Essential Titles March to May 2015
POLITICS
POLITICS
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335445
PBK 488 pages
£9.99
March 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335476
PBK 456 pages
£12.99
March 2015
On Power and Ideology
Year 501
The Managua Lectures
The Conquest Continues
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan’s interventions in
Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and gave
the lectures that became On Power & Ideology. The
lectures provide a master class in foreign policy analysis from
an intellectual at the height of his powers, covering
everything from the US domestic basis of its overseas
actions, to the pernicious concept of ‘National Security’ and
its destabilising effect, to the broad framework of
global imperial order which the United States seeks to
maintain.
Exploring "the great work of subjugation and conquest" which began
with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky surveys the history of American
imperial power in the ensuing 500 years that followed. Touching on
everything from the British in India to the Americans in Beirut, Year
501 is a searing condemnation of the excesses of Western colonial
and neo-colonial politics. For those seeking to understand the nature
and structure of the imperial project as it reaches down to us today
this work is a vital resource.
POLITICS
POLITICS
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335490
PBK 536 pages
£12.99
March 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335506
PBK 488 pages
£12.99
March 2015
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
After the Cataclysm
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II
Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman
Noam Chomsky & Edward S. Herman
The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two
volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman – also
co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent – which
provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy
during the 1960s and 70s, looking at the entire sweep of the
Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam,
Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America.
The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights
remains one of the most controversial works produced by
Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia,
Chomsky and Herman questioned official Western narratives on
the Khmer Rouge and suggested that the evidence available did
not match up to the assertions being made at that time. These
claims would resurface in a recent controversy with the
Continental philosopher Slavoj Zizek and readers will now be able
to judge for themselves the veracity of Zizek's claims.
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POLITICS
POLITICS
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335308
PBK 208 pages
£16.99
March 2015
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748699032
PBK 224 pages
£19.99
March 2015
Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy
How Corrupt is Britain?
Edited by David Whyte
Europe and Beyond
Raymond Taras
Banks accused of rate-fixing; Members of parliament
cooking the books; Major defence contractors investigated
over suspect arms deals; Police accused of being paid off by
tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps
it’s high time we ask: Just exactly how corrupt is Britain?
David Whyte brings together a wide range of leading
commentators and campaigners, offering a series of
troubling answers.
How attentive are political leaders to public opinion on issues
involving international politics? This book is about conflicts and
fears: how domestic concerns are drawing countries in Europe
into international events. It tells the story of when and why
xenophobia at home is converted into xenophobia abroad.
POLITICS
POLITICS
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783603404
PBK 272 pages
£12.99
March 2015
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783603367
PBK 229 pages
£12.99
April 2015
Planet Dialectics
Marxism and the Muslim World
Maxime Rodinson - Foreword by Gilbert Achcar
Explorations in Environment and Development
Wolfgang Sachs - Foreword by Susan George
In the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings Maxime Rodinson's Marxist
commentary has a new and powerful resonance. Political
repression, corruption and economic stagnation stimulated revolt
across the Arab world. Now the revolutionary euphoria has faded,
leaving violent power struggles, overtly Islamic political parties
have begun to take power. Meanwhile hysteria over terrorism and
fundamentalism has made Islam the neo-liberal West's enemy
number one. In this collection Rodinson studies the economic and
political, rather than religious, characteristics of Islam.
All effects of human action will inevitably be played out
within our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion.
And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years
ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into
the rhetoric, dynamics and power structures of
development. This classic collection of trenchant and
elegant explorations addresses the crisis of the Western
world's relations with nature and social justice.
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POLITICS
POLITICS
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783605170
PBK 365 pages
£12.99
April 2015
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783604197
PBK 272 pages
£12.99
April 2015
Another World Is Possible
Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social
Forum
William Fisher and Thomas Ponniah (Eds)
In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre,
Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time, as a
new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to
the World Economic Forum which stood as the first real front
to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, many activists and intellectuals on the left have
become deeply critical of the Forum as the alter-globalization
movement finds new expression. Another World is Possible is
the original collection of essays and demands from the heart
of the 'movement of movements'.
Can Non-Europeans Think?
Hamid Dabashi - Foreword by Walter Mignolo
What happens with thinkers who operate outside the European
philosophical 'pedigree'? In this powerfully honed polemic,
Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised
and mis-represented. Challenging, pugnacious, but also stylish,
Can Non-Europeans Think? forges a new perspective in postcolonial
studies by looking at how intellectual debate continues to reinforce
a colonial regime of knowledge, albeit in a new guise.
POLITICS
POLITICS
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781780329888
HBK 400 pages
£16.99
April 2015
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783604098
PBK 144 pages
£9.99
May 2015
First Measures of the Coming Insurrection
Eric Hazan and Kamo
The Racket
A rogue reporter vs the masters of the universe
Matt Kennard
We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt
and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the
people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly
entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching
away at a 'democratic consensus' that has, since the 1970's,
plagued and suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is
time to prepare for the coming insurrection. In this bold and
beautifully written book, Eric Hazan and Kamo provide a short
account of what is to be done in the aftermath of a regime's
demise: how to prevent any power from restoring itself and how to
reorganise society without a central authority and according to the
people's needs.
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist
Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of
immense proportions. Kennard's unbridled access over four
years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him
with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a
squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a
reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with
high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke,
Damon Albarn, Gael Garcia Bernal and others, Kennard
shows that human decency remains. Now it's time for the
world's citizens to also uncover the racket.
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POLITICS
POLITICS/ART
Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447315704
PBK 336 pages
£9.99
May 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335964
PBK 288 pages - 80 photographs
£20.00
March 2015
Austerity bites – New in Paperback
Utopian Pulse
A journey to the sharp end of cuts in Britain
Flares in the Darkroom
Mary O'Hara
Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler
With a new afterword, award-winning journalist Mary
O’Hara chronicles the true impact of austerity on people at
the sharp end, based on her ‘real-time’ 12-month journey
around the country just as the most radical reforms were
being rolled out in 2012 and 2013. Drawing on hundreds of
hours of compelling first-person interviews, as well as an
extensive body of research and reports, the book explores
the grim reality of living under the biggest shakeup of the
welfare state in 60 years.
The politics of Utopia have already produced a rich and varied
literature - St. Simon, Buber, Bloch, and many others. Utopian Pulse
explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and asks
how we can engage with and contribute to it. This book will be
published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will
include artwork from the exhibition itself. The work's contributors
invoke Utopia as an always incomplete alternative and a
recognition of something missing, which opens up the possibility of
asserting something which is not yet but will be.
POLITICS/ART
ECONOMICS
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335889
PBK 224 pages
£12.99
April 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335773
PBK 416 pages
£12.99
May 2015
Artwash
Economics for Everyone
Big Oil and the Arts
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Mel Evans
Jim Stanford
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater
Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the
unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the
arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans
targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's collaboration
with institutions such as the Tate in an attempt to end the
poisonous relationship forever.
Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This
concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all
the information they need to understand how capitalism works
(and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in
second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way
that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such
as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their
importance to everyday life is revealed.
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GENDER
FINANCE
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783603329
PBK 272 pages
£12.99
March 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473174
PBK 288 pages
£14.99
May 2015
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
The Daily Telegraph Tax Guide 2015
Gender and Sex in an African Society
Understanding the Tax System, Completing Your Tax Return and
Planning How to Become More Tax Efficient
Ifi Amadiume - Foreword by Pat Caplan
David Genders
This compelling and highly original book frees the subject
position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes
on to do the same for other masculine attributes,
dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly
arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in
Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before
the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of
sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands
examines the structures in African society that enabled
people to achieve power, showing that roles were not
rigidly masculinisd nor feminised.
The Daily Telegraph Tax Guide contains everything you need to
know about completing a Self-Assessment tax return for 2014/15.
For any taxpayer, whether self-employed, part-time, retired or
unemployed, the book is an invaluable resource that can help
ensure that you are as tax efficient as possible, offering practical
advice, timetables and examples that aim to simplify what many
people view as a complex and challenging procedure.
BUSINESS &
SUSTAINABILITY
BRANDING
Greenleaf Publishing
ISBN: 9781783531936
PBK 256 pages
£29.99
March 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473600
PBK 200 pages
£19.99
April 2015
From Walmart to Al Qaeda
Paid Attention
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Globalization
Innovative Advertising for a Digital World
David Murillo
Faris Yakob
The book uses an interdisciplinary approach to address the
complex question of globalisation. The inter-relationship
between political theory, economics, anthropology, history,
moral philosophy, business management and finance are
used to explain the vision.
Spanning communication theory, neuroscience, creativity and
innovation, media history, branding and emerging technologies,
Paid Attention explores how ideas move people and how
advertising can and should change in response to changes in the
communications landscape. A modern model for how brands
operate and innovate in the evolving market for ideas, it contains
both beliefs that can guide behaviour and practical tools and
examples to help account planners and strategists in their jobs and
careers.
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SOCIAL MARKETING
COPYWRITING
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473563
PBK 296 pages
£19.99
April 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473990
PBK 248 pages
£19.99
March 2015
Understanding Social Media
Persuasive Copywriting
How to Create a Plan for Your Business that Works
Using Psychology to Engage, Influence and Sell
Damian Ryan
Andy Maslen
Written by the same team behind the best
selling Understanding Digital Marketing, Understanding
Social Media is the ultimate guide to using social media to
grow your customer base, increase engagement and build
your business. Illustrated throughout with case studies
from successful and failed campaigns, advice and tips of
over 200 digital marketers and interviews with social
media superstars the book is the most comprehensive and
practical reference guide to social media available.
A chance encounter with a neuroscientist showed Andy Maslen
that his belief in the power of emotion was founded on hard
science. Over coffee, the two discussed brain anatomy and the
reason-defying power of human emotions. Persuasive Copywriting
takes you deep inside customers' brains. You'll learn the
relationship between selling and storytelling and the market-tested
techniques that get people to engage with, and be persuaded by,
your copy. Use it to modify people's behaviour by tapping into their
deepest psychological drives.
MANAGEMENT &
LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT &
LEADERSHIP
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473099
PBK 284 pages
£19.99
March 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473112
PBK 232 pages
£14.99
March 2015
Leading Digital Strategy
The Mindset of Success
Driving Business Growth Through Effective E-commerce
From Good Management to Great Leadership
Christopher Bones & James Hammersley
Jo Owen
To ensure effectiveness, business leaders and decision-makers
must understand how e-commerce channels work to make
the best strategic choices for their business. Drawing on
experience in consulting to large complex organisations and
ground-breaking primary research with senior executives from
leading corporations, Leading Digital Strategy creates a
convincing case for action and offers practical strategies,
methodologies and models to improve the effectiveness of a
company's online offering.
The Mindset of Success will help you unlock your true potential,
showing you how to acquire the seven key mindsets that lead to
success. The right mindset will enable you to achieve far more than
you thought possible, opening up new career possibilities and new
potential for your future.
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CAREERS
CAREERS
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749471873
PBK 288 pages
£14.99
April 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473747
PBK 320 pages
£14.99
April 2015
How to Master the BMAT
How to Master the UKCAT
Unbeatable Preparation for Success in the BioMedical
Admissions Test
700+ Practice Questions
Chris John Tyreman & Christopher See
How to Master the BMAT will help you to maximize your
BMAT test score in the shortest time possible with the least
possible effort. With over 400 practice questions including
six mock tests, it focuses on core knowledge in six key
areas: aptitude and skills, maths, physics, chemistry, biology
& writing tasks. At the end of each section, a set of review
questions enable you to identify and improve your weak
areas before you sit the test, then once you are ready you
can complete the practice papers that reflect the BMAT
test.
Mike Bryon, Chris John Tyreman, Jim Clayden &
Christopher See
The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) is used by the majority of UK
medical and dentistry schools to identify the brightest candidates
most suitable for training at their institutions. With over 700
questions, the best-selling How to Master the UKCAT, 5th edition,
contains the most up-to-date and representative questions than
any other book. Questions are designed to build up speed and
accuracy across the five sections of the test, and answers include
detailed explanations to ensure that you maximize your learning.
CAREERS
CAREERS
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749471897
PBK 208 pages
£14.99
April 2015
Kogan Page
ISBN: 9780749473624
PBK 368 pages
£16.99
May 2015
The A-Z of Careers and Jobs
Susan Hodgson
Succeed in Your Medical School Interview
Stand Out from the Crowd and Get into Your Chosen Medical
School
Christopher See
From accountant to zoologist, this new edition of The A-Z of
Careers & Jobs offers detailed insights into more than 300 career
areas. For those looking for their first job after school or university,
or for anyone considering a change of career, the book provides
reliable and up-to-date careers advice on a wide range of
professions, covering practical issues such as job opportunities in
each market, personal skills and qualities, entry qualifications and
training, useful contact details and realistic salary expectations.
After completing the medical school application comes the
last, and often most challenging aspect of the school
selection process; the interview. Notoriously hard to prepare
for, it's difficult to know what to read, what questions might
be asked and how to answer them. How to Succeed In Your
Medical School Interview de-mystifies the interview process.
It provides clear guidelines and a unique framework; giving
you the relevant points to consider while crucially leaving
conclusions open to express your own opinions and
personality.
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EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 9781845909406
PBK 200 pages
£9.99
March 2015
Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 9781845909413
PBK 200 pages
£9.99
March 2015
The Art of Being a Brilliant NQT
Chris Henley, Gary Toward & Andy Cope
The Art of Being a Brilliant Teacher
Andy Cope, Gary Toward & Chris Henley
This book will take the NQT through a journey which starts
with interviews, leads them through the first visit before
taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and
months. Light in touch but rich in content it expands on the
stuff that teacher training touches on, but importantly
provides a refreshing look at the nitty-gritty stuff that most
training doesn’t!
Teaching is an art; with the right techniques, guidance, skills and
practise teachers can masterfully face any situation the classroom
could throw at them. With their fresh perspectives, sage advice and
a hint of silliness, Andy, Chris and Gary show teachers how to
unleash their brilliance.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 9781845909512
PBK 200 pages
£12.99
May 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849055918
PBK 144 pages
£15.99
April 2015
Good ideas for good teachers who want good jobs
Gerald Haigh
How to Create Kind Schools
This to-the-point little guide contains everything you need to
know about jobs, career progression and interviews. Good
teachers deserve the good guide. You're a good teacher.
Don't be modest, you know you are. The key to satisfaction
lies in knowing who you are and what you want, and then
making the choices that suit. The real aim here is to make
sure that as you approach each step on the career ladder,
the choices you make and the actions you take are really
worthy of your status as a good teacher.
Jenny Hulme
12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping
every child fit in
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, a national charity
that works to prevent bullying and promote inclusion, this book
tells the story of 12 innovative projects that schools across the UK
are running which help to promote inclusion, tolerance and
kindness and tackle issues such as homophobia, racism and
truancy.
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EDUCATION/
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION/
VOCATIONAL
City & Guilds
ISBN: 9780851933047
PBK 464 pages
£29.99
March 2015
City & Guilds
ISBN: 9780851933276
PBK 656 pages
£26.99
May 2015
Level 3 Diploma in Site Carpentry and Bench Joinery
Steve Redfern, Colin Fearn & Martin Burdfield
Level 2 Diploma in Hairdressing and Barbering Textbook 2e
Keryl Titmus
This textbook is the essential resource for any learner
looking to become a specialist site carpenter or bench
joiner in the construction industry. Written in line with the
new City & Guilds qualification specifications and
assessment criteria, as well as the NOS, this resource
provides the learner with all the information required to
achieve the qualification and succeed in the workplace. It is
a must-have purchase for any learner undertaking an
apprenticeship, NVQ or Level 3 Diploma in Site Carpentry
or Bench Joinery.
This textbook maps directly to the latest standards. It will help
students master all necessary practical skills and essential
knowledge. Not only is this book an invaluable aid to training, it
will act as a handy reference guide for students in their
post-qualification careers. Tutors will find it a vital tool for
planning lessons and delivering the qualification.
PSYCHOLOGY/CHILD &
ADOLESCENT
PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIETY
& CULTURE
Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447307044
PBK 256 pages
£19.99
March 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849055666
HBK 240 pages
£18.99
March 2015
Child development and the brain
Rob Abbott
The book takes a critical view of developments in
neuroscience, asking readers to develop their own critical
perspectives on what advances in this field tell us about
development and learning. The book will introduce
students to the growth and structure of the brain. Separate
chapters look at specific areas of development including the
senses, thinking and cognition, language, the emotions, and
the social mind. The book will also look at examples of a
typical development and devote a specific chapter to
neurodevelopmental disorders. It concludes by looking to
possible future developments in this fast moving research
field.
The Forgiveness Project
Stories for a Vengeful Age
Marina Cantacuzino - Forewords by Archbishop Desmond
Tutu & Alexander McCall Smith
Thought-provoking and powerful real life stories from survivors
and perpetrators of crime and violence around the world are
collected here from a diverse range of situations. They raise the
possibility of alternatives to resentment, retaliation and revenge,
with each story showing the very real impact of forgiveness within
a particular context.
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LITERATURE
THEATRE
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474402385
PBK 272 pages
£19.99
April 2015
Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781783191093
PBK 200 pages
£16.99
April 2015
Dickens's London
Keith Bain
Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
The Principles of Movement
Julian Wolfreys
Keith Bain & Michael Campbell
Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration,
Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that
opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and
the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. It
provides dual focus on methodology and the historicity of
Dickensian urban consciousness.
From the writings of Keith Bain, Michael Campbell has collated a
step-by-step course for students and teachers on the principles
and practice of Australia’s great teacher of movement. In simple
language he lays out the secrets of self-knowledge that lie behind
understanding the body and mind.
Baz Luhrmann: ‘He is one of the great mentors of my creative life.’
Cate Blanchett: 'His teachings are the foundation of my technique.’
THEATRE/HISTORY
ART/ACTIVISM
Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781783191864
PBK 396 pages
£16.99
April 2015
Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781783192083
PBK 272 pages
£12.99
April 2015
A the Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre
The First Four Hundred Years
Aleks Sierz & Lia Ghilardi
The Time-Traveller's Guide is an accessible, lively,
tour through British theatre from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II.
While based firmly on extensive research and historical
accuracy, it tells the story of five centuries of British
creativity in an interesting and relevant way. It is
celebratory in tone, journalistic in style and accurate in
content.
Playing for Time
Making Art as if the World Mattered
Lucy Neal
This timely book explores the pivotal role artists play in
re-thinking the future; re-inventing and re-imagining our world at
a time of systemic change and uncertainty. Playing for Time
identifies collaborative arts practices emerging in response to
planetary challenges, reclaiming a traditional role for artists in
the community as truth-tellers and agents of change.
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HISTORY
HISTORY
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745334097
PBK 320 pages
£9.99
March 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335001
HBK 288 pages
£25.00
April 2015
Rebel Footprints
A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History
A Socialist History of the French Revolution
Jean Jaurès
David Rosenberg
Rosenberg sets London's radical campaigners against the
backdrop of the city’s multi-faceted development.
Self-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly
blend history, politics and geography. Specially
commissioned maps and illustrations immerse the reader
in the story of the city. Whether visiting it for the first
time, or born and raised in it, Rosenberg invites you to see
London as you never have before, the nation's capital as its
radical centre.
Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader,
assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial
action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years
before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French
Revolution, has endured for over a century as one of the most
influential accounts of the French Revolution ever to be published.
Mitchell Abidor’s long-overdue translation and abridgement of
Jaurès’s original 6-volumes brings this exceptional work to an
Anglophone audience for the first time.
HISTORY
HISTORY/ART
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335759
PBK 240 pages
£14.99
April 2015
Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745335971
PBK 144 pages
£8.99
April 2015
Friends of Alice Wheeldon - 2nd Edition
Curationism
The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George
How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else
Sheila Rowbotham
David Balzer
Friends of Alice Wheeldon is a remarkable play by Sheila
Rowbotham that re-enacts the 1917 trial and subsequent
imprisonment of Wheeldon for her alleged role in plotting to
assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced
by an extended essay 'Rebel Networks in the First World
War'.With an overall feeling of claustrophobia and anger, the
play recounts how Alice's involvement in socialism,
suffragism and the anti-war movement did not endear her to
the establishment, and in times of growing class antagonism
and war how the government needed a traitor.
In this vibrant and original book, David Balzer travels through art
history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation,
where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries,
and how it emerged at the turn of the millennium as a dominant
mode of thinking and being — from superstar curator Hans Ulrich
Obrist’s war with sleep to Subway’s ‘sandwich artists.’ Recalling
such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe’s The
Painted Word and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Balzer asks
whether curationism has finally reached its own limits, where its
widespread success has paradoxically led to its own demise.
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NATURE
PHILOSOPHY
Zed Books
ISBN: 9781783603183
HBK 432 pages
£18.99
March 2015
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474404723
PBK 224 pages
£19.99
April 2015
Thank You, Madagascar
The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
Spinoza Beyond Philosophy
Edited by Beth Lord
Alison Jolly
Madagascar is one of the world's natural jewels, with
over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else
on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering
primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You,
Madagascar is her eyewitness account of the
extraordinary bio-diversity of Madagascar, and the
environment of its people.
These 10 engaging and original essays argue that Spinoza is the
interdisciplinary thinker for our times. What did Spinoza ever do
for us? This title shows how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms
our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective
subjectivity' in contemporary politics. It deals with Spinoza's
connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond.
'A captivating and absorbing account that reveals how the
people and the land of Madagascar captured her heart'
Sir David Attenborough
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748686469
PBK 216 pages
£19.99
May 2015
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748622764
PBK 512 pages
£24.99
April 2015
The Derrida Wordbook
Daniella Dick & Julian Wolfreys
While it makes no claims to being encyclopaedic in its
coverage, this book seeks to accommodate the implications
of Jacques Derrida's writings and thoughts, through an
expository engagement with a series of words having
significance throughout Derrida's text, and across the
years of his publishing career.
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
A Critical Introduction and Guide
Brent Adkins
The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's
A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is
a war machine? What is a body without organs? This volume
provides a singular interpretation of the work in terms of
assemblages and connecting that interpretation with traditional
and contemporary debates within philosophy. It explains all the
terms found in A Thousand Plateaus.
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RELIGION
RELIGION
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474401784
PBK 216 pages
£14.99
March 2015
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474401746
PBK 280 pages
£19.99
March 2015
Who is Allah?
Bruce B. Lawrence
What is a Madrasa?
Ebrahim Moosa
Engaging with the age old question of who is the God of
Islam, Bruce B. Lawrence stakes out the historical nuance
of Allah throughout the past 1500 years, from the earliest
mention of his name to his appropriation by cyberspace. It
introduces a broad range of perspectives, practices and
problems linked to Allah, including debates that are
intra-religious as well as inter-religious, concerning
differences among Muslims as well as between Muslims
and non-Muslim others.
Moosa delves into the world of madrasa classrooms, scholars and
texts, recounting the daily life and discipline of the inhabitants. He
shows that madrasa are a living, changing entity, and the site of
contestation between groups with varying agendas, goals and
notions of modernity. Reading this unique and engaging
introduction will provide readers with a clear grasp of the history,
place and function of the madrasa in today’s Muslim world
(religious, cultural and political).
HEALTH & PARENTING
HEALTH & PARENTING
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849055802
PBK 200 pages
£13.99
March 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849056090
PBK 288 pages
£12.99
April 2015
From Here to Maternity
A Pony in the Bedroom
Pregnancy and Motherhood on the Autism Spectrum
A Journey through Asperger's, Assault, and Healing with Horses
Lana Grant
Susan Dunne
Exploring the challenges of becoming a mother with autism,
Lana Grant draws on her experience of pregnancy and
motherhood before and after diagnosis to offer advice to
other women and the professionals working with them.
Her stories, humour and personal reactions to her
experiences offer real insight into this aspect of life on
the spectrum.
Despite rape, homelessness, anorexia and severe post-traumatic
stress disorder after a violent attack, Susan Dunne turned her life
around and set up a pony therapy business. Susan shares her
painful journey, and how her connection with horses sparked the
healing process and helped her to cope with lifelong difficulties
associated with autism.
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HEALTH & PARENTING
HEALTH & PARENTING
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849055758
HBK 68 pages
£10.99
March 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849055741
HBK 68 pages
£10.99
March 2015
The Growing Up Book for Boys
The Growing Up Guide for Girls
What Boys on the Autism Spectrum Need to Know!
What Girls on the Autism Spectrum Need to Know!
David Hartman
David Hartman
This growing up guide for boys is full of facts, tips and
colour illustrations explaining puberty, body image,
hygiene, friendship, crushes and more! Written in literal
language and addressing sensory issues, safety, and social
skills throughout, it offers an ideal introduction to the
teenage years for boys with autism aged 9 to 14.
This charmingly illustrated guide for girls is full of facts and advice
about growing up, puberty, body image, friendship, crushes and
more! Written in literal language and addressing sensory issues,
safety, and social skills throughout, it offers an ideal introduction
to the teenage years for girls with autism aged 9 to 14.
HEALTH & PARENTING
HEALTH & PARENTING
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849056298
HBK 34 pages
£11.99
April 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849057905
PBK 240 pages
£12.99
April 2015
Luna's Red Hat
Sisterhood of the Spectrum
An Illustrated Storybook to Help Children Cope with Loss and
Suicide
Jennifer Cook O'Toole
An Asperger Chick's Guide to Life
Emmi Smid
Charmingly-illustrated, this storybook follows a girl called
Luna, whose mother died a year ago. It is designed to be
read with children aged 6+ who have experienced the loss of
a loved one by suicide. Suicide always causes shock, not just
for the family members but for everyone around them, and
children also have to deal with these feelings. The book
approaches the subject sensitively and includes a guide for
parents and professionals by bereavement expert, Dr Riet
Fiddelaers-Jaspers.
Jennifer Cook O'Toole provides girls on the autism spectrum with
an inspiring guide to life in her new book, covering everything
from friendship and accepting the unique 'you' to dating and body
shapes. Full of inspirational advice, and with illustrations
throughout, it will be the perfect companion for any Asperger
chick on the road to womanhood.
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HEALTH
HEALTH & PARENTING
Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 9780954766450
PBK 280 pages
£11.99
January 2015
Jessica Kingsley
ISBN: 9781849057264
HBK 48 pages
£9.99
May 2015
The Obsessive Joy of Autism
Julia Bascom
Super Juice Me!
28 Day Juice Plan
Jason Vale
Julia Bascom's depiction of the joy of autistic obsessions
tells a story about autism that is very rarely told. It tells of
a world beyond impairments and medical histories, where
the multiples of seven can open a floodgate of
untranslatable joy, where riding a train can make
everything feel perfectly sized and full of light, and
where flapping your hands just so amplifies everything
you feel. The Obsessive Joy of Autism will resonate
powerfully with other autistic people, and encourage
those who have a person with autism in their lives to
look out for that joy, to chase it, to get obsessed.
Off the back of his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed film,
‘Super Juice Me! The Big Juice Experiment,’ comes Jason Vale’s
most comprehensive juice programme to date. This 28-Day Juice
Plan been specifically designed for those who need to lose a lot of
weight and/or who need to make considerable changes to their
health. Millions of people all over the world have embarked on a
Jason Vale Juice Diet of some kind. Super Juice Me! is without
question his single most effective juice diet yet.
MEDICAL
Pharmaceutical Press
ISBN: 9780857111562
PBK 1168 pages
£39.99
March 2015
British National Formulary (BNF)
Joint Formulary Committee
Access to the latest edition of BNF is vital for healthcare professionals.
Compiled with the advice of clinical experts and continually updated to
reflect the latest evidence from all credible sources worldwide, this
essential reference provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing,
dispensing, administering, and monitoring medicines. Not only does the
BNF include the widely accepted framework for the drug management
of common diseases, it also includes details of medicines prescribed in
the UK, with special reference to their uses, cautions, contraindications,
side-effects, dosage and relative costs. This allows treatment to be
tailored to the individual needs of each patient.
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