ANZ Autumn Trade Catalogue 2023

Contents

How to Fix a Broken Planet

A Tattoo on My Brain

Dublin: A Writer’s City

New Orleans: A Writer’s City

United Kingdom

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity

Unwired

World Earth Day

Five Times Faster Hitler’s Panzer Generals

Discover Cosmology

The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

The Story of Cambridge

The Aging of Aquarius Running from Bondage

A Philosopher’s Look At Series

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How to Fix a Broken Planet

Advice for Surviving the 21st Century

Julian Cribb

TO

A BROKEN PLANET

Advice for Surviving the 21st Century

Environmental science

9781009333412

Paperback AUD $19.95 | NZD $21.95 Available January 2023

Julian Cribb, Council for the Human Future

About

Do you want to help save human civilisation? If so, this book is for you. How to Fix a Broken Planet describes the ten catastrophic risks that menace human civilisation and our planet, and what we can all do to overcome or mitigate them. It explains what must be done globally to avert each megathreat, and what each of us can do in our own lives to help preserve a habitable world. It offers the first truly integrated world plan-of-action for a more sustainable human society - and fresh hope. A must-read for anyone seeking sound practical advice on what citizens, governments, companies, and community groups can do to safeguard our future.

Reviews

‘Julian Cribb’s pathbreaking new book, How to Fix a Broken Planet, looks squarely at the existential threats to our lifesupport systems and suggests how individuals and governments should take remedial action. I only hope people will read him and act.’

Paul Ehrlich, author of The Annihilation of Nature

‘… probably the most important book I have read. I predict it will be a world changer. It needs to be translated into every language on Earth and made urgently available to politicians and community opinion leaders everywhere … It offers the reader a sensible and practical path to rescue our human species from early extinction and offers detailed actions for individuals, community groups and governments.’

Australian National University

A Tattoo on my Brain

A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease

Medicine

GIBBS

A TATTOO ON MY BRAIN

A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease

9781009325189

New in Paperback

AUD $18.95 | NZD $20.95 Available March 2023

About

Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer’s, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer’s several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer’s. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man’s journey with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

Key Features

• The combined narrative of Dr Gibbs’ clinical knowledge and his engaging personal experience with the disease ensures the book will appeal to both professional and lay audiences with an interest in brain health

• Lived-experience commentary from a patient living with Alzheimer’s disease provides an insight into the uncertainty and lack of information before and after a diagnosis, and offers reassurance to other patients about what lies ahead

• An optimistic call-to-action for further investment in the research of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, where patients who are otherwise pre-symptomatic still have the chance to slow the progression of the disease with lifestyle changes and potential medical treatments

Dublin A Writer’s City

Literature

Dublin

About

9781108831642

Hardback AUD $37.95 | NZD $40.95

Available March 2023

The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce’s characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another Nobel Laureate, W. B. Yeats, was born. Just down the coast is the pier linked to yet another, Samuel Beckett, from which we can see the Martello Tower that is the setting for the opening chapter of Ulysses. But these are only a few. Step-by-step, Dublin: A Writer’s City unfolds a booklover’s map of this unique city, inviting us to experience what it means to live in a great city of literature. The book is heavily illustrated, and features custom maps.

Key Features

• Organised spatially, by zones or areas within the city, allowing readers to explore the city, cutting across historical periods without a preliminary knowledge of the city’s history

• Contains numerous maps, black and white, and colour illustrations, which provides readers with an immersive experience of the city, allowing them to connect the visual with the stories of the city

• This book is written in a lively, personal writing style with the non-specialist reader in mind

New Orleans A

Writer’s City

Literature

Part of the new Imagining Cities series

9781316512067

Hardback

AUD $37.95 | NZD $40.95 Available March 2023

About

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city’s precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city’s literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.

Key Features

• Organizes the recent literary history of the city by neighborhoods and particular blocks of streets, allowing readers to navigate the city in the most literal sense through its most important and most inspired writing

• Brings together relatively remote historical territories with up-to-the minute contemporary developments. Readers will be able to engage contemporary and future phenemona in the city with a rich grasp of their deep roots

• Offers some fifty images plus some thirty textboxes to create keen visual interest across its pages.

Untied Kingdom A Global History of the End of Britain

British and Irish history

How did Britain cease to be global?

In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness was imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War.

From Indian Independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonisation to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished ‘global reach’ in Britain itself from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain’s imaginative frontiers.

9781107145993 Hardback

AUD $56.95 | NZD $61.95 Available March 2023

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonization to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished ‘global reach’ in Britain itself, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain’s imaginative frontiers.

Key Features

• A timely new history of the transformation of Britain place in the world over the last century

• Casts the contemporary crisis of the Union in a whole new light by uncovering the long-term demise of British allegiances all around the world

• The first major study to forge connections between the end of empire and the ‘break-up of Britain’

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity A Journey to Discover Black Holes

Cosmology

9781009198752

Hardback

AUD $37.95 | NZD $40.95

Available March 2023

About

The mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries. But what is gravity and how does it work? This engaging book delves into the bizarre and often counter-intuitive world of gravitational physics. Join distinguished astrophysicist Professor Luciano Rezzolla on this virtual journey into Einstein’s world of gravity, with each milestone presenting ever more fascinating aspects of gravitation. Through gentle exposure to concepts such as spacetime curvature and general relativity, you will discover some of the most curious consequences of gravitational physics, such as black holes, neutron stars and gravitational waves. The author presents and explains one of the most impressive scientific achievements of recent times: the first image of a supermassive black hole. Written by one of the key scientists involved in producing these results, you’ll get a behind-thescenes view of how the image was captured and discover what happens to matter and light near a black hole.

Reviews

‘Black holes are mysterious objects. Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts their gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. The author expertly explains the basics of the field, but also gives a sense of how scientific work is done on these highly complex topics in practice. The book describes a journey that, of course, is not yet over. Black holes are far from having all their secrets revealed.’

‘What happens in a black hole? Is it the key to everything? Physicist Luciano Rezzolla explains what people can know and where our imagination ends. He has dedicated his research career to gravity, the oldest and most enigmatic of known forces. It holds the world together and gives rise to the most exotic objects.’

Robert Gast, Zeit Online

Computer science

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can’t help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever.

Some turn to self-help measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online.

It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

AUD $35.95 | NZD $38.95 Available March 2023

Seton Hall University

About

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can’t help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

Reviews

‘Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we and our children will spend between fifteen and twenty years glued to our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory remedies at hand to help us retain our time and our wellbeing.’

Adam Alter, NYU Stern School of Business

‘In this important and powerful book, Gaia Bernstein shows us how to reclaim our power and our humanity from the Big Tech cartel that have intentionally addicted us to their devices and platforms.’ Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D., former Clinical Professor, Stony Brook Medicine

Five Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics,

‘Pace is truly what matters in the climate fight’ Bill McKibben

SIMON SHARPE

and Diplomacy of Climate

Environmental economics

Change

RETHINKING THE SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND DIPLOMACY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

9781009326490 Hardback AUD $37.95 | NZD $40.95 Available April 2023

About

We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe.

Key Features

• A policy insider’s compelling views on science, economics, showing how changes in each could lead to faster progress in addressing climate change

• Many examples from Sharpe’s personal experiences in climate diplomacy

• Goes against conventional wisdom and contradicts some mainstream narratives about climate change solutions, providing a fresh perspective and new ideas

Hitler’s Panzer Generals

Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded

History

DAVID STAHEL

HITLER'S PANZER GENERALS

GUDERIAN, HOEPNER, REINHARDT AND SCHMIDT UNGUARDED

9781009282819 Hardback AUD $47.95 | NZD $51.95 Available April 2023

About

Germany’s success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives. David Stahel offers a complete picture of the men conducting Hitler’s war in the East, with an emphasis on the private fears and public pressures they operated under. He also illuminates their response to the criminal dimension of the war as well as their role as leading military commanders conducting large-scale operations. While the focus is on four of Germany’s most important panzer generals - Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt - the evidence from their private correspondence sheds new light on the broader institutional norms and cultural ethos of the Wehrmacht’s Panzertruppe.

Reviews

‘Already renowned for his brilliant studies of the war on the Eastern Front, David Stahel has once again used his forensic skills to great effect. Drawing on original research - notably a treasure trove of intimate correspondence, much of it never before published - Stahel has produced a revelatory portrait of the four Panzer commanders who spearheaded Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. These military giants of historical myth re-emerge as complex, vulnerable and often deeply troubled human beings, who loved their families and their country but were also unswervingly loyal to the Nazi cause. This is revisionist history of the highest order. It is also a superb read.’

Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War

The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook

(Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)

Cosmology

9781009245784

New in Paperback

AUD $24.95 | NZD $26.95

Available April 2023

AWARD WINNER

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2020

About

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.

Reviews

‘Overthrowing all of modern cosmology isn’t easy, but it could happen. Maybe you will be the one to do it! If you’re up for the challenge, Luke A. Barnes and Geraint F. Lewis tell you exactly what you have to accomplish. Even if you don’t topple the stodgy edifice of modern science, you’ll certainly learn some exciting things about the universe along the way.’

Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

‘… a great starting point for budding astronomers or cosmologists who want to be able to ‘debunk’ would-be revolutionaries - or answer the ‘but how do we know …’ they’re likely to get asked.’

Chris North, BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

50th Anniversary Edition

Cosmology

9781009253154

Hardback

AUD $52.95 | NZD $57.95 Available February 2023

About

First published in 1973, this influential work discusses Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity to show how two of its predictions arise: first, that the ultimate fate of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse to form ‘black holes’; and second, that there was a singularity in the past at the beginning of the universe. Starting with a precise formulation of the theory, including the necessary differential geometry, the authors discuss the significance of space-time curvature and examine the properties of a number of exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations. They develop the theory of the causal structure of a general space-time, and use it to prove a number of theorems establishing the inevitability of singularities under certain conditions. A Foreword contributed by Abhay Ashtekar and a new Preface from George Ellis help put the volume into context of the developments in the field over the past fifty years.

Key Features

• A seminal volume on General Relativity from Stephen Hawking and George Ellis, written early in their scientific careers: this was Hawking’s first published book

• One of the first explorations of singularities, places where space-time begins or ends, and the known laws of physics break down

• Includes a specially commissioned Foreword written by Abhay Ashtekar and a new Preface by George Ellis

The Story of Cambridge

British and Irish history

The Story of CAMBRIDGE

9781107428881

Paperback AUD $33.95 | NZD $36.95 Available April 2023

About

How did a small market town on the edge of the Fens become famous throughout the world? And how do Cambridge’s two communities – ‘town’ and ‘gown’ – get along? This engaging history explains how Cambridge has developed from its prehistoric roots to become a thriving modern city and a world centre for science, technology and artificial intelligence. Many local residents seldom stray into the University quarter, whilst students often do not explore beyond Mill Road. This accessible and attractively illustrated history gives equal prominence to both communities, demonstrating that the story of the town is just as rich as that of the University. Stephanie Boyd brings to life both the institutions and the individuals associated with this celebrated seat of learning, looking at the colleges, laboratories and (increasingly) companies that have grown up in Cambridge, as well as the many colourful individuals particularly associated with the city. The Story of Cambridge is an essential guide for anyone who wants to make sense of the University that dominates the city centre, and how it fits with Cambridge’s broader identity as a riverside port, market town and modern city.

Key Features

• Highly accessible, fully illustrated, colourful guide to the story of one of Europe’s most interesting and important small cities

• Tells the history of Cambridge - both the town and University - and shows how the two are inextricably linked

• Revised and updated, with many new images and maps, this new edition reflects the changes of the past few decades and presents a more diverse and balanced view of the city

The Aging of Aquarius Aquarius HIGHLIGHT

The Aging of Aquarius

The Hippies of the 60s in Their 60s and Beyond

Psychology

9781009304085

Paperback

AUD $35.95 | NZD $38.95

Available December 2022

About

There is no group of individuals more iconic of 1960s counterculture than the hippies – the long-haired, colorfully dressed youth who rebelled against mainstream societal values, preached and practiced love and peace, and generally sought more meaningful and authentic lives. These ‘flower children’ are now over sixty and comprise a significant part of the older population in the United States. While some hippies rejoined mainstream American society as they grew older, others still maintain the hippie ideology and lifestyle. This book is the first to explore the aging experience of older hippies by examining aspects related to identity, generativity, daily activities, spirituality, community, end-of-life care, and wellbeing. Based on 40 in-depth interviews with lifelong, returning, and past residents of The Farm, an intentional community in Tennessee that was founded in 1971 and still exists today, insights into the subculture of aging hippies and their keys to wellbeing are shared.

Reviews

‘A beautiful book about a beautiful generation that seems to have disappeared from our awareness. It brings back memories and understandings and integrates them with current knowledge about life course transitions and the effects of aging. A must-read for anyone interested in aging as a holistic experience incorporating past, present, and future.’

Liat Ayalon, Bar Ilan University

‘The enthusiasm with which Nimrod has approached the mythological counterculture of the hippies extends into the reading. Nimrod’s sensitive, respectful and nuanced ethnography takes you into the heart of the hippie community and captures its ethics, ideology, and everyday whereabouts in vivid detail. A reference point for future counterculture studies.’ Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, Sweden

Running from Bondage Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Karen Cook Bell

RUNNING FROM BONDAGE

ENSLAVED WOMEN AND THEIR REMARKABLE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

About

American history

9781108926720 New in Paperback AUD $24.95 | NZD $26.95 Available January 2023

AWARD WINNER 2022 International AAHGS Non-Fiction Book Awards

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell’s enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these ‘Black founding mothers’ and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Reviews

‘Karen Cook Bell’s research brilliantly shows that the phenomenon of Black female flight in the period of slavery was not idiosyncratic but was, in fact, pervasive. This pathbreaking and beautifully written work centers the voices of Black women in slavery and abolition. A must-read.’

Anne C. Bailey, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Binghamton University

‘Fugitive lives matter! Through the lives and actions of fugitive enslaved women, Running from Bondage will compel the reader to consider the impact of the enslaved upon the American Revolutionary Era. Karen Cook Bell simultaneously restores women to the discussion of fugitivity while restoring both women and fugitivity to the larger narrative of slave resistance during the period.’

Peter J. Breaux, Associate Professor of History, Southern University and A&M College

1 Julian Cribb

2 Daniel Gibbs, Teresa H. Barker

How to Fix a Broken Planet

9781009333412 $19.95 $21.95

A Tattoo on My Brain 9781009325189 $18.95 $20.95

3 Christopher Morash

5 Stuart Ward

New Orleans: A Writer’s City 9781316512067 $37.95 $40.95

Dublin: A Writer’s City 9781108831642 $37.95 $40.95 4 T. R. Johnson

Untied Kingdom 9781107145993 $56.95 $61.95

6 Luciano Rezzolla

8 Simon Sharpe

9 David Stahel

10 Luke A. Barnes , Geraint F. Lewis

11 Stephen W. Hawking, George F. R. Ellis

12 Stephanie Boyd

13 Galit Nimrod

14 Karen Cook Bell

Unwired 9781009257930 $35.95 $38.95

The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity 9781009198752 $37.95 $40.95 7 Gaia Bernstein

Five Times Faster 9781009326490 $37.95 $40.95

Hitler’s Panzer Generals 9781009282819 $47.95 $51.95

The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook 9781009245784 $24.95 $26.95

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time 9781009253154 $52.95 $57.95

The Story of Cambridge 9781107428881 $33.95 $36.95

The Aging of Aquarius 9781009304085 $35.95 $38.95

Running from Bondage 9781108926720 $24.95 $26.95

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