For Aboriginal people, the past is the present. Competing histories form and transform the lands, peoples and nations of Oceania, from the Pacific Islands, New Guinea and Aotearoa/New Zealand to Australia. In nations impacted by colonialism, such questions are particularly pertinent. First Nations peoples have long made history, living on their Country far longer than the colonial invaders.
In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins, leading historians and thinkers explore Indigenous histories of caring for places and people over millennia. With contributions from Brenda L. Croft, Anna Clark, Lynette Russell and many more, Deep History considers how stories of the past and the future are inscribed on land, waterways and skies. Walking on Country, gardening and agriculture and rock art are historical practices that continue to play an important role in asserting sovereign rights.
While colonial powers crafted historical narratives of entitlement, First Nations people continue to perform deep histories of sovereignty. Deep History offers readers an invitation to walk the Country, to see how it reveals the most crucial of all histories for the planet.
'Deep History is a rousing insurrection against the continuing colonial policing of history in Australasia and the Pacific. Indigenous Australian and Pasifika scholars lead in the reframing of our historical narratives, recognising, alongside white scholars, the urgency of truth telling for respectful acknowledgement of First Nations' sovereignty. This postcolonial reframing of the space and tempo of past legacies and contemporary trajectories offers us new and deeper histories for better futures.' Warwick Anderson, author of The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
'Deep History attempts the timely, dicult, and often discomforting task of blasting open the allied academic disciplines of History and Archaeology to Indigenous ways of representing the past and their sovereign sense of Deep Time. Going beyond the peaceful co-existence models of what was once called "bi-cultural history" in Aotearoa New Zealand and drawing on experiences of settler-colonial rule in the wider world of Oceania, the essays here experiment with a variety of creative strategies to take this challenging conversation forward. The result is an exciting and courageous volume that will speak to all students of decolonisation of knowledge.' Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
'This wonderful collection of essays displaying the challenges and achievements of Deep History, draws our attention to history's power, for good and ill, and its importance to the sovereignty of a people. From a rich and thought-provoking introduction to the series of exciting, informative, and well-written essays that follow we learn much about the very dierent forms deep history can take a long walk, rock art, stories and practices that nourish Country, scientic studies of changes in land and sea, works of historical ction, and even the conventional historical archive. I came away with a heightened appreciation of the dierent ways that Indigenous and non-Indigenous histories can and sometimes do communicate with one another, and the vital importance of doing so.' Ann Curthoys, co-author of Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 18301890
'Deep History: Country and Sovereignty has the capacity to open so many new eyes to the profound timelessness of Indigenous history and how it is embedded everywhere in the land, seas and skies that surround us. It adds new understanding to the connection between the "everywhen" and human and spiritual experience. It is a gift to the children and grandchildren of settler societies.' Paul Daley, author of Jesustown and Guardian writer
'A powerful collection of connections to history, Country and culture oering new insights every Australian should read.' Terri Janke, author of True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture
'If you have ever wondered what it actually means when we say "sovereignty was never ceded", this expansive volume holds a wealth of answers. Sovereignties of time, place, law, language, knowledge, memory, history, identity, logic, governance and art are explored by some of contemporary scholarship's most critical and creative thinkers. Challenging, compelling, provocative and practical, Deep History is a book for head and heart alike. Here is vital and vibrant reading for our truth-telling and truth-listening age.' Clare Wright, Professor of History, La Trobe University and author of Nku Dhruk The Yirrkala Bark Petitions
'This landmark work is essential and fiercely relevant.' Eman Mourad, Books+Publishing
'Deep History is a work of high-level academic reflection and vibrant digression, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.' Joe Murray, Readings
]]>Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara Elder of the Carnarvon Gorge area of Central Queensland, and the recipient of knowledge passed on by her last surviving cultural knowledge holder Uncle Frederick Conway from Rockhampton. She has worked in Aboriginal affairs for over four decades in community, government and non-government in areas of reconciliation, social justice and women's issues. An historian and author she is currently Professor, Director of Indigenous Research, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston campus. She is author of Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (2022).
]]>Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is the drive to create an innate human instinct or a form of compulsion? Is the provocateur more lauded than the realist? Why do artists do what they do, day after day, in a display of discipline and will?
The twelve essays in this collection offer glimpses into the lives of some of Australia's best contemporary artists, exploring the impetus for creativity and the role of art in making meaning. Tied together by an enduring curiosity for how artists practice what motivates them, what confounds them and what compels them to keep creating these pieces span the islands of Carpentaria to suburban Perth, the streets of Malaysia to the deserts of the Northern Territory. What emerges is art as an act of wilful vision of alternative ways of seeing that illuminate the otherwise invisible.
]]>The extraordinary women featured in this book defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in distant parts of the world where 'ladies' were not meant to travel. Here you will meet Barbara Freire-Marreco living among Pueblo people in south-western USA; Maria Czaplicka with reindeer herders of Siberia; Beatrice Blackwood in remote villages of Papua New Guinea; Elsie McDougall among textile artists in Mexico and Guatemala; and Ursula Graham Bower in the Naga Hills of north-east India. Bower was even made an honorary Captain in the British Army leading an irregular force of Naga men in scouting operations against the Japanese during the Second World War.
These pioneering anthropologists learned local languages, established relationships across supposed cultural boundaries, insisted on the dignity of humanity in all cultural settings and documented with remarkable meticulousness the lives of the peoples with whom they lived and worked. One woman, the Mori scholar Mkereti, wrote about her own people, but spent the final years of her life far from home in Oxfordshire. Each of these women collected objects and left archives of photographs, manuscripts, diaries and letters, which tell the inspirational stories of their encounters and adventures.
]]>Alongside this background story of technological evolution, Type Designers of the Twentieth Century describes the achievements (and occasional failures) of thirty-seven key type designers to explore the evolution of the designer, the rise of the advertising agency and the changing function of the printer. The working methods of each designer, the typefaces they designed and their lasting influence are described in detail. Here you will find Frederic Goudy and Edward Johnston, Stanley Morison and Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger, renowned contemporary designers such as Neville Brody and Carol Twombly, and many more.
Taken together, the work and working lives of these extraordinary designers chart the radical changes that have taken place in typography during the twentieth century.
]]>Manuscripts from the British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Getty Museum have been selected, and projects are illustrated with step-by-step photographs and beautiful images of the finished works.
A substantial Part II provides vital guidance on specialist tools and materials, as well as practical techniques, such as cutting quills, mixing inks and paints, and preparing pigments and shell gold.
]]>A lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditions Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship on ancient archaeology, art, literature, and funerary inscriptions, Robert Garland invites readers to put themselves in the sandals of ancient peoples and to imagine their mental state moment by moment as they sought in ways that turn out to be remarkably similar to ours to assist the dead on their journey to the next world and to understand life's greatest mystery.
What to Expect When You're Dead chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What's the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement and where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife and can they eat, drink, and have sex? And what can the living do to stay on good terms with the nonliving?
Filled with intriguing stories and frequent humour, What to Expect When You're Dead will be a morbidly delicious treat for every reader alive.
]]>An entertaining and sometimes lurid collection, this book is perfect for all those fascinated by the stranger aspects of the classical world, history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in classical history, society and culture.
]]>Half the Perfect World tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra. Most famously, it included renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his partner Marianne Ihlen, as well as many other artists and writers including the Australian literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, who fostered this fabled colony.
Drawing on many previously unseen letters, manuscripts and diaries, and richly illustrated by the eyewitness photographs of LIFE magazine photo-journalist James Burke, Half the Perfect World reveals the private lives and relationships of the Hydra expatriates. It charts the promise of a creative life that drew many of them to the island, and documents the fracturing of the community as it came under pressure from personal ambitions and wider social changes. For all the unrealised youthful ambitions, internal strife and personal tragedy that attends this story, the authors nonetheless find that the example of these writers, dreamers and drifters continues to resonate and inspire.
]]>Tanya Dalziell works in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2004), and co-editor (with Karen Welberry) of Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave (2009).
]]>Bodypedia is a lively, fact-filled romp through your body, from A to Z. Featuring almost 100 stories on topics ranging from the beastly origins of goosebumps to the definitive answer to the Motown classic 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted', these fascinating tales from your entrails explore the wonders of anatomy, one body part at a time.
With a keen scalpel, Adam Taor peels away the layers to bring your underappreciated insides to light. What distinguishes crocodile tears from yours? What possessed Isaac Newton to stick a needle into his eye socket? How does brain glue thwart self-improvement gurus? Why did one of the world's most influential surgeons steal a giant? Providing insights into these and other curiosities, Taor illuminates the ingenuity, mystery, and eccentric history of your anatomy like never before. Along the way, you will meet the geniuses, mavericks, and monsters (sometimes all the above) who got their hands bloody discovering, dissecting, and naming your parts.
With beautiful drawings by Nathalie Garcia, Bodypedia celebrates what makes you tick, and reveals why the best stories are hidden inside you.
]]>Nathalie Garcia is creative director of emotivate.
]]>Beepedia is a one-of-a-kind celebration of bees, from A to Z. Featuring dozens of alphabetical entries on topics ranging from pollination and beekeeping to the peculiar lifestyles of cuckoo bees and carrion-eating vulture bees, this enticing, pocket-sized compendium takes you on an unforgettable journey into the remarkable world of bees.
Explore the many wonders of bee morphology, behaviour, and ecology, and learn about the role of bees in agriculture, art, literature, and religion. With more than 20,000 described species, bees can be found anywhere on the planet where flowering plants are pollinated by insects. With Laurence Packer as your guide, you will meet some of the most inquisitive and prolific bee experts who ever lived and marvel at the astonishing variety of wild bees and the creative methods scientists use to study them. Discover why bees have intrigued us for millennia, why Napoleon Bonaparte chose the bee as his emblem when he became emperor, where the expression 'the bee's knees' comes from, and much more.
With captivating drawings by Ann Sanderson, Beepedia is an informative and entertaining blend of fact, folklore, and fancy that will captivate anyone who has ever been curious about these amazing insects.
]]>Yet, in February 2024, a detailed review of higher education in this country concluded that the system is broken and urgently needs fixing. The problems that afflict it are legion, including over-investment in international enrolment, an epidemic of casualisation and the burning out of a generation of academics, culture wars over the content and orientation of university research and teaching, the lack of sectoral coordination around the national interest, and the consequences of decades of funding cuts.
In Broken, Graeme Turner provides a reality check for those who imagine the academic life is one of privilege and leisure, laying bare the enormous challenges and lack of hope experienced by many in academia. He unearths the foundations of this crisis, then explains how the solution lies in an overhaul of the one-size-fits-all approach to university funding, the establishment of genuine full-time career paths, and the formation of an independent body to ensure our university system serves the national interest in both teaching and research, rather than the ferocious competitiveness of the marketplace.
Above all, we need to jettison the current economic focus on education, and re-embrace the idea that higher learning is a fundamental public good and should be funded as such.
]]>Australians love to talk about a 'fair go'. Yet inequality has been part of this sunburnt country since colonisation.
From Australia's treatment of its First Nations peoples to its refugees, from the prejudice suffered by the LGBTIQA+ community to the lack of support for returned soldiers, our country has not always treated its citizens with compassion and care. We have undervalued the land, causing damage to soil and waterways. What can this unenviable history teach us?
With a dazzling line-up of contributors including acclaimed thinkers Sheila Fitzpatrick, Joy Damousi, Jennifer Nadel, Uncle Russell Mullett, Leigh Boucher, Katie Wright and Justin Zobel, this collection asks: how can we make a fairer and more inclusive Australia?
]]>Christina Twomey is a professor of history at Monash University and chief research officer for the Australian Research Council. A prize-winning historian, Christina's research focuses on the social and cultural history of war. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia (2018).
]]>Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly prescriptive dietary advice, and developed detailed systems to categorise foods and their health effects. How to Eat is a delectable anthology of Greco-Roman writings on how to eat, exercise, sleep, bathe, and manage your sex life for optimal health. It also gathers ancient opinions on specific foods of all sorts, from how to deploy onions to cure baldness and cabbage to get sober to whether lentils are healthy and why arugula increases your sex drive.
With lively new translations by Claire Bubb, and the original Greek and Latin texts on facing pages, How to Eat features voices from medicine, philosophy, natural history, agriculture, and cooking, including Hippocrates, Pliny the Elder, Galen, Seneca, Plutarch, and Cato.
While medicine and science have obviously changed enormously since the classical world, and some Greco-Roman beliefs about diet now appear hilariously off the mark, How to Eat reveals that much of their advice still resonates and all of it is fascinating.
]]>From self-realisation and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the self is an illusion and that our belief in it is the cause of most, if not all, of our suffering. How to Lose Yourself presents lively, accessible, and expert new translations of ancient Buddhist writings about the central, unique, and powerful Buddhist teaching of 'no-self'.
Drawn from three important Buddhist traditions, these essential Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese writings provide a rich sampling of the ways Buddhist philosophers have understood the idea that we are selfless persons and why this insight is so therapeutic. When we let go of the self, we are awakened to the presence of all things as they truly are, and we let go of the anxiety, fear, greed, and hatred that are the source of all suffering.
Complete with an introduction and headnotes to each selection, and the original texts on facing pages, How to Lose Yourself is a concise guide to a transformative idea.
The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind-readers, miracle-workers and jinn-summoners--all assured the masses that, just like the newly discovered invisible forces of electricity, radiation and magnetism, unseen spiritual powers commanded a realm of hidden human potential. This was a transnational movement of eccentrics, gurus and prophets, with East and West interacting in unexpected ways.
Drawing on untapped sources in Arabic as well as European records, Raphael Cormack follows two of the most unusual and charismatic figures of this age: Tahra Bey, who took 1920s Paris by storm as an 'Oriental' missionary; and Dr Dahesh, who harnessed Western science to create a pan-religious faith in Lebanon. Travelling between Cairo, New York and Jerusalem, Paris, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro, the two mystics reflected the desires and anxieties of a troubled age. These forgotten holy men, who embodied the allure of the unexplained at a time of dramatic change, speak to our own unstable world today.
'Raphael Cormack is a brilliant archival sleuth and a riveting storyteller.' Anna Della Subin, author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
'Rarely is cultural history presented with such mesmerizing legerdemain.' Nile Green, author of Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
]]>An ancient entertainer unable to work while pregnant; a medieval holy woman performing a 'miraculous termination'; a Reformation-era abortion provider prosecuted as a witch; a Victorian midwife saving her patients from the workhouse. Women have always sought to end pregnancies, and long succeeded. This book tells their stories.
From enslaved and Indigenous herbal knowledge on Europe's colonial plantations to Planned Parenthood's unlikely alliance with postwar churches, Mary Fissell reveals abortion's long politics, tracing how Western societies have policed the practice or chosen not to. For long periods in our past, abortion was widely tolerated by authorities and ordinary people, and far from straightforward in Christian morality: it was not a crime in Britain until 1803, nor a religious issue in America until the twentieth century.
Whether in France, Scotland, Germany or Italy, abortion controls have always sprung from wider panics around social change whether times of war, revolution and economic upheaval, or patriarchal anxiety about women's growing independence. As restrictions tighten once more, this vividly illuminating history reminds us that such repression never endures.
]]>Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the Eternal City over the past 100 years.
Scenes from a Roman Century begins with the 1924 murder of Giacomo Matteotti the beginning of the end for interwar democracy and ends with the organised crime and political violence of our own era. It sketches Rome's growth under Mussolini's dictatorship, and its fortunes during the Second World War; the economic miracle of the post-war decades; and Rome's latest transformations through the turn of the millennium.
Lane sends readers meandering down the alleys, out towards the suburbs and to stand before the monumental architecture, capturing cultural and political moments from Rome's past and present. He explores fascism's material legacy across the city, terrorism and political extremism on the right and left, and the struggle to manage economic growth's burdens ugly urban sprawl, and the crush of mass tourism in the historic centre. As pilgrims descend for the 2025 jubilee declared by Pope Francis, what is next for this ever-changing city of history?
]]>Lavishly illustrated, this book offers an engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell, appealing to food lovers and general readers, as well as professionals in the food industry.
'This illustrated history of the menu explores how they shed light on culinary trends and reflect evolving notions of what's healthy.' Publishers Weekly (Spring 2025 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Cooking & Food)
'Every page in this book is a work of art, stimulating the imagination as well as the appetite.' Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto
]]>Interviewing experts, developers and ordinary workers,The Algorithm offers fascinating and alarming truths. From software analysing interviewees' facial expressions and tone of voice, to video games assessing their performance, to 'personality profiles' built from candidates' social media, almost all major employers use AI in recruitment. Programmes track their staff's activity, group dynamics and physical health, identifying who is productive, a bully, worth long-term investment, or likely to quit. But can we trust them?
In a world of severe job insecurity, workplace algorithms are on the brink of dominating or even threatening us if we don't fight back.
]]>How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers this question by exploring seven centuries of pandemics, from the Black Death to Covid-19. For most of history, infectious diseases have killed many more people than famine or war, and in 2019 they still caused one death in four. Today, we deal with epidemics more successfully than our ancestors managed plague, smallpox, cholera or influenza. But we use many of the same approaches. Long before scientific medicine, human societies coordinated and innovated in response to biological shocks sometimes well, sometimes badly.
Ogilvie uses historical epidemics to analyse how human societies deal with 'externalities' situations where my action creates costs or benefits for others beyond those that I myself incur. Social institutions markets, states, communities, religions, guilds, and families help us manage the negative externalities of contagion and the positive externalities of social distancing, sanitation, and immunisation. Ogilvie shows how each institution enables us to coordinate, innovate and inspire each other to limit contagion. But each institution also has weaknesses that can make things worse. Markets shut down voluntarily during every epidemic in history but they also brought people together, spreading contagion. States mandated quarantines, sanitation, and immunisation but they also waged war and censored information, exacerbating epidemics. Religions admonished us to avoid infecting our neighbours but they also preached against science and medical innovations. What decided the outcome, Ogilvie argues, was a temperate state, an adaptable market, and a strong civil society where a diversity of institutions played to their own strengths and checked each other's flaws.
]]>JAPAN NOW! A Japanese Language Reader contains 17 fascinating stories and essays about contemporary Japanese society in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages. The stories are written by a number of experienced commentators on Japan, each with a distinctive style and point of view.
Vocabulary lists, notes, exercises and discussion questions make this a great course book for classroom use or self-study, and the wide range of fascinating topics make it equally appealing for general readers. The topics covered include:
Illustrated with 25 black-and-white photographs, and accompanied by free online audio recordings, this volume provides unique insights into life in 21st century Japan for students and anyone interested in Japanese culture!
]]>Anna Sato is co-author and illustrator of Japanese Folktales for Language Learners. She is also co-author and illustrator of My First Japanese Kanji Book, translator of 100 First Words for Toddlers, and illustrator of Reading & Writing Japanese.
]]>Japanese yokai come in every imaginable shape, colour and size. These supernatural creatures all possess unique powers and characteristics and are popular in manga, anime and video games. The 160 colourful stickers in this book feature 32 different types of Yokai, with 5 to 10 different images for each type. These decorative stickers can be peeled off and pasted onto notebooks, journals and posters anywhere you like!
The popular yokai in this book include:
This fascinating book presents 28 traditional Arabic tales in parallel English and Arabic versions on facing pages with charming black & white illustrations. The stories include:
Each story is accompanied by a vocabulary list, cultural notes, and exercises to help beginning students. The stories increase in length and complexity as the book progresses and free online audio recordings of the Arabic and English versions are available online.
This book is not only an accessible language resource for self-study, but it's also a wonderful book for anyone who wants to learn about Arabic culture through charming folktales!
]]>The cards in this volume contain the 1,000 most commonly used words and expressions in Tagalog the national language of the Philippines. These cards are grouped thematically to enable easy memorisation and review. A sample sentence is provided in Tagalog and English on each card to illustrate how the main word is used, which is often a well-known Tagalog saying or idiom. Four additional words are also provided that are related to the main word.
On The Front Of Each Card:
On The Back of Each Card:
This kit includes:
All media content is accessible on the Tuttle Publishing website.
]]>C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion, and terms such as complex, archetype, individuation, and the collective unconscious. He stressed the primacy of finding meaning in our lives. The Quotable Jung is the single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled. It is the essential introduction for anyone new to Jung and the Jungian tradition. It will also inspire those familiar with Jung to view him in an entirely new way.
The Quotable Jung presents hundreds of the most representative selections from the vast array of Jung's books, essays, correspondence, lectures, seminars, and interviews, as well as the celebrated Red Book, in which Jung describes his own fearsome confrontation with the unconscious. Organised thematically, this collection covers such topics as the psyche, the symbolic life, dreams, the analytic process, good and evil, creativity, alchemical transformation, death and rebirth, the problem of the opposites, and more. The quotations are arranged so that the reader can follow the thread of Jung's thought on these topics while gaining an invaluable perspective on his writings as a whole.
Succinct and accessible, The Quotable Jung also features a preface by Judith Harris and a detailed chronology of Jung's life and work.
]]>'[A] magisterial history.' Michael Fitzpatrick, Daily Telegraph
'Simon Jarrett's elegant and provocative book brings into focus for the rst time the history of people with intellectual disabilities over three centuries.' David Turner, Professor of History, Swansea University, and author of Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
'We should be grateful to Simon Jarrett for telling this complex, compelling and frequently troubling story with such tremendous clarity and style. I can't recommend this wonderful book highly enough.' Stephen Unwin, writer, playwright and director
]]>In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft-overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There is a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from hardcore music; this book shows that women have been able to overcome those barriers, kick ass, and shred with the best of them. Biographies, interviews, band anecdotes, and never-before-published photos showcase the talent and artistry of bands like Bikini Kill, the Guttersluts, Bratmobile, Spitboy, the Germs, the Slits, and dozens more. With its intimate aesthetic analysis and raw, zine-like presentation, this is an essential resource for anyone looking to discover, rediscover, and cherish punk history.
Includes a foreword by Katy Otto of Trophy Wife and Exotic Fever Records.
]]>It traces the rhythmic journey of dance music, following the pulse as it bounced between Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Music, dance styles and nightclub spaces are not created in isolation; they are shaped by collective influences and shared experiences. This book uncovers the interconnected story of dance music, taking in hotspots such as New York, Detroit, London, Manchester, Chicago, Dusseldorf and Ibiza. Transatlantic Drift offers an engaging exploration of how people have come together to share melodies and rhythms, forming a global conversation through electronic music.
]]>Simon A. Morrison is a writer, academic and Programme Leader for Music Journalism at the University of Chester. He has published widely on global music culture, and his books include Danceoor-Driven Literature: The Rave Scene in Fiction (2020).
]]>'Unpacking science fiction alongside real exoplanet discoveries, Keith Cooper's Amazing Worlds is a captivating, cutting-edge view of worlds beyond our solar system that explores the intersection of fiction and fact. An essential read for anyone fascinated by the cosmos.' Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science, Physics and Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Smallest Lights in the Universe
]]>On December 14, 1825, a group of young Russian army officers led three thousand troops to Senate Square in St. Petersburg, aiming to force the senate to adopt a liberal constitution and transform the Russian Empire. The Decembrist Revolt - as it came to be known - was suppressed, with a second uprising in the south meeting the same fate. Five leaders were executed, and many others exiled to Siberia. Why did so many young noblemen risk their lives for regime change, what was their vision for an alternative society, and what were the consequences for participants and their families?
This book highlights the often-neglected liberal tradition in Russian political thought and the experiences of Decembrist wives and fiancees, offering a fresh reinterpretation in the light of recent events in Russia.
'This is a fresh, knowledgeable, readable and timely addition to the literature on the Decembrists. It is written from a modern perspective and informed by recent as well as older scholarship. Rabow-Edling has provided a welcome reappraisal of the Decembrist Revolt to mark the bicentenary of this key moment in Russian political and intellectual history.' Derek Offord, emeritus professor and senior research fellow, University of Bristol
'This is the most comprehensive English-language account of the Decembrist uprisings, their origins and their consequences to be published for many years. The fresh and nuanced analysis of the Decembrists' historical significances is brilliantly situated in both Russian and European contexts. The concluding section on the Decembrists' Siberian exile, and the extraordinary stoicism of their wives, is particularly graphic and poignant. The monograph is excellently researched and superbly written by an eminent Swedish historian of nineteenth-century Russia, and it will prove an indispensable addition to the literature.' Patrick O'Meara, emeritus professor of Russian, Durham University
]]>At times in our careers, we face conversations that bring out tense emotions. Our instinct may be to avoid them entirely, but engaging in challenging conversations can create opportunities to build stronger work relationships, teams, and organisations.
This book will help you learn how to communicate productively under stress, offer and accept critical feedback, and ensure teams walk away from challenging conversations feeling united.
This volume includes the work of:
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
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As the debate around remote versus in-office work rages on, leaders in a wide range of industries continue to implement radically flexible work practices, allowing most, if not all, of their employees to work from anywhere. Why? They understand that geographic flexibility offers a competitive advantage: the ability to attract and retain top talent globally.
In The World Is Your Office, Harvard Business School professor Prithwiraj Choudhury, who has been studying this phenomenon for over a decade, takes readers inside the trailblazing companies that are going all-in on work-from-anywhere (WFA) policies. From startups and nonprofits to government agencies and large corporations, Choudhury's research shows why and how these organizations and their employees are benefiting.
Drawing insights from this pioneering research, Choudhury also provides an extensive playbook for implementing successful WFA policies, offering leaders concrete strategies to:
Filled with actionable insights and extensive case studies, The World Is Your Office empowers leaders to embrace the future of work.
]]>Named one of 'Thirty books we're excited to read in the first half of 2025' by The Sydney Morning Herald
Named to the Financial Times 'What to Read in 2025' list
Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The Beatles of her generation. From her genre-busting rise in country music as a teenager to the economic juggernaut that is the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift has blazed a path that is uniquely hers.
But how exactly has she managed to scale her success multiple times while dominating an industry that cycles through artists and stars like fashion trends? How has she managed to make and remake herself time and again while remaining true to her artistic vision? And how has she managed to master the constant disruption in the music business that has made it so hard for others to adapt and endure?
In There's Nothing Like This, Kevin Evers, a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, answers these questions in riveting detail. With the same thoughtful analysis usually devoted to iconic founders, game-changing innovators, and pioneering brands, Evers chronicles the business and creative decisions that have defined each phase of Swift's career.
Mixing business and art, analysis and narrative, and pulling from research in innovation, creativity, psychology, and strategy, There's Nothing Like This presents Swift as the modern and multidimensional superstar that she is a songwriting savant and a strategic genius.
Swift's fans will see their icon from a fresh perspective. Others will gain more than a measure of admiration for her ability to stay at the top of her game. And everyone will come away understanding why, even after two decades, Swift keeps winning.
]]>This collection of quotes, curated from Swift's numerous public statements interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more has been updated to include Swift's thoughts on all her latest record-breaking achievements: new music, new ventures, and an iconic tour. It's a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly vocalized perspective on the music world and beyond.
Swift's catchy, chart-topping songs have propelled her to become one of the bestselling musicians of all time. In the nearly two decades she's been making music, she has amassed enough power to buck the norms of an industry notorious for controlling the images of its often very young female artists. Through an unprecedented record deal she has championed the rights of artists to earn fair royalties, and through social media she has inspired tens of thousands of fans to register to vote. She has also earned the status of feminist icon due to her vocal stance against gender inequality in the music industry and her empowerment of young women through her music and public actions.
Since the release of the first edition of Taylor Swift: In Her Own Words in 2019, Swift's achievements have continued to soar. She has released four more critically acclaimed albums that broke streaming records and won multiple Grammy Awards. In 2023, she embarked on the historic Eras Tour, which shattered records for the highest-grossing tour in history and culminated in a movie that became the highest-grossing concert film of all time.
Swift's activism and business acumen have earned her spots on both Forbes's Most Powerful Women and Time's 100 Most Influential People lists. Now, for the first time, you can find her latest, most inspirational, thought-provoking quotes in one place.
]]>This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Swift's numerous public statements interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more, specifically geared toward middle and high school readers. It's a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her increasingly outspoken perspective on the music world and beyond. This edition includes educational materials and resources for lesson plans designed to provoke discussion and thought for readers in grades 712 about Taylor Swift's ideas.
Swift's catchy, chart-topping songs have propelled her to become one of the bestselling musicians of all time. But in the nearly 20 years she's been making music, she has also amassed enough power to buck the norms of an industry notorious for controlling the images of its often very young female artists.
Her latest, unprecedented record deal gives her ownership of all her master records, the ability to dictate the terms of her albums' streaming releases in order to maximise her profits, and a requirement that her label share proceeds from the sale of its stake in Spotify with its musicians. She has championed the rights of artists to earn fair royalties, and more recently, she has inspired tens of thousands of fans to register to vote.
Swift's achievements have earned her spots on both Forbes's Most Powerful Women and Time's 100 Most Influential People lists. Now, for the first time, young readers find her most inspirational, thought-provoking quotes in one place.
]]>The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today's economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today's digital economy? Coyle makes the case for a new framework, one that takes into consideration current economic realities.
Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. They are essential for guiding better economic policies; they involve questions of freedom, justice, life, and death. Governments use statistics that affect people's lives in ways large and small. The metrics for economic growth were developed when a lack of physical rather than natural capital was the binding constraint on growth, intangible value was less important, and the pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply. Today's challenges are different. Growth in living standards in rich economies has slowed, despite remarkable innovation, particularly in digital technologies. As a result, politics is contentious and democracy strained.
Coyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail. Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.
]]>The Athenian Mercury a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prizefinalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" is a remarkable collection of questions and answers drawn from this groundbreaking publication.
In these exchanges, anonymous readers look for help with their most intimate romantic problems about courting, picking a spouse, getting married, securing or avoiding parental consent, engaging in premarital sex and extramarital affairs, and much more. Spouses ask how to handle contentious marriages and tense relationships with in-laws. Some correspondents seek ways to ease a conscience troubled by romantic and sexual misbehaviour. The lonely wonder how to meet a potential partner or how to spark a warmer relationship with someone they already have an eye on. And both men and women inquire about how to extract themselves from relationships turned sour. Many of these concerns will be familiar to readers of today's advice columns. But others are delightfully strange and surprising, reflecting forgotten social and romantic customs and using charmingly unfamiliar language in which, for example, 'kissing is a luscious diet', a marriage might provide 'much love and moderate conveniency', and an 'amorous disposition' can lead to trouble.
Delightful and entertaining, "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" provides a unique, intriguing, and revealing picture of what has and hasn't changed over the past three centuries when it comes to love, sex, and relationships.
]]>Matthew Yeomans takes us on journeys along the official walking trail, which in its entirety covers 870 miles (1400 km) of the Welsh coastline. He uncovers how the sea has shaped our lives through history; how Wales's rich mythology, literature and culture has been influenced by this fluid force, and the growing role that the sea plays in our lives.
Along the way, Seascape challenges us to face the realities of climate change and how we will need to adapt where and how we live. Only by recovering a healthy relationship with the sea can we meet our future challenges and unlock opportunities for better ways of living.
]]>We all know what a mummy is or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the Ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and French museums.
Taking the reader on a journey between Egypt, Paris and London, Stienne exposes a murky world of grave-robbing, theft and callously treated human remains. Mummies have been unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and even eaten for their supposed health-giving properties. But does the fact they are thousands of years old mean they can be treated as objects, or do we owe them the same respect we would any other human body?
Investigating matters of life and death and the ethics of collection and display, Mummified offers a fresh perspective on these ancient bodies, which have fascinated Europeans for centuries.
]]>Dr E. Jeanne Harris explores the ways in which the colonial population of New South Wales was heavily influenced by 'Victorian values', which encouraged good health practices through a clean lifestyle. Eight residential sites were chosen for examination based on the following four criteria:
Synthesising these findings, Cleanliness is Next to Godliness analyses the evidence for social reforms that promoted both public health initiatives and personal health practices, providing insight into the everyday lives of those who lived in Parramatta in the 19th century.
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness is the first scholarly work that presents the archaeology of Victorian social conventions as evidence of something more than respectability manifested as socio-economic status, manners and etiquette.
]]>In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its centre. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history.
In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Stael and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights.
'Wonderfully rich and nuanced. Sluga explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which novel practices of diplomacy and peacemaking in the period after Napoleon were socially and transnationally embedded, and shows how the gendered boundaries of modern international politics were affecting whose voices and views were heard.' Andrew Hurrell, author of On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society
'An insightful account of how the modern international order was invented at the end of the Napoleonic wars.' Naoko Shimazu, author of Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War
'Highly elegant and concise. Sluga brings to life not only the statesmen, monarchs, and diplomats who shaped the post-Napoleonic world, but also the bankers who facilitated this new order and the women who used their networks, wealth, reputations, and standing as salonnieres and ambassadrices.' Beatrice de Graaf, author of Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815
]]>These colourful origami papers were developed to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters, and are suitable for all different kinds of folding, crafting and scrapbooking projects. The package includes folding sheets as well as a booklet with instructions so that folders can start right away.
This origami paper pack includes:
The 12 unique artworks in this paper pack were created by artists with Autism Spectrum Disorder who receive care from the Christian Outreach to the Handicapped (COH). A portion of the proceeds from each pack are donated to this organisation and contributes the continued care for these artists. Each of the papers are printed with coordinating colours on the reverse to provide aesthetically pleasing combinations in origami models that show both the front and back of the papers.
This origami paper pack includes:
Celebrating 45 years of service in Singapore, COH operates activity centres providing a diverse array of programs customised to the distinct needs and interests of each beneficiary. Their goal is to help individuals with disabilities live fulfilling lives by providing them with a supportive environment where they can thrive and achieve their goals. 10% of the net revenue from this pack will be donated to the Christian Outreach to the Handicapped where these Artists receive care.
]]>Discover the fascinating story behind Rolex, the world's most iconic luxury watch brand. In The making of a status symbol, acclaimed business historian Pierre-Yves Donze offers a captivating and deeply researched exploration of how a small Swiss watch company transformed itself into a global emblem of success, wealth and prestige.
Challenging the myth that Rolex's dominance is solely due to superior craftsmanship, Donze reveals the brand's strategic partnership with an American advertising agency and its genius for storytelling, which allowed it to turn a simple timepiece into a powerful status symbol. Spanning the twentieth century, this book provides a compelling case study of how creative industries have shaped consumer culture and the global luxury market.
This book is a must-read for anyone fascinated by fashion and luxury, the evolution of consumer culture or the power of branding. Whether you're a scholar, student or general reader intrigued by the enduring allure of Rolex, The making of a status symbol offers an engaging and insightful journey through the history of a brand that has become synonymous with excellence and success.
]]>Everything necessary to begin this fascinating practice is included: a cloth for rune casting, a full set of twenty-five wooden runes, and a guidebook. All you need do to receive the most accurate readings it to simply ask a question, throw the wooden runes into the circle printed on the cloth, and then refer to the guidebook to interpret their meanings. In-depth definitions of each of the twenty-five wooden runes included in this kit - including the blank 'Odin's Rune' -help develop mastery, as well as suggestions for techniques that include casting up to nine runes at a time to answer complex questions.
]]>In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Perrone, a near destitute labourer with little formal education. Despite their stark differences, Levi and Perrone's friendship survived the Holocaust and continued until Perrone's tragic death. As Perrone withdrew from the world, Levi tried persistently to preserve the memory of this man of few words who had saved his life, but who left few traces of his own behind.
This is a universal story about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to man
'Greppi's biography of this elusive figure is intriguing...Greppi suggests that Perrone's untutored altruism answers the deepest question of Levi's oeuvre: what it means to be human. Because Perrone's solidarity had neither motive nor reason. It was simply instinctive. And there's something beautifully poetic in the fact that such instinct was revealed through a man who was so simple and so troubled.' The Observer
'Greppi's biography, from start to finish a marvel of sympathetic insight, is a valuable addition to Levi's writings on the human infamy that was Auschwitz.' Times Literary Supplement
'This is a great book: scrupulously researched and superbly written.' Ian Thomson
'A thoroughly moving read. Out of utter degradation, this inspiring story emerges to remind us that the spark of human decency can never be crushed.' Julia Boyd
'A story for all stories: Greppi has rescued it from oblivion...Inch by inch, Lorenzo Perrone has taken a little bit of evil out of the world' Rolling Stone
'Sheds light on an unsung hero...a fluent retelling' The Jewish Chronicle
'Levi's greatest piece of luck in Auschwitz was meeting Lorenzo, who kept him alive when he was hanging on to life by a thread.' Literary Review
]]>Howard Curtis is a translator from Italian and French. His accolades include the Premio Campiello Europa, as well as numerous shortlistings for the John Florio Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
]]>In this path-breaking book, eminent political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. He analyses the various Arab responses to the Holocaust, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the occupation of Palestine, and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses.
Achcar offers a unique ideological mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing and international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of ArabWestern understanding.
'A magisterial study of breath-taking empathy, examining one of the most painful and emotion-laden topics in the modern world with dispassion, sensitivity and high erudition' Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
'An erudite, perceptive, and highly original study' Avi Shlaim
'A volume of tremendous historical importance' Robert Fisk, Independent on Sunday
'A fascinating, subtle and original analysis of Israeli and Arab historical narratives' Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine
'This exhaustive survey of Arabic sources is particularly important in correcting the many distortions circulated by polemicists seeking to paint Arabs and Muslims as anti-Semites.' Eugene Rogan, Times Literary Supplement
'A refreshing and original study, showing clearly that Muslim anti-Semitism is neither universal, nor inevitable, nor subject to pat explanations.' The Economist
]]>This is Gaza a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught, its heritage destroyed.
Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza's cultural landscape and the breadth of its history.
Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as statistics. It stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction and as a testament to the people of Gaza.
'An extraordinary, vital, urgent book.' The Guardian
'This is a book that carries the promise of a new day, or a dawning a book that looks forward, but does so also by looking back over 4,000 years of history. [Daybreak in Gaza] is a collection of brave, resilient, heartbreaking, defiant, scared stories. ... If this extraordinary volume tells us anything, it is that Gaza and Palestine will endure, the monuments will be restored and one day Palestinians will again watch the day break in peace.' The Spectator
'Daybreak in Gaza is therefore an important attempt to preserve a culture under attack and will be an early contribution to a body of literature that will likely be studied for decades to come.' Middle East Eye
]]>Matthew Teller is a UK-based writer and broadcaster. He has written on the Middle East for the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Times, Financial Times and has produced documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service. Teller is the author of Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City, which was a 2022 Telegraph Book of the Year. www.matthewteller.com.
Juliette Touma is Director of Communications for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, covering Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Touma travels frequently to Gaza from UNRWA's headquarters in Amman, Jordan.
Jayyab Abusafia is a London-based journalist from Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza. He was formerly Sky News Arabia's senior reporter in London and a senior news presenter at Alghad TV.
]]>Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Israeli colonisation of Palestinian land. The Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 and Israel's subsequent devastation of Gaza have given renewed urgency to the discussion. After Zionism explores possible forms of a one-state solution and a future that honours and respects the rights of all who live in Palestine and Israel.
This timely new edition includes a new preface and essays by Omar Barghouti, Jonathan Cook, Joseph Dana, Jeremiah Haber, Jeff Halper, Ghada Karmi, Antony Loewenstein, Saree Makdisi, John Mearsheimer, Ilan Pappe, Sara Roy and Phil Weiss.
'Nothing will change until we are capable of imagining a radically different future. By bringing together many of the clearest and most ethical thinkers about the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, this book gives us the intellectual tools we need to do just that. Courageous and exciting.' Naomi Klein
'Thought-provoking ... an uncompromising book which boldly relinquishes nationalism in favour of human rights.' Ceasefire Magazine
'A stimulating and much needed critique of the present reality in the Holy Land.' Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs
]]>Ahmed Moors a Palestinian American writer and activist, and an elected Committee Person in the Democratic Party. He has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, the Guardian and Al Jazeera English and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
]]>The Queer Arab Glossary is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang. This bold guide captures the lexicon of the queer Arab community in all its differences, quirks and felicities. Featuring fascinating facts and anecdotes, it contains more than 300 terms in both English and Arabic, ranging from the humorous to the harrowing, serious to tongue-in-cheek, pejorative to endearing. Here, leading queer Arab artists, academics, activists and writers offer insightful essays situating this groundbreaking glossary in a modern social and political context.
With beautiful, witty illustrations, The Queer Arab Glossary is a powerful response to pervasive myths and stereotypes around sexuality and an invitation to take a journey into queerness throughout the Arab world.
Contributors include Saqer Almarri, Nisrine Chaer, Sophie Chamas, Rana Issa, Adam HajYahia, Suneela Mubayi, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Hamed Sinno and Abdellah Taa.
The Queer Arab Glossary was made possible with the generous support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture AFAC, Mophradat, Bashar Assaf and Mohammed Fakhro.
'The spicy guide to queer Arab slang ... The Queer Arab Glossary [is] a playfully illustrated compendium of words from the affectionate to the derogatory.' The Guardian
'A little masterpiece.' Owen Jones
'The Queer Arab Glossary brilliantly brings together Arab LGBTQ+ slang, drawing on words from the past and present to create the queer language of the Arab region.' L'Orient Le Jour
]]>From a military base in the Gulf to loving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from touring overseas as a drag queen to a concert in Cairo where the rainbow flag was raised to a crowd of thousands, this collection celebrates the true colours of a vibrant Arab queer experience.
Contributors:
Khalid Abdel-Hadi, Amna Ali, Madian Aljazeera, Mona Eltahawy, Raja Farah, Saleem Haddad, Zeyn Joukhadar, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Dima Mikhayel Matta, Hasan Namir, Danny Ramadan, Tania Safi, Omar Sakr, Anbara Salam, Hamed Sino and Ahmed Uma
]]>Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained worldwide renown for his black and white sketches. His stark geometric figures and landscapes are rich with Palestinian visual traditions and symbols, while his haunting figures depict a vivid perspective of the occupation. This first collection brings together one hundred of Sabaaneh's most striking works, including cartoons that portray the experience of Palestinian prisoners, drawn while Sabaaneh himself was detained in an Israeli prison.
The drawings do not flinch from revealing the reality that confronts Palestinians, from Israel's injustices in the West Bank to their military operations on Gaza.
'Palestine in Black and White is an intense communication of Palestinian life; bludgeoned, displaced, yet still resisting.' Middle East Monitor
'Narrates real stories of Palestinians' The Daily Star Lebanon
'The cartoons themselves cry out for a different future where both occupied and occupier can break out of their current patterns and frames, past walls and ribbons, into a freer life.' Qantara
'Each of Mohammad Sabaaneh's powerful drawings is like a gut punch that gets straight to the essence of the stark reality of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. This is how an artist resists.' Joe Sacco
]]>In this definitive account, John McHugo charts the history of Islam from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day. He describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi'i Safavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. In recent decades, this centuries-old divide has acquired a new toxicity resulting in violence across the Arab and Muslim world.
'An important corrective ... a clear-headed appraisal of the modern Middle East.' Times Literary Supplement
'Crucial and timely ... It is marvellous to have a single book that sets out [Islam's] history.' Asian Affairs
'In lucid and accessible prose, McHugo shows that there is nothing inevitable about the Sunni-Shi'i divide.' Madawi Al-Rasheed
]]>In The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the events. He retells their stories in their own vivacious style, giving us a vivid portrait of a society rent by internal conflicts, and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. He retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, and offers fascinating insights into some of the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.
'Well-researched and highly readable.' Guardian
'A useful and important analysis adding much to existing western histories ... worth recommending to George Bush.' London Review of Books
'Maalouf tells an inspiring story ... very readable ... warmly recommended.' Times Literary Supplement
'A wide readership should enjoy this vivid narrative of stirring events.' The Bookseller
'Very well done indeed ... Should be put in the hands of anyone who asks what lies behind the Middle East's present conflicts.' Middle East International
]]>Mahmoud Darwish was one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. During the tumultuous summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon, Darwish was in Ramallah.
He recorded his observations and feelings in writing included in A River Dies of Thirst, some of his last work. In this collection Darwish writes of love, loss, and the pain of exile in bittersweet poems and diary entries leavened with hope and joy.
'Lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate and elegant and never anything less than free.' Naomi Shihab Nye
'These translations sway delicately between mystery and clarity, giving a rendition of the master's voice.' The Guardian
'Rarely have the personal and the political been so plainly intertwined as in Darwish's poetry, and this book is no exception.' The Bloomsbury Review
'Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.' Elias Khoury
'There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish's poetry.' Anton Shammas
]]>The Shrinking Goddess brings together myths about the female form and traces the subsequent male efforts to 'tame' it. Mineke Schipper examines how women's bodies have been represented since records began the first Venus and vulva figures date to 40,000 BCE and around the world.
Drawing together the vast reservoir of myths, proverbs, art, science and scripture that shape how women are seen in the present day, Schipper reclaims the female body as a source of power.
Readers of Angela Davis, Mary Beard, Audre Lorde, Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer will want to read this book.
'Mineke Schipper provides a fascinating and wide-ranging compendium of fact and fiction through the ages.' J. M. Coetzee
'Fascinatingly researched, clearly written and wonderfully illustrated, The Shrinking Goddess takes back the story of the female body and sexuality from patriarchal mythmakers, fearmongerers, and misogynists, both ancient and modern. Doing so, Mineke Schipper opens the way for a dialogue among people of all genders and sexualities seeking to topple the usual hierarchies and find another way, another world.' Jane Caputi
'A cultural and anthropological study of misogyny via global artworks, texts, myths and proverbs. Only by seeing what has been done can we undo it.' New Statesman
]]>Her writing has been published in The Times, El Mundo and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Schipper was foreign secretary of Dutch PEN, chair of Index on Censorship Nederland and currently serves as Emeritus Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden, with visiting professorships in Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and China. She received a Royal Order of Knighthood for her contribution to social and cultural studies. She lives in the Netherlands.
]]>Inside of me, there is a river.
In fact, rivers.
Inside of me, the Euphrates and the Tigris and the Nile converge to meet the pebbles of Brighton Beach, where my mother taught me the pure pleasure of a 99p Flake.
Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons.
In this striking exploration of identity and place, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. Tracing the rich heritage of both the oak and the date palm, Iraqi marshes and Loch Ness monsters, Al-Dujaili marries Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral. She draws from a rich array of sources to consider in a new light the communal lush, wild and at times, dark places we share.
A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common, Babylon, Albion is an urgent reimaging of what it means to be native.
]]>For Washington, China is a strategic competitor: the only country with both the will to reshape the world order and, increasingly, the means to do so. For Europe, the People's Republic is a 'partner for cooperation, an economic competitor and a systemic rival'. For NATO, it is a 'decisive enabler' of Russia's war against Ukraine. Yet Beijing's image is far more positive in the Global South, of which the PRC considers itself a part.
Zhou Bo's essays unpack China's own view of its role today. The PRC is operating not only in a world becoming less Western, but more importantly a West becoming less Western; and the key to its outlook lies in Africa, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific as much as in Europe and the White House.
Are Moscow and Beijing really so closely aligned? Where are Sino-Indian relations headed? Is China a new Cold War foe for the West? Or will economic ties inevitably bring the two powers closer together?
]]>Three Begums revolves around the lives of three ordinary women Hamida, Merryl and Saliha who lived extraordinary, interwoven lives of fabulous joy, fierce pain, and untold trauma. Like many who came before them, they loved and dreamed. Although born in different times and places, they were united through their dedication to bettering the lives of all around them. Each fell victim to disease and premature death, without fulfilling their desires; but, like all desires, these continue beyond their lifetimes.
Flowing seamlessly between the biographical and autobiographical, Ziauddin Sardar captures the complexities of everyday living, human relationships and raw emotion, weaving lives and ambitions together. The great story of human societies unfolds through the eyes of an individual, with each chapter struggling to fulfil the aspirations of the last. Sardar shows how his own life was shaped by these women, and how their collective life undulated, sea-like, to the rhythms of Urdu poetry. This genre-defying book takes readers on a journey that is inimitably personal, yet reverberates universally.
Powerful and unforgettable, Three Begums is a profound reminder that, in a good life, the only thing that matters is virtue particularly the virtue of compassion, and working for something greater than oneself.
]]>The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women's ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.
]]>What is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putting readers in the middle of animal soundscapes that range from the steamy heat of the Amazon jungle to the icy terrain of the Arctic, Mathevon reveals the amazing variety of animal vocalisations. He describes how animals use sound to express emotion, to choose a mate, to trick others, to mark their territory, to call for help, and much more. What may seem like random chirps, squawks, and cries are actually signals that, like our human words, allow animals to carry on conversations with others.
Mathevon explains how the science of bioacoustics works to decipher the ways animals make and hear sounds, what information is encoded in these sound signals, and what this information is used for in daily life. Drawing on these findings as well as observations in the wild, Mathevon describes, among many other things, how animals communicate with their offspring, how they exchange information despite ambient noise, how sound travels underwater, how birds and mammals learn to vocalise, and even how animals express emotion though sound. Finally, Mathevon asks if these vocalisations, complex and expressive as they are, amount to language.
For readers who have wondered about the meaning behind a robin's song or cicadas' relentless 'tchik-tchik-tchik', this book offers a listening guide for the endlessly varied concert of nature.
]]>Like any creative endeavour, science can be a messy and chaotic affair. On the Art and Craft of Doing Science shares the creative process of an innovative and accomplished scientist, taking readers behind the scenes of some of his most pioneering investigations and explaining why the practice of science, far from being an orderly exercise in pure logic, is a form of creative expression like any other art.
Kenneth Catania begins by discussing how ideas set the stage for scientific breakthroughs and goes on to describe ways to approach experimental design. He sheds light on the importance of art in making discoveries and demonstrates how to find and tell a compelling story about a scientific result while accurately communicating its findings. What role does failure play in science? Is it possible to fail better? How do you define success? Catania provides insights to these and other questions, along the way sharing the lessons he's learned from diverse figures ranging from science philosopher Thomas Kuhn to novelist Stephen King.
Blending illuminating historical examples with insights from Catania's own groundbreaking research in biology and neuroscience, On the Art and Craft of Doing Science draws parallels with art and writing to reveal the creative side to the practice of good science.
]]>Humans often think of insects and other invertebrates as gross or creepy, but we couldn't survive without them. In this love letter to bugs, biologist, linguist, and bug enthusiast Karyn Light-Gibson introduces us to an array of our notable neighbors, from bees to bedbugs, caterpillars to butterflies, earwigs to isopods, ants to mantises, ladybugs to katydids, and so, so many more.
With informative glee and striking illustrations, she identifies the many bugs we encounter every day and delves into their place in science, history, art, literature, culture, cuisine, and even warfare.
For every human, there are 1.4 billion insects in the world, playing a vital part of our ecosystem. A small percentage of bugs can be dangerous or spread disease, but the vast majority are our allies as indicators of environmental health, pollinators of our food, and a key part of the food web we rely on.
Even the most wary readers will come away with a new perspective on the tiny creatures around them and a serious appreciation of just how important-and cool-bugs are.
]]>We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of ancient biomolecules pigments, proteins, and DNA that once functioned in living organisms tens of millions of years ago is opening a new window onto the evolution of life on Earth.
Paleobiologists are now uncovering these ancient remnants in the fossil record with increasing frequency, shedding vital new light on long-extinct creatures and the lost world they inhabited. Dale Greenwalt is your guide to these astonishing breakthroughs. He explains how ancient biomolecules hold the secrets to how mammoths dealt with the bitter cold, what colours dinosaurs exhibited in mating displays, how ancient viruses evolved to become more dangerous, and much more. Each chapter discusses different types of biomolecules and the insights they provide about the physiology, behaviour, and evolution of extinct organisms, many of which existed long before the age of dinosaurs.
A marvellous adventure of discovery, Remnants of Ancient Life offers an unparalleled look at an emerging science that is transforming our picture of the remote past. You will never think of fossils in the same way again.
]]>The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it come to be this way? Donald Canfield covers this vast history, emphasising its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of Earth. He guides readers through the various lines of scientific evidence, considers some of the wrong turns and dead ends along the way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who have made key discoveries in the field. Now with an incisive new preface by the author, Oxygen takes readers on an astonishing journey of discovery, telling the story of how our planet became oxygenated.
]]>In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of 'quantum resurrection.'
This reissue includes four new entries: 2012 (Discovery of the Higgs Boson), 2015 (Gravitational Waves), 2019 (First Image of a Black Hole), and 2023 (Milky Way Neutrino Map). It also features an expanded introduction and updates throughout the book.
]]>Many countries have an interesting tale to tell about their origins and evolution. But few are as exciting and adventurous as that of Mauritius 'Star and Key' of the Indian Ocean.
A tiny island of volcanos, dodos and lagoons, Mauritius remained untouched by humans until Arab sailors discovered it in the tenth century. Settled by the Portuguese, Dutch, French and then British, it was passed from one empire to another, each recognising its immense strategic importance, yet all struggling fully to control it.
From a highly prized colonial chess piece to an independent success story, Mauritius has always been a place with outsized influence. This cultural melting- pot is home to peoples of Indian, Chinese, African and European descent, shaping the country's vibrant literature, music, language and art as well as its ethnic tensions, which have always bubbled near the surface. Olivier Hein's sweeping history uncovers Mauritius's fascinating yet little-known past, exploring the age of pirates; the horrors of indentured labour; the 1810 Franco-British war; the transformations in economy, landscape and climate during the twenty-first century; and much more. From its geological origins to the present day, this is the story of an island nation quite unlike any other.
]]>This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the formation of the landscape millions of years ago to the twenty-first century, it brings to life the events and the people who have shaped Highland history, from saints, sinners and outlaws to monarchs, clan chiefs and warriors.
Highly readable and informative, it mines a wide range of sources including medieval manuscripts and sagas, poetry and popular culture. Picts, Romans, Irish missionaries, Vikings, Jacobites and the flood of emigrants who left to forge new lives abroad are just some of the important players in the drama. As he paints the bigger picture, Alistair Moffat also introduces many key aspects of Highland culture and explores the experience of ordinary Highlanders and Islanders over thousands of years.
'Richly informative and sparkling with detail' - Country Life
]]>The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and students of conflict. Warfare has been radically transformed throughout history, under the influence of technological change. But is there anything enduring that can be determined about it, taught in military schools and applied in practice?
Azar Gat offers a fresh look at the relationship between politics and war, examining the meanings of 'victory', offence and defence, and the significance and role of concepts like the 'principles of war' and military 'doctrine'. He analyses the successive military innovations of modernity, including the advent of nuclear weapons and the ongoing cyber and robotics revolutions of our own times. He also explains why guerrilla warfare and terrorism have grown increasingly important, and where they are heading.
With China and Russia posing a growing challenge to the global order today, Gat asks if war is truly in our nature or if it is, in fact, declining. This is a vital text for all students of war, whether in academia, in the military or among the public at large.
]]>France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financially or strategically. In the aftermath of losing the Second World War, notwithstanding de Gaulle's attempts to convince his people otherwise, the French knew the game was up. (The Resistance fighters were heroes; but heroes are lonely.) For France, after 1945, the Second World War blended into the early Cold War, which Paris jumped into the day before it began. It fought in Indochina, and lost again. The independence war dragged on in Algeria. Then France lost there, too painfully, with millions of its ordinary citizens expelled to a homeland that many of them hardly knew.
But Sub-Saharan Africa was still there. France produced a postcolonial antidote: 'Francafrique', France's sphere of influence (or 'backyard') over its former West and Central African colonies. France loved Africa. Some Frenchmen died for 'Francafrique'; others made millions from it.
The entire toxic edifice is now crumbling away. Young Africans are happy about this but not so many of their parents, who often live in France. In his inimitable style, Gerard Prunier recounts a tragic transcultural saga, with one leg in the past and one in the future: the end of 'Francafrique'.
]]>Africa's long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural innovation for the continent's states, societies, and economies. Yet the period preceding what became known as 'the Scramble for Africa' by European powers in the decades leading up to World War I has long been neglected in favour of a Western narrative of colonial rule. The African Revolution demonstrates that 'the Scramble' and the resulting imperial order were as much the culmination of African revolutionary dynamics as they were of European expansionism.
In this monumental work of history, Richard Reid paints a multifaceted portrait of a continent on the global stage. He describes how Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and political dynamics that were underpinned by forms of violence and volatility not unlike those emanating from Europe. Reid uses a stretch of road in what is now Tanzania one of the nineteenth century's most vibrant commercial highways as an entry point into this revolutionary epoch, weaving a broader story around characters and events on the road. He integrates the African experience with new insights into the deeper currents in European societies before and after conquest, and he shows how the Africans themselves created opportunities for European expansion.
Challenging the portrayal of Africa's transformative nineteenth century as a mere prelude to European colonialism, The African Revolution reveals how this turbulent yet hugely creative era for Africans intersected with global intrusions to shape the modern age.
]]>Ethnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, especially those who guide its course, understand themselves in the midst of enemies, allies, and friends. In The Conqueror's Gift, Michael Maas examines the ethnographic infrastructure of the Roman Empire and the transformation of Rome's ethnographic vision during Late Antiquity. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Maas shows how the Romans' ethnographic thought evolved as they attended to the business of ruling an empire on three continents.
Ethnography, the 'conqueror's gift', gave Romans structured ways of finding a place for foreigners in the imperial worldview and helped justify imperial action affecting them. In Late Antiquity, Christianity revolutionised the imperial ethnographic infrastructure by altering old concepts and introducing credal models of community. The Bible became a source for organising the Roman world. At the same time, many previously unseen collective identities emerged across Western Eurasia in reaction to the diminution of Roman power. These changes deeply affected the Empire's ethnographic infrastructure and vision of the world. Maas argues that a major consequence of these developments was the beginning of a sectarian age, as individuals and political communities came to identify themselves primarily in terms of religion as well as ethnicity. As they adjusted to changing ethnographic realities, Romans understood their place among the peoples of the world in new ways. Willingly or not, we continue to be recipients of the conqueror's gift today.
]]>Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. 'Does my breast look weird?'These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel Gore and her wife. As they descend into a world of doctors and tests, medications and insurance, sickness and treatments and hope and pain and more, they discover just how little they truly knew despite the awareness campaigns and hyper-visible pink ribbons about the reality of breast cancer. Over the four years following Deena's terminal diagnosis, Gore does what she always does, no matter how difficult or personal the subject: she writes about it.
With keen insights, empathy, and humor, Ariel Gore braids together the story of Deena's experience, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the $200 billion industry that capitalises on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments.Rehearsals for Dyinginvestigates and challenges everything we think we know about breast cancer. It goes beyond awareness to knowledge, presenting a rich, nuanced, heartbreaking, and hopeful portrait of what it is to be diagnosed with, treat, and live with breast cancer in the twenty-first century.
]]>The climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and despair. In this erudite and engaging book, Mara van der Lugt argues that this is a mistake: crude optimism can no longer be a virtue in a breaking world, and may well prove to be our besetting vice. In an age of climate change and ecological devastation, the virtue we need is hopeful pessimism.
Drawing on thinkers that range from J. R. R. Tolkien and Mary Shelley to Albert Camus and Jonathan Lear, van der Lugt invites us to rethink what we thought we knew about optimism and pessimism, hope and despair, activism and grief. She shows that pessimism is closely linked to a tradition of moral and political activism, and offers a different way to think about pessimism: not as synonymous with despair but as compatible with hope. Gently yet fiercely, van der Lugt argues that what we need to avoid is not pessimism but fatalism or self-serving resignation. Pessimism does not imply the loss of courage or the lack of a desire to strive for a better world; on the contrary, these are the very gifts that pessimism can bestow.
What Hopeful Pessimism asks instead is that we strive for change without certainties, without expecting anything from our efforts other than the knowledge that we have done what we are called upon to do as moral agents in a time of change.
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features 'Morning Glories and Cricket' (1843-47) from the series 'A Compendium of Flowers of the Four Seasons' by Utagawa Hiroshige (1787-1858).
Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent ukiyo-e artists. He is best known for his series of prints 'The 53 Stations of the Tokaido' (1832-1833). His influence was not limited to Japan. Hiroshige's work influenced Europe's Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Van Gogh, who copied two of his prints in oil paint. This cover print may be found in the book Ukiyo-E: The Art of the Japanese Print (Tuttle Publishing).
]]>Tuttle Studio draws inspiration from the modern and traditional cultures of Asia to create its language workbooks and resources, journals, stationery, gift wrapping products and origami paper. It is a division of Tuttle Publishing, a leading publisher of books on the languages, history, art and cultures of Asia. The company was founded in 1832 in Rutland, Vermont (USA) and opened a branch in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features two artworks from Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858): 'Sparrows and Camellia in Snow', 1831-1833 (front cover) and, 'Swallows, Peach Blossoms, and Moon', 1850-1860 (back cover).
Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent ukiyo-e artists. He is best known for his series of prints 'The 53 Stations of the Tokaido' (1832-1833). His influence was not limited to Japan. Hiroshige's work influenced Europe's Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, including Van Gogh, who copied two of his prints in oil paint. This cover print may be found in the book Ukiyo-E: The Art of the Japanese Print (Tuttle Publishing).
]]>Tuttle Studio draws inspiration from the modern and traditional cultures of Asia to create its language workbooks and resources, journals, stationery, gift wrapping products and origami paper. It is a division of Tuttle Publishing, a leading publisher of books on the languages, history, art and cultures of Asia. The company was founded in 1832 in Rutland, Vermont (USA) and opened a branch in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa', also known as 'The Great Wave' (1830-1832) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji'. This art has influenced Western artists and musicians like Claude Debussy, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.
Katsushika Hokusai's works are celebrated for their dynamic compositions, vibrant colours, and innovative use of perspective. His most famous series, 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji', includes the iconic 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', showcasing his mastery in capturing the power and beauty of nature. Hokusai's oeuvre spans a wide range of subjects, from serene landscapes and intricate nature studies to lively scenes of daily life and detailed portraits of kabuki actors. Blending traditional Japanese techniques with Western influences, Hokusai's art remains influential and admired worldwide.
]]>Tuttle Studio draws inspiration from the modern and traditional cultures of Asia to create its language workbooks and resources, journals, stationery, gift wrapping products and origami paper. It is a division of Tuttle Publishing, a leading publisher of books on the languages, history, art and cultures of Asia. The company was founded in 1832 in Rutland, Vermont (USA) and opened a branch in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
]]>Fashion design is a glamorous and imaginative endeavor that allows you to create wearable art. But the fashion industry involves much more than simply envisioning and crafting garments and accessories. Students of fashion know that working in the field also requires knowledge of textiles, fashion illustration, branding, merchandising, and how to create and present a portfolio. Fashion School in a Bookoffers these lessons and more author and fashion design instructor Zoe Hong teaches all the practical knowledge you need to get started in (or find new inspiration for) your career in fashion.
Fashion School in a Bookis a course designed to outline the workflow for creating a fashion collection. You'll learn:
Author Zoe Hong is a former fashion university instructor and popular teacher on YouTube with a practical approach to learning the business and artistry of fashion. Her teachings both inspire students creatively and prepare them for professional work in the field. Whether you're a fashion student, a hobbyist designer looking to learn about the fashion industry, or an aspiring designer or fashion illustrator,Fashion School in a Booklays out the path to New York, Paris, or Milan. Design your collection, present your portfolio, define and market your brand, and better understand the fashion workflow with Fashion School in a Book!
]]>Zoe's design career, from intern to creative director, highlighted with competition wins and tv appearances, has taught her industry best practices that she in turn teaches to her students. Zoe helps aspiring designers build their knowledge and cultivate their creativity to enter and thrive in the workforce as designers, makers, and entrepreneurs.
Sustainability has always been at the fore of Zoe's approach to design and business. 'Future Heirlooms', the motto of Zoe's first company, continues to reflect her dedication to balancing design, ethical fashion practices, and sustainability. Zoe continues to lead by example, teaching to prioritize environmental health alongside creativity and ethical responsibility.
]]>Author, designer, and instructor Zoe Hong's Fashion School in a Book outlines the workflow for creating a fashion collection. The text offers lessons on how to develop a cohesive (environmentally sustainable!) collection based on shapes, silhouettes, colors, patterns, and fabrics. As you make your way through the exercises in the book, this Fashion School in a Book Design Journal becomes a record of your collection in progress. By the end of the course, you'll have created a portfolio of your work in these pages.
Fashion School in a Book lays out the path to New York, Paris, or Milan and the Fashion School in a Book Design Journal is your ticket there!
]]>Zoe's design career, from intern to creative director, highlighted with competition wins and tv appearances, has taught her industry best practices that she in turn teaches to her students. Zoe helps aspiring designers build their knowledge and cultivate their creativity to enter and thrive in the workforce as designers, makers, and entrepreneurs.
Sustainability has always been at the fore of Zoe's approach to design and business. 'Future Heirlooms', the motto of Zoe's first company, continues to reflect her dedication to balancing design, ethical fashion practices, and sustainability. Zoe continues to lead by example, teaching to prioritise environmental health alongside creativity and ethical responsibility.
]]>Break down the common everyday mental blocks to moving your body, and turn your mind from an adversary into an ally in the quest to feel better in your body.
"I know I should move my body more, but...
Sound familiar? If not, it probably means you have another perfectly good excuse of your own. We all have our reasons for not getting the physical activity we know is good for us reasons which stubbornly defy the same old tired prescriptive advice about hours of weekly cardio or numbers of steps. Adding insult to injury, these same excuses contribute to you feeling bad or guilty when you fail to move as much as you know you 'should'.
That's why Diana Hill and Katy Bowman have put together this simple guide to changing the way you think to change how much you move.
Diana is a modern psychologist, expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and host of the Wise Effort podcast. Her mission is to help her clients and readers grow the psychological flexibility needed to get moving in directions that matter to them. Katy is a biomechanist, author, and trailblazing movement teacher who has spent a career helping people integrate more movement into their lives. In I Know I Should Exercise, But..., the two join forces to help you challenge your barriers to movement in a new way. Katy translates her understanding of the obstacles that keep people sedentary including dozens of real-world examples from readers and clients into 44 essential impediments to movement. Diana responds to those common barriers, while introducing you to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), behavioural psychology, and self-compassion: evidence-based-approaches for cultivating flexibility and aligning actions with values.
Whether your internal barrier is born of fear, malaise, inertia, embarrassment, or difficulty managing competing priorities, you will learn how to disempower it by applying effective science-based tools for changing the way you think.
You'll learn to identify your resistance whether it's an unhelpful thought, a misplaced motivation, or a contextual barrier and respond wisely and effectively, using tools and techniques that can be applied to other areas of your life as well, including:
This is a must-have book for anyone struggling with the mental barriers to moving more and an essential resource for personal trainers, fitness instructors, and mental health professionals wanting to better connect with their clients.
Stretch your mind, connect with what is truly important to you, and stop talking yourself out of the movement you need!
]]>With over 20 years of meditation and yoga experience, Diana combines her deep personal practice with with the latest psychological research to make well-being approachable and relevant to everyday life. Her work has been featured by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, Real Simple, and other media outlets, and she contributes regularly to Insight Timer, MIndful.org, and Psychology Today.
When not walking and talking with therapy clients, you'll find Diana digging in her garden, bee-keeping, and taking sunrise ocean swims with her two boys.
Katy Bowman, M.S. is a biomechanist, movement teacher, and bestselling author who has changed the way many move and think about their need for movement. Her 11 books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have sold more than 300,000 copies in English and been translated into 16 languages worldwide. Named one of Maria Shriver's 'Architects of Change' and an America Walks 'Woman of the Walking Movement', Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work is regularly featured by diverse national and international media including The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, CBC Radio, Seattle Times, Good Housekeeping, Outside, The Today Show. She has also worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google, as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her 'movement as nutrition' message.
Founder of the movement education company Nutritious Movement and host of the Move Your DNA podcast, Bowman lives in Washington State, where she spends as much time as she can moving outside with her family.
]]>As the First World War ended, villages across central and eastern Europe rose in revolt. Led in many places by a shadowy movement of army deserters, peasants attacked those whom they blamed for wartime abuses and long years of exploitation large estate owners, officials, and merchants, who were often Jewish. At the same time, peasants tried to realise their rural visions of a reborn society, establishing local self-government or attempting to influence the new states that were being built atop the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. In The Last Peasant War, Jakub Bene presents the first comprehensive history of this dramatic and largely forgotten revolution and traces its impact on interwar politics and the course of the Second World War.
Sweeping large portions of the countryside between the Alps and the Urals from 1917 to 1921, this peasant revolution had momentous after-effects, especially among Slavic peoples in the former lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It enabled an unprecedented expansion of agrarian politics in the interwar period and provided a script for rural resistance that was later revived to resist Nazi occupation and to challenge Communist rule in east central Europe.
By shifting historical focus from well-studied cities to the often-neglected countryside, The Last Peasant War reveals how the movements and ambitions of peasant villagers profoundly shaped Europe's most calamitous decades.
]]>Liz Williams explores the roots and roles of violence, mockery, protest and public shaming. She also addresses alternative culture and modern protests, such as the Battle of the Beanfield and the Stonehenge Free Festival. The interaction between racism and traditions involving blackface, alongside the emergence of all-female Morris sides, is also examined. Finally, it looks at folklore's evolution in the digital age, highlighting new developments such as ghost bikes. This engaging book offers an entertaining yet rigorous look at British folklore and culture.
'A lively and well-informed account of traditional British popular customs, with a novel and valuable pair of twists: showing the close relationship of those customs with subversion and disorder, and following their observance up into the current time. It is thus a revealing commentary on both past and present.' Ronald Hutton, professor of history, University of Bristol, and author of Pagan Britain
'Williams casts a refreshing twenty-first-century eye over a range of vibrant customs and traditions, questioning ideas of timelessness and exploring the relevance of folklore in society today. Her book is an engaging and thoughtful contribution to the current New Wave of folklore studies in Britain.' Owen Davies, professor of social history, University of Hertfordshire, and author of Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells
]]>Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognised component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to organise information. He goes on to discuss the earliest divisional systems of the Gospels and the segmentation of medieval romances, describing how the chapter took on new purpose when applied to narrative texts and how narrative segmentation gave rise to a host of aesthetic techniques. Dames shares engaging and in-depth readings of influential figures, from Sterne, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dickens to George Eliot, Machado de Assis, B. S. Johnson, Agnes Varda, Uwe Johnson, Jennifer Egan, and Lszl Krasznahorkai. He illuminates the sometimes tacit, sometimes dramatic ways in which the chapter became a kind of reckoning with time and a quiet but persistent feature of modernity.
Ranging from ancient tablets and scrolls to contemporary fiction and film, The Chapter provides a compelling, elegantly written history of a familiar compositional mode that readers often take for granted and offers a new theory of how this versatile means of dividing narrative sculpts our experience of time.
]]>Anyone who enjoys nature, wildlife, and trips to the beach will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Stan Minasian's quick guide to whale-watching, this gorgeous deck of playing cards features professional photographs of 54 of the most notable species of marine mammals in North America, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales, as well as manatees, seals, and more. Each card depicts a full-color photograph of such marine mammals as bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, and orcas so you can begin to learn what 54 different species look like.
Play games like blackjack, poker, rummy, and solitaire while learning more about marine life. Get the Whales, Dolphins, & Marine Mammals Playing Cards for yourself, and you can also give this deck of cards as a fun and thoughtful gift.
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Stan is a marine mammal authority, former member of the US Coast Guard Special Forces, certified diver, and surface and underwater cinematographer. He was senior author of Whale-Watching on the Pacific Coast, The World's Whales: A Complete Illustrated Guide, and One Dolphin's Story: The Life and Times of an Eastern Tropical Pacific Spinner Dolphin.
From his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, Stan has led more than 200 whale-watching trips. His educational website has garnered more than 2.7 million visitors.
]]>Anyone who enjoys geology, history, and paleontology will love these cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Adventure Publications' guides to rocks, minerals, and fossils, this gorgeous deck of playing cards by geologist, paleontology expert, and debut author James St. John features professional photographs of 54 of the most representative fossils found in the United States and Canada. Suits are organized chronologically, and each card depicts a full-colour photograph, including everything from billion-year-old stromatolites and dinosaurs like the famed Tyrannosaurus rex to more recent finds that are bound to surprise. So you can begin to learn what 54 different variations of fossils look like.
Play games such as blackjack, poker, rummy, and solitaire while learning more about paleontology. Get the Fossils Playing Cards for yourself, and you can also give this deck of cards as a fun and thoughtful gift.
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Anyone who enjoys nature, plant life, and foraging will love these striking cards for playing your favorite games or to use as flash cards. Inspired by Adventure Publications' famous Mushroom Identification Guides, this gorgeous deck features full-color photographs of North America's most common and important wild mushrooms to know. From popular edible species like morel, portobello, and white button to toxic varieties such as the Death Cap, the Mushrooms Playing Cards help you begin to learn what each type of fungi looks like.
Play card games like blackjack, poker, rummy, and solitaire while learning more about mushrooms. The deck is a fun and thoughtful gift.
]]>The woodlands whisper and mushrooms hold its secrets. Tiny, mysterious, and wise, fungi are among the oldest things on planet Earth, dating back more than 800 million years. From these ancient life forms, much of life as we know it evolved. Neither plant nor animal, mushrooms continue to hold our fascination: scientifically, socially, and spiritually. Who is to say they are not themselves made of stardust and magic? Fairies are drawn to them for their protection and sage guidance, for the ancient wisdom they hold in the delicate folds and gills of their caps. Now you, too, can learn the secrets of mushrooms: practical and down-to-earth tips from our most ancient ancestors, guaranteed to open your mind to your best life.
]]>Introducing the mini pocket-size Lenormand a perfectly sized divination deck for both veteran readers and those who are new to Lenormand, with the imagery and keywords at their most basic and accessible level. This diverse deck also includes alternate cards for inclusive representation.
The simple images convey Lenormand meanings and keywords clearly and concisely, making this a perfect divination deck for a beginner seeking to learn how to read Lenormand. The small size will be appreciated by Lenormand readers who need to cast a thirty-six card Grand Tableau layout. The Pocket Lenormand cards are both easy to handle and easy to read, making this an essential deck for any reader's collection.
]]>Float on a cloud with your celestial guides by your side, into the higher realms, within the heavens above. This angelic tool works as a powerful bridge and conduit between you and your own divine energy, as well as with the angels surrounding you endlessly. Embark on a journey of faith, love, and exploration of ethereal frequencies. Use these images, messages from the divine realms, and activating affirmations to step into your inner earth angel, as well as form a beautiful connection with your angel team. Take out your halo and your silky, feathery wings and join the keepers of the sky as they send angel numbers, heal the collective, and whisper sweet wisdom into your ears. Allow the energy from this creation to heal you, empower you, and work as a spiritual gift. Look to the sky, make a wish, and say yes to working with the angelic realms.
]]>Ashley Frost, a multifaceted mystic, writer, and creator, is one half of the visionary team behind theCosmic Pearl Oracle and Sisters of the Fae decks. Residing in a quaint Canadian town, she runs Pink Mermaid Diaries, a soul-led business infused with ethereal energies. With a passion for poetry, music, and divine feminine empowerment, Ashley seeks to spread beauty, love, and magic throughout the collective, connecting with higher realms and Mother Earth along the way.
]]>Seasons of Tarotis a communication tool between one's conscious and unconscious self and suitable for all abilities. With over a hundred different ways to recreate the spreads, your daily ritual is elevated and can help you to tap into your intuition and unlock secrets from your higher self. Reflecting on the journal pages can also serve as a guide, allowing you to create your path by pointing out patterns in your life that are often a cause of stress or anxiety. As you progress through the seasons in the journal, witness the alchemy of life and how you are transformed. There are pages to create your own spreads, record reflective thoughts, and note numerology and astrology information that might stand out to you. There is a space for self-inquiry; connect with your higher self rather than just taking the card's meaning at face value. This helps to really harmonise and connect with the message you feel intuitively coming through, empowering you as a reader and a human being.
]]>The deck adheres to the original structure and meanings of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot while incorporating a surreal dreamscape infused with contemporary sensibilities and perspectives. Within its seventy-eight cards lie myriad symbols, each imaginatively associated to provide you with immediate guidance and solace. Keywords, serving as the first aid, are inscribed on the cards; then one can delve into deeper interpretations through the accompanying guidebook. First Aid for Broken HeartsTarot is an invitation to mend aching hearts, nurturing courage to embrace uncertainty, take bold risks, and embark on transformative new beginnings.
Whether you are well versed in the realm of divination or a novice exploring the mystical world of tarot, this compassionate tool serves as an unwavering source of inspiration and visual affirmation. Through its seamless blend of aesthetic harmony and balance, it offers a sanctuary of comfort and renewal amidst the tumultuous seas of heartbreak.
]]>Throughout her career, she has curated and produced over seventy shows, driven by her steadfast mission to honor creativity across diverse disciplines. Min, originally from South Korea, has resided and worked in France, Belgium, and Sweden, immersing herself in diverse cultures and experiences that have profoundly affected her belief in the interconnectedness of art, science, spirituality, and the universe as a whole.
]]>From the mind of Patricia Telesco comes A Witch's Book of Ceremonies & Rituals,a phenomenal collection of workings that you can perform to celebrate the wheel of the year as well as bring powerful changes to your life. Create rituals for all sorts of occasions: birthdays, separations, forgiveness, employment, and more. Learn the history of the traditional pagan holidays and the fascinating folklore behind them, and mark monumental moments with special ceremonies like handfasting. A great book for beginners and experienced practitioners alike, A Witch's Book of Ceremonies & Rituals is a timeless go-to for any situation.
This title was previously published in 1999.
]]>Growing up in an endless sea of California suburbs, Asa West spent her childhood chasing visions she didn't understand. When she found a guide to witchcraft in a tiny bookshop, she knew she'd found her calling. But it's not easy to awaken your witch blood in a culture that laughs at magic and renders women powerless.
Bringing warmth, humour, and insight to a spiritual path that's at once immeasurably ancient and continually reborn, Witch Blood Rising explores all the ways that witchcraft bubbles up from the blood of its devotees, from ancient myth to the glittery stories of Hollywood. Asa explores the art of living a witch's life in all its magical aspects.
Witch Blood Rising is a celebration of witchcraft and how it has stubbornly kept itself alive in Western culture and a call to action for all seekers who yearn for a witch's life.
]]>Let this beautiful and practical grimoire help you find and empower the connection you've been craving in your craft. Amplify your bond with nature and infuse your intentions with the divine energy of the earth.
Within these pages, you'll be guided by the wisdom of green witchcraft as it reveals the secret healing and magickal powers of plants, animals, insects, and minerals. This knowledge comes from generations of people who have tended to their relationships with the natural world, earnestly learning about each element.
Naturally Modern Magick offers gratifying practices and everyday solutions for witches. This practical guide contains charms, spells, and rituals using natural objects and elements like herbs, crystals, flowers, earth, and water. Learn magick for protection, happiness, love, passion, health, healing, work, success, divination, spirituality, and more. Immerse yourself in these spells and rituals, and they will become your spiritual companions, magnifying the power that already resides within you.
]]>Lacey specializes in domestic magic, including hearth, cottage, hedge, green, and kitchen magic. These practices are deeply ingrained in her family's heritage, and she is honored to carry on these traditions and pass them down to future generations. She's devoted to helping others develop an authentic practice that's uniquely their own.
When Lacey's not working spells or teaching other witches, you can find her enjoying her garden and immersed in the study of herbalism. Currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband and children, she offers classes and resources on her website, naturallymodernwitch.com.
]]>Magic workers have long used the tools at hand for crafting spells and rituals. AI technology has opened a new frontier for magic. Some of the most powerful tools at a magician's fingertips today are computers and smart devices.
Magical AI Grimoire helps you to understand how to work with technology creatively and ethically in the practice of your magic. Whether you're trying to use promptcraft to perfect a spell, ChatGPT to outline and strengthen a ritual, or generative image software to recreate what you've only seen on the astral plane, Davezilla is your guide.
Around the world, witches and magicians are finding that technology has a spiritual essence and a mind of its own. Witches and magicians have been using computers to organise sabbats and ceremonies since the early days of electronic communication. Astrology apps were some of the first applications written, and in most covens, it's a good bet that one or more of the members work with computers. Davezilla provides context and history for the evolving uses of AI from Alexa to Spotify to ChatGPT and beyond and leads the pioneering, curious magician through a new magical realm with responsibility and clarity of insight.
]]>An Aries is never afraid to get started, to jump in, or to challenge fate. The planet Mars is the domain of Aries, and those born under this sign have passion, strength, courage, and brazen audacity. No one dares to stop you, get in your way, or even offer advice because, win or lose, you will be driven by your own passions.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>The graceful beauty, nurturing femininity, and warm embrace of Venus can all be found in the zodiac sign of Taurus. Taurus represents Mother Earth and the most intimate, profound, and longing desire. A Taurus knows how to build a relationship but doesn't always know how to let go.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us-not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Thought and movement, thoughts in movement, or any combination of these two powerful words perfectly describe the sign of Gemini. Mercury, the most elusive of the planets, dominates Gemini, making you intellectual, creative, an eternal seeker, and a devoted friend. This oracle will be an incentive for you to continue your investigation.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Cancer is a warm hug or a scent that reminds you of faraway loves. As with any good water sign, a Cancer doesn't really live in synchronicity with those around them their heart arrives a little late, having wasted time on a few extra kisses. Those under the sign of Cancer need to feel safe with those they love, even if it's in the middle of the wildest jungle.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Leo is a regal, luminous, fascinating, and seductive sign that centralises energy and attention. The only one of the twelve zodiac signs to be dominated by a star, and it's the star without which nothing would exist: the sun. For this reason, Leo demands to be adored and loved without limits and will not hold back from displaying confidence.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Virgo is perhaps the most misunderstood sign of the entire zodiac. Who can feel the power of this heat? Of course, you've never cared for the usual way of doing things, and you leave the purring to the cats. But you are the one who comes running at the first call for help as long as it is expressed clearly, loudly, and without any kind of subtext. Virgos are smart, sharp, astute, and clever.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Libras don't want to be alone, and they love embracing others. To have love, they are willing to take on all the hardships and responsibilities as long as no one leaves. This is the territory of harmony, beauty, elegance, detail, care, form, and justice. Proportions, in everything, are fundamental. Let this oracle find its way into your rules.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Scorpio is such a deep sign it is almost endless. It is a well from which not even an echo returns. It is a boundless desire that makes its way around the globe with apparent nonchalance and cold analysis. To use Hitchcock's definition of his muse Grace Kelly, Scorpio is a 'snow-covered volcano'.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Sagittarius is a fire sign, but the passion, courage, and ardour of the fire signs unite with a wonderful ability to grasp the metaphysical, the philosophical, and the spiritual. Jupiter and Neptune give your sign the immensity of thought and the strength to go and make things come true. Allow this oracle to guide you in your great search.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>How many times, dear Capricorn, have you felt alone, responsible, unbreakable, or invincible, like an ancient Greek hero subjected to hardships and trickery by the gods? Those with Saturn strong in their sign have been called upon to show others the correct path. Allow these cards to guide you.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>Who can win the attention and the heart of an Aquarius? Someone who captures their vital essence, tickles their intellect, stimulates their intuition, and who doesn't pay attention to how or whether they are dressed. Aquarians may be present physically, but their minds are far away. They bypass convention and are ahead of the times without the need for attention.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>As infinite as an ocean and as elusive as the smallest particles of air, Pisces is magical, mythological, and constantly evolving. Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac but just a step from the beginning. It is everything and what comes just a moment before. It is potentially the universe.
Forty magical messages from the stars to guide you on issues of love, career, well-being, and family.
From the moment we are born, the universe begins to speak to us not with words, but with stars, planets, and celestial bodies.
The position of the stars at the moment we came into the world assigns us a zodiac sign and binds us to it. That zodiac sign represents our compass, our personal universal key to decipher the messages of the cosmos and orient ourselves in the world.
The messages on each of these cards are inspired by the stars and planets found in your zodiac sign. Shuffle the cards, draw one randomly, read its contents, then let it be your guide for the day ahead. Or separate the cards according to the colours of the four categories: love, career, well-being, and family. Shuffle, ask a question, and draw one card from your chosen category. A message from the universe is there waiting for you! Are you ready to listen?
There are twelve Pocket Zodiac mini card decks, one for each sign in Western astrology. Each deck features forty cards covering love, career, well-being, and family. The small, magnetic-closure box makes it easy to take your Pocket Zodiac cards anywhere.
]]>In this new biography, Jake Poller takes a holistic approach to Isherwood, exploring his life and innovative autofiction and expertly unpacking Vedanta philosophy, tracing its influence in Isherwood's work. This is a concise yet thorough account of a monumental figure.
'This is the Christopher Isherwood biography we have been missing: informative, readable, and concise. Jake Poller covers both Isherwood's "monumental life" and his considerable work without producing a doorstop. Poller understands and appreciates both the English and the American Isherwood. He provides enough analysis of the major works to inspire readers to go to (or go back to) the source, without overwhelming them or imposing his interpretation on the audience. Poller provides fresh insight without being dogmatic, offering alternate readings of events and works. This is a book Isherwood fans will learn from and enjoy reading.' James J. Berg, editor of Isherwood on Writing
]]>Tracing his journey from a mining village outside Nottingham to his death at 44 years old in the South of France, it provides fresh perspectives on his major works. David Ellis covers all essential aspects of Lawrence's life and work and presents a balanced view, steering skilfully between admirers and critics. Written in an accessible style, this book is ideal for both students new to Lawrence and readers looking to revisit one of Britain's greatest early 20th-century writers.
'Ellis has put a lifetime's thinking into this concise work. Artfully combining details of Lawrence's biography with acute comments on his writings, it will prove essential reading both for students and for all those already familiar with Lawrence's work.' John Worthen, author of D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider
]]>This book explores Zola's life and work and the ways in which these were determined by the traumatic history of his times. From humble beginnings, Zola's life was marked by the determination to succeed. Robert Lethbridge traces his development as a writer, including Zola's earliest texts and his novel-cycles, and further shows how Zola's extraordinary creativity extended from his journalism to experiments in the theatre and even his own operatic adaptations of his novels. Lethbridge offers the reader new perspectives, informed by the most recent research, which bring together Zola's writing and its historical context.
'Weaving together private and public lives, the act of writing and the works themselves, generations of scholarship, and a compelling narrative, Lethbridge brings his own great erudition and storytelling to this account of the life (and death) of mile Zola. This is an engaging and brilliant new biography.' Sonya Stephens, president, American University of Paris
'Lethbridge's evocative, deeply felt biography is a tour de force of the biographical genre and a consummate study of the entanglements of Zola's extraordinary life and his work. Through his nuanced plotting of the autobiographical, contextual, literary, and political determinants of his complex, often conflicted subject, Lethbridge illuminates the life trajectory of this iconic figure.' Susan Harrow, Ashley Watkins Chair of French, University of Bristol
]]>H. Rider Haggard (18561925), author of King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain and She, was no stranger to the continent where his bestsellers were set. He lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, a period that witnessed Britain's attempted confederation of the sub-continent, the Anglo- Zulu War of 1879, and the final subjugation of its indigenous peoples. In this new biography, the South African aspect of Haggard's life is explored in hitherto unrecorded detail. The success of King Solomon's Mines saw him relinquish a legal career to write full-time; he also became a respected agricultural expert and social commentator, receiving a knighthood for his public service.
Haggard wrote over seventy books, fiction and non-fiction. His African adventure stories feature strong black characters, and the majority of his novels assertive female ones, not least She. Haggard's unwitting expression of the Victorian sub-conscious attracted the interest of both Freud and Jung. Haunted by a lost love, the tragic death of his only son and frequent bouts of depression, he endlessly probed the conundrums of life and death.
Containing much new material, this biography explores Haggard's personal and public life to resurrect the writer whom Graham Greene, an admirer, called 'the buried man'.
]]>Alcohol and spirits has long been thought of as a male-dominated field, but the truth is that women have been serving it up for centuries. (Literally - the first distilling technology is believed to have been invented by a woman in 100 CE.)Today, many women are shaking up the industry, from distillers and blenders to bar owners and spirits educators. In this fun, feminist, vividly illustrated book, bar professional Sammi Katz and illustrator Olivia McGiff celebrate the spirit and spirits of 55 of these groundbreaking women with profiles and recipes, in three areas of the industry: Makers (women who are directly involved in the development and production of spirits); Shakers (mixologists and bar owners); and Trailblazers (women who have influenced the spirits world in other ways, such as historians, authors, and entrepreneurs). Each profile is paired with a cocktail recipe that highlights each woman's story, including the Title IX (a favorite at Portland's female-owned sports bar The Sports Bra); Casual Brilliance (a take on a Sazerac, inspired by a whiskey distiller in Australia); and Le Donne (which features an amaro revived from near extinction by a family of Italian women).This colourful book of unsung heroines joyfully raises a glass to the dame and the dram!
This gorgeously illustrated cocktail book celebrates centuries of women's contributions to spirits and cocktail culture, from the invention of distilling to today's innovative bar programs. Perfect for anyone in search of drinking gifts for women, this comprehensive bartender book illuminates the often-overlooked stories of women who have revolutionized every aspect of the spirits industry.
]]>OliviaMcGiffis an interdisciplinary designer and illustrator. Her illustration style weaves together colorsandtext,withan appreciation for everyday objects. Katz and McGiff are coauthors ofCocktails in Color.
]]>This collection of 100 beautifully balanced recipes for both classic and new cocktails demonstrates the irresistible allure of citrus and sours when paired with spirits. The fascinating history and lore of iconic and universally beloved beverages such as the daiquiri, sidecar, margarita, whiskey sour, and cosmopolitan are mixed with recipes to teach you how to make each of these classic drinks. Every aspect of these legendary drinks-including special ingredients and all the ways to riff on this delicious and versatile flavor palette-is explored in this essential collection for any spirits enthusiast.
Sours is perfect for both the seasoned and new at-home bar mixologists, who would benefit from an extensive and knowledgeable guide to the basics of sours, from one of the most trusted names in the cocktail world.
]]>Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.
This issue's cover is provided by incredible artist Feefal, who has worked with us many times before (including on her own Art Of book). Johanna Forster takes us inside her sketchbook, sharing how she uses real-world references to build up a library of character ideas. Sheryl Yap has a collection of tips for how to make original and effective character turnarounds, a crucial skill for working as a designer at animated-film studios. David Ardinaryas Lojaya, Art Director of the hit game Coral Island, talks to us about creating characters for video games and his professional design process.
]]>Packed with in-depth instruction and photos, this guidebook teaches the skills needed to survive and live in the wild using only those things found in the woods or in other natural landscapes. Learn how to ignite a fire with a two-stick hand drill, erect temporary and semi-permanent structures, and more with wilderness experts John and Geri McPherson.
'During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson. I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival. Their teachings took me from understanding basic skills to a full-blown love for the ancient technologies that humans developed to survive. John and Geri are the real deal. They don't just teach this stuff, they live it. I loved the experience with them so much I came back a second time a few years later. Now that I have traveled the world as Survivorman-experiencing and filming survival in every ecosystem there is-I can sit back and watch my shows and see John and Geri's teachings peek through in every situation. I have been able to understand survival because of John and Geri, and can highly recommend this book.' - Les Stroud, AKA Survivorman
]]>Fodor's Tokyo travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other destinations in Japan? Check out Fodor's Essential Japan.
*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.
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]]>Fodor's Pocket Rome travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting the rest of Italy? Check out Fodor's Essential Italy and Fodor's Best of Italy: with Rome, Florence, Venice & the Top Spots in Between.
*Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.
]]>Conveniently grouped by location, all areas of the city are covered, including suburbs. All are accessible by walking, cycling, public transport or car.
]]>Cookery writer and broadcaster Catherine Brown describes the impact this pioneering book has had on the whole of Scottish cuisine and traces the fascinating life story of Marian McNeill herself. Notes explain how to use the book so that its treasure trove of recipes, covering the whole gamut of Scottish cuisine, can be explored in the modern kitchen.
The contents includes:
Soups * Brose and Kail * Fish * Game and Pultry * Meat * Vegetables * Sauces * Snacks and Savouries * Puddings and Pies * Sweets * Bannocks, Scones and Tea-breads * Cakes and Shortbreads * Preserves * Sweeties * Beverages
'Charming' Delia Smith
'Another classic work on the cookery of these islands' Elizabeth David
]]>Catherine Brown has written food columns in The Herald (Glasgow) and was a presenter of STV and Grampian TV's Scotland's Larder. In 2001 she was the Guild of Food Writers' Food Journalist of the Year. She is the author of several books on Scottish food, including the acclaimed Scottish Cookery.
]]>A revolutionary take on hedge witchery that focuses on what it means to reconnect with the sacred hedge in a modern world, Celtic Hedge Witchery-A Modern Approach teaches the ways, ideas, and methods of the hedgerow, so they become accessible even to those who cannot visit the physical locations themselves. Delving into secret liminal spaces, Morris expands the knowledge and understanding of what it means to truly embody the witchcraft life. She connects readers to the wildcrafting elements of plants and natural remedies, realigning the soul to the vibrations of the spiritual ecosystem to reconnect with the Earth and all her spirits. In a time when modernity, technology, and disconnection from the land has caused so many of us to feel lost and disheartened, Morris helps foster our kinship with the land.
Weaving together Morris's personal witchcraft gnosis, Celtic Hedge Witchery focuses on embracing the shadows within ourselves as a reflection of sacred spaces. Morris offers a revolutionary take on what it means to be a hedge witch in the modern era and empowers us to 'come home' to both the Earth and to ourselves. Spell work, recipes, meditative guides, and evocative poetry help guide us in connecting with Celtic deities of land, sea, and sky and in crossing the hedge into the Otherworld.
In this book, you will enter the world of what author and licensed medical herbalist Wendy Dooner calls Plant Spirit Herbalism a rich, colourful landscape populated by benevolent plant spirits. Each chapter focuses on a specific herb, exploring its history, healing properties, and role as a spiritual ally. Every herb discussed grows in the world around you, from the humble dandelion to the stately rose.
Dooner's unique combination of scientific rigour and intuitive insight provides a holistic approach to working with herbs that honours both their capacity for physical healing and their power for spiritual transformation. With her expert guidance, you will:
Let Dooner be your guide on this journey as Plant Spirit Herbalism provides a fresh perspective on the natural world, inviting you to form deep and lasting relationships with the nurturing plant spirits which already surround you.
]]>Is your hen cottage plagued by foul goblins? Help is on the way! In the tradition of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl, Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop shows how to banish those pesky dark fairy creatures who are ready to thwart every last pleasure, be it gardening, country hikes, or even getting a good night's sleep.
In this charming guide, 'fairy hunter' Reginald Bakeley offers practical instructions to clear your home and garden of these unsettling inhabitants and banish them from your chicken coop and kitchen cupboard forever!
In Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop, readers will discover:
Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop is the only complete manual on how to identify, track, defend, and destroy those bothersome brownies, goblins, dwarves, scheming flower fairies, and other nasty members of the fairy realm. Get the upper hand before they get your hen!
This book was previously published in paperback.
'A must-have for everyone with a garden, dog house, window boxes, or even rustic decor.' Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight
]]>Sometimes the monsters are monsters swimming the murky waters of Loch Ness, stalking their victims the streets of small town America, or hunting innocents across the desolate British moors. At other times, the darkness lies within the human soul itself the falsely accused who were executed for witchcraft in Salem, those hounded to their graves (and beyond) by cruel pursuers, or those cursed by all forms of vile spirits. Then there are the devils and demons lurking in the darkness, capable of possessing and tormenting the living.
Master storyteller and seasoned paranormal investigator Richard Estep presents sinister hordes of evil in Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons, and Devils. This fright-filled read spans the darkest realms of the paranormal, including...
Walk into the abyss of the whispered and veiled legends, the myths and first-person encounters in Dark Spirits. Learn about these frightening experiences and how they scarred lives forever. Explore the dark supernatural world around you if you dare!
]]>While America was convulsed following the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Chester was central to the move of Black American football into the mainstream. From his college glory at Morgan State to his iconic moments on the NFL field, Chester's story is one of resilience and triumph which resonates far beyond the world of sport.
This inspiring account of an American sporting hero and his extraordinary impact on society is entrusted to his close friend, author and rugby fan Jon Gower, revealed through extensive interviews taking place from Wales to the US.Raideris the story of a true team player, one musician in a band of brothers who played their own wild tune on the football field, in a life filled with exceptional athleticism, brotherhood, friendship and love.
]]>In Kashmir, folktales often begin with the word dapaan 'it is said'. So too do local narratives told and retold about the past, among people who have lived through nearly eight decades of a bitter contest between India and Pakistan.
This is a story about stories. In the hyper-nationalist din over a territorial dispute, Kashmiri voices are often drowned out. Yet the region is home to long habits of storytelling, its communities intensely engaged with history-keeping. For centuries, folk traditions of theatre, song and fable have flowed into a reservoir of common talk. Mythology, hearsay and historical memory coexist here without any apparent hierarchies.
By the time armed rebellion spread through Kashmir in 1989, many of these traditions had died out, or been forced underground. But they have left traces in the way ordinary people speak about the conflict in their songs of loss, and jokes about dark times; in fantastical geographies, and rumours turning the Valley's militarisation into a ghostly haunting. From Partition to the 2019 Indian crackdown, Ipsita Chakravarty discovers a vivid, distinctly Kashmiri vision of events that have often been narrated from the top-down. Her interviewees conjure a kaleidoscope of towns and villages shaping their own memories.
]]>Ever felt like your uterus is out to get you? Or experienced bloodthirsty rage at the politicians out to get your uterus? This book will speak straight to your soul. Get to know your body with this inclusive guide to herbal, holistic self-care for every womb, at every stage of life-from puberty to post-menopause and everything in between.
Herbalist and doula Angelica Merritt offers a wealth of anatomical science, plant medicine, and nutritional and herbal strategies to support body literacy, a regular menstrual cycle, and your reproductive goals. If you're dealing with irregular menstruation, PCOS, infertility, pregnancy loss or release, perimenopause, or any other reproductive health issue, look to these pages for remedies that bridge the scientific and the spiritual.
Inside you'll find guidance in holistic modalities such as castor oil packs, breath work, breast and womb massage, baths, yoni steams, and infused oils, along with rituals and journal prompts. You'll learn about the connections between the womb, the moon cycle, and the archetypes of Maiden, Mother, and Crone. Transform your self-care through the magick of the womb within!
]]>Although not commonly known, the lymphatic system is responsible for a number of important functions in the human body, such as purifying toxins, fortifying the immune system, and maintaining physical beauty. Whether you're interested in learning more about this elusive system or seeking alternative treatment to chronic inflammation, look no further than The Lymphatic System Handbook!
Featuring step-by-step exercises and techniques for lymphatic drainage massages as well as comprehensive, easy-to-digest information on lymph health, circulation, and management, The Lymphatic System Handbook will help you understand and alleviate inflammation symptoms associated with chronic illnesses, such as:
What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Underground Lovers brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out.
Fungi offer a way to imagine life differently. In Underground Lovers Alison Pouliot reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain. Told through first-hand stories - from the Australian desert to Iceland's glaciers to America's Cascade Mountains - Alison Pouliot shares encounters with glowing ghost fungi and unearths the enigma of the lobster mushroom. Melding science and personal reflection, she explores the fungi that appear after fire, how fungi and climate change interact, the role of fungi in our ecosystems, and much more.
'Underground Lovers is a joy to read.' - Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees
'Sensual and scientific. Dazzling and boundary breaking. Underground Lovers will make you see the world anew.' - Long Litt Woon, author of The Way Through the Woods
'The world of fungi is our world even if we don't know it and can't see most of it - strange, dazzling, spooky, unpredictable, friendly, deadly, sly. And Alison is the perfect guide. She surprises and informs, delights and warns; makes you wish you could walk with her and her passionate companions. That's OK. In this book you do.' - Paul Kelly, songwriter
'An evocative, accessible and important book about one of the most vital, yet hugely ignored, kingdoms on our planet fungi. After reading this you cannot help but see the world in a different light and should approach mushrooms and truffles with new relish.' - Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler
'Anyone who has joined Alison in a forest, anywhere in the world, will know her incredible ability to magnify those microscopic organisms that hold our natural world together, to connect every element of human life - physical, emotional or social - to the function of our natural landscapes. Underground Lovers is like a walk in the forest, pungent and complex, filled with curiosity and wonder, and leaving you with a sense that there is so much more to uncover.' - Millie Ross, horticulturist and presenter, ABCTV Gardening Australia
'This subterranean journey introduces the quirks of behaviour that allow fungi to spread through soils, support living plants, and recycle the debris of nature. Alison is an accomplished storyteller.' - Nicholas P. Money, mycologist and science writer
'The underground teaches us a different language and Alison Pouliot is the perfect translator.' - Toby Kiers, Professor, VU Amsterdam
'Underground Lovers takes storytelling about fungi to a captivating new level. A well-researched page turner.' - Anders Dahlberg, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
'Underground Lovers is a global travel guide to the magnificent realm of fungi. It is beautifully written, with eyes wide open to the intricate wonder of it all what a story!' - Bob Brown
'I was entertained and enthralled reading this book and I promise I have never read a book from cover to cover on fungi before. I didn't think it was my jam, but it turns out...well, it turns out it should be everyone's jam. Fungi is literally the glue that keeps us together.' - Chris Gordon, Readings
'Pouliot is a born storyteller, able to conjure fungi and friends of fungi alike in memorable colour.' - Elke Power, Readings
'Pouliot conveys the otherworldly charisma of mushrooms with love and skill.' - Kurt Johnson, Environmental Journalist, Sydney Morning Herald
'Powerful stuff, which should be read by all those who continue to support the insane logging of our native forests.' - John Watts, author and environmental activist
'Pouliot is a mycologist whose knowledge of fungi is extraordinarily vast and intricate.' - The Saturday Paper
'Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Australian ecologist Alison Pouliot [is a] beautifully written exploration of fungal weirdness and current mycological investigations.' - Robin Powell, Sydney Morning Herald
'In this captivating study, ecologist Pouliot expounds on mushrooms she's encountered during her fieldwork...The result is an enjoyable tour of the fungal kingdom.' - Publisher's Weekly
'Conveying an impassioned message for conservation and awareness, Underground Lovers is a compelling, enlightening look at lowly but remarkable fungi that are often hidden in the shadows.' - Foreword Reviews
'In this book, she takes us with her all over the world as she brings fungi to life with lush descriptions, infectious enthusiasm, and gorgeous pictures. But she also shows the reader just how important fungi are to the natural world, as well as what they do for humans.' - Jaime Herndon, Book Riot
'Do we really need another book about mushrooms? The answer is yes, but only if it's this one. Alison Pouliot has written a lovely book that digs deep but wears its learning lightly.' - Fungi Magazine
'The real essence of the book lies in its impassioned argument for fungal conservation...Pouliot's arguments for conservation unfold by way of several quite original, non-technological, extra-scientific approaches.' - The Mycophile
]]>Winner of the 2017 Whitley Medal
Australia's avifauna is large, diverse and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive range of habitats and evolutionary history. With specially commissioned paintings of over 900 species, The Australian Bird Guide is the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds ever seen.
This Revised Edition includes updated maps, artwork and species accounts, reflecting current knowledge of the biology and distribution of Australia's birds. It features around 4700 specially commissioned colour illustrations of over 900 species, with particular emphasis on providing the fine detail required to identify difficult groups and distinctive plumages. Comprehensive species accounts have been written by a dedicated team of ornithologists to ensure identification details, distribution and status are current and accurate. A new easier-to-use index is also included.
The Australian Bird Guide sets a new standard in field guides, providing an indispensable reference for all birders and naturalists looking to explore Australia's magnificent and unique birdlife.
]]>What are dangerous rip currents and how do you spot one?
What would you do if you got caught in one?
Australia's best-known surf scientist, Rob 'Dr Rip' Brander, takes you on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how our beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, how beaches respond to storms and climate change, as well as some of the hazards to watch out for, from tsunamis to the (unlikely) event you find yourself swimming with a shark.
Whether you're a surfer looking for the perfect wave or enjoying the beach with friends and family, this book is a must-read for all ocean lovers.
'So good, it should be compulsory reading at school, and in planes flying to Australia.' - Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
'Dr Rip is well-respected by Bondi Lifeguards. His knowledge of how beaches work has helped save many lives.' - Bruce Hopkins, Chief Lifeguard at Bondi, Bronte and Tamarama beaches and star of Bondi Rescue
'The beach is a fun but dangerous place. Everyone who loves the surf should read this fantastic book.' - Mick Fanning, three-time surfing world champion
]]>No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as pearl or rough as guts, they have defined a continent for millennia, and shaped the possibilities and imaginations of those who live among them.
Australia's First Nations have long knowledge of the characters and abilities of the eucalypts. And as part of the disruption wrought by colonial Australia, botanists battled in a race to count, classify and characterise these complex species in their own system a battle that has now spanned more than two hundred years.
Gum: The story of eucalypts & their champions tells the stories of that battle and of some of the other eucalyptographers the explorers, poets, painters, foresters, conservationists, scientists, engine drivers and many more who have been obsessed by these trees and who have sought to champion their powers, explore their potential and describe their future states. Eucalypts have fuelled this country's mighty fi res as readily as they've fuelled so many arguments about the ways they might be thought of and yet they are as vulnerable as any other organism to the disruptions and threats of climate change.
This new edition of Gum, from award-winning author Ashley Hay, is a powerful and lyrical exploration of these transformative and still transforming trees. It's a story of unique landscapes, curious people, and very big ideas.
Ashley Hay writes with heart, head, energy and passion. She understands the natural world as we must all experience it, with deep love and respect. To preserve Country and to save ourselves we must live with and in a treed world. They are our champions, just as Ashley Hay is for them. Tony Birch, author of The White Girl and Dark as Last Night
Gum is one of my favourite books, I return to it often. Ashley Hay's curiosity ranges wide, her research skills run deep and she's a beautiful writer, thinker and storyteller. To have all these skills brought to bear upon a tree as deserving, as iconic, as the eucalyptus: well, I'm in heaven. Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees and Melbourne
A classic of Australian environmental writing, Gum offers a startling new perspective on Australian history, suggesting powerful new ways of seeing the past and revealing the complex and often surprising ways trees shape both our physical and imaginary worlds. James Bradley, author of Ghost Species and Clade
Ashley Hay's words fill you with the same kind of awe and wonder as a crushed gum leaf held to your nose: Gum is a heady, intoxicating and powerful exploration of the extraordinary history and relationships between people and the iconic eucalyptus. Since reading this book, the sight of gum trees has filled me with a new level of reverence and gratitude to know these sentient beings, and to know Ashley Hay's writing. Holly Ringland, author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and co-presenter of Back to Nature
The book's great strength comes from the unfolding sense of Australian national identity that somehow crystallizes around the eucalyptus tree. Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books (2002)
Hay's Gum is like a gum itself: it is made in equal parts of light and leaf; of music and matter ... [It is] a sturdy, shapely book of fact, animated by wonder. Mark Tredinnick, The Canberra Times (2002)
Hay brings these peculiarly Australian trees to life, describing a slice of our colonial history in the process. The Sydney Morning Herald (2002)
As this beautifully written and evocative book makes clear, we are tied to the gum tree in ways we can't even imagine. Eureka Street (2002)
]]>Davis considers how, in many different organisms - both animals and plants - sexual reproduction and determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction between genes, hormones, environment and chance. We meet turtles whose sex is determined by the incubation temperature of their eggs and butterflies that embody male and female biological tissue in the same organism. He also reveals animal and plant behaviours in nature that have previously either been covered up or explained away, and presents animal behaviours that challenge us to rethink our assumptions and prejudices.
]]>Whether it's the astonishing properties of resilin, the protein that makes fleas jump; the proboscis of the mosquito's mouth being used to develop smart needles; or the computational dynamics gleaned from studying locust swarms in Africa - Erica McAlister and Adrian Washbourne reveal the wonder of insects, the historical figures who have made great breakthroughs in understanding them, and the increasingly vital role they play in ensuring life, as we know it, continues.
]]>Adrian Washbourne is an award-winning producer for BBC Radio 4.
]]>'When God created the seahorse,' says one marine biologist, 'he may have had one too many.'
Of all the creatures in the ocean, there are none more charming and magical - or more strange - than the seahorses. Masters of disguise, graceful dancers, and romantic lovers, seahorses are found not only in the seagrass meadows and mangroves of the world, but also throughout the annals of human history and culture - surfacing everywhere from chess and Greek mythology to Disney movies like The Little Mermaid and Pokemon games.
Equipped with a pouch like a kangaroo, a long snout like an anteater, and complete with a crown unique as a human fingerprint, the seahorse defies easy categorisation. The only fish to swim in an upright position, seahorses are terrible swimmers, but they make up for it with an incredible talent for holding onto seagrass or coral. They have no stomach or teeth - only intestines. Most seahorses are monogamous, and meet with their life partner every few weeks to perform a dance that can last up to nine hours. The most unique aspect of the seahorse is their reproductive cycle, as it is the male of the species who becomes pregnant.
In this entertaining and informative book, science writer Till Hein shares the most tantalising findings from the world of seahorses, and the role they have played in human culture. He reveals their secrets, from their intriguing biological features and hunting strategy to their use in medicine throughout history, their appearances in Greek and Celtic mythology, and even the medieval belief that they descended from dragons.
Endlessly fascinating and charmingly approachable, The Curious World of Seahorses will captivate any reader looking to learn more about one of the most incredible creatures on Earth.
]]>Standing in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature's Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests and makes a compelling case for their protection.
Many foresters are proponents of forest management, while ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the healthiest forests are those we leave alone. Joan Maloof brings together the scientific data we have about old-growth forests, drawing on diverse fields of study to explain the ecological differences among forests of various ages. She describes the life forms and relationships that make old-growth forests unique - from salamanders and micro-snails to plants that communicate through fungi - and reveals why human attempts to manage forests can never replicate nature's sublime handiwork. This revised and expanded edition also sheds new light on the special role forests play in removing carbon from the atmosphere and shares what we know about the interplay between wildfires and ancient forests.
With drawings by Andrew Joslin that illustrate scientific concepts and capture the remarkable beauty of ancient trees, Nature's Temples invites you to discover the power of these fragile realms that are so inextricably connected to our planet, our fellow species, and our spirits.
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