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H I S TO RY A range of essential history and literature books, marking the centenary commemorations. For full details of all OUP’s centenary publishing and promotion, go to www.oup.com/history/ww1

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TO ARMS

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

HEW STRACHAN The First World War: To Arms (Reissue)

‘One of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation.’ Max Hastings, London Evening Standard

April 2014, pb, 978-0-19926191-8, £25

CHRISTOPHER BELL Churchill and Sea Power May 2014, see page 18

MICHAEL AND ELEANOR BROCK Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary May 2014, see page 8

GORDON MARTEL July 1914: The Month that Changed the World June 2014, see page 7

JON STALLWORTHY The New Oxford Book of War Poetry June 2014, see page 24

Rebellion Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 TIM HARRIS Architects of their own destruction? Tim Harris’s ground-breaking works on the Stuart monarchs after the English Civil War – Restoration and Revolution – have rewritten the history of the period. His new book is equally original, bringing new insights to the period that sowed the seeds of discontent. James VI and I and his son Charles I were both reforming monarchs who endeavoured to bolster the authority of the crown in Scotland, Ireland, and England. James’s initiatives proved controversial – the Ulster plantation, church rule in Scotland, financial and foreign policy in England – yet he survived to the end. It was Charles, continuing his father’s policies, who ran into grave difficulties, eventually provoking all three of his kingdoms to rise in rebellion. Was LEAD TITLE

Charles simply not up to the job? Or had James left him an impossible legacy? Rebellion is both strong narrative history and enthralling biography. It is the story of high politics and low; affairs of state and the lives of ordinary citizens; constitutional and religious conflict; propaganda and public opinion. It presents the last period in British history in which the monarch had the power to shape the fate of the nation. Advance praise:

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‘Tim Harris brings a wonderful freshness, directness, and authority to this account of the reigns of two contentious monarchs. Combining depth and breadth of reading, he offers much to the specialist and to someone new to the period.’ John Morrill PR: Anna Silva

About the Author TIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at Brown University. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books on British history in the early modern period, including Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 and Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720.

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H I S TO RY Taken at the Flood

July 1914

The Roman Conquest of Greece

The month that changed the world

ROBIN WATERFIELD

GORDON MARTEL

How Ancient Greece fell to the Roman colossus

Recreated moment by moment – the days that led to the Great War

‘There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.’ These

On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five

words from Brutus in Julius Caesar deftly describe the swift, brutal, and determined

fateful weeks later Europe was at war. How did a minor Balkan problem become a cataclysm?

conquest by the Romans of the Greeks in a little over six decades.

Gordon Martel answers that question in a history book that reads like a thriller, recreating the drama of the crisis as it was experienced by those who were caught up in it.

Rome’s defeat of the civilization from which it had learned so much is a tale of brutality. But

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apart from the thrilling military action, the story is also central to that of Rome itself and

Devoting a chapter to each of the final ten days – the infamous ‘July Crisis’ – Martel sweeps

the empire it created. Robin Waterfield’s engrossing new book raises a number of intriguing

away traditional concepts of ‘guilt’, ‘responsibility’, and ‘the inevitability of war’, turning

questions: To what extent was the Roman conquest a planned and deliberate policy? What

instead to the contemporary diplomatic, military, and political records to show how the

was it about Roman culture that gave it such a will for conquest? And what was the effect

catastrophe really unfurled. His gripping, step-by-step account of these crucial days makes

on Roman intellectual and artistic culture, on their very identity, of their entanglement with

clear just how little the conflict was in fact premeditated, preordained, or even predictable.

an older Greek civilization, which the Romans themselves recognized as supreme?

What emerges is the story of a terrible, unnecessary tragedy – one that can be understood

At the start of this account, the Mediterranean is home to six superpowers. Six decades

only by retracing the steps taken by those who went down the road to war. Martel shows how

later, there is only one. The story of this astounding transition is pivotal to the history of

the hopes and fears of those at the heart of the unfolding crisis – Kaiser Wilhelm II, the

Rome, her empire, and the whole subsequent development of Europe.

Emperor Franz Joseph, Tsar Nicholas II, Sir Edward Grey, and Raymond Poincaré – intersected as events unfolded, and how each new decision produced a response that complicated or

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escalated matters to the point where they became almost impossible to contain.

See also Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Selected Speeches by Demosthenes, page 51.

Advance praise: ‘In an avalanche of books on the First World War’s origins, Gordon

Published for the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 2014

Martel’s will stand out for its authoritative judgements… and detailed but compelling narrative based overwhelmingly on first-hand and contemporary evidence.’ David Stevenson, author of 1914-1918: the History of the First World War PR: Anna Silva

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About the Author

ROBIN WATERFIELD has translated numerous Greek classics, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, and Plutarch. He lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.

GORDON MARTEL is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Victoria. His numerous publications include studies of the origins of the first and second world wars, modern imperialism, and the nature of diplomacy.

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H I S TO RY Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary, 1914-1916 The View from Downing Street

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War

Selected and edited by MICHAEL BROCK and ELEANOR BROCK

Edited by HEW STRACHAN

The politics of war, observed from the inside

A new edition of a classic history to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1914

NEW EDITION

Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led

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Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith’s early war leadership drew praise from all

By 1918, millions lay dead, three major empires were shattered, and a fourth, Russia, was

quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by

in the throes of a revolution that helped define the rest of the twentieth century. The First

David Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the

World War was a momentous event, and it still shapes the world in which we live.

literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling

The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War brings together in one volume many of

record of her husband’s fall from grace.

the most distinguished historians of the conflict in an account that matches the scale of the

An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an artistocrat, Margot was both a

events. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from

spectator and participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or

politicians to generals, from strategy to tactics, they chart the course of the war and assess

an embarrassment – sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as

its profound political and human consequences. Chapters on economic mobilization, the

experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the

impact on women, the role of propaganda, and the rise of socialism establish the wider

warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing

context.

teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George (‘a natural adventurer who may make or

First published in 2000, the book has become a highly prized guide to the many

mar himself any day’), Churchill (‘Winston’s vanity is septic’), and Kitchener (‘a man brutal by

dimensions of the Great War. Every part of this new edition has been revised and updated

nature and by pose’).

in the light of the latest scholarship: there are completely new chapters on the strategy of

Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider’s

the Central Powers, the role of women in the war, mutinies and military morale, and the

view of the centre of power. Explanatory footnotes and an introduction by Michael and

post-war conflicts in the years immediately after 1918; and over 40 new illustrations have

Eleanor Brock provide the context and background information we need to appreciate it to

been added.

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the full. PR: Anna Silva PR: Anna Silva Reissue

About the Editors MICHAEL BROCK is a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college head. He was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Warden of St George’s House, Windsor Castle. He is the author of The Great Reform Act, and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenthcentury volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife, ELEANOR BROCK, a former schoolteacher, he edited the acclaimed OUP edition of H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley.

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The First World War: To Arms HEW STRACHAN

About the Editor HEW STRACHAN is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, and directed the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. He is a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner, a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and serves on the British, Scottish, and French national committees advising on the centenary of the First World War.

April 2014, Paperback, 248 pp, 234x156 mm, TA 978-0-19926191-8 £25.00 Available as an Ebook

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H I S TO RY The Gestapo

Neptune

Power and Terror in the Third Reich

The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

CARSTEN DAMS and MICHAEL STOLLE

CRAIG L. SYMONDS

Hitler’s secret state police force was the most feared instrument of political terror in the

Giving the naval arm its rightful place in the history of the Normandy landings

CRAIG L. SYMONDS

THE ALLIED INVASION OF EUROPE AND THE D-DAY LANDINGS

Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the D-Day could not have taken place without Operation Neptune. 160,000 Allied troops landed Nazi regime: Socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, an ‘anti-social element’. Its prisons soon became infamous – many of those who suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation of disappeared into them were never seen again. Western Europe. Histories of D-Day have typically overlooked the incredible naval operation But is this an accurate view of the Gestapo? Was it really an all-pervasive, all-powerful, all-

that played a crucial role, yet it involved over five thousand ships and nearly half-a-million

knowing instrument of terror? How much did it depend upon the cooperation and help of

personnel. Indeed, Operation Neptune was the largest seaborne assault in human history,

ordinary Germans? And did its networks extend further into the everyday life of German

without which the battles at Normandy never could have taken place.

society than most Germans after 1945 ever wanted to admit? Neptune brilliantly traces the central thread of this Olympian event from the first tentative LEAD TITLE

May 2014 Hardback 256 pp, 216x135 mm, TA 978-0-19-966921-9 £18.99 Available as an Ebook See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction, page 55, and Burning the Reichstag, page 14.

Answering all these questions and more, this succinct and highly accessible work by

conversations by British and American officers in Washington in the winter of 1941. With

German historians uses the very latest research to tell the true story behind this secretive

characteristically vivid narration, Craig L. Symonds uncovers the various components of the

and fearsome institution. Tracing the history of the organization from its origins in the

operation, and follows key personalities such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eisenhower

Weimar Republic, through the crimes of the Nazi period, to the fate of former officers after

involved in this exceptional campaign.

World War II, Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle investigate how the Gestapo really worked – This superb book is a study of how the sometimes disputatious Anglo-American allies and question many of the myths that have long surrounded it. managed to overcome differing views, Russian demands, German U-boats, logistical Advance praise: ‘An excellent short introduction to one of the most

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bottlenecks, and a thousand other obstacles, to bring the allied armies to Normandy. Published for the 70th anniversary of D-Day

complex issues in the history of the Third Reich.’ PR: Anna Silva

Richard Overy PR: Anna Silva

About the Authors CARSTEN DAMS is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public Management of North-Rhine Westphalia.

About the Author CRAIG L. SYMONDS is Professor of History Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of many books on American naval history, including Lincoln and His Admirals, co-winner of the Lincoln Prize.

MICHAEL STOLLE is an Executive Director of the multidisciplinary ‘House of Competence’ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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H I S TO RY The Story of Pain

Visions of Science

From Prayer to Painkillers

Books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

JOANNA BOURKE

JAMES A. SECORD, University of Cambridge

Instrument of perfection, or an evil to be eliminated?

Revolutionary ideas and the birth of popular science

Experiencing pain is something we all share. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving

In the first half of the nineteenth century, new scientific disciplines and revolutionary scientific

birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches – pain permeates our entire lives. We might say

concepts – evolution, and the vastness of geological time –began to take shape. At the same time

that ‘it was ever so’ – but, in truth, it wasn’t: our understanding of pain has undergone a

there was political unrest in continental Europe, and debates in Britain regarding education, the

massive transformation during the last three centuries.

lives of working class people, and the new industrial, machine-dominated world. Jim Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, captures the changing times by looking at the

This book is the first to look at the history of pain in the English-speaking world over the last 300 years. For much of this period, pain was seen as serving a specific (and positive) function – it was a message from God or Nature that would perfect the spirit and must be submitted to. In the twenty-first century pain is viewed as an unremitting evil – something to be ‘fought’ LEAD TITLE

Geology, Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle’s satirical work, Sartor Resartus. How did genteel ladies, working men, and the intelligentsia respond to them, and how were the books published and disseminated, admired, attacked, and satirized?

and ‘conquered’. Joanna Bourke, author of many outstanding works on the history of medicine, provides an enthralling analysis of pain’s many transformations over time.

June 2014 Hardback 336 pp, 31 black and white halftones, 234x153 mm, TA 978-0-19-968942-2 £20.00 Available as an Ebook

impact of twelve influential ‘popular science’ books, including Charles Lyell’s Principles of

PR: Dan Parker

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How have those in pain interpreted their suffering – and how have these interpretations changed? How have people learnt to conduct themselves when suffering? How do friends and family react? Is professional detachment the right response for doctors? The Story of

Ancient Syria

Pain explores these questions, showing us how we might respond to our own suffering –

A Three Thousand Year History

and, just as importantly, to the suffering of those around us.

TREVOR BRYCE, University of Queensland Battleground background – the road to modern Syria

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Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, cultures, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria. Across the centuries we encounter a vast array of characters and civilizations: from the

About the Author JOANNA BOURKE is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of a number of important works on the history of medicine, a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular newspaper correspondent.

Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings to the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great to some of Rome’s most distinguished and most infamous emperors. The conclusion looks forward to the Muslim conquest in the 7th century AD, in many ways the opening chapter in the equally complex and often troubled history of modern Syria.

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PR: Anna Silva

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H I S TO RY Worlds of Arthur

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Death from the Skies

Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

How the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War II

GUY HALSALL, University of York

DIETMAR SÜSS, Friedrich Schiller University

‘Cuts through all the fantasy Arthuriana ... shows us that behind that image is a reality which is no less fascinating.’

The first major comparison of British and German response to mass bombing

Michael Wood The debate over the rights and the wrongs of the mass bombing of British and German cities during

‘Brilliant ... Those who desire a surprisingly witty, intellectually rigorous and historically

World War II remains a highly emotive subject even today. The ‘Blitz’ killed tens of thousands and laid

captivating journey deep into the crucible of medieval Britain will enjoy this book immensely.’

waste to large areas of many British cities. But the British and American response was incomparably

Dan Jones, Sunday Times

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In recent times there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to unlock the secret of the ‘once and future king’. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all

civilians in both Britain and Nazi Germany, showing how two very different societies coped with the

books claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ can safely be ignored. What Guy Halsall uncovers in his

onslaught and kept up morale amidst the devastation and psychological trauma visited on them.

enthralling investigation is both radically different – and also a good deal more intriguing.

Advance praise: ‘A remarkable book by an outstanding German scholar.’ Richard J. Overy

PR: Chloe Foster

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more devastating – with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin. In this ground-breaking new book, Dietmar Süss focuses on the effects of the bombing on

Burning the Reichstag

Fight or Flight

An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery

Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

BENJAMIN CARTER HETT

MARTIN THOMAS, University of Exeter

One of the last secrets of the Nazi era uncovered

Winds of change and storms of destruction

On 27 February 1933, the German Reichstag went up in flames. Five thousand people were

Although shattered by World War II, Britain and France still controlled the world’s two largest colonial

immediately arrested, a catastrophe that marked the true beginning of the Third Reich. The

empires, stretching over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of

origin of the fire is one of the last mysteries of the Nazi period. Benjamin Hett challenges

those who promised to defend their colonial possessions at all costs is a long one. Yet, within twenty

orthodoxy by reopening the case of Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist

years both empires had almost completely disappeared. Hundreds of millions of people were caught

stonemason, who, since the 1950s, has been largely blamed for setting it. Making use of

up in the biggest reconfiguration of the international system ever seen. Peaceable ‘transfers of power’

many new sources and archives, Hett sets the Reichstag fire in a wider context, providing

were eclipsed by territorial partition and mass violence whose bitter aftermath still lingers. How

vivid portraits of key figures, including Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels. This

differently did France and Britain manage the process? And what influence did the changes in the

enthralling book reveals how and why the event is still one of the most controversial and

world at large have – the rise of mass communications, consumerism, and economic globalization?

contested events of the twentieth century.

Advance praise: ‘A masterpiece.’

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Wm Roger Louis, editor of The Oxford History of the British Empire PR: Anna Silva PR: Anna Silva

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H I S TO RY Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe Since 1945 DAN STONE, University of London How fascism refused to die The post-War years were in many ways golden ones for western Europe as it continued to be

A New History of the Humanities

The Normans and Empire

Revolutions from Grub Street

The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present

DAVID BATES, University of East Anglia

A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain

A new approach to the history of the Norman period

HOWARD COX, University of Worcester, and SIMON MOWATT, AUT Business School

RENS BOD, University of Amsterdam

sustained by the broad anti-fascist consensus. However, as Dan Stone shows in his valuable new

The first overarching history of the humanities

In his acclaimed 2010 Ford Lecture in

postwar consensus went hand in hand with particular ways of remembering World War II. By

Many histories of science have been

Oxford, David Bates proposed that

looking at how ‘memory’ is intimately tied to issues of power and social change, the book

written, but surprisingly there is no

historians of the Norman period can learn

provides a historical background to contemporary ills afflicting Europe, and helps readers to

comparable history of the humanities –

from the methods of social scientists and

Spanning over 300 years, Revolutions from

until now. Rens Bod has created the first

historians of other periods in making use

Grub Street is the first comprehensive

overarching history of the humanities

of such tools as life-stories and

business history of magazine-making in

from Antiquity to the present. He brings

biographies. He uses these new

Britain. From the Glorious Revolution of 1688

to our attention figures such as Panini,

approaches to create this enthralling, new

that saw the beginnings of publishing in the

Valla, Bopp, and countless others who

interpretative history of the Normans.

Grub Street area of London (later to become

history of the continent, this fundamental consensus began to break down in the wake of the oil shocks of the 1970s, and accelerated rapidly after the end of the Cold War. He argues that the

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understand why current crises and the politics emerging from them take the shape they do. Advance praise: ‘Bold and discerning.’ Geoff Eley PR: Anna Silva

The People’s Republic of Amnesia

PUBLISHED FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY

The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

British History, given at the University of

Fleet Street) to today’s multi-million pound

are often overlooked, and gives them PR: Lorna Richerby

their rightful place next to scientific

industry which has embraced the world-wide

titans like Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

web, this is a highly readable narrative

LOUISA LIM, former BBC correspondent in Beijing A view of the Tiananmen Square tragedy from inside China

The first comprehensive business history of Britain’s consumer magazine publishing industry

account of the people, technology and industrial organization behind one of

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Britain’s most successful creative industries. Twenty-five years after the People’s Army crushed unarmed protestors in Tiananmen Square on 4 June, 1989, the defining event of China’s modern history remains a taboo subject in the

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for detail, she presents the event from the perspective of the survivors, student leaders, and others involved, choosing to focus on eight individuals, including a soldier, a diplomat, and a student. Drawing on new sources made available in recent years, including Wikileaks cables, Lim discusses the quarter-century campaign on the part of Chinese officials to control memory of the event, and considers the legacy of Tiananmen in China today.

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See also By all Means Necessary, page 41.

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BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

NEW IN PAPERBACK Churchill and Sea Power

The Pursuit NEW IN PAPERBACK of the Nazi Mind

Six Moments of Crisis

CHRISTOPHER M. BELL, Dalhousie University

Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

Inside British Foreign Policy

DANIEL PICK, University of London

GILL BENNETT

‘Fascinating ... an exceptionally rich and

‘Gill Bennett… takes us into Number 10

thought-provoking book.’

and the Cabinet room and we are

‘Far-ranging, elegantly written and insightful.’ Matthew Seligmann, Journal of Strategic Studies

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One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper Edited by RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES and ADAM SISMAN One of the most gifted historians and finest letter-writers of the twentieth century The literary fame of Hugh Trevor-Roper, which in his lifetime arose from his historical writings,

Richard Overy, Literary Review

literally transported – we can see and

has been widened by the publication of letters and journals that have come to light since his death in 2003. The one hundred letters brought together for this book, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, illustrate the range of his extraordinary life.

hear the people, feel the tension, and ‘a cogent and important study based on a

‘This is a terrific book ... soberly and clearly

We meet him as historian, controversialist, public intellectual, connoisseur of poetry, traveller,

hear the arguments.’ written ... profoundly illuminating.’

great deal of research.’

Peter Hennessy N. A. M. Rodger,

The Journal of Military History As First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 to 1915, and again from 1939, Churchill had a defining impact on Britain’s naval power in two world wars. And his achievements as naval strategist, Bell

Eli Zaretsky, Jewish Quarterly Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to the story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.

hard-headed analysis to pastoral evocation. In subject-matter they take us from his inside Former Whitehall historian Gill Bennett

knowledge and close observation of affairs of state – his friendship with the spy Kim Philby,

unravels the story of six crucial British

the Suez affair, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, or the regime of Mrs Thatcher – to the private

foreign policy challenges, from the Korean

pleasures of reading and thinking and to his fondness for the natural world. We also

War to the Falklands conflict, offering an

encounter, especially in letters to members of his family, an emotional intensity which will

inside account of episodes that shaped

surprise those who knew only the cool and confident exterior he presented to the world.

Britain’s position in the world for decades to come – and in some cases still arouse

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argues, have been undervalued.

controversy to this day. See also Fascism: A Very Short Introduction, page 55, The Gestapo, page 10, and Burning the Reichstag, page 14.

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countryman. In mood the letters range from comic exuberance to melancholy reflection, from

His correspondence depicts a life of rich diversity, a mind of intellectual sparkle and eager curiosity, a character who relished the absurdities and vanities of his contemporaries, and a never-failing mastery of precise, delicate, and subtle prose. He is rightly considered to be one of the finest letter-writers of the twentieth century.

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Sir David Cannadine

About the Editors RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES has edited two previous collections of Trevor-Roper’s writings, Letters from Oxford and Wartime Journals. ADAM SISMAN is the author of the authorized biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper. He is currently at work on a life of John le Carré.

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BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS

Piero della Francesca

The Newton Papers

Artist and Man

The Strange Tale of the Documents of History’s Greatest Scientist

JAMES R. BANKER

SARAH DRY

The first full biography of one of the greatest Renaissance artists

Told for the first time – the story of Newton’s controversial legacy

Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death in 1492, the Italian artist Piero della

When Isaac Newton died in 1727, he left a mass of disorganized papers – more than 8 million

Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective

words – that revealed him as heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even unbalanced.

painter, with an artistic importance comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and

As a result, the private papers of the world’s greatest scientist remained hidden to all but a

Michelangelo.

select few. Sarah Dry has uncovered the extraordinary 300-year story of the disappearance, dispersal and eventual rediscovery of the papers and of the eclectic group of collectors,

But who was he, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, these scholars, and scientists who tracked them down, from the economist John Maynard Keynes to questions have remained largely unanswered. James R. Banker puts that situation right, Abraham Yahuda, a key figure in the founding of Israel. Her enthralling book reveals Newton integrating the story of Piero’s artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle as a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend. of his life for the first time. Fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown LEAD TITLE

documents, most of which he unearthed himself, he presents us with Piero’s friends, family,

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and collaborators, within the context of the various cities and courts in which he lived. We February 2014 Hardback 304 pp, 10 colour plates, 30 black and white halftones, 246x171 mm, TA 978-0-19-960931-4 £25.00 Available as an Ebook

gain fascinating insights into the artist’s life and development – from early masterpieces such as the Baptism of Christ through to later, Flemish-influenced works such as the Nativity. Banker addresses persistent myths about the year of Piero’s birth, and big questions about

Jane Austen’s Letters

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Edited by DEIRDRE LE FAYE

ERIC FREDERICK JENSEN

‘Jane at her most direct ... a generous and comprehensive book.’

The life and work of the master of impressionist music

the dates of some of his major works. He also presents a persuasive new interpretation of the much-debated Flagellation of Christ.

Max Davidson, Daily Telegraph Advance praise: ‘A superb study of Piero’s life, times and achievements.’ Donald Weinstein, author of Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet PR: Anna Silva

About the Author JAMES R. BANKER is Professor of History, Emeritus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also the author of The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero Della Francesca, described by Burlington Magazine as ‘masterly’.

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Debussy

Nearly one hundred years after Claude

Jane Austen’s letters afford a unique insight

Debussy’s death, his music has lost none of

into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and

its appeal. In this authoritative biography,

gossipy, observant and informative, they bring

part of the acclaimed Master Musicians

alive her family and friends, her surroundings,

series, Jensen brings together the most

and contemporary events with a freshness

recent biographical research, including a

unparalleled in biography. This fourth edition

revised catalogue of Debussy’s

incorporates the findings of new scholarship

compositions and the first complete edition of his

to enrich our understanding of her.

correspondence. The book is equally accessible for the reader

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of biography, and to music students and musicians. March 2014, Hardback, 368 pp, 15 halftones, 31 music examples, 234x156 mm, AC, 978-0-19-973005-6, £25.00, PR: Dan Parker

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L I T E R AT U R E

L I T E R AT U R E The Compleat Angler

Selected Fables

IZAAK WALTON and CHARLES COTTON

An Anthology

Edited by MARJORIE SWANN

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

‘I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.’

Translated by CHRISTOPHER BETTS

The Compleat Angler is the most famous book ever published in the literature of sport. It is

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NEW TRANSLATION

Illustrated by GUSTAVE DORÉ

also a work whose unique celebration of the English countryside has won it many admirers.

‘Deceivers, you’re the target for my pen:

Izaak Walton issued the final version of his beloved book in 1676, accompanied by Charles

if you play tricks, you can expect the same.’

Cotton’s pioneering exploration of fly-fishing. It is both a manual of instruction and a vision

La Fontaine’s verse fables turned traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of

of society in harmony with nature. It guides the novice fisherman on every aspect of

Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His

fishing: how to catch and cook a variety of fish, on how to select and prepare the best bait

versions of stories such as ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’ and ‘The Wolf and the Lamb’ are witty

and make artificial flies, and on the habits of freshwater fish. It also promotes angling as a

and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is

communal activity in which the bonds of friendship are forged through shared experience

always unpredictable. The fables have long been popular with all ages, though their ironic

of the natural world.

take on contemporary society in French aristocratic circles is best appreciated by adults.

Walton lived through turbulent times, and found in nature the best salve for national

Christopher Betts’s translations are notable for their sensitivity and sophistication, and his

tragedy and personal sorrow. His writing embraces literature, poetry, anecdote, and a

impressive new translation of La Fontaine matches the original in inventiveness and

commitment to conservation. It also encodes his passionate royalist Anglican sympathies

subtlety. This edition includes half of the fables first published in twelve books between

in the aftermath of the Civil War.

1668 and 1693, across the full range of subjects and themes. The fables are illustrated with

This new edition, illustrated with contemporary line drawings, is the first to highlight the

a selection of Gustave Doré’s majestic engravings, and an introduction offers insights into

book’s importance as an influential and provocative meditation on humanity’s relationship

La Fontaine’s life and literary artistry.

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About the Editor

About the Editor

MARJORIE SWANN grew up fishing for perch and pike on St Joseph Island, Ontario. With degrees from Queen’s University and Oxford, she is now Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. She is currently writing a book about Walton’s Compleat Angler and its postseventeenth-century afterlives.

CHRISTOPHER BETTS was Senior Lecturer in the French Department at the University of Warwick. He has translated Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and Rousseau’s Social Contract, and in 2009 published an acclaimed translation of Perrault’s The Complete Fairy Tales.

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L I T E R AT U R E

L I T E R AT U R E The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

NEW EDITION

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

NEW IN PAPERBACK

Edited by JON STALLWORTHY

Edited by JEREMY NOEL-TOD, University of East Anglia, and IAN HAMILTON

Reviews of the first edition

‘Indispensable.’

‘Full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises.’

The impressive new edition of this classic Companion, first published as The Oxford Companion to

Vernon Scannell, The Guardian ‘Quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse.’ Times Educational Supplement

John Sutherland, The Sunday Times

Twentieth Century Poetry, provides over 1,500 biographical entries on poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, from 1910 to the present day. It illuminates the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. A-Z biographies are complemented by new appendices including coverage of poetry events, poetry prizes and prize-

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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful

winners. Many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the

feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy’s classic anthology spans centuries of human experience of

dedicated companion website. Compiled by a team of 230 experts, including Blake Morrison and

conflict, from David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan and Homer’s Iliad to the finest poems of

Andrew Motion, it is accessible and authoritative – a must-have for anyone with an interest in poetry.

the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. The roll-call of writers is huge – more than 150 – and the arc of the book charts a great shift in human awareness from man’s early

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inhumanity to man’. Here are Virgil and Chaucer, Spenser and Donne, Marvell and Dryden; Coleridge, Shelley and Browning; Hugo, Whitman, and Rilke, as well as the whole sweep of twentieth-century writers.

The Shepherd’s Calendar JOHN CLARE

Ten years on from the first edition, Jon Stallworthy has now included more poems on the

Edited by ERIC ROBINSON, DAVID POWELL, and GEOFFREY SUMMERFIELD

wars of the twentieth century. The 42 additional poems include works by David Harsent, Anthony Hecht, Miroslav Holub, John Jarmain, Stanley Kunitz, Michael Longley, Czeslaw Milosz, Andrew Motion, and Patrick Shaw-Stewart.

The only hardback gift edition of Clare’s masterpiece – illustrated by David Gentleman A century and a half after his death, John Clare is regarded as one of the greatest English Romantic poets – The Shepherd’s Calendar is his masterpiece. A classic of English poetry, it

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is also a fascinating work of social history, recording long-vanished aspects of nineteenthcentury rural life. The poem provides a calendar of the country year – ploughing in February, lambing in March, hay-making in June – punctuated by celebrations and festivals, such as

About the Editor

May Day games, sheep-shearing feasts, Harvest Home, and Christmas. Rooted in popular

JON STALLWORTHY is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, an acclaimed poet and literary critic, and biographer of Wilfred Owen.

culture, the poem has many vivid descriptions of the flowers, birds, and beasts of the hedgerow and field. This beautiful gift edition with ribbon marker is charmingly illustrated

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with wood engravings by David Gentleman. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of John Clare’s death

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P H I LO S O P H Y A Will to Believe

Classical Philosophy

Shakespeare and Religion

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

DAVID SCOTT KASTAN, Yale University

PETER ADAMSON

A provocative new account of the Bard’s faith

A unique history of thought

Religion was inescapable in Shakespeare’s England, but its place in his life and art is

‘In an undergraduate philosophy course, you might reasonably expect to jump from Aristotle to,

ambiguous. The plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare’s own

perhaps, Descartes, leaping over about 2000 years of history in the process. A more enlightened

disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian

approach might include looking at Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century – still omitting the better

commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures,

part of two millennia.’ Peter Adamson

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religion actually functions in his dramas. It shows what we know and can't know about Shakespeare’s own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare’s imagination.

In his ‘History of Philosophy without any gaps’ podcasts, Peter Adamson fulfils his dream of offering the whole picture of the history of thought, and not just the famous bits. Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books to be based on these acclaimed podcasts in which Adamson will present a complete history of philosophy more thoroughly, but also more enjoyably, than ever before.

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In the first volume, short, lively, conversational chapters with vivid examples offer an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy, from Thales to Aristotle. Along the

The Cold of May Day Monday

way, we meet a fascinating range of individuals and schools – Anaximander, Xenophanes, Parmenides, the Eleatics, The Atomists, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the Platonic Academy.

An Approach to Irish Literary History ROBERT ANTHONY WELCH

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This is a new kind of history that assumes no prior knowledge, which makes it ideal for those who wants to read philosophy for pleasure. It will bring the extraordinary history of thought to life

A new history of Irish literature by one of its major scholars

for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.

Robert Anthony Welch, who died in 2013, was one of Ireland’s most important scholars – a poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.

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The Cold of May Day Monday is his long-awaited account of one of the most interesting literary histories in the world, that of his homeland. He reveals the story of Irish literature April 2014 Hardback 316 pp, 216x138 mm, AE 978-0-19-968684-1 £19.99 Available as an Ebook

from its very earliest phases up to the present day, framing his study around themes and clusters rather than chronology, seeking to retain coherence by means of a sustained attention to the thematic strains. He concludes by discussing his contemporaries – Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, and John Banville. PR: Kirsty Doole

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About the Author PETER ADAMSON is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. An American by birth, he taught for ten years at the London School of Economics. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, especially on Neoplatonism and on philosophy in the Islamic world.

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P H I LO S O P H Y Philosophy at 3:AM Questions and Answers with 25 Philosophers RICHARD MARSHALL

P H I LO S O P H Y Philosophy Bites Back

NEW IN PAPERBACK

DAVID EDMUNDS, Oxford University, and NIGEL WARBURTON, Open University

T. M. SCANLON, Harvard University

Beyond Art DOMINIC MCIVER LOPES, University of British Columbia A radical and original treatment of art and aesthetics

One of the world’s leading philosophers brings new insights to reason

This book offers a bold new approach to

Is what we have reason to do a matter of

the philosophy of art. General theories of

fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved,

art don’t work, argues Dominic McIver

In this collection of lively interviews

how can we know it, and how do reasons

Lopes, because they can’t deal with

derived fom the hugely successful

motivate and explain action? In this book

problem cases. Instead he articulates

podcast Philosophy Bites, leading

based on his prestigious Locke Lectures,

and defends a ‘buck-passing theory of

philosophers of our time discuss the

Thomas Scanlon offers answers, with a

art’, namely that a work of art is nothing

ideas and works of some of the most

qualified defense of normative cognitivism

but a work in one of the arts. Written not

important thinkers in history. From the

– the view that there are normative truths

just for philosophers but for theorists of

ancient classics to ground-breaking

about reasons for action. This is a highly

art, music, or literature, Beyond Art

modern thought, and from happiness

original work by one of the world’s leading

discusses a wide range of works from

Change

and love in ancient Greece to truth and

moral philosophers.

contemporary arts and culture.

What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation

volume spans over two and a half

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JEFFREY A. KOTTLER, California State University

millennia of western philosophy and

Leading modern philosophers explain their ideas Richard Marshall is a contributing editor to the fashionable online cultural magazine 3ammagazine.com. In 2011, he set himself the task of bringing philosophy to his readers who were not philosophers but who were eager to know more. His interviews with prominent

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thinkers about why they chose to enter the field and on their own ideas have become something of a legend. This book brings together his favourite 25 articles, 18 by men and 7 May 2014 Hardback 368 pp, 234x156 mm, TA 978-0-19-996953-1 £20.00 Available as an Ebook

Being Realistic about Reasons

by women. They encompass giants of the field, such as Kit Fine and Jerry Fodor, alongside many emerging younger philosophers. Serious, fun, thoughtful and thought-provoking, the interviews invite anyone with a hunger for philosophical questions to engage with the ideas. It is a wonderful showcase for philosophy as it is practiced today. PR: Dan Parker

It’s never too late to change your life Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us

forgiveness in the twentieth century, this

illuminates its most fascinating ideas. PR: Dan Parker

never escape our self-destructive behaviours even when we desperately want to? And what is it that most reliably and effectively produces growth, learning and development that persist over time? Jeffrey A. Kottler is an accomplished therapist and author who believes he has the answers to these questions. He weaves together inspiring stories and the latest January 2014 Hardback 376 pp, 19 black and white illustrations, 235x156 mm, AE 978-0-19-998138-0 £20.00 Available as an Ebook

research, taking the reader on a fascinating exploration of human behaviour while highlighting what does – and does not – lead to lasting change. Throughout the book

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Kottler recounts stories of colleagues and patients whose tales of remarkable, unexpected, and lasting transformation enthrall and move.

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SCIENCE

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SCIENCE Life Unfolding

The Improbable Primate

How the human body creates itself

How water shaped human evolution

JAMIE A. DAVIES

CLIVE FINLAYSON

The journey from egg to human

New insights into the course of human evolution

Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right

A primate that walks on two legs, is naked and has a taste for meat – humankind really is a

one? How do boys become different from girls? How did each of the ten trillion cells in my

highly remarkable species. The Improbable Primate tells the extraordinary story of how we

body know how to become the part it is?

got to be that way.

The picture now emerging of the extraordinary journey from a single fertilized egg to the

At the heart of the story is water – the critical factor that Clive Finlayson believes has shaped

complexity of a human being draws not only on embryology and genetics, but on ideas

us. He argues that our ancestors carved a niche for themselves by leaving the forest and

from physics, networks, and control theory. The central principle is that of ‘adaptive self-

forcing their way into a long-established community of carnivores in a tropical savannah, as

organization’: individual cells do not need to know where they are in the plan, they just

climate changes opened up the landscape. They took their chance at high noon, when most

respond to local cues, organizing themselves into tissues and interconnecting systems,

other predators were asleep, and so avoided competition or being eaten by the large cats and

correcting errors as they go along. From the application of a few relatively simple

hyenas. Adapting to this new lifestyle involved shedding their hair and developing an active

behaviours, orchestrated and regulated by layers of genes and their proteins in

sweating system to keep cool. Being close to fresh water was critical, and as the climate dried

combination with basic physical principles, layer upon layer of complexity arises of its

our ancestors, already bipedal, became taller and slimmer, more adept at travelling farther.

own accord.

The challenges of seeking water in a drying landscape moulded the minds and bodies of early

Life Unfolding brings the results of this area of intense current research to the lay reader,

humans, and directed their migrations and eventual settlements.

showing how our whole understanding of how we come to be has been transformed in

This ground-breaking book presents a fresh and provocative view of a seven-million-year

recent years. This is modern biology at its most exciting. The resulting insights are already

evolutionary journey. It has radical implications for the interpretation of fossils and

having a profound impact on medicine.

technologies, of the spread of early humans, and of the emergence and domination of

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About the Author

About the Author

JAMIE A. DAVIES is Professor of Experimental Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Institute of Biologists, of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the Higher Education Academy. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Organogenesis.

CLIVE FINLAYSON is Director of the Gibraltar Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. His previous book for OUP, The Humans Who Went Extinct, was described by the Independent as ‘revelatory’.

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SCIENCE

SCIENCE The Amoeba in the Room

One Plus One Equals One

Lives of the Microbes

Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life

NICHOLAS P. MONEY

JOHN ARCHIBALD, Dalhousie University

Invisible rulers of our planet

How molecular biology is uncovering the strange origins of complex life

Animals and plants rule the world – or do they? A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells

The latest tools of molecular biology enable us to investigate the living world in ways

which are preyed upon by billions of viruses; a pinch of soil swarms with cryptic microbes

unimaginable a few decades ago. One Plus One Equals One focuses on an area in which our

whose activities are a mystery; 50 million tons of fungal spores are released into the

understanding has been revolutionized: the mechanisms of evolution which led to the

atmosphere every year and affect the weather; and human beings are mobile ecosystems

development of complex life more than three billion years ago. All living organisms use the

that farm, and are farmed by, vast populations of bacteria and viruses involved with almost

same molecular processes to replicate their genetic material and the same basic code to

every aspect of our wellbeing. Microorganisms are the vast, unnoticed, unmentioned

'read' their genes; the similarities can be seen in their DNA. John Archibald shows how from

‘elephants in the room’ of planet earth.

the very beginning evolution has been 'plugging-and-playing' with the subcellular components of life in a process of microbial mergers and acquisitions. He tells the story of

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The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, the less important do animals and plants how we have come to this realization and its implications. become in our understanding life on earth. The flowering of microbial science is revolutionizing biology and medicine in ways unimagined even a decade or two ago, and is

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inspiring a new view of what it means to be human. Nicholas Money explores the extraordinary breadth of the microbial world and the vast swathes of biological diversity that can be detected only by using molecular methods. He argues for nothing less than a

The Fourth Revolution

revolution in our perception of the living world: the big lumbering forms we see are just

How the infosphere is reshaping human reality

froth on a vast ocean of protists, bacteria, and viruses that constitute most of life on earth.

LUCIANO FLORIDI, University of Oxford

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Online, offline, onlife Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. Life online and life offline are coalescing into ‘onlife’ – the new reality of how we work, shop, learn, communicate; how we connect with law, finance, health, and politics; even the way we conduct war. Humans, Floridi asserts, are now

About the Author

just one part of an 'infosphere'. Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this

NICHOLAS P. MONEY is Professor of Botany and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of a number of works including Mushroom, described by Nature magazine as a ‘brilliant scientific and cultural exploration’.

metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. How can we ensure that we shall reap the benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us?

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SCIENCE Cancer Virus

PUBLISHED TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVER OF EBV

The Origin of Ideas

The story of Epstein-Barr Virus

Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark

DOROTHY H. CRAWFORD, INGÓLFUR JOHANNESSEN, both University of Edinburgh, and ALAN B. RICKINSON, University of Birmingham

MARK TURNER, Case Western Reserve University The first general work on a major new theory in cognitive science

How the first human cancer virus was discovered

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It is humankind’s ability to innovate that sets our species apart from other animals. Mark

The idea of a human cancer virus was shocking enough when the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)

Turner is the co-founder of ‘conceptual blending’, a theory that proposes that the source of

was discovered fifty years ago, but the story proved stranger still. Almost everyone, it turns

this ability is our unique capacity to take two ideas or more and create a new one by

out, carries EBV. Only under some circumstances does it cause disease. What’s more, EBV

‘blending’, almost without effort and usually unconsciously. This important book is the first

produces seemingly unrelated ailments in different populations: a cancer of the jaw in African

to present the ground-breaking theory of ‘blending’ in detail for both a general audience

children, a cancer of post-nasal passages in the Far East, Hodgkin’s Disease and glandular

and scholars. Both controversial and provocative, it claims that it was our virtuosity in

fever in the West. Written by three leading virologists working on EBV, this book is an exciting

‘blending’ that gave us a unique idea-generating tool that took us from being just a group of

detective story, recounting how the clues emerged through luck, serendipity, and the

large mammals to world domination.

imagination and dedicated work of a cast of scientists spanning the world.

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June 2014 Hardback 336 pp, 10 black and white line drawings, 10 black and white halftones, 234x156 mm, AC 978-0-19-967811-2 £18.99 Available as an Ebook Previously announced November 2013

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Superintelligence

Drugged

The Coming Machine Intelligence Revolution

The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs

NICK BOSTROM, University of Oxford

RICHARD J. MILLER, Northwestern University

Intelligent machines – pipe dream or real threat?

The only complete guide to all classes of psychotropic drugs

If machine brains come to surpass human brains as ours surpass those of other animals, then

The vast array of chemicals that can cross the blood-brain barrier is literally mind-boggling:

they could become as powerful relative to us as we are to other animals. Such extreme levels

cannabis and cocaine, morphine and heroin, mescaline and LSD, alcohol, amphetamines,

of machine intelligence – superintelligence – would potentially be in a position to shape the

Ecstasy – and many more. In Drugged, Richard Miller takes readers on an eye-opening tour

future. What happens to humanity (whether humanity would even survive) would then depend

of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and

on the goals of the superintelligence. The possibility of a machine intelligence revolution is

developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Entertaining

therefore an extremely important topic. Perhaps it is the most important topic...

and authoritative, the book brims with surprises: it reveals that antidepressant drugs evolved from the rocket fuel that shot V2 rockets into London during World War II; it

This groundbreaking book places superintelligence in the mainstream of both scholarly and

highlights the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion; and it asks whether Prozac can

popular consciousness and shows us how to protect humanity against its risks.

help depressed cats! This is a truly fascinating book.

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SCIENCE

SCIENCE Warriors and Worriers

The Proust Effect

The Survival of the Sexes

The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories

JOYCE F. BENENSON, Emmanuel College, with HENRY MARKOVITS, University of Quebec Sexual stereotypes turned upside down Based on thirty years of research, Warriors and Worriers presents a new theory of sex differences that focuses on the different ways in which men and women ensure their survival. Boys and men have strategies to deter their enemies, while girls and women find assistants to aid them in coping with vulnerable children and elders; males form cooperative groups that compete against out-groups, while human females exclude other females in their quest to February 2014 Hardback 200 pp, 235x156 mm, AU 978-0-19-997223-4 £16.99 Available as an Ebook

find mates. Such differences, contends psychologist Joyce Benenson, produce different social worlds for each sex. In this enthralling exploration, Benenson turns upside down the familiar wisdom that women are more sociable than men and that men are more competitive than women. PR: Dan Parker

Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe JOHN MOFFAT, University of Toronto

CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN, Netherlands Institute for Social Research and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences

field of physics who believes that there is

How our senses can trigger memories

no Higgs Boson particle. He is also of the

What if there is no Higgs Boson... John Moffat is one of a small minority in the

opinion that extra dimensions of space do The best-known example of the power of the senses to evoke memories is in Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way. Cretien van Campen throws new light on why sense memories are special and how they work in the brain. Exploring the senses in thought-provoking scientific

Nuclear Dawn F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II KENNETH D. MCRAE, Carleton University, Ottawa The first full biography of a key figure in the creation of the atomic bomb

not exist as verifiable phenomena, supersymmetry is a nice mathematical construct, and there is no such thing as dark matter. In Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe he turns today’s theories on their heads and explores some highly intriguing alternatives.

This is the first full biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon (18931956), a German-born Jewish scientist who made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. From Simon’s early years, through his move to Oxford in 1933 to escape the Nazi threat,

experiments and artistic projects, he

and his important, experimental

The Science of Cheese

offers new insights into memory – drawn from neuroscience, the arts, and

contributions to low-temperature physics,

MICHAEL H. TUNICK, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service

professions such as education, elderly

it provides many new insights. The book is

The surprising science of cheesemaking

care, health care therapy and the

based on important, new source

culinary profession.

materials, such as Simon’s diary and

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There are more than 2,000 varieties of cheese but few of us understand the scientific alchemy, involving chemistry, biology, and physics, that turns milk into an astonishing variety

correspondence with his wife, that were PR: Kate Farquhar-Thomson

not available to previous researchers.

of delicious foods. As a researcher who creates cheeses, Michael H. Tunick is superbly PR: Hannah McGuffie

equipped to present the technical science behind creating a new cheese. His new book takes us back in time to some 8000 years ago to show us how cheese was first made. He then explores how this led to other forms of cheese: Gorgonzola (first noted in AD 879), Roquefort February 2014 Hardback 256 pp, 32 halftones, 5 line illustrations, 235x156 mm, AE 978-0-19-992230-7 £19.99

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(AD 1070), Cheddar (AD 1500), and many more. Food scientists, amateur cheesemakers, and cheese lovers will all value this unique and wonderfully interesting book. PR: Dan Parker

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SCIENCE James Clerk Maxwell Perspectives on his Life and Work Edited by RAYMOND FLOOD, Gresham College, MARK MCCARTNEY, University of Ulster, and ANDREW WHITAKER, Queen’s University Belfast The first work to fully reveal Maxwell’s multiple talents After Newton and Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell (1831 -1879) is a contender for the title of most important mathematical physicist. But, as this book shows, there was much more to Maxwell than his work on electromagnetism, both in terms of his science and his wider life. This new account gives a range of physicists,

SCIENCE 50 Visions of Mathematics

The Man in the Monkeynut Coat

Faith and Wisdom in Science

Edited by SAM PARC, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications

William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix

TOM MCLEISH, University of Durham

How chemistry becomes biology

Science can be a deeply religious activity

ADDY PROSS, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

50 original articles celebrate a sparkling half century of the IMA

KERSTEN T. HALL, University of Leeds Forgotten pioneer with a pivotal role in DNA discovery

much-needed new approach to the

Isaac Newton declared that his

McLeish presents a scientist’s reading of

anniversary of the founding of the Institute of

momentous discoveries were made

the enigmatic and beautiful Book of Job

Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), it

thanks to having ‘stood on the shoulders

as his centrepiece, and uses it to make

contains 50 articles by some of the best writers

of giants’. The same might be said of DNA

the case for science as a deeply human

pioneers James Watson, Francis Crick, and

and ancient activity, embedded in some

Here is a book that is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics without frying your brain! Published to celebrate the 50th

on maths, such as Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh and Ian Stewart. The topics covered are deliberately diverse, from simple numerology to the very cutting edge of mathematics research. Highly illustrated, the book also includes 50 pictorial ‘visions of mathematics’.

science, his poetry, and his Christian faith.

‘A stimulating and thought-provoking read.’ Chemistry World

The Story of Noise MIKE GOLDSMITH, National Physical Laboratory ‘A spectacularly good book..’ New Scientist ‘A treasure trove of curious facts and anecdotes ... extremely attractive and accessible, well-written and engaging.’ Peter Pesic, American Scientist As humankind creates ever more noise, the battle to manage and control it intensifies. Mike Goldsmith considers the long history of the battle between people

William T. Astbury (1898-1961) who

human desire to understand the natural

and noise, explaining the science and

pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography

world. He insists that rather than

and how did it emerge from non-life?’

physiology, and exploring how new

essential to their work. Astbury has

debating ‘science and theology’ we need

Scientists have puzzled over it ever since.

scientific approaches may affect the

largely, and quite unjustly, been forgotten,

both a ‘science of theology’ and a

Addy Pross uses insights from the new

future of sound. He also looks at how

‘theology of science’.

field of systems chemistry to show how

discord and dissonance are put to use in

chemistry can become biology, and that

music, medicine, and even the military.

revealing the story of this neglected genius

See also The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, page 59.

Peter Atkins

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posed a profound question: ‘What is life,

justice, revealing among much else Maxwell’s wider work on many aspects of

‘A lucid, thoughtful, and accessible exploration of the very foundations of that most exquisite and extraordinary property of matter, life.’

Discord

of the oldest stories told about the

Rosalind Franklin, because it was scientist

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‘science and religion’ debate. Tom

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Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrödinger

mathematicians, and historians of science and literature the chance to do him

Faith and Wisdom in Science takes a

What is Life?

who also led the field in the powerful new

Darwinian evolution is the expression of a

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deeper physical principle.

science of molecular biology.

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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S

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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S

Wrong

By All Means Necessary

Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them

How China’s Resource Quest is Changing the World

RICHARD S. GROSSMAN, Wesleyan University

ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY and MICHAEL LEVI, both Council on Foreign Relations

How ideology rather than economics causes financial crises

The first full account of China’s race to acquire raw materials

The Irish famine, the Great Depression, Japan’s lost decade of the 1990s, Lehman Brothers and

The last twenty-five years has seen China transformed from an impoverished country to one

the American subprime crisis ... What is it that sparks such vast economic calamities? Why do

with more millionaires than anywhere else in the world. In the beginning, that growth was

our economic policy makers fail to protect us from such upheavals? Writing for a wide

fuelled by internal resources, but now China has been forced to look outward to find the

audience, economist Richard Grossman shines a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the

massive quantities of resources it needs. It is now engaged in a quest around the world for

worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, telling the story behind each

fuel, water, and land for farming, while the country’s military secures sea lanes and focuses

misconceived economic move, explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was

on advanced military technologies to protect its interests abroad. Clear, authoritative, and

implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. In each case, he shows that the main

provocative, By All Means Necessary is the first comprehensive account of the likely impact

culprits were policy makers who were guided by ideology rather than economics.

of China’s pursuit of raw materials in the coming years – a crucial issue, not just for China,

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The Euro-Crisis and Its Aftermath

The Locust Effect

JEAN PISANI-FERRY, Université Paris-Dauphine Translated by CHRISTOPHE GOUARDO

Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

Understanding the economics of the Euro

The first book on the key role of violence in perpetuating poverty

‘This is not a book for economists, because the time when the pros and cons of European monetary unification were topics for controversies between economists only has long passed’ writes Jean Pisani-Ferry. As chief economic advisor to the Prime Minister of France and former director of the Brussels-based economic think tank, Bruegel, he has been at the forefront of debate about the travails of the euro area. He is excellently placed to write this book which June 2014 Hardback 224 pp, 235x156 mm, TA 978-0-19-999333-8 £20.00

aims to help non-economists decipher the euro crisis and form their opinions about potential solutions. Not only does he make sense of the crisis itself, he also scrutinizes and evaluates the chief alternative proposals for ending it.

See also The People's Republic of Amnesia, page 16.

GARY A. HAUGEN and VICTOR BOUTROS, both University of Chicago Law School

If people aren’t safe, nothing else matters. Corrupt police forces, out-of-control armies, private militias, organized criminals, and failed justice systems: all plague poor countries. Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros use real-world stories from countries ranging from Thailand to Bolivia and India to Nigeria to show how violence undercuts antipoverty efforts. Drawing upon their experience running the International Justice Mission, they show that ground-up efforts to reform legal and public justice systems can generate real, positive results. Sweeping in geographical scope and filled with unforgettable stories of individuals trapped within the mutually reinforcing cycle of poverty and violence, The Locust Effect will force us to rethink what we know about the causes of poverty and why it is so difficult to root out.

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C U R R E N T A F FA I R S

The Cultivation of Taste

Business Strategy

Is the Planet Full?

Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining

Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise

Edited by IAN GOLDIN, University of Oxford

JOHN-CHRISTOPHER SPENDER, Universität Ramon Llull

The most wide-ranging exploration available of a planet-sized problem

Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

CEOs are the key to better business strategy

Can our planet support the demands of

IAN GOLDIN, University of Oxford

the ten billion people anticipated to be

Germany, both countries which have no indigenous ‘haute cuisine’ but nevertheless maintain a

Drawing on a wide range of ideas from

the world’s population by the middle of

great interest in fine dining. It draws on a large number of interviews with renowned chefs,

strategy, economics, entrepreneurship and

this century? Can we harness the

‘A state-of-the-art view of contemporary issues in global cooperation.’ Dries Lesage, Times Higher Education Supplement

diners, and Michelin inspectors to bring the reader an unprecedented insight into what goes on

philosophy, John-Christopher. Spender

potential benefits brought by a healthier,

in Michelin-starred restaurants – what makes their chefs tick, intrigues their critics, and beguiles

develops an exciting new approach to

wealthier and larger population? In this

It is becoming increasingly apparent that

or annoys their customers. Lane presents restaurants as not simply businesses but as cultural

business strategy. He argues that a key

book, ten scholars, each of whom is a

the UN, IMF, and World Bank are

enterprises that shape our taste in food, ambience, and sociality.

element of both an entrepreneur’s and an

leader in their own discipline, attempt to

inadequate to the task of managing

executive's task is to engage chosen

answer these questions. By offering a

today’s emergencies like climate change,

uncertainties, develop a language to

variety of different lenses through which

pandemics, cybersecurity, and migration.

express the firm’s particular business

to view this overwhelmingly important

Former Vice President of the World Bank,

Nature in the Balance

model for dealing with them, and thus

topic, the book is able to challenge

Ian Goldin explores whether the answer is

The Economics of Biodiversity

create innovation and value. The book is

commonplace assumptions and bring

to reform the existing structures or to

an important contribution to the field of

important new insights.

consider a new approach. He highlights

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considers a road map for the future.

CHRISTEL LANE, University of Cambridge What makes a Michelin-starred restaurant? Britain was once a culinary desert, but in recent years it has experienced an explosion of interest in food, cooking, and dining out. Christel Lane’s book charts the process of this transformation through her enthralling new comparative study of Michelin-starred restaurants in Britain and

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Edited by DIETER HELM, University of Oxford and CAMERON HEPBURN, London School of Economics

management studies.

Putting a price on biodiversity protection

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Divided Nations

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the challenges that we must overcome and

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and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, policy instruments, and institutions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and evidence, and suggests how this very urgent problem should be addressed. While focusing on the economics, it incorporates the underpinning science and philosophy, combining the application of a number of theoretical ideas with a series of policy cases. PR: Andrew Allen

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NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG, Hunter College School of Public Health How big business could be making us ill

Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies ROGER E. A. FARMER, UCLA ‘In the morass of me-too books about the financial crisis, How the Economy Works stands out as a truly big idea.’

It is a scary fact that decisions made by the Bloomberg Businessweek food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a

Modern Greece

Economic Development

What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know

STATHIS KALYVAS, Yale University

MARCELO GIUGALE, World Bank

MIGUEL TINKER-SALAS

Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be

Marcelo Giugale tackles the major

Oil-rich nation increasingly important on the world stage

a politically secure nation with a healthy

challenges of economic development,

economy. Today, the country is at the centre

illlustrating his account with real-life

of Europe’s economic maelstrom. Stathis

examples from all over the globe. He looks

Kalyvas shows how and why this has

at a host of topics including the reasons why

happened, and makes important

seemingly obvious reforms never happen,

Venezuela is among the top ten oil exporters in the world. In this concise, accessible introduction, Miguel Tinker-

One of our leading economists provides a

greater impact on today’s health than the

jargon-free exploration of the current crisis,

decisions of scientists and policymakers.

and an innovative new theory about how

Lethal But Legal examines how

individuals behave that will help us out of

corporations have impacted upon public

it. From Keynesian economics, he adopts

health over the last century. Although there

the principle that markets do not always

are some positive stories to tell,

work well, and that capitalism needs some

Freudenberg’s research reveals, in

guidance. The goal, he writes, is to correct

particular, the connection between

the excesses of a free-market economy

unhealthy products, business-dominated

without stifling entrepreneurship and

politics, and the growing burdens of

instituting central planning. This paperback

disease and health-care costs.

Venezuela

MODERN GREECE WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

STATHIS KALYVAS

connections between the present turmoil

Salas – a native of the country who has

beneficiaries, government corruption, state violence, natural

is today.

resources, and globalization and trade.

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Hugo Chávez – his rise to power, his

Japan

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

domestic, political and economic policies,

What Everyone Needs to Know

What Everyone Needs to Know

R. TAGGART MURPHY, University of Tsukuba

PETER W. SINGER and ALLAN FRIEDMAN, both at the Brookings Institution

written extensively about it – takes a broadly chronological approach to its history but keeps oil and its effects on the country’s politics, economy, culture, and international relations his central focus. He also provides a detailed discussion of

and his high-profile forays into international relations.

edition has a new preface bringing the book up to date.

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exchange was bigger than New York’s. Now,

Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman team up to

the country is seen as a has-been with a

provide the kind of easy-to-read, yet deeply

sluggish economy, an aging population, and

informative, resource book that has been

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L A N G UAG E

L A N G UAG E Borrowed Words

Book Smart

A History of Loanwords in English

How to Support Successful, Motivated Readers

PHILIP DURKIN Advance praise: ‘This is an important and engaging book.’ Richard Dance, University of Cambridge

JULIE COLEMAN ‘Completely fascinating ... immensely enjoyable.’ James McConnachie, The Sunday Times

Oxford Russian Mini Dictionary

NEW EDITION

Russian vocabulary, phrases, and expressions at your fingertips This small Russian-English and English-

Bad-ass, bee’s knees, and bomb-diggity:

Russian dictionary offers the most

slang has been around for centuries,

accurate and up-to-date coverage of

plaguing and troubling those who take a

essential, everyday vocabulary with over

from other languages, ranging from Latin and Greek to Japanese and Yiddish. Philip Durkin, Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, whose Oxford Guide to Etymology

Reading aloud to and with young children

purist line when it comes to the English

40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000

has become the standard work in the field, shows how to discover the origins of loanwords,

is a crucial way in which parents and

language. In this highly entertaining book,

translations. An easy-to-use design and a

when and why they were adopted, and what happens to them once they have been. This

carers can foster the social and emotional

Julie Coleman traces the development of

centre section of useful words and

outstanding book will appeal to a wide general public and at the same time offers a

development of children – and it is also a

slang across the English-speaking world

expressions listed by topic make this

valuable reference for scholars and students of the history of English.

lot of fun. Written by two psychologists

and explores why and how it flourishes by

dictionary ideal for travel and quick

and educators, this book is a how-to

making use of a marvellous array of

reference. It also includes Russian

guide rich with stories, lessons, and

sources, including newly available online

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records of the Old Bailey, historical

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ANNE E. CUNNINGHAM, University of California, Berkeley, and JAMIE ZIBULSKY, Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Life of Slang

The Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking COLIN SWATRIDGE

specific reading skills. A highly informative but light-hearted read, it will

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encourage parents to bring the joy of

The key to exemplary essays and dynamic debates

reading into every home.

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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S Money

OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S NEW TRANSLATION

ÉMILE ZOLA Translated by VALERIE MINOGUE, University of Wales ‘The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.’

NEW EDITION Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Edited by BARRY MCCREA, University of Notre Dame

Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his

NEW TRANSLATION

Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants LUIGI PIRANDELLO Translated by ANTHONY MORTIMER, University of Fribourg

schemes and manipulates his way to power. Last encountered in The Kill (La Curée) in Zola’s

‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science’

Rougon-Macquart series, he is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the

For more than a century the Sherlock

worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of

Holmes stories have held a strange,

society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the

almost inexplicable grip on the popular

Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht,

first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in

imagination. They have been endlessly

and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern

English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes.

interpreted, adapted, and modernized,

drama. This Oxford World’s Classic

but still it is to Arthur Conan Doyle’s

includes three of his most famous works

originals that we return. This new

including his last unfinished masterpiece

selection of a dozen of the best of them,

The Mountain Giants. It also contains his

including the book-length The Sign of the

important Preface to Six Characters, an

Four, is the only edition available with an

essential critical document for

way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he

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Three Plays

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The Conquest of Plassans

NEW TRANSLATION

ÉMILE ZOLA introduction and notes.

Translated by HELEN CONSTANTINE, introduction by PATRICK MCGUINNESS, University of Oxford

‘The man will die, the writer, the instrument of creation; but the creature never dies!’

understanding the play that made him

Selected Poems and Songs ROBERT BURNS Edited by ROBERT P. IRVINE, University of Edinburgh ‘The Poetic Genius of my Country ... bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.’ Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over. This new selection offers Burns’s work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published. The edition also includes musical scores, some important letters, and a full glossary to explain Scots words. PR: Kirsty Doole

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and performable translations remain

‘Abbé Faujas has arrived!’

scrupulously faithful to the letter and spirit of the originals.

The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for François Mouret in particular. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas

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wife falls under the influence of the priest, is driven to ever more extreme actions. The fourth novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart sequence, The Conquest of Plassans returns to the fictional Provençal town from which the family sprang in The Fortune of the Rougons. In one of the most psychological of his novels, Zola links small-town politics to the greater political

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OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S

OX F O R D W O R L D’ S C L A S S I C S NEW TRANSLATION The Confusions of Young Törless

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

ROBERT MUSIL Translated by MIKE MITCHELL, introduction by RITCHIE ROBERTSON, University of Oxford

EPICTETUS Translated by ROBIN HARD, introduction by CHRISTOPHER GILL, University of Exeter

‘Between the life we live and the life we feel ... there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate’

‘About things that are within our power and those that are not.’

The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the

Epictetus’ Discourses teach that the

acknowledged as one of Plato’s finest

basis of happiness is up to us. From

works. This new edition uses the

an Austrian military academy, The

antiquity onwards, they have been the

acclaimed translation by John McDowell,

Confusions of Young Törless is a

most widely read and influential of all

and includes a valuable introduction by

profoundly disturbing exploration of a

writings of Stoic philosophy. Robin Hard’s

Lesley Brown that explains some of the

non-moral outlook on life and of

new, accurate, and accessible translation

competing interpretations of its overall

dictatorial attitudes that prefigure the

is the only modern one available of the

meaning. The notes elucidate Plato’s

outbreak of the First World War and the

complete work. It is accompanied by

arguments and draw connections within

rise of fascism. This new translation

Christopher Gill's full introduction and

the work and with other philosophical

restores the original layout approved by

comprehensive notes.

discussions.

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Based on the author’s own experiences at

NEW TRANSLATION

Theaetetus

Kidnapped

PLATO Translated by JOHN MCDOWELL, University of Pittsburgh; introduction by LESLEY BROWN, University of Oxford

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Edited by IAN DUNCAN, University of California, Berkeley

‘What exactly is knowledge?’

‘Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons’ Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion,

philosophy of knowledge, and is

Selected Speeches

NE W TRANSLATION

DEMOSTHENES Translated by ROBIN WATERFIELD, introduction by CHRIS CAREY, University College London

‘It appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner.’

Admired by many in the ancient world as

Anthony Trollope’s mother, Frances,

the greatest of the classic Athenian

travelled extensively through America,

orators, Demosthenes was intimately

and wrote one of the most influential

involved in the political events of his day.

travel books of the nineteenth century.

As well as showing a master orator at

Her witty, satirical, and entertaining

work, his speeches are a prime source for

dissection of American manners

the history of the period. This selection, in

demonstrated her abhorrence of slavery

a sparkling new translation by Robin

and fuelled abolitionist debate on both

Waterfield, includes the fullest range of

sides of the Atlantic. This new edition

Demothenes’ oratory in a single volume.

considers the work’s transatlantic success

Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit have become a staple of adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. This new edition is based on the 1895 text, incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts about the novel before his death, and includes his ‘Note to Kidnapped’, reprinted for the first time since 1922. and its political significance at a time of PR: Kirsty Doole

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FRANCES TROLLOPE Edited by ELSIE B. MICHIE, Louisiana State University

‘Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom’

Musil, and is the only edition to provide a full, contextualizing introduction.

Domestic Manners of the Americans

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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S

V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S

Microeconomics

The Ice Age

Philosophy of Law

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

AVINASH DIXIT, Princeton University

JAMIE WOODWARD, University of Manchester

RAYMOND WACKS, University of Hong Kong

When non-economists think about economics the issues that concern them most are the big

Drawing on examples from seven

Raymond Wacks reveals the intriguing and

ones like unemployment, inflation, growth, competitiveness of nations – in other words,

continents, this Very Short Introduction

challenging nature of legal philosophy with

macroeconomics. However, microeconomic issues – such as individuals’ choices of where to

distils the enormous breadth of material

clarity and enthusiasm, providing an

live and work, how much to save, what to buy, firms’ decisions about location, hiring, firing,

available on the ice ages, looking

enlightening guide to the central questions

investment, advertising, and many other dimensions of business, and government policies

particularly at the development of long-

of legal theory, the nature and purpose of

are also very important. Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction cuts this huge subject

standing controversies surrounding their

the legal system, and the practice by

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courts, lawyers, and judges. This revised

global warming. It also tells the extraordinary story of the

edition includes new material on legal realism, changes to the

human beings, mammoths and other mega fauna for whom the

approach to the analysis of law and legal theory, and updated

ice-age landscape was home.

material on historical and anthropological jurisprudence.

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Family Law

Revolutions

Humour

Psychology

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

NOËL CARROLL, Temple University

FREDA MCMANUS, University of Oxford, and GILLIAN BUTLER

JONATHAN HERRING, University of Oxford

JACK A. GOLDSTONE, George Mason University

NEW EDITION

Humour is a universal feature of human life. It

What exactly do psychologists do and what

This clear and accessible introduction to

From 1789 in France to the collapse of the

has been discovered in every known human

scientific grounding do they have for their

family law gives the reader an insight not

Soviet Union, ‘People Power’ revolutions,

culture, and thinkers have discussed it for

approach? Gillian Butler and Freda McManus

only into what the law regarding families is,

and the Arab revolts, revolutions continue

over two thousand years. Noël Carroll

answer these questions by exploring some

but why it is that way. Using examples from

to shake the world. This Very Short

considers the nature and value of humour:

of the most important advances and

around the world, it examines how laws

Introduction is the first concise account of

from its leading theories and its relation to

developments in psychology. In the new

have had to respond to social changes in

the structural and cultural approaches to

emotion and cognition, to ethical questions of

edition of their bestselling Very Short

family life, from rapidly rising divorce rates

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NEW EDITION

revolution studies. It illuminates the

Introduction, they explore some of the newest topics in

to surrogate mothers, and gives insight into family courts. It

revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures,

psychology and the latest discoveries in the study of the brain.

also looks at what the future family might look like and how the

and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world

law will respond.

events and the popular imagination.

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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S

V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S

Accounting

Classical Literature

The Etruscans

The Eye

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

CHRISTOPHER NOBES, University of London

WILLIAM ALLAN, University of Oxford

CHRISTOPHER SMITH, The British School, Rome

MICHAEL F. LAND, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex

Almost everyone will have some connection

What exactly are the ‘classics’ and why do

The Etruscans have fascinated scholars for

The eye is one of the most remarkable

to accounting – in business, through self-

they continue to shape our Western

centuries with their alluring combination of

achievements of evolution, and has evolved

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concepts of literature? Presenting a range of

extensive, rich archaeological material but no

up to 40 times in different parts of the

listening to the financial news on the

material from both Greek and Latin

written record. Placing the Etruscans as a

animal kingdom. Michael Land looks at

television or radio. This book will help

literature, William Allan illustrates the variety

real historical people in the wider world of

humankind’s most important sense,

readers to understand and use accounting

and sophistication of these works. He shows

the Mediterranean, Christopher Smith has

including the features of the human eye

information. Introducing terms like ‘debits’, ‘pre-tax income’ and ‘goodwill’, it covers all the basic concepts in accounting and considers its main areas, such as bookkeeping, financial reporting, auditing and management accounting.

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created the only short, accessible book

perception – eye movements, vision in three dimensions,

geographical and chronological context, and reveals their fate

colour vision, and visual recognition.

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Landscape Architecture

Teeth

Physical Chemistry

Fascism

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

PETER S. UNGAR, University of Arkansas

PETER ATKINS, University of Oxford

KEVIN PASSMORE, University of Cardiff

IAN THOMPSON, Newcastle University

NEW EDITION

Grounded in physics and mathematics and

‘Excellent ... succeeds on many levels ...

This book tells the fascinating story of the

amazing! Peter Ungar presents their story from

drawing as it does on quantum mechanics,

refreshingly free of jargon.’

development of landscape architecture

We may take them for granted but teeth are the earliest tooth-bearing fishes hundreds of

thermodynamics, and statistical

millions of years ago through amphibians to

mechanics, physical chemistry is perceived

In this new edition, Kevin Passmore brilliantly

reptiles and, ultimately, mammals, explaining

as the most daunting of the branches of

unravels the paradoxes of one of the most

what fossil teeth can tell us about extinct

chemistry. Who better to come to the

important phenomena in the modern world. He

animals and their environments. Considering

rescue of hard-pressed students and

looks at fascism from its pre-First World War

Tim Kirk, Times Literary Supplement

why teeth are important, he describes how they are made, how they

puzzled non-scientists than Peter Atkins who tackles it with his

origins, scrutinizing such issues as fascism in culture, the new interest

work, and how recent changes to the human diet are affecting our

typical clarity and hardly a formula in sight?

in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002.

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from its origins in landscape gardening to tackling challenging societal and environmental issues, including environmental degradation, social justice and climate change. Including examples from around the world, Ian Thompson explains how the discipline now includes wide areas of practice, from siting wind-farms or power stations to designing play facilities.

dental health.

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and retina, the evolution of eyes, and visual

that tells readers who the Etruscans were, describes their

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V E RY S H O RT I N T R O D U C T I O N S Geopolitics A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

Dictionary of Journalism

KLAUS DODDS, Royal Holloway, University of London

DAVID BENDER, University College London

TONY HARCUP, University of Sheffield

NEW EDITION

A brand-new reference work

Using examples from historical maps to

In spite of health campaigns such as ‘five-a-

James Bond films and the rhetoric of

day’ vegetables and fruit, many people are

This is a new, accessible, and authoritative

political leaders, this engrossing study of a

puzzled by conflicting information,

quick-reference dictionary containing over

A Dictionary of Chemical Engineering

A Dictionary of Nursing

CARL SCHASCHKE, University of Strathclyde

‘As a student Nurse, this has become my

The most up-to-date reference of its kind

NEW EDITION

bible, I don’t leave for class without it.’ Amazon reviewer The seventh edition of this best-selling

complex area shows why, for a full

particularly from the media, about what

1,200 wide-ranging entries on the terms

This brand-new dictionary contains over

understanding of contemporary global

and what not to eat. David Bender comes to

that are likely to be encountered by

3,400 concise and authoritative A-to-Z

revised to take account of recent

students of journalism, media studies, TV

entries, providing definitions and

developments in nursing practice and

and radio production. Assuming little or no

explanations for chemical engineering

related fields, with a particular focus on

prior knowledge, it covers terminology

terms in areas including materials, energy

risk assessement tools and terms

relating to the practice, business, and

balances, reactions, separations,

relating to the Mental Health Act 2005,

technology of journalism, its concepts and

sustainability, safety, and ethics. It also

as well as recent NHS initiatives to

theories, organizations and institutions,

covers many pertinent terms from the

improve care standards. Written by

publications, and key events. Relevant

fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and

medical and nursing specialists and

web links are accessible on a companion

mathematics. Comprehensively cross-

offering 10,200 clear and concise entries

website that is regularly updated.

referenced and complemented by line

on the theory and practice of nursing, the

drawings, it features entry-level web links

dictionary provides comprehensive

listed and regularly updated on a

coverage of the ever-expanding

dedicated companion website.

vocabulary of the nursing professions.

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politics, it is not just smart – it is essential – to be geopolitical. The fully updated second edition takes into account recent political

the rescue with clear information on all aspects of food, including the balance between energy intake and exercise, the problems of over- and

developments in the Eurozone and more recent examples.

under-nutrition, and the safety of nutritional supplements.

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Coral Reefs

African American Religion

A Very Short Introduction

A Very Short Introduction

CHARLES SHEPPARD, University of Warwick

EDDIE S. GLAUDE Jr, Princeton University

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse

Eddie S. Glaude argues that the phrase

of ecosystems. Charles Sheppard tells the

‘African American religion’ is meaningful only

enthralling story of how and where coral

insofar as it singles out the distinctive ways

reefs are formed and the diversity of

religion has been leveraged by African

marine life they support. Today, reefs are

Americans to respond to different racial

not just suffering from over-exploitation

regimes in the United States. Slavery, Jim

but also ocean acidification due to

Crow, and current appeals to colour blindness

pollution and climate change – many are already dying. Sheppard describes how these problems are being tackled. June 2014, Paperback, 144 pp, 15 black and white illustrations, 174x111 mm, TE, 978-0-19-968277-5, £7.99, Available as an Ebook, PR: Chloe Foster

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Nutrition

OX F O R D PA P E R B AC K R E F E R E N C E

serve as a backdrop for his treatment of conjure (also known as hoodoo), African-American Christianity and Islam in this

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See also Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry, page 25.

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contains over 2,300 entries on all aspects

thoroughly revised and updated entries it

aspects of zoology. Complemented by

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INDEX

A Aarts, Bas Accounting Adamson, Peter African American Religion Allaby, Michael Allan, William Amoeba in the Room, The Ancient Syria Archibald, John Atkins, Peter

58 54 27 56 59 54 32 13 33 54

B Banker, James R. Bates, David Being Realistic about Reasons Bell, Christopher M. Bender, David Benenson, Joyce F. Bennett, Gill Betts, Christopher Beyond Art Bod, Rens Book Smart Borrowed Words Bostrom, Nick Bourke, Joanna Boutros, Victor Brock, Eleanor Brock, Michael Brown, Lesley Bryce, Trevor Burning the Reichstag Burns, Robert Business Strategy Butler, Gillian By All Means Necessary

20 17 29 18 56 36 18 23 29 17 47 46 34 12 41 8 8 50 13 14 49 43 52 41

C Cancer Virus 34 Carey, Chris 51 Carroll, Noel 52 Chalker, Sylvia 58 Change 28 Churchill and Sea Power 18 Clapham, Christopher 59 Clare, John 25 Classical Literature 54 Classical Philosophy 27 Cold of May Day Monday, The 26 Coleman, Julie 47 Compleat Angler, The 22 Conan Doyle, Arthur 49 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, The 58 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, The 59 Confusions of Young Torless, The 50 Conquest of Plassans, The 48 Constantine, Helen 48 Cook, Ian 59 Coral Reefs 56 Cotton, Charles 22 Cox, Howard 17 Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe 37 Crawford, Dorothy H. 34 Cultivation of Taste, The 42 Cunningham, Anne E. 47 Cybersecurity and Cyberwar 45

D Dams, Carsten Davenport-Hines, Richard Davies, Jamie A. Death from the Skies Debussy Demosthenes Dictionary of Chemical Engineering, A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, A Dictionary of Journalism, A Dictionary of Nursing, A Dictionary of Statistics, A Dictionary of Zoology, A Discord Discourses, Fragments, Handbook Divided Nations Dixit, Avinash Dodds, Klaus Domestic Manners of the Americans Drugged Dry, Sarah Duncan, Ian Durkin, Philip

10 19 30 15 21 51 57 58 57 57 59 59 39 50 43 52 56 51 35 21 51 46

E Economic Development Economy, Elizabeth C. Edmunds, David Eliot, Simon Epictetus Etruscans, The Euro Crisis and its Aftermath Eye, The

45 41 29 63 50 55 40 55

F Faith and Wisdom in Science Family Law Farmer, Roger E. A. Fascism 50 Visions of Mathematics Fight or Flight Finlayson, Clive First World War, The Flood, Raymond Floridi, Luciano Fourth Revolution, The Freudenberg, Nicholas Friedman, Allan

39 53 44 55 38 15 31 9 38 33 33 44 45

G Gadd, Ian Geopolitics Gestapo, The Giugale, Marcelo Gill, Christopher Glaude Jr, Eddie S. Goldin, Ian Goldsmith, Mike Goldstone, Jack A. Goodbye to All That? Gouardo, Christopher Grossman, Richard S.

63 56 10 45 50 56 43 39 53 16 40 40 H

Hall, Kersten T. Halsall, Guy Hamilton, Ian Harcup, Tony Hard, Robin Harris, Tim Haugen, Gary A. Helm, Dieter Hepburn, Cameron Herring, Jonathan Hett, Benjamin Carter History of Oxford University Press, The How the Economy Works Humour

38 14 25 57 50 5 41 42 42 53 14 63 44 52

I Ice Age, The Improbable Primate, The Irvine, Robert P. Is the Planet Full?

53 31 49 43

J James Clerk Maxwell Jane Austen’s Letters Japan Jensen, Eric Frederick Johannessen, Ingólfur July 1914

38 21 45 21 34 7 K

Kalyvas, Stathis Kidnapped Kottler, Jeffrey A.

45 51 29

L La Fontaine, Jean de Land, Michael F. Landscape Architecture Lane, Christel Le Faye, Deirdre Lethal But Legal Levi, Michael Life of Slang, The Life Unfolding Lim, Louisa Livingstone, E. A. Locust Effect, The Lopes, Dominic McIver Louis, Wm Roger

23 55 55 42 21 44 41 47 30 16 58 41 29 63

M Man in the Monkeynut Coat, The Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary Markovits, Henry Marshall, Richard Martel, Gordon Matthews, P. H. McCartney, Mark McCrea, Barry McDowell, John McGuinness, Patrick McLeish, Tom McManus, Freda McRae, Kenneth D. Michie, Elsie B. Microeconomics Miller, Richard J. Minogue, Valerie Mitchell, Mike Modern Greece Moffatt, John Money Money, Nicholas P. Mortimer, Anthony Mowatt, Simon Murphy, R. Taggart Musil, Robert

38 8 36 28 7 58 38 49 50 48 39 52 37 51 52 35 48 50 45 37 48 32 49 17 45 50

N Nature in the Balance Neptune New History of the Humanities, A New Oxford Book of War Poetry, The Newton Papers, The Nicholson, James Nobes, Christopher Noel-Tod, Jeremy Normans and Empire, The Nuclear Dawn Nutrition

42 11 17 24 21 59 54 25 17 37 56

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INDEX O One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper 19 One Plus One Equals One 33 Origin of Ideas, The 35 Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, The 25 Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, The 58 Oxford Guide to Effective Argument and Critical Thinking, The 46 Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, The 9 Oxford Russian Mini Dictionary 47 P

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Parc, Sam Passmore, Kevin People’s Republic of Amnesia, The Philosophy at 3:AM Philosophy Bites Back Philosophy of Law Physical Chemistry Pick, Daniel Piero della Francesca Pirandello, Luigi Pisani-Ferry, Jean Plato Powell, David Pross, Addy Proust Effect, The Psychology Pursuit of the Nazi Mind, The

38 55 16 28 29 53 54 18 20 49 40 50 25 39 37 52 18

R Rebellion Revolutions Revolutions from Grub Street Rickinson, Alan B. Robertson, Ritchie Robinson, Eric

5 53 17 34 50 25

S Scanlon, T. M. Schaschke, Carl Science of Cheese, The Scott Kastan, David Secord, James A. Selected Fables Selected Poems and Songs Selected Speeches Selected Stories Shepherd’s Calendar, The Sheppard, Charles Sherlock Holmes Singer, Peter W. Sisman, Adam Six Moments of Crisis Smith, Christopher Spender, John-Christopher Stallworthy, Jon Stevenson, Robert Louis Stolle, Michael Stone, Dan Story of Pain, The Strachan, Hew Summerfield, Geoffrey Superintelligence Süss, Dietmar Swann, Marjorie Swatridge, Colin Symonds, Craig L.

T 29 57 36 26 13 23 49 51 49 25 56 49 45 19 18 55 43 24 51 10 16 12 9 25 34 15 22 46 11

Taken at the Flood Teeth Theaetetus Thomas, Martin Thompson, Ian Three Plays Tinker-Salas, Miguel Trevor-Roper, Hugh Trollope, Frances Tunick, Michael H. Turner, Mark

6 54 50 15 55 49 44 19 51 36 35 U

Ungar, Peter S. Upton, Graham

54 59 V

Van Campen, Chretien Venezuela Visions of Science

37 44 13

W Wacks, Raymond Walton, Izaak Warburton, Nigel Warriors and Worriers Waterfield, Robin Weiner, Edmund Welch, Robert Anthony What Everyone Needs to Know What is Life? Whitaker, Andrew Will to Believe, A Woodward, Jamie Worlds of Arthur Wrong

53 22 29 36 6, 51 58 26 44 39 38 26 53 14 40

Z Zibulsky, Jamie Zola, Émile

47 48

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