From the narrow election victory to the commanding majority secured in 2025, this book traces the Albanese Government's first term, navigating economic turbulence and a shifting international landscape. What were the policy hits and misses? What was the impact of the unsuccessful Voice referendum? And how did the government manage key reforms?
Edited by John Hawkins, Michelle Grattan and John Halligan, The First Albanese Government includes a preface by Bill Shorten and contributions from leading experts across politics and policy. It captures the major issues of the Albanese Government's first term and looks towards its future years in government.
]]>Michelle Grattan is a professorial fellow at the University of Canberra and chief political correspondent at The Conversation.
John Halligan is emeritus professor of public administration and governance in the Canberra School of Government at the University of Canberra.
]]>Charles Darwin mapped the world's coral reefs to support a theory about how they formed, and in doing so developed insights that shaped his eventual theory of evolution. The trailblazing Marie Tharp, barred from ocean expeditions in the 1950s, nevertheless created the first detailed map of the ocean floor, providing key evidence for the then radical idea of continental drift. Maps have triggered territorial claims, saved giant tortoises and brought home the fragility of the Great Barrier Reef in the face of climate change.
Charting the course through these stories of discovery and disruption is Sarah Hamylton, herself an accomplished mapmaker who has travelled the globe and followed in the footsteps of cartographic giants. She explains what lies behind and beyond the maps we find in history books, scientific papers and contemporary news stories.
Riveting, illuminating and beautifully written, Plotting the Oceans answers critical questions about what the evolving nature of maps means for understanding our world, how it changes and how we're changing it.
'By following geographer Sarah Hamylton on this enchanting voyage through time via maps of atolls, reefs and spreading sea floors a reader sees where longitude and latitude yield to insight and attitude.' Dava Sobel, author ofLongitude
]]>This edition of Griffith Review follows the money to tally the past, present and future of our filthy lucre.
]]>Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian writer and journalist. His work has featured in The New York Times, SBS Voices, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Mascara Literary Review, The Big Issue and Eureka Street. In 2021 he was awarded the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers.
]]>Some writers have gone at each other in ink, while other bookish brawls are more literal. It usually ends in regret or death. But books don't need authors to go bad. They get stolen, misprinted, censored, some are even cursed or bound in questionable materials.
When Books Go Bad is a rousing collection of publishing mishaps, its narrative twists and turns taking a light-hearted look at poor editing, poor judgement, and a whole range of bad behaviour.
]]>The book draws on the incredible collections of the British Library to find new, surprising and entertaining ways to celebrate every day of the year. Each month opens with a list of significant births and closes with a selection of pertinent last words, while entries roam across history from the great classics to modern authors.
]]>Written by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bodhicaryavatara is one of the most beloved and frequently taught works in Buddhism and a favourite of the Dalai Lama. An inspiring and powerful poem that uses a gripping, first-person, confessional voice, it is the most systematic work of ethical thought in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. And its invaluable insights, exhortations, and encouragements about how we can relieve suffering by becoming more caring and compassionate are universal. In How to Be Caring, philosopher and Buddhist scholar Jay Garfield presents a lively new translation of selected verses from Shantideva's text that capture its powerful lessons for all of us. The result is the clearest, most concise, and most accessible introduction to this masterful Buddhist guidebook about how we can change the world by changing ourselves.
Focusing on the life of a bodhisattva, a person committed to attaining awakening for the benefit of all beings, Shantideva argues that the first step to reducing suffering and making the world better is to conquer our own psychopathologies. Urging us to remember that we won't live forever and therefore need to think about what is most important, the work seeks to inspire us and teach us how to be more generous, thoughtful, polite, patient, committed, and self-aware. Featuring an introduction and the original Tibetan text on facing pages, this dazzling volume is filled with wisdom that still speaks directly to readers today.
]]>Jay L. Garfield is the Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and professor of philosophy and Buddhist studies at Smith College and a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. His books include How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (Princeton), Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self (Princeton), and Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration.
]]>This translation vividly captures Boethius's journey from bitterness and anger to reconciliation and peace, showing how ancient philosophy, especially Stoicism, can help readers deal with adversity in their own lives. The book reveals the qualities that have made The Consolation of Philosophy one of the most popular and influential works of classical and world literature, and an inspiration to countless writers, including Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Chaucer.
]]>Philip Freeman is the author of more than thirty books on the ancient world, including Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor and Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet. His other books include six previous volumes in Princeton's Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Tell a Story, How to Think about God, How to Be a Friend, How to Grow Old, How to Run a Country, and How to Win an Election. He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Humanities at Pepperdine University.
]]>One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life-above all else, a life of contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison, a leading authority on the poet, provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death.
Living during the reign of Rome's first emperor, Horace drew on Greek and Roman philosophy, especially Stoicism and Epicureanism, to write poems that reflect on how to live a thoughtful and moderate life amid mindless over-consumption, how to achieve and maintain true love and friendship, and how to face disaster and death with patience and courage. From memorable counsel on the pointlessness of worrying about the future to valuable advice about living in the moment, these poems, by the man who famously advised us to carpe diem or 'harvest the day,' continue to provide brilliant meditations on perennial human problems.
]]>In his essay On Anger (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: 'No plague has cost the human race more dear.' This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. It vividly illustrates why the emotion is so dangerous and why controlling it would bring vast benefits to individuals and society.
Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Seneca's thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, readers will find, in Seneca's wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.
'This is wisdom down the ages.' - Paradigm Explore
'This is a well-produced, stimulating book and a worthy addition to an excellent series.' - Ray Morris, Classics for All
]]>Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods - from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How did the Stoics think about religion?
In How to Think about God, Philip Freeman presents vivid new translations of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero offers a Stoic view of belief, divinity, and human immortality, giving eloquent expression to the religious ideas of one of the most popular schools of Roman and Greek philosophy.
On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio are Cicero's best-known and most important writings on religion, and they have profoundly shaped Christian and non-Christian thought for more than two thousand years, influencing such luminaries as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Thomas Jefferson. These works reveal many of the religious aspects of Stoicism, including an understanding of the universe as a materialistic yet continuous and living whole in which both the gods and a supreme God are essential elements.
Featuring an introduction, suggestions for further reading, and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Think about God is a compelling guide to the Stoic view of the divine.
'A good summary of the religious thoughts of the Stoics...Philip Freeman's introduction and translation are models of their kind.' - Harry Mount, Catholic Herald
]]>For Seneca, the impulse to give to others lies at the very foundation of society; without it, we are helpless creatures, worse than wild beasts. But generosity did not arise randomly or by chance. Seneca sees it as part of our desire to emulate the gods, whose creation of the earth and heavens stands as the greatest gift of all. Seneca's soaring prose captures his wonder at that gift, and expresses a profound sense of gratitude that will inspire today's readers.
]]>Who doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay 'On the Shortness of Life' - a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca's brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction.
With devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realise how precious it is. We don't allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind of immortality.
A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about making our time - and our lives - count.
]]>The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered 'No!' Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn't shy about literally extending his middle finger to the world, expressing mock surprise that 'most people go crazy over a finger.' When asked why he was called Diogenes the Dog, he replied 'because I fawn on those who give, I bark at those who don't, and I bite scoundrels.' How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters - from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity.
With their 'less is more' approach to life, the Cynics speak urgently to our world of climate change, economic uncertainty, and psychic malaise. Although the Cynics weren't writers, their memorable utterances and behaviour were recorded by their admirers and detractors, and M. D. Usher offers fresh new translations of appealing selections from this body of writing - ranging from street sermons and repartee to biography and snapshots of Cynics in action.
Complete with introductions to the volume and each selection as well as the original Greek and Latin on facing pages, this lively book demonstrates why the Cynics still retain their power to surprise us and make us laugh - and to make us think and question how we live.
]]>'Robert Kaster's translations are wonderful, the selections exciting, and, as always, it is a pleasure to be put smack in the middle of Seneca's coaxing, cajoling, and coaching.'-Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons in Modern Resilience
]]>While content in daily life to go along with things as they appear to be, Sextus advocated-and provided a set of techniques to achieve-a radical suspension of judgment about the way things really are, believing that such nonjudging can be useful for challenging the unfounded dogmatism of others and may help one achieve a state of calm and tranquility. In an introduction, Richard Bett makes the case that the most important lesson we can draw from Sextus's brand of skepticism today may be an ability to see what can be said on the other side of any issue, leading to a greater open-mindedness.
Complete with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Keep an Open Mind offers a compelling antidote to the closed-minded dogmatism of today's polarised world.
]]>This book guides us through the fascinating life and writings of Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor. Philosopher William O. Stephens explores Marcus's reluctant rise to power, his marriage, and his efforts to mould his son into a just successor. He examines Marcus's Stoic tenets as he describes the struggles of dealing with a fifteen-year pandemic, the betrayal of a trusted general, social upheaval centred on a new 'superstition' (Christianity), and how Marcus's determination to stabilise the empire's borders resulted in strife, broken treaties, and protracted wars. This gripping narrative of Marcus's life, times, and thought, as well as his complex legacy will appeal to all those interested in Roman history.
]]>Carol Atack explores how his life in Athens influenced Plato's thinking, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical tool, and how he used the institutions of Athenian society to create a compelling imaginative world. Accessibly written, this book shows how Plato made Athens the place where diverse ideas were integrated into a new way of approaching big questions about existence and the societies we create, then and now.
'Philosophy is just the beginning in Carol Atack's page-turner. From Plato's own travels and troubles to the strange life and peculiar death of his teacher Socrates, the struggles of his city at the hands of enemies at home and abroad to the efforts of its citizens to make sense of things in an era of unending crisis, this is a gripping account of Classical Athens under siege told through the sharp eyes and shifting ideas of its most notable son.' - Josephine Quinn, author of How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History
]]>This book oers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander's story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the vital roles that other gures played in historical events. By considering the social and intellectual currents of the last two decades, Harrison highlights how changing contemporary experiences shape historical interpretations. Moving beyond polarised debates about Alexander, he provides a nuanced discussion of Alexander's achievements and impact. The book presents an Alexander for the twenty-rst century, oering new insights into how and why historical interpretations of him have changed.
]]>Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than all of Europe would know for the next seventeen centuries. In this bold reimagining, modern polymath Nicholas Nicastro shines a new light on Archimedes' life and work. Far from the aloof, physically inept figure of historical myth, Archimedes is revealed to be an ambitious, combative, and fiercely competitive man. A genius who challenged an empire, Archimedes emerges in this book as the world's first fully modern scientist millennia before his intellectual descendants transformed our world.
]]>In this book, collaborators and friends take us behind the scenes to give original insights into le Carre's extraordinary observational writing techniques, revealing his unique 'tradecraft' as a writer. His striving for artistic truth and historical precision is presented here through the words of those who worked alongside him, together with an analysis of the novels, which so often captured the zeitgeist. Illustrated with manuscript pages, family photographs, film stills and correspondence, this book provides a multifaceted portrait of the working life and legacy of a great writer.
]]>The anxiety you feel in your body is asking you to breathe and listen. Will you honour the soft, supple language of the body? Will you come home to the wisdom that exists within your flesh the vessel that communes with and is informed directly by nature?
The next revolution will be a revolution that is led by mothers and the soils of the Earth. It will rise from and through the lands. Those connected to the one heart and the one pulse of life that breathes all of humanity will lead this revolution. It is the people who remember the divinity of resting in their mother's womb and of the unconditional love of the mother who will stand up for the oppressed and those who deeply need to be touched by grace during these times. Motherhood is the groundwork. The root work. It is like tending to the soils of the Earth. Without healthy mothering, without tending to the hearts of our children, we lose the fertile soils from which humanity's morality can bloom. We're already there.
This book has been written on the premise of hope. Hope for a future that is sympathetic and collaborative with Mother Earth. A future that is brighter for our children. One where mothers are revered as an essential part of the ecosystem and honoured in a way that puts them at the forefront of our society. The MotherWild Revolution lies in the hope for a future that puts healthy mothering at the forefront of its sociopolitical agenda and understands the vital ingredients that need to be present in order to raise children that are connected to the 'mother principle' the ability to love and be loved an essential component necessary to shift the trajectory of humanity from one of crisis to positive, Earth-centric evolution.
]]>The Collection 10 volume features more than 250 of the best photographs selected from a record 33,000-plus entries submitted for the tenth anniversary of the competition, including all the winning and short-listed pictures. Taken by experienced professionals and enthusiastic amateurs, these richly various photos are organised by contest category, including Birds in the Environment, Bird Behaviour, Birds in Flight, Urban Birds, Conservation, and the Young Bird Photographer of the Year. A portion of the Bird Photographer of the Year's profits goes to Birds on the Brink, a charity that supports bird conservation around the world.
Filled with unforgettable images of a kind that simply weren't possible before digital photography, this book will delight anyone who loves birds or great photography.
]]>Nigel Marven has been making wildlife films for three decades and has produced and presented many shows and specials for British and American television channels, including ITV, 5, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and PBS.
]]>This beautifully illustrated and deeply original book tells the story of how maps, secrets and the data they betray, have come together in western culture over the past six centuries. It uncovers the key clandestine workings of imperial secrets, state secrecy, wider secrets within societies and more recent concepts of personal privacy. Combining the intrigue, excitement and danger that drives human fascination with secrets and the peculiar revelatory thrill that maps give us, it is an essential story with an unsettling edge.
]]>This has inspired inventive mapping strategies, as well as ongoing struggles to define what constitutes believable cartographic information. This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a journey to examine the rich, and sometimes contentious, history of how mapmakers have understood and processed knowledge about a region they described as 'the north'. In the process of mapping, the north as a place changed from an inaccessible and vividly imagined unknown to a region claimed and exploited by southern nations.
What emerges is a riveting story of exploration, survival and cartographic skill bound up with conceptions of nature, religion and politics extending far beyond the Arctic.
'This beguiling book offers a detailed history of cartographies of the farthest north: not only the real regions of ice and the aurora, but also the fabulous otherworldly norths of rumour and fable.' Peter Davidson, author of The Lighted Window and The Idea of North
]]>This innovative guide applies the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu's The Art of War to personal health and wellness. Y. Tony Yang, a public health and policy expert, transforms the general's five pillars into specific battle plans centered on nutrition, exercise, self-care, work-life balance and prevention
We all know to eat well and exercise, but our forces need to be built up in more definable and actionable ways. Reduce inflammatory markers? Improve sleep efficiency? Increase stress resilience? That's the start of a customised health-centered battle plan, all supported by:
'The five factors are not separate matters', Sun Tzu wrote. 'The wise general sees them as a single integrated reality.' Wise generals never go to war with their own bodies but defend instead their most valuable territory, the body and its sustained health success.
]]>In Einstein Origami Puzzles, origami master Sy Chen teaches you how to fold ingenious hat-shaped 'Einstein' paper tiles that can be combined in countless ways without repeating the same pattern. The book provides clear, step-by-step instructions and photos for 30 fascinating paper puzzles and brain teasers using simple, inexpensive folded paper polygons.
You'll start by learning to fold the 'Einstein' polygon from a single sheet of paper. This unique shape baffled mathematicians for many decades until a clever hat-shaped version was discovered in 2023. Chen then developed a folded paper version of this remarkable shape, along with many variations including one folded from a dollar bill! All of these are featured in this groundbreaking book.
Along with his 10 innovative 'Einstein' tiles, Chen also offers instructions for creating folded paper shapes used in entertaining geometric puzzles and games, such as:
This is the perfect book for anyone who loves brain teasers, mathematical challenges, and jigsaw puzzles!
]]>The Essential Einstein: Public Writings presents a rich selection of Einstein's humanistic writings drawn from a diverse array of materials he sanctioned for publication during his lifetime. Distinct from previous collections, this incisive book presents previously excerpted works in their entirety, including key articles, lectures, and speeches. These writings delve into significant topics such as philosophy, religion, and art, but also specific important and often contentious issues in education, politics, disarmament, pacifism, international cooperation, the atomic bomb, and Zionism. Among these works, readers will find the brilliant 'Notes for an Autobiography' alongside selected popular science articles, which offer a profound understanding of Einstein's ethical and political worldview.
The Essential Einstein is a two-volume compendium offering general readers and specialists alike a comprehensive resource on the pivotal writings of Albert Einstein. Organised chronologically by leading authorities on Einstein and his work, this collection illuminates the evolution of Einstein's scientific and humanistic ideas throughout his life. Each selection is accompanied by explanatory notes that detail the work's background and significance.
Together with The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings, this authoritative collection invites a deeper engagement with the intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Albert Einstein.
]]>Tilman Sauer is professor of the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and senior editor of the Einstein Papers Project.
]]>The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein's most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity as well as his ambitious yet ultimately unrealised attempts at a general unified field theory. This incisive collection contains works that profoundly influenced the trajectory of modern science. Each piece serves not only as a reflection of his intellectual rigour and creativity but also as a cornerstone of contemporary scientific thought.
The Essential Einstein is a two-volume compendium offering general readers and specialists alike a comprehensive resource on the pivotal writings of Albert Einstein. Organised chronologically by leading authorities on Einstein and his work, this collection illuminates the evolution of Einstein's scientific and humanistic ideas throughout his life. Each selection is accompanied by explanatory notes that detail the work's background and significance.
Together with The Essential Einstein: Public Writings, this authoritative collection invites a deeper engagement with the intellectual legacy and enduring influence of Albert Einstein.
]]>Tilman Sauer is professor of the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and senior editor of the Einstein Papers Project.
]]>Whether house sharing with Philip Pullman, trading one-liners at RADA with Ralph Richardson, shooting the breeze with Clint Eastwood, partying with Jerry Hall, acting in Edwardian comedy with Rex Harrison or dodging fights with Sid Vicious, Edward Tudor Pole has proved himself equal to many a challenge. In a series of amusing, nostalgic and sometimes outrageous stories, told with candor and wit, Edward Tudor Pole recounts his fascinating youth pre-punk and during the time of Vicious and The Clash before fronting 80s band Tenpole Tudor. After the horrific implosion of the group, Tudor Pole was enticed into the acting world, appearing in numerous films and plays including Sid & Nancy, Absolute Beginners, a long-term association with cult film director Alex Cox, cameo appearances in Harry Potter and Game of Thrones and a stint presenting The Crystal Maze.
The Pen is Mightier tells of how a troubled start can lead to a happy ending. Edward Tudor Pole writes a fast-paced account of a life spent exploring every avenue of show business before finding out where you belong, taking the reader through his eclectic career as a punk rock band leader, hit songwriter, top 10 pop star, movie actor, TV presenter, West-End leading man and long-term touring musician.
]]>In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, where the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost and redemption gained at a terrible price. And there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and little people, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie and damn fine coffee.
David Lynch is your guide to this other world...and this is your guide to David Lynch.
]]>Michelle Le Blanc is a freelance author and film critic. She has co-authored books with Colin Odell about John Carpenter, Tim Burton, Horror Films, Jackie Chan, Vampire Films, Anime and Studio Ghibli and contributed to Wallflower Press's Alter Image and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is an editor and contributor to the online film review salon Kamera.co.uk and Vector Magazine.
]]>The featured artists, including the hugely popular Kelogsloops, Canadian artist Janice Sung, and Norwegian fantasy artist Mona Finden, have created thoughtful reimaginings of drawings from Hokusai's The Great Picture Book of Everything and share beautiful insights into the inspiration that Hokusai has provided them. Choosing works such as Palm tree and Myna bird and Daoist master Zhou Sheng ascends a cloud-ladder to the moon, the contributors explain their creative choices, show development images, and display the final exclusive piece in their individual project chapter. They apply their own style and approach, while staying true to the original narrative and composition of Hokusai's drawing.
Hokusai also includes written contributions from experts on the great artist, with discussions on the undeniable impact he made on the world of art, and manga in particular. For lifelong Hokusai admirers or those new to his influence, this book is an essential addition to any art-book collection.
]]>Kelogsloops, real name Hieu Nguyen, is a hugely popular mixed-media artist. His work showcases his love for both digital and watercolour painting, while blending influences from surreal-art styles and Japanese anime. Hieu exhibits his work in galleries all over the world, while also keeping up with his successful social-media presence, boasting an online fanbase of over two million (1.4M Instagram followers and 1M YouTube subscribers). He has also worked with big companies such as Disney and Paramount Pictures. From Melbourne, Australia.
Janice Sung is an artist whose vision is inspired by Renaissance paintings, Japanese and Chinese traditional art, and feminine subjects. She is very popular online, with 489K engaged Instagram followers. Based in Toronto, Canada.
]]>Mount Fuji is everywhere recognised as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear. Long an object of worship, Fuji has been inhabited by deities that changed radically over time. It has been both a totem of national unity and a flashpoint for economic and political disputes. And while its soaring majesty has inspired countless works of literature and art, the foot of the mountain is home to military training grounds and polluting industries. Tracing the history of Fuji from its geological origins in the remote past to its recent inscription as a World Heritage Site, Andrew Bernstein explores these and other contradictions in the story of the mountain, inviting us to reflect on the relationships we share with the nonhuman world and one another.
Beautifully illustrated, Fuji presents a rich portrait of one of the world's most celebrated sites, revealing a mountain forever in the making and offering a meditation on the ability of landscape both to challenge and inspire.
]]>Imagine this: You're walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You're the only person who can save her and you must act immediately. But as you approach the pond you remember that you're wearing your most expensive shoes. Wading into the water will ruin them and might make you late for a meeting. Should you let the child drown? The philosopher Peter Singer published this thought experiment in 1972, arguing that allowing people in the developing world to die, when we could easily help them by giving money to charity, is as morally reprehensible as saving our shoes instead of the drowning child. Can this possibly be true? In Death in a Shallow Pond, David Edmonds tells the remarkable story of Singer and his controversial idea, tracing how it radically changed the way many think about poverty but also how it has provoked scathing criticisms.
Death in a Shallow Pond describes the experiences and world events that led Singer to make his radical case and how it moved some young philosophers to establish the Effective Altruism movement, which tries to optimise philanthropy. The book also explores the reactions of critics who argue that the Shallow Pond and Effective Altruism are unrealistic, misguided, and counterproductive, neglecting the causes of and therefore perpetuating poverty. Ultimately, however, Edmonds argues that the Shallow Pond retains the power to shape how we live in a world in which terrible and unnecessary suffering persists.
]]>Land of Mist and Magic collects and retells these stories of ghosts, fairy changelings and demon dogs deeply embedded in the landscape, together with those of more familiar heroes such as King Arthur, Beowulf and Robin Hood, that lie at the very threshold of recorded history.
With introductory sections setting out the historical background and origin of the myths, the book is composed of beautiful retellings of the stories, illustrated from the British Library's unparalleled collection of manuscripts and printed books. Visually stunning and packed with stirring and surprising tales, Land of Mist and Magic is a treasure-house of the stories that shaped our nation.
]]>What is it that makes them so addictive, so constantly inviting to playful reinterpretation and reinvention? Caroline Taggart brings her signature warmth and wit to The Philosophy of Boardgames, a playful cultural history that lays the checkered past of boardgames bare. Covering various subgenres of games including: Early games, Race games, Chess, Combat games, Puzzles games, Word games, Quiz games, Role-playing games, and Collaborative games.
]]>This holiday survival guide from Dr. Faith G. Harper, bestselling author of Unfuck Your Brain and Unfuck Your Boundaries, is for anyone who's ever struggled with the expense, drama, loneliness, pressure, and feelings that go along with so many of those big days on the calendar. Learn coping, logistical, and conversational strategies for making it through a family holiday dinner without bloodshed. Figure out how to go your own way next year (and how to have that conversation). Gain skills and recipes for hosting your friends or chosen family. Navigate religious, political, and dietary differences.
Whatever you celebrate (or would prefer not to), this funny, level-headed, helpful book offers perspective and tools for making all holidays more meaningful and less stressful.
]]>Life is hard for him and there are many hurdles to deal with every day. And like all of us, Nick is human. In these pages, Mr. Cave finds healthy ways to feed his sorrows, with gusto, whether he's eating a giant bowl of mashed potatoes, a tofu dog, peanut butter from the jar, spicy potato chips, or licking the frosting bowl. 'Get inside of me', he passionately tells a slice of pizza.
And when you are ready to enter his psyche, there's Nick's favourite Rice Krispies Treats recipe to get inside of you, including, of course, 'twelve tears for flavor'. No matter what he's chowing down on, it's comforting to witness Nick and his comforts.
We all know someone who needs the comforts of Nick Cave as much as they need Comfort Eating with Nick Cave. So the next time they are sobbing to Dumb and Dumber or Scream 2 with a container of chocolate chip cookie dough soy ice cream in their lap, hand them a copy of this cookbook and we'll all shed a tear together.
'Dedicated to anyone nursing a broken heart, a beer and a burrito, this cookbook is full of delicious vegan recipes from Joshua Ploeg, all of which are paired with a one-of-a-kind illustration of the thrill himself, Nick Cave, from illustrator Automne Zingg.' - Vassilis Roumeliotis, Cook Backstage
]]>Joshua Ploeg is a chef, writer, musician who lives currently in Billings, Montana. He has spent many years traveling the US and several other countries cooking up dinner parties and other special events, mostly traveling by bus, train or plane. He has authored dozens of zines and books, mostly cook books these days and has played in several punk rock bands. Currently he does strange and amusing folk music, esoteric endeavors, and various culinary projects.
]]>**BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2024**
Seventy-five years after 1984first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce 'Orwellian' untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of 'Orwellian' censorship. But what does 'Orwellian' really mean? What would the man himself say about these crises, and what can we learn from his ideas?
Orwell's Ghostsreveals Orwell in all his complexity, exploring his commitment to political liberty and economic justice alongside his undeniable chauvinism. This sharp free thinker's commentaries remain invaluable, whether on political truth, disinformation, class, race and empire, or highlighting the promise of socialism and the dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. Even Orwell's misogyny offers troubling lessons about gender politics on the left. All of his books show remarkable resonance between the first half of the twentieth century and today's world.
Revisiting Orwell's own age of rapid change and urgent crossroads, this book sheds unique light on both our recent past and our current upheavals.
'[A] lucid, engaging study.... Beers reaches a satisfying synthesis, writing that Orwell illuminates how "to resist the temptations of totalitarianism in favour of a more open and democratic socialism".' The New Yorker
'Highly readable and thoughtful...Like some other significant recent works on Orwell, it mixes admiration for the author's keen appreciation of some forms of injustice with a sharp critique of specific blind spots and prejudices he had.' Prospect
'Rescues Orwell from "two-dimensional caricature" to present one of our greatest novelists and essayists, warts and all. Beers reveals how Orwell's politics, shaped by the tragedies of the first half of the twentieth century, can help to understand our own age of insecurity. An essential read.' Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer
'Beers convincingly uses Orwell's work to address current events... Her careful reflections on Orwell's thought are of value for those familiar with his work and those who only know him from two of his books. A determined attempt to rescue Orwell from the clutches of right-wing pundits and others who misconstrue his messages.' Kirkus Reviews
'A valuable exploration of what it actually means to be "Orwellian".' Publisher Weekly
'A noteworthy addition to the field... [and] an effective intellectual springboard for engaging with the zeitgeist.' Hindustan Times
'A succinct, wide-ranging work of what might be called applied literary exegesis, concluding with a reminder to those on the political left that they can only achieve their aims "through common endeavour" with others.' Harvard Magazine
'An interesting, challenging and enlightening book.' Daily Kos
'Full of fascinating historical detail and keen insights into contemporary politics, this is a gripping, insightful guide to Orwell's significance in the twenty-first century.' Sandra Newman, author of Julia
'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know why Orwell is the ideal guide to our own age of upheaval.' Jason Cowley, Editor-in-Chief, The New Statesman
'With all and sundry taking Orwell's name in vain these days, it is timely to have a reminder of who he was and what he believed in, and also how his body of work can help us understand the world we live in now. Just the insight into his writings, beyond the obvious and best-known titles, makes Orwell's Ghosts well worth reading.' Nicola Sturgeon
'A perfectly timed and desperately needed book.' Tristan Snell, author of Taking Down Trump
]]>'Putin has obviously deceived everyone.' These were the words of Manuela Schwesig, First Minister of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Western Pomerania, after the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She was trying to explain why her federal government had been so closely implicated in Russia's controversial completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Why have other German, Austrian and European politicians and commentators so often got it so very wrong in their assessments of Moscow policy? Why has the EU been so slow to recognise the danger posed to its liberal values by nationalist autocrats such as Viktor Orbn of Hungary? And why have lessons from past blunders in Western policy particularly in the Balkans and the example of German Ostpolitik gone ignored, until it was too late?
Paul Lendvai, a veteran reporter on the continent's centre and east, exposes the role of double standards embraced, blind eyes turned and human and political weakness overlooked in policies of appeasement towards Europe's authoritarian regimes, past and present. Combining analysis of new developments with decades of personal experience as a correspondent, he provides fascinating political profiles in deceit, sketching both the victims and the perpetrators of political fraud in Central and Eastern Europe.
]]>Efficiency is the engine that powers human civilisation. It's the reason rates of famine have fallen precipitously, literacy has risen, and humans are living longer, healthier lives compared to preindustrial times. But where do improvements in production efficiency come from?
In The Origins of Efficiency, Brian Potter argues that improving production efficiency finding ways to produce goods and services in less time, with less labor, using fewer resources is the force behind some of the biggest and most consequential changes in human history.
With unprecedented depth and detail, Potter examines the fundamental characteristics of a production process and how it can be made less time- and resource-intensive, and therefore less expensive. The book is punctuated with examples of production efficiency in practice, including how high-yield manufacturing methods made penicillin the 'miracle drug' that reduced battlefield infection deaths by 80 percent during World War II; the 100-year history of process improvements in incandescent light bulb production; and how automakers like Ford, Toyota, and Tesla developed innovative production methods that transformed not just the automotive industry but manufacturing as a whole. He concludes by looking at sectors where production costs haven't fallen, and explores how we might harness the mechanisms of production efficiency to change that.
The Origins of Efficiency is a comprehensive companion for anyone seeking to understand how we arrived at this age of relative abundance and how we can push efficiency improvements further into domains like housing, medicine, and education, where much work is left to be done.
]]>How did we build large language models? How do they think, if they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as smart as humans, or even smarter?
In a series of in-depth interviews with leading AI researchers and company founders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, MIRI cofounder Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Dwarkesh Patel provides the first comprehensive and contemporary portrait of the technology that is transforming our world.
Drawn from his interviews on the Dwarkesh Podcast, these curated excerpts range from the technical details of how LLMs work to the possibility of an AI takeover or explosive economic growth. Patel's conversations cut through the noise to explore the topics most compelling to those at the forefront of the field: the power of scaling, the potential for misalignment, the sheer input required for AGI, and the economic and social ramifications of superintelligence.
The book is also a standalone introduction to the technology. It includes over 170 definitions and visualisations, explanations of technical points made by guests, classic essays on the theme from other writers, and unpublished interviews with Open Philanthropy research analyst Ajeya Cotra and Anthropic cofounder Jared Kaplan.
The Scaling Era offers readers unprecedented insight into a transformative moment in the development of AI and a vision of what comes next.
]]>As a leader, do you find yourself frustrated, wondering why employees don't meet expectations, peers are slow to act, or pressure from your boss falls unfairly on your shoulders? It's easy to point a finger at others and double down on getting results. But have you ever considered that the problem might not be them that it might be you?
Through countless hours coaching executives over the past twenty years, C-suite adviser Muriel M. Wilkins has pinpointed the biggest reason behind these common leadership challenges: hidden blockers. These unconscious beliefs can actively stall progress if leaders aren't aware of their existence, preventing them from seeing a situation clearly, solving problems effectively, and advancing their careers.
In Leadership Unblocked, Wilkins reveals seven key beliefs that hold leaders back, from 'I know I'm right' to 'I need to be involved' to 'I don't belong here'. Combining illustrative and powerful coaching conversations and research from the fields of neuroscience, leadership, and adult development theory, Wilkins offers a self-coaching guide for identifying, unpacking, and breaking through these barriers.
By using the practical advice in this book, leaders and aspiring leaders alike can cultivate the mindset to achieve their goals and finally become the leaders they want to be.
]]>You're on the short list for the CEO job, and you have a record of delivering amazing results. You've been told you have the inside track. You're the leader in the clubhouse.
Don't believe it. Remember that no matter what you've heard or what your CV says, you are not alone in the race, and the odds are against your getting the job.
Leadership selection isn't the methodical, objective process we imagine. Decisions aren't made by robotic executives ticking boxes for attributes such as strategic fit, core competencies, or cultural alignment. Instead, the process is deeply personal, emotional, and often unpredictable.
Now, Mark Thompson and Byron Loflin share with you what it really takes to become CEO ready. Thompson has coached thousands of executives and CEO candidates, and Loflin is a boardroom expert and adviser. They've seen firsthand the emotions that sway CEO selections as well as the personal and boardroom dramas that unfold as a company prepares to pass the baton of leadership.
In CEO Ready, Thompson and Loflin reveal what you need to do to maximize your chances of being the one who secures the top spot, including identifying the seven key stakeholders CEO candidates need to understand and work with. Filled with practical advice and compelling and instructive stories from those who've gone through this arduous process, CEO Ready is essential reading for anyone who aspires to the ultimate leadership position.
]]>Byron Loflin is a two-time CEO who currently serves as the Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq and is the former CEO of the Center for Board Excellence, now a part of Nasdaq. With more than two decades of experience advising corporate boards, CEOs, and executive teams, Loflin is globally respected for his pragmatic approach to board leadership, integrity, and strategic alignment. He has interviewed over a thousand CEOs and board members and continues to pioneer tools and frameworks that elevate board effectiveness, helping organisations strengthen their oversight and strategic impact.
]]>Today's leaders are navigating a storm of competing demands: rising economic and social pressures, rapid technological disruption, and a workforce that expects greater purpose and accountability than ever before. In this unpredictable climate, a weak culture erodes trust, loyalty, and performance. A strong one, by contrast, makes the difference between clarity and confusion, resilience and fragility.
It's time to get intentional about your company's culture.
In this practical and inspiring book, you'll find a clear, actionable framework rooted in design thinking and inclusive leadership to help you shape a culture that's resilient, empowering, and built to last.
Culture Design brings together James D. White's expert perspective, informed by more than thirty years of operating experience across sectors and in the boardroom, with his daughter Krista White's millennial perspective of modern workers' expectations from their company and its culture. This powerful combination produces a masterful joint outlook on what makes leaders best suited to build cultures that work for all.
Together they've written an essential book with one central message: culture design is an indispensable pillar of strategy for organisations to thrive in the coming decades and beyond.
]]>Krista White is a multigenre nonfiction and fiction writer. As a cofounder of Culture Design Lab, her work focuses on research, in-depth interviews, and harnessing her writing and storytelling skills to craft powerful narratives. In addition to her work at Culture Design Lab, Krista has consulted with individuals and companies on their strategies for intentional culture design, inclusion, and racial justice. She is also the founder and CEO of Kiki For the Future, a platform for LGBTQIA+ sex education.
]]>'This practical and empathetic guide to taking the high road is worth a look for workers lost in conflict.' Publisher's Weekly
A research-based, practical guide for how to handle difficult people at work.
Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, degrades our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions, and causes us to disengage. We might lie awake at night worrying, withdraw from work, or react in ways we later regret rolling our eyes in a meeting, snapping at colleagues, or staying silent when we should speak up.
Too often we grin and bear it as if we have no choice. Or throw up our hands because one-size-fits-all solutions haven't worked. But you can only endure so much thoughtless, irrational, or malicious behaviour there's your sanity to consider, and your career.
In Getting Along, workplace expert and Harvard Business Review podcast host Amy Gallo identifies eight familiar types of difficult coworkers the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased coworker, and others and provides strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one. She also shares principles that will help you turn things around, no matter who you're at odds with. Taking the high road isn't easy, but Gallo offers a crucial perspective on how work relationships really matter, as well as the compassion, encouragement, and tools you need to prevail on your terms. She answers questions such as: Why can't I stop thinking about that nasty email?! What's behind my problem colleague's behavior? How can I fix things if they won't cooperate? I've tried everything what now?
Full of relatable, sometimes cringe-worthy examples, the latest behavioral science research, and practical advice you can use right now, Getting Along is an indispensable guide to navigating your toughest relationships at work and building interpersonal resilience in the process.
]]>Connect with Amy Gallo at amyegallo.com
]]>Upon losing those closest to her, Naomi Westerman saw that death was more than just an abstract academic concept; it was a deeply painful and personal experience. She became fascinated by loss and grief, and hoped to cope and demystify death by turning to history, art, and pop culture.
Happy Death Club examines the many faces of death and grief in Westerman's own life and in cultures around the world. From expensive coffins and unconventional burials to horror films and true crime, what does our treatment of death and dying have to tell us about how we live our lives? What makes a 'good death'? And who owns our bodies before and after we die?
Both meaningful and darkly humorous, Happy Death Club presents a frank, curious look at this universal human experience one we're often too afraid to talk about and what lies beyond.
]]>Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theatres to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections with other queer people and weirdos.
The film shattered expectations and social norms at the time of its release. But how does its presentation of queerness not to mention its portrayals of murder, manipulation, consent violation, and cannibalism hold up today? The essays in Absolute Pleasure by queer writers including Sarah Gailey, Grace Lavery, and Magdalene Visaggio explore the film's complicated legacy, along with queer and trans joy, sexuality, family, generational understandings of queerness, and what we do with our problematic faves.
]]>Contemplating memento mori, Latin for 'remember you will die', helps us diminish our fear of death and encourages us to embrace life more fully in the here and now. Each message in the Memento Mori card deck guides us to love those around us more deeply, enjoy our work and daily activities more fully, see beauty in all things, and embrace fearlessness as we encounter the unknown.
What do you need to focus on to be here now? Cherish every moment!
]]>Your soul has been longing to live differently to release societal conditioning and step into a more harmonious way of life. Seeds of Light Oracle Deck is a mystical yet grounded deck crafted to guide conscious leaders and changemakers on their journey. Through powerful, sacred transmissions, this deck encourages users to explore their deepest desires, illuminate their path forward, and embody their role as the sovereign creator of their reality.
Engaging the laws of quantum energy, this oracle is not just about personal transformation but also about creating ripples that reshape reality itself. In this pivotal time, the Seeds of Light Oracle supports users in breaking free from outdated structures and nurturing a new paradigm one that celebrates the boundless potential of the soul.
Whether this is your first oracle or your hundredth, Seeds of Light Oracle is designed to grow with you, offering direct access to your soul's wisdom at every stage of your journey. Infused with layered, multidimensional messages and timeless artwork, this deck becomes a trusted companion in daily practice, offering potent insights that guide you on your unique path.
]]>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell is an intuitive illustrator driven by the essence of the soul, unravelling the enchantment within the ordinary. Born in the United States but residing in Sydney, Australia, Stephanie's passion for travel and adventure is just one of the many aspects from which she draws her artistic inspiration. Channelling a diverse array of palettes, her work covers a broad spectrum, making her a sought-after partner for published projects. Her spellbinding designs grace oracle decks, journals, and book covers, resonating withaudiences worldwide.
]]>Comprising all major and minor arcana, they've experienced nine times as many lives as humans ever will, and they're here to guide you through happiness, heartbreak, and whatever else life has in store!
Drawn in charismatic, aesthetic poses, each of these 78 cats has their own character and advice. In the accompanying booklet, each card is described from the calm, meditative point of view of a cat. Mysterious and enigmatic yet also charming and sensitive, these cats offer the philosophical outlook you need to divine the future, develop your intuition, and find new perspectives on all of life's questions.
]]>In Magic Spells Oracle, 36 full-colour cards offer clarity and inspiration to focus your intention and rebuild your power with guidance through life, relationships, career, travel, and more. Reconnect with the essence of nature and rekindle the magic within with cards divided into the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. An accompanying guidebook outlines the framework for crafting your home altar and charging your oracle, reading and finding inspiration in the cards and their layouts, and connecting with your inner wisdom and deepening your magical practice.
Discover the magic in everything including you.
]]>A 'Happily Ever After' in love isn't just something you wish for it's something you create. You are the main character and the author of your own love story, and the fairy-tale romance of your dreams is possible. It's time to remember your magic, reclaim your ability to manifest, and shape your story. Like any fairy-tale hero, you'll need a bit of help from magical guides. Angels, mermaids, and faeries are here to be those divine guides, assisting you in all matters of the heart.
In Magical Ever After: Manifesting Your Fairy-Tale Romance with Angels, Mermaids & Faeries, you'll learn how to work with these magical allies and establish beautiful, lifelong relationships with each. These spirits from the highest realms of light want to help you transform your love life, heal your heart, and discover romance all you have to do is ask! This book provides journaling prompts, meditations, spells, and more to help you uncover what's truly blocking you in love.
Through each practice, you'll learn to forgive past relationships, romanticise your life, fall in love with yourself, and shift your mindset to become a magnet for the love you seek. Remember, your love story can be as grand, as romantic, and as magical as you wish. Anything is possible once you heal your heart and align your energy with the divine love that's waiting for you. You're capable of manifesting your own magical ever after and that journey starts now!
]]>In Shame, David Keen explores the function of modern shaming, paying particular attention to how shame is instrumentalised and weaponised. Keen points out that there is usually someone who offers an escape from shame and that many of those who make this offer have been piling on shame in the first place. Self-interested manipulations of shame, Keen argues, are central to understanding phenomena as wide-ranging as consumerism, violent crime, populist politics, and even war and genocide. Shame is political as well as personal. To break out of our current cycle of shame and shaming, and to understand the harm that shame can do, we must recognise the ways that shame is being made to serve political and economic purposes.
Keen also traces the rise of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who possess a dangerous shamelessness, and he asks how shame and shamelessness can both be damaging. Answering this question means understanding the different types of shame. And it means understanding how shame and shamelessness interact not least when shame is instrumentalised by those who are selling shamelessness. Keen points to a perverse and inequitable distribution of shame, with the victims of poverty and violence frequently being shamed, while those who benefit tend to exhibit shamelessness and even pride.
]]>From the onset of colonialism, Indigenous communities have faced seizure of their land, labour, and resources by non-Indigenous actors. In The Long Shadow of Extraction, Christopher Carter argues that the native groups' resistance to extraction took distinct forms, and that this variation explains why some communities demanded autonomy while others demanded integration or assimilation. Countering existing scholarship that assumes a universal demand for autonomy, Carter shows that some Indigenous communities in fact refused government offers to recognise their local political authority and longstanding economic institutions.
Carter argues that contemporary Indigenous demands were forged in early twentieth-century efforts to resist extraction. Drawing on two emblematic Latin American cases, Peru and Bolivia, Carter shows that in communities where traditional Indigenous leaders organised resistance, ethnic mobilisation occurred and gave rise to enduring demands for autonomy, or state recognition of Indigenous identities and institutions. In communities where unions and leftist parties organised resistance, class-based mobilisation became the norm. This led communities to reject autonomy and demand instead integration (state recognition of Indigenous identities but not Indigenous institutions) or assimilation (state recognition of neither Indigenous identities nor institutions). Carter's groundbreaking account of Indigenous resistance has important implications for understanding not only the historical emergence of autonomy but variations in identity-based mobilisation in multiethnic democracies.
]]>As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a crisis of imagination. We can easily picture ecological disaster or futures dominated by technology. But we struggle to imagine a world in which people thrive and where we improve our democracy, welfare, neighbourhoods or education. Many are resigned to fatalism yet they desperately want transformational social change.
This book argues that, although the threats are real, we can use creative imagination to achieve a better future: visualising where we want to go and how to get there. Political and social thinker Geoff Mulgan offers lessons we can learn from the past, and methods we can use now to open up thinking about the future and spark action.
Drawing on social sciences, the arts, philosophy and history, Mulgan shows how we can recharge our collective imagination. From Socrates to Star Wars, he provides a roadmap for the future.
]]>The death toll in Gaza continues to rise a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism.
What remains of the theories we use to understand our world?With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving 'the West' as giving carte blanche to Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as its quintessence.
If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Holding to glimmers from revolutionary works of literature and film, Dabashi argues, in grief and love, that the wretched of the earth need poetry after barbarism and that Palestine is the site of a liberated imagination.
]]>Throughout the book, Lewis and Arday use theories of Blackness, feminism, class, and neurodivergence to offer a vision of solidarities across differences. They show that race, class, ethnicity, gender, and nation are just some of the social structures for which the politics of neurodiversity can produce an emancipatory analysis. This is a book about applying social theory in practice, taking seriously how academic research and theory can be used outside of academic spaces. With We See Things They'll Never See, Lewis and Arday issue a call to action and a call for understanding, acceptance, and humility.
]]>Jason Arday is professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain and a trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA). He also sits on the ITV Cultural Advisory Council and is patron of the Adult Literacy Trust (ALT).
]]>Hamdani provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Srinagar on a scale never previously attempted, covering the entirety of the pre-Muslim and Muslim eras in medieval Kashmir, with a focus on the cultural life of the city. Richly illustrated with drawings, sketches and other images, this inviting book will be a timely addition to our expanding knowledge of regional cultures across South Asia, especially as witnessed through their material production and legacies.
]]>'A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Nez de Balboa and others.' Wall Street Journal
]]>Manuel Lucena Giraldo is a research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council and an adjunct professor at IE University and ESCP Business School Europe. His books include Firsting in the Early Modern Atlantic World.
]]>Writing as both a football fan and a Gulf specialist, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen offers historical and comparative contexts for Saudi Arabia's startling emergence as a world football hub in the 2020s, exploring both previous Saudi investment in the game, in the 1970s, and national attempts elsewhere to kickstart the sport, as in the United States, Japan and China.
Going beyond popular media labels such as 'sportswashing', this fascinating book examines what drives Saudi policymaking, connecting the move into football with domestic economic and social developments, as well as external and foreign policy considerations. It also examines how Riyadh's foray into world football both builds upon and yet differs from the approaches taken by other Gulf States, such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Finally,Coates Ulrichsen assesses the sustainability and durability of the Kingdom's engagement with the sport in the decade-long countdown to the 2034 FIFA World Cup, which Saudi Arabia is set to host.
]]>In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of a young woman who leaves Poland at the age ofnineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales, with intertwined threads of love and literature, hope and despair. Motherhood brings new joys, but the pain of the past must be faced before this new life by the seaside can truly feel like home.
With the fearless honesty of a poet, Gosia offers her account of an extraordinary ordinary life where every flavour is tasted, every moment lived to its fullest. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong.
]]>We can't know the hour of our death, but we can plan for it and benefit ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities by doing so. This collaborative and empathetic game, crafted by Jennifer Kumer, creator of Cards for Couples, provides a safe container for exploring end-of-life scenarios.
Play this gentle, collaborative game with family, friends, or kind strangers. There are no winners and losers instead, each player will have a structured opportunity to use the cards to consider and share knowledge about topics ranging from end-of-life care to funeral arrangements to how they want to be remembered and lay out a personalized plan to enact over the course of the next year.
You're never too young or old to reflect on what is and isn't important to you, and have meaningful conversations about life, love, and legacy.
]]>This first book from author Mara Alviz Hernando, director of the World Divination Association, offers tips and techniques for mastery of her tarot tableau system, allowing readers to easily see the interaction of characters, elements, and symbolism. Tarot tableau reading laying out the cards in a square or rectangular shape and interpreting them in the way that one might interpret a painting has become Mara's signature method. Cards are read in relationship to one another, and different tableaus utilize different numbers of cards.
Tarot Tableau Revolution covers an entire system, teaching readers to interpret tarot based on classic cartomantic techniques. No dot is left unconnected in this approach! Readers learn how the cards interact on different levels: elemental, directional, relational.
Over the centuries, the tableau technique fell into obscurity, until Alviz Hernando began teaching and demonstrating her method. With Tarot Tableau Revolution, now all readers can benefit from the author's style, gaining the most accurate and substantive interpretation of tarot.
]]>As one of the directors of the World Divination Association and its Spanish-speaking branch, WDA Hispana, Mara is dedicated to promoting the love for divination worldwide. Education is a cornerstone of Mara's work, and she offers diverse online courses. Mara has had the privilege of presenting at numerous online and in-person conferences, including the WDA Big Bang Conference, Lenormand Summit, Divination Pride, Stockholm Tarot Conference, WDA Virtual Conference, and, most recently, StaarCon.
Beyond her undying love for tarot reading, Mara indulges in her other passions, including history and antiques (especially the world of antique jewellery), literature, cross-stitching, travel, and spoiling her bratty cats. She is based in Madrid and resides with her fabulous husband.
]]>The shadow speaks symbolically because it is beneath our conscious awareness. Therefore, we all have psychological blind spots. The Apothecary for the Afflicted is designed to creatively reveal these blind spots through shadow work practices rooted in the Jungian tradition.
In this book, Melissa teaches you about the shadow, how to work with it, and the importance of facing inner darkness. As you work with the materials, you will discover supportive shadow-work practice to soften resistance when difficult emotions, feelings, and sensations rise to the surface.
Shadow work involves the transmutation of stuck energy and transformation of repressed feelings. We must confront the things we ignore. There is power hidden in the places we are afraid to look. Within the shadow, the energy remains in limbo, and like a ghost, it eventually begins to haunt us...until we face it.
To transmute darkness, we must turn our attention toward the many faces of the shadow. We can find the shadow mirrored in our dreams, triggering behaviours, emotional reactions, and qualities we refuse to see within ourselves.
We all need a guide to walk with us through dark times, to navigate the unknown and uncover our blind spots. We need someone who can see in the dark. That person is Jungian and depth psychologist Melissa Kim Corter, and this book is your guide. The Apothecary for the Afflicted is a book you will return to time and time again to confront darkness, heal invisible wounds, and reclaim lost parts of the soul.
]]>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell is an intuitive illustrator driven by the essence of the soul, unraveling the enchantment within the ordinary. Born in the United States but residing in Sydney, Australia, Stephanie's passion for travel and adventure is just one of the many aspects from which she draws her artistic inspiration. Channeling a diverse array of palettes, her work covers a broad spectrum, making her a sought-after partner for published projects. Her spellbinding designs grace oracle decks, journals, and book covers, resonating with audiences worldwide.
]]>Crystals are displayed prominently at virtually every witchcraft and metaphysical store; however, a comprehensive guide to their use in magic has been a missing element. Nicholas Pearson helps to remedy this with The Witching Stones, examining crystals, gems, and humble stones with the most ancient and powerful connections to magic.
In The Witching Stones, author Nicholas Pearson explores the historical usage of stones including flint, hagstone, ammonite, fossil urchin, salt, lodestone, lead, toadstone, amber, jet, cross-stone, quartz, moonstone, and emerald as well as why they are associated with witchcraft. He also offers practical and accessible uses for today's modern practitioner, from the basics of cleansing and consecrating your stones to more advanced techniques such as crafting lead curse tablets, blending incense and oils, and working lunar magic with moonstones.
Containing over fifty spells, rituals, and recipes, The Witching Stones focuses on the geology, history, and practical use of crystals and stones in magic, and is suitable for beginners who don't know what to do with crystals as well as experienced crystal lovers who want to take their practice to the next level. While many spell books feature the use of crystals, this is the first to take a deep dive into the topic, exploring the mineral kingdom in the context of alchemy, talismanic magic, and Luciferian witchcraft.
'The Witching Stones draws from rich veins of geological and occult history, expertly carving that knowledge into practical, powerful magick for today's practitioner.' Mat Auryn, author ofPsychic WitchandMastering Magick
]]>With rituals, recipes, and intentions to ask for magical assistance, forty-four individual spell cards are divided into the four elements Fire, Earth, Air, and Water and feature planets, gods and goddesses, chakras, animal spirits, crystals, moon energies, and manifestations to aid you in your daily practice. Each card has a grounding colour palette and offers guidance and instruction to work with their energies. A guidebook accompanies the card deck, further clarifying the elements' power and potential.
Invoking the magic of Elemental Spells will focus your intention to attract new energies for personal growth, help identify your wishes, gain clarity, and accept personal vulnerability.
]]>Step-by-step guidance on selecting painting tools and mastering techniques. The tools in this book are kept simple, and the paints are easy to manage. The recommended tools are easy to find and easy on the wallet, and the paint selection focuses on simple mixing, enabling you to quickly master color blending techniques. The painting techniques are of moderate difficulty, presented in a gradual progression from basic to advanced, offering readers a variety of methods to practice further.
16 clear and easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects for practical teaching. The examples cover a variety of charming flora and fauna, from vibrant flowers to lively birds, and from mysterious insects to graceful butterflies. Each case includes detailed step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations, making it easy for you to follow along. Additionally, the author thoughtfully specifies the required paint colours and recommended tools, while highlighting key challenges to help you successfully create the garden of your dreams.
Thoughtfully crafted designs make learning process convenient. To better meet readers' needs, the appendix includes line drawings that are to scale for all teaching cases, complete with perforated edges for easy removal. Transferring the line drawings enables even beginners to easily start their painting journey. The book is bound in a way that allows it to lay completely flat, making it convenient to follow the step-by-step instructions while painting.
Rich color combinations will spark your creative inspiration. The author integrates the aesthetic principles of traditional Chinese painting into watercolor, allowing the colours to flow naturally with a graceful, free-spirited style. The works emphasise colour diversity and visual experience, with detailed guidance on colour mixing and application to help readers portray the rich colour layers of flora and fauna, creating a sense of natural vibrancy and refined texture in each piece.
Watercolors in the Garden is a guide suitable for anyone at any stage. With its rich content, thoughtful design, and vibrant colours, it reveals the hidden wonders of a garden. Whether you're a curious beginner or an enthusiast looking to explore new subjects, this book offers a visual feast, inviting you to appreciate the vitality of nature.
]]>Kanpai is the first history of sake in English, exploring its evolution from homebrew to flavoured varieties, and its cultural significance and global rise including its growing popularity and production in North America and Europe. The book also shows how sake has shaped Japanese food, society, and traditions.
]]>Berghain Nights is about spiritual frenzy and soulful music, countercultural urgency, and capitalistic cash-ins. It's a story of the most notorious club in the world and of a scene that, enthralling thousands every weekend, feeds billions annually into Berlin's economy. In the midst of it all is the story of a person who, having gone through life feeling like an alien, finds himself in the most alien place imaginable and feels at home there.
'Cagney doesn't just write from the middle of the dance floor. He's there in the queue, in the club toilets, and in dark corners. Zooming between histories of techno, Berlin clubs, and his childhood in rural Donegal, this no-holds-barred exploration of dance-floor life describes a site of transformation and repair.' Emma Warren, author of Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
]]>Tracing the development of Icelandic popular music since the rock and roll era, Thoroddsen examines key influences shaping the scene, from the personalities of Reykjavk's musicians to national institutions like radio and concert venues. With engaging explanations of sociological factors, the book sheds light on why Iceland has become a powerhouse in music. An illuminating journey through Iceland's music history, this book is a celebration of the artistry and cultural forces behind that history's global impact.
'This is a wonderfully affectionate history of music-making in Iceland. Nothing here on hot springs or glaciers, but a rich and thoughtful account of what it means to be a popular musician in a very small, intense and playful country.' Simon Frith, University of Edinburgh
]]>About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method one of humanity's great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life's big questions at the kitchen table.
Drawing on hundreds of quotations, this book explains what the Socratic method is and how to use it. Chapters include Socratic Ethics, Ignorance, Testing Principles, and Socrates and the Stoics. Socratic philosophy is still startling after all these years because it is an approach to asking hard questions and chasing after them. It is a route to wisdom and a way of thinking about wisdom. With Farnsworth as your guide, the ideas of Socrates are easier to understand than ever and accessible to anyone.
As Farnsworth achieved with The Practicing Stoic and the Farnsworth's Classical English series, ideas of old are made new and vital again. This book is for those coming to philosophy the way Socrates did as the everyday activity of making sense out of life and how to live it and for anyone who wants to know what he said about doing that better.
'A wonderful book.' Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex.
]]>While his outre styles were worn by some of the most famous celebrities in Europe and America, they were in fact the most fleeting facet of his work. Mary E. Davis explores how Poiret's genius was to place fashion at the centre of a network of style, culture and commerce. He founded groundbreaking perfume and interior design businesses, sponsored musical performances, amassed a modernist art collection and threw fantastical and newsworthy balls.
Poiret's businesses faded by the end of the 1920s, but as this book reveals, his unifying vision set the model for the luxury industry as we know it.
]]>Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin without running water or electricity.
Boyd fearlessly forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick stands of lodgepole pine, and monitored packs from the air in a tiny bush plane that skimmed the treetops so she could count wolves and see what they were feeding on. She faced down grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolverines and the occasional trapper as she stalked her quarry: a handful of wolves that were making their way south from Canada into Montana. Resilient and resourceful, she devised her own trapping methods and negotiated with locals as wolf populations grew from the first natural coloniser to more than 3,000 wolves in the West today.
In this captivating book, Boyd takes the reader on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apex predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with her indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.
'A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves.' Erica Berry, author of Wolfish
'This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in many forms... It is a book I highly recommend: informative, fascinating, and beautifully written.' Dr. Jane Goodall
Douglas H. Chadwick is a wildlife biologist. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic, the author of more than two hundred articles on wildlife and wild places, and fifteen books, including The Wolverine Way and Four Fifths a Grizzly.
]]>It may not be the worst time in history to get paid to make art, but it certainly is the strangest. The institutions and markets that have been supporting the arts are undergoing massive changes, some even disappearing. Meanwhile the tools to make art and find audiences have never been more accessible, and there are more people than ever making art.
How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists is an attempt to reckon with the history of money in the arts from Titian to Taylor Swift and how that complicated relationship is changing. David Berry analyses past and present financial dynamics in the arts to show the practicalities of how artists make a living and how that, in turn, affects the reception and perception of artists and their work: the impacts art has on wider society, how economic realities affect aesthetic judgements of art, what kind of people are able to work as artists, and how political and cultural ideas about the nature of art affect what kind of resources are made available to it.
David Berry explores how art has become central to our understanding of humanity by tying art to what makes the world go round: money. Along the way, he challenges popular ideas of what constitutes a successful artistic career and considers what our treatment of artists says about us.
]]>His first book, On Nostalgia, was published in summer 2020 by Coach House Books, just in time for everyone to suddenly become incredibly nostalgic for a time when they could actually see people and maybe even buy books in person. He lives in Edmonton with his partner and their two children, one of whom is both old enough to read and quite insistent on being referenced in this biography.
]]>As communities are boldly rising to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and authoritarianism, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion is your ultimate guide to LGBTQ+ resilience and rebellion. Packed with daily snapshots of radical queer history, this book celebrates the bold, the brave, and the beautifully defiant moments that have shaped the fight for justice.
Ever wonder why the Stonewall protests became an uprising or what the earliest acts of queer resistance looked like? How about the ways queer communities have organised against oppression across the globe? Be Gay, Do Crime dives into these stories and so many more from fierce acts of resistance to joyful victories bringing to life the rich, diverse history of LGBTQ+ liberation.
By situating readers within a larger pattern of struggle, these everyday acts counter the erasure of queer people from history and serve as a reminder that our struggles are part of a broader fight against systemic violence and dehumanisation.
But, this isn't just a history book; it's a rallying cry. Flip to any page, soak up some inspiration, and join the legacy of resistance.
]]>Riley Clare Valentine holds a PhD in political science from Louisiana State University. Their work focuses on care ethics critique of neoliberalism as well as analyses of political rhetoric.
Blu Buchanan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UNC Asheville. Their academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in journals like GLQ: The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, as well as edited volume chapters in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis and Unsafe Words: Queer Perspectives on Consent in the #MeToo Era. They have also written extensively in the public sphere, particularly about movements to disarm campus police and confronting trans antagonism in the university.
Cindy Barukh Milstein, a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist, is the author of Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism and Anarchism and Its Aspirations, and the editor of anthologies such as Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice; Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief; Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy;and There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists.
Working Class History is an international collective of worker-activists who uncover our collective history of fighting for a better world and promote it to educate and inspire a new generation of activists.
]]>From the creator of the 'Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him', Magic for the Resistance has been helping magical practitioners create a more just and equitable world since 2018. Author Michael M. Hughes, upon reflecting on recent events, has revised and updated this essential title for the current political climate. From theory and reflections on a tense world to practical advice, this crash-course guide to magic is an on-ramp to the occult for the politically frustrated.
Calling upon revolutionary feminists and radical magic practitioners across time, including Allen Ginsberg and those who hexed Hitler in the 1940s, Hughes has built a concise, powerful magical tool kit for modern practitioners. Whether it is through one of the fifteen spells, advice on working magic in public, or a guide to 'guerilla magic', this book suggests grounded ways to keep forward momentum against fascism. Magic for the Resistance provides vital advice on building community and self-care (magical and non) to nourish the spirits of overworked and overwhelmed activists and freedom fighters.
]]>Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, from where it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter, but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that Earth is a ball. However, it wasn't until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken.
An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realisation that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.
]]>Showcasing the city's historic architecture, bustling streets, notable landmarks, and natural scenery, the images capture London's vibrant character and historical significance. Photographer Ben Moore shares his unique perspective to create a contemporary portrayal of the city, captured in all four seasons. Through a series of breathtaking images, readers are invited to explore the city's iconic landmarks, including The Shard, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, the River Thames, and the Gherkin, as well as lesser-known corners of the city that are equally captivating.
Above and Across London features stunning aerial shots that offer a bird's-eye view of the city, capturing this iconic city in an entirely new light. With its striking visuals and thoughtful commentary, including a foreword by Vivien Godfrey, CEO of Stanfords, this photography book is a must-have for anyone who loves London or wants to experience its beauty from a new perspective.
]]>Fodor's Essential Australia travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other countries in the region? Check out Fodor's Essential New Zealand.
]]>Travel writing can be exclusive, centring macho narratives of discovery and intrepid exploration, often made by men who step out on their own. But what about the everyday travelling we all do, the journeys we make out of necessity, or the stories of women sharing in adventure?
There She Goes seeks to expand and redefine the genre of travel writing. In essays that are both defiant and deeply personal, we see the grit, purpose, and determination of women traveling with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with menopause, with magic and humour, with bodies that are disabled or seen as foreign and other. Leena Rustom Nammari crosses between the West Bank and Jordan as a Palestinian travelling away from her homeland; Claire Askew recounts her pilgrimage to Salem, to honor the people murdered during the witch trials; and Lee Craigie upends the competitive parameters of an off-road bike race in the Highlands of Scotland
This inspirational collection offers a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.
]]>Founded in 1971 by Elizabeth Pepper, the art director of Gourmet magazine for many years, The Witches' Almanac is a witty, literate, and sophisticated publication that will appeal to general readers as well as hard-core Wiccans. At one level, it is a pop reference that will fascinate anyone interested in folklore, mythology, and culture, but at another, it is the most sophisticated and wide-ranging annual guide available today for the mystic enthusiast.
Modelled after the Old Farmers' Almanac, The Witches' Almanac includes information related to the annual moon calendar (weather forecasts and horoscopes) as well as legends, rituals, herbal secrets, mystic incantations, interviews, and many a curious tale of good and evil. Although it is an annual publication, much of the content is both current and timeless not specific to the date range of each issue.
The theme of issue 45 (Spring 2026Spring 2027) is Water: The Mirror of Souls. Also included are articles on geomancy, the lunar nodes, the zodiac calendar, fixed stars, kitchen magic, gods of the sky, orishas, and much more.
]]>Travel puts us all in liminal spaces. But despite many practitioners' affinity for spaces betwixt and between, these areas have many practical and magickal dilemmas. A Traveler's Guide to Making Magic provides templates and examples for practicing in a broad range of locations and circumstances. Pagans and witches alike will find utility in this book, making it a worthy addition to their suitcase.
A Traveler's Guide to Making Magic explores the practical, the magickal, and the ethical aspects of responsible and sustainable travel. Through travel-specific charms and spells, as well as divination for the path ahead, Lisa McSherry provides an experienced and insightful guide for modern practitioners seeking to incorporate a little bit of magick into their own journeys.
]]>Fodor's Ireland 2026 travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting England, too? Check out Fodor's Essential England, Fodor's London, and Fodor's Essential Great Britain.
]]>Fodor's Essential Turkey travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other fascinating countries? Check out Fodor's Essential Greece, Fodor's Essential Spain, Fodor's Essential France, Fodor's Essential Israel, and Fodor's Essential Morocco.
]]>Fodor's Paris travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting the rest of France? Check out Fodor's Essential France and Fodor's Provence & the French Riviera.
]]>Fodor's Provence & the French Riviera travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting the rest of France? Check out Fodor's Essential France and Fodor's Paris.
]]>Fodor's Sicily travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting the rest of Italy? Check out Fodor's Essential Italy, Fodor's Best of Italy, Fodor's Rome, Fodor's Florence & Tuscany, Fodor's Venice, and Fodor's The Amalfi Coast, Capri & Naples.
]]>Born and raised on O'ahu, Catherine Toth Fox is the editor of HAWAI'I Magazine. Prior to this, she was the food editor at HONOLULU Magazine and worked for 10 years as a newspaper reporter in Honolulu. She's been a freelance writer and journalism instructor for 20 years and recently published a children's book. If she's not writing, you can find her hiking, surfing or experimenting in the kitchen. She lives in Honolulu with her husband, son, dog, cat and two chickens.
]]>For four years, Pauline created weekly travel segments for CNN'sHeadline Newsand CNN'sPipeline. You may also have seen her talking travel onThe Today Show, NBC Nightly News,ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America,FOX News. She resides in New York City with her husband, Columbia University Professor Mahlon Stewart and two very well-traveled daughters.
]]>Stephen Keeling, various travel magazines, and numerous travel guides. Stephen resides in New York City.
Donald StrachanHe resides in London, England.
]]>In this transformative guide, artist and creativity coach Carrie Schmitt leads you through nine sacred 'temples' each one a sanctuary for healing the wounds that have kept you from your creative birthright. Here, you'll explore tender reflections, soulful rituals, and liberating practices designed to dissolve perfectionism, quiet the inner critic, and reignite your relationship with Creativity as a sacred, flowing force not something you have, but something you are.
Along the way, you'll craft a personal guidebook filled with revelations, blessings, and artwork a living testament to your unfolding journey. With each step, you'll remember what your soul has always known: Creativity is not a skill to master, but a spirit to embrace. And it has never stopped calling your name.
]]>Jessie Kwak, author of From Chaos to Creativity, returns with a guide on networking and building your community, with clear and easy to follow advice. Learn how to form your own 'writing constellation', how to create an elevator pitch, tips on reaching out (without being a creep), and how to navigate things like events, classes, workshops, and more.
A great read for writers new and old to shift their mindset away from the solo grind to enthusiastic collaboration and building an open, welcoming support network.
]]>Take your book from a single product you feel like you have to hustle to a foundational piece of your prospering entrepreneurial enterprise with the help of this encouraging, no-nonsense guide to promoting and profiting from your writing, whether or not you have a relationship with a traditional publisher.
Joylynn M. Ross has decades of experience in multi-genre writing, and here she shares her insider knowledge of how to treat your books like a business, especially the nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes details of literary finances, from finding grants to printing options to cover pricing. Ross's straightforward, tried-and-true advice is accessible, actionable, and practical, told in brief vignettes readers can easily refer back to, or easily share with others! You don't need to rely on fast trends, conventional wisdom, or expensive freelance support to make sure your work succeeds and your reach continues to grow.
Roll up your sleeves and dive in for a more successful publication, a more profitable business, and a more empowered writing community.
]]>In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus' lecture, 'Create Dangerously', and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite or because of the horrors that drove them from their homelands.
She writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. She also eulogises an aunt who guarded her family's homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as an undocumented immigrant, and a Haitian woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture.
Create Dangerously is an eloquent and moving expression of Danticat's belief that immigrant artists are obliged to bear witness when their countries of origin are suffering from violence, oppression, poverty, and tragedy.
]]>Editor Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of sports.
Selected from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and digital publications during the previous year, these stories capture enduring moments while celebrating the craft of writing at its most sublime.
This extraordinary collection reveals the fascinating stories behind the sports we love, the competitors who push their boundaries, and the cultures they are ultimately embedded in.
]]>Glenn Stout served as an editor for the Best American Sports Writing series for 30 years and is the founding editor of The Year's Best Sports Writing. He is the author of several books including The Young Woman and the Sea, Fenway 1912, and Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid.
]]>Since 1984 the official 'annual' has reviewed in detail each Championships held at Wimbledon and this 41st edition is likely to be one of the best yet with the tournament playing host to established stars and exciting emerging talents.
Paul Newman's crafted text, coupled with the stunning images captured by Wimbledon's team of award winning photographers, provides readers with a wonderful and comprehensive review of a fortnight of tennis played on stunningly green courts.
Following the full story of the tournament, from Qualifying through to the concluding Ladies' Doubles final on Centre Court, the book also focuses on some of the other stories and characters that make Wimbledon so colourful and includes daily features and light-hearted stories from the sold out grounds in south west London!
]]>Unlike traditional emergencies caused by natural disasters or product failures, social media upheaval originates in the digital realm but leads to real world consequences job losses, reputational harm, and public shame disproportionate to the original act. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how social media platforms serve not just as communication tools but as environments for the emergence of crises. Drawing on case studies from platforms like X, Facebook, and YouTube, this book outlines a fundamental shift in media ecology, where everyday digital interactions become amplified into firestorms. It investigates key drivers of this trend, including the democratisation of crisis creation, the amplified effects of online mobs, and the rise of partisan communities weaponising outrage.
From the unearthing of old posts to viral hashtag movements fueling global reputational attacks, this book explains how digital crises differ from traditional ones and why society assigns them outsized significance. Rather than advocating for more regulation and prevention, Crisis in a Tweet calls for a cultural shift in how we perceive and respond to online controversies.
]]>As Shalof reflects on what has changed in the profession, she also seeks to identify the universal practices, values, and nursing ethos, that must be preserved. She and Mochrie discuss clinical challenges and personal struggles: from the rigours of nursing school and shift work to the stresses of 'adulting', such as dating, friendships, identity, self-care, and the search for balance.
This book offers practical advice and novel perspectives on long-standing issues, such as the meaning of the term nursing shortage and how to combat the pervasive problem of burnout. It explores compassion fatigue, emotional intelligence, boundary-setting, bias and privilege awareness, and the aspiration to provide person-centered care.
The Handover is a candid, often humorous, and deeply intimate look into the world of nursing, which is too often overlooked by the media or regarded through overly sentimental stereotypes. Accessible to all readers and invaluable to students and educators, this book will stimulate critical conversations about what it means to care for others and oneself and how to repair our precious, but precarious, health care system.
]]>Lisa Mochrie is a Registered Nurse, Team Lead, and Nursing Educator based in Burlington, Ontario. Mochrie has been recognised for her compassionate clinical practice by her Hospital's Kindness Award (2024) and for her excellence in teaching and leadership. She was honoured by her students with the Most Valuable Professor Award (2025), a testament to the lasting impact she makes on learners and the community. At the bedside and in the classroom, Mochrie is dedicated to ensuring that people feel seen, supported, and valued.
]]>After Hamas' shocking 2023 attack on Israel, the United States stood firmly behind Israel's near-genocidal war on Gaza, despite widespread moral outrage and significant damage to Washington's global agenda. But Gaza is only the latest paradox in thirty-five years of Middle East policy. How did this pattern develop, why can't policymakers learn from repeated Middle Eastern calamities, and what does Gaza's destruction mean for America's place in the world?
Marc Lynch charts the United States' disastrously failed approach to the post-Cold War Middle East, where aspirations for US leadership and a calm region have only produced war, instability and humanitarian catastrophe. Lynch exposes the failure of each president's efforts to transform the Middle East in America's image, or pivot away from the region; Washington's refusal to take seriously the views of Middle Easterners; and its fantasy of forging a regional order 'without' the Palestinian issue.
Moving between American politics and Middle Eastern realities, this incisive account explains why US policy has not changed despite its horrifying human costs, from Iraq, Lebanon and Syria to Iran, Yemen and Libya.
]]>In 2001, Biljana Plavi made history: she became the only female political leader ever prosecuted for mass atrocities. She was the one woman among 161 indictees at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the first since Nuremberg to be convicted by an international court.
Charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, Plavi took a plea bargain. Just one other Bosnian Serb politician at her level was sentenced: Radovan Karadi himself, President to Plavi's Vice-President in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Yet before the conflict, Plavi had been a globally renowned scientist at the University of Sarajevo, penning journal articles and serving as faculty dean.
This gripping book revolves around hundreds of hours of interviews with a stridently unrepentant war criminal now in her 90s, and a free woman. How did this biology professor end up heading a vengeful ethno-nationalist movement that murdered tens of thousands?
]]>Drawing on his deep experience as a scientist, businessman, diplomat and head of state, Sarkissian offers captivating portraits of small states, from Africa to Europe to Asia, that have overcome seemingly insuperable odds to establish themselves as oases of political stability, cultural tolerance, technological innovation, financial prudence and scientific research. Sarkissian returns to the uncertain beginnings of these small states to demystify their improbable rise. Along the way, he introduces us to a cast of tenacious leaders with a knack for converting crisis into opportunity.
Widely regarded as the most respected Armenian leader on the world stage, Sarkissian ends with a poignant homage to his motherland. Part memoir, part manifesto, it is a stirring insight into the world's oldest Christian country, which is at once an ancient civilisation, a small state and a global nation.
]]>Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature, renowned author Lewis Hyde brings together essays that highlight the ways in which these two strands of thought were intertwined. Here, natural history begins not with fish and birds, but with a dismissal of the political world, and condemnation of slavery concludes with a meditation on the water lilies blooming on the Concord River.
This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, 'Civil Disobedience' and 'Walking', along with lesser-known masterpieces such as 'Wild Apples', 'The Last Days of John Brown', and an account of Thoreau's 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdin an essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror in the face of raw nature. While Thoreau's ideal reader was expected to be politically engaged in current affairs and well versed in Greek, Latin, poetry, and travel narrative, Hyde's inviting annotations clarify many of Thoreau's references and recreate the contemporary context of the day, when the nation's westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War.
Hyde deems Thoreau's writing prophetic because 'the prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time'. Thoreau's revelatory writing coupled with the luminous insights from Hyde 'one of our country's greatest public thinkers' (Lawrence Weschler) make The Essays of Henry David Thoreau essential reading at a moment in our nation's history when his subversiveness, foresight, and lyricism are badly needed.
]]>Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renowned author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting. Hyde is a trustee of MacDowell and a founding director of Creative Capital. He was previously the director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University and taught writing and American literature for many years at Kenyon College. Now retired, he and his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman, live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
]]>This full-colour guide includes complete step-by-step instructions for installing your own earthen floors as well as the history, use, and maintenance of this beautiful, durable, non-toxic flooring material. Updated to reflect current best practices, it is the only resource of its kind, widely recognised as an essential tool for anyone wanting to work with this beautiful and environmentally friendly construction method.
From sourcing and processing raw materials to applying the final finish, each stage of this exciting technique is demystified. Topics include:
Packed with new in-depth case studies and inspirational photographs, and drawing on the collective knowledge of the most qualified and experienced practitioners, Earthen Floors, Second Edition is a must-read for natural builders, homeowners, architects, contractors, and DIY enthusiasts.
]]>James Thomson got his start with earth building in 2004, and since then has facilitated dozens of workshops and trainings in multiple states and countries, including Panama, Guatemala, Jamaica, India, and France. He also has a background in general construction and a driving desire to find ways to integrate natural building practices into more conventional modern homes. James has participated in many floor installations, both in workshop settings and for paying clients. He has lived on (or near) earthen floors for most of the past two decades and is co-author of the original edition of Earthen Floors. James lives in Williamsburg, MA.
]]>Through fifteen centuries of history, Great Power Diplomacy recreates the perilous junctures, colorful personalities, and intricate statecraft that led to some of history's most stunning diplomatic achievements and greatest disasters. The protagonists include giants like Richelieu, Metternich, Bismarck, and Kissinger, but also a lesser-known cast of scoundrels, eunuchs, drunkards, and fools. At every turn, fortune favoured those great powers with the foresight and dexterity to build winning alliances, splinter enemy coalitions, and, when necessary, make peace with their bitterest foes.
Diplomacy of this kind has become a lost art in recent years as Western elites embraced the illusion that globalisation and the spread of democracy would create a borderless world where nations would live in harmony and war would be abolished from the human story. But, as Great Power Diplomacy reveals, we will need to rediscover the secrets of skillful statecraft as the world enters an unstable new era in which continent-sized great powers compete for territory, resources, and prestige. By recalling diplomacy's rich past, we can equip ourselves for a more dangerous future.
]]>His ingenuity and his mastery of the trade, and his audacity and coolness when in danger, were highly praised. To penetrate the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he was given the code name of Sidney Reilly. He was tasked with kidnapping Lenin and Trotsky during the Russian Revolution, and visited the major battlefronts across Soviet Russia during the civil war, sending back proposals to defeat the Reds. He stole Germany's naval plans from Krupp and the harbor plans in Mongolia for Britain's allies, and he posed as a German officer to engage in discussions with the Kaiser and his chiefs of staff about their U-boat tactics against the Allies. He also helped to obtain oil from Persia to modernise Britain's Naval Fleet when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty.
In 1953, novelist Ian Fleming used Reilly's secret Admiralty Intelligence file to write his novels about a fictional secret agent he called James Bond 007. But Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy but was he also a Soviet double-agent?
Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925 and was assumed to have been murdered by Stalin's secret police. Find out what really happened to the man who inspired the creation of the world's most famous spy in The Greatest Spy. But Bond's adventures were fantasies, whereas Reilly's were real.
]]>Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childcare, ceremonial life at court, diplomacy, and the everyday indignities of warfare. She challenges the idealised image of Maria Theresa as an enlightened reformer and mother of her lands who embodied both feminine beauty and virile bellicosity, showing how she despised the ideas of the Enlightenment, treated her children with relentless austerity, and mercilessly persecuted Protestants and Jews. Work, consistent physical and mental discipline, and fear of God were the principles Maria Theresa lived by, and she demanded the same from her family, her court, and her subjects.
A panoramic work of scholarship that brings Europe's age of empire spectacularly to life, Maria Theresa paints an unforgettable portrait of the uncompromising yet singularly charismatic woman who left her enduring mark on the era in which she lived and reigned.
]]>Robert Savage is the author of Hlderlin After the Catastrophe and has translated books by some of Germany's leading intellectuals and historians.
]]>Historian Michael Hagner revisits this epoch-making experiment and its reception from the nineteenth century to the present day and follows how cosmological questions conjoined political and aesthetic judgments about the public staging and history of science. The pendulum experiment, Hagner argues, is more than just a mere scientific demonstration. It contains within it the histories of technological innovation, ideological conflicts, and the rise of popular culture and visual media. In a series of insightful studies of literary, artistic, and scientific reenactments, Hagner uses both words and images to narrate the rich and complex legacy of this experiment.
Seeing Foucault's Pendulum includes among other fascinating tales, a short but stunning history of the Copernican Revolution, the paradigm-shifting work of the nineteenth-century astronomer Camille Flammarion, and the reenactments of Foucault's experiment at the Smithsonian Institution and New York's United Nations building. Linking nature to culture and calling for world unity, the experiment's legacy extends beyond science. It has been reimagined in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum and in Gerhard Richter's 2018 installation, enchantments of the postmodern world theater where the relationship between knowledge and sensory experience is problematised anew. A complex symbol in the history of ideas challenging our assumptions, inspiring artistic expression, and prompting philosophical reflection on our place in the cosmos Foucault's experiment serves as a powerful reminder that both the Earth and the universe should never be reduced to a disposable mass of human hubris and of irresponsible manipulation.
]]>What was this hammer, such that Pythagoras chose so decidedly to reject it? In The Fifth Hammer, Daniel Heller-Roazen lucidly shows how that fabled gesture offers a key for understanding ideas of harmony in the broadest sense of the term. Since antiquity, 'harmony' has been a name for more than a theory of musical sounds; it has constituted a paradigm for the scientific understanding of the sensible world. Nature, through harmony, has been transcribed in the ideal elements of mathematics. But, time and again, the transcription has run up against one fundamental limit: something in nature resists being written down in a set of ideal units. A fifth hammer, obstinately, continues to sound.
In eight chapters, linked together like the tones of a single scale, The Fifth Hammer explores the sounds and echoes of that percussion, as they have made themselves felt on the most varied of attempts to understand the natural world. In vastly different and yet complementary ways, ancient thought and early modern science and philosophy, before and after Galileo, encountered a troubling dimension of nature, which they sought to interpret and resolve.
Confronting disproportion, they revealed their fundamental aims and limits. From music to metaphysics, from aesthetics to astronomy, and from Plato and Boethius to Kepler, Leibniz and Kant, The Fifth Hammer explores the ways in which orderings of the sensible world have continued to suggest a reality that neither notes nor letters can fully transcribe.
]]>When Edward D. Wood, Jr. died in 1978 at fifty-four, just days after being evicted from his home, he was largely forgotten. Two years later, he was named 'Worst Director of All Time' a title that cemented his cult status. By the time a youthful Johnny Depp starred in an eponymous movie about the filmmaker in 1994, Wood's low-budget films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, and Bride of the Monster, had become beloved 'so bad they're good' classics. Since then, rediscovered works and shifting cultural attitudes have led new audiences to embrace his eccentric style and ahead-of-his-time takes on gender and genre.
Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is a critical reappraisal that takes Wood seriously, positioning him as a true independent who blurs the lines between high and low art. Will Sloan traces his marginal career from Bela Lugosi collaborations to pornographic films and explores how Wood's chaotic sets, fading stars, and taboo subjects created something singular. Placing his films in their cultural context, Sloan reveals how Wood fused grindhouse with avant-garde, nostalgia with innovation, and failure with vision. Marking the centennial of Wood's birth, this engaging take is both a timely investigation into the politics of taste and a loving tribute to a defiant outsider artist.
]]>Ube, a purple yam originating from the Philippines, is totally unique it is flavourful, sweet, nutty, and, best of all, bright purple. Its one-of-a-kind flavour and showstopping colour have made it the trendiest ingredient in baked goods and desserts in Asia and around the world. Now, with over 50 beautiful photographs and easy-to-follow recipes, award-winning baker Henry Awayan offers his traditional childhood favourites as well as brand-new creations in The Ube Baking Book, including:
Perfect for fans of Trader Joe's Ube Mochi Pancake and Waffle Mix or home chefs of all levels, this book will add a pop of colour to your baking game.
]]>Instant ramen makes for a great and easy meal on its own, but have you ever wondered about the possibilities it holds? Have you ever considered doing more than simply dumping the package and some hot water into a bowl and calling it a day? Ramen Remix will school you in the art of noodle-based cooking with its 52 innovative and creative ramen-based recipes for soups, salads, desserts, snacks, and more. Decorated with beautiful anime-inspired illustrations, Ramen Remix provides quick and easy tips, tricks, and recipes to create unique dishes like:
Perfect for college students, ramen enthusiasts, and anime fans alike, Ramen Remix contains all the quick-and-easy recipes you need to transform a regular old pack of ramen noodles into a remarkably delicious meal.
]]>She lives in Atlanta with her husband and two teenagers, who never complain when ramen is being served for dinner. Visit her website at JessicaHarlan.com or follow her on Instagram at @jessica_g_harlan.
]]>If you haven't already begun training for a marathon, you've probably thought about doing so. Former Olympic athlete and record-setting distance runner Jeff Galloway is here to say, "You can do it!" Jeff has been coaching runners for more than 50 years. He is the official training consultant for the runDisney series of races. With the new edition of Marathon, he'll guide you every step of the way. Jeff has updated his unique programs that show runners how to train for-and finish-a marathon.
Jeff's revolutionary run walk run method of training has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to complete marathons, and you can be among them. This innovative method opens marathon running to everyone, including those who may be out of shape, overweight, or past their athletic prime. Discover how to set up a personal training program, stay motivated, avoid injuries, burn fat, and more. You won't have to compromise your career or family life to be successful. This new edition includes updated training schedules with recovery components, and most training weeks require only 3 x 30 minutes of running or walking. You'll also appreciate the latest information on nutrition, mental training, eliminating injuries and exhaustion, and step-by-step instructions that give you control of your training regime.
Jeff's motivation techniques have kept countless marathoners on the road to their goals. This book shows you how to keep the fun in your run and how to stay away from aches and pains. With such guidance, it's possible for almost anyone to achieve the lifetime goal of finishing a marathon-while enhancing health, stamina, and life quality.
Benefit from coverage of topics like these:
Jeff's approachable and inspirational ethos has led him to become a sought-after keynote speaker. He serves as the official training consultant of runDisney and as a Global Coach with Garmin. Jeff's life mission is to allow everyone in the world to enjoy the unique brain- and body-enhancing benefits of exercise while carrying on life's activities. According to Jeff, his greatest accomplishment is hearing how his philosophies have helped improve the lives of exercisers across the world.
]]>There are a lot of reasons to run. We do it to lose or maintain weight, to be healthier, and to clear our minds. Running can do all these things, and more. But running can be, well, repetitive. For everyone, at some point, it can get boring. Predictable. Routine.
Experienced runner, coach, and adventurer Jeff Horowitz wrote The Running Bucket List to provide a fun and organised way to reinvigorate your love for running. Pulling from his nearly four decades of running, which includes racing in every state in the U.S. and on every continent, running in everything from the world's biggest races to solo runs in almost every kind of condition imaginable, Horowitz offers ideas to spice up your training and events that you might already be familiar with, as well as others that you've never dreamed of before. Check items off your running bucket list like:
In this book, you'll find over 100 bucket list items, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the deeply challenging to the whimsical. Pick and choose from among these adventures or work your way through the list one by one. Either way, you can be sure that you'll have banished boredom from your running.
]]>The Creatrix Awakened Journal is an empowering, multidimensional journey designed to accompany the Creatrix Awakened Oracle Deck. This unique journal, created by Shannon Van Den Berg and featuring contributions from sixteen transformative voices, provides readers with a curated collection of prompts, activations, prayers, and practices. Each entry invites readers to connect with their inner wisdom, deepen their leadership, and fully embody their feminine sovereignty.
Drawing from the themes of the Creatrix Awakened Oracle Deck, this journal acts as a sacred space where readers can explore the potent wisdom of fierce feminine leaders. These leaders stand as luminaries, passionately devoted to their soul missions, their communities, and the New Earth's unfolding. Each page is a call to step forward with purpose, envision a harmonious world, and ground that vision through powerful daily practices.
Readers will be guided through layers of self-exploration, each prompt and practice offering a path for personal transformation. From shadow work to soul-centered activation, Creatrix Awakened Journal encourages readers to embrace their own story, connect deeply with ancestral wisdom, and rise as leaders who embody the light and love needed to shape a brighter world.
With every entry, Creatrix Awakened Journal serves as a powerful tool to nurture inner growth, embrace self-sovereignty, and manifest a reality aligned with one's highest purpose. It's a space to celebrate the journey, honour the wisdom of the feminine, and hold the vision of an interconnected, awakened way of life.
]]>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell is an intuitive illustrator driven by the essence of the soul, unraveling the enchantment within the ordinary. Born in the United States but residing in Sydney, Australia, Stephanie's passion for travel and adventure is just one of the many aspects from which she draws her artistic inspiration. Channeling a diverse array of palettes, her work covers a broad spectrum, making her a sought-after partner for published projects. Her spellbinding designs grace oracle decks, journals, and book covers, resonating with audiences worldwide.
]]>From mostly humble backgrounds, they found ways to make their voices heard, creating some of the earliest autobiographical accounts in English and allowing us a rare and precious glimpse of the lives and experiences of women in the early modern era.
]]>After the sudden loss of his father, film scholar and father of two boys, Dara Waldron finds unexpected solace in Ireland's East Clare region. There, on an abandoned farm, he encounters a lone, enigmatic border collie Oscar. What begins as an animal rescue gradually evolves into a profound companionship that helps Waldron navigate his grief.
Oscar is no ordinary dog. A working sheepdog by nature, his instincts pull him to charge ahead yet always return. As Waldron embarks on daily walks through misty woodlands and along rugged hillsides, their bond deepens. Each step through the Irish countryside becomes part of a ritual of recovery, trust, and understanding.
In spare, lyrical prose and accompanied by cinematic images of Oscar's life, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is more than a story of a man and his dog it's a meditation on place, memory, the call of the wild, and the quiet strength found in nature and companionship. With reflections on cinema, art, and animal consciousness, Waldron crafts a uniquely soulful memoir that explores the emotional terrain of loss and the redemptive power of connection.
For readers of Jon Katz, Helen Macdonald, and nature-infused memoirs, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is a poignant reminder that sometimes the path to healing begins with a four-legged guide.
]]>Animal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno's visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where one stark tree 'seems to be the stage design for a simian production of Waiting for Godot'. But who are the players and who is the audience, and can they recognise each other?
What follows is a series of reports from the deep strangeness of the zoo, a space that is 'more often than not deeply sad, an odd choice for regular pilgrimages of fun'. Amid excursions with their young children, Zambreno turns to Garry Winogrand's photographs and John Berger's writings on animals, reshaping the spectator as the subject to decode our complex 'zoo feelings' what we project, and what we refuse to see. Then, in the 'Kafka system' that dovetails with these zoo studies, Zambreno thinks through the notebooks and animal stories of a writer known for playing at the threshold between species, continuing their investigation into the false divide between human and animal.
Drawing on forms including reports, essays, journals, and stories, Zambreno renders visible the enclosures we construct and the ones we occupy ourselves.
]]>Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts to museums in Europe and the United States. Most of these artifacts were catalogued as ornamental art objects, which erased their intended functions, and the removal of these objects often had catastrophic consequences for the original structures. Africa's Buildings traces the history of the collection and distribution of African architectural fragments, documenting the brutality of the colonial regimes that looted Africa's buildings and addressing the ethical questions surrounding the display of these objects.
Itohan Osayimwese ranges across the whole of Africa, from Egypt in the north to Zimbabwe in the south, and spanning the western, central, and eastern regions of the continent. She describes how collectors employed violent means to remove elements such as columns and door panels from buildings, and how these methods differentiated architectural collecting from conventional collecting. She shows how Western collectors mischaracterised building components as ornament, erasing their architectural character and concealing the evidence of their theft. Osayimwese discusses how the very act of displacing building parts like floor tiles and woven screen walls has resulted in a loss of knowledge about their original function and argues that because of these removals, scholars have yet to fully grasp the variety and character of African architecture.
Richly illustrated, Africa's Buildings uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa's architectural heritage and restitution for African communities.
]]>Trees Ancient and Modern explores humanity's deep connection with trees and woodlands, highlighting their splendour and importance and the challenges they face. The book examines debates about creating new woodlands, exploring questions of location, ownership, and management. Using diverse sources such as literature, art, historical records, scientific surveys, and oral histories, Charles Watkins reveals how people have used, valued, and understood forests over time. He also evaluates modern threats to woodlands and considers how best to conserve them.
Richly illustrated, this is a global social and cultural history of forests that provides valuable insights for future management.
]]>At the heart of the book are the botanical paintings by the Bedgebury National Pinetum Florilegium Society. Founded in 2008, this group of botanical artists are dedicated to documenting the Pinetum's remarkable plant collection through scientifically accurate and artistically stunning illustrations.
]]>Dan Luscombe is Collections Manager at Bedgebury National Pinetum, where he has worked for 25 years.
]]>With a foreword by art historian William Dalrymple.
]]>Bring your appetite and a crochet hook as you step into the whimsical and wonderful world of supersized amigurumi food with this collection of 26 larger-than-life designs that are sure to bring a smile to your face. From donuts and macarons to hotdogs and hamburgers, and even some traditional Japanese sweet treats, there's something to satisfy every appetite. These oversized amigurumi make playful pillows and cushions, huggable toys, or decorative objects perfect for kids, pets, and the young at heart. Full of special details and fun touches, these crocheted treats will spark imagination and boost your mood!
]]>Learn how to make adorable drawstring bags and pouches with this collection of 14 fun and easy projects. Best of all, the book comes with cotton cord and a drawstring threader tool so you can get started sewing straight away! The book contains projects for all skill levels, so you can start with simple, beginner-friendly drawstring pouches and work your way up to larger bags and purses. These drawstring pouches are perfect for storing cosmetics, craft supplies, jewellery, and other odds and ends. You can even use them as one-of-a-kind gift bags for small presents! The larger bags make wonderful purses for both travel and everyday errands. With this book by your side, you'll see that making your own drawstring bags and pouches is a cinch!
]]>Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. At the same time, we have been warned by everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists about the negative consequences stemming from our current obsession with choice. It turns out that not only are we not very good at realising our personal desires, we are also overwhelmed with too many possibilities and anxious about what best to select. There are social costs too. How did all this happen? The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.
Taking readers from the seventeenth century to today, Sophia Rosenfeld describes how the early modern world witnessed the simultaneous rise of shopping as an activity and religious freedom as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions. Similarly, she traces the history of choice in romantic life, politics, and the ideals of human rights. Throughout, she pays particular attention to the lives of women, those often with the fewest choices, who have frequently been the drivers of this change. She concludes with an exploration of how reproductive rights have become a symbolic flashpoint in our contemporary struggles over the association of liberty with choice.
Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from novels and restaurant menus to the latest scientific findings about choice in psychology and economics, The Age of Choice urges us to rethink the meaning of choice and its promise and limitations in modern life.
]]>'One of the most beautifully written books about animals I have ever read. I know of nothing else like it published in this or any other country. Deep, sensitive, charming, instructive and above all, humble. I cannot imagine anyone reading it without coming away in some profound sense altered.' - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep
'...agorgeous book. Anyone who loves animals will be enchanted...but it's abook that will challenge your thinking as well...highly recommended.' - ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
'The Grass Library traces the author's tree-change, from inner-Sydney Professor of Australian Literature to his current existence in the upper Blue Mountains: born-again vegan; carer of rescue animals. Paralleling this geographical transition is an ideological one: an attempt to untether himself from conventional ways of thinking about and relating to non-human animals...[The Grass Library] captures the deft meanderings, sideways movements and unexpected leaps of [Brooks'] mind.' - Plumwood Mountain
For readers interested in animal welfare, conservation, and the relationship between humans and other species, Animal Dreams will be an essential, richly rewarding companion.
]]>Knitters in the early decades of the twentieth century had their pick of patterns which were published regularly in a variety of books, newspapers and magazines. Vintage Knits presents a curated selection of these patterns from Australian publications of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, tested and updated to make them practical for today's knitter. The book features vintage material from the original publications with contemporary full-colour photographs of the garments as they have been recreated today. Interwoven throughout the book are sections reflecting on the social and cultural history of knitting in Australia.
Tapping into the trend for everything vintage, as well as the 'handmade revolution' and resurgence of knitting, this book will bring style and joy to any modern knitter!
]]>In Frank, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley's Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albiston explores the idea that historical narratives can yield a strange and unexpected power when subjected to the pressures of poetic form, and in this way she brings Hurley's thoughts and actions to life in a manner never seen before.
Frank Hurley accompanied both Mawson and Shackleton on their celebrated expeditions to Antarctica in the early twentieth century. Hurley's polar diaries, held at the National Library of Australia, represent a written adjunct to his pictorial surveys of what was then a geographical, cultural and artistic unknown.
Frank is a beautiful, evocative and highly accessible volume that will delight both poetry readers and those interested in Antarctica and Hurley. The poems were written and compiled during the author's tenure as the National Library of Australia's 2021 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing. Jordie Albiston sadly passed away during the production of Frank; NLA Publishing is proud to now be realising her vision.
]]>Embark on an outback adventure with Francis Birtles and his various faithful canine companions. Discover the incredible endurance of Mawson's huskies in frozen Antarctica. Learn more about Australia's home-grown dog breeds that played a central role in the development of pastoral industries, as well as the iconic dingo and its place in Indigenous life, as well as the Australian ecosystem, today.
Australia's Dogs is generously illustrated with images drawn from the rich collections of the National Library of Australia. Some simply capture a photographer's love for their own dog, while others tell epic tales of survival in harsh conditions, comment on an element of social history or record a significant moment. As the incredible variety of images shows, the story of dogs in Australia is a subject that is historically significant, with a broad and enduring appeal.
]]>Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards.
]]>From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia's use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.
Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia's history. From the time the First Fleet transport ship Prince of Wales limped back into port eight months after leaving Sydney Cove, to the breakneck rush during the 1970 Apollo 13 crisis to bring Parkes' famous radio telescope on line, this book shows how adoption (or not) of emerging communication technologies has influenced key events, and formed the. backbone of Australia's development as a society and relationship with the world.
Chapter topics include: dispatching mail to Britain from a convict colony, and then around a big country; the arrival of telegraph, telephone, and television; wireless radio and Antarctic exploration; wireless radio entering Australian homes; the coming of airmail; Australia's role in televising the moon landing; communications in search and rescue, Australian newspapers; the internet and the opportunities and risks of the future.
]]>Hugh Tranter is a Sydney-based researcher and author, who enjoys unearthing stories through old newspapers, letters and accounts. He became interested in communication technology and its history through his father's collection of old radios and records, including a bulky, antique radiogram - once cutting-edge technology - kept in the family lounge room. Hugh has studied history, law and creative writing, and written for a range of publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, the online Dictionary of Sydney, Beachcombing Magazine and History, the magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
]]>The occasional text boxes trace social, cultural and historical threads connected to crochet such as the history of the 'granny square', finger crocheting, significant Australian patternmakers and more.
Tapping into the trend for everything vintage, as well as the 'handmade revolution' and resurgence of crochet, this book will bring style and joy to any modern crocheter. It's going to be perfect as a Mother's Day gift, but also attractive to the younger crowd of crocheters.
]]>This story, of forced migration, assimilation, loss, resilience and determination despite the odds, is one that has been lived countless times throughout history and continues to be a common human experience. Harry's particular experience also tells the history of refugee farmers in rural Australia and migrant labour companies during WWII.
Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather's story with three intertwining threads: a sketched-out history based on Harry's testimony and documentary history; her engagement with this personal history from a third-generation perspective; and the present story of Harry's growing infirmities and eventual death in early 2021 at age 100.
Through the hybrid narrative non-fiction form, Scholfield-Peters investigates her family history and seeks to share an ethical historical account of Harry's life. This work necessarily skirts the edges of fiction and non-fiction, as Scholfield-Peters weaves her deep research with Harry's recollections and imagines the unknown details.
]]>Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) was a painter, naturalist, writer and explorer. For almost 50 years, she travelled to remote parts of Australia, India, Europe, America and New Guinea in pursuit of exotic flowers and wildlife to paint. One of Australia's most-loved botanical artists, she was a woman who made her mark at a time when scientific illustration was a male domain.
The Ellis Rowan collection at the National Library of Australia comprises 919 watercolours and gouaches painted between about 1870 and 1920. This represents less than one third of Rowan's total output. The Artists of the National Library of Australia series showcases the Library's extensive Pictures Collection.
]]>Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953) is widely considered the greatest Australian photographer of the early twentieth century. In portraiture, architectural and industrial photography, landscapes and documentary work, he showed versatility, great imagination and technical mastery, and inspired the next generation of Australian photographers. In 1978, Max Dupain penned a thoughtful appreciation of 'Caz' and selected the images reproduced in this new edition.
The Cazneaux collection at the National Library comprises 272 exhibition prints, 200 working photographs and about 4,300 glass negatives, dating from roughly 1904 to 1940.
The Artists of the National Library of Australia series showcases the Library's extensive Pictures Collection.
]]>The Seymour Biography Lecture was presented annually at the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia from 2005 to 2023, by eminent biographers, autobiographers and memoirists. From political profiles to 'tragic poems', this collection of the lectures investigates the philosophical scaffolding that holds up the form of biography and the deft skill required to tell the truth of a life beautifully.
Over seventeen years, internationally significant authors have spoken on topics such as 'Biography and the Struggle for the Soul of Australia' (Jill Roe, 2007), 'Truth. Truthfulness. Self. Voice.' (Raimond Gaita, 2017) and 'Honouring the Biographer's Contract' (Chris Wallace, 2023). Interrogate the art of life-writing with thoughtfulness, humour and candour along with:
Sievers' images celebrate the excitement of the modern machine age. The photographer documented the height of Australian industry, recording places such as textile mills, match factories, oil refineries and treatment plants many of them long since gone. In these places, Sievers found unexpected beauty and virtue, forming an invaluable record of Australia's industrial past, history, culture and the form of photography.
The images in this book are selected from those curated by Ennis in the 2011 edition, republished in a new and affordable format.
The Wolfgang Sievers Photographic Archive consists of about 13,700 prints and 51,700 negatives and transparencies, making it one of the largest photographic collections held in the National Library of Australia.
]]>Each photograph is accompanied by Olive Cotton's own commentary where she speaks about her compositions. Helen Ennis's introduction reveals some of the complex factors that have shaped Cotton's photographs and photographic career, while a biographical memoir written by Cotton's daughter, Sally McInerney, provides a personal glimpse into the life of a photographer in country Australia.
Olive Cotton reproduces the 1995 edition in a new and affordable format, and is a beautifully produced survey of Olive Cotton's finest photographs dating from the 1930s up to the late 1990s.
The Olive Cotton collection at the National Library comprises 58 photographic prints, most of which are silver gelatin, three interviews with Olive Cotton in the oral history collection, and the Papers of Olive Cotton in the manuscripts collection.
]]>The images in this book are a snapshot of the Australian town, from Warrnambool to Broome, captured by the National Library of Australia's photographers in the 1990s. Each building is a reflection of the local climate, history, landscape and people, and yet there are commonalities. When we make a pitstop at a town on our summer pilgrimage to the coast or to visit relatives, recognise the surf lifesaving club, the public pool, a milkbar because we know the architectural language. These are our towers and spires.
An Australian town might contain more or fewer Victorian, Edwardian, Federation, Colonial, Italianate, Modernist, Contemporary and Art Deco buildings. Its suburbs might have been built in a gold rush fervour in the 1850s or have sprawled in the 1960s or big blocks and old homes replaced with blocks of flats in the 1980s. But the design mishmash that so upset Robin Boyd in the 1960s today can move us and make us feel at home. Here is the Great Australian Beauty of our towns, in all its nostalgic, iconic, recognisable glory.
List of towns included in Our Streets: The Regional Cities and Major Towns Project:
ALBANY, ALBURY, ALICE SPRINGS, ARMIDALE, BAIRNSDALE, BALLARAT, BATHURST, BEGA, BENDIGO, BERRIMA, BOWEN, BRAIDWOOD, BROKEN HILL, BROOME, BUNBURY, BUNDABERG, BURNIE, BURRA, CAIRNS, CARNARVON, CHARTERS TOWERS, CLONCURRY, COFFS HARBOUR, COOBER PEDY, COOTAMUNDRA, DENILIQUIN, DERBY, DEVONPORT, DUBBO, ECHUCA, GAWLER, GEELONG, GERALDTON, GOULBURN, GUNNING, GYMPIE, HAMILTON, HERMANNSBURG, HOLBROOK, HORSHAM, KALGOORLIE, KATHERINE, LAUNCESTON, LISMORE, MACKAY, MAITLAND, MARYBOROUGH, MENINDEE, MITTAGONG, MOE, MURRAY BRIDGE, NARRABRI, NEW NORFOLK, NEWCASTLE, ORANGE, PORT LINCOLN, PORT PIRIE, QUEENSTOWN, RENMARK, ROCKHAMPTON, SHEPPARTON, SWAN HILL, TAMWORTH, TOWNSVILLE, TUMUT, VICTOR HARBOUR, WAGGA WAGGA, WARRNAMBOOL, WARWICK, WHYALLA, WINTON, WOLLONGONG, WYCHEPROOF, WYNDHAM, YASS, YOUNG
]]>Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show?
Fewer women are running governments, and the small proportion who make it as CEO has barely budged. The major culprit is right under our noses. Entrenched gender bias about who should be the boss means leadership is mainly seen as a masculine endeavour. And no matter how well qualified and experienced, women continue to be underestimated and face an obstacle course of sexism to get to the decision-making table.
In Breaking the Boss Bias, Catherine Fox sounds the alarm. She argues that toxic sexism woven through processes, beliefs, management, education and leadership norms is keeping privileged men in power, making decisions for us all. It's time for a new way to lead and to unlock the talent being wasted from boss bias.
'Forensically researched, tightly argued, suffused with Fox's trademark wit, Breaking the Boss Bias presents a compelling case for more women leaders and asks the question why are they still so rare?' Jane Caro
'What a wake-up call! We are moving backwards on gender, and the stats for women who come from diverse backgrounds are staggering. This is compulsory reading for all leaders.' Shirley Chowdhary
'No matter what they do or how high they fly, most women know what it feels like to be ignored or left out of decision-making. Instead of being fobbed off with excuses, this important and practical book outlines why it happens and what we can all do about it.' Melissa Doyle AM
'This book isn't just about women but about building a better future for everyone. A powerful and important book for our times and must-read for all leaders.' Kirstin Ferguson AM
'This meticulously researched case for change is exactly what we need to move us from incrementally playing around the edges to sustainable, systemic progress towards gender equality in leadership.' Michelle Ryan
'Catherine cuts through the crippling stereotypes, exposes backlash and bias, delivers disruption and serves up seven steps for real change. She has proven to be Australia's corporate gender equality whisperer.' Natasha Stott Despoja AO
]]>It was in this climate that Anne Summers identified 'damned whores' and 'God's police', the stereotypes that characterised all women as being either virtuous mothers whose function was to civilise society or bad girls who refused, or were unable, to conform to that norm and who were thus spurned and rejected by mainstream Australia.
These stereotypes persist to this day, argues Anne Summers in this updated version of her classic book which, in the 40 years since it was first published, has sold well over 100,000 copies and been set on countless school and university syllabuses. Who are today's damned whores? And why do women themselves still want to be God's Police? And although sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape are well understood today they are nevertheless still with us and seem to be increasing. The fight is far from over.
]]>Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, moved to tropical Bedarra Island in North Queensland and underwent an extraordinary transformation to become one of Australia's most successful conservationists. In the 1960s and early 70s Busst led campaigns to protect two of Australia's most important and endangered environments - saving lowland rainforests from destruction and the Great Barrier Reef from reckless resource mining for oil, gas, cement and fertiliser. A plan Busst likened to 'bulldozing the Taj Mahal to make road gravel'. Along the way Busst obtained the active support of five current or future prime ministers - Holt, Whitlam, Gorton, Hawke and Fraser.
This inspiring biography, from award-winning historian Iain McCalman, is a timely reminder that the passionate commitment of ordinary citizens is crucial to achieving truly transformative environmental change.
'John Busst's love of beauty and reverence for science combined to leave two awesome, interconnected but still tragically vulnerable legacies: the conservation of both the North Queensland rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef. Iain McCalman, among the country's finest historians, brings to life one man's journey from art to activism, locating the roots of modern environmental consciousness in a highly creative and productive partnership of aesthetics, humanitarianism, science and politics.' - Frank Bongiorno
'In John Busst, Iain McCalman turns his attention to the artist, architect, naturalist and environmental campaigner who helped save the Great Barrier Reef from destruction in the 1960s with hugely impressive results. Vivid, expansive and richly intelligent, it is both a tribute to a remarkable life and a fascinating and timely study of how an unlikely group of activists transformed the way Australians understand the environment.' - James Bradley
'Iain McCalman's rich and incisive history of John Busst's resolute and brilliant fight to save the Great Barrier Reef affords us a desperately needed exemplar of what authentic love and commitment to the Earth, combined with persuasive strategy and formidable collaborations can do. The book is a shot in the arm for anyone who doubts our capacity to protect Earth's others and a reminder that it is the wonderous nature of the Earth itself that makes ecological warriors of ordinary people.' - Danielle Celermajer
'This inspiring story of John Busst's life is as rich in character and charm as the reef and rainforest ecosystems he fought so hard to protect. It's a captivating account of the battleground for Australian conservation, fought on the beaches and forests of North Queensland. Fabulous!' - Danielle Clode
'We are all in debt to John Busst, pioneer defender of the environment. Here Iain McCalman brilliantly charts his life and his successful crusade to save Queensland's reef and adjacent rainforest - one of the world's great ecosystems.' - Bill Gammage
'Eye-opening and inspiring. The unforgettable story of one man's struggle to save two of Australia's most treasured world heritage environments - Queensland's Wet Tropics rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.' - Mark McKenna
'McCalman's book is a fine homage to a dedicated life. It's also a portrait of the kind of person who makes a difference. Busst was clever, charming, thoughtful and, perhaps above all, a good, strategic communicator.' - Rosemary Sorensen, Independent Australia
]]>Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s, Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry, including Om Dhungel and his family.
Bhutan to Blacktown tells Om Dhungel's remarkable story - his journey from a remote village to a senior position in the Bhutanese Civil Service, to life as a human rights activist in Nepal and, eventually, to his work as a community leader in Blacktown, western Sydney. Every step prepared Om for the central role he would play in settling more than 5000 Bhutanese refugees, in one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australia's history.
Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button, Bhutan to Blacktown is a story of grit and struggle, humour and irrepressible optimism - and how losing nearly everything shaped one man's character and fate.
'What you hold in your hands is a great Australian story.' - Foreword by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
'A heartbreaking story of exile, with a stirring Australian ending.' - George Megalogenis
'Om Dhungel's journey of the heart and soul, from the fields of southern Bhutan to the streets of Blacktown, Sydney, is a journey from which we can all learn, regardless of our origins.' - Michael Hutt, Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
'Om's optimismand tenacity helped him travel the harrowing path of a stateless person to build a new life for himself and his community. By telling his inspirational story and shedding light on the resettlement experience of Bhutanese refugees in Australia, Om brings the issue of refugees and the conditions for their successful integration in their new countries to a wider audience.' - Bhim Subba, author of Himalayan waters and former Director General of the Department of Power in the Government of Bhutan
]]>James Button is a former journalist and Europe correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of Speechless: A year in my father's business and Comeback: The fall and rise of Geelong, and has won three Walkley awards and a Melbourne Press Club Quill for feature writing. He is a freelance writer and editor.
]]>In that first edition, her tone and draft content were significantly altered to placate non-Indigenous readers who were substantially unfamiliar with Aboriginal cultures and ignorant about the outcomes of settler invasion from a First Nations perspective. This meant changes to her tone and content to avoid confusing or offending non-Indigenous readers, and the altering of her original Aboriginal storytelling voice.
In this new edition, we publish Margaret's story as she wrote it. Drawing on the handwritten manuscript held in the collections of the National Library of Australia, If Everyone Cared Enough reclaims Aunty Marge's original words, reinstating what was previously omitted.
Her autobiography begins with happy early memories - swimming and fishing, listening and learning - and then follows the story after the abrupt end to her childhood when she was sent to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls. The horror of the training, the cruelty of her first employer, the loneliness, homesickness and heartache she felt are related clearly. In 1932 she became the treasurer of one of the country's first Aboriginal organisations - the Victorian Aborigines League. Awarded an MBE in 1968, she would continue fighting for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and opportunities for the rest of her life.
This nationally important title shares the story of a brave, dedicated woman and her perseverance through a life of hardship towards the achievement of recognition for herself and her people.
]]>Together, stories of women from Anna Blackwell and Flora Shaw to Janet Mitchell and Caroline Isaacson, illustrate the gains and setbacks of women journalists over nearly a century. In each successive story, the tenacious determination of these women stands clear against the background of the prevailing patriarchy.
Patricia Clarke was a trailblazer herself as the only woman on the Melbourne staff at the Australian News and Information Bureau in the early 1950s. In a detailed epilogue, Patricia shares stories of her own life and career in the days of crowded newsrooms, clattering typewriters, and overflowing cigarette trays.
The book also features an introduction by Amy Remeikis, political reporter at Guardian Australia, who reflects on the struggles and achievements of her early counterparts as well as the current working environment for women journalists.
Bold Types is a book that will resound with and inspire today's audience, in a world where women are still fighting for equal rights and often, respect in the workplace.
]]>Amy Remeikisis the political reporter for The Guardian. She writes on the major political issues in Australia, crime, the courts and the environment. She is a regular panellist on the ABC's Insiders program and was the inaugural nominee for the Young Walkley awards.
]]>The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse backgrounds, all born before 1946 and all of whom have achieved great things in older age. From Mig Dann, an 80-year-old artist who worked for David Bowie and completed a PhD in her seventies, to Pauline Lorenzen, a 75-year-old Indigenous solicitor working to support women; from Robina Rogan, a boat-builder planning a sea voyage at age 82, to Rosemary Salvaris, a 76-year-old civil celebrant who has taken up orienteering, these women show that learning has no age limit.
As the generation of Australian women who waved the flag for feminism enter retirement, let's change the conversation around what it means to be 'old'. Our ageing population is not a burden - it's time to celebrate the contributions that older women make to our community.
Time of Our Lives also gives insights into how to ensure our own lifelong learning and live to the fullest.
'A must-read for all those women who refuse to go gentle into that good night.' - Maxine McKew
]]>Dr Maggie Kirkman is a psychologist and a Senior Research Fellow in Global and Women's Health at Monash University. Before gaining a PhD at age fifty, she taught kindergarten children, children with hearing impairments and children with profound disabilities. She has worked at La Trobe and Melbourne universities, and her research includes women's experiences of infertility, abortion, donor-assisted conception, breast cancer and ageing well. Maggie is the author of My Sister's Child (with Linda Kirkman, Penguin) and the editor of Sperm Wars (with Heather Grace Jones, ABC Books). She appears regularly in the Australian media, including on ABC Radio and in The Conversation. In 2019, Maggie was recognised as an inaugural Champion for Women by Women's Health Victoria.
]]>Auntie Rita is a revised edition of the bestselling and award-winning memoir of Aboriginal woman Rita Huggins first published in 1994. Rita battled dispossession, poverty, personal tragedy and racism to create a rich meaningful life, lived out during the momentous changes of the 20th century.
'Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older woman folk. You don't have to be blood-related or anything. Everyone is kin. That's a beautiful thing because in this way, no one is every truly alone, they always have someone they can turn to.'
Rita Huggins was born on Bidjara/Bidyara country at Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland. As a child in the 1920s, she met white men for the first time: troopers who forced her family into cattle trucks and drove them south to Barambah, later Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve. At Cherbourg 'we had to stay in one place now, while the white men could roam free.'
There were some happy times, but the only way out of Cherbourg for First Nations people was work. Rita worked as a housekeeper all over Queensland before meeting and marrying Jack Huggins. After Jack's untimely death, Rita struggled with grief and the challenges of being a single parent to three young children, and caring for extended family and community. As the 1960s unfolded, Rita watched the rise of First Nations activism - the 1967 Referendum, the Freedom Rides, new Aboriginal political organisations - and knew she wanted to make something better for herself, her family and for all Indigenous people. She joined Queensland's One People of Australia League and was an active member till her death in 1996.
In Auntie Rita, Rita's words - interspersed with reflections from her daughter Jackie - reveal a life shaped by personal tragedy, the dramatic changes of the twentieth century and personal resilience. This moving memoir has been enjoyed by readers around the world since it was first published in 1994.
]]>Rita Huggins was a Bidjara/Bidyara woman from the Carnarvon Gorge/Springsure area of central Queensland. As a young girl she was forcibly removed to Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission. At 14 years of age, she was sent to work on cattle stations as a domestic. She continued this work in Brisbane after receiving an exemption certificate. She married Jack Huggins and they moved to Ayr, North Queensland, where the last three of her five children were born. After Jack's early death in 1958 she returned to Brisbane and became active in Aboriginal affairs. She lived out her days, until her death in 1996, as a wise and deeply respected Elder, loved by black and white alike.
Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara/Birri Gubba Juru woman from Queensland. She is a historian and author, and has worked in Aboriginal Affairs for over four decades in areas of reconciliation, history, the arts, environment, literature, leadership, education, prison reform, domestic and family violence, and many other social justice initiatives. She has held many leading positions including on the Stolen Generations Inquiry, and at Queensland State Library, AIATSIS and University of Queensland. Her previous books are Sister Girl and Jack of Hearts QX11954 (UQP).
]]>Zen monk Jikisai Minami takes the things we are supposed to strive for and turns them on their head. The 35 short, thought-provoking essays in this book are divided into four chapters about our sense of self, our hopes and dreams, our personal relationships and how to face death. Each essay begins with a deliberately controversial point of view to help us look at life's problems through fresh eyes.
Each chapter features a number of short, thought-provoking essays providing fresh perspectives on familiar problems that can change your life! The essays include:
Although the author's messages may seem harsh at first, his teachings help us reduce anxiety in our daily lives. Being bound by the belief that 'I have to do X' or 'I need to achieve Y' causes immense stress. The author encourages us to accept our reality and live our lives from that starting point. This, he believes will free us from anxiety, relationship problems and negative emotions.
This book has been a huge hit in Japan, with reader comments such as:
Sprinkled throughout the book are "Ganbatte Rules"-short, actionable steps you can take to move forward in a part of your life where you may be stuck (whether it's fitness, love or starting a business). A foreword by Hector Garcia, author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, introduces the concept of ganbatte and how he learned of its existence from one of Japan's centenarians.
While many aspects of life are beyond our control, how we deal with setbacks and difficulties is as much of a choice as how we approach everyday tasks. This book helps you tap into your own ability to persevere and encourages you to stay motivated and hopeful in difficult times. If you apply the tenacity and resilience of the Japanese in your daily life, difficult becomes easy, and impossible becomes possible.
Take a pilgrimage of the heart, a journey toward change that will allow you to approach life with a more contemplative stance and recreate a sense of la dolce vita the sweet life wherever you may be.
In The Italian Soul, Judith Valente shares personal stories and insights into the Italian way of life that she experienced as she strolled the streets of this charming country. Focusing on the attitudes, traditions, and practices that make the people of Italy role models for experiencing delight amid the demands and distractions of ordinary living, she observed how they
Additionally, it explores the contemplative practices and attitudes that seem to come naturally to a people who have made an art of living and working joyfully. A cross between a travel dispatch and a spirituality guide for seekers who eschew traditional religious practices but yearn for ways to bring more balance, sanity, and a greater sense of the transcendent into their daily lives. The Italian Soul is a book that will change the way you look at life.
]]>In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers 'as marvelous as her height', gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building 'a cottage of one's own', and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women's friendships and laughter.
A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf's ambitions to revolutionise fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read.
This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.
]]>Urmila Seshagiri is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination, the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
]]>It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the strange tumultuous time they lived through.
The friends each from a very different background are living in a gorgeous terraced flat in their Edinburgh idyll. As they navigate relationships and the unspoken rules of flat sharing, the troubled world all around them seems rather distant. But in the nearby hometown of one of the flatmates, the Miners' Strike is bringing about a huge political shift.
Despite their differences, can these six strangers help each other see the world from a different perspective? Is there such a thing as being too close? And what are the limits of love between friends?
]]>They a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter live in an apartment above a hairdresser's shop in a small island town. Each day is marked by routine and quiet intimacy. They are so enmeshed, so alike in their manners and opinions, it can be hard to tell them apart.
Then the mother begins to feel unwell. They carry on with their lives, talk about anything but the diagnosis. The mother goes in and out of hospital, and the daughter, just starting high school, makes new friends Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, Desert Boots but remains essentially alone. Illness, and the possibility of loss, cast a growing shadow over her life.
Writing in a multi-layered, perpetual present tense, Helle Helle finds a tender voice for the comedy and awkwardness of her heroines' lives, rendered into riveting and affecting English by acclaimed translator Martin Aitken. they is an exquisite portrait of the fragile love between a mother and daughter, and a love letter to 1980s life on the island of Lolland, where the author grew up.
Praise for Helle Helle:
'Helle has enchanting gifts as a storyteller...the words so light they nearly float off the page.' New York Times
'One of my favorite Danish writers she's the master.' Olga Ravn, The Guardian
'One of Scandinavia's finest authors.' Dagbladet
'Helle Helle's minimalism isn't boring; it crackles with mystery. It's the everyday, and yet it's insistently beautiful.' Weekendavisen
'You laugh and laugh, cry and cry. Not bawling or sobbing, but quiet and intense. That's what it's like reading Helle Helle.' Politiken
]]>Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of Scandinavian literature, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hanne rstavik and Olga Ravn. He has received the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize, the US National Translation Award in Prose and the PEN America Translation Prize, among other awards. His translations have also appeared on the shortlists of the Dublin Literary Award, the US National Book Awards and the International Booker Prize.
]]>The haikus collected in For the Seasons are arranged in sections, beginning with Spring then progressing to Summer and Autumn and ending with Winter. One is immediately struck by the delicacy of Farmer's observations, drawn from her immersion in the coastal landscape around Point Lonsdale on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria. The constraints imposed by the haiku form encourage attention to the finest details and textures of light and colour, of air and sand and sea and foster an awareness of the transient life they hold, its beauty, vitality and decay. The emotion is all in the detail, the 'I' barely features, yet the mood of the seasons, and their progression is keenly registered. Farmer's poetry is remarkable in this respect, modest, self-effacing, and yet revelatory in its intensity.
]]>The Seal Woman was first published to acclaim in 1992 but has been out of print for many years. The novel explores the mind of a middle-aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon. Farmer's prose is marked by the suppleness of its language, and its extraordinary attention to detail. Dagmar's observations of the sea and its creatures, the light, the mist, the wind, the life of plants are so intense and evocative, it is as if she has dissolved into her surroundings. On the other hand, her passivity leaves her vulnerable to the deceit of others, particularly the man she depends on as her lover. Her retreat into wonder is undercut by a persistent questioning, as to how far it might lead her into a state of submission.
The Seal Woman was originally published two years after A Body of Water, an imaginative montage of journal, commonplace book, stories and poems, which it resembles in its own use of mixed sources, from myth and legend and history. In bringing these two books back into print, alongside Farmer's first work of fiction Alone, and her last books The Bone House and This Water, Giramondo is building on its commitment, not only to this remarkable author, but to the republication of contemporary classics by Australian women authors.
]]>Immortal beloveds Rebekah and Hugh are on vacation! Against a backdrop of ongoing war, this pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco sets off on a queer Black Sea Cruise, eager to relax, join an orgy, and feast upon their fellow passengers' desires and sorrows. When Hugh becomes enchanted by an alluring and possibly magical nonbinary social media influencer named Heaven, Rebekah's reality capsizes, and her true nature is unleashed.
A smutty horror-comedy featuring unbridled narcissism, Vampires at Sea is a hilarious snack!
]]>Justine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one. An ex-junkie and ex-rock star, his hands mangled by his dead ex's own jealous ex, he's let go of his ambitions. He's content to be Justine's live-in Renfield, helping her pick up dinner when she needs a bite, keeping an eye on her lavish L.A. manor when the sun is out and she's down for her beauty sleep. It's true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades, but they're good for each other: Justine is teaching Keith to take the long view; Keith is reminding her how it feels to be alive. Yet a cohort of criminals, desperate artists, dead-enders, hangers-on, and wanna-bes, undead and otherwise, threaten their curious union. Can love stay untainted in a world of monsters?
First published in 1996, Todd Grimson's Stainless is a noir fantasia, a symphony of bloody horror, and a woozy, erotic tour of night-side L.A. Not only is it the greatest vampire novel of the twentieth century, it may be the last, best farewell to the mythic Los Angeles of Bette Davis, Dennis Hopper, and Less than Zero. In a league with the best of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler and closing the coffin for good on poor old Bram Stoker Stainless is the final word on fangs, hangovers, and heartbreak.
]]>Brigid that's the Irish Breej, not 'Bridge-id', though it's not like she'd correct you has had a rough go of it. Her mother abused her when she was little, her best friend (and secret crush) is too busy chasing some blonde to answer Brigid's calls, and she lost her job thanks to chronic pelvic pain with no identifiable cause. As a self-doubting, disabled adult, she's certain that everything that has happened to her is her fault.
Now her mother has gone missing and Brigid's only option is to move back into her childhood home in the idyllic Midwestern town of St. Charles, Illinois. Soon the uncanny begins: A particular crow that once harassed her reappears, following her everywhere. A painting of Jesus keeps coming back, no matter how many times she throws it away. Frozen body parts show up in places rubber band balls and door stoppers ought to be. Every night the same nightmare repeats: her real mother is dead and decaying in the closet, and the identical mother who raised her is not her mother. But it's all in Brigid's head. It's all her fault. It must be. What other explanation could there be?
After all, since when can a sick woman be trusted?
]]>Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country - a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the true experiences of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australians living in our nation's most densely populated regions?
Featuring original works of prose, poetry and non-fiction which centre and celebrate the eclectic vibrancy and linguistic fluidity of a new generation of Australian writers.
Povo features a ground-breaking collection of works by emerging and established writers from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. The collection includes experimental writing from the Asylum Seekers Centre, Macquarie Fields High School and Leumeah High School.
Acclaimed & Award-Winning contributors include:
Phoebe Grainer is a Kuku Djungan, Muluridji, Wakaman, Tagalaka, Kunjen, Warrgamay and Yindinji actor, writer and editor from Far North Queensland. In 2023, Phoebe won the prestigious Australia Council Dreaming Award.
Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a Uruguayan-Australian writer from Penrith. Natalia is currently working on her debut novel, Hailstones Fell Without Rain (UQP, 2025).
Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian writer. In 2020, Daniel won the New South Wales Premier's Young Journalist of the Year Award. Daniel is currently working on his debut novel as a recipient of the 2021 Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers.
]]>Commissioning editor: Sara M. Saleh is the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon, and lives on Gadigal land. She won the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Sara's debut novel is Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm Press, 2023). As a commissioning editor on Povo, Sara curated an original collection of works called Crumbs.
Project manager: Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, including Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). Winnie's debut novel is Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette, 2024).
]]>Hope has nothing going for her. She's in a job she hates, she's been forced to quit her band after losing the ability to play guitar and, to make matters worse, her ex the love of her life, Julia is now getting married to her best friend's ex (messy, right?). But there's one silver lining: Hope has been invited to play at their wedding...and she's going to get Julia back.
However, the road to true love is never easy, and Hope's journey is blocked by tarot readers, hen parties, visions from the past and, worst of all, Ruby. With their big eyes and extremely kissable mouth, Ruby is new to London's convoluted queer scene and a much-needed breath of fresh air for Hope.
Will Hope win back the woman she loves, or does the universe have something else in store?
]]>'A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist' - Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times
No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood, finds it impossible to form meaningful relationships with family or friends. As a child he copes by acting the fool - mocking himself while entertaining others; as an adult he turns to alcohol, sex and drugs, which lead to his eventual self-destruction.
In this novel, based closely on his own life, Dazai skillfully leads the reader to sympathize deeply with Oba. Although the book was published in 1948, the timeless and universal themes of social alienation, failure, and one man's inner torture at his inability to feel like a normal human still resonate with young people everywhere, making an enduring classic.
After Soseki Natsume, Osamu Dazai (19091948) is Japan's most famous writer. Dazai is enjoying a surge in popularity among young people today thanks to the success of the recent manga, anime and film series Bungo Stray Dogs, whose protagonist, a detective named Osamu Dazai, is based on the real-life author.
]]>Juliet Winters Carpenter is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. She studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. After completing her studies, she returned to Japan where she became involved in translation and teaching. She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has received numerous awards for her translation work including the 20192020 William F. Sibley Memorial Award for Japanese Translation for Mizumura Minae's An I-Novel and the 20212022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime of achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature.
]]>Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of horror cinema, but in the realms of literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction with even deeper roots. Home to a sinister troupe of conjurers, puppeteers, beast tamers and crowds baying for blood beneath the Big Top, the performance spaces of these classic weird tales are borderlands where the unearthly meets the darker cravings of the human heart.
Presenting sixteen sensational short stories, hailing from Edgar Allan Poe's 1840s through to Robert Aickman's 1960s, Edward Parnell invites you to enjoy a cavalcade of uneasy thrills courtesy of Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Margery Lawrence and many more.
]]>London, August 1759. Lizzie Hardwicke, society harlot and occasional investigator for the magistrate, is shaken by an encounter with her estranged brother during a riotous evening hosted by the notorious Devil's Brotherhood. Beyond the opulence of this Mayfair party, a streetwalker is found strangled on the doorstep of a well-known moral campaigner, her cheek branded with the letter V.
When more girls are discovered dead and similarly marked, Lizzie fears that someone stalks the streets with a violent hatred of women, and as the evidence begins to point to her own brother, any remaining family loyalty she has is severely tested.
Her past catches up with her and her future becomes increasingly dangerous, yet Lizzie is still unaware of darker plots being hatched in the shadows by those who wish to silence her for good. This time, the consequences of her investigations will lead her to a place where even Will Davenport, the one man she trusts, won't be able to find her.
]]>The year is 1759, and London is shrouded in a cloak of fear. With the lawmen at the mercy of robbers and highwaymen, it's a perilous time to work the already dangerous streets of Soho. Lizzie Hardwicke is somewhat protected from the fray at Mrs Farley's Bawdy House, a reputable brothel. But then a wealthy customer is found brutally murdered...and Lizzie was the last person to see him alive.
The magistrate's assistant, William Davenport, has no hard evidence against Lizzie, but his presence and questions make life increasingly difficult. Desperate to be rid of him and prove her innocence, Lizzie turns amateur detective, determined to find the true killer, whatever the cost. Yet as the body count rises, Lizzie realises that, just like her, everyone has a secret they will do almost anything to keep buried...
]]>An undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees Lizzie Hardwicke trade Mrs Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress at a theatre on Drury Lane. Once there, she quickly realises that what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out onstage...
When a high-profile investor is brutally hanged at centre stage, Lizzie discovers the body and is once again thrown together with William Davenport, the magistrate\'s assistant with whom she is growing ever closer. The suspect list rivals any casting call, and Lizzie must use every trick hidden up her sleeve to see through all the performance and bring the culprit into the spotlight.
]]>Lizzie's search for answers takes her from the smoke-filled rooms of fashionable gambling houses, where politicians mix ambition with pleasure, to the violent streets of Soho, ready to erupt with riots in the sultry summer heat. All the while, she is navigating her complicated feelings for the magistrate's trusted assistant, Will Davenport, and a disturbing situation at home.
Then a gambling house owner is brutally murdered, and Lizzie finds herself tangled in a chaos that she cannot control. The darkest of secrets threatens to turn Davenport against her forever; its exposure will send her to the gallows.
Praise for Georgina Clarke
'A gripping page-turner with a sassy and fabulously original heroine in the form of Lizzie Hardwicke I loved it!' - Annie Lyons, author of Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You
'From sumptuous depravity to brutal murder, Death and the Harlot is a wild ride through the seedy side of 1750s London, while its heroine, Lizzie Hardwicke, is razor sharp and brilliantly original. I couldn't put it down' - Joe Heap, author of When the Music Stops
'Fans of Sarah Waters and Kate Atkinson will adore this compelling, evocative and utterly gripping tale... It deserves to be huge' - Red Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light
'A marvellous read... Two fabulous protagonists, you will be rooting for them both' - Prima on The Dazzle of the Light
'A vibrant story of survival, feminism, misogyny and living life on the edge' - Sunday Express S Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light
'Cinematic' - Daily Mail on The Dazzle of the Light
]]>'This is vital, elastic, expertly handled language in a Pacific voice of cultural and musical sensibility, poetry to be spoken aloud or in the mind.' Cilla McQueen, MNZM, and former New Zealand Poet Laureate
This own-voices collection is a kind of lyrical world map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts.
This collection is a kind of lyrical word map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts. The poems are frequently infused with a wry humour and while they often eschew both narrative and personal epiphany, they make intensely detailed, vigorous observations of place and landscape that are curious, sparkling, and sometimes hilarious.
Linguistically agile, this book's stanzas bring together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating the local vernaculars of New Zealand, Australia, and Polynesia. Many of its poems work as cascading streams of image; of pronouncements; of dramatic tonal shifts almost line by line; and with dense, daring metaphor clusters that entertain as well as illuminate.
]]>The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World returns with a stunning coming-of-age novel about girls, mothers, and finding one's way in the world.
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe.
With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away-as far as their friend Patrick O'Connor's chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. But when Phoebe asks Patrick to chop off her hip-length hair, she's suddenly transformed. Patrick's older brothers can't help but notice the striking, Peter Panlike stranger who has suddenly appeared in their midst.
What starts as an adolescent rebellion soon spirals into a whirlwind of self-discovery and unexpected connections. As she grapples with her shifting identity and strained relationships, Phoebe must navigate the tumultuous road out of girlhood and chart a new and unknown course.
]]>For readers of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, and Gwendolyn Christie, comes Caramelle, Jewelle Gomez's latest addition to the universe of The Gilda Stories. This short story offers a supernatural alternate history where vampires seek love, laughter, and blood in 1860s slavery America.
Inspired by a glimpse of affection in Joseph Le Fanu's 1872 classic vampire novella Carmilla, Caramelle follows two vampires who arrive at a way station on the Underground Railroad not to stalk their prey but to seek sanctuary, intertwining the haunting legacy of American slavery with gothic horror and the resilience of Black women.
In Carmilla, included here alongside Caramelle, Le Fanu serves the sensual, sapphic, and spooky packaged into the experience of girlhood in 19th Century Austria. This original vampire story predates Dracula and introduces the genre as reliant on themes of gender, sexuality, and race.
Gomez's foreword deftly links the two works by exploring the historical and cultural contexts that surround these two powerful iterations of the vampire genre.
'As in the past we still hold our freedom and our pleasure in our own strong hands. Hands made even stronger when holding on to the hands of others.' Jewelle Gomez
Caramelle & Carmilla is the first book in the new series Aunt Lute Colloquy, a publishing space dedicated to fostering feminist conversations across literary generations.
]]>Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a popular author of gothic tales mysteries, horror, ghost stories in the Victorian era.
]]>The sharp, sensual stories of Coming. Apart. chart the unraveling of relationships in all their complexity. From rural Norway to Berlin, Edy Poppy follows characters caught between intimacy and escape lovers who drift, clash, fracture. A couple's erotic games slip into something darker. A woman retreats to the countryside, shadowed by memory. Another navigates obsession, ambivalence, and solitude with uneasy clarity.
Written in a voice that is both visceral and exacting, Edy Poppy's first story collection movesalong the fault lines of connection and desire. Blurring fiction and lived experience, Poppyoffers a fierce meditation on what it means to stay or leave.
]]>May-Brit Akerholt's published translations of Norwegian works include plays, novels, and poetry collections by writers such as Henrik Ibsen, Jon Fosse, and Ruth Lillegraven. She lives in Australia, where she is a recipient of a fellowship from the Theatre Board of Australia Council.
]]>A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea.
In Spencer's fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can't wait. And one night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.
The cross-country road odyssey that follows brings Spencer from new moon rituals in Arizona canyons to Texas bus stations, from the luxe drag stages of Houston's Montrose district to the jazz-soaked streets of the French Quarter and beyond. This new novel from Michelle Tea tells the story, by turns raw, romantic, and sweet, of a sheltered boy taking his first leap into queer life, among all the complicated queers who live it.
]]>J. Scherpenhuizen is an author, illustrator and academic whose illustrations, fiction, comic-book work and reviews have appeared on and in publications for Bolinda Press, Hinkler books, Echo Bonnier and IFWG Publishing International. Currently he is working on the art for a five-issue story arc of The Human Fly written by Christopher Sequeira and Jason Franks and published by IPI comics.
]]>Eulo Juke's gambling debts have cost him his weapons, his horses and his pride. If he doesn't pay what he owes Iskarlia's Scabmen soldiers in enchanted kilili silveriron, they'll slaughter his brother.
Silveriron trader Tali Sarsega offers Eulo a marriage of convenience in Vernesia, dragging him into an unfamiliar world where women rule politics, society, and commerce.
The Vernese culture relies on wits and diplomacy, but the Scabmen are coming to take the kilili the Iskarlian way: with hard fists and sharp blades.
Can Eulo slip behind Tali's dedication to her horse breeding enterprise, rundown estate and dysfunctional family to find out her silveriron secrets before it's too late for his brother?
No-one is ready for what's coming their way, because some things are not free to be taken.
S. K. Neilson writes fantasy fiction in worlds inspired by Australia's unforgiving environment and tenacious outback folklore.
]]>Aliens that just want to help humanity along a little bit.
Monsters who love their fight club.
A woman who trades a piece of her future to help a child.
Guilt that serves as a door to dark visions for a young boy.
Matt Tighe's Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories is a collection of the bitter sweet, the darkly comedic, and the disturbingly confronting. Including multi-award winning and nominated tales as well as originals, the characters within will scare you, hurt you, and raise you up for the truest of reasons they are you.
]]>And now, the anonymous adventurer has re-emerged, in a drama ripped from TODAY's headlines as the Fly confronts startling new adversaries: drug cartels, suspicious federal agents from three nations, and a men's-rights terrorist group led by the charismatic, media-savvy Fire Sword?
Featuring glorious, insane stunts at real-life locations in Canada, the USA and Mexico! The Human Fly is back in a high-octane series containing everything fans loved about him in the sizzling ' 70s, but with intriguing new mysteries.
Is today's Fly the same man who nearly died in a Montreal Olympic Stadium crash of 1977? Who is his new apprentice, Mercury, and is she secretly out to betray him? How long is the Fly' s legacy decades or centuries? The Human Fly swings into peril for the sake of worthy charities again, but he remains the most amazing superhero of all because he's REAL!
]]>J. Scherpenhuizen is a mainstay of the Australian comics scene. His work includes writing and illustrating the gritty horror graphic novel The Time of the wolves, pencilling with Michal Dutkiewicz (Wolverine, Lost in Space) and inking Chewie Chan on Buckaroo Banzai. He's also done a slew of work with ace comics writer Christopher Sequeira, with whom he has developed and created numerous properties including Mister Blood and The Catamorph.
Tony Babinski is a Montreal-based Writer, Producer, Director, and Creative Director. He is the President of Human Fly International Inc, which controls the rights to The Human Fly. He is the author of 20 Years Under the Sun, the official history of Cirque du Soleil, and co-author (with Bertrand Cesvet and Eric Alper) of Conversational Capital. He is a published short story writer and poet, the writer of several feature film plays, a podcast host a musician and songwriter, and devoted husband and father.
Dan Lynch is a Blue Mountains-based artist who has been working on various Australian and international comic books since 2004 . Published work includes Sea Dragon (Cult Fiction Comics Australia), Tides of Hope charity anthology. Retro Sci Fi Tales (Dark Oz), The SuperAustralians for IPI Comics, and Steam-Age Wasteland (Antarctic Press) just to name a few. Dan is currently busy colouring The Human Fly, studying cyber security, and raising his 5 children.
Christopher Sequeira has written for Marvel, DC, Dynamite. Boom! Studios, FrewPublications, and more. He also has a significant profile as a conceptualist, contributing short story writer, and commissioning editor of mystery, science fiction, horror and fantasy prose anthologies. Thus, he has worked on such books as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not; Sherlock Holmes : The Australian Casebook; Dracul Unfanged; and the all-star creator anthology Caped Fear.
Peter J. Lawson illustrated promo art for The Southern Squadron, covers for Air Hawk and Bronwyn, and finally The Human Fly. As someone who loved the original run of the Fly back in the '70s, Peter was thrilled to get the call to be a part of this. IPI Comics has a much longer Human Fly arc in mind for Peter!
]]>Most eligible young women in Cabarac have two possible futures: accept an offer of marriage or risk being gathered for the quota and shipped to the Legion Isles, never to be seen again. But when Kira forgoes her only chance for a betrothal token to save the life of a young boy, she faces a fate far more terrifying. Accused of using magic by the fanatical dispatcher, Piscator, a bewildered Kira is imprisoned for execution inside the brazen dragon. Her only option is to escape as part of the quota and flee.
As she strives to control a magic that erupts whenever her life is threatened, Kira struggles to reconcile her burgeoning power with her healer's ethics to do no harm. Helped by an old conjurer, a blind seer nun and the shade of a dragon dead for two centuries, Kira discovers her entire life has been built on a lie designed to protect her from the very threat she is now confronting. What she does with that knowledge could not only change her own future but the fate of an entire Kingdom.
]]>Nestled between rolling hills and a panoramic coastline, she lives amidst the wetlands of an eco-village, free to write the fantasy books she loves and always wanted to read.
When not at her desk, Barb loves family get-togethers, playing sadly inconsistent golf, catching up with friends, and early morning walks along the beach to watch the sunrise.
]]>In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation. Thus begins an endless march of lithium, antidepressants, and Klonopin; doctors and therapists when health insurance allows along with overwhelmed parents and well-intentioned friends; all helpless bystanders as Alice descends deeper into chaos.
As chilling as a psychiatric case study, as wry and precise as Flaubert, The Mind Reels peels back society's polite trappings to portray the experience of mental illness in all its complexity.
]]>In the luxurious setting of London's Savoy Hotel, an opulent dinner party hosted by the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles takes a sinister turn. Amidst the grandeur of the Pinafore Room, fourteen renowned guests, including Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and the scandalous Miss Christine Keeler, gather for an unforgettable evening. However, the spectre of an old curse looms over the event a curse said to bring doom to the first guest who leaves a dinner with thirteen attendees. Kasper, a three-foot-tall sculpture of a sleek black cat is said to be the antidote to the curse if only the reckless attendees had paid heed to the superstition!
In the aftermath of the party, blackmail, betrayal, and murder ensue, entwining the guests in a web of deceit and danger. Once again, Priscilla Tempest, plucky head of the Savoy's press office, finds herself at the heart of the intrigue. The mysterious events even draw the attention of the Queen, hinting at a conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of society. Is the curse real, or is something more sinister at play? This riveting mystery, as sparkling as a Buck's Fizz, promises celebrity gossip and scandal along with twists and turns that will delight readers until the very last page.
]]>Prudence Emery worked as the press and public relations officer at the Savoy Hotel, and later as a publicist on more than a hundred film productions. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir Nanaimo Girl (Cormorant Books, 2020).
Both Prudence and the fictional protagonist, Priscilla Tempest, held the job as press secretary at the Savoy. When asked just how much they had in common, Prudence would answer, with a twinkle in her eye, that 'there are things that Priscilla does that I would never do...and there are things I have done that Priscilla would never do. I will not say anything else.'
Emery died in Victoria BC, on April 14, 2024, at the age of 88.
]]>'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers', writes Limn. 'I am the hurting kind.' What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings-and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they 'do not / care to be seen as symbols'?
With Limn's remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions-incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honour parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.
Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. 'Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning's shade', writes Limn of a groundhog in her garden, 'she is doing what she can to survive'.
]]>A USA TODAY 'Must Read Poetry'
'Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limn's poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful collection is a gift.' Amy Tan
An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers.
Drawing from six previously published books including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limn wades into potent unknowns the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world.
Both a lush overview of her work and a powerful narrative of a poet's life, this curation embodies Limn's capacity for 'deep attention', her 'power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires' (The New York Times). From the chaos of youthful desire, to the waxing of love and loss, to the precarity of our environment, to the stars and beyond, Limn's poetry bears witness to the arc of all we know with patient lyricism and humble wonder.
'A poet of ecstatic revelation' (Tracy K. Smith), Limn encourages us to meet our shared futures with open and hungry hearts, assuring 'What we are becoming, we are / becoming together.'
]]>Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in You Must Live refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims. Diverse voices and styles shine throughout powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, You Must Live sounds as an urgent call to the global community.
]]>Sherah Bloor is a South African poet and scholar. Her first poetry collection, The Gathering, an epic in cantos, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in fall 2026. She is currently working on a second collection, tentatively titled Archives of the Free World. Having studied philosophy and social theory in Australia, she is completing a doctorate at Harvard University in philosophy of religion on the medical history of the mystical and poetic imagination. Bloor is also the editor-in-chief of Harvard Divinity School's literary and arts journal, Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound (Harvard University Press). Her own poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Dialogist, Lana Turner, and Paperbark, among other magazines.
]]>Hotshot literary agent Henry Richmond Pendel knows how to find the next big thing and is even better at selling them. But a perfect career becomes increasingly disconcerting as he begins to feel like he's being watched. There are rumors of a boogeyman in publishing, a rejected writer who has cracked and started killing off writers.
When Pendel's star clients turn up brutally murdered and unsolicited queries become more and more frantic, Pendel must decide whether to act out of safety for himself and his clients or to capitalise on the attention. Is it worth a few more casualties if it means inking a few seven-figure deals?
Part slasher and part scream at the publishing industry, Michael J. Seidlinger, the master of psychological terror, offers a brutal new take on the relationship between art and commerce. On Submission is full of villains, where some harm with a pen and others with a knife.
]]>Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri.
Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil Dracula.
The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society's monsters and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
'A really charming and fun reworking of the Dracula story.' Sian Cain, The Guardian Australia
'This is absolutely one of my favourite reads ever it's adventurous, imaginative, emotional, humorous, palpably queer and full of characters that I would follow into the furthest reaches of space just for the banter. Anyone who loves imaginative fiction full of adventure and lovable characters will love this book.' Jemimah Brewster, ArtsHub
'I'm normally not too interested in reboots and remakes (God knows we are in a crisis of unoriginality right now) but this bonkers re-telling of Dracula has me intrigued.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
]]>In these stories, you'll discover how the end comes to those who wait, and those who seek it out. Also included are Chapman's acclaimed novellas, Torment and The Followers, and the short story, 'The Yellow House'.
]]>"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action..."-The New Yorker
]]>Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-and after more than a millennium, this seminal work continues to enchant readers throughout the world. Lady Murasaki Shikibu and her tale's hero, Prince Genji, have had an unmatched influence on Japanese culture. Prince Genji manifests what was to become an image of the ideal Heian era courtier; gentle and passionate. Genji is also a master poet, dancer, musician and painter. The Tale of Genji follows Prince Genji through his many loves and varied passions.
This book has influenced not only generations of courtiers and samurai of the distant past, but artists and painters even in modern times-episodes in the tale have been incorporated into the design of kimonos and handicrafts, and the four-line poems called waka which dance throughout this work have earned it a place as a classic text in the study of poetry.This version by Kencho Suematsu was the first-ever translation in English. Condensed, it's a quarter length of the unabridged text, making it perfect for readers with limited time."Not speaking is the wiser part, And words are sometimes vain, But to completely close the heartIn silence, gives me pain."-Prince Genji, in The Tale of Genji
]]>Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called 'pan-pan girls', women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past.
'A master crime writer...Seich Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society.' The New York Times Book Review
]]>Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders; and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork. Lucid and packed with suspense, Edogawa Rampo's stories found in Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination have enthralled Japanese readers for over half a century.
Mystery stories include:
Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starring Keanu Reaves 47 Ronin is the epic tale of a heroic band of Samurai warriors who defy the Japanese Emperor to avenge the honour of their fallen master.
The story begins in 1701 when the noble Lord Asano attacks an official at court. His punishment is swift and harsh the Emperor orders Lord Asano to commit ritual suicide (harikiri). His lands are confiscated, his family exiled, and his Samurai warrior brigade is disbanded becoming Ronin or masterless, wandering renegades.
While appearing to follow the Emperor's instructions, the 47 Ronin plot in secret for many years, biding their time until the moment to strike is right. Like the story of the Knights of the Round Table, the Ronin's deeds became legendary, iconic examples of courage, cunning and loyalty in an age when the Samurai were true heroes and honor was something worth dying for.
John Allyn's vivid retelling, with a foreword by scholar and film advisor, Stephen Turnbull, presents this epic of Japanese literature in its correct historical context.
]]>She was a contemporary and acquaintance of the well-known courtesan Murasaki Shikibu, author of the Japanese masterpiece The Tale of Genji. A perfect companion to that work, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon brings an added dimension to Murasaki's timeless and seminal novel and further illuminates Japanese court life in all its ritualistic glory.
Through his elegant and readable abridged translation, Arthur Waley perfectly conveys Sei Shonagon's girlish temperament and quirky personality. In a place and time where poetry was as important as knowledge and beauty was highly revered, Sei Shonagon's private writings offer a charming, intimate glimpse into a world of innocence and pale beauty.
A new introduction by respected Japanese literary scholar Dennis Washburn provides historical insight into Japanese culture, Sei Shonagon's world, and Waley's translation.
]]>Thrust into this alien environment, Botchan finds nothing but trouble from his nosy landlord; his students, who delight in tormenting him; his fellow teachers, each of whom he christens with a sly nickname Porcupine, Green Squash, Badger, Red Shirt and others who insist on complicating his life. The result is chaos, told with great wit and irony that make this Soseki's funniest novel.
A modern classic in Japan, Botchan is as widely read today as when it was first published, occupying a place in the canon similar to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Catcher in the Rye. Botchan's coming-of-age quest to navigate the hypocrisy of his peers while remaining true to what is honest and good never fails to capture the hearts and imaginations of readers.
'Soseki remains the great master of modern literature in Japan.' Norma M. Field
]]>Dennis Washburn is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor in Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. His translations of Japanese literature include The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and Laughing Wolf by Yuko Tsushima, among others.
]]>Andrea Rowe and Lisa Coutts come together to create a story about community and kindness, legacy and conservation. Audrey Skips is a tribute to The Skipping Girl, Melbourne's first neon sign and a timeless treasured landmark.
]]>Lisa Coutts is an illustrator based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. Her work has features in over 20 of varying genres, and her greatest love is picture books. Lisa loves creating charming characters and placing them in quirky and whimsical worlds. She is the illustrator of The Great Book Swapping Machine by Emma Allen and she designed the cover art on Tim Winton's Blueback, with more books in production. Lisa's art practice incorporates mixed media techniques including coloured pencil, dry pastel, acrylic and watercolour paints, and Procreate. Her work has been described as charming, delicious, quirky, whimsical and that it hurts people's hearts in a GOOD way! When not in her studio, you'll find Lisa riding her bike along river and creek trails for story inspiration, pausing to pat any cat she spies, or hunting for vintage Australian snow domes to add to her vast collection.
]]>Milo lies in the grass watching cottony cumulus clouds transform into animals. Maya looks out a plane window and marvels at the sky outside and the shapes countries make below. Through their different perspectives, Milo and Maya remind us that there are countless ways to experience the world.
The World from Here explores the fascinating areas of nephology (the study of clouds), meteorology and geography. These sciences help us understand our world and the wonders that make living here on Earth so rewarding.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Mel Armstrong is an illustrator from New Zealand. She blends digital and traditional techniques to create charming children's books, drawing inspiration from nature and her lively home life.
]]>Brooke loves watching the turtles in the creek on her farm. But in spring, she notices broken eggshells down near the water. What is happening to the turtle eggs?
Brooke decides to use her detective skills and sets out to solve the mystery of the missing turtles!
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Dr James O'Hanlon is an award-winning science communicator, author and illustrator. Whether through art, science or storytelling, James works to illuminate the beauty and complexity of creatures that are often overlooked.
]]>Along the way, Sid encounters other strange creatures until he eventually discovers...that sometimes the joy of exploration is more about the unexpected journey, and not the ending.
Look closely and you might just find a colossal squid too!
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
]]>Ayaiga had been arrested for stealing from one of the vast cattle stations established on traditional Alawa Country. The heavyweight boxing champion of the Australian Police, Constable William Francis Johns, was bringing him in to Leichhardt's Bar Police Station the constable on horseback, with Ayaiga, manacled by the neck, attempting to keep up on foot. Johns foolishly attempted to cross a flooded creek and was knocked unconscious when his panicked horse kicked him in the head. Ayaiga, burdened by his heavy chain, heroically saved Johns from drowning and remained by the constable's side as he recovered.
Ayaiga became one of only 8 Australian recipients and the only Indigenous recipient of the Albert Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life.
]]>Colin Hall is an Alawa man from the Roper River region. He works at the Ngukurr Language Centre supporting the delivery of Kriol language courses and is also working to revive the endangered Alawa language of his ancestors. He assisted Higgs in the writing of Ayaiga's story through the inclusion of many Alawa and Kriol words.
Wally Wilfred is a Wgilak man and artist living and working in the Roper River region, who works with the Ngukurr Art Centre. Wally brings together traditional techniques with bold and contemporary use of colour. Wally's work explores traditional and present-day culture with history and storytelling.
]]>So, the Dolphin Squad concoct a plan to get back on the same team, but is working with Eve really so bad?
Time to bake some delicious treats!
It's OPERATION TEAMWORK!
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>It's OPERATION INVITATION!
Amanda tries everything to make Eve like her and get an invitation to the party, until she finally learns it's more important to be kind, not for what you can get but because of who you are. The first in a lovely early reader series about how to rise up to the challenges that being a kid throws at you, while cultivating some great relationships along the way.
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>A fun-filled junior fiction book that continues to follow Amanda, Mai and Lu as they live through their school days together. Whenever there's a problem, the three work together to find a solution and help each other out. Showing the value of friendship and the merits of communication, problem-solving and teamwork, Amanda Commander is perfect for young kids making their way through primary school, giving some ideas on how to connect with those around them.
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>Even though Amanda wants to stand out, she learns encouraging others and standing by your friends is more important.
In their mission to get get Eve to wear a different coloured dress, the Dolphin Squad find that there might be something amazing to be had out of wearing the same dress...
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>It's OPERATION WELCOME BACK!
Amanda finds fitting in with her friends tricky after having a sick day. Can she make sure no one else feels the same?
A heart-warming story about friendship and community.
AMANDA COMMANDER:THE BLUES-DAY TUESDAY is the fourth book in a Junior Fiction series promoting kindness, loyalty and friendship.
'Using all the textual devices that support those making the transition to novels, this is a series that will be a sound stepping stone.' Barbara Braxton, The Bottom Shelf
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>Will Amanda and the Dolphin Squad be able to help Rosie and ultimately save the show?
It's OPERATION SCHOOL PRODUCTION!
Combatting nastiness with forgiveness. Amanda learns jealousy can make people do nasty things, but forgiveness always wins.
]]>At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online '52-week illustration challenge'. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi's first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
]]>To his surprise, Hayden finds that he enjoys singing and talking to the other students in the singing class. Will he make a friend?
But two bullies threaten to livestream his singing if he performs at the end-of-year recital. Is it social suicide or the best thing ever? Will Hayden learn to be comfortable in his own skin?
]]>Just before she turned twenty-one, she signed a multi-book international publishing contract with Permuted Press, an offshoot of Simon and Schuster. Yvette had four books published by age twenty-two, and she became a Sir Julius Vogel Award finalist. Her first fantasy fiction series was called The Fledgling Account and comprises eight books and four short stories.
Besides writing, her other interests include music. Yvette is a singing and piano teacher with over ten years' experience and has put numerous students through music exams with a one hundred percent success rate. Her students have starred in musicals such as Evita, Les Miserables, Annie, Half a Sixpence, Fame and more. She has vocal coached the leads and main choruses of several musicals at the school she now works at, Chinchilla Christian College.
Yvette lives in a small regional town in Australia with her family. They have had numerous adventures together, including a roadside birth. Yvette spends her spare time making music, drinking coffee and kayaking to secluded spots.
]]>Blue's fleet roam the ocean, gliding on the currents, and dancing their way through dangerous adventures.
Join Blue and his fellow dragons as they explore the sea!
]]>Tamlyn Teow is an artist, illustrator and props designer. In 2013, she left a corporate career to learn how stories are told through art. Tamlyn's passion is to create works that give hope in challenging times, spark curiosity and bring individuals together by opening their eyes to truth and meaning. Tamlyn has worked in the art department for various productions, including Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Peter Rabbit 2, Shang-Chi (Marvel Studios) and North Shore. She has illustrated a number of picture books, designs book covers and illustrates chapter books.
]]>A. A. Milne's bestselling classic,Winnie the Pooh, has enchanted readers of all ages for nearly one hundred years with its relatable, heartwarming adventures that follow the famously friendly and lovable teddy bear.
Now We Are Six is the original 1927 classic collection of poems by A. A. Milne, eleven of which feature everyone's favourite characters from the hundred-acre wood. This stunning edition includesall of the original illustrations fully colourised by Diego Jourdan Pereira, which bring new life to these time-honored and beloved verses.
With playful rhymes and light-hearted humour, this beautiful book is great for bedtime or any time, and is the perfect addition to any bookshelf for readers both young and old.
]]>E. H. Shepard was a prolific English artist and book illustrator, most well known for his work in Winnie the Pooh and Aesop's Fables.
]]>Bear loves to dance, he practises all day long. But one thing bothers Bear he's always dancing by himself and some dances are better with two... Will he ever find a perfect dance partner?
With warmth and humour, this delightful picture book explores the importance of connection and friendship.
]]>Wolf lived on a plinth in a tired old square on the edge of a vast and magnificent city. Taken for granted and pooped on by Pigeon, she longs to be admired and to find her place amongst the famous statues in the City Centre. One day she sets off on the bus to do just that, but she discovers that the city statues are mean and selfish.
Wolf soon realises that she misses home, and heads back to her old square only to find that her friends there have missed her just as much.
With warmth and humour, this delight of a debut picture book by author and illustrator Rachel Tilda Wolf explores the need to be appreciated and the importance of finding 'home'.
]]>Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professor's friends suggest that Ticky be made a professor, too, he explains what really happens during the quiet hours of the day when the professor is out, when all the rooms have been cleaned and dusted, and the clocks talk to one another and tell the stories of their lives.
No artist is better suited to capture Ticky's quiet stateliness and grace than Edward Gorey, who brings this tale masterfully to life through his characteristic pen and ink drawings. Full of wit, wisdom, and affairs of the heart, The Very Fine Clock is a very fine picture book.
]]>Edward Gorey (19252000) was born in Chicago. In 1953 Gorey published The Unstrung Harp, the first of his more than one hundred books. In addition to illustrating his own stories, Gorey provided drawings for many books for both children and adults. Of these, New York Review Books has published The Haunted Looking Glass, a collection of Gorey's favorite ghost stories; The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; Men and Gods by Rex Warner; The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories by Saki; and Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levine. He cowrote the NYRB Kids book Fletcher and Zenobia with Victoria Chess.
]]>In three creepy sections, Japanese Urban Legends visits urban and rural legend sites, spooky schools and haunted homes - sure to keep you flipping the full-color pages for more!
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These timeless tales introduce young readers to brave animals, clever tricksters, magical brushes, and heartwarming lessons; the stories include:
Perfect for reading aloud or independent reading, this beautifully illustrated collection sparks imagination and opens doors to cultures across Asia.
]]>Soup's on. A tasty treat.
Fill your bowl up. Time to eat!
Through vibrant illustrations and heartwarming text, Soup's On Around the World invites readers on a flavorful journey of soups across the globe, each with its own unique history and traditions!
Every soup tells its own story, revealing fascinating stories such as:
Bright, detailed pictures by acclaimed artist Chelsea O'Byrne brings to life Denyse Waissbluth's joyous celebration of soup. With sidebars full of delicious facts, this second title in the Taste the World series is a celebration of diversity and deliciousness exploring a beloved food soup! and all the tasty ways we can enjoy a bowl (or two!).
The second book in the Taste the World series.
Discover the world through food in this vibrant picture book series that celebrates culture and diversity. Taste the World takes young readers on a delicious journey, introducing them to different traditions, cultures and countries, and the unique dishes that bring communities together. With rich illustrations and poetic stories, this series inspires curiosity, appreciation for global cultures, and the joy of sharing a meal.
]]>Chelsea O'Byrne is an artist and teacher living and working in Vancouver, BC. She is the acclaimed illustrator of four books, including Hello, Crow! by Candace Savage (Greystone Kids, 2019), and Teatime Around the World, both published by Greystone Kids (Greystone Kids, 2020). One of Chelsea's favorite things to eat in her studio is a nice big bowl of home-cooked soup... but she is very careful not to spill any on her drawings!
]]>A celebration of diversity and deliciousness, Teatime Around the World reveals all the wonderful ways we can enjoy a cup of teaor two!
Let's go on an adventure to discover new cultures and friends through tea! In this fun and lyrical picture book for ages 4-8, kids will learn how tea is enjoyed in Thailand, Japan, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Uruguay, South Sudan, India, and more countries!
Did you know that po cha, the traditional tea in Tibet, is thick and salty like soup? Or that in Iran, tea is served with a rock? (A rock candy, that is!) Or that afternoon tea was dreamed up in England by a duchess who complained of being hungry between lunch and dinner?
With vivid poetry, vibrant illustrations, and unique facts about different tea cultures, Teatime Around the World tells the delightful story of a beloved beverage.
]]>Little explorers, get ready for an out-of-this-world adventure! This fun and exciting board book is your ticket to discovering the amazing wonders of outer space. From our Sun to the very edges of the Solar System, you'll take a fun-filled tour and learn fascinating facts along the way. Young readers will learn unique details about each planet and even get a sneak peek at the technology that helps us explore the cosmos. Did you know you can even spot some of these amazing cosmic bodies with just your eyes or a telescope? Get ready to gaze at millions of twinkling stars and faraway galaxies in this first journey into the vastness of space! Get ready for liftoff!
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.
]]>Tomas Tumais a Czech freelance illustrator, photographer, and programmer. He has authored many educational adventure books for children, where he popularizes modern technologies. He studied English and Art Education and enjoys walking in the woods. He currently resides in the Czech Republic.
]]>Silver is the youngest mouse in a big mouse family. He'd love to have a quiet spot all to himself to do what he likes best: absolutely nothing! But it is almost impossible in his burrow. His noisy siblings are playing ball, dancing, and listening to music. His parents are busy cooking, building gadgets, and reading books.
What should Silver do? He tries to find refuge in the burrows belonging to his forest friends, but finding a place all to himself is harder than he thought. There isn't a single spot in the burrow that's quiet enough for him to do nothing at all...
Join Silver along his journey to find a safe hideaway just for him! Filled with stunning illustrations, A Place Just For Me is a charming reminder of honouring our own spaces and finding a quiet spot to think in our busy world.
]]>Melinda Berti lives and works in Florence. She loves to explore and create and tries to bring a bit of her world into everything she draws. Winner of the 2024 Sossi Prize, she works for Italy and abroad.
]]>Whether it is running, swimming, swinging or just cuddling up and falling asleep, each spread in Hello Little Ones highlights some of the activities that young humans and animals have in common. Pairing simple text with whimsical illustration these comparisons are full of amusing details that readers will enjoy pointing out at story time.
Engaging, fun, and silly, Amandine Piu's irresistible art makes this new board book a great gift for very young readers and a wonderful addition to any preschool library.
]]>Writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins makes her picture book debut with this biography of Leonard Cohen and the creation of his masterpiece 'Hallelujah' through continued persistence, belief, and dedication.
Leonard Cohen was surrounded by music. His mother would sing folk songs in Yiddish and Russian. The synagogue where his grandfather was rabbi sounded like the gates of Heaven opening. And Leonard's heart turned the beauty of the world into music only he could hear.
But there was also sadness. How could life contain so much joy and also so much sorrow? Leonard wondered if there was a way to capture all those feelings at once.
He learned to play the guitar. He wrote songs. As a musician, people would come to see him perform. But there was still something missing. A song, hidden inside of him. One that he believed in, even when he struggled to write it or when others didn't understand it. And now, 'Hallelujah' lives in all our hearts.
An author's note asks readers to consider what their Hallelujah is, and encourages them to share their talents and joys with the world.
]]>Gene Pendon is the artist behind the mural Tower of Songs, Hommage Leonard Cohen, in Montreal. Hel has a Bachelors degree in Fine-Arts (drawing and painting) from Concordia University. In 1998, he co-founded Heavyweight Production House (HVW8), now based in Montreal and in Los Angeles. He also co-creates the Heavyweight Art Installation, an international project that partners live painting to music and to urban cultures. He lives in Montreal, Canada.
]]>Step into the mysterious world of Ghosts and Ghouls! Young readers will take a thrilling guided tour through a haunted forest, an eerie castle, and even... their very own bedroom as they meet a cast of creepy characters, from terrifying basilisks to light-footed nymphs, see-through spooks and rattling skeletons! Each page is a brand new, surprise-filled journey, whether you're racing bogeys in a cellar or joining a wild monster ball. With its fantastically detailed illustrations and a super fun, immersive story, Ghosts and Ghouls will have kids excitedly exploring the mysterious and spooky realms hiding just around the corner and maybe even under their beds!
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.
]]>Martin Sojdr, a graduate in animated film from the Department of Art in Ostrava, has worked as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator for the past nine years. His work focuses mainly on folklore and ornamentation from other European countries, Russia and South America, as well as his native Moravian Slovakia. He is one half of the duo Puk-Puk, creators of graphic art, illustrations, T-shirt designs, paintings, VJing and installations. In addition to their graphic design and illustration work, they co-organise club parties under the name Bassta Fidli.
]]>Crack open your sketchbook, grab your pens and pencils, and get ready to turn your thoughts of the most epic dinosaurs ever into beautiful and scientifically accurate drawings. In easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail, Drawing Dinosaurs teaches you all the tricks and techniques you'll need to create 19 of your own amazing dinosaurs, including tips on:
This book also features detailed fun facts about each dinosaur, including what time period they lived in, where they were located, and their most distinguishing features, so you can be fully immersed in this prehistoric world. As you begin drawing all your favourite prehistoric creatures, remember you have the freedom to let your imagination run wild or strive to make something as close to what current science has to offer; the choice is yours!
]]>His work will also be featured in an upcoming documentary Why Dinosaurs? Inspired by the likes of James Gurney, John Bell, and John Gurche, his focus on the prehistoric has continued to imbue his love of ancient life into his work to create hundreds of both scientifically accurate and sci-fi pieces that celebrate some of the many life forms that have inhabited the earth.
]]>The American Civil War is raging, and General Lee's Confederate Army has invaded Pennsylvania. Canons roar. Bullets whiz. Swords and bayonets clash. Can you help win the battle? And will this at long last be the battle that turns the tide of the war? You decide in Decide & Survive: The Battle of Gettysburg!
About the Decide & Survive series: Dear Reader, this is your story. Your Call to Adventure! You control how history happens through the choices you make. Don't read this book from the first page to the last. Instead, follow the directions at the bottom of each page. When you're offered options, choose wisely because your decision could end in disaster as easily as triumph. At the end? Start over and create a different story with a new outcome! Adventure, mystery, danger, and fortune await. Good luck!
]]>Violet Costantino knows she is already on thin ice this school year: her scholarship has taken a significant hit due to her panic attack during her final performance in acting class last semester which simultaneously shattered her dreams of becoming a leading lady. This year, she is determined to keep her head down and just get through unscathed. But the school seems to have other plans for Violet: to her extreme foreboding, she is cast as one of the leads in the annual Halloween play. What's worse, the beautiful, infuriatingly talented Frankie Lin and Violet's ex-crush, Hunter Kinsey, are both cast as her love interests. Despite her initial reluctance, Violet is drawn in by the glamour of the Dark Cove Theatre Society, and she cautiously starts believing that maybe she is cut out for this after all. But lurking in the shadows of Violet's fragile self-confidence is the rumor of the Society curse, which is said to cause one cast member to drop out before opening night every year, mysteriously and without reason.
In this captivating YA debut, The Dark Cove Theatre Society illustrates both the intoxicating and insidious nature of success and the price we are often forced to pay for it. Passages of found text glimpses of the school's handbook, secret letters, and other peeks into life at the Academy seamlessly woven into the plot will immerse readers even further into the lush, magnetic world of Dark Cove.
]]>Her latest novel with Hashtag Press, It All Started With A Lie, became an instant hit following a successful debut at YALC 2023, and the second edition release of We Know What You Did (November 2024) was a resounding hit at YALC 2024. Denise has had short stories published in various online magazines and anthologies and was also longlisted for the 2019 Mslexia Children's Novel Competition. In 2019 she was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award.
Born in East London, Denise has now settled in Scotland where she feels certain she must have lived in a previous life. She loves dogs and snow globes and has a teensy obsession with Jack Skellington.
]]>Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
]]>Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
]]>Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
]]>Christmas is coming and Ayla wants a snowman just like in her book, but there is no snow to be found in her drought-stricken town, not even a drop of rain. Only bales of hay.
Ayla's Christmas Wish is inspired by the small, south-west Victorian town of Tarrington, which runs a hay bale design competition each year. This book compares European Christmas traditions with the reality of a hot, dry Australian summer. Behind the story of Ayla wishing for a snowman, there is a town wishing for rain.
This story celebrates a community at Christmas-time, and highlights the importance and beauty of small-town resilience.
]]>Lucia Masciullo is an award-winning children's book illustrator born and bred in Livorno, Italy. She moved to Australia in 2007 and she now lives and works on the beautiful Gold Coast. Her last book with the National Library of Australia was The Imagineer.
]]>Little Brother is told by his brother and his friends that he's too small to help out at the Spring Festival. He's too little to fly a kite and he's not strong enough to hold a dragon pole. But Father says he has a special job to do. What can it be?
He knows it's not hanging the lanterns up, as Father has already done that. He knows it's not choosing the treats from the hawker as Father has already chosen a duck. He knows it's not serving tea or lighting fire crackers as he did those jobs last year.
Follow Little Brother through the village to find out what his special job is.
Christopher Cheng's story and Di Wu's paintings recreate the magic of celebrating New Year in snowy rural northern China. Di's stunning artwork reflects Chinese traditional techniques, using rice paper, Chinese brushes and the colours of traditional paintings.
At the back of the book, read about some of the different festivals held in China and about the rural setting of the book. Images from the National Library of Australia's collection illustrate this section.
]]>Born in China, Di Wu was an editor and illustrator in one of the biggest Chinese fine arts publishing companies before coming to Australia. He won awards for the books he published in China, and his first Australian picture book, Rebel (with Allan Baillie), was short-listed for the Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year. He has since released Ali Baba, Old Magic (with Allan Baillie) and Grandpa's Mask, with text by Jing Jing Guo. More recently, Di Wu collaborated with NLA Publishing author Jane Jolly to create Star of Anise.
]]>Yiasou! That's hello in Greek!
Or would you like to speak Chinese? What about Italian or Korean? Murinhpatha or Kaurna?
Meet 12 Australian friends who can speak different languages. They tell us how to count from 1 to 10, say hello and goodbye and lots of other words in their languages about play, food, hobbies and clothes.
Once we've said hello, we can watch Emiko playing the Japanese drum and Pilinh performing an Aboriginal dance. We can see how to make gnocchi with Sophia and flat bread with Amal.
This book is an introduction to 12 languages spoken most frequently in Australian homes, plus three Indigenous languages.The languages are: Chinese, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kaurna, Korean, Lebanese Arabic, Murrinhpatha, Thai and Vietnamese.Illustrated in a cartoon style, the pictures add humour and fun to language learning. Each language and culture is introduced by a child character - and you might spot a koala or two ...
Selamat tinggal! That's goodbye in Indonesian!
]]>Children around Australia are taking charge. Come and join the revolution!
From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney's suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They're learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them.
The Bee Squad inspires you to take part in these exciting adventures and projects that support threatened species by doing things like:
The best part is, you don't need to live near a national park or protected area to get involved you can make a difference from your balcony, backyard, local park or school.
'Here is a book that equips young people with solid advice, knowledge and fun activities to become champions of biodiversity and helpers to Mother Nature! At a time when climate anxiety is high and children can feel helpless, Friedlander leans into action and encouragement in a book that will send kids out into the wilderness with fresh perspective and appreciation for this world of ours.' Danielle Binks, award-winning author
'The Bee Squad is a must-have addition to your library of life. Everything you need to know to build a friendship, a relationship and the ultimate lifelong love affair with nature and all its beauty, and participants sharing the world with you and around you wherever you are.' Costa Georgiadis
'Sustainable Schools NSW encourages a comprehensive approach to sustainability, integrating it into campus life, curriculum and school culture, which is what The Bee Squad is able to do. The Bee Squad offers diverse opportunities for teachers, students and families to nurture nature and connect with Country, to 'bala ga lili', fostering a love for nature. I encourage all to join The Bee Squad to become Earthcarers, creating a B & B highway across Australia. By utilising Education for Sustainability principles, The Bee Squad promotes systems thinking and future-focused learning, empowering participants to become citizen scientists. A heartfelt thanks to Judy for advancing environmental education across Australia!' Sue Martin, Environmental Education NSW & Sustainable Schools NSW
'The joy of this book is that its wonders are so accessible. It will teach you to discover the magic of nature in your backyard. And the more you know, the more you will want to know, and life will never be boring again.' Rachel Ward, actress, director, screenwriter and regenerative farmer
'The Atlas of Living Australia specialises in open biodiversity data, of which a large component is from citizen science. The Bee Squad citizen science chapter is a fantastic introduction to junior scientists about citizen science and the different kinds of citizen science projects and data collection tools available. It's inspiring to read about what discoveries have already been made by students and how citizen science has enabled observations in nature to have real world impact.' Dr Andre Zerger, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
'This is a handbook for of every young nature enthusiast as it so very practical...It is a goldmine for teachers and parents, with plenty of illustrations, web resources for delving further and excellent teacher's notes (which are useful for any keen reader).' Mia Macrossan, StoryLinks
'This is one of the most inspirational children's books of the year. A fabulous book that will not only interest and inspire children but also equip them with really practical and engaging ideas to successfully lead their households and schools to become more sustainable.' Sarah Mayor Cox, ABC Radio Children's/YA book reviewer
]]>When she is outside in nature, Judy becomes the kid she was where a local creek, 'rock bridge', gum trees and ferns sheltered a wonderland of tadpoles, frogs, cicadas, birds and possums.
]]>Shortlisted, Australian Book Design Awards 2020, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction Illustrated Book
Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2022, Children's Literature Award
Age range 3+
Summer is here. Put your school shoes away,
The long, lazy days can begin.
Mangoes and magpies, municipal pools...
Take a deep breath and dive in.
The bestselling creators of Alphabetical Sydney and Numerical Street are back with their new picture book, Summer Time a stunning tribute to an Australian summer.
'Summer Time, Hilary Bell and Antonia Pesenti's third picture book collaboration, explores ideas of time within the grand nostalgic mythology of Australian summer...The rhyming verse is rich and evocative, making good use of both rhythm and imagery...Pesenti's pleasing collage-style illustrations complement Bell's linguistic portraits; a colour palette both bright and gentle evokes the harsh Australian light and the haze of memory.' -Books + Publishing
Teachers' Notes available here
]]>A child's day in the garden with their Gran and Pa leads to a wonderful exploration of pollination.
Join them in discovering how pollination happens in our gardens and backyards, and the importance it has for our environment. Meet the animals involved in pollination and the plants that depend on pollination to produce our fruit, vegetables and even our clothes!
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
Teachers' notes available here
]]>Christopher Cheng adores writing, especially picture books. He has been shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary awards, and won the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. He is Co-Chair of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Advisory Council. Christopher is based in Sydney, NSW.
Danny Snell has been working as an illustrator for over 20 years. His picture books have won awards including the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature and more. Danny is based in Adelaide, SA.
]]>The activities cover electricity and magnetism, sound and light, heat and motion, water and gases, living things, shapes and our planet Earth. Each activity has a simple list of materials required, and uses simple step-by-step instructions and drawings to enable you to create exciting and interesting reactions, experiments and inventions. Fast facts and quiz questions will help you test your knowledge, and you'll also find an explanation of the science behind each activity, along with examples of how each principle works in the real world.
Discover more about the world of science by making:
Discover the marvels of the natural world, from coral reefs and towering rainforests down to the incredible critters living in your own backyard!
With 80 animals to find, the lush landscapes featured in this book include over 200 exquisitely illustrated animals alongside a stunning array of plant life. Including fascinating facts about the biomes that cover this wondrous planet, this search-and-find is certified by museum experts.
You'll visit: the Daintree Rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, the Gibson Desert, the grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, the mangroves of Darwin Harbour, Antarctica and the Grampians, along with a bonus look at the wonderful world of soil.
]]>**Shortlisted, ABIAs 2025, Small Publisher's Children's Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted, 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall Award**
**Longlisted, ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-fiction Book 2025**
When it comes to flora, Australia is a land of diversity. From rainforests to deserts, mountains to the seashore, 90 per cent of our plant life is unique to this ancient land. Treasures like our wattles, eucalypts, grass trees and banksias are part of our heritage and identity and they still flourish here today, on the oldest landmass on Earth.
Flora celebrates and highlights these diverse and curious plants, looking into the history, quirks and uses of our native plants, and how vital they are for our unique ecosystems. Tania McCartney brings her trademark skill and style in both writing and illustration, using her substantial experience in children's literature to examine Australia's botanical riches to pick out engaging, informative and surprising facts to share with young readers.
The book includes spreads on the Gondwana Garden, Deadly Flora, Bush Food, Flora Ancestry and more. Meet the Tasmanian Mountain Ash, which is both the world's tallest flowering plant and the tallest hardwood tree, growing more than a metre each year...for up to 400 years! Share in a park ranger's discovery of a living Jurassic fossil deep in a secret sandstone canyon. Learn how to avoid the most painful plant on earth, the gympie gympie, whose fine little hairs inject a fiery venom that feels like acid and electrocution all at once!
The author introduces readers to hard science too, including information on plant classification, countless cool scientific facts and binomial names and scientific terms, with a handy glossary aimed at children at the back of the book.
]]>*Longlisted, 2020 World Illustration Awards*
*Longlisted, 2020 Australian Book Design Awards*
*Shortlisted, 2020 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature*
*Shortlisted, 2020 Educational Publishing Awards*
Age range 5+
Did you know that platypus have retractable webbing on their hind feet to enable an easy transition from swimming to digging? That kangaroos can't sweat and that the cassowary has no tongue?
In Fauna - Australia's Most Curious Creatures, readers are constantly introduced to facts that delight, amaze and induce sheer wonder at the clever design and adaptability of our much-loved native fauna.
The information on each individual species is presented in small 'bites' to hold the interest of younger readers, while the information taken in total gives a comprehensive summary of each species, including breeding and feeding habits, physical characteristics, habitat and other unique and quirky features.
Fauna also has a strong conservation message with an 'extinction roll call' and a rating for the vulnerability of endangered species.
The stylised illustrations in Fauna are lively, colourful and informative, highlighting facts that lend themselves more to pictures than words e.g. the actual size of crocodile teeth, or the mechanics of the echidna's beak. There is also humour in the illustrations is that kangaroo with dark glasses actually from a different kind of mob?
Readers young and old will be delighted and informed by Fauna.
Teachers' notes available here
]]>Set against the backdrop of a family camping trip, Our Camping Trip: Physics, Chemistry, and Fun from the Everyday STEM series is a captivating exploration for young minds aged 6-9. Join Teresa, Cooper, and the Bright family as they reveal the wonders of STEM concepts in everyday life. From the physics behind trampoline jumps to the chemistry of dough rising in the oven, this story-based journey seamlessly weaves science into the fabric of holidays and celebrations. Through engaging content and real-world applications, the book not only supports STEM learning in the classroom but extends it beyond school hours, inviting children to discover the science in their surroundings. Packed with activities for kids to try at home, this book transforms theoretical concepts into hands-on adventures, making learning an exciting and immersive experience.
Our Camping Trip is more than a book; it's a key to unlocking the world of STEM for curious young minds. Designed to connect theoretical concepts to real-life scenarios, this book ensures that STEM becomes a part of everyday adventures, from cooking to traveling. The story-based exploration makes complex physics and chemistry concepts accessible, fostering a love for learning in an engaging and relatable way. Whether for classroom use or at-home exploration, this book is a valuable addition to any young reader's collection, promising an educational journey filled with curiosity and discovery.
]]>Lenka Chytilovawas drawn to books and writing from a young age. It was no surprise, then, when she got a degree in Czech Language and Literature and German Translation. She has always tried to connect books and reading, her greatest hobby, with her work; she worked part-time in a bookshop for many years and she also worked as an editor and proofreader. Lenka likes classic Czech fairytales, and she loves Veernek, the Czech television program for children's bedtime stories. She grew up in a village in East Moravia.
Xiana Teimoy is an illustrator from Vigo, in the far northwest of Spain. After graduating in fine arts with honors, she completed a master's in design and illustration. So far, she's worked mostly on children's books and kid's magazines. She loves illustrating stories for kids and reading children's books, wondering what the illustrator's own creative process was. She works from her lovely and cozy studio located in sunny Valencia, Spain, where she develops her work using digital media. She also teaches illustration at the University of Valencia.
]]>Learn to identify some of the world's most beautiful shells and meet the creatures who make them!
The Little Book of Shells, part of the Little Library of Natural History, introduces kids to the remarkable underwater world of mollusks, nautiluses, sand dollars, and the enchanting homes they leave behind. Gorgeous vintage artwork by some of the world's most enduring nature illustrators fill this beachcomber's handbook.
]]>Discover the incredible world of insects in one compact book! The Little Book of Insects, part of My Little Library of Natural History, introduces kids to dozens of earth's most fascinating creepy crawlies with details about their habitats, diets, lifespans, and more. Gorgeous vintage illustrations by some of the world's most enduring nature illustrators accompany each entry along with charts, maps, and other illuminating graphics.
]]>Perfect for STEM learning and outdoor education.
Have you ever wondered ....
In this highly visual, fun, and interactive book, kids will get to know all sorts of animals, from birds and caterpillars in their own backyard, to grizzly bears in chilly Alaska, to puffer fish in the waters of Australia.
Through a mix of activities, facts, stories, and pictures, kids will learn:
This wonderful introduction to the animal kingdom features playful questions, fun quizzes, and activities that will help kids study animals in their own backyards and make the world a better place for them.
'I absolutely love this book.' Jane Goodall
An excellent resource for parents, teachers, and curriculums ranging from outdoor education to homeschool and forest school.
Whether you are in the forest, in your own backyard, or in the city, there are so many exciting ways to engage with nature - and forester Peter Wohlleben has the best ideas for doing so. With Be A Nature Explorer!, kids will learn how to press flowers, harvest algae, skip stones, observe spiders, and even how to build their own tiny sailboat.
This ultimate kids' nature book features:
Packed with activities that will fill kids with wonder and confidence in the outdoors, readers will be dipping in and out of Be A Nature Explorer! all year round.
]]>Belle Wuthrich is an illustrator and designer, specializing in books for young readers. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Belle has contributed to more than a dozen books for kids, a number of which have won awards or been republished internationally.
]]>This new edition has been extensively revised to reflect and support the constantly evolving pest management industry, with an accessible new format, fully updated chapters, additional colour plates and extra content including comprehensive ID information on termites.
Ion Staunton draws on his seven decades of industry knowledge to bring John Gerozisis and Phillip Hadlington's pest management 'bible' to a new generation of technicians.
This new edition:
John Gerozisis is a Science graduate from the University of New South Wales, majoring in Entomology and Zoology. He then worked in the industry as an entomologist and consultant and taught NSW TAFE's pest control course for ten years. With Phillip Hadlington, he kept Urban Pest Management up to date until 2004. The improvements between the rst Hadlington/Staunton textbook and that 2004 revised version are due to Gerozisis's knowledge and eorts. He spent another ten years with a leading Sydney building consultancy before retiring to Tasmania.
Ion Staunton came back to the pest control scene to do the revisions for the 2008 edition as well as this new edition. He, like Gerozisis, studied entomology at UNSW. He became the technical ocer at Houghton & Byrne (before they were taken over by Rentokil) and spent 25 years as honorary secretary of the NSW Pest Controllers Association and the Council of Australian Pest Control Associations. He helped in setting up the new Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association and organised his last national conference in 1988 but kept in touch with executive director Doug Howick during his more than ten years at the helm. With Howick, he co-wrote Colonies in Collision, a history of the pest control industry. In collaboration with Lextar and Pesense, he made his idea of the TermiSensor a reality. It allows daily electronic checks for termite activity in monitors instead of manual inspections multiple times each year, saving manhours and travel time, and eliminating those missed opportunities to bait.
]]>Since 1947, Australia had governed Nauru in its capacity as the leading partner, with New Zealand and the United Kingdom, in a joint United Nations trusteeship over the island. Australia's core interest in Nauru comprised the extraction of Nauru's high-quality phosphate for the production of superphosphate for the rural industries in Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom, on extremely favourable terms.
As these documents demonstrate, during the first half of the 1960s the context within which Australia developed its policies on Nauru became more difficult. Reflecting the expansion of UN membership following the emergence of newly independent countries in Africa and Asia, the United Nations General Assembly and its committees took a more concentrated interest in decolonisation and the exploitation of developing world resources. New Zealand and the United Kingdom began to seek to influence Australian policies on Nauru more than before. Last but certainly not least, the Nauruans began to campaign more effectively in pursuit of political and phosphate industry reforms.
For several years, there was a general consensus among Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom policymakers, the United Nations Trusteeship Council and the Nauruans themselves that the best way to secure the future of the Nauruans was to arrange for their resettlement elsewhere. Doing this would also facilitate continued access to Nauruan phosphate. In the late 1950s, after efforts to find a suitable location in the Pacific Islands region had come to nothing, Australia proposed that the Nauruans migrate to Australia and become assimilated within the wider community. The Nauruans declined this proposal because of their wish to maintain their distinctive identity.
At the request of Nauruan leaders, Australia next turned its attention to identifying an island off the Australian coast as a suitable site for resettlement and eventually decided on Curtis Island, near Gladstone in Queensland. But agreement was not achieved, mainly because the Nauruans, while making important concessions, wanted 'sovereign independence' in order to preserve their national identity. Although understanding this aspiration, Australian policymakers were unwilling to surrender sovereignty over an Australian territory and instead offered local self-government powers on Curtis Island. Negotiations finally broke down in August 1964, with the Nauruans deciding to remain on their own island and seek independence, along with control over the phosphate industry and a larger share of the returns from phosphate extraction.
]]>Matthew Jordan, BA Hons, PhD (Sydney University), is Head of DFAT's Historical Publications Section, General Editor of the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, and a joint editor of the preceding volume on Australia and Nauru and, with Robert Bowker, a volume on Australia and the Suez Crisis. He has published mostly on Australian foreign policy history, focusing on the role played by ideas of race and nation in shaping Australia's attitudes to the world. Having edited a DAFP volume on Australia and the Rhodesian Problem, 19611972 (UNSW Press, 2017), he is preparing a follow-up volume on Australia's approach to Zimbabwean independence in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also finalising a DAFP volume on the liberalisation and abolition of the White Australia Policy from the 1940s to the 1970s.
]]>First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any graphics you have in mind. Through these step-by-step lessons, you'll be exposed to all of Illustrator's features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows.
To complete the Course, we'll supply lesson documents and their assets to download. These can even serve as starting points for your own projects.
Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you'll use the updated Compendium to uncover more of the 'how' and 'why' of Illustrator. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Illustrator's key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.
Learn step by step how to:
In the '90s, he began teaching page layout and Photoshop at the Art Institute of Seattle, where he discovered a profound love of teaching. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works, and Seattle Central College. He was the founding instructor of CreativeLive and has created more than 250 videos in graphic design and production.
Jason is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, an Adobe Authorized Instructor, and has been named an Adobe MAX master. He has a degree in Advertising and Production, and a BFA degree in Swiss Graphic Design.
His love of graphic design, infographics, production, photo retouching, and illustration keeps him current with all the software, and he writes a blog on all things Illustrator at www.jasonhoppe.com.
Jason lives in Seattle with his partner and two wonderful hairless cats.
]]>This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century.
]]>Presented in two parts, Regimes of Happinessprovides a historical view of the way in which Western societies, the descendants of the Latin Roman Empire, created languages and institutions that established specific and occasionally antithetical conceptions of a fulfilled human life or 'happiness' in the first part. The second part explores how non-Western societies and non-Christian religions have conceived and established their own ideals of human perfection. Regimes of Happinessis a critical reflection on modern notions of happiness which are typically focused on individual feelings of pleasure.
]]>Joanna Tice Jen is a member of the political science faculty at Las Positas College, USA. She received her PhD in political science from the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, in 2017.
Bryan S. Turner is professor of sociology at the Australian Catholic University, emeritus professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, and honorary professor, Social Science Faculty, Potsdam University, Germany. He won the Max Planck Award in 2015.
]]>This scholarly monograph examines the concept of Chernobyl trauma by situating it at the interface of clinical diagnoses of survivors' Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, their expressions of this trauma in published testimonials translated into English, and through English-language literary explorations of contemporary Soviet trauma. It establishes a new perspective on the intergenerational and international reception of the nuclear disaster, one shaped by Soviet cultural memory as well as Science Fiction and the literary aesthetics of the Gothic.
The monograph analyses first-generation Chernobyl survivors' imaginative reconstruction of events through testimony in the face of the Soviet Party's attempts to sublimate the narrative of the disaster into an official account. It also discusses the ways in which a second generation represents inherited, traumatic memory through a literary diaspora of Chernobyl and Soviet-Kazakh Semipalatinsk nuclear trauma, and how English-speaking writers not personally involved in the disaster engage in its memorialisation through discourses of horror and collective mourning.
]]>A doctor's education looks at first sight like a straightforward technical training, but 're-membering' it as a personal experience creates a new and disturbing picture, a blend of joys, absurdities and frustrations. The author observes his younger self's efforts to communicate and to regulate feelings in the prescribed way, and begins to see that to become a doctor is to be at the mercy of almost irresistible pressures. He picks up habits by mimicking the teachers, with sometimes disastrous results.
Communication, and even empathy, are made to seem like performances in which the doctor's self need play no part. Any other way of being a doctor is unimaginable. Hospital medicine figures in the book as a universe that is loveable and yet tragically unable to engage with its patients' ordinary lives. Doctors in the 1960s, as now, were focused on disease and had little to say about illness and suffering, let alone death. They were, and still are, curiously silent about healing, recovery and rehabilitation.
]]>Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right to American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution guaranteed all of its citizens. As many of his contemporaries now confess, Williams's strength and appeal, as explained by his second son, John Williams, was his uncompromising stance and determination to act on the American dream he imagined for social, economic, and political equality for African Americans.
The skills he acquired as a journalist and propaganda specialist were key to his political development, evolution, and transnational collaborations with Cuba and China, which he used to challenge domestic policies in the United States, and way beyond the imagination of his supporters in the United States. Williams ultimately used these strengths, strategies, and collaborations to deliver liberating messages of freedom, resistance, and social and economic equality on behalf of the rights of African Americans. Williams significantly contributed to the Black freedom struggle and should not be forgotten. This book includes a collection of writings by and about Williams as an internationalist, pragmatist, and civil and human rights champion.
]]>The book combines the study of nation and community through a close engagement with Urdu literary culture in the twentieth century and particularly the work of pioneering literary women. It argues that gender and sexuality become fixed signifiers in the trauma of partition and the formation of the post-partition Islamic nation. The story of literary women in Pakistan taking up the mantle of public poets thus has to be understood in relation to the history of reform, anti-colonial resistance and a transnational Islamicate culture.
The book examines the presence of feminist thought in the work of progressive women poets charting their interrogation of the clash between secular and sacred values and the increasing split between liberal and Islamic nationalism. The book suggests that through their writing and experiences, women have negotiated sacred and secular spaces to move beyond a community that is subservient to nationalist ideology.
]]>It traces a tradition of thought whose basic tenets originate in the philosophical works of Jose Carlos Maritegui, and are subsequently elaborated in the literary works of Cesar Vallejo and Jose Mara Arguedas. My central thesis is that, more than a 'regionalist' or 'provincialist' literature that describes the social reality and historic oppression of the rural Indian since colonial times, the socialist indigenismo is continuous with the invention of a utopian imaginary for a project of alternative modernity, through which urban intellectuals, artists and activists conceived of a national future beyond that of capitalist modernisation. Above all, such a future would traverse the prescient division between the urban mestizo and the Indian, and finally the lingering disparity between the nation's Western and native heritage. In doing so, indigenista writers did not only adapt the tenets of socialist philosophy and avant-garde aesthetics to describe their unique social realities and thinking of the possibility of an emancipatory political practice; they also interrogated the foundations of European Marxism, expressing various figurations of the emancipatory process to come, and different models for the new revolutionary subjectivity that would aid this transition.
Rejecting assimilation into Western modernisation within the urban milieu ('acculturation') under liberal capitalism imagined by liberal writers - such as Manuel Gonzlez Prada and Clorinda Matto de Turner, in the late 19th Century - I argue that the 20th Century socialist indigenista tradition anticipated a bilateral process of appropriation and mediation between the rural Indian and mestizo, integrating indigenous as well as Western cultural and economic forms. In the first chapter, I assess Maritegui's heterodox 'Peruvian socialism', tracing the articulation of a nascent indigenista aesthetics to an emancipatory politics as part of an 'active philosophy' driven by what the author names 'creative antagonism'. In the second chapter, I explore how Cesar Vallejo's 'materialist poetics' progressively extend the nationalist destiny and social realist aesthetic avowed by Maritegui onto an internationalist and geopolitical horizon, as part of an 'aesthetics of transmutation' that coincides with a plea for humanity as a whole. In the third chapter, I trace how Jose Mara Arguedas' novels attempt to reconcile what he named 'the magical and rational conceptions of the world', extending the ideal of a transcultural mediation between the rural Indian and urban mestizo to conceive of a new collectivist and cooperativist ethics of 'labor for-itself', informed by his anthropological and ethnographic research. In the fourth chapter, I propose a general retrospective of the aims and limitations of the ideals guiding this tradition, considering the development of Peruvian indigenista literature after Arguedas, interrogating the legacy and prospects of emancipatory politics in response to the limits of neoliberal capitalism and the crisis of democracy in Latin America today.
]]>This unique interdisciplinary religious, human rights, and sociological study of medicine manuscript is an examination of not only generationally inherited ethnobotanical, pharmacognosy TBS traditions but also direct observations on how current surgical orthopedic medicine and modern-day social mechanisms clash with traditional healthcare approaches in contemporaneous and inexorable ways. Whether intentionally or not, this entrenched two-tier infrastructure supports, promotes, and maintains a fiscally and socially alienated infrastructure: one that serves the poor general public and the other that is oriented toward serving the prosperous and powerful urban class. Some argue that these disparate structures are destined to remain grassroots-based adversaries, due to systemic mistrust, irreconcilable intellectual and spiritual beliefs, and possible biochemical appropriations.
These ensuing biomedical collisions between "Western" orthopedic trauma care and traditional bonesetters in Cameroon (Central Africa), Ethiopia (East Africa), Ghana (West Africa), and Zimbabwe (South Africa) were documented over eight years via one-on-one interviews with TBS patients, practicing bonesetters, and in-country practicing orthopedic surgeons; evidence-based ethnobotanical research; and patient service preferences.
]]>In 1946 Du Bois published The World and Africa, which was a culmination of previous attempts at penning a narrative of African history beginning with his 1915 publication The Negro, in which he included the social-historical experience of African Americans within the continuity of African history. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois's writings on African history. It argues that while Du Bois presented at the time a strong critique of the Eurocentric construction of African history, many of Du Bois's descriptions and arguments about African people and history were likewise flawed with interpretations that projected the cultural subjectivities of Europe. Further, while Du Bois rightfully presents the historical relationship between African Americans and Africa as a justification for Pan-African activism, this book contends that Du Bois's failure to center African culture instead of race leads to superficial justifications for Pan-African unity.
]]>Pavlos Kontos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras.
]]>Pavlos Kontos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras.
]]>Emma Tonkin is a research fellow at the University of Bristol.
Linda Flores Ohlson is an assistant professor of Spanish Linguistics, at the University of Gothenburg.
]]>However, close documentary analysis reveals that Edward I (d.1307) emerged in his later life not as the vindictive conqueror of most accounts, but as a ruler dependent on Welsh support, ready to listen to and remedy Welsh grievances, and to encourage the revival of a Welsh governing class. In addition, the book includes the first detailed study of scores of members of that class throughout Wales in the first half of the fourteenth century. It concludes by exploring the mid-century crises that shook the Welsh establishment and set them on the road to the Glyn Dr rising of 1400.
]]>In the meantime, the Gothic mode of fiction is experiencing a new ascendancy, strengthening the argument that the Gothic represents the best literary mode with which to decode this age of precarity. In this context,the present studyoffers a groundbreaking examination of the Gothic mode's conceptual affinity with notions of neoliberal precarity.Exploring twenty-first-century Gothic fiction's engagement with the most pressing issues of our age,itconsidersthe oppression and existential entrapment experienced by marginalised populations in the provincial China of the late 1970s,and observesa modern-day Frankenstein's creature occasion violence and destruction across Baghdad post the 2003 Iraq War.The readerwill also discover vampires (representatives of a voracious, toxic economic model) in an alternate Mexico City, encounter a nomadic group traversing the only remaining wilderness in a near-future North America devastated as a result of the climate crisis, and be haunted by a spectral migrant who died in their efforts to flee political oppression in Vietnam.
]]>Written for TESOL professionals, applied linguists, teacher educators, and instructional designers, this book blends accessible explanations of AI technologies generative AI, natural language processing, machine learning with real world examples, pedagogical strategies, and policy guidance. Joshua M. Paiz covers key issues such as digital equity, data ethics, academic integrity, and professional development, offering concrete suggestions for classroom use and institutional planning.
Across nine chapters, Collaborative AI guides readers through the history, potential, and pitfalls of AI in English language teaching, concluding with an optimistic yet critical call for educators to lead the way in shaping responsible and inclusive AI practices. This is a must-read resource for anyone seeking to integrate emerging technologies into language education while keeping pedagogy, ethics, and learner well-being at the center.
]]>Becoming Ecological offers a fresh and empowering perspective on the natural world by insisting that our relationship with language can transform issues of sustainability and environmental catastrophe. The book explores how language, meaning, and communication can help us in the ongoing process of 'becoming ecological' in our daily lives, encouraging us to listen, relate, and act with greater awareness. Language and literacy experts, Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James subvert the norms of focusing on data and policy in conversations surrounding climate change, and instead centre communication and dialogue as the catalyst for ecological transformation. A powerful and unprecedented reframing they argue that language has the profound ability to renew our personal and social awareness and steer the course of our future as a society.
Drawing from various views on relationships, values, and responsibility, as well as topics like AI, food, compost, sound, economics, improvisation, extinction, climate anxiety, and even the nature of reality, Becoming Ecological is a hopeful invitation to engage with the world differently. Through everyday experiences, this book inspires readers to consider other perspectives, participate more playfully, and spark lasting ecological change.
]]>Kedrick James is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Director of the School of Education at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
]]>Douglas Carlton McKnight draws on methods from critical geography, memory studies, literature, and museum studies to provide an interdisciplinary investigation of how this ethnic minority remembers and commemorates the war. Challenging prevailing theories that emphasise the transnational flow of Second World War memories, McKnight demonstrates that Carinthian Slovene recollections remain deeply rooted in local geography and community experience. Through this innovative case study, Echoes of the Past not only broadens our understanding of European memory cultures but also highlights the enduring significance of place in shaping collective memory.
By foregrounding the local dimensions of remembrance, this book offers a fresh perspective for scholars and readers interested in memory studies, minority studies, postwar European history, and literature. Echoes of the Past ultimately invites us to reconsider how stories of the past are preserved, experienced, and reinterpreted within specific communities, pointing to new directions for future research.
]]>Majoritarianism in India examines the strident nationalism seizing India today, tracing its roots back to decisions made in the 1940s, particularly Partition and the drafting of the Constitution. Pre-Partition India had debated whether 'liberty' understood as 'one man, one vote' or 'equality' the equal political representation of minorities within a federal structure should be the basis of a state. Congress chose 'liberty', but contemporary India is reaching the point where it has neither: its democracy is compromised and majoritarianism prevails. By dividing the subcontinent and elevating the 'cow belt', Partition seriously impeded social and economic progress in the newly created states, and brought communalism and casteism to the fore.
Javed Gaya investigates the origins and consequences of India's increasingly majoritarian system, assessing the frailty of constitutional safeguards, the role of the judiciary and the subversion of federalism. He analyses the futility of today's quest for cultural purity, and shows how history is being rewritten with an exclusionary intent. He both interrogates the myths created to sustain this nativist ideology including around the causes of Partition and the alleged privileging of minorities and discusses the role of citizenship and the externalisation of the Hindu-Muslim conflict.
]]>Over the centuries, millions of migrant labourers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, to shape what is now the world's largest diaspora. This book recovers the histories and legacies of those 'coolie' migrants, and presents a new paradigm for the diplomatic history of independent India, going beyond high politics to explore how indenture, emigration and international relations became entangled.
Before and after independence, Indian notions of the international realm as a sanctified space were shaped by migrant journeys; this was a space of anxiety in which to negotiate the 'coolie stain' on the country's reputation. Discourse was defined by intersections of caste, class, race and gender and framed the migrant worker as the quintessential 'other' of Indian diplomacy.
Drawing on rich, multi-archival analysis spanning the vast geographies of labour migration, Kalathmika Natarajan pieces together the stories of quarantine camps en route to Ceylon; cultural and educational missions in the Caribbean; discretionary passport policies in India; and the mediation of immigrant life in Britain. The result is a nuanced history from the interwar period to the decades after independence, and a critical analysis centring both caste and the negotiation of 'undesirable' mobility as foundational to Indian diplomacy.
]]>Christopher Weedman, Assistant Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University.
]]>Based on theories developed in the fields of animated documentary, Holocaust studies, cinema studies, trauma studies, and memory studies, this volume discusses the ways in which animated Holocaust documentaries create a new layer of Holocaust microhistory, their advantages, and their disadvantages. It shows how these movies visualise subject matter that previously eluded live-action documentaries such as the unfilmed past and people's inner worlds.
The book shows that Holocaust animated documentaries also have specific shortcomings and have generated a new set of problems relating to Holocaust memory and representation. For example, the vast majority marginalize the horrors and instead focus on bravery, resilience, and hope.
]]>Aesthetic experience is characterised by emotion, and this study shows how the textual production of specifically forward feelings such as anticipation, aspiration, fear or dread may be mobilised and made sense of, shaping our sense of the future and its objects of hope. The argument is demonstrated by case studies arranged from 'light' to 'dark' in tone - as varied as Eurovision and Succession, The Repair Shop and The Leftovers showing how these provide potentially significant, affecting encounters that are 'hopeful' in varying degrees and guises. Hope is adopted both as a theme of analysis and as a critical strategy of interpretation which privileges entertainment efficacy, and thus moves towards a more viewer-centric appreciation of cultural value.
]]>Jewish studies is a dynamic, interdisciplinary field that draws on the methods of the modern academy historical research, anthropology, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, feminism, and the study of the arts and culture, among others to illuminate the past and present of Jewish life, thought, and expression. This book provides an entry point to Jewish studies for readers who want to learn about the questions it raises and the insights it generates. Although no single volume can capture the full breadth of the field, this Princeton Companion encompasses some of the most important subfields of Jewish studies, presenting new historical research and introductions to the many other disciplines that can be brought to bear on Jewish history and experience.
The editors, all distinguished scholars of Jewish studies, have gathered contributions from a range of prominent and up-and-coming figures in the field. These contributors offer original perspectives that reflect new findings and novel contexts. Part I, 'Rethinking the Past', aims to give an overview of recent research trends in the study of Jewish history, covering the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and modern times. Part II, 'Ideas and Expression', surveys new research in the study of Jewish language, religion, philosophy, literature, art, music, and other humanities-centered approaches to Jewish life. Part III, 'Interactions and Identity', brings the social sciences and anthropology into the picture, along with Israel studies and Mizrahi studies, to introduce the ways scholars today are seeking to shed light on how Jews identify themselves, interact with others, organise themselves, and behave politically and economically.
]]>Eve Krakowski is associate professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt (Princeton).
Steven Weitzman is the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton), a National Jewish Book Award Winner, and Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom.
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