Finch's journey from working-class Sydney, conversion to Orthodox Judaism and later, becoming the director of Melbourne's Jewish Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha), offers profound reflections on belonging, service, and the power of stories.
In his work over 34 years, Ephraim Finch provided unwavering support to bereaved families, including Holocaust survivors, and seamlessly navigated coroners, police, clergy, and medical professionals. In the process, he preserved sacred Jewish traditions whilst fostering understanding across religious and secular communities.
At a pivotal point in our history where cultural division and societal fractures threaten our sense of wellbeing and security, Ferryman is a story for our times one of connection, service, and the sacredness of life.
With a foreword by Arnold Zable and praise from Hannah Kent, Rai Gaita, Chloe Hooper, and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, amongst others, Ferryman is an essential addition to our cultural and literary landscape.
'Ferryman is a compassionate portrait of a man who has spent a lifetime in service of his community. Katia Ariel's consideration of belonging, faith, and the way we are all inextricably woven into tapestries of time, place and history both before and after death is beautifully written and deeply moving.' Hannah Kent
'A book full of wisdom by a writer of exquisite talent.' Chloe Hooper
]]>This beautiful Japanese-bound volume presents the complete set of prints Thirty-six Views of Fuji, one of the most famous series created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), including ten prints he added to the series at a later date. Mt Fuji is magnificently represented by the master thanks to his highly personal conception that combines the sacred dimensions of the mountain with earthly views representing many different human activities. Each print is accompanied by a technical explanation that helps the reader to understand the image, with descriptions where possible of the actual places depicted.
]]>What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex? Is love divine? Plato's Symposium is one of the oldest, most influential, and most profound explorations of such questions it is even the source of the idea of 'Platonic love'. How to Talk about Love introduces and presents the key passages and central ideas of Plato's philosophical dialogue in a lively and highly readable new translation, which also features the original Greek on facing pages.
The Symposium is set at a fictional drinking party during which prominent Athenians engage in a friendly competition by delivering improvised speeches in praise of Eros, the Greek god of love and sex. The aristocrat Phaedrus, the legal expert Pausanias, the physician Eryximachus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the tragic poet Agathon each by turn celebrates different aspects of love before Socrates proposes not to praise love but to tell the truth about it. In the final speech, the politician and libertine Alcibiades argues that Socrates himself is the epitome of love.
Deftly capturing the essence and spirit of Plato's masterpiece, How to Talk about Love makes the Symposium more accessible and enjoyable than ever before.
]]>'Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,
that bittersweet, implacable creature.'
Sappho
The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Filled with enthralling stories, this anthology invites readers of all sexualities and identities to explore writings that describe many kinds of erotic encounters and feelings, and that envision a playful and passionate approach to sexuality as part of a rich and fulfilling life.
How to Be Queer starts with Homer's Iliad and moves through lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and biography, drawing on a wide range of authors, including Sappho, Plato, Anacreon, Pindar, Theognis, Aristophanes, and Xenophon. It features both beautiful poetry and thought-provoking prose, emotional outpourings and humorous anecdotes. From Homer's story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sappho's lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros.
Complete with brief introductions to the selections, and with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long ago that the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.
]]>'This is a splendid introduction to Aristotle's conception of happiness, in his own words. The translation is at once elegant, readable, and precise, and Susan Sauve Meyer's crisp prefatory explanations highlight and clarify the essence of Aristotle's argument at each stage. The abbreviated text lets Aristotle's train of thought stand out clearly, and the omitted parts -digressions and the like - are briefly summarised. It is a remarkable achievement.' - David Konstan, author of The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity
]]>Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love, he then wrote Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris), which presents thirty-eight frank and witty strategies for coping with unrequited love, falling out of love, ending a relationship, and healing a broken heart. How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid's lighthearted and provocative work, complete with a lively introduction and the original Latin on facing pages.
Ovid's advice which he illustrates with ingenious interpretations of classical mythology ranges from the practical, psychologically astute, and profound to the ironic, deliberately offensive, and bizarre. Some advice is conventional such as staying busy, not spending time alone, and avoiding places associated with an ex. Some is off-color, such as having sex until you're sick of it. And some is simply and delightfully weird such as becoming a lawyer and not eating arugula.
Whether his advice is good or bad, entertaining or outrageous, How to Get Over a Breakup reveals an Ovid who sounds startlingly modern.
]]>In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman politician and philosopher Cicero offers a compelling guide to finding, keeping, and appreciating friends. With wit and wisdom, Cicero shows us not only how to build friendships but also why they must be a key part of our lives. For, as Cicero says, life without friends is not worth living.
Filled with timeless advice and insights, Cicero's heartfelt and moving classic - written in 44 BC and originally titled De Amicitia - has inspired readers for more than two thousand years, from St. Augustine and Dante to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Presented here in a lively new translation with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction, How to Be a Friend explores how to choose the right friends, how to avoid the pitfalls of friendship, and how to live with friends in good times and bad. Cicero also praises what he sees as the deepest kind of friendship - one in which two people find in each other 'another self' or a kindred soul.
An honest and eloquent guide to finding and treasuring true friends, How to Be a Friend speaks as powerfully today as when it was first written.
'[A]stutely translated...We learn that friendship is, in the end, an art form.' -Tracy Lee Simmons, City Journal
'Originally written in 44 BC, the advice in this book is as timely as ever, perhaps even more so in view of the changing nature of friendship to include the online dimension.' - Paradigm Explore
Frogs are among the most diverse and adaptable animals on the planet, with a rich evolutionary history and a vitally important role in global ecosystems. With more than 7,700 species known to exist, they come in all shapes, sizes, and colours, and can be found in habitats ranging from rainforests and frozen tundras to deserts and your own backyard. This unique guide explores the physiology, behaviour, ecology, and evolution of frogs, shedding invaluable light on every facet of their lives, both on land and in the water. Blending stunning photos and illustrations with engaging and informative profiles of selected species, The Lives of Frogs is an essential introduction to the natural history of these magnificent amphibians.
]]>Richard Griffiths is Emeritus Professor of Biological Conservation at the University of Kent and the author (with Trevor Beebee) of Amphibians and Reptiles.
]]>Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal themselves. Doctors by Nature reveals what researchers are now learning about the medical wonders of the animal world. In this visionary book, Jaap de Roode argues that we have underestimated the healing potential of nature for too long and shows how the study of self-medicating animals could impact the practice of human medicine.
Drawing on illuminating interviews with leading scientists from around the globe as well as his own pioneering research on monarch butterflies, de Roode demonstrates how animals of all kinds from ants to apes, from bees to bears, and from cats to caterpillars use various forms of medicine to treat their own ailments and those of their relatives. We meet apes that swallow leaves to dislodge worms, sparrows that use cigarette butts to repel parasites, and bees that incorporate sticky resin into their hives to combat pathogens. De Roode asks whether these astonishing behaviours are learned or innate and explains why, now more than ever, we need to apply the lessons from medicating animals it can pave the way for healthier livestock, more sustainable habitats for wild pollinators, and a host of other benefits.
Doctors by Nature takes readers into a realm often thought to be the exclusive domain of humans, exploring how scientists are turning to the medical knowledge of the animal kingdom to improve agriculture, create better lives for our pets, and develop new pharmaceutical drugs.
]]>Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T. all reflect its gathering power. But what does 'cute' mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.
We usually see the cute as merely diminutive, harmless, and helpless. May challenges this prevailing perspective, investigating everything from Mickey Mouse to Kim Jong-il to argue that cuteness is not restricted to such sweet qualities but also beguiles us by transforming or distorting them into something of playfully indeterminate power, gender, age, morality, and even species. May grapples with cuteness's dark and unpindownable side unnerving, artful, knowing, apprehensive elements that have fascinated since ancient times through mythical figures, especially hybrids like the hermaphrodite and the sphinx. He argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to today's pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere. Instead, it frivolously expresses the uncertainty that these norms deny: the ineliminable uncertainty of who we are; of how much we can control and know; of who, in our relations with others, really has power; indeed, of the very value and purpose of power.
The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age.
]]>We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Memory Lane introduces readers to the cutting-edge science of human memory, revealing how our recollections of the past are constantly adapting and changing, and why a faulty memory isn't always a bad thing.
Shedding light on what memory is and what it evolved to do, Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy discuss the many benefits of our flexible yet fallible memory system, including helping us to maintain a coherent identity, sustain social bonds, and vividly imagine possible futures. But these flexible and easily distorted memories can also result in significant harm, leading us to provide erroneous eyewitness testimony or fall victim to fake news. Greene and Murphy explain why our flawed memories are not a failure of evolution but rather a byproduct of the perfectly imperfect way our minds have evolved to solve problems. They also grapple with important ethical questions surrounding the study and manipulation of memory.
Blending engaging storytelling with the latest science, the authors demonstrate how our continuous reconstruction of the past makes us who we are, helps us to interpret our experiences, and explains why no two trips down memory lane are ever quite the same.
]]>Gillian Murphy is associate professor in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork and a funded investigator at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.
]]>For Tibn, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop's famous attention to detail, Tibn describes how Bishop is able to convey great emotion indirectly, through precise descriptions of particular settings, objects, and events. He examines how Bishop's attachment to the Nova Scotia of her childhood, despite her later life in Key West and Brazil, is related to her early loss of her parents and how this connection finds echoes in Tibn's life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere.
Beautifully written and skillfully blending biography, literary appreciation, and descriptions of Toibin's travels to Bishop's Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil, On Elizabeth Bishop provides a fresh and memorable look at a beloved poet even as it gives us a window into the mind of one of today's most acclaimed novelists.
]]>Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.
Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.
How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.
'Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.' Robin D. G. Kelley
'El-Kurd is a wordsmith with the power to change the minds of all but those with a heart of stone.' Louise Adler, Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
'El-Kurd has become a critical voice in colonial discourse especially at a time where people are prone to either demonising or fetishising Palestinians. Perfect Victims is Mohammed El-Kurd refusing to exist in this binary, challenging depictions of Palestinians on our phones and in our minds which insist they perform perfect victimhood in order to deserve liberation.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
]]>Here is Charles Darwin in his own words the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws from Darwin's writings, letters to friends and family, autobiographical reminiscences, and private scientific notebooks. It offers a multifaceted portrait that takes readers through his youth, the famous voyage of the Beagle, the development of his thoughts about evolution, his gradual loss of religious faith, and the time spent turning his ideas into a well-articulated theory about the natural origin of all living beings a theory that dangerously included the origin of humans.
The Quotable Darwin also includes many of the key responses to Darwin's ideas from figures across the social spectrum, scientists and nonscientists alike and criticism too. We see Darwin as an innovative botanist and geologist, an affectionate husband and father, and a lively correspondent who once told his cousin that he liked to play billiards because 'it drives the horrid species out of my head'. This book gives us an intimate look at Darwin at work, at home, as a public figure, and on his travels. Complete with a chronology of Darwin's life by Browne, The Quotable Darwin provides an engagingly fresh perspective on a remarkable man who was always thinking deeply about the natural world.
]]>Janet Browne is the Aramont Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her books include the acclaimed two-volume biography of Darwin, Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (both Princeton).
]]>Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford argue that the category of 'women's sport' is not the feminist win some would have you believe. Instead, the segregation of women in sport is just one of the many ways in which women are told to expect less from society. Women had to fight to be included in sport in the first place, and are now only included under far less favourable terms than those enjoyed by men. There are better ways to ensure safety and fairness than segregation by gender. And this matters deeply: ending gender segregation would encourage a more equitable distribution of resources, increase women's participation in sport and challenge outdated, sexist myths about women and their bodies.
]]>Stephen Mumford is a philosopher at Durham University. His many books include Football: The Philosophy Behind the Game (2019) and A Philosopher Looks at Sport (2021), and he is also co-lead of the Feminist Sport Lab.
]]>Alfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of thousands of species new to science, he shared in the discovery of natural selection and founded the discipline of evolutionary biogeography.
Radical by Nature tells the story of Wallace's epic life and achievements, from his stellar rise from humble origins to his complicated friendship with Charles Darwin and other leading scientific lights of Britain to his devotion to social causes and movements that threatened to alienate him from scientific society.
James Costa draws on letters, notebooks, and journals to provide a multifaceted account of a revolutionary life in science as well as Wallace's family life. He shows how the self-taught Wallace doggedly pursued bold, even radical ideas that caused a seismic shift in the natural sciences, and how he also courted controversy with nonscientific pursuits such as spiritualism and socialism. Costa describes Wallace's courageous social advocacy of women's rights, labour reform, and other important issues. He also sheds light on Wallace's complex relationship with Darwin, describing how Wallace graciously applauded his friend and rival, becoming one of his most ardent defenders.
Weaving a revelatory narrative with the latest scholarship, Radical by Nature paints a mesmerising portrait of a multifaceted thinker driven by a singular passion for science, a commitment to social justice, and a lifelong sense of wonder.
]]>Pink has such powerful associations today that it's hard to imagine the colour could ever have meant anything different. But it's only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminised. Indeed, in the eighteenth century, pink was frequently masculine, and the colour has signified many things beyond gender over the course of its long history from the prim to the vulgar, and from the romantic to the eccentric. In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau, a celebrated authority on the history of colours, presents a fascinating visual, social, and cultural history of pink in the West, from antiquity to today.
Pink pigments first appear in ancient Macedonian paintings, but it was not until the eighteenth century that vivid, saturated pinks were developed for dyeing and painting. At the same time, a popular new flower the pink rose finally gave the colour a standard name, and pink, assuming a place in everyday life, began to acquire its own symbolism, distinct from that of red, yellow, or white. Bringing the story up to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Pink describes how the colour, both adored and detested, became associated with many other things, from softness and pleasure to nudity and sex.
Illustrated throughout with a wealth of captivating images, Pink is an entertaining and enlightening account of the evolving role and significance of the colour in art, fashion, literature, religion, science, and everyday life across the millennia.
]]>Most of us spend a third of our waking lives at work. Work sets our schedules, influences our relationships, shapes our identities, and drives our economies. But is it actually making us happy?
This is a deep and profoundly important question, and now leading Oxford researchers Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward provide the richest, most comprehensive picture yet of workplace wellbeing. In Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters, the authors provide clarity on what workplace wellbeing is (and is not), and how to think about and approach it as a business.
Mining a variety of the largest and most in-depth data sources including a unique, massive dataset gathered in partnership with the jobs platform Indeed the book illustrates the remarkable ways in which wellbeing at work varies across workers, companies, industries, and geographies. It also provides new, data-driven insights into the origins of workplace happiness and how to effectively move the needle on improving our working lives.
Drawing on work in economics, psychology, sociology, management, and other disciplines, the authors explain that workplace wellbeing includes both how we think about our work as a whole and how we feel while we're at work. They show, using innovative new data and empirical methods, that improving wellbeing can help raise productivity as well as aid in the retention and recruitment of talent ultimately leading to companies' better financial performance.
With keen insight and nuanced analysis, Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters dispels myths and tests assumptions that have arisen amidst an often-confusing cacophony of voices on wellbeing at work. It also provides a firm foundation and indispensable resource for leaders as they shape the future of work.
]]>George Ward is a Junior Research Fellow in Economics at Somerville College, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at MIT's Sloan School of Management. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, Harvard Business Review, and the American Journal of Political Science. He is a coauthor of the book The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course.
]]>It can be challenging to be mindful when you're trapped in your own head. Overthinking comes in many forms overanalysis, perfectionism, worry, rumination and each of these can be harmful to your productivity and well-being at work.
This book will teach you how to understand what type of overthinking you are experiencing, realise when you're cycling in a mental loop, and break free so that you can trust your gut, make a decision, and move forward with confidence.
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.
]]>As the pace of technological change accelerates, the demand for new skills is increasing. And as technologies like AI take on new tasks and jobs, smart organisations aren't waiting for their new workforces to appear. They are investing in reskilling the workers. They're adopting a skills-based approach to hiring and developing talent. And they're leveraging digital learning tech to upskill their employees dynamically and efficiently. What new approaches should your organization be taking to build the workforce you need now and tomorrow?
Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on rebuilding and retraining your workforce. It explains how to launch the right skilling initiatives, how to measure their impact, and how to prepare your company to compete in the new skills economy.
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organisation needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.
You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas and prepare you and your company for the future.
]]>Each Japanese garden seeks to invoke and imitate nature, and this expert author-and-photographer team excels at capturing, and explaining for the reader, the essential elements and techniques that distinguish Japanese gardens from those in other countries.
The featured gardens range from large feudal-period, temple, private and countryside gardens to mountain flower, tea and miniature bonsai gardens.
The magic of these gardens, where the efforts of nature, man and time complement each other to form a harmonious whole, are captured in stunning photographs and engaging text that brims with fascinating detail.
]]>Kimie Tada graduated from Rikkyo University (Tokyo) with a degree in English Literature, after which she worked as the editor-in-chief of Confort, a Japanese magazine that features traditional Japanese houses and interiors, as well as materials such as tatami, washi and tsuchi-kabe. She now runs I See All Inc., an editorial company which she founded.
Geeta K. Mehta teaches architecture and urban design at Columbia University in New York. A resident of Japan for 23 years, she is a partner in the firm of Braden and Mehta, and has designed projects in the USA, Japan, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Educated at the University of Tokyo, Columbia University, and SPA in Delhi, she is the co-author of several books, including Japan Living, Japan Style and New Japan Architecture.
]]>Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet countless pages have been written about him that assign him an identity: genius, entrepreneur, celebrity artist, outsider. Addressing the ethical stakes involved in studying past lives, Stephen J. Campbell shows how this invented Leonardo has invited speculation from figures ranging from art dealers and curators to scholars, scientists, and biographers, many of whom have filled in the gaps of what can be known of Leonardo's life with claims to decode secrets, reveal mysteries of a vanished past, or discover lost masterpieces of spectacular value.
In this original and provocative book, Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo's words and works, and the distinctive premodern world of artisans and thinkers from which he emerged. Far from being a solitary genius living ahead of his time, Leonardo inhabited a vibrant network of artistic, technological, and literary exchange. By investigating the politics and cultural tensions of the era as well as the most recent scholarship on Leonardo's contemporaries, workshop, and writings, Campbell places Leonardo back into the milieu that shaped him and was shaped by him. He shows that it is in the gaps and contradictions of what we know of Leonardo's life that a less familiar and far more historically significant figure appears.
]]>'A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely addressed...Hilal takes on our beauty-worshipping celebrity culture and the beauty industry for...keeping women in an expensive prison of self-doubt...Ugliness makes a 'big picture' argument, panning outward from one young woman's life to some of the largest issues we confront globally hence to all of our lives.' Rhonda Garelick in The New York Times
]]>Elisabeth Laufferis the recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize. After graduating from Wesleyan University, she lived in Berlin and then obtained a master's in education from Harvard.
]]>Each sheet is solid green paper with a slightly lighter shade on the back to allow your folds to have dimension. Two booklets include tested folding instructions for 9 projects including:
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The issue presents formidable challenges and costs for businesses, national security and, as the Pennsylvania case showed, individuals often society's most vulnerable. But we can watch and learn from cyber extortionists, leaving us better prepared for next time. In 2022, a series of devastating ransomware attacks prompted Costa Rica's President to declare a national emergency, describing a 'state of war'. This episode had much to tell us about how these networks arise, operate, organise and collapse.
Max Smeets' landmark study demystifies the ransomware playbook, from funding to networking. Through one of the largest ransomware operations on record, he reveals how this challenge has evolved, how it differs in substance and style from traditional cyber/hacking threats, and how to combat it.
]]>This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians carelessly assume we're living the 'end of history', until the Great Game comes back, uglier and more callous than ever. It's about men who tried to fix those mistakes, at the risk sometimes loss of their lives.
Shannon Monaghan follows a core group of Western volunteers in Ukraine, fighting together from the early battle for Kyiv through to the last stands at Severodonetsk and Bakhmut. They arrived alone, but became a family back when nobody bothered to learn names, because they all expected to die.
These men knew they'd be fighting without the NATO support they were used to. They knew the danger they faced, and how they might be criticised for fighting someone else's war. But they also knew it was the right thing to do. This is their story.
]]>In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built. Dubai's recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past, while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film and art, the book reconnects the imaginary city with the real proposing a future for humanity that is already grounded in the present and in creative practices of many kinds.
'A compendious, dizzying collection of the cities of the future, and their analogues in the present.Future Citiesholds out the important hope that our cities could be better fairer, more equal, more open rather than just taller and weirder.' Owen Hatherley, author ofMilitant ModernismandTrans-Europe Express
]]>A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. This book follows the turban as it moves from the Arabian Peninsula through the Ottoman Empire to Europe and the Americas. It directs the reader's gaze from traditional and religious uses of the turban into the realms of international trade, Renaissance art and contemporary fashions. Turbans, as this book shows, have moved in and out of Western culture, at times considered archaic and forgotten, then noticed and reinstated as major accessories. Today Sikh men are recognized by their distinctive headwraps, and the turban remains an important part of Black culture. This book explores the turban's many adaptations worldwide.
'I'm impressed by the scope of this study, from the turban as a marker of religious affiliation to a prop for Rembrandt to a distinctive fashion for women. Headgear off to Filstrup and Merrill.' Gay Talese, journalist and author
]]>Jane Merrill has written for many national u.s. magazines and is the author of The Showgirl Costume (2018) and other cultural histories. She lives in Saint George, Maine.
]]>'Let yourself relax.'
'You are the source of your experience.'
This beautifully illustrated 75-card meditation and breathing deck grounds you in a deep sense of presence and awareness, offering:
Use these aspirational, respirational meditations for divination, as part of your daily practice, or whenever you wish to feel more present, connect with your own sense of being, and remember that life is abundant and you are all you need.
]]>Animated by an instinctive sense that our fate is bound to that of the earth and the more-than-human world, Kumar-Rao sets out on a journey across India, listening along the way to stories the land and its people share with her. In the Thar Desert, often reduced to the value of extractable commodities, she learns about ancient methods of harvesting rainwater from shepherds with deep ancestral memories. In the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna Rivers at the Bay of Bengal, she walks ancient shorelines and mangrove forests with a marine biologist, exploring tidepools and learning of the extent to which this astonishingly diverse ecology is increasingly endangered by commercial trawlers and overfishing. And on India's northernmost plateau, surrounded by the Himalaya and home to snow leopards, ibex, and numerous endangered species of eagles and owls, she finds glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate and meets with inhabitants who play little role in creating climate change but now bear the brunt of it.
Richly illustrated with the author's photographs and drawings, Marginlands is a vibrant and compelling account of the changes reshaping India today. Engaging and urgent, infused with wonder and profound empathy, this is a work of love and hope, inspiring readers across the world to preserve and protect the world around us.
'Marginlands is a tour de force, a magnificent first book about India's marginalised landscapes and inhabitants, written with compassion, compressed elegance of observation, and urgent political force.' Robert Macfarlane
]]>Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. At the same time, we have been warned by everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists about the negative consequences stemming from our current obsession with choice. It turns out that not only are we not very good at realising our personal desires, we are also overwhelmed with too many possibilities and anxious about what best to select. There are social costs too. How did all this happen? The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.
Taking readers from the seventeenth century to today, Sophia Rosenfeld describes how the early modern world witnessed the simultaneous rise of shopping as an activity and religious freedom as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions. Similarly, she traces the history of choice in romantic life, politics, and the ideals of human rights. Throughout, she pays particular attention to the lives of women, those often with the fewest choices, who have frequently been the drivers of this change. She concludes with an exploration of how reproductive rights have become a symbolic flashpoint in our contemporary struggles over the association of liberty with choice.
Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from novels and restaurant menus to the latest scientific findings about choice in psychology and economics, The Age of Choice urges us to rethink the meaning of choice and its promise and limitations in modern life.
]]>**Winner, Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award**
When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant.
Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland. Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, from where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Her first-hand, vivid reporting brought the war home to readers in Scotland as she reported from front lines and cities across Ukraine. Stories from the night trains, birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers: stories from the ground, from a writer with a deep sense of empathy, always seeking to understand the bigger picture, the big questions of identity, history, hopes and fears in this war in Europe.
Night Train to Odesa begins in Russia and continues to focus on people, relationships and individuals in Ukraine. It is the account of a young female reporter with no institutional backup or security. Both in language and themes, it is accessible and highly readable.
'Jen Stout is very brave. And she is a storyteller of supreme gifts. I am in awe of her resourcefulness and courage' Fergal Keane
'This account is honest, intelligent, and visceral; it is independent reporting at its finest' Quentin Sommerville
]]>Primary health care and continuous quality improvement: An evidence-based guide provides an accessible contemporary guide on implementing continuous quality improvement (CQI) in PHC settings. The authors draw together two decades of practical experience and established leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in Australia to provide guidance for health services and their staff, policymakers, researchers, funders and support organisations in an international context.
]]>Alison Laycock is a research fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney. Alison has worked collaboratively with community, research and health service partners to develop quality improvement tools and training resources, and guides for health promotion practice and health research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care settings.
Lynette O'Donoghue is a proud Yankunytjatjara and Warumungu-Warlpiri woman, and a research fellow at the University Centre for Rural Health, University of Sydney. She has contributed significantly to Indigenous leadership of the NHMRC-funded Centre for Research Excellence in Strengthening Systems for Indigenous Health Care Equity, advocating meaningful engagement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and services in the design, implementation and translation of research activities.
]]>William James psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, 'is life worth living?' Bringing together many of his best and most popular essays, talks, and other writings, this anthology presents James's answer to that and other existential questions, in his own unique manner caring, humorous, eloquent, incisive, humble, and forever on the trail of the 'ever not quite.'
Here we meet a James perfectly attuned to the concerns of today one who argues for human freedom, articulates a healthy-minded psychology, urges us to explore the stream of consciousness, presents a new definition of truth based on its practical consequences, and never forecloses the possibility of mystical transcendence. Introduced by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, these compelling and accessible selections reveal why James is one of the great guides to the business of living.
'Want to get to know William James, America's most-beloved and perhaps most widely influential philosopher? This wonderful collection gives us James at his best provocative, lyrical, inspirational. Whether you are meeting James in an easy chair, in a classroom, or on a 'ramble,' as James called the mountain hikes he loved, the encounter will leave you richly rewarded.' James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University
'A great collection that lets readers experience James's philosophy as epistemological tonic, moral orientation, and spiritual regeneration. The brief introductions to the individual selections are compelling and written in sparkling prose.' Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of The Ideas That Made America
]]>Jonathan van Belle is an independent scholar and former philosophy editor at Outlier.org. Kaag and van Belle are also the authors of Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (Princeton).
]]>From the Gay Black Group to Haringey Council's pioneering Lesbian and Gay Unit, desi queers were at the centre of anti-homophobic direct action in the 1980s, including the historic 'Smash the Backlash' demo against bigotry. This activism birthed key grassroots groups of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Shakti and Naz, whose founders and early members opened a path of creative resistance to the intersecting violence of racism and homophobia a path of solidarity echoing through the twenty-first century.
These spaces and networks have been a refuge for people doubly marginalised in Britain by experiences of homophobia within South Asian communities, and by the whiteness of mainstream queer scenes. Drawing on artistic creations, archives and oral history, Desi Queers celebrates rich traditions of social and cultural activism alongside stories of everyday life among Britain's LGBTQ+ South Asians.
]]>Rohit K. Dasguptais Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the London School of Economics. He researches queer cultures, digital media and cultural industries in South Asia. He is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
D. J. Ritu is a pioneering EDI activist, international turntablist, Rough Guides contributor and BBC Radio presenter. In the 1980s, she established Shakti Disco at the London Lesbian and Gay Centre, before co-founding both the legendary Club Kali, in 1995, and the queer SWANA (South-West Asian and North African) music club Hoppa. In 2023, Ritu was awarded an MBE for services to music and broadcasting.
]]>An intrepid reporter's fast-paced investigation into the extraordinary life of Viktor Bout, the much-mythologised Russian fixer known as the 'Merchant of Death'.
Viktor Bout was a warlord's warlord, according to MI6, the US National Security Council and the CIA a terrorist facilitator, and the world's most prolific arms dealer. They tracked him everywhere, smuggling weapons from North Korea and the former Soviet Union into the world's bloodiest conflict zones, from Liberia to Afghanistan. Intelligence services called him a secret KGB asset; the White House, the most dangerous man in the world. But Bout strenuously denied this, describing himself as a businessman.
Washington hunted Bout for more than a decade, before finally trapping him and jailing him for 25 years. Then, in December 2022, the story took an unlikely turn: President Biden pardoned Bout and sent him home to Moscow, in a prisoner exchange to rescue basketball superstar Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia on drugs charges. Soon enough, Bout cosied up with doomed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and the Russian governors Putin had installed in occupied Ukraine.
Has America's extraordinary decision to swap Bout undermined Western interests? Has Putin put him back to work in his old business? Through candid interviews with US investigators and Viktor Bout himself, this book reveals the true story of the 'Merchant of Death'.
]]>Based on extensive new sources in Korean, Russian, Chinese and Japanese, Fyodor Tertitskiy tells the unlikely story of one of the twentieth century's most brutal but little-known dictators, from his early life in Japanese Korea to the lasting repercussions of his autocratic rule today. Tertitskiy showcases Kim's political prowess in gaining autonomy from the USSR; explores how his inept economic policy led to catastrophic famine; and highlights how he implemented a system of hereditary rule, paving the way for today's 'Supreme Leader', Kim Jong-un, to assume power and continue his grandfather's vision.
Accidental Tyrant serves as a stark cautionary tale, underscoring that the triumph of liberty is never guaranteed. Met with insufficient resistance, even the most unlikely leader can build a regime of repression and privation that long outlives its founder.
]]>Chaos. Destruction. Disorder. Confusion. It's everything most try to avoid.
But should it be? Are you willing to entertain another perspective? As a sought-after executive advisor to visionary leaders and power brokers in business, entertainment, and culture, Christine Owenell explores an unconventional approach to leadership that utilises chaos both internal and external as a tool to support growth, expand perspective, and hone mastery.
Her debut book, Alchemy of Chaos, aims to crystalise and develop what is required to lead in times of uncertainty. It reframes chaos as an essential natural phenomenon that can be leveraged to create new pathways of thought, action, and possibility.
Drawing upon archetypal psychology, ancient wisdom, ontological philosophy, and personal insights, she posits that a full embrace of the turbulent unknown will drive our evolution as individuals and as a society.
Alchemy of Chaos is a book brimming with the possibility of a robust experience found within unexpected avenues. It guides you through an exploration of these avenues so you may mobilise your best resources and walk your unique path of self-actualisation no matter the circumstances.
Learning how to harness the power of the unknown is fundamentally transformative. On this pathway, you discover that true innovation happens in provocative ways, and that to create from beyond the known, you must first see what is here. This is a journey of paradox and perspective.
Mystery activates us. Contrast defines us. Wonder moves us. All these things are the fabric of chaos.
]]>Christine provides a gateway to access unrealised human potential by weaving together elements of business strategy, archetypal psychology, and modern mysticism. Her work centers around rediscovering and redefining impact, influence, and legacy from the inside out.
Her career has spanned academia as a Clinton Scholar in the Middle East, to a research practicum centering on hostage negotiation and counter terrorism, to living on four continents, to acting as senior vice president of a billion-dollar investment firm, to co-founding an impact fund. Through it all, she has nurtured a fascination with the psychology of the human condition and how elements of mindset can be activated for personal growth and magnetism.
]]>The first-generation wealthy are a type of modern superhero. From humble beginnings to unexpected heights of success, these men and women have changed their lives, families, communities, and futures forever. They've fought the hard battles, they've suffered big losses, they've overcome fierce adversaries, and they've lived to tell the tale.
But what is it that makes them so successful? How did they turn several generations of financial struggle into lasting generational wealth? And more importantly, how can the rest of us do what they've done? How can we become financial superheroes ourselves?
In Unleash Your Financial Superpowers, investment manager and wealth coach Gregory Luken draws on his four decades of working with the first-generation wealthy to reveal the secrets behind their enduring financial triumphs and their strategies for overcoming the 'Seven Deadly Financial Villains' that rose up against them.
You'll also:
Through real-life examples and actionable steps, Luken guides you on a journey to achieve financial mastery, create a life of purpose, and ultimately attain the ultimate asset: Enough.
]]>The author of several books, Luken has been published in Forbes, Financial Advisor Magazine, Wealth Management Magazine, ThinkAdvisor, Tampa Medical News, Nashville Medical News, The Nashville Business Journal, and The Tennessean. He has also been a member of the Forbes Financial Counsel. Luken has been a guest on global financial networks, including Fox Business News, CNBC, Reuters TV, and Bloomberg Radio.
Luken enjoys playing music, skiing, hiking and occasionally obsessing about exercise. He is active in his church and is a graduate of Elizabethtown High and Baylor University (Go Big E! Sic' 'Em, Bears!). He resides in Tennessee with his wife, a few motorcycles, too many guitars, and their two dogs.
]]>Imagine a world where the mission and vision of every organisation is clear, and employees are energized to come to work, they enjoy working together, and they have clarity for how to achieve their goals.
Stewarding people is one of the greatest responsibilities of a leader, and building a healthy culture takes intentionality. Author, speaker, and leadership expert Jenni Catron teaches leaders that if your culture is not healthy, your strategy is irrelevant. Using her LeadCulture Framework, Catron challenges leaders to be intentional about culture and to build it with passion, clarity, and teamwork. By providing a system for leaders to use in their own organisation, she equips readers with helpful insights and an actionable plan to build an extraordinary culture.
Culture Matters offers real stories of businesses and leaders who created and implemented a strong culture and who succeeded in leading well. This book provides the building blocks for success. It will help you as a leader assess your purpose, culture, and strategy in your organizations. Use its tools to create and assess your company values, create an organisational chart, and develop leaders. And above all, create a healthy culture and then build and maintain that momentum.
]]>Host of the LeadCulture podcast, Jenni is certified in Predictable Success and Working Genius, and is the creator of the LeadCulture Framework. Her mission is to help leaders develop clarity and confidence in their roles, encouraging them to lead themselves well so they can lead others better.
Jenni is the author of three other leadership books, but her commitment to leadership excellence goes well beyond writing; she also shares her insights at conferences and events around the world, inspiring and equipping leaders to excel in their spheres of influence.
As founder and CEO of The 4Sight Group, Jenni extends her expertise to consult organisations on leadership, team culture, and overall organizational health. She started The 4Sight Group in 2016 as a way to provide culture and leadership training to an even wider audience and now has a team of LeadCulture-certified coaches who work with leaders around the world.
]]>The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime. He maintained his innocence until his death in 2012.
Among the passengers was Flora, beloved daughter of Dr Jim Swire. Jim accepted American claims that Libya was responsible, but during the Lockerbie Trial he began to distrust key witnesses and supposed firm evidence. Since then it has been revealed that the USA paid millions of dollars to two central identification witnesses, and the only forensic evidence central to the prosecution has been discredited.
The book takes us along Dr. Swire's journey as his initial grief and loss becomes a campaign to uncover the truth behind not only a personal tragedy but one of the modern world's most shocking events.
'A shattering tale of grief and love' Daily Mail
]]>Peter Biddulph began working with Jim to tell his story in 1999. Within ten days someone had accessed his computer and copied all notes and files, including the manuscript. Jim Swire's intention to write a book had made him a campaigner for the truth and also a 'person of interest'.
]]>**Longlisted, Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing, 2023**
Rohingya men, women and children have been fleeing their homes for forty years. The tipping point came in August 2017, when almost 700,000 were wrung from Myanmar in a single military operation. Today, very few members of this Muslim minority remain in the country. Instead, they live mostly in Bangladesh's refugee camps; or precariously in Malaysia, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
With the Rohingya almost entirely in exile, I Feel No Peace is the first book-length exploration of their lives abroad, drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews and long-standing relationships within the diaspora. Kaamil Ahmed speaks to the families of snatched children, and people kidnapped to feed the human trafficking nourished by Rohingya suffering. Most disturbingly, he reveals the complicity of NGOs and the UN in the refugees' plight.
But Ahmed also uncovers resilience and hope; stories of how a scattered community survives. The lives uncovered in I Feel No Peace are complex, heart-breaking and unforgettable.
'This book goes to the heart of the eternal and under-reported suffering of the Rohingya. Forced out of what once was Burma and now is Myanmar, most are in exile in Bangladesh and beyond. An important story of our times.' Jon Snow
'This book paints a deep, complicated and appalling picture: of one million people who have fled danger but now face immense risks from those they thought would protect them. While documenting the harm done by the UN and the Bangladeshi state, Ahmed humanises those normally dehumanised the refugees.' Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
'A haunting and poetic, yet incisive and grounded, account of the tragedies that have befallen the Rohingya, of the realities of a people living almost entirely in exile, and of their struggles to maintain dignity and hope in the face of persecution and betrayal.' Kenan Malik, author, broadcaster and Observer columnist
'Kaamil Ahmed's book fills a glaring void in the literature on one of the world's worst examples of cruelty and dispossession. It promises to bring much-needed attention to the catastrophe of the Rohingya and deserves to be widely read.' Christopher Lamb, President, Australia Myanmar Institute
]]>The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, they helped to set the basic template of what has been known ever since as rock music, and gave rise to one of the most commercially successful bands of all time: Led Zeppelin. Peter Stanfield situates the band in the rise of British R&B and the tumult of the psychedelic era. Obsessively detailed about both the band and 1960s pop culture, this is the book fans of The Yardbirds have always needed.
]]>As a multiracial, autistic, intuitive artist, Marcella Kroll has spent years understanding and appreciating the freedom that comes with being born in a world in which no predetermined path existed for her. For creatives, for healers, for the neurodivergent, and for anyone else who is searching for their place, this book is a celebration of unconventional existences through history, space, and time with parables and lessons from Marcella's ancestors and other spirits with whom she has connected, even throughout the cosmos. Learn to understand your multidimensional, constantly changing soul through the prism of these stories, as well as through the practical advice that Marcella has acquired through decades of study.
]]>Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turkey. Celts registered deeply on the classical imagination for a thousand years and were variously described by writers like Caesar and Livy as unruly barbarians, fearless warriors, and gracious hosts. But then, in the early Middle Ages, they vanished. In The Celts, Ian Stewart tells the story of their rediscovery during the Renaissance and their transformation over the next few centuries into one of the most popular European ancestral peoples.
The Celts shows how the idea of this ancient people was recovered by scholars, honed by intellectuals, politicians, and other thinkers of various stripes, and adopted by cultural revivalists and activists as they tried to build European nations and nationalisms during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Long-forgotten, the Celts improbably came to be seen as the ancestors of most western Europeans and as a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France.
Based on new research conducted across Europe and in the United States, The Celts reveals when and how we came to call much of Europe 'Celtic', why this idea mattered in the past, and why it still matters today, as the tide of nationalism is once again on the rise.
]]>The research was exhilarating, and then again at times deeply disheartening. I was to encounter more passion, intimacy, cruelty, horror, complexity, generosity and wild beauty than I could ever have imagined. Living with flying-foxes, I came to understand, takes us straight to the heart of every big question facing Earth life in the 21st century.'
In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before hear death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation that flows across and between generations. Grounded within this insight, she develops and advocates for an ethics of attention that is in the world within everyday practices, and in this case for and with flying foxes and their worlds.
]]>The Fundamental Field is made up of two essays: the first is by White on Malpas; the second is by Malpas on White. The volume closes with a set of three new philosophical poems by White.
]]>Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer. He published numerous works of poetry and prose, with volumes and essays in French as well as English. His work has also been translated into several languages. He was the recipient of many awards and honours, in Europe and Scotland, including the Grand Prix du Rayonnement Francais by the Academie francaise for his work as a whole (1985), the douard Glissant prize from the University of Paris VIII for his 'openness to the cultures of the world' (2004) and Prix de poesie Alain Bosquet for Les Archives du Littoral, a bilingual poetry collection (2011).
]]>How does it feel when you cannot find Palestine under 'P' in the encyclopaedia your father brings home? Why cultivate fig and orange trees in the Arizona desert? What does it mean to know every inch of a village you have never seen, a village that no longer exists?
In this groundbreaking volume, 102 Palestinians in North America and the United Kingdom reflect in their own words on what it means to be Palestinian in the diaspora. Men and women, young and old, Christians and Muslims, including well-known academics, poets, writers, faith leaders and singers, reveal their tangled ties to 'home' and 'homeland', exploring how Palestine in the diaspora can be both lost and found, bereaved and celebrated, lived and longed-for.
Touching, often troubling, but full of character and wit, the reflections in Being Palestinian offer a radically fresh look at the modern Palestinian experience in the West. And the time-honoured issues of identity, exile and diaspora give acute sense to these very personal reflections
]]>What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo.
Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown.
]]>Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other language, in the Nivacle language of Paraguay and Argentina, and unusual and unique features in several other languages. Along the way, he has experienced dangers and challenges, the joys and excitement of fieldwork, and encountered first-hand the importance of collaborating with indigenous groups to help document and revitalise their languages.
Written with humour, heart, and a clear dedication to endangered languages and their speakers, Lyle's vivid memoir is a lesson not only on life in the field but on the importance of language documentation. With so many of the world's languages being lost at an alarming rate, this remains the most compelling and urgent task for linguists now and into the future.
]]>When it comes to improving your drawings nothing beats consistent practice. Committing to sketching a little bit every day will go a long way to getting closer to being the best illustrator, artist, or designer you can be. In this book, popular YouTube teacher Spencer Nugent gives simple lessons and prompts explaining how to draw complex objects as well as basic fundamentals and practice exercises to keep skills sharp, including:
Now retired, he has found time to write and lives with his wife, dog, and two cats in Logan Lake, BC, Canada.
]]>Dive into photography's rich heritage with A Brief History of Photography, an engaging almanac-style book that offers far more than just the typical and dry historical accounts of the genre. With more than 400 fascinating trivia entries and delightfully odd anecdotes, this book breathes life into the background details, stories, and personalities behind the cameras and processes we know and love.
Meticulously researched and written over two decades, this thoroughly entertaining and highly readable book provides an understanding of photography's evolution, from its beginnings going as far back as the 16th century all the way up to the modern day. Whether you're dipping into the book for just a few minutes or sitting down for an afternoon of reading, you'll explore the seminal cameras, lenses, and chemical processes that paved the way, as well as the visionary inventors, influential magazines, and significant photographers who made photography what it is today.
Profusely illustrated with both photographs and line drawings, A Brief History of Photography is an essential addition to any photographer's library. Whether you're a seasoned professional, an avid enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates the magic of capturing images with your smartphone, this book offers an entertaining and educational look into the genre's rich history. The perfect gift for either yourself or the photographer on your list A Brief History of Photography is a must-have for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of this extraordinary art form.
]]>Now retired, he has found time to write and lives with his wife, dog, and two cats in Logan Lake, BC, Canada.
]]>A vital step in developing drawing skills, gesture drawing helps aspiring artists get more comfortable with studying the human body and learning how to depict its connections, curves, and movements. Noted drawing instructor and best-selling author Michael Hampton shares all the secrets for developing gesture and figure drawing skills.
Geared towards the novice and experienced artist alike, this book aims to clarify and explain the ambiguous concept of gesture drawing. Pulling from formal principles of line, rhythm, shape, and perspective, Gesture Drawing slows down the often rapidly executed practice of gesture and clarifies each step. Featuring examples and a wide range of exercises, this book will help anyone become a stronger and more confident artist.
]]>This collection of quotes has been curated from Dwayne Johnson's numerous public statements interviews, social media posts, television appearances, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of his legacy as one of the world's most recognisable and influential celebrities. The quotes in this collection touch on football, wrestling, Hollywood, building a business, heritage, activism, and more.
Johnson, a third-generation wrestler, rose to prominence in the late 1990s as one of the most electrifying and charismatic performers in the history of professional wrestling. Debuting in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as Rocky Maivia, he quickly gained attention for his athleticism, microphone skills, and larger-than-life persona. Embracing the moniker 'The Rock', he became a cornerstone of the Attitude Era, and his unparalleled ability to connect with audiences propelled him to multiple WWE Championships. His catchphrases and signature moves became iconic in wrestling lore and garnered mainstream attention beyond the world of wrestling as well.
After achieving superstardom in the ring, Johnson transitioned to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of the highest-paid actors in the world and starring in blockbuster films including The Mummy and Jumanji, as well as appearing in DC Comics franchise films and voicing Maui in the Disney hit Moana, a nod to his Samoan heritage that he proudly touts as central to his identity. Beyond acting, he has built a business empire that spans multiple enterprises, including a production company, a premium tequila brand, sportswear, and a digital content platform.
Johnson's entrepreneurial spirit and versatility beyond his entertainment career earned him a nod as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2019. Now, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: In His Own Words offers a unique look into the mind of one of the world's most captivating and beloved personas.
]]>On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker's death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighbourhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying.
But how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighbourhood fall into such ruin? The answer can be found two decades earlier. In response to redlining and discriminatory housing practices, the Johnson administration passed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1968. The Federal Housing Authority aimed to use this piece of legislation to help low-income families of colour finally achieve homeownership. But they could never have predicted how banks, lenders, realtors, and corrupt FHA officials themselves would use the newly passed law to make victims of the very people they were supposed to help, and the devastation they would leave in their wake.
A compulsively readable hybrid of true crime and investigative journalism, The Killing Fields of East New York reveals how white-collar crime reduced a prospering neighbourhood to abandoned buildings and empty lots. Following the dual threads of the hunt for the network of criminals behind the first subprime mortgage scandal and the ensuing downfall of East New York, Stacy Horn weaves a compelling narrative of government failure, a desperate community, and ultimately the largest series of mortgage fraud prosecutions in American history. The Killing Fields of East New York deftly demonstrates how different types of crime are profoundly entangled, and how the crimes committed in nice suits and corner offices are just as destructive as those committed on the street.
]]>The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism.
Demonstrating Kandinsky's mastery of colour, line, shape, composition, and movement, the book includes notes and preparatory studies for major paintings, such as the 'analytical drawing' for Composition VII (1913), the first study for Several Circles (1926), and Study for Composition IX, a preliminary working of his 1936 masterpiece. Visually stunning, the book offers a remarkable, intimate look at how Kandinsky sought to discover nothing less than a spiritually transcendent form of art.
]]>Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator, and was a founding member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee. He is the editor of the ISMs series, including Holzer-isms and Abramovi-isms, as well as Basquiat's The Notebooks and James Rosenquist: Collages, Drawings, and Paintings in Process (all Princeton), among many other books.
Dieter Buchhart is a curator and art critic who has organised exhibitions at museums around the world, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris. He writes frequently for Kunstforum International.
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features cover art of from the Sarong Buketan, made in The Tie Siet workshop, Pekalongan (1920-1930s).
Original Art found in Batik:Traditional Textiles of Indonesia from The Rudolf Smend & Donald Harper Collections. This cover print may be found in the book Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia (Tuttle Publishing).
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing has a Modern Batik cover design featuring 'kawung', an ancient motif from 13 Century Java, Indonesia. This batik was inspired by the cross section of a sugar palm fruit that symbolises perfection, purity and longevity with flirting butterflies and foliage.
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features cover art of from the Sarong Dlorong Buketan, made in The Tie Siet workshop, Pekalongan (1920-1930s.) Peonies, loved for their bold size and colours, are a symbol of elegance and beauty.
The original art can be found in Batik: Traditional Textiles of Indonesia from The Rudolf Smend & Donald Harper Collections. This cover print can be found in the book Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia (Tuttle Publishing).
]]>This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features 'Batik Udan Liris' from Jogjakarta, Central Java. Udan Liris means of 'drizzling rain' symbolising determination and gratitude after facing different obstacles in life.
]]>Fodor's Alaska travel guide includes:
Planning on taking an Alaskan cruise? Check out Fodor's The Complete Guide to Alaska Cruises.
]]>Fodor's 'Essential' guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020!
Fodor's Essential New Zealand travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting other destinations in Southeast Asia or the Pacific? Check out Fodor's Essential Australia, Fodor's Essential Vietnam, and Fodor's Essential Thailand.
]]>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.
]]>Imagine going for a walk with a knowledgeable friend who points out all the plants you see and the coolest facts about them. This practical field guide is that friend, providing a delightful introduction to 60 of the plants, trees, weeds, and herbs you'll encounter walking around most US cities.
Accurate, charming line drawings accompany detailed yet accessible botanical information about each plant that helps you easily identify it in all seasons. You'll also learn each plant's backstory, including its relatives, origins, historical uses, and other fun facts.
Getting to know the plants you meet every day will help you strengthen your sense of place, improve your foraging game, make new botanical and herbal friends, and marvel at the life that is all around us.
]]>Emotional regulation is key to becoming a better parental figure for every member of your family. Discover the tools to successfully regulate those emotions so you can work with and nurture your child from the very beginning until they are independent (or interdependent) from you, continuing to grow into a person who trusts themselves and is unafraid of impostor syndrome.
Your Child's Greatness will act as a manual to the principles and skills that are critical in the development of healthy self-esteem in children, including:
From expert authors Lisa and Richard Orbe-Austin comes an honest, reliable, and nurturing guide that makes sure every parent and guardian has the tools they need to raise their children without impostor syndrome.
]]>Trained as a clinician and researcher, her work is focused on providing practical, achievable results through research-backed science. She is a contributor to The American Psychological Association's volume on Imposter Phenomenon entitled The Impostor Phenomenon: Psychological Research, Theory, and Interventions (APA Press, 2024).
Her first book, Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life (Ulysses Press, 2020) coauthored with her partner, Dr. Richard Orbe-Austin, was released in April 2020. Their book was a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book Award. Her second book, Your Unstoppable Greatness: Break Free of Impostor Syndrome, Cultivate Your Agency, and Achieve Your Ultimate Career Goals (Ulysses Press, 2022) is focused on dealing with the systemic dynamics in workplaces and cultures that keep impostor syndrome in place and how to directly combat those dynamics.
Dr. Richard Orbe-Austin is a licensed psychologist, executive coach, and consultant. He earned his PhD in counseling psychology from Fordham University's Graduate School of Education and his BA in psychology from NYU. In his practice, Dr. Orbe-Austin works with executives, senior leaders, and mid-career professionals to overcome impostor syndrome, identify their best-fit career options, advance their career goals, and strengthen their leadership skills. He also regularly consults to academic institutions, corporations, and nonprofit organisations on issues related to leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, anti-racist practice, burnout prevention, impostor syndrome, and creating healthy workplaces.
Dr. Orbe-Austin's opinions and writings have appeared in a variety of publications and academic journals, including Forbes, Fast Company, ThriveGlobal, Diversity Executive, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development and the Handbook of Racial-Cultural Counseling and Psychology. He is a TEDx speaker and the author of the book Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life (Ulysses Press, 2020), coauthored with his partner, Dr. Lisa Orbe-Austin. The goal of the book is to provide a systematic formula to eliminate impostor syndrome and to assist readers to own their talents and power in order to fully realise their goals and lead a more balanced life. It was a Foreword INDIES Book Award Finalist. His second book Your Unstoppable Greatness: Break Free from Impostor Syndrome, Cultivate Your Agency, and Achieve Your Ultimate Career Goals (Ulysses Press, December 2022), also coauthored with his partner, focuses on how to sustain your impostor syndrome-free life, reduce burnout, and improve healthy leadership skills while conquering toxic work cultures. He is also a contributor to the American Psychological Association's volume on impostor phenomenon, entitled The Impostor Phenomenon: Psychological Research, Theory, and Interventions (APA Press, March 2024).
]]>This handwritten and hand-drawn book of charming tutorials for natural housekeeping and home repair, organic gardening and food preservation, herbal first aid, and mending clothes is both fun and accessible. It's full of simple skills that anyone can and should learn.
From creating healthy tinctures and salves to preserving excess food to fixing a leaky faucet, this book is great if you're looking to live more simply, create a comfortable nest, and truly do it yourself. Combining the power of Raleigh Briggs's bestselling Make Your Place and Make It Last to form a complete guide to everything you need to consume less and live more in line with your values.
]]>This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society. The Idea of Waste explores how we have grappled with both the material reality and the spectre of this shape-shifting phenomenon throughout history utilising it, dreaming of overcoming it, yet never escaping it. John Scanlan explores what waste is and why it seems to be intrinsic to human life, at every turn, in every age and epoch. Finally, he demonstrates how waste never disappears, but rather only proliferates anew. The compelling narrative shows waste to be both an enduring material consequence of human activity and an idea or state of being.
]]>In her paradigm-shifting book, Aleeza Ben Shalom, dating coach and Netflix star, will guide readers through her highly original perspective on dating, revealing the surprising ways in which a person's dating habits directly influence their chances of finding lasting love. With her unique blend of wisdom and humor, Aleeza debunks widespread societal myths about love, inviting readers to reframe how they approach the practice of dating. Each chapter introduces the reader to a specific methodology while also sharing select clients' stories to show the theory in practice. Helpful tools, including checklists, rules, reminders, tips, hacks, and frequently asked questions, are included throughout.
In the crowded world of self-help and dating booksMatchmaker Matchmaker stands out as a transformative relationship guide. Aleeza Ben Shalom brings the same dynamic energy from her Netflix series, offering readers a fresh and insightful approach to finding lasting partnership. Perfect for fans of John Gottman books or anyone else struggling to understand how to love and be loved, Matchmaker Matchmaker provides a roadmap to meaningful romantic connections for people of all ages and backgrounds.
]]>Recovery is the most readily available yet underutilised tool for well-being, the counterbalance to your active lifestyle that allows you to rise to the ever-increasing demands and pace of work, training, and life. This is a missed opportunity that makes you vulnerable to illness, injury, and burnout. Through reflection, writing prompts, and accessible mental and physical recovery tools, Move, Rest, Recover guides you to activate, strengthen, and sustain your own restorative practice. Learn to move through each day more effectively and with more ease, and to use recovery to full advantage by:
Whether you're putting in long hours at the office, training for a marathon, or managing the schedule and demands of your household, you'll gain understanding of how to clear lingering mental and physical stress and tension throughout your day, every day, in ways that work for you.
You can do everything right curate the best schedule, follow the perfect training plan, and eat all the right foods but without fully embracing your mind and body's innate need for rest, and dedicating ample attention to it, you will miss out. Use this book to rest and recover now, right where you are.
]]>Learn more and practice with Erin at erintaylor.works.
]]>Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston's UK portion of the Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500 clients, Roberts had reservations about working with a pop star. But Houston's heart of gold won him over from the moment they met at Heathrow airport.
There's a high bar for those who work in this business: you must be willing to die for your boss. Houston made that easy. Roberts got to travel the globe with one of the most fun-loving and generous souls he'd ever met. His memoir reveals heartwarming anecdotes of life with one of the world's most recognisable stars, including privately shared moments such as the birth of Bobbi Kristina.
Bet there are also shocking and heartbreaking revelations. Roberts was present for some of Houston's most challenging ordeals. And he was helpless as he watched those who claimed to love and support her betray her confidence for their greed.
His heart was ultimately shattered as he witnessed her succumb to the one threat he could not protect her from: herself.
]]>Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.
Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching the disembodied heads of suicide bombers. But it was facial approximation sculpting a face from the remnants of an unidentified victim's skull that intrigued her the most. Bailey knew that if she could capture that person's likeness in clay, she just might help them be identified, and that might help law enforcement track down their killer.
Bailey worked on hundreds of cases and grew to become a subject matter expert in the field. It was the most challenging and fulfilling work she could have imagined, and she never thought of leaving. But her life changed when she became the target of sexual discrimination and harassment. She was stunned when FBI management protected the abusers and retaliated with threats, slander, and an arsenal of lawyers. Trapped in an increasingly hostile work environment, and infuriated at the hypocrisy of the FBI's tactics, Bailey decided to fight back.
Clay and Bones is a memoir with a mission, and a fascinating exploration into the surreal and satisfying work of a forensic artist.
]]>This bedside journal features a medley of evocative quotes from Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland stories, as well as gorgeous illustrations and ample space to record dreams and muse on their meanings.
]]>On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423. In the early hours of May 29, fog descended on the St. Lawrence River, and the ocean liner was rammed by the Storstad, a Norwegian coal ship. In the fourteen minutes it took for the Empress of Ireland to sink, there was time to launch only four of the forty lifeboats, and rather than women and children first, it was everyone for themselves.
Over a thousand people died that night, claiming the lives of more passengers than either the Titanic or the Lusitania, and the tragedy stands as the worst maritime disaster during peacetime in Canadian history.
Investigative journalist and author Eve Lazarus draws on a trove of historical documents, including small-town newspaper reports, the Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, and first-hand accounts passed down through personal letters and family lore, to tell the story of the wreck and its aftermath through the eyes of the survivors. Through these records, as well as interviews with experts and descendants of the passengers, Lazarus recounts the story from both a Canadian and a Norwegian perspective and investigates why many of the accounts regurgitated in newspapers and books for over a hundred years are wrong. The result is an absorbing and utterly stirring narrative that uncovers tales of heroism and sacrifice, human endurance, and modern-day shipwreck hunters.
Beneath Dark Waters is an epic chronicle that restores the Empress of Ireland largely forgotten in the shadow of the Titanic disaster as well as its survivors and victims to their rightful place in maritime history. With black-and-white photos.
]]>The Chinese-Indian thaw, which lasted until 1998, prompted highly optimistic visions of a 'China-India Century of Cooperation' enabling both powers to compete with the US and EU in terms of trade and military capacity. None of this happened, and instead the China-India relationship is highly rancorous, punctuated by trade spats and border skirmishing between the People's Liberation Army and the Indian Army. New Delhi has gravitated towards the US in the hope of checkmating an assertive Beijing's pursuit of global military and trade dominance. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of India and China's comparative strategic capabilities, sharing many insights drawn from the author's first-hand engagement with and research into the questions discussed.
The opinions expressed in this book are personal and do not represent those of the Government of India.
]]>The Ethiopian call for Eritrea's return, supported by the UK and the US, sealed its fate at the international level. First, in the early 1950s, the UN General Assembly federated Eritrea as an autonomous unit under Ethiopian sovereignty; a decade later, Addis Ababa annexed it as a province in neither case was the population consulted, sparking a liberation war.
This vital book traces the genesis of the Eritrean independence struggle through hitherto unexplored local sources, both written and oral, analysed against the rather scanty existing literature on this period. Alemseged Tesfai refocuses the narrative on the actions, reactions and expectations of a relatively small nation, in both size and population, as it set out to right an international wrong, imposed by the Great Powers of the day.
]]>The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben's sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking whose path is to expose, examine, and elaborate that which remains obscure, unthematised, even unsaid, in an author's thought. To be archeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a method attuned to a 'world supported by a thick plot of resemblances and sympathies, analogies and correspondences.'
The range of authors and of topics Agamben collects in this slim but dense volume exemplifies this search to create a science of signatures that exceeds either a semiology or hermeneutics vainly attempting to determine the pure and unmarked signs that signify univocally, neutrally, and eternally.
Three conceptual figures organise this treatise and the advent of Agamben's own new method: the paradigm, the signature, and archeology. Each chapter is devoted to an investigation of one of these concepts whose genealogy Agamben carefully constructs transhistorically and from an interdisciplinary perspective. And at each moment of the text, Agamben pays tribute to Michel Foucault whose methods he rethinks and effectively uses to reformulate the logic of the concepts he isolates. The Signature of All Things reveals once again, how and why, Agamben is one of the most innovative thinkers writing today.
]]>Explore Switzerland through simple and delicious dishes for the evening meal. Each recipe is accompanied by a fascinating story about the dish's history and ingredients. From Zurich's famous Birchermuesli, to Graubnden's Pizzoccheri (buckwheat tagliatelle), to the saffron risotto of Switzerland's Italian region, let these sweet and savoury supper recipes help you connect (or reconnect) with Switzerland. Learn Swiss history, culture, and geography and taste one of the world's favourite travel destinations.
]]>'Thomas Hoerber's analysis of these two giants of the history of economics makes us re ect on the crisis of our own time as much as on the world they inhabited.' Martin Daunton, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge
]]>'A brief, thoughtful biography [and] a welcome addition to the literature on a creative master who continues to stand apart.' Tim Page, Wall Street Journal
'A wide-ranging yet taut narrative, in which the musical works are balanced with the life story. And while this is far from the first Sibelius biography, [Daniel M. Grimley] adds something new by meticulously drawing on relevant cultural, artistic, historical and political context.' BBC Music magazine
]]>'Life Itself is likely to be the most important book ever published on the history of South African photography. Simon A. Clarke's text is elucidating and the well-chosen photographs for the book are aesthetic and documentary at the same time.' Roger Ballen, artist/photographer
]]>Looking to take your golf game to the next level? In Let the Big Dog Eat, author and avid golfer Aaron Brogan perfectly blends entertaining anecdotes from his life growing up as a competitive golfer in Maine with the actionable lessons he has learned in all aspects of the game.
Alongside practical tips and tricks to help you be successful on the course, Brogan introduces you to everything from the history of this ancient game to the unwritten rules of golf, all with a cheeky and sardonic tone that is sure to entertain as much as it does inform. Having this knowledge builds the perfect foundation for tackling the fundamentals of playing golf, including Brogan's tried-and-true methods for:
Whether the course is your second home or you've just discovered what a driver is, Let the Big Dog Eat will be your friendly guide as you learn to perfect your techniques, lower your golf scores, and simply enjoy the game as much as possible!
]]>Brogan began playing golf as a child in Maine, and grew to play competitively through his teenage years. Since then, through lifes many turns, golf has been his constant companion. Besides golf, Brogan writes about public policy, economics, and metaethics. He spends his leisure time travelling the world climbing mountains, riding motorcycles, and making the most of his short time on Earth. In this pursuit, he admires Leonard Cohen, Billy Joe Shaver, and Josef Koudelka. He is also an avid photographer and publishes is work at @barsons_baddies on Instagram.
]]>Originally written by former Lion, Clem Thomas and continued by his son, Greg the 2016 edition and 2020 editions were published by Vision Sports Publishing and sold out.
With reviews of every tour undertaken since 1888, comprehensive stats and lists of every player to pull on the famous red jersey, this book once again will appeal to the legion of Lions fans all over the UK.
]]>Neil Douglas-Klotz, bestselling author of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, offers new translations from Jesus's native language in the form of a meditation a day, an oracle, or a guide for a forty-day retreat. Through expansions of Aramaic's multiple meanings as well as guided contemplations, The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days provides a guide to transformation through the way of the prophet. It shows how the deepest teachings of Jesus address contemporary challenges, such as our relationships with nature and each other, as well as the purpose of life itself.
In short chapters, the book takes up life themes you're facing and offers meditations to address them. Each chapter is introduced with a short saying and keyword of Jesus, heard with 'Aramaic ears', and then proceeds to show how this applies to a life issue today. This book offers a unique perspective on Jesus's teachings that can help you to connect with them on a deeper level and live a more authentic, fulfilling, and compassionate life.
]]>When Christopher Penczak was introduced to Witchcraft, he found a spiritual path through which he could honour and embrace his homosexuality. In Gay Witchcraft, Penczak's clearheaded theory and practice combine to create a classic book of Witchcraft focused on the perspective of the gay community.
Penczak's writing has made it much easier for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people interested in practising any form of Witchcraft. His willingness to share his own personal journey and the foundations that made the Craft accessible allows readers to find their own ways of practice. This book explores the history of Paganism and offers a compendium of spells, meditations, ceremonies, and affirmations that will enrich both the novice and the experienced practitioner seeking out new views of myth, ritual, and healing.
This new Weiser Classics edition replaces a previously published edition. The Weiser Classics series offers essential works and foundational texts from renowned authors and spiritual teachers, as well as introductory guides on an array of topics by contemporary writers and practitioners.
Weiser Books, esoteric and occult teachings since 1957.
]]>In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noe explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.
Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noe argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon, and art our most direct and authentic way of engaging the aesthetic is the truest way of understanding ourselves. All this suggests that human nature is not a natural phenomenon. Neither biology, cognitive science, nor AI can tell a complete story of us, and we can no more pin ourselves down than we can fix or settle on the meaning of an artwork. Even more, art and philosophy are the means to set ourselves free, at least to some degree, from convention, habit, technology, culture, and even biology. In making these provocative claims, Noe explores examples of entanglement in artworks and seeing, writing and speech, and choreography and dancing and examines a range of scientific efforts to explain the human.
Challenging the notions that art is a mere cultural curiosity and that philosophy has been outmoded by science, The Entanglement offers a new way of thinking about human nature, the limits of natural science in understanding the human, and the essential role of art and philosophy in trying to know ourselves.
]]>The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.
Even as Kennan championed rational realism in foreign policy, his personal and professional lives were marked by turmoil. And though he was widely respected and honoured by presidents and the public, he judged his career a failure because he had been dropped as a pilot of U.S. foreign policy. Impossible to classify, Kennan was a sui generis thinker, a trenchant critic of both communism and capitalism, and a pioneering environmentalist. Living between Russia and the United States, he witnessed firsthand Stalin's tightening grip on the Soviet Union, the collapse of Europe during World War II, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold War.
An absorbing portrait of an eloquent, insightful, and sometimes blinkered iconoclast whose ideas are still powerfully relevant, Kennan invites us to imagine a world that Kennan fought for but was unable to bring about one not of confrontations and crises but of dialogue and diplomacy.
]]>The Housing Monster is a scathing graphic guide that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing a house and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker's diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street.
Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. The text is accompanied by clean black-and-white illustrations that are mocking, beautiful, and bleak.
This new edition includes analysis situating and exploring the text's impact around the world by Lazo Ediciones in Argentina, Ben Kritikos in Scotland, and Sean KB of the Antifada podcast in the US.
]]>Lazo Ediciones is a group who write, translate, and publish communist, anarchist, and working-class texts in Spanish. Their members also participate in the Biblioteca y Archivo Alberto Ghiraldo, Biblioteca La Caldera, the magazine Cuadernos de Negacin, the newsletter Oveja Negra, the podcast Temperamento, as well as other projects. They are mainly located in the geographical region controlled by the Argentinian state.
Ben Kritikos is a writer, broadcaster, and worker based in Glasgow, UK. He co-hosts the podcast Spaghetti for Brains, as well as writing and hosting the radio show Red White Blues: an Anthology of America's Music, which explores the history of American power and its reliance on petroleum through the lens of jazz records. He's provided voiceover for film, radio, and audiobooks, including the audiobook version of The Housing Monster. He regularly publishes cultural histories through his newsletter Spaghetti for Brains and elsewhere.
Sean KB is a union construction worker in New York City and co-host of the popularcommunist podcast the Antifada.
]]>Titles such as Rodent Mutation, The Human Bat vs The Robot Gangster, Dawn of the Mutants and Mushroom Men from Mars appeared from fly-by-night publishers making the most of the end of post-war paper rationing. They were brash and seductive for around a shilling the future was yours. The stories were often conceived around a pre-commissioned cover and a title suggested by the publisher, and the writers were paid by the word, and sometimes not paid at all. Titles were knocked out at a key-pounding pace, sometimes over a weekend, by authors now lost to literary history (plus a few professionals who could spot an opportunity) who were forced to write under pseudonyms like Ray Cosmic, Steve Future, Vector Magroon or Vargo Statten.
Despite the tight deadlines and poor pay, the books' cover artists still managed to produce works of multi-hued, brain-bending brilliance, and collected here is an overview of their output during an unparalleled period of brash optimism and experimentation in publishing.
]]>Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly blended the personal and the political.
In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years in the cosmopolitan community of artists on the Greek island of Hydra. Back in Sydney, Clift found her opinions were far more progressive than those of many of her fellow Australians.
This new edition of Charmian Clift's essays, selected and introduced by her biographer Nadia Wheatley, is drawn from the weekly newspaper column Clift wrote through the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. In these 'sneaky little revolutions', as Clift once called them, she supported the rights of women and migrants, called for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, opposed conscription and the war in Vietnam, acknowledged Australia's role in the Asia-Pacific, fought censorship, called for a local film industry - and much more. In doing so, she set a new benchmark for the form of the essay in Australian literature.
'My regard for Charmian Clift veers uncomfortably close to veneration, which appals me. The figure of Clift as a messy morality tale about what happens when you run off to be a writer comes at the expense of the work she produced, which is to the contrary searing in its clarity. This collection is a reminder of the work behind the legend: her bent, her conviction, and her cool. And the sentences! Clift's essays evince an ardent attention to life in all its vagaries, which is really the most a person can give.' - Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries
'Charmian Clift was ahead of her time and yet also representative of them. Her essays are a fascinating, thoughtful sometimes judgemental, sometimes lyrical window into an Australia on the brink of change. Whether you always agree with her opinions or not, she writes like a dream and her voice is wry, insightful and self-aware. It is lovely to see her gaining the recognition she has long deserved.' - Jane Caro, Walkley Award winning columnist and author
'When I first stumbled on Clift's essays, twenty or more years ago, these trashy essays written for a disposable occasion seemed to me to have more lightning and quicksilver, more brilliance and more skill of execution, than any Australian writing other than the great novels of Patrick White and Christina Stead.' - Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald
'Reading these essays, it's easy to see why Clift became a cult figure. The chatty, charming and sometimes slightly dippy persona distracts attention just enough from the steely intelligence, the sophisticated sentence structure and the passion for causes that characterise these pieces but might otherwise rather have alarmed her readers ... In an era that hadn't yet thought too much about these things, her columns demonstrated that a woman ... could and should be an active citizen of the world.' - Kerryn Goldsworthy, Australian Book Review
'From the women's pages of the Sydney Morning Herald, among advertisements for wrinkle cream and mini-skirts ... Clift challenged a complacent society, fashioned a sly and elegant sedition: opposing Vietnam, unmasking materialism, championing equality for women.' - Mark Tredinnick, The Book Bulletin
'These are essays unabashed in their sensuality and liveliness, keenly curious and attuned to mystery and marvel, and they are almost always full of joy.' - Fiona Wright, Sydney Review of Books
]]>Nadia Wheatley is the author of The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift. Described by critic Peter Craven as 'one of the greatest Australian biographies,' this was the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2001, and won the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize (2002). After twenty years it remains the classic account of the life and work of this transformational Australian writer. Nadia Wheatley's other works include the award-winning memoir Her Mother's Daughter. Her most recent book, Radicals Remembering the Sixties, written in partnership with Meredith Burgmann, was published by NewSouth in 2021
]]>Knitters in the early decades of the twentieth century had their pick of patterns which were published regularly in a variety of books, newspapers and magazines. Vintage Knits presents a curated selection of these patterns from Australian publications of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, tested and updated to make them practical for today's knitter. The book features vintage material from the original publications with contemporary full-colour photographs of the garments as they have been recreated today. Interwoven throughout the book are sections reflecting on the social and cultural history of knitting in Australia.
Tapping into the trend for everything vintage, as well as the 'handmade revolution' and resurgence of knitting, this book will bring style and joy to any modern knitter!
]]>Drawing on recipes, food editorials and readers' memories, A Matter of Taste is a celebration of the Weekly's vital role in the development of Australian food culture, debunking the myth that Australian food was 'bland' and 'boring' prior to postwar migration, and illuminating important relationships between food, culture and identity. It shows that the magazine encouraged its readers (mostly women) to be adventurous, to experiment in the kitchen, and to try new ingredients and flavours, stimulating an eclectic, Australian way of eating, which is still reflected on our tables today.
Meticulously researched and beautifully presented, A Matter of Taste takes you on an entertaining, nostalgic and insightful culinary journey through Australian food, culture and history.
]]>The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse backgrounds, all born before 1946 and all of whom have achieved great things in older age. From Mig Dann, an 80-year-old artist who worked for David Bowie and completed a PhD in her seventies, to Pauline Lorenzen, a 75-year-old Indigenous solicitor working to support women; from Robina Rogan, a boat-builder planning a sea voyage at age 82, to Rosemary Salvaris, a 76-year-old civil celebrant who has taken up orienteering, these women show that learning has no age limit.
As the generation of Australian women who waved the flag for feminism enter retirement, let's change the conversation around what it means to be 'old'. Our ageing population is not a burden - it's time to celebrate the contributions that older women make to our community.
Time of Our Lives also gives insights into how to ensure our own lifelong learning and live to the fullest.
'A must-read for all those women who refuse to go gentle into that good night.' - Maxine McKew
]]>Dr Maggie Kirkman is a psychologist and a Senior Research Fellow in Global and Women's Health at Monash University. Before gaining a PhD at age fifty, she taught kindergarten children, children with hearing impairments and children with profound disabilities. She has worked at La Trobe and Melbourne universities, and her research includes women's experiences of infertility, abortion, donor-assisted conception, breast cancer and ageing well. Maggie is the author of My Sister's Child (with Linda Kirkman, Penguin) and the editor of Sperm Wars (with Heather Grace Jones, ABC Books). She appears regularly in the Australian media, including on ABC Radio and in The Conversation. In 2019, Maggie was recognised as an inaugural Champion for Women by Women's Health Victoria.
]]>Cathy Goes to Canberra tells both the story of the campaign to win Indi around the community's kitchen tables and the subsequent realities of negotiating good policy with the major political parties. This is a handbook a 'how to be elected' and a 'how to survive' Canberra, and a manifesto for an alternative community-based politics.
In 2004 McGowan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia 'for service to the community through raising awareness of and stimulating debate about issues affecting women in regional, rural and remote areas.' McGowan was also a recipient of the Centenary Medal in 2001.
]]>During her time as a politician, Cathy actively worked in parliament to develop policy around regional development, a national integrity commission, a code of conduct for politicians, as well as drought policy. In 2019 she was awarded The Accountability Round Table award for political integrity. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia, a Churchill fellow and lives very happily on her farm in the Indigo Valley in northeastern Victoria.
]]>The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.
Part memoir, part love letter, The Swift Dark Tide is also a chronicle of life by the sea, journeying between Melbourne's St Kilda and the Black Sea town of Odessa. Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of soulful, strident women and beautifully nuanced men. She invites us into home and heart to witness love, loss and joy, motherhood, daughterhood and the urgent wildness of the body.
Praise for The Swift Dark Tide:
'A lyrical memoir of family, inheritance and queer becoming. Ariel writes with the eyes of a poet and the heart of a true romantic. Her sentences are crystalline marvels, gifts to be savoured and held up to the light.' - Yves Rees, author of All About Yves
'Alive with passion and pain, exquisitely metaphorical, Ariel's memoir is a stunning feat of honesty. Not only a captivating story of one relationship and its breathtaking beginnings, it is also a journey of family, migration, motherhood, and entrusting ourselves to our hearts and bodies. The writing pulses with love, drawing meticulous connections between place, family and desire spanning continents, bodies and generations. Immerse yourself in Ariel's richly poetic world and savour its visceral impact.' - Katherine Brabon, author of The Shut Ins and The Memory Artist
'Rich and raw, lyrical, philosophical but also deeply moving, The Swift Dark Tide is that rare thing: an unforgettable memoir.' - Nigel Featherstone, author of My Heart is a Little Wild Thing and Bodies of Men
]]>Recipient of Varuna Residential Fellowship for Swift Dark Tide, 2022.
'The Cave', winner of Ann Morgan Prize, 2021.
'Retrieving Delores,' Antithesis Journal, October 2021.
Shortlisted for Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021, 'Retrieving Delores' (declined by author due to simultaneous publication in Antithesis).
'The Final Day Is for Solitude' poems; Womankind Magazine, April 2020.
'Heart Attic' essay; Victorian Writer Magazine, June 2020.
'Black Pearl' essay; Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writer Prize, Highly Commended 2018.
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