Nuclear Archipelago tells the shocking story of the two British atomic weapons test series held at Western Australia's Monte Bello Islands in 1952 and 1956. Operation Hurricane and Operation Mosaic took place at a rugged archipelago 100 kilometres off the Pilbara coast, and each of the three bombs sent fallout over vast distances across the country. One of the tests, Mosaic G2 in June 1956, the largest nuclear weapon test ever held in Australia, sparked panic at the time that it had been a nuclear accident. In both the Mosaic tests, the crew of a British ship was deliberately positioned in the path of fallout. The biodiverse natural environment of the islands was left contaminated and has never been cleaned up.
The book explores the politics, the secrecy and the controversies, including the true nature of Mosaic G2 and its role in the clandestine development of the British hydrogen bomb.
'An excoriating examination of nuclear politics, atomic colonialism and shameful cover-up a definite must-read.' Peter Garrett
'This multi-volume work must rate as one of the most significant projects currently being undertaken in the study of Australian history.' Simon Caterson, The Australian
]]>*Winner of the CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017*
In September 2016 it will be 60 years since the first British mushroom cloud rose above the plain at Maralinga in South Australia. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
In 1950 Australian prime minister Robert Menzies blithely agreed to atomic tests that offered no benefit to Australia and relinquished control over them and left the public completely in the dark. This book reveals the devastating consequences of that decision. After earlier tests at Monte Bello and Emu Field, in 1956 Australia dutifully provided 3200 square kilometres of South Australian desert to the British Government, along with logistics and personnel.
How could a democracy such as Australia host another country's nuclear program in the midst of the Cold War? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals how Australia allowed itself to be duped. Maralinga was born in secret atomic business, and has continued to be shrouded in mystery decades after the atomic thunder stopped rolling across the South Australian test site. This book is the most comprehensive account of the whole saga, from the time that the explosive potential of splitting uranium atoms was discovered, to the uncovering of the extensive secrecy around the British tests in Australia many years after the British had departed, leaving an unholy mess behind.
'Just as witnesses to our A-bomb tests turned their backs on the blasts, Australia turned its back on the memory of one of the most diabolical times in our history. Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.' Phillip Adams
]]>Elizabeth Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, reveals the story of a cataclysmic collision between an ancient Aboriginal land and the post-war Britain of Winston Churchill and his gung-ho scientific advisor Frederick Lindemann. The presence of local Aangu people did not interfere with Churchill's geopolitical aims and they are still paying the price. The British undertook Operation Totem at Emu Field under cover of extreme remoteness and secrecy, a shroud of mystery that continues to this day.
'A must-read to understand a cold war history, an arrogant officialdom and an unfathomable desecration of Aboriginal land.' - Larissa Behrendt
'This important book brings back from the far edges of living memory the extraordinary story of Britain's atomic bomb tests in Australia.' - Henry Reynolds
'Tynan's razor-sharp prose and forensic level historical research ensure that Emu Field will be remembered alongside Maralinga as sites of treachery, suffering, and anxiety on the long road towards healing.' - Lynette Russell
'Fastidiously researched and brimming with detail' - Books+Publishing
'Tynan's deft study ensures another lesser-known aspect of Australia's role in the global history of nuclear testing remains accounted for.' Kyle Harvey, History Australia
]]>Today, Tullamarine remains cutting-edge, with new and expanding terminals, upgraded car parks, more efficient roads, a third runway recently approved and a rail link in the works.
Discover the story of Tullamarine, from its planning and opening to its modern status as a benchmark for all international Airport Cities.
'This is the book that I had no idea that I needed! Now that I've found it, I can't let it go. It's magnificent!' Tim Ross
'An outstanding contribution to Australia's cultural history, superbly illustrated and brilliantly written.' Michael Buxton
'This is a dazzling and comprehensive account of Australia's, indeed the world's first purpose-built Airport City. Tullamarine (Melbourne Airport) shines here in its glory as never before. This pioneering development of the 1970s has long deserved such an intense study and Arun Chandu delivers a fascinating story of engineers, air travel, airport design, interior design and urban planning. Scholarly, engaging, rich in detail and full of stunning images, this is a must-read book for anyone interested in Australian ingenuity and the rocky romance of reaching for the skies.' Philip Goad
]]>Written from the point of view of a writer and illustrator, Making Picture Books shares decades of experience and is filled with examples and advice from Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner, Julie Vivas and many more.
]]>In his latest works, world-renowned visual artist Dennis Del Favero interrogates our evolving relationship with increasingly unpredictable and extreme climate events. Equinox, an installation that immerses audiences inside larger-than-life wildfire scenarios, offers a visceral reimagining of their unanticipated dynamics. iFire provides a training system for Australia's largest urban firefighting service, enabling responders to adjust variables such as wind speed, so they can rehearse their response to future fires under the escalating uncertainty of climate conditions.
In Picturing the Climate Emergency, leading international art scholars and experts in artificial intelligence, fire science and emergency response analyse these works and explore their implications for artists, art audiences, scientists, frontline personnel and at-risk communities.
]]>The author is drawn to the different and the marginalised. Her insight into herself and others arises from her deep understanding of the flawed nature of the human condition. And the company of great books. She writes 'books were my real teachers. I can't remember learning a single thing in a classroom. The craft of reading was the only one I really took away from that dreadful time.'
Just perhaps hurt can be both our undoing and our making, as this story of sliding time illuminates. The Hurt is a remarkably honest and captivating work of literature.
Praise for Saint Phalle's Writing
'Saint Phalle writes with a clear-eyed humanity and wisdom about human nature that is reminiscent of Nabokov's account of memory and childhood.' Stella Judges
'The narrating voice of the book is intensely likeable gentle, witty, well-read and highly articulate. Yet the story it unearths circles back and back to the bewildered innocence of a small girl who is lied to, neglected, palmed off on a hired minder, then suddenly, breathtakingly indulged in ways that only a city like Paris can provide.' Helen Garner on Poum and Alexandre
]]>The Memory Tapes brings together hundreds of interview excerpts, organised into chapters on broad themes, from domestic life to politics. The excerpts capture lived experiences in all their complexities, emotion and contradictions. Readers will get a sense of the textures of memory tone, hesitation, reflection learning about the past from the people who lived it. Through the voices of Elders, prime ministers, migrants, scientists, athletes, centenarians, artists and more, this is our national memory.
This book, an empathy-building doorway to discovery, is essential for classrooms, historians, writers and anyone who wants to understand more about this nation.
]]>This edition of Griffith Review goes on the record to reveal the spoils and surprises of the archive.
]]>Nathan mudyi Sentance is Wiradjuri man from the Mowgee clan who grew up on Darkinjung Country, NSW. Nathan works to ensure that First Nations stories being told cultural and memory institutions, such galleries, libraries, archives, and museums are being told and controlled by First Nations people. He is a member of the Indigenous Archive Collective.
]]>The Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, has inspired millions with its timeless insights into the changing nature of existence. First set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the I Ching grew into a book of wisdom, eventually becoming one of the Five Classics of Confucianism and providing a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy. With this groundbreaking translation, the ancient Classic came to the West, where it has influenced countless artists and writers, from Bob Dylan and Philip K. Dick to John Cage and Octavio Paz. Organised for easy reference, it presents the sixty-four hexagrams alongside their commentaries and interpretations, including the Ten Wings, supplemental writings traditionally ascribed to Confucius that provide indispensable perspectives on the symbolic structure of the hexagrams. Featuring C. G. Jung's illuminating foreword, and now with a new introduction by internationally acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger, this essential edition preserves the spirit of the ancient text while providing a vital key for anyone seeking to live harmoniously with the immutable law of change.
]]>This extraordinary compilation showcases weird, mysterious and bizarre plants from around the world. Plants trick, kill, steal and kidnap, and this unique book explores a fascinating world in which plants have turned the tables on animals.
Familiar plants such as the Venus fly trap and bird of paradise are featured, along with a host of the unfamiliar, such as the parasitic devil's guts, the monkey-face orchid and a tropical tree with flowers that resemble a pair of ruby red lips.
The book is illustrated throughout with a unique collection of life-like oil paintings by the author, who has encountered these weird plants around the world.
]]>In the midst of the chaos, Hassan began posting about his daily experiences on Reddit. Three activists, moved by his words, started collecting his posts without a clear plan only the conviction that his story needed to be seen and that somehow, it might help raise funds for him. By chance, those posts found their way to award-winning author Yasuko Thanh, who helped Hassan frame them for a book.
Hassan's missives are a vivid, heartbreaking account of war and its toll on families, on children, on innocent civilians. These are stories of hunger, survival, and death. These are stories that demand to be heard. And yet, stories like these are not being told: mainstream media has largely remained silent. Foreign journalists are barred from Gaza. Local journalists are being killed. In this vacuum, Hassan's voice manages to break through out of the darkness and into the light.
Pizza Before We Die is literary journalism at its rawest and most urgent clear-eyed, unflinching, and deeply humane. Hassan captures the unspeakable horror of the tragedy in Gaza with restraint and precision, never sensationalising, always bearing witness. It is a work of raw power and emotion, and a reminder that in the midst of chaos and tragedy, our shared humanity remains intact.
Yasuko Thanh, who edited this book, has also written the foreword.
A portion of proceeds from the sale of Pizza Before We Die will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres.
]]>Yasuko Thanh (she/her) is a writer and a creative writing instructor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. She is the author of the novels Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains (winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize), To the Bridge, and The Falling Maria (forthcoming in 2027), and the memoir Mistakes to Run With.
]]>Led by Vincent Lingiari, this landmark action in 1966 precipitated the equal wages case in the pastoral industry and the establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.
While it is well known that the Walk-Off was driven by the poor treatment of Aboriginal workers, what is less well known is the previous decades of massacres and killings, stolen children and other abuses by early colonists.
Told in both English and Gurindji, these compelling and detailed oral accounts of the events that Gurindji Elders either witnessed or heard from their parents and grandparents, has ignited the interest of audiences nationally and internationally and challenged revisionist historians who question the extent of frontier battles and the legitimacy of the Stolen Generations.
'It is widely acknowledged that the 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off with Vincent Lingiari leading the Gurnidji people was a seminal moment in the history of Aboriginal society's tragic encounters with the European occupiers of Australia. Still, up to now, few Gurindji voices have been heard, especially on the period preceding the Walk-Off. The 'new' history contained here: oral accounts, maps, paintings, photos and citations, does much to fill the chasm in our understanding of the circumstances preceding that fateful moment when Lingiari and Gurindji stood their ground. I highly commend this intimate, heart wrenching, and informative account of one of the single
most important events in our recent past.' Peter Garrett, musician, activist and former federal minister
In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive.
Out of the Depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers. Based on a copy of Mima'amakim discovered in 2013, it contains not only the songs' melodies and lyrics, the latter in a new translation by Joseph Toltz, but also short biographies of the composers, drawn from painstaking original research. Introductory essays provide historical and musicological background, deepening our knowledge of this terrible event and the creative means by which the Jewish people responded to and endured it.
Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.
]]>In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in that century Leonardo da Vinci sketched a design for a faster-firing, more portable handgun that could be hidden beneath a cloak. As the gun proliferated in society, it became both a means of self-defence and a threat to civic order. In The Firearm Revolution, historian Catherine Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy and beyond, describing the social transformations that accompanied the evolution of the handgun from innovative military technology to widely used personal accessory.
Fletcher shows that as guns became smaller and the new wheellock mechanism made concealed carry possible, Italian states increasingly tried to control their use even as they viewed firearms as necessary for their militias. In the end, Fletcher reports, the importance of civic defence trumped the concern for social order. As guns became ever more acceptable, stories of how firearms aided Europeans' overseas conquests created a new and more positive image for a weapon once considered the devil's work. Debates over the regulation of firearms five centuries ago which included arguments over the restriction of gun ownership, the use of guns for self-defence and the regulation of an armed militia in many ways anticipate discussions about gun control today. Fletcher's groundbreaking account sheds new light on how governments weighed the competing priorities of defence and social order as they set out to build empires.
]]>The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic spectacle. The Roman World War recasts the struggle for Rome as a global conflict that engulfed millions of non-Romans across Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.
Shedding new light on the pivotal years spanning Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE and the suicides of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BCE, Giusto Traina introduces readers to lesser-known figures such as the Cilician dynast Tarcondimotus, the king of the Moors Bogud, and the Armenian king Artawazd, men who influenced Rome's politics and who played consequential roles in battles waged far beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum. Traina demonstrates how the violence unleashed by Caesar's death was a direct consequence of his expansionist plans. From Spain to Mesopotamia, peoples such as Berbers, Hispanics, Gauls, Greeks, Thracians, and Armenians were drawn into a global war in which the fate of Rome was tied to their own.
A global, 'connected' history that transforms our understanding of the Republic's final years, The Roman World War demonstrates how foreign nations and peoples were not merely pawns in the Roman civil wars but active protagonists in a great power struggle that shook the ancient world for fourteen intense years.
]]>How did the world as we know it from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices the physical and the biological to understand how we and our planet became possible.
In this captivating book, Andrew Knoll traces how all life is sustained by Earth's geological and atmospheric dynamics, and how life itself shapes the physical environment. Taking readers on a thrilling journey across four billion years of Earth history, he shows how Earth and life interact to cycle the very elements of life from rocks, water, and air, and how these and related processes control our climate, regulate our atmosphere, and support the diversification of life-forms great and small. Along the way, Knoll explains how we can draw on this history as we navigate the challenges of the Anthropocene, and how it can aid our search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Blending cutting-edge science with illuminating insights from a leading expert, Earth and Life explains how this ongoing interplay holds vital lessons for us today as humanity becomes an increasingly major voice in the conversation.
]]>In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimisation, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning. He explains why, now more than ever, we need to resist efforts by powerful tech interests to drive public policy and essentially rule our lives.
While mathematical rationality has proven valuable in accelerating computers, regulating pharmaceuticals, and deploying electronic commerce, it fails to solve messy human problems and has given rise to a view of a rational world that is not only overquantified but surprisingly limited. Recht shows how these mathematical methods emerged from wartime research and influenced fields ranging from economics to health care, drawing on illuminating examples ranging from diet planning to chess to self-driving cars.
Highlighting both the power and limitations of mathematical rationality, The Irrational Decision reveals why only humans can resolve fundamentally political or value-based questions and proposes a more expansive approach to decision making that is appropriately supported by computational tools yet firmly rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment.
]]>Though a founding member of NATO and the euro, Portugal is often overlooked, a small country on Europe's southwestern edge. In The Portuguese, veteran journalist Barry Hatton blends historical insight with personal anecdotes to explore this enigmatic nation.
During the 1400s and 1500s, Portuguese explorers led Europe into the Atlantic and helped connect Asia with Europe, creating a vast four-continent empire. This legacy still resonates today, particularly through the Portuguese language, spoken by over 220 million people worldwide. Hatton examines Portugal's vibrant yet turbulent past from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which shook European thinking and began a long decline, through Antnio Salazar's dictatorship, to its end in the 1974 Carnation Revolution, briefly thrusting Portugal into Cold War geopolitics. Hatton also explores the country's complex ties with neighbouring Spain, and its oldest ally, England.
With diverse landscapes, rich cultural heritage, a love of food and fine wine, an easy-going lifestyle and a rebellious streak, the Portuguese are uniquely compelling. Hatton's portrait is intimate and revealing, capturing the charms and contradictions of a fascinating country.
'Engaging, delightful.' Publishers Weekly
'A must-read for first-timers ... [and] a constant delight for those already well-versed in a fascinating nation.' Iberosphere
]]>Widespread pessimism and fear of the future are everywhere. With times to come often seeming threatening and uncertain, this book offers new perspectives and fresh ways of thinking. Futurologist Florence Gaub shows that everyone can influence what lies ahead in their personal or professional life, or in society. Her ideas are for those who refuse to be paralysed by fear, instead seeing the future as a space full of possibilities.
Gaub explores how humanity's visions of tomorrow have changed throughout history; she explains what the future is, how it works, what disruptions may arise and how to fix them. She draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy to show how humans conceive and construct the future, as individuals and as a society.
A bestseller in Germany, this smart, snappy handbook of ideas is an antidote to passive fatalism. It challenges our lack of faith in our own ability to shape what is to come, or how it will affect our lives. After all, we're the only beings who can imagine the future in such detail that we can actually create it. Gaub is a brilliant guide to rediscovering that gift.
'Finally! A strategic foresight manual that doesn't require top secret clearance. Florence Gaub fights uncertainty and she's winning.' Clark Gregg, Hollywood actor (The Avengers, Captain Marvel and Iron Man)
'Climate change, war, inflation: It's not easy to believe in a bright future right now. Political scientist and futurologist Florence Gaub explains why we nevertheless have every reason to do so and how we can gain more confidence in our own lives.' Merle Hubert, Sddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
'An original and essential guide to thinking about tomorrow. Gaub shows that the future is not something that happens to us, but something we actively create through our choices, our imagination and our courage.' Mark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
]]>Their changeability has made them mainstays of the fantasy genre: at once capricious and ethereal, wielding arcane laws to reward and exploit human nature, and dolling out blessings and curses in equal measure. From protective fairy godmothers to uncanny fairy changelings, and from Tam Lin to Tinkerbell, Carolyne Larrington unravels a plethora of fairy tales in this shimmering guide to the fae, accompanied with beautiful illustrations from the British Library collections.
]]>As belief in the unicorn's reality waned, a renewed interest in the medieval past provided a context for it to flourish once again as a subject for art, literature and mystical meditation. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century medievalism infused pictorial and poetic unicorn imagery with an aura of romantic nostalgia that paved the way for its dramatic revival: it gained wings and took flight within the genre of fantasy literature. More recently unicorns have inspired a variety of contemporary trends, from merchandising to financial rhetoric, and the 'animal that never was' shows no sign of disappearing.
]]>'Not only is this a book that answers, fact for fact, everything you ever wanted to know about Pere-Lachaise but were afraid to ask, it is also a portrait of a person who truly loves his work.' The New York Times
For Benot Gallot, Pere Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You're guaranteed to lose your way. You'll feel as though you've stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Pere Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones.
In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Pere Lachaise its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Pere-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death.
Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot's daily photographs of Pere-Lachaise's flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.
A bestseller in France, lauded as 'a superb book ... full of humour, empathy, and great sweetness' by the French literary press, The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a life-affirming read that will stand the test of time.
]]>A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats external aggression and internal dissolution
Iran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for America and the West, yet very little is known about what the country's goals really are. Vali Nasr examines Iran's political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today's Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.
Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, and original in-depth interviews with Iranian decision makers, Nasr brings to light facts and events in Iran's political history that have been overlooked until now. He traces the roots of Iran's strategic outlook to its experiences over the past four decades of war with Iraq in the 1980s and the subsequent American containment of Iran, invasion of Iraq in 2003, and posture toward Iran thereafter. Nasr reveals how these experiences have shaped a geopolitical outlook driven by pervasive fear of America and its plans for the Middle East.
Challenging the notion that Iran's foreign policy simply reflects its revolutionary values or theocratic government, Iran's Grand Strategy provides invaluable new insights into what Iran wants and why, explaining the country's resistance to the United States, its nuclear ambitions, and its pursuit of influence and proxies across the Middle East.
]]>The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about whom they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalised. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
]]>Thomas Patteson is a teacher, writer, and musician based in Philadelphia. He is the author of Instruments for New Music and cofounder of People's Music Supply.
]]>'A brilliantly raw book that reveals the truth of what really matters.' Fearne Cotton
Many of us areliving with the sense that things are not right with the world and are in a state of spiritual post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection from one another, from our true values, from joy, and from life as we feel we are meant to be living it.
Inaradical spiritual guidebook, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us that deep down, we are all feeling that same itch for a new way of living.Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some of the world's leading experts, and her personal journey, Wilson offers a hopeful path forward to the life we love.
The time has come to boldly, wildly imagine better. We are being called upon, individually and as a society, to forge a new path and to find a new way of living. Will you join the journey?
'Sarah Wilson is a force of nature. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemised it intoaction, advocacy, adventure, poetry and love. I admire her with all my soul.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love
'I began writing "Yes!" in margins, so well does Sarah Wilson articulate the problems of our time. Speaking as someone who has spent much of the past few years despairing about the state of the world, I believe we need more people like her.' Marianne Power, The Times
'Sarah Wilson's mission is our joyful survival. With curiosity and heart, she delves into the biggest questions facing ourplanet. Essential reading I defy you not to feel deeply inspired.' Katherine May, author of Wintering
'This practical, actionable, spiritual guidebook proposes a path to joy even amid pandemics, climate change, social injustice,and other profound crises.' USA Today
'I've encountered no other book that articulates with so much passion or clarity the unique feeling of this moment in history. The ideal guidebook for our long overdue journey back to nature, to each other, and to sanity in the deepest sense of the word.' Oliver Burkeman
'This One Wild and Precious Life is what the UK has been waiting for; Sarah Wilson's journey is inspiring.' Rio Ferdinand
]]>Exploring subjects like work and comedy, history and sport, the beauty industry and domesticity, anonymous author Man Who Has It All imagines a world in which men are bombarded with the same stereotypical bullshit as women. What if men's T-shirts were emblazoned with slogans encouraging them to be smiley, positive and kind? What if we laughed at jokes about fathers-in-law, male drivers and middle-class men of a certain age? What if men's history was a niche topic? Behind the jokes about crazy cat gentlemen, testerical men and the twenty-four-hour moustache, lies a deeper, darker message about language, power and control.
Smart and provocative, Man Who Has It All shines a powerful light on the prejudice ingrained in our society. Told through fictionalised scenarios and wider cultural analysis, this is a feminist handbook that will arm you against the patriarchy.
'I love this book' Fern Britton
'Laugh out loud funny' Kate Bottley
'Funny and insightful, but also fiercely radical' Victoria Smith
'Takes on patriarchy with wit, verve and a mighty dose of good old British sarcasm' Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room
'We need to hide copies in every locker room, Wetherspoons and B&Q' Eleanor Morton, comedian and actor
'Man Who Has It All does a remarkable job of channelling anger into humour...a galvanising read' Rachel Hewitt, author of In Her Nature
]]>For generations, we've accepted aging as an inevitable decline, measuring our years by birthdays while ignoring the more crucial metric our biological age. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptoms of age-related diseases rather than addressing their root cause: cellular aging itself. Too often, healthcare systems intervene only after disease has taken hold, managing decline rather than preventing it.
In Choose Your Age, Jean-Marc Lemaitre a renowned biogerontologist (a scientist of biological aging and age-related diseases) presents a revolutionary alternative: a personalised, proactive approach to longevity that targets the fundamental mechanisms of aging before disease begins.
This is not speculation or trendy 'biohacking' it's cutting-edge science: a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy for extending not just lifespan but healthspan, the years you spend free from disease and decline. Lemaitre's approach isn't prescriptive but educational, empowering you to understand the science of aging so you can make informed decisions about your health journey. In Choose Your Age, readers will discover:
Choose Your Age provides a new paradigm for thinking about aging, transforming it from an inevitable decline into a manageable process that you can influence at every stage of life. With this roadmap in hand, you can chart a different course for your future one where each decade brings not just more years, but better ones.
]]>Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and cognitive capacities of animals from the humble sea squirt to the socially minded fox and the tiny shrew.
By examining the challenges that different animals and their ancestors faced, Mars shows that we can understand what drove the evolution of their brains. Early vertebrates became predators of the sea; mammals evolved a complex neocortex to deal with foraging for high-energy food; and social primates adapted to contend with a fast-changing environment in which groups of individuals team up to get food. Over the course of a long evolutionary road, the ancestors of present-day animals and their descendants continually adapted to challenges, modifying their brains again and again. For us humans, this process gradually led to a brain that is capable of so much, from inventing language to traveling into space.
Mars leads readers across eras and species, showing us how we resemble our animal cousins, how we differ from them, and how animals in one branch of the evolutionary tree did the hard evolutionary work of becoming human.
]]>In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified 'horrifying heresies', but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain a mystery. When he published his Theological-Political Treatise in 1670, which was condemned as 'the most atheistic book ever written', he began to reveal to the world what his heresies may have been. Yet ever since the eighteenth century, most readers and scholars have assumed that Spinoza was a pantheist even a 'God-intoxicated man', as the poet Novalis put it. After all, how could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? In Spinoza, Atheist, Steven Nadler, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that's exactly what he was.
Nadler makes a powerful case that there is no real divinity for Spinoza. God is Nature, and isn't an object of worshipful awe or religious reverence but can only be understood through philosophy and science. There is nothing supernatural no mystery, ineffability, or sublimity. Spinoza does speak of 'blessedness' and 'salvation', but these, too, are to be understood in natural and rational terms, as the peace of mind and happiness that come from understanding ourselves and the world.
Whether Spinoza believed in God is a fascinating and enduring controversy. Spinoza, Atheist promises to transform our understanding of his views and to make clear just how radical a thinker he was and remains.
]]>Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50
Named as recommended reading by Fortune's CEO Daily
The ex-Unilever CEO who increased his shareholders' returns by 300% while ensuring the company ranked #1 in the world for sustainability for eleven years running has, for the first time, revealed how to do it. Teaming up with Andrew Winston, one of the world's most authoritative voices on corporate sustainability, Paul Polman shows business leaders how to take on humanity's greatest and most urgent challenges climate change and inequality and build a thriving business as a result.
In this candid and straight-talking handbook, Polman and Winston reveal the secrets of Unilever's success and pull back the curtain on some of the world's most powerful c-suites. Net Positive boldly argues that the companies of the future will profit by fixing the world's problems, not creating them.
Together the authors explode our most prevalent corporate myths: from the idea that business' only function is to maximise profits, to the nave hope that Corporate Social Responsibility will save our species from disaster. These approaches, they argue, are destined for the graveyard. Instead, they show corporate leaders how to make their companies 'Net Positive' thriving by giving back more to the world than they take. Net Positive companies unleash innovation, build trust, attract the best people, thrill customers, and secure lasting success, all by helping create stronger, more inclusive societies and a healthier planet. Heal the world first, they argue, and you'll satisfy your investors as a result.
With ambitious vision and compelling stories, Net Positive will teach you how to find the inner purpose and courage you need to embrace the only business model that will matter in the years ahead. You will learn how to lead others and unlock your company's soul, while setting and delivering big and aggressive goals, and taking responsibility for all of your company's impacts. You'll find out the secrets to partnering with others, including your competition and critics, to drive transformative change from which you will prosper. You'll build a company that serves your people, your customers, your communities, your shareholders and your children and grandchildren will thank you for it.
Is this win-win for business and humanity too good to be true? Don't believe it. The world's smartest CEOs are already taking their companies on the Net Positive journey and benefiting as a result. Will you be left behind?
Join the movement at netpositive.world
'An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done.' The Economist
'Polman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew Winston...argues that it's profitable to do business with the goal of making the world better.' The New York Times
'...Polman has been one of the most significant chief executives of his era and that his approach to business and its role in society has been both valuable and path-breaking.' Financial Times
]]>Andrew Winston is one of the world's most widely read writers and leading thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy, including Green to Gold and The Big Pivot, have sold more than 150,000 copies in seven languages. Winston has also written cover stories for Harvard Business Review and published hundreds of articles in HBR, MIT Sloan Management Review, and other top publications. He was recently selected for the Thinkers50 Radar 2020, a list of "30 thinkers to watch out for in the coming year." His views on strategy have been sought after by many of the world's leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, HP, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, PwC, and Unilever.
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How to exude confidence. Present with style. Overcome overthinking. Give difficult feedback. To succeed at work, you need accessible, actionable, succinct ideas to help you solve your most common challenges. Drawing from Management Tip of the Day, HBR's most popular newsletter, this concise, handy annual collection is packed with easy-to-read tips on a broad range of topics.
Management Tips 2026 puts the best management practices and insights, from top thinkers in the field, right at your fingertips. Pick it up any time you have a few minutes to spare, and you'll have a fresh, powerful idea you can immediately put into action.
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The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 49 languages, and is a bestseller across 5 continents now expanded with new case studies on Nvidia and Taylor Swift.
In this perennial bestseller, recognised as one of the most iconic and impactful business books ever written, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Lasting success, they argue, comes not from battling competitors but from creating 'blue oceans' untapped market spaces ripe for growth.
Now in its 20th anniversary, Blue Ocean Strategy is enhanced with timely, in-depth case studies on Nvidia and on Taylor Swift and a new preface from the authors that highlights the book's impact around the world and why the rise of AI only reinforces the importance of this monumental work today.
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach and a variety of tools that any organisation can use to create and capture blue oceans. This enhanced edition includes:
An international phenomenon that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this landmark book will help you chart a bold new path into the future. Consider this your indispensable guide to creating uncontested market space and making the competition irrelevant.
]]>If you read nothing else on artificial intelligence, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you make sense of the evolving generative AI landscape, manage regulation and risk, and develop a strategy that keeps pace with technological change.
This book will inspire you to:
This collection of articles includes 'For Success with AI, Bring Everyone on Board,' by David De Cremer; 'Bring Human Values to AI,' by Jacob Abernethy, Francois Candelon, Theodoros Evgeniou, Abhishek Gupta, and Yves Lostanlen; 'From Prediction to Transformation,' by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb; 'How AI Can Help Managers Think Through Problems,' by Elisa Farri and Gabriele Rosani; 'The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations,' by Bharat N. Anand and Andy Wu; 'Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce,' by Jen Stave, Ryan Kurt, and John Winsor; 'Keep Your AI Projects on Track,' by Iavor Bojinov; 'How to Marry Process Management and AI,' by Thomas H. Davenport and Thomas C. Redman; 'The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work,' by Oguz A. Acar, Phyliss Jia Gai, Yanping Tu, and Jiayi Hou; 'Heavy Machinery Meets AI,' by Vijay Govindarajan and Venkat Venkatraman; 'AI Is Changing the Structure of Consulting Firms,' by David S. Duncan, Tyler Anderson, and Jeffrey Saviano; 'Stop Running So Many AI Pilots,' by Goutam Challagalla, Mahwesh Khan, and Fabrice Beaulieu; 'Addressing Gen AI's Quality-Control Problem,' by Stefan Thomke, Philipp Eisenhauer, and Puneet Sahni; 'AI's Growing Waste Problem and How to Solve It,' by Samsurin Welch, Khaled Soufani, and Eva Morales; and 'Don't Let an AI Failure Harm Your Brand,' by Julian De Freitas.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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A stirring account of how to gain and own your power.
From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, and Nickelodeon, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like.
In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've been taught about power. Through raw, behind-the-scenes stories from both her childhood and her trailblazing career, she reveals that real power isn't handed to you it's forged through strategy, courage, and an unshakable belief in your own worth.
She takes readers inside high-stakes situations where she refused to settle for less and pivotal moments where audacity became her greatest asset. From her earliest dreams of success to the executive offices where she made those dreams real, Sharif-Drinkard reveals the moments that shaped her and the strategies that helped her lead with impact and integrity.
Part fearless memoir, part inspirational guide, Power Reimagined is for anyone who's ever been overlooked, undervalued, or told they didn't belong. This book will inspire you to own your power and use it without apology.
]]>Market volatility. AI. Regulatory uncertainty. Geopolitical risk. Leaders know they must adapt faster than ever yet most transformation programs still fail to deliver their expected outcomes, with enormous costs to companies, shareholders, and the broader economy.
But some companies succeed. In How Change Really Works, Boston Consulting Group experts Julia Dhar, Kristy Ellmer, and Philip Jameson show that these successes are not random they are connected by a common set of principles and practices. Interweaving illuminating examples, decades of behavioural science research, and new interviews with executives and employees, as well as the authors' own experiences leading change with BCG, they offer seven principles that constitute the core of a truly human-centered approach to successful organisational change. These range from 'Get true agreement, not false alignment' to 'Give people agency, not just involvement' to 'Expect take-up to be earned, not automatic.'
The second part of the book shifts into execution mode, providing a five-phase practical manual for putting the principles to work that is filled with tips, checklists, advice, and smart hacks for helping your transformation beat the odds, succeed, and stick.
Change doesn't fail because people resist it fails because leaders misunderstand how people really change. Whether you're launching a new initiative, stuck in a stalled transformation, or trying to rescue a failing one, How Change Really Works is your essential leader's guide.
]]>Kristy R. Ellmer is a global authority on transformation. A Managing Director and Partner at BCG, she is the global lead, emeritus, for Culture and Change Management and leads the firm's North America Transformation practice and global Behavioral Science team. She guides organizations through their largest and most complex changes, delivering multibillion-dollar value.
Philip Jameson is a senior expert in organizational change at BCG, where he serves companies undertaking transformation. He is a classical musician and was Chief of Staff for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Philip draws on his passions for economics and group decision-making to help leaders navigate complexity.
]]>This classic memoir tells the story of a remarkable Asian-American woman navigating two very different cultures a loyal wife, a widowed mother, and a bilingual breadwinner who finds her voice in a strange new world.
Follow her journey as she:
An international bestseller when first published a century ago, A Daughter of the Samurai remains a testament to a woman's resolve, strength, and endurance. This edition includes a new foreword by 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Janice P. Nimura.
]]>Janice P. Nimura is the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable book in 2015. More recently, she received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on The Doctors Blackwell, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was a journalist, author, lecturer and theatrical producer best known for the novels Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop and Kitty Foyle.
]]>The Morpho collection of anatomy drawing books has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide, as it has helped amateur, student, and professional artists alike propel their imaginative drawing and observational skills forward. Collectively, they have become today's go-to resource for artistic anatomy drawing.
This beautiful, large-format book brings together three key volumes from the Morpho collection. The shapes of the human body are explored from depth to surface, as the bone, muscle, and fat systems are covered. The book's beautiful layout and presentation make it a perfect gift for any artist.
This book includes these three volumes:
It is illustrated with over 800 drawings and accompanied by helpful and precise text. Additionally, more than 150 previously unpublished drawings complete this anthology.
]]>In this gorgeously illustrated artist's deck, creator Kevin Jay Stanton explores the biological roots of the Arcana. 78 fully painted symbolic cards rooted in classical Tarot interpretations are joined by 33 brand new Oracle cards to explore the lore and mythology of the plant kingdom. Packaged in a collectible gift box with a helpful guidebook explaining the meanings of the deck, this gorgeous box set is the perfect gift for Tarot enthusiasts, plant lovers, and all those intrigued by the symbolism and spirituality of the natural world.
]]>Love is Resistance is a collection of 77 commissioned posters by artists, musicians, writers, designers, filmmakers, actors, digital creators and voices from across the world standing in solidarity with Palestine. Each poster tells its own story recalling iconic figures, pivotal moments, poems and personal acts of remembrance and bears witness to grief while insisting on life, justice and liberation.
The posters can be torn out, framed and hung, taken to peaceful protests or kept together as an archive. This art book also includes a double-sided fold-out sticker insert, a signed set of Kyle Goen's iconic GAZA Love stamps and three posters drawn by children in Gaza, collected by the Ajyal Foundation.
Bold, heartbreaking and defiantly hopeful, Love is Resistance is a tribute to Palestinian resilience and a tool for global solidarity. This is art as resistance and solidarity in action.
]]>Forest bathing isn't just about being outside it's about truly feeling it. Well-being begins with your first steps. This deck provides activities to begin your own practice and transform any natural setting a sprawling forest, urban green spaces, or your garden into a sanctuary for your senses. Discover a unique path to peace and presence.
Note: Please be mindful of all living beings and respect all land rules. All invitations can be adapted to Leave No Trace guidelines.
Contains fifty-two full-colour cards to inspire an active connection to nature, created by two certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guides.
]]>Roxanne Cte is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide and a partner in Association Francophone. She is also a social worker and psychotherapist who has run a private practice for more than a decade.
]]>Each page of Your Guide to Forest Bathing A Journal offers space to record your experiences, thoughts, and emotions as you engage in forest bathing, whether in the woods, a public park, or your own backyard.
Through regular practice, you will realise the full benefit of forest bathing. Whether you're just beginning or already rooted in the process, this journal supports you in finding presence and healing. It helps reawaken your senses and deepen your relationship with the more-than-human world.
]]>Simply being present in the natural world, with all of our senses fully alive, can have a remarkably healing effect. It can also awaken in us our latent but profound connection with all living things. This is "forest bathing," a practice inspired by the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku. It is a gentle, meditative approach to being with nature and an antidote to our nature-starved lives that can heal our relationship with the more-than-human world.
In Your Guide to Forest Bathing, you'll discover a path that you can use to begin a practice of your own that includes specific activities presented by Amos Clifford, one of the world's most experienced forest bathing experts. Whether you're in a forest or woodland, public park, or just your own backyard, this book will be your personal guide as you explore the natural world in a way you may have never thought possible.
]]>In this lively polemic, Paul B. Jaskot confronts art history's ideological preoccupation with the art object. To unbind art history from this fixation, Jaskot proposes centring our art-historical inquiry on systems of power, rather than on the art object. Modelling this shift, Jaskot asks: what might an art history of oppression, power and barbarism look like? The study that follows is divided into three parts empire, war and labour which each draw from a constellation of examples, ranging from the architecture of the early modern era to that of Nazi Germany, from the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary exhibition making.
Also featuring a photo essay by Steve Harp, this book presents a prescient case for how art history can make a meaningful contribution to understanding systems of power and why such a project is needed now more than ever.
Paul B. Jaskot's The Tyranny of the Object is the third title for Power Polemics, a series that puts art hard up against political and personal viewpoints from some of the leading thinkers and writers in the field today.
]]>Steve Harp is an Associate Professor of Photography and Media Art in the Art School at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in studio practice as well as seminars on photography, contemporary art, cultural studies, and literature. His artwork primarily investigates questions of history, place, ephemerality, transience, and liminality. His work is most often presented in the form of the photographic artist's book.
]]>In 2008, he founded the UK government's In Harmony programme, facilitating access to music for children from less privileged backgrounds. Julian was the only classical musician chosen to play at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
In 2015, following his forced retirement due to injury, he was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a role he held for five years.
Julian is a lifelong Leyton Orient supporter and was the London Underground's first official busker.
]]>From vivid descriptions of Julian's childhood in one of the world's most famous musical dynasties to unfiltered stories from his collaborations with such stars as Elton John, Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelli, Philip Glass, and his brother, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bows and Arrows reveals a cut-throat world of agents, promoters, record companies, violin dealers and substance abuse, laying bare the classical music profession as never before.
With refreshing honesty and humour, Julian recounts the break-up of three of his four marriages, his lifelong passion for ensuring that every child should have a chance to play a musical instrument and his devastation at the 2014 injury that forced him to stop playing and sell his Stradivarius cello. This earth-shattering loss, however, led to a new calling, prompting Julian's appointment as principal of a leading royal conservatoire and his re-emergence as a tireless champion of music education, working closely with politicians including Gordon Brown, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson.
Culminating in Julian's return to the stage for the first time in twelve years, this is a powerful story of passion, loss and a life reborn.
]]>In 2008, he founded the UK government's In Harmony programme, facilitating access to music for children from less privileged backgrounds. Julian was the only classical musician chosen to play at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
In 2015, following his forced retirement due to injury, he was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a role he held for five years.
Julian is a lifelong Leyton Orient supporter and was the London Underground's first official busker.
]]>Despite a relationship historically marred by mistrust and unmet expectations, the two regimes have worked together to promote their common interests in Syria, where battlefield coordination soon developed into much deeper political alignment. Drawing on extensive Russian and Persian primary sources, and interviews with elites from both countries, Nicole Grajewski uncovers the drivers of ever-closer cooperation between the Kremlin and the Islamic Republic. Detailing the internal structures, shared anxieties and broader ambitions underpinning this alignment, she explores the genesis of Russia and Iran's mutual antagonism towards the Western-led global order; the impact of deep-seated leadership concerns over regime security and domestic protests; and the future trajectory of the partnership within the larger world order.
Examining both military dynamics and economic endeavours, as well as elaborate sanctions evasion schemes and collaboration within international organisations, this is the definitive account of contemporary Russia-Iran relations.
]]>Qaddafi: Beyond the Myth provides a comprehensive look at the forces that shaped Qaddafi and enabled him to become the world's longest-ruling head of state. It also provides essential information for anyone attempting to understand the division, confusion and chaos that has dominated post-Qaddafi Libya.
]]>Civil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons. By contrast, the major forms of interpersonal violence homicide, intimate partner violence, and severe physical punishment of children generally have a much lower profile.
In Worse than War, Anke Hoeffler and James Fearon assemble and analyze the data on the global prevalence and costs of collective and interpersonal violence. They show that interpersonal violence is vastly more widespread and imposes far greater societal costs than collective violence. Wars tend to be concentrated in a small number of countries, and often relatively small areas within them. By contrast, almost all countries have rates of homicide and nonfatal assault, particularly of women and children, that far exceed the global average rates of death and injury in wars and terrorism.
Hoeffler and Fearon argue that high rates of interpersonal violence are not simply fixed by culture or other structural factors. Evidence from a host of program evaluations, natural experiments, and longer-term social movements make it clear that rates of homicide, intimate partner violence, and severe physical punishment of children can be reduced if they are effectively targeted. Interventions that promote peace in civil wartorn countries are also possible, but the opportunities are few and increasingly far between. Drawing on ideas and methods from many fields economics, political science, public health, psychology, sociology, and others the authors show that money and policy efforts directed toward reducing interpersonal violence thus merit higher priority both within countries and by international donors.
]]>From the celebrated author of Limber, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist or embrace evolution a book about time, for our time.
Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched tadpoles transform. She basked in the warmth of her father's love but was burned by his rage, and she witnessed a sudden, unnamable change occur in her older sister after an encounter with a stranger in a white van. In adulthood, she survived the explosion of her marriage, the destruction of her burning home, and a year spent as the single mother of a toddler without a home of their own. And like us all, she has weathered the upheaval of our current atmosphere political instability, climate change, mass extinction.
But in spite of the world's violence, Pelster manages to remain open to its beauty, deciding not to resist change, but to give herself over to it and let evolution make her into a new animal. She plumbs the depths of ancestral knowledge to uncover the scale of our ancient capacity for adaptation, from humankind's early harnessing of fire to the grandmothers responsible for our continued existence.
Meditative and curious, pulsing with fascination, fear, and the untameable human spirit, The Evolution of Fire contemplates who we are now and what we still might become.
]]>These basic techniques help you survive in the wild and be prepared for everyday challenges and extreme situations. The Ultimate Wilderness Survival Guide enables you to always be fully prepared...for fun!
]]>A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they're set. Travelling mostly on foot, and camping along the way amid some of Scotland's most beautiful and rugged landscapes, Dougie Strang encounters a depth of meaning to the tales he tracks one that offers a unique perspective on place, culture, land ownership and ecological stewardship, as well as insights into his own entanglement with place.
Dougie sets out on his walk at the beginning of October, which also marks the start of the red deer rut. The bellowing of stags forms the soundtrack to his journey and is a reminder that, as well as mapping invisible landscapes of story, he is also exploring the tangible, living landscape of the present.
]]>Author of multiple bestselling craft books and creator of hundreds of DIY tutorials, Lia believes that making something beautiful with your hands is one of life's most meaningful acts. Her work has been featured in major publications and her online community continues to flourish as a space for creativity, connection, and joy.
From her studio in Portland, Oregon, Lia designs with intention creating not just projects, but experiences that bring calm and beauty into everyday life.
]]>Her background in design and her patient, methodical approach to flower making have elevated the craft to new heights of realism and beauty. Meagan's flowers seem to breathe with life each petal carefully considered, each colour choice deliberate and inspired.
Together, Lia and Meagan have created a body of work that honours both the meditative process of making and the joy of sharing handmade beauty with others. Their collaboration represents the heart of what community crafting can be generous, inspiring, and deeply connected to the simple pleasure of creating something wonderful with your hands.
]]>Transform your creative space into a blooming sanctuary with this comprehensive guide to crafting stunning crepe paper flowers. In Paper Flower Garden, renowned paper artist Lia Griffith, along with paper flower designer Meagan Donnelly, share their techniques for creating lifelike botanical beauties.
This immersive garden-themed experience features 28 unique flower designs organised into seven seasonal garden sections. Each project includes beautiful photography, detailed step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and QR codes that link to exclusive video demonstrations of techniques. Learn to work with premium crepe paper like a master, understanding grain direction, stretch properties, and advanced colouring techniques that bring depth and realism to every petal. Beyond individual flowers, discover the art of arrangement with seasonal palettes, styling techniques, and complete flower 'recipes' for bouquets and centrepieces.
Here's what you'll learn:
Complete with templates, supply resources, and access to bonus online content, Paper Flower Garden is your entry into a world of story, place, and imagination as you learn to master the art of making crepe paper flowers and arrangements. As you learn this craft, you will also learn to slow down, reconnect with your creativity, and bring more beauty into your daily life.
Welcome to your paper garden, where patience blooms into beauty, and every flower holds a moment of peace.
]]>Native artists have always been central to hard, heavy music: surf rock, hard rock, heavy funk, straight edge, thrash, rap metal, grunge, grind core, and especially black metal. Natives have made their own uniquely Indigenous hard music forms, pre-Hispanic metal in Latin America, Navajo rez metal, and experimental ambient metal in the far north.
Beginning with Link Wray's trailblazing guitar sound that gave birth to punk and metal as we know them today and culminating in contemporary acts like the all-female, Maori doom metal and punk band Death and Hatred to Mankind, this eye-opening, encyclopaedic history of Native bands and musicians spans the last 60 years. Historian and professor Al Carroll teaches us to listen critically to spot imposters and bigotry, while celebrating the explosion of Indigenous bands during the rise of thrash and later nu-metal, how Native artists in the so-called U.S. gained popularity and radio play overseas while their releases were censored in the States, and the 'harder than you' grit of bands originating on Pacific islands.
There's something in this book for every hard music fan. Pick it up if you're looking for a new way to see the music and culture around you or inspiration to create something of meaning to your own community and roots. Get ready to learn about your new favourite band, deepen your understanding of the music you love, and think critically about the dominant culture.
]]>Who says you need a film degree, fancy equipment, or studio backing to fulfil your filmmaking dreams? Make your own movies, music videos, documentaries, vlogs, and more with the expert guidance of this approachable, illustrated guide to doing it yourself.
This revised edition of the beloved classic now with a new introduction provides all the essential information a budding filmmaker needs, free of jargon or elitist obstacles. With Professor Know-It-All as your lively guide, you'll learn why movies move us, how film and video cameras work, how to light and expose shots, how to create eye-catching compositions, how to record crystal-clear sound, and more.
Designed for video artists, journalists, content creators, or anyone inspired to pick up a camera (including the one on your phone!), the Professor and his helpful cast of companions give you all the technical knowledge you need to bring your brightest ideas to life-and to the screen.
]]>Tired of the mansplaining? Ready to smile when and only when you feel like it? Cheers to that! It's time to celebrate the ladies who lift you up and roast the societal expectations that bring you down.
When They Go Low, We Go Highball features all your favourite tipples but with a feminist twist from a Mai Time Has Come to a Cointreau v. Wade to a Catcall Crusher plus all-new concoctions to refresh, delight, and fuel your inner fire. Sip an Old-Fashioned: 19th Amendment Edition, or stir up a pitcher of Aperol Spritzerhoods to share with your book club, your cat ladies, and all the important women in your life.
With fifty easy-to-make cocktails and mocktails, you'll be toasting to a female future in no time, so gather your coven, stock up your home bar, and get ready to smash that patriarchy.
]]>Amy Palmer is a former early childhood educator and lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, and has published on children's literature and education.
]]>At a time of biodiversity loss and climate grief, we need to reset our relationship with the natural world. Cynefin helps us hear the voices of people down the centuries who have, through poetry, expressed a different way of connecting with the living world around us.
Carwyn Graves explores how the Welsh poetic tradition offers a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world, and demonstrates its power to help us address the challenges we face.
Find fresh perspectives from themes of grief and loss mediated through snow and the cuckoo's song, to ecological sensibilities in medieval poems and the generosity of the water that drives the water wheel. In a thousand years of poetry we see the natural world portrayed not as a pristine realm but a human home; bittersweet as well as welcoming. Above all Carwyn invites us through these poems, to encounter the living world in seagulls and sheepflocks, a lake or wheatfield not in the abstract but in all its sparkling specificity
]]>Nicole is both a queer artist and graphic designer and is widely known for her iconic work on the Women's March on Washington logo. She is the author, designer and illustrator of a number of books including Girl Almighty and Small & Mighty, interactive activist journals for kids as well as Kids' Guide to Backyard Birds, Bugs and Trees, field guides for kids. She has recently collaborated with human rights lawyer, Kate Kelly on a book titled Ordinary Equality, a brilliantly graphic story of the women and queer people of the ERA. Nicole is also a tattoo artist apprentice and uses her brilliant illustration skills in this new work!
She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
]]>Follow your heart's wisdom with these artfully crafted and drop-dead-gorgeous tarot cards. This unique deck features beautiful, original illustrations incorporating the shape of the human heart and elements of the natural world into each tarot archetype. Rendered in a striking block print style, with rich textures and a black and red colour palette, the powerful imagery of these cards will call forth your heart's true interpretations. For readings, divination, inspiration, or as part of a creative practice, use this deck to feel into the answers you seek, with your heart as your wise guide.
]]>Nicole is both a queer artist and graphic designer and is widely known for her iconic work on the Women's March on Washington logo. She is the author, designer and illustrator of a number of books including Girl Almighty and Small & Mighty, interactive activist journals for kids as well as Kids' Guide to Backyard Birds, Bugs and Trees, field guides for kids. She has recently collaborated with human rights lawyer, Kate Kelly on a book titled Ordinary Equality, a brilliantly graphic story of the women and queer people of the ERA. Nicole is also a tattoo artist apprentice and uses her brilliant illustration skills in this new work!
She currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
]]>Anchored in the tradition of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, Crystal Keys Tarot pairs the symbolism of the cards with the colourful imagery of powerful crystals from all over the world. Each card, beautifully rendered as if seemingly carved from the stone itself, echoes the energy, aura, and texture of a crystal specifically chosen to match the card's archetype and imagery.
With Crystal Keys Tarot, the tarot reader will now learn about the metaphysical properties of a variety of crystals, while those interested in crystal healing can use the relationship with precious stones to learn the ways of all seventy-eight cards. By combining tarot and crystals, you can better comprehend the archetypes of each card and discover something new.
This deluxe boxed set contains 78 gilt-edged cards and a 176-page full-colour guidebook.
]]>Amalia Drewes is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator deeply inspired by the natural world, divine femininity, and spiritual oneness. Through her art, she invites viewers to open their intuitive hearts to the beauty of life and the sacredness of death. Amalia graduated from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in illustration. She continues to explore oracle symbolism, mysticism, and the unseen worlds. As a graphic designer, she has collaborated on a variety of creative projects, including the album Immigrance by Grammy Award-winner Snarky Puppy and the poetry book The Mandala Meditations by Maddi Cheers. Additionally, Amalia is a storyteller of traditional myths and legends, as well as a dedicated teacher of art and meditation. She founded her own business, Visual Remedies, to support individuals during times of grief and loss through the transformative healing powers of art and nature combined. To view her work please visit amaliadrewes.com.
]]>In the wild, windswept lands of the North, myths were never mere stories. They were living wisdom a map of the soul, a dialogue with the animate world, and a source of primal strength. Tales of Odin's quest for wisdom, Freyja's fierce magic, Thor's thunderous journeys, and the World Tree Yggdrasil connecting all realms were told not to escape reality, but to plunge more deeply into its vibrant, sacred heart.
Whispers of the Elder Gods is an invitation to experience Norse mythology as it was meant to be alive, transformative, and deeply personal. This is not a history book or an archaeological study. It is a practical guide to animistic spirituality and shamanic practice, rooted in the oldest traditions of Northern Europe. Here, you will learn how to:
Step out of the mundane and into the circle of the hearthfire. Let the whispers of the Elder Gods guide you back to your wild, wise, and untamed core.
Are you ready to answer the call?
]]>Each page of Ancient Spells and Incantations holds verses adapted from text unearthed through extensive research grimoires, letters, and trial transcripts from across the ages and around the world. Many of these were tucked away in university libraries not easily accessible even to one actively in search of them. Enid Baxter Ryce painstakingly researched this collection, finding fragments from across the centuries.
Translating some from Latin and Old English herself, Enid has made the spells accessible to today's witches. What was once whispered or chanted, spiraling in cursive, or carved in stone, still echoes like a song. The words that survived connect us to that ancient magic, and we can feel the truth and power.
As we marvel at these ancient magical words, we think of our ancestors. Thanks to them, scraps of papyrus, shards of pottery, secret books, and hissed recipes can, hundreds of years later, still show themselves to those who seek them.
]]>China's most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country's leaders is only growing today. Yet these timeless debates which are very likely to influence the answers to such questions as whether China should use military force to take control of Taiwan are still far too little understood in the West. In this enlightening and entertaining book, Daniel Bell, a leading expert on Chinese political thought, takes the greatest thinkers from China's past Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang, Han Feizi, Zhuangzi, and Mozi and puts them in dialogue with each other in modern settings. The result is a creative and engaging introduction to ancient Chinese political thought that reveals its relevance to the future of China and the rest of the world.
Before China's unification in 221 BCE, the brilliant political thinkers who founded Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Mohism roamed from state to state, argued with each other, and tried to persuade rulers to follow their ideas. Bell draws on their debates about such perennial issues as war, corruption, government involvement in family life, and whether the state should subsidise culture to create vivid imaginative dialogues about important contemporary social and political controversies.
China's political thinking is rooted in its past. Understanding what ancient Chinese political thought can teach us about today's critical debates is essential to understanding the future of China and the world.
]]>The Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling excursion across science and history to explore how evolution generates new and enduring features in biology, culture, and technology.
Erwin begins by tracing how thinkers from Darwin's time to the present day have sought to discover the driving mechanisms of evolutionary novelty. He then lays out compelling empirical evidence for separating novelty from innovation, showing how novelty involves the emergence of unique characteristics while innovation has to do with the success of those characteristics across time. Erwin develops a unifying conceptual framework for these powerful dynamics, demonstrating how they have shaped everything from the evolution of avian feathers and flight to the creation of human language and the breathtaking advances in digital computing we're witnessing today.
A landmark work that redefines our understanding of the changes happening all around us, The Origins of the New reveals how the forces of novelty and innovation are the same across nature and culture, continually producing new forms and refashioning the world as we know it.
Published in association with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
]]>'Can machines think?' Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing's paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson was actually smarter than Jeopardy! champions, or if ChatGPT really knows what it's talking about. In Thinking AI, computer scientist John MacCormick explores Turing's question from a perspective informed by a detailed understanding of the way modern AI systems work. MacCormick explains, in accessible fashion, the ideas behind the two main pillars of the twenty-first century AI revolution: deep neural networks and reinforcement learning.
MacCormick offers a tour of the most famous AI systems, including AlexNet and VGG16, deep neural networks for object recognition that led to a Nobel prize; DeepMind's AlphaGo, which shocked AI researchers with its superhuman performance in the game of Go; and OpenAI's ChatGPT, which stunned the world with its natural language capabilities. He describes how each system works, and points to parallels with human brain processes. Both human minds and computer programs, MacCormick explains, can induce intelligence through emergence: the capability for new phenomena to emerge from the interactions of many small, simple components. Does this mean that a computer program can think like a human? In many ways, MacCormick argues, the answer is yes. In Thinking AI, he reveals a new landscape of emergent intelligence a world in which computer programs can emulate many or all aspects of human thinking but humanity retains its meaning and purpose.
]]>The story behind the mythical figure of 'the Wandering Jew' is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award-winning historian Yair Mintzker traces the tale back to its source, follows its many metamorphoses through five centuries, and relates it to the fraught present moment.
According to a mysterious pamphlet published in 1602, the Wandering Jew was a real person, named Ahasversus, who was cursed by Jesus to eternal wandering after refusing to help him as he was led to his crucifixion. For more than four hundred years, many otherwise reliable witnesses have claimed to have seen the Wandering Jew. Moving in reverse chronological order, I, Wandering Jew explores crucial episodes in the story of this figure. We meet an unforgettable, Wandering Jew-like character who appeared out of nowhere in Israel in the 1950s; a nineteenth-century novelist who was the first Jew to favourably describe the Wandering Jew; an eighteenth-century German scholar who saw the Wandering Jew emerging from a devastating fire; and the man who likely inspired the 1602 pamphlet.
A work of history that reads like a detective story, I, Wandering Jew is also part memoir. As Mintzker discovers affinities between his own story and that of the Wandering Jew, the surprising history of an old antisemitic trope and its meanings becomes a profound meditation on home and exile, Judaism and Christianity, poetry and truth, the deep past and the present.
]]>This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful colour photos.
Fodor's 'Essential' guides have been named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Portugal travel guide includes:
This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful colour photos.
Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential Iceland travel guide includes:
In this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.
McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territory only to be surprised by their benevolent actions.
Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humans even once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.
This book chronicles Rick's journey, explains his values, and brings readers up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Rick's calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humour like the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an...Arctic ground squirrel.
'There is literally no one else who could tell these stories.' NBC
'The chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world.' Washington Post
'Like Darwin, McIntyre is an inclusionist and is thus able to enter the hearts and minds of wolves.' Mountain Journal
'Rick McIntyre is the ultimate guru of wolf behaviour.' Jane Goodall
]]>Part of our everyday lives, full of flavour and shifting with the seasons, vegetables are a diverse and integral plant group that we depend on for nutrients and sustenance. From cabbages to sweetcorn, delicious plants from around the world are celebrated in this pocketbook with beautiful historical illustrations.
The Library and Archives at Kew is one of the most extensive botanical libraries in the world, with the oldest item dating back to the 1370s. An introductory chapter by Kew expert Helena Dove provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting.
A must-have gift item printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil luxury finish.
]]>This book uncovers the broad variety of China's plants, from the everyday staples of rice and tea to the sacred significance of lotus and peony flowers. For millennia, plants have played an important role in Chinese culture, with rich histories and symbolic weight. Even a humble houseplant like the lucky 'money plant', with round leaves resembling coins, is attached to multiple legends and utilised in Feng Shui to attract prosperity and abundance.
An introductory chapter by Kew expert Alex Summers provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting. A must-have gift item printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil luxury finish.
]]>Staying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the lessons and inheritances of being raised by survivors of complex traumas, the book challenges the notion that one must be healed in order to parent well and celebrates the transformative power of queer family-making beyond gay marriage and assimilation into the nuclear family.
The book, which recounts the author's experiences of raising three children in a four-parent queer family, asks, 'If leaving has helped you survive, how do you learn to stay?' Sharman finds answers in queer kinship, femme erotics, leatherdyke lineages, and the radical possibilities inherent in doing motherwork outside of motherhood, recognising that sometimes you fight the thing you want most.
Staying Power is a moving, deeply personal account of one person's journey of unlearning independence through an experiment in queer collective care.
]]>Pregnancy can be a wild ride full of changes, unknowns, and excitement. Capture the moments big and small in this keepsake journal. Inside you'll find guidance for each week of pregnancy from the experts at Mayo Clinic, to help you manage each phase of your baby's development with confidence including when to expect to feel baby kicks, how to relieve nausea and back pain, how to care for your mental health during and after pregnancy, and what's 'normal' in each trimester.Reflective prompts empower you as you prepare to meet your baby. Monthly pages provide a spot for tracking key measurements from your prenatal checkups.
Inside you'll also find:
Whether you're tracking each day or just the highlights, Mayo Clinic Pregnancy Journal is your one-stop personalised resource for a healthy pregnancy and a confident, empowered start to your journey in parenthood.
]]>Since it was first published, Sofonisba's Lesson has ushered in a major reassessment of Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), a remarkable painter who changed the image of women's education in Europe and transformed Western attitudes about who could be an artist. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Cole reconsiders some central questions of authorship and shares the major discoveries that have been made since this influential book first came out.
The daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house, Sofonisba produced more self-portraits than any known painter before her. She was the first known artist to use her parents and siblings as primary subjects and may have painted the first group portrait featuring only women. Recent research also reveals her to have been not only a key model for painters around her but also the rare Italian Renaissance artist to take up a subject demonstrably related to the reform of the Catholic Church.
The expanded volume offers new assessments of paintings whose status has long been uncertain. Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date illustrated catalog of the more than two hundred known paintings and drawings that writers have associated with Sofonisba over the centuries, Sofonisba's Lesson will remain the definitive account of the artist and her work for decades to come.
]]>When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new attractions. In this fascinating book, Roland Betancourt tells the story of how the visionary engineers and designers at Disney transformed the technologies of the postwar assembly line into an entertainment experience unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation traces the origins and evolution of these technical innovations during the theme park's first three decades in operation, exploring how engineers reimagined the systems and machines of industrial manufacturing and the military. The magnetic tape used to test ballistic missiles was repurposed to animate the talking macaws in the Enchanted Tiki Room. Programmable Logic Controllers, widely used on automotive assembly lines, brought to life the spectacular rides of the Matterhorn Bobsleds and Space Mountain. Betancourt shows how these and other attractions helped to allay fears about automation and job displacement in 1950s America. Along the way, he situates Disneyland's remarkable creations within a broader history of the technologies that increasingly order and construct the world around us, from the Fordist factory to artificial intelligence.
Essential reading for anyone interested in engineering, corporate histories, or popular culture, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation invites us to consider how technology and the logic of automation become integrated into our lives through entertainment.
]]>Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney's 'imagineers' have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement parks, and merchandising. Drawing on extensive interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, union organisers, and Disney 'adults' alike, Osterweil unearths reactionary political commitments and maleficent legal manoeuvres so cartoonishly evil they would make one of Walt's own animated villains blush.
Along the way, Osterweil braids together corporate skullduggery with a not entirely unsympathetic analysis of some of Disney's most famous movies. The result is an entertaining and convincing case that Disney's entire business model has been built upon a ruthless and fanatical insistence on intellectual property rights from Steamboat Willie to Avengers: Infinity War and beyond!
]]>Around 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive vocal training. Castrati were long mired in secrecy, obfuscations, and lies about their origin and conditions, not least the last of them, Alessandro Moreschi. Musicologist Martha Feldman declines to accept these deep-seated mysteries and concealments. After a decade and more of digging through archives and family histories comes her exciting transdisciplinary and quasi-cinematic account of Moreschi, whose recordings preserve the only sonic trace of a solo castrato.
Yet Moreschi's story extends far beyond him. It opens up intrigues, politics, and histories of the Vatican, everyday histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Rome, the world of Roman opera, the city's unique melange of sacred and vernacular tropes, and representations of Rome by iconic film director Federico Fellini. Moreschi and Fellini turn out to have been related by marriage, but also to share synergies grounded in Rome's persistent inclination to vernacularise the sacred. Far from telling of one anomalous figure, Feldman's gripping history convinces readers that Moreschi, like Fellini, can be read as an improbable index of Roman consciousness, both during his own life and well beyond.
]]>The First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on the lives of key leaders, including Mirabeau, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, and Napoleon. Acclaimed historian Jeremy D. Popkin brings this often-forgotten story to life, highlighting the arguments put forward by French abolitionists and their opponents and the profound repercussions of the first abolition of slavery in a Western empire.
When the French revolutionaries passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789, they immediately faced a burning question: did that document's first article "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" apply to the 800,000 enslaved Black people in the country's colonies? Over the next dozen years, revolutionary leaders fought over this question. The First Emancipation tells how French lawmakers initially protected slavery in their constitution but reversed themselves in 1794, making France the first western country to abolish slavery throughout its empire. Yet only eight years later, in 1802, Napoleon tried to force the emancipated Black populations of the colonies back into slavery. His decision led to his first major military defeat and to the proclamation of the independence of the Black nation of Haiti, but also to the reestablishment of slavery in other French colonies, where it would not finally be abolished until 1848.
The story of how France emancipated its enslaved people and declared them full citizens only to return many of them to bondage, The First Emancipation reveals that the course of abolition in the modern world was more winding and halting than is often remembered.
]]>Navigations reexamines these Portuguese quests by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. Malyn Newitt also narrates these voyages of discovery in the framework of Portuguese politics, describing the role of the Portuguese ruling dynasty including its female members in the flowering of the Portuguese Renaissance, the creation of the Renaissance state with its distinctive ideology, and in the cultural changes that took place within a wider European context.
]]>After a night behind bars in Miami, Froelich lands in Guatemala City. Riotous road trips follow, with our man perpetually wasted on booze and cocaine but fuelled by a passionate curiosity about people from all walks of life.
His guide? Antonio, a sweet-natured, streetwise hotel concierge who shepherds him through Antigua, Lake Atitln, Monterrico and ultimately into the interior, where gringos are rare and deeply suspect.
Next, Froelich strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anabella, a glamorous, garrulous, middle-aged woman, and mooches a stay in her elite gated community, which bristles with armed guards and famous eccentrics.
Unapologetically raw and darkly funny, Froelich explores the absurdities of the human condition, Guatemala-style. Ever wondered what it's like to go completely off the map of sanity and sense? Here's your ticket.
]]>As ever, the characters with whom Steven ingratiates himself become his surrogate (dysfunctional) family. But Tracey, Devonais, Ask Bobby!, Valentino and a pack of kids led by the feral Molokai soon have Steven suspecting that his cheerfully transactional relationships are, in fact, ensnaring him in a web of scams. Will he be left for broke, stranded in this shabby paradise? Is his paranoia justifiable, or the result of continuous cocaine use? His response is to embark with the gang on a road trip along the coast, taking in shantytowns, hotels, beaches and, at a low ebb, jail.
Coarse, irresponsible and wilfully uninformed, Froelich is nevertheless observant and interested. Belize is about the ways in which chaotic, complex human beings find community, no matter where they're from or where they're headed.
]]>Silman joined the British Army in 1939 as a medical officer. In 1940, he was one of the last soldiers to be shipped out during the mass retreat from Dunkirk. In 1942, his division was assigned to assist in the defence of Singapore, but arrived just before the island fell to Japan. Captain Silman spent the rest of the war in the notorious Changi POW camp as well as in the northernmost camps of the notorious Burma Railway, where he tended to Allied forced-labourers.
Throughout, Silman kept diaries in secret illegal and dangerous for a POW. He wrote regular accounts of his harrowing experiences in the camps when he himself was weakened and exhausted, caring as best he could for hundreds of ill, wounded and dying men. Articulate, graphic, compassionate and lit with good humour, the diaries have been edited with care and illuminating commentary by Silman's daughter, Jacqueline Passman.
'A first-hand account of major events in the Second World War, rich with personal anecdotes and stories of friendship and faith.' Jewish Telegraph
]]>The unravelling of the post-Cold War order has intensified geopolitical tensions, driving a global increase in defence spending. Most military organisations are engaged in a process of drastic transformation, trying to scale their activities, learn from contemporary battlefields, and improve readiness. Yet armed forces engaged in such reforms must solve a major dilemma: how to adapt to an uncertain future without losing their current identity, coherence or operational effectiveness.
In this incisive and timely study, Olivier Schmitt explores how modern militaries adapt, or fail to adapt, to evolving threats, technologies and political constraints. Drawing on global case-studies from the trenches of Ukraine to the halls of the People's Liberation Army leadership he investigates how social expectations, political constraints and organisational cultures collide in the worldwide quest to reform the military.
Essential reading for defence professionals, policymakers and scholars of international security, Preparing for War equips readers with the tools to grasp not only the 'how' but the 'why' behind military transformation. In an era of rising defence budgets and shrinking certainties, this book delivers crucial insights into the future of war and the institutions that must be ready for it.
'Effective military change is central to success in war. Schmitt provides a powerful analytical framework for understanding how armed forces adapt and when they innovate. He shows how technology, civilmilitary relations and organisational flexibility interact to drive change. In the era of the Ukraine War, this book is indispensable.' Theo Farrell, Vice-Chancellor and President, La Trobe University
'Schmitt's dissection of the mechanics and dynamics of military transformation are particularly helpful for planners and practitioners. He offers a timeless analytical grid focusing on cognitive, institutional and relational structures applicable to our current context of major and multi-dimensional systemic change. A tall task and an original approach, masterfully accomplished.' Beatrice Heuser, Head of Strategy, General Staff College of the German Bundeswehr, and author of Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions
'A first-rate analysis of change across the full spectrum of war, from adapting to various types of conflict to understanding the influence of military cultures. Schmitt examines the latest developments for the integration of AI, dual-use technologies and future systems warfare: essential reading for the modern strategist.' Rob Johnson, Director of the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford
'An indispensable guide for leaders who must resolve the enduring tension between exploiting existing capabilities and exploring novel solutions. Comprehensive yet practical, enthusiastically recommended for institutional leaders and students of innovation.' Frank Hoffman, author of Mars Adapting: Military Change During War
'In this incisive study, Olivier Schmitt, one of our most readable and informative scholars of modern warfare, explores how modern militaries adapt to evolving threats and technologies. Drawing on global case studies, he examines the collision of organisational culture and political constraints in the quest for transformation.' Peter J. Dombrowski, William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics, U.S. Naval War College
]]>Colonial history, floral symbolism and the mythologies surrounding plants are explored in new mediums which invite readers to engage in a nuanced dialogue about the intersections of politics, botany, culture, art and colonial heritage. An introduction to the Singh Twins is provided by best-selling author Janina Ramirez.
]]>If you've ever felt lost, stuck in a downward spiral, or longed for something deeper and more meaningful, New Moon Life Design is for you. With the moon's cycles as your guide, learn how to harness lunar energy to create practical, personal pathways to manifest the life you've always wanted.
New Moon Life Design guides you through a full year, beginning with a new moon of your choosing. The new moon is a dark and invisible portal and serves as the most potent time for setting intentions and defining personal goals. From there, follow the lunar rhythm waxing, full, waning and returning again, spiraling deeper each time. You'll learn:
New Moon Life Design has everything you need to understand the interworking of tarot and astrology, plus instructions for keeping a journal for your spiral practice.
This isn't just a system. It's a devotion. A practice of returning to yourself again and again. You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be present.
]]>Kamden also teaches classes on foraging, survival, and field herbalism in the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as classes on tarot, alchemy, and witchcraft practices. They own a small, witchcraft-based business called Heart & Vine Apothecary that focuses on herbal remedies and ritual goods. They are also the author of Ars Granorum: The Six Seed Arts of Witchcraft. They are a regular columnist for Noumenia News, the periodical publication released by the Covenant of Hekate.
]]>On Pins and Needles is a practical, grounded guide to the powerful magic of poppets and dolls. Blending deep traditional roots with insights from years of personal work, Kamden Cornell offers a thorough exploration of the creation, empowerment, and use of magical figures across a wide range of practices.
Inside the book, you'll find overviews of materia, construction methods, activation techniques, and deployment strategies-everything needed to bring these magical constructs to life with purpose and precision. The author shares not only time-tested practices but also original charms and workings, many of which appear here for the first time, providing readers with fresh tools to add to their craft.
Whether you are new to doll magic or seeking to deepen an existing practice, On Pins and Needles serves as both a complete workbook and an inspiring source of ideas. Each page invites you to view effigies and simulacra not simply as vessels of intent but as living participants in your magical work.
Rooted in traditional frameworks while offering a contemporary, flexible approach, this book supports practitioners across different paths, including witchcraft, folk magic, ceremonial practice, and beyond. Through careful instruction and practical wisdom, it opens the door to a richer, more dynamic relationship with the figures you create and the forces you call upon.
]]>Kamden also teaches classes on foraging, survival, and field herbalism in theSandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as classes on tarot,alchemy, and witchcraft practices. They own a small, witchcraft-based business called Heart & Vine Apothecary that focuses on herbal remedies and ritual goods. They are also the author of Ars Granorum: The Six Seed Arts of Witchcraft. They are a regular columnist for Noumenia News, the periodical publication released by the Covenant of Hekate.
]]>Discover the Secrets of the Future
In times of uncertainty, people have always looked for signs. Fate or Fortune by Icy Sedgwick is a captivating exploration of divination throughout history, blending folklore, cultural context, and practical application. From tarot cards and animal omens to divining meaning from food and clouds, this book examines how ordinary people sought to understand their lives through signs and symbols.
Grounded in historical research and rich with fascinating folklore, Sedgwick revives ancient methods for today's world. Whether it's cruelty-free adaptations of entrail readings or seasonal divinations tied to holidays, Fate or Fortune shows how traditional practices can be reimagined for contemporary life.
Perfect for modern diviners, folklore fans, and anyone fascinated by the intersection of belief and storytelling, Fate or Fortune offers a thoughtful, accessible, and engaging guide to both the why and how of divination. With a balance between fate and free will, this is an essential companion for those seeking insight past, present, and future.
]]>Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by more than 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge worn-out stereotypes. This collection gives voice to diverse experiences including foster care, adoption, kinship care and semi-independent living, among others. Headlines written about care often entrench negative ideas and dominate the narrative, leaving care-experienced people with nothing but crumbs. This anthology is an opportunity to redirect the dialogue and present a window into a world that has been overlooked for too long.
Free Loaves on Fridays presents a spectrum of joy and sadness, laughter and tears, love and loss, and reminds us that bread tastes so much better when it's been chosen.
'Incredible read and desperately important...This perfectly structured and perfectly edited collection should be on everybody's must-read list for 2024' Lucy Easthope, Sunday Times-bestselling author of When the Dust Settles
'The most important book you will read in 2024. Absolutely gripped from the first page. It is more than just a book' Chris Wild, author of The State of It and Damaged
'Please do read Free Loaves on Fridays, it's an emotional journey that will make you cry and laugh. But most of all understand the reality of our care system and why it absolutely must change' Emma Lewell-Buck, MP for South Shields and former social worker
]]>Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills. The Career Arts provides a corrective to the widespread and misleading notion that there is a direct trade-off between going to college and acquiring practical job skills. Ben Wildavsky cuts through the noise and anxiety surrounding this issue to offer sensible, clear-eyed guidance for anyone who is making decisions about education and career preparation with a view to getting ahead in the workforce.
Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Wildavsky shares the most vital lessons of what he calls the career arts, which include cultivating a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits, and preparing for the world as it is, not as you wish it could be. He explains why college remains the gold standard of credentials, and presents the most promising high-quality supplements and alternatives to college that can help learners combine general and job-specific skills. He shows how building social capital is also critical to success, particularly for disadvantaged students.
An invaluable guidebook for students, parents, counsellors, and educators, The Career Arts reveals why college education and job preparation are not either-or propositions and identifies the blend of education and networking needed to support real-world career aspirations.
]]>Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister's destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mother's hoarding, and her own struggles with binge eating. As for so many of us, addiction brought about self-loathing, reflecting her individual failure to exercise self-control, to keep it together. But during her fieldwork studying chemical exposure in Mexico City, her sense of addiction got turned upside down. She witnessed her neighbours, both young and old, defiantly celebrate their compulsive dependencies on alcohol, drugs, and junk food instead of hiding them in shame. Roberts began to wonder if everything she thought she knew about addiction was wrong.
In Praise of Addiction shares the unexpected journey that led Roberts to a new understanding of addiction. Taking lessons from her years in Mexico City as well as from addiction researchers, harm reduction activists, and scholars of religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Roberts pays close attention to the external forces that so often fuel the damage of addiction. As her neighbors in Mexico City suggest, the adverse health effects brought on by their dependencies on Coca-Cola, processed foods, drugs, and alcohol have more to do with the ongoing effects of the drug war and NAFTA than any personal failings. Taking up this ecological framework, Roberts draws a line between vice that isolates and addiction that connects, a distinction she movingly integrates into her own life and family, making a case for sharing in the pleasures and suffering of dependency.
Provocative and deeply humane, In Praise of Addiction invites readers to cast aside the shame, self-hatred, and judgment associated with addiction and discover how dependency can serve as a binding force worthy of our most profound devotion.
]]>While generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counsellors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern takes readers into the workspaces of the music industry to show how internships, especially unpaid ones, are problematic introductions to the working world that often provide little valuable training and are unlikely to lead to a job.
Since the 1980s, shifts in labour markets and careers have made employers less prone to invest in training entry-level employees who may quickly change jobs anyway. In recent decades, higher education has filled the gap, fuelling an explosive growth of internships to facilitate the transition from college to a career. Drawing on in-depth interviews with interns, record label employees, and college personnel, as well as his own experiences as an unpaid intern at two music industry firms in New York City, Alexandre Frenette sheds light on who benefits from the intern economy, who suffers, and why. He finds that internships are rife with ambiguity because employers are neither trained nor greatly rewarded to mentor and colleges are ill-equipped to provide workplace guidance. As a result, there is little consensus about what interns should be doing or what benefits they should be gaining from their experience, which can often lead to inequality, exploitation, and disappointment.
Timely and provocative, Blame the Intern demonstrates how employers and institutions of higher learning are redefining what it means to break in and reveals what happens when few can.
]]>Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century and one of the most controversial. Working in Germany in the aftermath of World War II, he explored a radically expanded concept of art through a practice that ranged from performative actions to large-scale sculptural ensembles. While some contemporaries found his claim that 'everyone is an artist' liberating, even revolutionary, others accused him of fostering a dangerous cult of personality. In Joseph Beuys and History, the first rigorous art historical study of the artist in English, Daniel Spaulding presents a striking new interpretation of Beuys's work and career.
By putting Beuys in the context of Germany's postwar recovery, Spaulding shows that the artist's superimposed biological, political, and economic metaphors offered a powerful way to think about the trajectory of human freedom, the place of art in capitalist modernity, and the possibility of an ecological aesthetics. At the same time, his oeuvre's disquieting echoes of the Nazi past suggest that not everything could be reconciled in what Beuys called 'social sculpture.'
A definitive account of an often-misunderstood figure, Joseph Beuys and History proposes an ambitious rewriting of the dominant narrative of modern and contemporary art, drawing from Marxian value-form theory, Hans Blumenberg's 'metaphorology,' and ecological thought. Precisely because Beuys went to the extremes of art, the book demonstrates, he belongs at the center of its history.
]]>Beginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonising world offered new visions of liberation that centred the ideas and lives of women. Galvanised by International Women's Year in 1975 and the UN's Decade of Women, Third World women developed novel ideas of equality and self-determination, building a new internationalism in opposition to neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism. In The Future That Was, feminist historian Durba Mitra offers a pathbreaking account of how these women wrote Third World feminism into being, catalysing a momentous expansion of knowledge about women, gender, and sexuality that transformed emancipatory politics across the globe.
Mitra shows how women from former colonies in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond envisioned a radically just world and did so by insisting that research on the world's women lay at the heart of debates about global inequality, development, and human rights. Women gathered at international conferences, wrote reports on the dangers facing women, and took to the streets in protest, building a world of knowledge that contested the devastating effects of patriarchy and colonialism. Yet, despite hundreds of laws, institutions, and publications created through the efforts of these women, the future they imagined was never fully realised. The Future That Was transforms the story of decolonisation and its aftermath through the history and ideas of women. By excavating these vital pasts, Mitra shows how we might envision a future of our own that is freer than the present.
]]>Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated taken into the body as solids or liquids.
How can we explain such behaviour? Why take an image into one's own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and what are their effects? What therapeutic, religious, symbolic, and social functions can we attribute to these forms of relations with icons? These are a few of the questions raised in this investigation into iconophagy.
Iconophages aims to retrace, for the first time, the history of iconophagy. Jeremie Koering examines this unexplored facet of the history of images through an interdisciplinary approach that ranges across art history, cultural and material history, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of the body and the senses. He analyses the human investment, in terms of culture and imagination, at stake in this seemingly paradoxical way of experiencing images. Beyond the hidden knowledge unearthed here, these pages bring to light a new way of understanding images, just as they illuminate the occasionally outlandish relations we maintain with them.
]]>You can find her online at alpenglowdepththerapy.com
]]>Perimenopause is a time when our souls long for change. The mood swings and physical discomfort can make it feel like our bodies and brains are betraying and victimising us. Our Sacred Cycle author Mary McDonald, a therapist who works with people with PMS, PMDD, trauma, and other reproductive health issues, reframes that betrayal as an intervention. With inclusive language and compassionate, practical understanding, she brings affirmation, insight, and science to help us navigate our out-of-control emotions, let go of what no longer serves us, and step fully into our power and wisdom.
McDonald invites us to examine what the huge moods of midlife are really telling us. She offers tools to pick apart the facts behind our feelings from the internalised patriarchal messages that lead us to mistrust and mistreat our bodies and minds. The map she draws for our journey is one of shadow work and soul retrieval, a hero's journey in which we stop trying to 'fix' ourselves and rediscover the person we were supposed to be. The greatest prize is to finally get to meet the wise, experienced, and unapologetically authentic soul we were always meant to become.
]]>You can find her online at alpenglowdepththerapy.com
]]>Carefully chosen and researched for their interest and variety, they make a fascinating record: 150 vignettes form a 'family album' of the Scottish people from the Romans in Scotland in the first century CE to climate change in the 2020s. And everything in between.
]]>At first, Hala's baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then a grain of rice, then a lime. After years of trying for a baby, with one miscarriage followed by another, Hala watches from afar as her daughter grows in the body of another woman, in another country.
Halais not just awaiting news from the surrogate. She is also holding her breath as Palestine and Lebanon, her estranged homelands, are under fire. She goes for long runs to distract herself. She remembers family stories of grandmothers mapping their lives through a tangle of borders; of eradicated villages, invading armies and places of refuge that proved only temporary; of men who left, women who stayed, and the legacies passed down from one to another.Haladecides to name her unborn child Leila, a thread connecting her daughter toThe Thousand and One Nightsand the women who save by storytelling.
A stunningly lyrical and honest quest for motherhood and peoplehood,I'll Tell You When I'm Homeis a powerful story of unravelling and becoming, of destruction and redemption, and of homelands lost and recreated.
'A beautiful and intimate memoir of a life in the embrace of stories, Alyan weaves the fine threads of torn and fragmented lives into an irresistible, intergenerational tapestry. I was spellbound from the first page.' Naomi Klein
'A roaring cyclone of memory and imagination and harrowing tribulation. Surrogacy as metaphor for exile. Exile not as a dream for a better life, but as concession, a begrudging necessity. Gaza, San Miguel, Beirut, New York, Damascus traveling with Alyan's prose is a thrill. I'll Tell You When I'm Home feels as rich and supersaturated as contemporary consciousness itself I can't stop talking about it.' Kaveh Akbar
'Gorgeously written and compelling, I'll Tell You When I'm Home connects the threads of personal and family histories as its author prepares for motherhood. Hala Alyan is a writer of astounding talent.' Lisa Ko
'A story of the violence of exile over generations, a profound desire for motherhood, as well as surrogacy, addiction and the importance of remembering...a story of war and loss of country, but also of friends, lovers and ultimately her marriage...questioning and lyrical.' The Guardian
'[A] gorgeous, lyrical memoir...I'll Tell You When I'm Home shows the power of even a single narrative to resist the deliberate erasure of a people and their homeland, the violence of colonisation.' The New York Times Book Review
'[A] lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity.' Los Angeles Times
'A poignant exploration of her tumultuous path to parenthood, identity, and displacement...More than a story of motherhood and exile, I'll Tell You When I'm Home is a testimony of everything at once...a moving tribute to the strength of those forced from their homelands and ruthlessly exploited, as well as a celebration of women's determination to survive and thrive.' The New Arab
'Alyan's poetic prose encapsulates miles in each sentence and paragraph; joyfully, revisiting a passage is another chance at uncovering a new gift. Her nonfiction narrative voice allows the poet in her to shine, especially as each chapter is told in a series of short glimpses weaving together past and present, the old and the new Hala... WithI'll Tell You When I'm Home, Alyan has created a record, a story to communicate with those departed and those new to life. In the process, her work is an antidote for others searching for a home they never asked to lose.' Chicago Review of Books
'Hala Alyan writes with sinew and tender force as she masterfully braids the delicate filaments that make a self body, home, labor, loss in such a way that the reader can never again disentangle them. This book is a gift, an offering of abundant beauty, full of deep insight into the intricacies of motherhood.' Alexandra Kleeman
'I'll Tell You When I'm Home is an exquisitely written and unforgettable memoir about what it means to live with the violence and theft of exile and one woman's devotion to restoring her daughter's inheritance through the power of narrative.' Nadia Owusu
'A powerful, magnificently haunting memoir from a writer I always want to read. It's great luck to live in a time when Hala Alyan is writing. Get ready to be astonished.' R. O. Kwon
'This memoir of pregnancy loss and surrogacy is frantic, intimate, brutal, tender and beautiful. Over the arc of a pregnancy by surrogate, the poet offers up her fragmented heartbreak and kaleidoscopic life. I kept gasping, wanting to close in around Hala, to protect her across time and space from the sharp edges of mother-need inside a body that cannot birth a living baby. She wants her readers in the wound with her, inside the stories that don't get told enough, inside the body-mind of a displaced woman struggling to create something bigger than herself. Brilliant.' adrienne maree brown
'Alyan's writing doesn't offer easy answers; it gives voice to the ache and beauty of diasporic existence.' VOGUE Arabia
]]>'As an artist I produce a visual journal for most of my works. The journal for After the Rain became my tool for communicating with artists, highlighting the immersive potential of the exhibition spaces, and encouraging artists to utilise these fully.
As the first artist-led Triennial, thinking and working differently was important. The journal was a visual medium to express ideas, and the publication grew from that, becoming a deeper exploration and reflection of the exhibition.'
Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku-Yalanji peoples
After the Rain documents the creative processes of 10 contemporary art projects commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia's major recurrent exhibition dedicated to First Nations art and artists in Australia the National Indigenous Art Triennial.
Edited by the Triennial's Artistic Director Tony Albert and long-time collaborator Sally Brand, the publication shares stories of artistic collaborations, longstanding friendships and generational practices from Erub, the most north-eastern island in Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait, to Ntaria/Hermannsburg in Central Australia and Naarm/Narrm/Melbourne.
Alongside artist profiles, the publication includes commissioned essays addressing legacies, identities and climate change by contributing First Nations writers Bruce Johnson McLean, Jilda Andrews, Daniel Browning and Yessie Mosby. Original portraits of the exhibition's artists by the celebrated Western Aranda painter Vincent Namatjira punctuate a vibrantly illustrated publication.
The publication is accompanied by a pull-out map created by Tony Albert showcasing his travels across Australia to meet with artists and their communities.
After the Rain invites readers to engage with First Nations art and artists and acknowledge and celebrate the cultural warriors of the past, present and future.
]]>Albert is acknowledged industry wide as a valued ambassador for Indigenous community and culture. He was recently announced as the inaugural Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain First Nations Curatorial Fellow. He is the first Indigenous Trustee for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a member of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Indigenous advisory, a board member forthe City of Sydney's Public Art Panel and member of the Art & Place Board at the Queensland Children's Hospital and in January 2023 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Griffith University for his significant contribution to the arts.
Sally Brand is Coordinator, National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, a role that builds upon a long-standing professional relationship with Artistic Director Tony Albert.
]]>Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy, this collection draws attention to every when showing us that history is not as straightforward as some might think.
'"Everywhen" is a term less known to most Australians than its close relation, "The Dreaming", but it evokes something of the richness of Indigenous understandings of time, place and spirit. This impressive collection of essays - the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors writing from a range of fields and perspectives - invites us to rethink how we imagine not only Australian history but the nature, meaning and purpose of history itself.' - Frank Bongiorno
'A timely book that challenges ways of thinking about the past and of historical practice. It speaks to the individual via first-person narratives and the collective - discussing groups and populations, and weaves the two together in a meaningful, informative manner. Everywhen offers a fresh reflection on languages, histories and practices that readers will find interesting and informative.' - Bronwyn Fredericks
'A powerful book about the inter-connectedness of story, language, time, Country, and heart.' - Terri Janke
'At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, Everywhen highlights the limitations of conventional history and significantly expands our understanding of Indigenous concepts of time. This is a path-breaking collection of essays that is essential reading for Australian and international scholars.' - Mark McKenna
]]>Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission.
Jakelin Troy is the director of Indigenous research at the University of Sydney. She is editor in chief of ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures.
]]>Henry Reynolds' ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down.
When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the period covered very little about northern Australia and First Nations peoples. He set out to help remedy the situation and ended up transforming Australian history in ways he could never have imagined.
In Looking from the North, Reynolds again turns Australian history on its axis with an exploration of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Reynolds tells the stories of the European, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islander people who were vital to the settlement of the north. Along with the experience of First Nations peoples, from employment on stations and as native police to the land rights and homelands movements, Reynolds shows how the colonisation of the north, officially beginning in 1861, was a very different venture to settlement in the south. He argues that it provides profoundly important lessons for the world we live in today.
'This book is another masterpiece by Henry Reynolds. It combines the personal with the professional historiography that trademarks his work. The skilful and meticulous detail of his writing will once again inform Australians that truth can heal this nation.' Jackie Huggins
'Henry Reynolds was at the vanguard of young historians who burst onto the scene in the 1970s to shake the foundations of Australian history. Looking from the North explores "national history from the north down", yet again challenging Australia's past. Meticulously researched and written, this latest work by Reynolds deserves its place alongside his other groundbreaking histories.' John Maynard
'Henry Reynolds' map-flipping, mind-bending, gravity-defying book turns our colonial and national history on its stubborn head. By geolocating the axis of Australia's imperial enterprise in the continent's north, Reynolds challenges conventional assumptions of centre and margin; the value-laden hierarchy of proximate and remote. In doing so, the master storyteller changes the status of the people, power and perspectives that have shaped the nation's political trajectory. A radical revision of the past and a timely cartographic and conceptual blueprint for repositioning future relationships to law, sovereignty and country.' Clare Wright
'What we call history is a thing greatly influenced by perspective. In his extraordinary career, historian Henry Reynolds has done more than most to change the perspectives that have led to accepted accounts of post-colonial Australia that have ignored the true and often violent nature of colonial occupation and dispossession in this country. With this new book, Looking from the North, he flips the map to show just how much of the story of Australian colonialism and Indigenous post-colonial history is told from the vantage point of south eastern Australia. Looked at from north of the Tropic of Capricorn a new, revelatory and profoundly significant perspective emerges. That is the story of this remarkable book.' VPLA judges' report
'This book is yet another of Reynolds' deeply rewarding studies.' Raymond Evans, The Conversation
'I can't recommend this book highly enough.' Judith Brett, The Saturday Paper
'In Looking from the North, Reynolds returns to his point of departure. What began in 1965 as the researching, writing, and teaching of 'local history' gradually came to spur the rewriting of the nation's history.' Mark McKenna, ABR
'Looking from the North is hailed as an immediate classic.' Glyn Davis, Inside Story
'The shift in perspective induced by this revelatory work of Australian history is nothing short of vertiginous.' The Sydney Morning Herald
]]>The Aboriginal Land Rights Act in NSW includes unique features that remain unrealised in other parts of the country. The laws announced the policy of self-determination, compensation for loss, a land claims process, support for enterprises and the establishment of a network of land councils. Today there are 120 land councils that operate across the state.
Yet significant features of the land rights promise remain outstanding. Less than 1 per cent of the state has been restituted to Aboriginal land councils, with tens of thousands of land claims yet to be determined.
In Land Back, Professor Heidi Norman, a leading expert on Aboriginal political history, has brought together voices at the forefront of the land rights movement, including lawyers, NSW Aboriginal Land Council Youth Committee members, students, academics, activists and organisers, to share the successes, failures and possible futures of NSW land rights.
]]>Rather, the first politically organised and united all-Aboriginal activist group was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA), begun in 1924 under the leadership of Frederick Maynard.
For the first time Aboriginal people voiced their disapproval in public in a well-organised way. They opened offices in Sydney, held street rallies, conducted public meetings, gained newspaper coverage, wrote letters and petitions to Government at all levels, and collaborated with the international black labour movement. The AAPA's demands still resonate today. They centred on Aboriginal rights to land, stopping Aboriginal children being taken from their families, the acquisition of citizenship rights, and defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity.
This form of resistance and organised action has now endured for more than 100 years. In this exploration of the life and times of his grandfather, John Maynard uncovers the AAPA's invaluable legacy.
]]>In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a major contribution to our knowledge of this period by providing a superbly researched, finely grained local history of the Djadja Wurrung people of Central Victoria.
The story is a shocking one, of destruction, decimation and dispossession, but, equally powerfully, it is not one of unceasing conflict. With reference to an unusually rich historical record, concepts such as the frontier and resistance emerge as inadequate in this context. Attwood recovers a good deal of the modus vivendi that the Djadja Wurrung reached with sympathetic protectors, pastoralists and gold diggers, showing how they both adopted and adapted to these intruders to remain in their own country, at least for a time.
Finally, drawing past and present together, Attwood relates the remarkable story of the revival of the Djadja Wurrung in recent times as they have sought to become their own historians.
]]>The song cycle relates to a women's jukurrpa Dreaming narrative, and tells the story of a group of ancestral women on a journey across the country. Jakamarra performed the songs (recorded by Carmel O'Shannessy) to make them available to the Warlpiri community and the wider public.
Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri song cycle includes the words of the songs in Warlpiri, interpretation in English as given by the singer, Jakamarra, and Warlpiri Elders Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, Wanta Stephen Patrick Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa and Steven Dixon Japanangka, and detailed musical notation by ethnomusicologist Myfany Turpin. It includes a foreword by two senior custodians, Jerry Patrick Jangala OAM, and Wanta Jampijinpa
]]>Dennis, the grandson ofClarice Malinda Lougher, the last practising matriarch of the Gai-mariagal clan, was immersed in cultural knowledge and lore from an early age.Through his eyes we see a Sydney of totemic landscapes resonating with ceremonial sites and ancestral activity, song-lines and walking tracks, habitat caves and middens, and share memories of what has been lost.
At Narrabeen camp in the 1950s we meet Uncle Willie de Serve, a man who wore the scarifications of his ritual life and mentored the young Dennis. 'His face was alive with a thousand stories.'
Dennis also introduces us to Nanna Watson, who lived in a little humpy at Car-rang gel (North Head). 'On a hot summer's afternoon, she would hitch her dress up round her knees and wriggle around in the sand to get a couple of ugaries (pipis), chew one up and spit it into the water and put the other one on the line, and before you knew it she'd have a big whiting or a bream.'
Through the stories so generously told we may reflect on what it means to be a stolen child and one of the 'silent generations', and to fight to safeguard culture and identity. We can sense the responsibility of being the senior Gai-mariagal and the last of the storytellers, and the urgency to document and share the knowledge bestowed on him by generations of his family.
'This is a mesmerising read. It flows from rich anecdotal remembrance loaded with song and lore to incisive commentary about legislation and then slips seamlessly into detailed evocation of pre-colonial life. I have always loved Foley's ability to bring a story to life and Read's measured but uncompromising analysis ... I love this bloody book.' - Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu
'There has never been a book like this before. Dazzling, revelatory, unheralded.' - Melissa Lucashenko, author of Mullumbimby and Too Much Lip
'Come into this book to find a Sydney that many of us have never seen. This is a Sydney which to this day belongs to a network of vivid, tenacious, funny and courageous Aboriginal people. Dennis and Peter are both master storytellers and they bring to us the rich and moving stories of people who lived on and travelled around the paths and waterways of the city, to keep close to the people and country they cared about.' - Heather Goodall, author of Invasion to Embassy and Rivers and Resilience
This book tells the gripping tale of a mighty four-year effort to take a rag-tag bunch of footy part-timers and community Countrymen head-to-head against their semi-professional city-cousin counterparts.
Coming up against the 'butterfly effect' of a rising bloc of south Asian nations, a footy chief whose inbox was redlining, flight timetable changes and a Red Centre 'jewel' that sat so close yet so agonisingly far, local representative football has never been so thrilling.
Wadjarri-Tharrgari man and long-time sportswriter Darren Moncrieff brings together his journalistic skills, love for Australian rules football and keen eye for humour to tell the inspiring story of the Redtails.
To this day, the Redtails legacy lives on through the Redtails Pinktails Right Tracks Foundation, which mentors and helps young people in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and remote communities gain employment and become community leaders. Now a Central Australian success story, this is where its story began.
]]>A lifelong footy fan, Darren has played Aussie rules football for almost 40 years, reluctantly hanging up his boots only a few years ago. He has written about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues and extensively on Indigenous sport since the late 1990s.
Darren has held the roles of sports editor and sports reporter for Koori Mail, Torres News and Yamaji News. This is his first book.
]]>A guiding theme is the creative practice of internationally renowned artist Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wamba Wamba/ Yorta Yorta/ Boonwurrung). Maree's talent for collaborations and passion for reclaiming and reviving arts practices over almost forty years has seen her recognised as a leading southeast Australian artist, with invitations to work in France, Italy, Japan, Cuba, UK, Canada and the USA.
ngargee is a collection of intercultural partnerships that prioritise learning with and about First Nations artists to support Indigenous knowledge systems. These engagements take us from possum skin cloak-making in modern-day Melbourne, to 19th century German paintings, to sharing the knowledge and art of feather flower-making revivified in Maree's backyard. Each chapter showcases southeast Australian contemporary Aboriginal creatives with international and Australian co-producers.
ngargee presents a model of intercultural collaboration led by Aboriginal artists and knowledge holders. Southeast Australian Aboriginal art here receives the attention and celebration it so richly deserves. This vibrant and multivocal collection is an indispensable resource for all Australian museums and galleries, and anyone who wants to learn more about contemporary First Nations art.
ngargee means coming together to celebrate in Boonwurrung language, where celebrations are accompanied and demonstrated through the act of making art. Just as art and culture cannot be separated, neither can celebration and art-making.
]]>Sabra Thorner is a cultural anthropologist who has worked with Indigenous Australians for more than twenty years, focusing on photography, digital technologies and archiving as forms of cultural activism. In the past few years, her work has increasingly turned towards collaborative and decolonising methodologies in both research/writing and in teaching/learning. She is especially interested in contemporary arts and cultural production, matriarchal forms of knowledge transmission, and storytelling as an expression of Indigenous sovereignty. She's held fellowships from AIATSIS, Fulbright, Mellon, the Smithsonian and Wenner-Gren, and has published her work in Museum Anthropology, AnthroVision, The Journal of Material Culture, Oceania and Visual Anthropology Review. She is an assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Maree Clarke (Yorta Yorta/Wamba Wamba/Mutti Mutti/Boonwurrung) is an artist and curator who grew up in Mildura (northwest Victoria), on the banks of the Murray River, and who has been living and working in Melbourne for over 30 years. She has become a pivotal figure in the revitalisation of southeast Australian Aboriginal art and cultural practices. This includes possum skin cloaks, kangaroo teeth necklaces, eel traps, kopi mourning caps and much more in both traditional materials and contemporary, such as glass and 3D printing. Her practice includes lenticular prints, 3D photographs and photographic holograms, as well as painting, sculpture and video installation. The through line of her work is to facilitate intercultural dialogue and collaboration about the ongoing effects of colonisation, while simultaneously providing space for Aboriginal people and communities to engage with and mourn the impact of dispossession and loss. She is deeply committed to transmitting knowledge to younger generations (and anyone else who is willing to learn). Clarke has exhibited her work widely in Australia and beyond, and her work is held by the Koorie Heritage Trust, Museums Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. In 2021, her work was featured in a major retrospective, Ancestral Memories, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
]]>Ikuntji Artists presents Ikuntji Textiles, a book about the development of the designs, their stories and the artists behind them, and the collaborations.
This full colour publication gives an insight into our range of wearable art textiles. Texts included range from interviews with our artists in Luritja and English, expert voices in the field of textile design, collaborators and our staff who have been on this journey with us.
This book is the result of years of artistic workshops and the recording of stories with the artists. It is self published by Ikuntji Artists through the support of donors. The research is funded by Indigenous Languages and Arts funding.
]]>From May 1981 to June 1982, ethnochoreologist Megan Morais lived in Willowra in the Northern Territory, working with the Warlpiri community. The Warlpiri women and Megan worked as an impromptu team documenting their dances as performed in yawulyu women's ceremony as well as documenting traditional movement patterns.
Warlpiri women in Willowra generously and with trust, shared their music, songs, dances, designs and associated knowledge of yawulyu which is now being returned to them.
A recent collaboration between Megan and musicologist Myfany Turpin and the Willowra community has resulted in this book which provides the means for current and future generations to access the knowledge shared by the Warlpiri women.
Women of land-owning groups who have inherited sovereignty, and other important women in the community, have granted permission to publish the designs, songs and jukurrpa stories in this book. More than that, they urged publication so they would have a resource to teach their children and grandchildren. The co-authors each contributed to the book according to their authority, knowledge and strengths.
Proceeds from sales of this book will be returned to the Warlpiri community.
]]>The late Lucy Nampijinpa Martin was an integral part of the women's business (ritual ceremony and activity) documented in 1981-82. She has been essential in the repatriation of materials to the community. As one of the leading business women in Willowra she was the one who knew the songs, designs and dances. Lucy's work features throughout this book it includes the designs she drew from 1981-82 and the songs she sang then, and sang later for recording purposes. Sadly, Lucy passed away in 2024. Her legacy lives on in the ceremonial knowledge she has shared in this book
Myfany Turpin is a musicologist, linguist and associate professor at The University of Sydney where she conducts fieldwork on languages and songs of Central Australia. She has published extensively on Aboriginal song-poetry and publishes in the fields of music, linguistics and ethnobiology. She is the co-author of Yaru! Gudjal learner's guide and dictionary (Aboriginal Studies Press 2023).
]]>marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary Indigenous artists and their communities are revealing hidden histories and finding pathways to healing.
marramarra shares conversations with leading contemporary artists, including Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin (Pitjantjatjara, Arrernte, Australia), Judy Watson (Waanyi, Australia), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe, Canada), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit and Unangax, Alaska) and Pauliina Feodoroff (Skolt Smi, Finland). Indigenous Elders and knowledge holders also provide insights about important community projects, places of memory and history lessons about colonisation.
Led by Indigenous voices and presenting ground-breaking artworks from the Pacific, Turtle Island (North and Central America), Brazil, Finland, Taiwan, Afghanistan and beyond, marramarra provides new ways to think about the past and imagine a planet that is bright for Indigenous futures a place that is better for all.
'Groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary.' The Australian Women's Weekly
'This is art as activism that seeks to open the eyes and hearts of its audience to the vibrancy and wisdom of Indigenous culture, the wrongs of the past and the holistic worldview of these diverse peoples.' Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
]]>Dr Jessica Neath is a non-Indigenous Australian art historian of settler descent living and working on Boonwurrung Country in Melbourne. She is a Research Fellow in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab at Monash University.
]]>While searching for inspiration for what will be his final work, an unnamed poet and defender of Tasmania's wild places finds himself trapped down an abandoned mine in the island's mountain rainforests. In the darkness he is visited by memories and voices both from his own past as well as the tortured history of the pillaged landscape to which he has devoted his life and work. Lost in a fever dream, in a single sentence that carries the reader effortlessly along, the poet journeys through a kaleidoscope of Tasmanian history, mining lore, hauntology, poetry, rain and rainbow trout, drilling deep into the contemporaneous horrors of the North Mount Lyell disaster and Mawson's expedition becoming trapped in Antarctic pack ice.
An unparalleled reading experience, Mine is at once wondrous, terrifying and haunting; a story of environmental vandalism and exploitation as well as a luminous paean to the beauty which persists in a world spinning out of control.
'A wild, ecstatic howl of a book, dense with ideas and emotion and written with a ferocious energy as mesmerising as it is exhilarating.' James Bradley
'Comprised of a single sentence, telling a tale that is both historical and hallucinatory, Adam Ouston's extraordinary novel is best described as an experience a singular take on Tasmania's past of environmental violence, as well as a call to heed the earth's magic.' Maria Takolander
'Ouston takes antipodean Oulipianism into new terrain, unfurling digression and conjuring connections while maintaining the restraint of a single sentence. The formal restriction is integral, simultaneously evoking the narrator's claustrophobic physical setting while creating room for the spiralling thought-patterns of a mind out of time, travelling everywhere in the terrifying present.' Michael Winkler
]]>Traversing anarchist collectives and experiments in autonomous living, political protest and DIY activism, Max Easton's third novel continues his thirty-year portrait of working-class life in subcultures and music scenes, exploring intergenerational political solidarity, and the ever-present risk of disillusionment under the heavy hand of the state. Now, Autonomy is a novel about the echoes of the past in the present; about the way in which history repeats, even if the lyrics don't always rhyme.
]]>The Magpie Wing is set on football fields, in punk gigs, and in dilapidated and gentrifying pubs, moving from the nineties to the present, and between the suburbs and the inner city. Max Easton's debut novel explores how, even in a city divided against itself, disparate communities - underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups - share unexpected roots.
'Max Easton's The Magpie Wing is a moving portrait of a city and region undergoing enormous change, told through the perspectives of three unique, sympathetic and vulnerable characters...an exciting debut that tells a compelling story...I recommend it to anyone who reads contemporary Australian literary fiction.' - Brad Jefferies, Books+Publishing
]]>Max Easton is a writer from south-west Sydney. He is the creator of the underground music podcast Barely Human, and the arts journal Tempered. His writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and Mess+Noise. He has played in six Sydney punk bands, runs a DIY record label, and appeared in an under-seventeens development squad for the Western Suburbs Magpies in 2003. The Magpie Wing is his first novel.
]]>It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: a zine maker working on a punk music archive; an activist writing about Australian anti-communism; a research scientist striving to put down roots; and a part-time rugby league player who has one chance to play for his country before retirement. Each is looking to build a future, each is haunted by their recent past.
But if a rented house in Sydney could ever promise salvation, it would come with a coating of black mould. Against the backdrop of pandemic and war, of climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate finds its residents struggling against generational confusion, political indifference and social malaise. When isolation and atomisation are all we've been given, what can be made from building common ground? Written with ironic wit and an eye for contemporary events, Max Easton's second novel sets the pessimism of its times against the optimism of the will.
Praise for The Magpie Wing:
'An original, exceptional novel.' - The Guardian
'An anxious novel about anxious characters in anxious times. It seeks to register this anxiety in all of its contradictions and complexities, but thankfully does not want to resolve it.' - Sydney Review of Books
'A moving portrait of a city and region undergoing enormous change, told through the perspectives of three unique, sympathetic and vulnerable characters.' - Books+Publishing
]]>On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison's waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the prison walls.
Ana Paula Maia has once again delivered a bracing vision of our potential for violence, and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action, or inaction. No crime is committed out of view for this novelist, and her raw, brutal power enlists us all as witness.
]]>Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian-American writer and translator. Her novels have been shortlisted for the PEN USA and Scotiabank Giller Prizes. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Boston Review and BRICK. Her translations include SoBernardo by Graciliano Ramos. She teaches at the University of Arkansas.
]]>Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her husband. A couple invite a shipwrecked sailor into their isolated lighthouse on the stormy night of their thirtieth anniversary. A single woman embarks on a romantic relationship with a sex robot. A married couple secretly prepare for their baby's arrival in a world where procreation is controlled by the Establishment.
Through prose, poetry, essays, illustrations and more, thirty-one writers bring their visions of euphoria to life. These pages celebrate, subvert, expand and reimagine what joy can look like, even in uncertain times.
]]>A harrowing family story about forced adoption, a sinister chapter in East German history, and father-son relationships expressed through a shared love of nature and fishing.
1978, near Leipzig, East Germany. For Katrin and Hans, every parent's worst nightmare comes true when they are told that their newborn baby Daniel has died. Amidst the shock and horror of the news, Katrin doubts what the doctors have told her, feeling that they are lying and that Daniel is still alive: doubts which Hans refuses to acknowledge, and which lead to the end of their marriage.
After the collapse of the GDR, happy in a new relationship, Hans receives an unexpected phone call which prompts him to investigate the past. His research, which takes him deep into recent history, is met with resistance and silence at every turn, until at last a fishing expedition enables the family to start healing from their trauma.
Mayfly Season is an extraordinary portrait of totalitarian state cruelty, the promise of a new beginning and the infinite healing capacity shared by humanity and nature.
]]>Omar arrives in the US with a fake identity and no friends or family. Having run away from the Iraqi army, he has been branded a deserter and his ear brutally cut off. Omar carries this mark of shame with him and refuses to talk about the past. He dreams of getting his ear, and his dignity, back.
When their paths cross at least one of them knows that they have met before if only he could remember where. Exploring the aftermath of war and how the past haunts new beginnings, Notes from a Lost Country creates a moving portrait of life in exile.
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Acclaimed artist C. B. Fraser uses India ink and antique Japanese prints to create her inspiring cat collages. This one-of-a-kind tribute will be treasured by cat lovers and poetry fans alike!
Every year, there's a new crop of sad, dirty poet boys coming up to the city without a penny to their names. In six months' time, who on earth will remember these nobodies, with their so-called blank verse and their extravagant plots this Marlowe, Kyd, and Will 'Shakespere'? (A pseudonym, surely!) Better that they write thrillers, or advertising copy, or speeches for the media baron John Falstaff, who looks to be running for office. Now there's a man with a strong hand, who'll keep us out of any nasty foreign wars!
Published in 1936 and soon forgotten in the chaos of World War II, Picture of Nobody is one of the strangest, most accomplished, and most remarkable one-offs in English fiction. A comic yet credible reimagining of the milieu of Elizabethan London in modernist dress, it transcends its premise to provide a poignant portrait, of a Shakespearean mind coming to grips with the twentieth century. Populated by an assortment of characters familiar from Will's life and writing both, it is as much a loving parody as a grim prophecy regarding the fate of genius in 'interesting times.'
]]>'A thrilling study of time that playfully intertwines birth and death, motherhood and human extinction.'- Kirkus Review
In the round house on Via Saterna, its Palladian square exterior nothing but a trompe-l'oeil, the sun pierces through the central skylight. Its rays pass three floors unobstructed, before reaching the circle below at the heart of the house: four fingers of water filling a little silver basin. It is here that young Lidia dies, setting an end to her clandestine love affair with the ambitious architect. It is this house that real-estate agent Irene is asked to sell, decades later, as the climate catastrophe escalates, cloaking the divided city in a permanent orange haze. Returning to her native Milan for the sale, Irene feels the brunt of her father's judgement. He is a proud Italian and prouder architect how could his own daughter make a living selling cultural patrimony to the highest foreign bidder? As she faces this new Milan and the old family tensions she had avoided while living in Rome, Irene throws herself into the impossible sale, getting to know Via Saterna intimately this space that is as unsettling as it is hostile, with the slowly emerging traces of Lidia's interrupted life. In every room of the house, the burden of a mysterious, unresolved past can be felt, remnants of a selfish and manipulative love.
The Perfect Circle tackles themes like time, death, and repetition with depth and originality, while carrying its philosophy lightly. Through it all, the novel is a subtly disturbing page-turner, every new page adding a new layer and twist.
]]>Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise - until one day she bumps into her old theater director, Mauro, who fans the acting flame back to life. But setting a restless soul on fire can be dangerous if she loses sight of the boundary between reality and fiction - and Giorgia collapses, ending up in a clinic. Filippo and Mauro find themselves both accomplices and adversaries, seduced by a dangerous game to heal and win back Giorgia: by writing the script for her perfect life. In this dazzling debut, Petrucci explores the ambiguous borders between love, possession, and control in clear, magnetic prose.
]]>ANNE MILANO APPEL, based in California, has translated works by a number of leading Italian authors for a variety of publishers in the US and UK. Her most recent translations include works by the award-winning Antonio Scurati and Paolo Maurensig. Her awards include the Italian Prose in Translation Award, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation, and the Northern California Book Award for Translation. Her website is: amilanoappel.com.
]]>And no one does this better than Alexander McCall Smith. He has brought through his novels many wonderful characters to vivid life and entertained readers all over the globe. And in his third collection of poetry, he guides the reader by the hand and takes them through time and place exploring the majestic themes of nature and the complexities of relationships and what it is that makes us human with his trademark warmth and humour.
]]>Iain McIntosh has illustrated many of Alexander McCall Smith's books, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the 44 Scotland Street series.
]]>InI Think of You, the reader travels through literary Edinburgh in summer, heartbreak in a rain-drenched glen in the Highlands, a voyage on theArgo in Ancient Greece, and from Dallas to Helsinki and home again. Throughout this collection, the author explores various themes of love, kindness and friendship, as well as the philosophy of food, the idiosyncrasies of language and the importance of canonical hours. Each poem is a journey of the soul that interrogates what it is to love and to be alive.
]]>From the charged lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the expansive imagery of Walid al-Halis; from the romantic cadences of Salma al-Jayyusi to the profound rootedness of Mahmoud Darwish, these poems chart the emotional and political landscape of modern Palestine. Together, they reveal a tradition in which love of land, grief, defiance and hope are inseparable.
Edited and introduced by the eminent scholar A.M. Elmessiri, the collection is arranged around six central themes revolution, war, elegy, belonging, resistance and steadfastness offering readers both an essential literary archive and a vital lens on Palestinian cultural history.
]]>While Senior History Master of Queen's School, Newminster, Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. Even more troublingly, he has jaundice. But with the papers shouting of the crimewave sweeping the seaside resorts of England, sending him to the coast to recover is too risky for the Headmaster he will be much further from trouble in the inland spa resort of Buddington.
But before long Buddington is rocked by a twisted double-murder two elderly women found dead on the same night at the same time, each with a white lily by their side. Perhaps things are looking up for the curious Deene?
First published in 1960, Leo Bruce's classic mystery hums with his trademark wit and comedic flair, centred around an intelligent puzzle and a memorable cast of Buddington's best.
]]>When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France from years before; the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time at which the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realises that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman whose name still echoes from the heart of this bizarre and unsolved murder of the past.
First published in 1946, in later years Carr considered this novel one of his finest works. It shows the masterful author at the height of his powers, boasting an ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and striking characters including none other than the great detective, Dr Gideon Fell.
]]>'Much more than a ghost story... One might say that Fox is haunted by the spirit of the place and time of which she writes, and she is able to reproduce in a remarkable way that sense of foreboding and mystery that all of us have experienced.' The Argus
]]>Join Weird Walk for a new journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade, from the sublime wilderness of mountains, coasts and ravines to forbidden, ancient tracts of woodland.
Featuring disorientating classics from John Buchan and Algernon Blackwood alongside modern, thrilling (and sometimes violent) warnings to the intrepid from Lisa Tuttle and Dorothy K. Haynes, The Wayfarer's Weird leads you towards fae dangers, down lost tracks in time and deep into the liminal spaces of Britain and beyond.
]]>'Soft, swelling story-telling'Australian Women's Weekly
'A well-crafted and intensely dramatic novel, with characters you care about facing circumstances so dire a contemporary audience might strain to fully imagine them'Sydney Morning Herald
'The Low Roadis a beautifully written novel ... testament to Quarmby's dedication to her craft and her commitment to delivering an immersive and captivating story'The Tasmanian Times
'A darkly gripping picaresque tale of cruelty, courage and kindness as an orphaned girl survives poverty and injustice to seek love on the other side of the world' Maggie Gee
'An engrossing and beautifully written novel. All sorts of horrors are to be found here, but also love and bravery and hope. A must for lovers of historical fiction' Adele Geras
Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman Mary Tyrell is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child. Mary leaves behind a young daughter, Hannah, who is sent away to the Refuge for the Destitute in London, where she will be trained for a life of domestic service.
It is at the refuge that Hannah meets Annie Simpkins, a fellow resident, and together they forge a friendship that deepens into passionate love. But the strength of this bond is put to the test when the girls are caught stealing from the refuge's laundry, and they are sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, setting them on separate paths that may never cross again.
Drawing on real events, The Low Road is a gripping, atmospheric tale that brings to life the forgotten voices of the past convicts, servants, the rural poor as well as a moving evocation of love that blossomed in the face of prejudice and ill-fortune.
]]>He has worked as a freelance editor and ghostwriter on an eclectic shelfful of non-fiction books. His editorial back catalogue ranges from the memoirs of a professional golfer to true-crime stories and a book about the life of a South African spy.
Despite having grown up in the West Country, George is a lifelong Norwich City fan and is fortunate now to live just a short walk away from Carrow Road. George wrote Season, his debut novel, while attached to the Escalator Talent Development Programme at the National Centre for Writing.
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'A beautiful novel about the beautiful game' Jonathan Pearce
For ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.
Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship and to find his place in the world. The Old Man, an increasingly isolated carer for his fading wife, knows he has little left to look forward to. Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.
Told through thirty-eight chapters one for each game of the Premier League campaign Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity. About much more than football, it celebrates the healing, unifying and maddening role of ritualised sport in the lives of ordinary people.
]]>'Funny and full of heart but also wise' Polly Clark
It's the early 1980s, and a coven of eight women establish a lesbian commune in a Californian redwood forest.
It seems a perfect place to practise the ritual magic that helps them function harmoniously as a group. By getting back to the land, the witches can also live more authentically and give the finger to the Patriarchy.
That doesn't stop jealousies arising, as artist Wren nurses an unrequited crush on Robin, the land's ultra-generous owner. Robin claims to have had thousands of lovers in countless past lives, but in this one she is mainly interested in Kelsey, the household's cook. Meanwhile the masculine energy of a diesel-spewing tractor causes conflict, and manipulative Gloria, the spiritual leader of the coven, has an agenda of her own. Will the blessings of the Goddess be enough to ensure the group's survival?
Warm, funny and harking unashamedly back to a more idealistic era,A Circle Outsideis a seductive vision of a utopian dream, where the real magic is self-transformation.
]]>She won the Isobel Lodge Award for her short fiction, which has also been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. Words Fail Me is her first novel.
]]>Mild-mannered editor Ben Fairweather is horrified when his genteel religious magazine is taken over by a fanatical movement that believes animals are closer to God than humans and should receive Holy Communion. Amid a national religious revival, this belief becomes mainstream and he is cancelled as a petphobic bigot.
Reinventing himself as a nightclub pianist, Ben meets journalist Anita Scott, who is bent on exposing a newly ennobled Russian oligarch as a cultural vandal. But Lord Ogorodnikov's agenda is far more sinister than they realise, and together they are drawn into a world of spies, art forgery and murder, with their own lives on the line.
Anthony Gardner ingeniously blends intrigue with sharp satire in a story that is both thrilling and darkly funny.
]]>His non-fiction books include the bestselling history of the magazine, and political miscellanies The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit.
He is the author of Beneath the Streets and The Enemy Within - the first two in the Tommy Willdblood series of reimagined detective fiction. He has also published a collection of Ghost Stories. He has also been on the editorial team of Popbitch and The Big Issue.
The Inalienable Right is the third in the Tommy Wildblood series.
He lives on the South Coast with his husband, artist Michael Tierney.
]]>'The New Year's Eve is more precious than a thousand pieces of gold. It is the Great Divide between winter and spring, which none can pass over without copper and silver.' Ihara Saikaku
]]>'Swashbuckling and captivating.'- bestselling author, A.K. Mulford
Lu watched the love of his life walk the plank and sink into the inky-black depths of the sea. Nnenna was dead...or so he thought.
Five years later, Lieutenant 'Lu' Ortega, dutiful fleet officer, embarks on a mission to hunt down a powerful talisman now in the hands of a runaway mermaid. On his quest, he discovers the impossible: Nnenna is still alive. Fierce and cunning, and as breathtaking as ever, Nnenna 's won enough bloody sword fights as a pirate captain to earn the nickname 'Devil of the Deep.' She has come to reject the system of order that Lu clings to, and worse, she's protecting the very quarry he's tracking: Pearl Highwater, who has defied the all-powerful sea god and might hold a valuable key to finding her people's lost island.
When the tides and fates bring them together, Nnenna, Lu, and Pearl must choose their loyalties, find their courage, and race to protect the island from false gods and forces of evil or risk unleashing an ancient curse that could destroy them all.
]]>Keisuke Itagaki's genre-defining fighting manga is finally being released in English with a new Perfect Edition!
Featuring professional translations and lettering approved by the original Japanese publisher, as well as a premium slip cover and all of the full-color insert pages that were featured in the manga's original serialization, the Baki the Grappler Perfect Edition is the definitive way to experience the martial arts saga that has sold over 100-million copies worldwide!
The first print run of this volume will feature an exclusive foil-stamped cover, only available while supplies last!
Seeking the strength needed to defeat his father, Baki takes on a special forces unit comprised of the Japanese military's deadliest soldiers. Baki has proved himself in both the ring and on the streets, but does he have the strength needed to survive on the battlefield?
Available officially for the first time in English, experience Keisuke Itagaki's best-selling and highly influential BAKI saga from the start!
]]>Upon its publication in Italy, The Beginnings was exactly that: the dawning of a new era. Like a photo-negative of Franz Kafka, or Virginia Woolf, Moresco's sweeping novel turns the stream-of-consciousness inside out, and offers nothing interior. Here, much like in real life, you will not be privy to the thoughts and feelings of others. Everything must be experienced as it happens.
From our narrator's undergraduate years in seminary school, to his activities as a member of various Italian political factions, to his attempts to become a writer, The Beginnings is a shapeshifting journey across the 20th century, and across all of literature itself.
]]>Max Lawton
is a writer, musician, and translator. He iscurrently working in close collaborationwith Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. His translation of Michael Lentz'sSchattenfrohwas one of the most anticipated English-language titles of 2025. Max is also currently working on or has plans to translate works by Antonio Moresco, Stefano D'Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Miquel de Palol. His first novelProgressis coming out with Verso in 2027. His translations have appeared inThe New Yorker,n+1,Harper's,The Baffler,The White Review, andJoyland. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn't writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.
]]>Kosemen's artistic output ranges from scientifically accurate portrayals of prehistoric and imaginary lifeforms, to figurative surreal paintings that draw inspiration from the land, history, and the lifeforms of the Mediterranean world. Kosemen's surreal art has been displayed in exhibits in Catania, Vienna, Ulcinj, Istanbul, Ankara, Eskiehir, and London.
Kosemen's science-fiction book, All Tomorrows, has been listened to over 14 million times in audiobook form. Kosemen also worked as an editor for Benetton's Colors magazine and continues to work for international advertising agencies as an editor and copywriter.
A species of dwarf forest grasshopper, Naskreckiana kosemeni, was named in Kosemen's honour in 2023.
]]>The first-ever English language print edition of the online cult sensation.
Prepare to embark on a speculative odyssey in All Tomorrows: an extraordinary exploration of the potentials and pitfalls of human evolution.
In this visionary classic, author and artist C.M. Kosemen imagines how life will be shaped by genetic manipulation, alien intervention and the relentless forces of evolutionary change. From the colonisation of Mars to the ultimate destiny of humanity, the future is bound to unfold in unexpected and unsettling ways...
All Tomorrows is a thrilling tale of survival and a breathtaking work of imagination that catalogues the progress of new human species and documents the trials they face on distant worlds. Some will flourish while others fade into oblivion, but the vital essence of humanity persists against all odds.
This print edition of Kosemen's cult classic features his original illustrations and bonus material including a special commentary, sketchbook excerpts and never-before-seen artwork.
]]>Kosemen's artistic output ranges from scientifically accurate portrayals of prehistoric and imaginary lifeforms, to figurative surreal paintings that draw inspiration from the land, history, and the lifeforms of the Mediterranean world. Kosemen's surreal art has been displayed in exhibits in Catania, Vienna, Ulcinj, Istanbul, Ankara, Eskiehir, and London.
magazine and continues to work for international advertising agencies as an editor and copywriter.
A species of dwarf forest grasshopper, Naskreckiana kosemeni, was named in Kosemen's honour in 2023.
He is the author of the award-winning Mythteller trilogy: A Branch from the Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower and Scatterlings. Recent books include Smokehole, Courting the Wild Twin (both published by Chelsea Green), All Those Barbarians, Wolf Milk, Cinderbiter (with Tony Hoagland) and his Lorca translations, Courting the Dawn (with Stephan Harding).
Dr Shaw has introduced thousands of people to mythology and how it penetrates modern life. For twenty years, he has been a wilderness rites of passage guide, working with at-risk youth, the sick, returning veterans and many women and men seeking a deeper life.
]]>Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don't arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests. Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
'Martin Shaw's work is so very beautiful. A new animal. His love of images is deep and contagious. In the passion of his search he makes up new words that seem as though we've always known them. His language is tasty and surprising. This elegant combination of very fresh, free verse storytelling, and a deep untangling of myth feels so alive. What will it do next?' - Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi
'Martin Shaw is a teacher of profound cultural knowledge, and is a master artist at transmitting it. Those transmissions are subtle and profound. We desperately need his work.' - Tony Hoagland, author of Application For Release From The Dream
'Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard.' - Madeline Miller
London, 1904.
Edward VII sits on the throne, the economy is faltering, and one of the youngest Prime Ministers in history has been thrust into office on the crest of a populist wave. Battling self-doubt and fierce opposition within the Commons, Felix Grey is plunged into a world of murky politics and hidden secrets when a lord is mysteriously abducted from a gentlemen's club.
With tensions rising between the government and trade unions amidst a series of fatal factory disasters, Felix must quickly connect the dots between the missing politicians and the growing chaos in the country. A rapidly escalating chain of events is threatening to tear apart Parliament and Nation...
Can Felix crack the case and protect his country, or will he bear witness to a grim repetition of history?
Readers can't get enough of Felix Grey. . .
'Reminiscent of Dickens' London with the air of a Sherlock Holmes novel' Karla_bookishlife
'Brilliant twists and revelations that keep you glued to the pages' The Strawberry Post
'In Felix Grey I have found a new favourite character' LdLoz
]]>Mario's short films Anonymous, Echo, and The Gifted Hypothesis have garnered numerous awards, selections and nominations at Oscar, BAFTA, and BIFA-qualifying film festivals. His accolades include Best Drama at Cannes Shorts, Best Narrative Short and Best Male Actor at FIFF, as well as a nomination for the Short Film Award at the Oscar-qualifying Austin Film Festival and selection for the Oscar-qualifying Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival.
Mario attended Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan and taught soccer for the MLS in Arizona and Los Angeles before returning to London. He is also a BAFTA member and serves on the board of the Kingston International Film Festival.
]]>Told as an eclectic collection of appropriated testimonies, treatises, missives, and police files, The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease follows the progression of the contagion's patient zero, a Soviet citizen (sometimes) named Demyan Lavrentyevich Parkinson, as he ascends from hellish health to the sacred illness.
Hailed as one of Serbia's most influential living writers, Svetislav Basara's scathing, irreverent critiques of authoritarianism have twice won him Serbia's prestigious NIN Award.In The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease, Basara lives up to this reputation with a book as formally ambitious as it is intellectually sophisticated. His blend of grotesque absurdism and wry humour evokes the paranoid, vexing worlds of Franz Kafka's novels and the meta-textual assemblages of Paul Auster. Told from a colourful range of perspectives, the novel is a multifaceted, crystalline account of truth, lies, and history, a sprawling case study of humans in an inhuman society.
]]>Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful, God-fearing man about town: he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and money to pay for their dowries. However, it's an open secret that his success is fueled by a trade that is as profitable as it is cruel: he owns-and breeds-a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside temples to collect money.
There is Mangandi Samy, with just one arm, no legs, and "a little head on top," who only speaks in divine songs he himself invents; Ahmedkutty, an intellectual whose testicles hang to the floor "like two great pumpkins"; Muthammai, mother to eighteen children. To Pandaram, they are only "items," to be bought and sold like cattle. But when he makes an impulsive trade, his luck turns.
Written with an unflinching eye and suffused with a deep existential longing,The Abyssis an extraordinary novel-for its terrain, its fundamental questions about humanity, and its depiction of human suffering and liberation.
]]>Suchitrawrites fiction in Tamil and translates between Tamil and English. Her work has appeared in literary magazines includingAsymptoteandNarrative Magazine. She won the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize for Fiction Translation in 2017.The Abyssis her first full-length translated work. Suchitra lives in Bengaluru, India.
]]>**Shortlisted, Stella Prize 2026**
**Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026, Fiction**
The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife.
We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heatwave, we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, she destroyed it. The horror-scape left in her wake is not unlike the films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror movies on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their relationship. In high school, they were each other's lifeline two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down. Yet when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself very uncharacteristically surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her out
In Cannon, Lee Lai's follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a part of what is on offer. Lai's sharp sense of humour and sensitive eye produce a story that explores the intimacy of queer friendship and weight of family responsibility, and breaks open the question of what we owe both to each other and to ourselves.
'In Cannon, Lee Lai has performed a rare and powerful act of alchemy the images, narrative, and writing not only capture a life, but combine so that the book itself feels alive.' Torrey Peters
'Beguilingly drawn, Cannon depicts a wide spectrum of adulthood with nuance and complexity. From one story unravels many stories, about friendships, situationships, work, familial obligations. I was struck by its attention and care.' Ling Ma
'A beautifully drawn slice of life, filled with the kind of intimate, specific details that make the best fiction seem autobiographical.' Adrian Tomine
'It's rare, and precious, when a moment in a movie, in a poem, in a comic surges up at you as being True. And in Cannon, Lee Lai does it again and again.' Eleanor Davis
]]>An electrifying debut novel about grief, power and desire and the tangles in between that make up a life.
When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague the poet his fascination soon begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn't; she has everything he wants. While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods.
Meanwhile, his homophobic and spiteful mother who cast a shadow over his childhood is continuing to make his life difficult. As he is pulled back and forth between these two different worlds, his fixation on the poet, his Kingfisher, grows into something more powerful. She becomes his sole focus. He is hypnotised.
But when simultaneous illnesses threaten to destroy the precarious reality he clings to, he's forced to question what he can and cannot take from someone.
]]>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
]]>**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 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
]]>As the stars come out for the night, a colony of bats passes overhead. Where are they going and what will they do on their nocturnal adventures?
Last Bat of the Night follows native Australian megabats through the night, as they glide across our skies to feed, drink and pollinate. Will you be the one to spot the last bat?
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
'This beautiful book is a charming introduction to Australia's bats for young readers. Last Bat of the Night encourages us all to pause and appreciate some of the incredible wildlife that we are so lucky to share our environment with.' Dr Pia Lentini, Senior Scientist, Wildlife Ecology, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research.
]]>Samantha Metcalfe is a natural history illustrator who finds inspiration in the unique biodiversity of the Australian bush. Working primarily in colour pencil, her realistic and detailed illustrations often focus on capturing Australia's native flora and fauna. Samantha has illustrated several children's picture books including Alight and The Voyage of Whale and Calf, and she was also shortlisted for the 2019 Children's Book Council of Australia Award for New Illustrator.
]]>Morri looks up to those with lots of stuff. He looks down on those with less stuff. Morri wants more stuff because he thinks he doesn't have enough. Morri wants better stuff. Morri wants space to stuff piles of stuff. Will Morri ever have enough?
Inspired by real events, Stuff is a story about having enough, being enough and finding ways to make enough go around.
]]>Helene Magisson is a critically acclaimed French-Australian illustrator of many books for children. Before Helene turned to book illustration, she was a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination. Helene's children's books are widely known and loved across the world. Her timeless style lends itself beautifully to classics, such as The Velveteen Rabbit (New Frontier, 2021), and also universal contemporary stories, such as Before You Were Born (HarperCollins, 2020). Helene is frequently recognised by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Most recently, she was awarded the CBCA 2020 Notable Picture Book of the Year Award for Little Puggle's Song, written by Vikki Conley.
]]>Would he like an automatic coffee machine, an indoor ice-skating rink or a pet hippopotamus?
By the end of the day, Meg is out of time and everything Dad likes is so expensive. What can she do?
]]>Amie Sabadin has been scribbling and splashing paint since forever. With a background in design and a handbag always stocked with art supplies, she finds inspiration everywhere. She works in traditional and digital mediums to create joyful illustrations. Amie lives in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, with her husband, their two children and their miniature schnauzer. When she's not drawing, she enjoys organising her art supplies, walking and spending time with her family.
]]>Having experienced her middle daughter's battle with cancer and her first husband's passing from cancer, Julie aims to write stories that are full of heart and spread messages of hope. When Julie isn't writing, she procrastinates by sewing garments to wear, camping off-grid in nature with her wonderful husband, Brian, watching her backyard chickens whilst sipping tea or babysitting her precious grandchildren.
]]>When Oscar is bullied, Milo must find the courage to be the friend he's always wanted to be. And when the summer holidays draw to a close, Milo faces the hardest battle of all: saying goodbye and believing that life like the best stories never truly ends.
]]>Having experienced her middle daughter's battle with cancer and her first husband's passing from cancer, Julie aims to write stories that are full of heart and spread messages of hope. When Julie isn't writing, she procrastinates by sewing garments to wear, camping off-grid in nature with her wonderful husband, Brian, watching her backyard chickens whilst sipping tea or babysitting her precious grandchildren.
]]>In 2022, Gabriella was selected to take part in the ASA/CA Award Mentorship programme. She has a penchant for puzzles and mystery, and she blends humour and darkness in her novels.
When Gabriella isn't singing or writing, you can find her trawling the gelato shops around Cagliari, hoarding books or applying sunscreen.
]]>If Sebastian wants to solve the clues hidden around the mysterious East Wing and find the secret exit, he must team up with the bubbly Lali and brilliant Vita. Even as a team, though, it won't be easy...and elimination is always just around the corner.
]]>It's a new year at Cat School! Tangle and Eno are anxious, but soon settle back in. New kitten Pelly arrives late, and seems strange. She feels alienated and stays home, but is sought out and brought back into the main mix by the efforts of Tangle and Eno. Now they are firm friends!
]]>An uplifting tale about a bear discovering what truly matters at the end of the day.
]]>Tull Suwannakit is an Australian book illustrator and author for children with a background in animation and fine art. After receiving a BA degree from The Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, USA, he began his artistic career as a set designer and character sculptor for animation studios in New York City. He then migrated to Australia, where he got a distinction on the Master of Fine Art program at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His books have been published in Australia, the US, the UK and Thailand, as well as being translated into numerous languages throughout the world. Working predominantly with watercolour, graphite and coloured pencils, Tull's books have been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Mornings Radio, Play School on ABC4Kids and The New York Times. His clients include Scholastic Press, Ford Street Publishing, Walker Books, Candlewick Press and New Frontier Publishing. When Tull is not writing and illustrating his books, he runs art classes and workshops for children and adults at his art school in Melbourne. His book, Higher Ground, published by New Frontier Publishing, has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration as well as winning the Australian Aurealis Awards for Best Graphic Novel and Illustrated Work. The book has also been selected for the 2026 Read for Empathy collection. Tull can be contacted on Instagram: @tull_suwannakit or on his website: www.tullsuwannakit.net
]]>Who will win the Magnificent Race of the Animals? Frog on roller-skates or zebra on a scooter? Find a morning moon, six ways to look at a leaf, beautiful bubbles and amazing shapeshifters. Have a feast of words, make a den and then guess the names of the night animals...
Kate Wakeling's wonderful talent for revealing the excitement that hides in everyday things, combined with her soaring imagination and special way with words, make this a poetry book that fizzes with ideas and inspiration for young children, perfectly matched by Viviane Schwarz's exciting and inventive illustrations.
]]>Viviane Schwarz is an author and illustrator, described by Chris Riddell as 'One of the most innovative and creative picture book makers we have' (Guardian). Her many picture books include There are Cats in this Book and I Am Henry Finch by Alexis Deacon. Viviane has been twice shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, has won the Little Rebels Award and gained an IBBY Honours nomination. She lives in Brighton.
]]>A little alien touches down on our amazing planet. Able to shape-shift into every form of Earth life, he becomes all kinds of Earth creatures, from a beaver to a chameleon, from a frog to a kangaroo, a puppy, even a flea and then a flower-bud and a tree. The visitor finds a constant succession of exciting surprises on our Earth there is only one thing missing. A friend to share it all with.
Mary Murphy's simple yet profound words and images show young children the beauty and diversity of life on Earth and in doing so, help them understand that they need to look after our precious planet.
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Experience the wisdom and humour of Korean folklore in this vibrant new collection of ten traditional stories. Julie Kim's expressive watercolour paintings burst with magic, warmth and cultural detail, while her retellings are lightly updated to appeal to modern kids. Included in the collection are:
Memorable characters like a tree that comes to life to repay the kindness of an old farmer convey gentle lessons about the importance of generosity, honesty and independent thinking. Families and educators will want to share this beautiful bilingual collection with heritage language learners and young readers of any background.
]]>Get ready for an exciting adventure with Mr. Felix, a charmingly eccentric man who stumbles his way into a bicycle race! Forget about speed and competition; Mr. Felix pedals to the beat of his own drum, happily pausing for refreshing lemonade breaks, spontaneous swims in the lake, and delightful detours along the way. Young readers will be captivated by Mr. Felix's carefree spirit and learning that embracing life's little joys and going at your own pace can lead to the most unexpected and delightful victories. Perfect for young readers who love a good laugh and stories that celebrate individuality. How Mr. Felix Entered a Bicycle Race is a heartwarming reminder that sometimes, the best way to win is to simply enjoy the ride!
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.
]]>Anna may be small, but her life is anything but quiet. From the moment she hatches, she's on the move growing, changing, and learning how to survive in a world full of surprises. Whether she's escaping hungry predators or hunting down her favourite snack (aphids!), Anna shows that even the tiniest beetles can be fierce, clever, and full of heart.
Whether your child is a budding entomologist or just loves a good garden adventure,Growing Up Ladybugis a delightful and educational journey they'll want to read again and again.
TheLittle Heroesseries highlights the essential, yet often overlooked, roles that insects and small animals from pollinators to natural pest controllers play in our ecosystem. Through a fun and gentle lens, young readers learn about the small but mighty heroes that keep our natural world in balance.
For more than 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tales.
]]>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.
]]>Meet Amanda a determined little caterpillar with a big dream: to fly. She wiggles through leaves, munches on greens, and hides from danger in the great big world of the garden. But something amazing is about to happen. With patience, courage, and a touch of nature's magic, Amanda's struggles lead to a breathtaking transformation.
Whether your child is a budding scientist, a nature lover, or simply enjoys a good story,How to Become a Butterflyis a must-have for your bookshelf.
TheLittle Heroesseries highlights the essential, yet often overlooked, roles that insects and small animals from pollinators to natural pest controllers play in our ecosystem. Through a fun and gentle lens, young readers learn about the small but mighty heroes that keep our natural world in balance.
For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tales.
]]>Platypus and Puggle: Unusual Animals Big and Small introduces toddlers to the names of animals and their babies with lyrical alliteration and fascinating fun facts. Moving from small to big, this collection of animal families helps build vocabulary and illustrates the concept of size. A charming companion to Ariana's hit board book Llamas With Lemonade: An Unusual Animal ABC, the book's oversized, case-bound board book format and irresistibly cute animals in soft pastel colours make it a perfect addition to any nursery library.
]]>Get ready to giggle with My Dad Knows Best (Sometimes!), a hilarious and heartwarming lift-the-flap board book starring an inquisitive Baby Panda and their loveable, know-it-all Dad. Whether it's answering big questions like 'Why is the sky blue?' or solving everyday mysteries like 'Where did my sock go?', Dad always has an answer... even if it's not exactly right!
With sturdy flaps on every page and playful surprises underneath, this interactive book invites toddlers to explore, laugh, and bond with Dad through silly questions and even sillier answers.
Warning: May cause excessive giggles. (Thanks, Dad!)
For more than 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books to nonfiction and fairy tales.
]]>Mandy Stanley is an award-winning illustrator, author and designer who has published more than 200 picture, story and activity books for children. Before discovering her passion for writing and illustrating children's books, Mandy worked in the fashion industry, designing clothes, toys and nursery products. She still uses her 3D design skills, learnt from her fashion training, in the design of her books. As well as authoring and illustrating her own books, Mandy offers freelance professional illustration for publishers and runs workshops and talks for schools aimed at both primary and secondary classes. You can find Mandy on her Instagram: @mandystanley_art and website: www.mandystanley.com
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This wonderful, heartwarming story reminiscent of classic children's books, is perfect for:
Designed for kids aged 6-9, Fiddlehead Forest features:
Packed with humour, playful puns, and fun facts about nurse logs and forests, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel dives into the fascinating world hidden within this tiny and important ecosystem.
Book 2 in the Little Habitats series!
This series of graphic novels for young readers introduces children to nature's small and vital ecosystems. Full of humour and hijinks, each book in the series features a heartwarming story set in a different habitat, with accompanying fact pages throughout.
Crab is fed up with the bay. Each day is the same; nobody cares for him or appreciates his sense of humor. So he's leaving. Just when he is about to go, he bumps into Larva, who is looking for a home. Crab agrees to show Larva around the bay, exploring its many places and residents, on his way out.
Together, Crab and Larva visit the sea kelp, a fine shell-ection of oysters, mussels, clams, and a bickering group of sea anemones, amongst many more neighbors in the bay.
Will Larva find the perfect spot to settle here? And if he does, what will Crab do?
Designed for kids aged 6-9, Barnacle Bay features:
Book 1 in the Little Habitats series!
In a big world, we can often overlook the importance of being little! This series of graphic novels for young readers aims to introduce children to nature's small and vital ecosystems. Full of humour and hijinks, each book in the series features a heartwarming story set in a different habitat, with accompanying fact pages throughout. The familiar becomes fantastic as we zoom in on these overlooked creatures and communities, and prepare to laugh out loud as we explore the environments that they inhabit.
]]>Bee and her best friends Sarah and Tiam the Winged Wonder gang love parties almost as much as they love bugs. So when their Grade 3 teacher announces that the class must come up with a winning party idea, the friends are so excited. But when Bee realises that it's to celebrate the upcoming Mother's Day weekend, she is confused and worried: Bee has two dads. Is she allowed to celebrate, and are her dads allowed to come? But Bee quickly learns that she might not be the only one who's feeling left out. With the help of her friends and her parents, Bee must figure out how she and others in her class with non-traditional families can not only take part in the class party, but feel celebrated too.
]]>Calling all art and animal lovers! Join Harriet, the museum cat, on a playful tour of artwork from around the world and across time all of which feature dogs!
After barely surviving a giant mythical boar attack on her way to school, Cinder Moss realizes her questing days are far from over. Shield Maiden Trigga is back, newly promoted to Odin's Elite Guard and harboring a secret too dark to share. Together, Cinder and the Valkyrie return to the Proving Grounds, hoping the Stormbringer can pick up where she left off, and save the Nine Realms from the Twilight of the Gods. As if the approach of Ragnarok wasn't bad enough, Thor's hammer has been taken for a murder he didn't commit. Or at least he claims he didn't do it. Cinder is not the only one that questions his innocence the God of Thunder's closest allies in Asgard are dropping faster than the temperature in Jotunheim, and as Thor's Thronerunner, only Cinder can retrieve the legendary weapon from the City of Ice.
No pressure.
Can Cinder and her friends survive a horde of crocodile-human hybrids, a two-headed Elvis impersonator, a haunted hockey rink in Canada, and war with the frost giants? Thor has faith in Cinder, but Odin is betting against her.
Again.
The god's errand girl is back, and the ancient prophecy isn't going to fulfill itself.
]]>Cinder Moss, 8th grade mortal at Copperpenny Middle, doesn't know it, but Odin has a mission for her: slow down Ragnarok.
Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the System all her life, Cinder is on the verge of being expelled from yet another school. Despite high test scores and uncanny talents in gym class, Cinder's records show a penchant for fighting, defiance, impulsivity, and an 'unwillingness to develop appropriate decision-making skills.' When a lunch-time brawl breaks out in the cafeteria, Cinder gloomily prepares for what has become all-too familiar. This fight, however, will not end like all the others.
All Father has dispatched his Predators from Asgard, an elite team of bodyguards to keep tabs on Cinder, biding his time till the surly human teenager reaches pledge-age. Knowing she will play a pivotal role in his eventual fall from power, Odin means to bring her to Valhalla where she will be broken, disciplined, trained, and given her quest directive.
Cinder may be in an alternate realm full of valkyries, dark elves, and world-encircling serpents, but she still has a chip on her shoulder the size of Thor's hammer, and she's not about to let Odin or any other god push her around. Can Tristan, son of the god of inspiration and the Galaxy's Most Eligible Boyfriend help Cinder put the brakes on Ragnarok, or will the end of the world claim her life beneath a strip mall in Pismo, California?
]]>But the ghosts are in danger. Tentacled sea monsters called Oldies are stalking their souls, and with rising sea levels and more storms on the way, the ghosts' time is running out. As a terrifying new storm approaches, Eleanor must rescue a ghost lost at sea and save her friends from the Oldies in a final, storm-chased battle of song against darkness. Wonders of Shadow Key is a quirky, suspenseful tale of one girl's fight to use her voice for good.
]]>Discover Africa by bicycle in Book One of a children's adaptation of Alastair Humphreys' journey around the world.
In this charming caricature ofthe author's own circumnavigation by bike, we meet Tom, an adventurous boy who feels there must be more to life than school.
We follow him as he leaves England, cycling through Europe and all the way through Africa to the tip of South Africa. Along the way, young readers are introduced not only to the various fascinating landscapes he passes through, but also to the people who embrace him as he travels.
With engaging illustrations and journal entries throughout, this delightful series provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.
'It's entertaining but it also educates with its abundance of information, and is sure to inspire. A perfect choice for any parent of a would-be cycle adventurer.' Women's Cycling
'An enjoyable adventure story packed full of facts. Would make great discussion points for primary school kids if used as a class reader, and it is also cross-curricular, covering subjects such as geography, religion, languages and a number of other subjects.' Book Zone For Boys
]]>He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 912-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year.
He is a qualified teacher.
]]>Tom dreamed of being an adventurer, but people told him he was crazy, so he decided to prove them wrong by cycling round the world.
The first book of adventures followed Tomacross Europe and through the mysterious landscapes ofAfrica.
In Part Two, he pedals north from the tip of SouthAmerica up through the Americas towards Alaska. He mustcontend with deserts, jungles and the massive mountains ofthe Andes. He meets grizzly bears, fascinating locals andeven a memorable guinea pig. Tom learns about the world,and himself, as he tackles this epic journey.
Based on the author's personal experiences and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.
'It's entertaining but it also educates with its abundance of information, and is sure to inspire. A perfect choice for any parent of a would-be cycle adventurer.' Women's Cycling
'An enjoyable adventure story packed full of facts. Would make great discussion points for primary school kids if used as a class reader, and it is also cross-curricular, covering subjects such as geography, religion, languages and a number of other subjects.' Book Zone For Boys
]]>He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 912-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year.
He is a qualified teacher.
]]>Tom dreamed of being an adventurer. People told him he was crazy, so he decided to prove them wrong by cycling round the world.
In Books One and Two, Tom crossed Europe and Africa, then pedalled through the Americas to Alaska. In Part Three, the final leg of his journey, he continues to have amazing experiences. He braves the freezing temperatures of Siberia, rides behind reindeer in Russia, floats in a Japanese pool watched by monkeys and follows the Great Wall of China. Finally, he bikes back home to England.
Tom learns about the world, and himself, as he tackles this epic journey. Based on the author's own personal adventure, and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, The Boy Who Biked the World offers an immersive experience to any young adventurer.
'It's entertaining but it also educates with its abundance of information, and is sure to inspire. A perfect choice for any parent of a would-be cycle adventurer.' Women's Cycling
'An enjoyable adventure story packed full of facts. Would make great discussion points for primary school kids if used as a class reader, and it is also cross-curricular, covering subjects such as geography, religion, languages and a number of other subjects.' Book Zone For Boys
]]>He is the author of 14 books, including Great Adventurers, which won the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year and the Teach Primary Award for Non-Fiction.
He has written eight books for Eye including the bestselling The Boy Who Biked the World trilogy, a series of novels for 912-year-olds based on the real-life adventures he recounted in Moods of Future Joys, Thunder and Sunshine and Ten Lessons from the Road. His more recent The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean is a similarly novelised version of his transatlantic crossing. It was shortlisted for the Stanford's Children's Travel Book of the Year.
He is a qualified teacher.
]]>Colourful illustrations, fun infographics, and supercool trivia reveal all about the most popular sport in the world. Begin with the game's startling origins or turn to any short chapter and dive in! You'll discover historic firsts, trailblazing athletes, and the weirdest soccer records. Read unforgettable stories about players who pushed the boundaries of the game sometimes by bending the rules and learn why soccer had to become more welcoming before it could truly bring people together. Packed with charts, timelines, and further reading, Soccerology is a must-have that's equally fascinating for soccer newbies and diehard fans.
Written by former sports broadcaster and award-winning children's book author and illustrator Kevin Sylvester, Soccerology is a book about the Beautiful Game like nothing else!
]]>Providing clear and contemporary information for young palmists that they can continue using into adulthood, In Your Hands focuses on both a light and shadow self-approach and features inclusive illustrations from Elissa Marie (@elissamariecreative.)
]]>Elissa Marie is an Austin based illustrator with a multi-faceted background in fine art, video production, social media management, and design. She has worked with brands as large as Amazon and Wendy's, as well as individual entrepreneurs and small businesses.
]]>Crack open your sketchbook, grab your pens and pencils, and get ready to draw the most charming chibi creations imaginable! Drawing Sweet and Cute Chibi is your step-by-step guide to crafting darling chibi characters, foods, animals, and more in an irresistibly adorable kawaii style.
This easy-to-use handbook is perfect for beginners and budding artists of all ages. Begin with simple illustrations like popsicles, multilayered cakes, and fruit tarts, then progress into more detailed and imaginative projects, including bears in bee costumes, graceful ballerinas, and more delightful characters. Clear, simple steps show you how to break down each illustration, correctly size each element, and add your own sweet finishing touches.
Inside you'll find:
Whether you're a fan of chibi style, a manga enthusiast, or just love adding sweet, whimsical detail to your artwork, this guide will help you master the art of drawing adorable chibi scenes.
]]>The perfect book for families, forest schools, educators, and anyone looking to connect with the outdoors, The Nature of Play inspires curiosity and hands-on learning, making it easy to enjoy and appreciate nature wherever you are, all year round.
From the author:
'Many children don't know how to play without a screen this book is a small inoculation against that state of being. It requires children to challenge themselves, find solutions and rely on their skills and imaginations. Most of all, it asks them to slow their pace enough to really observe, to examine, to contemplate and to wonder.' Delfina Aguilar
Sixteen-year-old Aubrey is horrified when a vision about her cousin's death comes true. Overcome with grief, Aubrey begins to see more troubling visions about the futures of those around her. To make matters worse, a mysterious Trickster keeps visiting her dreams with cryptic messages she doesn't understand.
As Aubrey's well-being unravels, a dark creature one that feeds on suffering begins stalking her. With the help of her Kokum, a medicine woman, Aubrey learns to tap into her spiritual strength. But when the creature crosses into the real world, Aubrey must find the strength to protect her family, and in doing so, confront her guilt and find peace.
The Moth Dreamer is a gripping tale that blends Anishinaabe traditions with a haunting journey through the physical and spiritual realms. Includes discussion questions written by the author at the back of the book.
]]>'You cannot do anything in this country without my permission.'
For sixteen-year-old Sara, life has always been about following the rules; her father's rules.
Makeup? Haram.
Fashion magazines? Haram.
Friends who don't meet his approval? Definitely haram.
When her strict Egyptian dad moves the family to the Arabian Gulf, Sara's world shrinks overnight. In a place where a woman's freedom depends on a man's permission, every dream feels out of reach. But Sara refuses to disappear quietly. As her passion for writing, beauty and independence grows stronger, so does her courage to challenge the expectations that bind her. Can she stay true to her faith while finding her own voice, and a future she chooses for herself? Candid, courageous and unforgettable, Hijab & Red Lipstick is a powerful coming-of-age story about identity, patriarchy and the fight to belong inspired by the experiences of women who dare to defy.
]]>From the quagmires of treachery and self-interest, the heroic soldier is described in this vivid glimpse of one man's determined genius and bravery in the face of cruelty and destruction. In this portrayal of the first Jacobite, John Grahame of Claverhouse, Jane Lane presents both the violence and colour of Jacobite rebellion.
'I read Jane Lane's books with mounting admiration for both their content and style...Merging fact and fiction into essential truth, she has produced novels of quite extraordinary emotional power and exciting narrative pace.' Author John Prebble
]]>In the summer of 1691 four Jacobite soldiers, led by the intrepid Humphrey Craddocke surprised the governor and guards and drove them out of the castle. The English Government placed the island and fortress under siege. For almost three years the defenders repelled any attempt to retake the Castle and played one of the most astounding games of bluff in history.
Can they survive and escape with honour as free men? A minor epic of Scottish History!!
]]>The tale of Government-sanctioned murder woven into a narrative featuring members of the family Donald. It creates strong characters on both sides of the tragedy which fuses the human costs with the official intolerance of the Scottish Highland clans of the period.
Jane Lane has expanded a page of history into an epic in which courtesy and treachery, hospitality and betrayal, love and hate, are manifested by the men and women whose fate brought them together on that tragic winter night in 1692.
]]>Meet the animals you can find on Wiradjuri Country in this intricately illustrated introduction to the Wiradjuri Language by two Wiradjuri creatives.
In giwang, Wiradjuri animals are shown along with Wiradjuri Language and English translations. Belinda Bridge's words weave an unpredictable cycle onto the page against beautiful paintings by Wiradjuri artist Peta-Joy Williams.
This evocative resource speaks to readers of all ages. It is rich with cultural meaning and is a significant Wiradjuri title to add to bookshelves.
]]>Belinda's inspiration to learn and speak Wiradjuri Language comes from her family and a deep desire to stay connected to her Ancestors.
Peta-Joy Williams is a proud Wiradjuri Yinaa (woman), born in Sydney, whose identity bridges the inland rivers of her ancestors and the saltwater cultures of the place she calls home. Drawing inspiration from both, PJ creates artwork that reflects the richness and diversity of her ancestry.
Encouraged by her Wiradjuri grandmother Eileen, she began painting Aboriginal art early in life and has since formalised her practice with a Certificate IV in Aboriginal Art and Cultural Practices and a Diploma in Fine Arts. Formerly a cultural arts teacher, PJ is now a full-time artist and the founder of Wiradjuri Wave.
Her work has been exhibited in major galleries across Australia, and her large-scale murals feature throughout New South Wales.
]]>Dhurga is one of four traditional languages of the south coast of New South Wales. It was spoken by Yuin (Yuwinj) people between Nowra and Narooma, and as far inland as Braidwood and Araluen. Our language connects us to our people and our physical world. Traditional languages are being reclaimed and spoken across Australia. Fragments of Dhurga were kept by Elders and in books. Dhurga was sleeping; but is now being taught, learned and spoken by Yuin people.
The beautiful illustrations help readers to learn the 24 Dhurga sounds. They also introduce important land and marine animals, and other creatures of the south coast that are part of local creation and dreaming stories, and Lore.
A QR code allows readers to hear the book's Dhurga sounds and words spoken by a Yuin Elder.
]]>Leanne began learning Dhurga after starting work at Ulladulla Local Aboriginal Land Council. She felt she was regaining something that had been missing, for her, her community and especially for her mother and Dhurga Elders. 'Now I feel a sense of responsibility and a calling to help my community restore and teach our native tongue,' says Leanne.
]]>*Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Children's Book of the Year*
Welcome to Wiradjuri Country.
The Wiradjuri are the people of the three bila (rivers) and their nguram-bang (Country) is the second largest in Australia. Come with Uncle Larry Brandy on an enlightening journey through his Country's rivers, woodlands, grasslands and rocky outcrops, as well as the murri-yang (sky world).
Along the way, young readers will encounter animals such as bila-durang (platypus), and maliyan (wedge-tailed eagle), plants like the maybal (grass tree) and yirany (yam daisy), and discover stories like that of Tiddalik the giant frog. They will learn how Wiradjuri people lived on their Country, using the flower spikes of the grass tree as spears, soaking its flowers in water to make a sweet drink and weaving its leaves into baskets.
This is a unique book combining language, culture, Indigenous history and storytelling, written by a Wiradjuri author. It features colour photographs of animals, plants and habitats, as well as illustrations by Indigenous artists Kristie Peters and Scott 'Sauce' Towney.
]]>Winner of the 2019 CBCAEve Pownall Award for Information Books
Age range 7+
There was a hum of excitement.
Flags flickered in the breeze as Maggie's heart danced with delight.
'This is a very special day!' her mother said.
Maggie holds tight to her mother as they await the long anticipated apology to show a willingness to reconcile the past for future generations. In the excitement of the crowd Maggie loses touch of her mother's hand as is lost.
In a time 'long ago and not so long ago' children were taken from their parents, their 'sorrow echoing across the land'.
As the Prime Minister's speech unfolds Maggie is reunited with her mother. But the faces and memories of the stolen generation are all around them.
Two stories entwine in this captivating retelling of the momentous day when the then Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, acknowledged the sorrows of past and said 'Sorry' to the generation of children who were taken from their homes.
The book includes a foreword from Lee Joachim; Chair of Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative and Director of Research and Development for Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation.
Teachers' notes available here
]]>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.
]]>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
]]>America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition offers the most comprehensive treatment of the American protectionist school of economic thought, which originated with the ideas of Alexander Hamilton and Tench Coxe, and remained active throughout the nineteenth century. The work provides a systematic account of the philosophy and theory of this neglected economic tradition.
]]>Using more-than-human and Indigenist approaches, chapters focus on Indigenous environmental resistance, marginalisation across social and physical environments, ecology as art, and how local communities are caught up in and resist development and infrastructure projects. The book demonstrates how environments influence which bodies and other matter belong (or not) in certain places.
]]>The book provides a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, focusing on its treatment of sense, language, and logic, then examines its ethical and value-oriented themes. It analyses the work's concluding remarks on ethics, situating them within its scientific worldview and highlighting parallels with authors Wittgenstein read and admired, presenting an enduring conception of the ethical.
]]>The mpiavihras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars. As a centre of Buddhism, Sri Lanka has a rich tradition of erecting Buddha image-houses, the origin of which dates to the fifth century. Yet, the mpiavihra tradition only existed from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The mpiavihra is an exceptional type of image-house, not only for its specific timeframe and unique construction technology, but also for its complex architectural conception of the Buddhist worldview and soteriology. This book examines the significant aspects of mpiavihra architecture and documents some of the distinctive examples of mpiavihra with an analysis of their architectural design and symbolic content.
]]>Dhammika P. Chandrasekara is a senior lecturer of architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Morauwa, Sri Lanka.
]]>This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorisation, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics.
]]>Nicholas Rescher, philosopher and polymath, is well known for a prodigious publishing career. A consistent focus in Rescher's work is the dialectical tension between our synoptic aspirations for useful knowledge and our human limitations as finite inquirers.
]]>This book explores the transformative role of open-source technologies and digital commons in fostering a cooperative and sustainable economy. Built upon the research project 'Techno-Social Innovation in the Collaborative Economy,' the study investigates innovative, grassroots economic models that leverage digital technologies for community-driven governance and decentralised value creation.
The book presents a multi-case study approach, featuring organisations such as Tzoumakers, Open Food Network, CoopCycle, and Circles UBI. These cases exemplify how platform cooperativism, cosmolocalism, and open cooperativism redefine traditional business structures, emphasizing sustainability, fairness, and democratic ownership. The discussion extends to blockchain-enabled DAOs and their impact on labor, governance, and wealth distribution.
Through theoretical and empirical insights, The Model of Open Cooperativism bridges political economy and digital innovation, providing practical strategies for policymakers, activists, and scholars. It highlights the success and challenges of grassroots-driven initiatives, offering a roadmap for transitioning toward a commons-based, post-capitalist economy.
]]>One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
]]>This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics, and environmental science. It addresses both classical chemical pollutants and greenhouse gases, explains the major environmental law statutes.
]]>Charles C. Caldart holds a law degree from the University of Washington and a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. He is a lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the litigation director of the National Environmental Law Center in Boston and Seattle.
]]>Laura Investigations in Classic Hollywood focuses on Laura, the beloved, award-winning 1944 classic Hollywood detective drama, fondly remembered by audiences and critics alike for its noir elements, enchanting portrait, engaging performances, and romantic musical score. This book shows there are other ways to think about Laura by paying more attention to the film's details than is required or expected. At once an exemplar of classic Hollywood's finest achievements, Laura is also a film whose strangeness and mystery hint at something more. Laura Investigations in Classic Hollywood argues that we can shed light on this fascinating movie by thinking like filmmakers ourselves. Such an investigation requires a new method, a practical method, which we introduce and demonstrate, closely analyzing Laura's images and sounds. We use details and moments to analyze scenes, imagine alternate filmmaking possibilities, ask unexpected questions, and speculate about events happening off-screen, both in the fictional world and in the real world of the filmmakers and viewers. Each line of inquiry results in transforming a well-known, award-winning film into a series of glimpses at a rather unknown film, one that we fall further in love with as we explore its mysteries. By the book's end, we realise our investigation of Laura has uncovered the hidden complexities we overlook while watching any movie.
]]>This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analysing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competing and irreconcilable cultures of rural darkness.
]]>This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
]]>Scott Brewster is a reader in Modern English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.
]]>The book demonstrates the experiences of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Suzan-Lori Parks in comparison with the dramas of each other and those of other African American women. These women playwrights created a militant theatre and a theatre of experience that applied to both the African American community in general and African and African American women in particular. They have been encompassed within African American woman's aesthetics that shares the militancy and experience characterised by a triple factor: race, gender, and class.
Readership
As the book is an original contribution to the scholarship in Dramatic Movement of African American Women, the intended readers of the book include graduate and post-graduate students, research scholars, and academic intellectuals in the institutions of higher education as well as non-academic readers across the globe. The book also serves as a useful guide for scholars, teachers, and students.
]]>Emerging Voices: Contemporary Nigeria's Literary, Filmic and Entertainment Platforms is a collection of fresh perspectives and opinions in the creative interventions on the Nigerian literary and entertainment space. Tackling issues from different authorial perspectives, the authors of the book chapters bring a freshness that comes with unsullied critical and creative innocence in their analysis of the different aspects of Nigeria's literary, filmic, and entertainment engagements.
Readership
This collection will be invaluable to media scholars, critics, and policy makers. It will equally be a reference material for music enthusiasts and theatre researchers. Perfect for students, academics, and anyone passionate about African culture, media studies, and postcolonial discourse. #NewBook #AfricanStudies #Nollywood #NigerianLiterature
]]>Dr. Gloria Emeagwali is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, USA. She is the Chief Editor of the quarterly periodical Africa Update. She received the Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 and the Distinguished Africanist Award, New York African Studies Association, 2019. She is the Founding Coordinator of African Studies at CCSU as well as an amateur film maker.
]]>Philosophy of Life looks at the person's relationship to their world. Such a relationship is impregnated with tension arising from constant decision making. By making decisions, a person shifts their modal (possible) worlds, which include their sets of circumstances and their vistas on various aspects of life. A shift between different positions on one's existence in this world creates structural cognitive, emotional and strategic changes that transform what is possible and what is impossible with regard to one's life choices. The decision-making process, on fundamental life issues, is crucially related not only to one's general values but also to one's view of logical possibilities. The book explores the practical aspects of modal logic in decision making and casts it as the foundation of a philosophy of life.
]]>Hitherto published only in Dutch, the text was for a long time only accessible to a small group of people. Theo Smeets, professor at the Trier University of Applied Sciences specialising in gemstone and jewellery design, was keenly aware, however, that this is a 'must read' and had made great efforts during Marjan Unger's lifetime to produce an English edition, now available in its entirety and with her permission.
In her work, she endeavours to formulate a general definition of jewellery. Yet above all she also analyses to what extent jewellery is associated across the globe with different, sometimes contrary issues: in that all human fears but also desires have, in a sense, materialised around the world as objects of adornment.
This comprehensive approach aimed not least to develop a solid theoretical framework to aid the study of jewellery. Thus the text can already be seen as an outright standard reference work, indispensable for all prospective jewellery artists, and experts too will also discover while reading new perspectives on the phenomenon of jewellery.
]]>This book, with a foreword by Petra Hlscher, chapters by Susan Cummins, Flos Wildschut, and Lizzie Atkins, and photographs by Michiel Heffels, tells the story of the dealer, the gallery, and the collection. In 1978 Marie-Jose opened the first Galerie Marzee in an old butcher's shop in Nijmegen, the Netherlands; today the gallery occupies an impressively renovated grain warehouse on the river Waal. Imbued with the powerful minimalism of the building, Marzee the book presents over 300 pieces from the Marzee Collection that have been chosen and arranged by Marie-Jose van den Hout herself.
]]>SELECTED ARTISTS:
USA: Melanie Bilenker, Ken Cory, Aaron Decker, Claire Falkenstein, William Harper, Robin Kranitzky & Kim Overstreet, Stanley Lechtzin, Keith Lewis, Albert Paley, Joyce C. Scott, Helen Shirk, Olaf Skoogfors, Kiff Slemmons, Don Tompkins, Merrily Tompkins, J. Fred Woell
Germany: Manfred Bischoff, Helen Britton, Claus Bury, Georg Dobler, Christiane Frster, Mirjam Hiller, Hermann Jnger, Falko Marx, Dorothea Prhl, Gerd Rothmann, Bettina Speckner
]]>Can a sole event and its violence truly become for some the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question and follows revolutionaries in the maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings as well as the mending of happenings through the force of remembrance.
]]>Drawing on nearly a decade of research, Ludek Stavinoha reveals the subterranean corners in which resistance brews and solidarity takes hold, tracing migrants' everyday struggles for dignity and their rights, alongside grassroots volunteers who have built vital infrastructures of support. At the heart of the book are the creative, if precarious and ambivalent, solidarities forged between volunteers and refugees, citizens and non-citizens, as they unsettle racialised boundaries and logics of control, in defiance of state-sanctioned violence, criminalisation, and neglect.
Urgent and compelling, Unruly Subjects illuminates how people navigate and subvert Europe's increasingly hostile border regime, and the alternative...
]]>Across Europe and the Americas, low birth rates, immigration, and gender equality are reframed as signs of civilisational decline. This volume explores how radical right actors mobilise fears around fertility, migration, race, family, and sexuality through narratives of crisis, ethnic purity, and control over borders, reproduction, and social norms. It examines conspiracy thinking fuelled by demographic anxiety to justify attacks on gender and sexual rights and reinforce exclusionary ideas of national belonging. Grounded in empirical case studies and interdisciplinary approaches, this book reveals how these narratives converge to reinforce dominance of a native, heteronormative, Christian population. In linking domains often treated separately, it provides a timely and critical perspective on the evolving logic of radical right politics worldwide.
]]>Klaudia Koxha is a post-doctoral researcher in political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne.
]]>The year proved to be difficult and damaging to King Charles II, as political, religious, and personal matters provoked controversy and disquiet, and the country teetered on the brink of major constitutional problems. My research sets drama against this backdrop. Theatrical records for this period are patchy and, for the most part, frustratingly incomplete: this book does not attempt to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the playhouses, but rather it uses the available evidence of the extant new and revived plays we know (or believe) to have been performed in the 167071 theatrical season, and argues that this was the period in which serious and far-reaching political and dramatic questions began to be seriously asked and (tentatively) answered.
]]>Through his many speeches, media interviews and public appearances the king consecrates such corporate ideals as entrepreneurship, individual responsibility, positive thinking, healthy lifestyle, productivity, and self-management, thus contributing to legitimising neoliberalism in society at large. By awarding them prestigious royal medals, inviting them to lavish state dinners, and offering them exclusive networking with other elites, the king also promotes the standing and status of neoliberalism's architects and leaders: the corporate and financial elites. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the power of monarchies and royals in contemporary market society.
]]>Indeed, his analyses of modern philosophers allows us to understand how the bourgeoisie seeks legitimisation and consolidation of its position, partly through the voices of its thinkers. In this way, in his investigation of early modern philosophy problems, and through constant dialogue with his colleagues Adorno, Marcuse, Pollock and Fromm, Horkheimer expresses a profound awareness of the critical force inherent in thought which, admittedly, is ever vulnerable to crisis and weakening, but which can always be reactivated.
]]>This book seeks to redress that neglect by exploring the relationship between identity, recreation, and culture both North and South of the border, with particular attention to women's lived experiences.
Leisurely pursuits during this period were commonly overshadowed by religious Influence and the nation-building projects in post-partition Ireland. Nevertheless, there existed alternative spaces, where people enjoyed dancing, singing, listening to music, shopping, glamour, reading magazines, swimming, travelling, and going to the cinema. Such activities reflected international trends beyond national borders.
This book documents those activities and spaces through a feminist lens and intersectional analysis of gender, class, religion and rural/urban identities.
]]>It deals with features of speech that together with consonants and vowels contribute to create meaning in utterances and contribute to give speech its maximal strength as means of human communication. The book deals with prosody at all levels, from the word to text and dialogue and presents models for rhythmic and tonal prominence using an Autosegmental Metrical theoretical approach. On the practical side, the book also describes methods for carrying out prosodic analysis and for transcribing prosody. Aspects of applied prosody are also taken up, including dysprosody, language acquisition, and speech technology. The book gives a coherent and pedagogical presentation of speech prosody by Gsta Bruce, one of the most outstanding international experts on prosody of our time.
]]>Merle Horne is Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Lund University, Sweden.
]]>Through a sharp cultural analysis, the book reveals popular culture's obsession with wealth and dynastic families and how it helps to sustain economic divides.
Focusing on four major series Downton Abbey, The Crown, Succession and Yellowstone the book explores what today's most-watched television dramas reveal about contemporary attitudes toward wealth.
At the heart of the book is a concern with the intersection of family, wealth and morality. As dynastic structures once again dominate economy, stories of wealthy families offer a cultural lens through which audiences make sense of economic disparities. The book shows how television does not merely reflect inequality but actively shapes our understandings of it.
]]>As the rhythms of the day give way to night, a different Cuba emerges, one where protests take shape, marginalized voices reclaim space, and filmmakers reimagine ethnographic and documentary storytelling.
This book offers a sensorial and creative journey through Cuban documentary films that engage with the night not just as backdrop, but as a central character shaping emotions, aesthetics and socio-political discourse. Blending theory with rich visual analysis, Cinematic Nightscapes asks: How does the night alter ethnographic practice? How do Cuban filmmakers use the night to imagine new futures? Through a reflexive, multimodal approach, the book invites readers to experience the complexities of nocturnal life in Cuba, where darkness illuminates new possibilities.
]]>Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria.
]]>The book documents these struggles along their effects for politics and policy within their economic and welfare dimensions. The politics of emigration describe changing voter attitudes and behaviour pointing towards more support for nationalist and right-wing parties. The policies of emigration show state and local level efforts for the return of emigrant citizens. The welfare and economic dimensions explore the context for emigration and its effects for growth models and systems of health and care within the European single market. The book observes two types of state transformations: the re-emergent nation-state that re-discovers its core resource, the citizenry, as well as states that functionally and socially adapt to population loss.
]]>Anna Kyriazi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.
]]>The book covers multilingualism, code-choice, language variation, dialectology, interactional studies, gender, language contact, language and inequality, and language and power. Brand new additions include: an innovative new chapter exploring globalisation and language, a new chapter on writing and multimodality and new sections exploring areas such as migration, gender and identity, the sociolinguistics of writing, new modes of communication and youth languages.
]]>This volume redefines Katherine Mansfield as a critic, translator and poet. Bringing together all of Mansfield's poetry (some 179 poems and several songs), her literary translations (including letters by Anton Chekhov as well as those of Dostoevsky to his wife), her witty, sometimes scorching, parodies and pastiches, her imaginative aphorisms, her many incisive and heartfelt reviews of the novels of the day, and her essays, including those for the little magazine, Rhythm, this collection attests to the enormous variety and distinctiveness of the non-fiction writing that Mansfield produced, some of it unpublished until this edition.
For the first time, Mansfield scholars and devotees can read all of Mansfield's non-fiction work, which expands considerably on previous partial editions of her poems or critical writings. Arranged chronologically, and with perceptive notes and a general Introduction by two leading Mansfield scholars, this is, at last, the Edition that Mansfield deserves.
]]>Previously only available as edited excerpts or as largely unedited transcriptions, Katherine Mansfield's diaries and notebooks have been re-transcribed and minutely edited for the first time, and are presented in this volume with precise historical, cultural and biographical contextual information. The entries show Mansfield's evolution as a writer as well as the impact of her era on early drafts of her mature writings. This volume also contains fascinating new material never previously published poem-cycles, letters, Mansfield's own illustrations, and the last materials she was working on in the final weeks of her life. A detailed index facilitates cross-reading and referencing for scholars and general readers alike.
]]>Empathy is a cognitive and affective structure of feeling, a bridge across interpersonal distance. Coined in 1909 to combine English 'sympathy' and German 'Einfhlung,' 'empathy' is a specifically twentieth-century concept of fellow feeling. Empathy and the Psychology of Literary Modernism looks into the little-known history of empathy, revealing how this multi-faceted concept had a profound effect on literary modernism.
Meghan Marie Hammond shows how five exemplary writers (Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf) tackle the so-called 'problem of other minds' in ways that reflect and enrich early twentieth-century discourses of fellow feeling. Hammond argues that these authors reconfigure notions of intersubjective experience; their writings mark a key shift away from sympathetic forms of literary representation toward empathic forms that strive to provide an immediate sense of another's thoughts and feelings. But while literary modernism values empathic experience as an ideal, it is also teeming with voices that recognise potential for danger, even violence, in acts of empathy. These voices illuminate our culture's ongoing concern with empathy's limits.
]]>This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British Modernism. Traditionally defined as a decorative style that conjured a fanciful and idealised notion of China, chinoiserie was revived among London's avant-garde circles, the Bloomsbury group, the Vorticists and others, who like their eighteenth-century forebears, turned to China as a cultural and aesthetic utopia.
As part of Modernism's challenge to the 'universality' of so-called Western values and aesthetics, the turn to China would contribute much more than has been acknowledged to Modernist thinking. As these 10 new chapters demonstrate, China as an intellectual and aesthetic utopia dazzled intellectuals and aesthetes. At the same time the consumption of Chinese exoticism became commercialised. The essays show that from cutting-edge Modernist chic to mass culture and consumer products, the vogue for chinoiserie style and motifs permeated the art and design of the period.
]]>Experienced educator and professor Marilyn Laiken begins by examining key concepts and approaches in OD, focusing on contextual issues from an individual professional's realisation that organisational systems shape their effectiveness, to the diverse environments in which practitioners operate, and the types of interventions typically involved. The discussion then highlights the critical role of original research in bridging theory and practice, showcasing how organisational learning, interprofessional collaboration, and high-performance team development can drive meaningful organisational change. This book also demonstrates the practical application of theory through real world case studies, each drawn from a unique context that illustrates the concepts in action. Building on two decades of teaching experience, the author then turns to the preparation of skilled OD professionals, reflecting on effective educational methods.
Shedding light on past research and emerging trends, this book considers how the field of Organization Development will continue to evolve and influence the future of work.
]]>Siobhn McIlvanney is Reader in French and Francophone Women's Writing at King's College London.
]]>Written some two thousand years ago, the Gospel of John is the only Christian Gospel to place Jesus at the creation of the world, and the only one where we find the stories of the raising of Lazarus, the woman taken in adultery, and the changing of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. The Gospel of John also points an accusing finger at Jesus's Jewish opponents and has been used by medieval crusaders, Protestant reformers, and white supremacists to legitimise antisemitic violence. Kim Haines-Eitzen traces the legacy of this complex, beautiful, and at times deeply troubling work, from its composition in the late first century to its enduring power today.
Haines-Eitzen sheds light on the book's reception by early Christian gnostic and patristic commentators, its use in the Crusades and Reformation, its revered status among American evangelicals, and the many ways it has inspired novels, films, music, and art. The earliest papyrus fragment of an identifiably Christian Gospel is a fragment of John, and John is the only canonical Gospel that depicts Jesus as a savior who teaches openly about his divinity. Haines-Eitzen shows how John simultaneously carries a message of inclusion and intolerance, and how its story teaches us about the nature and enormous influence of scriptural religions.
Compelling and provocative, The Gospel of John reveals how this dynamic, malleable biblical work has both unified and divided Christians over centuries of translation, interpretation, and creative reimagining.
]]>A biography of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, the pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural meeting of East and West in the twentieth century. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker influenced by William Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure. Finding a universal tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian to the Indian, Islamic, and Chinese, he wrote many influential books and essays in which he explored his ideas about ancient symbols and wisdom. In this biography, Roger Lipsey chronicles the development of Coomaraswamy's ideas and the career that led him from geology to art history and metaphysics, and from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to England and the United States.
]]>Price theory is a powerful analytical tool kit for measuring, explaining, and predicting market outcomes. This expanded second edition of Chicago Price Theory offers a unique approach to the subject, emphasising hands-on, practical applications that can help students adeptly integrate economic theory with real-world forces. A key distinction is its focus on market equilibrium and gains from trade. Unlike many microeconomics texts, this book emphasises how, through markets, households and businesses adapt to conditions like price controls and externalities. It modernises the Marshallian idea of forward-falling supply, especially for analysing human capital, and makes use of the cost function and Hicks-Marshall laws to analyse a variety of economic phenomena. Rooted in Chicago's price theory tradition, this textbook enables students to understand human behaviour through the lens of price theory, showing how a small set of well-mastered tools makes it possible to analyse a remarkably wide range of economic questions.
]]>This book offers a theory-oriented introduction to investments, asset pricing, and derivatives. Designed for a quantitative master's program in finance, it is grounded by what works in the classroom. Presenting its topics in a unified, self-contained framework, the book is specifically appropriate for courses in asset pricing and derivatives pricing but may also be used for courses in investments, asset management, and portfolio management. Students will learn how to make decisions under uncertainty and over time, how to choose an investment portfolio, and how to characterise the prices and returns of financial assets in equity, bond, and derivative markets. The book focuses on a number of classical models and theories in quantitative finance and covers selected advanced and newer topics in its final section. Proofs and in-depth theoretical results within quantitative finance appear throughout the book along with examples and end-of-chapter exercises to facilitate and support the learning process.