Exploring Nature through Citizen Science introduces citizen science and showcases its benefits, with a focus on Australia, including urban environments. The book explores the various types of projects available, explaining how the data is used to create real-world impact and offering practical guidance on what photographs to take and which data to record for different groups of organisms. Example projects from across Australia range from activities you can do in your home to active data collection in more remote areas, making it easier than ever for people to get involved in citizen science.
With its friendly, accessible approach and many photographs, this book serves as a must-have guide for anyone looking to understand how best to get involved in citizen science in Australia.
'The Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) is proud to endorse this comprehensive book on citizen science. Whether you're new to citizen science, a seasoned practitioner, or simply curious about the power of community involvement in scientific discovery, this book offers something for everyone.' Annie Lane, Former Chair, Australian Citizen Science Association (2022-2025)
'If you're a curious person who wants to make a difference from right where you are today, this book is for you." Carrie Seltzer, PhD, Head of Engagement, iNaturalist.
]]>A renowned figure in Australian art, Arthur Boyd is particularly well known for his paintings. His tapestries, however, are hidden gems that have received relatively little attention. Boyd's series of 20 textiles known as the Life of St Francis (197274) are particularly awe-inspiring in their vision, scale and artistry. On the occasion of the National Gallery exhibition Arthur Boyd: tapestries, which exhibits the cycle all together for the very first time, this stunningly illustrated book unpicks this textile cycle's fascinating context, and weaves the story of their miraculous creation through Boyd's collaboration with the renowned tapestry workshop Manufactura de Tapecarias de Portalegre in Portugal.
The book includes full reproductions of the tapestries and elucidates Boyd's idiosyncratic and humanist interpretation on the life of SaintFrancis. The first essay by Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, Australian Art, dives poetically into Boyd's background and his use of biblical and literary sources as vehicles for artistic expression. It also suggests that Boyd entwined the life of his father, the artist William Merric Boyd, with that of SaintFrancis, exploring them both as conflicted figures who resided at the peripheries of human society and experience.
The second essay by Adam Lindsay, Deputy Director, beautifully illuminates the technical brilliance of the tapestries and the intertwined challenges of their creation with the weavers' artistry. This process is brought to life through first-hand details, photos and archives from the Manufactura.
This is the definitive publication on Boyd's St Francis tapestries.
]]>At the end of the acclaimed history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilisations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.
After 1177 B.C. tells how the collapse of powerful Late Bronze Age civilisations created new circumstances to which people and societies had to adapt. Those that failed to adjust disappeared from the world stage, while others transformed themselves, resulting in a new world order that included Phoenicians, Philistines, Israelites, Neo-Hittites, Neo-Assyrians, and Neo-Babylonians. Taking the story up to the resurgence of Greece marked by the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., the book also describes how world-changing innovations such as the use of iron and the alphabet emerged amid the chaos.
Filled with lessons for today's world about why some societies survive massive shocks while others do not, After 1177 B.C. reveals why this period, far from being the First Dark Age, was a new age with new inventions and new opportunities.
'A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful...You cannot understand human civilisation and self-organisation without studying what happened on, before, and after 1177 B.C.' Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan
]]>In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the 'Sea Peoples' invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilisations. Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, famine, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life a vibrant multicultural world, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires of the age and shows that it may have been their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse.
Now revised and updated, 1177 B.C. sheds light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and eventually destroyed, the flourishing civilisations of the Late Bronze Age-and set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece and, ultimately, our world today.
'The memorable thing about Cline's book is the strangely recognisable picture he paints of this very faraway time...It was as globalised and cosmopolitan a time as any on record, albeit within a much smaller cosmos. The degree of interpenetration and of cultural sharing is astonishing.' - Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
'Engaging...[An] absorbing tour of the Late Bronze Age.' - Josephine Quinn, London Review of Books
]]>He lives in California.
]]>Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Poor Charlie's Almanack draws on Munger's encyclopaedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics and more besides to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger's characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.
'A timeless classic that will change how you approach life. There is a billion-dollar education inside this book.' Shane Parrish, founder of Syrus Partners and Farnam Street
'Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,' Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie's Almanack.
]]>She provides detailed step-by-step instructions for more than 40 wonderfully decorative models, including:
Tomoko Fuse's Amazing Kusudama Origami features over 650 folding diagrams with easy-to-follow instructions and photos showing you how to create each geometric model!
'Tomoko Fuse is considered a living master of modular and practical origami.' The New York Times
]]>*Recommended for experienced folders and up*
]]>Step-by-step instructions and diagrams guide you from start to finish as you create:
Origami box folding is a relaxing and satisfying craft for all levels of expertise and - with a little practice and this easy origami book - gift-giving will never be the same.
"A terrific guide to learning or practicing origami." Booklist
A link to Nova's The Origami Revolution featuring Tomoko Fuse
An artistic anthology of her most impressive work, Tomoko Fuse's Origami Art can serve multiple purposes: as inspiration for an experienced origami folder; as a truly impressive coffee table book for the artistically-minded; or as a push for intermediate folders to try their hand at modular origami models.
'Familiar or not with the works of origamiartist Tomoko Fuse, readers will be astonished and intrigued by the piecesgathered in this anthology of her designs. Abstract yet reminiscent of modernshapes and contemporary sculptures, her folded-paper art transcends the mediumof kami, the Japanese word for paper. Coauthor Brill, himself an origamipractitioner, wisely lets the art speak for itself, only categorizing it intofive sections that will help readers understand the differences: knot,tessellations, infinite folds, repetitive folding, lampshades...A science for artists; an art for scientists.' - Booklist
]]>Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury.
Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these ten pathfinding women.
]]>The Space Age probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars ushered in a golden age of planetary science, transforming planets from distant mysteries into vividly realised worlds. This book provides a comprehensive, accessible survey of the entire solar system, covering all major planets from Mercury to Saturn, the outer solar system and asteroids. It includes insights from leading scientists through in-person interviews, oering an engaging overview for general readers and amateur astronomers. Noting Earth's small, beautiful and precarious nature, this book fills a unique niche, presenting the latest discoveries without losing sight of the broader picture, making it essential for anyone interested in our celestial neighbourhood.
]]>Clifford J. Cunningham is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland and Associate Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. His books include Asteroids (2021) in Reaktion's Kosmos series. Asteroid 4276 (Clifford) is named in his honour.
]]>Of the world's iconic predatory species, orcas are among the most fearsome. Their awesome physical power combined with their cooperative hunting skills and ability to problem-solve make them uniquely efficient killers. Yet orcas also celebrate births, grieve losses, and maintain lifelong family bonds. This stunningly illustrated book draws on five decades of field research and cutting-edge science to provide an incomparable look at the biology, natural history, culture, and conservation of these awe-inspiring marine animals. It explores the behaviours and characteristics of the world's diverse orca populations from Antarctica, Iceland, and South America to Norway, Spain, South Africa, the Pacific Northwest of Canada, and the United States and reveals the startling discoveries that scientists have made in recent years. Wild Orcas takes you on an epic ocean excursion to encounter these magnificent creatures as you have never seen them before.
]]>The book presents seven stories of communities who have worked to control weeds over the past 30 years. It shares how Landcare groups have achieved positive environmental change and forged close-knit social networks to effectively respond to bushfires, floods and a pandemic.
Bringing insights garnered from social research, In the Weeds offers fascinating stories and practical suggestions for starting a local environment group or making an existing group stronger. From developing achievable goals, to shared leadership and the need for coffee and cake, this book explains step-by-step how to grow and nourish a thriving community.
'This wonderful book by Sonia Graham will find a home with all those who care about our environment and protecting natural ecosystems.' Brett Summerell, Chief Scientist, Botanic Gardens of Sydney
]]>The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Sauropods brings together every species of long-necked dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilised remains. Whether you're curious about Brachiosaurus, Titanosaurus, or the multitude of less familiar sauropod species, this encyclopedia covers them all.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-colour reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, available individually, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organised for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.
]]>The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Ornithischians brings together every species of armoured and horn-faced dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilised remains. Whether you're curious about Stegosaurus, Triceratops, or the multitude of less familiar ornithischian species, this encyclopaedia covers them all.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-colour reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, available individually, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organised for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopaedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.
]]>The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Theropods brings together every species of predatory dinosaur known to have roamed the prehistoric world, with a dedicated entry for each species describing its key characteristics, taxonomic classification, location, and known remains along with a concise history of its discovery. Each species is beautifully brought to life with vivid illustrations and is supported by meticulously detailed diagrams of all known fossils. These visual aids enable readers to explore how scientists reconstruct these incredible creatures from fossilised remains. Whether you're curious about Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, or the multitude of less familiar theropod species, this encyclopaedia covers them all.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs is a comprehensive three-volume resource for anyone who is fascinated by dinosaurs. Packed with engaging dino facts and original, full-colour reconstructions, drawings, and graphics, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia strikes a perfect balance between depth and accessibility detailed enough to captivate professionals yet clear and exciting enough for beginners eager to dive into the amazing lost world of the dinosaurs. The three volumes, available individually, are Theropods, Sauropods, and Ornithischians. Organised for easy reference, these books are perfect for casual browsing or in-depth study. Together, this encyclopaedia invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to walk among the wondrous beasts of the Mesozoic era.
]]>As new scientific discoveries unsettle entrenched views, and awareness of the dingo's ecological and cultural value grows, Australia is being forced to confront uncomfortable questions. Is the dingo a native species or a feral intruder? A wild canid or domestic dog gone rogue? A threat to biodiversity or one of its last remaining guardians? The answers matter, because they flow into real-world decisions that determine whether dingoes are protected or killed across much of the continent.
Blending field science, published research, historical evidence and expert perspectives, this book cuts through longstanding myth and political noise to offer a deeper understanding of the dingo and its place in modern Australia.
'Beautifully written and literally bursting with factual information. Of all of the publications on dingoes...this is a standout for readability.' Lyn Watson, FounderDirector of the Australian Dingo Foundation
]]>Through sharing women's stories in their own words, Marlene Longbottom enables them to take back their narrative and reclaim power. The title itself embodies a vital truth: the unwavering refusal by Indigenous women and their families to be silenced or ignored any longer.
With deeply personal narratives from Indigenous women who have faced violence, and Indigenous families who have endured profound loss, this book shatters the silence around their stories. Marlene Longbottom amplifies these voices, demanding systemic change that is long overdue and highlighting community-led pathways toward a life beyond violence.
]]>Defiant Resistance stands as powerful example of this commitment, drawing upon her decade-long research into the violence and harm experienced by Indigenous women and families. For the past 17 years, she has led community-based research and evaluation projects in urban, regional and remote areas of New South Wales and Queensland. Marlene's deep commitment to Indigenous agency and self-determination has been recognised through prestigious honours including a Discovery Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award (DAATSIA) from the Australian Research Council.
]]>Hunted to near extinction, wolves evoke a sense of our planet's dwindling wildernesses. Rather than fear them, we should better understand the crucial role they play in ecosystems throughout the world. This engaging, fact-filled book shares insights into the family histories, relationships, and significant life challenges of wolves while linking them to broader questions about wildlife conservation and management. Written by a world-renowned expert in wolf behaviour and reintroduction, Wolf: The Illustrated Biography offers a unique perspective on these charismatic animals, charting the life stories of wolves in all their diversity and complexity.
Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, bush crickets, and katydids make up the order of insects known as Orthoptera. Although there are about 30,000 species of Orthoptera around the world, many people pay little attention to them and even scientists know relatively little about them. Yet the world of grasshoppers is a fascinating and diverse one. In this richly illustrated book, leading researchers from around the world detail the many facets of these insects, including their evolution, life cycles, and mating behaviour. The book presents interesting facts and stories about species such as monkey hoppers, Cooloola monsters, king crickets, wetas, and sandgropers. It also describes efforts to protect grasshoppers and the relationship between humans and these insects.
The book features four main sections:
Oliver Hawlitschek is a lecturer who teaches about the biodiversity of invertebrates at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on evolutionary biology, biodiversity, and species conservation.
]]>Anime expert Jonathan Clements presents game changing moments in Japanese film history from Japan's first black-and-white animated feature to modern blockbusters which have redefined the art form. From box-office hits to career-threatening flops, each of these case studies has changed the anime world in its own unique way, influencing developments in content, production methods, or distribution, capturing all the vibrancy and diversity of this world-beating medium.
This illuminating book describes the twenty most notable films in anime history, including:
Clements reveals behind-the-scenes decisions that changed the course of Japanese animation. Which movie was finished by a staff of out-of-work waitresses? Which animator hated his work so much that he threatened to shave off his own eyebrows? How did a maverick producer enlist fans to drive his movie to box-office gold? Which director learned his trade by watching The Bad News Bears ten times?
Illustrated with full-colour images, this fascinating book is a must-read for every devoted anime fan!
]]>In this compelling survey, art historian Andreas Marks traces the development of Japanese illustrated books in premodern times. As early as the 17th century, Japanese publishers were producing thousands of illustrated titles on subjects ranging from religion and poetry to celebrated beauties, famous kabuki actors, farting warriors, and adventure tales. This flourishing book culture laid the foundation for the vibrant manga and comics industry of today.
Marks explores this evolution through five key works, including:
Japan's Manga Revolution offers the first comprehensive overview of Japan's rich tradition of illustrated storytelling and its lasting impact on visual culture worldwide.
]]>This first-ever photographic history offers a rare archival look at the rise and evolution of the legendary system that has crisscrossed Japan for over 60 years. Make station stops as the lines linked and expanded. Trace the tech evolution of trains that became sleeker and ever faster through the years.
This illustrated guide gives readers a first-class seat on a fact-filled journey through time, offering:
All aboard for a colourful photographic history of 60 years of Japan's amazing shinkansen the bullet train!
]]>Step into a world of quiet beauty through the floral artistry of Japan. Written by the director of a renowned Osaka tea utensils shop and an ikebana master, this richly illustrated book celebrates the harmony between nature, art, and ritual.
Each of the twelve chapters corresponds to a month of the year, with reflections on the changing seasons, personal stories of flowers and vases, and poetic insights into the spirit of chabana the art of tea flowers. Alongside these lyrical essays you'll find practical advice to guide you in the subtle art of selecting, cutting, and placing flowers.
Lavishly illustrated with over 187 full-colour photographs, this book offers a rich visual journey through the sensual beauty of tea ceremony flower arrangements, including the vessels, tools and painted scrolls used to complete each display. More than a guide, it invites readers see the world more deeply in a new way one flower at a time.
]]>The Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Food helps food lovers around the world understand all the intricacies and nuances of Japanese food ingredients and culture. Definitions of Japanese food terms found online and in standard dictionaries are misleading and often simply wrong. Richard Hosking eliminates this problem by giving each term a concise English definition with rich cultural and historical notes.
This new and expanded edition has 240 colour photographs along with 100 black and white drawings for easy identification. These allow readers to identify everything from abura-age fried tofu to zeusai red-bean soup. A series of fascinating appendices address critical elements of Japanese cuisine from how miso and sake are made to the keycomponents of a Japanese meal.
Newly typeset and featuring a foreword by cookbook author Debra Samuels, The Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Food helps food lovers and visitors discover the wonders of one of the world's truly great cuisines.
'A must for anyone interested in the cuisine of Japan.' Saveur Magazine
'Newly typeset and featuring a fascinating and informative new foreword by Japanese cookbook author Debra Samuel, The Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Food will continue to help both food lovers and visitors to Japan discover the wonders of one of the world's great cuisines.' BooksAboutFood.com
]]>'The revelations are as juicy as can be' Harper's Bazaar
What really makes the royal family tick?
It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as the monarchy has existed. And who better to ask than the army of servants and staff past and present who feed and clothe the royals, organise their days, polish their shoes, carry the deer they shoot and even put the toothpaste on their toothbrushes?
From medieval times, when the Groom of the Stool oversaw the monarch's lavatorial exploits, and courtiers accompanied the king and queen to bed on their wedding night and made bawdy remarks until ushered out of the room, below-stairs staff have had a unique insight into the lives of their royal masters.
In this lively and colourful history, now updated in paperback, royal expert Tom Quinn goes behind palace doors to give a compelling glimpse of Britain's royals, ancient and modern. Here you will find the tales of the equerry who threatened to throw Queen Victoria out of her own stables, the junior footman who had to change his name on the orders of the queen, and the lady in waiting who, with Prince Philip's mother Princess Alice, regularly set fire to her rooms at Buckingham Palace.
Perhaps most intriguing of all, we see, through the eyes of serving and recently retired staff, how today's royals live including how the relationship between Meghan and Harry and William and Kate started with high hopes and descended into bitterness and anger, and how the former Prince Andrew's life has changed since being cast out by the royal family.
]]>When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom.
With humour and empathy, Susana Mons tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Mons, one of today's leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own.
Blending philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal.
]]>When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.
Here, Gillen D'Arcy Wood traces Tambora's global and historical reach: how the volcano's three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.
]]>Tales as old as antiquity whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the genderfluid Tiresias, or the infamous Heracles are still capturing our imaginations thousands of years later. But was antiquity's relationship with queer folk more complicated than we now imagine? Historian Jean Menzies dives into the world of queer readings and retellings of Greek mythology, inviting readers to discover the power to be found in remaking these narratives, time and again.
From explorations of gender and identity across millennia, to celebrating queer love in its many forms, All the Violet Tiaras carves a space for queer stories to be told with all the complexity and tenderness they deserve and a goddess or two thrown in for good measure.
]]>Across time and location, women were raised to be agreeable and 'good'. Hyper-visible as sexual objects but invisible as full people. Living in a physical world created by men for men. Taking on the ultimate role of birth-giver and caretaker, yet seeing it remain an unsung act, even as it's a God-like creation. Only in midlife did Nolan begin to realise she was capable of living outside these cages of conditioning so slyly insidious that they're nearly invisible.
Good Woman elegantly probes the knotty conditions themselves, the costs of adhering to them, and what happens when one refuses to comply. The twelve stunning and unforgettable essays blend memoir, reportage, and history to create a collection that is alternately bold, brash, and explosive, and ravishingly tender, sensual, and joyous. Nolan takes aim at big and old ideas, and she does not miss. Hers is a testimony to witness and to savour.
'A stone cold, knock-out punch delivered with the caress of a silk glove.' Brittany Cooper
'If you love the essays of Roxane Gay or Rebecca Solnit, Nolan's book will be your brilliant new companion.' Sarah Rhul
'Poetic, fierce, tender, sexy, and scholarly' Tracy Clark-Flory
'This good woman thinks boldly and writes with exhilarating passion. Whatever the subject gender, sex, race, class, art, politics she disrupts piety and honours complexity. These are smart and daring essays to learn from and revel in.' Margo Jefferson
'Good Woman is everything we have come to expect from Nolan: blisteringly intelligent, well-honed, sharp arguments laid next to the softest and most tender parts of herself bared to us, encouraging us to do the same...arresting, sobering, electrifying work.' Eirinie Carson
'Electrifying... Startlingly clear-eyed... Stunning in scope... Revelatory... Crafted with Nolan's intellectually curious, animated narration,Good Womanwill resonate with readers who sense that things are not working out quite the way they should.' Shelf Awareness
]]>She has been featured in Vogue, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, NPR and more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
]]>In this charming book, professional Japanese cat illustrator Sayo Koizumi shows you how to create expressively cute cat sketches, drawings and paintings using a wide variety of different styles and media. Packed with hundreds of colourful examples and helpful tips, it enables artists at all levels to sketch and paint their favourite felines in anatomically correct poses as well as adorably cute cartoons!
Detailed tutorials walk you through the entire process from A to Z, including:
Discover the endless joys of drawing cats right meow!
]]>Man on the Run paints an illuminating picture: from McCartney's nervous breakdown following the Beatles' split through his apparent victimisation by the authorities to the rude awakening of his imprisonment for marijuana possession in Japan in 1980 and the shocking wake-up call of John Lennon's murder. Ultimately, it poses the question: if you were one quarter of the Beatles, could you really outrun your past?
]]>We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now targeted by someone seeking to make a profit.
In Privatising humanity, Kate Bayliss shows how wealthy investors, including asset managers, target our essential services. When it comes to investments in these sectors, shareholder profits are funded by us, the end-users and tax-payers who simply wish to meet our basic human needs for water, warmth and shelter. We have no alternative but to pay into these structures that often generate massive returns for investors and dysfunctional systems for society.
Unpacking the details of these processes in three sectors in the UK water, energy and housing Bayliss exposes the devastating consequences of this model, which is contributing to deepening inequality.
]]>Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of 'late socialism' (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.
Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period.
The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.
'[An] extraordinary book.' Brian Eno
'One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.' Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir
'Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.' Slavoj iek
'Extraordinary and brilliant.' Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisation
]]>Princes Amongst Men is the only book to provide an overview of Gypsy music across the Balkans, documenting remarkable artistry in former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is also the only travelogue available through terrain many consider to be Europe's 'Badlands', covering ghettoes and villages, railways and motorways, weddings and funerals, festivals and dive bars.
No other writer has emulated the spirit of Jack Kerouac on the Balkan roads, in search of adventure, artistry and romance. This updated and expanded new edition transforms Cartwright's original 2005 text including fresh interviews, further travel writing and the latest updates on music making and society across the Balkans.
]]>How an iconic bird's final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction.
The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gsli Plsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.
Plsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialised it as a natural phenomenon. Plsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists' Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern and as something that could be caused by humans.
Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.
]]>Artificial intelligence will shape our future in unforeseen ways, and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it could someday dictate the terms of our very existence. But the fact is, the more that AI can do, the more it underscores the irreplaceable qualities of human creativity, empathy, and moral reasoning. This is one of the eight paradoxes of AI that Virginia Dignum explores in this revelatory book. Drawing on her decades of experience in AI research and governance, Dignum cuts through the hype and sensationalism that often surround AI and reveals why the most profound questions it raises are not about technology but ourselves.
The AI Paradox is a guide to seeing complexity with clarity, questioning the seemingly inevitable, and using AI in ways that prioritise our collective values. Each paradox explored in this book illuminates a particular dimension of these emerging technologies while prompting us to reevaluate our most common preconceptions about them. Can they truly replicate human decision making or do they simply magnify our blind spots and biases? Is AI the ultimate problem-solving tool or does it introduce more problems? Is justice for all achievable when it comes to AI? Who does AI serve, big tech or the common good? How do we even define AI?
With thought-provoking examples and paradoxical insights, this powerful little book challenges us to reimagine the role of these technologies in our lives, advocating for a collaborative, transparent, and inclusive approach that keeps humanity at the core of AI innovation.
]]>Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Javier Rodrigo have written both an assessment of the current crisis of democracy and a brief history of fascism and far-right populism around the world. By illuminating the historical record, this book will help readers better understand the distinctive, twenty-first-century challenges faced by our democracies.
]]>In documenting the Wagner Group's story up to the dramatic demise of its chief director, Evgeniy Prigozhin, Margolin demonstrates that Wagner was not an aberration, but a manifestation of the new geopolitical order of global capital, global crime, and of the entrepreneurs that thrive in it.
'At once deeply researched and as readable as a thriller.' Mark Galeotti
'An important book about the world's most dangerous mercenary outfit. Margolin unearths new details that will surprise readers.' Sean McFate
'Margolin takes readers deep into the shadowy underworld...A must read.' Clarissa Ward, CNN
'A tale of violence and political intrigue that reads like a Tom Clancy novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.' The Wall Street Journal
'Riveting...It's a vital window onto the weird world of secretive, privatized modern warfare.' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
]]>The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Christianity or rather, of early Christianities through five centuries of Empire, mapping its pathways from the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople. It is a story with a sprawling cast of characters: not only theologians, bishops, and emperors, but also gods and demons, angels and magicians, astrologers and ascetics, saints and heretics, aristocratic patrons and millenarian enthusiasts. All played their part in the development of what became and remains an energetically diverse biblical religion.
The New Testament, as we know it, represents only a small selection of the many gospels, letters, acts of apostles, and revelations that circulated before the establishment of the imperial church. It tells how the gospel passed from Jesus, to the apostles, thence to Paul. But by using our peripheral vision, by looking to noncanonical and paracanonical texts, by availing ourselves of information derived from papyri, inscriptions, and archaeology, we can see a different, richer, much less linear story emerging. Fredriksen brings together these many sources to reconstruct the lively interactions of pagans, Jews, and Christians, tracing the conversions of Christianity from an energetic form of Jewish messianism to an arm of the late Roman state.
]]>From the beginning, sacrifice lived a double life in Christianity, both abandoned and essential. Christ's death on the cross was the sacrifice to end all sacrifice, eclipsing the temple sacrifices of Judaism and paganism. And yet at the centre of the lived faith was the repetition of sacrifice: the offering of Christ's body, the sacrifices of ancient patriarchs, and the sacrifices of martyrs woven through liturgy, theology, and popular devotion.
But this double life collapsed in the Reformation. Quarrelling heirs to Christian truth discovered that the sacrifices they once called Christian might be nothing of the sort. To build their new faiths to discover the truth of Christian sacrifice they turned to the past, learning from Christianity as it was how Christianity ought to be.
In On the Altar, Jonathan Sheehan offers a new account of sacrifice both sacred and secular. His story is in part a history of the Christian imagination across the centuries of the Reformation, when new martyrs and holy warriors fought for the truth of their sacrifices, when the empire of New World sacrifice was recruited to settle Christian conflicts, and when the sacrifices of the ancient Hebrews were weaponised for orthodoxy. But it is a history of the secular imagination as well, as the vast archive of Christian sacrifice was dispersed and applied to things that humans make, their religions, politics, and societies. With On the Altar, Sheehan reveals a new history of both Christianity and the secular world in which we still live.
]]>It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labour: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors' offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world several in her own family celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be 'normal.'
In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers. They develop caring potential few realised men possessed. In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more. The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man and what the implications might be for society and our species.
]]>From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic moulds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Fungi and Human Life explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us.
Nicholas Money takes readers on a guided tour of a marvellous unseen realm, describing how our immune systems are engaged in continuous conversation with the teeming mycobiome inside the body, and how we can fall prey to serious and even life-threatening infections when this peaceful coexistence is disturbed. He also sheds light on our complicated relationship with fungi outside the body, from wild mushrooms and cultivated moulds that have been staples of the human diet for millennia to the controversial experimentation with magic mushrooms in the treatment of depression.
Drawing on the latest advances in mycology, Fungi and Human Life reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of fungi to our lives, from their vital role in supporting the ecosystems on which we depend to their emerging uses in lifesaving medicine.
]]>Traditional personal finance books generally promote the same goals for everyone: make as much money as possible, fund your kids' college educations, and save for retirement. These books mechanistically advise us to budget, take out a mortgage, open savings accounts, and so on without much thought as to who we are as individuals.
But is that all? Will that formula make you happy?
Good Money is about building a meaningful life, not just a bigger bank account. In this book, investor and author John Coleman offers a new mindset around personal finance, one that puts purpose at its core. He provides a six-part framework for building a relationship with money that leads to human flourishing:
Filled with detailed examples and firsthand interviews as well as guidance on applying these principles to the well-being of your children and family, Good Money walks you through each of these steps, providing helpful and sometimes counterintuitive advice on how to use your wealth to flourish, find greater significance, and ensure your actions have the impact you want, now and long into the future.
]]>If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team's strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to perform at their best.
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This collection of articles includes 'Becoming the Boss', by Linda A. Hill; 'What Great Managers Do', by Marcus Buckingham; 'How Leaders Create and Use Networks', by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; 'How to Preempt Team Conflict', by Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux; 'What Is Psychological Safety?' by Amy Gallo; 'Get the Boss to Buy In', by Susan J. Ashford and James Detert; 'Four Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills', by Nina A. Bowman; 'How to Help (Without Micromanaging)', by Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile, and Julianna Pillemer; 'Is Your Hybrid Team Losing Steam?' by Heidi K. Gardner; 'Make the Most of Your One-on-One Meetings', by Steven G. Rogelberg; 'How to Give (and Receive) Critical Feedback', by Patrick Thean; 'Collaborative Overload', by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; 'The Power of Mattering at Work', by Zach Mercurio; 'Leading Is Emotionally Draining. Here's How to Recover', by Dina Denham Smith; and 'What Makes a Leader?' by Daniel Goleman.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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If you read nothing else on women and leadership, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand the barriers holding women back, ensure their voices are heard, and create a path forward for aspiring female leaders.
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This collection of articles includes 'How to Close the Gender Gap', by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg; 'Make Yourself Heard', an interview with Deborah Tannen by Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres; 'Women and the Vision Thing', by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; 'Stop Telling Women They Have Impostor Syndrome', by Ruchika T. Malhotra and Jodi-Ann Burey; 'Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act', by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston; 'The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk', by Kathleen Reardon; 'How Women Can Get Comfortable Playing Politics at Work', by Lisa Zigarmi, Julie Diamond, and Lesli Mones; 'What's Really Holding Women Back?', by Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic; 'The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers', by Harvard Business Review; 'How to Do Sponsorship Right', by Herminia Ibarra; 'Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs', by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; 'Does the Tech Industry Need a Reboot?', an interview with Telle Whitney by Alison Beard; 'Are You Taking on Too Many Non-Promotable Tasks?', by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart; and 'How Women Can Win in the Workplace', by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and Mara del Mar Martnez.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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If you read nothing else on decision-making, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you gather the data you need, identify cognitive traps that lead you astray, and turn overthinking into action.
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This collection of articles includes 'How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions', by Joseph L. Badaracco; 'The Hidden Traps in Decision Making', by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa; 'Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut', by Melody Wilding; 'Fooled by Experience', by Emre Soyer and Robin M. Hogarth; 'What Makes Strategic Decisions Different', by Phil Rosenzweig; 'Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making', by Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi, and Tom Blaser; 'The Value of Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI', by Martin Reeves, Mihnea Moldoveanu, and Adam Job; 'Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong', by Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson; 'Making Better Decisions with Less Data', by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson; 'Who Has the D?: How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance', by Paul Rogers and Marcia W. Blenko; 'Beyond the Echo Chamber', by Alex 'Sandy' Pentland; 'Five Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions', by Steven Morris; 'Conquering a Culture of Indecision', by Ram Charan; and 'Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making',by Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards, and Taran Swan.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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If you read nothing else on communication, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you speak more authentically, express your ideas with clarity and impact, and win over your audience.
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This collection of articles includes 'The Necessary Art of Persuasion', by Jay A. Conger; 'The Surprising Power of Questions', by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John; 'Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations', by Holly Weeks; 'How Supportive Leaders Approach Emotional Conversations', by Sarah Noll Wilson; 'The Science of Strong Business Writing', by Bill Birchard; 'Did You Get My Slack/Email/Text?', by Erica Dhawan; 'Visualizations That Really Work', by Scott Berinato; 'How to Become an Authentic Speaker', by Nick Morgan; 'What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety', by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; 'What's the Best Way to Communicate on a Global Team?', by Dan Bullock and Ral Snchez; 'Are You Really a Good Listener?', by Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher; 'What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations', by Max H. Bazerman; and 'Cultivating Everyday Courage', by James R. Detert.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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If you read nothing else on innovation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market.
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This collection of articles includes 'What Is Disruptive Innovation?' by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald; 'Innovation Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive,' by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; 'Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past', by Vijay Govindarajan; 'A New Approach to Strategic Innovation', by Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias; 'A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning', by Amy Gallo; 'Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done', by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan; 'Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation', by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Rahul Nair, and Natalie Painchaud; 'The Inescapable Paradox of Managing Creativity', by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback; 'Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It', by Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson; 'Engineering Reverse Innovations', by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; 'Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends', by Lynn Wu and Sam Ransbotham; 'Why Design Thinking Works', by Jeanne M. Liedtka; 'If Your Innovation Effort Isn't Working, Look at Who's on the Team', by Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoega Ramsy; 'What's Your Best Innovation Bet?' by Melissa A. Schilling; and 'Strategies for Learning from Failure', by Amy C. Edmondson.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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If you read nothing else on marketing, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classicHarvard Business Reviewarticles that will help you connect better with your established customers, develop offerings that attract new ones, and unlock opportunities for growth.
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This collection of articles includes 'Marketing Myopia', by Theodore Levitt; 'Net Promoter 3.0', by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, and Maureen Burns; 'Analytics for Marketers', by Fabrizio Fantini and Das Narayandas; 'Personalization Done Right', by Mark Abraham and David C. Edelman; 'What Psychological Targeting Can Do', by Sandra Matz; 'Why CMOs Never Last', by Kimberly A. Whitler and Neil A. Morgan; 'Are Your Marketing and Sales Teams on the Same Page?', by Kelsey Raymond; 'How AI Can Power Brand Management', by Julian De Freitas and Elie Ofek; 'Attract New Customers Without Alienating Your Old Ones', by Ryan Hamilton and Annie Wilson; 'Does Influencer Marketing Really Pay Off?', by Fine F. Leung, Jonathan Z. Zhang, Flora F. Gu, Yiwei Li, and Robert W. Palmatier; 'The Right Way to Build Your Brand', by Roger L. Martin, Jann Schwarz, and Mimi Turner; 'Is Your Marketing Organization Ready for What's Next?,' by Omar Rodrguez-Vil, Sundar Bharadwaj, Neil A. Morgan, and Shubu Mitra.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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If you read nothing else on leading digital transformation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and reach your goals faster and more predictably.
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This collection of articles includes 'Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation', by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus; 'Is Your Company Squandering Digital Opportunities?' by Mohan Subramaniam; 'Democratizing Transformation', by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella; 'Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise', by Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, Yang Li, and Karim R. Lakhani; 'How to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation', by Benjamin Mueller and Jens Lauterbach; 'Digital Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive', by Nathan Furr and Andrew Shipilov; 'The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign', by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; 'Developing a Digital Mindset', by Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi; 'Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?' by J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Cassandra Frangos, and Boris Groysberg; 'A Better Way to Put Your Data to Work', by Veeral Desai, Tim Fountaine, and Kayvaun Rowshankish; 'Five Pillars for Democratizing Data', by Hippolyte Lefebvre, Christine Legner, and Elizabeth A. Teracino; 'The Age of Continuous Connection', by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch; 'Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?' by Iavor Bojinov, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit, and Martin Tingley; and 'Reskilling in the Age of AI', by Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovcs-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.
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If you read nothing else on building a great culture, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand how to create a foundation of psychological safety, connect your people to your organisation's purpose, and change your culture for the better.
This book will inspire you to:
This collection of articles includes 'The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture', by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng; 'What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety', by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; 'The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures', by Gary P. Pisano; 'Four Phrases That Encourage Curiosity on Your Team', by Scott Shigeoka; 'The New Analytics of Culture', by Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava; 'Don't Let Cynicism Undermine Your Workplace', by Jamil Zaki; 'Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization', by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; 'Four Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team', by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Josh Bersin; 'The Price of Incivility', by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson; 'Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic', by Mark Mortensen; 'How to Design an Ethical Organization', by Nicholas Epley and Amit Kumar; 'The Power of Small Acts of Inclusion', by Gregg Muragishi, Lauren Aguilar, Priyanka Carr, and Greg Walton; 'Beware a Culture of Busyness', by Adam Waytz; and 'When Culture Doesn't Translate', by Erin Meyer.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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This origami paper pack from Tuttle Publishing includes 256 sheets of double-sided paper with whimsical cat illustrations. Each sheet stays securely in place until you're ready to fold, thanks to the easy tear-out design no loose or crumpled papers to worry about.
Origami Kawaii Cats Paper Pack Book includes:
The artwork on these papers is selected from the beautifully illustrated children's book Japanese Traditions by author and illustrator Setsu Broderick. From kittens enjoying cherry blossom season to preparing feasts and playing outside, these charming designs will delight crafters of all ages.
]]>This origami paper pack from Tuttle Publishing includes 256 sheets of double-sided paper with traditional blue and white designs with a shibori print. Each sheet stays securely in place until you're ready to fold, thanks to the easy tear-out design no loose or crumpled papers to worry about.
Origami Blue & White Shibori Paper Pack Book includes:
Shibori is a hand-dyeing technique from Japan that typically involves folding, twisting or bunching cloth to create a unique pattern sort of like an ancient form of tie-dye.
]]>This origami paper pack from Tuttle Publishing includes 256 sheets of double-sided paper with traditional washi flower designs. Each sheet stays securely in place until you're ready to fold, thanks to the easy tear-out design no loose or crumpled papers to worry about.
Origami Washi Flowers Paper Pack Book includes:
In the late 1970s, as gay men in San Francisco experienced a new sense of freedom following the Stonewall Uprising, Hal Fischer made Gay Semiotics, a photo-text project that categorised denizens of the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods by social type such as the 'jock' or the 'hippie'. Sly and systematic, Fischer portrayed the sartorial codes of queer street style earrings, handkerchiefs, jeans, or leather that broadcast a range of desires to potential sexual prospects. The series became an influential record of a libertine era before AIDS, the rise of internet dating apps, and tech industryaccelerated gentrification transformed queer life forever. Tracing the formation of an essential American artist, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works includes Gay Semiotics together with Fischer's rarely seen early photography and features essays that offer vital new perspectives on the history of San Francisco and the resonance of the gay rights movement across generations.
]]>Countless fans have fallen in love with her artwork thanks to her attempts to express the complexities of human emotion, and the merging of fantastical elements, nature, and stunning vibrant colours situations in her work. She has built up almost half a million followers on her Instagram account and runs a very popular Patreon, where she shares WIPs and access to her personal sketchbook. She also sells prints and products featuring her artwork from her online store.
In this exclusive book, Audra takes readers on a journey through her creative history, opening up about her early years, childhood influences, struggles, and ambitions. She then shows us behind the scenes in her studio and discusses her personal techniques, including how she uses a sketchbook and conceptualises. Then, presenting something a little different to other available 'Art of' books, Audra has written a chapter on an artist's relationship with art and provided some self-help-esque discussions for fellow creatives. From seeing creation as a spiritual force to being able to draw boundaries and maintain artistic confidence, this section is invaluable for artists of any ability.
We then have beautiful galleries of Audra's complete work in various mediums, plus step-by-step tutorials for readers to follow on topics including gouache painting, redrawing old art, creating digital art, drawing something in your own style, and mixing media.
This is a highly interesting, ever-inspiring collection of art and writings from a thoughtful, hugely talented creative artist.
]]>Edited by 3dtotal Publishing, based in Worcester, England, UK. 3dtotal publish high-quality art books dedicated to bringing invaluable training to beginners, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Their books feature top industry professionals from around the globe who share their experience in skilfully written step-by-step tutorials and guides. Illustrated throughout with stunning artwork, these best-selling publications offer creative insight, expert advice, and essential motivation.
]]>With years of extensive experience working in the comic, animation, and video-game industries, Ramon has carved out a unique artistic style and earned himself a reputation for creating captivating visual concepts and character art. His previous clients include top production companies including Riot Games, Sony Pictures Animation, and Dreamworks, and he has built a following of 609K fans on Instagram.
In this book, he offers an insight to his world of art, where he likes to portray characters doing everyday activities in everyday places, such as eating at home or riding the subway. He has built a relatability in his art that appeals to fans, as they see themselves in his work. That said, he isn't afraid to introduce a bizarre situation or something unexpected to push the viewers' imagination!
The book will feature personal details about Ramn's early life, education, and career, as well as step-by-step tutorials for readers to learn from his incredible style and skills. For long-standing fans or those newly discovering his artwork, Ramn's art book will be one that our audiences jump to own.
]]>More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? An accessible blend of narrative history and science, Strange Glow describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation, including the hard-won lessons of how radiation helps and harms our health. Timothy Jorgensen explores how our knowledge of and experiences with radiation in the last century can lead us to smarter personal decisions about radiation exposures today.
Jorgensen introduces key figures in the story of radiation from Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of x-rays, and pioneering radioactivity researchers Marie and Pierre Curie, to Thomas Edison and the victims of the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. Tracing the most important events in the evolution of radiation, Jorgensen explains exactly what radiation is, how it produces certain health consequences, and how we can protect ourselves from harm. He also considers a range of practical scenarios such as the risks of radon in our basements, radiation levels in the fish we eat, questions about cell-phone use, and radiation's link to cancer. Jorgensen empowers us to make informed choices while offering a clearer understanding of broader societal issues.
Investigating radiation's benefits and risks, Strange Glow takes a remarkable look at how, for better or worse, radiation has transformed our society.
]]>In the chaos following the Lisbon quake, government and church leaders vied for control. The Marques de Pombal rose to power and became a virtual dictator. As a result, the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order lost much of its influence in Portugal. Voltaire wrote his satirical work Candide to refute the philosophy of 'optimism', the belief that God had created a perfect world. And the 1755 earthquake sparked the search for a scientific understanding of natural disasters.
Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible, to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to humankind's fragile existence, always at risk because of destructive powers beyond our control.
]]>A northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others seems far away and ignorable. In Southern Imagining, Elleke Boehmer offers an alternative perspective, using literary, scientific and cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south. Reading, she argues, is a transformative means of reversing our usual planetary orientation and rearranging our perceptual geography. Boehmer examines writing from across southern continents and islands, considering how we imaginatively inhabit the farthest reaches of our planet. Creators ranging from the Portuguese epic poet Lus de Cames to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Darwin, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges and ancient Indigenous storytellers capture the edgy and austere experiences of the far south.
For Boehmer, imaginative work stimulates and shapes our phenomenological understanding. Southerners often see themselves as far away from where things count, as outsiders, internalising the wider global sense of their relative insignificance. Conversely, when northerners read or hear legends, narratives, songs and poems from the south, it is as if they are located in the south, at least for the duration of the reading or listening. Boehmer suggests that the south-tilted world map, re-centred through song and story, invites us to claim a more involved sense of belonging to our planet, both its north and its south. The writers of the south disrupt conventional ways of seeing and invite us to inhabit our globe differently.
]]>Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we often associate with charisma ('ask not what your country can do for you'), but because of something more ordinary and relatable. The everyday magic spell that politicians cast using mass and social media is what sociologist Julia Sonnevend calls 'charm'. In this engaging and enlightening book, Sonnevend explores charm (and the related 'charm offensive') as a keyword of contemporary global politics. Successful political leaders deploy this form of personal magnetism which relies on proximity to political tribes and manifests across a variety of media platforms to appear authentic and accessible in their quest for power.
Sonnevend examines the mediated self-representations of a set of liberal, illiberal, and authoritarian political leaders, past and present: New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern, Hungary's Viktor Orbn, Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif, North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and Germany's Angela Merkel. She considers how charm (or the lack of it) is wielded as a political tool, and the ways charm is weaponised to shape the international image of a country, potentially influencing decisions about military aid, trade, and even tourism. Sonnevend argues that charm will shape the future of democracy worldwide, as political values will be increasingly embodied by mediated personalities. These figures will rise and fall, often fading into irrelevance; but if we do not understand charm's political power, we cannot grasp today's fragile political moment.
]]>How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen really be the author behind such masterpieces as Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest?
Yes! says historian Susan Amussen. She transports readers back to early modern England, to travel the path that carried William Shakespeare from humble origins in Stratford to literary greatness on the London stage. This was a society undergoing rapid change. Grammar schools made education in Latin and Greek available to commoners, while touring players brought the latest dramatic productions to the masses. And in London, a metropolis filled with European visitors, ordinary people had the opportunity to see courtly life up close.
No serious historian doubts that Shakespeare was the author of the plays that bear his name. Susan Amussen shares what they know: that Shakespeare's England was a complex and cosmopolitan place, with everything a talented young playwright needed to develop his craft and furnish his imagination.
'As compelling as it is well-informed, this is a must-read for all Shakespeare and theatre lovers!' Chris Laoutaris, author of Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
'If you've ever wanted a "making of" guide to our expanding library of Shakespeare biographies, Susan Dwyer Amussen's What's in a name?is for you.' Will Tosh, author of Straight Acting:The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
]]>After tracing Britishisms that entered the American vocabulary in the nineteenth century and during the world wars, Gobsmacked! discusses the most-used British terms in America today. It features chapters on the American embrace of British insults and curses, sports terms, and words about food and drinks. The book also explores the American adoption of British spellings, pronunciations, and grammar, and cases where Americans have misconstrued British expressions (for example, changing can't be arsed to can't be asked) or adopted faux-British usages, like pronouncing divisive as 'divissive'. Finally, the book offers some guidance on just how many Britishisms an American can safely adopt without coming off like an arse.
Rigorously researched and documented but written in a light, conversational style, this is a book that general readers and language obsessives will love. Its revealing account of a surprising and underrecognised language revolution might even leave them, well, gobsmacked.
]]>Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As an astronaut candidate, dreaming of the experience of flying free from Earth's pull. And as a physicist, discovering new sides to gravity's irresistible personality by exploring the limits of Einstein's general theory of relativity. In The Beauty of Falling, de Rham shares captivating stories about her quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. Her life's pursuit led her from a twist of fate that snatched away her dream of becoming an astronaut to an exhilarating breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational physics.
While many of us presume to know gravity quite well, the brightest scientists in history have yet to fully answer the simple question: what exactly is gravity? De Rham reveals how great minds from Newton and Einstein to Stephen Hawking, Andrea Ghez, and Roger Penrose led her to the edge of knowledge about this fundamental force. She found hints of a hidden side to gravity at the particle level where Einstein's theory breaks down, leading her to develop a new theory of 'massive gravity.' De Rham shares how her life's path turned from a precipitous fall to an exquisite flight toward the discovery of something entirely new about our surprising, gravity-driven universe.
]]>In The Race Makers, Enlightenment specialist Andrew S. Curran traces the emergence of race through thirteen pivotal figures, including Louis XIV, Buffon, Carl Linnaeus, Voltaire, David Hume, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant and Thomas Jefferson. From the gilded halls of Versailles to the slave plantations of the Caribbean, and from the court of the Mughal Empire to the drawing rooms of Monticello, Curran reveals how the pursuit of knowledge became entangled with and often drove systems of empire and oppression. The result is a bold reappraisal of the Enlightenment's most celebrated luminaries.
Combining rigorous scholarship with vivid storytelling, The Race Makers offers a sweeping and unsettling account of how modern concepts of race were born and why they still matter.
]]>The United States is no longer the world's undisputed superpower. China and India increasingly flex their economic muscle, as the West's share of global GDP steadily declines and America's rules-based system risks becoming irrelevant. In business, competition brings efficiency, balance, and innovation. But not in the marketplace for global power.
Acclaimed economist Eswar S. Prasad argues that the very forces expected to stabilise the world order are fueling disarray. Globalisation has deepened inequality in many countries, stoked political backlash and triggered trade wars. Economic institutions like the IMF and WTO are no longer fit for purpose. The rise of 'middle powers' like South Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia once suggested multipolar stability; but today, such economies are forced to pick sides in the intensifying USChina struggle for hegemony.
Prasad's clear-eyed, bracing prose contends that we are caught in a destructive feedback loop between economics, domestic politics, and geopolitics. With instability the new status quo, we need radical solutions to reinvigorate the world economy, prioritise common aspirations and halt the downward spiral.
Praise for The Future of Money
'A road map for money managers, market strategists, and others seeking to understand this new world.' Barron's
'Money shapes economies, economies shape nations, nations shape history. It follows that the future of money is profoundly important. Here is a definitive report on where we are and where we are going.' Lawrence H. Summers, former Secreta ry of the Treasury
'Prasad manages to make the financial system intelligible and interesting without resorting to shortcuts and exaggeration...Previous overhauls mainly improved existing systems, he notes. The end of cash likely within a decade or two is revolutionary.' Economist
]]>After inheriting the miner's safety lamp that belonged to his great-grandfather, Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage across his homeland. Travelling from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, he asks what new ways might be made through the old north.
This region, a hub of early Christian Britain and later strongly defined by industry and class, now faces an uncertain future. But it remains a unique and starkly beautiful part of the country, with a deep history that is intimately entwined with the idea of Englishness. Jake's journey along the 'Camino of the North' sees him explore the shifting nature of individual and regional identity across thirteen-hundred years of social change. At the same time, it challenges him to reconsider his own calling as a writer and how it relates to the lives of the people he meets along the way.
Between the salt and the ash asks what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal. Rejecting the damaging trope of 'left behind' communities, Jake uncovers neglected seams of culture and history, while offering a heartfelt celebration of the place he calls hyem.
'Beautifully written' Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History
'It should be read by us all, wherever we live.' David Almond, author of Skellig
'Beautifully crafted' Robert Colls, The New Statesman
'A tender Northumbrian camino through England's own land of saints and scholars.' Dan Jackson, author of The Northumbrians
]]>Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon.
Robb's quest began in his hometown of Blackpool where punk was a battle against the odds and went international when he toured the world with his band. The first person to interview Nirvana, he also discovered The Stone Roses for weekly newspaper Sounds and did early interviews with The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Manics, before moving on to legends such as Mark E. Smith, Nick Cave and Patti Smith. Along the way, he became an on-screen commentator and author of bestselling books.
Robb's memoir tells of deep friendships with figures from Poly Styrene to Chris Packham. Packed with riotous stories, it provides an alternative account of British musical and cultural history and a triumphant blueprint for a punk rock life.
'John Robb writes about music and culture with the insight of someone who loves it from the outside and lives it from the inside.' Johnny Marr
]]>In The Celtic Wheel of the Year, bestselling author Rhonda McCrimmon invites you to rediscover that magic. This friendly guide will help you connect with the Wheel, celebrating the changing seasons with practices that resonate with your own unique path. Within its pages, you will explore:
Approachable and insightful, The Celtic Wheel of the Year does not strive to recreate the past, but to draw from its wisdom to create a more balanced and magical present. Step into the dance of the seasons and discover a wellspring of courage, clarity, and connection within.
'A luminous guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of the land with the yearning of the modern soul.' HeatherAsh Amara
]]>The Left Hand Path of Tarot suggests a paradigm shift for tarot archetypes that goes beyond classic interpretation of the major arcana. It's the chaos, subversion, and alchemy of the self in the left-hand path of tarot that challenges social norms and leads you to explore the deepest parts of your soul. It is the torch that lights the fire through which we must all walk in order to transcend and achieve the highest victory a human being can aspire to complete: self-love.
'Truly, The Left-Hand Path of Tarot serves as a tarot for our times, one that invites us to direct contemplation of the eerie trickster dimensions of phenomenal reality and of our own souls, so that we might learn to more deeply enjoy our wholeness.' from the foreword by Carolyn Elliott
]]>A Grimoire of Italian Witchcraft: Practical Spells & Rituals of the Old Religion is a vital tome for anyone seeking the ancient path of the Strega. Raven Grimassi created a complete Book of Shadows for witches dedicated to the Italian path, including incantations, practical spells, and more. Explore everything from witchcraft for the monthly full moon to magic dedicated to festivals, utilising secret symbols and everyday ingredients.
Grimassi's classic insights on Italian witchcraft center on practical applications for the reader, derived from traditions and history sure to inspire practitioners at any stage. This book also functions as a course, full of spells, rites, and reflective questions to bolster learning. A Grimoire of Italian Witchcraft is a brilliant exploration of both practice and the religion, history, and tradition that underlies Italian witchcraft in the past and today.
]]>In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalising urban nightlife.
Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties club nights wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways.
Drawing on Ghaziani's immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.
]]>Mainstream theories of the brain are often expressed through engineering concepts computation, code, control, reverse-engineering, optimisation. These theories cast the living organism as a machine and the brain as a computer. The fact that cognition is a biological phenomenon seems merely anecdotal; biology is considered just 'implementation'. In The Brain, In Theory, Romain Brette argues that the brain is not a 'biological computer' because living organisms are not engineered. Engineering is the use of knowledge to solve technical problems, to build an artifact with a plan. But, Brette reminds us, Darwin's insight is precisely that evolution is not a case of engineering. Unlike engineering, evolution has no predetermined goals, plans, or knowledge.
Brette reviews the main theoretical frameworks for thinking about the brain, including computation, neural representations, information, and prediction, and finds them poorly suited to the study of biological cognition. He proposes understanding the brain as a self-organised, developing community of living entities rather than an optimised assembly of machine components. With this new perspective, Brette brings life back to the study of the brain and cognition.
]]>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.
The cover for issue 35 is byMaxine Vee (313K Instagram followers), a freelance illustrator based in Canada. Her cosy, fantasy-inspired characters and environments have led to work with Walt Disney Studios, Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, and many more. She takes readers step by step through the creation of her stunning cover art, then answers our questions on her career journey and current creative projects.
Another great feature in this issue is an in-depth look at using Risograph to create characters. Natalie Andrewson, an American freelance illustrator and author (based in Los Angeles) speaks to us about how she came to work in this unique medium and creates a brand-new character, walking us through her process. Her work has featured in graphic novels, animation, gallery shows, and more. She has 193K followers on Instagram.
]]>Cover artist Maxine Vee (313K Instagram followers) is a freelance illustrator, based in Toronto, Canada. Her cosy, fantasy -inspired characters and environments have led to work with Walt Disney Studios, Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, and many more.
Natalie Andrewson (193K Instagram followers) is a freelance illustrator, comic artist, and Risograph creator from North Carolina, currently based in Los Angeles. Her colourful characters have featured in graphic novels, animation, gallery shows, and her Risograph prints were the subject of an art book in 2024.
]]>Examining notions of culture, belonging, authenticity and family, Whose Song to Sing? takes us from 1970s Birmingham to South Wales in the 2020s, via America, Australia and Thailand.
Wildsmith offers an adoptee's take on society ironic and occasionally caustic as he struggles to carve out a space within it. As family life disintegrates, he seeks refuge in culture, always returning to the songs and stories of the Valleys, the gift of his adoptive grandfather.
We follow a path from childhood privilege to addiction and despair, before the healing power of community offers a route to happiness.
Unflinching and frequently comic, Whose Song to Sing? shows how establishing a viable identity from uncertain materials can be a creative act, and a life's work.
]]>Gradually it has become clear that the entire eco-system has been thrown out of balance by the elimination of a top predator. Now there are calls for a limited reintroduction of wolves into Scotland as a way of healing the damaged land.
The wolf has been the victim of black propaganda since ancient times. By tellers of folk tales and historians alike it has been described as a slayer of babies, a robber of graves, a devourer of battlefield dead. In this passionate polemic, Jim Crumley argues that these stories are pure fiction, a distortion of reality which prevents people from thinking rationally about the huge benefits the presence of wolves could bring to Scotland. Now is the time for myths to be dispelled, and for the wolf to return to its old home in the highlands.
]]>Fodor's Best of Italy travel guide includes:
Planning on visiting nearby European countries? Check out Fodor'sEssential France, Fodor's Essential Spain, and Fodor's Essential Switzerland.For a more comprehensive Italy guidebook check out Fodor's Essential Italy.
]]>This portable, up-to-date guide is all about maximising the time you have to spend in Amsterdam. Written by veteran travel journalistDonald Strachan, the book hits all of the city's highlights as well as hidden gems with plans crafted for visitors with a variety of needs and interests.
Packed with colour photos, this bestselling guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see Amsterdam's top attractions in a short time, with bulleted maps leading the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighbourhood tours plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Frommer's Amsterdam Day by Day is the only guide that helps travellers organise their time to get the most out of a trip.
Inside this book you'll find:
About Frommer's: There's a reason that Frommer's has been the most trusted name in travel for more than 60 years. Arthur Frommer created the bestselling guide series in 1957 to help American service members fulfill their dreams of travel in Europe. Since then, we have published thousands of titles, becoming a household name by helping millions upon millions of people realise their own dreams of seeing our planet. Travel is easy with Frommer's.
]]>For much of the twentieth century, relations between Britain and the Soviet Union were defined by mutual hostility and distrust. From the Bolshevik Revolution until the end of the Cold War, the British establishment was deeply concerned about Soviet-inspired subversion, and secretly monitored thousands of its own citizens due to their real or perceived links to communism, the Soviet Union or both.
Enemy of the State reveals how Britain's intelligence services carried out mass spying operations on the grounds of protecting democracy. Using phone taps, hidden microphones, mail interception and covert break-ins, they investigated trade unionists, scientists, politicians, actors, anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid protesters, and more. But the culture of secrecy permeating British institutions has meant that the extent of these activities is little known. Drawing on recently declassified files from the British government and MI5, Oliver Price argues that while communism gained little traction in domestic politics, fear of left-wing radicalism led to the widespread monitoring of individuals and political groups many of whom posed no threat to the British state.
Britain was long considered a country in which 'political policing' was resisted. But Price shows how the tumultuous events of the last century reshaped official attitudes and normalised surveillance.
]]>Matchless tells the story of women's golf against the backdrop of the intense rivalry between two players who set a new standard for performance American Glenna Collet and England's Joyce Wethered. That head-to-head competition spanned a decade, from their first meeting at Troon in 1925 through to Wethered's tour of the US in 1935. The key moment, and the dramatic focal point for this unique account, is their match at St Andrews in 1929 in the final of the Ladies Amateur Championship. It is widely considered to be the defining moment in women's golf.
Stephen Proctor delves deep into the story of that golden period and the colourful history of the women's golf up to that point and beyond, charting the remarkable characters who graced the fairways and blazed a trail for today's superstars of the sport. Through the achievements and tribulations of Isette Pearson, Cecil Leitch, Alexa Stirling and a cast of key protagonists the reader is transported back to a pivotal time in the development of the game.
]]>In the 1980s, politicians declared war on football; football supporters declared war on each other inside crumbling stadiums that resembled bomb sites and the '82 and '86 World Cups were played against the backdrop of the Falklands conflict. It was a decade in which some fans died watching the game they loved, and at times, the 'slum sport' seemed set to implode. Yet, remarkably, the game was on the cusp of morphing into the behemoth it has become today.
Set against a backdrop of economic recession, rampant hooliganism and suspect fashion, Go To War tells the story of how triumph and tragedy shaped English football during the 1980s. Throughout this explosive book, author Jon Spurling delves into the stories behind the successes and strife.
Thirty years in the making, Go To War draws on interviews conducted with '80s icons including Terry Butcher, Graeme Sharp and Ray Wilkins, managerial legends like Howard Kendall and Bobby Robson and FA Cup heroes Ricky Villa and Norman Whiteside. Like its precursor, the bestselling Get It On, Go To War provides a unique insight into a pivotal footballing decade.
'Enthralling...Another tour de force.' Backpass magazine
'A tremendously readable chronicle of English football in its darkest age, brimming with evocative anecdotes. From the violence on the terraces to the high drama on the pitch, Go To War perfectly captures the moodiness of the 1980s. I enjoyed it enormously.' Dominic Sandbrook
'A beautifully crafted book on a pivotal footballing era.' Jim Rosenthal
'Jon Spurling's eye for detail and character makes him the perfect writer to chronicle a decade when football was about so much more than what happened on the pitch. Not just the best book about '80s football but one of the best books I've read about '80s Britain.' Josh Widdicombe
]]>In our modern era of climate concerns and polarised debates on land use, diet and more, it matters that we understand the world we are in and the roads we travelled to get here. By exploring each of these key landscapes and meeting the people who live, work and farm in them,Tiroffers hope for a better future; one with stunningly beautiful, richly biodiverse landscapes that are ten times richer in wildlife than they currently are, and still full of humans working the land.
]]>The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonisation and pan-Somalism became synonymous.
In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. Africa Confidential wrote at the time that the new Somali state would never be beset by tribal division but this discounted the existence of powerful clans within Somali society and the persistence of colonial administrative cultures. The collapse of parliamentary democracy in 1969 and the resulting army and clanic dictatorship that followed led to a civil war in the 'perfect' national state. It lasted fourteen years in the 'British' North and is still raging today in the 'Italian' South.
Somaliland 're-birthed' itself through an enormous solo effort but the viable nation so recreated within its former colonial borders was never internationally recognised and still struggles to exist economically and diplomatically.
This book recounts an African success story where the peace so widely acclaimed by the international community has had no reward but its own lonely achievement.
]]>Between 1857 and 1947, over 28 million Indians left the subcontinent to live, work and study elsewhere. Today, India has the largest diaspora in the world, with approximately 18 million Indians living overseas. Though often absent from historical narratives, migrant children were instrumental during the time of the British Empire in the development not only of Indian national and diasporic identities, but of British identity too. These children were marginalised by their political status, their race and their age; yet they were fundamental to historical change, from the 1830s through to independence in 1947.
Imperial Footprints vividly charts this history of emigration from British India to the imperial heartland, through the eyes of its youngest participants. From pupils sent to English boarding schools and runaway servants, to sailor children and refugees of war or Partition, Sumita Mukherjee reveals that these child migrants were crucial players in founding Indian communities abroad. Drawing on archival records and firsthand accounts, she offers a portrait of migration to Britain that pre-dated the larger waves of arrivals post-war.
Imperial Footprints challenges the assumptions of the historical voices we often foreground; reflects on post-colonial legacies; and offers a fascinating new perspective on migration and empire.
]]>The Cabo Verde Islands are now a popular tourist destination but, guide books apart, there is little in print in English that covers their history and culture. This book offers a readable account not only of the islands' past, but also of their place in the wider story of the South Atlantic's Portuguese-speaking communities.
First settled in the fifteenth century, the inhabitants of Cabo Verde were of diverse origins. Some came from Portugal, others arrived as slaves from mainland Africa, and a third element comprised Jewish exiles from the Iberian Peninsula. From the earliest days, the islanders developed a mixed Creole culture with its own Creole Portuguese language. They had close relations with people of the upper Guinea coast, where many of them settled, and with the Guinea islands. Meanwhile the archipelago became a hub of the Atlantic slave trade.
Cabo Verde has also had a strategic importance its history has to be seen in a global context, broader than simply that of the Portuguese imperial story. Malyn Newitt also fills a major gap in the bibliography of Atlantic history, slavery and the history of the African diaspora in the Atlantic.
]]>Ramsay MacDonald was born an illegitimate child in north-east Scotland. Leaving school at fourteen, he seemed bound to follow in his ploughman father's footsteps. Instead, he would become the UK's first Labour Prime Minister a friend of George V and a global political star. How did he get there from his Highland bothy? Why has he been erased from political memory? And how did this leftist parliamentarian end up leading a Conservative-dominated National Government?
MacDonald's was an elusive, Celtic personality, easier to criticise than to understand. Historian Walter Reid demystifies this fascinating politician, dismissing the common charge of treacherous ambition and tracing MacDonald's personal odyssey including half a life grieving his wife Margaret, a remarkable feminist and social reformer lost young to blood poisoning.
History has been unkind to MacDonald, and most often written with politically hostile pens. Drawing extensively on his private diaries, this biography restores a towering figure to his rightful historical place, and reveals his full complexity a man not without faults, but able and honourable, with deep and widespread interests.
]]>Beautiful photography highlights Benmore's natural looking environment and depicts the landscapes that offer protection and sanctuary to a diversity of plants from around the world. Known for its important collection of over 300 species of rhododendrons, its iconic Redwood Avenue, its Douglas firs, Scots pines and monkey puzzle trees the collection at Benmore continues to expand, conserving plants from around the world that are threatened in their natural habitat. A lovely souvenir book featuring new photography and foiled lettering on the cover.
Every purchase helps to fund our vital work in Scotland and around the world.
]]>The book's magnificent photography highlights the biodiversity at Dawyck with varying woodlands, a burn and glen and the world's first reserve for mosses, liverworts, lichens and fungi. A lovely souvenir book featuring new photography and foiled lettering on the cover. Every purchase helps to fund our vital work in Scotland and around the world.
]]>Vibrant displays of rare plant treasures show an extraordinary diversity of species rarely seen elsewhere in the UK. Logan plays a vital role in global efforts to conserve threatened species and find nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. A lovely souvenir book featuring new photography and foiled lettering on the cover. Every purchase helps to fund our vital work in Scotland and around the world.
]]>The Anunnaki one of the most enigmatic groups in history played a heavy role in early human civilisation. But where did they come from, and who were they?
In Anunnaki Revelation, author Heather Lynn, PhD, shares evidence that the Anunnaki's influence extends beyond the realms of mythology and religion, shaping the very foundations of our understanding of reality, consciousness, and the nature of the self. By exploring the connections between the Anunnaki, shamanic practices, psychedelic experiences, and modern pursuits such as artificial intelligence and transhumanism, Anunnaki Revelation aims to trace the origins and trajectory of the transformative impact these gods had on the human experience.
Anunnaki Revelation examines the Anunnaki in a new light, as discarnate entities who played a crucial role in the development of human consciousness and civilisation by communicating advanced knowledge to the leaders of a lost civilisation.
]]>**Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2026, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction**
**Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2026, Multicultural NSW Award**
**Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2026, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing**
**Longlisted, Stella Prize 2026**
'If we were different people, to write down these words might be to leave them behind us. But words are our artifacts, and I am seeding a trail for the journey, home.'
What does the daughter of a Nakba survivor inherit? It is not property or tangible heirlooms, nor the streets and neighbourhoods of a father's childhood and the deep roots of family who have lived in one place, Jerusalem, for generation upon generation.
Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home.
'Micaela Sahhar's Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is one of the most inventive, thought-provoking and captivating chronicles of Palestinian diasporic life I've had the pleasure of reading. It is a memoir written by a poet, poetry written by a novelist, literature written by an academic it is all these things at once, insisting with a gentle yet unwavering confidence in the power of its unique, brilliantly evocative and genre-defying voice. Sahhar's love for her family, homeland, the details and intimacies of everyday life; for language, history, archives, photographs and the treasured ephemera of a life in diaspora, shine through every line. The result is a book in which every word is deliberate, each line commands attention, each chapter is a world within a world.' Randa Abdel-Fattah, academic and writer, author of 11 Words for Love
'Micaela Sahhar's family history has everything that makes any Palestinian family history worth telling and reading about. On the one hand, a rich culture that ranges from distinctive culinary practices to a distinctive sense of humour, and on the other hand, a tragic settler-colonial history of dispossession and oppression leading to a transnational diasporic existence, and that makes for a characteristic sense of space and place. But this is not any book about Palestine. Sahhar is a superior storyteller with a knack for highlighting evocative details. Storytelling, like any craft, embodies in different degrees the labour of the many people who have told stories about one's subject matter in the past. The more a writer is well-read the more this shows in the historical density and the social complexity of their storytelling. Sahhar's book is definitely dense and socially complex in this way. This could make for 'heavy' reading if it wasn't for Sahhar's superior writing skills. Indeed, I would say that more than anything else, this is a book for people who enjoy good writing, regardless of what the story is about. But of course, it matters what this story is about. This is a book about Palestine and Palestinians, and in the way the book is grounded in both the Palestinian tragedy and the Palestinian unlimited capacity to affirm life, the spirit of anti-colonial resistance animates every one of its pages. Sahhar finishes the book saying that like Mahmoud Darwish's father she hopes that one day she will be able to go to Palestine, to the streets where her family originates from, and shout I am I. And I am here. But in a way, by writing this book, she already does that, if not from Palestine at least from the position she occupies within the transnational space of western colonialism.' Ghassan Hage, professor of anthropology at the University of Melbourne and author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is an aching and tender study of diaspora, grief, memory and history. Sahhar has a masterful voice, playing subtly with tense and form to give agency to a beautifully layered narrative, interwoven with fragments, records and intimate moments of lives permanently changed by Nakba. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate tells an unmissable story of Palestinian survival and resistance across space and time.' Evelyn Araluen, Bundjalung poet and author of Dropbear
'Sahhar chronicles the essential truths of Palestine with intricacy and finesse and in doing so, has crafted a mighty text that demands unbroken attention. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a book that will be read, re-read, dog-eared, underlined and recited.' Hasib Hourani, author of rock flight
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate opens with a recollection of the five-year-old Micaela bobbing off to preparatory school with pigtails, glasses and missing teeth. As she enters the classroom, her sense of self is shattered in a nation that is home but not home, when a teacher butchers her family name and is visibly appalled when told the name is Palestinian. As the child of diaspora, born on the unceded lands of Australia, Micaela is ever conscious of the tension between being in exile on homelands now occupied; and living, working and writing on the occupied lands of Naarm in colonial Australia a site of invasion, and genocide. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate writes of and to dispossession, displacement, trauma, loss, resilience and is testimony to the power of intergenerational story and memory that survives, and lives on so that all those who remain, and their children and children's children remember. In this polyphonic narrative, we hear many voices some still living, others passed, now scattered across nations and continents, yet still connected through home Palestine.' Jeanine Leane, Wiradjuri writer, critic, poet and author of Gawimarra: Gathering
'At a time when Israel is literally trying to wipe Palestinians off the map, this book lands with a powerful thud of fury, beauty and resistance. Weaving personal stories with history in all its unvarnished details, Micaela Sahhar delivers a deeply affecting story that articulates one of the great outrages of our time.' Antony Loewenstein, independent journalist, film-maker and author of The Palestine Laboratory
'Find me at the Jaffa Gate is more than a lyrical memoir that binds personal storytelling with global history; Sahhar has built an archive for future generations. Readers interested in tales of migration and ancestral history will find a treasure trove in Sahhar's emotive and detailed offering.' Hellai Gul, Books+Publishing
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate has been one of my favourite books of the year.' Alex Creece, author of Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth and Online Editor at Archer
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a story that traverses time and place, love and hate; it's a story of ongoing and unforgettable Palestinian survival.' Readings
'[Through] beautiful prose, Sahhar pulls together a story, full of gaps and questions, about her Palestinian family, their memories and their connection to home.' Celina Ribeiro, Guardian Australia
'This is a book that is about more than displacement it's about resilience, truth-telling and the fragments of stories that are often forgotten but which form the bones and heart of what it means to Palestinian diaspora.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives
'Author and poet Micaela Sahhar's lyrical story of generations of Palestinian diaspora is as timely as ever.' Cheryl Akle, The Weekend Australian
'Sahhar not only reconstitutes an archive of her own family's past, she creates a new archive for the generations that follow.' This Week in Palestine
'Through the lens of her family's history Sahhar successfully immerses the reader in the big history and culture of Palestine, and the experience of being Palestinian.' Rowan Cahill, Journal of Intercultural Studies
'One knows that Find Me at the Jaffa Gate has been percolating for a long time when they read it. Within 48 short chapters, Micaela Sahhar pieces fragments of memory, speculation, and archival research to tell a story of both the construction of her selfhood and Palestinian family: 'not a story about wounds but about the preservation of something all its own'. It is a book full of brilliances even as occupation and exile cause history and geography to cut loose and spin around each other and as Sahhar herself asks, 'What does it mean to be exiled and how do we take our revenge?' Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is a gift, a remarkable debut memoir that is simultaneously a work of poetry in its lyricism and feeling; humour, anger, warmth, grief and love eddy in a whirlpool to form a work about sumud and survival.' VPLA judges' report
'No book is as essential for these past two years as Micaela Sahhar's Find Me at the Jaffa Gate.' Winnie Dunn, Sydney Morning Herald
'Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family is a deeply moving, confronting and life-affirming book. Innovative and poetic, it is both a political testimony and a nuanced tribute to a family displaced and torn apart by the Nakba. Micaela Sahhar writes with fierce intelligence and heart, forging a work of complex feeling, memory and exploration, a particularly notable achievement given that this is Sahhar's first book.' Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction Judges' comments
'Micaela Sahhar's debut, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family, harnesses evocative storytelling to tell the reader about the Palestinian diaspora in Australia and Sahhar's memories of her roots and heritage. As much as it is a Palestinian tragedy of colonisation and dispossession, the book is also an affirmation of the spirit that survives and lives on.' Multicultural NSW Award Judges' comments
]]>Some questions have nipped at humanity's heels for as long as we've been...well, humans. In Why Are We Like This? science journalist Zoe Kean takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet. Exploring with scientists, from freezing in Tasmanian sleet to a laboratory of sleeping sharks in North Queensland, we see how these evolutionary mysteries might just uncover the secrets of a better life for humans and the creatures we share the planet with.
The ancient ancestors of life on Earth faced the same challenges we do, so let's learn a lesson or two about how they dealt with them.
'Why Are We Like This? is a witty and inquisitive exploration of humans' place in the web of life. It takes readers on a journey through the history of life on Earth full of wonder, curiosity and tenderness.' Tegan Taylor
'Evolution is not perfect, just good enough. This book brilliantly guides you through this complexity, showing us how we evolved to be marvellously imperfect. Why do we have sex? Why does cancer happen, why do dogs age and sharks sleep? Read this book, and get learned up.' Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
'[a] bold, scientifically savvy and nuanced work.' Sydney Morning Herald / the Age
'Kean's book paints a compelling picture of contemporary understandings of evolution, and how it relates to our humanity.' Readings Monthly
'Overall, this book offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about what life is and why we are what we are. As Dr Kruszelnicki is quoted as saying on the cover, it is a "brilliant guide to how we evolved to be marvellously imperfect". Not only does it provide many thought-provoking observations into evolution, it challenges the very way we've always thought about the concept; it is a marvellous and instructive read.' Erich Mayer, Arts Hub
'Why Are We Like This? is profound, philosophical and insightful within science's sensible and reliable parameters.' Mark Parry, Good Reading Magazine
]]>**Winner, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize**
**Shortlisted, 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Australian History Prize**
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians.
Elizabeth and John Macarthur were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, arriving in 1790, both aged 23, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's.
In the multi-award-winning Elizabeth and John, acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson draws on his work on the Macarthur family over 50 years to explore the dynamics of their strong and sinewy marriage, and family life across two generations. With the truth of Elizabeth and John Macarthur's relationship much more complex and deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
'Based on fifty years of research and reflection by one of this country's most original and creative scholars and finest writers, here is the story of the world made by settler Australia's greatest family, the Macarthurs. No Australian historian has ever explored the inner lives of a married couple, their family and their milieu with such skill, passion and intensity. No one has brought to any subject in Australian history deeper insight into dreams, ambitions and tragedy that the British occupation of this continent entailed. Elizabeth and John is a stunning achievement by one of Australia's greatest-ever historians.' Frank Bongiorno
'Professor Atkinson's portrait is intimate and affectionate. It reads well while maintaining the highest standards of academic rigour.' The Canberra Times
'Through this remarkable study of two key figures in the history of early colonial New South Wales and especially of their marriage, Alan Atkinson here conducts a master class in connecting the personal, the intimate and the local with worldwide processes of colonisation, migration and capitalist expansion. In his capacious historical vision, family life and connections in all their complexity become the thread that holds colonial history, and perhaps history generally, together.' Ann Curthoys
'This magisterial work takes us into a captivating world of 19th-century Australia through a compelling, eloquent, and beautifully drawn study of the remarkable lives of John and Elizabeth Macarthur.' Joy Damousi
'Nobody sees as far into the minds and hearts of the early Australian colonists as Alan Atkinson. In this fascinating double-portrait, based on a lifetime's research, he reveals Australia's first power-couple as never before: together and apart; as they saw themselves and as they were seen by their friends and enemies; at the apex of a fast-developing colony and at the far edge of global networks of family affection, commercial ambition and imperial power. A tour de force of scholarship, imagination, and literary power.' Graeme Davison
'With trademark lyricism, Alan Atkinson builds a rich and moving picture of the social, intellectual and material world of the Macarthurs. Elizabeth and John transforms our understanding of early New South Wales and two of its most significant figures.' Lisa Ford
'The Macarthurs have long been the subjects of caricature, even wilful distortion. In this superb book, Alan Atkinson has restored their humanity, exploring their characters, their relationships between themselves and with others, the ideas and influences that shaped them and how they in turn helped shape colonial Australia. This is history at its best, based on vast research and deep understanding.' Stephen Foster
'This was evidently a labour of love and a fascination for Atkinson. The reader is treated to such a detailed level of knowledge and understanding that one could easily think Atkinson knew Elizabeth and John, personally. Possibly, after all his research, Atkinson felt he did.' Hearsay
'As with a novel, I found myself wondering what the characters were doing while I was away from the book.' Inside Story
'Enthralling and powerful. Alan Atkinson writes with the easy, lyrical elegance that comes of deep historical understanding and fine, slow history. In Elizabeth and John he weaves together the lives of the Macarthurs with the life of the mind, and brilliantly navigates the mysterious mirror maze between them.' Grace Karskens
'Elizabeth and John is a truly amazing work of history. A triumph. This is historical scholarship at its dazzling best. Beautifully produced and written, Alan Atkinson's intimate portrait of Elizabeth and John Macarthur's marriage also opens windows on to the wider worlds of 19th-century England, the European Enlightenment and early New South Wales during the years of the British invasion and occupation. Attentive to his subjects' inner selves and sensibilities and the imperatives of an imperial and patriarchal order, Atkinson's book is truly a tour de force.' Marilyn Lake
'At once intimate and epic, inspired and deeply compassionate, this is the kind of book that can only come from a lifetime of close reading. Meticulously researched, imaginatively conceived and breathtaking in its ability to retrieve past worlds both private and public. An exceptional work of biography and history written by one of Australia's most original historians.' Mark McKenna
]]>Throughout the twentieth century, a group of trailblazing women writers challenged the nation's status quo. Miles Franklin's forceful voice invigorated the emerging women's movement, Mary Gilmore was a groundbreaking feminist journalist, and novelists Katharine Susannah Prichard and Eleanor Dark explored the colonial displacement of Australia's Indigenous people. Kylie Tennant spoke up for battlers during the Depression. Dymphna Cusack, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Dorothy Hewett, all members of Australia's Communist Party, advocated for social reform. Ruth Park's The Harp in the South jolted the NSW government into developing slum clearance programs. And the work of First Nations poet and activist Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) was crucial in achieving constitutional reform for Indigenous peoples.
Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces these women's stories, shaped by the seismic social and political events of their time, and illuminates their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.
'Kent brings her cast of writers effortlessly to life.' Jason Steger
'Each of these seven women writers set out, in her own way, to change the world, and this well-researched and engagingly written book makes clear their individual and collective bravery, curiosity and fearlessness.' Heidi Maier, InDaily
'Highly informed, engaging, often wittily observed, this is also an impressively orchestrated study of groundbreaking writers and the tumultuous times they mirrored and interpreted.' Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
'Inconvenient Women is a fluent stream of fascinating detail. It brings to the fore names half-remembered now, their collaborations with activist men such as Guido Baracchi and Egon Kisch as well as other women, and the political environment they all operated in. Once begun, it is difficult to put down: you'll finish with dozens of notes to follow up.' Miriam Cosic, The Saturday Paper
]]>Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn't she continue? Harrower gave evasive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her death in 2020 has a deeper search been possible.
In this definitive biography, renowned journalist and writer Susan Wyndham grapples with the elusive Harrower. She immerses us in the author's tumultuous family, her complex friendships with Patrick White, Christina Stead, Kylie Tennant and Shirley Hazzard, and her timeless probing of the human spirit in five remarkable novels.
Drawing on time spent with Harrower, revealing analysis of her fiction and new research, Wyndham unmasks a literary legend.
'Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower is the first (and perhaps final) word on one of Australia's most brilliant and bedevelling writers. Like Harrower's, Wyndham's prose is meticulously observed, emotionally attuned and full of grace, insight and vision. It's a fantastic achievement.' Dominic Amerena
'This is an extraordinary biography of one of the finest, and most important, Australian writers, Elizabeth Harrower. In a braiding so skilled you can't see it, Susan Wyndham takes us from Harrower's life into her work and her friendships, and then back into her work and life. This is a deceptively simple, beautifully detailed, psychologically acute portrait worthy of its subject.' Anna Funder
'This is a wonderful book. It gives us the complexities of Harrower's life and of her fascinating character so nave and at the same time so intelligent, her prickly diffidence coupled with a kind of gormless passion. And it sets her compellingly into the decades when modern Australian literature was coming into being. An indispensable contribution to Australian writing.' Brigitta Olubas
'This much-awaited biography peels back the layers on Australian literary legend Elizabeth Harrower, who died in 2020 after decades as an enigmatic figure.' Melanie Kembrey, SMH/The Age
'A sympathetic and illuminating exploration of the life and work of one of post-war Australia's most significant writers.' Books + Publishing
]]>The Australian art world is often host to crime, including theft, fraud and forgeries. Unseen offers a unique insight into art crime in Australia from colonisation to today, focusing on those stories that have often escaped mainstream attention. From the many offences committed against William Dobell's work (including a painting listed on the FBI's National Stolen Art File since 1949) to the mysterious re-emergence of Rupert Bunny's Girl in Sunlight twenty-three years after it disappeared, from fraudulently sold Aboriginal art to climate activists spray-painting a famous Frederick McCubbin, Australian art has been a hotbed of revolt, recrimination and even robbery since European contact.
This is the story of art at the nexus of culture and commerce: art plus money can lead to deceit and dashed dreams. Unseen captures the stories of many artworks, artists and collectors at the centre of our nation's most enduring art scandals. It also looks at works hidden from public sight, now deemed colonial embarrassments or curatorial burdens, that were once of social and cultural significance. Ultimately, it explores how our conception of artistic value changes over time, and what that reveals about Australian society.
'No one knows more about art crime in Australia than Penelope Jackson. She's the continent's go-to scholar and teller of riveting tales within this subgenre. I eagerly anticipate each of her books, and this one is brilliant. The perfect read for anyone interested in cultural heritage crimes in the land down under.' Dr Noah Charney, bestselling author of The Thefts of the Mona Lisa
'Throughout Unseen the reader is taken on a journey through aspects of Australian art crime from its earliest days of settlement to contemporary events. In her writing, Jackson seeks to redress the parallel paths Australian art history and Australian art crime have taken: to present an "intercourse" between the two.' Dr Pamela James, Adjunct Fellow, Art Crime and Art History, University of Western Sydney
]]>Half the Perfect World tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra. Most famously, it included renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his partner Marianne Ihlen, as well as many other artists and writers including the Australian literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, who fostered this fabled colony.
Drawing on many previously unseen letters, manuscripts and diaries, and richly illustrated by the eyewitness photographs of LIFE magazine photo-journalist James Burke, Half the Perfect World reveals the private lives and relationships of the Hydra expatriates. It charts the promise of a creative life that drew many of them to the island, and documents the fracturing of the community as it came under pressure from personal ambitions and wider social changes. For all the unrealised youthful ambitions, internal strife and personal tragedy that attends this story, the authors nonetheless find that the example of these writers, dreamers and drifters continues to resonate and inspire.
]]>Tanya Dalziell works in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2004), and co-editor (with Karen Welberry) of Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave (2009).
]]>We've made a selection of remarkable letters from those millions, and passed them on to modern Australians to write new letters, inspired by those from our collection.
The original letters may have shaped history, confessed love, covered philosophical matters like aging or creativity, or given an insight into the writers' lives. The modern letters do the same. By turns moving, funny and challenging, this is a collection of letters that will engage and enlarge readers' sense of empathy and may inspire them to pick up the pen themselves. This book is a testament to the particular power of a letter (or an email, fax or telegram) to shock us, to move us and to warm us.
Authors include:
Rebecca Edwards, Curator, Australian Art, provides a detailed and engaging account of Dangar's art and life, tracing her beginnings in Kempsey, NSW, her studies in Sydney and Paris, and her subsequent journey to Moly-Sabata, Sablons, France. There she established her international reputation as a cubist artist. Featuring contributions by Elena Taylor, Angela Goddard, Anne O'Hehir, ADS Donaldson and the late Peter Brooke, the publication surveys Dangar's art, networks and legacy.
With over 150 of the artist's works reproduced, as well as previously unpublished archival material, this richly illustrated book is a comprehensive record of Dangar's impressive artistic output and impact on Australian modernism.
]]>Spowers and Syme were part of a newly independent generation of women artists able to travel widely and study with avant-garde teachers in England and France during the 1920s and 1930s. They brought back to Australia the spirit and knowledge of modern European art movements and techniques, which they shared through the expanding networks of art societies and private women's clubs in Melbourne and Sydney.
These remarkable women supported each other's aspiration to become professional artists in a changing world and are now recognised for their significance as progressive artists dedicated to producing art that was truly of its time.
]]>In their own voices, they explore the challenges of adaptation, the resilience born from adversity, moments of joy, and the enduring ties to their heritage. With unique perspectives, they examine Australian culture while confronting some of the world's most pressing political injustices through the lens of lived experience.
A powerful testament to individuality and community, Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names seeks to dismantle stereotypes in a world that too often simplifies identity. This compelling collection inspires us all to rise above the barriers of sexism and racism, offering an urgent and unapologetic chorus of truth.
Contributions by: Mariam Maatooq, Loubna Haikal, Mary Hanoun Khilla, Sivine Tabbouch, Hend Saab, Kilda Eid, Camilia Naim, Oula Ghannoum, Nouha El-Khoury Francis.
]]>Oula Ghannoum was born in Tripoli, Lebanon, and is currently a Professor of Plant Biology at Western Sydney University. An internationally renowned expert in plant photosynthesis, her research addresses the twin challenges of food security and climate change. She has published over 100 scientific articles. Beyond science, Oula is passionate about Sufism and storytelling as integrative forms of knowledge. She is currently working on a trilogy exploring her own and her family's migration to Gadigal Land, Australia.
Loubna Haikal was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and migrated to Australia as a teenager. A trained medical doctor, she worked as a GP before turning to writing. She is the author of Seducing Mr. Maclean (Picador, 2002), along with several short stories and plays. A mother of three sons and a grandmother, Loubna lives on the land of the Gadigal people in Merro-berah.
]]>'Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.' DR. JANE GOODALL
Filled with reverence and wonder for the natural world, this captivating book reveals the secret life of sea turtles, one of the oldest living creatures on Earth, and the story of one female scientist's fight to save their future.
In 2015, a team of researchers carefully removed a plastic straw from a sea turtle's nostril off the coast of Costa Rica. The disturbing incident, which was captured on video, went viral, leading to corporate straw bans around the world. In this evocative book, reminiscent of Jane Goodall's memoir In the Shadow of Man, the marine biologist behind the camera, Christine Figgener, recounts her own life spent studying and protecting sea turtles.
From the time she was a young girl, Figgener was determined to become a biologist, and study the marvels of the marine world. In My Life With Sea Turtles, she shares how she went from a small, gray town on the edge of industry to the lush coastline of Costa Rica, where she fell in love with the local environment and its famous residents: the sea turtles.
Figgener describes patrolling the beach at night, swimming with turtles in the open ocean, watching tiny turtles emerge from sandy nests, and risking her life during tropical storms. We learn about her experience as a woman in conservation, a male dominated space where she struggles to be taken seriously. Through discovering the fascinating science of sea turtles and the threats they face today, readers will be inspired to live their own lives differently to ensure the survival of these magnificent creatures.
]]>Through a selection of detailed expert essays and some 40 spotlight studies, Medieval Women reveals a rich and complex picture of their world, full of colourful characters and intriguing stories from famous personalities such as Christine de Pizan, Joan of Arc and Julian of Norwich, to lesser-known figures such as Sibilla von Bondorff, Clemence of Barking and Margaret Paston. Both the exhibition, and this accompanying book, will showcase star items from the British Library and major European collections as well as bringing to light little-known, deeply resonant, and highly personal, gems and keepsakes from this fascinating era.
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