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Canto Classics

History of science (general)

Cell biology and developmental biology

Paperback

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

181 b/w illus.

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitive to the fascinations and beauty of the natural world tells of jumping fleas and slipper limpets; of buds and seeds; of bees' cells and rain drops; of the potter's thumb and the spider's web; of a film of soap and a bubble of oil; of a splash of a pebble in a pond.

• Discusses the question: why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? • A historical work, first published in 1917, is renowned for the poetry of its description of the natural world • This abridged edition, first published in 1961, makes this important work accessible to the general reader

Introduction John Tyler Bonner; 1. Introductory; 2. On magnitude; 3. The forms of cells; 4. The forms of tissues, of cell-aggregates; 5. On spicules and spicular skeletons; 6. The equiangular spiral; 7. The shapes of horns and of teeth or tusks; 8. On form and mechanical efficiency; 9. On the theory of transformations, or the comparison of related forms; 10. Epilogue; Index.

general readers

history of science, biology

Cambridge University publications

Cambridge University publications

Paperback

Kindersley Inscriptions in the City and University

Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley

Cutting across Cambridge is a tour of many of the inspiring Kindersley inscriptions to be found in the City, University and churches of Cambridge. The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop has cut these beautiful letters in stone, wood or brass, over more than 60 years. There are maps and text to take you by the hand and pictures galore of existing and lost inscriptions to delight your eye, all in a lovely book of 136 pages to fit into your pocket. This book is an uplifting journey into a unique landscape of letters cut, easy to read and informative, a must-have for letter form enthusiasts and Cambridge visitors and residents. More information can be found at http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk.

• A richly illustrated document of Cambridge history through its inscriptions • A collection of the Cambridge inscriptions from David Kindersley's 1950s to the present day • A detailed catalogue identifying many of the existing and subsequently lost pieces of Kindersley work in the City of Cambridge

Introduction; History of Cambridge street signs; The start; Market (with Petersfield); Map 1; Fitzwilliam Museum; Engineering Department and Bridget's; St Botolph's Church; Free School Lane; Corn Exchange; Lion Yard; St Edward's Church; 11 King's Parade; Old Schools; Downing Street; Map 2; St Andrew's Street; East Road; Lensfield Road; Tennis Court Road; Trumpington; Botanic Gardens; Chaucer Road; Cambridge University Press (Shaftesbury Road); Trumpington village; Trumpington Church; Trumpington Cemetery; Queen Edith and Coleridge; Michael Young Centre; Morley Memorial School; Perse School; Strangeways Research Laboratory; St Thomas's Hall; Cherry Hinton; Abbey; Chesterton; Chesterton Church; St Luke's Church; Histon Road Cemetery; Castle (with Arbury); St Giles/Ascension Ground; Shire Hall; St Peter's Church; St Giles Church; Church of the Good Shepherd; Newnham; High Cross Site (Madingley Road); Moore Library; Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law; Divinity Faculty; English Faculty; University Library; Churchyards and burial grounds; The Workshop at work.

amateurs/enthusiasts, general readers

stone cutting, history of Cambridge University, letter forms

English literature (general)

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of one of the most popular poems in the English language, 'If–', has long captured the interest of poetry lovers. Here, Thomas Pinney brings together a selection of well-established favourites and the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems from The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2013). The poems, whether exploring the colonial experience, exposing the injustice of war, or appreciating the beauties of nature, resonate with Kipling's keen observations of his world and strong sense of poetic rhythm. Discovered by Pinney in an array of unlikely hiding places, the uncollected and unpublished poems show the diversity and development of Kipling's talent over his lifetime, and, when combined with long-held favourites, offer readers a unique opportunity to experience Kipling's mastery of poetry in a new way.

• Includes the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems from The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling • Offers the chance for fresh appreciation of a selection of well-established favourites, including one of the most popular poems in the English language, 'If–' • Beautifully presented, this collection makes an ideal gift for poetry lovers and Kipling fans alike

Preface Thomas Pinney; 100 poems; Sources; Index of titles; Index of first lines.

General Readers

poetry, twentieth-century poetry, imperialist and post-imperialist poetry and literature, British literature, British poetry, Kipling studies

European history - 450 - 1000

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture

C. W. Previté-Orton

Originally published in 1937, this volume contains the text of an inaugural lecture delivered by celebrated medieval historian C. W. Previté-Orton upon his accession to the Professorship of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medieval historiography and the study of medieval Europe.

The study of medieval history: an inaugural lecture delivered on 17 November 1937.

graduate students, academic researchers

European history

Studies in Legal History

Atlantic history

African American history

Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

Alejandro de la Fuente

Harvard University, Massachusetts

17 b/w illus. 6 maps 2 tables

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of blackness in law. Contests over freedom determined whether and how it was possible to move from slave to free status, and whether claims to citizenship would be tied to racial identity. Laws regulating the lives and institutions of free people of color created the boundaries between black and white, the rights reserved to white people, and the degradations imposed only on black people.

• Examines the development of the legal regimes of slavery and race in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the dawn of the Civil War • Demonstrates that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way race developed over time • Draws on a variety of primary sources, including local court records, original trial records of freedom suits, legislative cases, and petitions

Introduction; 1. 'A Negro and by consequence an alien': local regulations and the making of race, 1500s–1700s; 2. The 'inconvenience” of black freedom: manumission, 1500s–1700s; 3. 'The natural right of all mankind': claiming freedom in the age of revolution, 1760s–1830; 4. 'Rules … for their expulsion': foreclosing freedom, 1830s–1860; 5. 'Not of the same blood': policing racial boundaries, 1830s–1860; Conclusion: 'Home-born citizens: the significance of free people of color.

general readers, academic researchers

Atlantic history, history of slavery, African American history, legal history, southern history, Caribbean history

Personality and individual differences

Neuroscience

Paperback

Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies

Kenneth Carter

Most of us crave new experiences and sensations. Whether it's our attraction to that new burger place or the latest gadget, newness tugs at us. But what about those who can't seem to get enough? They jump out of planes, climb skyscrapers, and will eat anything (even poisonous pufferfish) … Prompting others to ask 'what's wrong' with them. These are high sensation-seekers and they crave intense experiences, despite physical, or social risk. They don't have a death wish, but seemingly a need for an adrenaline rush, no matter what. Buzz! describes the world of the high sensation-seeking personality in a way that we can all understand. It explores the lifestyle, psychology, and neuroscience behind adrenaline junkies and daredevils. This tendency, or compulsion, has a role in our culture. But where is the line between healthy and unhealthy thrill-seeking? The minds of these adventurers are explained page by page.

• Explains the neuroscience and psychology of a high sensation-seeking personality • Helps thrill-seekers to understand themselves and explains their behavior to the average and low sensation-seekers around them • Describes the development of psychological research on thrill-seeking • Includes interviews with thrill-seekers and a questionnaire to determine if you are a high/medium/low sensation-seeker

1. What is sensation-seeking; 2. Born to be wild; 3. Faster, hotter, louder: the everyday life of a high sensation-seeker; 4. Lights, camera, action: sports and adventure in high sensation-seeking; 5. What about your friends: the relationships of high sensation-seekers; 6. All in a day's work; 7. The dark side of high sensation-seeking; 8. Super power or super problem; Conclusion.

general readers, undergraduate students

psychology, neuroscience

Economics, business studies

Natural resource and environmental economics

Environmental policy, economics and law

Paperback

The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success

Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress

Mark Jaccard

Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

27 b/w illus. 3 tables

Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rather than feeling paralyzed and pursuing ineffective efforts, we can all make a few key changes in our lifestyles to reduce emissions, to contribute to the urgently needed affordable energy transition in developed and developing countries. More importantly, Jaccard shows how to distinguish climate-sincere from insincere politicians and increase the chance of electing and sustaining these leaders in power. In combining the personal and the political, The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success offers a clear and simple strategic path to solving the greatest problem of our times. A PDF version of this title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781108783453.

• Draws on the latest research to suggest achievable changes we can all make to help prevent climate catastrophe • Empowers climate-concerned citizens to distinguish effective from ineffective actions and policies • Uses interesting and humourous examples to make a light-hearted but essential read

1. The role of myths in our climate-energy challenge; 2. The art of deluding ourselves and others; 3. Climate scientists are conspirators; 4. All countries will agree on climate fairness; 5. This fossil fuel project is essential; 6. We must price carbon emissions; 7. Peak oil will get us first anyway; 8. We must change our behavior; 9. We can be carbon neutral; 10. Energy efficiency is profitable; 11. Renewables have won; 12. We must abolish capitalism; 13. The simple path to success with our climate-energy challenge; Bibliography; Index.

general readers, undergraduate students

climate policy, energy policy, environmental economics, environmental politics

Colonial American history

Early republic and antebellum history

A Trans History

Jen Manion

Amherst College, Massachusetts

26 b/w illus.

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.

• Charts the rise and fall of female husbands from the 1740s to the 1910s in a clear and accessible way • Reveals key turning points in the history of gender and sexuality in the United States and the United Kingdom • Draws on a diverse source base that includes all references to female husbands in US and British print culture

Introduction: extraordinary lives; Part I. UK Husbands, 1740–1840: 1. The first female husband; 2. The pillar of the community; 3. The sailors and soldiers; 4. The wives; Part II. US Husbands,1830–1910: 5. The workers; 6. The activists; 7. The criminalized poor; 8. The end of a category; Conclusion: sex trumps gender; Epilogue: the first female-to-male transsexual.

general readers, undergraduate students

American history colonial period through early twentieth century, eighteenth and nineteenth-century British history, Atlantic history, gender studies, queer studies

American history after 1945

20C American history

Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

David Farber

University of Kansas

11 b/w illus.

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism.

• Provides a compelling and engaging synthesis of the crack cocaine years in late twentieth-century America • Explains how and why the sale of crack cocaine became a major business opportunity for poor people in Reagan's America • Explores the politicized and legalistic responses to the so-called crack epidemic and how they targeted predominantly young African American men

Choosing crack: an introduction; 1. First comes cocaine, then comes crack: origin stories; 2. Crack the market: commodification and commercialization; 3. Crack up: the cost of hard-core consumption; 4. Crack money: manhood in the age of greed; 5. Crackdown: the politics and laws of drug enforcement; 6. Crack's retreat: a nation's slow, painful, and partial recovery.

general readers, undergraduate students

American history after 1945, twentieth-century American history, African American history, urban history, criminology, American studies

20C European history

Paperback

The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich

Friedrich Kellner

53 b/w illus.

This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to dictatorship and genocide, and to protest his countrymen's complicity in the regime's brutalities. Just one month into the war he notes how soldiers on leave spoke openly about the extermination of the Jews and the murder of POWs, while he also documents the Gestapo's merciless rule at home from euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped and mentally ill to the execution of anyone found listening to foreign broadcasts. This essential testimony of everyday life under the Third Reich is accompanied by a foreword by Alan Steinweis and the remarkable story of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich's grandson.

• A remarkable first-hand account of everyday life under National Socialism during the Second World War which documents just how widespread awareness was of the unfolding of the Holocaust • A timeless portrayal of the individual's struggle against totalitarianism which still resonates today • Includes the dramatic story of the Kellner family and of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich's grandson • The author's writings are interspersed with contemporary clippings from the German press

Foreword Alan E. Steinweis; Preface; Biographical narrative; About the translation; Pre-war writings; The diary: 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945.

general readers, undergraduate students

modern German history, history of the Second World War, Holocaust studies

Earth and environmental science

Environmental science

Environmental policy, economics and law

Paperback

A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

Mike Berners-Lee

Lancaster University

38 b/w illus. 4 maps 2 tables

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do? Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet.

• Provides the big picture on environmental issues, meeting the public's yearning for perspective and clarity about what is going on • Offers a joined-up picture of how to improve humanity's existence on Earth: science, technology, economics, values, politics and more are all considered together, providing a coherent response that one discipline at a time can't give • Provides an essential guide for everyone, from the layperson to policy makers • Links the big picture to the practical, providing systemic understanding and guidance on what can be done, from governments down to personal actions

Acknowledgments; Notes on units; 1. Introduction; 2. Food; 3. More on climate and environment; 4. Energy; 5. Travel and transport; 6. Growth, money and metrics; 7. People and work; 8. Business and technology; 9. Values, truth and trust; 10. Conclusion: thinking skills for today's world; 11. Big picture summary; 12. What can I do? Summary; Appendix: climate change basics; Alphabetical quick tour; Endnotes; Index.

general readers, undergraduate students

environmental science, environmental policy, sustainability, climate change, energy, food security, population dynamics

Winner, 2019 Atmospheric Science Librarians International, Popular Category

Earth and environmental science

Environmental policy, economics and law

International relations, international organisations

Paperback

Julian Cribb

42 b/w illus. 1 table

Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history tells us that lack of food leads to war. But it also presents us with spectacular opportunities for fresh human creativity and technological prowess. Julian Cribb describes a new food system capable of meeting our global needs on this hot and overcrowded planet. This book is for anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet. It is not just timely - its message is of the greatest urgency. Audiences include consumers, 'foodies', policymakers, researchers, cooks, chefs and farmers. Indeed, anyone who cares about their food, where it comes from and what it means for them, their children and grandchildren.

• Maps a path for a safe, sustainable food supply in the twenty-first century - but also for a way to end the Sixth Extinction and reduce the threat of wars and refugee crises globally • Explains the past, present and future connection between food and human conflict, helping the reader to appreciate how their food choices influence world politics and the risk of war • Presents the case for dramatic change in world food production, health and choices, showing how each of us can influence the change to a safe, healthy, sustainable food supply in future • Explains the connection between food and the looming crises and conflicts of the twenty-first century, proposing that food is a 'weapon for peace' which everyone can use

1. Food and conflict; 2. War and hunger; 3. The strategic importance of food, land and water; 4. Is 'agriculture' sustainable?; 5. Hotspots for food conflict in the twenty-first century; 6. Food as an existential risk; 7. Food for peace; 8. Urban dreams and nightmares; 9. The future of food; 10. Conclusion: key recommendations of this book.

general readers, undergraduate students

food security, conflict, environmental science, sustainability, environmental policy, planetary health, climate change, agriculture

King James Version

KJV Portions

KJV Apocrypha Text Edition, KJ530:A

Apocrypha

The KJV Apocrypha in a single volume. The Apocrypha ('hidden things') are contemporaneous with the Old Testament, but were not officially accepted as part of the Bible when the Hebrew 'canon' was set. They did, however, form part of the Greek Scriptures and came into English Bibles by that route. The writings of the Apocrypha run the whole gamut of literary genres: histories, romances, devotional works, proverbs and sermons. Many complement parts of the Old Testament and readers will recognise some familiar Biblical characters in the narratives, such as Daniel and Esther.

Bibles; readers who require large print

New Revised Standard Version

NRSV Portions

NRSV Apocrypha Text Edition, NR520:A

Apocrypha

The New Revised Standard Version is a thorough revision of the Revised Standard Version of 1952, itself a revision of the 1611 King James Version. Its aim is to be 'as literal as possible, as free as necessary'. Widely used in academic circles as well as churches, the NRSV takes full advantage of recent scholarship. This edition contains the Apocrypha, or Deuterocanonical Books in a convenient text format with translation footnotes. The Apocrypha are documents written around the same time as the books of the Old and New Testaments, but not accepted as canonical. They are essential background reading for anyone studying the Bible, particularly the inter-testamental period.

• straightforward text of the Apocrypha • attractive slim hardback • useful textbook-style edition for RE students

Christians and religious studies students

New Revised Standard Version

NRSV Portions

Paperback

NRSV New Testament and Psalms, NR010:NP

New Testament

The aim of the NRSV is to be 'as literal as possible, as free as necessary'. Widely used in academic circles as well as churches, the NRSV takes full advantage of recent scholarship and it employs gender-inclusive language in reference to human beings throughout. This slim book contains the New Testament together with the Psalms. Like the Cambridge NRSV Popular Text and Lectern Bibles, this edition has British spellings and punctuation. The text is set in a clear but compact font and is divided into sections, each with its own heading. Presented in a format like that of a slim pocket diary, this New Testament & Psalms will fit easily inside an inside pocket or a handbag. It is printed on Bible paper and fully sewn. The cover design complements that of Cambridge's NRSV Popular Text Bible.

* slim enough to fit in a pocket or purse * black-letter text * fully sewn binding * good value for money

Christians, clergy, churchgoers

Revised English Bible

REB Portions

REB Apocrypha Text Edition, RE530:A

The REB updates The New English Bible, retaining the latter's elegant literary style, but removing its archaisms. It employs a modest amount of inclusive language (e.g. 'brothers and sisters' for 'brothers') and is good for public reading. Like the NEB before it, the REB is a British translation, sponsored by all the main Christian denominations. It thus uses British spelling and punctuation conventions. The Apocrypha are writings from the inter-testamental period which were outside the Hebrew canon. They were the books included in the Latin Vulgate by St Jerome. This is the first time the Apocrypha in the REB have been published in a single volume. Like the rest of the Revised English Bible, the REB Apocrypha aims to be both faithful to the original and idiomatic, using modern English words and phrases that convey the meaning of the original as closely as possible.

* the only edition of the REB Apocrypha as a separate volume

general readers

Christians, clergy, churchgoers

Book of Common Prayer

BCP Portions

BCP Shorter Prayer Book, CP210 Green hardback

Prayer Book

An abbreviated form of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, simplified and easier to follow. It contains the order of service most often required, and also includes the Psalms. Some of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer variants are included, for example in the wedding service. The book comes in an attractive green hardback and will be ideal for use in church.

The Christian Year Scripture Sentences Morning Prayer Evening Prayer The Litany The Holy Communion The Collects Prayers and Thanksgivings Publick Baptism of Infants The Catechism Confirmation The Marriage Service The Burial of the Dead The Burial of a Child The Psalms Benedicite

general readers

Churchgoers and clergy, especially Anglicans

Book of Common Prayer

BCP Prayer book - small format

Imitation leather

Book of Common Prayer, Standard Edition, Blue, CP220 Dark Blue Imitation Leather Hardback 601B

Prayer Book

Second edition

The Book of Common Prayer is the old and well-loved prayer book of the Church of England, in use since the 16th century. In this revised 1662 form, it has also become one of the classic English texts, its prayers and expressions helping to mould the English language into what it is today. Cambridge's new editions of the Prayer Book have been freshly typeset for the 21st century, using a modern digital typeface to give a clear printing image and greater readability. Nevertheless its fomat and page layout follows the previous version of the Standard Edition Prayer Book (originally produced in the early 20th century) page for page. It provides the complete 1662 services – including the traditional forms of the baptism and marriage services – which have together influenced much of the English language. This book comes in a blue imitation leather hardback binding, and is ideal for use in the pew.

• economical book • same page numbers as previous edition • new, clearer typeface

Bibles; Church of England

King James Version

KJV Text Bible - small format

Paperback

KJV Transetto Text Bible, Purple Purple

The KJV Transetto Text Edition is not only a new Bible but is a unique book concept. These smart, ultra-modern books are very compact, but nevertheless clear and easy to handle and read. They use lightweight paper and an innovative binding style to include a large amount of reading matter into a small, supremely portable and easy-to-handle format. This revolutionary new publishing concept, first launched in the Netherlands in 2009, is patented worldwide as the dwarsligger®. The Cambridge KJV Transetto Edition is the first Bible to be published in this format in English. The book no longer has a conventional left and right page. Its format is landscape, with the text rotated 'crosswise' through 90º, but when the book is open the two pages on view form a single portrait-format 'page' for reading: the Bible text is set in double-column format, and is read downwards across both open pages in the spread. Any book in this format weighs a fraction of its standard book equivalent – and of an electronic reader too. The combination of thin India paper and unique binding allows the books to open flat or be easily held in one hand. They fit comfortably into the smallest of handbags or pockets and will be ideal for reading on the move – any time, anywhere.

• the first Bible in English in this innovative format • includes Daily Reading Plan • easy to hold, easy to read and fits comfortably in a pocket

general readers

Christian, church, clergy

King James Version

KJV Text Bible - small format

Paperback

KJV Transetto Text Bible, Green Green

The KJV Transetto Text Edition is not only a new Bible but is a unique book concept. These smart, ultra-modern books are very compact, but nevertheless clear and easy to handle and read. They use lightweight paper and an innovative binding style to include a large amount of reading matter into a small, supremely portable and easy-to-handle format. This revolutionary new publishing concept, first launched in the Netherlands in 2009, is patented worldwide as the dwarsligger®. The Cambridge KJV Transetto Edition is the first Bible to be published in this format in English. The book no longer has a conventional left and right page. Its format is landscape, with the text rotated 'crosswise' through 90º, but when the book is open the two pages on view form a single portrait-format 'page' for reading: the Bible text is set in double-column format, and is read downwards across both open pages in the spread. Any book in this format weighs a fraction of its standard book equivalent – and of an electronic reader too. The combination of thin India paper and unique binding allows the books to open flat or be easily held in one hand. They fit comfortably into the smallest of handbags or pockets and will be ideal for reading on the move – any time, anywhere.

• the first Bible in English in this innovative format • includes Daily Reading Plan • easy to hold, easy to read and fits comfortably in a pocket

general readers

Christian, church, clergy

King James Version

KJV Text Bible - small format

Paperback

KJV Transetto Text Bible, Blue Blue

The KJV Transetto Text Edition is not only a new Bible but is a unique book concept. These smart, ultra-modern books are very compact, but nevertheless clear and easy to handle and read. They use lightweight paper and an innovative binding style to include a large amount of reading matter into a small, supremely portable and easy-to-handle format. This revolutionary new publishing concept, first launched in the Netherlands in 2009, is patented worldwide as the dwarsligger®. The Cambridge KJV Transetto Edition is the first Bible to be published in this format in English. The book no longer has a conventional left and right page. Its format is landscape, with the text rotated 'crosswise' through 90º, but when the book is open the two pages on view form a single portrait-format 'page' for reading: the Bible text is set in double-column format, and is read downwards across both open pages in the spread. Any book in this format weighs a fraction of its standard book equivalent – and of an electronic reader too. The combination of thin India paper and unique binding allows the books to open flat or be easily held in one hand. They fit comfortably into the smallest of handbags or pockets and will be ideal for reading on the move – any time, anywhere.

• the first Bible in English in this innovative format • includes Daily Reading Plan • easy to hold, easy to read and fits comfortably in a pocket

general readers

Christian, church, clergy

New Revised Standard Version

NRSV Text Bible - small format

NRSV Compact Text Bible, NR350:T

The NRSV Compact Text Edition is elegantly designed, with small but readable type. The Bibles are a comfortable size to carry and small enough to fit in a pocket or bag. This hardback Bible offers the readable NRSV at an affordable price for potential classroom or group use.

• A readable and affordable NRSV intended for classroom and group use • Uses British spelling and punctuation

general readers, amateurs/enthusiasts

Christianity, biblical studies

Book of Common Prayer

BCP Prayer book - small format

Imitation leather

Book of Common Prayer, Standard Edition, Black, CP220 Black Imitation Leather Hardback 601B

Prayer Book

Second edition

The Book of Common Prayer is the old and well-loved prayer book of the Church of England, in use since the 16th century. In this revised 1662 form, it has also become one of the classic English texts, its prayers and expressions helping to mould the English language into what it is today. Cambridge's new editions of the Prayer Book have been freshly typeset for the 21st century, using a modern digital typeface to give a clear printing image and greater readability. Nevertheless its fomat and page layout follows the previous version of the Standard Edition Prayer Book (originally produced in the early 20th century) page for page. It provides the complete 1662 services – including the traditional forms of the baptism and marriage services – which have together influenced much of the English language. This book comes in a black imitation leather hardback binding, and is ideal for use in the pew.

• economical book • same page numbers as previous edition • new, clearer typeface

Churchgoers, clergy

Book of Common Prayer

BCP Prayer book - small format

Imitation leather

Book of Common Prayer, Standard Edition, Red, CP220 Red Imitation leather Hardback 601B

Prayer Book

Second edition

The Book of Common Prayer is the old and well-loved prayer book of the Church of England, in use since the 16th century. In this revised 1662 form, it has also become one of the classic English texts, its prayers and expressions helping to mould the English language into what it is today. Cambridge's new editions of the Prayer Book have been freshly typeset for the 21st century, using a modern digital typeface to give a clear printing image and greater readability. Nevertheless its fomat and page layout follows the previous version of the Standard Edition Prayer Book (originally produced in the early 20th century) page for page. It provides the complete 1662 services – including the traditional forms of the baptism and marriage services – which have together influenced much of the English language. This particular edition comes in a red imitation leather hardback binding, and is ideal for use in the pew.

• economical book • same page numbers as previous edition • new, clearer typeface

Bibles; Church of England

Biological psychology

Evolutionary biology

Paperback

The Ape that Understood the Universe

How the Mind and Culture Evolve

Steve Stewart-Williams

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.

• Provides an accessible introduction to the evolutionary behavioral sciences that gives due attention to both evolution and culture • Explores Darwinian explanations for some of the most important elements of human life, including sex differences, romantic relationships, parental love, altruism, religion, and language • Discusses the latest and most influential ideas in cultural evolutionary theory, including cumulative cultural evolution, cultural group selection, Dawkins' meme theory, and gene-culture coevolution

1. The alien's challenge; 2. Darwin comes to mind; 3. The SeXX/XY animal; 4. The dating, mating, baby-making animal; 5. The altruistic animal; 6. The cultural animal; Appendix A: how to win an argument with a blank slater; Appendix B: how to win an argument with an anti-memeticist.

general readers, academic researchers, undergraduate students

evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, evolutionary biology

20C American history

American history after 1945

Paperback

Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval

Kyle Longley

Arizona State University

12 b/w illus.

1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.

• Analyzes the crisis management style of a President • Features modern continuities in policymaking and political discourse, providing readers with a better understanding of the ongoing debates in today's political sphere • Highlights the challenges facing a president after five years of almost non-stop change and a rising conservative backlash

1. A nation on the brink: the State of the Union Address, January 1968; 2. Those dirty bastards, are they trying to embarrass us? The Pueblo Incident, January-December 1968; 3: Tet: a very near thing, January-March 1968; 4. As a result, I will not seek re-election: the March 31, 1968 speech; 5. The days the Earth stood still: the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr, April 1968; 6. He hated him, but loved him: the assassination of Robert Kennedy, June 1968; 7. The big stumble: the Fortas Affair, June-October 1968; 8: The tanks are rolling: Czechoslovakia crushed, August 1968; 9: The perfect disaster: the democratic national convention, August 1968; 10. Is this treason?: The October surprise that wasn't, October-December 1968; 11. The last dance, January 1969; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

general readers, undergraduate students

twentieth-century American history, US history since 1945, history of the 1960s, history of the American presidency

Physics and astronomy

Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

Popular science

The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook

(Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)

Luke A. Barnes

Western Sydney University

36 b/w illus.

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the Big Bang, this handbook gives you 'just the facts': the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories. While the Big Bang holds the attention of scientists, it isn't perfect. The authors pull back the curtains, and show how cosmology really works. With this, you will know your enemy, cosmic revolutionary - arm yourself for the scientific arena where ideas must fight for survival! This uniquely-framed tour of modern cosmology gives a deeper understanding of the inner workings of this fascinating field. The portrait painted is realistic and raw, not idealized and airbrushed - it is science in all its messy detail, which doesn't pretend to have all the answers.

• Presents a unique angle on cosmology - a toolkit for bringing down established cosmological theories, for would-be revolutionaries • Addresses alternative theories to the big bang and the latest observational evidence that needs to be accounted for • An accessible, non-mathematical introduction as to why cosmologists believe the things they do, and how scientific theories get accepted or discarded

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Understanding science; 2. How dark is the night?; 3. Run for the hills!; 4. Going gently into that good night; 5. An ever-changing universe; 6. The wood for the trees; 7. We are (mostly) made of stars; 8. Ripples in the night sky; Notes; Further reading; Index.

general readers, amateurs/enthusiasts

cosmology, general science

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

American literature

African, Caribbean literature

Paperback

Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature

Tim Armstrong

Royal Holloway, University of London

7 b/w illus.

In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique 'culture of slavery'. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are 'owed' to another, who are used as instruments by another and who must endure suffering in silence. Tim Armstrong explores the metaphorical legacy of slavery in American culture by investigating debt, technology and pain in African-American literature and a range of other writings and artworks. Armstrong's careful analysis reveals how notions of the slave as a debtor lie hidden in our accounts of the commodified self and how writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison grapple with the pervasive view that slaves are akin to machines.

• Investigates slavery's impact on other areas of Western culture (for example, technology, sculpture and life insurance) • Explores the metaphorical underpinnings of slavery in greater detail than any other book • Considers the aftermath of slavery in American culture from a brand new perspective

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Slavery, insurance, and sacrifice: the embodiment of capital; 2. Debt, self-redemption, and foreclosure; 3. Machines inside the machine: slavery and technology; 4. The hands of others: sculpture and pain; 5. The sonic veil; 6. Slavery in the mind: trauma and the weather; Notes; Index.

academic researchers, graduate students

American literature, slavery, African-American literature, art history

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Global Burden of Armed Violence

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

International relations, international organisations

Criminology

Paperback

Global Burden of Armed Violence 2015

Every Body Counts

Geneva Declaration Secretariat

The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. It estimates that 508,000 people died violently - in both conflict and non-conflict settings - every year in 2007–12, down from 526,000 in 2004–09. This trend is visible in non-conflict settings, where the proportion of women and girls is also slightly reduced, from 17 to 16 per cent. Yet, the number of direct conflict deaths is on the rise: from 55,000 to 70,000 per year over the same periods. Firearms are used in close to half of all homicides committed and in almost one-third of direct conflict deaths. Nearly USD 2 trillion in global homicide-related economic losses could have been saved if the homicide rate in 2000–10 had been reduced to the lowest practically attainable levels - between 2 and 3 deaths per 100,000 population.

• Features chapter introductions listing the key findings of each chapter and an executive summary reviewing the main findings • Agenda-setting and policy-relevant recommendations expose readers to the emerging issues of concern at the local, national and international levels; serve to inform policy-making and programming; and identify knowledge gaps for future research • Richly illustrated with photographs, maps and graphic elements assisting readers in appreciating and understanding the topics

Executive summary; 1. Violence, security, and the new global development agenda; 2. Lethal violence update; 3. Lethal violence against women and girls; 4. Unpacking lethal violence; 5. The economic cost of homicide.

professionals, academic researchers

conflict studies, development studies, criminology

International Review of Social History Supplements

History - cross discipline

Social, population history

History (general) after 1500

Paperback

Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters

States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500–2000

Karin Hofmeester

Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam

Starting from a broad definition of labour relations as the full range of vertical and horizontal social relations under which work is performed, both within and outside the household, this volume examines the way states have shaped and interacted with labour relations in a wide range of periods and places, from the sixteenth-century silver mines of Potosí in the Andes to late twentieth-century Sweden, and from seventeenth-century Dzungharia to early twentieth-century colonial Mozambique. The articles presented look at very different types of states, from local and regional power holders to nation states and empires, and explore the activities of these states and their impact on labour relations in three roles, as conquerors, employers and arbiters. The volume finds diversity, but also a remarkable degree of similarity across space and time in the mechanisms deployed by states to extract and allocate the labour required to carry out their essential tasks.

• Considers the role of states in explaining patterns of continuity and change in labour relations across the globe and throughout time • Looks at a diverse range of states, from local and regional power holders to nation states and empires • Looks at these states and their impact on labour relations as employers, arbiters and conquerors

Introduction Karin Hofmeester, Gijs Kessler and Christine Moll-Murata; 1. Tributary labour relations in China during the Ming-Qing transition (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries) Christine Moll-Murata; 2. Tributary labour in the Russian Empire in the XVIII century: factors of development Dmitry Khitrov; 3. Colonial organization of the mining labour force in Charcas (present-day Bolivia): its consequences (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) Raquel Gil Montero and Paula C. Zagalsky; 4. Dynamics of continuity and change: shifts in labour relations in the Potosí mines (1680–1812) Rossana Barragan; 5. Political changes and shifts in labour relations in Mozambique, 1820s–1920s Filipa Ribeiro da Silva; 6. Grammar of difference? The Dutch colonial state, labour policies and social norms on work and gender, c.1800–1940 Elise van Nederveen-Meerkerk; 7. The labour recruitment of local inhabitants as Rōmusha in Japanese-occupied South East Asia Takuma Melber; 8. The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, nineteenth to twenty-first centuries Fernando Mendiola; 9. Working for the state in the urban economies of Ankara, Bursa and Salonica: from empire to nation state, 1840s–1940s M. Erdem Kabadayı; 10. The role of the state in employment and welfare regulation: Sweden in European context Max Koch; 11. State policies towards precarious work: employment and unemployment in contemporary Portugal Raquel Varela.

academic researchers, graduate students

labour history, social history, economic history, sociology, labour relations

Ancient history

Paperback

A. H. M. Jones

Originally published in 1952, this book contains the text of a lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge that year by prominent Classical historian Arnold Jones on the Athenian audience to the orations of Demosthenes. Demosthenes famously castigated his fellow Athenians at many points in his career, and Jones examines the evidence provided by Demosthenes and his fellow orators for clues as to the real disposition of their listeners and how they could have been persuaded by the politicians of the day. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient history or ancient oratory.

The Athens of Demosthenes.

graduate students, academic researchers

ancient history

Classical studies (general)

Paperback

In this volume the eminent classicist K. J. Dover presents a decade of work on the problems of Greek word order. Based on a series of lectures he gave at the University of Cambridge in 1959, the book is written in a lucid manner that maintains the reader's interest. He explains that although Greek appears to be indeterminate, there are certain conventions that are followed in its construction. He then develops his argument at a more technical level focusing on lexical, semantic, syntactical and 'logical' determinants. This is an insightful study for all classicists as well as those generally interested in languages.

Preface; Bibliography; 1. The nature of the problem; 2. Lexical and semantic determinants; 3. Syntactical determinants; 4. Logical determinants; 5. Style; Index of passages.

academic researchers, graduate students

classical studies

Sociology (general)

Sociology of gender

Paperback

Gender, Caring and Work

Tina Miller

Oxford Brookes University

As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first anticipate and then experience fatherhood for the first time. Her original, longitudinal research contributes to contemporary theories of gender against a backdrop of societal and policy change. The men's journeys into fatherhood are both similar and varied, and they illuminate just how deeply gender permeates individual lives, everyday practices and societal assumptions around caring for young children. This book acts as a companion to Making Sense of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and, together, these innovative studies reveal how gendered practices around caring become enacted.

• Features rich and compelling accounts from a group of men as their experiences of fatherhood unfold • Considers how economic and social changes affect family relationships, responsibilities and employment patterns • Demonstrates how western ideas about gender and policies are shaped by history and continue to shape expectations and experience around fatherhood

Introduction; 1. Gendered lives and caring responsibilities: an overview; 2. Gendered discourses: men, masculinities and fatherhood; 3. Anticipating fatherhood: 'being there'; 4. Making sense of early fathering experiences; 5. A return to a new normal: juggling fathering and work; 6. Gendering practices: motherhood and fatherhood expectations and experiences; 7. Conclusions and reflections.

academic researchers, graduate students

gender studies, sociology, social and public policy

Egyptology

Paperback

The Growth and Nature of Egyptology

S. R. K. Glanville

Originally published in 1947, this book presents the content of Stephen Glanville's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Professor of Egyptology at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Egyptology, ancient history and archaeology.

The growth and nature of Egyptology: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

Egyptology

Archaeology (general)

Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pacific

Paperback

Archaeology in Africa and in Museums

An Inaugural Lecture given in the University of Cambridge, 22 October 2002

David W. Phillipson

University of Cambridge

David Phillipson is the first Professor of African Archaeology to be appointed at any UK university, and is Director of Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. In the first part of this passionately argued lecture, he makes the case for the importance of 'archaeology in Africa' and 'Africa in archaeology'. Africa was almost certainly the birthplace of the first hominids and has an archaeological record longer than any other continent. Drawing on examples from the archaeology of Ethiopia, specifically the ancient civilisation of Aksum, Phillipson highlights the contribution that archaeology can make to the understanding of that continent and its people, and demonstrates the relevance of African archaeology to mankind as a whole. In the second part of this lecture, Phillipson defends the vital role of museums as custodians of a significant part of our international cultural heritage and as an essential resource for the furtherance of international scholarship.

• The author is Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and is the first Professor of African Archaeology appointed in any UK university • A strong argument which outlines archaeology's role in understanding the African continent and its peoples • Emphasises the academic value of museums which has been overlooked by government policies of late

Archaeology in Africa and in Museums.

academic researchers, graduate students

archaeology, Old World archaeology, African studies, ancient history

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Politics (general)

Political sociology

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 23 April 2008

Andrew Gamble

University of Cambridge

This lecture explores the limits of politics in three senses: as a subject of study at Cambridge, as an academic discipline, and as a practical activity. Politics did not develop as an independent academic subject in Cambridge in the twentieth century, and only now is this situation being rectified with the creation of the new Department of Politics and International Studies. Politics as an academic discipline was once conceived as the master science. More recently it has become much more limited in its scope and its methods, but it still needs to preserve a tradition of political reasoning which focuses on problems rather than methodology, and is concerned with understanding the limits to politics. The limits of politics as a practical activity are explored through four modes of political reasoning: the sceptical, the idealist, the rationalist and the realist, as exemplified by the writings of Oakeshott, Keynes, Hayek, and Carr.

• A study of the place of politics as a subject at Cambridge, and as an academic subject as a whole • Covers the writings of four major political thinkers: Oakeshott, Keynes, Hayek and E. H. Carr • The author is one of Britain's leading political scientists

academic researchers, graduate students

politics, political sociology

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Politics (general)

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Cambridge on 28 November 1945

D. W. Brogan

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Denis William Brogan's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Professor of Political Science at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in political science and theories of political scholarship.

The study of politics: an inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge on 28 November 1945.

graduate students, academic researchers

Economics, business studies

Labour economics

Paperback

Viscount Samuel

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the text of the sixth annual lecture of the National Book League, delivered the previous year by the Liberal politician Viscount Samuel. Samuel considers what the 'right use' of leisure might be in an age where an increasing number of workers were being granted to access to free time through shorter working hours and annual paid leave, and suggests that idleness is only advisable in small doses, with the rest of the time to be spent in self-improvement and education. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of labour and leisure.

Leisure in a democracy.

graduate students, academic researchers

labour economics

Economics, business studies

Labour economics

Paperback

Industrial Relations in Conditions of Full Employment

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Cambridge on 16 October 1945

H. S. Kirkaldy

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of Harold Stewart Kirkaldy's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Montague Burton Chair of Industrial Relations at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of industrial relations, trade unions and economics.

Industrial relations in conditions of full employment: an inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge on 16 October 1945.

graduate students, academic researchers

labour economics

British and Irish history

20C history of Britain

Paperback

The Rede Lecture 1945

Norman Birkett

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Sir Norman Birkett at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in rural life and the development of national parks in Britain.

National parks and the countryside: the Rede Lecture 1945.

graduate students, academic researchers

twentieth-century British history

20C American history

Paperback

The Rede Lecture 1942

Archibald MacLeish

Originally published in 1942, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Archibald MacLeish at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in American history, military history and the Second World War.

American opinion and the war: the Rede Lecture 1942.

graduate students, academic researchers

twentieth-century American history

European history - 1000 - 1450

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Cambridge, 17 October 1944

Z. N. Brooke

Originally published in 1944, this book presents the content of Zachary Nugent Brooke's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medieval history and European history.

The prospects of medieval history: an inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge, 17 October 1944.

graduate students, academic researchers

European history

History - other areas

History (general), world history

History of Britain (general)

Paperback

Changing Conceptions of National Biography

The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective

Keith Thomas

All Souls College, Oxford

The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of the original Dictionary of National Biography, the celebrated historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself. The author, who has been chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Oxford DNB since its inception, writes with intimate knowledge of the project. This Leslie Stephen Lecture complements the earlier Lecture on the DNB by the late Colin Matthew, Founder-Editor of the Oxford DNB, and published by Cambridge in 1997.

• One of the world's great historians writing about one of the world's great books • Insightful analysis of one of the publishing phenomena of recent times • Lecture itself commemorates original Founder of the DNB, Leslie Stephen

academic researchers, graduate students

British history, world history

History - other areas

History (general), world history

Paperback

Historical Scholarship and Historical Thought

Originally published in 1944, this book presents the content of Sir George Norman Clark's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the nature of historical scholarship and historiography.

Historical scholarship and historical thought: an inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge on 16 May 1944.

graduate students, academic researchers

general history, world history

History - cross discipline

History of medicine

Paperback

Lionel Whitby

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Sir Lionel Whitby's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Chair of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.

The science and art of medicine: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

history of medicine

Art (general)

Paperback

Some Approaches to a Judgment in Painting

The Rede Lecture 1940

Augustus Daniel

Originally published in 1940, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Sir Augustus Daniel at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in art criticism and art history.

Some approaches to a judgment in painting: the Rede Lecture 1940.

graduate students, academic researchers

art (general)

Music performance

Paperback

Edward Joseph Dent (1876–1957) was a music critic who was Professor of Music at Cambridge University from 1926 to 1941. Originally published in 1958, this book presents a concise guide to the structural elements of the fugue aimed at the beginner. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in music criticism, the history of education and the writings of Dent.

Notes on fugue for beginners.

graduate students, academic researchers

music performance

Classical literature

Paperback

Sophocles

Originally published in 1946, this book presents R. C. Trevelyan's English metrical translation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. The translation was based upon the text published by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb in 1900. A short introduction by Trevelyan is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English translations of ancient Greek drama and the works of Sophocles.

Oedipus at Colonus.

graduate students, academic researchers

classical literature

English literature - 1700 - 1830

Classical studies (general)

Paperback

Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution

Roderick Beaton

King's College London

13 b/w illus. 2 maps

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind of polity in Europe – that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.

• Reinterprets the often-told story of Byron's life in a completely new way • Offers radically new readings of some of Byron's most famous works as well as drawing on unpublished historical documents • Provides a fresh perspective on the post-2010 economic and social crisis in Greece, tracing fault lines that go back to the 1820s

Prologue; Part I. The Rebel Imagination (1809–1816): 1. Land of lost gods …; 2. … and modern monsters; Part II. The Road to Revolution (1816–1823): 3. Reluctant Radical; 4. 'Prophet of a noble contest'; 5. Death by water, transfiguration by fire; 6. The deformed transformed; Part III. Greece: 'Tis the Cause Makes All' (July–December 1823): 7. Preparations for battle; 8. Wavering; 9. The new statesman; Part IV. Missolonghi: The Hundred Days (January–April 1824): 10. 'Political economy'; 11. Confronting the warlords; 12. Pyrrhic victory; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

academic researchers, amateurs/enthusiasts

English literature, classical studies, poetry, cultural studies, Greek history, nineteenth-century European history, military history

Winner of the 2014 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League

English literature - 1700 - 1830

Irish literature

Paperback

Claude Rawson

Yale University, Connecticut

1 b/w illus.

Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary culture to which he belonged shows the penetration of his ideas, personality and style. This is true of writers who were his friends and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen), and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton). Claude Rawson, leading scholar of the works of Swift, brings together recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was a pervasive presence.

• Explores the impact of Swift and the penetration of his ideas, personality and style on other great satirists of the English Augustan tradition • By Claude Rawson, a prominent literary critic and foremost scholar of the works of Jonathan Swift • Offers revised and enlarged versions of Claude Rawson's important essays on satire not otherwise readily available, together with uncollected and unpublished work

Introduction; Part I. The Legacy of A Tale of a Tub, 1704–2009: 1. The typographical ego-trip from 'Dryden' to Prufrock; Part II. Swift and Others: 2. Mandeville and Swift; 3. The sleep of the dunces: 4. Pope, the couplet and Johnson; 5. Intimacies of antipathy: Johnson and Swift; 6. An unclubbable life: Sir John Hawkins on Johnson (and Swift); 7. Cooling to a gypsy's lust: Johnson, Shakespeare and Cleopatra; 8. Gibbon, Swift and irony; 9. 'The amorous effect of 'brass'': showing, telling and money in Emma; Part III. Three Occasional Pieces: 10. The soft wanton god: Rochester; 11. William Congreve; 12. Unparodying and forgery: the Augustan Chatterton.

academic researchers, graduate students

eighteenth-century British and Irish literature, culture, politics and history, Swift studies

English literature - 1830 - 1900

Paperback

The Rede Lecture, 1931

G. S. Gordon

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for 1931, which was delivered by George Stuart Gordon at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Robert Bridges, English poetry and literary criticism.

Robert Bridges: the Rede Lecture, 1931.

graduate students, academic researchers

English literature

English literature - 1830 - 1900

Paperback

The Leslie Stephen Lecture 1947

Harold Nicolson

Originally published in 1947, this book contains the text of the 1947 Leslie Stephen Lecture, delivered by Vita Sackville-West's ex-husband Harold Nicolson on the fate of Tennyson's two brothers Frederick and Charles. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Tennyson's life and family.

Tennyson's two brothers: the Leslie Stephen Lecture 1947.

graduate students, academic researchers

English literature

English literature - 1900 - 1945

Paperback

The Rede Lecture 1943

Max Beerbohm

Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Max Beerbohm at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group.

Lytton Strachey: the Rede Lecture 1943.

graduate students, academic researchers

English literature

English literature - 1900 - 1945

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture

Basil Willey

Originally published in 1946, this volume contains the text of an inaugural lecture delivered by Basil Willey on his accession to the King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature in the University of Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Arthur Quiller-Couch, known to his friends as 'Q'.

The 'Q' tradition: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

English literature

English literature (general)

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture

James Sutherland

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of James Sutherland's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Professor of English at Queen Mary College, University of London. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in literary criticism and the history of education.

English in the universities: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

English literature

European and world literature

European literature

Paperback

The Direct Method in German Poetry

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on January 25th 1946

E. M. Butler

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Eliza Marian Butler's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in German poetry and literary criticism.

The direct method in German poetry: an inaugural lecture delivered on January 25th 1946.

graduate students, academic researchers

European literature

European and world literature

European literature

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture

Raffaello Piccoli

First published in 1929, this book contains the text of the inaugural lecture delivered by Raffello Piccoli upon his appointment to the professorship of Italian in the University of Cambridge that year. Piccoli discusses the history of the study of Italian in England and the relationship between English and Italian literature. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of Anglo-Italian relations.

Italian humanities: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

European literature

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The Founders' Memorial Lecture, Girton College 1945

A. D. Lindsay

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture for that year, which was delivered by A. D. Lindsay. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy and the relationship between intelligence and morality.

The good and the clever: the Founders' Memorial Lecture, Girton College 1945.

graduate students, academic researchers

Biblical studies - New Testament

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Biblical Theology and the Sovereignty of God

Leonard Hodgson

First published in 1947, this book contains the text of a lecture delivered the previous year by the Reverend Leonard Hodgson on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Wesley House, Cambridge. Hodgson discusses the developments in Christian theology during the previous quarter century, particularly in the understanding of the Bible as both the Word of God to man and as a record of man's experience of God. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Christian theology in the early twentieth century.

Biblical theology and the sovereignty of God.

graduate students, academic researchers

biblical studies - New Testament

Church history

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A Study in the Epistles

Philip Carrington

Philip Carrington (1892–1975) was an Anglican priest and writer who was the seventh Bishop of Quebec. In this book, which was first published in 1940, Carrington presents a series of studies regarding early Christianity and the epistles. Textual notes are incorporated throughout and appendices are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the early Christian epistles and the writings of Carrington.

Preface; 1. Torah in Israel; 2. Proselyte baptism; 3. I Peter and parallels; 4. The four points; 5. The vocabulary of the pattern; 6. The common pattern; 7. The social-religious unit; 8. The writing of the documents; 9. The reception of the word; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Pliny's letter; Appendix 2. The Colossian catechism; Appendix 3. The Matthaean sermon on the mount.

graduate students, academic researchers

church history

Church history

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Leonard Hodgson

Originally published in 1943, the aim of this concise book was 'to consider generally the theological principles involved in the relation of the Anglican Communion to non-episcopal churches, making clear the relevance of these principles to the issues raised in South India'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Anglican Communion and India.

Anglicanism and South India.

graduate students, academic researchers

church history

Church history

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An Inaugural Lecture Given at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 17 May 1945

Norman Sykes

Originally published in 1945, this book presents the content of Norman Sykes' inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in theology and the history of Christianity.

The study of ecclesiastical history: an inaugural lecture given at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 17 May 1945.

graduate students, academic researchers

church history

Archaeology (general)

Paperback

An Inaugural Lecture

D. A. E. Garrod

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of Dorothy Garrod's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of archaeology and anthropology.

Environment, tools and man: an inaugural lecture.

graduate students, academic researchers

archaeology

Economics, business studies

Economics (general)

Paperback

The Uses and Abuses of Economic Planning

The Rede Lecture, 1947

Hubert Henderson

Originally published in 1947, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Sir Hubert Henderson at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in economic history and politics.

The uses and abuses of economic planning: the Rede Lecture delivered in the University of Cambridge on 9 May 1947.

graduate students, academic researchers

economics (general)

UN and international organisations

Paperback

The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture 1946

J. L. Brierly

Originally published in 1947, this volume contains the text of the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, delivered by J. L. Brierly on 30 November 1946 on the subject of the legal distinctions between a covenant and charter, with particular reference to the United Nations. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in legal history and the development of the UN's legal framework.

The covenant and the charter: the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture delivered at Newnham College Cambridge on 30 November 1946.

graduate students, academic researchers

UN and international organisations

British and Irish history

History of Britain - 1066 - 1450

Legal history

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The English Borough in the Twelfth Century

Being Two Lectures Delivered in the Examination Schools Oxford on 22 and 29 October 1913

Adolphus Ballard

First published in 1914, The English Borough in the Twelfth Century was based on two lectures delivered in Oxford in 1913 by Adolphus Ballard. The first lecture deals with the subject of the borough from the point of view of the burgess and of the lord, considering the advantages and the responsibilities of each role. The second lecture focuses on the place of the borough in the national organisation, arguing that the character of the oldest boroughs suggest were always part of the royal or national scheme. Published together with appendices and an index, these lectures form a valuable study of the character, governance, and place of the borough in twelfth-century England.

1. Burgess and Lord; 2. Borough and hundred; Appendixes; Index.

academic researchers, graduate students

medieval history of Britain, legal history

American history (general)

Paperback

An Historical Sketch

E. A. Benians

Ernest Alfred Benians (1880–1952) was a British scholar and historian who held various key positions within the University of Cambridge. He was Master of St John's College from 1933 to 1952 and Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1939 to 1941. First published in 1943, the content of this book was derived from a series of four lectures delivered by Benians in Cambridge. The text provides a summary of American history, from the origins of the United States as nation through to the developments of the first part of the twentieth century. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on American historical development.

1. The new nation; 2. Western settlement; 3. The union; 4. Industrial greatness; 5. The new world and the old; Index.

graduate students, academic researchers

American history

History - cross discipline

History of medicine

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Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr

The Fitzpatrick Lectures for the Years 1941 and 1943, Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in February 1943

Major Greenwood

Originally published in 1948, and first delivered as the Fitzpatrick Lectures for 1941 and 1943, this book addresses the early history of medical and social statistics and the numerical method as applied to the phenomena of human society. Greenwood covers the major developments from Graunt and Petty in the seventeenth century to Farr in the nineteenth century as well as the personalities of each of these important figures. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine.

Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr: the Fitzpatrick lectures for the years 1941 and 1943, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in February 1943.

graduate students, academic researchers

history of medicine

History - cross discipline

History of medicine

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The Linacre Lecture 1943

Major Greenwood

Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Linacre Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Major Greenwood at St John's College, Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the development of medicine and the history of science.

Authority in medicine: old and new. The Linacre Lecture, 6 May 1943.

graduate students, academic researchers

history of medicine

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Political theory

American government, politics, policy

Paperback

Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice

Elizabeth F. Cohen

Syracuse University, New York

Waiting periods and deadlines are so ubiquitous that we often take them for granted. Yet they form a critical part of any democratic architecture. When a precise moment or amount of time is given political importance, we ought to understand why this is so. The Political Value of Time explores the idea of time within democratic theory and practice. Elizabeth F. Cohen demonstrates how political procedures use quantities of time to confer and deny citizenship rights. Using specific dates and deadlines, states carve boundaries around a citizenry. As time is assigned a form of political value it comes to be used to transact over rights. Cohen concludes with a normative analysis of the ways in which the devaluation of some people's political time constitutes a widely overlooked form of injustice. This book shows readers how and why they need to think about time if they want to understand politics.

• Explores ideas on time within a democratic context spanning from ancient thought, through the Enlightenment, up to modernity • Draws on a highly diverse set of examples to illustrate arguments - including waiting periods, prison sentences, immigration probationary requirements, political calendars, and election scheduling • Makes an original theoretical argument with applied implications, opening up new avenues for theoretical and empirical research

1. Introduction; 2. The sovereign temporal boundaries around nation-states, populations, and citizenries; 3. Democracy, duration, and lived consent; 4. Time's political value; 5. The political economy of time; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography.

undergraduate students, graduate students

political theory, political philosophy, political science, sociology, law

Winner, 2019 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section, American Political Science Association

Armies of the Second World War

History - cross discipline

Military history

Russian, East European history

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The Red Army and the Second World War

Alexander Hill

University of Calgary

45 b/w illus. 7 maps

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

• A major new account which charts the successes and failures of the Red Army from the late 1920s through to the end of the Second World War • Analyses Red Army performances in many military engagements of the late 1920s and 1930s • Draws from up-to-date archival research to provide a wide range of eyewitness testimonies and vantage points, ranging from senior leaders to the men on the front line

Introduction; 1. Of horses and men: the Red Army of the late 1920s; 2. Tanks, aircraft and 'deep battle': the Red Army transformed, 1928–1936; 3. The 'enemy' within: the Red Army during and in the aftermath of the great purges, 1937–1940; 4. More than manoeuvres: Red Army experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan; 5. Khalkin Gol; 6. Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: soviet military equipment and the small wars of the 1930s; 7. Voroshilov's 'lightning' war: the Soviet invasion of Poland; 8. The Finnish debacle; 9. Reform and the road to war; 10. Barbarossa: from Minsk to Smolensk; 11. Barbarossa: from Smolensk to Moscow; 12. The end of 'Typhoon'; 13. Lost opportunity; 14. More men, women and machines; 15. 'Not a step back!'; 16. Change at the top; 17. Stalingrad and Uranus; 18. The wrath of the Gods; 19. The defence of the Kursk salient and the battle for Prokhorovka; 20. To the Dnepr and beyond; 21. The ten Stalinist blows of 1944; 22. The end in sight; 23. The fall of Berlin and the end of the Reich; Conclusion; Appendix 1. The destruction of the upper echelons of the RKKA in 1937–1941; Appendix 2. Soviet armoured strength and serviceability in the Western military districts of the Soviet Union as of 1 June 1941; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

general readers, graduate students

military history, Russian history, history of the Second World War

Cambridge Concise Histories

History - cross discipline

Global history

History (general), world history

Paperback

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

37 b/w illus. 14 maps

This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture. She examines how these structures and activities changed over time through local processes and interactions with other cultures, highlighting key developments that defined particular eras such as the growth of cities or the creation of a global trading network. Incorporating foragers, farmers and factory workers along with shamans, scribes and secretaries, the book widens and lengthens human history. It makes comparisons and generalizations, but also notes diversities and particularities, as it examines the social and cultural matters that are at the heart of big questions in world history today.

• The first brief history of the world with a social and cultural focus, incorporating insights from the two most important approaches in historical scholarship over the last several decades • Includes the entirety of the human past, integrating archaeology and history to range from the evolution of hominids in the Paleolithic to the present • Includes the actions, ideas and beliefs of ordinary men and women, countering the focus on elites and the materialist tradition of much world and global history

Introduction; 1. Foraging and farming families (to 3000 BCE); 2. Cities and classical societies (3000 BCE–500 CE); 3. Expanding networks of interaction, 500 CE–1500 CE; 4. A new world of connections, 1500 CE–1800 CE; 5. Industrialization, imperialism, and inequality, 1800–2015; Index.

general readers, undergraduate students

world history, global history

Cambridge Pocket Diary

Cambridge University publications

Cambridge University publications

The Cambridge Pocket Diary 2017–2018

University of Cambridge

For over a century the Cambridge Pocket Diary has provided an essential working tool for the academic year, for use by members of the University. It provides a unique calendar of University Syndicates, Boards, Committees and other bodies, as well as listing other annual events peculiar to the University within the standard diary framework.

Almanac for 2017–2018; Almanac for 2018–2019; Boats, Order of, 2017; Calendar; Cambridge union society; Cambridge University students' union; College information and websites; Colleges, approved foundations, and approved societies; development and alumni relations; Engagements for 2019; Examinations; Fax and email, etc; Full terms, 2017–2021; Graduate union; Inter-university contests, 2016–2017; Lecture engagements; London coaches; London trains; Movable feasts; Museums, etc; Newcomers and visiting scholars; Oxford coaches; Postdocs of Cambridge; Telephone numbers; Underground railways; University centre; University combination room; University library; University officers; World wide web.

general readers, academic researchers

Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity

Economics, business studies

Public economics and public policy

American government, politics, policy

Barriers to an Inclusive Economy

Andrea Flynn

7 b/w illus.

Why do black families own less than white families? Why does school segregation persist decades after Brown v. Board of Education? Why is it harder for black adults to vote than for white adults? Will addressing economic inequality solve racial and gender inequality as well? This book answers all of these questions and more by revealing the hidden rules of race that create barriers to inclusion today. While many Americans are familiar with the histories of slavery and Jim Crow, we often don't understand how the rules of those eras undergird today's economy, reproducing the same racial inequities 150 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the banning of Jim Crow segregation laws. This book shows how the fight for racial equity has been one of progress and retrenchment, a constant push and pull for inclusion over exclusion. By understanding how our economic and racial rules work together, we can write better rules to finally address inequality in America.

• Introduces students to the racial rules that determine unequal outcomes in wealth, education, criminal justice, and democratic participation in America • Includes a succinct overview of the history of racial inequality from the days of slavery to today • Proposes racially inclusionary rules that are achievable with enough political will • Explains the theories of stratification economics and targeted universalism

Introduction: rewriting the rules of racial inequality; 1. American politics and economic outcomes for African Americans: a brief historical overview; 2. Stratification economics: a general theory of intergroup inequality; 3. Creating structural changes: the role of targeted universalism; 4. The racial rules of wealth; 5. The racial rules of income; 6. The racial rules of education; 7. The racial rules of criminal justice; 8. The racial rules of health; 9. The racial rules of democratic participation; 10. What will it take to rewrite the hidden rules of race?

undergraduate students, graduate students

public policy, race, racism, American politics and policy, African studies, anthropology, inequality, economics, stratification economics, sociology of race and racism, inequality, economics of inequality

Physics and astronomy

History and philosophy of physics and astronomy

Popular science

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The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

Roger Penrose

University of Oxford

72 b/w illus. 3 tables

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and updates his current thinking in these complex areas to present a masterful summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unresolved problems. Through this, he introduces radically new concepts which he believes will be fruitful in understanding the workings of the brain and the nature of the human mind. These ideas are challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds: Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Roger Penrose concludes with a response to their thought-provoking criticisms.

• Includes distinguished contributions by Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking • Accessible and illuminating introduction to the controversial ideas on modern physics presented in Penrose's long and complex best-sellers, The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind • Provocative and personal vision of theoretical physics in the 21st century by one of the most highly regarded mathematicians/physicists of our time

Foreword Malcolm Longair; 1. Space-time and cosmology Roger Penrose; 2. The mysteries of quantum physics Roger Penrose; 3. Physics and the mind Roger Penrose; 4. On mentality, quantum mechanics and the actualization of potentialities Abner Shimony; 5. Why physics? Nancy Cartwright; 6. The objections of an unashamed reductionist Stephen Hawking; 7. Response Roger Penrose; Appendix I: Goodstein's theorm and mathematical thinking; Appendix II: Experiments to test gravitationally induced state reduction.

general readers

popular science, philosophy of science, theoretical physics, history of science

Canto Classics

English literature - 1900 - 1945

English literature (general)

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Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings

Rudyard Kipling

10 b/w illus.

Rudyard Kipling has been described as 'one of the few complete originals in English literature'. In his last work, Something of Myself, he reflects on his life and the basis of his art. Yet paradoxically this ostensibly autobiographical work (as an early critic pointed out) actually discloses very little of himself. Thomas Pinney's revealing edition now uncovers the extraordinary extent to which Kipling's account of his life fails to match the biographical facts, in a series of selections, omissions and distortions. Illustrated with Kipling's own satirical drawings from the manuscripts, and brought together with his other autobiographical writings (some previously unpublished), this fascinating book sheds new light on the intriguing relationship between Kipling's life and work.

• Unique collection of famously enigmatic autobiographical writings by one of the leading literary figures of the early twentieth century, including his Indian diary of 1885 and illustrations he made for an autobiographical story, 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' • Introduction and notes by Kipling's most knowledgeable editor, Thomas Pinney • The volume sheds new light on the intriguing relationship between Kipling's life and work

Introduction; Abbreviations and short titles; Something of Myself (1937): 1. A very young person; 2. The school before its time; 3. Seven years' hard; 4. The interregnum; 5. The committee of ways and means; 6. South Africa; 7. The very-own house; 8. Working-tools; 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' (1888); 'My first book' (1892); 'An English School' (1893); Kipling's diary, 1885; Notes; Glossary of Anglo-Indian words and phrases; Index.

general readers

British literature, autobiography, imperialism and post-imperialism, Kipling studies

Canto Classics

Ancient history

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The Conquests of Alexander the Great

Waldemar Heckel

University of Calgary

In this book, Waldemar Heckel traces the rise and eventual fall of one of the most successful military commanders in history. In 325 BCE, Alexander and his conquering army prepared to return home, after overcoming everything in their path: armies, terrain, climate, all invariably hostile. Little did they know that within two years their beloved king would be dead and their labours seemingly wasted. Tracing the rise and eventual fall of one of the most successful military commanders in history, Heckel engagingly and with great detail shows us how Alexander earned his appellation, The Great.

• Avoids the biographical approach that characterises most works on Alexander • Uses parallels from other periods of history, both events and institutions • Emphasises the limited nature of Alexander's conquest (he did not set out to conquer the world, merely the Persian empire)

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. How do we know? Sources for Alexander the Great; 3. The Macedonian background; 4. The Persian enemy; 5. Conquest of the Achaemenids; 6. Resistance on two fronts; 7. Conquest of the Punjab; 8. The ocean and the West; 9. The long road from Susa to Babylon.

general readers

classical studies, ancient history

Canto Classics

Classical studies (general)

Classical languages

Paperback

John Chadwick

Downing College, Cambridge

Second edition

20 b/w illus.

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Mycenaean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.

• A nontechnical account of Michael Ventris's deciphering of Linear B • Complete with modern postscript, it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Mycenaean archaeology • Uncovers fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation

Illustrations; Preface; 1. Michael Ventris; 2. The Minoan scripts; 3. Hopes and failures; 4. Birth of a theory; 5. Growth and development; 6. The decipherment and the critics; 7. Life in Mycenaean Greece; 8. Prospects; Postscript; Appendix; Index.

general readers

classical studies, classical civilisation, classical archaeology

Canto Classics

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

Historical linguistics

Paperback

Exploring Shakespeare's Language

David Crystal

4 b/w illus. 2 tables

For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences. Covering the five main dimensions of language structure - writing system, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and conversational style - this book demonstrates how examining these linguistic 'nuts and bolts' can help us achieve a greater appreciation of Shakespeare's linguistic creativity.

• Explains clearly the terms required to understand Shakespeare's language, assuming no prior specialist knowledge • Includes many examples from Shakespeare's plays and poems, providing essential context for the reader • Contains a lively and original A-Z Appendix of Shakespeare's 'false friends' - words which seem familiar to us today, but in fact have a completely different meaning

1. 'You speak a language that I understand not': myths and realities; 2. 'Now, sir, what is your text?': knowing the sources; 3. 'In print I found it': Shakespearean graphology; 4. 'Know my stops': Shakespearean punctuation; 5. 'Speak the speech': Shakespearean phonology; 6. 'Trippingly upon the tongue': Shakespearean pronunciation; 7. 'Think on my words': Shakespearean vocabulary; 8. 'Talk of a noun and a verb': Shakespearean grammar; 9. 'Hear sweet discourse': Shakespearean conversation; Epilogue: 'your daring tongue': Shakespearean creativity; Appendix: an A-to-Z of Shakespeare's false friends.

general readers

Shakespeare studies, historical linguistics, English literature, Renaissance studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

English literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval

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A Study in Medieval Tradition

C. S. Lewis

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.

• One of the great works of literary criticism of the twentieth century, newly available after decades out of print • Still essential reading for anyone interested in the ideas and ideals of courtly love • Landmark volume by C. S. Lewis

Preface; 1. Courtly love; 2. Allegory; 3. The Romance of the Rose; 4. Chaucer; 5. Gower. Thomas Usk; 6. Allegory as the dominant form; 7. The Faerie Queene.

general readers

English literature, medieval studies, Renaissance studies, C. S. Lewis studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

Paperback

An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C. S. Lewis

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organisation of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe'. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind'.

• C. S. Lewis's last book, hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind' • A shining example of C. S. Lewis's ability to bring the past to life through anecdote and analogy • Still relevant account of the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Preface; 1. The medieval situation; 2. Reservations; 3. Selected materials: the classical period; 4. Selected materials: the seminal period; 5. The heavens; 6. The longaevi; 7. Earth and her inhabitants; 8. The influence of the model; Epilogue; Index.

general readers

history, literary studies, medieval studies, Renaissance studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

Paperback

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers such as Dante (The Divine Comedy), Malory (Le Morte d'Arthur), Spenser (The Faerie Queene) and Milton (Comus). Lewis's insightful yet accessible writing will captivate anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance literature.

• A collection of fourteen classic essays by C. S. Lewis, half of which were never published in his lifetime • Magisterial insights on major writers, such as Dante, Malory, Spenser and Milton • Includes a preface and notes by leading Lewis expert, Walter Hooper, who collected the essays together

Preface Walter Hooper; 1. De Audiendis Poetis; 2. The genesis of a medieval book; 3. Imagination and thought in the Middle Ages; 4. Dante's similes; 5. Imagery in the last eleven cantos of Dante's Comedy; 6. Dante's statius; 7. The Morte d'Arthur; 8. Tasso; 9. Edmund Spenser, 1552–99; 10. On reading The Faerie Queene; 11. Neoplatonism in the poetry of Spenser; 12. Spenser's cruel Cupid; 13. Genius and genius; 14. A note on Comus; Additional editorial notes; Index.

general readers

English literature, literary studies, medieval literature, Renaissance literature, C. S. Lewis studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

Paperback

C. S. Lewis

This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.

• A classic piece of literary criticism focused on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene • Offers an essential guide to this complex poem and challenges conventional views of epic and allegory • Compiled by Alastair Fowler from lecture notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death

Preface; Introduction; 1. The false Cupid; 2. Antitypes to the false Cupid; 3. Belphoebe, Amoret and the Garden of Adonis; 4. The image of evil; 5. Mutability; 6. The image of good; 7. Britomart's dream; 8. Faceless knights; 9. The misery of Florimell; 10. The story of Arthur; Index; Plates.

general readers

English literature, literary studies, Renaissance literature, C. S. Lewis studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

Literary theory

Paperback

C. S. Lewis

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: 'in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself'. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations and values extraneous to the work, in order to approach it with an open mind. Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.

• Classic text by one of the twentieth century's leading literary critics • Poses the question why do we read literature and how do we judge it? • Down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading

1. The few and the many; 2. False characterisations; 3. How the few and the many use pictures and music; 4. The reading of the unliterary; 5. On myth; 6. The meanings of fantasy; 7. On realisms; 8. On misreading by the literary; 9. Survey; 10. Poetry; 11. The experiment; Epilogue; Appendix.

general readers

literature, literary studies, literary criticism, literary theory

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

Literary theory

Paperback

C. S. Lewis

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism', from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.

• Consists of more than twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962 • Covers a diverse range of topics and authors, including psychoanalysis, semantics, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Kipling • Walter Hooper, a leading Lewis expert, provides a preface and notes to the collection of essays

Preface Walter Hooper; 1. De Descriptione Temporum; 2. The alliterative metre; 3. What Chaucer really did to Il Filostrato; 4. The fifteenth-century Heroic line; 5. Hero and Leander; 6. Variation in Shakespeare and others; 7. Hamlet: the prince or the poem?; 8. Donne and love poetry in the seventeenth century; 9. The literary impact of the authorised version; 10. The vision of John Bunyan; 11. Addision; 12. Four-letter words; 13. A note on Jane Austen; 14. Shelley, Dryden, and Mr Eliot; 15. Sir Walter Scott; 16. William Morris; 17. Kipling's world; 18. Bluspels and flalansferes: a semantic nightmare; 19. High and low brows; 20. Metre; 21. Psycho-analysis and literary criticism; 22. The anthropological approach; Index.

general readers

English literature, literary studies, literary criticism, literary theory, C. S. Lewis studies

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English literature (general)

Morphology

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C. S. Lewis

Second edition

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language.

• C. S. Lewis explores the lexical and historical nature of words in an entertaining and absorbing way • A still essential study for all those interested in language, meaning and communication • Includes such words as wit, free, sense, world and life

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Nature; 3. Sad; 4. Wit; 5. Free; 6. Sense; 7. Simple; 8. Conscience and conscious; 9. World; 10. Life; 11. I dare say; 12. At the fringe of language; Index.

general readers

English language, English literature, linguistics, literary studies, C. S. Lewis studies

Canto Classics

English literature (general)

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Essays and Reviews

C. S. Lewis

This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis's finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and students of fantasy.

• The first new collection of writings of C. S. Lewis for several decades • Includes essays and reviews, many of them of very high quality, that have never been reprinted since first publication, scattered in various journals and magazines, along with some material never published before • Includes remarkably prescient reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Part I. Reflections on Literature; Part II. The Inklings; Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); The Return of the King (being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part III. Reflections on Christianity; Part IV. Classical Literature; Part V. Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Part VI. Milton and Later English Literature.

general readers

twentieth-century British literature, culture and journalism, English literature, fantasy literature, C. S. Lewis studies

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Language and linguistics

Historical linguistics

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Charles Barber

Second edition

This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English language is explored in terms of where it came from, where it is going and the global impact it has had, taking into account the many varieties of English that now exist. Stimulating and interesting, it is not only written for specialists on language and linguistics, but also for general readers who take an interest in the subject.

• A simple, straightforward explanation of how today's English came about • This new edition includes a brand new chapter on late modern English, reflecting a recent surge in interest in the language during this period • Clear explanations of linguistic ideas and terms make it the ideal introduction for students on courses in English language and linguistics and for all readers fascinated by language

1. What is language?; 2. The flux of language; 3. The Indo-European languages; 4. The Germanic languages; 5. Old English; 6. Norsemen and Normans; 7. Middle English; 8. Early Modern English; 9. Late Modern English; 10. English as a world language; 11. English today and tomorrow.

general readers

English language, linguistics, historical linguistics

Canto Classics

Language and linguistics

English language, linguistics (general)

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David Crystal

Second edition

11 maps 5 tables

David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with 1500 million speakers internationally, presenting a difficult task to those who wish to investigate it in its entirety. However, Crystal explores the subject in a measured but engaging way, always backing up observations with facts and figures. Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this is a book written by an expert both for specialists in the subject and for general readers interested in the English language.

• The best available account of English as an international phenomenon • Updated edition, with extra sections on the future of English as a world language, English on the Internet, the possibility of an English 'family' of languages, footnotes and a full bibliography • Suitable for anyone of any nationality concerned with English: teachers, students, language professionals, politicians, general readers and anyone with a love of the language

Preface; 1. Why a global language?; 2. Why English? The historical context; 3. Why English? The cultural foundation; 4. Why English? The cultural legacy; 5. The future of global English; References; Index; List of tables.

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linguistics, English language

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Philosophy (general)

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Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.

Preface; Sources; 1. Death; 2. The absurd; 3. Moral luck; 4. Sexual perversion; 5. War and massacre; 6. Ruthlessness in public life; 7. The policy of preference; 8. Equality; 9. The fragmentation of value; 10. Ethics without biology; 11. Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness; 12. What is it like to be a bat?; 13. Panpsychism; 14. Subjective and objective; Index.

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philosophy

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An Introduction to Ethics

Bernard Williams

In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testing their coherence before going on to explore the nature of 'goodness' in relation to responsibilities and choice, roles, standards and human nature. A classic in moral philosophy.

Preface; Preface to the Canto edition; The amoralist; Subjectivism: first thoughts; Interlude: Relativism; Subjectivism: further thoughts; 'Good'; Goodness and roles; Moral standards and the distinguishing mark of man; God, morality, and prudence; What is morality about?; Utilitarianism.

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philosophy, moral philosophy

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Philosophy (general)

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C. P. Snow

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures – the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other – has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the debate, its implications and its afterlife. The importance of science and technology in policy run largely by non-scientists, the future for education and research, and the problem of fragmentation threatening hopes for a common culture are just some of the subjects discussed.

Introduction Stefan Collini; Preface to the second edition; Part I. The Rede Lecture, 1959: 1. The two cultures; 2. Intellectuals as natural luddites; 3. The scientific revolution; 4. The rich and the poor; Part II. The Two Cultures: A Second Look; Notes.

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philosophy

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Church history

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A History of the Order of the Temple

Malcolm Barber

The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the Templars' trial and abolition two hundred years later, and has been invoked in historical mysteries from Masonic conspiracy to the survival of the Turin shroud. Malcolm Barber's lucid narrative separates myth from history in this full and detailed account of the Order, from its origins, flourishing and suppression to the Templars' historic afterlife.

1. Origins; 2. The concept; 3. The rise of the Templars in the east in the twelfth century; 4. Hattin to La Forbie; 5. The last years of the Templars in Palestine and Syria; 6. Templar life; 7. The Templar network; 8. The end of the Order; 9. From Molay's curse to Foucault's Pendulum.

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religion, history of religion, Church history

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Political theory

Political economy

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The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Elinor Ostrom

20 b/w illus. 6 tables

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom uses institutional analysis to explore different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. In contrast to the proposition of the 'tragedy of the commons' argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.

• A multi-award-winning author and co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics • Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management • Combines a lucid theoretical framework with a series of diverse and richly detailed case studies

Preface; 1. Reflections on the commons; 2. An institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations; 3. Analyzing long-enduring, self-organized and self-governed CPRs; 4. Analyzing institutional change; 5. Analyzing institutional failures and fragilities; 6. A framework for analysis of self-organizing and self-governing CPRs; Notes; References; Index.

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politics, government, political economy

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Political theory

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A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China

Theda Skocpol

6 maps 2 tables

State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. It develops a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, Skocpol urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.

• Discusses the contradictions in the French, Russian and Chinese Old Regimes that led to revolutionary political crises • Provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts and the outcomes of such revolutions • A multi-award-winning author and recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2007)

List of tables and maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Explaining social revolutions: alternatives to existing theories; Part I. Causes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia and China: 2. Old-regime states in crisis; 3. Agrarian structures and peasant insurrections; Part II. Outcomes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia and China: 4. What changed and how: a focus on state building; 5. The birth of a 'modern state edifice' in France; 6. The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia; 7. The rise of a mass-mobilizing party-state in China; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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politics, history, political theory, social theory, French history, Chinese history, Russian history

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Politics, social theory, history of ideas

History of ideas

English literature (general)

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The Significance of C. P. Snow

F. R. Leavis

In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of economic growth. In his comprehensive introduction Collini situates Leavis's critique within the wider context of debates about 'modernity' and 'prosperity', not just the 'two cultures' of literature and science. Collini emphasizes the difficulties faced by the cultural critic in challenging widely-held views and offers an illuminating analysis of Leavis's style. The edition provides full notes to references and allusions in Leavis's texts.

• Reappraises the character and value of F. R. Leavis's famous attack on C. P. Snow • Authoritative and wide-ranging introduction to the 'two cultures' dispute and its twenty-first-century relevance by leading critic Stefan Collini • Demonstrates how F. R. Leavis's critique, especially of economic 'growth', is still relevant today

Introduction Stefan Collini; Note on further reading; A note on the text; Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow (1962); Luddites? Or, There Is Only One Culture (1966); Notes.

general readers

philosophy, history of ideas, politics, literary history

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Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Politics (general)

Comparative politics

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State Failure in Late-Century Africa

Robert H. Bates

9 b/w illus. 2 maps 13 tables

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the state. This book covers a wide range of territory by drawing on materials from Rwanda, Sudan, Liberia, and Congo. Written to be accessible to the general reader, it is nonetheless a must-read for scholars and policymakers concerned with conflict and state failure.

• An important statement concerning the conflict and fiscal crisis that afflict political and economic development in Africa by one of the most influential comparativists • A lively read attracting academics and policymakers alike • Details the importance of politics in understanding the trajectory of Africa in general and the dynamics of order and disorder

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. From fable to fact; Part II. Sewing the Seeds: 3. Political legacies; 4. Policy choices; 5. Subnational tensions; Part III. Things Fell Apart: 6. Things fell apart; 7. Conclusion; Part IV: Appendix.

general readers, academic researchers

politics, social history, African history, cultural studies