gallagher is an artist and illustrator who specialises in insects.
]]>Tyrannosaurus rex is the world's favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. This stunningly illustrated book brings together everything we have learned about T. rex the 'King of the Tyrant Lizards' since it was first given its famous name in 1905. It presents these creatures as science knows them rather than the version portrayed in movies, revealing them to be dramatically different, and far more amazing, than ever imagined. With numerous original paintings and diagrams by the author, King Tyrant draws on the latest discoveries to offer a modern understanding of Tyrannosaurus, pulling back the curtain of media hype that often obscures these extraordinary extinct animals while cementing their reputation as the most formidable carnivores of the Mesozoic.
]]>Airily dancing over rivers and ponds, the thousands of colourful dragonfly and damselfly species that cohabit our planet may seem of little importance. Few life-forms, however, convey the condition of the most limiting resource on land and life's most bountiful environment as well as they can: while the adults are exceptional aerial hunters, their nymphs are all confined to freshwater. Dragonflies and Damselflies of the World showcases their beauty and diversity while shedding light on how they evolved into the vital symbols of planetary health we celebrate today.
]]>Wild Collections explores some of the fascinating, strange and unique stories behind more than 15 million specimens cared for within CSIRO's National Research Collections Australia. More than just pinned insects and pressed plants, these are stories of scientific discovery and cutting-edge research. This book offers us a rare glimpse into the world-class collections and the wonders they contain.
Go behind the scenes to discover species lost, found and saved, and the evolving knowledge and techniques it takes to record and understand our unique biodiversity. And meet some of the amazing scientists using this knowledge to protect and conserve our natural world.
'Our people have hundreds of stories to tell you. CSIRO is a magical place. In this inspiring book you'll discover why.' Dr Doug Hilton AO, Chief Executive, CSIRO
]]>In this groundbreaking book, Professor Bryan Horrigan provides a roadmap for navigating the complexity of CSR and the current controversies surrounding it. How is the corporate landscape changing for Australia and the world on corporate diversity, climate disclosures, and social and environmental harms? Do Australian businesses, the professions advising them, and even universities all have social licences to operate? Should they all speak and act publicly on controversial social and environmental issues, or stay out of the arena of partisan politics altogether?
How far should corporate governance standards for ASX-listed companies go in addressing social, environmental and climate issues? Do Australian company directors face legal liability for mismanaging climate risk and disclosure, and what safeguards can protect them? And how does the Trump administration's war on so-called 'wokeness' create ripple effects for corporate Australia, Australian politics and Australian universities?
In Corporate Social Responsibility in an Age of Existential Threats, Professor Horrigan brings a unique blend of academic, practical and policy expertise to his insightful and provocative discussion of these topics. This book is essential reading for those in the public, private, not-for-profit and university sectors whose work concerns business and corporations in society.
]]>From 2013 to 2024, Professor Horrigan served as dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University the longest-serving dean in the sixty-year history of the faculty. He currently serves as one of only two Special Advisers to the vice-chancellor of the university. He is one of only a few Australian law deans to have more than twenty years' experience simultaneously in commercial legal practice, university management and the legal academy. In various roles, he has confidentially advised numerous leaders across the public, private and university sectors.
The Australian Government appointed Professor Horrigan to a three-member expert panel to review three major pieces of national business regulation in 201011. All of the panel's recommendations were accepted and became law.
]]>Blue is the most mysterious and evocative of colours. It can signify the beginning of love and the end of life. It can evoke tranquillity or tension. For Ted Hughes, blue is a 'kindly spirit', an 'electrified', 'thoughtful...guardian'; for Joni Mitchell, it is a sigh-filled song, a 'foggy lullaby'. For Henry David Thoreau, the 'blue ground' is the source of 'new truth'. And Goethe writes: 'We love to contemplate blue, not because it advances us, but because it draws us after it.'
In the nineteenth edition of this creative anthology, writers from Monash University and beyond share pieces that span fiction, nonfiction, poetry and experimental forms. They explore shades of blue that ravish the senses, narratives saturated in melancholic hues, and poetry that hums with the electric charge of blue.
]]>Adara Rose Luis is a writer, scholar, and poet. Her research examines male violence against girls and women in children's and young adult literature. Adara has presented at international conferences and published poetry, and has been involved in academic editing roles.
Yong Li holds a bachelor's degree and a PhD from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. She is a lecturer in the School of Marxism at Shanghai Maritime University and a visiting scholar in Chinese Studies at Monash University. Her recent publications appear in Waste Management, Journal of Environmental Management and Environmental Research Communications, among others. Her research interests encompass pro-environmental psychology and behaviour, political trust and NPO management.
Cassie Kropp (they/she) is studying a Master of Research in Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. Their plays have been performed in the Anywhere Theatre Festival in Brisbane but now they focus more on academic writing.
]]>Climate change does not affect everyone equally. While many scientists focus on studying climate change as a physics problem, Friederike Otto, one of the world's most renowned climate scientists, sees it as a symptom of the global crisis of inequality, not its cause. In this ambitious, fast-paced book, she offers concrete examples of how extreme weather events caused by climate change reveal uncomfortable truths about the failures of political and social infrastructures around the world.
Comparing eight extreme weather events including heat waves in North America, floods in Pakistan, droughts in Madagascar, and wildfires in Australia Otto reveals how climate change is affecting the world's most vulnerable, whether they are women working on farms in Ghana during heat waves, or elderly people who died during floods in Germany. In particular, Otto examines the Global North's extractionist view of the Global South, a view that ensures elites are protected while others bear the brunt of the climate disaster.
Climate Injustice shares the stories of real people, shining a light on the real damage inflicted on real lives. Above all, it shows how racism, colonialism, sexism, and climate change are interconnected, and how positive changes on one level can lead to positive effects on another. Authored by the co-founder of World Weather Attribution, a cutting-edge scientific method that pinpointed the role of climate change in extreme weather events for the first time, Climate Injustice offers a groundbreaking view on the fires, floods, heatwaves, and storms that are wreaking havoc at an alarming pace.
Inequality and injustice are at the core of what makes climate change a problem for humanity. Fairness and global justice must therefore be at the core of the solution. Climate justice concerns everyone.
'I can't recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think about the most important story of our time.' Jeff Goodell, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First
'Searing in her clarity... Fredi Otto demonstrates, irrefutably, how the North's fossil-fuel-powered "extractivist" economic model drives global climate disruption at the expense of the living world. Climate Injustice prosecutes the case; all it needs now is a courtroom, preferably in The Hague.' John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
]]>Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with storm troopers at her heels. Shaken by these nightmares and banned as a Jew from working, she began secretly collecting dreams from her friends and neighbours, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Disguising these 'diaries of the night' in code and concealing them in the spines of books from her extensive library, she smuggled them out of the country one by one.
Available again for the first time since its publication in the 1960s, this sensational book brings together this uniquely powerful dream record, offering a visceral understanding of how terror is internalised and how propaganda colonises the imagination. After Beradt herself fled Germany for New York, she collected these dream accounts and began to trace the common symbols and themes that appeared in the collective unconscious of a traumatised nation. The fear of dictatorship was ever-present. Dreams of thought control, even the prohibition of dreaming itself, bore witness to the collapse of outer and inner worlds.
Now in a haunting new translation by Damion Searls and with an incisive foreword by Dunya Mikhail, The Third Reich of Dreams provides a raw, unfiltered, and prophetic look inside the experience of living through Hitler's terror.
]]>Damion Searls is an award-winning translator and writer whose translation of Jon Fosse's novel A New Name was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet whose books include The War Works Hard and The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, which was longlisted for the National Book Award.
]]>Tattooing within Indigenous communities is a time-honored practice that binds the tattoo recipient to a deeply felt collective history. More than mere decoration, tattoos embody cultural values, ancestral ties, and spiritual beliefs. Indigenous Tattoo Traditions captures ancient tribal tattooing practices and their contemporary resurgence, highlighting a beautiful aspect of humanity's shared cultural heritage.
Transporting readers through history, Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia. He illustrates how tattoos function as a form of writing that defines and structures community life, performing as rites of passage, symbols of rank, and signs of marital or religious devotion, among other facets of culture. We are introduced to the heavily tattooed Li women of China's Hainan Island with their elaborate facial and body tattoos, the bold indelible markings of Papua New Guinea's Indigenous peoples, and innovative cultural tattoo practitioners who are rebuilding a skin-marking legacy for future generations to come.
With numerous images published for the first time and an illuminating foreword by cultural historian Sean Mallon, Indigenous Tattoo Traditions opens a window onto one of the world's most vibrant yet misunderstood mediums of human expression.
]]>Sean Mallon is senior curator of Pacific histories and cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
]]>Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realise. Sex Is a Spectrum offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the biology of sex, drawing on the latest science to explain why the binary view of the sexes is fundamentally flawed and why having XX or XY chromosomes isn't as conclusive as some would have us believe.
In this lively and provocative book, leading biological anthropologist Agustn Fuentes begins by tracing the origin and evolution of sex, describing the many ways in the animal kingdom of being female, male, or both. Turning to humans, he presents compelling evidence from the fossil and archaeological record that attests to the diversity of our ancestors' sexual bonds, gender roles, and family and community structures, and shows how the same holds true in the lived experiences of people today. Fuentes tackles hot-button debates around sports and medicine, explaining why we can acknowledge that females and males are not the same while also embracing a biocultural reality where none of us fits neatly into only one of two categories.
Bringing clarity and reason to a contentious issue, Sex Is a Spectrum shares a scientist's perspective on why a binary view of sex and gender is not only misguided but harmful, and why there are multitudes of ways of being human.
]]>Today's Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in the West face prejudice and discrimination, and Muslim feminists advocate new interpretations of the Koran. At the same time, Islam is mischaracterised as unitary and unchanging by people ranging from right-wing Western politicians claiming that Islam is incompatible with democracy to conservative Muslims dreaming of returning to the golden age of the prophet. Against this contentious backdrop, this book provides an essential and timely new history of the religion in all its astonishing richness and diversity as it has been practiced by Muslims around the world, from seventh-century Mecca to today.
Most popular histories of Islam continue to repeat conventional pietistic accounts. In contrast, John Tolan draws on decades of new historical research that has transformed knowledge of the origins and development of the Muslim faith. He shows how the youngest of the three great monotheisms arose in close contact with Jewish, Christian, and other religious traditions in a mixture of cultures, including Arab, Greek, Persian, and Turkish; how Islam spread across an enormous territory encompassing hundreds of languages and cultures; how Muslims have forged widely different beliefs and practices over fourteen centuries; and how Islamic history provides crucial context for understanding contemporary debates in the Muslim world.
At a time when much talk about Islam is filled with misunderstanding, stereotypes, and bias, this book provides a fresh and lucid portrait of the continuous and ongoing transformations of a religion of tremendous variety and complexity.
]]>Inspired by ancient classical poets, master calligrapher Hassan Massoudy homage to the depth of poetry through visual expression. In more than one hundred calligraphies, he responds to these timeless poems with his signature broad strokes and vibrant colours, capturing the words and wisdom of our greatest poets from Al Mutanabbi, Rumi and Khalil Gibran, to Socrates, Shakespeare and Jacques Prevert. From evocations to the immensity of the desert to soulful expressions of unrequited love, Massoudy pays breathes new life into the classics with vibrant artistry.
Beautifully illustrated, The Poet and the Calligrapher is the perfect gift and journey for poets, art lovers and dreamers alike.
]]>Bryophytes are a highly diverse group of plants found in nearly all parts of the world and across a range of habitats. The term 'bryophyte' describes plants of three closely related lineages: the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. Ancient in their makeup, bryophytes disperse by spores rather than seeds and grow no more than a few centimetres high, carpeting forest floors or clinging to rocks and tree trunks. Instead of conducting fluids internally (like vascular plants), they absorb water and nutrients externally across the whole body of the plant. Such strategies have enabled bryophytes to survive, and indeed thrive, through the millennia. Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World makes sense of their miniature world, differentiating between the three lineages and delving into their evolution, anatomy, and life cycles. The result is an unprecedented in-depth look at these exquisitely beautiful and often overlooked organisms.
]]>This fascinating guide for budding fashion designers and illustrators shows you how to draw human figures accurately with a full range of fabrics, garments and accessories. It explains clearly all the techniques used by professional designers and illustrators with hundreds of examples to study and learn from!
Author Hiroko Fukuchi is ones of Japan's leading fashion illustration instructors, and she shows you the tricks of the trade needed to draw models, apparel and accessories of every kind!
The detailed chapters in this book present all the essential information you need to know:
This all-in-one fashion illustration guide provides all the information you would learn when taking a course at one of Tokyo's leading fashion design schools!
]]>Curious about astrology?
Take a deeper look at the zodiac and find out what it can reveal in this concise, accessible introduction.
Explore the zodiac, and see how it affects your life! Astrology is an ancient art in which the movements of the stars and planets can divine the future. Find out more about the practice, its history, and each of the 12 sun signs and then follow the detailed information on how to create a natal chart and use it to craft personalised horoscopes.
]]>By studying the hand's shape and lines of the palm, you can divine your own or someone else's past, present, and future. Cassandra Eason lays out the basics of this ancient practice by discussing the importance of 'life lines', 'heart lines', and other truths written in our palms. It's a fascinating way to discover more about our own lives and the lives of others.
]]>From fairy tales to your garden,Enchanted Plantsis an illustrated treasure trove of the lore and magic in the kingdom of plants.
Take a walk through mystical, magical, and folkloric gardens and discover the plants and flowers that have captured our hearts and minds for centuries. Will you dare to pick a golden apple or seize the perfect rose? Will you sneak through the gilded gates of the poison garden where plants both alluring and life-saving intertwine?From the baneful bog to the garden gate, plant lover and lover of the bizarre Varla Ventura brings together forgotten lore of plants for the ultimate romp through a botanical wonderland, including excerpts from fairy tales and a lively discussion of each plant's legendary magical and medicinal properties. Don't forget your scissors.
Enchanted Plantsis arranged by general environment:
Each chapter contains a cultivated selection of plants, arranged alphabetically by popular common name, with additional information including botanical name, common names, folklore, ethnobotanical properties, magical and occult properties, and modern usage if applicable.
]]>Discover how psychic you really are with this comprehensive and practical guide to developing and honing your psychic skills. Naturally Psychic shows you how to awaken your natural psychic abilities and experiment with psychic tools to get answers, guide your decisions, and enrich your life.
For the curious seeker as well as the skilled practitioner, Naturally Psychic offers techniques, tips, and tools designed to awaken, refresh, and sharpen one's natural psychic gifts by
Karen Harrison has helped many thousands of people awaken their psychic selves and improve their daily lives. Now she offers that in a book. This title was previously published asThe Everyday Psychic.
]]>With a bright colour palette and bold graphics, this unique seventy-eight-card full-colour tarot deck deconstructs and reexamines the traditional symbolism found in the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, opening the door for fresh insight into a classic. Tarot Disassembled allows the user to connect with the tarot in a completely intuitive way, free from any pictorial narrative around gender, skin colour, age, size, ability, or any other human constructs.
The simplicity of the symbols makes it a great first deck for beginners, and pros will enjoy unpeeling the traditional tarot like an onion discovering layer upon layer of meaning in the richness of simple imagery.
]]>The Tarot Disassembled Guidebook provides fresh insight into interpreting the traditional symbolism found in the tarot. In this companion book to the Tarot Disassembled card deck, author and creator Jennifer Cooper Steidley has deconstructed the symbolism, presenting it in bold graphics, allowing the user to connect with the tarot in a completely intuitive way free from any pictorial narrative around gender, skin colour, age, size, ability, or any other human constructs.
Sometimes we need to take something apart in order to appreciate what's in it. The same is true for the ingredients of the tarot: the individual symbols that make up the complex picture of a tarot card. There is potential for deep understanding that comes with the act of disassembling, and this guidebook deconstructs each of the seventy-eight cards. The Fool card is shown as a satchel, a dog, the sun, a feather, a flower, a mountain. Each card remains undeniably recognisable. The deconstructed simplicity allows tarot's rich symbolism to become clear, and readers can see how the symbols wind their way through each card in the deck.
Tarot Disassembled is based on the symbology of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot arguably the most iconic and widely used deck in the world. Once the disassembling of tarot symbols is fully understood, you can begin to apply this deconstructing technique to other decks to find the inner patterns. This unique and innovative guidebook includes keywords, astrological and planetary associations, and elemental associations for each tarot card. It can be used with any deck based on the Rider-Waite system or as a companion to the Tarot Disassembled card deck, sold separately.
]]>**Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize**
You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.
In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.
PRAISE FOR JAMES CRAWFORD
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
'Crawford travels widely to make his points in a text reminiscent of those of Barry Lopez or Robert Macfarlane...A thoughtful consideration of the imaginary lines that hold meaning for so many' Kirkus Reviews
'Crawford's essays, through vivid accounts of historical episodes and contemporary problems, illuminate how the world acquired its current shape...Eye-opening' Literary Review
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
'Conveys superbly these absorbing tales of hubris, power, violence and decay' Sunday Times
'Witty and memorable...moving as well as myth-busting' Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement
Scotland from the Sky
'A stunning combination of aviation adventure and historical detective work' Press and Journal
'Crawford is a genuine, risk-taking adventurer' Daily Express
]]>Shakespeare's plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first century as they were in the sixteenth. For all the years between us, the world he inhabited was much like our own afflicted by political turmoil, divisiveness, war, extreme weather, recurrent plagues, the fouling of natural resources on which everyone relied, and discrimination against people who were different. The bard's remedy for these troubles was to offer respite and inspiration to his audience through his writing.
In this book, author Kim Bradley teases out the inspirational messages in Shakespeare's works. Every chapter is a journey through one of his most notable plays, each with actionable life lessons to be learned from his writing. Explore the power of acts of service with Twelfth Night, or the joy of forgiveness with The Tempest. From the importance of hospitality to the benefits of communing with nature, Shakespeare's wise instruction can help you master the art of living.
"Yes, there is sickness, death, conflict, and division in today's world', Bradley writes. 'More important, however, there are sunrises, starry skies, friendships, and love. Shakespeare invites us to enjoy the latter while remembering the former and shows how balancing an appreciation for both is key to living the good life.'
]]>Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Intraterrestrials shares what scientists are learning about these strange types of microbial life and how research expeditions to some of the most extreme locales on the planet are broadening our understanding of what life is and how its earliest forms may have evolved.
Drawing on her experiences and those of her fellow scientists working in challenging and often dangerous conditions, Karen Lloyd takes readers on an adventure from the bottom of the ocean through the jungles of Central America to the high-altitude volcanoes of the Andes. Only discovered in recent decades, 'intraterrestrials' subsurface beings that are truly alien are demonstrating how life can exist in boiling water, pure acid, and bleach. They enable us to peer back to the very dawn of life on Earth, disclosing deep branches on the tree of life that push the limits of what we thought possible. Some can 'breathe' rocks or even electrons. Others may live for hundreds of thousands of years or longer. All of them are living in ways that are totally foreign to us surface dwellers.
Blending captivating storytelling with the latest science, Intraterrestrials reveals what microbes in Earth's deep subsurface biosphere can tell us about the prospects for finding life on other planets and the future of life on our own.
]]>The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens' genuine grievances, massive economic mismanagement all made worse by repeated interventions by Western powers. Why has political change been so difficult to achieve? In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges argues that the convergence of political authoritarianism, meddling by the West, and the effects of prolonged regional conflicts have produced political paralysis and economic stagnation. The agency of everyday people has been thwarted by an authoritarian status quo that is maintained by a powerful partnership of external and internal forces.
Gerges traces more than a century of consequential events in the region, from the end of the Ottoman Empire and the European carve-up of the Middle East to the Iranian Revolution and the Arab Spring uprisings. He shows how the people of the Middle East have been systematically denied self-determination, political representation, and effective government. Gerges finds that the region, with its diversity, variability, and volatility, defies abstract grand theories; previous accounts that have attributed the Middle East's problems to any one cause such as modernism, ignore the complexity and specificity of the issues. What can we learn from the Middle East's vexed history? Gerges is optimistic, declaring that the region's future will be determined not by dictators and their superpower patrons but by a growing population of Arab and Muslim youth who demand to be treated as citizens and not as subjects.
]]>**Selected as a Financial Times 'Book to Read'**
Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and transnational kleptocracy.
Maximilian Hess's startling book lifts the lid on Russia's response to Western sanctions, and the ensuing skirmishes in London's courts, on Swiss trading desks and in boardrooms in New Delhi. He explores how pipelines, mines, loans and crypto-markets were weaponised. This narrative sets the stage for Putin's all-out assault on Kyiv in February 2022, which turned financial, food and fuel markets into bona fide battlefields, bringing the fight into everyone's home, from Pennsylvania to Pakistan.
Rather than a 'new Cold War', we are witnessing a conflict over finance, energy and capital markets. How such economic warfare turns out will determine the future of liberalism and democracy; it will also set a precedent for economic relations between the West and China, as the two diverge into rival spheres of influence and power.
'Hess examines how Russia's response to the west's economic sanctions following the first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 helped to set the stage for [the current] conflict.' Financial Times
'Timely.' Diplomatic Courier
'Much has been said about Putin's background in the KGB, but Hess makes a convincing case that his days in the St. Petersburg government, when he served as a liaison between the city, foreign business and, occasionally, criminal underworld, were just as formative.' The Washington Post
'An outstanding account, filled with insights and details. If you want to understand why we are already in an age of Global Conflict, there is no better place to start.' Peter Frankopan
]]>There is a growing problem in the professional services industry that is often acknowledged but rarely discussed: clients even long-standing ones for whom firms have consistently delivered unquestioned value are much less loyal to those firms and partners than they once were. This dramatic shift in client behaviour has rendered traditional approaches to business development not only ineffective but counterproductive.
But top performers have figured out a radical new approach that is redefining what it means to be a rainmaker in today's professional services market.
Drawing on a comprehensive, quantitative study of nearly three thousand partners spanning law, accounting, consulting, investment banking, executive search, and public relations The Activator Advantage identifies five types of partners found across the professional services landscape and shows how only one of them the Activator drives consistent growth.
Activators deeply embed business development habits into their daily workflow, aggressively leverage their internal and external networks, and proactively deliver both business and personal value to clients all of which not only helps shield them from the vagaries of modern client buying behaviour but also lays the groundwork for more loyal, longer-lasting relationships.
Packed with eye-opening data, counterintuitive insights, and robust case examples, The Activator Advantage provides the road map for any professional services partner or firm leader looking to chart a path to greater client engagement, internal collaboration, and firm profitability in the new era of fading client loyalty.
]]>Rory Channer is a founding partner at DCM Insights and was previously Chief Business Development Officer at McDermott Will & Emery.
Karen Freeman is a partner at DCM Insights and was previously a Senior Manager of Learning at McKinsey & Company.
Ted McKenna is a founding partner of DCM Insights and coauthor, with Matthew Dixon, of The JOLT Effect. He was previously a Global Knowledge Leader at Russell Reynolds Associates.
]]>Increasingly, people report feeling overlooked, ignored, and underappreciated at work. Simply put, they don't feel like they matter to their leaders or organisations and it's taking a toll. This hidden epidemic of insignificance is fueling a mental health crisis, intensifying loneliness, and, for organisations, driving disengagement, turnover, and low performance.
The good news is that leaders can learn the skills to ensure that everyone around them feels valued and knows how they add value at work. Through a captivating exploration of the emerging science of mattering and drawing from hands-on work in hundreds of diverse industries and organisations, researcher and speaker Zach Mercurio reveals how mattering to others is a fundamental yet often overlooked requirement for thriving.
He introduces a simple yet effective framework for making daily interactions with your people more meaningful:
Filled with practical advice, helpful exercises, and inspiring real-world examples, The Power of Mattering equips leaders at all levels with the tools they need to revitalise their teams and entire organisations by showing people that they matter.
]]>If you read nothing else on leading with purpose, read this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you define, communicate, and fulfill your organisation's purpose and deliver results.
This book will inspire you to:
This collection of articles includes 'Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy,' by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche, and Charles Dhanaraj; 'What's the Purpose of Your Purpose?', by Jonathan Knowles, B. Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove, and Alison James; 'Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization', by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; 'How Customers Can Rally Your Troops', by Adam Grant; 'The Dual-Purpose Playbook', by Julie Battilana, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul, and Marissa Kimsey; 'The New CEO Activists', by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel; 'Competing on Social Purpose', by Omar Rodriguez-Vila and Sundar Bharadwaj; 'The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose', by Ranjay Gulati; 'From Purpose to Impact', by Nick Craig and Scott A. Snook; 'Creating Shared Value', by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer; 'How to Lead in the Stakeholder Era', by Hubert Joly; and 'Use Storytelling to Explain Your Company's Purpose', by John Coleman.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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Dave Whorton was John Doerr's associate partner at high-flying Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers during Silicon Valley's big shift, when he witnessed the VC industry pivot from a proven forty-year playbook of managing risk to something much more aggressive: 'get-big-fast'. Don't worry about profitability. Cash out and find another venture.
For a while, Whorton took part in this whirlwind as he pursued his dream of becoming the next Hewlett or Packard, starting two companies himself. But soon it all got to be too much. Whorton recognised that if get-big-fast was the formula for building a great technology company in the twenty-first century, that just wasn't for him.
That could have been the end of the story, but instead it turned out to be the beginning of another, deeply inspiring one. Whorton went on a journey to find a better way to build companies, a way focused on long-term stability and steady growth, funded through profitability; a way in which leaders were committed to a purpose beyond personal wealth generation, to putting their people first, and to setting up their companies to endure. He calls these companies 'Evergreen'. Another Way combines Whorton's inspiring story with his Evergreen 7Ps framework, designed to guide more entrepreneurs and business leaders to follow his path.
Full of revelations, practical advice, and real-world examples of companies going Evergreen, Another Way is as instructive as it is inspiring at showing capitalism at its best.
]]>While the term is most commonly identified with Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Ben Shapiro, Claire Lehmann, Douglas Murray, and Joe Rogan, the group's concerns extended more broadly to include a wide range of individuals, including Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, and Elon Musk.
Although its coherence began to unravel in the early 2020s due to internal differences, such as over the response to COVID-19 and climate change, it played a determining role in changing the politico-cultural landscape, influencing both electorally successful right-wing platforms and playing a major role in the rise of an independent media ecosystem that is today in many ways more influential than mainstream media.
'A thorough, thoughtful and charitable overview of that ambiguous phenomenon known as 'The Intellectual Dark Web.' Jamie Roberts accessibly presents the political, philosophical, epistemological and ethical concerns that underlie the IDW. In doing so, he clarifies the objections of this ideologically diverse group to Critical Social Justice (wokeness). The Intellectual Dark Web will be of value both for those too entrenched in their corner of the Culture Wars to see the patterns within this unlikely collective, and for the more sensible people who would like a detailed overview without wading in too far.' Helen Pluckrose, author of The Counterweight Handbook
'What is the Intellectual Dark Web? Even though I am one of the early founding members I was not really sure what it was I belonged to beyond my own characterization of it as "a commitment to the search for truth and free speech as the royal road to it" until I read Jamie Roberts" fair and thoughtful analysis that covers all the major players and ideas associated with the IDW. A masterful work of cultural history in this unique moment.' Michael Shermer,publisherofSkeptic Magazine,author of Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
]]>For centuries, medieval history books have told the stories of noble queens, dutiful housewives, and cloistered nuns but what about the single women who lived, worked, and thrived in medieval Europe? The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women reveals the overlooked yet fascinating lives of middle age women who did not fit the conventional mold. From unmarried tradeswomen and widows to vowesses and nuns, these women carved their own paths in a world that often sought to define them by their marital status.
Single, independent, and often underestimated these women left their mark on history. While medieval and Middle Ages society dictated that a woman's worth was tied to marriage and family, countless single women built lives of resilience and ingenuity. Some ran successful businesses, others devoted themselves to education or faith, and many simply found ways to survive within a rigid social structure. This book sheds light on their stories, proving that history is far richer and more complex than the narratives we've been told.
Discover the vibrant and often surprising lives of single women in the Middle Ages. Whether running businesses, navigating religious life, or simply surviving societal expectations, these women played a crucial role in shaping medieval society. Rich with historical records, poetry, and legal documents, this medieval history book brings to light the personal stories of those often left out of traditional narratives.
Blending meticulous research with engaging storytelling, The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women challenges outdated perceptions and brings history's forgotten women back to life.
]]>She has been a guest speaker on medieval feminine hygiene and The Very Secret Sex Lives Of Medieval Women at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, the Queensland Museum's After Dark Program for the British Museum's Medieval Power: Symbols and Splendor exhibition, the University of The Third Age's Winterschool Program, the University Pavilion at the Abbey Medieval Festival, and various women's social groups.
She works in medical imaging in a busy city hospital in Australia. Her hobbies include historical sewing, curating her collection of medieval artifacts, lying about being at work so she can stay home with her rescue kitty, and eating nachos not especially in that order.
]]>Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he died in 2019, Taiwan was a bustling, high-tech democracy and Huang had lived through every twist and turn along the way. He served as a Japanese soldier in China during World War II; joined an armed uprising against Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist post-war government; spent twenty-four years imprisoned during the island's decades of martial law; and finally emerged to help lead the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s in his hometown, Taichung.
Drawing upon archives, memoirs, interviews and more, Anna Beth Keim tells the story of Taiwan through the journey of one extraordinary individual. From his childhood scuffling with Japanese children to his transformation into a 'democracy farmer', Huang's life vividly reflects contemporary Taiwanese history, and continues to inspire young Taiwanese today who are fighting to keep their home independent.
Over roughly a century, the island transitioned from an imperial outpost to an authoritarian state to a democracy one still at risk of being snuffed out by China. This story is uniquely Taiwanese, yet illuminates experiences shared by countries everywhere: of colonisation and its aftermath, and the ongoing struggle to be free.
]]>Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was that rarest of creatures a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by anyone and who became as famous for the wit and wisdom of his popular lectures and writings as for his fundamental contributions to science. The Quotable Feynman is a treasure-trove of this revered and beloved scientist's most profound, provocative, humorous, and memorable quotations on a wide range of subjects.
Carefully selected by Richard Feynman's daughter, Michelle Feynman, from his spoken and written legacy, including interviews, lectures, letters, articles, and books, the quotations are arranged under two dozen topics from art, childhood, discovery, family, imagination, and humour to mathematics, politics, science, religion, and uncertainty. These brief passages about 500 in all vividly demonstrate Feynman's astonishing yet playful intelligence, and his almost constitutional inability to be anything other than unconventional, engaging, and inspiring. The result is a unique, illuminating, and enjoyable portrait of Feynman's life and thought that will be cherished by his fans at the same time that it provides an ideal introduction to Feynman for readers new to this intriguing and important thinker.
The book features a foreword in which physicist Brian Cox pays tribute to Feynman and describes how his words reveal his particular genius, a piece in which cellist Yo-Yo Ma shares his memories of Feynman and reflects on his enduring appeal, and a personal preface by Michelle Feynman. It also includes some previously unpublished quotations, a chronology of Richard Feynman's life, some twenty photos of Feynman, and a section of memorable quotations about Feynman from other notable figures.
Some notable quotations of Richard P. Feynman:
Michelle Feynman, the daughter of Richard P. Feynman, is the editor of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman and The Art of Richard P. Feynman: Images by a Curious Character.
]]>The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work.
Organised by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ('Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward') and obscure ones ('Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep i.e., the phrasemongers'). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, 'my grief is my castle', but who also taught that 'the best defense against hypocrisy is love.'
Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers.
]]>Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. His books include The Existentialist's Survival Guide and Kierkegaard in the Present Age.
]]>Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond politics to encompass a compelling philosophy of life as well. In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, offers a rich collection of the Florentine's most memorable words on a wide range of subjects, including politics, the human condition, religion, love and happiness, antiquity and history, patriotism, and virtue. Drawing on Machiavelli's entire body of writings, and including little-known quotations as well as famous passages, the book shows the full scope of his thought and belies the cliche that he was a 'Machiavellian' cynic.
In addition to Machiavelli's own words on dozens of subjects of perennial interest, the book includes some almost unknown texts in which his contemporaries describe him. Complete with a biographical introduction, the book serves as a handy reference and a smart and lively introduction to a masterly thinker and writer.
]]>Maurizio Viroli is professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University, professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, and professor of political communication at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His many books include Niccol's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli and How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens (Princeton).
]]>Far beyond a personal difficulty, loneliness has grown into a problem that plagues whole societies. Many countries, including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, have gone as far to declare a loneliness epidemic. Loneliness can lead to depression and anxiety, and can even increase your chance of death by 26%. But what defines loneliness, and is it true that we are lonelier now than we have ever been?
As COVID-19 forced entire populations into isolation in 2020, author Hilde stby set out to investigate loneliness in all its forms. To frame this huge, multidisciplinary undertaking, she turned to the Moomin novels by revered Norwegian children's author Tove Jansson. Under the watchful eye of such Jansson creations as the tragically alienated Groke, this fascinating book recounts stby's own struggles with the condition and her many conversations with researchers, artists, and journalists who have looked closely at the myriad faces of loneliness and the ways it can be overcome.
Again and again, she returns to the nightmarish events of the 2011 Utya terrorist attacks, a collective trauma for Norwegian society that stby views as permeated with loneliness, in both its causes and effects. This is a deeply personal and yet universally relevant book about the costs to all when some are pushed out of society. But it is also a book about the incredible capabilities of human beings how resilient we are, and how we survive and find ourselves through our relationships with others.
'Loneliness is one of the most important and difficult topics of our time, and this book is a beautiful meditation on it, taking us from The Moomins to the far right. Inspiring and original.' Johann Hari, New York Times-bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus
Praise for Hilde tsby:
'stby's thoroughly researched offering is a joy to read...Curiosity seekers will be enlightened.' Publishers Weekly on The Key to Creativity
'An accessible book, which makes it all the more joyful.' NYLON on Adventures in Memory
]]>All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scientists to probe the molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biological rules that govern aging in model systems provides clues about how we might slow human aging, which could lead in turn to new therapeutics and treatments for age-related disease.
Among other vivid examples, Murphy describes research that shows how changing a single gene in the nematode worm C. elegans doubles its lifespan, extending not only the end of life but also the youthful, healthy part of life. Drawing on work in her own lab as well as other recent research, Murphy chronicles the history and current state of the field, explaining longevity's links to reproduction and mating, sensory and cognitive function, inheritances from our ancestors, and the gut microbiome. Written with clarity and wit, How We Age provides a guide to the science: what we know about aging, how we know what we know, and what we can do with this new knowledge.
]]>Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilisation. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The 'Four Horsemen' of leveling mass-mobilisation warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilisations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.
An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
]]>If we start with the presumption that evolution is a constantly improving process, some aspects of our evolution just do not make sense. We have a high rate of genetic diseases, for example, and much of our DNA seems to be pointless. In The Evolution of Imperfection, Laurence Hurst explores our apparently rotten genetic luck.
Hurst, a leading authority on evolution and genetics, argues that our evolutionary imperfections proceed directly from two features: the difficulties of pregnancy and the fact that historically there are relatively few of us. In pregnancy, natural selection can favor chromosomes that kill embryos in species (including ours) that continuously receive resources from the mother. Most fertilised eggs don't make it, and incompatibilities between the fetus and mother can lead to lethal disorders of pregnancy. The historically small population size enhances the role of chance, which in turn leads to both accumulation of unnecessary DNA and more mutation.
So what can save us? One answer may lie in genetic medicine, which has given us therapies that make killer conditions preventable and even curable.
Hurst suggests that our seeming imperfections could be the key to a new way to understand evolution itself. Looking at circumstances that seem to defy explanation, we might come to a richer understanding of how evolution really works, and what it means to be human.
]]>Cracking the Crab tells the extraordinary full story of Russian intrigue targeting Japan, from first encounters in the eighteenth century to the Soviet declaration of war in August 1945. Colourful episodes include Gojong, King of Korea, being smuggled into the Russian legation dressed as a woman in 1896; the 1927 'Tanaka Memorial', an infamous forgery purporting to be Japan's hidden plan for world domination; and the secret intelligence of 'Nero', a Soviet agent supplying invaluable insight into Japanese strategy during the Second World War.
From Russians murdered in broad daylight in Meiji Tokyo to Soviet honey traps and 'white magic' at the Battle of Nomonhan, this is a landmark history of the covert struggle between two great powers of the modern age.
]]>An introductory chapter by a Kew expert provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting. Each book in the Kew Pocketbooks series shares 40 botanical paintings from Kew's extensive Library and Archives collection, illustrating the variety within each group, as well as the diversity of the collection and artistic styles.
The luxury finish on these books makes them a must-have gift item, printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil finish.
]]>Nutritious, versatile, and bursting with flavour, tomatoes are a perennial favorite of both home gardeners and market farmers.
Beautifully illustrated and highly accessible, this succinct guide from renowned market gardener Jean-Martin Fortier brings you his pro tips and tricks, ensuring a plentiful and profitable tomato harvest. Coverage includes:
Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener is a collection of practical handbooks designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned farmers with information to grow better, using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
]]>In 2015, Jean-Martin established La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, a research farm dedicated to training apprentices and developing new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His pioneering methods are taught worldwide through the Market Gardener Institute, which is present in more than 90 countries.
Jean-Martin is the author of The Winter Market Gardener and The Market Gardener, which have sold over a quarter of a million copies in nine languages. His contributions to organic farming and regenerative agriculture have earned him the Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada. He farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.
Pierre Nessmann was born to a family of Strasbourg market gardeners and holds a degree from the cole d'Horticulture de Geneve, in Switzerland. He has worked as a landscape gardener and a journalist for over 40 years. He is the assistant editor of the popular French gardening magazines Rustica Pratique and Rustica Weekly, covers gardening and DIY stories for the French television Network TF1, and currently hosts a gardening segment on the show Nous Voil Bien, on the French radio station RTL. He is the author of several books about vegetable growing, gardening, and landscaping. Pierre lives in Paris, France.
Flore Avram is a freelance artist and graphic designer specialising in scientific and botanical illustration. She has collaborated extensively with the French language children's publisher KiloWatt Editions, and with Inserm Magazine, a quarterly journal which explores health and biomedical research. Flore has earned several professional certifications in graphic design and scientific illustration from L'Ecole Estienne, the Municipal Graduate School of the Arts and Printing Industry. She also works as a Mediatrice en botanique at Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, a unique French natural heritage site and eco-garden. She is based in Paris, France.
]]>Often overlooked by both home and market gardeners, the right farm and garden tools are essential for cultivating success. Vegetable Garden Tools: A Grower's Guide will help you select the appropriate equipment for your unique situation, drawing on 'The Market Gardener Method'. This method, developed by Jean-Martin Fortier, is a proven formula for successful, small-scale, high-yield microfarming.
This highly accessible, succinct, and beautifully illustrated full-colour handbook features:
Vegetable Garden Tools: A Grower's Guide is a keystone title in the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener series. This curated collection of practical handbooks is designed to provide everyone from novice gardeners to seasoned horticulturalists and farmers with the information they need to grow better using Jean-Martin Fortier's principles of biointensive, regenerative agriculture at a human scale.
]]>In 2015, Jean-Martin established La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, a research farm dedicated to training apprentices and developing new strategies for market gardening, including year-round production. His pioneering methods are taught worldwide through the Market Gardener Institute, which is present in more than 90 countries.
Jean-Martin is the author of The Winter Market Gardener and The Market Gardener, which have sold over a quarter of a million copies in nine languages. His contributions to organic farming and regenerative agriculture have earned him the Meritorious Service Cross from the Governor General of Canada. He farms and lives in Quebec, Canada.
Pierre Nessmann was born to a family of Strasbourg market gardeners and holds a degree from the cole d'Horticulture de Geneve, in Switzerland. He has worked as a landscape gardener and a journalist for over 40 years. He is the assistant editor of the popular French gardening magazines Rustica Pratique and Rustica Weekly, covers gardening and DIY stories for the French television Network TF1, and currently hosts a gardening segment on the show Nous Voil Bien, on the French radio station RTL. He is the author of several books about vegetable growing, gardening, and landscaping. Pierre lives in Paris, France.
Flore Avram is a freelance artist and graphic designer specialising in scientific and botanical illustration. She has collaborated extensively with the French language children's publisher KiloWatt Editions, and with Inserm Magazine, a quarterly journal which explores health and biomedical research. Flore has earned several professional certifications in graphic design and scientific illustration from L'Ecole Estienne, the Municipal Graduate School of the Arts and Printing Industry. She also works as a Mediatrice en botanique at Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, a unique French natural heritage site and eco-garden. She is based in Paris, France.
]]>Designed for artists who are starting out on their drawing journey or those who just need a quick refresher on the basics, this handy and ultra-portable reference guide helps you create beautiful artwork using all the techniques of crosshatching.
Noted art instructor Giovana Vescovi, author of The Pen and Ink Drawing Guide, demystifies crosshatching and distills her years of knowledge into this handy guide for all aspiring or expert artists.
]]>This all-in-one guide takes you inside the artist's studio to learn first-hand how to conceptualise and draw new fantasy sci-fi vehicles. This book gives fantasy illustrators detailed information on the following topics:
Illustrated with over 450 drawings and examples, this book is the perfect springboard to creating your own mind-blowing mecha vehicles. Your imagination will soar as these fantastic machines come to life!
]]>Shin Yoshimura graduated from the University of Tokyo with a major in green space studies and worked in urban planning and landscape architecture planning and design at EPI Corporation. After that, he established MEGADRAWING, an art studio which creates illustrations and perspective drawings. As an architect, he received the Jury's Award for the 30th anniversary of the JARA Grand Prize in 2010.
]]>From the depths of the sea to geopolitical tensions in strategic maritime locations, Henriksen addresses the complexities of our relationship with the ocean. emphasizing the need for a holistic understanding to tackle the intricate interplay of environmental, economic, and geopolitical factors.
]]>Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilisation, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future.
Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life's essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.
'Brown University ecologist Porder debuts with a probing exploration of how carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorous have shaped life on Earth...It's an illuminating account of how these elements and the organisms that rely on them have influenced the course of life.' Publishers Weekly
'[Porder] takes the time to explain considerable data to skeptics...And this scientific information is made even more accessible because of Porder's engaging storytelling and views of different milieus like farms to illustrate what more sustainable alternatives could look like.' Joseph S. Pete, Foreword Reviews
]]>One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare's famous play? Was St Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Why did Margaret Logie exercise such an influence over her husband, David II, and have we underestimated James VI's consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently written off as a stupid and wilful woman? These are just a few of the questions addressed by Dr Marshall in her entertaining, impeccably researched book.
]]>This rich and vivid history tells the story of an instrument boasting over 130 varieties, yet commonly associated with just one form and one country: Scotland, and its familiar Great Highland Bagpipe. In fact, the pipes are played across the globe, and their story is a highly diverse one, which illuminates society in remarkable, unexpected ways. Richard McLauchlan charts the rise of women pipers; investigates how class, privilege and capitalism have shaped the world of piping; and explores how the meaning of a 'national instrument' can shift with the currents of a people's identity.
The vibrancy and inventiveness characterising today's pipers still speak to the potency of this fabled and once feared instrument, to which McLauchlan is our surefooted guide.
'Historically insightful and full of character. Captures the essence and beauty of piping's vibrant culture with historical, musical and characterful insight.' Finlay MacDonald
'Richly entertaining and perceptive. A revelation in how an instrument can transform culture.' Alastair Campbell
]]>'The Enneagram of the Soul invites us on a journey of profound self-discovery.' from the foreword by Russ Hudson, bestselling coauthor of The Wisdom of the Enneagram
The Enneagram of the Soul is inspired by over two decades of inner and outer work with the Enneagram by leading expert Nhien Vuong. Nhien provides a path to wholeness for the self, enabling the reader to be steered gently yet firmly away from the trap of solely identifying with their personality type, so they can live more fully from their divine nature.
This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 shares nine Enneagram-informed principles that guide one's journey of transformation using the Enneagram, nine contemplative practices to propel and support the transformational process, and nine prayers to lend heart to the journey. Part 2 offers forty activations, which consist of very brief questions, reminders, or practices on forty different themes customised for each of the nine Enneagram personality types. When we begin to access the wholeness of all nine Enneagram energies working in concert, we experience a greater sense of inner peace, purpose, and fulfillment.
'An important and uniquely useful contribution to the Enneagram literature in that she provides a pathway for the types, built around practices and principles.' Beatrice Chestnut, author of The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
]]>The surreal design invites profound connections with manifestation work, making each session transformative. These codes offer not just affirmations but also cosmic insights, unlocking subconscious barriers to wealth. Use them daily for guidance, affirmation, and inspiration in morning rituals, meditations, or manifestation practices. They encourage a shift from scarcity to abundance, empowering co-creative action. This deck serves as a unique bridge between worlds, inviting exploration of personal wealth potential and the universe's generosity. It beckons a life of wealth, guided by the wisdom of Artemis and Arrow, shaping a world where abundance is natural for all.
]]>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell is an intuitive illustrator driven by the essence of the soul, unraveling the enchantment within the ordinary. Born in the United States but residing in Sydney, Stephanie's passion for travel and adventure is just one of the many aspects from which she draws her artistic inspiration. Channeling a diverse array of palettes, her work covers a broad spectrum, making her a sought-after partner for published projects. Her spellbinding designs grace oracle decks, journals, and book covers, resonating with audiences worldwide.
]]>The Cosmic Wealth Codes Journal serves as a vessel for your cosmic evolution, leading you toward a reality where wealth isn't just a distant dream but your easily accessible divine birthright. Crafted through collaboration between the author and spiritual entities Artemis and Arrow, this journal delves deep into the core of the channeled wealth codes within the Cosmic Wealth Codes Affirmation Deck. It acts as a guide, helping you unearth the hidden treasures of abundance nestled within your consciousness.
Within its pages, you'll find a treasure trove of tools and insights designed to activate and amplify the wealth frequencies lying dormant within you. Reflective prompts, activating affirmations, card spreads tailored for abundance, and captivating otherworldly art come together to create a transformative experience. Each page invites you to embark on a journey of self-discovery and transformation, exploring the boundless potential of your cosmic being. Through introspective inquiries and soulful contemplation, you'll delve into the depths of your subconscious, shedding limiting beliefs and aligning with the abundant flow of the universe.
Whether incorporated into your daily rituals, utilised during moments of reflection, or integrated into your manifestation practices, this journal serves as a steadfast companion on your path to prosperity. By learning to speak the language of the cosmos and aligning with its abundance, you'll begin to cocreate with the universe the wealth you desire. The Cosmic Wealth Codes Journal offers a sacred space for you to cultivate a deeper connection with abundance, empowering you to step into your divine birthright and manifest a reality filled with prosperity and fulfillment.
]]>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell is an intuitive illustrator driven by the essence of the soul, unraveling the enchantment within the ordinary. Born in the United States but residing in Sydney, Stephanie's passion for travel and adventure is just one of the many aspects from which she draws her artistic inspiration. Channeling a diverse array of palettes, her work covers a broad spectrum, making her a sought-after partner for published projects. Her spellbinding designs grace oracle decks, journals, and book covers, resonating with audiences worldwide.
]]>This card deck will help users develop resilience and awareness that allows them to manage discomfort even on the most difficult days. Plus, it can go anywhere and be used at any time: in the morning, in the evening before bed, during the workday, or whenever you need some relief. Users will select three to four cards a day, which focus on different areas of the body, and by adopting this practice and sticking with it, they may begin to live with less pain, enjoy their favourite activities, and become more present in their lives. The deck will consist of 55 cards divided into seven colour-coded categories: green for extension, yellow for flexion, purple for side-bending, orange for rotation and full body, gray for awareness practice, pink for extremity work, and blue for the wild cards.
]]>This cookbook is a love story between Paulie, Mary Ann, and pizza. In 2010, at the age of 56, Paulie left a career in corporate IT to turn his backyard culinary pursuit into his retirement plan. Now that passion is Paulie Gee's a thriving pizzeria business with restaurants and slice shops in cities all over the US. In this highly anticipated first cookbook,Paulieand Mary Ann share their secrets not only for making their inventive, addictive pies at home, but also the lessons they've learned during their 45-year marriage and 15-year restaurant partnership. (In both food and love, watch the salt.) This book featuresover 100 recipes for their insanely popular pizzas like the Hellboy (asoppressata pie topped with hot honey), the Mo Cheeks (a tomato and pecorino pie with guanciale), and the In Ricotta da Vegan (a ricotta pie made with vegan sausage and cheese). There are also family recipes from their home kitchen (including their famous vegetarian French onion soup and Paulie's signature Penne a la Jack Daniels), and a selection of drinks (includingthe restaurant's famous limoncello) and desserts. Also included are recipes featuring collaborations with some of New York's other beloved institutions, such as the Brisket-Five-O, a pizza collaboration with a local BBQ spot. The pizza recipes include instructions for cooking in a conventional home oven as well as a wood-fired pizza oven.
Level up your pizza night with this debut book from Brooklyn's famous Paulie Gee's, featuring over 100 recipes that bring their innovative combinations and time-tested techniques to home kitchens everywhere. More than just a pizza cookbook, this collection weaves together their 45-year love story with hard-won restaurant wisdom, featuring both beloved menu items from Paulie Gee's and cherished family recipes that showcase the couple's culinary journey from backyard experimenters to celebrated restaurateurs.
]]>The author of the popular A Tea Witch's Grimoire takes tea magick to a new level as she brings you into the enchanting realm where the art of tea-making intertwines with the power of crystal grids, creating a harmonious fusion of energies that will elevate your magickal practice.
Tea magick has a profound connection to nature, mindfulness, and spiritual transformation. Here you'll learn how to select and prepare teas that align with your intentions, harnessing their unique properties to enhance your rituals and meditations. But the enchantment doesn't stop there. A Tea Witch's Crystal Brews unveils the captivating realm of crystal grids, where carefully selected gemstones are arranged in geometric patterns to amplify intention and manifest desires. Explore the world of crystals and unlock their hidden powers as you discover the intricate interplay between crystals and tea magick. Along with rituals and recipes in this book, you'll unravel the secrets of combining these two ancient practices, creating a synergy that enhances your spiritual journey. As you explore the symbiotic relationship between specific teas and corresponding crystals, you'll gain insight into the sacred geometry behind crystal grids and learn how to design your own layouts that align with your intentions.
A Tea Witch's Crystal Brews offers step-by-step instructions, enchanting rituals, recipes, meditations, and practical tips that allow you to infuse your daily life with the transformative energies of tea magick and crystal grids.
]]>A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats external aggression and internal dissolution
Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.
Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, and original in-depth interviews with Iranian decision makers, Nasr brings to light facts and events in Iran's political history that have been overlooked until now. He traces the roots of Iran's strategic outlook to its experiences over the past four decades of war with Iraq in the 1980s and the subsequent American containment of Iran, invasion of Iraq in 2003, and posture toward Iran thereafter. Nasr reveals how these experiences have shaped a geopolitical outlook driven by pervasive fear of America and its plans for the Middle East.
Challenging the notion that Iran's foreign policy simply reflects its revolutionary values or theocratic government, Iran's Grand Strategy provides invaluable new insights into what Iran wants and why, explaining the country's resistance to the United States, its nuclear ambitions, and its pursuit of influence and proxies across the Middle East.
]]>The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalising on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago 'El' to the truth about where we store our ketchup.
Page changes the way we understand diversity how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all.
]]>Christina Harrison's introductory chapter on the history of tree collecting and introduction highlights their importance, from their practical applications to the sheer wonder of their beauty. Some trees featured were planted in the 18th century, with many now rare in the wild.
Each tree is accompanied by the artist's commentary on her personal experience with it and writing by Martyn Rix describing natural distribution and cultivation history, and points of interest including uses and associated wildlife.
]]>Martyn Rix is a renowned horticulturalist, author and editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
]]>'Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated scene of reading? What reads when we read, and how does reading push and pull between temporalities and voices? Why do we keep leaving the text when we seek to obey the injunction to stay within its terms?
Questions such as these produce a fresh, even startling, consideration of a wide range of literary and popular texts, including Hobbes' Leviathan, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Kant's moral injunctions, Sade, Valery, Blanchot, and de Certeau, but also modern fiction, film, audiobooks, and hypertext. The power of reading turns out to belong to its surprising engagement with time and direction: the deliberate reader stays close but strays, tries to fill in the gaps but gets pushed back by a countercurrent. The key to the text is sought 'outside' only to be led back to the text and its failure to deliver a final answer. Equally at odds with older versions of literary formalism that insist on the self-referentiality of the text as well as contextualists who scour an external social order to discover the truth of the text, Szendy approaches that very conflict as an oscillation constitutive of reading itself. Paradoxically, reading is sustained precisely by what interrupts its teleological flow.
The result is a comic, profound, and timely reconceptualisation of reading which rushes forward only to find itself pushed back into the heart of the text, which discovers that this incessant breaking from the text, this headlong rushing ahead to the world outside the text is a sequence of overreach, delay, and return that forms the ragged rhythm of reading itself. Powers of Reading is a patient, brilliant, and illuminating inquiry into the crosscurrents of voice and address, one that speaks to the speed and complexity of our time, how we are upended by our forward propulsions, to consider how multiple voice, action, and passivity are all rearranged in the scene of reading.' Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
]]>Everything you need to successfully make magic with your tarot deck is found here within Everyday Tarot Magic.
This book was previously published in 2003.
'Dorothy Morrison, Wiccan High Priestess, bestselling author of Everyday Magic, applies her craft to the Tarot deck in Everyday Tarot Magic. Building on the popularity of Tarot, Morrison shows readers how to get started with Tarot, how to find the right deck, and how to understand the various cards and where they fit into the system. The second half of the book explores 'Tarot magic,' helping readers use the cards to deal with specific situations such as anxiety, forgiveness, healing, new endeavors, travel, and unwanted guests. There's even a special charm for finding a parking place. Morrison cautions that people are often searching for 'the best case scenario' when reading their own cards, and that it's more accurate to have an objective outsider interpret the cards for them.' Publishers Weekly
]]>Once upon a time, minister, lecturer, and astronomer Rev. Timothy Harley published Moon Lore, a culmination of his understanding of the moon and its many myths. Now lovingly updated and reproduced for a modern audience, this book is the perfect reference for everything about lunar folklore. Contained within are different concepts about the moon that span time, religion, and nationality, covering many different interpretations of the moon's entities and inhabitants. A charming addition to any library, The Old Lore of the Moon stands out among older books as a highly readable, informative, and entertaining entry.
]]>This first official book for Adult Fans of LEGO takes the reader on a visually stunning journey from the very earliest hollow bricks to the complex shapes and building techniques of today.
LEGO bricks are design icons and marvels of engineering. Virtually unchanged for over fifty years, the brick is still at the very centre of LEGO's ethos: each brick connects to every other brick, allowing the construction of almost anything you can imagine. LEGO minifigures may be the friendly faces of the LEGO world, but bricks in all their different shapes and forms are its very foundation.
The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks explores the brick's rich history in full colour and unparalleled detail. Granted unprecedented access by the LEGO Group, Daniel Konstantski has interviewed design masters, element testers and the so-called 'rock stars', the set designers, to reveal for the first time how and why new LEGO bricks are made.
This is the book the fans have always wanted: a truly behind-the-scenes look at the story of the beloved LEGO brick and the company which makes it, with a wealth of exclusive visual material from the LEGO Archive in Billund.
]]>Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take 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, found kinship in the in-between and created safe spaces in underworlds; but these forgotten narratives tell stories of remarkable resilience that deserve to be heard.
Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mche unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But 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 and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.
'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
]]>This literary inspired cookbook is composed of thirteen divinely delicious chapters, each focusing on a different story and discussing its edible motifs before bringing them to life and to your table with approachable, easy-to-follow recipes and hand-drawn illustrations.
Inspired by Alessandra Pino's academic studies into how food manifests itself on the pages of Gothic literature, and combining her knife-sharp analysis with Ella Buchan's experience as a food writer and recipe developer, A Gothic Cookbook pays homage to the most appetising cuts of the genre, featuring over sixty original recipes illustrated by Lee Henry.
Dracula lulls protagonist Jonathan Harker into a false sense of security with cold cuts and a spicy, smoky, peppery stew. Frankenstein's 'monster' starts out as a benign vegetarian, while Mrs Poole's overindulgence in Mother's Ruin triggers Mr Rochester's downfall in Jane Eyre and a bitter tangerine signals a sharp, yet unheeded, warning against marriage and Manderley in Rebecca. Notice, too, how a ghostly presence craves sugar and burnt bread in Toni Morrison's Beloved...
In this interplay between supper and the supernatural, you'll learn to pick your desserts carefully: chocolate mousses foreshadow impending doom, yet the humble seed cake is a gesture of kindness.
With a foreword from acclaimed writer, editor and academic, Leone Ross, A Gothic Cookbook is the perfect culinary companion for those of you who enjoy a slice of the macabre with your dinner.
]]>Dr Alessandra Pino is an expert on how the Gothic, food and cultural memory intersect. Alessandra was born in Hampstead, London, to an Italian mother and Venezuelan diplomat father, and grew up in several different countries. She holds university degrees in English Literature from Naples 'L'Orientale', Translation Studies from the University of Westminster and a PhD in Food, Cultural Memory and the Gothic. She worked with a Michelin-starred chef for nearly ten years before entering the world of academia. Alessandra brings to A Gothic Cookbook her deep academic knowledge, digging into food themes and motifs in a series of classic and contemporary novels from the 19th century to the present day.
Freelance graphic designer and artist Lee Henry creates the hand-drawn illustrations that bring the cookbook's themes and recipes to life in a suitably dark and enigmatic style. Specialising in branding for the hospitality industry and with clients ranging from Borough Market traders to gastro-pubs, he combines a passion for food with some pretty impressive draughtsmanship.
Leone Ross is a fiction writer and editor. She was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her latest novel is the New York Times' Editor's Choice This One Sky Day (FSG, 2021). Described by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a master of detail', her fiction has been nominated for the Women's Prize, the Goldsmiths award, the RSL Ondjaate award, and the Edge Hill Prize, among others. Her short stories, Come Let Us Sing Anyway are published by Peepal Tree.
]]>After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's. Reproduced here, in facsimile form and in close association with Adams's family and literary estate, 42 is a full-colour, large-format hardback that follows Adams career from early collaborations with Graham Chapman to his work on Doctor Who, through the Hitchhiker years*, Dirk Gently*, his groundbreaking non-fiction book Last Chance to See and his later digital work. Alongside this are details of projects that never came to fruition like a proposed theme park ride and a TV series provisionally entitled The Secret Empire.
Edited by Kevin Jon Davies, who has worked on a number of Hitchhiker-related projects and had a personal friendship with Adams spanning more than twenty years.
]]>Before Edward Powys Mathers wrote the world's most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle, he was a cryptic crossword creator. Under his pseudonym 'Torquemada', his puzzles would taunt readers for days. He created his first cryptic crossword puzzle in 1924 and went on to set them for the Saturday Westminster and the Observer for the next 15 years. His true identity was only revealed when he died in 1939.
As well as earning the reputation for setting the world's toughest crosswords, Torquemada - or 'Torq' as he was often referred to - was also delightfully creative: with many puzzles written in perfectly constructed verse, or delivered as mini-narratives to their solvers. There's even a version where the clues are knock-knock jokes.
For many years cryptic crosswords were simply known as puzzles in the 'Torquemada style'. This selection of Torquemada's best crosswords was originally published in 1942 and contains three short accounts of Torquemada's life and achievements, including one by his widow, R.C. Mathers. The successful revival of Cain's Jawbone has inspired a new generation of puzzle solvers. Here then is the next challenge for Torquemada's fans - dare you take it on?
]]>Ever wanted to cry out, 'What on Earth is a black hole?' but been afraid you'd be shouting into the abyss? Ever wanted to find out how gravity works but never found the book to pull you in?
DARK is an easily digestible beginner's guide to the Universe in a handy A to Z format, with entries on everything from Dark Matter and Quantum Physics to NASA and the Zoo Hypothesis.
Includes a number of stunning design elements throughout, including original artworks and bespoke lettering to accompany each of the twenty-six chapters, as well as enlightening and amusing quotes about space rendered in exquisite typography.
]]>Stefan Stern draws on the major themes of Macbeth and discusses how they can be applied to ambition in modern life. From the success of the first US woman vice president, Kamala Harris, the obstacles she faced and the possibilities that still lie ahead, to Boris Johnson's young aspirations to be 'world king' and the pathological intensity of his ambition, Stern considers the careers and personal lives of politicians, sports stars and business people, to name a few, to illuminate this strange and powerful driver. Expect to discover how ambition and success work together, how attitudes have shifted over time, and how gender roles have an impact on our goals.
Incisive, contemporary and accessible, this book is for anyone who is looking for a change of direction or emphasis on how to move forward. It will also provide consolation, amusement and plenty of insightful meditations on the complex nature of ambition.
]]>His first two books were Myths of Management: What people get wrong about being the boss (Kogan Page, 2017, with Cary Cooper), and How to be a better leader (Bluebird, Pan Macmillan 2019). He is a Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and a Fellow of the RSA.
]]>How did asexual identity form? What is aromanticism? How does agender identity function? Researcher and writer Michael Paramo explores these misunderstood experiences, from the complex challenge of coming out to navigating the western lens of attraction. Expertly mapping their history, Paramo traces the emergence of vital online communities to the origins of the Victorian binaries that still restrict us today.
Powerfully persuasive and thought-provoking, Ending the Pursuit asks us to reimagine sexuality, romance and gender without the borders imposed by society.
With a groundbreaking blend of memoir and poetry, online articles and discussions, Ending the Pursuit is a much-needed addition to the cultural conversation. It encourages us to end the search for 'normalcy' and gives voice to an often-misunderstood community.
]]>This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.
In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century, 1984', was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at a party. 'Now that is the kind of girl I would like to marry!' he remarked that night. Years later, Orwell would name his greatest work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in homage to the memory of Eileen, the woman who shaped his life and his art in ways that have never been acknowledged by history, until now.
From the time they spent in a tiny village tending goats and chickens, through the Spanish Civil War, to the couple's narrow escape from the destruction of their London flat during a German bombing raid, and their adoption of a baby boy, Eileen is the first account of the Blairs' nine-year marriage. It is also a vivid picture of bohemianism, political engagement, and sexual freedom in the 1930s and '40s.
Through impressive depth of research, illustrated throughout with photos and images from the time, this captivating and inspiring biography offers a completely new perspective on Orwell himself, and most importantly tells the life story of an exceptional woman who has been unjustly overlooked.
]]>Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is the story of one middle-aged woman in a cardigan determined to understand this growing phenomenon.
No other woman has had so many online romances from Keanu Reeves to Brad Pitt to Prince William and Becky Holmes is a favourite among peacekeeping soldiers and oil rig workers who desperately need iTunes vouchers. By winding up scammers and investigating the truth behind their profiles, Becky shines a revealing, revolting and hilarious light on a very shady corner of the internet.
Featuring first-hand accounts of victims, examples of scripts used by fraudsters, a look into the psychology of fraud and of course plenty of Becky's hysterical interactions with scammers, this is a must-read for anyone who needs a reminder that Keanu Reeves is NOT in love with them.
'Clever, pertinent and very, very funny...Striking journalism.' -Danny Finkelstein
'A funny, sweary, absurd delight that knows just when to take the subject seriously too. I loved it.' - Dave Gorman
'A brilliant read. Moves effortlessly between hilarious and informative and back again.' - Ed Byrne
No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents: it is a place to share journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to find courage in the darkness of tragedies which happen every day yet are brushed under the carpet.
So, we hear from a stepmother who wrestles with infertility. A husband and wife each tell their experience of losing their baby. A lesbian comes of age at a time when gay people rarely become parents. A father finds loss to be his unlikely superpower. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder impacts a person's choices about having a family. A black woman unpacks ancestral shame while finding renewed purpose. And each person shares how they lived through it.
This captivatingly beautiful, profound and honest anthology opens a much-needed conversation about society, family and honouring the missing children we will never forget.
]]>This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel Parsons, a powerful mother and daughter duo, and Caroline Haslett, whose mission was to liberate women from domestic drudgery, it was the world's first professional organisation dedicated to the campaign for women's rights.
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group - from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engineering and technology. It centres on the parallel but contrasting lives of the two main protagonists, Rachel Parsons and Caroline Haslett - one born to privilege and riches whose life ended in dramatic tragedy; the other who rose from humble roots to become the leading professional woman of her age and mistress of the thrilling new power of the twentieth century: electricity.
In this fascinating book, acclaimed biographer Henrietta Heald also illuminates the era in which the society was founded. From the moment when women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time, and to stand for Parliament, she charts the changing attitudes to women's rights both in society and in the workplace.
]]>'Bboy' means 'boy' in a very particular form of internet cat-speak. You can pronounce it 'boy', 'buh-boy' or 'bee-boy', whatever makes your heart happiest.
It's not always easy to live your life with kindness, but Ellen Murray and her cat Bilbo are doing their best to spread messages of positivity to their followers. As an LGBT+ and disability activist, Ellen's goal has always been to make love, care and safety a reality for all but fighting for your own rights or standing as an ally to others can be daunting, intimidating and confusing work.
How to Be a Good Bboy is an accessible guide to understanding what human rights work is all about: how to get involved, navigate the inevitable pitfalls, overcome imposter syndrome and own your vulnerability and power.
It is about Bilbo, and about Ellen. About her work, and about how Bilbo's online presence is not just an accessory to that work but a way to channel the greater goals of her activism to a wider audience. It is about dignity, respect and justice, and ultimately how to be a very good bboy.
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Each artist is profiled along with select examples of their best work in vibrant full colour, the astonishing detail on display in all its glory. It features the work some of the world's best fantasy artists including Chris Achilleos, John Blanche, Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Karl Kopinski, Iain McCaig, Martin McKenna, Ian Miller and Russ Nicholson, among others.
Written by Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone and Fighting Fantasy historian Jonathan Green, Magic Realms is a Who's Who of fantasy art an absolutely essential collector's item for any Fighting Fantasy fan.
]]>Jonathan Green is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than 80 books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, he has also written fiction for Doctor Who, Star Wars, Warhammer and Marvel. He lives in Somerset, UK.
]]>There aren't many computer games that can justify an entire book, but for superfans, Alien: Isolation is truly extraordinary and Perfect Organism reveals all there is to know about every aspect of this masterful game.
Discover the rationale and authenticity of the set design and art direction, learn about the alien's unnerving abilities to second-guess the players and the importance of its unique height, find out more about the importance of the dynamic audio and the use of seventies archive soundbites, as well as the darkly beautiful music. And immerse yourself in the technical brilliance of the level design and the user interface, before reading about the deleted content, and the scenes and features that never made the final cut.
Alien: Isolation is a game of remarkable depth, complexity, and detail, and together with a level-by-level mission guide, this book will answer all of your questions, as well as many you haven't yet thought to ask!
]]>Attack of the Flickering Skeletons is even bigger than the original Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of this second excavation of gaming's buried past will not only unearth more appalling excuses for digital entertainment, but also feature guest contributors and several special interest chapters not based around single specific games.
These are NOT the games you've heard of a million times in YouTube videos. This is a compilation of truly obscure and dreadful games. Dripping with wry humour and featuring the best, worst graphics from the games themselves, this book encapsulates the atrocities produced in the days of tight budgets and low quality controls.
These are even more appalling games that leaked from the industry's tear ducts, taken down from the dusty shelves of history by the man who has somehow made a living by sticking rubbish on a sofa and talking about it.
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Since starting out in 1975 as a part-time mail-order business in a modest third-floor flat in West London, Games Workshop has grown from its humble beginnings to become a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange. From distributing Dungeons & Dragons, to living in the back of a van, to opening Games Workshop stores, to creating Fighting Fantasy, to launching Warhammer, co-founders Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson tell their remarkable story for the first time.
Dice Men is the fascinating, never-before-told story of an iconic company which changed the world of tabletop gaming for ever. It's an insight into the rollercoaster first year of Games Workshop and the birth of the industry.
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]]>As 95 per cent of our brain activity carries on at a subconscious level, we're not always aware of why we think what we think and do the things we do. Sometimes these subconscious wirings can make us think or act in ways that are not optimal for our happiness they can bring out the illogical in us all.
How Your Brain Is Wired draws on recent breakthroughs in our understanding of how the brain really works, empowering the reader to take control over their own behaviour. Full of insight and practical advice, it equips you with a toolkit of simple changes you can put into action to: reduce conflict and anxiety, achieve a positive mindset, make better decisions, have more fun and reach new goals.
This book is about rewiring your attitudes; re-seeing yourself and your choices. It reveals something rather magical: how tiny tweaks to your behavior can be all you need to deliver a big, sometimes thrilling, reboot to your life.
]]>Cathy Tomlinson is a behavioural researcher with years of consumer research experience. She led the book's volunteer 'brain team' on their journey of discovery and empowerment.
]]>Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Lifeis the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always hoped he'd write.
From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter; to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist China, or getting stoned with Elaine May and Jack Lemmon by the pool in 60s Beverly Hills,Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottommakes most memoirs look like thin gruel by comparison. This is a high-octane explosion of a book, a kaleidoscopic sequence of more than sixty 'lessons' drawn from a life lived to the full: frank, funny, freewheeling and honest.
There are anecdotes of the acts he managed (the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Japan, Sinitta, Boney M, Candi Staton, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, George Michael and Sinead O'Connor) but there's also the wisdom gathered from a louche life of clubs, restaurants, gigs, arrests, awards, bankruptcies, bereavements, booze, coups and sex, both gay and straight.
]]>He is the author of four acclaimed books about the music industry: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder, I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch and The Business. He is CEO of the Pierbel Entertainment Group, and continues to consult, write and broadcast on the music industry.
]]>In 1972, when Robert Elms was thirteen years old, he saw the Jackson 5 play live at the Empire Pool. At some point during the performance, he found himself in a state of otherworldly perfect synchronicity with everything happening around him. This single event would set him off on an endless pursuit for that same height of pleasure.
Since then, Robert has lived his life through live music, from pub rock to jazz funk, punk to country, and everything in between. Each gig is memorable in its own way, and his snapshots of musicians past and present are both evocative and startlingly concise: Tom Waits showboating with an umbrella, Grace Jones vogueing with a mannequin, Amy shimmying shamelessly like a little girl at a wedding, Gil Scott-Heron rapping with a conga drum.
While in our changed times, Robert notes that we have found new ways of listening - of being part of something special by uniting fans with their favourite performers online - there is not, nor can there ever be, anything quite like the live experience. Live!: Why We Go Out is a memoir and a musing on why experiencing live music really matters.
]]>For nearly 40 years Elms has been one of the most distinctive faces and voices in the British media. A journalist, author and presenter, his multi-award winning daily radio show on BBC London, covering all aspects of life in the metropolis, including his passion for great music, is the most listened to programme on British local radio.
The start of the 1980s also saw the start of The Face, the pioneering style bible, where Elms instantly found a niche for his diatribes on the intricacies of young urban life. Becoming an editor of The Face in his early twenties, he also contributed regularly to international magazines as well as most of the prestigious British newspapers. He began broadcasting for the BBC, most notably as part of the team of Loose Ends on Radio 4 where he won his first Sony.
In 1986 he combined two ambitions by going to live in Spain to write his debut novel. In Search Of The Crack was a Penguin original when he was just 27. He also began travel writing for the Sunday Times, who regularly printed his portraits of places as diverse as Venice and Buenos Aires, Istanbul and New Orleans. Elms continued his obsession with Iberia by writing his second book Spain: A Portrait After The General which was nominated as travel book of the year in 1992.
]]>Comedy is a game that all humans play. There are big social prizes if you win, but it is easy to end up with custard pie on your face...or worse.
Comedy can soothe our pain, vent our anger, make us feel less alone and provide the answer to life's most difficult questions, such as, 'What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?' It's a social glue but it can also be divisive, and the joke is on us if we don't understand how it works.
So, what are the rules? How does comedy do its magic and why does it matter? Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy.
Packed with gags and examples of comedy at its best plus some invaluable tips on how to master that b'dum tish timing Be Funny or Die is a fascinating investigation into how our species has developed and mastered this essential art form where laughter is the universal language and only the funniest survive.
]]>Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to uncover how our food habits have been passed down through generations of folklore.
Who was the first person to throw salt over their shoulder? Why do we think carrots can help us see in the dark? When did we start holding village fairs to honour gigantic apple pies? Or start hurling ourselves down hills in pursuit of a wheel of cheese? Gazur investigates the origins of famous food superstitions as well as much more bizarre and lesser-known tales too, from what day the devil urinates on blackberries to how to stop witches using eggshells as escape boats.
Hilarious and fascinating, A Feast of Folklore will introduce you to the gloriously eccentric folk who aren't often noticed by historians. Here lies a smorgasbord of their dark remedies and deadly delicacies, waiting to be discovered.
]]>"Packed full of approachable and inspiring recipes...thoroughly modern and highly rewarding.' Ravinder Bhogal
"Every recipe is packed with flavour.' Dan Lepard
Sanjana Feasts is a collection of dazzling recipes of modern Indian diaspora vegetarian and vegan food.
Sanjana Modha's flavourful and vibrant recipes are rooted in her Indian heritage, East African family background, and Yorkshire childhood. This book showcases the varied ingredients and unique combinations that are authentic to Sanjana's upbringing, and includes signature dishes such as Ruffled Biryani, Madras Mac and Cheese with Naan Crumbs, Desi-inspired French Bread Pizza and Sticky Toffee Gulab Jamun, as well as delicious Indian classics.
Over the last few years Sanjana has seen a visible shift in the Western understanding of what Indian food is. It's gone from curry-house creations, to an exploration of regional food, to fusion cuisine and more recently, an appreciation of street food and casual dining. Today, Indian food is a cacophony of all these elements and more, and Sanjana is forging yet another new direction with the food of diasporic communities, and the flavours of a new generation.
Sanjana Feasts will inspire you both to incorporate these delicious recipes into your everyday cooking, and to raise your game in the kitchen with her tips for the classics.
]]>Award-winning campaigner and founder of the global Craftivist Collective Sarah Corbett shows how to respond to injustice not with apathy or aggression, but with gentle, effective protest.
This is a manifesto for a more respectful and contemplative activism; for conversation and collaboration where too often these is division and conflict; for using craft to engage, empower and encourage us all to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Sarah's craftivism has helped change laws and business policies as well as hearts and minds; here, with thoughtful principles and practical examples, she shows that quiet action can speak as powerfully as the loudest voice.
]]>Sarah Sin Chave takes us on a journey from Hafren's source to the sea, following Hafren's route from Pumlumon in Wales and meandering through England, before she finds her way back home to Wales and to the sea. The journey weaves together Celtic myths, historical and personal narratives as well as Welsh words and ideas.
Hafren not only speaks to the wisdom of this river, but of all rivers, encouraging readers to understand better their place as part of nature. This book will appeal to those interested in nature, sustainability and ecology, and also to those interested in Celtic and Welsh traditions, histories and myths.
]]>Don Paterson is the author of sixteen books of poetry, aphorism, criticism and poetic theory. His poetry has won many awards, including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, and three Forward Prizes; he is the only poet to have won the T.S. Eliot Prize on two occasions. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of St Andrews and for twenty-five years was Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan. He is a Fellow of the English Association, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He received the OBE in 2008 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010.
]]>Including extracts from prose, poetry and historical documents, this book is an enthralling journey through the year and the pageants, parades, festivals and fairs which have played a huge part in Scottish life. It introduces the customs, traditions, lore and crafts associated with them, making it the ideal companion for anyone interested in this fascinating and rich aspect of Scotland's cultural story.
]]>This comprehensive book features more than 500 placenames and is an essential book for all interested in Scottish history and culture.
]]>Their neighbours are few, but among them they find the generosity and community spirit that has survived in the Highlands for generations. Working as a tight family unit, they learn to cope, and in time grow to love their little croft.
]]>Annie Worsley is a writer, geographer, grandmother and crofter who lives in North West Scotland. Her first book, Windswept, was published in August 2023.
]]>The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet they left major legacies. They laid the foundations for the medieval Scottish kingdom and their captivating carved stones are some of the most eye-catching yet enigmatic monuments in Europe. Until recently the Picts have been difficult to trace due to limited archaeological investigation and documentary sources, but innovative new research has produced critical new insights into the culture of a highly sophisticated society which defied the might of the Roman Empire and forged a powerful realm dominating much of northern Britain.
This is the first dedicated book on the Picts that covers in detail both their archaeology and their history. It examines their kingdoms, culture, beliefs and everyday lives from their origins to their end, not only incorporating current thinking on the subject, but also offering innovative perspectives that transform our understanding of the early history of Scotland.
]]>Nicholas Evans is a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust funded Comparative Kingship: the Early Medieval Kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland project at the University of Aberdeen. He is a historian whose research and teaching have focussed on the medieval Celtic-speaking societies of Britain and Ireland. He is the author of The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles (Boydell Press, 2010), A Historical Introduction to the Northern Picts (Aberdeen University/Tarbat Discovery Centre, 2014) and co-author of King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce (Birlinn 2019).
]]>The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how they have exercised that power over the centuries and how governments have reacted to it. From the so-called Peasants' Revolt to Just Stop Oil, via the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, Luddites breaking machinery which threatened their livelihood, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, the Chartist demonstrations of the 1830s and 1840s, 1887's Bloody Sunday and many other, often violent events, Nick Rennison provides a concise, compelling account of popular protest in Britain.
Praise for Nick Rennison:
'Entertaining and thoroughly readable canter through the events of a century ago... Fascinating' - Observer
'A delightful book... Intelligent and lively' - Scotsman
'Hugely entertaining... often wryly amusing... plenty of light entertainment and colourful anecdote' - Mail on Sunday
'Rennison proves a chatty and amiable guide and offers an enjoyable and evocative ramble down memory lane' - Telegraph
'Fascinating and highly readable' - Daily Mail
]]>Agee is a writer particularly concerned with the 'ethical imagination' as exemplified by his 'poetic work of nonfiction' Trump Rant, a nuanced exploration of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. He divides his time between Ireland, Scotland and Croatia.
]]>Did you know a Canadian coined the term 'mulligan' a noun meaning 'do-over' which many recreational golfers take on the first tee after an errant drive? Or that the creators of one of the greatest board games ever, Trivial Pursuit, also built a devilish golf course north of Toronto? How about this fact: the world's most expensive public golf course will set you back $1,000 to play just one round. Here's one more: Scotland, where golf was invented in the Middle Ages, later banned the sport not just once, but three times.
In 101 Fascinating Golf Facts, author, historian, and award-winning golf journalist David McPherson shares these stories and 97 more fascinating and fun tales that illustrate the sport's rich history, entertaining both golf lovers and trivia buffs alike.
]]>Fodor's Chicago travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting more of the USA's great cities? Check out Fodor's New York City and Fodor's Philadelphia
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]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Vietnam travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting Thailand or Cambodia? Check out Fodor's Essential Thailand: with Cambodia & Laos
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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!
]]>Fodor's European Cruise Ports of Call travel guide includes:
Planning on spending more time in Europe? Check out Fodor's Essential Italy, Fodor's Provence & the French Riviera, and Fodor's Essential Great Britain.
*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.
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!
]]>Beginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of ancient Greece were defined by their exceptional beauty; even today, 'to look like a Greek god' is proverbial for human beauty. In Beauty and the Gods, Hugo Shakeshaft explores the relationship between the beautiful and divine in ancient Greece, principally in the Archaic period (ca. 750-480 BCE). Analysing evidence that ranges from poetry, art, and philosophical texts to architecture and the natural landscape, Shakeshaft shows how ideas and experiences of beauty shaped Greek relations with the divine.
With a powerful call for the place of beauty and aesthetics in the writing of history, Shakeshaft uncovers the cultural dialogue between beauty and the gods in a variety of contexts in the Archaic Greek world: in forms of divine worship; in poetry, music, and dance; in attitudes to the natural environment; and in architecture and art. This early chapter of Greek history, he argues, holds an unrecognised key to understanding some long-running threads in the histories of religion, art, and aesthetics, from Plato's aesthetic theories to beauty's status in contemporary discourse. Beauty's deep past and divine connection in ancient Greece can help us see beauty now in sharper focus.
]]>After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage, 39 rescue missions were launched, including one by the Resolute, the Royal Navy's finest vessel. In 1854, it became locked in the ice and was abandoned. A year later, a Connecticut whaling ship discovered it drifting 1,200 miles away, a 600-ton ghost ship. The whalers boarded the Resolute and steered it through a ferocious hurricane back to Connecticut. The US government re-outfitted the ship and returned it to Queen Victoria, who, in 1879, had its best timbers made into a desk for President Rutherford B. Hayes a desk still in use today. Rare photographs, paintings, engravings, and maps illustrate the book throughout. This edition is updated with a new chapter on the discovery of Franklin's ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, in 2014 and 2016 in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
This legendary maritime epic is perfect for fans of David Grann's The Wager and Hampton Sides's The Wide Wide Sea.
]]>Once again, Patricia Telesco has provided a treasury of knowledge in her green-thumb-approved book, Gardening with the Goddess. Gardening has never been more magical! Explore different plants and their associations with the Goddess, create gardens timed around the moon and astrological signs, use crystals to enhance your power, and much more. Especially designed to accommodate the large backyard and small back porch planters, there's something for every witch in Gardening with the Goddess.
This title was previously published in 2001.
]]>In this captivating book, the authors bring us the inspiring stories of people around the world working to conserve orchids. This captivating book explores global stories of the orchid, with cultural history and scientific discoveries throughout. Heavily illustrated throughout with stunning colour photographs, this hopeful story celebrates the work of conservationists overcoming unique challenges to save the treasured orchid plant family and inspire us all to participate in orchid conservation.
]]>Lawrence W. Zettler is a biology professor at Illinois College and research associate at the Chicago Botanic Garden. He illustrated two entomology books and has coauthored over 70 scientific papers.
]]>'Brilliant...Gail Harland's research is impeccable, her dialogue with the reader is comfortable and the photographs are utter confection for the eye. This will accomplish for Paeonia what Anna Pavord's The Tulip did for the appreciation of the singular impact on our collective horti(cultural) identity by a single genus of plants.' Daniel J. Hinkley, author of Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens
'In this extensively researched, highly informative book, Gail Harland presents an entertaining and fascinating guide to a group of one of our favourite garden plants, peonies. No stone is left unturned in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated account, which describes not only aspects of their biology and cultivation, but also highlights their cultural significance in herbal medicine, literature, art, and music.' Richard J. Gornall, University of Leicester
]]>In a world of instant gratification where the American Dream is quickly fading and the push toward entrepreneurship as a means of stability grows ever greater, let it be known that there is still a way to live abundantly on the 9 to 5 grind. Tailored for trailblazing Black women and women of colour, The Financial Abundance Blueprint blends personal anecdotes, actionable advice, and a touch of humour.
From dispelling myths around building wealth to revealing corporate's unwritten rules, this transformative guide will teach you the basics of:
Whether you're a Gen-Zer taking the first steps into adulthood or a millennial working your way through life, The Financial Abundance Blueprint is the perfect roadmap on the journey to achieving financial freedom!
]]>Rugby is a game that rewards creative expression, toil, teamwork and a never-say-die attitude. It can be joyful, vibrant and beautiful. Equally, it can brutally expose human flaws and frailties even more so in the hugely pressurised environment of a Lions tour. Every team, no matter how talented, will find itself in dark and difficult situations both on and off the field; the successful ones are those with a leadership group that can navigate these challenging moments.
InLegacy of the Lions, former Lions captain Gavin Hastings draws on his own experiences in the famous red jersey and interviews other greats of the game including, among many others, Sam Warburton, Warren Gatland, Paul O'Connell, Brian O'Driscoll, Martin Johnson, Finlay Calder and Sir Ian McGeechan, plus a selection of their illustrious opponents, such as Kieran Read, John Smit and John Eales to explore how to forge a successful team in this most rarefied of environments, the difficulties they each encountered and what leadership lessons they learned.
Inspiring, humorous and illuminating,Legacy of the Lionscasts a unique light on leadership, team-building and elite performance and reveals a new perspective on touring with and playing against The British & Irish Lions in the modern era.
'An intriguing study of the minds of some of rugby's greatest leaders' Tom English, BBC Sport
]]>Peter Burns is the author of eight books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed When Lions Roared, Behind the Lions and Behind the Thistle.
]]>Rachael Piltch-Loeb was juggling a young family and a flourishing academic career when her father was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Her experience was the inspiration for The Millennial Caregiver, a heartfelt and practical guide for millennials balancing early adulthood with the demands of caregiving. The book explores challenges unique to the millennial generation from emotional strain and financial pressures to social isolation and role reversal and provides insightful strategies to manage these issues. It also highlights the role technology can play for digital natives in caregiving, offering tips for utilising digital tools and building support networks.
Millennials represent a large and growing portion of today's caregiving population. The Millennial Caregiver is a beacon of hope and a valuable resource for younger people navigating the complex terrain of caring for loved ones while forging their own path.
]]>In today's dynamic business environment, the success of any organisation is deeply rooted in the quality of its internal relationships. In The Relationship-Driven Leader, psychologist and organisational behaviour expert Dr. Karen Bridbord offers a revolutionary guide to career success and advancement, regardless of your industry, your company's size, or your role. This groundbreaking book sheds light on how nurturing strong work relationships can lead to unmatched productivity and greater overall wellness throughout the organisation and among its staff. Through compelling research and insightful case studies, Bridbord reveals the detrimental impact dysfunctional relationships can have on both personal and business achievements, and how to come back from 'relationship system failure'. By rethinking workplace relationships, you can foster deeper connections within your team, resulting in enhanced cohesion and well-being for all members.
The Relationship-Driven Leader explores the profound influence of everyday interactions on team experience and team performance. Bridbord emphasises the importance of 'micro-moments' in leadership to spark significant improvements. This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. By focusing on well-being through relationship-building, you can create a healthier, more engaged, and more productive team.
]]>A clear, new case for reparations as a 'constructive', future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history's injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. Centuries ago, Tw explains, European powers engineered the systems through which advantages and disadvantages still flow. Colonialism and transatlantic slavery forged schemes of injustice on an unprecedented scale, a world order he calls 'global racial empire'. The project of justice must meet the same scope.
Tw's analysis not only discourages despair, it demands global resistance. Reconsidering Reparations suggests policies, goals, and organising strategies. And it leaves readers with clear and powerful advice: act like an ancestor. Do what we can to shape the world we want our moral descendants to inherit, and have faith that they will continue the long struggle for justice. This understanding, Tw shows, has deep roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cedric Robinson, and Nkechi Taifa.
Reconsidering Reparations is a book with profound implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change policy.
'Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win.' Naomi Klein
]]>A Financial Times Summer Read
The story of our National Debt told through key events in British history.
While it is central to today's politics, few people fully understand the National Debt and its role in shaping the course of British history. Without it, Britain would not have gained and lost two empires, nor won its wars against France and Germany. But Britain has also been moulded by attempts to break free of the Debt, from postwar Keynesian economics to today's austerity.
Martin Slater writes a vivid tale coloured with some of the most dramatic incidents and personalities of Britain's past from clashes between King and Parliament, American independence and war in Europe, to the abolition of slavery, the development of the Union and the role of leading figures such as Pitt, Gladstone, Adam Smith and Keynes.
From medieval times to the 2008 financial crash and beyond, The National Debt explores the changing fortunes of the Debt, and so of Great Britain.
]]>A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. Without condemning identity politics, Wendy Brown carefully probes the varied historical forces generating them today and the ways these formative conditions constrain emancipatory desire. Along the way, she advances a novel feminist critical theory of liberalism and the liberal democratic state. She also develops an original theoretical practice that weaves together Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, Foucault, and cultural theories of gender and race to analyse contemporary political predicaments. In a new preface, Brown places States of Injury in political and intellectual context, including the rise of neoliberalism, and addresses the book's renewed relevance in today's political landscape.
]]>Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and forms of government. The Revolution to Come traces how evolving conceptions of history ushered in a faith in the power of revolution to create more just and reasonable societies.
Taking readers from Greek antiquity to Leninist Russia, Dan Edelstein describes how classical philosophers viewed history as chaotic and directionless, and sought to keep historical change especially revolutions at bay. This conception prevailed until the eighteenth century, when Enlightenment thinkers conceived of history as a form of progress and of revolution as its catalyst. These ideas were put to the test during the French Revolution and came to define revolutions well into the twentieth century. Edelstein demonstrates how the coming of the revolution leaves societies divided over its goals, giving rise to new forms of violence in which rivals are targeted as counterrevolutionaries.
A panoramic work of intellectual history, The Revolution to Come challenges us to reflect on the aims and consequences of revolution and to balance the value of stability over the hope for change in our own moment of fear and upheaval.
]]>In the increasingly competitive world of academia, simply mastering your discipline is no longer enough to guarantee career success or personal fulfillment. The Entrepreneurial Scholar challenges scholars at all stages from doctoral students to tenured professors to break free from conventional academic pathways by adopting an entrepreneurial mindset. What opportunities can you create based on who you are, what you know, and who you know?
Drawing on her experiences in higher education, start-ups, and management consulting, as well as interviews with a range of academics and entrepreneurs, Ilana Horwitz provides a road map for those stifled by traditional academic norms and expectations. This book calls on scholars to create ideas not just consume them. It offers strategies to thrive in academia with limited resources and in the face of uncertainty. Embracing an entrepreneurial mindset entails viewing yourself as a knowledge producer, enhancing collaboration, creatively identifying resources, and effectively sharing your ideas.
Horwitz empowers all scholars particularly women and first-generation, low-income, and BIPOC individuals to see themselves as proactive agents in their educational and career trajectories, despite structural constraints, unclear expectations, or unresponsive advisors. With actionable advice, real-world applications, and inspiring success stories, this guide is vital for anyone aspiring to excel within and beyond the ivory tower.
]]>'Eric Marshall White's Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books brings us as close to Gutenberg as the evidence allows: stripping away myth and guesswork, this book is invigorating and hard to put down.' Erik Kwakkel, author of Books Before Print
]]>After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended his career as President of Finland.
This new critical biography sets Mannerheim's entire life's work, and his often nerve-wracking decisions as a Finnish leader on the world stage, against the backdrop of his elite upbringing and lifestyle, his adventurous imperial career, his outspoken anti-communism, and his keen instincts for great power politics. Painful details emerge about Mannerheim's private life, and myths and rumours are scrutinised, as Henrik Meinander charts the complex legacy of this nationalist cosmopolitan who found himself fighting on the same side as Hitler.
Meinander paints his portrait with strong contrasts and bright colours. This is the story of a multicultural Russian empire, a newborn nation-state treading warily between Europe's military titans, a front of the Second World War not easily reduced to moral binaries and, above all, a shrewd political operator playing many a dangerous game.
'Authoritative and accessible to general readers...Finland does owe a great debt to Mannerheim. As with Churchill or de Gaulle, a proper assessment of his historical importance requires us to strip away the myths and focus on the facts of his career a task Meinander fulfils admirably.' Financial Times
'[Meinander] has succeeded handsomely. Mannerheim oozes good sense and generosity to its predecessors and deserves to become the new standard popular book on its subject.' The Times
]]>At the core of the Christian faith lies the spiritual journey to the heart of ultimate reality, or God described by some mystics as a 'dazzling darkness'. For over 2,000 years, certain women and men have experienced various degrees of direct communion with God, from mild illuminations to a union in which the will of the mystic has been consumed.
This book explores such spiritual figures' lives and teachings, alongside their personal and historical backgrounds, from early Christendom to modern mystics such as Simone Weil and Thomas Merton. It reveals that the English anchoress Julian of Norwich grew up while the Black Death was devastating Europe; that the beguine Marguerite Porete lived at a time when the Church was particularly primed to burn 'heretics' a fate she suffered; and that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed his idea of spiritual evolution with Charles Darwin's theories in the air.
Comprehensive, deeply researched and highly engaging, Dazzling Darkness tells the stories of towering figures like Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of vila and John of the Cross. Its pages also highlight many lesser-known mystics, including Mary of Egypt, Seraphim of Sarov and Charles de Foucauld, allowing their voices to sing out to future generations.
]]>This is an updated version of the book that has become the go-to resource for Yin Yoga teachers all over the world and has been required reading in many teacher training programs. All forms of yoga can provide benefits physically, emotionally, and mentally, however Yin Yoga works the deeper levels of the body/heart/mind: the yin tissues of fascia, tendons, ligaments, joints and bones, as well as the energetic channels of the meridians, nerves and blood system. One big difference noticed by students of Yin Yoga is the long-held, passive nature of the posture, which gives time for a deeper journey to unfold, a journey into the meditative aspects of yoga, a bridge to living life mindfully. The second edition includes-a more functional approach to the practice of yoga, emphasising the concept of targeted areas; the importance of stress in reducing fragility and building antifragility; understanding the nature of creep and the importance of counterposes, with a revised list of effective counterpostures; many new photographs of the postures and their variations for different body types; a more current overview of the physiology of tissues and the energy body reflecting new understanding in the science of fascia and cellular signaling; and many other enhancements. As in the first edition, the book presents comprehensive information on how to do the practice, including how to get into and out of the pose, contraindications and warnings for those who may have trouble with particular aspects of the posture, and other important information. Why we do the practice is discussed by looking at its benefits in three main sections: the physiological, energetic and mental/emotional benefits.
'Bernie Clark's The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga is one of the best yoga resources now available.' - Paul Grilley, author of Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice
]]>In the style and spirit ofMausby Art Spiegelman or Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty.
'Leila Abdelrazaq tells a coming of age story that is funny, angry and deeply human.' - Molly Crabapple
'The story of the Palestinian refugees is one we need to know. Leila Abdelrazaq tells this tale with love andhumour.' -Seth David Tobocman
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia's literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. It keeps in play so many things: irony and spirituality, a slice of social history of Sydney's inner west, a farm in Victoria, a lesbian subculture, Mardi Gras, the literary pleasures of teaching writing. Juxtaposition is her gift, as is the very natural speaking voice. With the eye of a poet, and the dry drollery of someone who has experienced it all, straight and married, gay and married, mother, friend, lover, writer, this is a raw and powerful account of a life lived fully.
'I love this memoir - it's the sort of writing Hampton excels at. There's no-one else I know who can hit that dry, droll, edgy note and conjure place and time and character and the random nature of memory and story-telling.' Kim Mahood
'Alive and compelling, and served up in perfect mouthfuls, like an antipasto plate . . . Honesty, great sentences, good flow. Surprises, escalation, energy, digression and return, causation.' Gail Bell
]]>The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.
In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, 'Sick Woman Theory', became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.
How to Tell When We Will Die expands upon Hedva's paradigm-shifting perspective in a series of slyly subversive and razor-sharp essays that range from the theoretical to the personal from Deborah Levy and Susan Sontag to wrestling, kink, mysticism, death, and the color yellow. Drawing from their experiences with America's byzantine healthcare system, and considering archetypes they call The Psychotic Woman, The Freak, and The Hag in Charge, Hedva offers a bracing indictment of the politics that exploit sickness relying on and fueling ableism to the detriment of us all.
With the insight of Anne Boyer's The Undying and Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, and the wit of Samantha Irby, Hedva's debut collection upends our collective understanding of disability. In their radical reimagining of a world where care and pain are symbiotic, and our bodies are allowed to live free and well, Hedva implores us to remember that illness is neither an inconvenience or inevitability, but an enlivening and elemental part of being alive.
]]>The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers in the Bathurst region. From the 1830s, colonists began occupying more and more Aboriginal land across western New South Wales and stocking it with sheep and cattle. By 1838, a dramatic fightback began across the entire frontier of the colony. What has been called the Second Wiradyuri War of Resistance, from 1839 to 1841, was, in fact, part of a vast arc of conflict from present-day northern Victoria through to southeast Queensland. At the time, it was seen by many contemporaries as a concerted and coordinated 'uprising'.
In Uprising, Stephen Gapps reveals the incredible story of this extensive frontier resistance warfare for the first time a series of wars that were conducted along a huge area of the Murray-Darling river system, across many First Nations' lands, in a concerted defence of River Country.
'Stephen Gapps' work is a significant contribution to truth-telling in Australian history.' Anita Heiss
'A great and much needed account. And yet another loud cry to break the great Australian silence.' John Maynard
'For all Australians to truly understand their history, the Australian Wars need to be a prominent part of our national story. At a time when we need to think deeply about how the past impacts our future, Uprising is essential reading.' Rachel Perkins
'This is a must-read! Uprising is a landmark book at the forefront of the new and exciting scholarship about the Australian Wars. In a brilliant synthesis, Gapps draws together his deep research with extensive consultation with Elders and local knowledge holders and, just as importantly, his detailed understanding of the country in contention.' Henry Reynolds
'[An] outstanding work for communities and historians.' Heidi Norman, The Conversation Australia
]]>The Aboriginal Land Rights Act in NSW includes unique features that remain unrealised in other parts of the country. The laws announced the policy of self-determination, compensation for loss, a land claims process, support for enterprises and the establishment of a network of land councils. Today there are 120 land councils that operate across the state.
Yet significant features of the land rights promise remain outstanding. Less than 1 per cent of the state has been restituted to Aboriginal land councils, with tens of thousands of land claims yet to be determined.
In Land Back, Professor Heidi Norman, a leading expert on Aboriginal political history, has brought together voices at the forefront of the land rights movement, including lawyers, NSW Aboriginal Land Council Youth Committee members, students, academics, activists and organisers, to share the successes, failures and possible futures of NSW land rights.
]]>Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), begun in 1924 under the leadership of Frederick Maynard.
For the first time Aboriginal people voiced their disapproval in public in a well-organised way. They opened offices in Sydney, held street rallies, conducted public meetings, gained newspaper coverage, wrote letters and petitions to Government at all levels, and collaborated with the international black labour movement. The AAPA's demands still resonate today. They centred on Aboriginal rights to land, stopping Aboriginal children being taken from their families, the acquisition of citizenship rights, and defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity.
This form of resistance and organised action has now endured for more than 100 years. In this exploration of the life and times of his grandfather, John Maynard uncovers the AAPA's invaluable legacy.
]]>A guiding theme is the creative practice of internationally renowned artist Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wamba Wamba/ Yorta Yorta/ Boonwurrung). Maree's talent for collaborations and passion for reclaiming and reviving arts practices over almost forty years has seen her recognised as a leading southeast Australian artist, with invitations to work in France, Italy, Japan, Cuba, UK, Canada and the USA.
ngargee is a collection of intercultural partnerships that prioritise learning with and about First Nations artists to support Indigenous knowledge systems. These engagements take us from possum skin cloak-making in modern-day Melbourne, to 19th century German paintings, to sharing the knowledge and art of feather flower-making revivified in Maree's backyard. Each chapter showcases southeast Australian contemporary Aboriginal creatives with international and Australian co-producers.
ngargee presents a model of intercultural collaboration led by Aboriginal artists and knowledge holders. Southeast Australian Aboriginal art here receives the attention and celebration it so richly deserves. This vibrant and multivocal collection is an indispensable resource for all Australian museums and galleries, and anyone who wants to learn more about contemporary First Nations art.
ngargee means coming together to celebrate in Boonwurrung language, where celebrations are accompanied and demonstrated through the act of making art. Just as art and culture cannot be separated, neither can celebration and art-making.
]]>Sabra Thorner is a cultural anthropologist who has worked with Indigenous Australians for more than twenty years, focusing on photography, digital technologies and archiving as forms of cultural activism. In the past few years, her work has increasingly turned towards collaborative and decolonising methodologies in both research/writing and in teaching/learning. She is especially interested in contemporary arts and cultural production, matriarchal forms of knowledge transmission, and storytelling as an expression of Indigenous sovereignty. She's held fellowships from AIATSIS, Fulbright, Mellon, the Smithsonian and Wenner-Gren, and has published her work in Museum Anthropology, AnthroVision, The Journal of Material Culture, Oceania and Visual Anthropology Review. She is an assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Maree Clarke (Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung) is an artist and curator who grew up in Mildura (northwest Victoria), on the banks of the Murray River, and who has been living and working in Melbourne for over 30 years. She has become a pivotal figure in the revitalisation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices. This includes possum skin cloaks, kangaroo teeth necklaces, eel traps, kopi mourning caps and much more in both traditional materials and contemporary, such as glass and 3D printing. Her practice includes lenticular prints, 3D photographs and photographic holograms, as well as painting, sculpture and video installation. The through line of her work is to facilitate intercultural dialogue and collaboration about the ongoing effects of colonisation, while simultaneously providing space for Aboriginal people and communities to engage with and mourn the impact of dispossession and loss. She is deeply committed to transmitting knowledge to younger generations (and anyone else who is willing to learn). Clarke has exhibited her work widely in Australia and beyond, and her work is held by the Koorie Heritage Trust, Museums Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. In 2021, her work was featured in a major retrospective, Ancestral Memories, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
]]>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.
]]>Ikuntji Artists presents Ikuntji Textiles, a book about the development of the designs, their stories and the artists behind them, and the collaborations.
This full colour publication gives an insight into our range of wearable art textiles. Texts included range from interviews with our artists in Luritja and English, expert voices in the field of textile design, collaborators and our staff who have been on this journey with us.
This book is the result of years of artistic workshops and the recording of stories with the artists. It is self published by Ikuntji Artists through the support of donors. The research is funded by Indigenous Languages and Arts funding.
]]>In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim these archived songs and song texts. The Old Songs are Always New explores their return home to the Tiwi Islands and reveals that the fundamentally contemporary, topical and current nature of the Tiwi song culture has resulted in the preservation of a rich social, cultural and historical oral record.
Campbell describes the melody, rhythm, vocal technique, language, performance context and function of the twelve Tiwi song types, and gives an overview of the language and poetic devices used in song composition.
]]>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).
]]>Tarenootairer (c.180658) was still a child when a band of white sealers bound her and forced her onto a boat. From there unfolded a life of immense cruelty inflicted by her colonial captors. As with so many Indigenous women of her time, even today the historical record of her life remains a scant thread embroidered with half-truths and pro-colonial propaganda.
But Joel Stephen Birnie grew up hearing the true stories about Tarenootairer, his earliest known ancestral grandmother, and he was keen to tell his family's history without the colonial lens. Tarenootairer had a fierce determination to survive that had a profound effect on the course of Tasmanian history. Her daughters, Mary Ann Arthur (c.182071) and Fanny Cochrane Smith (c.18321905), shared her activism: Mary Ann's fight for autonomy influenced contemporary Indigenous politics, while Fanny famously challenged the false declaration of Indigenous Tasmanian extinction.
Together, these three extraordinary women fought for the Indigenous communities they founded and sparked a tradition of social justice that continues in Birnie's family today.
From the early Bass Strait sealing industries to George Augustus Robinson's 'conciliation' missions, to Aboriginal internment on Finders Island and at Oyster Cove, My People's Songs is both a constellation of the damage wrought by colonisation and a testament to the power of family. Revelatory, intimate and illuminating, it does more than assert these women's place in our nation's story it restores to them a voice and a cultural context.
]]>Crimson Light Polished Wood illuminates with subtle ease the influence Leonora has on Anna's daughter, Lydia, introducing her to the world of literature and art.
This is a novel about the ways we all long for acceptance and how those we might feel most in touch with including parents, siblings and mentors can often have different values and views about us. As such it is a beautiful work about art, gender, inheritance, understanding and celebration.
'There is jealousy and deception in this strangely tender book that spans continents, generations and cultures. Pulsing with secrets, it stages the legacy of silence.' Dominique Hecq
'Through her protagonist, Lydia, Monica Raszewski delicately uncovers the layers of a family friend's hidden past. This is a compassionate novel about aloneness, disappointment and betrayal; and it's about a heartfelt desire for intimacy, connectedness and belonging.' Antoni Jach
]]>'the republic of letters / a veritable la la land' writes Keri Glastonbury in 51 Alterities, a collection in which cacophony rhymes with simplicity, and device notifications rebound across the desert horizon. In her poems 'nepo boys are punching above their weight', haunted by the 'spectres of unreal estate'; the senate estimate's axe / 'falls in aggregates of joy' while budgies in their natural habitat have 'no idea they are suburban pretty boys'.
Keri Glastonbury's previous collection Newcastle Sonnets was written as a riposte to Ted Berrigan's New York-based The Sonnets, and 51 Alterities began too as a loose adaptation, of British poet Sam Riviere's influential 2012 debut 81 Austerities. Riviere's collection was written in response to the impact of conservative UK austerity measures on the arts, and as a reconsideration of the function of poetry in the internet age. Wrestling with Antipodean 'alterity' more than ten years later, as a female queer poet a decade older than Riviere's millennial male, Glastonbury's 51 Alterities responds to the persistent threat of economic austerity, and to poetry's precarious place in a landscape dominated by billionaire tech bros and social media empires.
Praise for Newcastle Sonnets:
'A post-industrial love song... Glastonbury's sonnets, far from stultifying, are energetic and playful as they enact the associative freedoms of everyday speech.' Judges' citation, Prime Minister's Literary Awards
'A shifting and dangerously mesmerising simulacrum of contemporary Australian urban life... Through whip-smart core samples of observation, Glastonbury becomes the qwerty keyboard medium for social media within Newcastle and beyond.' Judges' citation, Judith Wright Calanthe Award
'Her poems are wonderful repositories of Aussie argot maggoted, grouse, fugly, bush doof, wheelie bins, sadcore, cankles, choofing and a chicken that's been stuffed up the jacksie all get a run but just as soon as you settle in, she changes gears.' Sarah Holland-Batt, The Australian
]]>The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that's what Alessa Li is told when she's kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.
But there's more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa's class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school's library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.
]]>Vera, a bisexual statistics professor, is one of the survivors of a global disaster of a new kind the Low Probability Event. What should have been a simple family lunch turns into an absurd catastrophe raining fish, parade balloons, exploding manholes and brutally violent animal attacks.
Washed up the aftermath, it's only when the handsome, but problematic, government agent Layne knocks on her door that she is offered a glimpse of meaning to life. Layne is investigating the Low Probability Event, and believes the deadly absurd events may be linked to an improbably lucky casino. As they hit the road to try and make sense of the meaningless chaos of life, only one thing is clear what happens in Vegas isn't staying there...
]]>Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for decades, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale 'for the algorithm' Misha discovers that it's not that simple.
As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right before it's too late.
]]>A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth.
As the net closes in, we discover a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. At the heart of it is one strong, charismatic woman, who survived loss and jeopardy to outwit the endless plotting of a string of ruthless and power-hungry men. Her struggle won her a country. But now it could cost her life.
Part of Polygon's DARKLAND TALES series.
]]>Daughter. Mother. Glory. Wife of The Devil O' Th' Moor. Hope Gleason has many names. The child of a shepherd raised in the remote moors of Northern England, Hope has always understood the satanic brutality of the land.
But when an ear-splitting, unknowable sound destroys the nearby village, Hope must embark on a dangerous journey to survive through the ravaged land with a lad, newly orphaned and alone, under her wing.
As they trek the wilds together to find her husband, her violent past chases her at every turn and long-buried memories begin to resurface.
A pitch-black, magnetic, and unforgettable meditation on the nature of love, evil, and the power of redemption, Land of Hope mixes history and the myths of the English moors to tell a compelling modern English fable of serial killers at the end of the world.
'Cate Baum has exceptional talent.' Claire Fuller, author ofUnsettled Ground
'Cate Baum's writing takes you into a mysterious, murderous, sometimes frightening world and never lets go. A journey through many extraordinary emotions with one abiding feeling: hope. An extraordinary book.' Jonathan Myerson, Oscar-nominated writer of The Canterbury Tales and Nuremberg
'This muscular, disquieting twist on survival stories such as The Road asks whether the end of the world is a chance for a new beginning, or whether some acts stain the soul too deeply ever to be left behind.' The Guardian
'Land of Hope folds a dystopian fable into an Emily Bronte-like gothic novel. It's a fascinating idea for a crossover, and the central character, Hope Gleason, seems to emanate from the wild and windswept moors as if she were a ghost already.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
]]>She attended UCLA to study Screenwriting, and then City University, London, gaining a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing. There, she was mentored by Claire Fuller (The Memory of Animals), Clare Allan (Poppy Shakespeare) and Jonathan Myerson (Nuremberg). She now lives in Spain.
]]>The day before Murray McBride moves Jenny, his beloved wife of eighty years, into a memory care center, she convinces him to search for a case her grandfather buried long ago, said to contain 'a treasure worth more than gold'. With the help of some new friends, Murray and Jenny retrace their steps from years before. Over the course of the day, Murray tenderly retells their love story how they met, the challenges they faced and overcame, and their initial attempt at the quest.
But the closer they get to the treasure, the more clearly Murray remembers why they abandoned the search the first time. With the exhilaratingdiscovery at hand, Murray must decide whether to unearth the treasure, even if it means bringing up painful events from the past.
This heartwarming novel is perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove and Lisa Wingate'sThe Prayer Box.
]]>With all his family and friends gone except an estranged grandson, retired Major League ballplayer Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a spirited 10-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Murray is determined to help Jason fulfill his dreams. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off Jason's wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the opportunity to grow old. But when tragedy strikes, their worlds are turned upside-down, and an unexpected gift is the only thing that can make Jason's final wish come true.
This heartwarming coming-of-old-age novel is perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove and Mike Gayle's All the Lonely People.
]]>Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking: raising a million dollars forcharity. But instead of feeling content, henowfeels empty.What comes next?When he meets Alexandra Lopez - adeterminedten-year-old girl facing deportationand uncertainty - he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, tohelpherfulfillfive wishes before she must leave. Jason and Alexandra set out to check off as many of her wishes as possible, but when his transplanted heart begins to fail, he must choose between his obligations to the past and his hope for a future.
The married woman of the manor. The stranger outside. An intoxicating novel of dark temptation and dangerous desire by the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Cat and Mouse Duet.
November 12, 1944. This house holds on to souls for a lifetime. I thought I had given it to my husband when I vowed to love him until the end of time. I lied. Nothing could have prepared me for the day my phantom appeared outside my window. He was terrifying, yet hypnotising, and I couldn't deny my intrigue. I never intended to fall into a whirlwind romance with my stalker. Especially because he's so much more than that. A criminal. A mobster. The man who offers me solace from the monster in Parsons Manor. There are many that haunt these halls, yet it's only my husband I fear.
Recommended Reading Order for the C&M Universe:
Satan's Affair
Haunting Adeline
Hunting Adeline
Where's Molly
The Manipulator
I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
He's always there, watching and waiting.
And I can never look away.
Not when I want him to come closer.
The Shadow
I didn't mean to fall in love.
But now that I have, I can't stay away.
I'm mesmerised by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
The way she undresses...
I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
And once she is, I'll never let her go.
Not even when she begs me to.
While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.
Author's Note: This book ends on a cliffhanger. For CWs, please check the author's website.
]]>The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here...
The Diamond
Death walks alongside me,
But the reaper is no match for me.
I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.
They won't keep me forever.
I no longer recognise the person I've become,
And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night.
They call me a diamond,
But they've only created an angel of death.
The Hunter
I was born a predator,
With ruthlessness ingrained in my bones.
When what's mine is stolen from me in the night,
Like a diamond hidden within a fortress,
I find that I can no longer contain the beast.
Blood will paint the ground as I tear apart this world to find her.
And bring her back to where she belongs.
No one will escape my wrath,
Especially not those who have betrayed me.
Warning: This is the second and final installment to the Duet. You must read Haunting Adeline first.
'Molly Devereaux has been missing for more than two weeks, and police are still searching for the girl who seemed to vanish out of thin air. The world still wants to know... Where's Molly?'
In my dreams, I never escaped the Oregon woods.
Life after death isn't easy to accept, especially when I still feel like a ghost.
Now, I live deep in the mountains of Montana the paradigm of beauty. But they are also the home of horrors.
Horrors that I only unleash at night.
When my pigs are allowed to feast.
It is strongly recommended to read Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline before reading Where's Molly.
Important Note: This is a dark romance that contains dark subject matter. Please refer to the author's website for content warnings.
]]>Who am I?
I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes.
Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead.
Enzo Vitale.
An enigmatic man that will only ever love the deep sea. Or rather the predators that inhabit it. Turns out, he's not so different than the monsters he feeds. He lured me onto his boat like a fish in the ocean, seeking vengeance for my crime. Had I realised his intentions, and that a massive storm would leave us shipwrecked, I would've run.
Now, I'm a girl who's seeking refuge in a decrepit lighthouse with a man who loathes me almost as much as he craves me. He wants to hurt me, but the old caretaker of the abandoned island may have intentions far more sinister.
It's no longer a question of who I am, but rather, will I survive?
]]>We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time.
I hide within the walls, casting my judgement for those that reek of evil, singing lullabies to their rotting souls.
Once you've been chosen, there's no escaping my henchmen they cater to my every desire.
You can run and you can hide, but it only excites me.
Come.
Take a walk through my dollhouse, where your screams will blend and your cute little pleas will go unanswered.
But I can't promise it'll be over quickly...
Recommended Reading Order for the C&M Universe:
Satan's Affair
Haunting Adeline
Hunting Adeline
Where's Molly
When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind and some of her sanity, too. Now she's rebuilding her life with her dream man and life couldn't be better.
Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness, his possessiveness...maybe not so much his temper.
When her relationship takes a dark turn, Ryan's estranged brother, Mako, is the only one who sees it. He knows exactly what Ryan is capable of, and it's not the first time he had to be a knight in shining armour.
River came from Shallow Hill, though. She's never needed saving before. What Mako doesn'tsee, is that River is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
The only one who should be scared is Ryan.
]]>Chiyo-ni (1703-1775), also known as Kaga no Chiyo, is Japan's most celebrated female haiku poet. A student of Basho's disciples, she worked in an age when haiku was largely a male domain. As a poet, painter, and Buddhist nun, she lived a vibrant life while creating poems of crystalline clarity and delicate sensuality. This volume presents more than one hundred of her finest seasonal haiku, renku (linked verse) and haibun (travel poems).
The collected poems include:
morning glory
the well bucket entangled
I ask for water
a hundred gourds
from the heart
of one vine
rouged lips
forgotten-
clear spring water
These luminous, lucidly translated 'haiku moments' give the reader an intimate experience of Chiyo-ni's remarkable vision and bid us to stop and appreciate each moment of our lives. Handsomely illustrated with artwork by Chiyo-ni and others, the volume also includes illuminating essays on her life and art, informative notes, and a glossary of haiku-related terms.
]]>Yoshie Ishibashi is a researcher and the co-translator of Chiyo-jo's Haiku Seasons and The Classic Tradition of Haiku, among other works.
Natalie Goldberg is the author of 16 books, including Writing Down the Bones and, most recently, Writing on Empty (St. Martin's Press 2024) and Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku (New World Library 2021) which includes haiku by Chiyo-ni. Natalie lives in northern New Mexico and has practiced zen for many years.
]]>In the pale dawn
your coldness as we parted
froze my heart
nothing now so chills me
as morning's early light
Mibu no Tadamine
This completely new translation of the most famous collection of Japanese poetry ever produced, the Hyakunin Isshu ("A hundred poems by a hundred poets"), contains works written between the 7th and 8th centuries that were collected and published by the poet Fujiwara no Teika at the end of that era. The collection is still widely read in Japan today by school children and everyday people.
These poems provide insights on daily life in ancient Japan while addressing universal themes of love, loneliness, aging and the beauty of nature all highly relevant today.
The poets whose works are featured here include:
Each poem is presented in the Japanese script with a Romanised version and English translation. An introduction by translator Michael Freiling provides essential information about the collection, an overview of the poems and poets, and reflections on why the work remains so popular in Japan today.
This new hardcover gift edition is illustrated in full-colour with stunning woodblock prints created for the poems by the famous 19th-century artists Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada. Free online audio recordings of all the poems are available in Japanese and English.
]]>Sometimes called Wind Walkers for their ability to command the wind, unlike their human rulers, the Feng people have bark faces, carved limbs, arms of braided branches, and hair of needle threads. Bound by duty and tradition, Liu Lufeng, the eldest princess of the Feng royalty, is the next bride to the human king. The negotiation of bridewealth is the only way to stop the expansion of the humans so that the Feng can keep their lands, people, and culture intact. As the eldest, Lufeng should be the next in line to lead the people of Feng, and in the past, that made her sisters disposable. Thankful that her youngest sister, Chuiliu, is too young for a sacrificial marriage, she steps in with plans to kill the king to finally stop the marriages.
But when she starts to uncover the truth about her peoples' origins and realizes Chuiliu will never be safe from the humans, she must learn to let go of duty and tradition, choose her allies carefully, and risk the unknown in order to free her family and shape her own fate.
A powerfully imaginative, compelling story of a young woman seeking to save her family and her home, as well as a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for the sake of an industrial future.
]]>Edira Brillwyn has a secret. Edira Brillwyn is a threadmender. She holds a rare, lifesaving power that can cure disease and heal injuries in the blink of an eye. But magic always comes with a cost and saving anyone sacrifices a sliver of her own life. Edira's beloved aunt Rowena a fellow threadmender taught her to conceal this ability to protect herself from people who would take advantage, especially their powerful and wealthy neighbours. Withholding her magic will save her life. Orin Fernglove is immortal an everliving and head of the prominent Fernglove house.
The Ferngloves own the local mines, possess magic powerful enough to alter the stars, and don't take 'no' for an answer. When Edira's brothers unexpectedly contract blight, an incurable virus killing people throughout the town, Orin offers to help. If Edira returns to Fernglove Manor to assist in researching a cure to the blight, Orin can slow their sickness while she hones her magic. Using her magic could save the world. The remaining Ferngloves are less confident in Edira's ability and perhaps more dangerous than the ever-present disease. While Edira and Orin race against her brother's increasingly precarious health, the family's pristine exterior begins to crack, exposing the true nature of Edira's presence within the crumbling estate and the power she has to tear it all down.
]]>What do you see...?
When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can't deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise this is the work of a budding serial killer, but Detective Bill Renney is struggling with an altogether different scenario: a secret that keeps him tethered to the husband of the first victim.
What do you hear...?
Maureen Park, newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, finds her engagement party crashed by the arrival of Landon, Greg's son. A darkly unsettling young man, Landon invades Maureen's new existence, and the longer he stays, the more convinced she becomes that he may have something to do with the recent murder in the high desert.
What do you feel...?
Toby Kampen, the self-proclaimed Human Fly, begins an obsession over a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. A woman with rattlesnake teeth and a penchant for biting. A woman who has trapped him in her spell. A woman who may or may not be completely human.
In Ronald Malfi's brand-new thriller, these three storylines converge to create a tapestry of deceit, distrust, and unapologetic horror. A brand-new novel of dark suspense set in the City of Angels, as only 'horror's Faulkner' can tell it.
]]>A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
Four devastating tales from a master of modern horror...
This Skin Was Once Mine. When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolised while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago by her venomous mother. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret in her family's past - a secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known to be true about her beloved father and, more importantly, herself. It's only natural to hurt the things we love the most...
Seedling. A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother's body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist-the inside of the wound as black as onyx and as seemingly limitless as the cosmos. He is even more unsettled when he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. The young man becomes obsessed with his father's new wounds, exploring the boundless insides and tethering himself to the black threads that curl from inside his poor father...
Prickle. Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...
All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn. Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...
Content warning found inside book.
]]>2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain, an otherworldly dimension housing a vast information network. With an array of Forerunner weapons at her disposal, Cortana set out to enforce an authoritarian peace on the civilisations of the galaxy. But as the United Nations Space Command flagship Infinity prepares to strike against Cortana at Zeta Halo, another plan has also been set in motion.
An ancient access point hidden on a seemingly insignificant human colony has become the focus of a parallel effort to claim the Domain and its immeasurable capabilities. The UNSC, however, needs a key: a living, forsaken product of an old war. As a new generation of heroes rise to meet this challenge, and Cortana's pursuit of control reaches a desperate and sudden crescendo, a cunning, ruthless warrior emerges from the shadows of the Banished, who has vowed to fill the new power vacuum by any means necessary...
]]>Christopher Sequeira is a conceptualist and commission ing editor of mystery, science fiction, horror and fantasy prose and comic-book anthologies, as well as being a writer himself. He has worked on such books as the four volume Cthulhu: Deep Down Under series; Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not; Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook; Dracula Unfanged; the all-star creator anthology Caped Fear: Superhuman Horror Stories (featuring Joe R. Lansdale, George R. R. Martin and others); Kolchak the Night Stalker Nosferatu; and Nosferatu Unbound. His comic-book scripts include work on the franchises X-Men, Iron Man, Justice League, Star Trek, and The Human Fly, as well as original concepts of his own. He lives in Sydney with his family. His first novel, a crime thriller, debuts in 2026.
]]>When Laurel Fletcher's meticulously ordered world is upended by the discovery of a possible Anglo-Saxon burial site on her beloved family farm, the last person she expects to see is Dr. Nate Daley the man she hoped never to encounter again.
As old university resentments resurface, Nate is baffled by Laurel's hostility and strives to build a friendship with her. As they reconnect, Laurel and Nate realise their feelings run deeper than they initially thought. But just as they start to envision a future together, unexpected revelations threaten to tear them apart. Can they overcome their past to build a future together?
Perfect for fans of: Forced Proximity Enemies to lovers Only one bed Workplace romance
'I came for the hot British archaeologist, but stayed for the strong female main character. I absolutely loved it. I was swept up in the chemistry and couldn't put it down.' Leonie Mack, author of In Italy for Love
]]>**One of Stylist's Best New Feminist Retellings to Read in 2023**
In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior...
Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. But when Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him, she refuses and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonised and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world and regain her rightful place in Paradise.
'Nikki Marmery's exquisite prose brings this compelling, highly relevant tale of Adam's first wife to life.' Laura Shepperson, Sunday Times bestselling author of Phaedra
'Dynamite. I laughed loud, fumed louder. Nikki Marmery takes you upriver to the wellspring of sexism, but sends you floating back down on a little tide of hope.' Meg Clothier, author of The Book of Eve
'Lilith is a dark, enraging and enthralling story that reimagines a world free from the ancient clutches of patriarchy... utterly original and much-needed' Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne
'At long last we have the origin story women deserve. Furious and beautiful, rich and moving, Lilith is an astonishing achievement. A new heroine with an unforgettable tale to anger and heal.' Miranda Malins, author of The Rebel Daughter
'Lilith is a battle cry of a book. A rich, vividly written story of passion, betrayal and female rage.' Sophie Keetch, author of Morgan is My Name
]]>In between filming seasons of Floggit and Leggit!, ageing actors Edward Lowe and John Le Breton sign up for short run at the Leeds Playhouse, lured by the promise that the play will transfer to the Stadsschouwburg the Amsterdam Playhouse. Once in Leeds, they discover they have been invited to join for two reasons because the company manager is keen to take advantage of the publicity surrounding Floggit and Leggit! (now a massive hit) and because Sir Nathaniel Thompson, the much-lauded star of the show and knight of the realm, has been sacked for drunkenness and failing to turn up for work.
John fears an awkward scene, should Thompson who he knew during the war return to reclaim his job, but when Thompson's body is found, bludgeoned to death in a nearby alleyway, this ceases to be an issue. Once more, the elderly thespian sleuths decide to investigate.
]]>In 1970, on the set of downmarket sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the body of a woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident. But there's something about her that rings the faintest of bells in Edward's head and, convinced the woman has been murdered, he enlists the help of his co-star John le Breton to investigate further. Crossing the country and back again during gaps in filming, the two men uncover both a series of murders in the modern day, and links to another unfortunate death during the War. As the body count mounts, Edward and John face a race against time to save the innocent victims of a serial killer...
]]>Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction and kung fu skills to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in 1920s London.
London, 1924. Following several months abroad, Judge Dee Ren Jie has returned to the city to intercept a transaction between a Russian diplomat and a Japanese mercenary. Aided by Lao She-the Watson to his Holmes-along with several other colorful characters, Dee stops the illicit sale of an extremely valuable 'dragon-taming' mace.
The mace's owner is a lovely Chinese businesswoman who thanks Dee for its retrieval by throwing a lavish dinner party. In attendance is British banking official A. G. Stephen, who argues with the group about the tenuous state of Chinese nationalism and is then poisoned two days later. Dee knows this cannot be a coincidence, and suspects Stephen won't be the only victim. Sure enough, a young Chinese communist of Lao's acquaintance is killed not long after and a note with a strange symbol is found by his body.
What could connect all these disparate, bizarre events? It is once again up to Dee's brilliant investigative skills and Lao's well-meaning but often bumbling assistance to get to the bottom of the Railway Conspiracy before anyone else ends up on the chopping block.
]]>For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalisingly new.
Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he'd known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword. Will Dee and Lao be able to connect the threads of the murders - or are they next in line as victims?
John Shen Yen Nee and S. J. Rozan's groundbreaking collaboration blends traditional gong'an crime fiction and the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Dee and Lao encounter the aristocracy and the street-child telegraph, churchmen and thieves in this clever, cinematic mystery that's as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transporting as a timeless classic.
]]>John Shen Yen Nee is a highly experienced transmedia executive and entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in comics and book publishing, video games, tabletop games, and collectables. He specialises in building and directing teams to develop and deploy IP across multiple mediums, with an emphasis on growing and maintaining strong fan communities. He is the ex-Publisher of Marvel Comics and ex-Senior Vice President of DC Comics. Twitter/X: @johnnee
]]>For many years, 'nature poetry' has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes both literal and literary are changing.
You Are Here Each poem engages with its author's local landscape be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.
Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what 'nature' and 'poetry' are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.
'Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.' Margaret Renkl,New York Times
'A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.' Los Angeles Times
]]>Setting out on a mission to re-weird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: Wyrd is Icumen in!
]]>Bristol, the early eighteenth century. On the run following a fatal accident at school, the orphan Will Harvell joins a voyage setting sail in search of a mariner's missing son. But the mystery of his disappearance harbours a deeper secret; a dark current pulling the crew ever closer to an ancient Gorgonian terror of the ocean.
Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure, Atlantean mythology and sublime horror, Medusa was first published in 1929 and achieved cult classic status in the late twentieth century as a neglected masterpiece of weird fiction.
'Visiak achieved the terror and wonder, the sense of awe, that Lovecraft could only grasp at.' R. S. Hadji, 1983
]]>On the eve of Elaine Southey's 21st birthday, Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the basement of the Southeys' historic north London home. A slick charmer to some of the tenants and a loathsome young scoundrel to others his death doesn't draw out many tears among the house's residents and neighbours. And yet the sordid truth starts to seep into the heart of their small community a murder is living among them, and who's to say when they might strike again? The shrewd Oxford man Superintendent Paul Grainger finds himself faced with a small circle of suspects whose connections and hidden motives heap complexity upon complexity in this tightly wrought mystery, shot through with a chilling touch of the macabre.
]]>Would you risk everything and travel back in time to find the love you thought you'd lost forever?
Nathan leads a solitary life centring around his passion for antique watches. One day, he chances across an old photograph of Mia, his high school crush, who moved to Japan many years ago with her family, then died under suspicious circumstances. Or did she?
Not long after, Nathan receives text messages from someone named Mia. Are these a hoax or is she alive? He vows to find out, which leads him to Kyoto and a mysterious organisation called the Taira Corporation who seem to know everything about him, and offer to transport Nathan into the past in search of Mia. But along the way he must fight off the rival Genji Corporation-who will stop at nothing to destroy Nathan and his friends.
Eternity in Kyoto is a fast-paced techno thriller set against the backdrop of ancient Japan that takes the reader on an exciting journey to 12th-century Kyoto. It weaves together a touching love story with profound revelations about the essential foundations of our shared humanity.
]]>When a Hollywood producer visits Oriana Fallaci at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her trailblazing career as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret.
Oriana was born in Italy, moved to Manhattan, and shot to international fame for her provocative interviews of world leaders and celebrities. At her peak in 1973, Oriana was called 'the best reporter in the world'. That's when she fell in love with Alexander Panagoulis, Greek hero and poet. He was ten years younger and lived in a different country, but Oriana didn't care. She had finally found what she longed for: a full life. Can a woman ever have it all, or does life always exact a price?
Christiane Amanpour calls Oriana her role model, saying, 'I wanted to be her!'
Oriana holds a place alongside Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters as a legendary interviewer. But her story is little-known in America, until now.
The first biographical novel of the glamorous Italian, the iconic journalist, the woman in love.
]]>When Cockney private detective George Harley saves a young girl's life on a dark London night in 1929, he doesn't realise it marks the beginning of an investigation which will change his life forever. The incendiary book which inspired the girl's abduction also seems to be linked to a series of grisly murders that are taking place on Harley's patch, and though he's delighted to be asked by Scotland Yard to help find the killer before they strike again, he could do without the local razor- and cosh-wielding mobsters thinking he's in the police's pocket.
Set during the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, Harley's world is a far cry from the country house of an Agatha Christie whodunnit. This working-class sleuth does his 'sherlocking' in the frowzy alleyways and sleazy nightclubs of Soho the city's underbelly peopled with lowlife ponces, jaded streetwalkers, and Jewish and Maltese gangsters: a world of grubby bedsits, all-night cafes, egg and chips, and Gold Flake cigarettes.
Here, the midnight streets are black as pitch and, as Harley finds himself embroiled in the macabre mysteries of a city in which truth is as murky as the pea-souper smog and the sins are as dark as stout porter beer, he begins to realise he may never find a way out.
]]>In 1930, the killing of a Soho prostitute is hardly a priority for Scotland Yard. But when a second, similar murder comes to light, and then a third, everything changes. Cuthbert and his team find themselves in a nightmarish world of people-trafficking, prostitution and drug use amongst the upper classes.
Using all his forensic skills, Cuthbert sets out to solve one of the most baffling cases of his career. One final question remains unanswered until a faded photograph reveals its tragic secret.
]]>Death is a lonely business . . .
No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen. But Cuthbert is a man who lives with secrets, and he still battles demons brought back from the trenches.
When not one but two corpses are discovered in a London park in 1929, Cuthbert must use every tool at his disposal to solve the mystery of their deaths. In the end, the horrifying truth is more shocking than even he could have imagined.
]]>Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamourous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far horizon of a thought, they seek the source of the disturbance in their minds. Heartbreak is not so far from rapture; holy babble is another kind of gossip. Every pilgrimage is as dense with symbolism as it is refined by desire.
'A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways.' Michelle Tea
]]>Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin, stands in front of it fully armored.I Love Shoppinginvites its readers to inhabit a world just like ours, reflected through a big, benevolent funhouse mirror.
First published in a limited edition, this will be the first trade edition of the cult classic.
]]>As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator's childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents. At turns charming and bizarre, Sex Goblin channels sexual violence through the lens of the absurd to alchemize shame and abuse into something that registers differently than trauma. Sex Goblin is a barely factual but deeply felt field guide to relationships and relatability.
]]>A decade ago, Azaan, a rebellious teenager with dreams of becoming an actor, was exiled from Redding, California to a religious academy in Egypt by his imam father. His crime? Getting caught kissing Madison, the girlfriend he wasn't supposed to have.
But while letting his family believe he is studying to become a preacher, Azaan ditched school and embarked on an acting career. Given that he has minimal contact and nonexistent plans to return home, he figured no one would ever know.
Now, however, Azaan's grandfather has a dying wish: he wants to see his grandson one last time. In order to maintain the story he's told his family for years, Azaan decides to become a fake imam. Playing at being a religious leader, he finds a community in Redding on the brink of a scandal involving his family. It'll be the most challenging role of his life.
Navigating his new identity and old relationships, Azaan reunites with Madison, connects with old friends, and uncovers a shocking truth about his family history that threatens to expose his father as a fraud. It turns out, Azaan isn't the only one pretending to be something he isn't.
Before he can finish weighing the consequences of exposing his father or protecting him, an untimely death shakes Azaan's priorities. He is forced to grapple with his religion, future, and family in a way that is sure to break hearts, but might heal a few along the way.
]]>Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behaviour like:
Stealing porn magazines?
Hooking up with guys on Grindr?
Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience?
Crossdressing as a woman?
Attending Gnostic Mass?
Running for government office?
Then this is a book for you!
It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction.
As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.
'Outrageously funny.' Paul Harding
'There is nobody doing it like Anton.' Tuck Woodstock
]]>Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a 'far more interesting' man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company's system has him listed as dead. And the company can't fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realise that life may be actually worth living.
As Bud awaits his fate at work, his life hangs in the balance. Given another shot by his boss and encouraged by his best friend, Tim, a worldly and wise former art dealer, Bud starts to attend the wakes and funerals of strangers to learn how to live.
Thurber Prize-winner andNew York Timesbestselling author John Kenney tells a funny, touching story about life and death, about the search for meaning, about finding and never letting go of the preciousness of life.
'Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and emotionally piercing. With the satirical bite of Richard Russo'sStraight Man, the introspection of Fredrik Backman'sA Man Called Ove, and the reinvention of Andrew Sean Greer'sLess, Kenney's vivid prose transforms the mundane into unexpected hilarity.' Booklist(starred review)
]]>Some of the greatest (and grooviest) music ever committed to vinyl has come out of Italy.
And some of the greatest music to come out of Italy is the rich diversity of soundtracks composed for the indigenous film industry - particularly for gruesome thrillers known as 'gialli'. The maestros who composed for these include Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Armand Trovajoli...
And Valerius Passeri.
He was one of the finest composers of this genre and his original LPs from his 1960s heyday fetch a fortune from collectors.
No one disputes that Passeri was a genius...
The argument is whether or not he was a murderer.
Passeri's mistress was killed in London in the 1960s while he was here on location for a film shoot. There was never enough hard evidence to lead to a prosecution but the stink of scandal has never gone away.
Passeri's granddaughter Chloe has come to England to hire the Vinyl Detective. She wants him to negotiate for a collection of her father's LPs. The mastertapes of the albums have been destroyed and she needs immaculate vinyl copies to provide the source for a series of reissues Chloe's mission is to preserve her grandfather's heritage. And also, it transpires, to clear his name.
So it turns out that the Vinyl Detective's real job will be to find out who actually committed a murder over half a century ago, in Swinging London.
But the real killer is not enchanted with the notion of being exposed. And, having killed once before, they see no problem in doing so again.
]]>Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she struggles to reconcile her political ideals with the realities of motherhood.
Cairo, 1966. After being publicly shamed when her relationship with a bisexual boyfriend is revealed, Fatiha's daughter is faced with an impossible decision. Should Yasminah accept a life she didn't choose, or will she leave her home and country in pursuit of independence?
Bristol, 2011. British-born Nadia is battling with an identity crisis and a severe case of herpes. Feeling unfulfilled (and after a particularly disastrous one-night stand), she moves in with her old-fashioned Aunt Yasminah and realises that she must discover her purpose in the modern world before it's too late.
Following the lives of three women from the Bin-Khalid family, Daughters of the Nile is an original and darkly funny novel that examines the enduring strength of female bonds. These women are no strangers to adversity, but they must learn from the past and relearn shame and shamelessness to radically change their futures.
Everyone's talking about Daughters of the Nile...
'A writer to watch.' @ElementaryMyDear_
'Mesmerising.' @alicetheunique
'Not to be missed.' @Silvia_reviews
'A true gem.' @stratospherekawaiigirl
]]>What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely?
Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day he disappears without a trace. A year later, after encountering a woman who looks near-identical to Mark, Stefan becomes obsessed. He finds that dozens of young men have disappeared over the years, many of them students at the Royal College of Saint Almsworth, and most of them troubled or unruly. Why are students going missing? Who are these women who bear striking resemblances to them? And what is their connection to the selective student accommodation on the edge of campus, Dorley Hall?
Stefan starts studying at Saint Almsworth for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to get it to happen to him, too.
An electrifying debut by Alyson Greaves, Welcome to Dorley Hall is an intense exploration of gender and society.
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]]>King Arthur's Death (commonly referred to as the Alliterative Morte Arthure) is a Middle English poem that was written in Lincolnshire at the end of the fourteenth century. A source work for Malory's later Morte d'Arthur, it is an epic tale which documents the horrors of war, the loneliness of kingship and the terrible price paid for arrogance.
This magnificent poem tells of the arrival of emissaries from Imperial Rome demanding that Arthur pays his dues as a subject. It is Arthur's refusal to accept these demands, and the premise of foreign domination, which leads him on a quest to confront his foes and challenge them for command of his lands.
Combining heroic action, probing insight into human frailty and a great attention to contemporary detail, King Arthur's Death is not only a lesson in effective kingship, it is also an astonishing mirror on our own times, highlighting the folly of letting stubborn dogma drive political decisions.
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]]>Michael Smith's translation of this magnificent Arthurian romance draws on his intimate experience of the North West of England and his knowledge of mediaeval history, culture and architecture. He takes us back to the original poetic form of the manuscript and brings it alive for a modern audience, while revealing the poem's historic and literary context.
The book is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed recreations of the illuminated lettering in the original manuscript and the author's own linocut prints, each meticulously researched for contemporary accuracy. This is an exciting new edition that will appeal both to students of the Gawain-poet and the general reader alike.
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]]>This anthology contains work from both the established masters of Folk Horror, and some more surprising contributors: from Shirley Jackson and M. R. James to E. F. Benson and William Croft Dickinson. Tales Accursed will raise the hairs on your neck and keep you alert to the slightest rustle in the trees: through the chill splendour of moonlit nights come apparitions through the orchard; sea-witches perch on the sharp fangs of rocks as they weave their spells; fir-woods lie unnaturally still with no birdsong, no breeze, nor any undergrowth; and hooded creatures crouch on grey secluded beaches. This book combines ancient horrors from the wilderness with sinister shadows of the landscape to remind us of the settings of our ancestors.
Tales Accursed is a gloriously creepy collection of chilling Folk Horror tales that is both thrilling and unnerving.
]]>Hanna, a 12-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, is looking for her father. Marius, her companion, seems to be hiding from something. Aided by a simple instruction card, Hanna explores what it is to be human, as Tavares creates an abstract yet touching portrait of the true victims of war.
]]>When forger Slate is convicted of treason, she faces a death sentence. But her unique gift for sniffing out magic (literally) earns her a reprieve of sorts.
Along with a paladin, Caliban, possessed by a demon, her murderous ex-lover, and an irritating misogynist scholar, Slate sets off on a mission to learn about the Clockwork Boys, deadly mechanical soldiers from a neighbouring kingdom who have been terrorising their lands. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but they must survive a long journey through enemy territory to reach Anuket City. And Slate has her own reasons to dread returning to her former home.
Slate and her crew aren't the first to be sent on this mission. None of their predecessors have returned, and Slate can't help but feel they've exchanged one death sentence for another. Her increasing closeness to Caliban isn't helping matters: for the first time in a long time, Slate might actually care about surviving.
]]>Cocun, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had her animals, her home, her lands was taken from her after her mother's death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, Vctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred's fate. Natalia Garca Freire's vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.
]]>Victor Meadowcroft is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese and a graduate of the University of East Anglia's master's programme in literary translation. His published translations include stories by Agustina Bessa-Lus in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and Too the Infallible by Evelio Rosero (co-translation with Anne McLean, New Directions, 2022), which was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in 2023 and longlisted for the Queen Sofa Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in the same year. His translation of Natalia Garca Freire's This World Does Not Belong to Us was published by World Editions in 2022 and was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Incln.
]]>The Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby are just starting out on their adventures together and it's going to be an exhilarating ride! With a new sonic, and new Tardis, and new companion, the Doctor is ready to explore all of time and space once more. But is he ready to face his greatest fears...? Bursting straight out of the long-running hit television series, this Doctor Who collection continues the time-travelling tales of the Doctor and friends. Buy it, read it, then travel back in time to read it for the first time all over again...!
]]>Dan Watters is a British comic book writer who has written several titles, including Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame, Wolfenstein, Assassin's Creed: Uprising for Titan Comics and Limbo for Image Comics.
]]>Living alone in Paris, estranged from his family, suffering from heartbreak and possibly madness, Alioscha Coll works with saintly intensity on what will be his final manuscript:Attila. Once the final words have been written, he vows to end his life, convinced that his existence will lose all purpose.
Told through the viewpoint of a literary critic and journalist,Attilaexpands Javier Serena's investigation into artists who remained dedicated to their art, to their aesthetic vision in the face of complete dismissal by the publishing world and reading public. In the case ofLast Words on Earth and Ricardo Funes (the stand in for Bolao in that novel), things work out and he briefly becomes the star of the literary world could the same happen for Alioscha Coll?
]]>Katie Whittemoretranslates from the Spanish. Her translations include novels by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durn, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, Jon Bilbao, Juan Gmez Brcena, Almudena Snchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adn. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 for Lara Moreno'sIn Case We Lose Power, and has been a finalist for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Prize and the Queen Sofa Spanish Institute Translation Prize, and longlisted for the National Translation Award.
]]>Attila the Hun, reimagined as a visionary leader, contemplates the fate of his people at the gates of Rome. His son, Quijote, is caught between empires and ideals, forced to choose between his father's vision of a Hunnic utopia and the decaying allure of Roman civilisation. As Rome burns, Quijote journeys through both real and surreal landscapes, encountering psychedelic visions, mystical revelations, and existential dilemmas.
Quijote's journey blurs the lines between past and future, uniting Biblical, Classical, and Buddhist traditions while moving between planes of existence. Attilais an intricate and elusive masterpiece from the explosive and disorienting imagination of Aliocha Coll, where characters from myth and history intermingle in a stunning labyrinth of allegory and metaphor.
]]>Katie Whittemore translates from the Spanish. Her translations include novels by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durn, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, Jon Bilbao, Juan Gmez Brcena, Almudena Snchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adn. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 for Lara Moreno's In Case We Lose Power, and has been a finalist for the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Prize and the Queen Sofa Spanish Institute Translation Prize, and longlisted for the National Translation Award.
]]>Will the chance for a new life be Angel's last shot? Tagged as a cop killer when a mission of vengeance goes wrong, Angel Dare finds herself on the run, with an unexpected burden: she's pregnant. Her desperate flight takes Angel across the American west, where cattle barons lock horns with rodeo bullfighters and life can end suddenly and brutally. A renegade couple living off the grid near the border might offer a chance of escape but can Angel reach them in time...?
]]>QUARRY'S BACK FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings him back for a dark and deadly mission where the last quarry may turn out to be Quarry himself.
]]>First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of the duality of human nature and his iconic presentation of what would come to be referred to as the 'split personality'.
]]>This Side of Paradisetells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to adulthood follows him from prep school through to Princeton University, where his literary talents flourish, in contrast to his academic failure. A sequence of love affairs with beautiful young women is fatally damaged by the collapse of his family's fortune, and the novel ends with him poised to face the challenge of making his own way in the world.
]]>Emma Lou Morgan's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself, but also to her lighter-skinned family members and the white community of her hometown, Boise, Idaho. Hoping to find a safe haven, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman brings to life this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs, dance halls, and house-rent parties, her sex life and catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions and the momentous decision she makes to survive.
A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of intra-racial bias in the Black community.
]]>The legendary adventures of King Arthur, his Knights of the Table Round, and the court of Camelot come to life in a lively and accessible retelling by Howard Pyle.
When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone, his future as the King of England is foretold. This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table, his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur, his wooing of the Lady Guinevere, and many other beloved Arthurian tales.
]]>This title collects Poe's fiction and poetry, including 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee', and the novel 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'.
]]>One apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realise: Elisabeth starved to death, encouraged by her roommates.
In the middle of a summer night, Elisabeth, the oldest resident of the Sound & Love Commune, dies. Her sister Melodie and their two other housemates are arrested: the group's attempts to stop eating and start living on light and love alone appears to have been fatal to Elisabeth. From unworldly idealists on the fringes of society, the three suddenly become suspects in a criminal case. Through the eyes of the night, the neighbors, doubt, the scent of an orange, and many other characters and entities, we see how each of those involved gives a different answer to the question of how Elisabeth came to die. Who is to blame? And does the commune still have a future? We Are Light is a highly original and entertaining novel about manipulation, vulnerability, and trying to be better.
]]>Michele Hutchison studied at UEA, Cambridge, and Lyon universities and worked in publishing for a number of years. In 2004, she moved to Amsterdam. Among the many works she has translated are La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Slaves to Fortune by Tom Lanoye, both Craving and Roxy by Esther Gerritsen, and Stadium IV by Sander Kollaard, for which she received the Vondel Translation Prize 2020. In the same year, her translation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's novel The Discomfort of Evening was awarded the International Booker Prize. She also co-authored the successful parenting book, The Happiest Kids in the World.
]]>When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, the excellent Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won't talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds.
Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don't trouble practical Easton. But as strange visions disturb their sleep and odd happenings increase, they are forced to confront the dark shadow that hangs over the house...
]]>Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms there are no secrets in this house! Cordelia isn't allowed to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents can't force their daughters to be silent and motionless obedient for hours or days on end. Other mothers aren't...sorcerers.
After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia's mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away together on Falada's back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia's mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage. Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister. And indeed Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother. How the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.
]]>A ground-breaking, mind-bending and wildly imaginative epic verse revolution in Science Fiction. A saga of colony ships, shattering moons and cataclysmic war in a new Eden. Truly unforgettable and richly lyrical eco-fiction, for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Jeff VanderMeer.
Rochelle wakes from cryostasis to take up her role as engineer on the colony ark, Calypso. But she finds the ship has transformed into a forest, populated by the original crew's descendants, who revere her like a saint. She travels the ship with the Calypso's creator, the enigmatic Sigmund, and Catherine, a bioengineered marvel who can commune with the plants, uncovering a new history of humanity forged while she slept. She discovers a legacy of war between botanists and engineers. A war fought for the right to build a new Earth - a technological paradise, or a new Eden in bloom, untouched by mankind's past. And Rochelle, the last to wake, holds the balance of power in her hands.
]]>At the northern edge of a valley ruled by a ruthless foreign tyrant lies a wild forest, home to otherworldly creatures and dangerous magic. The local people know never to enter for no one who strays into the north woods is ever seen again. No one, that is, except Veris Thorn.
When the children of the Tyrant vanish into the wood, Veris is summoned to rescue them. She has only one day before the creatures of the forest claim the children for their own. If she fails, her punishment will be swift and merciless.
To stand a chance of surviving the wood, Veris must evade traps and trickery, ancient monsters and false friends, and the haunting memory of her last journey into the forest.
Time is running short. One misstep will cost everything.
'A perfect mix of horror and fantasy.' The New York Times
]]>The best science fiction scrutinises our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome 'sensawunda' that the genre has to offer.
]]>In 'Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance', a cloud-based contractor finds a human war criminal clinging to the hull of the ship. The clones of 'All the Colours You Thought Were Kings', about to attend their coming-of-age ceremony, are also plotting treason. During 'A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime', two outlaws go on the run after stealing a device from a space cult.
Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Here are the new, adventurous, and extremely efficient takes on interstellar battles, sentient spaceships, and galactic intrigue. The future is sooner than you think, and there's only so much time to visit.
]]>The collection offers a glimpse into a chilling future world that is similar to our own. Readers will be drawn into experiences at once familiar and bizarre, where our choices have far-reaching consequences and the environment is a force to be reckoned with.
The title of the collection tethers these stories to a shared space. The calvaria is the top part of the skull, comprising five plates that fuse together in the first few years of life. Story collections work like this; disparate parts melding together to make a robust and sturdy whole. The calvaria tree, also known as the dodo tree, adapted to being eaten by the now-extinct dodo bird; its seeds need to pass through the bird' s digestive tract in order to germinate. In a similar way, the stories in Calvaria Fell reflect the idea of adaptation and the consequences of our actions in a changing world.
]]>Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. Her most recent short story collection is A Primer to Kaaron Warren from Dark Moon Books. Her most recent novella, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press), was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award, winning the Aurealis Award. Her stories have appeared in multiple Year's Best anthologies.
]]>A thrilling, propulsive story of escape as a small-time crook goes on the run across Australia with a stolen secret that will change the world, perfect for fans of William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties, Richard Morgan and Ghost in the Shell.
Jackson Nguyen is a petty crook living slim on the mean streets of Melbourne. When he crosses paths with a desperate, but wealthy, Chinese dissident, begging for his help, Jack responds in the only natural way: he steals her shoes.
And yet, despite every effort to mind his own damn business, a wild spiral into the worst kind of trouble begins - Murder, mayhem, fast cars, fast-talking, bent cops, and long straight highways into the terrible beauty of the vast Australian Outback.
In Jack's world, taking a stand against the ruling class is the shortest path to a shallow grave. But when an Earth-shattering technology falls into his hands, he must do everything he can to stop the wrong people taking it. In a world of pervasive government surveillance and oppressive corporate control, it's up to a small-time criminal to keep the spark of human rebellion alive.
]]>Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations. The Briar family of witches run the town of Silverton, caring for its inhabitants with their skills and magic. In the usual scheme of things, they would be burnt for their sorcery, but the church has given them dispensation in return for their protection of the borders of the Darklands, where the much-feared Leech Lords hold sway.
Ellie is being trained as a steward, administering for the town, and warding off the insistent interest of the church. When her grandmother dies suddenly, Ellie's cousin Audra rises to the position of Briar Witch, propelling Ellie into her new role. As she navigates fresh challenges, an unexpected new ability to see and speak to the dead leads her to uncover sinister family secrets, stories of burnings, lost grimoires and evil spells. Reeling from one revelation to the next, she seeks answers from the long dead and is forced to decide who to trust, as a devastating plot threatens to destroy everything the Briar witches have sacrificed so much to build.
Told in the award-winning author's trademark gorgeous, addictive prose, this is an intricately woven tale of a family of witches struggling against the bonds of past sins and persecution.
]]>In a Japan transformed by drugs, accompany the 'D-Unit' as they battle addicts with destructive powers. Like the 'Dopemen', readers are addicted and unable to put the novel down.
Dangers lurk at every turn in Dopeman Volume 1. Ryo Yoshigami eradicates the metropolitan Japan that we know, as it has now become a warzone for the authorities and a new enemy.
The legalisation of narcotics unleashed a wave of supernatural powers among drug addicts. To battle the new enemies, the 'D-Unit' is formed comprising of detectives, who alongside the reader, are plunged into a superhuman doping conflict.
The gripping story unfolds in a dark dystopia reminiscent of the hit anime Psycho-Pass, which Yoshigami also had a hand in creating as a screenwriter of the third season and author of the franchise's short novels. Now, fans have the chance to delve even deeper into his immersive worlds, exploring moral dilemmas and complex characters.
Readers will quickly find themselves captivated by the conflict they are immediately thrown into, but perhaps also be morally torn. While it may be 'right' to side with the 'D-Unit', who are attempting to restore law and order, the powerful and cunning 'Dopemen' have a swagger about them as they wreak havoc across Japan.
While narcotics have bestowed fascinating and destructive powers, it will be adrenaline coursing through the reader's veins as they are consumed by the mayhem wrought in 'Dopeman'. Against the backdrop of a Japan corrupted by drugs, the stage is set for epic confrontations and devastating battles.
]]>The acclaimed anime that is Working for God in a Godless World, on Crunchyroll, begins when Yukito goes missing after the cult they grew up in enacts some strange ritual. Little do they know; it is that same ritual and their same God that sends him to another world. But who thought that the older sister he left behind would follow him into this new world? This spin-off of the anime marks the beginning of her adventure that intertwines with her brother's battle. Chiyomaru Urabe has cheat-level super strength, taken from the powers of the God Mitama. She hopes that these powers will be enough to find her missing brother in a world without religion. As she explores the intriguing, yet faithless, land created by Shinya Murata, will super strength be enough to uncover the heavy truth and reach her long-lost brother?
]]>As the fog clears and colossal creatures stand as tall as mountains, be one of the bystanders in their shadows by opening Nykken's explosive manga. Toxic Super Beasts Volume 1 thrusts readers into a reality not too different from ours, until terrifying monsters begin to appear one-by-one.
Chaos ensues from the very first page, as Nykken brings the 'Super Beasts', and the devastation they cause, to life, as the amazing artwork moves the audience from the safety of their own home and into the midst of the mayhem.
While the monsters are so appalling and powerful, that they resemble nothing from reality, their mission to take over a modern world like our own adds a layer of realism that causes unease and resonates with readers. You will find yourself cheering on the military and their impressive monster-fighting tactics and divisions, as they attempt to preserve human life.
Though Nykken remains an enigmatic figure, their action-packed mangas such as Gakuen x Fuusa speak volumes. With dynamic visuals and a thrilling narrative, be immersed in a world of danger from page one.
The trilogy's first installment introduces the unimaginable instantly, a fierce five-headed dragon appears once the fog descends, setting the stage for an epic battle between humanity and the 'Super Beasts'. Toxic Super pushes the boundaries of Kaiju manga while taking readers on a journey of monstrous proportions.
]]>The adventure of a lifetime awaits as the unlikely pair traverse a world of goblins and monsters all for the sake of humanity! The quest to find the dregs of humanity continues in the second volume with Somali and The Golem entering the daring witches' labyrinth!
Somali and The Golem continue to explore the witch's workshop to learn more about the different types of magic in the world they inhabit. But deep in the labyrinth lies a tome that foretells of a time when humans ruled the world, when humans had been the apex, and where the remaining humans may be. The search for sanctuary begins here!
Written and illustrated by the superb Yako Gureishi, Somali and the Forest Spirit's second volume continues the heart-warming story of the Golem that leaves its responsibility behind to protect the life of what could be, the last human child.
Uncover the vibrant world in which goblins, oni and monsters are the norm and humans are ostracised to the brink of extinction, but one forest spirit risks everything to protect what is dearest to him.
]]>Jo must overcome the demons of her past so that the girls with guns can team up with more girls with guns. For fans of the anime and action-packed Shonen manga.
The chaos continues in this prequel to the hit anime on Crunchyroll, as ferocious fights are even more devastating and dangerous.
The Burst Angels are still far from becoming Tokyo's top mercenaries, now they're being hunted by a dangerous cyborg...Perfect for fans of the anime, girls-with-guns, and Shonen manga.
]]>After Princess Stella discovers Remy's amazing powers, the humble tea witch suddenly finds herself acting as a bodyguard to royalty! But with deadly assassins around every corner, how can Remy protect the naive Princess from falling prey to the machinations of the court? Even more troublesome is the blossoming feelings developing between them...but how can a lowly tea witch and a princess ever be in love?!
]]>The battles Kuuga has faced have always been simple: stop the Unknown Life Forms from continuing their murderous game. But now one Gurongi rejects their Gegeru, coming to fight alongside Kuuga instead. Can Godai trust this new ally, or will their beastly nature reveal itself? Meanwhile, Yukina surrenders the powers of Agito to her brother...but with another deadly Gegeru underway, can Shoichi Tsugami control the berseker rage of the legendary Kamen Rider?
]]>Shotaro Ishinomori was a Japanese manga artist who was an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series. He won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award twice, in 1968 for Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae and in 1988 for Hotel and Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon. He passed away in 1998.
]]>Spinning out of Titan and Heroic Signatures' critically-acclaimed Conan the Barbarian comic series, this epic multi-verse event features the iconic titular hero, Dark Agnes, Solomon Kane, and a host of Howard favourites. Fans will not want to miss this!
CONAN OF CIMMERIA is haunted by shadows, living nightmares connected to a mysterious eye symbol etched in BLACK STONE. The unspeakable evil foretold by THULSA DOOM looms over the Hyborian Age and every age connected to it...and it will take more than a lone barbarian to stop its relentless march upon time, space, and sanity.
Battle of the Black Stone, an epic new CONAN EVENT from Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics, begins HERE, from Jim Zub (Conan the Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons) and artist Jonas Scharf (Dark X-Men, Basilisk)!
Collects Conan the Barbarian: Battle for the Black Stone #1-4
]]>Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past seventeen years he's worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College's award-winning Animation program. His current comic projects include Avengers: No Road Home, a weekly epic event for Marvel's Mightiest Heroes, Champions, Marvel's team of teen superheroes fighting for the future, Dungeons & Dragons, the official comic series of the world's most popular tabletop role-playing game, and Wayward, a modern supernatural story about teens fighting Japanese mythological monsters. You can find him online at www.jimzub.com and on twitter at @jimzub
]]>Roy Thomas' decade-long original run on Conan the Barbarian ranks as one of the greatest in comic book history, and it was crucial in making Conan an icon known the world over! In this action-packed Omnibus, Roy and artistic collaborator John Buscema bring the saga of Belit and her quest for the crown of Asgulun to a conclusion. It's a tale that will forever change Conan's life and the adventures that follow feature a more savage Conan, fiercer than ever and truly unbound! Plus: Thrilling sequels to The Hour of the Dragon, an offbeat What If? tale that places Conan in the middle of modern-day New York City and a massive trove of original art, essays and behind-the-scenes material!
]]>Conan returns for another massive Omnibus collection! The barbarian wields his savage sword against a massive winged monster that guards a tower holding a weather-controlling gem then finds himself surrounded by an army of Picts with their own witch-doctor protector! In The Treasure of Tranicos, Conan matches wits with a band of pirates who'd rather kill each other than share any of the loot all while the wicked Thoth-Amon stalks them from the shadows. And the four-part epic Conan the Liberator sees Conan realise his destiny as he raises an army to overthrow the mad king Numedides! Featuring the stories by Roy Thomas with stunning art by John Buscema, Gil Kane and more!
]]>These are our words.
From our country.
Our lands. Our spirits.
For all the troubles we face every day, we are a passionate people.
When we hear these poems, we know, we are lovers of life.
After selling out its first three print runs and having poems selected for Best of Australian Poems 2021 by Australian Poetry, a second edition of this beautiful anthology was needed! It is being released on the new imprint of Running Water Community Press (formerly Ptilotus Press) from Mparntwe Alice Springs and features poems written by over twenty Arrernte women around the refreshing Arrernte concept of Lyapirtneme.
This second edition includes an additional poem by local heroines, Margaret Kemarre Turner (Arrernte Elder and author) and Maureen Jipiyiliya Nampijinpa O'Keefe (Warlpiri/Kaytetye author), as well as a reinvigorated design by award winning book designer, Gemma Banks. It is an important contribution to the growing body of First Nations literature, particularly from remote Australia.
'Even amongst the extraordinary body of one hundred poems that constitute the first volume of a new annual 'best of' series, Best of Australian Poems, the two poems by Arrente poets, Theresa Penangke Alice and Shirley Kngwarraye Turner, shimmer. Two completely different poems, 'Metal bird' and 'Family are like rocks', but both emanating a profound generosity of knowledge and voice. We are gratefully richer for such 'Women's Talk' gifts, but for myself, as a reader, I actually feel life-changed.' - Jacinta Le Plastrier, CEO Australian Poetry
'Lyapirtneme is an Arrernte word that means growing back, returning. It's like if a bushfire went through the land, and all the trees burnt down, and the roots underground are still alive. When the rain comes you see little shoots growing out of the bottom of the tree, growing back again.' - Therese Perrurle Ryder, Arrernte Elder
'I love this book. It holds so much value. Each poem is a gift and it has been put together with so much care.' Ellen van Neerven, Mununjali poet
]]>Edited by Alison Whitaker, Gomeroi poet and academic, and Steven Lindsay Ross, Wamba Wamba writer, curator and producer.
'It is freeing and glorious to see these expressions of unbridled sexuality, vulnerability and invincible spirit in print from First Nations poets... As you read, you will be struck by the boldness of the writers' audacious self-love, and the deep reverence and restorative love contained within the work for themselves and each other.' - Arlie Alizzi
POETS INCLUDE: Ellen van Neerven, Natalie Harkin, Jazz Money, Gary Lee, John Mukky Burke, Steven Oliver, Yvette Henry Holt, Alison Whittaker, Steven Lindsay Ross, Luke Patterson, Lay Maloney, Tyberius Larking, Jacyn de Santis, Alita Morgan, Kirli Saunders, David Hardy, Sandy O'Sullivan, Elijah Manis, Latoya Aroha Rule, Bebe Backhouse, Colin Kinchela, Nekia Lehman, Domenic Guerrera, Ari Mills, Ellen O'Brien, Vika Mana, Samuel Barsah, Gavin Ivey, Ella Noah Bancroft, Keith Quayle, Laniyuk and Andrew Farrell.
]]>Steven Lindsay Ross is a Wamba Wamba writer, curator and producer.
]]>Sometimes wistful, melancholic, poignant, at times the author's wry sense of fun and humour shines through.
When he arrived in Sydney in the 1960s, Bigambul man, Uncle Wes, was not allowed to tell his stories at schools. He set up a fire bucket in his backyard and invited families and children from the local Aboriginal community to come to sit around the fire and share his stories. It did not take long for the police to arrive and arrest him for hosting an unlawful gathering he spent two days in lock-up for sharing his stories.
Uncle Wes is a living treasure of Aboriginal storytelling wisdom. Through his poems Uncle Wes invites the reader to join him by the fire as he generously shares his reflections and reminiscences on one hundred years.
'It is my pleasure to honour Uncle Wes for his work in retaining the age-old storytelling tradition of our people. It is important to maintain this tradition of our Elders sharing their knowledge and insight through story and verse. Thank you Uncle Wes, for sharing your poems with us as you celebrate your 100th year.' - Dr Anne Pattel-Gray: Head of the Australia First Nations Program, World Vision Australia
'Uncle Wes Marne has a unique ability to allow the reader to see through his experienced eyes. The power and wisdom of his words is now more than ever important for the future generations to understand the time and place they exist in.' - Ben Bowen: CEO, Indigenous Literacy Foundation
]]>**Winner, Stella Prize 2024**
**Winner, Queensland Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award**
**Winner, The James Tait Black Prize, Fiction 2024**
**Winner, ALS Gold Medal 2024**
**Shortlisted, The Dublin Literary Award 2024**
**Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2023, Work of State Significance**
**Shortlisted, Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award 2024**
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright.
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage, and a fable for the end of days.
'Monumental...calls to mind the work of Thomas Bernhard or the quiet rage of Dostoyevsky...Praiseworthyblew me away.' Australian Book Review
Praise for Alexis Wright:
'The writing is the best in the country, some of the best in the world; we call to mind Alexis Wright when they talk about our country's great literary voice.' - Tara June Winch
'I'm awed by the range, experiment and political intelligence of [Alexis Wright's] work, from fiction such as Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to her "collective memoir" of an Aboriginal elder in Tracker. As essayist, activist, novelist and oral historian she is vital on the subject of land and people.' - Robert Macfarlane, New York Times Book Review
]]>Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wright's first work of fiction since 2014.
Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob 2007 on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright's storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce.
Carpentaria was the 2007 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, ALS Gold Medal, Queensland Premier's Literary Award and Victorian Premier's Literary Award. It has been published in the US, UK, France, Italy and China.
'a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel: stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humour, sweetened by spiralling lyricism and swaggering with the confident promise of a tale dominated by risk, roguery and revelation.' - The Australian
'Wright breaks all the rules of grammar and syntax to sweep us along on a great torrent of language that thrills and amazes with its inventiveness and humour and with the sheer power of its storytelling. It's brutal and confronting and it's sad and funny at the same time.' - Sydney Morning Herald
]]>Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy, Wright's first work of fiction since 2014.
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the energy and humour in her writing, which draws freely on myth and legend, finds hope in the bleakest situations.
The Swan Book was the winner of the ALS Gold Medal and the Kate Challis RAKA Award, and shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award, Stella Prize, NSW Premier's and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
'This is not myth as Western culture understands it: not an imagined dimension, but a literal if incorporeal one that bisects and animates the physical world; it makes for marvellous theatre.' - Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of Books
'This is a novel written out of the very thing it describes: sovereignty, the sheer taken-for-granted fact of it...The Swan Book is about the ethics of hope in our post-apocalyptic world.' - Sydney Morning Herald
]]>**Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Indigenous Writers' Prize**
**Shortlisted, Prime Minster's Literary Awards, Poetry 2023**
Harvest Lingo is the fourteenth collection of poems by Lionel Fogarty, a Murri man with traditional connections to the Yugambeh people from south of Brisbane and the Kudjela people of north Queensland. He is a leading Indigenous rights activist, and one of Australia's foremost poets, and this collection displays all of the urgency, energy and linguistic audacity for which Fogarty is known.
At the centre of the collection is a series of poems written in India. Deeply empathetic, these poems are remarkable for the connections they draw between the social problems the poet encounters in this country - poverty, class division, corruption - and those he sees in contemporary Australia, besetting his own people.
Other poems tell of encounters between people and between cultures, address historical and cultural issues and political events, and pay tribute to important Indigenous figures. There are intensely felt lyrics of personal experience, and poems which contemplate Fogarty's own position as a poet and an activist, speaking with and for his community.
Fogarty's poems are bold and fierce, at times challenging and confronting, moved by strong rhythms and a remarkable freedom with language. They are an expression of the 'harvest lingo' which gives the collection its title.
]]>The strength of family ties in Aboriginal communities is clearly evident when three-month-old Kerry and her brother lost both parents. Her father, Kevin Gilbert - later to become a famous activist and artist - killed their mother and was jailed for many years. Her father's sister, whom she always called 'Mummy', raised Kerry and her brother, along with her own children and others within the extended family. The book is a tribute to this truly remarkable woman, who not only loved them selflessly and worked tirelessly to support them, but also managed to keep them from being taken/'stolen' by the 'Welfare'.
Told in the child's voice and in the vernacular of her Mob, activist, artist, poet and author, Aunty Kerry, tells her story of love and loss, of dispossession and repeated dislocation growing up in corrugated tin huts, tents and run-down train carriages, of helping her family earn 'an honest living' through fruit picking, and the impact of life as an Aboriginal state ward living under the terror of Protection Laws.
'A wonderful yarn by an Aboriginal Elder about a bygone way of life.' - Melissa Lucashenko, author of Miles Franklin Award-winning Too Much Lip
'Australia has waited too long to read this book of courage and truth. It heralds a timely change in our thinking of Aboriginal activism.' - Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri writer and academic
'Thank you, Kerry, for sharing your story - so much pain and hurt, but such life-affirming strength and love, too.' - Kate Grenville, author
]]>'The poetry and prose awaiting your creative cultural engagement, all sixty-five poems in content equates to some sixty-five thousand years and beyond of what it means to be here in the now, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women representing their families, communities, heritage, their shadows, their promise, their matriarch, themselves - it is within these pages you shall find what it means for all of us to be alive and thriving through chapters of millennia as spoken and written by Us Mob Writing.' - Yvette Holt
'Powerful and palpable, Kuracca honours the work of a cultural powerhouse and matriarch in style. The book showcases the strengths and fresh and exciting writing of a tightly bonded group. This is healing.' - Ellen van Neerven
'Through the liberating words written on these pages, women are sharing their own stories and truth. Such inspiration is the legacy of Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert RIP.' - Ali Cobby Eckermann
]]>Similar to Usborne's lift-the-flap series for 6+ years.
]]>Martina Heiduczek grew up in a small village on the Baltic Sea in Germany. Here you could find her galloping with flying pigtails through the forests on her Shetland pony, drawing or reading. These days she lives in Australia and works as an illustrator. Her illustrations are a mixture of digital and traditional media. With a passion for colour and textures, she aims to create happy images to evoke emotion and thought in young and old minds alike. She has received numerous awards for her books, including, What do you call your grandma? (2022 CBCA shortlisted in Early Childhood category), We Are Wolves (2021 Winner ABDA Best Designed Children's Fiction Book), What do you call your grandpa? (2021 CBCA Notable Book) and Duck, Apple, Egg (2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards shortlisted in Birth to 3 Years category). You can contact Martina on her website: www.martinaheiduczek.com and Instagram: @martina_illustrates
]]>Each day the Great Dawn Choir
greets the morning sun.
Together in the growing light,
their voices join as one.
The Great Dawn Choir celebrates the dawn chorus and the beautiful native Australian birds that take part in it each morning.
Discover the chorus members, and find out what inspires them to sing and call with such passion as the sun rises on a new day.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Cindy Lane is an award-winning artist and illustrator, with a passion for the ocean and its inhabitants. Nature provides Cindy with inspiration as well as materials to make her own paints, which she has used in this book.
]]>**Longlisted, Australian Book Design Awards 2026, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Book**
Discover the birds that share our urban spaces.
What's so fancy about this bird? What's so clever about that bird? Perhaps it's a weightlifter, a marathon flier, an artist, or even a liar. You don't need to go far to see intriguing birds, even in the city. From colourful parrots to artistic bowerbirds and fancy fairy-wrens, there's lots to notice in our local backyards, streets and parks.
Written by Astred Hicks in collaboration with bird scientist Dr Holly Parsons, and featuring Astred's distinctive and engaging illustrations, This Bird features fun facts about some remarkable Australian native birds and hints on where (and how) to find them!
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 6 to 12.
'Sometimes experienced birders can forget what first sparked our interest in birds. This beautiful book is a delightful reminder of the wonder that birds inspire in us.' Sean Dooley, BirdLife Australia
'Charming, eye-catching, fresh and informative. This Bird explores iconic Australian birds as well as some of the more overlooked species, sharing fun facts and important stories as they go.' Sami Bayly, author of The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals
]]>Dr Holly Parsons is a bird-loving scientist who spends her days studying the amazing Australian bird life that lives in our towns and cities and sharing her passion with everyone she meets.
]]>Until he hears the voices, calling to him...
A beautiful, touching story of memory, inclusion and friendship, by the award-winning creative duo of writer Sophie Masson and illustrator Lorena Carrington, whose previous picture book Satin with MidnightSun Publishing was a Notable Book in the 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards.
]]>Lorena Carrington is an acclaimed illustrator and writer based in regional Victoria, known for her intricate photographic montage illustrations. Some of her recent books include The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books with Lara Cain Gray (author) and Timothy Ide (co-illustrator), Leaf Letters, Kate Forsyth's Long Lost Fairy Tales, and Satin with Sophie Masson. Her work has earned her numerous accolades, including a 2024 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book of the Year for Satin.
]]>Discover the marvels of the natural world, from coral reefs and towering rainforests down to the incredible critters living in your own backyard!
With 80 animals to find, the lush landscapes featured in this book include over 200 exquisitely illustrated animals alongside a stunning array of plant life. Including fascinating facts about the biomes that cover this wondrous planet, this search-and-find is certified by museum experts.
You'll visit: the Daintree Rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, the Gibson Desert, the grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, the mangroves of Darwin Harbour, Antarctica and the Grampians, along with a bonus look at the wonderful world of soil.
]]>Wheeeeeee!! Whoomp! SPLAT!!!
Meek and Squeak are hot on Hoodlum's tail but can they stop the gangster koala's reign of terror before calamity strikes?
Pawprint Productions is a hilarious brand new series by award-winning author, Jenny Moore. Pawprint Productions studios are home to all sorts of exciting animal TV shows, but sometimes the stories behind the shows are even more exciting...
]]>Berta is a Spanish illustrator living in her hometown, Zaragoza. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master's in Drawing and Video creation from the University of Granada. She also obtained a postgraduate degree in Children's Illustration in Barcelona. She has worked in various fields of visual arts, including animation for music videos, archaeological drawing in Egypt, mural painting, and numerous editorial projects, mainly for children and young audiences. She loves live music, listening to the radio, travelling and reading, and is inspired by people around her, art, tea and animals.
Berta can be contacted on Instagram @bertamaluenda_ilustracion
]]>Magpies Four is a dynamic and engaging story about the chaos caused when a mischief of magpies swoops into Rowdy and Margy's house. As the pair tries to teach the squawking quartet to cook, they quickly learn that these avian critters are messy chefs and cleaning up is even more eventful! After all the mayhem caused, the two children have had enough, but then they hear a loud thumping outside, which can only mean more trouble... An energetic, funny, and engaging rhyming story featuring vibrant and mischievous illustrations that will delight all readers!
]]>Garin Adi S. is an Indonesian illustrator who specialises in creating charming childlike illustrations. With a portfolio brimming with delightful characters and vibrant worlds, Garin has developed his distinctive style by working on a variety of different picture book projects. His talent lies in capturing the innocence and wonder of childhood, bringing stories to life with their playful and captivating illustrations.
]]>On a hot summer's day, deep in the Australian bush, two cicada nymphs hatch and embark on an adventure of survival, friendship, and resilience. After burrowing underground to escape a hungry wasp, the pair reemerge after seven years to find that more danger awaits. Can the two friends overcome the challenges they face, through the power of loyalty and support, and finally find a safe place to call home? This is a journey filled with suspense, heart-warming adventure, and beautifully designed illustrations that also teaches children the life cycle of this wonderous insect.
]]>Katherine Smith is an illustrator, designer, and artist based in Sydney, Australia. Originally trained in design, she later studied fine art, which naturally led her to illustration as a convergence of both disciplines. She earned a Master's Degree in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and her artworks are sold internationally. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys swimming, free-diving, and scuba diving.
]]>Vesper Jones has grown tired of Scary Things entering her dreams. So, with the help of her trusty Dream Changer and brave cat, Marshmallow, Vesper decides it is time to take control. But when Scary Things enter her dreams again, Vesper becomes fearful and must use her imagination and courage to send them away. Can Vesper and Marshmallow outsmart the Scary Things and fill their dreams with fun and magic instead? Vesper Jones and Marshmallow is an empowering story about confronting fears which features powerful and expressive illustrations.
]]>Francesca Corso is from Verona, Italy. A graduate of painting and pictorial decoration at the Art Institute in Verona, later graduating in illustration at Comics School in Padua, she also gained a master's degree in editorial illustration at Ars in Fabula. In 2019, she received the Quality Microeditory Award for Il Signor Erik and was selected by the Bologna Children's Book Fair as one of the twenty most promising children's illustrators in Italy.
]]>Declan adores his trials bike it's his pride and joy!He rides it everywhere, but each time he does, people cry, 'Away with that trials bike!'. Whether it's a park, dance hall, or beach, Declan just can't find a place to ride. When Declan and his dad finally find the perfect place to ride the steep dirt tracks of a mountainside he finally feels what it is to be the world's greatest rider! Away With That Trials Bike is a touching story about finding where you truly belong that features joyous and playful illustrations.
]]>Laura Wood is a freelance illustrator specialising in junior fiction and picture books. Originally from Treviglio, in the north of Italy, she studied illustration in the wonderful city of Melbourne, Australia, where she kicked off her illustration career in 2012. After a few years seeking adventure and travelling the world, she moved to Milan, Italy, where she now lives.
]]>Set in the Australian Outback in the late 1800s, Mary Had a Little Roo is a charming twist on a beloved nursery rhyme. When young Mary finds an orphaned kangaroo joey, she raises him with love and care. But as Lamb the roo grows, it becomes clear he belongs in the wild. With warmth and gentle humour, this beautifully illustrated story explores the balance between love and letting go.
A celebration of friendship, nature, and the unique bond we share with animals, this story also offers a window into Australia's past and the importance of wildlife conservation.
]]>Rose Skelton is a passionate children's book illustrator living by the sea in Cornwall, UK where she draws inspiration from the natural world around her. Infused with her love for animals and nature, Rose crafts enchanting illustrations on her iPad using digital brushwork, creating detailed, whimsical worlds.
]]>Amelia Minnie and the Secret Fairies is a delightful children's story that follows Amelia Minnie on a magical adventure. One sunny morning, she discovers real fairies hiding in her garden and spends the day watching their playful antics. Joined by her friends and siblings, Amelia keeps the fairies' secret, promising to return the next day for more adventures. Perfect for young readers, this enchanting tale celebrates the wonder of childhood and the joy of imagination, and it contains colourful, detailed, and enchanting illustrations that will delight all ages.
]]>Isabella Misso Branca was born in Milan, Italy. Fascinated with art since childhood, Isabella studied at Liceo Artistico and the European Institute of Design, Milan. Isabella has written and illustrated books for many prominent worldwide publishers, often using her favourite medium watercolour! A prize winning and respected artist, Isabella has recently been collaborating with schools and libraries, curating laboratories of reading, writing and illustration.
]]>What do cats do when their owners are away? They go out and about! And you'll never believe what they get up to: Poppy at the supermarket, Aggie at the movies and even Oscar at yoga class and Luna in space. With his singular eye for unique characters, Daniel Carlsten imagines some very unique cats as they set about their day. A beautifully illustrated celebration of doing your own thing for cat lovers everywhere!
]]>On every page of Action Origami you'll discover unusual origami models that will tickle your funny-bone! Folding up these quirky objects is just part of the fun! Once they're folded, you'll have hours of fun playing with toys that spin, flex, hop, fly, wink, chomp, wiggle and so much more!
The 70+ unconventional models in this book fall into five exciting categories:
Never settle for folding ho-hum models again! You have dozens and dozens of fold-and-play action models to enjoy and share with your friends!
]]>With eerie illustrations and chilling creepypasta interstitials, The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos is the first in a deliciously creepy series, perfect for readers of Jonathan Stroud, Christian McKay Heidicker, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
New Rotterdam is no place for a kid and that's what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town's urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It's all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences.
When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around town and children begin to go missing, the trio must band together to stop the horrors plaguing New Rotterdam, or risk losing their home...and possibly their lives. Because after all this time hunting monsters, the kids have realised the monsters are now hunting them back.
'A superb choice for fans of Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. series, Tom Booth's Eerie-on-Sea books, and creepypastas.' Booklist, Starred Review
]]>Nick Eliopulos is an author, editor, teacher, and game designer. His writing credits include the shop-simulator video game Potionomics; more than a dozen officially licensed Minecraft books; and, with co-author Zack Loran Clark, The Adventurers Guild trilogy. Nick lives with his husband in Upstate New York.
]]>Introducing Catty!
She's a confident second grader who happens to be half-cat, like her mother and grandmother. In this series debut, Catty hits a few rough patches at her new school. So she turns to her fuzzy diary AKA her 'scratch pad' where she shares her big feelings and documents her adventures. Luckily for Catty, this special diary sometimes writes back with helpful advice. Before long, Catty is making friends and learning to love her new school.
Catty Corner is the natural next read for fans of character-driven chapter books like Junie B. Jones, Ivy & Bean, and Judy Moody.
]]>Julie Murphy creates another unforgettable protagonist for a whole new audience! Voracious chapter book readers, looking for new series, will fall for the funny, fearless Catty, who faces each new adventure with humour and emotional honesty learning when it's appropriate to pounce into action.
]]>Connor, beloved best friend of Aven Green from Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, tells his own story in this poignant and heartwarming tale about overcoming the challenges of life with Tourette's.
Connor Bradley is dreading the first day of high school. Not just because he is new, or because he misses his best friends, but because he knows the other kids won't understand his barking and tics. Connor has Tourette Syndrome, and every day has been a challenge from the mimicking to the laughing, the questions, and the stares. It turns out school isn't quite as bad as he expected. Connor forms a fast friendship with a girl who also has Tourette's and is welcomed into her accepting circle of friends. He also meets a special music teacher who encourages him to take up the drums to manage his stress, and maybe get a break from his tics.
But Connor's world is turned upside down when his absent father reappears and a bully starts to escalate at school. All these problems with family, with friends, and even with himself build and build until Connor feels ready to explode. Will a surprising revelation save him and help him find his beat again?
Endearing and authentic, The Beat I Drum offers an empathetic look at a misunderstood syndrome, the therapeutic value of music, and the power of forgiveness.
]]>Dusti's books have won the Reading the West award, the Sakura Medal, a Golden Kite Honor, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and have been nominated for fifty state awards. Her books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections and have been named best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, A Mighty Girl, Shelf Awareness, and many more.
Dusti currently lives in Arizona with her husband, three daughters, and a bunch of farm animals. You can find her online at dustibowling.com.
]]>*Winner of the 2020 March Book Madness Middle Grade*
*Shortlisted for The Reading the West Book Awards*
*Nominated for the Minnesota Youth Reading Awards -2021 Maud Hart Lovelace award*
*Nominated for the 2021 Colorado Children's Book Award for the Junior Book category*
The paperback edition of the bestselling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship - all while solving a mystery in a western theme park. Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again.
Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven's about to discover she can do it all...even without arms.
'High School. Two words that struck fear into the heart of every armless middle schooler I knew. Which was me. And like two people online.'
This sequel to the critically acclaimed Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, now in paperback, follows Aven Green as she confronts yet another challenge: high school.
Just as Aven starts to feel comfortable in Stagecoach Pass, with her friends and schoolmates accustomed to her lack of 'armage,' everything changes once again. She's about to begin high school... with 3,000 new kids to stare at her. And no matter how much Aven tries to play it cool, nothing prepares her for the reality. In a year filled with confusion, humiliation, and just maybe love, can Aven manage to stay true to herself?
]]>One million cloned soldiers. A nation imprisoned. A group of neurodiverse rebels fighting back.
Britain as we know it lies destroyed. In the aftermath of the most daring military coup in history, the surviving population is crammed inside giant Citadels, watched over by an army of cloned soldiers. The hope of a nation lies in a tiny number of freedom fighters hidden in the abandoned countryside most of whom are teenagers who escaped the attack on their special school.
Seen by many as no more than misfits and 'problem children', this band of fighters could never have imagined the responsibility that now rests on their shoulders. But perhaps this war needs a different kind of hero. After a lifetime of being defined by their weaknesses, the teenagers must learn how to play to their strengths, and become the best they can be in a world that has never been on their side.
]]>The year is 1748. Elewa, known as 'the Daughter of Peace', bears a heavy responsibility on her young shoulders: to maintain the fragile truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom.
But as she begins to understand her role in the peace negotiations, even greater pressures emerge. Elewa discovers that she has Yeseni, a powerful gift that allows her to see events from any point in time, and to travel into the past and future.
When she experiences horrific visions of life aboard a slave ship, she realises she has to face the ultimate crossroads. She could use her gift to intervene in the past and try to prevent the transatlantic slave trade ever taking place. But that means she, as the Daughter of Peace, would be leaving her village behind at a precarious moment in the reconciliation process.
Whichever path she chooses to take, the future of her people lies on her shoulders.
]]>Instead, it is a book for dreamers. Its purpose? To ease the soul.
From award-winning writer/illustrator Jackie Morris, on the heels of 2020's The Lost Spells, is a book that enters the realm of dreaming. With its combination of lush illustration and creative storytelling, this book is destined to become a classic.
The paintings between these covers were worked in the between times - between waking and dreaming, during the unwinding of the soul, when the pressures of work were too much.
Half-story, half-fairytale, Jackie Morris has created an enchanting tome, to keep on the bedside table, to give as a gift to young and old alike.
Threaded through the curious world of The Unwinding are words, there to set the reader's mind adrift from their own troubles and the into peaceful harbours where imagination can stretch, and where quiet reflection can bring peace.
The Unwinding is designed to be a companion, a talisman to be turned to again and again and a place of respite from an increasingly frenetic and complex world.
Dreams and wishes are the inspiration at times like this.
@JackieMorrisArt
]]>He had been waiting all his life, hoping to hear the hare's song...
The boy and his family are special. While others hunt the hares, his family search for leverets orphaned by the hunt and keep them safe. When the hares begin to move across the land, the boy and his sister know that their greatest challenge has begun. They must follow and watch and wait until the time comes for the old queen to leave and her child to reign in her place.
But others are searching for the golden queen of the hares, a hunter with two hounds, one silver, one black. Can two children, on their own, keep the golden queen safe from the man and his hounds?
]]>From the moment she saw him, the girl knew the bear had come for her. How many times had she dreamed of him? Now, here he was, as if spelled from her dreams. This encounter marks the beginning of a long and extraordinary journey. At the bear's secret palace in faraway mountains, she is treated courteously but troubled by the bear's unfathomable sadness. As the bear's secret unravels, another adventure unfolds, which takes her to the homes of the four winds and beyond, to the castle east of the sun, west of the moon.
In this new edition of Jackie Morris's captivating picture book, the acclaimed writer and artist retells this classic Norwegian fairy tale - a mysterious story of love, loyalty and freedom.
]]>When Astro arrives on a faraway planet, everyone wants to meet him. Who's this strange person, and why is he here? But one kind creature in particular is especially drawn to him.
Together, they form an unlikely bond and navigate the world's curious terrains mountains, caves, oceans. When the creature is taken from him, Astro must confront the difficult questions that underlie our existence: Why are we here? What is our life for?
Using a mix of collage, pencil and ink, and thickly layered acrylic, award-winning Manuel Marsol's illustrations teem with the vastness and wonder of life near and far.
'I guarantee that nothing else for sale in America right now quite looks or feels like this book.' Betsy Bird,School Library Journal
]]>Step into the buzzing world of bees with Diary of a Bee, a fully illustrated non-fiction book that takes young readers on an engaging journey through the life cycle of Matilda, a hardworking bee, and her friend Thomas. Presented in a diary format, this captivating narrative combines story with fascinating facts, exploring how bees live, their daily activities, and the various roles they play within the hive. From gathering nectar to tending to the queen, kids will discover the fascinating jobs that bees undertake throughout their lives, all illustrated with lively pictures that bring the story to life.
Perfect for curious minds aged 6-9, this book not only entertains but also educates about the crucial importance of bees in our ecosystem. By blending captivating storytelling with rich illustrations and informative details, it inspires a love for nature and fosters an understanding of environmental awareness.
]]>Linh Dao spent much of her life in Hanoi, Vietnam, where she was born, before moving to the Czech Republic. She studied illustration in Brno and animation in Zln, where her graduation film earned several international awards. In 2016, she won a prize in the Young Creative category at the ADC Creative Awards. After a stint in corporate life, she returned to freelancing as an illustrator and animator. She lives in Brno, where she survives mainly on potato chips and green tea.
]]>Each small step into the backyard garden leads to a new and wondrous find that unlocks the imagination, magnifying the world and even the adventurer! until the child is taking giant steps through whole forests, tracking a bear, and even pausing to watch a parade of wild creatures dance across the sky. Then an even bigger giant appears to lead the young explorer home!
Giant Steps is full of bright, whimsical illustrations and paper cutouts of plants, insects, and animals that will inspire young readers to play and seek new experiences outdoors.
Little readers interested in science will enjoy feeling like a giant as they step into the equally little explorer's shoes, while parents and grandparents will enjoy seeing the world once again through a child's eyes. Each page holds a new nature discovery along with valuable lessons on mindfulness, creativity, and independent play, making Giant Steps the perfect gift for curious young readers ready for adventure.
]]>In this vibrant sticker book from the Deluxe Sticker Books series, children are invited to explore a variety of animal habitats, including the American desert, coral reefs, and the Amazonian rainforest. Each of the stunningly illustrated scenes features colourful landscapes, waiting to be filled with different animals, allowing kids to learn about which creatures belong to each environment. Children can either read informative texts to understand the connections between animals and their ecosystems or simply enjoy placing stickers in imaginative ways, fostering both learning and creativity.
Designed for young explorers aged 3-7, this book offers a delightful blend of education and entertainment, making it an ideal resource for home and classroom use. As children engage with the beautiful illustrations and diverse sticker options, they develop a greater understanding of the animal kingdom and the importance of ecosystems. This interactive experience not only nurtures curiosity about wildlife but also reinforces essential concepts in a fun and engaging manner.
]]>Joli Hannah, a children's book author and publisher, started working with international publishers in 2000 to create children's books, which over time she began writing herself. She is raising three children in a charming house in the countryside, and every night before bedtime, she reads or invents original stories for them. Joli works under a pseudonym, as she wishes her readers to perceive her through her stories and not through her image on social media. She loves life, people, and their stories, and was born and raised in an industrial city in Central Europe.
Bethany Lord is a freelance illustrator who was born in 1996 and began drawing at a young age. She graduated with a degree in illustration from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2018 and an MA in Communication Design: Illustration from Kingston University in 2019. Highly commended by Macmillan Books for her third-year project, she specializes in children's book illustration, travel editorial art, maps, and packaging, using bold digital colors and layering techniques. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing guitar, watching movies, cooking, and baking. She lives in Kingston Upon Thames, London.
]]>In this exciting addition to the Deluxe Sticker Books series, children set off on a globe-trotting adventure, exploring vibrant scenes such as bustling airports, sunny beaches, majestic mountains, and ancient pyramids. Each chapter presents a unique location where kids can use their creativity to arrange a variety of stickers, from camping gear to desert landscapes. This interactive experience encourages kids to discover what makes each place special while fostering their imagination and fine motor skills.
Designed for children aged 3-7, this book offers an enjoyable blend of education and entertainment, making it perfect for home or classroom use. By introducing fundamental travel concepts and diverse environments, it helps spark curiosity about the world. With its charming illustrations and a collection of stickers, this book is an ideal resource for parents and educators seeking to enrich young minds and keep them engaged through fun activities.
]]>Kubra Teber is an illustrator who completed her design education in the Interior Design Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. Having begun drawing to bring to life the children's stories she loved as a child, she uses bright colours in her work, creating joyful fiction that brings smiles to children's faces, and she converts her art into digital media using Photoshop. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, exploring antique stories at flea markets, and having picnics in nature. She is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
]]>In this brightly illustrated sticker book from the Deluxe Sticker Books series, children are invited to explore vivid scenes filled with colourful scenarios, from busy playgrounds to cozy homes. With a wide array of stickers, kids can learn about concepts like parts of the day and days of the week while creatively arranging stickers in delightful settings. This interactive experience allows children to practice their knowledge and discover new information, making learning both fun and imaginative.
Perfect for kids aged 3-7, this book combines education and entertainment in a way that sparks curiosity and creativity. Ideal for home use or classroom activities, it promotes fine motor skills and reinforces basic concepts through play. With its beautiful illustrations and a collection of stickers, this sticker book is a fantastic resource for parents and educators looking to enrich young minds while keeping them happily engaged.
]]>Anna Jones graduated from Liverpool Art School with a degree in graphic arts. She began her career as an in-house illustrator/designer for a greeting card company before becoming a freelance illustrator in 2008. Working from her home studio, she enjoys strong coffee and chocolate biscuits without judgment. Originally from Anglesey in North Wales, she lives with her husband and young daughter in sunny Brighton.
]]>How to Draw Amazing Birds features more than 80 beautiful drawing projects from a variety of species. A handy index in the back of the book makes it easy to find favourites to practice again and again.
]]>Toby Reynolds is an award-winning author and the co-founder of Green Android Limited, He splits his time between London and Toronto
]]>How to Draw Deadly Dinosaurs features more than 80 dinosaur drawing projects from a variety of prehistoric beasts. A handy index in the back of the book makes it easy to find favourites to practice again and again.
]]>Paul Calver is an award-winning designer, art director and author. He co-founded Green Android and lives in south London with his wife and two sons.
]]>How to Draw Cool Ships and Boats features more than 100 drawing projects from a variety of floating vehicles. A handy index in the back of the book makes it easy to find favourites to practice again and again.
]]>Paul Calver is an award-winning designer, art director and author. He co-founded Green Android and lives in south London with his wife and two sons.
]]>Written by experienced child therapists who are parents themselves, this workbook uses the foremost knowledge and methods to help both caregivers and children build strong relationships and instill useful regulation tools in their everyday lives. Follow along with fun activities used to teach caregivers how to realistically adapt to meet children's emotional needs. Activities and guidance include:
The Self Regulation Workbook for Children Ages 5 to 8 can be used as a family activity, a child-caregiver activity, a caregiver-only intervention, and a child-only activity that fosters confidence in those striving to provide an emotionally supportive environment for children.
]]>Sarah Gerstenzang is passionate about healthy human development. She currently works as a therapist with foster and adoptive families and previously held policy and administrative positions in child welfare. She holds a master's degree in social work from Columbia University. She is the board president of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of NY and has served on numerous advisory committees, including Fostering Families Today magazine, the Effects of Early Life Adversity on Brain Development (NIMH grant with Nim Tottenham, PhD) and on the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative. Sarah has been a foster and kinship parent and one of her three children was adopted from the New York City foster care system.
]]>The sensible Secretary Bird wants nothing more than to get on with their job of properly narrating a classic nursery rhyme book. But something is afoot in the orderly land of nursery rhymes...a zippy little Weasel has entered the scene! As the Secretary Bird tries to get through the rhymes from Little Miss Muffet to Jack and Jill the Weasel bursts in, throwing everything into a comical tailspin. Can the Secretary Bird put an end to the chaos?
In POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme, influential children's librarian Betsy Bird and acclaimed illustrator Andrea Tsurumi remix beloved nursery rhymes, serving up a classic-in-the-making packed with hilarious surprises that will have little listeners riveted.
]]>Andrea Tsurumi (they/them) is the author and illustrator of the picture books Accident!, Crab Cake, and I'm on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) and the illustrator of books including My Head Has a Bellyache (written by Chris Harris), Mr. Watson's Chickens (written by Jarrett Dapier), and the Kondo & Kezumi series (written by David Goodner). They live in Philadelphia, PA. Visit Andrea at andreatsurumi.com.
]]>He's evaded traps, found lost treasures, become kind of famous, gotten over a bad relationship, and survived all that. Filming a new season of his artifact-hunting reality show for a major international streaming service should be easy, right? His archeologist dad even said Tennessee is in charge of what artifacts they go after. Plus, Ten's awesome best friend (and sometimes more), Gabe, gets to come along on the adventure.
But here's the thing: Tennessee wants to hunt down a long-lost gift that King David gave Jonathan. Queer history, especially of Biblical figures, isn't easy for some people to believe or accept. Tennessee has done his research, and he knows where the clues point. But what happens when the producer of the show threatens to misrepresent not just Ten's ideas, but his identity?
To tell the true story of his queer legacy, Tennessee will have to race through Rome and Paris, stand up to the actual Vatican, crack ancient puzzles, and maybe hardest of all, reclaim the power of being his authentic self. Along the way, author L. C. Rosen delivers the excitement, romance, and magic of a wildly fun adventure.
]]>Maddie and her mom spend a sunny day at the local public pool where she meets and greets friends and neighbours. Maddie is waist-high on most of them, and she knows there's an interesting person behind every belly she passes like Jackie, the artist with a splatter of ice cream across their belly. Maddie's splatter painting often leaves Mama speechless, too!
The poolside belly parade keeps Maddie musing: How bellies can make excellent tables, how hard some people work to keep their bellies flat when Maddie prefers her belly full, and how you should never, ever stick your hands in other people's bellies, no matter how soft and doughy they might look. (Maddie's cat taught her that the hard way.)
As Maddie dances, swims and makes the long climb up to the diving board, Thao Lam's celebrated cut-paper collage portrays bellies and bodies of all shapes and sizes bellies with scars, tattooed bellies, growing bellies, growling bellies, bellies with six-packs, stretch marks, insulin monitors, freckles and more proving that every belly deserves its place in the sun.
]]>Taken from his own journals, this is the incredible true story of the man beside the man; the man who kept Churchill safe from his would-be assassins to enable him to become Prime Minister in 1940.
]]>The Skull of Agarash is a rarity a Lone Wolf graphic novel. A tale of mystery and high adventure illustrated by artists Cyril Julien and Brian Williams.
But this is not all...way back in 1986, Joe Dever released a mini-gamebook Dawn of the Darklords featuring fan-favourite character Banedon.
Now, this story has been adapted as a fully playable branching graphic novel, illustrated and adapted by award-winning graphic novelist Shane Walsh-Smith.
]]>In This Is Home, much-lovedauthor Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. Whatdo you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with OodgerooNoonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with AlisonLester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brave with Shaun Tan.
Ideal for sharing with the whole family, this extensivelyillustrated edition brings together old favourites and sure-to-be newfavourites in an indispensable addition to children's bookshelves. From poemsthat whisper to poems that roar, from words of tranquillity and heartbreak tothose of the witty and absurd, there is something within these pages to makeeveryone feel at home.
]]>A combination of ancient First Nations storytelling and exciting adventure tale, How Mother Kangaroo Got Her Pouch is the second in a series of five picture books featuring stories from Australia, inspired by the National Museum of Australia's immersive play space for children - the Tim and Gina Fairfax Discovery Centre.
]]>Paul Lalo was born in France and, in 2004, arrived in Australia to study animation at the Queensland College of Art. Paul has worked as a director, animator and motion designer for TV commercials, music videos and documentaries. Paul is co-founder of Melbourne-based animation boutique Soymilk Studio which specialises in stop-motion and motion design.
]]>On a starless night Little Brother leaves the safety of the campfire and is captured by the fearsome bunyip. Big Sister will need everything she has learnt about the bush and her Country to rescue Little Brother and escape the bunyip.
Part Sky Country creation story, part exciting adventure tale, The Bunyip and the Stars is the first in a series of five picture books featuring stories from Australia inspired by the National Museum of Australia's new immersive play space for children the Tim and Gina Fairfax Discovery Centre.
]]>Adam Duncan is a Biripi man whose family and ancestors were traditional custodians of lands in the Manning River region of New South Wales. Adam was born in Campbelltown on Tharawal Country and grew up in Bathurst on the land of the Wiradjuri people. Adam lives and works on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country as a visual artist, cultural education consultant and preschool teacher at Wiradjuri Preschool at the University of Canberra. Adam developed The Bunyip and the Stars using First Nations oral storytelling traditions and the help of the Wiradjuri Preschool kids.
Paul Lalo was born in France and, in 2004, arrived in Australia to study animation at the Queensland College of Art. Paul has worked as a director, animator and motion designer for TV commercials, music videos and documentaries. Paul is co-founder of Melbourne-based animation boutique Soymilk Studio which specialises in stop-motion and motion desig
]]>A long time ago, in the land of Guugu Yumithirr people, mythic creatures hunted, danced, played and gathered food. The Magpie brothers chased the giant Dingo, the greedy White Cockatoo stole food from two Night Owl sisters, Stormcloud threw lightning at Frill Lizard and Eagle walked on the ground. As they roamed about, they disturbed the land, making rivers, lagoons and mountains, spreading plants and changing the colour of animals - creating the world we see today.
]]>Dja Dja Wurrung Ancestors' stories as told to me by my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother and my great-great-grandmother before her.
How did Wabbee, the freshwater crayfish, get its bright red spots? Why does Wehla, the ringtail possum, have a curly tail?
How were Waripi Yaluk, the backwaters of Bulatjal Yaluk Woodlar, the Loddon River, formed? Why does Yern, the moon, light up the night sky? Bunjil, the all-powerful, knows the answers.
'BurWhela' Ros Kneebone-Dodson learned these kiki - these stories of Malamiyayu Gurang, the Dreamtime - from her mother, Mooie. BurWhela's words and images bring to vivid life these stories of her Ngurar Gurrk, her Ancestors, from Djandak, the Country of the Loddon River of Central Victoria.
'Our storytelling teaches how to live in harmony, how to care for and preserve the land and all living on it. It is lore for living'. - 'Burwhela' Ros Kneebone-Dodson
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]]>As a child, Ros's family called her 'Possum' in Dja Dja Wurrung language - this means 'Whela'. When she became a mother, Ros took on the kin name of 'BurWhela' meaning 'mother possum'.
'Being able to know my oral history through the privilege of storytelling, passing this historic account from my "Apical Ancestors" to my children and grandchildren, I have been entrusted to preserve our "cultural stories" as told to me by my mother and my grandmother before and her mother before in the passage of time.'
]]>On his mind is the chief's daughter, tuminana, who is at the water with the women, collecting shells and working.
But down on the beach, niyakara hears three thuds...
boom boom boom
With rhythmic intensity, luwa tara luwa waypa tells the captivating story of niyakara's journey from boy to man, a story of courage and transformation.
Dave mangenner Gough's powerful words and Samantha Campbell's expressive artwork bring to vivid life the ancestral spirit and enduring strength of the palawa people of Tasmania.
]]>As an artist, he has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has also curated a number of significant exhibitions. With Dave as writer, director, producer, performer, luwa tara luwa waypa has been performed in Tasmania as part of mapali dawn gathering, launching the 2021 Ten Days on The Island art festival.
Samantha Campbell grew up in the Northern Territory and lives in Alice Springs. She is descended from the Dagoman people from Katherine and as a child lived in remote communities across the Top End. Her first book, Alfred's War, written by Rachel Bin Salleh, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Speech Pathology Australia Awards. Her other books include Aunty's Wedding by Miranda Tapsell and Joshua Tyler, Brother Moon by Maree McCarthy Yoelu and Freedom Day by Rosie Smiler and Thomas Mayor.
]]>Exploration Magnetics provides a comprehensive review of the application of magnetisation and magnetic field studies to mineral exploration. It investigates how subsurface models of magnetisation properties and distribution can be derived from magnetic field data. The book also covers geological controls on magnetisation, including linkage between magnetisation and mineralisation, illustrates the magnetic field expression of those magnetisations and explains how to recognise them.
Understanding rock magnetism and its relationship to mineralisation is more important than ever, given the difficulties of migration to areas of deeper cover in the search for new deposits, as well as the search for different styles of mineralisation involving the critical metals of the future.
Magnetic methods are at the forefront of mineral exploration in Australia, and the editors of Exploration Magnetics are world-class experts who have led the development and application of mineral exploration techniques, methods and adaption of new technologies. Drawing information from multiple sources, the contributing authors focus on the practical solution of problems, present extensive case study applications and explore the recovery of source magnetisation direction from magnetic field data. They also outline adaption of these magnetic methods for future off-world exploration.
]]>Phil Schmidt has led palaeomagnetic studies in Australia for over 40 years and, together with David Clark has conducted rock magnetic studies in all major Australian mineral provinces.
James Austin has developed world-leading capabilities in linking magnetic petrophysics with electron scanning microscopy to understand how mineral system processes relate to geophysical signatures.
David Clark has a unique combination in understanding rock magnetism and potential fields and is a pioneer of magnetic tensor gradiometry.
Keith Leslie has worked for over 25 years in the CSIRO SQUID group developing new geophysical instrumentation.
Mark Lackie has extensive experience in undertaking palaeomagnetic and environmental magnetic studies.
Clive Foss is a leading proponent in recovery of magnetisation information from magnetic field data and has worked extensively in minerals and petroleum exploration.
]]>British linocut artist Sophy Hollington brings her singular vision to Dante Alighieri's manificent funnel of retribution and suffering. And in that strange upside-down city, abandoned by God, she finds hope and humor amidst the darkness. This vivid and gorgeous edition features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetic translation of the landmark Italian poem, alongside a visionary suite of illustrations depicting Hell's vast architecture, an exclusive introduction from the renowned Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky, and an original essay from the Dante scholar Kristina Olson.
A stunning new entry in Beehive Books award-winning Illuminated Editions series, this volume is housed in a shimmering die-cut sculpturally embossed slipcase, printed on uncoated acid-free paper, and published in an oversized 9x12" trim format.
]]>Sophy Hollington is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms in to intricate, symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and futuristic visions. She is the creator of Autonomic Tarot, a collaboration with writer David Keenan, published by Rough Trade books in 2018.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press) His work was the finalist for The National Book Award and won The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, Lannan Fellowship, Academy of American Poets' Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK).
Kristina M. Olson is the author of Courtesy Lost: Dante, Boccaccio and the Literature of History (University of Toronto Press, 2014) and co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy (Modern Language Association, 2020) and Boccaccio 1313-2013 (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2015). She is Associate Editor for Digital Dante and serves on the Editorial Boards of Dante Studies and Bibliotheca Dantesca. She served as the President (2020-23), Vice President (2017-20), and Treasurer (2014-17) of the American Boccaccio Association, and Vice President of the Dante Society of America (2016-18).
]]>This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical eco-politics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands (John Kinsella) and Germany's south-western Wurttemberg (Russell West-Pavlov).
Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Volume 1: Per Se is an extended narrative meditation upon the meaning of per se, which generally denotes the thing-in-itself, for its own sake but that, upon closer examination, transpires to be a high tensile composite of the 'thing' (se) and a relationship (per) that always links it to something else and indeed, in relations of internal complexity, to itself. Per se, in the book's multiple parsings of the term, is a moniker for the infinite relationality of the world and the relationality of each thing in itself. Per se also denotes the endless fractal embedding of bundles of relationality at the successive levels of thing-ness from the infinitesimally minute nano-scale to the unimaginably distant outer reaches of the sideral. Per se becomes an exploration of the way commodities, cut loose from their context of production and floating on sea of oscillating (exchange) values, never cease to morph back into artefacts defined by the socially intensive use-values their fellow actants discover in them.
The book thus focalises a politicised effort to revision the rampant multiscalar individualism, solipsism and apartheid-like segregation of our age. Instead, it searches for possibilities or community in every aspect of the world we have learnt to see through a relentlessly atomising and hypostatising filter. The volume claims that every act of perception is political, reestablishing obfuscated connections, thereby seeking to repair the shredded fabric of the ecosphere below the threshold of myopic common-sense. Yet it also celebrates the myriad acts of citizen defiance, visible and invisible, that constitute activist agendas around the world, sending signals both practical and exemplary, symbolic and literary that shore up communities of resistance everywhere. The book does not hesitate to interrogate the fractal responsiveness to its own nature, meditating repeatedly on the political character of writing, and more significantly, of the teaching of writing.
Central to its concerns are various avatars of trees, from the pirogue that hangs above a bar in Lille, and one that is crafted as part of an Italian artist's global collaboration on the periphery of this volume's emergence, via the jacarandas of post-apartheid South Africa, to a wood-chipped pine forest that has become a memorial library in Oslo to name only a few of the topics taken up by the book's many silvan micro-fictions. Looming over all these concerns are two contemporary silvan catastrophes: the megablazes that destroyed forests in Amazonia, Australia, California, Siberia and the Mediterranean during the period when the book was being written and the deforestation that has allowed zoogenic diseases to jump from once secluded animal species to the humans that would never have been their neighbours if naturally occurring forest-barriers had been left intact.
]]>Russell West-Pavlov is a professor of Anglophone Literature and co-convenor of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tbingen, Germany. His recent book publications include Eastern African Literatures (2018), German as Contact Zone (2019), AfrikAffekt (2020) and, as editor, The Global South and Literature (2018).
]]>Anthony Ryan Hatch is professor of science and technology studies at Wesleyan University.
Amade Aouatef M'charek is professor of anthropology of science at the University of Amsterdam.
Anne Pollock is professor of global health and social medicine at King's College London.
]]>In 1957, Hugh Everett proposed a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics a view that eventually became known as the many-worlds interpretation. This book presents Everett's two landmark papers on the idea '"Relative State"' Formulation of Quantum Mechanics' and 'The Theory of the Universal Wave Function' as well as further discussion of the idea in papers from a number of other physicists: J. A. Wheeler, Bryce DeWitt, L. N. Cooper and D. Van Vechten, and Neill Graham.
In his interpretation, Everett denies the existence of a separate classical realm and asserts the propriety of considering a state vector for the whole universe. Because this state vector never collapses, reality as a whole is rigorously deterministic. This reality, which is described jointly by the dynamical variables and the state vector, isn't the reality customarily perceived; rather, it's a reality composed of many worlds. By virtue of the temporal development of the dynamical variables, the state vector decomposes naturally into orthogonal vectors, reflecting a continual splitting of the universe into a multitude of mutually unobservable but equally real worlds, in each of which every good measurement has yielded a definite result, and in most of which the familiar statistical quantum laws hold.
]]>Neill Graham (1941-2015) was a physicist and writer.
]]>Of all the repertories of Western Art music, none is as explicitly listener-oriented as that of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Yet few attempts to analyse the so-called Classic Style have embraced the semiotic implications of this fact. In Playing with Signs, Kofi Agawu proposes a listener-oriented theory of Classic instrumental music that encompasses its two most fundamental communicative dimensions: expression and structure.
Units of expression, defined in reference to topoi, are shown here to interact with, confront, and merge into units of structure, defined in terms of the rhetorical conventions of beginning, continuing, and ending. The book draws on examples from works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven to show that the explicitly referential, even theatrical, surface of Classic music derives from a play with signs. Although addressed primarily to readers interested in musical analysis, the book opens fruitful avenues for further research into musical semiotics, aesthetics, and Classicism.
]]>This book will provide an exploration of how popular songs have been analysed in the past, before detailing how an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to appreciate the multimodal format of the medium. Beginning by examining what we can gain from staying 'inside' the song, it will explore the role the listener has in determining meaning within a song, before moving on to how, through their lyrics, songwriters can persuade their audience to react in the desired ways. Lyrical storytelling will also be analysed, in terms of the narratives we find within individual songs, but also through 'song sequences' where the story spans multiple songs across different projects, and also the 'concept album' format. As we move 'outside' the song, we see what can be offered in terms of cultural significance, the difference between real events and their lyrical representations, how the format we listen to music in influences our readings, and to what extent visual materials affect our relationships with songs.
]]>The long-awaited convergence of climate, economic, political, intellectual, faith and social failures gives many reasons for despair. The authors of this volume have spent their lives around the trauma of race and poverty in South Africa and the United States working with Nobel prize winners and those in townships and tenements. We have learned that hope is not delusional and accountability not nave. But one must think clearly and deeply, untethered from the inadequate simplicities and false choices. We must be here now, with eyes wide open for when systems break down, as so many are today, knowing that they also break open new space for creative action.
The authors lead the global web of thinker-doers through the Leading Causes of Life Initiative and national networks in Africa, Europe and the United States. They find coherence among profound thinking from fields never brought into alignment before drawn from by economists, mycelial researchers, anthropologists and health sciences working in the Arctic to South Africa, and the tough neighbourhoods in between. This includes a consideration of the human capacities that allow us to act in and transform the world we inhabit, of the radical nature of joy in the face of despair, of the judgement of Nemesis on hubris and privilege, of the 'value of everything' contra price as definitive, of the idea of involution as distinguished from evolution, of the concept of 'meshworks' in our entanglement with others, and, finally, of the 'theatre of the soul' as the unity of the physical, the psychological, the political and the spiritual.
Sharply sensitive to the urgency of careful thought and wise action, the authors help us see that life does find a way towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems. They ask us to take responsibility for this as a key to human flourishing and well-being.
]]>James R. Cochrane (BSc, MDiv, PhD, DDiv h.c.) is emeritus professor (religion) and Senior Scholar (School of Public Health) at the University of Cape Town and convenor of the Leading Causes of Life Initiative collaboration.
]]>The Petersburg Noverre accounts for Marius Petipa's ballets produced on the Russian stage between 1847 and 1910. It is organised by year starting from the early 1860s, records details of his life and the action and reception of his ballets, obscure and famous.
]]>It provides a horizontal perspective that focuses on the spread of football in the 1870s from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina. It will be the very first account of football that does not treat this sport in isolation but brings together the phenomenon of football with the conditions in nineteenth-century high schools and the crisis of urban living and, thereby, explains why this sport was so willingly and quickly accepted into various societies and cultures around the globe.
Football was part of the social reform movement that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century in response to the social ills of urban life. Adults and children spent more and more time inside badly ventilated buildings. Beginning in the 1870s, social reformers and teachers called for the introduction into school curricula of physical exercises that could be conducted on the meadows and sport fields outside cities.
]]>However, Nature will not survive our arrogance and patterns of exploiting and destroying the biosphere if we do not break the cycle of violence. As such, any moral effort to stop barbaric consumerism and chaotic nihilism is simultaneously the possibility of making life and biodiversity flourish on Earth. The moral imperative is thus also an ecological imperative. Therefore, the question is: how can we talk about non-violence in the current ecological crisis? Put differently, we can also ask: how can non-violence be brought to our ecological concerns? Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'. The notion of injustice becomes all the more crucial when applied to excluding animals and plants from the history of our planet. This eco-moral crisis must become more public as the ecological trajectory of the Earth foreshadows a very troublesome future.
Non-violence and Ecological Imperative is a contribution to the relevance and potential of the philosophy of non-violence in showing clearly that our viable ecological future depends on attitudes and strategies that are rooted in the Gandhian moment of civilising humanity as an antidote to the violent modern techno-industrial way of life. The interdependence and cooperation between humans and nature are inevitable. Non-exploitative and non-violent prerequisites of Gandhian ideology entail that interdependence and cooperation must be based on altruistic values and not on self-interest and materialistic values. This signifies immeasurable love not only among humans but also with nature. Thus, absolute love substitutes greed. Non-possession from an absolute love revolutionises the socio-ecological paradigm of human civilisation. Various ecological scientists and economists have asserted the need for revisiting the harmony between human activities and nature.
Stern et.al (1998) concluded that economic growth would never result in improvement in environmental quality. Arrow et.al (1995) concluded that economic growth is not a panacea for environmental quality. Meadows et al. (1972) in his book The Limits to Growth claimed that environmental limits would cause the collapse of the world economic system. Against this backdrop, Gandhi advocated the process of recycling and minimising waste so that humans adopt a lifestyle that integrates with the ecosystem. Humans must dwell in a life that converges with the law of nature and maintains ecological harmony. This notion of continuity of life is inspired by the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence and absolute love. The moment there is a break in continuity, it results in violence leading to unrest or conflict, dismantling the process of continuity.
]]>Pooja Sharma is an associate professor, the Department of Economics, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. An avid Gandhian, her contribution varies in the fields of energy security, energy transition, renewable energy, human capital and Gandhian perspective on energy transition.
]]>The Petersburg Noverre accounts for Marius Petipa's ballets produced on the Russian stage between 1847 and 1910. It is organised by year starting from the early 1860s, records details of his life and the action and reception of his ballets, obscure and famous.
]]>Although the area lacks the scenic grandeur and dramatic mountains found elsewhere in Scotland, the record of the rocks here bear witness to countless apocalyptic geological events that helped to shape the landscape we see today.
The area is bounded to the south by The Highland Line, which played a key role in the assembly of Scotland from a collection of previously unrelated continental fragments 420 million years ago. In more recent times, the land that became Northeast Scotland was covered by desert sands. Primitive lizard-like reptiles roamed the parched plains, leaving their footprints in the sand and impressions of their bones as trace fossils embedded in the rock. The landscape was shaped into its current distinctive form in more recent geological times by the passage of ice.
Written for the non-expert and including stunning photographs and diagrams, this is the essential introduction to the geology and landforms of this fascinating part of Scotland.
]]>What went wrong with Britain? presents a comprehensive account of the devastating legacy left by the Conservative government. Shining a light into every dark corner, the book exposes the full extent of the damage inflicted on the country's economy, social fabric and political integrity.
When the Conservatives were voted out of government in July 2024, they left behind a miserable record of rising poverty, inequality and division. This book reveals the forces that have driven the country to the point of crisis, from austerity and economic mismanagement to sheer political dysfunction. Each chapter offers new insights into the far-reaching consequences of government policies that prioritised ideology, personal ambition and party politics over the public good.
Examining the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK's response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust, this shocking account of the legacy of Conservative government from 2010 to 2024 is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand exactly what went wrong with Britain.
]]>Peter Kerr is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Birmingham. He is a founder and co-executive editor of the journal British Politics.
Daniela Tepe is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Liverpool. Her recent publications include The Fault Lines of Inequality and the Politics of Financialization (2022).
]]>The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of 'the adventure' at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.
]]>People in the Renaissance saw skin differently from how we do today. The Europe of 1500 to 1700 was a world of humours, and skin the clothing of the body was thought to be dangerously porous.
In this landmark book, Evelyn Welch explores Renaissance skin as a bodily surface, as physical matter and as a generator of new knowledge. Ranging across anatomy, surgery and sausage making, she reveals how skin was managed by physicians as well as by glovemakers, butchers and parchment makers. How did people protect their health in a changing global environment, one where the air itself could be pathogenic? How did they see their bodies in a world where there was suddenly a multiplicity of skin colours and decorations?
Addressing these questions and more, Welch show us what happens when you see skin differently, either in the marketplace, where men and women from far-away lands were put on display, or under the microscope. In doing so, she reveals that the past had a distinctive and very different way of understanding bodily experiences.
]]>Laure Humbert, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester.
Bertrand Taithe, Professor, University of Manchester.
Raphaele Balu, Editorial Manager, Sorbonne University.
]]>It does so through an exploration of how urbicide, the violent destruction and alteration of the urban fabric, becomes a tool for the regime's governmental and sovereign exercise of power, decisively redefining state-society dynamics and cementing political loyalty in Syria. Adopting a critical and postcolonial perspective, and through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo, the volume presents a unique perspective on the civil war by examining socio-material changes in everyday political spaces and processes, from mundane destruction to urban development and reconstruction efforts, and how these are experienced by local communities. Featuring rich data collection through interviews, archival research, and aesthetic sources, the book ultimately foregrounds Syrians' political agency and creativity despite ruination.
]]>It uses oral histories and Mass Observation material to explore men's attitudes to Second World War enlistment and the relationship they perceived between military service and masculinity, and how these were influenced by understandings of the First World War. Locating the cultural legacy of First World War in the subjectivities of men who participated in the Second World War demonstrates the breadth of sources that informed men's understandings of the First World War in interwar Britain. Its cultural legacy was omnipresent and diverse, and informed young men's attitudes and service preferences, but it reinforced Edwardian conceptions of wartime masculinity as often as it undermined them. Two decades after the First World War ended, they remained resilient in the subjective understandings of men who grew up in the Great War's shadow.
]]>Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of 'hybrid' warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war, such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But as the invasion of Ukraine has brutally demonstrated, conventional armed violence remains a key element of Russian power.
In Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war, Andrew Monaghan offers a high-level view of Russian thinking about warfare. Drawing on extensive Russian sources, he addresses important questions that have been overlooked by most Western commentators: what is the military leadership's distinctive idea of twenty-first-century blitzkrieg? How does it understand holistic territorial defence? How does it manage the shifting balance between offence and defence
Introducing key concepts from Russian military thinking, Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war is a crucial resource for understanding Russia's resurgent role on the global stage and the devastating threat the country poses to the international order.
]]>The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the Vita, Cellini describes his activities vividly and in lurid detail. Often, the most disturbing passages were dismissed as fiction. In this clear-eyed portrayal, Andreas Beyer argues that these sensational accounts of body, sex and extreme experiences are not only entertaining but authentic. They reveal the true depth of Cellini's character: an artist who embraced life's full spectrum and shattered all boundaries. This book asserts that the roots of artistic autonomy in modernism can be traced back to Cellini's audacious life and work.
]]>Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth-century, painter Hans Memling sought success in Bruges, which was a vibrant commercial hub at the time. Rather than among the nobility or ecclesiastical institutions, instead he found his audience in the new urban middle class of merchant bankers, financiers, politicians, affluent clerics and artisans. He also enjoyed a reputation among diverse communities of traders and diplomats from across Europe, including Castile and England, as well as Italian cities like Genoa, Bologna and Florence, and the Hanseatic League. This book explores the social and material aspects of Memling's career and workshop, providing a vibrant entry into Bruges as an early modern commercial capital, highlighting international trade, factional politics, artisanal guilds, devotional traditions, and the aspirations and identities of his merchant-class clientele.
]]>This long-awaited field guide covers more than 2000 of the region's exceptionally diverse and important plant-life, from the most common species to local endemics through the collaboration of British scientists and local experts.
Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, each species profile includes nomenclature, description, dimensions, habitat, flowering times and distribution. With comprehensive, up-to-date coverage sorted by habitat, this is the essential guide for students, professional botanists, scientists, gardeners and plant-enthusiasts alike.
]]>She has taught an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years, sharing her expertise and shaping the next generation of architects. With her focus on design excellence, social responsibility, and generosity, Barney is an unrivaled architect for the people.
]]>Uwe Cremering is CEO iF International Forum Design GmbH.
]]>The liminal is a transformational state between the position where something meets, mixes, and merges. The Liminal House straddles a similar threshold between West Vancouver's natural stony seashore and its suburban residential neighborhood. Courtyards, cantilevers, and the extension of floor area over exterior space dismantles boundaries between the house and the natural environment in which it exists and a strategy of mixing and merging, where light is reflected and landscapes are invited towards the interior of the home, collapses a normal reading of interior space. The house is animated by the ever-changing outdoor atmosphere; expansive walls of sliding glass open to a dark pool that reflects and extends the environment near the ocean. Concrete, black stained Accoya wood, and coated aluminum plate are the only exterior materials as they are tough and long-wearing in harsh and everchanging environments.
]]>Botanica Design is a landscape design/build studio founded in 1998 and located in Vancouver British Columbia.
]]>Structured by a classification of six themes through which all twenty-one projects are cross sectioned, this book is a unique document, comprising original graphic analysis and professional photographs of the 21 projects, and a transcribed interview with each architect.
]]>Xavier Soule is the CEO of Abvent Group, which includes VU' Gallery, the largest photography gallery in Paris.
]]>Kom Kunyosying is an independent scholar who studies visual and iconic representations of ethnicity. He has published on horror, ecology, geek culture, and the hillbilly in comics and other media.
Julia Round is an Associate Professor at Bournemouth University. She has published over fifty academic works on horror, comics and children's literature, including the award-winning monograph Gothic for Girls (2019).
]]>It resituates Gothic from the mode that gives the pleasing sensation of terror to being the source of the Brontes' deepest preoccupations it is the mode they use to register anxieties and fears. This monograph, through a consideration of Gothic states and places, explores the Brontes' creative work with the genre. The author argues that to read the Brontes as Gothic poets and novelists is also to read them as post-Romantics, as they respond to the Gothic imaginations of such Romantic poets as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. Gothic in the Brontes, then, is not merely a collection of tropes or even an aesthetic, but a way in which they read the world.
]]>Imagining a better future is at the heart of development. But mainstream development models are driven by a very narrow, Western-centric set of ideas about what it means to be human. What could be possible if we let ourselves imagine differently?
As our world continues to evolve at breakneck speed and faces unprecedented crises from the decaying environment to cascading inequality the need for bold new directions for development has never been greater. Peter Sutoris and Uma Pradhan put a spotlight on the thought-provoking visions of leading theorists, activists and practitioners for rethinking development as a political project towards more equitable futures. Questioning top-down economic frameworks, they explore transformative ideas from degrowth to indigenous knowledge that may enable us to address the complexities of our rapidly changing global landscape. They consider how the world can chart a path towards reconciling the moral case for eradicating poverty with these critical perspectives to advance a more ethical approach, one that is sensitive to history, diversity, and the challenges and opportunities of this moment.
If development is to remain relevant today, it must reinvent itself and finally listen to voices on the ground.
]]>Uma Pradhan is Lecturer in Education and International Development at University College London, and the author of Simultaneous Identities: Language, Education and the Nepali Nation.
]]>This volume analyses the transformation of social sectarianism into political sectarianism across the Arab world. Using a framework of social theories and socio-historical analysis, the book distinguishes between 'ta'ifa', or 'sect', and modern 'ta'ifiyya', 'sectarianism', arguing that sectarianism itself produces 'imaginary sects'. It charts and explains the evolution of these phenomena and their development in Arab and Islamic history, as distinct from other concepts used to study religious groups within Western contexts.
Bishara documents the role played by internal and external factors and rivalries among political elites in the formulation of sectarian identity, citing both historical and contemporary models. He contends that sectarianism does not derive from sect, but rather that sectarianism resurrects the sect in the collective consciousness and reproduces it as an imagined community under modern political and historical conditions.
Sectarianism Without Sects is a vital resource for engaging with the sectarian crisis in the Arab world. It provides a detailed historical background to the emergence of sect in the region, as well as a complex theoretical exploration of how social identities have assumed political significance in the struggle for power over the state.
]]>In 2019, a people's revolution ended the thirty-year reign of Sudan's military president Umar al-Bashir. A transitional government took power, led by esteemed international economist Abdalla Hamdok and promising a return to civilian rule. But Sudan's new government quickly imposed a shock therapy programme of cuts, privatisations and devaluation, following the diktat of foreign lenders. In 2021, as Sudan grew poorer, the army seized on popular discontent to launch a coup, burying hopes for a democratic transition. But why did Sudan's first civilian government in more than a quarter-century bend to the will of creditors at this crucial moment in the country's history? The answer lies in an unwieldy and unpayable debt burden that has long constricted Sudanese politics and society.
Undoing a Revolution narrates the history of sovereign debt in Sudan from independence to the present, revealing the innovative policies adopted by Sudanese governments to manage their place in the global economy. But it also shows how external actors have leveraged the power of debt to impose their will and wreak havoc. With Sudan embroiled in civil war since 2023, Harry Cross explores the political implications of sovereign debt for states and societies across Africa, and around the world.
]]>Drawing on thirty years of fieldwork, interviews and extensive primary documentation, Beatrice Hibou and Mohamed Tozy reveal how demographic, political and cultural changes have transformed Morocco's government and modes of domination, from its pre-colonial past to the present. Interrogating the ideas of 'Empire' and 'Nation-state' as particular forms of rule, they examine the legacy of the centuries-long Sharifian Empire, in relation to the contemporary neoliberal government. They show how imperial traditions and the modern state co-exist today, in an intricate tapestry of seemingly contradictory power relations, different understandings of legitimacy, and competing visions of authority, sovereignty and responsibility.
Drawing on the work of Max Weber and Michel Foucault, Weaving Political Time in Morocco is a comprehensive, comparative examination of the evolution and continuities of state power in this complex North African country.
]]>Mohamed Tozy, previously at Hassan II University of Casablanca, is Professor at Sciences Po (Aix) and the author of Monarchie et islam politique au Maroc.
]]>Drawing on her experience as a United Nations mediator and a senior American diplomat, Stephanie T. Williams provides a first-hand examination of post-Qaddafi Libya. Using concrete examples from her experience in the country, Williams analyses the underlying drivers of the Libyan conflict, as well as the motivations of the international actors and the various Libyan protagonists. She bears witness to the horrific effect of General Haftar's attack on Tripoli in 2019, how it tore apart a UN peace process, and how she worked alongside UN envoy Ghassan Salame to reassemble some semblance of an international consensus under the Berlin Process and accompanying intra-Libyan tracks: military, economic and political.
Williams recounts her leadership of the UN mediation during the Covid pandemic, adopting new technologies and blending hybrid and physical meetings to produce the October 2020 ceasefire agreement, as well as progress on the economic track and an inclusive political agreement. She also lays out the pernicious effect of new media on peacemaking, and how disinformation and hate speech have exacerbated Libya's fragmentation. Finally, Williams offers ideas on how to break Libya's cycle of division and dysfunction to meet the longstanding aspirations of the people to live in peace and dignity.
]]>Three decades after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is a nation transformed. Today, the country is known worldwide as a startup hub, boasting billion-dollar companies including Wise, Veriff and Bolt but even more impressive are Tallinn's pioneering efforts in e-government. With 99 per cent of government services digitalised and accessible online, citizens can vote via computer, or file their taxes online in minutes; and Estonia's use of artificial intelligence to enhance and automate its offering to citizens long predates ChatGPT.
Drawing on his experience as a former official for the Republic of Estonia, Joel Burke offers unique insight into the country's rapid rise as a tech and e-government powerhouse since the turn of the century. From the founding of Skype to the future of the e-state, he unveils the tactics and stories behind Estonia's spectacular journey after years of Soviet occupation and mismanagement to global tech leadership. For those hoping to learn from Estonia's incredible journey, Burke offers insights into the government's use of AI, its creation of a digital society, and its cultivation of a culture driving public-sector creativity and innovation. Rebooting a Nation is an informative and entertaining masterclass in Estonia's modern history.
Rebooting a Revolutionis part of our New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasiaseries
'[A] timely book ... on Estonia's transformation into a thriving tech hub.' - Financial Times
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