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New Trade Titles ��1–37

Index �� 127–129

Poetry ��38–61

Business & Economics ��62–70

Political Science ��71–74

Sociology & Anthropology ��75–98

Religion �� 99–105

Fiction �� 106–111

Arts & Theatre �� 112–119

Medical �� 120

Science �� 121–124

New Publisher Backlist �� 125–126

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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide-Sixth Edition / Agile Practice Guide BundleSixth editionProject Management Institute

To support the broadening spectrum of project delivery ap-proaches, PMI is offering A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition as a bundle with its latest, the Agile Practice Guide.

The PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition now contains detailed information about agile; while the Agile Practice Guide, created in partnership with Agile Alliance®, serves as a bridge to connect waterfall and agile. Together they are a powerful tool for project managers.

PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition

The PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition – PMI’s flagship publi-cation has been updated to reflect the latest good practices in project management. New to the Sixth Edition, each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in project settings. It will also contain more emphasis on strategic and business knowledge—including discussion of project management business documents—and information on the PMI Talent Triangle™ and the essential skills for success in today’s market.

Agile Practice Guide

Agile Practice Guide has been developed as a resource to under-stand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches. This practice guide provides guidance on when, where, and how to ap-ply agile approaches and provides practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility. This practice guide is aligned with other PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and was developed as the result of collaboration between the Project Management Institute and the Agile Alliance.

The PMI provides services including the development of stan-dards, research, education, publication, networking-opportunities in local chapters, hosting conferences and training seminars, and providing accreditation in project management.

BUSINESS, 800 PAGES, 8.25 X 11.75TRADE PAPER, $99.00 (CAN $134.00)ISBN: 9781628253825 (REPLACES: 9781935589679) RIGHTS: WORLD

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New Trade TitlesIPG – ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING

New Trade Titles IPG – SPRING 2018

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RUSSIAN EditionISBN: 9781628254105

KOREAN EditionISBN: 9781628254075

JAPANESE EditionISBN: 9781628254129

ITALIAN EditionISBN: 9781628254051

HINDI EditionISBN: 9781628254112

GERMAN EditionISBN: 9781628254068

FRENCH EditionISBN: 9781628254020

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE EditionISBN: 9781628254044

SPANISH EditionISBN: 9781628254037

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE EditionISBN: 9781628254082

ARABIC EditionISBN: 9781628254099

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide-Sixth Edition / Agile Practice Guide Bundle Sixth editionProject Management Institute

To support the broadening spectrum of project delivery approaches, PMI is offering A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowl-edge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition as a bundle with its latest, the Agile Practice Guide. The PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition now contains detailed information about agile; while the Agile Practice Guide, created in partnership with Agile Alliance®, serves as a bridge to connect waterfall and agile. Together they are a powerful tool for project managers. The PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition – PMI’s flagship publication has been updated to reflect the latest good practices in project management. New to the Sixth Edition, each knowledge area will contain a section entitled Approaches for Agile, Iterative and Adaptive Environments, describing how these practices integrate in proj-ect settings. It will also contain more emphasis on strategic and business knowledge—including discussion of project management business documents—and information on the PMI Talent Triangle™ and the essential skills for success in today’s market. Agile Practice Guide has been developed as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches. This practice guide provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and provides practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agili-ty. This practice guide is aligned with other PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and was developed as the result of collaboration between the Project Management Institute and the Agile Alliance.

The PMI provides services including the development of standards, research, education, publication, networking-opportunities in local chapters, hosting conferences and training seminars, and providing accreditation in project management.

Project Management InstituteBUSINESS, 800 PAGES, 8.25 X 11.75 TRADE PAPER, $99.00 (CAN $134.00) RIGHTS: WORLD

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Q & As for the PMBOK® Guide Sixth EditionSixth editionProject Management Institute

In this newest edition, PMI presents straightforward questions and answers to the most common questions about project man-agement, the project management framework, and the knowledge areas contained within the PMBOK® Guide - Fifth Edition. This handy reference will help project managers and students enhance their knowledge in specific areas and test themselves on issues that are essential to successful project management.


BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT, 310 PAGES, 4.25 X 6.75TRADE PAPER, $29.95 (CAN $39.95)ISBN: 9781628254617 (REPLACES: 9781935589853) RIGHTS: WORLD


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Agile Practice Guide (Russian)ISBN: 9781628254181

Agile Practice Guide (Korean)ISBN: 9781628254228

Agile Practice Guide (Japanese)ISBN: 9781628254235

Agile Practice Guide (Italian)ISBN: 9781628254167

Agile Practice Guide (Hindi)ISBN: 9781628254204

Agile Practice Guide (German)ISBN: 9781628254174

Agile Practice Guide (French)ISBN: 9781628254136

Agile Practice Guide (Brazilian Portuguese)ISBN: 9781628254150

Agile Practice Guide (Spanish)ISBN: 9781628254143

Agile Practice Guide (Simplified Chinese)ISBN: 9781628254211

Agile Practice Guide (Arabic)ISBN: 9781628254198

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Agile Practice GuideManagement Institute

Agile Practice Guide – First Edition has been developed as a resource to understand, evaluate, and use agile and hybrid agile approaches. This practice guide provides guidance on when, where, and how to apply agile approaches and provides practical tools for practitioners and organizations wanting to increase agility. This practice guide is aligned with other PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and was developed as the result of collaboration between the Project Management Institute and the Agile Alliance.


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Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large OrganizationsBrian Hobbs and Yvan Petit

Creativity and productivity, rapid adaptation to change, val-ue for the customer—these are just some of the advantages of implementing agile practices in project work. However, agile practices have been most widely and successfully undertaken in the context of small, colocated teams working on small software projects, known as the “agile sweet spot.”

In this monograph, Brian Hobbs and Yvan Petit explore the use and impact of agile outside of the agile sweet spot. Through a case study and survey questionnaire, they uncover research questions that have remained largely unexamined in the literature, on the project level as well as on the organizational level.An illuminating study of this emerging field, Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations opens the door to further investigation on the future role of project managers, the use of scaling frameworks at the program and portfolio levels, and the effects of DevOps, one of the recent trends in agile software development.

Dr. Brian Hobbs PMP founded the Project Management Chair in 2007and held the Chair until 2015. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, an MBA and a PhD in Management. He has been a professor at the School of Management of the University of Que-bec at Montreal in the Master’s Program in Project Management for more than thirty years. This program, of which he is a past director, is accredited by PMI’s Global Accreditation Center.

BUSINESS, 133 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781628251753RIGHTS: WORLD


How Successful Organizations Implement ChangeIntegrating Organizational Change Management and Project Management to Deliver Strategic ValueEmad E. Aziz and Wanda Curlee

The only constant is change—especially in today’s business en-vironment. Increasing globalization and the rise of new markets and technologies are forcing companies to compete in a more tur-bulent world than ever. To survive and thrive, organizations must be able to continuously evolve. Building on the Project Manage-ment Institute’s Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide, and drawing on the project management expertise of a wide variety of authors, How Successful Organizations Imple-ment Change explains the critical aspects of the change manage-ment process and outlines the methods that project, program, and portfolio managers can utilize to bring effective change in a complex and transient business context.

With experiences in managing programs and projects worth over 10 billion USD in the sectors of Oil & Gas, Business, IT, Construc-tion, Finance and Banking, Politics, Government, Healthcare, Au-tomotive, FMCGs and Economic Development, Emad E. Aziz has accumulated a rich pool of knowledge and expertise that he puts to work to transform organizations by translating their strategic objectives into tangible results and realizing anticipated benefits. Emad specializes in strategy execution, organizational change management, the management of complex multidisciplinary programs and projects, rescuing troubled projects, as well as the setup, alignment and operation of Portfolio, Program, and Project Management Offices (PMOs).

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Megaproject Organization and PerformanceThe Myth and Political RealityNuno Gil, Colm Ludrigan, Jeffrey Pinto, and Phanish Puranam

Megaproject Organization and Performance: The Myth and Political Reality delves into the complex world of organizing megaprojects and investigates the extent to which the perfor-mance of these projects could be traced back to their organiza-tional structure. Through multiple case study research, including the London Olympic Park and Heathrow Airport Terminal 2, the authors show how megaprojects are unique in how they are organized. They explore core-periphery relationships between promotors who control strategic choices, and suppliers, the contracted experts who provide the actual resources to get the project done. The implications of these structural–performance relationships within a robust economy are then compared with railroad and highway development projects in the developing economies of Nigeria, Uganda, and India. This in-depth study brings a complementary perspective to megaproject literature and enables us to reconcile conflicting explanations for the regularity with which megaprojects miss performance targets. With plural-ism at the core of the megaproject’s organizational structure, the authors argue that megaprojects work best when accountability is shared and everyone has a stake in the final outcome.

Nuno Gil is a professor. Colm Ludrigan is a professor. Jeffrey Pinto is a Samuel and Elizabeth B. Breene Fellow and profes-sor of Management. He is author of 10 books and numerous research articles. Roland Berger is chair and professor of Strategy and Organization Design at INSEAD.



Project Management for EducationThe Bridge to 21st Century LearningWalter Ginevri and Bernie Trilling

This unique book is for two audiences! Read one way it is for educators; flip it over and read the other way it is for project managers! Project based learning (PBL), a set of engaging and powerful learning methods organized around motivating proj-ects, is one of the most popular ways to bring the skills used by project management into students’ educational experience, giving them amazing opportunities to develop the essential 21st century competencies they need. In Project Management for Education: The Bridge to 21st Century Learning, authors Bernie Trilling and Walter Ginevri provide a “two-in-one” guide for educators and project management professionals, demonstrating how the two fields can work together. By teaming up to enrich the experience of students, both educators and project management profession-als can continue to develop their own skills and better meet the challenges they face in our ever-changing world.

Walter Ginevri helps private and public organizations gain great-er value in managing their projects, programs, portfolios and operations. His clients belong to various market sectors including finance, manufacturing, fashion, retail, ICT and European institu-tions. The foundation of his experience is consulting, training and coaching. Bernie Trilling is a 21st century learning expert, advi-sor, author, and the former global director of the Oracle Educa-tion Foundation, where he directed the development of education strategies, partnerships, and services for the Foundation and its ThinkQuest programs.



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Wake Up: The Nine Hashtags of Digital DisruptionDavid Fagan

Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia’s largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportu-nities of the digital age from his position on the front line. He chronicles the rise of social media, online shopping, the Uber and Airbnb phenomena and the upending of traditional industries. Fagan observes the big emerging trends and examines the tech-nologies leading this change, as the arrival of robots and artificial intelligence affects the way we live, work and play. If you haven’t been paying attention, now is the time to wake up.

David Fagan has lived and breathed the digital revolution for almost two decades – first as editor-in-chief of The Courier-Mail, designing and driving one of the biggest online news sites in the country, and now as Director of Corporate Transition and an Adjunct Professor of Business at the Queensland University of Technology. In this role, he uses his breadth of experience to run the Real World Futures program, which is dedicated to explor-ing and explaining how digital disruption is changing how we think, work and live. The Brisbane-based father of three is also a convert, of course, to Uber, Airbnb, social media, online shopping and drone racing.

TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS, 240 PAGES, 5 X 7.75TRADE PAPER, $19.95 (CAN $26.95)ISBN: 9780702259869RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Who Runs the ArtworldMoney, Power and EthicsEdited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos

Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics examines, using transdisciplinary strategies, the economics and mythologies of today’s global artworld. It unmasks the complex web of rela-tionships that now exist between, high profile curators, collec-tors, museum trustees and corporate sponsors, and the historic and ongoing complicity between the art and money markets. It also examines alternative models being deployed by curators and artists influenced by the 2008 global financial crisis and the international socio-political Occupy movement. With a particular focus on a renewed activism by artists, coupled with an institu-tional and social critique led by groups such as Liberate Tate, the Precarious Workers Brigade and Strike Debt. Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power and Ethics is one of the first books that brings together a diverse range of thinkers.

Brad Buckley is an artist, urbanist, activist and is a Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of the VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. He was previously Profes-sor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. He was educated at St Martin’s School of Art, London, and the Rhode Island School of Design. John Conomos is an Associate Professor and Honorary Principal Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of the VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. He is an artist, critic and writer whose videotapes and installations have been extensively shown throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

ART, 272 PAGES, 9 X 630 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $33.99 (CAN $45.99)ISBN: 9781911450139RIGHTS: WORLD

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Gun Control in Nazi- Occupied FranceTyranny and ResistanceStephen P. Halbrook

Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940. In every occupied town, Nazi soldiers put up posters that demanded that civilians surrender their firearms within twenty-four hours or else be shot. Despite the consequences, many French citizens refused to comply with the order. In Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance, Stephen P. Halbrook tells this story of Nazi repression and the brave French men and women who refused to surrender to it. Drawing on records of the German oc-cupation and testimonies from members of the French resistance, Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France is the first book to focus on the Nazis’ efforts to disarm the French.

Stephen P. Halbrook is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Insti-tute. He has taught legal and political philosophy at George Ma-son University, Howard University, and Tuskegee Institute, and he received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and Ph.D. in social philosophy from Florida State University. The winner of three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Printz v. United States, United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Company, and Castillo v. United States), he has testified before the Subcom-mittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Subcommittee on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and House Committee on the District of Co-lumbia. A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of the books, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State”; The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms; and That Every Man Be Armed: Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms, among others.

HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE, 256 PAGES, 6 X 917 B&W PHOTOSCLOTH, $28.95 (CAN $38.95)ISBN: 9781598133073RIGHTS: WORLD

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T. R. M. HowardDoctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights PioneerDavid T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, TRM Howard (1908–1976) was a respected surgeon, important black commu-nity leader, and successful businessman. Howard’s story reveals the importance of the black middle class, their endurance and entrepreneurship in the midst of Jim Crow, and their critical role in the early Civil Rights Movement. In this powerful biography, David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito shine a light on the life and accomplishments of this civil rights leader.

David T. Beito is a Research Fellow at the Independent Insti-tute and Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, and he is the recipient of the Ellis Hawley Prize. Professor Beito is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression and From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967.. An urban and social historian, Professor Beito has published in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Interdis-ciplinary History, Journal of Urban History, The Independent Review, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Journal of Firearms and Public Policy, and other scholarly journals. And, his popular articles have appeared in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Per-spectives, History News Network, National Review, Reason, and elsewhere. Linda Royster Beito is associate professor and chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Stillman College and the author of Leadership Effectiveness in Community Policing.

BIOGRAPHY/SOCIAL SCIENCE, 348 PAGES, 6 X 914 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSCLOTH, $29.95 (CAN $39.95)ISBN: 9781598133127 (REPLACES: 9780252034206) RIGHTS: WORLD

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American Exceptionalism in a New EraRebuilding the Foundation of Freedom and ProsperityEdited by Thomas W. Gilligan

In American Exceptionalism in a New Era, editor Thomas W. Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution, has compiled thirteen essays by Hoover fellows that discuss the unique factors that have historically set America apart from other nations and how these factors shape public policy. The authors show how Amer-ica and its people have prospered and emerged as global leaders by prizing individuality and economic freedom and explore key factors in America’s success, including immigration, education, divided government, light regulation, low taxes, and social mobility. America isn’t perfect, they argue, but it is exceptional. Taken together, the essays form a broad exploration of Ameri-can attitudes on everything from tax rates and property rights to the role of government and rule of law. They examine the beliefs of statesmen including Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover, and Ronald Reagan--each of whom considered America fundamentally different from other nations. Finally they outline the ways American exceptionalism may be in decline, with consequences both at home and abroad. At a time when “the idea of the American dream is not in high repute in our public discourse,” the authors collectively argue that the United States must continue to believe in itself as exceptional and indispensable or else face a world where America no longer sets the standard. Contributors: Annelise Anderson, John Cochrane, William Damon, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Haber, Victor Davis Hanson, Edward P. Lazear, Gary Libecap, Michael McConnell, George H. Nash, Lee Ohanian, Paul E. Peterson, Kori Schake

Thomas W. Gilligan is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution. A scholar in economics and political science, he has worked as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House and served in the United States Air Force.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 200 PAGES, 6 X 9CLOTH, $19.95 (CAN $26.95)ISBN: 9780817921248RIGHTS: WORLD

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Invisible SlavesThe Victims and Perpetrators of Modern-Day SlaveryW. Kurt Hauser

In Invisible Slaves, W. Kurt Hauser discusses slavery around the world, with research and firsthand stories that reframe slavery as a modern-day crisis, not a historical phenomenon or third-world issue. Identifying four types of slavery—chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labor, and sex slavery—he examines the efforts and failures of governments to address them. He explores the political, economic, geographic, and cultural factors that shape slavery today, illustrating the tragic human toll with individual stories. Country by country, the author illuminates the harsh realities of modern-day slavery. He explores slavery’s effects on victims, including violence, isolation, humiliation, and the mas-ter-slave relationship, and discusses the methods traffickers use to lure the vulnerable, especially children, into slavery. He assesses nations based on their levels of slavery and efforts to combat the problem, citing the rankings of the United States’ Trafficking Vic-tims Protection Act. He concludes with an appeal to governments and ordinary citizens alike to meet this humanitarian crisis with awareness and action.

W. Kurt Hauser received BA and MBA degrees from Stanford University. He was the head of an investment management firm for most of his career. As an economist his work has been pub-lished in many news media including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Investors Business Daily, among others. He is the author of Taxation and Economic Performance (Hoover Press, 1996); his research on the relationship among tax rates, federal government revenues, and economic growth has become known as Hauser’s Law. He is a past chairman of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. For the past decade he has de-voted his time to researching the origin, evolution, development, and ubiquity of global slavery.

SOCIAL SCIENCE/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 244 PAGES, 6 X 94 B&W PHOTOS, 1 B&W ILLUSTRATIONTRADE PAPER, $19.95 (CAN $26.95)ISBN: 9780817921057RIGHTS: WORLD

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Lenin’s LegacyRobert Wesson

This concise monograph traces Russian Marxism from its begin-nings to mid-1977, shows how and why the party achieved pow-er, how it has strengthened its position, and how it has under-taken to remold the country and to solve its internal problems. Wesson’s study is the only up-to-date party history currently available. The book opens with background material on Russian discontent and endeavors to analyze the fundamental nature of Communist Party rule, taking into account new perspectives in Lenin’s revolution, the Stalinist period, and the Khrushchev years, as well as the latest period not covered in earlier accounts. It treats the rise of Lenin, the struggle for power after Lenin and after Stalin, and the consolidation of Brezhnev’s authority. As the most recent history of communism in the Soviet Union, it has great topical interest and is clearly written for the benefit of the student and general reader as well as the professional.

Dr. Robert Wesson, who received a Ph.D. from Columbia Univer-sity in 1961, served with the Foreign Service in Brazil and Colom-bia after graduating from the Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1941. He served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946 and lived for a time in South America. He was a visiting professor at Bates College and a resident scholar at St. Antony’s College at Oxford. In 1964 he joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara and in 1977 was named curator of the Russian-East European Collection of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. He had been a senior research fellow at Stanford since 1978. He wrote more than 30 books on political science, international affairs, biology and the evolution-ary process, including Beyond Natural Selection and Cosmos and Metacosmos.

HISTORY, 318 PAGES, 7 X 8TRADE PAPER, $14.95 (CAN $20.95)ISBN: 9780817969226RIGHTS: WORLD

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Unstable MajoritiesPolarization, Party Sorting, and Political StalemateMorris P. Fiorina

America is “currently fighting its second Civil War.” Partisan politics are “ripping this country apart.” The 2016 election “will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all.” Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we’re more divided today than we’ve ever been in our history. In Unstable Majori-ties Morris P. Fiorina surveys American political history to re-veal that, in fact, the American public is not experiencing a peri-od of unprecedented polarization. Bypassing the alarmism that defines contemporary punditry, he cites research and historical context that illuminate the forces that shape voting patterns, political parties, and voter behavior. By placing contemporary events in their proper context, he corrects widespread miscon-ceptions and gives reasons to be optimistic about the future of American electoral politics.

Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 264 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9780817921156RIGHTS: WORLD

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The Romanovs Under House ArrestFrom the 1917 Diary of a Palace PriestAfanasy I. Belyaev

Edited by Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey

Victor Potapov

“...for the last time the former rulers of their own home had gathered to fervently pray, tearfully, and on bended knee, im-ploring that the Lord help and intercede for them in all of their sorrows and misfortunes.” Thus the Archpriest Afanasy Belyaev described the faith and piety of the Russian Imperial family, whom he served as priest and confessor, on the occasion of the Tsarevich’s thirteenth birthday. These selected excerpts from the chaplain’s diary open a window into the souls of the now sainted Royal Family and the struggles endured in their first five months of confinement following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in early 1917. Russian cultural historian Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey sets the diary in its historical context and offers an epilogue to complete the story of the Romanov’s journey to martyrdom at the hands of a Bolshevik firing squad in a Siberian basement.

Archpriest Afanasy Belyaev was the father confessor of the Rus-sian Imperial Family during their first five months of confinement following Nicholas II’s abdication in early 1917. Archpriest Victor Potapov is rector of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Over the course of three decades, he ran the “Religion in Our Life” program on Voice of America. Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey is a historian specializing in Russian dec-orative arts and cultural history, as well as the Russian spiritual and liturgical tradition.

SPIRITUALITY/BIOGRAPHY, 136 PAGES, 7 X 106 COLOR PHOTOS, 25 B&W PHOTOS, 4 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSCLOTH, $29.95 (CAN $39.95)ISBN: 9780884654544RIGHTS: WORLD

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The Structural Foundations of Monetary PolicyEdited by Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and Amit Seru

In The Structural Foundations of Monetary Policy, Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and Amit Seru bring together discus-sions and presentations from the Hoover Institution’s annual monetary policy conference. The conference participants discuss long-run monetary issues facing the world economy, with an emphasis on deep, unresolved structural questions. They explore vital issues affecting the Federal Reserve, the United States’ central bank. They voice concern over the Fed’s independence, governance, and ability to withstand future shocks and analyze the effects of its monetary policies and growing balance sheet in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The authors ask a range of questions that get to the heart of twenty-first-century monetary policy. Finally they propose reforms to ensure that the Fed will remain independent, stable, strong, and resilient in an unpredict-able world.

Michael D. Bordo is a Board of Governors Professor of Eco-nomics and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University. He is currently doing research for a Hoover Institution book project titled The Historical Perfor-mance of the Federal Reserve: The Importance of Rules. John H. Cochrane is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. Amit Seru is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

ECONOMICS/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 200 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5CLOTH, $14.95 (CAN $19.95)ISBN: 9780817921347RIGHTS: WORLD

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Asia BetrayedHow Churchill Sacrificed the Far East to Save EnglandJohn Bell Smithback

“Somebody knew. Who knew?” Did Winston Churchill lure Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor as a cynical ruse to pull the United States into the war against the Nazis to save England? Did he deliberately weaken the defenses of Singapore and Hong Kong to convince the Japanese to jump? Did he even run a double spy to feed information to Tokyo? John Bell Smithback examines the evidence in a shocking new assessment of the ori-gins and backstory of one of the turning points of the twentieth century—the Pacific War 1941 to 1945. He looks at Churchill’s role in how Japan came to make one of the biggest strategic er-rors in history, and the horrific consequences for tens of millions of people across East Asia.

A newspaper columnist and a former teacher, John Bell Smith-back has published more than fifty books defining English idioms and proverbs for an international audience, with his wife as illustrator and translator, as well as The Lonely Dark, a novel about America in the age of the atomic bomb, and Silent in the Dawn, a collection of poems. For more than thirty years, their educational column has appeared in a number of Asian newspapers, including Ming Pao in Hong Kong and the Star in Malaysia. John’s feature column WRITE ON appears in Ming Pao, his fiction in the European journal Spotlight and the Canadi-an literary magazine Brick. Describing themselves as “literary gypsies” they have lived in various places including Hong Kong, Portugal, Singapore, and France, all the while producing their books and daily newspaper column. Until recently they resided in England where they lived close to Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon.

HISTORY, 274 PAGES, 5.75 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $19.99 (CAN $26.99)ISBN: 9789888422609RIGHTS: WORLD X UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE & CHINA

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Storm in the DesertBritain’s Intervention in Libya and the Arab SpringMark Muller Stuart

In this remarkable book, Mark Muller tells the story of British intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring from a unique civil society standpoint: he was there in Benghazi two weeks after the UN No-Fly Zone Resolution was passed, meeting with Rebel leaders to discuss how Western civil society might help them stabilize the country and resolve difficult legacy issues such as victim claims over Lockerbie and the supply of IRASemtex. In an age when Western governments have become risk averse and distrusted in the Middle East, Muller documents how non-state mediators, non-governmental organisations, journalists, artists and like-minded diplomats, such as assassinated US Ambassador Chris Stevens, explore ways to support democratic movements and promote human rights in one of the world’s most turbulent regions. Storm in the Desert describes a dramatic story of revolu-tion and also the murky but sometimes inspiring role successive British governments have played in trying to contain conflict in the region. It gives a unique insight into the world of diploma-cy and power politics and the way they impact upon ordinary human lives, suggesting that it is civil society not government that ultimately stabilizes countries and unearths the truth about con-flict and the ill-treatment of civilians at the hand of state forces.

Mark Muller Stuart is a senior advocate who specializes in public international law, advising international bodies on humanitari-an issues and conflict resolution. He is a senior mediator to the United Nations Department of Political Affairs and has conduct-ed international missions throughout the Middle East and Africa. He is also founder of Beyond Borders, a Scottish not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering peace and international ex-change. He has written a number of books and reports on human rights and conflict-related issues.

POLITICAL SCIENCE/MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 384 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.2516 COLOR PHOTOSCLOTH, $34.99 (CAN $44.99)ISBN: 9781780274522RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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The Einstein FileThe FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous ScientistSecond editionFred Jerome, Ajamu Baraka, and David Suzuki

Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other agencies—feverishly collected “derogatory information” to undermine the renowned scientist’s influence and destroy his reputation. With material accessed under the Freedom of Information Act, Fred Jerome re-veals the depth of, and the reasons for, this massive anti-Einstein campaign. He also uncovers Einstein’s strong political commit-ments that have been conveniently buried under the image of the absent-minded icon genius. Whereas Einstein said on several occasions, “My life is divided between equations and politics,” Jerome delves into his little-known political half-life. Einstein, Hoover… Trump Jerome’s preface to this new enriched edition of The Einstein File, traces the path of surveillance from J. Edgar Hoover, through McCarthyism, to the Trump era. The preface also presents new information gathered about the things that the FBI hated so much about Einstein: his very close friendship with Paul Robeson and their collaboration in fighting racism; and his studied position on Israel and Zionism that Israeli polticians do everything to hide.

Fred Jerome is an experienced journalist and science writer. His work has appeared in dozens of publications, including News-week and The New York Times. He taught journalism at Colum-bia Journalism School, NYU and other universities. A recognized specialist on Einstein, Jerome is also author of Einstein on Israel and Zionism and co-author of Einstein on Race and Racism. Ajamu Baraka has been involved in grassroots organizing, international solidarity, and educating for over four decades. He was the founding Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network from 2004 to 2011. He was the Green Party’s nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. Ajamu Baraka holds a PhD in political science and has taught political science at various universities. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. David Suzuki is a geneticist, broadcaster, and environmental activist. A Canadian of Japanese origin, he and his family were interned during World War II. He holds a doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago. His work as a broadcaster, particularly with CBC’s The Nature of Things made him a unique figure in science and television. He is the author of 52 books, 19 of which are for children. David Suzuki lives in Vancouver, B.C.

HISTORY/SCIENCE, 380 PAGES, 6.5 X 9.525 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $27.95 (CAN $29.95)ISBN: 9781771861304 (REPLACES: 9780312316099) RIGHTS: WORLD

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Goodbye BerlinThe Biography of Gerald WienerMargaret Dunlop

The 24th of March, 1939, was a poignant day for twelve-year-old Gerald Wiener. He was on a train pulling out of Berlin and he was on his way to the UK to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. Looked after by two sisters in Oxford, his abilities as a scholar became apparent. There followed a distinguished career as a research scientist in Edinburgh, where he made a genetic discovery: the cloning of Dolly the sheep. This book shows how one man’s life and achievements mirror the great events of the second half of the twentieth century and the opening years of the new millennium.

Margaret M. Dunlop is the wife of Gerald Wiener. Born and brought up in Glasgow, she became a teacher, and eventually a head teacher in the Scottish Borders. She met Gerald in Edinburgh and they married in 1985. She is the author of two fiction titles, Marching in Scotland – Dancing in New York and Blind Date in Gibraltar.

BIOGRAPHY, 272 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25CLOTH, $17.99 (CAN $23.99)ISBN: 9781780275413RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA


Call to RemembranceThe Life of Bahá’u’lláh in His Own WordsFourth editionEdited by Geoffrey Marks

Call to Remembrance is a unique look at the life of Bahá’u’lláh, the Prophet and Founder of the Bahá’í Faith. Drawing primarily on the Prophet’s own words, the book gives a sense of immediacy and emotional intensity not found in tradition-al biographies and histories. Extracts from Bahá’u’lláh’s writings are supplemented by brief passages that provide historical context and highlight the major events of His life and ministry.

Geoffrey W. Marks was raised in Wilmette, Illinois and became a member of the Bahá’í Faith during his years as a student at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. He later studied education at the University of Massachusetts. After serving as co-director of the Louhelen Bahá’í School in Davison, Michigan in the 1980s, he and his wife Amy settled in South Africa, where they recently retired from the University of Cape Town.

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Moral EmpowermentIn Quest of a PedagogySona Farid-Arbab

In Moral Empowerment: In Quest of a Pedagogy, Dr. Sona Farid-Arbab’s illumi-nating work is carried out on the basis of two central premises: that we live in an age of transition from humanity’s childhood to its maturity, and that a fundamental characteristic of this age is the growing consciousness of the oneness of human-kind. Taking these premises to heart, Farid-Arbab explores a philosophical framework capable of guiding educational programs seeking the moral empowerment of students.

Sona Farid-Arbab has a BA in architec-ture from the University of East London, a master of art in the history of Chinese education from Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shi Fan Da Xue), and a PhD in the philosophy of education from the Institute of Education of the University of London. More recently she has been serving as an advisor to the Moral Education Research Center at the Beijing Academy of Educa-tional Sciences. She currently resides in San Diego and is assisting several organiza-tions with the elaboration of educational material.

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Glasgow: The AutobiographySecond editionEdited by Alan Taylor

Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium. Arranged chronologically and introduced by journalist and Glasgowphile Alan Taylor, the book includes extracts from an astonishing array of writers.

Alan Taylor has been a journalist for over 30 years. He was deputy and managing editor at the Scotsman, and for the last 15 years has been Writer-at-Large for the Sunday Herald. He has contributed to numerous publications, including The TLS, The New Yorker and The Melbourne Age, and edited three acclaimed anthologies – The Assassin’s Cloak (2000), The Secret Annexe (2004) and The Country Dairies (2009).

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How To Read Scottish BuildingsDaniel MacCannell

“Once you have studied this handbook you will spend quite a lot of time looking upwards.” —Scottish Home & Country

Scotland has a huge and diverse amount of built heritage. Yet most writing about this fascinating subject is overly techni-cal—an alphabet soup of L-plans, Z-plans and bartizans. How to Read Scottish Buildings is a unique, informative and refreshing companion to Scottish architec-ture that dispenses with jargon to enable us to appreciate Scottish buildings with regard to their ages, styles, influences, and functions, as well as the messages that their builders, owners and occupants intended them to convey.

Daniel MacCannell lives in East Lothian, where he runs the Historical Detective Agency Ltd. He has studied Scottish, English, Dutch and French buildings, landscapes and townscapes for more than twenty years, and was awarded a Ph.D. in History and Art History by the University of Aberdeen in 2010. He is the great- grandson of Canadian-American landscape architect Earle Edgerly MacCannell.

HISTORY/ARCHITECTURE, 208 PAGES, 5 X 7.5100 COLOR PHOTOSCLOTH, $14.99 (CAN $19.99)ISBN: 9781780271187RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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Mapping the ClydeJohn Moore

The Clyde is arguably the most evocative of Scottish rivers. Its mention conjures up a variety of images of power, productiv-ity and pleasure from its ‘bonnie banks’ through the orchards of south Lanarkshire to its association with shipbuilding and trade and the holiday memories of thou-sands who fondly remember going ‘doon the watter’. Its story reflects much of the history of the lands it flows through and the people who live on its banks.This book looks at the maps which display the river itself from its source to the wide estuary which is as much a part of the whole im-age. It discusses how the river was mapped from its earliest depictions and includes such topics as navigation, river cross-ings, war and defence, tourism, sport and recreation, industry and power and urban development.

John Moore is a specialist on Scottish car-tography and has published widely on the subject over a period of many years. He is currently Collections Manager at Glasgow University. He is the author of Glasgow: Mapping the City (Birlinn, 2015).

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Whiskies GaloreA Tour of Scotland’s Island DistilleriesIan Buxton

Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique, and remote location captures the imagination; their highly distinctive avours are often imitated but seldom bettered. There have been few books on island whisky and none written in recent years.But Whiskies Galore is not your average whisky book. It is not merely a catalogue of distilleries, but a story of discovery and adventure. Join Ian Buxton on a personal journey across Scotland’s islands, where he learns to sh with high explosives, ends up hurling his dinner into the sea, and comes face to face with a basking shark. Combining an expert’s knowledge of whisky with a travel writer’s fondness for anecdote, and with a keen description of place, he provides a special treat for all who love the islands’ magical drams.

Ian Buxton has been working in and around the whisky industry for close to 30 years, but has been drinking professionally for a good deal longer. He began writing regularly for Whisky Maga-zine shortly after it launched, and now also writes in a variety of trade and consumer titles here and abroad. He has published a number of books, including the bestselling 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die.

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The Pocket Guide to WhiskyBlair Bowman

The ever-expanding world of whisky can be a daunting one, with a deluge of new brands, distilleries and literature on the subject making it all but impossible for the amateur whisky drinker to find their feet in the industry. Following on from the bestselling Pocket Guide to Wine, Blair Bowman provides a compact and ac-cessible, easy-to-use guide to help budding whisky enthusiasts on their way. Uniquely, The Pocket Guide to Whisky explores every kind of whisky, from the well known Scottish giants of Glenlivet, to the exotic Japanese Hibiki, and includes the ever-growing and hotly debated blended whiskies too! This little volume will tell you everything you need to know, from what to look for in whis-ky and what to avoid, to getting the best value for money to the perfect accompaniments to your dram and the ideal whisky for every occasion. From novice to expert, this guide enables whisky lovers to find out more about the brands they already like and to make informed choices as they explore further.

Blair Bowman is the founder of World Whisky Day, first launched in 2012, which is now celebrated every year and on every continent including Antarctica. He has been a whisky en-thusiast since helping found Aberdeen University’s Malt Whisky Society. He currently writes for Scottish Field as their Whisky Columnist and is a contributing editor to the Cask & Still, Scotland’s newest whisky magazine.

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Scotland’s Secret HistoryThe Illicit Distilling and Smuggling of WhiskyDaniel MacCannell and Charles MacLean

Illicit distilling in Scotland was seen as a ‘right of man’ at the end of the 17th century. Attempts to enforce excise duty on the spirit were therefore met with resistance, ranging from riots to more and more ingenious ways of avoiding paying tax.In this book and Charles MacLean and Daniel MacCannell give a fascinating in-sight into the day-to-day struggles that led to the increase in illicit distilling from the mid-1600s, then to its eventual demise in the early twentieth century. The Cabrach, a wild and sparsely popu-lated partof Aberdeenshire, became renowned for its production of illicit whisky. Local inhabitants mixed farming and distilling with great skill, creating a network of stills and distribution to evade customs. Using new research first-hand historical accounts and official records, the authors show how spirits from this small parish were made and travelled far and wide, across the border to England and across the North Sea to France, firing up revolution and lending solidarity to the struggles of the Jacobites.Features: Making Whisky (Dennis McBain), The Jacobite Legacy (Murray Pittock), The Bard and the Bottle (David Purdie), The Dram In Folklore(Tom McKean), A Smuggler’s Paradise (David Ferguson); Banff - The Smuggler’s Royal Burgh (Jay Wilson), Scotland’s Lost Distilleries (BrianTownsend).

Daniel MacCannell, a graduate of Aberdeen University and UCLA Film School, is a widely published nonfiction writer. He is the author of How To Read Scottish Buildings and Oxford: Mapping the City. Charles MacLean is a world authority on whisky and has written over 35 books on the subject, including the bestselling Whiskypedia. In 2009 he was elected Keeper of the Quaich, the whisky industry’s highest accolade.

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HomegrownBertus Basson

People always ask me when I’m bringing out a cookbook. It’s kind of what you do when you’re a chef: Work crazy hours, build a reputation, bring out a cookbook, buy an island and retire. So here it is. My first cookbook. It might not be the cook-book you’re expecting, but it tells snatches of the story of my culinary journey. There are some classic Overture recipes in these pages. It also has some recipes that have travelled everywhere with me, from kitch-en to kitchen, in my career. Those flavours, smells and memories of growing up in South Africa make me the cook I am. They make me Homegrown.

Highly acclaimed South African Chef, Bertus Basson is famed for the phenom-enal success of Overture, a restaurant he has had an integral part in establishing as one of the finest in South Africa in his position as a chef and owner since 2007. The picturesque winelands restaurant has won 5 Eat Out top 10 awards; currently Overture is placed fourth. Overture has also been awarded 3 stars in the Rossouws Restaurant Guide for four years running.

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Spices South Africa Flavours and TraditionsSophia Lindop

“Sophia Lindop brings life to food with her series of cook books and shares with us a rich history of our country and the stories around her inspirational recipes.” —Jenny Morris, The Next 48 Hours Cape Town

Sophia Lindop has produced another little gem in the Flavors and Traditions range, telling the tale of not only the two main influences, namely the Indian population and the Malay population, and how their age-old usage of spices and eating habits influenced the rest of our country in such a way that their recipes are now part of South Africa’s national heritage, but of all the other nations that played a role in this spicy story.

Sophia Lindop grew up on a farm in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which influenced her understanding and appreciation of quality ingredients and how they should be prepared. She is pas-sionate about food and wine – a passion that began at the age of five, fuelled by many years in the kitchen followed by six years of studying. She works as a private chef in Cape Town and regularly entertains groups from overseas in her home.

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A Timeline of Australian FoodFrom Mutton to MasterchefJan O’Connell

A Timeline of Australian Food takes readers on a tasty and sometimes surpris-ing culinary journey through 150 years of Australian food. Lavishly illustrated, this tasty book looks at what we’ve eaten, how we’ve shopped, and how we’ve produced and prepared our food, decade by decade, through depression, war, and decades of abundance.

Jan O’Connell is a grocer’s granddaugh-ter and a Baby Boomer who has spent a lifetime in leading Australian advertising agencies, writing about ice cream, lollies, beer, yogurt, soup and a multitude of other things we eat and drink. Her blog australianfoodtimeline.com.au documents more than two centuries of changes in the way we eat, shop and grow our food. She lives, works and eats with her husband in Abbotsford, Victoria.

HISTORY, 256 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.25400 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $34.99 (CAN $46.99)ISBN: 9781742235349RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

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Among the TibetansWith a New Introduction by Graham EarnshawIsabella Bird

Foreword by Graham Earnshaw

Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she un-dertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties. But she was not the slightest bit fazed at the prospect of discomfort and possible death. And nearly die she did, at least once, before the trip was over. Isabella travelled over several months through some of the remotest plac-es on the planet and her descriptions of the journey, the sights she saw and the people she met, transcend the times and continue to entertain and inform.

Isabella Lucy Bird was born in 1831, and was one of the most well-traveled and intrepid of English explorers in the 19th century. She wrote nooks about her journeys through many regions, includ-ing Japan, Korea, Hawaii, China and the American Rockies. She died in 1904. Graham Earnshaw is a writer and publish-er who has long lived in the China world. He has written and published a number of books, including On Your Own in China (1984), Tales of Old Shanghai (2008) and The Great Walk of China (2010).

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The Secret Life of WhalesA Marine Biologist Reveals AllMicheline Jenner

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner dis-covered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the unknown world of these giants of the deep and shares insights from her work with humpback, blue and pygmy blue whales.

Micheline Jenner is a marine biologist and co-founder of the Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia) Inc., an organization whose research is represented in more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has studied humpback and blue whales and conducted biodiversity and cetacean (whale, dolphin and por-poise) observation surveys since 1990. With her husband Curt, in 2010 Micheline received a Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorers Club for their work protecting blue whales in the Perth Canyon, Western Australia.

SCIENCE, 240 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.2516 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $29.99 (CAN $39.99)ISBN: 9781742235547RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


MoneyThe Life and Fast Times of Floyd MayweatherTris Dixon

Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather is one of the most successful professional boxers of all time. In September 2015 he defeated Andre Berto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to claim his forty-ninth pro-fessional victory in a glittering unbeaten ring career that has spanned two decades. Mayweather was born into a boxing fami-ly that was barely surviving on the poverty line. This is the remarkable story of Floyd Mayweather’s ascent from these bleak ori-gins to become the highest-paid sportsman on the planet. It is a story of greed, arro-gance, abuse, extraordinary boxing ability and unrivalled ambition.

Tris Dixon is the former editor of Boxing News and has covered the sport for nearly two decades. He was the ghostwriter for Ricky Hatton’s recent bestselling autobi-ography, War and Peace, and is a regular pundit on Sky Sports’ boxing shows, Big-Fight Special and Ringside. He is also often a guest on CNN, TalkSport, Sky News and other mainstream outlets.

BIOGRAPHY/SPORTS, 320 PAGES, 5 X 7.7516 COLOR PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $14.99 (CAN $19.99)ISBN: 9781909715578 (REPLACES: 9781909715356) RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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The Long Dream of WakingNew Perspectives on Len LyeEdited by Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow, and Roger Horrocks

Recognized internationally as one of the twentieth century’s great modernist inno-vators, New Zealand artist Len Lye is most famous for his avant-garde experimental films and for his astonishing and playful kinetic sculptures. Always fascinated by the interplay of movement and light, this extraordinary artist also expressed himself in photography, drawing, painting and poetry. And thanks to this collection of essays, we too can be drawn into his long dream and come to see his remarkable achievements through fresh eyes.

Paul Brobbel is the Len Lye Curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, and former Assistant Collection Manager (Photography) at Te Papa Ton-garewa Museum of New Zealand. Wystan Curnow is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He is an art critic, poet, curator and editor. He is a trustee of the Len Lye Foundation. Roger Horrocks is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Auckland. He worked as Len Lye’s as-sistant during the last year of his life, and became his biographer. He is a trustee of the Len Lye Foundation.

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Against the StreamFrederic Raphael

For over five decades, the screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist Frederic Raphael has had rare access to the glitter-ing world of the elite, both in Hollywood and in the worlds of politics, literature and the press. Against the Stream, the seventh and most explosive volume in the ‘Per-sonal Terms’ series, is a Proustian parade of high-profile figures and key historical events, including Thatcher and the Falk-lands war, written with the vividness and candor of a highly articulate and unblink-ing eyewitness who wished to capture in writing the strange and extraordinary world in which he was immersed.

Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John’s College, Cambridge. His novels include The Glittering Prizes (1976), A Double Life (1993), Coast to Coast (1998) and Fame and Fortune (2007); he has also written short stories and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/FILM, 360 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $25.99 (CAN $34.99)ISBN: 9781784104368RIGHTS: US, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA & MICRONESIA

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I Didn’t Make A MillionHow Jazz Came to China, with a New Foreword by Andrew FieldWhitey Smith

Whitey Smith was a jazz drummer from San Francisco who landed in Shanghai in 1922, just in time to help ignite the Jazz Age in one of the world’s most entertain-ment-crazed cities. It is said he brought Jazz to China, and that claim is arguably true. This memoir tells the story of his amazing life and adventures in Shanghai nightlife in the 1920s and 1930s, and then as a nightclub owner and internee in a Japanese camp during World War II.

Whitey Smith, born in Denmark in 1897, was a jazz drummer and nightclub owner. He and his family arrived in San Fran-cisco just before the earthquake of 1906, and grew up there, playing in bands and boxing semi-professionally. In 1922 he was incited to go to Shanghai by a club owner, and he spent the rest of his life in Asia. He was one of the first musicians to present jazz to Chinese audiences and was instru-mental in changing Shanghai nightlife. In the latest 1930s, he moved to Manila, was interned during the Japanese occupa-tion and was a nightclub operator there through the 1950s. He died in 1966.

HISTORY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY 216 PAGES, 5.75 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $19.99 (CAN $26.99)ISBN: 9789888422326RIGHTS: WORLD X UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE & CHINA

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Memphis 68The Tragedy of Southern SoulStuart Cosgrove

In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration. Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements.The book opens with the death of the city’s most famous recording artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the nal days of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding’s label, Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Stuart Cosgrove originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glen ddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4’s coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. He is the author of Young Soul Rebels (Polygon, 2016).

MUSIC, 256 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $23.99 (CAN $31.99)ISBN: 9781846973734RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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New China EyewitnessRoger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum DiplomacyEdited by James Beattie and Richard Bullen

Translated by Xiongbo Shi

New China Eyewitness is the fascinating account of the 1956 visit to the People’s Republic of China by a group of prominent New Zealanders – including Roger Duff, James Bertram, Evelyn Page, Angus Ross and Ormond Wilson – and of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art in New Zealand. At the centre of the book is the eloquent diary kept by Canterbury Museum director Dr Roger Duff, detailing his efforts to bring to Christchurch the collection of antiquities gifted to the museum by long-time China resident, New Zealand-er Rewi Alley. Beautifully written and illustrated, New China Eyewitness offers a rare glimpse of foreigners’ views of China during a period of rapid social, political and cultural change, and at a time of unusual political and cultural tolerance.

Dr James Beattie is Professor of History and Director of the Historical Research Unit at the University of Waikato. He is an historian of gardens, empire and environment, as well as Chinese art collecting, and has written three monographs, co-edited four books and published more than sixty articles and chapters. Dr Richard Bullen is the Head of Art History and Theory at the University of Canterbury and a Research Fellow at Canterbury Museum. He studied calligraphy and the Japanese way of tea during several years living in Japan and China. He has published on the aesthetics of the Japanese tea ceremony in the ‘British Journal of Aesthetics’ and elsewhere. Xiongbo Shi is a doctoral student in the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Canterbury. He has a masters degree in art theory from Nan-jing University, where he also received a postgraduate certificate in Chinese and American studies.

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Sibanda Series Series

Sibanda and the Black SparrowhawkC.M. Elliot

Crime writing steeped in the African bush will keep you guessing and laughing in turns.When a skinned body is discovered on the side of the railway line deep in the Matabele bush, Detective In-spector Jabulani Sibanda, along with his sidekicks, Sergeant Ncu-be and the troublesome Land Rover, Miss Daisy, is back on the trail of a murderer. As more girls go missing and more bones are discovered, Sibanda realises they are dealing with the signature of a vicious serial killer who chooses the train as his killing field.Suspects abound, and the trio pursues the leads relentlessly, but the warped psychopath is elusive. Has Sibanda met his match? To complicate matters, his unrequited love interest, Berry Barton, is back on his radar, Gubu police station politics are as parti-san as ever and Sgt Ncube, in an attempt to equal the brilliance of his boss, has discovered the wonders of the Oxford English Dictionary, to hilarious results.With winter tightening its grip, and drought and hardship threatening the population, Sibanda uses a risky strategy to trap his nemesis. Can he pull it off?The adventures come thick, fast and furious, punctuated by Sibanda’s explosive sarcasm and Ncube’s explosive gut, as once again we are plunged into the wildlife world that Miss Daisy tolerates, the detective revels in and the sergeant fears so desperately.

CM Elliott was born in England, immigrated to Australia and completed an Honors degree in French Studies at the University of Western Australia. She moved to Zimbabwe in 1977 and spent twenty-five years in an assortment of tents, tree-houses and bush dwellings, dodging charging elephants, rhino, buffalo and a rath-er angry spitting cobra, before moving to Bulawayo. CM Elliott took up writing seriously in 2010. She has won several literary competitions, most recently an Australian national short-story competition for The Forbidden Room. Her first full-length novel is Sibanda and the Rainbird, published in 2013 by Jacana Media.

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White PlainsPieces & WitherlingsGordon Lish

Gordon Lish’s latest work of exquisitely crafted fiction sees a narrator—variously ‘Gordon!’, ‘I’, ‘He’—approaching the prec-ipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the death of his wife and the rel-ative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject—the memory of memory itself—with spellbinding mastery.

As fiction editor of Esquire from 1969 to 1977, then as an editor at Knopf and of The Quarterly until 1995, Gordon Lish worked closely with many of the most daring writers of the past fifty years, including Harold Brodkey, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Barry Hannah and Joy Williams. More than a dozen books have appeared under Lish’s own name—including the novels Dear Mr. Capote (1983), Peru (1986), and Zimzum (1993). These have won Lish a passionate cult following as a writer of recursive and often very funny prose. For decades he taught legendary classes in fiction, both at institutions such as Yale and Columbia and in private sessions in New York and across America.

FICTION/LITERARY CRITICISM, 288 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.51 B&W PHOTO, 1 B&W ILLUSTRATIONTRADE PAPER, $12.99 (CAN $17.99)ISBN: 9780995705265 (REPLACES: 9780993505690) RIGHTS: US, CANADA & MEXICO

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ProtestStories of ResistanceFeaturing Sandra Alland, Martyn Bedford, Kate Clanchy, David Constantine, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Kit de Waal, Stuart Evers, Maggie Gee, Michelle Green, Andy Hedgecock, Laura Hird, Matthew Holness, Juliet Jacques, Sara Maitland, Courttia Newland, Holly Pester, Joanna Quinn, Francesca Rhydderch, Jacob Ross, and Alexei Sayle

Edited by Ra Page

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely cele-brates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, twenty authors have assembled to re-imagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. Written in close consultation with historians, sociologists and eyewitnesses—who also contrib-ute afterwords—these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles, offering a streetlevel perspective on the noble art of resistance. In the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched, historically accurate) fiction.

Sandra Alland is an Edinburgh-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, film-maker and curator. Martyn Bedford is a British author. He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia. Sean Cernow is an actor and poet. Kate Clanchy was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford University. She lives in Oxfordshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer. Born in Salford in 1944, David Constantine worked for thirty years as a university teacher of German language and literature. Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children’s fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. Mandy Theresa O’Loughlin, known pro-fessionally as Kit de Waal, is an English writer. Stuart Evers is the author of Ten Stories About Smoking, which won The London Book Award. Sarah Maitland is a British writer and feminist. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Joanna Quinn is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Gold-smiths, University of London. Francesca Rhydderch’s debut novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2014. Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story wiriter, editor and creative writing tutor.

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The Cemetery at BarnesGabriel Josipovici

“Gabriel Josipovici is one of our most brilliant writers—every new book is an event to look forward to,” writes Deborah Levy. The Cemetery at Barnes, is no exception: a short, intense mystery novel that opens in gentle elegy and advances towards diabolism and murder. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story, the three main voices—as in an opera by Monteverdi—providing the soundtrack enhanced by the chorus of friends and acquaintances. The book advances in the present continuous, a dramatic risk that keeps us close to the action. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once confirms and suspends the reader’s darkest intuitions. Characters live as many lives as they have readers. And, wittily, this novel visits and re-reads Josipovici’s earlier fiction as it goes. His is a plain-seeming art of rich accruals.

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Ro-mano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of sixteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germa-ny, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.

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The Green PhoenixA Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress XiaozhuangAlice Poon

With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulated her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years. The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born a Mongolian princess who became a consort in the Manchu court and then the Qing Dynasty’s first matriarch. She lived through harrowing threats, endless political crises, personal heartaches and painful losses to lead a shaky Empire out of a dead end. The story is set against a turbulent canvas as the Chinese Ming Dynasty is replaced by the Qing. Xiaozhuang guides her husband, her lover, her son and her grandson - all emperors and supreme leaders of the Qing Empire - to success against the odds.

Alice Poon was born and educated in Hong Kong, and she grew up devouring Jin Yong’s martial arts and chivalry novels, all set in China’s distant past. That sparked her life-long interest in Chinese history. Writing historical novels set in Old China has been her long-cherished dream. She is the author of the bestsell-ing Chinese edition of Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong, which won the 2011 Hong Kong Book Prize. Canadian Book Review Annual selected the original English Edition as Editor’s Choice (Scholarly) in 2007. She currently lives in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

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The Exile Book of Anthology Series

Alice UnboundBeyond Wonderland: The Exile Book of Anthology Series, Number SixteenEdited by Colleen Anderson

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) explored childlike wonder and the bewildering realm of adult rules and status, which clashed in bizarre ways. Many characters in his tales are anthropomorphic, whether talking cards, crying mock turtles or saucy Tiger Lilies. Wonderland: Alice Unbound is a collection of all-new specula-tive, fabulist, weird, myth, Sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk and horror stories set in our modern or slightly futuristic world. We might not truly want to live in the world of Alice or have to deal with mad queens and bandersnatches, but what if that Wonderland ceased to exist on a separate plane, and melded with our world? How would these characters fit in, and what would they bring or change? Are we ready to let the Jabberwock in the back door?

Colleen Anderson has published over 200 pieces of fiction and poetry. She has been a freelance copy editor, and was co-editor for Tesseracts 17. She was twice nominated for the Aurora Award, long-listed for the Stoker Award, and has received honorable mentions in the Year’s Best anthologies. Some of her new and forthcoming works are in nEvermore!: Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre, Best of Horror Library, New Cana-dian Noir, OnSpec, Second Contact, Our World of Horror, Polu Texni and Clockwork Canada. She was born in Edmonton, grew up in Calgary and now lives in Vancouver.

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Infinite GradationAnne Michaels

Infinite Gradation is an astonishing meditation on the mor-al, emotional, and philosophical implications of love and the creative act, especially those creative works that, as George Steiner has said, “make a deposit in the bank of terror.” Michaels has chosen to draw on that “bank”—to embrace life through an unblinking confrontation with the terror that is death in our time—by speaking through the work of three great artists, recently dead, who were her confidants: the sculptor Eva Hesse, the painter Jack Chambers, and Claire Wilks, print maker and sculptor “who could draw like few others.”

Anne Michaels of Toronto has published books in over forty-five countries, and has won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize (twice), the Governor-General’s Award, and longlisted for the IMPAC Award (twice). Her novel, Fugitive Pieces, was adapted as a feature film. Her latest book of poetry, Correspondences, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2014. She is Toronto’s Poet Laureate 2016-2018.

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RailtracksJohn Berger and Anne Michaels

A unique collaboration between two remarkable storytellers, one the winner of The Orange Prize for Fiction, the other the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Together they reflect on railways and their stations, the love and loss implied in both, at once intimate and transparently vulnerable, moving from mundane timetables to the metaphysical.

John Berger, the Booker-prize-winning novelist and visionary writer who helped transform the way a generation looked at and perceived art, died in 2017 at the age of 90. He was the author of numerous widely hailed novels, among them, Hold Everything Dear, From A to X, and Bento’s Sketchbook, and over his career he had a profound effect on how visual art was appreciated with his book Ways of Seeing and the 1972 BBC television series on which it was based. Anne Michaels of Toronto has published books in over forty-five countries, and has won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize (twice), the Governor-General’s Award, and longlisted for the IMPAC Award (twice). Her novel, Fugitive Pieces, was adapted as a feature film. Her latest book of poetry, Correspondences, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2014. She is Toronto’s Poet Laureate 2016-2018.

TRAVEL/CULTURAL STUDIES, 80 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, (CAN $17.95)ISBN: 9781550967784RIGHTS: CANADA

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Dave Warner crime Series

Clear to the HorizonDave Warner

In 1999, a number of young women go missing in the Perth sub-urb of Claremont. One body is discovered. Others are never seen again. Snowy Lane (City of Light) is hired as a private investiga-tor but neither he nor the cops can find the serial killer. Sixteen years later, another case brings Snowy to Broome, where he teams up with Dan Clement (Before It Breaks) and an incidental crime puts them back on the Claremont case. Clear to the Hori-zon is a nail-biting Aussie-style thriller, based on one of the great unsolved crimes in Western Australia’s recent history.

Dave Warner is an author, musician and screenwriter. His first novel City of Light won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks (2015) the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime fiction. Once nominated by Bob Dylan as his favourite Australian music artist, Dave Warner orig-inally came to national prominence with his gold album Mug’s Game. In 2017 he released his tenth album When. He has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure and has been inducted into the WAMi Rock’n’Roll of Renown.

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Consulting DetectiveAlan Manifold

Detective Mihdí Montgomery is not your average mystery novel detective. Far from being a hardboiled, reticent loner, he is an outgoing, happily married father of two children who relies on spiritual principles for guidance in both his work and personal life. But when a rabbi is murdered in a Jewish synagogue in an apparent hate crime, Detective Montgomery’s faith is put to the test.A rabbi in the Beth Shalom Synagogue has been murdered through a blow to the head with a heavy brass candleholder, and hateful graffiti has been spray-painted throughout the synagogue. As he begins interviewing people with connections to the killing, Detective Montgomery finds that different people had plenty of motives to murder the rabbi. Perhaps it was the real estate agent who was hoping to buy the synagogue if people moved out. Perhaps it was the jealous ex-boyfriend of the woman who was in love with the rabbi. Or perhaps it was the white nationalist who has a history of posting racist flyers in the area. With such a diversity of suspects, Detective Montgomery must move quickly to pinpoint the suspect if he is to keep the synagogue, the town, and his family out of harm’s way.

Alan Manifold is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Library Automation and has published numerous articles re-garding the expanding role of information technology in libraries. He has received several awards in his field, including the Distin-guished Talent Visa Award, which was given to him by the Aus-tralian government in 2015. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. A singer and composer, he currently sings with Perfect Chord, the Bahá’í choir of Melbourne, Australia and was an organizer of the first Australian Bahá’í Choral Festival in 2015. He currently works for the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia and is a long-time fan of the mystery genre. He lives in Rosanna, Australia. Consulting Detective is his first novel.

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Hew Cullan Mystery Series

Friend & FoeA Hew Cullan MysterySecond editionShirley McKay

St. Andrews, 1583: the young king James VI is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his “lord enter-prisers,” and between the separate factions of the church. In St. Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies, while Hew and his friend Giles investigate the true source of his sickness, uncovering corruption at its heart. The death of a young soldier, implicating Hew’s sister and Giles’s wife Meg, leads Hew to an astonishing discovery, and toward his blackest hour—his fortunes inextricable from those of James himself.

Shirley McKay is a freelance proofreader and is the author of The Wee Book of Fife and the Hew Cullan mysteries. In that series, Hue & Cry was short-listed for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife.

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Queen and CountrySecond editionShirley McKay

“This is a richly imagined tale, very well researched.” —Historical Novel Society

1587. Three years after his enforced de-parture to London, Hew is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. The death of Mary, Queen of Scots has unleashed a wave of anti-En-glish sentiment among the Scottish people, and fear and confusion in the king himself. James will grant his blessing to their con-troversial marriage on the condition that Hew discovers what lies behind a painting cunningly contrived to prick the young king’s conscience – an anamorphic death’s-head with his mother’s face.

Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. At the age of fteen she won the Young Observer playwriting competition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study.


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1588: A Calendar of CrimeSecond editionShirley McKay

Set in the year of the Armada, 1588: A Calendar of Crime brings together eBook exclusive short stories featuring Hew Cullan, together with Frances, Giles, Meg and other characters from the Hew Cullan series. From the gruesome murder of a candlemaker to Spanish ghosts on Hallow-mas, Shirley McKay delivers gripping tales of mystery that will keep you reading long into the night. The stories were released throughout the year as stand alone eBooks before being gathered into the Calendar of Crime anthology. Candlemas. ‘The Crackling House’ Whitsunday. ‘Visitation’ Lammas. ‘Golden Lads’ Martinmas. ‘Dead Spaniard’ Yule. ‘The Keeping of Christmas’

Shirley McKay was born in Tynemouth but now lives with her family in Fife. She won the Young Observer playwriting compe-tition, her play being performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. She went on to study English and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews before attending Durham University for postgraduate study in Romantic and Seventeenth-Century prose. She was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Shirley works as a freelance proofreader.


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AdjacentlandRabindranath Maharaj

Today is a new day but yesterday was the same day. In this disquieting new work from award-winning novelist Rabin-dranath Maharaj, a man awakens in a strange institution called the Compound with no memory of his past. Struggling to make sense of his surroundings, he is skeptical of the administrators who try to convince him he is mad and dangerous, and begins to suspect he has been the subject of recurring experiments, which have caused episodes of amnesia. In dreamlike prose Ma-haraj weaves a story of fragments, where our narrator comes to believe that he was once a comic book writer who warned in his stories that the reliance on artificial intelligence would make the imagination obsolete and subversive. As the narrator searches for clues he may have left for himself before his memo-ry loss, both he and the reader learn of Adjacentland, a primi-tive land of misfits and outsiders. It is only in Adjacentland that the imagination has survived. With a motley group of other inmates from the Compound, the narrator decides to make his way there, but during the journey he discovers a terrible secret about himself and his companions.

Rabindranath Maharaj is the award-winning author of three short story collections and five novels, including The Amazing Absorbing Boy, which won the 2010 Trillium Book Award and the 2011 Toronto Book Award, and was voted a CBC Canada Reads Top 10 for Ontario. In 2012, Maharaj received a Life-time Literary Award, administered by the National Library and Information System Authority as part of the commemoration of Trinidad’s fiftieth independence anniversary. In 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, which honors significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.

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In Search of the Perfect Singing FlamingoClaire Tacon

When Henry Robinson’s first daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, we find Henry working at Frankie’s Funhouse, where he repairs the animatronic band that Starr loves, wrestling with her attempts at living outside the family home. His wife, Kathy, wishes he would allow Starr more independence, hoping that Henry will turn his attention a little more to their own relationship and to their other daughter, who is pregnant. As tensions mount Henry’s young co-worker, Darren, reveals he needs to get to Chicago Comic Con to win back his ex-girlfriend, so Henry packs Starr (and her pet turtles) and Dar-ren (still dressed as Frankie the mascot) into the van for a road trip no one was prepared for.

Claire Tacon’s first novel, In the Field, was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Prizes and the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and has appeared in journals and anthologies such as The New Quarterly, SubTerrain and Best Canadian Short Stories. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international. Claire is a lecturer at St. Jerome’s Universi-ty and runs the fiction podcast The Oddments Tray with Chioke I’Anson.

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The Oval PortraitContemporary Cuban Women Writers and ArtistsEdiciones Union, Havana, Cuba

Soleida Rios

Translated by Margaret Randall

The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado (Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015). Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to “choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself.” The result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was “a per-fect vehicle for introspection.” As Ríos herself puts it: “The game requires us to go deep.... Shall we say: Rather than a portrait, construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the ques-tion: Which are your favorite lies?”

Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) lived in Cuba from 1969 through 1980 and returns often. In addition to her own liter-ary production (poetry, essay, oral history), she has translated a great deal of Cuban work. Among it: Breaking the Silences: 20th Century Poetry by Cuban Wome), Only the Road / Solo el camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, Diapositivas / Transpar-encies by Laura Ruiz Montes, trillos precipicios concurrencias by Alfredo Zaldívar, What the Vampire Told Them by Chely Lima, and books by Israel Domínguez, Yanira Marimón, Reynaldo García Blanco, and Teresa Melo (forthcoming). Soleida Ríos (Santiago de Cuba, 1950). Among her books, the most important are Poesía infiel, El libro roto, Libro cero, El texto sucio, Fuga. Antología personal, Secadero, Escritos al revés (National Liter-ary Critics Prize), Aquí pongamos un silencio, Estrías (Nicolás Guillén National Poetry Prize), and two books of dreams.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS/WOMEN’S STUDIES, 216 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $16.95 (CAN $22.95)ISBN: 9781609405571RIGHTS: WORLD

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Dark EncountersA Collection of Ghost StoriesWilliam Croft Dickinson

Introduction by Alistair Kerr

First published in 1963 by Harvill Press, Dark Encounters is an elegantly spine-tingling collection of ghost stories set in the brooding landscape of Scotland and often referring to real peo-ple, places and objects. From a demonic book that brings its read-ers to an early death to the murderous spectre of a feudal baron, these tales are a welcome addition to the long and distinguished canon of Scottish ghost stories. For those who seek the unnerving and the inexplicable, Dark Encounters is guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.

William Croft Dickinson (1897–1963) came to study history at St Andrews in 1915. Military service in the trenches in France during the First World War interrupted his studies but in 1921 he graduated with a First and went on to teach history at the London School of Economics. In 1944 he was appointed Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Paleography at the Universi-ty of Edinburgh, during which time he founded and edited the Scottish Historical Review, and where he remained until his death. Apart from his historical works, Dickinson wrote many books for children and ghost stories; stories and legends were an essential part of the historical narrative to him. Alistair W.J. Kerr graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1975 and served in the diplomatic service until 2009. He is the author of a military biography Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC (Cambridge Academic, 2015) and is a long-standing admirer of William Croft Dickinson’s work.

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MagnusFourth editionGeorge Mackay Brown

First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force—his most poetic and innova-tive book. He links the twelfth-century sto-ry of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney’s brutal murder at the hands of his cousin Hakon Paulson, to that of the philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the Nazis during World War II. A unique ex-ploration of the eternal questions of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.

George Mackay Brown is considered to be one of the greatest Scottish poets and authors of the twentieth century. His tech-nical mastery and control of both prose and verse attracted a world-wide reader-ship. Although never reaching bestseller status, his books were published in more than a dozen countries around the world, drawing hundreds of avid fans to his house in Orkney each year.


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Prester JohnJohn Buchan

South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the myste-rious primeval kingdom of Prester John. Written as a boys’ own adventure story and set mostly in South Africa (where Bu-chan had worked), Prester John was pub-lished in 1910 when Buchan was 35. It’s a fast-moving thriller in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rider Haggard.

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite writ-ers, John Buchan was a Scottish diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian, poet and novelist. He published nearly 30 novels and seven collections of short stories. He was born in Perth, an eldest son, and studied at Glasgow and Oxford. In 1901 he became a barrister of the Middle Temple and a private secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. In 1907 he married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor and they subsequently had four children. After spells as a war correspondent, Lloyd George’s Director of Information and Con-servative MP, Buchan moved to Canada in 1935. He served as Governor General there until his death in 1940.

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Robert Louis StevensonSelected by Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy CasaresRobert Louis Stevenson

Edited by Kevin MacNeil

First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays, fables and short stories was compiled by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares—a collection of their favourite works of non- ction, short stories and fables. The themes—integrity, intellectual and imaginative truth, literary meaning, the fantastic—are common to all three authors, and these connections are explored in an introduction by Kevin MacNeil. Including such classic tales as ‘The Bottle Imp’ and rare essays on crime, morality, dreams and romance, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Argentina Edition is rich, eloquent and utterly readable.

Kevin MacNeil is an award-winning writer from the Outer Hebrides now living in Stirling. He is a novelist, poet, editor and screenwriter. His books include The Stornoway Way (Penguin, 2006) and most recently The Brilliant & Forever (Polygon, 2016). Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

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Bad to WorseRobert Edeson

Out in the Arizona desert, Walter Reckles emerges unscathed from an air crash in a classified zone. He’s under intense pressure to retract his story about hitting an illicit drone—a story that reignites a century-old feud between the families of Mortiss and Worse. Meanwhile, in a cave in the Fer-endes, Edvard TØssentern has discovered a wall of indecipherable hieroglyphs and deep inside the cave something sinister is stirring. Brilliant intelligence analyst Richard Worse is called in to investigate. Can he live long enough to discover the truth that will save Reckles and destroy the Mortiss empire? Things will go from bad to worse before you find out.

Robert Edeson was born in Perth, West-ern Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathe-matical literatures.

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Not ThomasSara Gethin

She’s knocking on the front door. She’s knocking and knocking. I’m not opening the door. I’m not letting her in. I’m behind the black chair. I’m waiting for her to go away. Tomos lives with his mother. He longs to return to another place, the place he thinks of as home, and the people who lived there, but he’s not allowed to see them again. He is five years old and at school, which he loves. Miss teaches him about all sorts of things, and she listens to him. Sometimes he’s hungry and Miss gives him her extra sandwiches. She gives him a warm coat from Lost Property, too. There are things Tomos cannot talk aboutexcept to Cwtchy—and then, just before Easter, the things come to a head.

Sara Gethin is a pen name of Wendy White. She grew up in Llanelli and studied theology and philosophy at Lampeter. Her working life has revolved around children – she’s been a childminder, an assistant in a children’s library and a primary school teacher. She also writes children’s books as Wendy White, and her first, Welsh Cakes and Custard, won the Tir nan-Og Award in 2014.

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Light Switches Are My KryptoniteCrystal Jeans

I started on light switches … I had to run my fingertip along every bit of the light switch—the edges, the corners, the button—in a particular order and pattern … If I didn’t get it just right, maybe bad things would happen. Sylvester spends a lot of time in his room, under the duvet, muttering his mantra—Timolol, Di-clofenac, Alfacalcidol—and gluing glitter to the light switches. If he doesn’t the evil witch might curse him, or his perverted thoughts be exposed for the world to see. Or maybe he’s just being irrational…? Forced back home to live with his dealer dad, Carl, Sylvester’s imagination takes flight, along with his sanity.

Crystal Jeans was born and brought up in Cardiff. She lived in Bristol before doing first a Creative Writing BA then an MPhil at the University of Glamorgan. She works in a care home, which inspired a collection of poetry about dementia (Mulfran Press). She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2010), had poetry published by Seren Press, and two short stories pub-lished by New Welsh Review.


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Women Who Blow on KnotsDügümlere Üfleyen Kadinlar

Ece Temelkuran

A phenomenon in Turkey with more than 120,000 copies sold, Women who Blow on Knots chronicles a voyage reaching from Tunisia to Lebanon, taken by three young women and septuagenarian Madam Lilla. Although the three young women embark on the road for different reasons—for each holds a dark secret—it is only at the journey’s point of no return that Lilla’s own murderous motivations for the trip become clear... Unique and controversial in its country of origin for its political rhetoric and strong, atypically Muslim female characters, Temelkuran weaves an empowering tale.

Ece Temelkuran is one of the Turkey’s best-known novelists and political commen-tators. She has lived in several countries such as Lebanon and Tunisia to write her novels. Her investigative journalism books broach subjects that are highly controver-sial in Turkey, such as the Kurdish and Ar-menian issues and freedom of expression.

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LiftingDamien Wilkins

Amy is a store detective at Cutty’s, the oldest and grandest department store in the country. She’s good at her job. She can read people and catch them. But Cutty’s is closing down. Amy has a young baby, an ailing mother, and a large mortgage. She also has a past as an activist. This com-pelling novel opens in a police interview room, with Amy narrating the weeks leading up to the chaotic close of Cutty’s, a time when the store moves from perma-nent feature to ruin and when people under stress do strange things.

Damien Wilkins is the author of ten books, including the novels The Miserables, which won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 1994 and Nineteen Widows Under Ash, which was joint runner up for the Deutz Prize for Fiction in the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

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Star SailorsJames McNaughton

In the not too distant future, the effects of climate change devastate the world and New Zealand becomes a haven for elites. When a young couple from the wrong side of the tracks gain entry into Welling-ton’s most exclusive gated community, it appears their troubles are over. But they find themselves divided over the identity of Sam Starsailor, an alien prophet who has washed up on a beach near New Hokitika and is said to bring warnings from another planet. The couple’s housewarming party becomes an all-night carnival, and revolu-tion gathers beyond the gate.

James McNaughton grew up in Wellington and attended Victoria University, where he received an MA in Creative Writing. Two collections of poetry followed. He has lived in Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, the Maldives, India, and one other country, working mainly in education. He lives in Wellington with his wife and young son.



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Our Future is in the AirTim Corballis

In the larger sense, perhaps, they were trying to make a future. It’s 1975. A time of protest and upheaval is ending. A few years earlier, the world was in disarray. While protesters filled the streets, the So-viets disseminated time machine images of 9/11. Plans for jet air travel were shelved and the Twin Towers were never built. When time travel was made illegal, it moved underground – into a world of time travel machines servicing a demimonde of addicts, spies, bankers and activists. And now? In the fragile peace that follows, a few people isolated at the bottom of the world are starting to make their own clan-destine journeys into the future.

Tim Corballis is the author of the novels Below, Measurement, The Fossil Pits, and R.H.I as well as a substantial body of short fiction, essays and art writing. In 2005 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency, and later completed a PhD at the University of Auckland on aesthetic theory.



Raising the DeadThe Men Who Created FrankensteinSecond editionAndy Dougan

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this incredible Gothic adventure. Few, however, real-ized that Shelley’s story had a basis in fact. What she imagined as her modern Prometheus was a serious pursuit for some of the greatest minds of the early 19th century. It was a time when scientists genuinely believed, as Frankenstein did, that they could know what it feels like to be God. Raising the Dead is the story of the science of galvanism.

Andy Dougan is the author of the Sunday Times best-seller, Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev, which was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and is the author of The Hunting Man and acclaimed biographies of Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, and Martin Scorsese. He is a freelance writer based near Glasgow.

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Immortal MemoryBurns and the Scottish PeopleChristopher Whatley

Robert Burns was by far and away the most iconic figure in nineteenth-century Scotland. Multiple editions of his works poured incessantly from the presses. Unprecedentedly large crowds gathered to commemorate him at huge festivals and at the unveiling of memorials. His work was at the heart of the palpable rise of Scottish-ness that swept Scotland from the 1840s through to the First World War, including demands for Home Rule. If Walter Scott imagined Scotland, Burns shaped it. He gave ordinary Scots in what had been one of the most socially uneven societies in Europe a sense of self-worth and dignity, and underpinned demands for political and social justice. In this major new book, Christopher Whatley describes the several contests there were to ‘own’and mold – Burns, from Tories through Radicals to middle-class urban improvers.

Christopher Whatley is Professor of Scot-tish History at Dundee University. He has published widely, and his books include The Scots and the Union (EUP).

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The Formosa FraudThe Story of George Psalmanazar, One of the Greatest Charlatans in Literary HistoryGraham Earnshaw

More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born on the island. He made highly controversial claims about the life and the history of Taiwan, then called Formosa, and his book on the subject was a publishing sensation in London in 1704. His name, George Psalmanazar, was fake, and he never told anyone what his real name was or where he came from. But his For-mosan stories of mass killings of young boys, of people living underground, of elephants and camels and gold mines was for a time widely accepted, including even by the Bishop of London who invited Psalmanazar to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history.

Graham Earnshaw is a writer and publisher who has long lived in the China world. He has written and published a number of books, including On Your Own in China (1984), Tales of Old Shanghai (2008) and an account of his continuing walk across China, The Great Walk of China (2010). His translation of the Jin Yong kung fu novel The Book and The Sword was published by Oxford University Press in 2004.

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Simply by Sailing in a New DirectionAllen Curnow: A BiographyTerry Sturm

Edited by Linda Cassells

Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seven-ty years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel’s (2001), Curnow’s poetry was always on the move – from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original vol-umes. The notes reproduce Curnow’s comments on individual po-ems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand’s most distinguished poet.

Linda Cassells has a doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Bath and over 25 years’ experience in book publishing. Terry Sturm CBE was a professor of literature at the University of Auckland for many years, editor of The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (1990, 1998), author of An Unset-tled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (AUP, 2003), and editor of a selection of Curnow’s verse written under his pseudonym Whim Wham, Whim Wham’s New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988 (Random House, 2005).

BIOGRAPHY, 732 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5CLOTH, $69.99 (CAN $93.99)ISBN: 9781869408527RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA

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How to Be an AcademicThe Thesis Whisperer Reveals AllInger Mewburn

Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academ-ic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality - a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn’t be so grim. A veteran of the university ‘gig economy’, Mewburn - aka The Thesis Whisperer - is perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of practical strategies to survive and thrive. Here, she deftly navigates the world of the working academic, from thesis and article writing and keeping motivation alive, to time management, research strategies, new technologies, applying for promotion, sexism in the workplace, writing grant applications, and deciding what to wear to give a keynote address. Constructive, inclusive, hands-on, and gloves-off, How to be an Academic is a survival manual for aspiring and practising academics that will confirm that no matter what your experience in academia, you are not alone.

Inger Mewburn is a researcher who has specialized in research education since 2006. A former lecturer in architecture, she is cur-rently the Director of Research Training at the Australian National University and creator of the popular blog The Thesis Whisperer (thesiswhisperer.com), which gives advice to PhD students. In ad-dition to her journal publications and published papers, she is the author of the book How to Tame Your PhD (2013).

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Stranger ThingiesFrom Felafel to NowJohn Birmingham

“If laughter is the best medicine, I’m claiming this book on Medicare.” —Wil Anderson

John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they’re so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.The pieces contained within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald Trump is the President of the USA. And it does not shy away from the greatest controversy of our age: potato cake vs potato scallop.These hilarious pieces cover a wide range of topics from food to fitness and politics to pork, in all its glories. And, of course, fashion. Ever the equal opportunist, John Birmingham skewers them all.

John Birmingham is a journalist, novelist, columnist, blogger, and a prolific tweeter who has more followers than you do. He wrote features for magazines including Rolling Stone, Playboy and The Independent Monthly for a decade before publishing He Died With a Falafel in His Hand, now an Australian classic. He is the author of two Quarterly Essays, he won the National Award for Non-Fiction for Leviathan: an unauthorised biography of Sydney, and he is the author of The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco, the Axis of Time series of thrillers, the Disappearance series and the Dave Hooper novels. In 2016, he published How to be a Writer: Who smashes deadlines, crushes editors and lives in a solid gold hover-craft. He currently writes regular columns for Fairfax Media and lives in Brisbane.

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Allen CurnowCollected PoemsEdited by Elizabeth Caffin and Terry Sturm

Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel’s (2001), Curnow’s poetry was always on the move—from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encoun-ter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and antholo-gist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand’s most distinguished poet.

Elizabeth Caffin was Allen Curnow’s publisher and director of Auckland Uni-versity Press for two decades. Terry Sturm CBE was a professor of literature at the University of Auckland for many years, editor of The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, author of An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Fron-tier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton, and editor of a selection of Curnow’s verse written under his pseudonym Whim Wham, Whim Wham’s New Zealand: The Best of Whim Wham 1937-1988.

POETRY, 388 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5CLOTH, $69.99 (CAN $93.99)ISBN: 9781869408510RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


Fast Talking PISecond editionSelina Tusitala Marsh

• Winner, 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry

The judging panel found Marsh’s collec-tion exhilarating: “The poems are sensuous but strong, using lush imagery and clear rhythms and repetitions to power them forward.” Touching on the poet’s commu-nity, ancestry, influences, and history, this debut collection of poetry lives up to the meaning behind the artist’s name—”writer of tales.” The featured verse is sensuous but strong, using lush imagery, clear rhythms, and repetitions to power it forward.

Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland and is now an associate pro-fessor in the English department, specializ-ing in Pasifika literature.

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TightropeSelina Tusitala Marsh

‘Selina Tusitala Marsh draws on nursery rhymes, riddles, spells, Pasifika chants, popular song, rap - as well as on high modernist and postmodernist literature—to produce a new collection that is spiky and fierce, brash and vital, by turns, comic, irreverent, poignant, rhapsodic, anthemic, confrontational.’ - David Eggleton

Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Se-lina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tight-rope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether ‘stories’ really can ‘cure the incurable’. In Marsh’s poetry, sharp intelligence combines a focused warrior fierceness with perceptive humour and energy, upheld by the mana of the Pacific.

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English and French descent. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from the University of Auckland and is now an associate pro-fessor in the English department, specializ-ing in Pasifika literature.

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Vanishing PointsMichele Leggott

Vanishing Points concerns itself with appearance and disappearance as modes of memory, familial until we lose sight of that horizon line and must settle instead for a series of intersecting arcs. It is full of sto-ries caught from the air and pictures made of words. It stands here and goes there, a real or an imagined place. If we can work out the navigation the rest will follow. Michele Leggott’s new collection is full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal, now articulated through a powerful amalgam of prose poems and verse.

Michele Leggott was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007–09 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. Her collections include Heartland (2014) and Mirabile Dictu (2009), both from Auckland University Press. She coordinates the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with Brian Flaherty at the Univer-sity of Auckland.

POETRY, 132 PAGES, 6.5 X 9.2510 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $27.99 (CAN $37.99)ISBN: 9781869408749RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA

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All Under One RoofSprache von einem anderen Holz

Evelyn Schlag

Translated by Karen Leeder

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose Selected Poems was pub-lished in Britain in Karen Leeder’s brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with All under One Roof, a wide-ranging selection from her radical recent work, with an essay which discusses frankly the sources, politics and strategies of her writing. This book draws on two substantial German-language collections – Sprache von einem anderen Holz (2008) and verlangsamte raserei (2014) – in which Schlag has moved on from the ‘almost classical perfection’ that critics identified in her earlier work.

Karen Leeder (1962-) is a writer, trans-lator and academic. Since 1993 she has taught German at New College, Oxford, where she is Professor of Modern German Literature. In recent years she has trans-lated Volker Braun and Michael Krüger. She won the Stephen Spender Prize for her translation of Durs Grünbein. Evelyn Schlag grew up in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. She studied German and English at the University of Vienna. She has published poetry, novels, essays and stories.

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Arcimboldo’s BulldogNew and Selected PoemsTim Liardet

Arcimboldo’s famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter’s face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform the medium of expression itself. Tim Liardet’s Arcimboldo’s Bulldog: New and Selected Poems, which draws on his ten award-winning collections and adds new elements – fresh produce – reconfigures his life’s work to date and draws it into a new, eloquent whole.

Tim Liardet has produced ten collections of poetry to date. The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council England Writer’s Award as a collec-tion-in-progress in 2003, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the 2006 TS Eliot Prize. He has reviewed poetry for such journals as The Guardian, Poetry Review and PN Review and was Poet-in Residence at The Guardian.





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BlotterOli Hazzard

From the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the 2013 Eric Gregory Award comes an inventive and experi-mental new collection which responds in new ways to the language of the internet. The poems in Blotter are preoccupied with the passage of time, and the different ways that passage can be registered and made unstable; the distorted seasons, the timestamp of a text message, the jottings of a daybook, the formal structure of a shepherd’s calendar, the double exposure of a photograph, the reverse-flow of a twitter feed. The title responds to all these concerns: it is a police blotter, a diary, a tab of acid, and, in its painterly connotation, a way of rendering the world in a manner that is vague, blurred, and out of focus.

Oli Hazzard was born in Bristol in 1986, and studied English at University College London and the University of Bristol. He has researched John Ashbery’s poetry at the University of Oxford. Oli Hazzard’s poetry has appeared in magazines and an-thologies including The Forward Book of Poetry 2010, Best British Poetry 2011, The Salt Book of Younger Poets and New Po-etries V (Carcanet, 2011). He now teaches at the University of St Andrews and lives in Edinburgh.

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The Books of CatullusEdited by Simon Smith

The Books of Catullus is a new transla-tion of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age. It is the first version to divide Catullus’s complete works into the three ‘books’ believed by many scholars to be how the text was originally received in the Late Republic (c.60 B.C.). The length of each ‘book,’ or grouping correlates to the usual length of a single piece of pa-pyrus from that period. These ‘books’ are gatherings of poems in different metres, and concentrate on various themes, includ-ing love, sex, friendship and marriage with some poems written in elegiac couplets.

Simon Smith has published five collections of poetry. His third collection, Mercury (Salt Publications), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2016, and his latest pamphlet is Salon Noir (Equipage, 2016).



Collected PoemsLorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to plac-es, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and Canada where she has made her teaching ca-reer, but always re-connecting with her Caribbean roots. She travels with an ear alert to histories and voices. How differ-ently English sounds in the tropics and in colder lands, at seaside in sunlight and on prairies, mountains and in cities. The same words say quite different things, depending on who speaks them and who’s listening, obeying or resisting. She covers a wide range of subjects and themes, too. Her in-stinct is to celebrate being alive in a world that is rich but in peril.

Lorna Goodison was born in Jamaica, and has won numerous awards for her writing in both poetry and prose, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Mus-grave Gold Medal from Jamaica, the Hen-ry Russel Award for Exceptional Creative Work from the University of Michigan, and one of Canada’s largest literary prizes, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People (2007).

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Complete PoemsSalvatore QuasimodoSalvatore Quasimodo

Translated by Jack Bevan

Jack Bevan’s remarkable translation of Quasimodo’s entire poetic oeuvre (Anvil, 1983), redesigned and reissued in 2017. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for ‘his lyrical poetry which with classical fire ex-presses the tragic experience of life in our time’. Jack Bevan’s remarkable translation of Quasimodo’s entire poetic oeuvre fills a great gap in our knowledge of twenti-eth-century European poetry.

Jack Bevan (1920 – 2006) was born in Blackpool and read English at Cambridge. He fought in the Italian campaign during the Second World War, and after the war returned to Cambridge. His subsequent career was in education and during this time he also worked intensively on the translation of contemporary Italian poetry, in particular that of Salvatore Quasimodo. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. During the 1930’s Quasimodo was a leader of the “Hermetic” school of poetry.

POETRY/WRITING, 248 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $25.95 (CAN $34.95)ISBN: 9781784105266 (REPLACES: 9780856460944) RIGHTS: US, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CEN-TRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA & MICRONESIA

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Crossing the Mirror LineJudith Willson

Crossing the Mirror Line, the stunning debut from Judith Willson, explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections, the magician’s disori-entating art that ‘makes nothing appear’. Artists’ mannequins and watchful children stand at an angle to the familiar world; an estuary elides distinctions between land and sea. Like the eighteenth-century artists’ landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, these poems are concerned with looking, how it selects and transforms what is seen.

Judith Willson grew up in Manchester and lives in the Yorkshire Pennines. She studied English at the universities of Cambridge and York, and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. She has worked as a teacher and in publishing. Her work was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VI.



Dear PilgrimsJohn F. Deane

John F. Deane’s poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins and R. S. Thomas. Like theirs, his concerns are contemporary, his ‘I’ speaks for a reluc-tant ‘us’. Dear Pilgrims describes actual pilgrimages as the poet moves through England (East Anglia in particular), Israel and Palestine, disclosing a ‘new testament’ that revisions the Christian faith through the eyes of an unknown female disciple of Christ, one of Christ’s contemporaries, examining in detail the demanding beauty of the natural world and its relationship to a transcendent reality.

John F. Deane, a member of Aosdána, was born Achill Island in 1943. He founded Poetry Ireland and the Poetry Ireland Review in 1979. He has published sev-eral books of poetry and fiction and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Irish Times Poetry Now Award. He has won residencies in Bavaria, Monaco and Paris and in 2016 was Teilhard de Chardin Fellow at Loyola University, Chicago.

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A Full ConeMiles Champion

In his first full-length collection since his legendary 1996 Compositional Bonbons Placate, Brooklyn-based poet Miles Champion makes a welcome return to British poetry. A Full Cone, a highly experimental and innovative piece of work which channels the playfulness of John Ashbery and Ray DiPalma, collects the poems Champion has written since the publication of How to Laugh (Adventures in Poetry, 2014).

Miles Champion was born in Nottingham, England, in 1968. His books of poetry include Compositional Bonbons Placate (Carcanet, 1996), Three Bell Zero and How to Laugh, and he is the coauthor of How I Became a Painter, a book-length illustrated interview with Trevor Winkfield about Winkfield’s work as an editor, pub-lisher, translator and painter. For Carcanet, he edited As When (2015), a selection of Tom Raworth’s writing spanning fifty years, and he is also the editor of Ted Gre-enwald’s The Age of Reasons: Uncollected Poems 1969–1982. Champion lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.



In Darkest CapitalCollected PoemsDrew Milne

“His poems can be both pretty and vehement, playful while exciting.” —John Wilkinson

In Darkest Capital is a collection of work spanning three decades, charting Drew Milne’s growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle gen-eration. A fellow of Corpus Cristi College, Cambridge, Milne is a poet of politics and nature with a fascination for lichen, a composite organism whose diversity and survival are emblematic of a satisfac-tory and sustaining order. This Collected Poems engages modern politics, challenges language’s tyranny and reshapes modern poetry, reaffirming the place of poetry as witness, critique and prophecy.

Drew Milne is a poet and critic concerned with ecology and politics. He is a fellow of Corpus Cristi College Cambridge and his work has previously been published in PN Review.



JoySasha Dugdale

• Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award

• Contains the poem “Joy” - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

The poems in Joy mark a new departure for Sasha Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto ‘silent’ dialogue which she began as an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation with writers such as Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Maria Stepanova and Svetlana Alexeivich. Dugdale combines an open interest in the historical fate of wom-en and in the treacherous fictional shaping of history. In the abundant, complex and not always easy range of voices in Joy she attempts to redress the linear nature of remembrance and history and restore the ‘maligned and misaligned’.

Sasha Dugdale is a poet, translator and playwright. She has published three collec-tions of poetry with Carcanet, Notebook, The Estate, and Red House. In 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize. Between 2012 and 2017 she was editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. She is co-di-rector of the Winchester Poetry Festival.



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Love in Another LanguageCollected Poems and Selected TranslationsDick Davis

In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight pre-vious publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as ‘the leading translator of Persian literature in our time’ (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of his celebrated translations.

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945. After graduating from King’s College, Cambridge he taught in various places including Iran, where he lived for eight years. He was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Durham and Newcastle from 1985 to 1987. With his wife Afkham Darbandi he translated Attar’s The Confer-ence of the Birds for Penguin Classics.



The Magic of What’s ThereDavid Morley

In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. “Love teach-es you how to mind / And how to mend”, he writes in “After a Song by Gustav Mahler”. In The Magic of What’s There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore child-hood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood.

David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry in 2016 for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His collections include The Gypsy and the Poet, a PBS Recommendation and Morn-ing Star Book of the Year; Enchantment, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year; The Invisible Kings, a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year.



The MultiverseAndrew Wynn Owen

The Multiverse sings of science, philoso-phy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way into memory not only as sense but also as sound. As for sense, they explore the mind’s checks and balances, lightenings and darkenings, promises and compro-mises, celebrating human curiosity for all its discoveries and delights. The poet is an enthusiast – for the visible world, for scientific and philosophical excursions.

Andrew Wynn Owen is a Fellow by Exam-ination at All Souls College, Oxford. He received the university’s Newdigate Prize in 2014 and an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2015. With the Emma Press he has published pamphlets including narrative poems, lyrics and a collaboration (with John Fuller).





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New Poetries VIIEdited by Michael Schmidt

From the first New Poetries antholo-gy, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve notable success: Sophie Hannah, Patrick McGuinness, Kei Miller, Caroline Bird, David Morley, Jane Yeh, William Letford, Tara Bergin, and Vahni Capildeo among them.

Michael Schmidt—poet, literary histo-rian, critic and translator—was born in Mexico in 1947. He studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he established Carcanet Press. He has taught in Manchester and Glasgow, was poet in residence at St John’s College, Cambridge, and will be a visiting scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2017–18. He is founder and General Editor of PN Review and Publisher at Carcanet.



Now We Can Talk Openly about MenMartina Evans

Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is made up of dramatic monologues, in two parts, the first at the time of the Irish War of Independence, the second at the time of the Civil War. Martina Evans uses two distinct narrative voices. First comes Mrs Kathleen (Kitty) Donovan, a dressmaker who is given to taking laudanum. She is followed by Miss Babe Cronin, a stenogra-pher who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. The speaking, musing, nar-rating voices create a dream-like compul-sion, a sense in retrospect of inevitability, as the two older women talk of how the young women they were are pulled into events which lead to betrayal.

Martina Evans grew up in County Cork and has lived in London since 1988. She has written ten books of prose and poetry and won awards including the Premio Cia-mpi International Prize in 2011. Burnfort, Las Vegas (Anvil, 2014) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2015. Mountainy Men, a new narrative poem, received a Grants for the Arts Award in 2015. Currently Evans is Associate Lectur-er in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, London.



On TrustA Book of LiesJames Womack

On Trust: A Book of Lies, James Womack’s second collection of poems, is organized around the notion of telling the truth. Working against ideas of poetry as a vehicle for displaying individual truths or unprocessed confessions, these poems play hilariously, earnestly, undecidedly, with such simple identifications as the ‘I’ of a poem with the ‘I’ of the poet, offering us monologues which seem to be sincere, unvarnished accounts of things that have ‘really’ happened, but which twist and escape any absolute statements of identity.

James Womack was born in 1979. He studied Russian, English and translation at university, and after living in Madrid for a decade now works as an editor, teacher and freelance translator in Cambridge. He has translated widely, including self-help books, popular fiction, Latin American classics and poetry.



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PN Review Series Edited by Luke Allan and Michael Schmidt

“The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK’s poetry magazines.” —Simon Armitage

Luke Allan studied Literature & Creative Writing at UEA. Before joining Carcanet in 2015 he worked as a project manager in the Arts in Newcastle and Edinburgh, and managed Studio Alec Finlay and the poetry press Morning Star. He is founding- director of the poetry press sine wave peak and co-founder of the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog; he also edits the journal Quait and is former editor of the Newcastle Philosophy Society journal. In 2011 his poetry received a Northern Promise Award. His first collection, minimum soft exchange, was published by MIEL in 2015. Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy’s childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.

PN Review 235The May-June 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

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PN Review 236The July-August 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry jour-nals of our time. This issue’s highlights: • Discovered: an unpublished letter from George Washington! • Eleven Celebrations of Tom Raworth • Vahni Capildeo goes to Hell – and back • Apples in Astur-ias: James Womack brings us Alejandro Fernandez-Osorio’s ‘Pomace’, a rich and ci-dery prose poem • Jane Draycott translates Henri Michaux • Andrew Latimer engages the retiring Alex Wong in conversation • New poems by Gillian Allnutt, John Clegg, Claudine Toutoungi and others • Edwin Morgan on machines as translators • In-cludes translations from the Arabic, French and AsturianPOETRY/LITERARY CRITICISM, 88 PAGES, 8.25 X 11.75TRADE PAPER, $8.95 (CAN $11.95)ISBN: 9781784101473RIGHTS: US, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA & MICRONESIA


PN Review 237The September-October 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue’s highlights: Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage; New light on Ernest Hemingway in Cuba; Cultural news from South Korea; PN Review debuts by Asian, American and British poets; New to PN Review this issue: Sumita Chakraborty, Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chang; Subject matter includes chickens, the art of translation from Modern Greek, and Umberto Saba the great Trieste poet.POETRY/LITERARY CRITICISM, 72 PAGES, 8.25 X 11.75TRADE PAPER, $8.95 (CAN $11.95)ISBN: 9781784101480RIGHTS: US, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA & MICRONESIA



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The PoemsYves Bonnefoy

Edited by Stephen Romer

Translated by John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf

France’s greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as cele-brated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will be devot-ed). At his death in 2016 aged ninety-three, he was Emeritus Professor of Compara-tive Poetics at the Collège de France. The selection for this volume (and the second one) was made in close collaboration with the poet. The lengthy introduction by John Naughton is a significant assessment of Bonnefoy’s importance in French literature.

Yves Bonnefoy was named to the College de France in 1981 to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Roland Barthes and was the first poet honoured in this way since Paul Valery. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry. Bon-nefoy’s poems have appeared in English in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and other journals.


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The President of Planet EarthDavid Wheatley

In a state of apocalyptic rapture, Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov pro-nounced himself the ‘president of planet earth’. In his fifth collection, and writing in a dazzling array of forms, David Wheatley brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of place and belonging, channel-ling the messianic ambitions of modernism into rich and subversive comedy.

David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. His previous collections are Thirst (1997; Rooney Prize for Irish Literature), Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006) and A Nest on the Waves (2010). His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, in-cluding The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, and has been awarded a variety of prizes, including the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and first prize in the Friends Provident National Poetry Competition. His criti-cal study Contemporary British Poetry is published by Palgrave. He lives in rural Aberdeenshire.



Rough BreathingSelected PoemsHarry Gilonis

Rough Breathing is a substantial selection from thirty years of procedurally and for-mally inventive writing from poet, editor and art critic, Harry Gilonis. A lively, lyr-ical and clever collection, the poems often cross the boundaries between original and translated works in a variety of intriguing and innovative ways, including versions of the works of ancient and modern poets. Allusiveness is integral to the core of these poems which are formally and linguistical-ly compact, intense and succint, rigorous and precise - even demanding, yet light and very readable.

Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and intermittently a critic writing on art, poetry and music. His writing has been translated into Catalan, (Scots) Gaelic, German, Polish, and Spanish. Poetry pub-lications include Reliefs (1988), Pibroch (1994), Reading Holderlin on Orkney (1995), Walk the Line (1996), as well as collaborations with visual artists, Axi-oms (1994, with David Connearn), The Leiermann (after Schubert, with David Rees) and Forty Fungi (1994, with Erica van Horn).



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Sarajevo RosesRory Waterman

Waterman’s debut collection was at times intensely personal, including poems about growing up in the wake of a parental split across two countries. His second does not eschew equally personal themes, but is far less self-centred and more varied, and often addresses its themes in more compli-cated, indirect ways. The book also takes on localized, international and contempo-rary topics to consider our relationships with one another more broadly and often internationally.

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, grew up in rural Lincolnshire, and lives in Nottingham, where he is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. His first collection of poetry, Tonight the Summer’s Over, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. He is also the editor of W.H. Davies, The True Traveller.



Shrines of Upper AustriaPhoebe Power

Shrines of Upper Austria is a joyful docu-mentation of the unfamiliar and the first full collection from 24 year old Phoebe Power, 2009 Foyle Young Poet of the Year. A young woman searching for love and understanding in 21st century Britain finds herself away from home. Wandering in rural Austria, she observes and records a landscape of mountains, folk culture and uneasy histories. Multiple lives, anecdotes and voices are dispersed within the text, such as the fragmented narrative of an Aus-trian woman who married a British soldier after the Second World War, and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants.

Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-up-on-Tyne in 1993. After becoming a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2009, she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012 and a Northern Writers’ Award in 2014. A live version of her pamphlet, Harp Duet (Eyewear, 2016) was recently performed with electron-ic music. Phoebe studied English at the University of Cambridge, and spent some months living and working in Austria before moving to York in 2016.



SmoothieClaudine Toutoungi

Tender, exuberant and deliciously dark, Claudine Toutoungi’s debut collection evokes the surreal humor of Matthew Sweeney and the candor of Emily Berry, while remaining disarmingly fresh in its blend of desire and dislocation. Roam-ing from metropolis to sculpture park to remote coastal town, Smoothie charts the wayward wanderings of a compel-ling cast of misfits—hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers—as they grapple with the urge to communicate whatever the cost.

Claudine Toutoungi grew up in Warwick-shire and studied English and French at Trinity College, Oxford University. After a Master’s at Goldsmiths, she trained as an actor at LAMDA and worked as a BBC Radio Drama producer and English teacher. As a dramatist, her plays Bit Part and Slipping have been produced by The Stephen Joseph Theatre.





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Unearthly ToysNed Denny

As formally disciplined as they are the-matically unsettling, Ned Denny’s poems open up a twilit, numinous world of exotic drugs, subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which—to quote David Lynch’s Twin Peaks—“the woods are won-drous… but strange”. In his seductive and compelling Lynch-esque debut, Denny taps into the ethereal and the transcendental, perceiving in modern man’s severance from the earth and the sacred a literally demonic form of psychosocial control.

Ned Denny was born in London in 1975 and has worked as a postman, art crit-ic, book reviewer, music journalist and gardener. His poems and remakes have appeared in publications including PN Review, Poetry Review, The White Review, Oxford Poetry, the TLS, and Modern Poet-ry in Translation.



Venus as a BearVahni Capildeo

Vahni Capildeo’s new book lives with things—carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. Venus as a Bear places the non-human world at its center, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or strange creatures, objects, or places, but where do these affinities come from? For Capildeo the answers formed at their own pace, while waiting for lambing at a friend’s farm, on a tour with poets around the Ash-molean Museum in Oxford, criss-crossing the British Isles with the ‘Out of Bounds’ poetry project; or hearing of Africa and the Romans in Scotland, of Guyana and Shakespeare, while standing over-the-boots deep in a freezing sea off the coast of Wales.

Vahni Capildeo’s poetry, including Measures of Expatriation (Forward Best Collection Prize 2016), like her nonfic-tion, explores the human and the natural; museum material and emotional life. She has worked in academia, in culture for development (Commonwealth Writers), and at the Oxford English Dictionary; volunteered with Oxford Rape Crisis, and Oxfam Head Office.



The White SilhouetteJames Harpur

The central focus of The White Silhouette is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the Book of Kells, which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including those of Iona and Kells. Like Kells’s interlacing lines, Harpur’s four-part poem follows a number of threads, such as the nature of the divine and its relationship to art, how beauty is more a moment than an ‘object’, and how the pilgrim’s destination cannot be found on earth. The title poem, “The White Silhouette”, is a powerful and haunting journey of ‘missed encounters’ in the spiri-tual landscapes of Tipperary, Wiltshire and Patmos and describes the poet’s—possibly futile—search for spiritual truth.

James Harpur has published five volumes of poetry. Angels and Harvesters (2012), was a PBS Recommendation and short-listed for the 2013 Irish Times Award. The Dark Age (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award; Oracle Bones (2001) was a Tablet Book of the Year; The Monk’s Dream (1996) includes the sonnet se-quence that won the 1995 National Poetry Competition; and A Vision of Comets was based on the poems that won him an Eric Gregory Award.



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From Professor Murasaki’s Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human BodyJohn Latham

A John Latham poem is a like a precip-itation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallizes around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collec-tion capture the vibrancy of a childhood that still bewitches him half a century later, alongside the cruel betrayals of old age, and the fresh possibilities bound up in each new encounter.

John Latham has worked for over 40 years as a research scientist specializing in cloud formation. A recipient of several medals from the Royal Meteorological Society, he was, for eight years, president of the International Commission on Atmospheric Electricity, and founded the Atmospheric Physics Research Group at UMIST (which later became the University of Manches-ter’s Centre for Atmospheric Science).

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City PoemsJoe Fiorito

“Joe Fiorito writes like a rough-hewn angel.” —Globe and Mail

This is a book of short sharp poems based on 18 years of experience prowling the back streets and darker corners of the city of Toronto; it has the authentic sound of the human voice, written to the rhythms, often syncopated, of the city.

Joe Fiorito is a journalist who has worked as a city columnist for the Montreal Ga-zette, Globe and Mail, National Post and the Toronto Star newspapers. He won the National Newspaper Award for Columns in 1995, the Brassani Prize for Short Fiction in 2000, and the City of Toronto Book Award in 2003. He has lived and worked in Thunder Bay, Iqaluit, Regina and Montreal and has made his home in Toronto since 1997.

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Alzheimer’s and a SpoonLiz Breslin

“To find this kind of sheer brio and lin-guistic flair in New Zealand writing, one inevitably goes back to Janet Frame.” —Vincent O’Sullivan

Alzheimer’s and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories – a conver-sation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to determine if you’re mostly meer-cat or Hufflepuff . #stainlessteelkudos. Per-sonal tales, of Liz’s babcia, a devout Cath-olic and a soldier in the Warsaw Uprising, who spent her last years with Alzheimer’s disease. There is much to remember that she so badly wanted to forget. What do you do when life gives you spoons?

Liz Breslin lives in Hawea Flat, New Zealand, and writes poems, plays and sto-ries as well as a fortnightly column for the Otago Daily Times. She is comfy on the page and the stage, was second runner-up in the 2014 New Zealand Poetry Slam, performed at the 2016 TEDx Queenstown and came third in the Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition the same year. is is her first collection.

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Better HousesSusie Wild

“These poems are spells whose words bewitch the ordinary and transform the objects and routines of our human world with their word-magic.” —Gillian Clarke

She tramps with humor, love, and loss across the UK, even the globe, seeking a place to call home. Better Houses charts the move from childhood to adult life with wit and wonder. In a state of constant displacement, the poems flit from tents and gypsy caravans to boarding school, to lodgings and house sitting. The collection offers a half-remembered, half-invented life of pub crawl dates and doors slamming, as the narrators fall in and out of love and a life packing and unpacking boxes. These poems hunt fossils and comets, escape fires and great white sharks, consider life on other planets, and prophesize white witches.

Susie Wild is the author of the Edge Hill Prize long-listed story collection The Art of Contraception and the ebook novella Arrivals (Parthian 2010, 2011). She has performed her poetry in dives and dance halls since 2006 including Green Man, The Laugharne Weekend, The Dylan Weekend, Pili Pala, Dinefwr, Birmingham Literature Festival, Glastonbury, Hay Festival and Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Collected Poems 1975-2015John Robert Lee

John Robert Lee’s Collected Poems tell both of a continuing journey and a subtly changing voice but also of an underlying, consistent attempt to hold together in one space the things that matter. This is seeking first the kingdom of God; maintaining the community of men and women who incar-nate that kingdom and make life meaning-ful; the beauties of St Lucia’s natural world and its rich traditions of folk-culture; and the challenges and demands of poetry.

John Robert Lee is one of the group of sig-nificant Saint Lucian writers who are the younger contemporaries of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Others include McDonald Dixon, Kendel Hippolyte and Jane King. His poems are included in a number of international anthologies and periodicals (The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Poetry Wales, Small Axe, etc).


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Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other PoemsA Bilingual Edition, Translated by Jonathan Cohen & Donald D. WalshSecond editionPedro Mir

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Silvio Torres Saillant

Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems is the only book-length collection of Mir’s poetry in English translation. The eight poems selected include several of his signature pieces from the late 1940s through the 1970s.

Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator, essay-ist, and scholar of inter-American litera-ture. Pedro Mir (1913–2000) is recognized as the Dominican Republic’s foremost lit-erary figure of the twentieth century. Silvio Torres-Saillant (PhD, New York Universi-ty) is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Council at Syracuse University. Donald Walsh was a translator of Latin American Poetry.

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Everyone Knows I Am a HauntingShivanee Ramlochan

“In transgressive mode, Shivanee Ramlo-chan invokes gods, goddesses or demons to do what poetry should do – alarm and ignite us, surprise and blast us and tear at our heartstrings. Welcome to a challenging, unforgettable and courageous new voice.” —Olive Senior

Ramlochan’s poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heav-ily symbolic. Her poems reference the lan-guage and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards.

Shivanee Ramlochan’s poetry has been published in tongues of the ocean and The Caribbean Review of Books, and is forthcoming in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is an alumna of the 2010 Cropper Foundation Residen-tial Workshop for Caribbean Writers. In 2013, she was selected as one of three New Talent Showcase writers at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest.



The Language of EldoradoSecond editionMark McWatt

Winner of the Guyana Prize, The Language of Eldorado has been long recognised as an outstanding work of Caribbean poetry. Its beauty lies in its ability to convey complex ideas through concrete images that work on the reader both sensually and intellectually. Its focus is the relationship between language, land-scape and the history of human settlement in Guyana. The collection is dedicated to Wilson Harris whose challenging and paradigm-changing ideas on these matters deeply influenced Mark McWatt’s own thinking.

Mark McWatt is the recently retired Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill. He was born in Guyana in 1947. He took his first degree at the University of Toronto, then went to Leeds University to complete a Ph.D. In addi-tion to his Commonwealth prize-winning collection of stories, Suspended Sentences, Mark McWatt has written three collections of poetry, Interiors (1989), the Guyana Prize-winning The Language of Eldorado (1994), and The Journey to Le Repentir.

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Pitch LakeAndre Bagoo

In Pitch Lake, Andre Bagoo, author of the Bocas prize shortlisted poetry collection, Burn, displays a continuing commitment to exploration and experiment. Andre Bagoo’s poems explore the multiple res-onances of the title, where pitch signifies both the stickiness of memory—the way the La Brea Pitch Lake is a place where “buried trees [are] born again”—and the idea of scattering: of places and impressions and the effort to hold them in one vision.

Andre Bagoo is a Trinidadian poet and journalist. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including: Almost Island, Draconian Switch, The Caribbean Review of Books, Caribbe-an Writer, Word Riot, Boston Review, St Petersburg Review and elsewhere. In 2005, Andre was shortlisted for a Derek Walcott Writing Prize. His first collection of poems, Trick Vessels (2012), and his latest collection, Burn (2015), are both published by Shearsman Books.





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To Breathe into Another VoiceA South African Anthology of Jazz PoetryEdited by Myesha Jenkins

“Given South Africa’s venerable jazz tra-dition, it’s perhaps surprising it’s taken so long for more fundis to be tapped for their responses to our kind of jazz. But it takes a special brew of ingredients for this kind of book to come together. You need an inspired guiding spirit, such as editor and jazzwoman-in-words Myesha Jenkins, and you need a vat in which the ingredients can mix and bubble. You’ll find everything here in To breathe into another voice: faithful and fantastical accounts of the jazz life and jazz people as well as reflections on the music as a metaphor for how we live – or, maybe more importantly, how we’d like to live. All you need to do now is open the covers, start reading, and dance joyously about the architecture.” —Gwen Ansel

Myesha Jenkins is a poet and spoken word performer,. She has published two poetry collections, Breaking the surface and Dreams of Flight. In 2013, Myesha won the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts in the Poetry category. She lives in California.

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Black Shiver MossGraham Mort

Graham Mort’s masterly 10th collection of poetry, Black Shiver Moss (Seren), is packed with poems about his native north-ern counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria, as well as stunning evocations of elsewhere: Africa, Southern Spain, France, Italy. A prize-winning short story author as well as a poet, Mort’s rich, concentrated style thrives on detailed observations of the natural world, their deep feeling harnessed to a finely-honed technique.

Graham Mort was born in Lancashire and studied English at Liverpool University. He worked as a mill labourer, dairy operative and psychiatric nurse before training as a teacher. He taught in schools, colleges, prisons, special education and psychiatric units before becoming a freelance writer. He gained a doctorate from the University of Glamorgan and is now Professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Litera-ture at Lancaster University.

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The Lovely DisciplinesMartyn Crucefix

Poet Martyn Crucefix’s new collection, The Lovely Disciplines, steps straight into a contemporary world where cursors blink, people Skype, consult Google Street View, make erotically-charged visits to the opticians, find ATM receipts in second-hand books of poetry. Such acuteness of observation is one of the ‘lovely disci-plines’ in these vivid, exploratory poems that surprise and delight with portraits of a motor-biking boy-racer, strange meetings at Heathrow and images from Crucefix’s native Wiltshire: a toll cottage, the West Kennet long barrow, the weir at Tellisford.

Martyn Crucefix has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 7 collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010): “an exception-al ear . . . superbly intelligent . . . urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful.” (Kath-ryn Maris, Poetry London). His translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as “unlikely to be bettered for very many years” (Magma).


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Sax Burglar BluesRobert Walton

Robert Walton’s career as a poet began promisingly, with a Welsh Arts Council Prize for his first book in 1978. However, a career in teaching intervened and it is only since his retirement from that profession in 2010, that he has been able to devote his considerable energies to his first vocation. His new book, Sax Burglar Blues, is there-fore only his second full collection. Packed with memory, incident, observation, opinion, humour, outrage and elegy, this collection benefits hugely from the author’s years of experience.

Born in Cardiff in 1948, Robert Walton was educated in the city and studied English Literature at Exeter University. His first collection of poems, Workings, won the Welsh Arts Council New Poet Award in 1978 but, for reasons which are still a mystery to him, he stopped writing for almost twenty years. Robert resumed writing in the late 90s, initially working with artists in other media—music, dance, storytelling, film and installation.


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A Watchful AstronomyPaul Deaton

Paul Deaton’s eagerly awaited debut poet-ry collection, A Watchful Astronomy, col-lects many of the pieces that have appeared in magazines and in an early pamphlet, Black Knight (Eyewear). Deaton’s poems are finely attuned and alert to the tensions in relationships, partly attributable to a difficult father figure, ‘like a wounded bear’, who haunts much of this book. This father arises in various guises: as a vast un-fathomable mountain ‘Inselberg Father’, as an approaching thunderstorm, as a mood: “he mauled us with his gloom”. Yet how-ever unsparingly the descriptions, there is also an overall perspective of compassion rather than resentment, an understanding that those who wound others are them-selves often wounded in some central way.

Paul Deaton was born in London and raised in Wales. He was runner-up in the Arvon International Poetry Competition 2010 and winner of the SaveAs Writers International Poetry Prize 2016. His work appears regularly in The Spectator, is included in York Notes for GCSE study guides and is featured in various magazines and anthologies including PN Review, The London Magazine, ?and The Dark Horse.


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Way More Than LuckBen Wilkinson

“Wilkinson’s poems are weighty and cine-matic, and his gift for finding the poetry in football terraces as well as crafting lyrical intrigue demonstrate his range and place as an up-and-coming voice on the UK poetry scene.” —The Poetry Book Society

From the thumping heartbeat of the dis-tance runner to the roar of soccer stadiums across the decades, Ben Wilkinson’s debut poetry collection, Way More Than Luck, confronts the struggles and passions that come to shape a life. Beginning with an unflinching interrogation of experiences of clinical depression and the redemptive power of art and running, the collection centres on a series of vivid character por-traits, giving life to the legends of the UK’s Liverpool Football Club.

Ben Wilkinson was born in Staffordshire and now lives in Sheffield, South York-shire. In 2014 he won the Poetry Business Competition and a Northern Writers’ Award, and in 2015 he was awarded a writers’ grant from Arts Council England. He is a keen distance runner, lifelong Liv-erpool FC fan, and he writes criticism for The Guardian, The Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He lectures at the University of Bolton.


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Welsh VerseFourteen Centuries of PoetryThird editionTranslated by Tony Conran

The tradition of Welsh poetry stretches back to the sixth century, making it one of the oldest living literatures in Europe. In Welsh Verse Tony Conran translates a selection from fourteen centuries of poetry, from the epics of Taliesin and Aneurin to modern poets such as Gwyn Thomas and Nesta Wyn Jones. En route he takes in sagas and carols, hymn and strict metres, Romantics and Social Realists. Here are translations of Cyddelw, Dafydd ap Gwi-lym, Ann Griffiths, Pantycelyn, T Gwynn Jones, Williams Parry and Parry-Williams, Saunders Lewis, Gwenallt and Waldo Wlliams.

Tony Conran (1931-2013) was a poet, translator, playwright and academic at Bangor. He devoted his life to the two literatures of Wales, both commentating on them and making his own contribution through his work in English.

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Dark MatterNew PoemsRobin Morgan

In this major new book of poems, her seventh, Robin Morgan rewards us with the award-winning mastery we’ve come to expect from her poetry. Her gaze is unflinching, her craft sharp, her mature voice rich with wry wit, survived pain, and her signature chord: an indomitable celebration of life. This powerful col-lection contains the now-famous poems Morgan reads in her TED Talk—viewed online more than a million times and translated into 24 languages. Dark Matter is an unforgettable book.

Robin Morgan has published over 20 books—poetry, novels, political nonfiction, and the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever. Her first poetry col-lection, Monster, became an international cause célebrè; her nonfiction The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, and her memoir, Saturday’s Child, were bestsellers; her work is widely translated.

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This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915Icli Disli Bir Savas: Gelibolu/Canakkale 1915Second editionRobyn RowlandTranslated by Mehmet Ali Celikel

Robyn Rowland’s powerful poems record the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives, mothers, composers, painters and poets during the Gallipolli War,1915. It began with the Battle of Çanakkale and the defeat of the British navy. The land battle was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the de-personalization of the propaganda of war. Importantly, the book finishes with a poem on women’s friendship 100 years after the war, and the healing nature of love.

Mehmet Ali Çelikel is Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey. He writes on post-colonial and postmodern fiction and translates Robyn Rowland’s poetry. Robyn Rowland is an Australian-Irish poet regularly visit-ing Turkey. She has written twelve books, nine of poetry.

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destination outcharles c. smith

destination out is a dark collection of poetry in three parts. The book tells of leavings: from family, countries of origin, legacies based on truth and rumour in small communities back home, and what happens after. Some poems depict artists full of so much that they reached beyond their bodies’ borders and ended up spread out on a table for final reckoning, or ven-turing into mad houses and brothels and gutters in wet snow. The collection also reveals elders, mystics, lovers, and seers who glimpsed shades of light and reached out to them, falling into the inexpressible and the unknown.

charles c. smith is a poet, playwright, and essayist who has written and edited twelve books. He studied poetry and drama with William Packard, editor of the New York Quarterly Magazine, at New York Uni-versity and Herbert Berghof Studios. He also studied drama at the Frank Silvera’s Writers’ Workshop in Harlem. He won second prize for his play Last Days for the Desperate from Black Theatre Canada, has edited three collections of poetry, has four published books of poetry, and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines.

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No Line in TimeSonja Greckol

No Line In Time probes the mechanisms of unsettlement in Western Canada, the confrontations and collaborations among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that constitute medieval al Andalus, and some remnants, imagined and recovered, in con-temporary Andalusia. Sonja Greckol winds flashes of medieval poetry, slight sketches of philosopher-soldiers, and faint tab-leaus, in disjunctive blurts and lyric flights threading an iterating unstable self, preoc-cupied with the blanks and fissures in her. Transiting between the “empty” geography of a prairie childhood and privileged adult travel, questioning what lay under whose feet takes possession and leads to Medieval Spain, to Aragon launching Columbus. She moves from historilessness to the timeliness of ‘now:’ great granddaughter of Eastern Europe learning her place.

Sonja Greckol was moved to write poetry when Mike Harris was elected to a second term. Now she finds herself muttering nasty limericks which, alas, are unpublishable. She has taught college and university, studied or-der and disorder in jokes, done human rights and gender-based research, organizational consulting, and local activism.

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When Centipedes DreamSue Bracken

Sue Bracken often finds the bizarre and the beautiful in what she sees. When Centi-pedes Dream, her debut book of poems, is a collection of these sightings. It ranges from the familial love in a small blue bracelet, the roar surrounding the loss of a sibling, the balletic thoughts of a homeless woman in a Toronto shelter, to a decadent night at the Gladstone Hotel. Her work brims with both joy and sorrow, but most-ly astonishment at all these moments.

When Centipedes Dream is Sue Bracken’s debut book of poetry. She lives and works in Toronto. Her home is an oasis ruled by artists and animals.

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IntervalJudith Bishop

Interval is the work of an original and meticulous poet. Bishop brings togeth-er a diverse collection of poems—some addressed to a lover, or to children—bal-ancing intimacies and domesticities with conversations that illuminate universal questions. Contemplating the ‘chemical mess’ of human love, Bishop turns her arch narratorial eye to these poems with unusual delicacy and grace.

Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in the United States and Britain. Her poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Por-ter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011), an American Academy of Poets University prize (2004), and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholar-ship (2002-2004). She is the author of one collection and two chapbooks: Event (Salt Publishing, 2007), which won the FAW Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize; Alice Missing in Wonder-land and other poems (Picaro Press, 2008), and Aftermarks (Vagabond Press, 2012).

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Bad ThingsLouise Wallace

No one can imagine how bad things must be. They sprout in the dark, damp folds of my mind. They grow there—a forest of tiny umbrellas. They flourish—a crown of terrible heads. Bad Things, the new collec-tion by Louise Wallace—poet, not celebrity housewife—is about the different ways in which we survive. Political and personal, the collection navigates celebrity encoun-ters, women and work, the weight of expectation, and the pasts we try to escape and the people we try to hold on to. These poems are dreamlike, confronting, funny, and sometimes unashamedly weird.

Louise Wallace grew up in Gisborne and now lives in Wellington. Her poems have been published in literary journals in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S., translated into German and Spanish, and antholo-gized in Best of Best New Zealand Poems, Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page, and most recently Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems. In 2015 she was the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin. She is the founder and editor of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young New Zealand writers. Bad Things is her third poetry collection, following Since June (2009) and Enough (2013).

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The Chiming BlueMarilyn Duckworth

You love the secret hush of trees. Sleep soundly when the weather’s warm. And in your wondering gaze I see again your love-ly rage at being born. —’For Amelia Fleur’ These new and selected poems by critically acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Marilyn Duckworth meditate with wit and warmth on love, memory, the writing life, and disorder. This is Duckworth’s first poetry collection since Other Lovers’ Children, published in 1975.

Marilyn Duckworth was born in Otahuhu in 1935. She is the author of many nov-els—her first, A Gap in the Spectrum, was published in 1959 and her most recent, Playing Friends, in 2007—as well as col-lections of short fiction and poetry. She has also written extensively for radio. Duck-worth has received many distinguished accolades throughout her career and in 1987 she was awarded an OBE for Ser-vices to Literature. Her memoir, Camping on the Faultline, was published in 2000. In 2016 Duckworth was awarded a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement for fiction.

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FlowWhanganui River PoemsAirini Beautrais

Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais’ family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow. Flow is a brilliant polyphony of stories—large, small, geolog-ical, ecological, and human—that draw on many forms and voices and move through various stages of human settlement up to the present day. In March 2017, in a world first, the Whanganui River was granted the status of legal personhood. ‘This remark-able sequence winds and eddies like the Whanganui River, filtering the region’s many histories into something exhilarating and readable. Is verse the future of histo-ry?’ —James Brown.

Airini Beautrais grew up in Auckland and Whanganui. She studied ecological science and creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, and worked for several years as a science teacher. Her first book Secret Heart (VUP, 2006) was named Best First Book of Poetry in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007; it was followed by Western Line (VUP, 2011) and Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014). She lives in Whanganui.

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Fully Clothed and So ForgetfulHannah Mettner

I uproot one of the ladies and use her to beat back a path through the others, until they look almost young again in the fresh-ness of their bruises. When I get back to the pond most of the spinsters have frosted in the ground. The children are there wearing new fur coats. One is putting logs on a fire, while the other pulls dinner from the snow. —’My children are abducted by 17th-century French courtesans’ Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexual-ity, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shocking beauty. ‘I love these fierce, funny, unflinching poems.’ —Anna Jackson ‘This book will push you down a marble staircase, and then cheerfully bring you a couple of aspirin.’—Hera Lindsay Bird

Hannah Mettner is a Wellington-based poet from Gisborne. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Sport, Turbine and Cordite. She is co-editor with Morgan Bach and Sugar Magnolia Wilson of Sweet Mammalian, an online poetry journal launched in 2014.



The Internet of ThingsKate Camp

Kate Camp’s new book begins in John Lennon’s childhood kitchen, and ends at the prow of ship, surveying what has been and what is yet to come. The internet of things speaks to loss and hope, and to the stories we weave into the things around us. Kate Camp’s sharp eye for detail and refusal to avoid life’s desolate moments are balanced by her humour and empathy for the world and people in it. Cover: The kitchen cooker and shelves above at Men-dips, Liverpool childhood home of John Lennon. This is where John’s Aunt Mimi would cook him his favourite meal of egg and chips washed down with a cup of tea.

Kate Camp’s new book begins in John Lennon’s childhood kitchen, and ends at the prow of ship, surveying what has been and what is yet to come. The internet of things speaks to loss and hope, and to the stories we weave into the things around us. Kate Camp’s sharp eye for detail and refusal to avoid life’s desolate moments are balanced by her humour and empathy for the world and people in it.





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Ordinary TimeAnna Livesey

Peter Singer says we are all equally valu-able and I believe him. This means I should do more, that the care of one small bundle (never mind that it is my bundle) is insuffi-cient—even if this is what I am fitted to do. Across the road two magnolias, one pink, one white. In the days since we came home I’ve watched their stark flower-spiked branches soften and go pastoral—the green leaves of ordinary time climbing out of the wood. The thing is, there isn’t any indefinite ‘later’: childhood, adoles-cence, adulthood. Then, God willing, I’ll be wearing out. Already as I lay this down I see you as the reader. I think: A deco-rative mind isn’t much of an inheritance; and One day there’ll be no book of mine left on the earth. Having started as a poet I suppose any contribution is a positive mark on the ledger. —”Ordinary Time”

Anna Livesey is the author of two previ-ous collections, Good Luck (2003) and The Moonmen (2010). She was the 2003 Schaeffer Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have been widely published in New Zealand, including in Sport, Landfall and Best New Zealand Po-ems. In the last five years she has lived in Wellington, Beijing, Shanghai, New York, Dunedin, Wellington again and currently Auckland, where she works as a corporate strategist.



Red EditsGeoff Cochrane

Poets disimprove with age and should die young. Should resemble shooting stars. Should trace short arcs of fizz and fire and then disappear. —’What I Told Bernie’s Class’ In his new collection, Geoff Co-chrane defies his own advice to disappear. Instead, he traces wry, darkly glittering lines from odd fragments, encounters, overheard conversations, and moments of absurdity and revelation. Red Edits is the work of one of the most memorable voices in New Zealand poetry.

Geoff Cochrane is a poet and fiction writer who was born in Wellington, NZ in 1951 and has lived there almost all his life. In 2009 he was awarded the Janet Frame Prize for Poetry and in 2010 the inaugural Nigel Cox Unity Books Award. His most recent book, Astonished Dice collects his two slim volumes of short stories, originally pub-lished in limited editions, the early novella ‘Quest Clinic’, and more recent stories.



The Ski FlierMaria McMillan

As it traverses various landscapes, The Ski Flier also moves through a world where strength and self doubt exist in the same moment. Maria McMillan’s vivid second full poetry collection takes in mountains and cities, dragons and daughters, hope and wish fulfilment, demolition and renew-al. With shining intelligence these poems demand that we pay attention to where we have been and where we are now.

Maria McMillan’s mostly Scottish and English ancestors settled in Southland in the late nineteenth century. Maria was born and brought up in Otautahi / Christ-church. She grew up on the side of a hill with a view of the mountains and rooms full of books. Maria has campaigned on feminist, peace, poverty and other human rights issues for many years. She has an honors degree in politics, is qualified as a librarian and now works as an informa-tion architect. She lives with her scientist partner and their two daughters on Kapiti Coast. Her poems have been published internationally and locally including in Shenandoah, Magma Poetry, Sport and NZ Listener. In 2013 her chap book The Rope Walk was published by Seraph Press.



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Some Things to Place in a CoffinBill Manhire

Bill Manhire’s first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence ‘Known Unto God’, commissioned for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of memory and mortality, which are also full of jokes and good tunes. Some Things to Place in a Coffin is published simultaneously with Tell Me My Name, Bill Manhire’s new poetry + photographs + CD collaboration with composer Norman Meehan, singer Hannah Griffin and pho-tographer Peter Peryer.

Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946 and educated at the Universities of Otago and London. For many years he taught at Victoria University, where he founded the International Institute of Modern Letters, which is home to New Zealand’s leading creative writing pro-gram. He is now Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Victoria, and was recently UNESCO Visiting Profes-sor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.



Tell me My NameBill Manhire

Tell Me My Name is a sequence of thirteen riddles by Bill Manhire, set to music by composer Norman Meehan and sung by Hannah Griffin. This hardback book in-cludes the full texts and eight photographs by celebrated artist Peter Peryer, and includes a music CD. The stage production will be premiered at Wanaka’s Festival of Color in April 2017, and performed elsewhere in New Zealand later in the year. Bill Manhire, Norman Meehan and Hannah Griffin have collaborated on four celebrated earlier releases: Buddhist Rain, Making Baby Float and Small Holes in the Silence (Rattle Records) and These Rough Notes (VUP). Tell Me My Name is pub-lished simultaneously with Bill Manhire’s new poetry collection Some Things to Place in a Coffin.

Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in 1946 and educated at the Universities of Otago and London. For many years he taught at Victoria University, where he founded the International Institute of Modern Letters, which is home to New Zealand’s leading creative writing pro-gram. He is now Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Victoria, and was recently UNESCO Visiting Profes-sor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Truth and BeautyVerse Biography in Canada, Austrlia and New ZealandAnna Jackson

Truth and Beauty turns critical attention to an exciting genre that lies at the inter-section of biography and poetry, narrative and lyric, history and the confessional. With essays on influential verse biogra-phers Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Porter, Michael Ondaatje, Jennifer Maiden and Anne Carson along with newer practi-tioners including Chris Orsman, Jordie Albiston, Robert Sullivan, Tusiata Avia and Amy Brown, this collection looks at the inevitable tensions that arise between historical fact and the work of imagina-tion—and the competing and complemen-tary claims of truth and beauty.

Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English literature at Victoria University of Wellington, and author of six collec-tions of poetry, most recently I, Clodia (Auckland University Press, 2014). Helen Rickerby has published four books of po-etry, most recently Cinema (Makaro Press, 2014), and continues to explore the lives of others as a poetic subject. She is the managing editor of boutique publishing company Seraph Press. Angelina Sbroma is a doctoral student in English literature at Victoria University of Wellington. Her the-sis focuses on children’s fantasy literature.

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The RadioLeontia Flynn

In The Radio, Leontia Flynn exercises her signature wit, formal inventiveness, bitter irony, and unique blend of vernac-ular speech and literary allusion. In the title poem, the radio is a portal from the outside world, piping “explosive news” of the Northern Irish Troubles into the poet’s childhood home, her mother constantly turning to “field the blow” from her chil-dren’s ears.

Leontia Flynn was born in County Down, Northern Ireland. Her previous poetry collections—These Days (2004), Drives (2008), and Profit and Loss (2011)—have won much acclaim, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Eric Gregory Award, as well as being shortlist-ed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

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Memoirs of the World, in Ten FragmentsV.B. Price

We live in an improbable world; an often inexplicable world; a world literally beyond belief. V.B. Price does not pretend to explain or impose a narrative or find meaning. A “memoir of the world” must, therefore, be random, occasional, infini-tesimal, so incomplete as to be virtually nonexistent—and absolutely fascinating.

V.B. Price is a poet, journalist, environ-mental writer and human rights columnist, working in New Mexico and the South-west since l962. He’s the former editor of Century Magazine, New Mexico Maga-zine, The New Mexico Mercury (online), and a long-time columnist at the New Mexico Independent and The Albuquerque Tribune. He retired in 2010 as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press. Price received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Litt.D) from the University of New Mexico in 2016, and was awarded the Paul Re’ Peace Prize at UNM for “life-time achievement” the same year.

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MississippiAnn Fisher-Wirth

Photographer Maude Schuyler Clay

“The imperishable quiet at the heart of form.” This quietness to be found by contemplating the photographs of Maude Schuyler Clay was at the heart of Ann Fisher-Wirth’s poetic process, which involved listening—listening to the voices that spoke their stories somehow in connection, however oblique, with the photographs. Clay is a seventh- generation Mississippian; Fisher-Wirth has lived there for 30 years, so the imag-es and words represent long, complicated accumulations and recombinations of visual and linguistic experience.

Maude Schuyler Clay was born in Green-wood, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Academy of Arts, she assisted the pho-tographer William Eggleston. Her photo-graphs have appeared in publications such as Esquire, Fortune, and Vanity Fair, and are included in the collections of The Mu-seum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, and the High Museum, Atlanta, among others. Ann Fisher-Wirth holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School. Fisher-Wirth has held Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden.

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DividedLinda Frank

From fireflies to the use of feathers to adorn hats, Linda Frank looks deeply into humanity’s interactions with the animal world, considering both our fascination with and fear of it, and our exploitation of all species. These poems investigate the fearsomeness of nature, cataloging its shimmering beauty in crisp lines before showing the uncompromising endings. This is a collection written with a bot-anist’s eye and a scientist’s attention to cause and effect, both a lament and paean to a world that is vanishing.

Linda Frank was born in Montreal and now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. A retired professor from Mohawk College, she has written three books of poetry: Cobalt Moon Embrace, Insomnie Blues and Kahlo: The World Split Open, which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She is a past winner of the Banff Centre’s Bliss Carman Poetry Award and has been short-listed for the National Magazine Awards.

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Listen Before TransmitDani Couture

Dani Couture’s latest poems are trans-missions that travel across the cosmos, the spaces we live in, as well as within the more intimate distances we navigate between one another. Distances we hope to bridge with contact, often to profound or disastrous effects. With language rooted in science, sociology, memoir and aesthet-ics, she questions the limits of our bodies, both human and celestial. Like the subtle cues we lend one another and the hopeful messages we send into deep space, these poems broadcast our greatest aspirations and vulnerabilities.

Dani Couture is the author of three collec-tions of poetry and the novel Algoma. Her work has been nominated for the Trillium Award for Poetry, received an honour of distinction from the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerg-ing LGBTQ Writers and won the ReLit Award for Poetry. Her poems have ap-peared in publications in Canada, the US and the UK, and in several editions of Best Canadian Poetry in English.


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Ten-Headed AlienDavid James Brock

Ten-Headed Alien draws from sci-fi and poli-sci, prog rock and politics, climate fiction and ancient mythology to create poems that are at once global and per-sonal. The opening sections of the book take the reader on a harrowing sea-to-sky epic, from a drunken plane crash in the BC interior to a ruined picnic on the Rhone. Mythological creatures battle in subway stations, bionic pigeons flee their creators, barflies conjure soulmates, balloon farms exist on the moon and pigs, of course, fly. From Lake Nipissing to the moons of Ju-piter, these poems travel around the world (and off it) united by the language of human fragility, and a sense of the body as engineered, temporary and exquisitely sad.

David James Brock is a playwright, poet and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada and the UK. He is the winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian Na-tional Playwriting Award for his play Wet. Brock’s debut poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, was released by Wolsak & Wynn in spring 2014.


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New Business & Economics Titles IPG – SPRING 2018

A Manager’s Guide to Developing Competencies in HR StaffTips and Tools for Improving Proficiency in Your ReportsPhyllis G. Hartman

Workplace leaders are challenged with not just having people who can do the job today, but who are prepared to step up when things change tomorrow. For HR talent strategy, workforce planning, organizational design, and employee development to be successful, HR executives and managers need to understand and use SHRM competencies effectively. The Guide provides an easy-to-use roadmap for HR managers and small business executives to develop employee proficiency in the core HR competencies. Loaded with tips, techniques, assessments tools, and real-life stories of management successes, it takes the mystery out of HR staff development by showing the value of the SHRM competen-cies in business and then clearly establishing the links between various competencies and HR functions. It also offers activities HR managers can use to develop their own competencies and features Proficiency Indicators for different levels of HR staff and charts and forms to help make the process of developing HR staff a little easier.

Phyllis G. Hartman, SPHR, is the founder of PGHR Consult-ing, Inc., and has spent close to 30 years as an HR professional. A frequent speaker on HR, business, and career development topics, Hartman is a member of SHRM’s Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Special Expertise Panel. She is also an active member of the SHRM Advocacy Team (A-Team), providing advocacy for HR legislation.

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 160 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9781586444365RIGHTS: WORLD

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JANUARY

Making an Impact in Small Business HR Series

Applying Critical EvaluationMaking an Impact in Small BusinessJennifer Currence

Applying Critical Evaluation draws from existing thought lead-ership and real-life examples to provide ready-to-use recommen-dations HR professionals can incorporate in nearly every aspect of the job—from selecting an HRIS and identifying training programs to developing an onboarding process and proposing organizational restructuring. Written especially for HR profes-sionals in small businesses and HR departments of one, Applying Critical Evaluation highlights best practices for interpreting and promoting findings to better inform business decisions. Featuring tools, worksheets, case studies, and assessments that can be used immediately and applied every day, it is a resource HR profes-sionals will regularly consult.

Jennifer Currence is the president of OnCore Management Solu-tions in Tampa Bay, Florida, where she partners with leaders and companies to improve performance of people operations. She has been recognized as a thought leader by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), a subject matter expert by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and has been featured in HR Magazine and on BambooHR.com. Cur-rence has 20 years of experience in human resources, earned her MBA with an emphasis in management, and holds nationally accredited certifications in coaching (CPC) and human resources (SPHR and SHRM-SCP). She is a professor of management at the University of Tampa and served as project editor for SHRM’s 2016 Learning System.

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 128 PAGES, 6 X 94 CHARTS, 5 TABLESTRADE PAPER, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9781586444426RIGHTS: WORLD

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HR on PurposeDeveloping Deliberate People PassionSteve Browne

Can you be in HR for more than 30 years and still be geeked about it? The answer is—YES you can!! HR leader and popular “Everyday People” blogger Steve Browne takes a fresh look at HR through an engaging assortment of real-life examples, insights, and epiphanies and encourages practitioners to drop the preconceptions of what HR should be and instead look to what HR could be. Read this book to rekindle your passion for a field that is vibrant and vital and touch the lives of everyone your encounter with HR on Purpose!

An accomplished speaker, writer, and thought leader on Human Resource Management for more than 30 years, Steve Browne is dedicated to connecting the global HR community and helping it learn and grow together. Browne has held HR roles in various industries, including manu-facturing, consumer products, professional services, and restaurants.

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 152 PAGES, 6 X 91 B&W ILLUSTRATIONTRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781586444259RIGHTS: WORLD


From Hello to GoodbyeProactive Tips for Maintaining Positive Employee RelationsSecond editionChristine V. Walters

From Hello to Goodbye is the HR profes-sional’s complete guide to understanding the various ways business relationships end, managing disability and leave issues, properly classifying workers, maintaining an inclusive workplace, increasing reten-tion, and avoiding litigation. The second edition has been updated to reflect new research and best practices in addition to recent legal and regulatory compliance complexities.

Christine V. Walters MAS, JD, SPHR, has nearly 25 years of combined experience in HR administration, management, em-ployment law practice, and teaching. She has been engaged as an expert witness, and testified before the U.S. Congress, state legislative committees, and federal administrative agencies. Ms. Walters has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of media, including television, radio, and print media.

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 162 PAGES, 6 X 96 CHARTS, 6 TABLESTRADE PAPER, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9781586444471 (REPLACES: 9781586442064) RIGHTS: WORLD


Point Counterpoint IINew Perspectives on People + StrategyAnna A. Tavis and Marc B. Sokol

Edited by Richard M. Vosburgh

This book is the second in a series originat-ed with Point Counterpoint in 2012 which addressed the five knowledge areas of HR Strategy and Planning; Leadership Devel-opment, Talent Management, Organization Effectiveness, and Building a Strategic HR Function. This book contains 16 sets of Point Counterpoint debates addressing five key topics at the intersection of People and Strategy: The Future of HR, Leadership and Talent Development, Performance and Potential Management, Organizational De-sign, Organizational Purpose and Health.

Marc B. Sokol, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist, consultant, executive coach, writer, and speaker on workplace dynam-ics. Anna A. Tavis, Ph.D., is a clinical as-sociate professor of leadership and human capital management at New York Univer-sity and a researcher, writer, speaker, and global educator focused on the Future of Work. Richard M. Vosburgh, Ph.D., has 40 years of human resource and organization-al development experience and is president of RMV Solutions since retiring as senior vice president and chief human resource officer at KEMET Electronics Corporation.

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 120 PAGES, 8.5 X 11TRADE PAPER, $39.99 (CAN $53.99)ISBN: 9781586444181RIGHTS: WORLD




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Touching People’s LivesLeaders’ Sorrow or JoyMichael R. Losey

In Touching People’s Lives, former SHRM CEO and master storyteller, offers a well-spring of experience and inspiration on the challenge for all leaders charged with the development of people to responsibly cultivate compassion, integrity, courage, and accountability in all they do, regard-less of how difficult the challenge. Along the way Losey gives readers a front row seat to many of the major developments in the field of Human Resource Management and reveals his own journey of connecting HR to the business, managing diversity, working on competencies, ensuring ethics, and helping to create a profession.

Michael R. Losey, SPHR, CAE, is a past president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Before being named to the Society’s top position in 1990, Losey previously served 30 years in HR management and executive level positions with two Fortune corpora-tions. He has been active in international human resources and is a past president of the North American Human Resource Management Association (NAHRMA) and the World Federation of Personnel Man-agement Associations (WFPMA).

MANAGEMENT/BUSINESS, 220 PAGES, 6 X 92 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9781586444310RIGHTS: WORLD

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Inspirational LeadershipMobilising Super-Performance Through EMOTIONChris Edger and Tony Hughes

Calling all leaders and managers! How do truly Inspirational Leaders move ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things? Packed with twenty-six case studies show-casing inspirational leadership practice from leaders from organizations such as TUI, Hilton, Domino’s Pizza, Al Tayer, Burberry, Malmaison and many more, this book outlines how they practice the au-thors’ ground-breaking concept of eMO-TION - moving, shifting, mobilizing and reframing feelings, mindsets and behaviors at each stage of the employment cycle to mobilize super-performance.

Professor Chris Edger PhD is a multiple author on retail leadership whose latest book Franchising was shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 CMI Management Book of the Year. Tony Hughes is a luminary of the UK food service industry. During his career he established TGI Friday’s in the UK and was responsible for develop-ing brands such as Toby, Vintage Inns, Premium County Dinning, Village Pub & Kitchen, Miller & Carter and acquiring Harvester, Browns and Alex in Germany.



Innovation in OrganizationsInformal Networks, Knowledge Sharing, and the Development of Firms’ Innovative CapabilitiesMarco Tortoriello

The book is based on an empirical analysis of large high tech companies and how sci-entists, researchers and engineers manage knowledge flow to generate innovative outcomes. The book should be useful to managers interested in promoting the generation of innovations in all those orga-nizations in which knowledge is of essence (R&D laboratory, Consulting Firms, Law firms, Advertising Agencies).

Marco Tortoriello is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizations in the Depart-ment of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. He was Associate Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School and Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris.

MANAGEMENT, 110 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9788885486331RIGHTS: WORLD X ITALY

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Management of Cultural FirmsManagement delle aziende culturali

Edited by Fabrizio Cirrincione, Paola Dubini, and Fabrizio Montanari

Cultural organizations play a crucial role in the contemporary society, thus, they need to respond to expectations of multi-ple private and public actors and, more-over, they have specific characteristics. For these reasons, it is not possible to apply managerial practices tested in other situa-tions, but it is necessary to carefully recog-nize their social and cultural peculiarities. Therefore, this book aims at providing an overall view of the managerial issues and conditions to be met for a business to be well-managed, and subsequently reflecting on how it is possible to apply them to the world of art and culture.

Fabrizio Cirrincione is Lecturer of Marketing at Bocconi University, where he is also Faculty Affiliate at ASK Re-search Center. Paola Dubini is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepre-neurship at Università Bocconi. Fabrizio Montanari is Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University, where he is also Research Affiliate at ASK Research Center.

MANAGEMENT, 344 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $64.95 (CAN $87.95)ISBN: 9788885486294RIGHTS: WORLD X ITALY


Political EconomicsRedistributive PoliciesVincenzo Galasso

This book is written for undergraduate students in Economics and in Political Science who want to learn about the political economics of redistributive policies. It provides a positive analysis of the political process behind the design and implementation of redistributive policies, by using the minimum level of mathemat-ical formalization required, in an attempt to be accessible to second- and third-year undergraduate students.

Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of Eco-nomics at Bocconi University, where he is the Director of the BSc in International Politics and Government, and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

ECONOMICS, 144 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $29.95 (CAN $39.95)ISBN: 9788885486270RIGHTS: WORLD X ITALY


Corporate Debt ManagementDebt Management

Alberto Dell’Acqua

Corporate Debt Management is an essen-tial, practical and easy-to-read book . It summarizes in simple and clear terms the main theoretical contributions on the sub-ject of debt decision choices and effectively illustrates their main managerial implica-tions. Moreover, it adds to the management knowledge by providing practical examples on how to implement an optimal capital structure, using real financial data, and how to construct and use a debt management plan. The book also provides a clear man-agement guide of the banking and capital markets instruments to design the most coherent financial structure for a company.

Alberto Dell’Acqua is Lecturer at the De-partment of Finance at Bocconi University and Director of the Master in Corporate Finance at the SDA Bocconi School of Management (16th-17th-18th Editions).

MANAGEMENT, 120 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9788885486355RIGHTS: WORLD X ITALY

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Original or Fake?How to Counter Counterfeiting Through Your Supply Chain Protection StrategyLa filiera del vero

Iolanda D’Amato

The content is original because is one of the few work which tries to address the counterfeiting and illegitimate trade topic considering a strategic and supply chain management perspective. Generally this topic is dealt at a functional level or considering mainly the legal and legislative aspects or the macroeconomic impacts, the book aims at proposing an holistic approach that companies should adopt to counter these phenomena, connecting operations, marketing and legal studies. It discusses the topic of counterfeiting and grey market, while other publications mainly focus on only one aspect. In addi-tion to this, it includes several company cases of very famous brands, such as Prada, Versace, and Luxottica.

Iolanda D’Amato is contract Professor at Bocconi University and Lecturer at the Operations and Technology Management Unit, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan.



Event MarketingDiego Rinallo

What is the role of events in the market-ingcommunication mix? What goals can be legitimatelyattributed to events? How to use eventsto deliver memorable experi-ences? How to measureevent results and maximize returns on investments?How to deal effectively with event agencies?Read-ers will find hands-on answers to all the-sequestions in this book, written bearing in mind the knowledgeneeds of companies that want to employ eventsas part of their marketing communication mix. It will bea stimulating reading for brand, product, communicationand event managers, for account managers andcreative directors in event agencies, for marketing andcommu-nication students, and for all those who aspireto get a job in the world of market-ing events.

Diego Rinallo is Associate Professor of Marketing and Consumer Culture at KEDGE Business School. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, where he obtained his PhD in Business Administration. His research investigates marketing and consumption from a cultural perspective, with a focus on gender issues, fashion, advertising, and spirituality/religion.



What’s Fashion? It’s Method!Edited by Carla Lunghi, Francesca Romana Rinaldi, and Marco Turinetto

Foreword by Arturo Dell’Acqua Bellavitis

This book is an editorial project on the meanings of Fashion System today in a future perspective. Its purpose is standing out among the publications on the subject because of its easy approach to this very interesting and fully investigated world. It will be particularly interesting for students on the subject because it introduces them to the huge range of issues raised by the creative, production and communication processes involved in fashion businesses.

Arturo Dell’Acqua Bellavitis is Director of the Triennale di Milano and Full Professor of Industrial design, Interior design, Textile design and Fashion design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Carla Lunghi is an Associ-ate Professor at the Sociology of Cultural Processes department, Università Cattolica. Francesca Romana Rinaldi is Professor in Management of Fashion Companies at Bocconi University and SDA Assistant Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Man-agement. Marco Turinetto is Professor at Politecnico di Milano.



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Indian Economy Performance and PoliciesEighteenth EditionUma Kapila

Written in a clear and objective manner, this revised edition of the popular text-book provides comprehensive coverage of the Indian economy. With extensive references to original works, this account examines updated data and answers important financial questions on topics that include basic issues in economic development, economy and independence, policy regimes, development and structural change, and sectoral trends and issues. Especially designed for less advanced stu-dents, this resource is an ideal introduction to the Indian economy.

Dr. Uma Kapila, author/editor of several other books, retired as Reader, Dept. of Economics, Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has taught Indian economy to undergraduate students for more than 42 years. Currently, she is Senior Editor, Academic Foundation. Her textbooks on Indian economy are highly acclaimed bestsellers.

ECONOMICS/ASIAN STUDIES 508 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $45.95 (CAN $61.95)ISBN: 9789332704343 (REPLACES: 9789332703766) RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

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Indian Economy Since Independence, 28th EditionA Comprehensive and Critical Analysis of India’s Economy, 1947-2017Edited by Uma Kapila

Revised annually, this prized collection of articles by India’s topmost economists and experts contains original readings, notes, and excerpts from plan documents, presenting a comprehensive and critical analysis of Indian economy since indepen-dence (1947–2017). Contributors: Arnab Acharya, Sanghmitra Acharya, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Rama Baru, Aditya Bhat-tacharjea, David E. Bloom, S. Mahendra Dev, Biswajit Dhar, Ashok Gulati, Uma Kapila, Vijay Kelkar, K.L. Krishna, Nagesh Kumar, A.K. Shiva Kumar, and others.

Uma Kapila, PhD, is the senior editor for the Academic Foundation; a coeditor of numerous books on India’s economy, banking, and finance, that include Indian Financial Reforms (2013) and 1991-2011: Two Decades of Economic Reforms in India (2012). She is a former professor of Indian economics at the University of Delhi.

ECONOMICS/ASIAN STUDIES, 972 PAGES, 6 X 9190 TABLES, 96 GRAPHSTRADE PAPER, $59.95 (CAN $80.95)ISBN: 9789332704329RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


India’s Economy: Pre-Liberalisation to GSTEssays in Honour of Raj KapilaEdited by Uma Kapila

The year 2017 marks the 70th year of India’s independence. The country’s transformation from a colonially sub-jugated economy to the fastest growing major economy of the world is impressive and laudable. But the coming decade is going to be crucial for the nation. Looking ahead, what does the economic roadmap for India look like? Critical questions need to be asked and addressed.

Uma Kapila has taught Indian Economy to undergraduate students for over forty-two years. She retired as Reader from the De-partment of Economics, Miranda House, University of Delhi. Presently, she is Edi-torial Director, Academic Foundation. An Honours Graduate from Miranda House, University of Delhi and MA and PhD from Delhi School of Economics (DSE), Dr Kapila has also served on the Planning Commission Study Group on “Agricultural Strategies in the Eastern Region of India for the Seventh Five Year Plan” (Perspec-tive Planning Division).

ECONOMICS, 738 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.253 COLOR PHOTOS, 1 COLOR ILLUSTRATION, 66 TABLES, 38 GRAPHS, 1 MAPCLOTH, $79.95 (CAN $107.95)ISBN: 9789332704312RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN




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West Asia in a Changing WorldThe Emerging Regional Architecture and IndiaEdited by Bansidhar Pradhan

The global context in the last few decades, particularly after 11 September 2001, has changed phenomenally, affecting every aspect of international relations. West Asia, being a strategically important region, has been greatly affected by these changes. At the same time, the developments within the region have also shaped the broader dynamics of international relations and politics. The chapters contained in this volume, organized through seven themat-ic sections, reflect a wide range of issues and also provide perspectives of Indian scholars engaged in studying the West Asian region. The volume would be useful for general readers, experts and policy makers interested in understanding the fast changing developments in West Asia and its impact on India-West Asia relations.

Bansidhar Pradhan is Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of From Confrontation to Hostile Intimacy: The PLO and the US; Shuttle Diplomacy and the Palestine Question; and Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in West Asia.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 718 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25CLOTH, $79.95 (CAN $107.95)ISBN: 9789332704121RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


India’s Demographic Dividend and Youth EmpowermentBuilding Blocks for a Youth PolicyEdited by Shreekant Sambrani and V S Vyas

India’s unique advantage of a large young population is widely recognized. The potential advantage of its demographic dividend for the country and the youth can be reaped provided it looks into its policies and programmes on education, health, livelihood and citizenship, with a view to empower its young population. Some of the leading educators, civil society leaders and policy advisors look into these aspects and provide insightful suggestions. The book is enriched by four case studies from Punjab, Rajsthan, Kerala and Odisha.

Shreekant Sambrani is an engineer (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay/North-western University) and an economist (Cornell University). He is a management researcher/adviser. Vijay Shankar Vyas is the Chairman of the Ajit Foundation, an institution working for last two decades for empowering youth. He has a PhD in economics and has taught at Bombay Uni-versity, Sardar Patel University and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

ECONOMICS, 164 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25CLOTH, $49.95 (CAN $66.95)ISBN: 9789332704183RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


India 2047Voices of the YoungEdited by Bibek Debroy

Foreword by Arvind Subramanian

The National Institution for Transform-ing India, also called NITI Aayog, is the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, providing both directional and policy inputs. Niti Aayog has an initiative known as the Young Pro-fessionals (YPs) program. Some YPs join Niti Aayog immediately after completing higher education others have a few years of experience and come from a diverse and varied background (in terms of region, eth-nicity, gender, caste and religion). 20 YPs were invited to write brief essays on what they would like India to be like in 2047, focusing on what interested them personal-ly and individually.

Bibek Debroy is an economist and was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur; Presidency College, Kolkata; Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. Serving as Member, NITI Aayog, Government of India, Bibek Debroy has been recently appointed Chair-man of the Economic Advisory Council to India’s Prime Minister. Arvind Subramani-an is Chief Economic Advisor, Govenment of India.

ECONOMICS, 162 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25CLOTH, $39.95 (CAN $53.95)ISBN: 9789332703902RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


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New African Thinkers:Agenda 2063, Drivers of ChangeEdited by Olga Bialostocka and Thokozani Simelane

The African Union’s Agenda 2063 is ambitious. It advocates for, among others, equitable and people-centred growth and development; eradication of poverty; development of human capital; creation of infrastructure and provision of public goods and services; empowerment of women and youth; promotion of peace and security, and the strengthening of democratic states, and creating participatory and accountable governance institu-tions. New African Thinkers: Agenda Africa, 2063 presents the thinking of emerging scholars on these critical issues – those on whose shoulders the responsibility rests for taking this agenda forward. The book will be an essential reference for researchers and educators who are interested in Africa’s developmental path as designed in the Agenda 2063.

Olga Bialostocka is an Y-rated researcher interested in the broad field of culture as a pillar of and a resource for sustainable devel-opment, including the questions of benefits and shortcomings of using cultural approach to development, cultural diversity and intercultural education, cultural heritage management, as well as issues related to indigenous populations and cultural minorities in the context of globalization and human rights. Thokozani Simelne holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, Master of Science Degree, Doctor of Philosophy and a Doctorate of Engineering (D. Eng). He has published fifteen journal articles in a number of international scientific journals and co-edited six books.

AFRICAN STUDIES/SOCIAL SCIENCE, 160 PAGES, 6.5 X 9.54 CHARTS, 11 TABLES, 2 GRAPHS, 1 MAPTRADE PAPER, $17.95 (CAN $23.95)ISBN: 9780796925602RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Competition in AfricaInsights from Key IndustriesSimon Roberts

The nature of competitive rivalry, and the power and interests of large firms and their owners, is at the heart of how countries de-velop. Large firms shape the economy as these firms can make the investments required in productive capacity, provide the upstream inputs and services required by smaller businesses and, in many areas, are also the main routes to market. At the same time these firms tend to have market power if competition between them is weak. In crude terms, it is critical whether these firms are able to focus on extracting rents through market power, or whether the returns reward their effort, creativity and entrepreneurship. Competition authorities and economic regulators are critical institutions in restraining the market power of firms while at the same tie taking into account the need to incentivise investment. The book maps out key issues in competition through four key industry studies across Southern and East Africa.

Simon Roberts is a professor of economics and executive director of the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Devel-opment (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg. Simon has been an expert economic witness in a number of major compe-tition cases in South Africa and has advised competition author-ities and governments across many African countries on issues of competition and economic policy. Simon held the position of chief economist and manager of the Policy and Research Division at the Competition Commission of South Africa from 2006 to 2012. He has a PhD from the University of London (Birkbeck College), an MA from the University of East Anglia and a BA Hons from Oxford University.

AFRICAN STUDIES/ECONOMICS, 176 PAGES, 6.5 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $19.95 (CAN $26.95)ISBN: 9780796925459RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Building Equitable Cities: How to Drive Economic Mobility and Regional GrowthJanis Bowdler, Henry Cisneros, Jeffrey Lubell, and Patrick L. Phillips

How can cities promote economic mobility, advance equity, and drive growth? Through an analysis of best practices, proven pol-icies, and case study examples, you will get practical insights into how your community can expand opportunity for more citizens and boost economic expansion. The book provides real world examples of both place-based and people-based strategies that are being used successfully to provide more equitable outcomes.

Janis Bowdler is the global head of community development, small business, and financial health strategies within Global Philanthropy for JPMorgan Chase & Co., a leader in corporate philanthropy that dedicates about $250 million a year to driving inclusive growth. Henry Cisneros is chairman and cofounder of CityView, which invests in urban residential real estate projects, and is chairman of the executive committee of Siebert Cisneros Shank, a national public and corporate markets finance firm. Jef-frey Lubell is the director of housing and community initiatives at Abt Associates, a mission-driven, global leader in research, evaluation, and program implementation in the fields of health, social, and environmental policy. Patrick L. Phillips is the global chief executive officer of the Urban Land Institute. Since taking the chief executive position in 2009, Phillips has overseen an expansion of ULI’s global reach, guiding the Institute’s focus on creating thriving communities in rapidly urbanizing countries.

ECONOMICS, 180 PAGES, 6 X 9FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9780874204100TRADE PAPER, $14.95 (CAN $19.95) ISBN: 9780874204117 RIGHTS: WORLD

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Yes in My Backyard: How States and Cities Can Find Common Ground in Expanding Housing Choice and OpportunityRosemarie Hepner, Lisa Sturtevant, and Stockton Williams

Rising housing costs are creating hardships for millions of house-holds and taking a toll on economic growth and productivity. One major reason for the worsening housing afford¬ability problem is a lack of new housing, especially in the job-rich regions where housing demand is greatest. This report focuses on the large-ly-overlooked opportunities for state and local governments to partner to foster a healthier housing market, and offers specific solutions for public and private sector leaders who want to expand housing choice and opportunity.

Rosemarie Hepner serves as Director of the ULI Terwilliger Cen-ter for Housing. Ms. Hepner joins ULI with significant experience in low-income housing research and data analysis. Before joining ULI in 2017, she worked for two international development nonprofits, most recently as the International Capital Markets Specialist at Habitat for Humanity International. Lisa Sturtevant, Ph.D. is president of Lisa Sturtevant & Associates and former vice president for research at the National Housing Conference. She joined the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing as a senior visiting fellow on July 1, 2016. Stockton Williams is Executive Vice President for Content and Executive Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. Mr. Williams leads the strategic direction of the Center and the design and implementation of its initiatives, which span a broad range of housing issues, including affordable/workforce, senior, and market-rate housing.

ARCHITECTURE/LAW, 32 PAGES, 8.5 X 11FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $12.95 (CAN $16.95)ISBN: 9780874204070RIGHTS: WORLD

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New Political Science Titles

Ethics Under FireChallenges for the Australian ArmyEdited by Tom Frame and Albert Palazzo

Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military’s commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire—a timely and compelling book—asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can’t ignore. Including chapters on social media and violence, cyberweapons, ethics in special operations, and human-itarian deployments, leading military personnel, aid workers, commentators, and academics discuss the Australian Army’s commitment to behaving ethically, and the challenges involved.

Tom Frame was a naval officer for 15 years before being ordained to the Angli-can ministry. He served as Bishop to the Australian Defence Force from 2001–2007 and is the author and editor of 35 books on a range of topics including the ethics of armed conflict. Albert Palazzo is the Direc-tor of Research for the Australian Army. He has published widely on the history of the Australian Army.

MILITARY/HISTORY, 320 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $39.99 (CAN $53.99)ISBN: 9781742235493RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


The Strategic Corporal RevisitedChallenges Facing Combatants in 21st-Century WarfareEdited by Deane-Peter Baker and David W Lovell

As we enter an era of multidimensional warfare, and technological innovations continue to accelerate the pace of war, the importance of decisions made by junior military leaders—some of them with stra-tegic impact—continues to grow exponen-tially. US Marine Corps General Charles C. Krulak coined the term ‘The Strategic Corporal’ nearly two decades ago, and it is more relevant today than ever. This book is the first scholarly analysis of the challenges facing Strategic Corporals—and those who seek to prepare and equip them—in the 21st century.

Deane-Peter Baker is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Ethics in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy. David Lovell is Professor of International and Political Studies, and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

MILITARY/POLITICAL SCIENCE 224 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $33.95 (CAN $45.95)ISBN: 9781775822202RIGHTS: US & CANADA

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS JANUARY

Recovering Democracy in South AfricaRaymond Suttner

South Africa’s hard-won democracy was the main victim of the chaos in parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address. In Recovering Democracy in South Africa, Raymond Suttner brings together the best of his recent thinking; he offers a fresh look at the wide range of contentious issues that currently preoccupy South Africans, from the threat to constitu-tionalism to problems with leadership and questions of ethics. The book is as much an in-depth engagement with our difficult present as it is a damning account of the politics of the Zuma era.

Raymond Suttner, who lives in Johannes-burg, is a part-time professor at Rhodes University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa. Initially a legal academic, he later obtained an inter-disciplinary PHD in history, political stud-ies and sociology. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, as described in one of his earlier works, Inside Apartheid’s Prison (2001). More recently, his book The ANC Underground was published by Jacana (2008).

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 256 PAGES, 6.25 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $21.95 (CAN $29.95)ISBN: 9781431421589RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND



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A Charter of Rights for AustraliaDaniel Reynolds and George Williams

Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means there is no comprehen-sive law that enshrines human rights in Aus-tralia—even though these laws are standard in the rest of the developed world. So what does this mean for the rights of Australian citizens? In this fully revised fourth edition of A Charter of Rights for Australia, George Williams and Daniel Reynolds show that human rights are not adequately protected in Australia, contrary to what many of us think. Using some pressing examples, they demonstrate how the rights of people at the margins of our society are violated in often shocking ways.

Daniel Reynolds is a lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, and in 2017 served as an Associate of the High Court of Austra-lia. He is the author of an original book entitled Leading Cases in Australian Law (with Lyndon Goddard), and has also writ-ten book chapters, media pieces, and 13 law journal articles. George Williams AO is the Dean, the Anthony Mason Professor, and a Scientia Professor at UNSW Law. He has written and edited 34 books.

LAW, 232 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $34.99 (CAN $46.99)ISBN: 9781742235431 (REPLACES: 9780868409269) RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


Miners Shot DownRehad Desai

An investigation of the killing of 34 miners by police during a six day strike in South Africa.

Rehad Desai is the internationally ac-claimed producer of Born into Struggle, Bushman’s Secret and the Emmy award winning Miners Shot Down.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1 PAGES, 4.75 X 4.75RUNTIME: 1:77:00DVD, $8.95 (CAN $11.95)ISBN: 9780620598040RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Inside Apartheid’s PrisonRaymond Suttner

Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001, the book was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2002. In the public imagination the struggle that saw the end of apartheid and the inauguration of a democratic South Africa is seen as one waged by black people who were often imprisoned or killed for their efforts. Raymond Suttner, an academic, is one of a small group of white South Africans who was imprisoned for his efforts to overthrow the apartheid regime.

Raymond Suttner, who lives in Johannes-burg, is a part-time professor at Rhodes University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa. Initially a legal academic, he later obtained an interdisciplinary PhD in history, political studies and sociology. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, as described in this re-issued edition.

BIOGRAPHY/POLITICAL SCIENCE 232 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $22.95 (CAN $30.95)ISBN: 9781431425174RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


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The Giant is FallingRehad Desai

The Giant is Falling takes a sweeping look at the big political events of recent years that signify the end of an era in South Africa. With declining popularity at the polls and the real possibility of losing the comfortable majority the ANC has enjoyed for two decades, the big debate in South Africa is whether or not the party can recover its reputation as the most respect-ed liberation movement in the world? Lo-cating the moment when things fell apart as the Marikana Massacre, the film charts the various ways people have collectively responded to the ANC’s failure to deliver on its promises. Bookmarked by the 2016 Local Elections, The Giant is Falling asks why South Africa, a middle-income coun-try, rich in mineral wealth has failed to address inequality in twenty-two years of democracy and why the gap between rich and poor is growing.

Rehad Desai is the internationally ac-claimed producer of Born into Struggle, Bushman’s Secret and the Emmy award winning Miners Shot Down.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1 PAGES, 4.75 X 4.75RUNTIME: 1:77:00DVD, $8.95 (CAN $11.95)ISBN: 9780620745338RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


The ANC Underground in South AfricaRaymond Suttner

It is commonly held that the ANC—after its banning in 1960 and the imprisonment of its leaders—largely disappeared off the face of South Africa until public support for it revived in the wake of the Soweto uprising of 1976. This book takes issue with that view. Drawing on substantial oral testimony, Raymond Suttner develops a convincing case that internally based activists, sometimes working independent-ly of the ANC in exile and sometimes in combination, were able to reconstitute networks within South Africa after the organization’s banning.

Raymond Suttner, who lives in Johannes-burg, is a part-time professor at Rhodes University and an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa. Initially a legal academic, he later obtained an inter-disciplinary PHD in history, political stud-ies and sociology. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, as described in one of his earlier works, Inside Apartheid’s Prison (2001). More recently, his book The ANC Underground was published by Jacana (2008).

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 256 PAGES, 6.25 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $20.95 (CAN $27.95)ISBN: 9781770095977RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Eleven PresidentsPromises vs. Results in Achieving Limited GovernmentIvan Eland

Presidents who claimed to limit govern-ment often actually did the opposite. His-tory often looks unfavorably on presidents who may have actually contributed smart and important policies. Were Harding and Coolidge really as ineffective as their reputations maintain? Did Hoover not do enough to end the Depression? Was Reagan a true champion of small-gov-ernment conservatism? We all know that the American president is one of the most powerful people in the world. But to understand the presidency today we often have to learn from the past. Author Ivan Eland offers a new perspective in Eleven Presidents on the evolution of the exec-utive office by exploring the policies of eleven key presidents who held office over the last one hundred years.

Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Direc-tor of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute. He has been Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and he spent fifteen years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Con-gressional Budget Office.

POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY, 384 PAGES, 6 X 9CLOTH, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781598133066RIGHTS: WORLD

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The Last EmpireNationality and the Soviet FutureRobert Conquest

The historical background, the present position, and the future prospects of both the non-Russian and Russian peoples are considered in their many aspects, as are the maneuvers of the Communist regime to suppress, appease, or make use of them. The future of the Soviet Union, and thus of the world, depends greatly on whether, and how, the Communist leadership, whose own ideology has lost most of its appeal, can adjust to a new surge of national feeling. The authors examine the question from many points of view, in a broad conspectus of political, cultural, economic, demographic, and other approaches.

Robert Conquest was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His awards and honors include the Jefferson Lecture-ship, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for achievement in the humanities (1993), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), the Dan David Prize (2012), Poland’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2009), Estonia’s Cross of Terra Mariana (2008), and the Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav Mudryi (2005).

POLITICAL SCIENCE, 406 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $9.95 (CAN $12.95)ISBN: 9780817982522RIGHTS: WORLD

HOOVER INSTITUTION PRESS/HOOVER PRESS JANUARY

Learning in Higher Education Series

Globalisation of Higher EducationPolitical, Institutional, Cultural, and Personal PerspectivesEdited by John Branch, Anne Hørsted, and Claus Nygaard

Globalization is both an opportunity and a challenge to higher education. Universi-ties open up branches in foreign countries. New educational partnerships are being established across borders. We see glo-balization of higher education on the rise everywhere. Is there a perfect model of glo-balization of higher education? We don’t think so! Nevertheless, we believe that we can learn a lot from studying excellent contextual globalization practices taking place at universities around the world.

Dr. Professor John Branch is an award-winning educator, consultant, speaker, and educational leader, with almost 25 years of experience in more than fifty countries around the world. Anne Hørsted is Adjunct Professor at University of Southern Denmark, Senior consultant at cph:learning, Denmark, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Learning in Higher Education, Denmark. Dr. Professor Claus Nygaard is Executive Director at Institute for Learning in Higher Education, Denmark; Adjunct Professor at Copenha-gen Business School, Denmark.

EDUCATION, 400 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $54.99 (CAN $73.99)ISBN: 9781911450092RIGHTS: WORLD


Circulation of KnowledgeExplorations into the History of KnowledgeEdited by Anna Nilsson Hammar, David Larsson Heidenblad, Kari Nordberg, Johan Östling, and Erling Sandmo

Historians have long been interested in knowledge—its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was creat-ed—but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers address the burning issue of the day: the circulation of knowl-edge in social or scientific circles, and what happens to it when it is in motion.

Anna Nilsson Hammar is a lecturer in history at Lund University. David Larsson Heidenblad is a lecturer in history at Lund University. Kari Nordberg is a historian and lecturer at the University College of Southeast Norway. Johan Östling is associate professor and senior lecturer in history at Lund University. Erling Sandmo is professor of history at the University of Oslo.

CULTURAL STUDIES/HISTORY, 256 PAGES, 5.75 X 8.520 B&W PHOTOSCLOTH, $42.95 (CAN $57.95)ISBN: 9789188661289RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & SOUTH AMERICA

NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS MARCH

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Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901Tim Rowse

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that ‘Aboriginal affairs’ would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not ‘dying out’ as pre-dicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority’s interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 narrates their recovery – not only in numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness.

Tim Rowse has been writing on Australian Indigenous affairs since the early 1980s and is one Australia’s most significant scholars of Indigenous Studies. He worked for many years at the Menzies School for Health Research in Alice Springs.

AUSTRALIAN STUDIES/HISTORY 464 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $45.00 (CAN $61.00)ISBN: 9781742235578RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


Prostitution in Victorian ColchesterControlling the UncontrollableJane Pearson and Maria Rayner

The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic upturn as well as benefiting from the many social events organized by officers. But there was a downside: some of the soldiers’ behavior was highly disruptive and, since very few private soldiers were allowed to marry, prostitution flourished. Having compiled a database of nearly 350 of Colchester’s nineteenth-century prostitutes, the authors examine how they lived and operated and who their customers were.

Jane Pearson taught local and social histo-ry at the University of Essex. She has pub-lished papers on Essex local history and is preparing a medical history of Colchester. Maria Rayner has carried out research into Colchester’s Lock Hospital and currently works within the NHS.

HISTORY/REGIONAL STUDIES 256 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.2525 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $37.95 (CAN $50.95)ISBN: 9781909291973RIGHTS: WORLD X UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE

UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE PRESS/ ESSEX PUBLICATIONS MARCH

Forbidden LivesLGBT Histories from WalesNorena Shopland

Forbidden Lives is a fascinating collection of portraits and discussions that aims to populate LGBT gaps in the history of Wales, a much neglected part of Welsh heritage. In it Norena Shopland reviews the reasons for this neglect while outlining the activity behind the recent growth of the LGBT profile here. She also surveys LGBT people and their activity as far back as Giraldus Cambrensis’ Journey Through Wales in the twelfth century where he reports on ‘bearded women’ and other her-maphrodites. There is still plenty of work to do, as chapters on the responses to Pride in Wales and the first gay play, We All Fall Down, clearly show. But the stories of the people portrayed in the book are less likely to be repeated: the LGBT communi-ty has moved from living forbidden lives to a place largely less forbidding. Norena Shopland helps us understand the struggle which achieved these changes.

Norena Shopland has a Master’s degree in heritage studies and has worked for the British Museum, National Museums Scot-land and the Museum of London. Now living back in Wales she has worked with leading heritage organizations including National Museums Wales, Glamorgan Archives and Cardiff Story.

LGBT STUDIES/HISTORY, 248 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $17.00 (CAN $23.00)ISBN: 9781781724101RIGHTS: US, CANADA, LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

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Reflecting RogueInside the Mind of a FeministPumla Dineo Gqola

Reflecting Rogue is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. In her most personal book to date, written from classic Gqola anti-rac-ist, feminist perspectives, Reflecting Rogue delivers 20 essays of deliciously incisive brain food, all extremely accessible to a general critical readership, without sacrificing intellectual rigor. These include essays on ‘Disappearing Women’, where Gqola spends time exploring what it means to live in a country where women can simply disappear – from a secure Centurion estate in one case, to being a cop in another, and being taken by men who know them. ‘On the beauty of feminist rage’ magically weaves together the shift in gender discourse in South Africa’s public spheres, using examples from #RUReferenceList, #RapeAtAzania and #RememberingKhwezi. While ‘I’ve got all my sisters with me’ explores the heady heights of feminist joy, ‘A meditation on feminist friendship with gratitude’ exposes a new, and more personal side to ever-incisive Gqola.

Pumla Dineo Gqola is the author of What is Slavery to Me? Post-colonial/Slave memory in Post-apartheid South Africa (published by Wits Press in 2010), A Renegade Called Simphiwe (published by MFBooks Joburg in 2013) and editor of Regarding Winnie: Feminism, race and nation in global representations of Winnie Madikizela Mandela (forthcoming with Cassava Republic Press).

CULTURAL STUDIES/WOMEN’S STUDIES, 304 PAGES, 9.25 X 6TRADE PAPER, $21.95 (CAN $29.95)ISBN: 9781920601874RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Miss BehaveMalebo Sephodi

Upon encountering historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s quote, ‘well-behaved women seldom make history’, Malebo Sephodi knew that she was tired of everyone else having a say on who and what she should be. Appropriating this quote, Malebo boldly renounces societal expectations placed on her as a black woman and shares her journey towards misbehavior. According to Malebo, it is the norm for a black woman to live in a soci-ety that prescribes what it means to be a well-behaved woman. Acting like this prescribed woman equals good behavior. But what happens when a black woman decides to live her own life and becomes her own form of who she wants to be? She is often seen as misbehaving. Miss-Behave challenges society’s deep-seat-ed beliefs about what it means to be an obedient woman. In this book, Malebo tracks her journey on a path towards achieving total autonomy and self-determinism. Miss-Behave will challenge, rattle and occasionally cause you to scream ‘yassss, yassss, yassss’ at various intervals.

Malebo Sephodi is a development worker and social commenta-tor on development, identity and gender issues. She goes by the name of Lioness and describes herself as a life nomad. She is the founder of Lady Leader, a platform that allows women to just be.

WOMEN’S STUDIES/SEXUALITY, 200 PAGES, 6 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $20.95 (CAN $27.95)ISBN: 9781928337416RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Black in ChinaA Black Man Experiences Racism - in China and the United StatesAaron A. Vessup

Black in China tells the dynamic story of Aaron A. Vessup, a Black American teacher who, after decades of living in the shadow of America’s racism, makes the radical decision to travel 8,000 miles to find a new future as an educator in China. Aaron’s story spans the gulf between the crooked streets of South-Central LA and the crowded lanes of modern Beijing, providing a rich and intimate view of China today through the eyes of a Black man. Aaron grapples with issues of race and history in both America and China, exploring why he would prefer to be “Black Chinese”, not “Black American.”

Aaron Anthony Vessup was born in Los Angeles, California, the second oldest of sixteen children. He won state recognition as a poetry writer while still at elementary school, and later became a college speech champion, first for California and later Nebraska. After graduating from Nebraska Wesleyan University, he worked for decades as a teacher in universities and schools across the United States, including Elgin Community College in Illinois. He received the Elgin City Martin Luther King award five years in a row for “Outstanding Cross-Cultural Cable TV Programming.” He moved to China is 2004 to continue his teaching career in a fresh environment. In China, he has lived and worked in three different regions and taught communications and culture classes at a number of schools, colleges and universities. He is a pro-lific writer and an award-winning photographer and one of his passions is contributing travel essays and photographic work to Chinese magazines. He now lives happily in Beijing.

AFRICAN AMERICAN/ASIAN STUDIES, 240 PAGES, 6 X 9CLOTH, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9789888422685

TRADE PAPER, $19.99 (CAN $26.99)ISBN: 9789888422166RIGHTS: WORLD X UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE & CHINA


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Oranjezicht City FarmKurt Ackermann, Leonie Joubert, and Sheryl Ozinsky

In 2012, a few volunteers took a neglected piece of land that was a sterile bowling green on the edge of the Cape Town inner city, and turned it into a productive urban food garden. Today the Oranjezicht City Farm has become so much more than that with food growing becoming a way to realise a much wider vision. This small educational non-profit project has hosted thousands of school children, and through its weekly farmer’s market supports numerous small, local farmers, dozens of artisanal food purveyors and the hundreds of jobs they provide. Oranjezicht City Farm: Food Community Connection, tries to capture some of the stories about how this farm, and all the activities around it, came to be.

Kurt Ackermann has been navigating the blurred boundaries between organizations and individuals, private profits and public benefits, doing good and doing well, for two decades. Leonie Joubert is a science writer and author of four books, who has her eye on Big Food. A born and bred Capetonian, Sheryl Ozinsky was the Manager of Cape Town Tourism.

COOKING, 224 PAGES, 7.75 X 9.75CLOTH, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9780620729772TRADE PAPER, $19.95 (CAN $26.95) ISBN: 9780620701969 RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Hidden Voices Series

A Working Life, Cruel Beyond BeliefEdited by Karin Pampallis and Edward Webster

It is a great privilege to launch our series with A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief, by Alfred Temba Qabula, with a new Foreword by the original translator, BE Nzimande. Qabula was a central figure in the cultural movement among working people that emerged in and around Durban in the 1980s. It was an innovative attempt to draw on the oral poetry developed among the Nguni people over many centuries. Alfred Temba Qabula was a forklift driver in the Dunlop tyre factory in Durban at the time this book was developed. He used the art of telling stories to critique the exploitation of black workers and their oppression under apartheid.

Karin Pampallis is the Hidden Voices Program Manager. She is currently a researcher at the Society Work and Development Institute, WITS. Edward Webster is the Hidden Voices Program Director. Edward Webster is Professor Emeritus in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and director of the Chris Hani Institute in Cosatu House.

AFRICAN STUDIES/CURRENT EVENTS, 111 PAGES, 5.25 X 8TRADE PAPER, $6.95 (CAN $9.95)ISBN: 9781928232315RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


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Habitat and StruggleThe Case of the Kruger Park in South AfricaLeslie M. Dikeni

“The Starry Night, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, is the most famous painting for which the subject is the background: the night sky. In this book, Leslie Dikeni, just like Van Gogh, brings to life the voices of the destitute and the silent found in communities around the Kruger National Park as they offer contrasting narratives of their experience with the Park to those of the bureaucracy of the Park and those who have benefited from the flora and fauna of the Kruger National Park.” —Dr Lufuno Marwala

Leslie Dikeni was a senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in the faculty of the Humanities. He has an MSc in Rural Sociology (University of Wageningen, the Netherlands) and was a doctoral candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).

AFRICAN STUDIES/SOCIAL SCIENCE 216 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $31.00 (CAN $42.00)ISBN: 9781928341291RIGHTS: WORLD X SOUTH AFRICA


Asylum by BoatOrigins of Australia’s Refugee PolicyClaire Higgins

In the late 1970s, 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing persecution. Their arrival presented a challenge to poli-ticians, but the way the Fraser government handled it, and the resettlement of tens of thousands more Indochinese refugees, marked a turning point in Australia’s im-migration history. Turn-backs and deten-tion were proposed, and rejected. Claire Higgins’ important book recounts these extraordinary events. It is driven by the question of how we moved from a human-itarian approach to policies of mandatory detention—including on remote islands—and boat turn-backs.

Dr Claire Higgins is an historian and a se-nior research associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW. Claire is a Ful-bright Postdoctoral Scholar, and previously completed doctoral study in History as a Clarendon Scholar at Merton College, the University of Oxford, writing on the devel-opment of Australian refugee policy.

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE 256 PAGES, 8.5 X 5.25TRADE PAPER, $29.99 (CAN $39.99)ISBN: 9781742235677RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


The Dis-eases of SecrecyTracing History, Memory and JusticeChandré Gould and Brian Rappert

Between 1981 and 1995, a top-secret chemical and biological warfare program titled Project Coast was established and maintained by South Africa’s apartheid government. Under the leadership of Wouter Basson, Project Coast scientists were involved in a number of dubious activities, including the mass production of ecstasy, the development of covert assas-sination weapons and the manufacture of chemical poisons designed to be undetect-able post-mortem. Dis-eases of Secrecy is a retrospective analysis of Project Coast.

Chandré Gould is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. She investigated Project Coast for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is the author of Secrets and Lies: Wouter Basson and South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme. Brian Rappert is Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. His previous books include How to Look Good in War.

HISTORY/AFRICAN STUDIES 288 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $22.95 (CAN $30.95)ISBN: 9781431424856RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND



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The End of WhitenessSatanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South AfricaNicky Falkof

The aim of the book is to reveal the pathological, paranoid and bizarre consequences that the looming end of apartheid had on white culture in South Africa, and overall to show that whiteness (in SA and in general) is a deeply problematic category that needs to be deconstructed and thoughtfully considered. It discusses two symptoms of this late apartheid cultural hysteria that appeared throughout the contemporary media and in popular literature during the 1980s and 1990s. Structurally, it is divided into two parts, one on each scare. Each is comprised of five chapters: four of context, discussion and analysis and one long chapter that traces the process of the scare in the media.

Nicky Falkof was born and raised in the Johannesburg suburbs during the last years of apartheid. She holds an MA in Criti-cal Theory from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the London Consortium. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 240 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $17.95 (CAN $23.95)ISBN: 9781431423279RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


Blacks DO Caravan!Fikile Hlatshwayo

I come from a culture where camping is purely for white peo-ple. Even if black people were to camp, they would not enjoy it because it is reminiscent of how many of us used to live; in fact, a lot of black people still live like that today—cooking on a fire, using communal toilets, with access to little or no technology—I thought there was no way I would agree to this camping expedi-tion. Blacks Do Caravan tells the story of a young South African family’s caravan journey, and the everlasting memories created along the way included amazing adventures and wonderful expe-riences. The book aims to inspire South Africans to take time out of their busy schedules and spend that valuable time with their families to discover the beauty of our country. Fikile’s trip began on 15 September 2014 and during the journey she came to the realisation that South Africa is still a divided nation. Over twenty years into democracy, boundaries still divide us. Fikile aims to break those boundaries created by the past regime and contribute to the unity that is needed for all South Africans to move forward and experience this country equally, whether caravanning or any other form of holidaying. Fikile and her family visited over 60 caravan parks and extended their trip to the Kingdom of Swaziland, while on her travels she was blown away by the warm reception she had from fellow campers.

Fikile Hlatshwayo was born in North West province, South Africa. She has a BCom (Honors) degree in Statistics (2001) from UCT and an MSc degree in Development Finance (2006) from the University of Stellenbosch Business School. Fikile published a book on export growth opportunities in Africa in 2005.

TRAVEL/TRANSPORTATION, 180 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.75TRADE PAPER, $15.95 (CAN $20.95)ISBN: 9781431423774RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


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Professional Learning CommunitiesIn South African Schools and Teacher Education ProgrammesHilda Borko and Karin Brodie

This book draws together research on professional learning communities in schools and teacher education in diverse contexts in South Africa. Each chapter captures the rich and complex nature of professional learning communities, the challenges in developing and maintaining them, and the extent to which they promote successful learning for teachers and changes in teaching practices. The book shows that professional learning communi-ties can promote continuous learning in response to local school and classroom realities and work against ‘quick-fix’, fragmented workshops for teachers, where learning tends to dissipate. This book should be of interest to teachers, school-leaders, teacher-ed-ucators, policymakers and researchers.

Hilda Borko is an educational psychologist who researches teacher cognition and changes in novice and experienced teach-ers’ knowledge and beliefs. Her work has identified factors that affect teachers’ learning of reform-based practices. Previously she was chair of the educational psychology program area in the school of education at the University of Colorado, and is also a former president of the American Educational Research Association. Currently, she is a professor in the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University. Karin Brodie is Professor and Head of School in the School of Education at Wits University in Johannesburg. She teaches in the areas of learning, teaching and curriculum and mathematics education. Her research is on interaction in secondary mathematics classrooms and the extent to which it promotes mathematical understanding.

AFRICAN STUDIES/EDUCATION, 224 PAGES, 6.5 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9780796925480RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Rethinking ReconciliationEvidence from South AfricaDon Foster, Rajen Govender, and Kate Lefko-Everett

South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 heralded the end of more than forty years of apartheid. The Government of Na-tional Unity started the process of bringing together this deeply divided society principally through the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). However, interest in—and responsibility for—the reconciliation project first embodied through the TRC appears to have diminished over more than two decades of democracy. The narrow mandate of the Commis-sion itself has been retrospectively criticized, and at face value it would seem that deep divisions persist. This edited volume uses a decade of public opinion survey data to answer these key ques-tions about the extent of progress in South African reconciliation.

Don Foster is Professor of Psychology at UCT, and an interna-tionally established expert in this field. He has published widely, including through the HSRC Press, with titles including: Deten-tion and torture in South Africa; Perspectives on metal handicap in South Africa; Social psychology in South Africa; Towards peaceful protest in South Africa; and Mental health policy issues for South Africa. Rajen Govender is Associate Professor of Sociol-ogy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR). He pre-viously served Professor of Economics at Tshwane University of Technology. He has taught at various universities in South Africa and the USA over the past 25 years, and since 1995 founded and managed a successful research consultancy. Kate Lefko-Everett is an independent social science researcher and a Senior Associate at the IJR. She previously was employed by the IJR as senior project leader for the SARB (2009 – 2013), and conceptualized the edited volume during that time.

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Housing Solutions through DesignEdited by Graham Cairns, Christakis Chatzichristou, and Kirsten Day

Housing Solutions through Design explores housing design with a special focus on affordability. It gives the perspectives of academ-ics who research and teaching on housing; professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The book fore-grounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and to-morrow. This book is the second in the Housing the Future Series, one of the aims of which is to collate a broad sample of the work being done from a design perspective in universities across the world on the issue of affordable housing. This very ‘real’ engage-ment with the issues of housing affordability is a key component of this series and is why the series invites practitioners to discuss their work. In Housing Solutions through Design, those practi-tioners include an award-winning commercial practice from the UK, Shed KM, and two of the most important reference points in the area of housing affordability and community development internationally—the world-renowned Herman Hertzberger, from the Netherlands, and the US-based but internationally active Hab-itat for Humanity. The inclusion of the work of such practices is not simply important because of their undoubted international status: it is important because of the work they do and the role models they represent for a generation of architects and designers who, in the coming years, will be faced with the need—and the opportunity—to develop new approaches to housing design.

Dr Graham Cairns has taught at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, South Africa and Gambia. He has worked in architectur-al studios in London and Hong Kong. The author and editor of five books, he has delivered keynote talks internationally and has published multiple articles on architecture, film and advertising in scholarly journals. Christakis Chatzichristou is currently an As-sociate Professor of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. He received his first degree in Architectural Engineering in 1986 and a Master in Architecture in 1991 from The University of Texas at Austin. Awarded a Ph.D. in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at the University College London in 2002. Dr Kirsten Day is a registered architect, lecturer (Interior Ar-chitecture, Swinburne University of Technology) and researcher (Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Tech-nology). She has worked as a researcher in solar technology, and brings those skills to the practice.

ARCHITECTURE, 280 PAGES, 6 X 9100 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $34.95 (CAN $46.95)ISBN: 9781911451020RIGHTS: WORLD

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Voices of Liberation Series

Voices of LiberationThomas SankaraJean-Claude Kongo and Leo Zeilig

Sankara’s legacy, unclear as it may be, still lives and he remains immensely popular. If you travel through Africa his image is unmistakable. His picture, with beret and broad grin, is pasted on run-down taxis and is found on the walls of local bars. Internationally Sankara is often referred to as the ‘African Che Guevara’ and like his South American counterpart; it is his perseverance, dedication and incorruptibil-ity that appeal to the imagination. Voices of liberation: Thomas Sankara starts with a comprehensive timeline covering Thomas Sankara’s life and major events in the history of the continent and region.

Jean-Claude Kongo is a leading radical writer and activist from Burkina Faso. He works as a journalist in Ouagadougou and has covered some of the country’s most important events. During last year’s revo-lution he was a direct participant, active in the October events that overturned the regime of President Blaise Compaoré. Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher on African politics and history, he looks at experiments at radical transformation and change on the continent since independence.

AFRICAN STUDIES/HISTORY 288 PAGES, 5.75 X 8.2518 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $25.95 (CAN $34.95)ISBN: 9780796925176RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Postcolonial African AnthropologiesFrancis Nyamnjoh

Edited by Rosabelle Boswell

Postcolonial African Anthropologies show-cases some postcolonial ethnographies and aims to figure out how and why anthro-pology has engaged with conversations on decolonisation and postcolonialism. The postcolonial ethnographies in this book show that Africans may not necessarily in-terpret and communicate their experiences in the ways that anthropologists trained in Western institutions and disciplines do, but they are multi-vocal and are ever present to speak with authority on their experience. This book then, deepens and diversifies conversations on Africa and in particular, a ‘postcolonial’ Africa to under-stand the position of anthropologists, the position of Africans and the positioning of the discipline of anthropology in Africa.

Rosabelle Boswell is an anthropologist and Dean of Arts at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She holds a PhD from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and is author of Le Malaise Creole: Ethnic Identity in Mauritius, Representing Heritage in Zanzibar and Madagascar. Francis Nyamnjoh is a Chair of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

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Philanthropy in South AfricaHorizontality, Ubuntu and Social JusticeEdited by Shauna Mottiar and Mvuselelo Ngcoya

Dominant narratives of philanthropy often portray Africans as mere recipients of aid, usually from well-endowed, Western almoners—the West distributing charity to impecunious Africans. The contributors to this volume turn this argument on its head and ask: what about the beneficent spirit of multitudes of Africans whose acts of generosity sustain millions of their compatriots? This volume is unique in that it illuminates research on philanthropy in Africa by using case studies and ethno-graphic material to examine a number of themes.

Shauna Mottiar is a senior lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds a PhD in Political Studies from the Uni-versity of the Witwatersrand. Mvuselelo Ngcoya is a senior lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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BEST RED Series

China in AfricaIn Zheng He’s FootstepsLi Xinfeng

Translated by Shelly Bryant

China in Africa: Following Zheng He’s Footsteps is more than just one person’s quest to retrace the journey of an alluring historical figure, shrouded in legend: Zheng He has become an important symbol for the Chinese people and the world of peace-loving cultural exchange in general. Li’s comprehensive research into the African travels of this iconic figure presents a challenge to the postcolonial world, highlighting the stark contrast between colonising and fair exchange for mutual benefit. A consistent thread in the narrative is how best to respond to the challenge of overturning the exploitation of colonial relationships with friendly collaboration in modern times.

Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Ur-banatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram Publishing, the National Library Board in Singapore, Giramondo Books, and Rinchen Books. Shelly’s poetry has appeared in journals, magazines, and websites around the world, as well as in several art exhibitions. Her translation of Sheng Keyi’s Northern Girls was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012. Li Xinfeng, PhD is a writer, photographer, and research director of West Asia and Africa Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a researcher and professor in the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of So-cial Sciences; doctoral supervisor; deputy secretary general of the China Prose Society; deputy secretary general of the China Re-portage Society; standing director of the China African Research Society; and director of the China Middle East Research Society.


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Seeking out Wise Old MenSix Decades of Ethiopian Studies at the Frobenius Institute RevisitedEdited by Sabine Dinslage and Sophia Thubauville

From 1935 to 1992, the Frobenius Institute focused on studies in southern Ethiopia. The results of its empirical research are not only of ethnographic, but also historical value since the work was conducted before the Christian proselytization of the local population and the ascendance of the socialist DERG regime. The anthropologists of the Frobenius Institute were among the few researchers to have documented South Ethiopia’s cultural diver-sity before this change. This publication provides a critical look at the resulting ethnographic studies and renders an overview of Ethiopian studies and the political situation in Ethiopia during those sixty years.

Sabine Dinslage has been employed as a senior research fellow at the Frobenius Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt. Sophia Thubauville is a researcher and head of the library at the Frobenius Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt.

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The State of Status Groups in EthiopiaMinorities Between Marginalization and IntegrationEdited by Susanne Epple

In many Ethiopian societies, occupational groups, descendants of hunters or slaves are differentiated from the societies they are part of or live next to. Until today, their ambiguous and often marginalized position is culturally justified and deeply entrenched in local belief or value systems. Recent research has shown how these social categories have been reshaped and renegotiated under the influence of various factors. In which contexts and to what extent integration has taken place, whether it is sustainable or whether social differentiation has persisted or even increased is the main focus of the nine case-studies in this book all of which emphasize the perspective of the status groups themselves.

Susanne Epple is an ethnologist, researcher and teacher at the universities of Mainz, Addis Ababa, Hamburg and Frankfurt/M.


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Popular Devotion and Citizenship in BoliviaFolkloric Confraternities and the Habits of Democracy at the Festival of the Virgin of UrkupiñaTobias Reu

With a wealth of citizen organizations representing the interests of their constituents, Bolivians are known for their vivid engage-ment with government and democracy. At the same time, Bolivian civic involvement has never quite conformed to the predictions of prevailing democratic theory. This book approaches the idiosyn-crasies of Bolivian democracy through an ethnographic portrayal of an association of folkloric groups that participate in one of the largest patron saint festivals in the Andes region. It describes how, in the course of staging an annual pilgrimage of several thousand dancers, the members of this association hone their habits of democratic organization, albeit in ways that resonate with specif-ic notions of prestige associated with Andean saint worship.

Tobias Reu received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from New York University. Inspired by narrative theory and the an-thropology of citizenship, his work focuses on the question how religious practice predisposes believers to participate in society and politics. Dr. Reu has conducted research in Central America and in the Andes.

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‘Against Native Title’Conflict and Creativity in Outback AustraliaEve Vincent

‘Against native title’ is about one group’s lived experience of a divisive native title claim in the outback town of Ceduna, where the native title claims process has thoroughly reorganized local Aboriginal identities over the course of the past decade. The central character in this story is senior Aboriginal woman Sue Haseldine, a self-styled charismatic rebel and master story-teller. This is a vivacious and very human story, which makes a vital contribution to national debates around issues of Aborigi-nal futures in remote and regional areas.

Eve Vincent is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University. She is the co-editor of Unstable Relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia (UWAP, 2016) and History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies (UTS E-Press, 2014). Eve’s writing has appeared in scholarly journals as well as outlets such as Griffith Review, Overland, Sydney Review of Books and Meanjin.

ANTHROPOLOGY/AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 256 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.56 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $34.95 (CAN $46.95)ISBN: 9781925302080RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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TeenagersThe Rise of Youth Culture in New ZealandChris Brickell

“With a broad social and cultural sweep, the book brings young people to the centre of the New Zealand story.” —Bronwyn Dalley, co-author of Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand

Teenagers is a groundbreaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through the diaries and letters, photographs and drawings that teenagers left behind, we meet New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bush-fellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, the male ‘mashers’ of the 1880s and the female ‘flappers’ of the 1910s and ‘20s, schoolgirls and rock’n’rollers, larrikins and louts. By taking us inside the lives of young New Zealanders, the book illuminates from a new angle large-scale changes in our society.

Chris Brickell is an associate professor in gender studies at the University of Otago. His first book, Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (2008) won the NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction in the 2009 Mon-tana Book Awards.

HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE, 384 PAGES, 7.5 X 10230 COLOR PHOTOS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $59.99 (CAN $80.99)ISBN: 9781869408688RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


Tears of RangiExperiments Across WorldsAnne Salmond

“This is an absorbing historical narrative with bigger and bolder political and ethical arguments.” —Nicholas Thomas, Universi-ty of Cambridge.

Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic condi-tions. Four centuries later, European ex-plorers arrived with maps and clocks, grids and fences, and they too adapted to a new island home. In this, her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diver-sity, a place where multiple worlds engage and collide.

Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Pro-fessor of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland and author of books including The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas; Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti and Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas.

INDIGENOUS STUDIES/NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, 512 PAGES, 6 X 960 COLOR PHOTOS, 30 B&W PHOTOSCLOTH, $65.00 (CAN $88.00)ISBN: 9781869408657RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


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Ann Hannah, My (Un)Remarkable GrandmotherA Psychological BiographyBetty McLellan

Ann Hannah was an ordinary, no-nonsense, practical woman. While a constant and caring presence in the life of her grand-daughter Betty McLellan, she remained emotionally distant. In an effort to understand her grandmother, Betty has used Ann Hannah’s everyday expressions as a starting point to uncover the truth about her life. These words and phrases, heard countless times during Betty’s childhood, are the clues to a life that, like those of many working-class women in the early 1900s, was fraught with challenges and difficulties and ignored by historians. Written with a sharp feminist consciousness that displays both compassion and intellect, this astute psychological biography tells the story of a resilient woman who, when placed in circum-stances beyond her control, managed to live a good life.

A feminist ethicist and psychotherapist with over 20 years ex-perience, Betty McLellan is the author of Help! I’m Living with a Man Boy, which has been translated into 16 languages. She is also the author of Overcoming Anxiety (1992), Beyond Psychop-pression (1995), and Unspeakable: A feminist ethic of speech (2010). With a focus on both the personal and the political, Betty successfully combines her work as a psychotherapist with a broader emphasis on a feminist ethical analysis and activism. She lives in Townsville, North Queensland.

BIOGRAPHY/FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS, 150 PAGES, 5 X 7.75TRADE PAPER, $26.95 (CAN $27.95)ISBN: 9781925581287RIGHTS: US, CANADA & MEXICO

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Old Villita and La Villita ContinuesLynn Maverick Denzer and Maury Maverick

Old Villita is reissued by Wings Press in celebration of the Tricen-tennial of the founding of San Antonio, Texas on May 5, 1718. Earlier in the 1930s, U.S. Congressman Maury Maverick Sr. had worked closely with his friend, President Roosevelt, to implement FDR’s New Deal policies. His 1937 autobiography, A Maverick American, was something of a Depression-era bestseller. Among the many progressive acts in his life—which included securing W.P.A. funds for the initial development of the San Antonio Riv-erwalk—he was proudest of the restoration of La Villita, the 18th century settlement from which the city of San Antonio grew. Mav-erick’s grand daughter, Lynn Maverick Denzer, wrote La Villita Continues, the story of the “Little Village” from its restoration to its present incarnation as La Villita Historic Arts Village.

Lynn Maverick Denzer is an artist, teacher, and writer. Lynn studied art at University of Texas in Austin and the College of Marin, and received a secondary teaching degree at the University of Texas in San Antonio in English. Upon retiring from public ed-ucation, Lynn pursued her own art, exhibiting in several galleries. Maury Maverick, Sr. (1895-1954), was born in San Antonio, the eleventh child of Albert Maverick and Jane Lewis Maury Maver-ick. He was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the 28th Infan-try, 1st Division, U.S. Army, and received a Silver Star for actions in the Battle of the Argonne. Maury served as U.S. congressman from the 20th District (1935-38), where he organized a group of “maverick” legislators who sponsored legislation to “out-New Deal” FDR’s New Deal.

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You Do Not Travel in China at the Full MoonAgnes Moncrieff’s Letters from China 1930-1945Barbara Francis

In April 1938 Agnes Moncrieff, in her role as the YWCA of New Zealand’s foreign secretary to the YWCA of China, wrote to her mother, ‘You do not travel in China at the full moon if you can help. There are always air raids.’ Nessie, as she preferred to be called, was an indomitable spirit and source of strength for many women in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There from 1930–1945, she is the only New Zealander to ever be sec-onded to the YWCA of China. These fascinating excerpts drawn from hundreds of her typed and handwritten letters tell of a remarkable woman, her experiences living and working in China, her observations of Chinese and Japanese military strategies, and her horror at what was taking place around her.

Barbara Francis came to Wellington in 1956 to study at the Teachers’ Training College. She met Nessie Moncrieff through the Student Christian Movement (SCM), and only later dis-covered she was in fact Agnes Moncrieff. In 1959, as an SCM travelling secretary, she boarded with Nessie in her Wellington home, and their friendship continued until Nessie’s death. Bar-bara worked as a teacher and raised her family in Christchurch, returning to live in Wellington in 2005. It was then she learned that Nessie’s letters from China were in the Alexander Turnbull Library and she began typing up and assembling them so that Nessie’s story could be shared.

NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, 296 PAGES, 7 X 9.7525 B&W PHOTOSCLOTH, $34.95 (CAN $46.95)ISBN: 9781776560882RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND


Documents on Australian Foreign PolicyAustralia and the Rhodesian Problem, 1961–1972Edited by Matthew Jordan

Australia and the Rhodesian Problem 1961–1972 draws on both published and unpublished records from the National Archives of Australia to document Australia’s attitudes and policies towards the Rhodesian crisis during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the latest volume in the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series pro-duced by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Containing 500 departmental documents, plus commentary and an introduction by DFAT historian Matthew Jordan, the volume provides valuable primary-source materials for historians, stu-dents and researchers interested in Australia’s relationship with Great Britain and its former colonies in this period.

Matthew Jordan is a historian in the Historical Publications and Information Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1008 PAGES, 6 X 9.258 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSCLOTH, $89.99 (CAN $120.99)ISBN: 9781742235363RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


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The Real Series

Real BarnsleyIan McMillan

In Real Barnsley, Ian McMillan delves into the past of the Barnsley area in which he was born and still lives, exploring its history and recalling his various expe-riences of this particular patch of South Yorkshire. Barnsley, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book, became an important commercial and cultural centre for the surrounding area, the home of cinemas, theatres, civic life and McMillan’s beloved Tykes – Barnsley FC.

Ian McMillan is a poet, journalist, play-wright, and broadcaster, known for his strong and distinctive Barnsley-area accent. He lives in Darfield, the town of his birth.

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The People’s WarReflections of an ANC CadreCharles Nqakula

A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertook as an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwe was in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailed recollection of those difficult and dangerous times when detention, imprison-ment, torture, and even death were always imminent. It required massive courage and heroism to be part of that array of out-standing leaders and cadres of the revolu-tionary movements.

Charles Nqakula was born in Cradock in the Eastern Cape province on 13 Septem-ber 1942. As an adult, he became a jour-nalist and, in the early 1970s, he joined Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) in King William’s Town. He left Imvo in 1976 and joined East London’s Daily Dispatch. Working with Thenjiwe Mtintso, he helped to influence black journalists in the Border region (the main towns of which were East London, King William’s Town, and Queenstown) to join the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ).

AFRICAN STUDIES/HISTORY, 384 PAGES, 6 X 920 COLOR PHOTOS, 38 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $41.99 (CAN $56.99)ISBN: 9780620756334RIGHTS: WORLD X SOUTH AFRICA


Phoney WarsNew Zealand Society in the Second World WarHugh Eldred–Grigg and Stevan Eldred–Grigg

Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg explore New Zealanders’ hopes and fears, beliefs and superstitions, shortages and affluence, rationing and greed, hysteria and humor, violence and kindness, malevolence and generosity, to argue that New Zealand need not have involved itself in the war at all.

Hugh Eldred-Grigg was born in Can-terbury and graduated with an MA in political science from Victoria University of Wellington. Since graduating he has worked as a teaching assistant at VUW, a high school language teacher in Japan, a lecturer at Xiamen University in Chi-na, and a high school teacher in Estonia. Stevan Eldred-Grigg is a leading novelist and historian. His first novel, Oracles and Miracles, was a runaway bestseller.

HISTORY, 424 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $35.95 (CAN $48.95)ISBN: 9780947522230RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Cleansing the ColonyTransporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s LandKristyn Harman

Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realize that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zea-land to serve time as convict laborers in the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). Even more were sentenced by colonial judges to the harsh punishment of transportation, but somehow managed to avoid being sent across the Tasman Sea. In examining the remarkable experiences of unremarkable people, this fascinating book provides insights into the lives of people at the time.

Kristyn Harman is a New Zealander living in Australia. She is the author of Aborig-inal Convicts, which won the Australian Historical Association’s Kay Daniels Award for convict history in 2014. Kristyn studied history at Massey University and undertook doctoral research at the Univer-sity of Tasmania where she now lectures in the School of Humanities.

HISTORY/AFRICAN STUDIES, 284 PAGES, 9 X 6TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781988531069RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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War RemainsMediations of Suffering and Death in the Era of the World WarsEdited by Marie Cronqvist and Lina Sturfelt

In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million people lost their lives in untimely or violent deaths – on the bat-tlefield, in concentration camps, through fierce air strikes or as casualties of the many severe epidemics and hardships that followed in war’s path. The experiences of war travelled through and between different media of the time and were often focused on the emotional, the personal, the everyday and the subjective. This book is about these sense-making, persisting media representations and narratives, how they were established in different media formats and how they moved between different media of the time.

Marie Cronqvist is an Associate Professor in History and Senior Lecturer in Journal-ism and Media History at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University, Sweden. Lina Sturfelt is a PhD in History and Senior Lecturer in Human Rights Studies at the Department of Histo-ry, Lund University, Sweden.

HISTORY/MEDIA & JOURNALISM, 160 PAGES, 5.75 X 8.525 B&W PHOTOSCLOTH, $45.95 (CAN $49.95)ISBN: 9789188168818RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & SOUTH AMERICA

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BallastLaden with HistoryBarlast

Mats Burström

In Ballast: Laden with history, the ar-chaeologist Mats Burström charts how ship ballast helped to shape the world we live in. Until only very recently, ships were ballasted with sand, gravel, stone, or rubble to give them stability, and when they no longer needed the extra weight, it was dumped. The result was that huge quantities of ballast were shipped to new places and new continents. Ballast was often reused, sometimes in surprising ways. This is the first comprehensive account of ship ballast, so long overlooked, and now finally recognized for its diverse and exciting history.

Mats Burström is professor of Archae-ology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been instrumental in establishing the archaeological study of the twentieth century as a field of research. His studies within this field include a Nazi propagan-da site in Germany, Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and personal belongings hidden in the ground in Estonia during the Second World War. His academic work is characterized by general references to art and literature.

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Squatting in Britain 1945-1955Housing, Politics, and Direct ActionDon Watson

“The definitive account of these events and, very usefully, the aftermath. The judgements are carefully made and convincingly ar-gued.” —Emeritus Professor James Hinton, University of Warwick

Britain in 1946 witnessed extraordinary episodes of direct action. Tens of thousands of families walked into empty army camps and took them over as places to live. A nationwide ‘squatters’ movement’ was born. It was an extensive popular movement, the first challenge to the 1945 Labour government to come from ‘below’. How should Labour’s record be assessed? The Attlee governments recorded some significant achievements in post-war social reconstruction: nationalization of key industries, com-prehensive national insurance, full employment and a National Health Service. But did Labour miss its opportunity to reconfig-ure British society in a more progressive direction, when there was a public appetite for change? This is a book about agency. It demonstrates how those most affected by inadequate housing conditions and shortages responded.

Don Watson is a retired research and development officer in local government in the North- East. He has B.A. and PhD degrees from Hull University and an M.A. from UCE in Birmingham. He has contributed to books and articles on labor history for over twenty years (including Labour History Review; Media, Culture and Society; Socialist History, North East History and Scottish Labour History). He is the author of No Justice Without a Strug-gle: and co-author of An Inspiring Example: The North East of England & the Spanish Civil War.

HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE, 212 PAGES, 6 X 94 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $29.99 (CAN $39.99)ISBN: 9780850367287RIGHTS: US

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Justice DeniedFriends, Foes and the Miners’ StrikeDavid Allsop, Carol Stephenson, and David Wray

TV portraits of the Miners’ strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, looks at the impact of the strike on participants, and reflects on ongoing controversies and community pride. The book is organized into three parts. In early chapters participants look back. So, Peter Smith speaks of his honest determination not to become a ‘professional sacked miner’ and Siân James tells of her excitement and pride at her community’s defence of a valued way of life. Political controversies are examined: Was the strike the result of careful planning (on the part of the Thatcher Gov-ernment, and/or the NUM)? How and why were striking miners, at Orgreave in June 1984, injured, arrested and vilified? Why were miners determined not to be ‘constitutionalized’ or balloted out of their jobs? How did the BBC and ITV misrepresent police action and show miners as ‘out of control’? Why did miners in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and elsewhere support, or oppose, the strike? The final section examines enduring issues especial-ly the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. Is a more critical assessment of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher long overdue? Why is miners’ history and heritage—as seen in the Durham Miners’ Gala—so fondly celebrated?

David Allsop is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertford-shire. Carol Stephenson is a Principle Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University. David Wray is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 224 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $24.99 (CAN $33.99)ISBN: 9780850367300RIGHTS: US

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Anarchist EncountersRussia in RevolutionEmma Goldman, Gaston Leval, Angel Pestaña, and Jack Wilkens

There was a general rejoicing when the regime of Tsar Nicholas II fell in February 1917, a new era of liberty dawned. But what would come next?This book presents sketches of encounters in the new Russia. • Emma Goldman relates her experiences of daily life, her meeting with Peter Kropotkin and tells the story of the life of Maria Spiridonova, a famous SR activist who escaped from a mental hospital where she had been locked up. • Gaston Leval and Angel Pestaña were members of a delegation from the Spanish CNT union and reported back on what they found, especially how trade unions functioned with policeman keeping order in union meetings. Armando Borghi tells of a meeting with Victor Serge. • Jack Wilkens wrote a series of articles for the French journal Le Libertaire. They tell of how Soviets functioned, of how workers live, of working conditions for men and women and of rural life

Emma Goldman was expelled from the USA in December 1919; J Edgar Hoover saw her, and her partner Alexander Berkman, as two of the most dangerous subversives in the USA. Goldman hoped to find a new beginning in Russia, but left disappoint-ed two years later. Leval wrote on experiences of revolt and in Europe and Latin America for fifty years. He was somewhat critical of the Bolsheviks before he visited Russia. Pestaña was a journalist, union leader and a member of the Cortes the Spanish Parliament. he met with many senior figures and described his experiences. Jack Wilkens was a Spanish building living in France in 1919. He went to Russia as a supporter of the Bolshevik government but did not like what he found. He was killed in the fighting at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE, 200 PAGES, 5.25 X 84 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $19.99 (CAN $26.99)ISBN: 9780850367348RIGHTS: US

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The Other Side of FreedomStories of Hope and Loss in the South African Liberation Struggle, 1950-1994Mojalefa Dipholo, Gregory Houston, Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha, Shepi Mati, and Elme Vivier

After more than twenty years of democracy in South Africa, the history of the liberation struggle is losing relevance in the nation-al consciousness as the country grapples with the pressing chal-lenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Nevertheless, the liberation struggle spawned many heroes and heroines, some whose contributions have been captured in autobiographies, bi-ographies, book chapters, books and journal articles. The names of a larger number are not mentioned and do not feature even as footnotes in any publication on the history of the struggle. The book The other side of freedom: Stories of hope and loss in South African Liberation Struggle 1950-1994 presents a compilation of 26 profiles of a diverse selection of activists and leaders in the liberation struggle.

Mojalefa Dipholo is a researcher with the Human Sciences Research Council; Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery Unit and holds an honors degree in Political Science from the University of Johannesburg.Gregory Houston is a chief research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council and research fellow of the History department, University of the Free State, and holds an MA in political studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in political science from the University of Natal. Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha is the first black wom-an to be awarded a PhD degree in Town and Regional Planning from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Shepi Mati worked for 11 years as producer and later manager of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). Elmé Vivier is a researcher looking at issues of local governance, service delivery and public engagement.

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Black Flu 1918The Story of New Zealand’s Worst Public Health DisasterGeoffrey W. Rice

Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 2500 Maori. That equals nearly half the total of New Zealand soldiers killed in the First World War. Yet these were civilians, dying in the first month of peace. This was New Zealand’s worst- ever public health disaster. This book shows how we coped back in 1918—the response of public health officials, how the sick were nursed, how thousands of convalescents were fed and the lessons learned that may still be useful today.

Dr Geoffrey Rice was Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, where he lectured in European history for nearly 40 years until his retirement in 2012. He has written many books about Christchurch history.

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Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port HillsGordon Ogilvie

“In the place names of a country large parts of its history are embalmed … The names persist longer than the beings who gave them.” —J.C. AndersenPlace names have great linguistic and cultural signifi-cance, vivifying the landscape and giving it deeper character and interest. Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton Harbour and the Port Hills of Christchurch offer a wonderfully diverse and kaleidoscopic array of names that speak of the area’s Maori and colonial history and the people who have lived and worked there. Engagingly written, brim-ming with information and enriched with black and white photographs and stunning color plates, this substantial volume is an important addition to Gordon Ogilvie’s popular and acclaimed histories of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills.

Gordon Ogilvie was born in Christchurch in 1934 and brought up in Horotane Valley. His love of Port Hills history began with a growing appreciation of the Heathcote-Ferrymead district, so crucial to the early development of Canterbury, and holidays on Banks Peninsula gave him a taste for Peninsula history.

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Scotland: Mapping the NationSecond editionChris Fleet, Margaret Wilkes, and Charles W.J. Withers

From the earliest depictions of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent mapping and representation in the geographic information system and in satellite navigation, this collection offers a fascinating and thought-provoking per-spective on Scottish history and geography. Written by experts who have spent their lives working with maps and map history, this new history of Scotland is beautifully illustrated with details of the most signifi-cant manuscripts and printed maps of the country.

Chris Fleet studied Geography at the University of Durham. He is Senior Map Curator in the National Library of Scot-land. Margaret Wilkes is a member of the steering committee of the Scottish Maps Forum and a director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Charles W. J. With-ers is a professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh and a fellow of the British Academy. Michael Anderson is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Edinburgh.

SCOTTISH STUDIES/HISTORY, 336 PAGES, 9.75 X 10336 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS, 336 MAPS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $42.99 (CAN $57.99)ISBN: 9781780274836 (REPLACES: 9781780274836) RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA



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Land of Mountain and FloodThe Geology of ScotlandAlan McKirdy

Scotland is justly famed for its wonderful scenery of mountains, lochs, islands, wild rocky places and sandy beaches. All this is evidence of an exciting geographical history which began 3,500 million years ago and is still continuing. The sheer diversity of Scotland’s landforms are the physical reminders of a fascinating journey through time. They reveal that the land that makes up Scotland today has travelled the world, and has not always even belonged to one single continental landmass. In Land of Moun-tain and Flood three eminent Earth scientists explain Scotland’s place in the geological history of the planet, unravelling and explaining the present-day landscape and how it came to be the way it is.

Alan McKirdy has worked in conservation for over thirty years. He has edited and written many popular books on geology and related topics and has helped to promote the study of environ-mental geology in Scotland. He is currently Head of Information at Scottish Natural Heritage. John Ewart Gordon is an Earth scientist with Scottish Natural Heritage and has worked in Earth heritage conservation and environmental management for many years. He is an Honorary Professor in the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews and has written widely about the landforms and glaciation of Scotland and modern glaciers elsewhere. Roger Crofts CBE FRSE FRSGS is an environmental and management adviser who has written and lectured extensively on Scotland’s environment. He was Chief Executive of Scottish Natural Heritage from 1992 to 2002, and is a Visiting Professor of Geoscience at the University of Edin-burgh and an Honorary Professor of Geography at the University of Aberdeen.

HISTORY/SCOTTISH STUDIES, 336 PAGES, 9.5 X 10FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $42.99 (CAN $57.99)ISBN: 9781780274973 (REPLACES: 9781841586267) RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA


DarienA Journey in Search of EmpireJohn McKendrick

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. It could have been a triumph, but inadequate preparation and organization ensured it was a catastrophe - of the 3000 settlers who set sail in 1688 and 1699, only a handful returned, the rest having succumbed to disease, and the enormous financial loss was a key factor in ensuring union with England in 1707. John McKendrick explores this fascinating and seminal moment in Scottish history and uncovers fascinating new infor-mation from New World archives about the role of the English and Spanish, and about the identities of the settlers themselves.

John McKendrick was born and brought up in Glasgow. He stud-ied at the LSE and Oxford and is currently a barrister in London and an advocate in Edinburgh. He also worked for two years in Panama and the Caribbean. He was Times Lawyer of the Week in 2013.

HISTORY, 288 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.516 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $17.99 (CAN $23.99)ISBN: 9781780275031RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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Patriots, Traitors and EmpiresThe Story of Korea’s Struggle for FreedomStephen Gowans

Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposi-tion to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea’s current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by having nuclear weapons. Koreans have been fighting a civil war since 1932, when Kim Il Sung, founder of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, along with other Korean patriots, launched a guerrilla war against Japanese colonial dom-ination. Other Koreans, traitors to the cause of Korea’s freedom, including a future South Korean president, joined the side of Ja-pan’s Empire, becoming officers in the Japanese army or enlisting in the hated colonial police force. From early in the 20th century when Japan incorporated Korea into its burgeoning empire, Ko-reans have struggled against foreign domination, first by Japan then by the United States. Patriots, Traitors and Empires, The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom is a much-needed antidote to the jingoist clamor spewing from all quarters whenever Korea is discussed.

Stephen Gowans is an independent political analyst whose prin-cipal interest is in who influences formulation of foreign policy in the United States. His writings, which appear on his What’s Left blog, have been reproduced widely in online and print media and have been cited in academic journals and other scholarly works. Some articles have been translated into many languages.

AMERICAN STUDIES/ASIAN STUDIES, 290 PAGES, 6 X 910 B&W PHOTOS, 4 MAPSTRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $24.95)ISBN: 9781771861359RIGHTS: WORLD

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Australian GypsiesTheir Secret HistoryMandy Sayer

Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant his-tory of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots of Romani culture, and traces the first Gypsy people to arrive in Australia, including James Squire, the colony’s first brewer. She meets Gypsy families who live all over Australia, who share the stories of their ancestors and their own lives.With her own nomadic early life and experiences as a street performer, Sayer brings unique insight into the lives of the people she meets, and a strong sense of their extraordinary history. She also demolishes some longstanding but baseless myths along the way. Her original and compelling book reveals a rich part of our history that few of us even know is there.

Mandy Sayer’s nonfiction has attracted many honors, including the 2000 National Biography Award, the 1998 New England Booksellers’ Award in the US, the 2006 South Australian Pre-mier’s Award, and the 2006 Age Book of the Year. She has two degrees from Indiana University, and a PhD in Research and Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, where she was the holder of the CAL Non-Fiction Writer-in-Residence in 2014.

HISTORY/CULTURAL STUDIES, 320 PAGES, 6 X 9.2522 COLOR PHOTOS, 14 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $34.99 (CAN $46.99)ISBN: 9781742234670RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN




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He Reo WahineMaori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth CenturyLachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla

During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commis-sioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to the Native Land Court to assert their rights. He Reo Wahine is a bold new introduction to the experience of Maori women in colonial New Zealand through Maori women’s own words – the speeches and evidence, letters and testimonies that they left in the archive.

Lachy Paterson is an associate professor in Te Tumu: School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, where he teaches Maori language and Maori history. Angela Wanhalla is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago.

HISTORY/NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, 384 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $49.99 (CAN $66.99)ISBN: 9781869408664RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


Juridical EncountersMaori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852Shaunnagh Dorsett

From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived ac-cording to tikanga. How then were Maori to be brought under British law? Influ-enced by the idea of exceptional laws that was circulating in the Empire, the colonial authorities set out to craft new regimes and new courts through which Maori would be encouraged to forsake tikanga and to take up the laws of the settlers.

Shaunnagh Dorsett is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney and Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author or editor of a number of books, including Law and Politics in Brit-ish Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire; Jurisdiction; and Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies. She was the leader of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s ‘Lost Cases’ Project.

HISTORY/LAW, 344 PAGES, 6 X 910 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $49.99 (CAN $66.99)ISBN: 9781869408640RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


Good-bye MaorilandThe Songs and Sounds of New Zealand’s Great WarChris Bourke

Be it ‘Tipperary’ or ‘Pokarekare’, the morn-ing reveille or the bugle’s last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zea-land’s experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside the human experi-ence of war.

Chris Bourke is a writer, journalist, editor and radio producer. He has been arts and books editor at the NZ Listener, editor of Rip It Up and Real Groove, and producer of Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morn-ing with Kim Hill. He wrote the best-sell-ing, definitive biography of Crowded House, Something So Strong and Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964.

MUSIC/MILITARY, 308 PAGES, 8 X 10200 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $59.99 (CAN $80.99)ISBN: 9781869408718RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


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Dancing with the KingThe Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885Michael Belgrave

After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state – a land governed by the Maori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives. Danc-ing with the King is the story of the King Country when it was the King’s country, and of the negotiations between the King and the Queen that finally opened the area to European settlement.

Michael Belgrave is a professor of history at Massey University, the author of Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories and From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A Histo-ry of Massey University, co-author of Social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground: Where We Are Headed, and Why It Matters. He was previously research manager of the Waitangi Tribunal and has continued to work on Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements, providing substan-tial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribu-nal’s inquiries. He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.

HISTORY/NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, 436 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.522 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSCLOTH, $65.00 (CAN $88.00)ISBN: 9781869408695RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA


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Albert Speer in the Federal RepublicDealing with the German PastEdited by Alexander Schmidt and Martina Christmeier

Albert Speer, architect and armaments minister of the Nazi re-gime, successfully captured the image of a non-political techno-crat after his release from prison in 1966. He had had no knowl-edge of the crimes of national socialism, and had been seduced by Hitler’s aura. The book corrects the “spear-legend” and makes the interaction of the Germans with their past visible.

Alexander Schmidt was born in 1963 in Nuremberg. He studied Newer History, Political Sciences and Sociology in Erlangen and graduated from the Humboldt-University. From 1992 - 2002 he was a staff member at Geschichte Für Alle e.V. - Institut für Regionalgeschichte as historian and director. From 2002 - 2009 he was a scientific assistant at the historical site Flossenbürg, and project leader of the exhibition concerning the history of the memorial. Since 2009 he has been scientific assistant of the Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände, curator of exhibitions. He has written many publications on the History of the National Socialism and the concentration camps, the history of Nuremberg, the history of the Reichsparteitagsgelände, the architecture during the National Socialism and the history of the jews Franconia. Martina Christmeier was born in 1973 in Nuremberg. Since 1993 she has studied Newer and Newest His-tory, History Didactics, Ibero-Romance Philology and Political Sciences at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen- Nuremberg and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Magister Artium 1999. She graduated in 2008 at the Friedrich- Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 2000 she has been a scientific assistant and curator in the Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nuremberg.

HISTORY, 88 PAGES, 8.75 X 8.7590 COLOR PHOTOS, 70 B&W PHOTOS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $10.99 (CAN $14.95)ISBN: 9783731905943RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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The Compassionate EnglishwomanEmily Hobhouse in the Boer WarRobert Eales

In 1899 the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) broke out. As the war progressed, in London the up-per-class Emily Hobhouse learned of the camps in southern Africa that contained mostly Boer women and children who had been displaced by the hostilities. By herself and on her own ini-tiative, she travelled by ship to Cape Town, to begin the distribu-tion of aid to these camps. Historian Rob Eales has put together this narrative of her time in South Africa, based on letters and diaries she left behind.These reveal that she travelled thousands of kilometres through the war and was appalled by the British army’s tactic of clearing the land and herding hundreds of thou-sands of people into concentration camps, where the awful con-ditions put the lives of these ‘refugees’ at risk. She urged the local authorities to provide better care and support, but little changed. So she returned to Britain to plead that immediate action be tak-en. She was met by indifference from the government and vitriol from the press.This remarkable woman was on the wrong side of history. Her heroic mission could unwittingly have brought down the British government, and her story was smothered. In this book, through careful research, her courageous and inspirational work is once again brought to life.

Robert Eales went to high school in Bloemfontein where much of this book is set. Subsequently, he studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and Balliol College, Oxford. He retired from the business world in 2005 and has been researching the South African War of 1899-1902 ever since. He has delivered many talks on this war, presented papers at conferences and been published in historical journals.

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Charles BeanMan, Myth, LegacyPeter Stanley

Australia’s official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia’s first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Me-morial. Famously criticized for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer, philosopher, and polemicist. In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia’s top military historians—including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKernan, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings—analyze the man, the myth, and his long-reaching legacy.

Peter Stanley is Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. He has published 30 books, mostly in Australian military history but also in medical history, about the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire, and the military history of British India. He is an Associate Di-rector of ACSACS, the General Editor of the Army’s Cambridge University Press series and President of Honest History. His most recent book (with Vicken Babkenian) is Armenia, Australia & the Great War.

MILITARY/AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 256 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $39.99 (CAN $53.99)ISBN: 9781742234892RIGHTS: US, CANADA, SOUTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN


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Hindu Spirituality: Vedas Through VedantaEdited by Krishna Sivaraman

A broad-ranging, lightly-illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Hindu spirituality during its formative earlier periods. It brings together the complex skein of thoughts, beliefs, and practices that developed from the archaic period of the Vedas and received their early crystal-lization as Vedanta. It presents the eternal, timeles dimension of Hinduism.

Krishna Sivaraman is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at McMaster Univer-sity, Canada, and is the author of Saivism in Philosophical Perspective, co-editor of and contributor to Revelation in Indian Philosophy, and author of many articles published in North America and India

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Joyous EncountersDiscovering the Happy Affections in Luke-ActsJ. Lyle Story

Any list of emotions characterizing true Christian spirituality must include joy. In his two volumes, Luke summons his audience to joy-filled living in personal and community life. This study supplements a dearth of biblical and theological attention to the topic of joy. Luke’s paired volumes show people encountering the numinous (supernatural) world through a pletho-ra of charismatic experiences with the divine. These experiences include angelic visitations, visions, healings, and baptism in the Spirit. Within the broad canon of Scripture, Luke draws his readers into the affective experiences of others.

J. Lyle Story is a Professor of New Tes-tament and Biblical Languages and has taught biblical languages and Bible at the graduate level for forty years. His Ph.D. is in biblical studies (1984 Fuller Theological Seminary with Dr. David Hubbard and Dr. Ralph Martin). In addition to the Greek to Me textbook, he has produced a Greek in-teractive multi-media tutorial (Greektome.biz), was a contributing author to The Spirit-Filled Life Bible, and has written nu-merous journal articles, dictionary articles, and book chapters.

RELIGION & THEOLOGY/PHILOSOPHY, 352 PAGES, 6 X 9CLOTH, $74.95 (CAN $100.95)ISBN: 9780824599294TRADE PAPER, $34.95 (CAN $46.95)ISBN: 9780824599300

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The Remaining Challenges of the Second Vatican Council for the 21st CenturyThe Final Declaration of the International Congress, “Disclosing the Council”Vaticanum 21

Edited by Christoph Böttigheimer and René Dausner

This book looks at the outcome of the Second Vatican Council 50 years after its conclusion. The main question that the book answers is, “what can we learn from this epochal assembly today and for the rest of the 21st century?”

Christoph Böttigheimer is a Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Catholic University of Eichstãtt-Ingolstadt. René Dausner received his doctorate from the University of Bonn, wrote his postdoctoral dissertation at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and is currently a professor of Systematic Theolo-gy at the Technical University of Dresden.

RELIGION & THEOLOGY/HISTORY, 80 PAGES, 6 X 9CLOTH, $69.95 (CAN $93.95)ISBN: 9780824599232 (REPLACES: 9783451378942) TRADE PAPER, $29.95 (CAN $66.95)ISBN: 9780824599249

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The Sins of the FathersTurkish Denialism and the Armenian GenocideSiobhan Nash-Marshall

We hear much talk today about post-truth. Journalists and intellectuals describe it as a shocking new phenomenon caused by recent electoral campaigns. They point to contemporary political statements as horrendous post-truths. Nothing is more mislead-ing. ‘Historical engineering’ is not a new phenomenon. Nor are the events to which journalists point as exemplary instances of ‘post-truth’ particularly poignant. ‘Historical engineering’ is the intellectual twin of ‘social engineering’ and has been taking place on increasingly large scales since the dawn of the modern world. It is a consequence of the premises, methods, and ambitions of modern philosophy. This book is the first part of a trilogy - The Betrayal of Philosophy - that concerns the roots of the post-truth phenomenon. Its intent is to provide the philosophical world with a phantasm in which it can see not just the what of ‘historical en-gineering,’ but the why: to show the flaws of modern philosophy itself. The phantasm regards the most successful modern project of historical and social engineering: the Armenian Genocide. It includes both Turkey’s ‘historical engineering’ - its official policy of genocide negation - and the massive late Ottoman project of social and territorial engineering which led to the murder of the first Christian nation: Armenia.

Siobhan Nash-Marshall holds the Mary T. Clark Chair of Chris-tian Philosophy at Manhattanville College. Author of many aca-demic books and articles on metaphysics – Participation and the Good: A Study in Boethian Metaphysics and Boethius’s Influence on Theology and Metaphysics to the 1500s – and the problem of evil – most recently Free Will, Evil, and Saint Augustine and Evil, Pain, and the Problem of Properties – she has also written books and articles for the general public – Joan of Arc: A Spiritual Biography and What it Takes to be Free: Religion and the Roots of Democracy. In recent years, Nash-Marshall has devoted a lot of attention to genocide and genocide negationism. She has pub-lished articles on the topic – “Negazionismi,” “Lies, Damned Lies, and Genocide,” “Levi, Arslan, and Responses to Genocide” – and lectured throughout the world on it. The Sins of the Fathers is her first book length treatment of the topic. After the breakout of the war in Syria, Nash-Marshall and some friends founded CINF, through which they attempt to help the ancient Christian cultures of the world which are presently in peril.

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Ghazali Series

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two DesiresBooks XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious SciencesSecond editionAbu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

Translated by T. J. Winter

The spiritual life in Islam begins with riyadat al-nafs, the inner warfare against the ego. Distracted and polluted by worldliness, the lower self has a tendency to drag the human creature down into arrogance and vice. This translation of two chapters from The Re-vival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din) details the sophisticated spiritual techniques adopted by classical Islam.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic of Islam and the equivalent of Thomas Aquinas in Christianity and Maimonides in Juda-ism. His contribution to the formation of Islamic thought and mysticism is incalcu-lable. TJ Winter is Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and TruthfulnessKitab al-niyya wa’l-ikhlas wa’l-sidqSecond editionKitab al-niyya wa’l-ikhlas wa’l-sidq

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Translated by Anthony Shaker

The 37th chapter of the Revival of Reli-gious Sciences, this treatise focuses on the subject of intention—which is of crucial im-portance in ethics—posing questions such as How can someone ignorant of the mean-ing of intention verify his own intention? How can someone ignorant of the meaning of sincerity verify his own sincerity? And how can someone sincerely claim truthful-ness if he has not verified its meaning?

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic of Islam and the equivalent of Thomas Aquinas in Christianity and Maimonides in Juda-ism. His contribution to the formation of Islamic thought and mysticism is incal-culable. Dr Anthony Shaker specializes in Islamic philosophy and thought. He is also the translator of Al-Ghazali on Vigilance and Self-examination.

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Al-Ghazali on the Condemnation of Pride and Self-admirationKitab dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ujbKitab dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ujb

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Translated by Mohammed Rustom

The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Ad-miration is the first translation into a Eu-ropean language of chapter twenty-ninth of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, a monumental work of classical Islam written by the greatest theologian-mystic of Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111). Perhaps the most important chapter in the whole of the Revival, The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration delves into the fundamental spiritual ailments and major impediments of the soul.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is the most famous theologian-mystic of Islam and the equivalent of Thomas Aquinas in Christianity and Maimonides in Judaism. His contribution to the formation of Islam-ic thought and mysticism is incalculable. Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University.

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Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Divine Wisdom and the Problem of EvilMiftah dar al-sa’ada

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Translated by Tallal Zeni

The renowned theologian and jurist Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d.1350) wrote numerous titles, many of which are still popu-lar today. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Divine Wisdom and the Problem of Evil is a translation of selections from two of Ibn Qayyim’s books: Key to the Blissful Abode and Remedy for Those who Question on Matters Concerning Divine Decree, Pre-destination, Wisdom and Causality. Ibn al-Qayyim first discusses twenty-six wise purposes behind God creating humanity and settling them on Earth. His perspective is that whatever exists in this world is either purely or preponderantly good, or indirectly leads to a greater good.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya was a renowned theologian and jurist. Born in 1292 in Damascus (Syria), he became the closest disciple of Ibn Taymiyya (d.1327) and was the author of numerous works, which remain popular to this day. Tallal Zeni is a Medical Doctor with a fascination for traditional Islamic culture. He is also the translator of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Knowledge.

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The Pure IntentionOn Knowledge of the Unique NameAl-Qasd al-Mujarrad fi Ma’rifat al-Ism al-Mufrad

Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari

Translated by Khalid Williams

The Pure Intention: On Knowledge of the Unique Name is the first ever translation into English of a seminal work from the Sufi tradition. This title focuses on the Divine Name Allah and the vir-tues and transformative power of its invocation. Written by the renowned Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari in the twelfth century the work is divided into two parts. Part One looks at the Name of Allah, its letters and their meanings. While in Part Two the author turns to the more practical question of the role of in-vocation, both in general and of the Name Allah specifically. Ibn Ata Allah discusses the virtue of invocation and establishes that it is the supreme act of worship.

Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) was a renowned Sufi master in the Shadhili order and one of the great authorities on Sufism in the thirteenth century. Khalid Williams was born in the UK in 1983. He graduated from Leeds University in 2006 with a BA in Arabic Studies, and moved to Morocco to teach and further his studies in the traditional Islamic disciplines. He began working in translation in 2009, with an emphasis on Islamic Studies and Sufism. He is the translator of Qur’an and the Prophet in the Writings of Shaykh Ahmad al-Alawi.

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Selections from The Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’anVolume I & II

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Selections from The Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’anVolume I

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Muhammad ibn Jarir Tabari

Translated by Scott C. Lucas

Tabari’s Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’an, also known as Tabari’s Tafsir, is one of the great monuments of classical Arabic and Islamic scholarship which, over a millennium, has been a fundamental reference work for scholars engaged in the tradition of Qur’anic exegesis. This two-volume translation focuses on thirty selected verses and Suras, or Chapters, associated with special merits and blessings and also includes Tabari’s own introduction to the Comprehensive Exposition.

Scott Lucas is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Tabari (224-310 AH; 839-923 AD) was a prominent and influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur’an from Tabaristan, modern in Iran, who composed all his works in Arabic. His most influential and best known works are his Qur’anic commentary known as Tafsir al-Tabari. He is best known for his expertise in tafsir, fiqh, and history, but he has been described as an impressively prolific polymath. He wrote on such subjects as poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine.

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An Apocalypse of LoveEssays in Honor of Cyril J. O’ReganEdited by Anthony C. Sciglitano and Jennifer Newsome Martin

An Apocalypse of Love is a collection of essays on the many facets of Cyril O’Regan’s work to date written by both promi-nent and rising scholars in the fields of philosophy and theology. Essay topics included in this volume range over his entire corpus, including appreciatively critical analyses of his early and current work on Hegel, rhetorical and pedagogical styles, spiritual theology, engagement with Hegel and Heidegger, von Balthasar and John of the Cross, kenosis, Eric Voegelin, his relation to post-moderns such as Lacan and Bataille, and poetry both pub-lished and unpublished.

Anthony Sciglitano is an associate professor at Seton Hall University where he has taught since 2003. He writes on Hans Urs von Balthasar, Judaism and Catholicism, Catholic theology in the twentieth century and post-modern philosophy. His book published by Crossroad is Marcion and Prometheus: Balthasar Against the Expulsion of Jewish Origins from Modern Religious Dialogue (New York: Crossroad, 2014). He has published in journals such as Modern Theology, Nova et Vetera and Pro Ec-clesia. For six years, he directed the University Core Curriculum at Seton Hall and co-edited the Core Curriculum readers. Jenni-fer Newsome Martin is an assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies (Great Books) with a concurrent appointment in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. A systematic and historical theologian, Jennifer Newsome Martin focuses on 20th century Roman Catholic theology, particularly Trinity and eschatology, the religious character of modern philo-sophical thought, especially in the German Idealist and Romantic traditions, theological aesthetics, religion and literature, French ressourcement thought, and the nature of tradition.

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Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

The Epistles and the ApocalypseAverky Taushev

Edited by Vitaly Permiakov

Translated by Nicholas Kotar and Seraphim Rose

This third and final volume of Archbishop Averky’s New Tes-tament commentary elucidates the moral and pastoral aspects of the Pauline and Universal Epistles and the Book of Revela-tion. Discussion of each New Testament book is preceded by an analysis of the authorship, time and place of composition, and major themes within. The final commentary on the Apoca-lypse, in which Archbishop Averky relies heavily on the ancient commentary of St Andrew of Ceasaria, is provided in the popular translation by Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose), together with the Scriptural text itself. The author’s approach is thoroughly patris-tic, constantly turning to the Church Fathers for the elucidation of one or another particular verse, especially to the commentaries and expositions of St John Chrysostom, Blessed Theophylact of Ochrid, Blessed Theodoret of Cyrus, and most particularly to the voluminous Scriptural commentaries of St Theophan the Recluse.

Nicholas Kotar is a translator as well as an author of fantasy novels inspired by traditional Russian folk tales. He is also a founding member of Conquering Time, an ensemble of perfor-mance, visual, and literary artists inspired by the Inklings that stages original works of storytelling and traditional music and publishes new poetry and prose. Dr Vitaly Permiakov holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. Hiero-monk Seraphim Rose (1934-1982) was an author and translator of Orthodox texts, most notable for his fearless engagement with the “spiritual” trends of his time. Archbishop Averky (Taushev) (1906–1976) was born in Imperial Russia. After the Russian Revolution he taught and served in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Germany before being assigned in 1951 to teach at the Holy Trinity Seminary in New York.

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Ordinary WondersStories of Unexpected GraceNebesnyi Ogon’ i drugie rasskazy

Olesia Nikolaeva

Translated by Alexandra Weber

The Deceitful Onion Bulb. A Blessing to Smuggle. The Conjuror of Rain. In this collection of stories as whimsical as their titles, award-winning author Olesia Nikolaeva poignantly recounts life for Christian believers in Soviet and post-So-viet Russia. In a manner reminiscent of the bestselling Everyday Saints these tales reveal a common theme - the subtle, some-times imperceptible movement of Divine Providence at work in the lives of saints and sinners alike. Her writings bring us to what the ancient Celts called “thin places” where the boundaries of heaven and earth meet and the sacred and the secular can no longer be distinguished.

Olesia Nikolaeva is a prolific and award-winning author, poet, and essayist. She has been composing verse since her early youth and was first published at the age of seventeen. Bishop Tikhon (Shevkhu-nov), author of the 2011 bestseller Everyday Saints, called her “a trailblazer in Russian Orthodox prose.” Alexandra Weber holds an MA in Russian Literary Translation from Columbia University.

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The Rule for Holy CommunionCanons, Order of Preparation, and Prayers After Holy CommunionSecond editionHoly Trinity Monastery

Back by popular demand, this comprehen-sive booklet contains all the prayers neces-sary for an Orthodox Christian preparing to receive Holy Communion, as well as the post-Communion Prayers of Thanksgiving. Also included is the Synodal document “On the Participation of the Faithful in the Eucharist”, recently approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to express its official teachings regarding proper reverence and preparation for the holiest of Christian sacraments.

The monks who came to Holy Trinity Monastery from Eastern Europe after World War II inherited a tradition of printing that stretches back almost to the invention of the printing press in the fif-teenth century. Through the fathers’ tireless efforts, the monastery has been printing and publishing Orthodox Christian books for almost sixty-five years.

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The SunflowerConforming the Will of Man to the Will of GodIliotropion

John Maximovitch

Translated by Nicholas Kotar

“May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower’s, so that even in days of hardship and sorrow we will continue to sail unerringly along the sea of life, following the directions of the barometer and compass of God’s will that leads us to the safe haven of eternity.” This is a thoroughly practical manual of the spiritual life focusing on the goal of every Christian: learning the will of God and struggling to mold our life to it.

Nicholas Kotar is a translator as well as an author of fantasy novels inspired by traditional Russian folk tales. He is also a founding member of Conquering Time, an ensemble of performance, visual, and literary artists inspired by the Inklings that stages original works of storytelling and traditional music and publishes new poetry and prose. St John Maximov-itch (1651-1715) was Metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia. His veneration among the people grew after his repose to the point that he was canonized by the Russian Church in 1916.

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This Way SlaughterA Novel of William Barret TravisBruce Olds

This Way Slaughter, an original work of literary, biographical fiction about “the Voice of the Texas Revolution” and Commander of the Alamo, William Barret Travis, marks the first and only time that figure has received full-length treatment in a novel. Typically a character portrayed as a rather minor stick figure forfeit to a much larger, unthinkably violent and bloody drama, one overshadowed by more celebrated names like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Sam Houston, Slaughter places the 26-year-old attorney, schoolteacher, editor and diarist centerstage where he is subjected to relentlessly probing, yet empathic scrutiny.

Reared in the Upper Midwest, Bruce Olds has lived at various periods in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami and Chicago. He is the author of three award-winning works of fiction, the Pulit-zer Prize nominated The Moments Lost, Bucking the Tiger and the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Raising Holy Hell.

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TessKirsten McDougall

In the silence she could hear the oncom-ing hum, like a large flock approaching. She didn’t want to hear his story; she’d had enough of them. Tess is on the run when she’s picked up from the side of the road by lonely middle-aged father Lewis Rose. With reluctance, she’s drawn into his family troubles and comes to know a life she never had. Set in Masterton at the turn of the millennium, Tess is a gothic love story about the ties that bind and tear a family apart.

Kirsten McDougall was born in 1974 and grew up in Wellington and Masterton. She was educated at Victoria University, grad-uating in 2004 with a Masters in Creative Writing. Her first book, a series of intercon-nected short stories, The Invisible Rider, was published by VUP in 2012. She has published stories and nonfiction in Landfall, Sport, Turbine and Tell You What: Great New Zealand Non-fiction 2016.



The New AnimalsPip Adam

Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there’s nothing new under the sun. They’re Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They’ve come from nowhere, but with their monied fam-ilies behind them they’re ready to remake fashion. They represent the new sincere, the anti-irony. Both generations are search-ing for a way out, an alternative to their messed-up reality.

Pip Adam has published a collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For (VUP, 2010) and two novels, I’m Working on a Building (VUP, 2013) and The New Animals (VUP, 2017). Her work has ap-peared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 Pip received an Arts Foundation of New Zea-land New Generation Award and her first book Everything We Hoped For won the NZ Post Best First Book award in 2011.



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Trick of the LightLaura Elvery

An art teacher sends four of her students on a guerrilla mission. A young runner struggles to make sense of his best friend’s death. A health-food company adopts a farcical promotional strategy. A factory worker spends her days applying radioac-tive paint to watches, while dreaming of a future with her new suitor. With a keen eye for detail and rich emotional insight, Laura Elvery reveals the fears and fantasies of everyday people searching for meaning.

Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. Her work has been published in The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Review of Australian Fiction, Kill Your Darlings and Griffith Review. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature and the Margaret River Short Story Competition, and was awarded a Griffith Review Fellowship. She has been shortlisted for the Overland NUW Fair Australia, Neilma Sidney and Victoria University prizes.



The Everlasting SundayRobert Lukins

“Robert Lukins’ powerful, assured writing cuts like a knife into a world crackling with secrets and tension.” —Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek

England, 1962. Seventeen-year-old Rad-ford arrives at Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have ‘been found by trouble’. Watched over by the enigmatic Teddy, life at the Manor offers a fragile peace at best, as the coldest winter in three centuries sets in. Radford learns that the boys are to care for each other, since their families and the law have been unable to do so. But will this be enough when tragedy strikes? At once both beautiful and brutal, The Ever-lasting Sunday is an unforgettable debut novel about growing up, growing wild and the shifting nature of friendship.

Robert Lukins lives in Melbourne and has worked as an art researcher and journalist. His writing has been published widely, including in The Big Issue, Rolling Stone, Crikey, Broadsheet and Overland. The Everlasting Sunday is his first novel.

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Dancing HomePaul Collis

Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with their mate Carlos. Blackie is out for revenge against the cop who put him in prison on false grounds. He is also craving to reconnect with his grandmother’s country. Driven by his hun-ger for drugs and payback, Blackie reaches dark places of both mystery and beauty as he searches for peace. He is willing to pay for that peace with his own life. Part road-movie, part ‘Koori-noir’, Dancing Home announces an original and darkly funny new voice.

Paul Collis is a Barkindji man, born in Bourke in far western NSW on the Darling River. Paul worked in Newcastle for much of his young adult life in the areas of teaching and in Aboriginal community development positions. He has taught Aboriginal Studies to Indigenous inmates at the Worimi and Mount Penang juvenile detention centres and in Cessnock and Maitland prisons.

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LarkinlandJonathan Tulloch

“Treasure him, there’s no saying what he’ll do next.” —Stan Barstow

Jonathan Tulloch has written a pitch perfect realization of Larkin’s poetic world. Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O’Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance salesman who rented his room before him, threatens to pull the poet into disaster and cast him into the criminal hinterland of ‘fish town’, that sublimely banal Larkin-land ‘beached on the mudflats at the end of the railway line, like a brick seal with a woodbine in its gob’.

Author of seven previous novels, including The Season Ticket, Give Us This Day and Mr McCool, Jonathan Tulloch’s work has been filmed, staged, Radio 4 serialized and translated into five languages. He has won the Betty Trask Prize and The JB Priestley Award. He contributes to the Nature Notebook in the Times, and writes a weekly column in the second oldest weekly mag-azine in the English language. He is founder of The Sheltering Tree, a Middlesbrough writing group for writers recovering from addiction, and he also plays in the ceilidh band, Herd on the Hill.

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The Chicken Soup MurderMaria Donovan

Part crime fiction, part murder mystery, part meditation on grieving, friendship and family, Maria Donovan’s debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, is a coming-of-age story narrated with resilience and humor by Michael, whose cozy young life is threatened by bullying and blasted by visitations from the biggest bully of them all: Death. Within Michael’s own past are unan-swered questions: why does he live with his grandmother? Are his parents really in prison? His magical creative thinking lands him in trouble: how reliable is his story and why is he the only one who thinks a murder has been committed? What can he, a schoolboy about to turn twelve, do about it? Haunted by the injustice of a killing, he takes on the burden of trying to do the right thing—first helping the widowed mother of his best friend, and then seeking justice for the friend and neighbor who appar-ently died while making him chicken soup. Bereavement is hard enough but there are added difficulties in coming to terms with the deliberate ending of a life. A sensitive and moving first novel from the author of short-story collection Pumping Up Napoleon, The Chicken Soup Murder was a finalist for the Dundee Interna-tional Book Prize.

Maria Donovan has published a collection of flash fiction, Tea for Mr Dead (Leaf, 2006) and a collection of short stories, Pumping Up Napoleon. Her work includes stories set in Wales commis-sioned for anthologies such as Sing, Sorrow, Sorrow, The Wish Dog and other stories and New Welsh Short Stories. ‘My Cous-in’s Breasts’ was shortlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize and ‘My Own CVA’ was a prizewinner in a competition run by The Lancet. The title story of her collection, ‘Pumping Up Napoleon’, was picked by Carol Ann Duffy to be published in Mslexia. Her flash fiction story ‘Chess’ won the Dorset Prize in the Bridport Prize 2015. Her work has been recorded by BBC Radio Wales for broadcast on Radio 4 and around Europe. The Chicken Soup Murder is her first novel.

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Tell No-One About ThisJacob Ross

This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including those first published in the highly-rated Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories. The previous-ly published pieces have been extensively revised. They range from stories set in Grenada at different periods from the 1970s onwards, to several set in the UK. These are stories that have a narrative drive, a meticulousness of construction, an exactness of image and a rigorous economy in the prose. They are inventive in their explorations of a variety of narrative voices – from children to adults, male and female, Caribbean and British – that establish a persona and capture the reader from the first sentence. Jacob Ross often holds up to us a much darker place, as in “Rum and Coke” where a mother rails against the sway the local dealer has over her addicted son and does something about it. Tell No One About This will confirm Ross as amongst the very best short story writers in the Caribbean and the UK.

Jacob Ross has been hailed as ‘a writer of formidable technical range and emotional depth’. He is Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press. Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story wiriter, editor and creative writing tutor. His novel Pynter Bender was published to much critical literary acclaim and was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize and chosen as one of the British Authors Club’s top three Best First Novels. Jacob is also the author of two short story collections, Song for Simone and A Way to Catch the Dust, and the editor of Closure, Contemporary Black British short stories. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge of the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Olive Cook, Scott Moncrieff and Tom-Gallon Literary Awards. Jacob Ross’s latest book, The Bone Readers, marks a new departure into crime fiction, and is the first in his Camaho Quartet.

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Curfew ChroniclesA FictionJennifer Rahim

In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, brought in to combat the crime and killings associated with the drugs trade, was meant to last 15 days but lasted four months. This is the background to these chronicles, but not their substance. They are an imagina-tive response to the undertones of those days. Taking place over 24 hours, Curfew Chronicles brings together, like a Joyce’s Ulysses in miniature, the lives of two dozen characters (including a father and son searching for each other) whose lives intersect in mostly fortuitous but some-times quite deliberate ways.

Jennifer Rahim is Trinidadian. Her first collection of poems, Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists was published in 1992, fol-lowed by Between the Fence and the For-est, Approaching Sabbaths, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize 2010, and most recently Ground Level. She also writes short fiction, and published the acclaimed Songster and other stories in 2007.

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GangreneAly Renwick

“Gangrene is a powerful, well-crafted thriller; a page turner, written with a chill-ing atmosphere of realism. It’s not for the faint hearted as for anyone who observed something of the ‘hidden war’ in Ireland, there is a terrifying authenticity.” —Peter Berresford Ellis

Gangrene is set during four months in 1994 and the events of the preceding three decades. It thrusts you into the heart of an NHS hospital, a mining community in Nottinghamshire and the dirty war in N. Ireland. ‘Ginge’, an NCO in military intel-ligence, saw too much—and then he saw nothing… A flashback sometimes zooms across my brain—a vivid blaze of light, fol-lowed by a vast wall of sound. Then oblivi-on. ‘A mercury-tilt bomb? The bastards have gotten me!’ I’d been in a hurry and gunned the car engine as I started out. I remember starting up a steep hill and then the flash, bang and wallop. The bomb had been placed underneath the vehicle—but a bit behind my driving seat. This saved my legs and probably my life, … As he lies in a hospital bed links form in Ginge’s mind—bit by bit. Were those events connected?

Aly Renwick joined the British Army aged 16. He is a member of Veterans for Peace, UK.

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Limbo Trilogy Series

Wolf TrapConsuelo Roland

Paola Dante is a driven project manager. Long ago she made a decision that matters of the heart were inherently messy and should be kept at arm’s distance. But her husband had surprised her; she had no resistance against Daniel. Now she sees herself as a survivor who has successfully moved on from the traumatic events and terrible truth surrounding her husband’s sudden disappearance years before. An un-likely and ill-equipped mother, she stands alone between their adopted daughter Simone and a criminal kingpin. To save her daughter—and herself—once and for all, Paola will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she’d finally processed and left behind.

After leaving the information technology business Consuelo Roland completed an MA degree in Creative Writing at the Uni-versity of Cape Town. Her debut novel The Good Cemetery Guide was short listed for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2006 and received special mention from the Olive Schreiner judges.

FICTION, 350 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $22.95 (CAN $30.95)ISBN: 9781431425662RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

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SonNeil Sonnekus

Len and his father, Son, couldn’t be more different. If Len is a re-cently divorced man of 42 who just wants sex, then his old man is a World War Two veteran in his late 80s, who is impossible. Len is a decadent subeditor at a South African newspaper, the old man is an old-school puritan. They have nothing in common, except that they’re both storytellers. Len thinks he’s heard all the stories before, but then one day—hungover as usual—he decides to tease a narrative out of the old man. He wants to see if there is more to the endlessly repetitive good-time stories. And slowly the old man starts revealing how just one small, shocking incident actually affected him (and his family) for the rest of his days. The horror of a past war is brought to a head in a country where 50 people—whether children, women or the aged—are murdered not a year, month or week, but a day.

Neil Sonnekus is a playwright, award-winning filmmaker and critic. His play, Habitual, was performed at the Market Theatre and he won a platinum award for adapting Booker Prize-nomi-nated author Christopher Hope’s fine comic novella Black Swan at the Houston International Film Festival in 2003. His short film, Down Under, a thriller, won silver that year. Sonnekus worked as a film critic at the Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times Magazine from 2001–2009. He has made two more shorts and is currently developing a feature film. Son is his first novel and there are two more in the pipeline.

FICTION, 280 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $21.95 (CAN $29.95)ISBN: 9781920601805RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

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Peacock’s AlibiStuart David

Peacock Johnson’s got an idea that’s guaranteed to make him rich, and a friend who’s willing to invest in the idea—just as soon as the friend’s ex-wife remarries and frees him of his alimony ob-ligations. But Peacock’s having some difficulty laying the ground-work for his less-than-legal enterprise. Local homicide detective Duncan McFadgen is convinced that Peacock is responsible for the recent murder of a police informer, and is constantly on Peacock’s tail, badgering him with questions and trying to break his alibi for the night of the murder. His path to riches seems to be vanishing into the ether and then things begin to seriously unravel...

Stuart David is a musician, songwriter and novelist. He grew up in Alexandria, on the west coast of Scotland – a town memo-rably described as looking like ‘a town that’s helping the police with their inquiries’. The character of Peacock Johnson is based on some of the people Stuart grew up amongst there. Stuart co-founded the band Belle and Sebastian (1996–2000) and went on to form Looper in 1998. His memoir, In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian’s Formative Year, was published by Abacus/Little, Brown in 2015 to much critical acclaim.

FICTION/HUMOR, 224 PAGES, 5 X 7.75TRADE PAPER, $12.99 (CAN $17.99)ISBN: 9781846974113RIGHTS: US, CANADA & CHINA

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Out of LineDaring to be an Artist Outside the Big CityTanis Macdonald

Poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald has taught creative writing for twenty years all across Canada: in small community workshops, large university classes and everything in between. The question she’s heard the most is “How can I be a writer?” and she realized early on that this question had nothing to do with putting words on a page. Out of Line is her answer to this question. This book is about creativity and community, about what it is like to try and pick up a pen, or a paintbrush, and create art for the first time when you don’t come from a background with access to the arts.

Originally from Winnipeg, Tanis MacDon-ald now lives in Waterloo, Ontario, where she teaches Canadian literature and cre-ative writing at Wilfrid Laurier University. She won the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize in 2003, was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in 2013 for her book The Daughter’s Way and was the recipient of the Robert Kroetsch Teaching Award in 2017.

CULTURAL STUDIES/WRITING, 250 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $20.00ISBN: 9781928088592RIGHTS: US


Wellington Summer Shakespeare 1983-2017Edited by David Lawrence

Since its first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1983, the Wellington Summer Shakespeare has become an unmissable annual event, staging some of the liveliest Shakespeare productions performed in New Zealand. Over 33 years, the Summer Shakespeare has enthralled audiences, introduced new generations of theatregoers to Shakespeare in perfor-mance, and played a formative role in the early careers of many of New Zealand’s leading creatives. Wellington Summer Shakespeare 1983–2017 collects photos, ephemera and memories from some of the plays’ directors to document the evolution of Wellington’s only large-scale, large-cast, outdoor theatre event.

David Lawrence is a director, musician and actor, best known for his work with The Bacchanals, the theatre company he founded in 2000. His association with the Summer Shakespeare began in 1993, and he was co-chair of the Summer Shakespeare Trust from 2012–2016. David is a Hunter Fellow of Victoria University, and in 2013 he was a member of the International Ac-tors’ Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe.

THEATER, 128 PAGES, 8.25 X 11.75150 COLOR PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781776560981RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND


The Fuse BoxEssays on Writing from Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern LettersEdited by Emily Perkins and Chris Price

The Fuse Box gathers essays from the writing community to shine fresh light on the creative process. Editors Emily Perkins and Chris Price have invited some of our best writers to share their strategies for staying plugged in and switched on. From the instigating spark through to currents and connections, they explore issues rele-vant to all stages of the writing life: how to get started and what to write about, how to keep the flow going over time, freedom and constraint, how your writing might meet the world, and how to make the most of accidents. Poets, dramatists, novelists and writing teachers open up to reveal their wiring in essays that are strikingly honest, political and playful.

Emily Perkins is the author of short stories and novels including the books Not Her Real Name, Novel About My Wife and The Forrests. Chris Price is a past editor of Landfall, has worked in publishing, and was for many years coordinator of the New Zealand Festival’s Writers and Readers Week.

WRITING, 296 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781776561650RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND


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Finding LanguageThe Massey University Composer AddressesEdited by Michael Brown and Norman Meehan

From 1995 to 2006, eight New Zealand composers were invited to give an annual public address at Massey University: John Ritchie, Edwin Carr, David Farquhar, Jack Body, Lyell Cresswell, John Cousins, John Rimmer and Chris Cree Brown. The music of the ‘father of New Zealand composition’, Douglas Lilburn, formed the subject of a ninth address by pianist Margaret Niel-sen. Finding Language collects together all the Massey Composer Addresses for the first time. The addresses show some of our most prominent musical practitioners reflecting, in their own words, upon their creative practices, formative influences, the role of composers in New Zealand society, and other concerns close to their hearts. The results are a fascinating compendium of views on New Zealand art composition in the twentieth century and beyond. Included in Finding Language: The Massey Com-poser Addresses are the original overviews of each composer’s work by series convenor Robert Hoskins, together with new afterwords, bibliographic resources, and an introduction. An essential sourcebook for all students and aficionados of New Zealand art music, as well as those interested in the development of the arts in this country.

Michael Brown works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turn-bull Library in Wellington. He has written on various aspects of New Zealand music and culture. In 2015, he collaborated with artist Mat Tait on the graphic fiction The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand (Potton & Burton, 2015). Norman Meehan is a Wellington-based com-poser, pianist, writer and teacher. His many releases include five collaborations with the vocalist Hannah Griffin and Bill Manhire and other poets. He is the author of Time Will Tell: Conversa-tions with Paul Bley, Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock and New Zealand Jazz Life.

MUSIC, 172 PAGES, 6.5 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $29.95 (CAN $39.95)ISBN: 9781776561087RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND


Colonial Gothic to Maori RenaissanceEssays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-WheokiEdited by Conal McCarthy and Mark Stocker

Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (1943–2014) was a much loved and re-spected academic and curator of broad and varied interests, who made an immense contribution to New Zealand art history over almost half a century. His scholarship was matched by a terrific generosity of spirit and personal charisma. Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance is a remarkable tribute to his memory from friends, colleagues and former students alike. Its contents are as varied and interesting as the man himself: Victorian church architecture and liturgy, mysticism, the New Zealand Interna-tional Exhibition of 1906, the Toi Te Papa exhibition of 2006, traditional and contemporary Maori art, and the artists Thomas Benjamin Kennington, Gottfried Lindauer, Colin McCahon, Tony Fomison, Philip Clairmont and Emily Karaka are all included here. Beautifully illustrated and scholarly yet readable, this book is a powerful testament to the inspiration of a remarkable person.

Dr Conal McCarthy is Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University. He completed a Master’s degree in Art History at Canterbury University in the 1980s, where he was taught by Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. His latest co-authored book is Collecting, ordering governing: Anthropology, museums and liberal government. His next book, co-edited with Philipp Schorch, is Curatopia: Museums and the future of curatorship. Dr Mark Stocker, FSA is Curator Historical International Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He has published extensively on Victorian art, and was Jonathan Mane-Wheoki’s colleague and friend both at the University of Canterbury (1986-2003) and at Te Papa (2014). He recently edited Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History.

ART, 322 PAGES, 8.5 X 12.7550 COLOR PHOTOS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $57.95 (CAN $77.95)ISBN: 9781776561094RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND



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Black FaggotAnd Other PlaysVictor Rodger

Three darkly provocative and ground-breaking plays by award-winning playwright Victor Rodger explore what it means to be gay and Samoan in contemporary New Zealand. The collection includes Black Faggot (2012), At the Wake (2012) and Club Paradiso (2015). Victor Rodger is an award-winning playwright of Samoan and Scottish heritage. His first play, Sons, debuted in 1995. Since then he has eight other plays produced, both nationally and internationally. He has held writing residen-cies at the University of Canterbury, the University of Hawaii and Otago University. He is currently the writer in residence at Victoria University of Wellington.

Victor Rodger is an award-winning playwright of Samoan and Scottish heritage. His first play, Sons, debuted in 1995. Since then he has eight other plays produced, both nationally and inter-nationally. He has held writing residencies at the University of Canterbury, the University of Hawaii and Otago University. He is the 2017 writer in residence at Victoria University of Wellington.

THEATER, 172 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.25TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781776561032RIGHTS: WORLD X NEW ZEALAND


Vaulting AmbitionJamaica’s Barn Theatre 1966 -2005Yvonne Brewster

For more almost forty years, Jamaica’s Barn Theatre was a cru-cial part of the development of a Caribbean theatre that extended beyond the Europhile elite. When it began in 1965, there were scarcely any plays written by Caribbean playwrights to perform. By its presence The Barn encouraged the work of dramatists such as Dennis Scott, Ashani Harrison and Carmen Tipling, and above all the work of Trevor Rhone, with whom Yvonne Brewster enjoyed a close if sometimes tumultuous theatrical relationship. Yvonne Brewster’s splendid retelling of the making of the Barn captures the phenomenon of youthful ambition, creative opti-mism and rollicking intellectual excitement that characterized the spirit of young people fired with the zeal of imagining a postcolo-nial self as distinct from a colonized self.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Yvonne Brewster went to the UK to study drama in the mid-1950s at the Rose Bruford College - where she was the UK’s first Black woman drama student - and at the Royal Academy of Music, where she received a distinction in Drama and Mime, and was a pupil of Marcel Marceau. She returned to Jamaica to teach Drama and in 1965 she also jointly founded (with Trevor Rhone) The Barn in Kingston, Jamaica’s first professional theatre company. Upon her return to England she worked extensively in radio, television, and directing for Stage Productions. She has worked on many films, among them The Harder They Come, Smile Orange and The Marijuana Affair, and for BBC TV The Fight Against Slavery and My Father Sun Sun Johnson.

THEATER/HISTORY, 128 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $16.95 (CAN $22.95)ISBN: 9781845233600RIGHTS: US & CANADA


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The Fiction of Garth St OmerA CasebookEdited by Antonia MacDonald-Smythe

With the republication of Garth St Omer’s novels, around fifty years after their original publication, a new generation of readers has been discovering how modern a writer he is, whilst others have been remembering just how good the novels are. These qualities are documented in this casebook that brings together reviews from the time of first publication, later criti-cal assessments, personal memories and contemporary re-assessments of St Omer’s small but important body of work.

Antonia MacDonald-Smythe was born and grew up in St. Lucia. She now lives in Grenada where she is a professor in the department of Liberal Studies, Senior Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Assistant Dean in the Gradu-ate Studies Program.

LITERARY CRITICISM, 170 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $22.95 (CAN $30.95)ISBN: 9781845233570RIGHTS: US & CANADA


Don’t Stop the CarnivalBlack British MusicKevin Le Gendre

This is a story of empire, colonialism and then the new energies released by the movements for freedom and independence of the post second-world-war years; of the movements of peoples across borders; of the flow of music around the triangle that takes in Africa, the Caribbean, the USA and Great Britain; of temporary but highly influential visitors like Paul Robeson; and of the settlement of ex-colonial peoples who brought their music to Britain, and changed its forms and concerns in the new context. Le Gendre brings together both a sense of historical purpose and the ability to actually describe music in vivid and meaningful ways.

Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broad-caster and writer with a special interest in black music. Deputy editor of Echoes, he contributes to a wide range of publications that include Jazzwise, MusicWeek, Vibra-tions and The Independent On Sunday.

HISTORY/MUSIC, 320 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.2515 COLOR PHOTOS, 12 B&W PHOTOSTRADE PAPER, $35.95 (CAN $48.95)ISBN: 9781845233617RIGHTS: US & CANADA

PEEPAL TREE PRESS LTD. MAY

Derek Walcott’s Love Affair with FilmJean Antoine Dunne

Completed with the enthusiastic support and participation of the late Laureate, Jean Antoine-Dunne’s lively and enriching study begins in a recognition of how import-ant film has been in the whole of Derek Walcott’s career. It is not merely that Derek Walcott wrote a number independent film scripts such as The Rig, The Haitian Earth and To Die for Grenada and wrote film treatments of several of his plays such as for Marie Laveau, Ti Jean and O Babylon, and also a film treatment of his poetic epic Omeros, but that the whole of Walcott’s work, whether poetry, drama or painting, is infused with the sense of the filmic.

Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne is a Senior Lectur-er in Literatures in English at the Universi-ty of the West Indies, St Augustine. She de-livered the Walcott Nobel Lecture in 2006, and has published widely on contemporary Irish and Caribbean writing.

FILM/BIOGRAPHY, 276 PAGES, 6 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $35.95 (CAN $48.95)ISBN: 9781845233655RIGHTS: US & CANADA



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Creole Chips and Other WritingsShort Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Essays, 1937-1954Edgar Mittelholzer

This compendium of Edgar Mittelholzer’s uncollected writings, compiled and edited by Juanita Cox, brings together his early collection of sketches of Georgetown life, Creole Chips, his speculative novella, The Adding Machine, twenty-four short sto-ries, two short plays, his published and unpublished poetry and essays covering travel, literature and his personal beliefs. This is mostly work written before Mittelholzer came to England in search of publishing opportunities. It shows a writer still deeply concerned with the Caribbean, a writer of playful humour who is committed to entertain, not to preach as his later work tends to do, and a writer who wrote in a variety of genres (speculative fiction, crime, and the Gothic) that contemporary Caribbean writers are rediscovering.

Edgar Mittelholzer was born in British Guiana in 1909. He wrote more than twenty novels. He eventually settled in England, where he lived until his death in 1965, a suicide predicted in sev-eral of his novels. He began writing in 1929 and despite constant rejection letters persisted with his writing. In 1937 he self-pub-lished Creole Chips and sold it from door to door.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS/ESSAYS, 400 PAGES, 9.25 X 6.25TRADE PAPER, $35.95 (CAN $48.95)ISBN: 9781845233006RIGHTS: US & CANADA


Floating IslandersPasifika Theatre in AotearoaDavid O’Donnell and Lisa Warrington

This book celebrates 30 years of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Pacific Underground, Pacific Theatre, The Laugh-ing Samoans, The Conch, The Naked Samoans, Kila Kokonut Krew—the distinctive style and themes of Pasifika theatre have been developed by many individuals and theatre companies in New Zealand. Authors Lisa Warrington and David O’Donnell have interviewed over 30 theatre practitioners to tell the story of Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa from 1984 to 2015. This lively book showcases playwrights, directors and performers whose heritage lies in Samoa, Niue, Fiji, Tonga, Tokelau and the Cook Islands.

David O’Donnell is a theatre director and associate professor in theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. He has directed many premieres of New Zealand plays, including Heat by Lynda Chanwai-Earle and West End Girls by Ken Duncum. In 2004 he was voted director of the year in the Chapman Tripp eatre Awards for directing David Edgar’s Albert Speer, and in 2015 he won a Po`okela directing award from the Hawai`i State Theatre Council. Lisa Warrington is a theatre director and associate professor in theatre studies at the University of Otago. She has directed over 125 productions, including 30 for Dunedin’s profes-sional company the Fortune Theatre.

THEATER/NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, 284 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.25TRADE PAPER, $29.00 (CAN $39.00)ISBN: 9781988531076RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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The Ink TradeSelected Journalism 1963 - 1993Anthony Burgess

Edited by Will Carr

“The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions…” —Anthony Burgess. Despite his disingenuous claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, Urgent Copy (1968) and Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1986); a posthumous collection of oc-casional essays, One Man’s Chorus, was published in 1998. These collections are now out of print, and Burgess’s journalism, a key element of his oeuvre, and an example to a declining modern reviewer, has fallen into neglect. The Ink Trade is a brilliant new selection of his reviews and articles, some savage, some crucial in establishing new writers, new tastes and trends. Between 1959 and his death in 1993 Burgess contributed to newspapers and periodicals around the world, among them the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, Playboy, and Le Monde. He was provocative, informative, entertaining, extrav-agant, and always readable. Editor Will Carr presents a wealth of unpublished and uncollected material.

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobi-ography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works. He was also a prolific journalist and wrote thousands of essays, articles and reviews. Burgess was born in Manchester, England and grew up in Harpurhey and Moss Side, and was educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. Widely regarded as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his books are still read all over the world. Will Carr is an experienced senior arts manager, working on everything Anthony Burgess in Manchester and beyond. He specializes in artistic programming, writing, editing, audiences, business planning, organizational development, arts policy and fundraising.

LITERARY CRITICISM/ESSAYS, 300 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5TRADE PAPER, $27.00 (CAN $36.00)ISBN: 9781784103927RIGHTS: US, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA & MICRONESIA


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In the Beginning Was a WordHow Language Knits Reality TogetherJohn S. Hatcher

In the Beginning Was a Word is an acces-sible discussion intended for those who find delight in the extraordinary capacity of language to express what is otherwise inexpressible. Though only vibrations in the air, words possess a power akin to that of the law of gravity, by which physical objects are drawn together by mutual attraction, or the law of love, which orders and unifies metaphysical reality. Language provides the threads with which we weave together the various parts of our lives and reality as a whole.

John S. Hatcher holds a BA and MA in En-glish Literature from Vanderbilt University and a PhD in English literature from the University of Georgia. He is a professor emeritus of English literature at the Uni-versity of South Florida, Tampa.

RELIGION & THEOLOGY/LANGUAGE & LIN-GUISTICS, 374 PAGES, 6 X 9TRADE PAPER, $18.00 (CAN $20.00)ISBN: 9781618511188RIGHTS: US & CANADA


Something About EmusBininj Stories from Western Arnhem LandMurray Garde

The emu is an iconic Australian bird of significance to all Australians, but espe-cially so to Indigenous Australians who have had a special relationship with this curious animal for thousands of years. In this bilingual, highly illustrated, full-col-or publication Something about emus reveals valuable ecological knowledge in a collection of essays by senior members of the Bininj Kunwok language group from Kakadu National Park and Western Arnhem Land.

Murray Garde is a Research Fellow in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. He has lived and worked for many years in western Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park working with speakers of the Bininj Kunwok language in a variety of areas including land management, tra-ditional music, environmental knowledge and language maintenance programs.

NATURE, 158 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.25FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $29.99 (CAN $39.99)ISBN: 9781922059154RIGHTS: US & CANADA

ABORIGINAL STUDIES PRESS JANUARY

Strangers ArriveEmigrés and the Arts in New Zealand, 1930–1980Leonard Bell

From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants— refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries—arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writ-ers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. In words and pic-tures, Strangers Arrive tells their story.

Leonard Bell is associate professor of art history at the University of Auckland. His writings on cross-cultural interactions and representations and the work of travelling, migrant and refugee artists and photog-raphers have been published in New Zea-land, Britain, the United States, Australia, Germany and the Czech Republic.

ART/NEW ZEALAND STUDIES 320 PAGES, 10.5 X 8.5200 COLOR PHOTOS, 50 B&W PHOTOS, FOUR-COLOR INTERIORCLOTH, $75.00 (CAN $101.00)ISBN: 9781869408732RIGHTS: US, CANADA, ASIA & SOUTH AFRICA

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Last Night at the BasslineDavid Coplan

Photographer Oscar Gutierrez

In 1994 Brad and Paige Holmes opened a small, live-music venue in the bohemian suburb of Melville in Johannesburg. They called it Bassline, which very soon became synonymous with cigarette smoke, great jazz and nights you wished would never end. They later moved the club to Newtown where it grew in prominence as the ultimate venue for live music, hosting amazing artists like Thandiswa Mazwai, Jimmy Dludlu, Lira, The Soil and Gram-my Award-winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2016 word spread like wildfire that everyone’s favourite club was closing its doors forever; this place that held all the promises of a new South Africa, a place where people of all races could come together, share a drink, dance and fall in love was to be no more. But as Bassline starts its new journey with Live @ the Bassline, yet another great story begins with Last Night at the Bassline.

David Coplan is a well-respected writer and film maker. He arrived in South Africa in the early 1970s as an anthropology research-er at the University of Cape Town. His first book In Township Tonight, was pioneering social history of urban black music, dance and theatre in South Africa. A friend of the Holmes’s, he too found sanctuary at the Bassline when he moved to Johannesburg to take up a professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand. Oscar Gutierrez arrived in South Africa in 1994. As a photojournalist he has documented a great range of events and issues in politics, religion and music with an impressive client list that includes The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, The G8 Music Festival, the Orbit and Bassline. Oscar Gutierrez has an extensive photographic collection of contemporary South African music.

MUSIC/AFRICAN STUDIES, 224 PAGES, 7.5 X 10TRADE PAPER, $24.95 (CAN $33.95)ISBN: 9781431424993RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND


It’s Me, MarahMarah Louw

Legendary music icon writes tell-all book ‘Show business as we know it is very unpredictable. For a few years I was the talk of the town. It was getting hard to even go shopping without being mobbed by fans.’ – Marah Louw With a career spanning over 40 years, Marah Louw is counted among South Africa’s musical and entertainment industry royalty and has a powerful and memo-rable story to tell. This book is the reader’s front-row ticket to the joys, sadness, triumphs and setbacks that have been part of this legend’s life. Even though she is a celebrity, her story aims to show that stars, no matter how bright, are human too. It also delves into her family secrets and her search for truth. As one of South Africa’s most iconic entertainers, Marah has had an illustri-ous career. She performed at the Mandela Concert at London’s Wembley Stadium and she sang at the Newsmaker of the Year Awards, presented to Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, and in honour of the late Chris Hani.

As one of South Africa’s most iconic entertainers, Marah Louw has had an illustrious career. She performed at the Mandela Con-cert at London’s Wembley Stadium and she sang at the News-maker of the Year Awards, presented to Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, and in honor of the late Chris Hani. She appeared with Nelson Mandela during his visit to Glasgow in 1993 and sang at George Square and The Royal Concert Hall. In 1994, she sang at the inauguration of President Nelson Mandela and the Freedom Day Celebrations at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MUSIC, 201 PAGES, 6.25 X 9.5TRADE PAPER, $22.95 (CAN $30.95)ISBN: 9781928337379RIGHTS: US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

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New Medical Titles IPG – SPRING 2018

Rain on a Sunny DayLiving and Thriving with BipolarDumani Mandela

Over four million South Africans suffer from bipolar disorder, and for that three to four per cent of our country’s population who are affected by it, life can be challenging and filled with pain, misunderstandings, and personal tribulation. Using his personal story as a vehicle, Dumani Mandela takes us ‘through the looking glass’ of bipolar to examine the challenges of the condition in an African context and what sufferers can do to abate some of its maladies. Rain on a Sunny Day is the author’s contribution to the emerging discussion on indigenous African remedies for mental illness in today’s world.

Dumani Mandela was born in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, South Africa and is a graduate of Wits University with a degree in Political Science and International Relations. His background is research, and he worked at Nextwork Consulting and Skan-dia Insurance Company in Sweden prior to joining his family’s investment company, OSR Holdings, for whom he works as a project manager. Dumani Mandela is a co-author of African Soul Talk – When Politics is Not Enough with Warren Goldstein and participated in research for the book Lekgotla: The Art of Lead-ership Through Dialogue by Willem de Liefde.

SELF-HELP/AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 206 PAGES, 4.25 X 7TRADE PAPER, $27.00 (CAN $36.00)ISBN: 9781928341079RIGHTS: WORLD X SOUTH AFRICA


A Short Journey into TraumaUnderstanding and Coping with Post-Traumatic StressFrank Parkinson

This book aims to challenge and change unhelpful attitudes to those who suffer traumatic reactions, to show that they are not signs of weakness or a personality disorder and that there is un-derstanding and help available for those who suffer. It draws on personal and professional experience. The author has worked as a counsellor, practising the psychological debriefing he describes in detail, dealing with many different kinds of traumatic events. He describes theories and methods used for understanding traumatic stress and outlines the history of treatments offered, up to the present. There are also descriptions of the coping strate-gies used by professionals in the Emergency and Social Services, which are also found in civilian organizations and in society in general. The author describes personal experience, counselling and psychological debriefing.

Frank Parkinson is a Church of England priest who served as a chaplain in the army from 1967 until 1992. During this time he trained as a counsellor with ‘Relate’ and began to specialize in Post-Traumatic-Stress. After retiring as an Assistant Chaplain general in 1992 he worked as a consultant, university lecturer, trainer, psychological debriefer and counsellor. He is the author of Coping with Post-Trauma Stress, Critical Incident Debriefing, Listening and Helping in the Workplace and Post-Trauma Stress.

SELF-HELP/HEALTH, 256 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.254 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSTRADE PAPER, $22.99 (CAN $30.99)ISBN: 9781854251176RIGHTS: US

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The Munich Show. Mineralientage München 2017Theme Book: From Mine to MineEdited by The Munich Show

The theme book 2017 takes you on a journey to some of the most famous and extraordinary localities of these natural trea-sures, from antiquity until today. Did you know that as far back as the 14th century Central European merchants used a sophis-ticated communication system to find out early about yields and shipments of the Indian diamond mines? Or that the precious opals of the emperors and kings of the 17th century were mined not in Australia but in Opálbány, Hungary – and already on an industrial scale to boot? Would you have thought that an emerald from the Habach Valley in Austria adorns the English crown jewels? These and many other anecdotes are waiting for you in over 30 thrilling articles. They tell the stories of individuals on over 200 pages combining the history of the Earth, economy and world politics with the passion for minerals to weave a picture that will leave the viewer amazed.

The Munich Show is Europe’s leading trade fair for gems, jewel-ry, minerals and accessories.

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Radio AstronomerJohn Bolton and a New Window on the UniversePeter Robertson

The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922–93), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cam-bridge University. After wartime service in the Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Labora-tory. In the late 1940s he discovered and identified the first discrete radio sources, unusual objects at vast distances with in-tense emission at radio frequencies. These discoveries marked the birth of a new field—extragalactic radio astronomy.

Peter Robertson spent most of his career with the CSIRO Publishing group in Mel-bourne, where he was editor of the national research journal for physics. He has written widely on Australian science, including a book on the history of the Parkes radio telescope, Beyond Southern Skies.

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017Michael Slezak

The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can’t match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating, or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Now in its seventh year, The Best Australian Science Writing brings together knowledge and insight from Australia’s brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects, and challenges our perceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

Michael Slezak is a multi-award winning science and environment reporter. Since 2016 he has been reporting on environ-mental science and policy for the Guardian Australia.

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Trees in EnglandManagement and Disease since 1600Gerry Barnes, Toby Pillatt, and Tom Williamson

There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll tak-en by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara – and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a widely shared belief that our woods have been steadily disappearing over recent de-cades, either replanted with alien conifers or destroyed entirely in order to make way for farmland or development. Trees in En-gland will be essential reading not only for landscape historians but also for natural scientists, foresters and all those interested in the future of the countryside.

Gerry Barnes, MBE, served as Head of Environment at Norfolk County Council, and is now a researcher at the University of East Anglia. Toby Pillatt is a Research Associate in the Department of Archaeolo-gy at the University of Sheffield. Tom Wil-liamson is Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia and has written widely on landscape archaeology, environmental history and related subjects.

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The Gilgamesh GeneRobin Russell-Jones

What was it that initially separated us from other primates? What was different about Homo sapiens 30,000 years ago that predicated our survival and the demise of our closest rivals, the Neanderthals? Why are we obsessed with the notion that GDP is the only possible measure of progress? If we are able to predict our own demise, why can we not do anything to stop it? The Gilgamesh Gene is about the human condition, and in particular how it is that mankind has brought itself, along with most other species on earth, to the brink of extinction.

Dr Robin Russell-Jones has produced films and co-edited several seminal works on the environment, including Lead versus Health with Sir Michael Rutter FRS, Radiation and Health with Sir Richard Southwood FRS, and Ozone Depletion: health and environmental consequences with Profes-sor Tom Wigley.

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Seabirds Beyond the Mountain CrestThe History, Natural History and Conservation of Hutton’s ShearwaterRichard Cuthbert

Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest tells the fascinating story of New Zealand’s endemic Hutton’s shearwater, a species that breeds only at two remote locations, high in the Kaikoura Mountains. Amateur ornithologist Geoff Harrow is the person most closely associated with the story of Hutton’s shearwater, for it was Geoff who discovered the two remaining nesting sites in the 1960s. Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest is a delightful and highly entertaining read.

Richard Cuthbert grew up in the English countryside and had a childhood fasci-nation with nature and a desire to follow in the conservation footsteps of Gerald Durrell, David Bellamy and Sir Peter Scott. After obtaining a zoology degree in the UK and five years travelling in pursuit of mountains and conservation projects, he ended up in New Zealand and embarked on a PhD at the University of Otago study-ing Hutton’s shearwaters.

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The Catlins and the Southern Scenic RouteNeville Peat

An out-of-the-way corner of the South Island, the Catlins is a beautiful and relatively unspoilt area with many natural attractions, including that rare thing on the east coast, native forest. Neville Peat introduces the region—its flora, wildlife, bush walks, caves and waterfalls—before tracing the journey along the stunning Southern Scenic Route linking Otago, Southland and Fiordland.

Dunedin author Neville Peat, a descendant of pioneer Scottish farming families in Otago and Southland, has written numer-ous guides to the geography, history, flora and fauna of southern New Zealand.

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The Face of NatureAn Environmental History of the Otago PeninsulaJonathan West

“Balanced more equitably between Maori and Pakeha sources than any other major work on the area, this book is an important contribution to New Zealand’s environmental history.” —Atholl Anderson, emeritus professor, Australian National University

Bounded by the wild waves of the Pacific on the east, and the more sheltered harbour on the west, the Otago Peninsula is a remarkable landscape. Today a habitat for a diverse array of wildlife including albatrosses, penguins and seals, the Peninsula has undergone dramatic changes since it first attracted human settlement. In The Face of Nature: An environmental history of the Otago Peninsula, Jonathan West explores what people and place made of one another from the arrival of the first Polyne-sians until the end of the nineteenth century.

Jonathan West was born and raised in and around Dunedin. While indulging his love of tramping in the South Island back country he collected degrees from the University of Otago, culminating in a PhD in history from which this book emerged. He worked as an historian at the Waitangi Tribunal for several years and more recently joined the Office of Treaty Settlements. Jonathan’s publications include contributions to Wild Heart: The possibility of wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand (Otago), The Lives of Colonial Objects (Otago, 2015) and New Zealand and the Sea (BWB, forthcoming). He lives with his wife Kate and their children in Lower Hutt.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES/HISTORY, 388 PAGES, 6.75 X 9.5FOUR-COLOR INTERIORTRADE PAPER, $43.95 (CAN $58.95)ISBN: 9781927322383RIGHTS: US & CANADA

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Roberts Bird GuideHugh Chittenden, Greg Davies, and Ingrid Weiersbye

The Roberts Bird Guide (2nd Edition) has gone to great trouble to concentrate on, and illustrate, difficult-to-identify species and family groups such as raptors, warblers, cisticolas and waders. Special attention has been given to make sure there is far greater coverage of male-female differences and there are also many more juvenile illustrations. Unlike all previously published south-ern African bird guides, this new edition will be scattered with informative photographs that are incorporated in the text pages and each plate illustration is augmented with an introduction. Apart from the approximately 240 plate spreads, the guide also has 12 photographic and illustrated double spreads that show head enlargements and other details. Plates are annotated far more definitively than other guides – highlighting key identifi-cation features, especially for difficult-to-identify species. Plates are richly illustrated with vignettes, which will make any birding experience more informative.

Hugh Chittenden is a photographer, the chairman of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, and the author of Top Birding Spots in Southern Africa. Ian Whyte lived and worked in the Kruger Na-tional park for 37 years, is an ornithologist, and is the author of World Without End?: Environmental Disaster and the Collapse of Empires. Greg Davies has been an ornithologist at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History since January 2010. Ingrid Weiersbye grew up in Zimbabwe, a country where the natural beauty shaped her deep interest in and love for all aspects of nature. Ingrid has painted professionally and exhibited exten-sively for 38 years, working in acrylic and oils from her studio in Hilton, KwaZulu-Nstsl.

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Publisher IndexABCDEAboriginal Studies Press, 86, 118Academic Foundation, 67–68,Auckland University Press, 36, 38–39, 86, 96–97, 118Baha’i Publishing, 15, 28, 118Baraka Books, 14, 95Birlinn Ltd, 13, 15–18, 20, 29, 32, 35, 93–94 John Donald, 35 Polygon, 22, 29, 31–32, 111Bocconi University Press, 64–66Canterbury University Press, 21–22, 93Carcanet Press Ltd., 21, 25, 39–48, 117 FyfieldBooks, 41, 46Comma Press, 24, 49Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 84–85Earnshaw Books, 13, 20–21, 25, 36, 77Exile Editions, 26–27, 49

FGHIJKLFremantle Press, 27, 33Holy Trinity Publications Holy Trinity Seminary Press, 104 The Printshop of St Job of Pochaev, 12, 105Honno Press, 33Hoover Institution Press 9–12 Hoover Press, 10, 74HSRC Press, 69, 81, 83–84, 92Independent Institute, 8, 73Islamic Texts Society, 101–103Jacana Media, 19, 23, 71–73, 76, 78–80, 110–111, 119, 124Libri Publishing, 7, 64, 74 Green Frigate Books, 82Little Island Press March, 23

MNOPQRSMerlin Press, 91–92 Green Print, 110, 120Michael Imhof Verlag, 97Nordic Academic Press, 74, 90Otago University Press, 49, 89–90, 116, 123–124Parthian Books, 34, 50Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 50–51, 109–110, 114–116Project Management Institute, 1, 3, 5–6Real African Publishers, 52, 79, 89, 120Seren, 52–54, 75, 89, 108Shepheard-Walwyn, 123Society For Human Resource Management, 62–63Spinifex Press, 54, 87

TUVWXYZThe Crossroad Publishing Company Herder & Herder, 99–100, 104Tightrope Books, Inc., 55University of Cape Town Press, 71, 98University Of Hertfordshire Press, 122 Essex Publications, 75University of New South Wales Press New South, 19–20, 37, 71–72, 75, 79, 88, 95, 98, 122University of Queensland Press, 7, 56, 107Urban Land Institute, 70Victoria University Press, 34–35, 56–59, 88, 106, 112–114Wachholtz Verlag GmbH, 121Wake Forest University Press, 60Wings Press, 31, 60, 87, 106Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd, 30, 61, 112

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Title Index#AB1588: A Calendar of Crime, 29Adjacentland, 30‘Against Native Title’, 86Against the Stream, 21Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations, 5Albert Speer in the Federal Republic, 97Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires, 101Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity and Truthfulness, 101Al-Ghazali on the Condemnation of Pride and Self-admiration, 101Alice Unbound, 26Allen Curnow, 38All Under One Roof, 39Alzheimer’s and a Spoon, 49American Exceptionalism in a New Era, 9Among the Tibetans, 20Anarchist Encounters, 92ANC Underground in South Africa, The, 73Ann Hannah, My (Un)Remarkable Grandmother, 87Apocalypse of Love, An, 104Applying Critical Evaluation, 62Arcimboldo’s Bulldog, 39Asia Betrayed, 13Asylum by Boat, 79Australian Gypsies, 95Bad Things, 56Bad to Worse, 33Ballast, 90Best Australian Science Writing 2017, The, 122Better Houses, 50Black Faggot, 114Black Flu 1918, 93Black in China, 77Blacks DO Caravan!, 80Black Shiver Moss, 52Blotter, 40Books of Catullus, The, 40Building Equitable Cities: How to Drive Economic Mobility and Regional Growth, 70

CDEFCall to Remembrance, 15Catlins and the Southern Scenic Route, The, 123Cemetery at Barnes, The, 25Charles Bean, 98Charter of Rights for Australia, A, 72Chicken Soup Murder, The, 108Chiming Blue, The, 56

CDEF continuedChina in Africa, 84Circulation of Knowledge, 74City Poems, 49Cleansing the Colony, 90Clear to the Horizon, 27Collected Poems, 40Collected Poems 1975-2015, 50Colonial Gothic to Maori Renaissance, 113Compassionate Englishwoman, The, 98Competition in Africa, 69Complete Poems, 41Consulting Detective, 28Corporate Debt Management, 65Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems, 50Creole Chips and Other Writings, 116Crossing the Mirror Line, 41Curfew Chronicles, 110Dancing Home, 107Dancing with the King, 97Darien, 94Dark Encounters, 31Dark Matter, 54Dear Pilgrims, 41Derek Walcott’s Love Affair with Film, 115destination out, 55Dis-eases of Secrecy, The, 79Divided, 61Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 88Don’t Stop the Carnival, 115Einstein File, The, 14Eleven Presidents, 73End of Whiteness, The, 80Epistles and the Apocalypse, The, 104Ethics Under Fire, 71Event Marketing, 66Everlasting Sunday, The, 107Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, 51Face of Nature, The, 124Fast Talking PI, 38Fiction of Garth St Omer, The, 115Finding Language, 113Floating Islanders, 116Flow, 57Forbidden Lives, 75Formosa Fraud, The, 36Friend & Foe, 29From Hello to Goodbye, 63From Professor Murasaki’s Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body, 49Full Cone, A, 42Fully Clothed and So Forgetful, 57Fuse Box, The, 112

GHIJGangrene, 110Giant is Falling, The, 73Gilgamesh Gene, The, 123Glasgow: The Autobiography, 16Globalisation of Higher Education, 74Goodbye Berlin, 15Good-bye Maoriland, 96Green Phoenix, The, 25Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide-Sixth Edition / Agile Practice Guide Bundle, A, 1Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France, 8Habitat and Struggle, 79He Reo Wahine, 96Hindu Spirituality: Vedas Through Vedanta, 99Homegrown, 19Housing Solutions through Design, 82How Successful Organizations Implement Change, 5How to Be an Academic, 37How To Read Scottish Buildings, 16HR on Purpose, 63Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Divine Wisdom and the Problem of Evil, 102I Didn’t Make A Million, 21Immortal Memory, 35In Darkest Capital, 42India 2047, 68Indian Economy , 67Indian Economy Since Independence, 28th Edition, 67India’s Demographic Dividend and Youth Empowerment, 68India’s Economy: Pre-Liberalisation to GST, 67Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901, 75Infinite Gradation, 26Ink Trade, The, 117Innovation in Organizations, 64In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo, 30Inside Apartheid’s Prison, 72Inspirational Leadership, 64Interval, 56Internet of Things, The, 57In the Beginning Was a Word, 118Invisible Slaves, 10It’s Me, Marah, 119Joy, 42Joyous Encounters, 99Juridical Encounters, 96Justice Denied, 91

LMNOPLand of Mountain and Flood, 94Language of Eldorado, The, 51Larkinland, 108Last Empire, The, 74Last Night at the Bassline, 119Lenin’s Legacy, 10Lifting, 34Light Switches Are My Kryptonite, 33Listen Before Transmit, 61Long Dream of Waking, The, 21Love in Another Language, 43Lovely Disciplines, The, 52Magic of What’s There, The, 43Magnus, 32Management of Cultural Firms, 65Manager’s Guide to Developing Competencies in HR Staff, A, 62Mapping the Clyde, 16Megaproject Organization and Performance, 6Memoirs of the World, in Ten Fragments, 60Memphis 68, 22Miners Shot Down, 72Miss Behave, 76Mississippi, 60Money, 20Moral Empowerment, 15Multiverse, The, 43Munich Show. Mineralientage München 2017, The, 121New African Thinkers:, 69New Animals, The, 106New China Eyewitness, 22New Poetries VII, 44No Line in Time, 55Not Thomas, 33Now We Can Talk Openly about Men, 44Old Villita and La Villita Continues, 87On Trust, 44Oranjezicht City Farm, 78Ordinary Time, 58Ordinary Wonders, 105Original or Fake?, 66Other Side of Freedom, The, 92Our Future is in the Air, 35Out of Line, 112Oval Portrait, The, 31Patriots, Traitors and Empires, 95Peacock’s Alibi, 111People’s War, The, 89Philanthropy in South Africa, 83Phoney Wars, 89Pitch Lake, 51Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, 93PN Review 235, 45PN Review 236, 45PN Review 237, 45Pocket Guide to Whisky, The, 18

LMNOP continuedPoems, The, 46Point Counterpoint II, 63Political Economics, 65Popular Devotion and Citizenship in Bolivia, 85Postcolonial African Anthropologies, 83President of Planet Earth, The, 46Prester John, 32Professional Learning Communities, 81Project Management for Education, 6Prostitution in Victorian Colchester, 75Protest, 24Pure Intention, The, 102

QRSQ & As for the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition, 3Queen and Country, 29Radio, The, 60Radio Astronomer, 122Railtracks, 27Rain on a Sunny Day, 120Raising the Dead, 35Real Barnsley, 89Recovering Democracy in South Africa, 71Red Edits, 58Reflecting Rogue, 76Remaining Challenges of the Second Vatican Council for the 21st Century, The, 99Rethinking Reconciliation, 81Robert Louis Stevenson, 32Roberts Bird Guide, 124Romanovs Under House Arrest, The, 12Rough Breathing, 46Rule for Holy Communion, The, 105Sarajevo Roses, 47Sax Burglar Blues, 53Scotland: Mapping the Nation, 93Scotland’s Secret History, 18Seabirds Beyond the Mountain Crest, 123Secret Life of Whales, The, 20Seeking out Wise Old Men, 84Selections from The Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’an, 103Short Journey into Trauma, A, 120Shrines of Upper Austria, 47Sibanda and the Black Sparrowhawk, 23Simply by Sailing in a New Direction, 36Sins of the Fathers, The, 100Ski Flier, The, 58Smoothie, 47Something About Emus, 118Some Things to Place in a Coffin, 59Son, 111Spices South Africa Flavours and Traditions, 19Squatting in Britain 1945-1955, 91Star Sailors, 34Storm in the Desert, 13

QRS continuedState of Status Groups in Ethiopia, The, 85Strangers Arrive, 118Stranger Thingies, 37Strategic Corporal Revisited, The, 71Structural Foundations of Monetary Policy, The, 12Sunflower, The, 105

TUVWXYZTears of Rangi, 86Teenagers, 86Tell me My Name, 59Tell No-One About This, 109Ten-Headed Alien, 61Tess, 106This Intimate War Gallipoli/Canakkale 1915, 54This Way Slaughter, 106Tightrope, 38Timeline of Australian Food, A, 19To Breathe into Another Voice, 52Touching People’s Lives, 64Trees in England, 122Trick of the Light, 107T. R. M. Howard, 8Truth and Beauty, 59Unearthly Toys, 48Unstable Majorities, 11Vanishing Points, 39Vaulting Ambition, 114Venus as a Bear, 48Voices of Liberation, 83Wake Up: The Nine Hashtags of Digital Disruption, 7War Remains, 90Watchful Astronomy, A, 53Way More Than Luck, 53Wellington Summer Shakespeare 1983-2017, 112Welsh Verse, 54West Asia in a Changing World, 68What’s Fashion? It’s Method!, 66When Centipedes Dream, 55Whiskies Galore, 17White Plains, 23White Silhouette, The, 48Who Runs the Artworld, 7Wolf Trap, 110Women Who Blow on Knots, 34Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief, A, 78Yes in My Backyard: How States and Cities Can Find Common Ground in Expanding Housing Choice and Opportunity, 70You Do Not Travel in China at the Full Moon, 88

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