Now in another place, I am finding lighter words. At times, I may not need to speak at all. I smile; I nod. I seek permission to speak. Please, do you mind? Will you allow me?
In an important book for our times, Stan Grant one of Australia's most prominent writers on identity, nationhood and belonging reflects on how we struggle to speak to one another today, and the importance of listening, silence and philosophy, from Plato to Simone Weil to Radiohead.
]]>Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation.
In this book, award-winning science writer Justine E. Hausheer encounters pygmy possums that live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina's rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot and meets adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger.
The Vanishing Wild immerses us in the harsh reality of the extinction crisis and shows us the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia's native species.
'Australia's wildlife is iconic, but its list of threatened species has only ever got longer. With her engaging and impassioned accounts, Justine Hausheer takes readers with her as she visits conservationists in the field and lab working tirelessly to save a series of incredible animals from extinction, while the world waits for politicians to take the environment seriously.' Jack Ashby, author of Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
'A lively and engaging account of Australia's most compelling wildlife conservation challenges. Justine Hausheer shares stories of lost and vanishing birds, mammals and reptiles along with the desperate hope and determination of those working so hard to save them.' Danielle Clode, author of The Enigmatic Echidna: Secrets of the World's Most Curious Creature
'Extinction equates to a silencing of nature. Justine Hausheer beautifully gives voice both to the animals on the precipice as well as those dedicated to bringing them back.' Sean Dooley, BirdLife Australia
'Riveting, deeply alarming, shocking yet hopeful. Written in a way that encourages curiosity and engagement, full of impossible-to-forget-or-unlearn scenes and entangled quandaries, tragic and timely, a vitally important contribution to popular science, essential for anyone who wants to understand Australia's conservation dilemmas.' Darryl Jones, author of Curlews on Vulture Street: Cities, Birds, People and Me
'Engrossing, captivating, and full of heart and adventure, The Vanishing Wild is a soliloquy to the weird and wonderful animals of Australia and a clarion call for their conservation, from a brilliant science writer with a flair for storytelling. As Justine Hausheer regales us with tales of night parrots, pygmy possums, and platypuses and the colourful scientists who study them you soon find yourself swept up in her passion for protecting Australia's fauna.' Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh palaeontologist and New York Times/Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
]]>We live in troubled times, marked by a sinister trend gaining the upper hand everywhere: the triumph of despotism not only in countries like Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, but also in states run by popularly elected demagogues Orbn and Erdoan, Netanyahu and Trump.
John Keane shows why this new despotism defies the laws of political gravity. Instead of relying on fear or raw force, it fosters a strange, pseudo-democratic type of government, led by rulers skilled in winning public loyalty through government handouts, election-rigging, legal trickery, weaponised lying and talk of enemies. And, alarmingly, these leaders hunt in packs.
What's so good about democracy? Keane explains that it's much more than popular self-government based on free and fair elections. Democracy is a collective insistence that unaccountable power is always dangerous and that it's the best way to stop demagogues and despots from ruining life on our planet.
'John Keane vividly describes the greed, ambition and political cunning that underpin the world's new age of despotism. Unsparing in his analysis, Keane nevertheless holds out the hope that the spirit of true democracy will eventually prevail.' Victor Mallet, author of Far-right France: LePen, Bardella and the future of Europe
'In a field choking on academic jargon, Demagogues and Despots reads like a blast of cold air urgent and merciless in its clarity. Keane writes in images that cut, but the real force is in what they reveal: "Demagogues are despots in the making. Despots are what demagogues would like to be." This is the book the field needed and did not know how to ask for.' Umut zkrml, author of Theories of Nationalism: A critical introduction
'An urgent book stunning in its sweep and depth, Demagogues and Despots flags a frightening possibility: despotism may no longer be something that's happening to other people.' Debasish Roy Chowdhury, co-author of ToKill a Democracy: India's passage to despotism
'Keane exposes a world confronted by a new despotism spreading across the globe, feeding on democracy itself, and seducing citizens while hollowing out its core.A bracing, indispensable guide to how despotism works and how to resist it.' Olivia Stokes Dreier, Senior Research Fellow for Global Challenges to Democracy, Toda Peace Institute
'John Keane is one of the world's leading thinkers on democracy past, present and future. As becomes clear from this extraordinary book, democracy is under threat as never before, both from external threats but also, and more alarmingly, from the internal threat of despotism and demagoguery. A must-read for anyone who cares about how contemporary events are conspiring to underline the democratic inheritance.' Simon Tormey, author of Populism: A beginner's guide
'This is a rare kind of book one devoted to the rise of despotism, yet one that leaves you optimistic about the future of democracy.' Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and author of After Europe
]]>In Being Patient, Na'ama, Louise and Siobhan share their own stories and talk to people about their experiences as patients and carers in Cancer World. Including stories from cancer experts oncologists, GPs, nurses, surgeons, radiologists and researchers Being Patient is unflinching and uplifting and offers unvarnished views of living with cancer from 'both sides of the desk'.
'This bracingly honest account of Cancer World will make for better lives, and better treatment.' Andrew Denton
'Being Patient is a beautiful, clear and important window into the experience of those diagnosed with cancer. The authors write with openness and honesty and provide practical and useful recommendations to improve cancer care. Through interviews with cancer patients, family members and healthcare professionals, a compelling argument for the power of kindness, deep listening, inclusion and clear communication in cancer treatment emerges. A must-read for anyone involved in researching or treating cancer, or for those looking to understand the experience of having cancer.' Professor Caroline Ford, Strategic Director of the Ainsworth Endometriosis Research Institute
'This deeply moving book opens the "black box" of Cancer World through powerful conversations with patients, caregivers, and clinicians. Honest, compassionate, and free of blame or shame, it offers language and insight to navigate diagnosis and care and should be essential reading for those newly facing cancer as well as for students and experienced professionals seeking a deeper understanding of the lived experience of cancer.' Professor Ophira Ginsburg, Founding Chair of The Lancet Commission on Women, Power, and Cancer, Provost's Visiting Professor of Global Cancer Equity, Imperial College London
'You don't need to be a goody two-shoes if you're receiving cancer care. In fact, as this uniquely insightful book will tell you among many other things sometimes it helps if you aren't.' Dr Norman Swan
'Being Patient offers a rare and courageous account of cancer's inner landscape, drawing on the authors' own diagnoses to illuminate the trust, power, and silence that shape every patient encounter, and giving clinicians an invaluable window into what patients carry but rarely say aloud. The book's call to reimagine Cancer World is timely, and its rich accounts remind us that many of these frustrations belong to any resource-limited, time-pressured healthcare system. These stories make a powerful case for what must follow: rigorously tested models of care, designed and measured to improve both quality of life and survival. Made all the more poignant by the loss of one of its authors, this book is a vital prompt for that harder work.' Professor Georgina Long AO, Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at Melanoma Institute Australia and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney
]]>Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurprisingly, little read. Her groundbreaking book, The Hite Report, was the first feminist exploration of the link between sex and male power. It sold millions of copies when first published in 1976 and revolutionised the way people thought about marriage and the female orgasm. How, then, did it, and Hite, disappear from public consciousness?
Australian historian Rosa Campbell combines original research and sharp cultural analysis to explore the complicated life and literary legacy of Shere Hite. Expanding on her ideas about sex namely, that sex is sexist the book explores Hite's fraught childhood, struggles working in the porn industry, and eventual cancellation by the far-right Evangelical movement. All the while, Campbell holds Hite and The Hite Report to account for their own failings and absence of intersectionality.
In a post-#MeToo world, with the far-right on the march globally, Rosa Campbell's examination of shifting ideological movements is essential to understanding the current feminist movement, as well as how conservative and reactionary efforts can silence even the most successful of women.
'Rosa Campbell's intimate, compelling history reclaims The Hite Report as a lost feminist classic and restores Hite as a feminist trailblazer. The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared is the kind of feminist history we need right now: empathetic, carefully researched and brimming with insight. I devoured this vibrant, resonant work.' Michelle Arrow
'Campbell tracks the explosive arc of late twentieth century sexual politics, and brilliantly shows how Hite authored, exploited and was devoured by them. A book for our times of feminist boom and backlash.' Lucy Delap
'Feminists keep losing our trailblazers to cultural amnesia. This book is a blessed antidote: A resurrection of a woman so charismatic, iconoclastic, frustrating and brilliant that it seems impossible she could be forgotten, someone who practiced sex-positive feminism before it had a name, and who understood that pleasure is always political.' Jude Doyle
'Get ready, the next generation of feminist history is here, and it's fun, sexy and outrageously smart. With all the swagger and passion of Shere Hite herself, Rosa Campbell restores The Hite Report to the pantheon of great feminist texts, and offers an exhilarating new history of the earthquake that was Women's Liberation.' Yves Rees
'Rosa Campbell, with her deep and wide-ranging research, has brought to life Shere Hite's astonishing, courageous and finally tragic story, and shows us how her book, The Hite Report, changed millions of women's lives and broadened the feminist movement to engage women at all levels of society. Campbell's vivid use of original source material to document the (infuriating!) backlash against Shere and her work makes clear the origins of where we are today when women, particularly successful women are being demonized and denigrated by trad wives, the manosphere and politicians. The book is a fascinating and important contribution to our intellectual history.' Regina Ryan, original editor of The Hite Report
'Witty, erudite, engaging and empathetic Rosa Campbell is the perfect companion on this literary voyage of sexual (re)discovery. Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Shere Hite and The Hite Report gives us the world inside a book the millions of women and men who Shere introduced to that most joyous of organs, the clitoris! and the book inside a world perched between 70s feminist revolt and 80s masculinist backlash. Written in the aftermath of #MeToo, as we witness the rise of the manosphere and the reassertion of traditional gender roles, this history of feminist ideas and how they're silenced then 'disappeared' has never felt more urgent. In short: buy this book! Read it in one sitting! And, like The Hite Report back in its day, thrust it into the hands of every person that you know.' Alecia Simmonds
'An essential account of an oft-overlooked feminist pioneer.' Publishers Weekly
]]>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:
Imagine stumbling upon a fossil or an Indigenous artefact during a walk in the bush, on a quiet beach or across your family farm what would you do next? While fossils and artefacts are different in their formation, preservation and significance, they're both part of the incredible array of heritage objects and sites we can find across the Australian landscape.
Found a Fossil bridges the gap between curiosity and action, providing an accessible guide to uncovering Australia's rich prehistoric and cultural heritage. Combining palaeontology, archaeology and science communication, this book explores the stories behind fossils and Indigenous artefacts, how they connect us to the past and the responsibilities we hold in preserving them.
Drawing from the groundbreaking Found a Fossil Project, palaeontologist Sally Hurst shares her research and engaging stories of Australian fossils and dinosaurs, her experiences doing fieldwork and the curious finds people sometimes send her.
Whether you're a seasoned science enthusiast or a curious newcomer, Found a Fossil offers a fascinating journey into Australia's deep past and the role you can play in safeguarding its future.
]]>Leaving the familiar birds and bees behind, Bernhardt uncovers stories of reward, cooperation and deception between plants and animals. The author also pays homage to an earlier generation of naturalists who first investigated these unusual relationships during the first half of the 20th century. He explores how flowers have evolved in structure and function, and how pollination systems have emerged and diversified over time. Discover the remarkable 'fit' between animal senses and floral signals, and see how flowers advertise their secret rewards. Stunning colour plates bring you face-to-face with overlooked pollinators and their flowers from an amber fossil of the bee-like crabronid wasp that flew millions of years ago, and a modern chloropid gnat wearing an orchid's pollinia on its back, to the elaborate lip petals of hammer orchids luring male wasps, and the long tongue of a tube-lipped nectar bat reaching for its prize.
This is a captivating glimpse into the wonders of an unseen and unsung world.
]]>He remains a foreign correspondent and commentator for 'The Science Show' on Radio Australia. In 2022, Peter received the scientific outreach award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists for outstanding contributions to public education in Systematic Botany. Peter remains a supporter of the Nutcote Museum in Neutral Bay, NSW and the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan, China.
]]>Occupying an entire kingdom of their own, fungi comprise over 155,000 species that include yeasts, rusts, and moulds as well as the more familiar mushrooms and toadstools that we see in the wild and on our plates. Found widely across the globe, they represent a diverse group of organisms, some living freely in soil and water, and others forming parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants, algae, and animals. This book presents a broad and accessible overview of fungal diversity, evolution, and ecology. It describes the various forms of fungi and covers topics ranging from fungal origins and reproduction to the historical and cultural significance of fungi for humankind. Blending stunning illustrations with a lively and engaging text, The Complete Fungi is a must for fungi enthusiasts and armchair naturalists alike.
]]>Lose yourself in this edition of Griffith Review as we go in search of answers.
]]>Allanah Hunt is a Barkindji and Malyangapa writer, editor and academic. She is passionate about social justice, mental health and First Nations storytelling.
]]>At its heart, Danshari is about release. It's about removing what no longer serves you emotionally as well as physically. Discarding clutter frees you from outdated beliefs and emotional burdens that are holding you back. The word Danshari literally means 'reduce, release and relieve' or, in other words, lightness, clarity and freedom.
This isn't just about throwing out old stuff. It's about creating space in your life for clarity, peace and joy with other people. Whether it's stressing about money, difficult relationships, family expectations or the fear of aging Danshari offers you a way forward!
Ms. Yamashita's real-life stories illustrate the life-changing power of Danshari, for example:
In a recent New York Times interview, Ms. Yamashita explains how her philosophy differs from that of other decluttering experts, such as Marie Kondo. She says the Danshari method encourages people to think about why they are attached to certain items and to examine the impact old belongings and obsessions can have on their emotional state. 'For me, Danshari is not about tidying up, organising or tossing away things that don't spark joy...It is about returning to a state in which parting with things feels natural.'
This is far more than a guide to cleaning up your house. It's a roadmap to a whole new life!
'Meet Japan's original decluttering guru (no, not that one)! Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces.' The New York Times (January 16, 2025)
]]>These all-new translations of four landmark essays by Junichiro Tanizaki bring fresh insights to the work of one of Japan's most acclaimed writers. The translations by Michael P. Cronin bring together Tanizaki's famous meditation on Japanese aesthetics with three other fascinating cultural commentaries that appear here in English for the first time:
'In Praise of Shadows belongs to that special order of slim, enormously powerful books that enchant the lay reader with an esoteric subject, leaving a lifelong imprint on the imagination.' Maria Popova
]]>Michael P. Cronin is a translator, scholar of Japanese literature and cinema, and Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at The College of William & Mary. He is the translator of Junichiro Tanizaki's final novel, The Maids and the author of Osaka Modern.
John Einarsen's photography books include Kyoto: The Forest Within the Gate and Small Buildings of Kyoto vol. 1 & II. He is the founding editor and publisher of Kyoto Journal and has lived in Kyoto for over 40 years.
]]>Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned lessons for the next generation of activists, alongside personal stories and heartfelt contributions from his friends and family, his admirers, and even his opponents, including:
In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetimeshares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.
A stunning tribute to a fearless truth-teller who transformed how we understand our relationship with the natural world, Lessons From a Lifetimebelongs on every bookshelf.
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
]]>Ian Hanington is a writer and editor. As Senior Editor and Writer at the David Suzuki Foundation, he co-wrote a weekly syndicated column, Science Matters, with David Suzuki. They also co-authored Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet and Just Cool It: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
]]>In this clear-sighted volume, Woodroofe argues that Australia needs to elevate climate change to our top foreign and economic policy priority. And we need to speak about it in a way that makes sense from the Cabinet Room to every lounge room across the mortgage belts and beyond. Because the ingredients that made us the lucky country reliable power, economic prosperity and the beauty of our part of the planet, are at risk.
]]>Digital media is sometimes blamed for stunting early language development; other times it's lauded for supporting children's language and imaginations. Restricting access is thought to protect children, but research suggests that fostering responsible internet use is more effective. What is the way forward, through the dire warnings and doubts? Is there a possible policy reset that allows parents to worry less?
In the wake of Australia's social media ban, Lelia Green draws on many years of research into digital parenting to examine online safety and screen time in the digital age. First-time parents often discuss schooling, religion and diet, but rarely talk about how to parent with technology. Parents can guide their child on a digital journey to become confident, competent internet users.
Professor Lelia Green is Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child at Edith Cowan University, where she leads a team of researchers from across health, education and social welfare. Green was an early pioneer of research with children (rather than about children) and has been chief investigator on international projects including on toddlers' internet use. She has consulted for UNESCO Asia-Pacific and belongs to several international networks, including the European Commissionfunded DigiLitEY and EU Kids Online. Green serves on the editorial board of leading publication Journal of Children and Media.
]]>This masterpiece remains unsurpassed in its keen observations about Japanese culture. By shedding light on the core values that make the Japanese unique, it reveals a great deal about culture in general and provides a lens through which to view ourselves.
This new edition has been completely redesigned for greater readability and features a new foreword by Lois Banner, a pioneer in the field of women's studies.
'One of the best books ever about Japanese society...[A] thoughtful, nuanced study of the Japanese character.' U.S. News & World Report
'A classic of Japanese cultural studies...debunks the stereotype of the Japanese as hopelessly rigid and incapable of change.' The New York Times
]]>Lois Banner is professor emeritus of history at the University of Southern California and one of the first academics to concentrate on women's studies. She has won several prestigious awards for her scholarship including a Rockefeller Fellowship. She is the author of many books and articles, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights, and Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle.
]]>Keane is one of the world's leading designers of Japanese-style gardens and he describes in detail the historical influences of Confucian, Shinto and Buddhist ideas that have linked poetry and philosophy to the tangible forms of gardens in Japan. Creative inspiration is found in prehistoric Japanese conceptions of nature, gardens of the Heian-era aristocrats, world-renowned Zen Buddhist temple rock gardens and tea gardens; compact courtyard gardens and large-scale Edo-era stroll gardens.
Detailed explanations of these basic forms identify and interpret the symbolism and principles behind them and explain how they are still in active use today. Topics covered include:
Filled with gorgeous photographs and expert text by a leading garden designer, this book explains the theory and practice of Japanese gardening from an insider's point of view. It will be treasured by all Japanese garden lovers and visitors to Japan.
'Marc Peter Keane is the undisputed American master of Japanese garden scholars; he is also an educator and garden designer in his own right. Two of his previous books Japanese Garden Design and The Art of Setting Stones are indispensable.' The New York Times
]]>Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is the story of one middle-aged woman in a cardigan determined to understand this growing phenomenon.
No other woman has had so many online romances from Keanu Reeves to Brad Pitt to Prince William and Becky Holmes is a favourite among peacekeeping soldiers and oil rig workers who desperately need iTunes vouchers. By winding up scammers and investigating the truth behind their profiles, Becky shines a revealing, revolting and hilarious light on a very shady corner of the internet.
Featuring first-hand accounts of victims, examples of scripts used by fraudsters, a look into the psychology of fraud and of course plenty of Becky's hysterical interactions with scammers, this is a must-read for anyone who needs a reminder that Keanu Reeves is NOT in love with them.
'Clever, pertinent and very, very funny...Striking journalism.' -Danny Finkelstein
'A funny, sweary, absurd delight that knows just when to take the subject seriously too. I loved it.' - Dave Gorman
'A brilliant read. Moves effortlessly between hilarious and informative and back again.' - Ed Byrne
Stefan Stern draws on the major themes of Macbeth and discusses how they can be applied to ambition in modern life. From the success of the first US woman vice president, Kamala Harris, the obstacles she faced and the possibilities that still lie ahead, to Boris Johnson's young aspirations to be 'world king' and the pathological intensity of his ambition, Stern considers the careers and personal lives of politicians, sports stars and business people, to name a few, to illuminate this strange and powerful driver. Expect to discover how ambition and success work together, how attitudes have shifted over time, and how gender roles have an impact on our goals.
Incisive, contemporary and accessible, this book is for anyone who is looking for a change of direction or emphasis on how to move forward. It will also provide consolation, amusement and plenty of insightful meditations on the complex nature of ambition.
]]>His first two books were Myths of Management: What people get wrong about being the boss (Kogan Page, 2017, with Cary Cooper), and How to be a better leader (Bluebird, Pan Macmillan 2019). He is a Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and a Fellow of the RSA.
]]>The dawn prayer calls echo through the streets. As many make their way to mosques, for some it signals the end of another illegal gay party. Under the cover of darkness, smiles on lips and sweat on foreheads, the gays of Tehran blend back into daily life. Hidden in plain sight, they plan when and where they will meet again.
In an unparalleled true story, Majid Parsa recounts how a childhood of war, prayer and obedience was upended by a teenage sexual awakening and ultimately, pride. He lifts the heavy veil of persecution to reveal the fabulous and flamboyant gay scene right at the heart of the Islamic Republic of Iran, flourishing under the ever-present shadow of the grand Ayatollah and morality police. Eye-opening and at times laugh-out-loud funny, The Ayatollah's Gaze is a story of self-discovery in a country where Sharia is the law.
'Powerfully eye-opening' Attitude Magazine
]]>What if we responded to death...by throwing a party? Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia, Sicily, Japan, Mexico and New Orleans)
By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies.
With Mexico's Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world one for every day they didn't find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia - with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one - This Party's Dead is the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they're going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death - and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn't seem so scary after all. Now available in paperback.
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]]>Dreams inspire positive action, so stitch a Dream Cloud to hang up at home or work and prompt you to think past a problem to the solution. Sew a Gentle Nudge Label to help keep your conscience sharp and your spirit strong. Craft your own Mini Protest Banner to turn heads and influence change, or fly solidarity's flag for those suffering as a result of the world's injustices. Stitch a Handmade Hedgerow to champion one of the solutions to the climate crisis or if you are nervous about protesting in public or if there's a ban on public rallies where you live, let a doll speak your truth by creating a Toy Protest.
This handbook is for everyone, wherever you are in the world: whether you are a skilled crafter or a burnt-out activist, an introvert, highly sensitive person, or struggling with anxiety or overwhelm. These 20 projects and tools use the slow, soothing and thoughtful process of craft to help channel feelings of sadness, anger or powerlessness into proactive, encouraging effective actions to help make hope possible.
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]]>This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel Parsons, a powerful mother and daughter duo, and Caroline Haslett, whose mission was to liberate women from domestic drudgery, it was the world's first professional organisation dedicated to the campaign for women's rights.
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines tells the stories of the women at the heart of this group - from their success in fanning the flames of a social revolution to their significant achievements in engineering and technology. It centres on the parallel but contrasting lives of the two main protagonists, Rachel Parsons and Caroline Haslett - one born to privilege and riches whose life ended in dramatic tragedy; the other who rose from humble roots to become the leading professional woman of her age and mistress of the thrilling new power of the twentieth century: electricity.
In this fascinating book, acclaimed biographer Henrietta Heald also illuminates the era in which the society was founded. From the moment when women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time, and to stand for Parliament, she charts the changing attitudes to women's rights both in society and in the workplace.
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Since starting out in 1975 as a part-time mail-order business in a modest third-floor flat in West London, Games Workshop has grown from its humble beginnings to become a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange. From distributing Dungeons & Dragons, to living in the back of a van, to opening Games Workshop stores, to creating Fighting Fantasy, to launching Warhammer, co-founders Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson tell their remarkable story for the first time.
Dice Men is the fascinating, never-before-told story of an iconic company which changed the world of tabletop gaming for ever. It's an insight into the rollercoaster first year of Games Workshop and the birth of the industry.
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Each artist is profiled along with select examples of their best work in vibrant full colour, the astonishing detail on display in all its glory. It features the work some of the world's best fantasy artists including Chris Achilleos, John Blanche, Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Karl Kopinski, Iain McCaig, Martin McKenna, Ian Miller and Russ Nicholson, among others.
Written by Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone and Fighting Fantasy historian Jonathan Green, Magic Realms is a Who's Who of fantasy art an absolutely essential collector's item for any Fighting Fantasy fan.
]]>Jonathan Green is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than 80 books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, he has also written fiction for Doctor Who, Star Wars, Warhammer and Marvel. He lives in Somerset, UK.
]]>There aren't many computer games that can justify an entire book, but for superfans, Alien: Isolation is truly extraordinary and Perfect Organism reveals all there is to know about every aspect of this masterful game.
Discover the rationale and authenticity of the set design and art direction, learn about the alien's unnerving abilities to second-guess the players and the importance of its unique height, find out more about the importance of the dynamic audio and the use of seventies archive soundbites, as well as the darkly beautiful music. And immerse yourself in the technical brilliance of the level design and the user interface, before reading about the deleted content, and the scenes and features that never made the final cut.
Alien: Isolation is a game of remarkable depth, complexity, and detail, and together with a level-by-level mission guide, this book will answer all of your questions, as well as many you haven't yet thought to ask!
]]>"Packed full of approachable and inspiring recipes...thoroughly modern and highly rewarding.' Ravinder Bhogal
"Every recipe is packed with flavour.' Dan Lepard
Sanjana Feasts is a collection of dazzling recipes of modern Indian diaspora vegetarian and vegan food.
Sanjana Modha's flavourful and vibrant recipes are rooted in her Indian heritage, East African family background, and Yorkshire childhood. This book showcases the varied ingredients and unique combinations that are authentic to Sanjana's upbringing, and includes signature dishes such as Ruffled Biryani, Madras Mac and Cheese with Naan Crumbs, Desi-inspired French Bread Pizza and Sticky Toffee Gulab Jamun, as well as delicious Indian classics.
Over the last few years Sanjana has seen a visible shift in the Western understanding of what Indian food is. It's gone from curry-house creations, to an exploration of regional food, to fusion cuisine and more recently, an appreciation of street food and casual dining. Today, Indian food is a cacophony of all these elements and more, and Sanjana is forging yet another new direction with the food of diasporic communities, and the flavours of a new generation.
Sanjana Feasts will inspire you both to incorporate these delicious recipes into your everyday cooking, and to raise your game in the kitchen with her tips for the classics.
]]>Hedges are as old as civilisation and as emblematic of the British countryside as chalk streams, hay meadows and oak trees. But unlike woodland and rivers, farmland hedges remain on the periphery of the public consciousness, often going unnoticed and almost always underappreciated. Wielding his pen as deftly he does a billhook, professional hedgelayer Richard Negus takes us on a journey that reveals these ribbons of thorn and barb are so much more than mere decoration or boundary markers. They are essential for much-needed wildlife recovery. If we don't get our hedges right, there is little hope for species like the almost-extinct turtledove.
And yet, no hedge is truly 'wild'; each one is a testament to generations of human skill and labour, requiring ongoing maintenance to survive and thrive. But there is a problem: we need more hedgelayers, and this is something Negus is trying to solve.
Introducing a lively band of fellow countrymen and countrywomen along the way, Negus explores everything from the practical complexities of modern farming and land ownership to the challenges faced by conservationists. Written with vigour and humour, as well as rare insight and honesty, Words from the Hedge is a timely exploration of how we can use hedges to make the British countryside a place where nature has a home.
]]>What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of fearlessly determined women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism.
From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the 'star' reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures.
Recovering their voices across a range of texts, including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals the inch-by-inch gains these women won through courageous and sometimes controversial acts.
'Truly inspiring reading.' Daily Express (Books of the Year 2020)
'Lonsdale's subjects are [...] pioneering journalists who weaponise words to attack the citadels of the Establishment. This, with their energy, is what draws them together.' Times Literary Supplement
]]>The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.
For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet?
In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth's wild places. We'll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men's climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain's first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa.
Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai's daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women's adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be 'wildly different'.
'Spellbinding,' Daily Express
'Well worth reading.' Bookmunch
'It's a deeply felt, splendidly told, long overdue celebration of five wild, witty and wise voices who make a compelling case, now as then, for conservation, compassion and community.' Dan Richards, author of Climbing Days
]]>Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces, services and lives.
Byrne demonstrates that networks of artist-led activism and community-based direct action can provide a collaborative playbook of impactful and inclusive alternatives. From Turner Prize-winning urban regeneration projects to bakeries, vegetable gardens and multi-use arts spaces, Useful Art has enormous potential for bringing people together, recovering and preserving local skills and knowledge and reclaiming artistic endeavour for real-world good.
Exploring an international selection of projects, exhibitions and activism, this important new work champions the shift from aesthetics to use value, challenging traditional ways of seeing the world symbolically through art. Reaching beyond the financial logic of the art world, Byrne shows how Useful Art can offer an artistic toolkit for implementing radical change.
]]>Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Using the latest techniques in textual analysis Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a fresh look at William Shakespeare and reveals the influence of a community of playwrights that shaped his work. This compelling book argues that we need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another's work.
From John Lyly's wit to the collaborative genius of John Fletcher, to Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's artistic development and shows us new ways of looking at the masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries.
'This is a long way from the Romantic image of Shakespeare as isolated genius, and it is entirely convincing.' Peter Holland, Times Literary Supplement
'As this new book expertly shows, [Shakespeare] did not write alone. Shakespeare's borrowed feathers is less about the "upstart crow" who upset the gossipy, close-knit world of Elizabethan theatre, and more about those other writers whose influence, rivalry and collaboration shaped the canon we attribute to Shakespeare solo.' Emma Smith, The Telegraph
'Persuasive and precise, this exceptionally well-researched book is an invaluable addition to scholarship that examines how literary collaborations shaped the modern Shakespeare canon.' Kirkus Reviews
]]>The United States and Iran have been locked in a decades-long standoff, fuelled by missteps, misunderstandings, and clashing ambitions. In these pages a leading Iranian expert clarifies the dynamics driving a conflict that has devastated the Middle East and destabilised the world.
Behrooz Ghamari explores the history of US intervention in the region, focusing on the continuing sanctions imposed on Iran and, behind them, US policymakers' persistent perception of the Islamic Republic as a major obstacle to American power. Despite the repressive policies of the Iranian state, he contends, Iranian society has remained vibrant with active intellectual, cultural, and social justice movements. The roots of US-Iranian rivalry lie elsewhere.
Challenging the conventional image of Iran as a monolithic totalitarian regime, this timely study calls for a more informed, nuanced approach to Middle East diplomacy.
]]>Unmask the shadowy world of Russian espionage with this riveting exploration of the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) and their global clandestine operations. With decades of experience as a CIA operations officer, author Sean M. Wiswesser takes readers deep into the heart of Maskirovka the Russian art of denial, deception, and manipulation. Using historical examples and firsthand accounts, this book reveals the tactics employed by the three main services of Russia's intelligence apparatus: the SVR, GRU, and FSB. Learn about the RIS' use of double agents, surveillance, and 'street work', honeytraps, sabotage, active measures, assassinations, the RIS roles in the Russo-Ukraine War, and much more.
Wiswesser's unparalleled expertise comes from years of sitting across from Russian intelligence officers, operating overseas, and using their own methods against them. As a member of the CIA's expert cadre in the Directorate of Operations, he worked closely with the U.S. intelligence community and foreign allies, gaining a unique perspective on the RIS' global reach. Now, he shares that knowledge in a candid, plain-speaking style designed to inform and galvanize readers from all walks of life.
This book is more than an expose it's a toolkit for understanding and countering the RIS' manipulative tactics. Wiswesser breaks down ten key elements of their tradecraft, offering invaluable insights to intelligence professionals, academics, business leaders, NGO workers, and private citizens alike. With a deep grounding in Russian language, culture, and intelligence traditions, he provides readers with the context they need to grasp the RIS' methods and motivations.
Written for the general reader, this compelling account combines expert analysis with real-world stories, making it both accessible and deeply informative. Whether you're a practitioner in the field or simply curious about the world of espionage, the author's narrative will open your eyes to the global threat posed by Russian intelligence and equip you with the knowledge to recognise and resist their tactics. Prepare to be captivated, informed, and empowered.
]]>Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch the former director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts perhaps audaciously a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realises its highest aspirations.
In exploring why good bookstores matter, Deutsch draws on his lifelong experience as a bookseller, but also his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew. This spiritual and cultural heritage instilled in him a reverence for reading, not as a means to a living, but as an essential part of a meaningful life. Central among Deutsch's arguments for the necessity of bookstores is the incalculable value of browsing since, when we are deep in the act of looking at the shelves, we move through space as though we are inside the mind itself, immersed in self-reflection.
In the age of one-click shopping, this is no ordinary defense of bookstores, but rather an urgent account of why they are essential places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment that enrich the communities that are lucky enough to have them.
]]>Friendship can be the foundation of our earliest memories and the source of our most formative moments. So why is it often seen as secondary to romantic or familial connection, something we age out of and sacrifice to other relationships? In BFFs, Anahit Behrooz considers female friendship not as something lesser, but as a site of radical intimacy.
From the joys of shared coming-of-age stories and sisterhood, through the pain of break-ups and parting of ways, the vast significance and intensity of feeling within our friendships is explored through depictions in the work of Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, Booksmart and Grey's Anatomy, Insecure, The Virgin Suicides and beyond.
]]>Before turning to teaching full-time, Bernie had a successful career in science and technology, where his fascination with systems and structure laid the foundation for his later explorations of the body, breath, and mind. His teaching is informed not only by years of practice and study in yoga, meditation, and philosophy, but also by a lifelong curiosity about the human experience.
In Prana, Bernie turns his attention to one of yoga’s most elusive and profound concepts—breath as life force—tracing its meaning across cultures, eras, and disciplines. Blending personal story with philosophical reflection, ancient wisdom, and modern science, he invites readers into a multidimensional investigation of what it means to be alive.
Bernie lives and teaches in Vancouver, Canada and shares his teachings through trainings, writings, and the website www.yinyoga.com.
]]>Is it just breath? A metaphor for spirit? A biological energy? Or something more?
InPrana: One Breath, Many Worlds, Bernie Clark author of the bestsellingThe Complete Guide to Yin Yoga invites readers on a journey through ancient myths, spiritual practices, and cutting-edge science in search of one of yoga's most mysterious and foundational ideas: prana. Blending historical scholarship with personal experience, Clark weaves a tapestry of stories that explore prana as fire, wind, water, and breath moving from shamanic roots to temple rituals, from the Upanishads to Theosophy, from early Greek philosophy to modern yoga retreats.
Combining rigorous research with captivating storytelling, the book offers:
Part memoir, part history, part philosophical reflection,Pranaoffers an illuminating exploration of the life force that animates us all. Whether you are a yoga teacher, student, philosopher, or simply a seeker of deeper truths, this book will expand your understanding and your breath.
]]>Before turning to teaching full-time, Bernie had a successful career in science and technology, where his fascination with systems and structure laid the foundation for his later explorations of the body, breath, and mind. His teaching is informed not only by years of practice and study in yoga, meditation, and philosophy, but also by a lifelong curiosity about the human experience.
InPrana, Bernie turns his attention to one of yoga's most elusive and profound concepts breath as life force tracing its meaning across cultures, eras, and disciplines. Blending personal story with philosophical reflection, ancient wisdom, and modern science, he invites readers into a multidimensional investigation of what it means to be alive.
]]>This is an updated version of the book that has become the go-to resource for Yin Yoga teachers all over the world and has been required reading in many teacher training programs. All forms of yoga can provide benefits physically, emotionally, and mentally, however Yin Yoga works the deeper levels of the body/heart/mind: the yin tissues of fascia, tendons, ligaments, joints and bones, as well as the energetic channels of the meridians, nerves and blood system. One big difference noticed by students of Yin Yoga is the long-held, passive nature of the posture, which gives time for a deeper journey to unfold, a journey into the meditative aspects of yoga, a bridge to living life mindfully. The second edition includes-a more functional approach to the practice of yoga, emphasising the concept of targeted areas; the importance of stress in reducing fragility and building antifragility; understanding the nature of creep and the importance of counterposes, with a revised list of effective counterpostures; many new photographs of the postures and their variations for different body types; a more current overview of the physiology of tissues and the energy body reflecting new understanding in the science of fascia and cellular signaling; and many other enhancements. As in the first edition, the book presents comprehensive information on how to do the practice, including how to get into and out of the pose, contraindications and warnings for those who may have trouble with particular aspects of the posture, and other important information. Why we do the practice is discussed by looking at its benefits in three main sections: the physiological, energetic and mental/emotional benefits.
'Bernie Clark's The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga is one of the best yoga resources now available.' - Paul Grilley, author of Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice
]]>This groundbreaking volume brings together a rich collection of primary sources letters, essays, travelogues written in Chinese and now translated into English, spanning from the gold rush era of the 1850s to the postwar reflections of the 1950s. Each chapter includes primary sources translated into English and preceded by an academic introduction written by a historian who has engaged with these sources. In this respect, Sinophone Australia revises the Anglo-hegemony of historical writing, providing glimpses of non-English historical documents with the hopes that this will lead to the expansion of Australian history, just as a new multilingual generation of historians stands up to interpret the vast amount of source documents written in other languages.
Beyond its contribution to Australian history, Sinophone Australia positions these narratives within the broader framework of the global Sinophone, addressing themes that resonate across settler colonies and Chinese-speaking communities worldwide. Sharing analysis from historians who have extensive experience working with Chinese-language sources on Australian history, Sinophone Australia invites scholars and readers to reconsider the intersections of language, migration and identity in shaping historical knowledge.
]]>Fungi have a long history of association with death, decay and dark forces. But contrary to this negative image fungi are at the heart of crucial 'life-support' processes. For example, decomposition releases nutrients for reuse fungi really are the ultimate recyclers.
Filled with images of the extraordinary diversity and beauty of fungi, this revised and updated book provides a fascinating introduction to a group of organisms whose lifestyle means they remain largely out of sight, overlooked and forgotten. The reality is that there is much for which fungi should be thanked.
]]>The exhibitionexplores how plants moved over oceans and lands, transported in the hulls of ships, all part of the colonial legacies of the British Empire. Specifically, these stories link Australia, India and the UK and shows us that the entanglement of plants and people are tied to understanding place and belonging. This book includes high quality photography of the exhibition as well as essays and recipes by numerous contributors.
]]>Fungi have a long history of association with death, decay and dark malevolent forces. They also cause serious economic loss through diseases of plant crops in particular. They can easily be cast as the 'monster'.
]]>Hidden World of Mosses explores the tiny, intriguing environments of these plants that have their own miniature forests filled with grazers and predators, and their own ecological norms and mechanics.
]]>From objects that tell tales of daring plant collectors, to specimens of plants now extinct, historical maps and diaries, a letter from Charles Darwin and innovative nature printing techniques, this book showcases an international collection that reflects the rich scientific history of Scotland and is still used every day in our work to explore, explain and conserve the world of plants.
This book won runner up in the Best New Publications category of the Association for Cultural Enterprises Awards 2015.
]]>In the book's 80 pages, Simon highlights some of his favourite objects, plants and buildings from RBGE's Living, Herbarium, Library and Archive collections.
]]>America today is being torn apart by the struggle over a single concept, deeply rooted in the country's sense of self: freedom. Battered by wave after wave of crises, ordinary people of all political persuasions have come to feel that their freedom is under threat and with it, nothing less than the soul of the nation.
In The trouble with freedom, journalist and researcher Melissa Butcher takes a trip into the ferociously polarised world of American politics, hoping to find out what's going on beneath the surface. Criss-crossing the country, she talks to a wide range of people: Democrat and Republican, gay and straight, urban and rural, immigrants, First Nations, Black, white, the incarcerated.
What she discovers is that political conflict is often the outcome of very personal experiences of managing cultural change. Exploring the different ways freedom has been used to define what it means to be American, Butcher encounters anger and distrust, but also untapped possibilities for empathy and care.
]]>Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.
McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanising the history of the Cold War a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.
As today's great powers devote humanity's scarce resources toward ratcheting up a 'new cold war' in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy's history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.
]]>Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don't they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, our thinking has been hostage to a false dichotomy: either addiction is a brain disease, or it is a moral failing. Pickard argues that it is neither, and that both models stifle addiction research and fail people who need help.
Drawing on her expertise as an academic philosopher and her clinical work in a therapeutic community, Pickard explores the meaning of drugs for people with addiction and the diverse factors that keep them using despite the costs. People use drugs to cope with suffering but also to self-harm, or even to die. Some identify as 'addicts', while others are in denial or struggle with cravings and self-control. Social, cultural, and economic circumstances are crucial to explaining addiction but brain pathology may also matter. By integrating addiction science with philosophy, clinical practice, and the psychology and voices of people with addiction themselves, Pickard shows why there is no one-size-fits-all theory or ethics of addiction. The result is a heterogeneous and humanistic paradigm for understanding and treating addiction, and a fresh way of thinking about responsibility, blame, and relationships with people who use drugs.
]]>Most of these firms were able to stabilize their situations after experiencing crises, but none has fully regained industry-shaping dominance: Amazon remains caught between its low-margin retail core and its high-growth cloud unit, Pepsi has pulled back from the healthier alternatives it started to sell, and Tesla's global lead in EVs is weakening under assault from rising Chinese competitors. Advancing the invaluable lesson that while downturns of different types in business are extremely common and full resurgence is rare, author Alfred A. Marcus investigates what held these companies back from restoring their past glory. Drawing on decades of expertise in strategy and business analysis, Marcus presents a compelling framework for understanding corporate renewal.
Comeback explores the paradoxes that underperforming businesses must navigate and reveals the challenges of innovation, competitive pressures, and shifting consumer expectations. The book demonstrates how the companies it describes hedged their bets, adapted to evolving conditions, and wrestled with the uncertainty of transformation. It sheds light on their accomplishments and setbacks, providing key insights into the paths that any company needs to take to make a comeback.
Whether you're an investor, strategist, or business leader Comeback provides essential lessons about resilience, transformation, and the difficult path from survival to sustained success.
]]>Beginning on the night in November 1963 when his mum took him to see the Beatles live at Manchester's ABC Cinema, Mike Pickering takes the reader through sixty years of clubs, clothes, gigs, record labels, football matches and politics.
Pickering has lived through decades of rapid change in popular music. As an influential DJ he introduced house music into the legendary Hacienda. He signed Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records before working with Kasabian, Gossip and Calvin Harris at Sony. His Mercury Prize-winning, multi-million-selling group M People transformed the music industry's attitude to dance music. As he tells his remarkable story he introduces an array of friends and collaborators, many of whom would become important and sometimes notorious figures in music history.
Manchester must dance is a revelatory insider's account that moves from the cramped back streets of 1950s north Manchester on a journey deep into music, the city and the wider world. It features forewords from some of those Pickering inspired: Martin Fry, Johnny Marr, Noel Gallagher and Calvin Harris.
]]>Paul Morley is a writer, broadcaster and cultural critic who has written about music since the 1970s. A founder member of Art of Noise and Art of This, his books include From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson, The North and Joy Division: Piece by Piece. He also collaborated with Grace Jones and Island Records' Chris Blackwell on their memoirs.
]]>'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read?
In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to be?', he delves into the work of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, asking what it can teach us about suicide's messy reality.
Suicide is more like poetry than we realise, Welsch argues. Both are filled with ambiguities, contradictions and unknowable intentions. Both demand and resist interpretation. Recovering the personal dimension often lost in our medicalised public discourse, Welsch finds practical ways of confronting suicide's poem-like difficulties.
]]>At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known outside of Japan as a founding member of Provoke, the experimental magazine of photographs, essays, and poetry, first published in 1968, and for his important photobook For a Language to Come (1970). Throughout a decades-long career, Nakahira raised incisive questions about visual culture and politics in both his photography and his writing. As part of a dynamic moment of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo, he wrote on a range of topics hardly limited to photography: art, film, journalism, literature, politics, television, and more. Nakahira's essays brim with urgency, relentlessly interrogating photography's relationship to power, the connection between language and images, and the gaze. As editors and translators Daniel Abbe and Franz Prichard write, Nakahira's essays 'both suggest doubt about, and possibilities for, a photographically mediated reckoning with the world'.
]]>Daniel Abbeholds a PhD from the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and is a lecturer at Osaka University of Arts.
Franz Prichardis an associate professor at Florida State University, author of Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan (2019), and has taught at UCLA, Harvard University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Princeton University.
]]>A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.
For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. WithMega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers.
]]>For many centuries, Chinese migrated to the ports, cities and provinces of Thailand. These immigrants included traders, skilled labourers, adventurers and the neardestitute who dreamed of a better life. Over time, they came to form one of the largest and most influential diasporas in the world. From tin mining to railway-building to rice trading, their skills helped the country develop and prosper. Some came to advise Thai monarchs, intermarry, and run businesses integral to the economy. One son of a Chinese father and Thai mother even became king. This community overcame many personal, cultural and social challenges to eventually become an integral part of almost all the kingdom's affairs all the way through to the present day. This book tells the extraordinary history of the Thai-Chinese.
'No country in Southeast Asia has been as successful as Thailand in integrating its Chinese community. This book provides deep insights into this process and should provide illumination reading for anyone interested in Southeast Asian success stories. It is a must-read.' -Kishore Mahbubani, author of The Great Convergence
]]>Designed for artists who are starting out on their journey, or those who just need a refresher on the basics, this handy and ultra-portable reference guide helps artists utilise colour effectively no matter the medium. Including:
Art instructor Michelle Tabares demystifies how to apply colour theory so anyone can make thoughtful and informed artistic choices.
]]>How do writers and animators turn ideas into animated films or series? What's the animation development process? Are animated stories only for kids? What makes animation characters iconic? Can animated short films and web series launch your animation writing career? Writer and script editor Alizee Musson steps behind the scenes to find answers.
From Hollywood and independent cinema to TV, meet the creators of Pixar and Walt Disney's Inside Out and Brave, Peppa Pig, Wolfwalkers, Chicken for Linda!, Netflix's Supa Team 4, Mars Express, American Dad! and many more. In over 25 case studies and interviews with writers, animators and producers including an exclusive interview with the producer of Studio Ghibli's The Tale of The Princess Kaguya discover all the storytelling tricks of the trade to write your own animated film or series and start your animation writing career.
]]>Alongside the text, dozens of vivid photos showcase these special places as well as the design-forward resorts, ships, glamping communities, and other lodgings that provide hospitality in the wild. Evocative images range from close-ups of wildlife on African savannahs, to monks going about their business in Bhutan, to desert landscapes deep in Egypt and Jordan, to polar bears prowling the ice in the islands of Svalbard. Not only a book to dream on, 'Comfort in the Wild' will help readers create enriching, authentic adventures of their own.
]]>She is a past president of the Society of American Travel Writers and former travel editor at The Miami Herald, where she has also served as an executive, business editor, columnist, arts journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning team member. Jane writes frequently about cruising, soft adventure and upscale travel for a variety of national publications. A popular moderator and public speaker, Jane often appears at corporate, civic, arts and travel conferences.
She is co-author of the 2011 book, The 100 Best Affordable Vacations to Enrich Your Life. A long-time Miamian, Jane grew up in North Carolina and graduated from Duke University after winning a prestigious Angier B. Duke Scholarship. She has lived in New York and spent extended periods in England. While she has frequently traveled alone, her favourite companions are her husband, Stetson Glines, and their Westies, Ziggy and The Coconut.
]]>France's next presidential election is due by 2027, if not sooner; and its far-right Rassemblement National is on course to win it. Such a victory would trigger shockwaves internationally, with profound implications for allies and neighbours including the UK and the US.
Founded by the antisemitic Jean-Marie Le Pen, the RN previously the Front National was confined to the fringes until his daughter Marine took over in 2011. She 'detoxified' the party's image, bringing in telegenic young protege Jordan Bardella as the modern face of the RN. Together, they have focused on voters' economic grievances while condemning 'mass immigration' of Muslims and foreign 'criminals' a strategy starkly reminiscent of Donald Trump's own route, twice, into the White House. Right-wing nationalists were already gaining ground worldwide and across the EU before Trump's re-election gave them another boost. Now France at the core of the European project is the far right's next greatprize.
In both rounds of 2024's parliamentary elections, the RN won more votes than any other party. In vivid, sharp prose, Victor Mallet explains how the French far right has won over the country and become a government in waiting one preparing to transform France, Europe and the world.
]]>Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, History of the Peloponnesian War has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its deep political and military dimensions, and scholars have begun to place the work alongside Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Clausewitz's On War as one of the great treatises on strategy. The perfect companion to Thucydides' impressive History, this volume details the specific strategic concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations. Some have even credited Thucydides with founding the discipline of international relations. Written by two scholars with extensive experience in this and related fields, Thucydides on Strategy situates the classical historian solidly in the modern world of war.
'I read Thucydides on Strategy with considerable interest, pleasure and care. The authors have made an original contribution to scholarship...and have managed to synthesise a coherent whole that goes far to explain how Athens lost and the Peloponnesians won this war.' Karl Walling, Professor of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Naval War College
'An excellent companion to the History, and an aid to the essential reflection that Thucydides's work requires.' Lieutenant General (Retd) Sir John Kiszely, author of General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat A New Biography
'The wisdom in this splendid book could save our current politics from many follies. If only our politicians, civil servants and soldiers took the time to read and understand it.' Colin S. Gray, Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies, University of Reading
'Thucydides, as he himself anticipated, wrote not only the history of the Peloponnesian War. He wrote the history of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.' Louis Halle
'International relations continue to be a recurring struggle for wealth and power among independent actors in a state of anarchy. The classic history of Thucydides is as meaningful a guide to the behaviour of states today as when it was written in the fifth century B.C.E.' Robert Gilpin
]]>Constantinos Koliopoulos is Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Piraeus, and a former Fulbright scholar. He has been a professor in Strategic Studies at the Hellenic National Defence College, and a master of the Greek Chess Federation.
]]>At age nine, Theodor Meron witnessed the unthinkable: ghettos, camps, and the murder of his family during the Holocaust. Decades later, he would shape international law at the highest level, presiding over UN war crimes tribunals and influencing decisions on genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
In this extraordinary memoir, Judge Meron recounts a life marked by survival, scholarship, and an unrelenting pursuit of justice. From his early legal opinions like his now-famous 1967 memo on Israeli settlements to his role in reviewing evidence for the International Criminal Court's 2024 arrest warrant applications in the Israel-Gaza conflict, Meron has been a consistent voice for accountability.
Spanning a career that took him from Israel's Foreign Ministry to courtrooms in The Hague and classrooms at Harvard, Oxford, and NYU, Meron's story is also the story of modern international justice. Aged 94, he remains one of its most authoritative and principled figures. At a time when the future of global justice hangs in the balance, A Thousand Miracles is both a compelling personal history and a timely reminder of the moral weight of law and the power of one life dedicated to its pursuit. interviews, parliamentary speeches, media reports and surveys it shows how unchecked autonomy can undermine military development, even in authoritarian contexts.
]]>He received his legal education at the Hebrew University(M.J.), Harvard Law School (LL.M., J.S.D.) and Cambridge University (Diploma in Public International Law).
]]>Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working-class residents in London neighbourhoods by the professional classes. The Death and Life of Gentrification traces how the word has far outgrown Glass's meaning, becoming a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and the loss of authenticity.
In this lively and insightful book, Japonica Brown-Saracino traces how a concept originally intended to describe the brick-and-mortar transformation of neighbourhoods has come to characterise transformations that have little to do with cities. She describes how journalists, artists, filmmakers, novelists, and academics use gentrification as a symbolic device to mourn how everyday pleasures and forms of self-expression from music to marijuana, kale, and tattoos entered the domain of the elite. She weighs the implications of turning to gentrification as a tool to tell stories, entertain audiences, and communicate political messages. Relying on vivid examples, the book reveals how the term today expresses widespread ambivalence about rising economic inequality and unease with a variety of forms of social change. This pathbreaking book forces us to think about whether the wide-ranging way we use gentrification dilutes its meaning and stymies efforts to identify and resist urban displacement.
Drawing on everything from film and television to novels and art, The Death and Life of Gentrification sheds critical light on the changing meaning of gentrification in contemporary life. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in gentrification and urban dynamics, as well as for readers curious about attitudes about growing income inequality and the evolution and circulation of ideas.
]]>Hoodoo and conjure may be household words, but the popular magical craft practiced by tens of thousands of individuals has been grossly misrepresented in many modern practices. Traditional Hoodoo & Conjure seeks to reverse these misconceptions and provide practitioners with the history, mechanics, and tools to understand not only how but why each magical action serves a greater purpose.
Because Hoodoo derives its roots from African traditional religions that were initially brought toNorth America by enslaved people during the transatlantic era, many aspects of the craft parallel African-Caribbean practices, such as Santeria and Haitian Vodou. Miss Aida teaches readers how to honour their ancestors in a traditional manner and petition honoured entities. By offering magical baths, 25 traditional rituals, 125 spells, 50 recipes, and 40 prayers, readers will develop a deeper understanding of Hoodoo while becoming knowledgeable and formidable spellcasters.
]]>Arthritisrefers to more than 100 different conditions that cause joint pain and may involve care fromorthopedics, rheumatology and other specialties. The good news is that there are better options than ever before for diagnosing, treating and managing joint pain. This book is designed to empower you with the latest knowledge so you canpartner with your healthcare team andtake an active role in your care.
Chapters break down the what, why and how of these complex diseases including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, vasculitis, gout, forms of childhood arthritis and more. Learn about what to expect in an evaluation, the range of available medications, potential surgical procedures, injections, holistic and self-care options, and general pain management tips; as well as tips for staying active, nutrition, mental health, working, traveling, and keeping your immune system strong.
Find answers to common questions such as:
Reviewed and updated by Dr. Courtney Arment, along with more than 20 physicians and researchers at Mayo Clinic, this all-inclusive guide helps you minimise inflammation, relieve pain, and protect your joints for all your future adventures.
]]>In his latest book, award-winning historian Samuel Clowes Huneke shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the harrowing circumstances of Nazi rule. Drawing on a decade of archival research, Huneke takes readers into a hidden world, from the wartime balls that lesbian activists continued to organise to the concentration camps where women accused of loving women were imprisoned. Following a diverse cast of characters, Huneke reveals both the oppression that queer women faced and how they resisted fascism in solidarity with one another. Arguing that this solidarity which transcended race, class, and gender offers a compelling alternative to today's fractured identity politics, I Will Not Abandon You is a vital, new history of queer life under fascism and a call to rethink the foundations of progressive politics today.
]]>How did a Caribbean child, born into plantation slavery, come to defeat Napoleon's armies in battle and crown himself king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the story of Henry Christophe: one of the most remarkable, yet least known, figures from the Age of Revolution.
Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before rising to prominence during the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture's top generals, commanding troops against Bonaparte's invasion. Following Haitian independence, Christophe's ambition for rule helped plunge the country into civil war. He crowned himself King Henry I of Haiti, and his attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists.
Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. But while he was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him, the Haitian people chafed under his rule. After ten years on the throne, he committed suicide rather than face being overthrown. Christophe's mountaintop Citadelle still stands, as Haiti's sole World Heritage site-a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery.
'Black Crown grasps the essential tragedy of history, in all its ambiguity and contingency.' The Telegraph
'With narrative verve and a deep understanding of the country's extraordinary past, Clammer opens a window on to the life and times of one of the most tragic figures of the francophone Antilles, le roi Christophe.' The Spectator
'Paul Clammer brings this extraordinary story to life in his deeply researched biography of Christophe, the first to appear in decades...a detailed and rewarding read.' History Today
'An excellent record of many different aspects of Haiti's little-known history.' Liberation
'An important contribution to Haiti's little-known history.' Morning Star
'A great historical narrative that introduces the reader to an array of fascinating characters in an age of revolution.' Counterfire
'A rich story...important and well-written.' The Zambia Daily Mail
'Impressive scope...Clammer's biography will become compulsory reading for all those interested in the transition from colonial Saint-Domingue to independent Haiti. Compellingly written and including a revealing choice of illustrations.' Revue d'Histoire Hatienne
'Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Black Crown is the biography of Henry Christophe we have been waiting for. Through Christophe's story, Clammer describes the country's transition from plantation colony to independent nation-state. Essential reading, not only for those interested in the history of Haiti but also for anyone seeking to understand the emergence of the modern Atlantic world.' Charles Forsdick, co-author of Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions
'The majesty of Haiti's foundations is reflected in the almost unreal story of King Henry Christophe. Bold, nationalistic, and unrelenting, Christophe long occupied outside imaginations that for a century subjected him to myth and ridicule. Black Crown is a major corrective to this: a carefully researched, beautifully written and deeply absorbing biography. It shines on every page with subtle insights on a story too little understood. Paul Clammer's triumph is to recover the man, his country, and his age, and present Haiti's proud black king in all his conflicting glory.' Matthew J. Smith, Professor of History and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, University College of London
'This adds greatly to our growing understanding of the Haitian Revolution, its turbulent aftermath and the cutthroat politics of revolutionary Haiti. Clammer seems to have left no stone unturned in his research and brings a great deal to the table for both Haiti scholars and the general reader wishing to understand the reign of King Henry Christophe. Black Crown also represents another point of evidence for an interesting question do you have to be a professional academic to write a great history book? Clearly not.' Johnhenry Gonzalez, University of Cambridge, author of Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti
]]>In February 1942, on the remote island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1131 Australian soldiers were preparing for invasion by Japanese forces. Outnumbered and ill-equipped, theirs was an impossible mission. After their defeat, over 200 Australians were massacred. The survivors faced three-and-a-half years of harsh work, beatings, disease and starvation on Ambon and the Chinese island of Hainan. Along with the brutal conditions came a crisis of leadership, with Australian officers accused of devising their own systems of punishment and handing men over to the Japanese. The prisoners on Ambon were tormented by two catastrophic raids by 'friendly' Allied air forces. Over 800 survived to endure years of captivity; only 302 returned home.
Acclaimed historian Joan Beaumont tells the full story of this tragedy and its aftermath. A powerful account of suffering, death, endurance and memory, the story of Gull Force is one that must not be forgotten.
'A compelling account of the tragedy and complexity of captivity by Australia's pre-eminent historian of war.' Christina Twomey
'Revealing afresh an episode in Australia's POW history that deserves to be better known and understood.' Peter Stanley
]]>While Charles Bean is the subject of several major biographies, this is the first life story of his acolyte, war correspondent and editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.
In Great at Heart, Garry Hills traces Long's career as a newspaper correspondent during the 1920s and as a defence correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald until the outbreak of war in 1939. The book covers Long's experiences as a war correspondent attached to the British Expeditionary Force in Europe until the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940 and then with the 2nd AIF in North Africa, the Middle East and Greece.
In 1941, when Charles Bean began advocating for an official history of the war then in progress, he was influential in having his protege Long appointed General Editor a role Long discharged with considerable dedication, courage and self-sacrifice between 1943 and 1963, overseeing the development of all 22 volumes and writing three of them himself.
'Gavin Long was one of Australia's most eminent historians, creating, with others, the 22-volume history of Australia in the Second World War. His extraordinary achievement was largely forgotten until Garry Hills rescued Long's reputation. In this highly readable, moving and generous account of Long's life, Hills has fashioned a tale that all those interested in the story of Australia will want to read.' Dr Michael McKernan, Historian
'Garry Hills has done the right thing by Gavin Long. He succeeds in getting inside Long's ways of thinking and working, showing that he was indeed "great at heart".' Professor Peter Stanley, author of Beyond The Broken Years
'It is a rare privilege to recommend a book that is both timely and important. Great at Heart is both. Gavin Long's legacy has waited too many years for a biography worthy of its significance, but the wait is over. I recommend this fine work to all readers from professional scholars to all who seek to understand Australia's past. And it's a ripping read to boot!' Professor Craig Stockings, Official Historian of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor, UNSW Canberra
'This is an important landmark work on Gavin Merrick Long, a self-effacing national observer who Hills rightly calls "a national treasure".' Ken Haley, InReview Queensland
'[Hill's] elegant prose is neither stuffy nor pompous but delightfully refreshing to read, thoroughly befitting the study of a man of words whose reputation is ripe for revival.' Paul Skrebels, Sabretache Journal
]]>On 9 August 1918, at Chipilly Spur overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners.
The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 men have fallen. Then, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without leave and cross the Somme ahead of British lines. Seeing that the British advance is stopped, they re-cross the river, gather four mates and return to drive the Germans off the spur.
The extraordinary feats of the Chipilly Six and the personal stories of these diggers have been overlooked. Historian Lucas Jordan weaves a compelling tale of the lives of the soldiers, chronicling their return home and years after service, through a pandemic, the Great Depression, another world war and the very first Anzac Day dawn service.
'The Chipilly Six were extraordinary men in extraordinary times. Lucas Jordan reveals a wider story of Australia's Great War veterans as they battled a nation forgetting, a bitter Depression, another World War and beyond. This is a remarkable insight into a vanishing world' - Bill Gammage, Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
'An absolute cracker of a story. No one - and I literally mean no one! - is more equipped to write a compelling book about the remarkable story of the Chipilly Six.' - Ross McMullin, author of Life So Full of Promise
'A superb piece of investigative historical storytelling. Lucas Jordan is part of a new generation of military historians. He is a bright star.' - Peter Stanley, author of Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
'Throws new light on the impact of war on families and communities, wives and brothers-in-arms.' - Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
'A remarkable piece of recovered history that offers great insight into the impact of war on Australian society. Highly recommended.' - Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
'It's impossible to read this ripping, vivid recreation of events without shaking your head in disbelief.' - Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
'Lucas Jordan is to be congratulated on producing a compelling book describing a pivotal era of Australian history, as well as making the exploits of the Chipilly Six better known.' - David Phillipson, Military History & Heritage Victoria
'With the current Royal Commission into Veteran suicide, this is a timely and important look at just what returning soldiers face when they are expected to slide back into normal society when the war is over. For many, the war continues long after the final shots are fired.' - Warwick O'Neill, Military History & Heritage Victoria
'A fantastic contribution to our understanding of the military in Australia.' - Geoff Keating, University of Southern Queensland
]]>On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampments, the eleven surviving members of Kennedy's crew eventually struggled ashore on a small uninhabited island. Missing, presumed dead, behind enemy lines, with no food or water, and with several injured, the future looked bleak for the shipwrecked Americans. Fortunately, Australian 'coast watcher' Lt Reg Evans witnessed the immediate aftermath of the collision from his nearby jungle hideaway. Working under the searching eye of the Japanese military, over the next five days Evans and two Solomon Islander scouts - Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa - located Kennedy and his crew and ensured their rescue.
This story of wartime bravery and survival helped create JFK's legend and paved his way to the White House. It also shone a spotlight on Australia and America's shared wartime experience. In Saving Lieutenant Kennedy, Brett Mason, author of Wizards of Oz, sets the heroic rescue and its colourful aftermath against the background of the Pacific war and the birth of the AustraliaUS alliance, which remains as vital today as when Kennedy and Evans first shook hands.
'A fascinating slice of military history.' - Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
'Saving Lieutenant Kennedy is a book that is equally interesting and entertaining. It can be highly recommended.' - Sabretache
]]>In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on World War One soldiers, was published provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it's vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created. By whom, how and with what consequences.
Stanley explores military history and the storytellers from historians Charles Bean, Henry Reynolds, Joan Beaumont and David Horner to ''storians' Peter FitzSimons and Les Carlyon. And grapples with what it means to write military history, its different approaches, the rise of popular writers and much more. He asks readers to consider a genre that plays a central role in the Australian identity, but many take for granted.
'An unflinching and insightful tour through the evolving landscape of Australian war history, led by one of the country's most trusted guides. This impressive blend of scholarship and reflection is crucial reading for anyone wanting to understand the place of war in Australian history.' Kate Ariotti, University of Queensland
'All historians of Australian military history will be indebted to Peter Stanley for this virtuoso commentary on the books of the field, written with his characteristic flair, insight and delight in controversy.' Emeritus Professor Joan Beaumont, Australian National University
'Peter Stanley's evocation of Australia's military history is not to be missed. Half a century after Bill Gammage's superb book The Broken Years was published, Stanley has cleverly drawn on the cream of Australian military historians to underline the key elements of Australia's military past. However, it is Stanley's own analysis of the importance of Australia's military past that has given new meaning to the importance of Australians at war. Remarkably, Stanley has researched 1300 books written by Australian authors since 1974. The result is a gripping overview of our military history that should not be missed.' The late Tim Bowden AM, author, radio and television broadcaster, producer and oral historian
'Peter Stanley is surely the military historian's historian. This book is an extraordinary achievement, both knowledgeable and eminently readable. It should take pride of place in any military history library.' Mike Carlton, author, broadcaster and journalist
'In engaging prose, and with a light touch, Stanley analyses the military history boom of the last fifty years, pondering the rise and rise of Anzac commemoration, and making a strong claim for better representation of frontier wars at the Australian War Memorial. Beyond The Broken Years will be devoured by those who enjoy military history and will endure as the authoritative account of how Australians have understood our experience of war.' Carolyn Holbrook, Deakin University
'For more than a century Australia's military experience has been central to the nation's identity, and the bedrock of understanding that experience has been the published histories, academic studies and personal stories. Peter Stanley's book is a brilliant, erudite, and insightful examination of the books that have enlightened, strengthened and at times challenged our understanding of Australia's military history in the past fifty years. Beyond The Broken Years is a reminder that there are multiple strands to Australia's military history. This is not just because Australia continues to go to new wars, but also because our understanding of the impact of war continues to grow.' David Horner, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
'As an exceptional historian and a generous patron and mentor, Peter Stanley is ideally placed to analyse the last 50 years of Australian military historiography. This brilliant and original book will entertain and inform readers at all levels of expertise. Beyond The Broken Years will inspire all readers to read (or write) more Australian military history.' Mark Johnston, Head of History and Classics, Scotch College Melbourne
'Aficionados of Australia's rich military history will enjoy reading this latest work by prolific military author and historian, Peter Stanley. Beyond The Broken Years will stimulate reading, and further analysis and research on Australia's military history, which is important, as Australia's military history reveals much about us. I commend this book to you.' Paul Irving, MAJGEN (Ret'd) AM PSM RFD, Manager, Royal United Services Institute NSW Ursula Davidson Library
'Another Stanley original. Inspiring, thoughtful, provocative and personal, this book will have you reaching for your pencil to jot down titles for your next library visit. Essential reading for all Australian military history enthusiasts.' Professor Emerita Melanie Oppenheimer, Australian National University and Flinders University
'A spirited romp through the annals of Australian military history. Searching, sceptical, self-reflexive and engaging, Peter Stanley vigorously ponders the past and future of the discipline.' Professor Bruce Scates, Australian National University
'You're in good hands...this is a wonderful contribution to military history, and national public life.' Caroline Overington, The Australian
'A highly readable personal and professional history, in which Stanley engages with the contexts, cross-currents, and controversies of Australian military history.' Australian Book Review
'If the Olympics had an event for reading and analysis, Peter Stanley would win gold.' The Canberra Times
'...to the legion of researchers interested in the discipline of Australian military history, this book will be indispensable. It is provocative, readable and erudite. And it's a reminder that in our understanding of war, we have come a long way in the 50 years since The Broken Years appeared, when the complexities of gender, race and frontier conflict were unrecognised or unacknowledged by Australian military historians.' Phillip Deery, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age
'Stanley's book shines a new light on Australian military history writing and its impact on our perceptions as a society. Structured along chronological and thematic lines, it is a fascinating overview written in a very engaging manner. Stanley does not steer away from controversy, and his views entertain, as well as inspiring readers to seek out exemplary examples of military history. Very impressive.' The Canberra Weekly
'[Beyond the Broken Years] is amazingly comprehensive...Think of a subject and Stanley has covered it. Ethnicity and Anzacs, the cost of war and its aftermaths, battlefields, memories and memorials, the European air war, New Guinea, official histories, Korea, peacekeeping, First Nations veterans, POWs, the Navy, and that all-important consideration of every serving soldier the state of your boots.' Noel Turnbull
'A monumental work...This is a must read for everyone interested in military history. It is an easy, at times humorous read that possesses the true stamp of authenticity.' Neville Taylor
'This extraordinary book demands intense focus, even though unsettled questions about accepted historical accounts of Australia's war involvement could well emerge.' PS News
]]>After parachuting out of his doomed aircraft, one reporter is taken prisoner. From there his captors take him on a remarkable tour of bombed-out German cities.
In Dispatch from Berlin, 1943, Anthony Cooper and Thorsten Perl uncover this incredible true story of life on both sides of the war.
'An extraordinary tale of five brave reporters and their eyewitness accounts of the horrors of aerial warfare during and after a raid on Berlin. A compelling tribute to the 57 205 young men killed while serving with bomber command during the Second World War.' - Ian McPhedran
'This book captures the life and death drama that saw five war correspondents, two of them Australian, assigned to RAF Bomber Command to report on the most dangerous campaign of the Second World War - bombing Berlin. Neither they nor the crew knew if they would survive the night. A compelling story of a single raid that has remained untold for too long.' - Peter Rees
'A deep, intimate and remarkable story - indeed, a rare personal window into the huge and devastating machinery of the air war over Europe during World War Two. The trials and tribulations of five intrepid journalists is an exciting tale in its own right, but it simultaneously gives a unique keyhole with which to view the tenure and drama of the era. Well-written and equally well-researched, this book is a gem for those with even a passing interest in military history of the Second World War, and scholars of the field alike.' - Craig Stockings
'Dispatch from Berlin, 1943 takes you on a heart-stopping bombing raid over enemy territory as brave allied air crew battle flak, fighters and fate. Told through the eyes of five brave journalists who went with them, this is a remarkable book about the horror and humanity of war.' - Mark Willacy
'An outstanding piece of military history.' - Jeff Popple, Canberra Weekly
'An exceptional story, a military history that opens a private window pane into the massive and distressing mechanism of aerial warfare over Europe during World War II.' - Rama Gaind, PS News
'With skilful writing and attention to detail (much of it the result of years of Thorsten Perl's research), Cooper integrates the vivid accounts left by these journalists with data about Bomber Command and the technicalities of air navigation. He provides an unforgettable account of the raid on Berlin on 2 December 1943.' - Australian Book Review
]]>Thorsten Perl is an investigator of historical and scientific topics. He has been involved with official agencies in the search for and clarification of missing crew members of the Second World War for twenty-seven years. Thorsten works in research and development of regenerative agriculture and lives with his family in Eberswalde near Berlin in Germany.
]]>During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Luftwaffe launched their campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. The result was the first major battle of World War II (or any war) fought entirely in the air. The Luftwaffe's defeat by 'The Few' marked a turning point in the Allies' favour.
The Battle of Britain is one of the most significant battles of the war, and until now, the role of the Australian 'Few' has received little attention. Kristen Alexander gives a personal account of eight Australian participants, drawing heavily on primary source material and original research. She follows these young men from childhood, through their education, training, personal relationships and flying careers, to death in combat (in the case of seven of the eight men), and beyond that to commemoration.
'Kristen Alexander's respect and admiration for the eight Australian pilots is evident in every page of this excellent book. It is a testament to both her writing and research skills and their lives and devotion to duty.' Australian Defence Force Journal
]]>'Could a message from the past rewrite the story of your life?'
When mysterious postcards from Japan arrive out of the blue, Samuel a university lecturer once featured in Francesc Miralles's novel Love in Lowercase is profoundly disillusioned with life. At the same time, his girlfriend leaves him and he is heartbroken.
Encouraged by his friend Meritxell, Samuel travels to Kyoto, a city whose classical beauty becomes a character of its own. Amid temples, gardens, and unforgettable meals, he nearly forgets to search for the sender of the postcards until he meets the captivating Mizuki and begins a journey of self-discovery he had never imagined.
Written with Miralles's signature insight and wit, Postcards from Japan is a healing, cozy novel about second chances, cultural connection and the beauty of imperfection. Perfect for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, it will appeal to anyone drawn to Japanese culture and the quiet hope of new beginnings.
]]>Praise for Lisa Gorton:
These astounding poems unfold like the chambers of a nautilus: spiralling, repeating in dazzling patterns... They bring to poetry a heteroglossia usually confined to fiction in their exhilarating consideration of how art might be made and unmade.' NSW Premier's Literary Awards
'Mordant political wit, formal and thematic bricolage, a liquid control of the line, and the ability to trace patterns across the strata of history and society to rove between time and the timeless have long characterised Gorton's oeuvre.' Australian Book Review
]]>Cornwall, 2018. In the quiet fishing village of Portscatho, sixteen-year-old Daniel and seventeen-year-old Jago form an unexpected connection - something neither of them can name. What unfolds is transformative, particularly for Daniel, who for the first time feels truly seen.
East London, 2023. Daniel has rewritten himself: sharper, louder, queer in a way the city understands. But a visit from Jago stirs up a reckoning with his former life, forcing them both to question how much change their bond can withstand.
Reminiscent of douard Louis and Douglas Stuart's fiction in its blend of grit and tenderness, Orange examines how we reconcile our past selves with the people we become, those we bring with us and those we leave behind.
]]>Driven by PhD research, relationship trauma and pride, Sylvie's new philosophy seems set to stick. Until Robbie comes along. And then Abie...Finding herself falling in love not once, but twice Sylvie must make a decision: to be brave and let this love in, or to choose her research and burn everything else to the ground.
Deeply relatable and utterly compelling, The End of Romance is an anti-romance romance novel for anyone who, despite their very best efforts, has fallen in love and wondered why.
]]>Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and women both and he knows it. One who falls under his spell is Dick Thompson, a successful middle-aged novelist from whom Antonio rents a room. For the first time in years, Dick finds himself desperately, passionately in love, but the games the manipulative Italian plays with him throw the older man's life into chaos.
Published only three years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, A Domestic Animal is Francis King's most intimate and daringly autobiographical novel: a 'wry, anguished study...of love and jealousy [that] is hard to forget' (Robert Baldick, The Daily Telegraph).
]]>Rumaan Alam is the author of four novels. He lives in New York City.
]]>There's a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Clea meets the man of her dreams. But having left suddenly without his phone number, she can't stop thinking about what might have been. Can apprentice matchmaker Katie, with the help of her enigmatic neighbour William, help orchestrate the forces of Kismet and choreograph another happy union?
And now that the newly single William's engagement is off, can Katie seize the moment to tell him how she feels before her chance has gone forever?
]]>Recent contributors include: Antigone Kefala, Alexis Wright, Eliot Weinberger, Xi Xi, Lucy Van, Peter Stamm, Lena Andersson, Elizabeth Harrower, Paul Muldoon, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Mariana Enrquez, David Sornig, Max Easton, Hasib Hourani, Isabella Trimboli, Eda Gunaydin, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, Noemi Lefebvre, Gareth Morgan, Ender Baskan, George Mouratidis, Jenny Erpenbeck, Oliver Driscoll, Mary Jean Chan, Amitava Kumar, Fiona Wright, Oscar Schwartz, Zang Di, Hanne rstavik, Katharina Volckmer, Kate Middleton and Noelle Janaczewska.
HEAT's third series (2022) is edited by Anna Thwaites and designed by award-winning designer Jenny Grigg.
Recent praise for HEAT:
'The revival of HEAT journal has been one of the high points of the year. In the 1990s and 2000s, HEAT was the most exciting, forward-looking literary magazine in the country. After more than a decade on ice, this new series has raised the bar once again. Elegantly designed and thoughtfully curated, and including work from canonical Australian writers to emerging voices to authors in translation, the journal reminds us how crucial such organs are to the vigour and health of our literary ecosystem.' Geordie Williamson, The Saturday Paper's 'Best of 2022'
'So slender and elegant, nothing wasted, nothing grandiose and beautiful work.' Helen Garner
'HEAT magazine was a trailblazer from the day it was launched...[The new series is] still dedicated to publishing non-Anglophone views of the world, alternatives to the mainstream and points of view that are both thought-provoking and expressed in high literary style.' Openbook, NSW State Library Magazine
'A very beautiful and stylish object...long may this new series of HEAT continue!' Sarah Holland-Batt
'I welcome the return of HEAT. Readers and writers alike will revel in its daring audacity, bold exploration and innovative celebration of literature.' Alexis Wright
'HEAT is eclectic and eccentric, bold and often feisty, and above all else, it is a journal that always gives a freer rein to its writers, that we might gallop wherever we will.' Fiona Wright
]]>Through long poems, parataxis, pop culture, internet rabbit holes and lyric elements, Fivehundred Swimming Pools thematically meditates upon what it could mean to know or see crude oil from within an urban setting where the consequences of extraction are continually deferred, outsourced or otherwise made invisible.
'Fivehundred Swimming Poolsoccupies the continuum of calamity and quotidian that is oil, spilled or otherwise. Connor Weightman's petropoems extract, disperse, make visible amid history and anecdote, trivia and statistic, fact and feeling a fathom of oil, a rod of plastic. A mile of still air.' Shastra Deo
]]>These poems reckon with: history's omissions and erasures; the authority, fallibility and allure of the document; colonial-induced crises; negotiation of bodies through difficult spaces; the obscurities of the past that cling to us; the pressures of work, loss, waste, consumption, memory, violence. But lest one despair at the thought of encountering such heavy themes here what emerges is the sense that the poem is a space through which poets people can face, challenge, or make peace with the world's harsh and marvellous designs. Poetry can be a tool that helps us to hold and clarify emotion (or, to paraphrase T. S. Eliot, to escape emotion). Poetry invites readers to experience the event of language uncurling from these attempts to distil and convey. The 'real' world is dizzy with maladies, but there is pleasure, beauty, catharsis power in poetry's bold and manifold efforts.
]]>Angela Costi's poetry books include Honey&Salt, An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, and The Heart of the Advocate (Liquid Amber Press). Her chapbook, Adversarial Practice, published in Cordite was commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize 2024. She won the University of Canberra's Health Poetry Prize 2024 and the KSP Poetry Prize 2022. In 1995, she received a travel award from the Australia National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek drama in Greece. She was writer-in-residence at the former Kensington Public Housing Estate on the Relocated project. She is known as among the Cypriot diaspora, her ancestry.
Jessica L Wilkinson is Editor-in-Chief of Rabbit and the author of three books of biographical poetry. She is Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University.
]]>Was W. H. Auden being literal when he said that poetry makes nothing happen? Or was he being facetious? How might poetry, if not evoke direct action, actually ignite the passion for action?
This 40th issue of Rabbit poetry journal features new nonfiction poems that variously explore the theme of 'extinction' as concept and fact.
]]>Elena Gomez is the author of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt and Body of Work, as well as several chapbooks and pamphlets. She lives on unceded Wurundjeri country.
Jessica L Wilkinson is Editor-in-Chief of Rabbit and the author of three books of biographical poetry. She is Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University.
]]>The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.
'A densely imagined and beautifully written debut.' Sydney Morning Herald
'With her compassion for an old, vanished world and her exceptional eye for the bruised landscape of the modern Middle East, Al-Nakib should be heralded as an exciting new literary voice.' The National
]]>A village is driven to a murderous frenzy by the wolf walking among them. In the dead of night, a sleepwalking monk reenacts a scene of violence glimpsed as a child. A lycanthropist draws closer to a monstrous truth while investigating a spate of grisly grave-robbings.
In the nineteenth century, Catherine Crowe's name was synonymous with haunting accounts of 'real' ghost stories, glimpses of the 'night side of nature' and well-wrought Gothic tales, earning her a reputation comparable to Dickens' to the Victorian readership. This new collection edited by Crowe expert Ruth Heholt features Crowe's unique, journalistic short tales of real ghost sightings alongside her Gothic stories written for popular periodicals, showcasing her singular gifts as one of the great storytellers of the Victorian era.
]]>Women writers of the twentieth century had a complex relationship with romantic fiction, at once a denigrated genre yet also often considered their only legitimate domain by the male literary establishment. The women in this collection complicate our over-simplified understanding of the 'love story,' crafting multifaceted, touching and vividly real stories of romantic love and loss.
From chance meetings on trains to honeymoon bliss, tentative young love, doomed love, and settled love, this collection brings together some of the best short stories on romantic connection by women writers of the twentieth century.
This new anthology brings together the creative minds of:
Across the decades, women writers return to perpetual teenage daughters that rebel against the spectre of maternal tradition and mothers who start to see their own mothers' shadows on the wall. Brought together in this collection is a moving testament to the inextricable and ineffable bond between mothers and daughters, in all its lovely and imperfect forms.
This new anthology brings together the creative minds of:
'Changing expectations of motherhood and new freedoms won by feminism permeate these stylish short stories from celebrated literary women.' SMH/The Age, Fiction Pick of the week
]]>First published in 1955, this classic village mystery with elements of WW2 spy fiction showcases Gilbert's ingenious plotting and ability to blow the reader's assumptions sky high.
]]>This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from an Italian POW camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and a handful of British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.
]]>Death is a lonely business . . .
No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen. But Cuthbert is a man who lives with secrets, and he still battles demons brought back from the trenches.
When not one but two corpses are discovered in a London park in 1929, Cuthbert must use every tool at his disposal to solve the mystery of their deaths. In the end, the horrifying truth is more shocking than even he could have imagined.
]]>Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the sweeping silliness of romance novels. The journey to reach a believable Happily Ever After can go via an unbelievable rollercoaster of intensity, through wildly entertaining twists and unlikely turns. To celebrate the unparalleled joy this genre can bring to readers and defy its oft maligned status, Alice has created the author, D'Ancey LaGuarde, the ineffably mysterious, outrageously prolific, undisputed regent of the art of romance.
Collecting together excerpts, book cover designs, character sketches and synopses of 'D'Ancey's' most absurdly frivolous and outlandishly whimsical works: from A Knight of Passion to The Dragon Lord's Lady and Luring the Laird to A Cowboy Called Home, this is an exclusive glimpse into the tropes and dreams that rise like perfumed bubbles through the fecund swamp of the romantic mind, and a fulsome challenge to anyone denying the importance of joy purely for its own sake.
This book will be a constant source of solace and encouragement for romance fans worldwide, and the perfect companion to smuggle into your next ball...
]]>Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she struggles to reconcile her political ideals with the realities of motherhood.
Cairo, 1966. After being publicly shamed when her relationship with a bisexual boyfriend is revealed, Fatiha's daughter is faced with an impossible decision. Should Yasminah accept a life she didn't choose, or will she leave her home and country in pursuit of independence?
Bristol, 2011. British-born Nadia is battling with an identity crisis and a severe case of herpes. Feeling unfulfilled (and after a particularly disastrous one-night stand), she moves in with her old-fashioned Aunt Yasminah and realises that she must discover her purpose in the modern world before it's too late.
Following the lives of three women from the Bin-Khalid family, Daughters of the Nile is an original and darkly funny novel that examines the enduring strength of female bonds. These women are no strangers to adversity, but they must learn from the past and relearn shame and shamelessness to radically change their futures.
Everyone's talking about Daughters of the Nile...
'A writer to watch.' @ElementaryMyDear_
'Mesmerising.' @alicetheunique
'Not to be missed.' @Silvia_reviews
'A true gem.' @stratospherekawaiigirl
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]]>King Arthur's Death (commonly referred to as the Alliterative Morte Arthure) is a Middle English poem that was written in Lincolnshire at the end of the fourteenth century. A source work for Malory's later Morte d'Arthur, it is an epic tale which documents the horrors of war, the loneliness of kingship and the terrible price paid for arrogance.
This magnificent poem tells of the arrival of emissaries from Imperial Rome demanding that Arthur pays his dues as a subject. It is Arthur's refusal to accept these demands, and the premise of foreign domination, which leads him on a quest to confront his foes and challenge them for command of his lands.
Combining heroic action, probing insight into human frailty and a great attention to contemporary detail, King Arthur's Death is not only a lesson in effective kingship, it is also an astonishing mirror on our own times, highlighting the folly of letting stubborn dogma drive political decisions.
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]]>Michael Smith's translation of this magnificent Arthurian romance draws on his intimate experience of the North West of England and his knowledge of mediaeval history, culture and architecture. He takes us back to the original poetic form of the manuscript and brings it alive for a modern audience, while revealing the poem's historic and literary context.
The book is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed recreations of the illuminated lettering in the original manuscript and the author's own linocut prints, each meticulously researched for contemporary accuracy. This is an exciting new edition that will appeal both to students of the Gawain-poet and the general reader alike.
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]]>It tells the story of a man coming of age in the middle of this century. Now at its end, he finds himself alone, struggling to make sense of a life of dislocation and loss. He remembers his childhood in the west of Ireland and his decades of bewildered exile in the factories, potato fields and on the building sites of England. He is haunted by the faces of the family he left behind and by the land that is still within him. He remembers the country and the seascapes, the bars and the boxing booths, the music he played, and the woman he loved. This elegiac narrative is accompanied by a succession of photographs taken by Pyke during his travels in Ireland - from starkly beautiful landscapes to unforgettable portraits and scenes from everyday life - which in their counterpoint with the text produce a powerful evocation of the Irish emigrant experience.
]]>In the 1970s, Steve Pyke was a punk rocker with an itch to do something more singular. He borrowed a friend's camera and since that time has photographed for every major magazine. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in many international permanent collections.
]]>Ronan Treanor, Monaghan native and teller of this tale, is a celebrated theorist of post-modern architecture in New York. Paul Crane, single son of a hotel maid in Indiana, turns his mathematical gift into a multi-million-dollar career as an investment banker. And the mysterious Ryan, who drew as a boy in besieged West Belfast, but was swept up in the war against the British and lived a decade of extreme and escalating violence as a sniper. Through him, the war in Ireland and its psychic legacy are brought into close focus in a way rarely seen in contemporary fiction.
Their lives merge and conflict, rise and fall, as one man becomes the undoing of the next. Hauntingly beautiful, lyrical and profound, this is a novel about what happens when you cannot escape your past, featuring drawings and paintings by Anthony Lott.
]]>"We all blamed Helen"
Haunted by her decision to leave her child behind in fleeing her unhappy marriage, Helen seeks to build a new life in Troy with her lover, Paris. She yearns to recreate the childhood family she lost when she married Menelaus, but her outraged husband vows to regain her by force, at the head of a vast army.
Facing hostility from all sides, Helen must decide where her loyalty-and her safety-lies.
Perfect for fans of Greek mythology retellings, and Madeline Miller's Circe, Jennifer Saint's Elektra, and Pat Barker's The Women of Troy.
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]]>Moscow, 1993. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have brought unimaginable change to Russia. With this change come new freedoms: freedom to travel abroad and to befriend Westerners, freedom to make money, and even the freedom for an underground gay scene to take root.
Encouraged by the new climate of openness, twenty-one-year-old Kostya ventures out of the closet and resolves to pursue his dreams: to work in the theatre and to find love as his idol Tchaikovsky never could. Those dreams, however, lead to tragedy not only for Kostya, but for his mother and for the two young men he loves, as all three face up to the ways they have betrayed him.
Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants is both a gripping thriller and a poignant, very human tale of people beset by forces beyond their control, in a world where all the old certainties have crumbled and it's far from clear what will eventually take their place.
]]>At work one night, photography archivist Charlie Sze-Toh receives a misdirected letter from Wang Tian Wei, a 1920s colonial era Chinese photographer. Through a mysterious digital folder and photographic plates, a conversation is sparked, leading to a romance that spans lifetimes.
In his time, Tian Wei scours a turbulent Singapore for his missing friend, Aiko, leading him to the perfumed chambers of a Japanese brothel. Meanwhile, in the modern day, Charlie struggles against a family dynamic dominated by her stepmother, a manipulative matriarch who uses family secrets as bargaining chips. Communication starts to become difficult and Tian Wei's letters are tinged by the increasing threat of Japanese Occupation. Will one last fate-defying letter from Charlie allow Tian Wei to keep their love alive?
Inspired by her research into Singaporean historical archives, Elaine Chiew weaves Chinese mythology and early 20th century colonial Singapore into this speculative epic.
]]>Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its assumed obscenity, immorality, and lack of literary merit, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), is a novel considered to be the first original English prose erotica.
This is the tale of the titular Fanny Hill, told to us in her own letters with 'stark naked truth'. Young, orphaned, and nave, she recounts her early days of prostitution in bawdy eighteenth-century London and her dramatic rise to respectability.
An important work of political, social, and sexual parody and philosophy, the author himself was imprisoned at the time of publication for his depictions of sexual 'deviance' as an act of pleasure rather than simply shameful. Fanny Hill deserves its place in continued publication not only for its role in securing rights for erotica, but for its surprisingly modern, explicit, and complicated depictions of sex, love-making, money-talk, and homosexuality.
This uncensored version is set from the 1749 edition and includes a new introduction by Chelsea G. Summers, as well as a conversational afterword between Summers and Jessica Stoya.
Featuring a conversational afterword from writers Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya.
]]>Chelsea G. Summers is a former academic and college professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature. A freelance writer, Chelsea's work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications. She splits her time between New York and Stockholm, Sweden. A Certain Hunger was her first novel.
Jessica Stoya has been a pornographer since 2006 and a writer since 2012. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Playboy, and others. She has acted in Serbian sci-fi feature Ederlezi Rising and two of Dean Haspiel's plays in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She lives in Los Angeles.
]]>But his fate changes one day when members from a religious organisation he had never heard of, the Smiling Hearts Society, knock on his door and hand him a flyer. He's ready to dismiss them until he notices the face of his estranged wife on the flyer, smiling ever so softly.
And so begins a tale of religion and insanity. What kind of sinister darkness lurks behind this religion and its strange smiles?
]]>Driven by his deep discomfort with forced smiles and inspired by his conversations with people raised in religious cults, Hattori explores themes of faith, control, and the societal pressure to appear happy.
]]>In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro 'in the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunities' a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay couple, a taxi driver, cops, a mobster, and more populate Francisco Maciel's first book to appear in English. Leaping back and forth across time and spiraling into the surreal, the novel coalesces around a brutal massacre. Maciel's multiracial characters write poetry and discourse on soccer, insects, samba, and climate change. Gritty, unpredictable, and percussive,There's No Point in Dying is translated by National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato.
]]>Bruna Dantas Lobatoby Stenio Gardel won the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
]]>Lali's poetry is alive with seeing and feeling the world a world of sun and wind, water and fire. He is also a poet of love a love for his wife Branka that 'matures like wine' over the decades. From adolescence, through young adulthood, to the onset of old age, where 'We are twin foci of the same ellipse... Which links two other foci: death and love.'
But for Lali, the seen and the felt need to be held in memory if they are to last beyond the instant. This means putting them into words, in speech or a poem, though doing so distances us from the raw freshness of experience: 'Images I barter for the right to pronounce them, / Names I slip as a bribe to time'. Memory, for Lali, is also cultural. Many of his poems speak about Yugoslavia's Eastern and Western heritages. About his native Serbia's history and landscape, and its roots in Byzantium and ultimately in Ancient Greece. But also the seascapes and culture of the Croatian Adriatic, and of Italy.
TheTaste of Lightningintroduces new readers to this grand master of European poetry, whose other books in English are now out of print. And for those who know Lali's poetic world, it combines revisions of previously published translations with poems not seen before in English.
TheTaste of Lightningtraces the whole arc of Lali's poetic career. From the directness of his early work in the 1950s, which emerged from the trauma of a wartime boyhood. Through the rich imagery and startlingly apt similes of his mature verse. But it also charts another voice, thoughtful and meditative, that gradually grows more prominent. This voice finally reflects, just before Lali's death in 1996, on what God's purpose might be in a world wounded by personal and national tragedy: 'may he forgive my fear / That he created me, as the book says, in his own image'.
Francis R. Jones, the book's editor and translator, knew Lali well, and has worked with his poems for almost five decades. Of Jones's 15 translation prizes to date, five were awarded for his versions of Lali's poetry.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes's bustling Victorian London the misty moors of Dartmoor the dizzying heights of Reichenbach; and the cozy living room of 221b Baker Street.
]]>Thirteen-year-old Starling 'Star' Cooney lives with her grandfather, Roy, in Rocky Point. She has not made any friends that is, until new student Bronte arrives. Then Roy disappears, and Star must decide who to trust as she searches for her mum.
'Don't Forget to Remember Me is a raw and authentic tale of broken family, dark secrets, and unlikely friendships in a small coastal town. The stories of Star, Roy and Bronte will make you smile and break your heart. I inhaled this book in one sitting.' Troy Hunter, author of Gus and the Missing Boy and Gus and the Burning Stones.
'Everyone should have a friend like Star. In amongst the humour and heartbreak, Drum creates a world you won't want to leave.' R. W. R. McDonald, author of The Nancys
'This tender, empathetic novel is beautifully written, and Star captured my heart.' Toni Jordan, author or Addition and Tenderfoot
]]>Fearless Finn is a heroic tale about being brave despite feeling scared, and helping others.
]]>Lauren Mullinder is an illustrator, graphic designer, artist and educator. Based in her home studio in Adelaide, South Australia, Lauren spends her time drawing, exploring the natural world and developing workshops in art, drawing fundamentals and environment design. She has a passion for children's literature and has illustrated seven children's books. She loves visiting schools and running illustration workshops, where children have a hands-on experience creating their own designs and characters. When not working in her studio, Lauren loves spending time out in nature working with education groups, scuba diving off the coast or hiking up trails with her dog Charlie.
]]>Further surprises lie in store when she returns for her second year at Miss Coleridge's Academy for Gifted Youths. Elsie is desperate to prove herself as a Guardian but a few terrible mistakes causes Elsewhere's trust in her to falter. To make matters worse, Gifted kids around the world have gone missing, taken somewhere the Gateways can't reach, leaving Elsie powerless.
Then a mysterious figure appears, offering Elsie a tempting solution a way to use Gifts without Elsewhere's permission. But is the power worth the price?
]]>Her debut novel, Elsewhere, was inspired by the sense of wonder and awe of classic children's novels such as the Chronicles of Narnia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Secret Garden and more. Its sequel, Somewhere, continues to pay tribute to these classics through Easter eggs and similar tropes. The series stays true to the timeline and facts of World War I, exploring the horrors of that time through the eyes of a child, creating a symbolic parallel between the pains of adolescence and the extreme changes that the world went through during the war.
]]>Only she can open the Gateway to The Place Where Lost Children Go a sentient forest called Elsewhere with the power to enhance the talents, desires, and fears of unique souls. And then there's Elsie, the newest Guardian, with the power to open the Gateways into Elsewhere, borrow Gifts in emergencies, and enhance other Gifts with her touch so that her Gifted friends can grow stronger. But Elsie's powers are unpredictable and her new role as mentor comes with a lot of responsibility.
Meanwhile, the war rages on, and the headmistress believes the students are the solution. She intends to push them to their academic limit, training them in the art of war, stripping them of their childhood. The Gifted must use their newfound talents to bring down her awful regime and win a battle of their own. But with the war growing ever closer to home, Elsie can't help but feel like Elsewhere has been recruiting them too, training them for something bigger than just school.
]]>When a new student named Clint arrives, things become much more interesting. Soon, Liam is taking risks and bending the rules and even has a haircut just like Clint. Liam's mates are acting weird, though. And Mum keeps asking if he's OK. His teacher even has 'a word' with him. Liam wishes they would leave him alone and let him grow up. He's going to high school next year!
But when Liam finds himself in serious trouble, he realises how far he's drifted from the things and the people he loves. But just like a game of basketball that's heading south, can he bring it back?
]]>The Thing about Oliver (Wombat Books) was shortlisted in the younger readers category of the Children's Book Council of Australia awards, shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year and won the Australian Association of Family Therapists book of the year award in the younger readers category. Her picture book Me and You (Penguin Viking) won Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year award (3-5 year olds) in 2017.
Deb visits schools, libraries and festival events (including Newcastle Writers' Festival and Sydney Writers' Festival) to share her books with children. Many of her books are included in Premier's Reading Challenge lists around Australia. She is a Role Model for Books in Homes and reviews children's books for Reading Time magazine.
]]>Twelve-year-old Tilly dreams of becoming a marine scientist, but she doesn't even own a swimsuit. She lives in a drought- stricken town with her mum and younger brother Oliver, who is autistic.
Oliver's meltdowns are making life unbearable.
He needs so many different kinds of therapy that there's never any time or money left over for swimming lessons. Tilly knows Oliver's needs have to come first, but it's hard feeling invisible all the time.
When Mum announces they are moving to the Queensland coast, Tilly is excited at the thought of finally learning to swim even snorkel! But she is also worried. The thing about Oliver is, he can't cope with even the tiniest of changes to his routine.
It isn't long before the cracks begin to show. Could so many changes all at once threaten to shatter the whole family?
]]>She longs to be like Ashleigh Monahan, who has the perfect looks for the lead part in the school musical. And Ashleigh has talent.
But while Kate can sing and act really well, she thinks she doesn't measure up to Ashleigh's physical perfection. Will she still score a role?
]]>But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kore's experiments.
Eden manages to get a job in the government's Archives, taking the place of one of Kore's victims, but Izrod keeps snatching more government employees. Is Eden safe? And what is Kore planning? Will it mean the end to peace in Sendirian City?
]]>Sarah hates the prestigious high school she attends. Most of the other students ignore her. The only good thing about school is the presence of Dan Bradfield, the boy she adores. Dan is the heir to his father's multinational computer company, but he is dating Sarah's best friend, Jillian.
When tragedy strikes, Dan is the one who is there for Sarah, but she can't shake the feeling there is something strange about him. Is he protecting her from something? Is there something going on that she doesn't know about? And did she really see a monster in the bushes?
Sarah is desperate to uncover the truth, but it could take her to another galaxy and change everything she believes about who she is. Will it bring Dan and Sarah closer together or tear them apart?
]]>Ten-year-old Korob knows everyone in Makoko, the Nigerian fishing village where she lives. Between doing chores for her mother, she roams free with her best friends, Saidat and Joba, and her adorable dog, Popi. The last thing Korob would expect in Makoko is a thief. Yet Saidat's wooden piggy bank has been stolen! Buckle up, budding mystery fans...
It's time to join Korob and friends on their thrilling chase for the culprit.
]]>Fred the deer loves living in the forest. Or does he? No, he says he does not! He is bored, and wants to visit the town! Once there, he sees everyone else has shoes so why can't he have shoes? Everyone else seems to be eating chips, but he needs hands to eat chips...really, Fred? Read on to see if Pepe will give in and give him hands, and how the story will end up!
]]>Word games, jokes and stories, magic and mayhem, quiet and thoughtful moments. This is an exceptional, imaginative collection by an exciting poet, illustrated with wit and zest by a popular illustrator.
]]>Tom McLaughlin studied illustration at Falmouth College of Arts, before working as the political cartoonist at the Western Morning News. His debut picture book was The Diabolical Mr Tiddles andThe Story Machine was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for illustration. His best-known 'Accidental' series, includingThe Accidental Prime Minister, Secret AgentandBillionaire, have been nominated for multiple awards. Tom has recently published his first graphic novel, Alan, King of the Universe. Tom has five children and lives in Exeter in Devon.
]]>Aldo and his two best friends from Comic Book Club have been training to save the world. They've mastered fighting battles (with wooden swords), Morse code, and superhero skills, despite the annoying antics of Aldo's little sister, Petra. The day Odin suddenly appears, they are swept up in truly epic adventure...Yggdrasil, Tree of Life and Death, has mistakenly opened its portal and unleashed Fenrir, the gigantic, evil Wolf from Norse mythology, into the world. Can Aldo, his friends and Odin's cat army defeat the Beast before the next full moon, and save the World?
]]>Stefano Tambellini is an illustrator and award-winning creator of stop-motion animation movies. With a degree in animation from the School of Experimental Cinematography of Turin (CSC), he moved to London in 2009 and worked as an illustrator for children's books for publishers Barrington Stoke (UK), Bloomsbury (UK) and Little Bee Books (US). His short film 'Impossibles Maladies' has received over 20 awards internationally. In addition to being an illustrator, he teaches puppetry and animation at schools and festivals. My Cat is Called Odin (originally published in Italian by Castoro Libri) is his first book for Five Quills.
]]>This highly visual exploration is a fascinating look at the still-mysterious human microbiome the viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that work together to play an essential role in keeping humans healthy. The accessible text allows full-bleed images to shine throughout, including full-spread, photo-realistic illustrations that bring the world of microorganisms to life.
Written by Helene Priestley, who holds a PhD in molecular biology, the author created the book in cooperation with Dr. Purna Kashyap, director of the Microbiome Program, a Mayo Clinic research initiative that studies the microbiome's role in health. Dr. Kashyap also gives readers tips and tricks for keeping their microbiome healthy.
Mayo Clinic Press Kids creates empowering health and wellness content in partnership with pediatric experts. Proceeds from the sale of every book go to benefit important medical research and education at Mayo Clinic.
]]>IllustratorDavid Mrquez has a PhD in immunology and a Master's degree in scientific illustration. His work is fueled by a passion for nature in all its forms and for visually communicating scientific knowledge.
Martin Bustamante, an Argentinian illustrator and painter, discovered his passion for drawing and painting at a young age. He has worked professionally for publishers and magazines in Argentina, the U.S., and Europe.
Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S., is the director of the Microbiome Program at Mayo Clinic, a research initiative that studies the role of the human microbiome in health. His research aims to better understand gastrointestinal disorders to provide better treatment options for patients, especiallymicrobiota-targeted therapies.
]]>Welcome to the world of school debating andpublic speaking, the best training ground forspeaking, reasoning, arguing and lookingcritically at the big issues of today.
Claire Duffy not only demystifies theprocess of debating and public speaking,but makes it fun by drawing on her many years ofexperience working directly with students, usinglanguage to which they relate. Learn all aboutthe best way to prepare, the persuasive power ofreason, the art of argument and rebuttal, and howto lose graciously. Including tips from the pros anda wealth of examples throughout, this guide is theessential handbook for making every spoken wordcount.
Flick through these sample pages
Claire Duffy spoke to ABC News Breakfast about how to help kids conquer their public speaking fears here
]]>Has anyone ever asked you to catch a red big ball? No. Because in English we would say 'big red ball'. Why is that? After the success of her bestselling The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking, Claire Duffy turns her hand to helping students write well. In this easy-to-use and fun guide to writing and grammar, children (aged 12+), their parents and teachers will learn all they need to know about the elements of grammar, punctuation, spelling and sentence construction. With practical tips and helpful step-by-step examples, this book will help students master everything from apostrophes to essay writing.
'Any mention of grammar, punctuation and spelling can make students take fright. This clear and cheerful guidemakes writing easy and will soothe any fear or dread.' Sue Butler AO, former editor ofMacquarie Dictionary
]]>You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now! Fun, informative and easy to use, Kid Reporter is packed with inspiring stories from young people who've already started their reporting careers and tips and tricks from leading journalism experts. Children's news specialists Saffron Howden and Dhana Quinn uncover all the secrets to becoming a journalist, including how to:
So, if you'd like to become a savvy media consumer and creator in the digital age, this book is for you!
Teachers' notes available here
'Saron Howden is a ceaseless campaigner for making news and media accessible to kids. It's such important work. Kid Reporter is the perfect gift for the curious, smart young person in your life.' - Annabel Crabb, journalist, TV presenter and political writer
'Clear, simple, direct and engaging, Kid Reporter isn't just for kids. If you want to be a journalist, if you care about the news or you're a journalist who wants to remind yourself about how the job is done, this book is for you. It is a wonderful, timely guide to what news is, how it's produced and why it matters. After more than 30 years in the game, even I learned a thing or two.' - Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism, University of Queensland
'Saron Howden and Dhana Quinn let everyone in on the secret all newshounds understand: being a reporter is so much fun! It is also challenging and fascinating a craft that can be learned and mastered. In Kid Reporter, they use their great experience as journalists and editors to explain how reporting happens and how you go about nding and telling great stories. For the student who already loves stories of all kinds, and for parents and teachers who want to encourage curiosity, creativity and skills for life-long learning: Kid Reporter is a wonderful book.' - Mark Scott AO, Secretary, NSW Department of Education
'A great guide to what journalists do, how they do it and why it matters. Worth reading for young and old.' -Margaret Simons, freelance journalist and Honorary Principal Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
]]>Miles Merrill, spoken word artistand founder of Australian Poetry Slam, and award-winning teacher Narcisa Nozica will take you from novice to spoken word superstar in no time. Twenty years after Merrill introduced poetry slamsto Australia, there's a national competition with a live audience of 20 000 people, and it's taught in schools across the country. It's been nothing short of a revolution!
With tips from stars of the Australian poetry slam scene, including bestselling author Maxine Beneba Clarke,Slam Your Poetryprovides step-by-step instructions and exercises that will inspire you to:
1. Write a poem that pops
2. Rehearse like a winner
3. Wow your audience
4. Beat stage fright
5. Run a winning competition for your school or community group
Part how-to guide, part masterclass, part manifesto, this book will help teachers, students and wannabe spoken word artistsof all ages slam like a pro.
Don't panic!Simply read this essential handbook for welcoming your visiting dragon. You will be provided with step-by-step instructions to ensure your dragon has a wonderful time. Your visitor will need to meet the family, learn table manners and go sightseeing. Maybe you'll even qualify as top host!
While this hilarious book is full of silliness, it also explores language barriers and non-verbal communication. The heartwarming ending leaves readers with a beautiful message of embracing differences, and how a hug has universal meaning.
]]>Arriving in Australia as one of the first Italian migrants, Giovanni begins a new life, and a new chapter in Australia's migration history begins. Giovanni left Italy in 1881 with his family, along with many other villagers from the region of Veneto. The families were promised 'paradise' by a corrupt people smuggler. After a perilous journey, they reached Australia with the assistance of Sir Henry Parkes, who was Premier of the Colony of NSW at the time. Combining extensive research, family anecdotes and gentle narrative prose, author Crystal Corocher shares this true story of resilience and courage as both a work of historical narrative and personal passion project Giovanni being her great-grandfather. Giovanni is a story for all Australians, and one that Crystal looks forward to sharing with students of all ages as a visiting author, it has been illustrated with stunning watercolour throughout by Margeaux Davis.
]]>little horses drift and hide...'
Beneath the waters of a calm bay, seahorses hide from predators, feed on shrimp and raise their young in gardens of sponge, coral, and grass. But when a storm destroys their habitat, they are left with nothing to eat and nowhere to hide. That is, until a Marine Biologist comes up with a clever invention to provide them with shelter and food while the natural environment recovers. The little horses have a new home where they can thrive! Soon, tiny horses are swimming and the hotel is overgrown with coral and grass.
Inspired by true events and including information about seahorses and the Seahorse Hotels Project, Little Horses is a conservation success story certain to inspire children to love and care for the natural world.
]]>Flute loves to frolic, splash and play. But when a high-speed boat separates her from her party, she is alone and in danger. Flute embarks on a wild journey, determined to find her way back home to safety.
This heartwarming and hopeful story, written by a marine biologist, is based on true events and friendships. It celebrates themes of togetherness, support, determination. Flute is a positive role model showing young readers resilience in the face of challenges. Flute raises vital awareness of boating and noise pollution as threats to dolphins world-wide. The back matter provides practical ways to help conserve dolphins.
Author Kasey Whitelaw is a qualified marine biologist and spent seven years ensuring the daily protection of Flute and other wild dolphins.
]]>Every day, children all over the world are travelling to school - by bus, by canoe, through valleys, over mountains and snow. How do you get to school?
With themes of diversity and culture, On the Way to School celebrates the joy and challenges of travelling to school.
]]>Lucia Masciullo is an award-winning illustrator who loves to create whimsical characters and colouring with traditional techniques; mixing watercolour, pencil and collage. Born and bred in Italy, she moved to Australia in 2007 and since then has illustrated more than thirty books. She currently lives on the Gold Coast. She can be contacted on Instagram: @Luciart74 Website: www.LuciaMasciullo.com
]]>Age range 3 to 6
One little girl realises that a girl in her class is struggling to make friends. With the help of their football coach they came up with a plan. Can their school football team bring them together, and expand their friendship group?
]]>An upbeat story about a confident little boy who takes pride in his first day of nursery.
Starting kindergarten is a big milestone - and the hero of this story is ready to make his mark! He's dressed himself, eaten a pile of pancakes, and can't wait to be a part of a whole new kingdom of kids. The day will be jam-packed, but he's up to the challenge, taking new experiences in stride with his infectious enthusiasm. And afterward, he can't wait to tell his proud parents all about his achievements - and then wake up to start another day.
'Necessary nourishment, infectiously joyous.' - Kirkus, starred review
'This is a king whose power comes from self respect and kindesstoward all the members of his diverse classroom.' - The New York Times
'Another brilliant title from Scallywag...This beautifully drawn, infectiously enthusiastic book will help prepare children for their first day of school...the book subtly introduces themes of self-respect, kindness and the joy of a diverse classroom.'- The Bookseller
]]>Get ready for your first day at nursery school with this exuberant little girl!
MJ is more than ready for her first day of school! With her hair freshly braided and her 'first day at school' outfit, she also knows all the good things she's going to bring to the classroom, stuff like her kindness, friendliness, and impressive soccer skills, too!
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]]>The book begins by providing a theoretical and historical overview of empathy as a term and educational tool in the English speaking context. The first two chapters lay the groundwork for the remaining close reading chapters by introducing two new terms: 'pop empathy' and 'empathic education'. I argue that pop empathy is defined by neoliberalism and the commodification of empathy in marketing, advertising, politics and artificial intelligence and that this is impacting the rhetoric of contemporary educational policy in Australia and the United States. Empathic education is defined by educational theory and practice where the experience of empathy is foregrounded as a form of knowledge creation or acquisition. I draw pop empathy and empathic education into conversation throughout the book and use both terms to assist my argument that a complex approach to empathy for literary studies may benefit classroom teaching and learning by resisting over-systematised education.
The remaining chapters of the book offer four unique approaches to empathic literary criticism informed by interdisciplinary methodologies, including educational theory, cognitive science, the philosophy of psychology and literary studies. Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6 provide readings of texts frequently prescribed for English literary study belonging to different genres: Shakespeare's Hamlet, the poetry of John Keats, the short stories 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor, and Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Each chapter engages with the text's historical educational context and its contemporary relation to empathy while offering fresh close readings by applying a critical empathy lens. As a result, these chapters complicate and contribute to debates about the empathic value of subject English. I show how the authors and texts studied bear the mark of empathic education and as a result they offer unique impressions of empathy's make-up and capabilities. Through my readings, I show how empathy has consistently featured in literary studies across time periods and genres while complicating popular rhetorical uses of empathy. I address this wide scope of historical and generic texts as they relate to the current educational landscape because I argue for a new approach to integrating empathy into subject English that privileges empathy as a form of critical interpretation rather than a student outcome.
]]>While Michell had success in theatre and television, the focus here is on his twenty-year career in film and the particular qualities he brought to adaptation and character-driven storytelling. The book explores his handling of relationships and place, from the quiet emotional detail of Persuasion to the observational humour of The Duke, and highlights his ability to subvert narrative conventions through careful attention to mood, tone and performance.
McFarlane's study positions Michell as a perceptive and underappreciated figure in contemporary British cinema, whose work continues to reward close viewing.
]]>During her 25 years of practice she designed a wide range of projects in terms of scale as well as program, from planning projects, infrastructure designs, social housing to Interior Design projects, besides her design work she has been in charge of large project teams and coordinated complex construction sites.
She is the winner of the ARCASIA Gold Medal 2006 for Architecture, of the Unesco heritage awards 2012, and of UIA 100 architects of the year 2017, 2018 and 2019. Her work in the field of architecture has been amply published internationally (AD-Architectural Design of London, INTERNI, Architectura e Vida). Her works in the fields of design, architecture and urban design have been exhibited at Salone Satellite of Milan’s Salone del Mobile, Experimenta Design /Lisbon Biennale, IDExpo, Concepta, Architecture Triennale (Lisboa), Portugal-live 2005, Tenth International architecture of the Venice Biennale and at the 7th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo..
]]>Working beyond the strict realm of design and the commissioned briefs, LBA discovered that architects could sometimes become agents of change, negotiators or policy-makers, thus changing both the culture of commissioning projects and the spatial propositions for the future city by adding new layers of community interaction and cultural use to the overall design. It is a labour of generosity that is at the core of the architectural agenda, when we architects are able to address the client's desires and add our own agendas in response to inherent urban issues to fulfil our true civic responsibility.
]]>Through comparative case studies of Italy and the Netherlands, it analyses how parties deploy gendered narratives to oppose feminist and LGBTQ+ rights, justify anti-immigrant policies, and consolidate political power. Drawing on political speeches, campaign materials, manifestos, media coverage, and electoral data, the study reveals the intersections of gender with race, religion, and class in shaping political discourse. The monograph shows that gender is not a peripheral concern but a central axis in far-right strategies, influencing public opinion, social norms, and policy outcomes. By uncovering these dynamics, the book offers insights into the broader implications of far-right politics for democracy, social justice, and inclusive governance in Europe.
]]>The book's primary goal is to propose local solutions for South African communities' peace and security challenges, emphasising peacebuilding approaches. It aims to publish lessons learned from the real-life experiences of scholars and practitioners regarding solutions for preventing violence in South African communities through transformative approaches to mediation.
]]>Sokfa John is a researcher and practitioner in peace mediation, conflict transformation and digital peacebuilding. His research focuses on digital peacebuilding in Africa, localisation and ethnoreligious conflicts.
]]>Excavating the Castle demonstrates that the Gothic novel was present in the selective tradition almost from its inception, was present in the first durable consolidation of English literary history written after its emergence, and that the Gothic concept crystalised more than half a century earlier than historians of the Gothic had realised previously. The historiography of the Gothic has long been considered a settled story, though the findings of this book call that story into significant question. How did we miss so much of the story? This is above all a work of literary history, but it is a work of literary history designed to serve the needs of the field of Gothic studies. That said, it is also about more than the Gothic, implicating much larger issues related to the history of ideas; book history; information and library sciences; the materials, methods, and practice of literary history; the digital humanities; and even questions of individual positionality and human contingency.
]]>Musicians on Twitch: Creativity, Challenges, and the Reality Behind Live Streaming offers a compelling look into the lives of musicians who have embraced Twitch as a platform to share their art, connect with audiences and seek financial stability. While Twitch is often seen as a hub for creativity and innovation, this book uncovers the stark realities lurking beneath the surface. Through a multi-method qualitative research design, it explores the opportunities and challenges 'musician-streamers' face in a gamified, attention-driven ecosystem. From the dominance of a small elite to the relentless pressure to remain 'always on', the book highlights the precarious balance musicians must navigate between personal well-being and professional success.
Combining critical analysis with empathetic storytelling, this book is an essential read for academics, students and anyone interested in the intersections of music, technology and creative labour in the digital age.
]]>The book situates these discussions within the broader context of Latin America's colonial legacy and ongoing decolonization efforts. It demonstrates how the region's nation-states, often founded on myths of cultural homogeneity, have grappled with the complex realities of diverse populations. Through detailed case studies, the book showcases how cultural diversity has become a powerful tool for social empowerment, particularly among racialised groups and other marginalised communities. It also offers insights into the evolution of these policies, tracing the ways in which they have responded to grassroots movements and the global discourse on cultural citizenship.
Furthermore, this work contributes to global debates by positioning Latin America as a key player in rethinking cultural policies that promote diversity, justice, and inclusion. It reflects on the lessons learned from observing these policies, urging readers to consider the broader implications for social cohesion and inclusive development. This work not only provides a thorough analysis of Latin America's unique contributions to cultural policy but also underscores the urgent need for more dynamic, intercultural approaches to address the challenges of the 21st century.
]]>It introduces the key ideas that frame Kripke's sceptical challenge, then analyses the main components of the 'sceptical argument' Kripke attributes to Wittgenstein and elucidates the 'sceptical solution' he takes Wittgenstein to propose as an alternative to classical realism. It also explores how both the sceptical problem and an additional 'special problem' arise in the attributing sensations and in traditional approaches to the problem of other minds. The concluding chapters survey the major responses to Kripke's interpretation developed by philosophers working on the topic since the 1980s, including John McDowell, Simon Blackburn, Gordon Baker, Peter Hacker, Colin McGinn, Crispin Wright, Paul Boghossian, Philip Pettit, Barry Stroud, Hannah Ginsborg, Alexander Miller, George Wilson, Scott Soames, Noam Chomsky, Paul Horwich, as well as Norman Malcolm, Donald Davidson, David Lewis, Christopher Peacocke, Jerry Fodor, David Stern, Alex Byrne, Ruth Millikan, Hilary Putnam and John Searle.
]]>Philosophy of Life looks at the person's relationship to their world. Such a relationship is impregnated with tension arising from constant decision making. By making decisions, a person shifts their modal (possible) worlds, which include their sets of circumstances and their vistas on various aspects of life. A shift between different positions on one's existence in this world creates structural cognitive, emotional and strategic changes that transform what is possible and what is impossible with regard to one's life choices. The decision-making process, on fundamental life issues, is crucially related not only to one's general values but also to one's view of logical possibilities. The book explores the practical aspects of modal logic in decision making and casts it as the foundation of a philosophy of life.
]]>Textiles are an artistic means of articulation: sensitive, political, defiant. Ever since the 1960s in particular, textile arts have become increasingly recognised and subsequently established as an art form in their own right, with female artists blowing apart traditional concepts in their work: textiles became sculptures, installations, social gestures and a medium of feminist empowerment.
This current publication focuses on 40 specially selected 20th- and 21st-century female positions in Europe that evince the multifaceted development of textile expression up to the present day. The charged relationship of textile and body runs through many of the compiled works. For textiles are frequently experienced up close they touch us, literally. And it is in precisely this closeness that the functional or critical, fragile and poetic potential of many textile works unfolds.
]]>This book combines a range of cutting-edge scholarship on themes including Mansfield's school life, telephony, the weather, literary sources and influences, music, and hotels, also including reviews of relevant publications in the field, a diverse range of creative writing, and the first publication of notes by Mansfield's early friend and contemporary in London, Margaret Wishart.
]]>The biography draws extensively on previously unused archive material, including the research papers assembled by Ruth Elvish Mantz for her 1933 biography of Mansfield, detailed reminiscences of former school friends and acquaintances, Mansfield's autograph book, birthday book, her early letters, notebooks and family papers. Using this rich seam of material, Gerri Kimber explores Mansfield's home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and her travels through the volcanic North Island of New Zealand and examines her earliest published stories which appeared in school magazines. What emerges is a picture of a feisty, mischievous, young girl and an expressive, non-conformist teenager: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who became Katherine Mansfield, the famous modernist writer.
]]>Showcasing new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, essays in this collection draw upon a wide range of sources to present familiar topics in original ways, while opening up unexpected vistas for our historical sight.
Essays range from innovative interpretations of famous people and well-known events to examinations of the thoughts and activities of ordinary Scots, with consideration also for how people from the past are publicly commemorated today. Together, they demonstrate the centrality of gender in the shaping of Scottish history.
]]>With the help of eighteen newspapers ten Bavarian and eight Breton alongside a rich variety of both primary and secondary sources, this book examines how the Section francaise de l'Internationale ouvriere (SFIO) and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) navigated political messaging in two traditionally conservative regions. Focusing on electoral campaigns and May Day-related events between 1919 and 1939, the study challenges the prevailing view of these parties as inflexible and doctrinaire. Instead, it reveals a surprising adaptability and nuance in their approaches, questioning the notion that both parties inevitably became more bureaucratic and conservative during this period.
Through detailed analysis of press coverage and party activities, Red Missionaries uncovers unexpected similarities between the SFIO and SPD, suggesting that their strategies were more aligned than previously assumed. Ultimately, this book not only reconsiders established narratives but also deepens our understanding of socialist politics in inter-war Europe.
]]>Whether you're navigating your first career move, seeking clarity in a leadership transition, or mentoring others, Mentorship invites you to rethink outdated models and embrace the power of authentic mentoring. Through the transformative ACE Framework Align, Collaborate, Evolve this book explores how to build relationships that are flexible, individualised, and rooted in mutual growth. Along the way, you'll develop the Seven Cs of Mentoring: Coachability, Connection, Co-Creation, Capital, Cultivation, Courage, and Competence key competencies that will help you lead with confidence and grow with intention.
With practical tools, guided reflections, and online resources including worksheets, community access, and a digital Take the Lead Toolkit Mentorship is more than a book. It's a roadmap for career growth, leadership development, and meaningful, mentee-led professional development.
]]>To make sense of the copious information on dementia, the book introduces four distinct modes of understanding dementia care, each offering a unique perspective and source of strength. The Describing mode helps caregivers grasp the medical realities of dementia. The Understanding mode addresses the shifting landscape of communication as cognitive abilities change. The Advocating mode guides readers through the complexities and anxieties of securing proper care within an often-confusing health care system. Finally, the Imagining mode reveals how creativity can foster moments of joy and connection, even in the midst of loss.
By filtering the vast array of information on dementia through these practical and empathetic modes, Surviving Dementia Care empowers caregivers to find the guidance they need at each stage of the journey, avoid information overload, and preserve the loving bonds that inspired their caregiving in the first place.
]]>Educators Elaine Beltran-Sellitti and Margaret MacDonald follow the story and findings of a nine-month long research project that took place in a living, environmentally friendly, 'more than green' building housing two university-run childcare centres. The building of interest was designed with many of Reggio Emilia's learning principles in mind. Together, the authors asked the questions: What can children and teachers learn from and with this environmentally conscious Reggio-inspired building? And what is the educator's role in supporting their resultant curiosity and learning? In addition to understanding the special context that was engendered by the living building, the book also addresses the wide-ranging tensions and pressures affecting contemporary teaching practices of curriculum as living inquiry.
This book includes the articulation of a vision for curriculum that is attuned to the elements of sustainability reflected in the architecture of the childcare building, in its furnishings and materials, in the intention to avoid waste, and in the relationships with the forest and garden. It highlights an emergent curriculum project attuning to children's imaginative meaning-making through the structure of the building. Nurtured by varied perspectives including the pedagogy of Reggio Emilia, social constructivism, and new materialism, this book embraces a future for sustainability achieved through the nourishment of meaningful curriculum.
]]>Elaine Beltran-Sellitti is a PhD candidate in educational theory and practice at Simon Fraser University. She is an instructor in the Faculty of Early Childhood Care and Education at Capilano University.
]]>Tracing the contours of Mr. Wilson's fascinating journey, renowned Canadian business historian Dimitry Anastakis brings to light an inspiring story of commitment, determination, and service. Born in Port Colborne in 1940, L. R. 'Red' Wilson's trajectory as a student, foreign service officer, senior civil servant, business leader, supporter of higher education, and philanthropist is an extraordinary tale of post-Second World War Canada. Mr. Wilson held executive leadership positions in some of Canada's largest and most important firms, including Redpath Sugar, the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Bell Canada Enterprises. Recipient of the 1994 International Business Executive of the Year Award, Mr. Wilson was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997, and he has received honourary degrees from several universities, including McMaster University, where he was Chancellor from 2007-13.
portrays Mr. Wilson's professional and personal lessons, learned from a lifetime of choices, and illustrates the importance of a strong character and astute values in achieving greatness.
Mariaconcetta Costantini is Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Julia Kuehn is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
]]>Drawing on a comprehensive study of Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, this ground-breaking research investigates the often-overlooked power structures within civil society. By combining elite studies with civil society research, the book uncovers how a distinct civil society elite emerges and how it interacts with leaders in politics and business.
The findings reveal a fascinating paradox. While this elite may be a powerful engine for social change, its integration into wider power circles risks reproducing the very inequalities it seeks to dismantle. By exploring how this elite can become disconnected from its grassroots, the book provides essential insights into the future of civil society and its democratic promise.
]]>Malin Arvidson is Associate Professor of Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.
Jayeon Lee is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Roberto Scaramuzzino is Associate Professor of Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.
All authors are well published in reputable journals such as Journal of civil society, Voluntary Sector Review, Comparative Migration Studies, Disability & Society, Sociology of Health and Illness and have published books for Routledge, Palgrave, amongst others.
]]>Reconsidering the accepted chronology of the 'global turn', The art of decolonisation shows that the roots of global art discourse run deeper than the 1990s, and were already forming during the era of independence struggles.
]]>Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister was marked by a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the government. From questionable PPE tenders to the 'partygate' fiasco, every aspect of public life seemed tainted. How did this downward spiral begin, and what can be done to reverse it?
John Bowers KC presents a fearless examination of the decline in ethical standards before, during and after the Johnson government. Through interviews with insiders, he reveals how the institutions responsible for holding the government to account have been bypassed, and shines a light on a culture of favouritism, where standards are upheld based on little more than the assumption those in power can be trusted to behave.
The Labour victory in July 2024 marked a changing of the guard, but the system remains vulnerable to abuse. Downward spiral presents concrete proposals for creating an alternative that is more transparent and accountable.
]]>The centuries-old craft of basketmaking and collection of baskets from around the world, from ancient Egypt to the current day, is interwoven with rich and diverse human stories. This account charts the last 200 years of the Kew collection.
Weaving Nature takes a holistic and interdisciplinary view of the journey from plant to basket it explains why certain plants are favoured by makers and shows how raw materials are worked to achieve the desired use. New discoveries in the historic ethnobotanical collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew unravels the complex web of empire, trade and exploration that contributed to this vast collection. Rich in stories and images, Weaving Nature offers new ways of appreciating one of humankind's oldest art forms.
]]>Ruth Stungo worked for a decade as the Chelsea Physic Garden's taxonomist and historical researcher. Since undertaking a three-year basketry course, she explores Kew's rich collections.
]]>In the midst of the First World War, an extraordinary intelligence unit operated from Cairo's Savoy Hotel, combining the skills of archaeologists, academics and soldiers to revolutionise how Britain gathered information and shaped events in the Middle East. Overshadowed by Lawrence of Arabia, the Arab Bureau's true significance has remained hidden in plain sight ever since.
This fascinating study uncovers the Bureau's remarkable story through newly discovered Arabic documents and previously overlooked archives. At its heart lies an astonishing find: Thawrat al-Arab, an ambitious Arabic-language book and the longest piece of British propaganda produced during the war. From the Arab Bulletin's secret intelligence reports to sophisticated propaganda campaigns, the Bureau was decades ahead of its time. The team including archaeologists fresh from desert digs and scholars fluent in local dialects developed new methods of cultural intelligence that would influence future generations.
Eamonn Gearon's compelling narrative reveals how this unique organisation navigated the complexities of Arab politics, tribal rivalries and Ottoman intelligence, while developing techniques that resonate with today's challenges in intelligence-gathering. Essential reading for anyone interested in intelligence history, the Middle East or how innovation occurs in wartime, this book transforms our understanding of a crucial moment in world history.
]]>Europe is a place of natural wonders, from the icy expanses of the tundra to the arid beauty of deserts and the lush vibrancy of rainforests. This illustrated guide covers all the continent's major habitats, providing an invaluable resource for understanding and preserving its breathtaking landscapes, ecosystems, and wildlife. Unlike standard habitat classification systems that focus solely on plant communities, Habitats of Europe offers a unique approach to understanding habitats by combining animal assemblages with descriptions of habitat structure, climate, soils, and vegetation. Perfect for nature lovers and ecologists. Whether you're a seasoned ecologist or a curious nature lover, this one-of-a-kind field guide will inspire you to explore and protect the rich biodiversity of Europe.
Iain Campbell is a professional nature guide and habitat ecologist whose books include Habitats of Africa and Habitats of North America (both Princeton) and multiple bird guides.
Pete Morris is a highly regarded bird tour guide and wildlife photographer. He is the coauthor of Birds of Madagascar.
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