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The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of ConservationBEN A MINTEERThe passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger—the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become captivated by a narrative of heroic conservation efforts. A range of technological and policy strategies, from the traditional, such as regulations and refuges, to the novel—the scientific wizardry of genetic engineering and synthetic biology—seemingly promise solutions to the extinction crisis.In The Fall of the Wild, Ben A. Minteer calls for reflection on the ethical dilemmas of species loss and recovery in an increasingly human-driven world. He asks an unsettling but necessary question: Might our well-meaning efforts to save and restore wildlife pose a threat to the ideal of preserving a world that isn’t completely under the human thumb?

Hbk | 192pp | 9780231177788 | 2018.11 Columbia University Press | A$49.99 | NZ$60 216x140mm | USA

Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in PeopleDONNA HICKSThis landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, Donna Hicks now contributes a specific, practical guide to achieving a culture of dignity. Most people know very little about dignity, the author has found, and when leaders fail to respect the dignity of others, conflict and distrust ensue. She highlights three components of leading with dignity: what one must know in order to honor dignity and avoid violating it; what one must do to lead with dignity; and how one can create a culture of dignity in any organization, whether corporate, religious, governmental, healthcare, or beyond.

Hbk | 232pp | 9780300229639 | 2018.10 Yale University Press | A$41.99 | NZ$47.99 210x140mm | UK

Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any BusinessROBERT SROUFEIntegration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behaviour, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at the “top of the agenda” in the C-suite. Despite this, specialists in academia and organizations lack the peripheral vision to understand the power of a more integrated approach that will empower functional groups to become best-in-class without forcing trade-offs that pull down other groups connected to overall operations. Integrated Management is the key driver of innovation and profitability in progressive companies. It reduces risks while pursuing new opportunities, and the checks and balances for prudent management are baked in the strategy for modern go-to-market synergy and growth.

Hbk | 398pp | 9781787145627 | 2018.09 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$67 | NZ$79 229x152mm | UK

Spontaneous Venturing: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering in the Aftermath of a DisasterDEAN A SHEPHERD AND TRENTON A WILLIAMSIn Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This approach, termed by the authors “spontaneous venturing,” can be more effective than the traditional “command-and-control” methods of large disaster relief organizations. It can customize and target resources and deliver them quickly, helping victims almost immediately. For example, during the catastrophic 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia—the focal disaster for the book—residents organized an impromptu relief center that collected and distributed urgently needed goods without red tape. Shepherd and Williams describe the lasting impact of disaster and tell the stories of Victorian residents who organized in the aftermath of the bushfires.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780262038874 | 2018.10 The MIT Press | A$64 | NZ$74 229x152mm | USA

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COMPUTER SCIENCEThe Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our LivesCHRISTOPHER C BRINTON AND MUNG CHIANGWhat makes WiFi faster at home than at a coffee shop? How does Google order search results? Why do Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube use fundamentally different rating and recommendation methods—and why does it matter? Is it really true that everyone on Facebook is connected in six steps or less? And how do cat videos—or anything else—go viral? The Power of Networks answers questions like these for the first time in a way that all of us can understand and use, whether at home, the office, or school.

Pbk | 328pp | 9780691183305 | 2018.10 Princeton University Press | A$48.99 | NZ$56.99 235x155mm | USA

Robotics Through Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short StoriesROBIN R MURPHYThis book presents six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence. Even though all the stories were originally published before 1973, they help readers grapple with two questions that stir debate even today: how are intelligent robots programmed? and what are the limits of autonomous robots? The stories—by Isaac Asimov, Vernor Vinge, Brian Aldiss, and Philip K. Dick—cover telepresence, behavior-based robotics, deliberation, testing, human-robot interaction, the “uncanny valley,” natural language understanding, machine learning, and ethics. Together with the commentary, the stories offer a nontechnical introduction to robotics. The stories can also be considered as a set of -- admittedly fanciful -- case studies to be read in conjunction with more serious study.

Pbk | 200pp | 9780262536264 | 2018.10 The MIT Press | A$41.99 | NZ$47.99 229x152mm | USA

You’ll see this message when it is too late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity BreachesJOSEPHINE WOLFFCybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach—the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump—makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. In this book, cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn’t forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.Information Policy.

Hbk | 344pp | 9780262038850 | 2018.09 The MIT Press | A$64.99 | NZ$74.99 229x152mm | USA

ECONOMICSAquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane EconomyMARY L HIRSCHFELDEconomists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians, anxious to take up concerns raised by market outcomes, often dismiss economics and lose insights into the influence of market incentives on individual behavior. Mary L. Hirschfeld, who was a professor of economics for fifteen years before training as a theologian, seeks to bridge these two fields in this innovative work about economics and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.According to Hirschfeld, an economics rooted in Thomistic thought integrates many of the insights of economists with a larger view of the good life, and gives us critical purchase on the ethical shortcomings of modern capitalism.

Hbk | 270pp | 9780674986404 | 2018.10 Harvard University Press | A$81 | NZ$94 235x156mm | USA

Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian RevolutionHASSAN MALIKFollowing an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, Hassan Malik narrates how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, Malik adopts a historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries.

Hbk | 312pp | 9780691170169 | 2018.10 Princeton University Press | A$66 | NZ$76 235x155mm | USA

Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes WrongDEAN KARLAN AND JACOB APPELAll across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. In Failing in the Field, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel delve into the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work. Drawing on the prior experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, this book delves into failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research.


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Order without Design: How Markets Shape CitiesALAIN BERTAUDUrban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative—“sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient”—often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings. In this book, the eminent urban planner Alain Bertaud argues that applying the theories of urban economics to the practice of urban planning would greatly improve both the productivity of cities and the welfare of urban citizens.


The Power of Finance: Financialization and the Real EconomyMALCOLM SAWYERThe Power of Finance explores the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Malcolm Sawyer, a leading authority on financialization, gives an unrivalled overview of the development of financialization, its impact, and its role both as an enabler and as a driver of inequality. He asks whether finance has become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done to tame and control its power. For anyone who wants to understand why the financial crisis occurred and why nothing much has changed, this is essential reading.

Hbk | 320pp | 9781911116950 | 2018.11 Agenda Publishing Ltd | A$64 | NZ$76 234x156mm | UK

The Resource CurseS MANSOOB MURSHEDThe Resource Curse, or Paradox of Plenty, refers to the long-established notion central in development economics that countries rich in natural resources, particularly minerals and fuels, perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources. In other words, resources are an economic curse rather than a blessing.This short primer explores the complexities of this idea and the debates that surround it, in particular under what conditions the resource curse might operate, if not universal. The Economy Key Ideas.

Pbk | 176pp | 9781911116493 | 2018.09 Agenda Publishing Ltd | A$37.99 | NZ$44.99 210x148mm | UK

The Sex EconomyMONICA O’CONNORThe discourse surrounding prostitution is increasingly one of sexual commerce, transaction and commercial exchange. The “sex economy” and the consumer demand for it is often discussed both as a legitimate economic business, in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work. So much so, that in some countries it is being seen as a service that should be regulated and given a labour-rights framework.Drawing on extensive and detailed research, Monica O’Connor challenges the suggestion that the sale of women’s bodies as commodities can ever be acceptable, and that the male consumer has an acceptable right to buy their services.The Gendered Economy.

Pbk | 160pp | 9781788210126 | 2018.10 Agenda Publishing Ltd | A$60 | NZ$70 216x138mm | UK

ENVIRONMENTThe Paradox of Scale: How NGOs Build, Maintain, and Lose Authority in Environmental GovernanceCRISTINA M BALBOAWhy do non-governmental organizations face difficulty creating lasting change? How can they be more effective? In this book, Cristina Balboa examines NGO authority, capacity, and accountability to propose that a “paradox of scale” is a primary barrier to NGO effectiveness. This paradox—when what gives an NGO authority on one scale also weakens its authority on another scale—helps explain how NGOs can be seen as an authority on particular causes on a global scale, but then fail to effect change at the local level. Drawing on case studies of transnational conservation organizations in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, The Paradox of Scale explores how NGOs build, maintain, and lose authority over time.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780262535854 | 2018.09 The MIT Press | A$58.99 | NZ$69 229x152mm | USA

Urgency in the AnthropoceneAMANDA H LYNCH AND SIRI VELANDIs this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions—a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty and law. The once unacceptable—geoengineering technology, for example, or authoritarian decision making—are now anticipated and even demanded. In this book, Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland propose a reframing of the Anthropocene—seeing it not as a race against catastrophe but as an age of emerging coexistence with earth system variability.


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Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable FutureKARL S ZIMMERER AND STEF DE HANNWide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market forces to affect agriculture and food production systems on local, national, and global scales. The increasing simplification of food systems, the continuing decline of plant species, and the ongoing spread of pests and disease threaten biodiversity in agriculture as well as the sustainability of food resources. Complicating the situation further, the multiple systems involved—cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, and technological—are driven by human decision making, which is inevitably informed by diverse knowledge systems. The interactions and linkages that emerge necessitate an integrated assessment if we are to make progress toward sustainable agriculture and food systems.This volume in the Strungmann Forum Reports series offers insights into the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and sustainability and proposes an integrative framework to guide future research, scholarship, policy, and practice. Strüngmann Forum Reports.


HIGHER EDUCATIONFree Speech on CampusERWIN CHEMERINSKY AND HOWARD GILLMANHardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry. In this clear and carefully reasoned book, a university chancellor and a law school dean—both constitutional scholars who teach a course in free speech to undergraduates—argue that campuses must provide supportive learning environments for an increasingly diverse student body but can never restrict the expression of ideas.

Pbk | 224pp | 9780300240016 | 2018.10 Yale University Press | A$27.99 | NZ$32.99 235x156mm | UK

INFORMATION MANAGEMENTInternet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital WorldNIKOS SMYRNAIOSOur lives have been gradually taken over by digital devices, networks, and services. Although useful, they have also become invasive additions to our personal, professional and public lives. This process has occurred in a globalized and deregulated economy and a few US-based start-ups transformed into an oligopoly of multinationals that today govern the informational infrastructure of our societies. This book offers an analytical framework of the contemporary internet studied through the lens of history and political economy. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft are examined as emblematic products of a new capitalist order that is resolutely opposed to the original project of the internet. Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication.

Pbk | 115pp | 9781787692008 | 2018.08 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$79 | NZ$92 198x129mm | UK

INTERNATIONAL STUDIESThe Conflicted Superpower: America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global InnovationANDREW B KENNEDYThe technological leadership of the United States increasingly involves collaboration with other countries, especially China and India. The Conflicted Superpower explores these relationships through in-depth case studies of U.S. policies toward skilled immigration, foreign students, and offshoring. Andrew Kennedy argues that U.S. policy is not strategic but rather the outcome of domestic battles between competing interests.Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations.“In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Kennedy addresses the puzzle of why the United States has continued to collaborate with China and India on technological innovation despite economic and strategic rivalries. Through impeccably researched case studies, Kennedy shows how U.S. high-tech firms and research universities have been the drivers of open U.S. policies, and how their interests have often triumphed on issues such as immigration of skilled labor and offshoring of R&D.”—John Ravenhill, director, Balsillie School of International AffairsAndrew Kennedy is senior lecturer in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Hbk | 280pp | 9780231185547 | 2018.03 Columbia University Press | A$64 | NZ$76 229x152mm | USA

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China’s Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great PowerHOO TIANG BOONIn China’s Global Identity, Hoo Tiang Boon embarks on the first sustained study of China’s great power identity. Focus is drawn to China’s positioning of itself as a responsible power and the underestimated role played by the United States in shaping this face. In 1995 President Bill Clinton notably called for China to become a responsible great power, one that integrates itself into existing international institutions and becomes a leader in solving global problems. Chinese leaders were at that time already debating their future course and obligations to the world. Hoo examines this ongoing internal debate through Chinese sources and reveals the underestimated role that the United States has in this dialogue.

Pbk | 224pp | 9781626166141 | 2018.11 Georgetown University Press | A$59.99 | NZ$70 229x152mm | USA

The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on TerrorJOHN ODDOIn the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda, John Oddo examines these and other such cases to show how successful wartime propaganda functions as a discursive process. Oddo argues that propaganda is more than just misleading rhetoric generated by one person or group; it is an elaborate process that relies on recontextualization, ideally on a massive scale, to keep it alive and effective. In a series of case studies, he analyzes both textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social and material conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how instances of propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in diverse contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular, everyday discourse.

Pbk | 288pp | 9780271081175 | 2018.11 Penn State University Press | A$60 | NZ$70 254x178mm | USA

INVESTMENT AND FINANCEInside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty CasesYEFEI LUSince the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century’s most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate their approach?A gift to Buffett followers who have long sought a pattern to the investor’s success, Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett presents the most detailed analysis to date of Buffet’s long-term investment portfolio. Columbia Business School Publishing.

Pbk | 312pp | 9780231164634 | 2018.11 Columbia University Press | A$46.99 | NZ$54.99 216x140mm | USA

LAWCorporations Are People Too: (And They Should Act Like It) KENT GREENFIELDWith an analysis sure to challenge the assumptions of both progressives and conservatives, Greenfield explores corporations’ claims to constitutional rights and the foundational conflicts about their obligations in society. He argues that a blanket opposition to corporate personhood is misguided, since it is consistent with both the purpose of corporations and the Constitution itself that corporations can claim rights at least some of the time. The problem with Citizens United is not that corporations have a right to speak, but for whom they speak. The solution is not to end corporate personhood but to require corporations to act more like citizens.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780300211474 | 2018.10 Yale University Press | A$42.99 | NZ$49.99 210x140mm | UK

MANAGEMENTThe Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social MediaCATHERINE TURCOA fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn’t always been easy. TechCo has confronted a number of challenges, and its experience reveals the essential elements of bureaucracy that remain even when a firm sets out to discard them. Through it all, TechCo serves as a powerful new model for how firms can navigate today’s rapidly changing technological and cultural climate.Catherine J. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months. The Conversational Firm is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn’t. The Middle Range Series.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780231178990 | 2018.11 Columbia University Press | A$46.99 | NZ$53.99 229x152mm | USA

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MATHEMATICSThe Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational MathJENNIFER BEINEKE AND JASON ROSENHOUSEThe history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and a wealth of popular-level books exploring puzzles and brainteasers, research in recreational mathematics has often been neglected. The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects brings together authors from a variety of specialties to present fascinating problems and solutions in recreational mathematics.Inspirations for the book’s wealth of problems include board games, card tricks, fake coins, flexagons, pencil puzzles, poker, and so much more. Looking at a plethora of eclectic games and puzzles, The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects is sure to entertain, challenge, and inspire academic mathematicians and avid maths enthusiasts alike.

Pbk | 288pp | 9780691183473 | 2018.10 Princeton University Press | A$72 | NZ$86 235x152mm | USA

NEUROSCIENCEResponsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability WILLIAM HIRSTEIN, KATRINA L SIFFERD AND TYLER K FAGANWhen we praise, blame, punish, or reward people for their actions, we are holding them responsible for what they have done. Common sense tells us that what makes human beings responsible has to do with their minds and, in particular, the relationship between their minds and their actions. Yet the empirical connection is not necessarily obvious. The “guilty mind” is a core concept of criminal law, but if a defendant on trial for murder were found to have serious brain damage, which brain parts or processes would have to be damaged for him to be considered not responsible, or less responsible, for the crime? What mental illnesses would justify legal pleas of insanity? In Responsible Brains, philosophers William Hirstein, Katrina Sifferd, and Tyler Fagan examine recent developments in neuroscience that point to neural mechanisms of responsibility. Drawing on this research, they argue that evidence from neuroscience and cognitive science can illuminate and inform the nature of responsibility and agency. They go on to offer a novel and comprehensive neuroscientific theory of human responsibility.


ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOURLiving Innovation: From Value Creation to the Greater GoodSANG M LEE AND SEONGBAE LIMInnovation systems are no longer rigid structures, and the goal of innovation is no longer limited to value-creation for organizations, but often aims for much nobler goals: namely, creating a smart future where people are happy, where organizations thrive, and where the environment flourishes. The emerging innovation paradigm for building a smart future is the practice of lived innovation. Here innovation and knowledge management experts Sang M. Lee and Seongbae Lim offer a roadmap to these new territories and their futures. Drawing upon real-world examples from across the globe, they explain the fundamentals of innovation; they introduce emerging innovation tools such as convergence management, co-creation, and design thinking; and they outline a new innovation strategy, co-innovation, by which many partners and stakeholders collaborate to achieve shared goals. Emerald Points.

Pbk | 136pp | 9781787567160 | 2018.08 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$80 | NZ$93 198x129mm | UK

The Thinking Strategist: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Management to Identify, Explore and Solve ProblemsVICKIE COX EDMONDSONThe success of any strategic management process within an organization depends greatly on its ability to manage stakeholders. Stakeholders with competing expectations and demands are actively involved in the implementation of strategy, have a vested interest in the success or failure of organizations, and most importantly, can derail your strategic efforts. As per its title, The Thinking Strategist promotes the strategic management process as a way to identify, explore and solve problems. It succinctly provides useful advice and practical tools to strengthen decision making and problem solving skills to accomplish organizational goals, exceed objectives, and to get top management and other key stakeholder support.

Hbk | 228pp | 9781787561588 | 2018.10 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$56.99 | NZ$67 229x152mm | UK

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POLITICAL ECONOMYCollective Bargaining and Gender Equality JANE PILLINGER AND NORA WINTOURIn this short, policy-oriented book, Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour present data and evidence that demonstrates the complex and expanding areas of global action and policy-making for women’s rights. They explore how the feminization of unions in both developing and developed countries is changing their bargaining agenda; the recent policy developments in institutions such as the ILO, EU and UN; and potential solutions to tackle some of the challenges using case studies to propose a vision for the development of collective bargaining as a tool for equality in the workplace.The Gendered Economy.


The Gendered MacroeconomyJAMES HEINTZIt has long been assumed that economic growth and women’s growing participation in the paid workforce would eventually take care of gender inequalities, and yet there is little evidence that faster growth will achieve this. In addition it ignores the valuable and quantifiable role that the unpaid work of women for their families contributes to the economy.James Heintz tackles the shortcomings of macroeconomics in relation to gender dynamics and challenges the dominant methods and measurements, suggesting new ways of framing macroeconomic concepts. The Gendered Economy.


The Gig EconomyALEX DE RUYTER AND MARTYN BROWNThe “gig economy” is a relatively recent term coined to describe a range of working arrangements that have previously been denoted as precarious, flexible and contingent. Borrowed from musicians, a “gig” describes a one-night performance, but in the context of general employment, it covers the self-employed who work for hire, those on temporary, short-term contracts and on zero-hours contracts. In this concise overview, Alex de Ruyter and Martyn Brown explain the key facets of the gig economy and explore the dangers and potential it affords. Drawing on recent case-studies from the UK, Europe and the USA, it offers an authoritative guide through the theories and issues that surround the gig economy.The Economy Key Ideas.


Rethinking Global Labour: After NeoliberalismRONALDO MUNCKUp to a decade ago, many labour movement analysts would probably have thought that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of organized labour as a major political force. But there is now a feeling across the political spectrum that capitalism, post-financial crisis, and the forces of globalization it nurtures are in decline and that the labour movement has regained some ground. The premise of this book is that we are at the beginning of a new era for workers and their organizations, in which they will begin to impact decisively on the new global order that they have helped to create through their labour.Ronaldo Munck offers a sober appraisal of how globalization has created a new global working class through the massive acceleration of capital accumulation and, concomitantly, increased the insecurity and precarious nature of most employment.Building Progressive Alternatives.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781788211055 | 2018.09 Agenda Publishing Ltd | A$51.99 | NZ$62 234x156mm | UK

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYJust Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do BetterROB REICHIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values and set back aspirations of justice. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable, often perpetual, and lavishly tax-advantaged. The affluent—and their foundations—reap vast benefits even as they influence policy without accountability. And small philanthropy, or ordinary charitable giving, can be problematic as well. Charity, it turns out, does surprisingly little to provide for those in need and sometimes worsens inequality.Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.

Hbk | 248pp | 9780691183497 | 2018.10 Princeton University Press | A$51.99 | NZ$61 216x140mm | USA


POLITICAL SCIENCECyberspace and International Relations: The Co-Evolution DilemmaNAZLI CHOUCRI AND DAVID D CLARKIn our increasingly digital world, data flows define the international landscape as much as the flow of materials and people. How is cyberspace shaping international relations, and how are international relations shaping cyberspace? The authors examine the pervasiveness of power and politics in the digital realm, finding that the internet is evolving much faster than the tools for regulating it. This creates a “co-evolution dilemma” -- a new reality in which digital interactions have enabled weaker actors to influence or threaten stronger actors, including the traditional state powers. Choucri and Clark develop a new method for addressing control in the internet age, “control point analysis,” and apply it to a variety of situations, including major actors in the international and digital realms: the United States, China, and Google. In doing so they lay the groundwork for a new international relations theory that reflects the reality in which we live -- one in which the international and digital realms are inextricably linked and evolving together.Information Policy.


Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the PoorMICHAEL AKLIN, PATRICK BAYER, S P HARISH AND JOHANNES URPELAINENIn today’s industrialized world, almost everything we do consumes energy. While industrialized countries enjoy all the amenities of modern energy, more than a billion people in the developing world still lack energy access. Why is energy poverty persistent in some countries and not in others? Offering the first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap explores why governments have or have not been able to lead in providing modern energy to their least advantaged citizens.

Pbk | 320pp | 9780262535861 | 2018.10 The MIT Press | A$66 | NZ$77 229x152mm | USA

Fugitive Democracy: And Other EssaysSHELDON S WOLINSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as Political Theory as a Vocation, written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as Fugitive Democracy, in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. The breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today’s most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.

Pbk | 520pp | 9780691183275 | 2018.09 Princeton University Press | A$57.99 | NZ$69 235x155mm | USA

Legacies of War: Enduring Memories, Persistent PatternsJENNIFER LEANINGWars always harm civilians. How wars are waged—with what means and methods, and with what underlying animus—has great impact on civilian suffering and social memory. Across time frames and cultures, this book examines the various distinct features of anti- and post-colonial wars, the two World Wars, and recent wars of the 21st century in terms of their disruption of everyday life and their enduring distortion of social ecosystems. With a lens trained on how civilians and soldiers remember the experience of armed conflict, Legacies of War challenges narrow conceptions of the cost of war.

Pbk | 248pp | 9780674987791 | 2018.10 FXB Center for Health and Human Rights A$38.99 | NZ$44.99 | 235x156mm | USA

Republicanism in Russia: Community Before and After CommunismOLEG KHARKHORDINIf Marxism was the apparent loser in the Cold War, it cannot be said that liberalism was the winner, at least not in Russia. Oleg Kharkhordin is not surprised that institutions of liberal democracy failed to take root following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In Republicanism in Russia, he suggests that Russians can find a path to freedom by looking instead to the classical tradition of republican self-government and civic engagement already familiar from their history and literature. By embracing the indigenous Russian reception of the classical republican tradition, Kharkhordin argues, today’s Russians can sever their country’s dependence on the residual mechanisms of the communist past and realize a new vision for freedom.


Resolve in International Politics JOSHUA D KERTZERWhy do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve. Yet, though we rely on resolve to explain almost every phenomenon in international politics—from prevailing at the bargaining table to winning on the battlefield—we don’t understand what it is, how it works, or where it comes from. Resolve in International Politics draws on a growing body of research in psychology and behavioral economics to explore the foundations of this important idea. 40 line illustrations and 20 tables.Princeton Studies in Political Behavior.

Pbk | 264pp | 9780691181080 | 2018.11 Princeton University Press | A$51.99 | NZ$62 235x155mm | USA

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Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy 2edJOHN DUNNWhy does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist John Dunn then charts the slow but insistent metamorphosis of democracy over the next one hundred and fifty years and its apparently overwhelming triumph since 1945. Setting the People Free is a unique and brilliant account of an extraordinary idea.


POLITICAL THEORYPolitical Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of PowerANTONIO Y VAZQUEZ-ARROYOScholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power. Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today’s democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. New Directions in Critical Theory.

Pbk | 360pp | 9780231174855 | 2018.10 Columbia University Press | A$52.99 | NZ$62 229x152mm | USA

PUBLIC POLICYThe Policy Test: Five Parameters for Evaluating Public PolicyPHIL HUTCHINSONOn what basis do we make policy decisions? And how should we assess the ones that have been made?In The Policy Test, philosopher Phil Hutchinson argues that we need to move beyond mere evidence-based politics to appraise policy within a much wider evaluative framework, one that encourages a much deeper reflection of the issues. He proposes five fundamental parameters by means of which all public policy positions ought to be assessed: precaution, evidence, political economy, asymmetry and framing.


The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to TrumpJAMES MORTON TURNER AND ANDREW C ISENBERGNot long ago Republicans took pride in their tradition of environmental leadership. The GOP helped create the EPA, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and seek to dismantle environmental regulations. What happened? As Turner and Isenberg make clear, the conservative abdication of environmental concern stands out as one of the most profound turnabouts in modern American political history, critical to our understanding of the GOP’s modern success. The Republican reversal on the environment is emblematic of an unwavering faith in the market, skepticism of scientific and technocratic elites, and belief in American exceptionalism that have become the party’s distinguishing characteristics.

Hbk | 244pp | 9780674979970 | 2018.10 Harvard University Press | A$51.99 | NZ$60 235x156mm | USA

The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities DANIEL T O’BRIENThe future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. O’Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston’s 311 reporting system, a sophisticated city management tool that has revolutionized how ordinary Bostonians use and maintain public spaces. Through its phone service, mobile app, website, and Twitter account, 311 catalogues complaints about potholes, broken street lights, graffiti, litter, vandalism, and other issues that are no one citizen’s responsibility but affect everyone’s quality of life. The Urban Commons offers a pioneering model of what modern digital data and technology can do for cities like Boston that seek both prosperous growth and sustainability.


SCIENCEAlfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental DriftMOTT T GREENEThis landmark biography—the only complete account of the scientist’s fascinating life and work—is the culmination of more than twenty years of intensive research. In Alfred Wegener, Mott T. Greene places Wegener’s upbringing and theoretical advances in earth science in the context of his brilliantly eclectic career, bringing Wegener to life by analyzing his published scientific work, delving into all of his surviving letters and journals, and tracing both his passionate commitment to science and his thrilling experiences as a polar explorer, a military officer during World War I, and a world-record-setting balloonist.

Pbk | 696pp | 9781421427096 | 2018.10 Johns Hopkins University Press | A$67 | NZ$78 254x178mm | USA

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Animal Ethos: The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab ScienceLESLEY A SHARPWhat sorts of moral challenges do interspecies encounters engender in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on extensive ethnographic engagement within and beyond academic labs, where the lives and deaths of a host of species deemed essential to experimental research enable broader imaginaries of scientific progress. Whereas much has been written on core bioethical values that inform proper and regulated lab behavior and decorum, Lesley A. Sharp lays bare the importance of attending to quotidian and unscripted responses to animals among lab personnel. Animal Ethos exposes the rich—yet poorly understood—moral dimensions of daily lab life, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox responses evidence concerted efforts by researchers, animal technicians, veterinarians, and animal activists to transform animal laboratories into moral scientific worlds.

Pbk | 326pp | 9780520299252 | 2018.09 University of California Press | A$58.99 | NZ$70 229x152mm | USA

The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World WarHEINRICH HARTMANNIn pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens’ fitness, raising questions of how to define fitness for soldiers and how to translate this criteria outside the military context. In this book, Heinrich Hartmann explores the historical circumstances that shaped collective understandings of fitness in Europe before World War I and how these were intertwined with a fear of demographic decline and degeneration. This dynamic gained momentum through the circulation of knowledge among European nations, but also through the scenarios of military confrontations. This book sheds light on a crucial moment in nineteenth and early twentieth century European history—when statistical data and demographical knowledge shaped new notions of masculinity, fostered fears of degeneration, and gave rise to eugenic thinking.Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology.

Pbk | 208pp | 9780262536325 | 2018.10 The MIT Press | A$62 | NZ$74 229x152mm | USA

Corrupt Cultures: “Fake News” and Cheating in ScienceROY Y CALNEThis book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which caused international concern and personal tragedy for the perpetrators. There is an overview of plant, animal and human cheating, providing a background to the focus on Science. This demands a special form of truth in that claims need to be substantiated by repetition in independent laboratories to confirm that the claims work. The nature of originality is examined in art and Science. An attempt has been made to determine the background and motives for cheating in Science in the certain knowledge that it will be unmasked leading to scandal. This text is unusual in focusing on three well-documented cases. The data should not have been published in high impact journals if more rigorous review had been made. Journals should require independent repetition of claims that seem to be “too good to be true”. This little book should be of considerable interest to young scientists, historians of science and editors of scientific journals.

Hbk | 140pp | 9781786345608 | 2018.10 World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd A$99.99 | NZ$115 | USA

Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins PETER S UNGARWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution’s Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with new approaches to uncovering dietary clues from fossil teeth to present a remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth—their shape, chemistry, and wear—reveal how we came to be. Evolution’s Bite presents a unique dental perspective on our astonishing human development. 25 line illustrations.


Quantum Leaps 2edJEREMY BERNSTEINIn the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was “unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.” Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric “quantum theory”—from poets and historians, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How did quantum mechanics enter general culture so pervasively? Having studied the subject for over a half-century, Jeremy Bernstein returns in this second edition to enlighten readers with a witty insider’s perspective on the development of quantum theory as well as its loopholes.

Pbk | 260pp | 9789813274419 | 2018.10 World Scientific | A$74.99 | NZ$84.99 | USA

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In the Spirit of Science: Lectures by Sydney Brenner On DNA, Worms and BrainsSYDNEY BRENNER AND TERRY SEJNOWKSISydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cradle of research, where pioneering and seminal discoveries in the field for over half a century have resulted in more than half a dozen Nobel Prizes. His memory is a treasure trove of the history of the field with innumerable anecdotes on other leading scientists in the past 60 years. These lectures trace the history and recount some of those anecdotes. His interlocutor Terry Sejnowski is the Francis Crick professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Laboratory Head of its Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. Terry and Sydney are long-term collaborators and they share many stories and memories. This book aims to preserve the history of molecular biology and to also raise scientific questions that have resulted from the work of Sydney, Terry and others. It should be read by everybody who is interested in the generation, history and impact of great ideas as recounted by one of the legends of 20th century science.

Hbk | 200pp | 9789813271739 | 2018.08 World Scientific | A$99.99 | NZ$115 | USA

The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the AnthropoceneOSWALD J SCHMITZOur species has transitioned from being one among millions on Earth to the species that is single-handedly transforming the entire planet to suit its own needs. In order to meet the daunting challenges of environmental sustainability, ecologists have begun to think differently about the interdependencies between humans and the natural world. This concise and accessible book provides the best available introduction to what this new ecology is all about—and why it matters more than ever before.Informative and engaging, The New Ecology shows how today’s ecology can provide the insights we need to appreciate the crucial role we play in this era of unprecedented global environmental transition.


Picturing Science and EngineeringFELICE C FRANKELOne of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. Unfortunately, most scientists have little or no training in that craft. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual.

Hbk | 472pp | 9780262038553 | 2018.09 The MIT Press | A$84.99 | NZ$99.99 254x229mm | USA

The Real Planet of the Apes: A New Story of Human OriginsDAVID R BEGUNWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage such as bipedalism, dexterous hands, and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world’s leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many migratory populations of ape species. Drawing on the latest astonishing discoveries in the fossil record as well as his own experiences conducting field expeditions across Europe and Asia, Begun provides a sweeping evolutionary history of great apes and humans. Presenting startling new insights about our fossil ape ancestors, The Real Planet of the Apes is a book that fundamentally alters our understanding of human origins.


Selling Science: How to Use Business Skills to Win Support for Scientific ResearchSTEVEN JUDGE AND RICHARD LUCASApplying for grants, bidding for project funding or helping to sell products are part of the day to day life of a research scientist. Drawing on experience at leading research institutes and companies, the authors of this book turned to best practice in marketing to make ‘selling science’ interesting and rewarding for scientists. The central thesis of the book is that effective marketing means planning for the impact of research, and this is a skill that every scientist can easily acquire. It sets out a structured approach, supported by tools, checklists and hints from experience so that delivering impact from research becomes ‘just the way things are done around here’. Starting with gathering background information, the book describes methods to analyse the data and to implement a communication plan. The book is a valuable resource for research scientists from any discipline, and for team leaders wanting to involve members of their team in developing their organization’s strategy.

Hbk | 133pp | 9781786345721 | 2018.10 World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd A$94.99 | NZ$110 | USA

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Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century 2edAMOS FUNKENSTEINTheology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein’s influential analysis of the seventeenth century’s “unprecedented fusion” of scientific and religious language.

Pbk | 464pp | 9780691181356 | 2018.10 Princeton University Press | A$86 | NZ$100 235x155mm | USA

STUDY AIDSThe Dissertation Journey: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Writing, and Defending Your Dissertation 3edCAROL M ROBERTS AND LAURA Z HYATTThe dissertation is a tough mountain to climb; half of all doctoral students never make it to the top. To overcome the practical, emotional, and psychological obstacles along the way, you’ll need the right tools and a knowledgeable guide. This informative and inspirational book readies you for each step of the dissertation process, including choosing a topic, selecting the committee, getting acclimated to academic writing, preparing for your oral defense, and publishing your research.With graphics, checklists, inspirational quotes, illustrations, sample forms, and useful tips, this valuable resource is your essential guidebook to preparing, writing, and defending your dissertation.

Pbk | 240pp | 9781506373317 | 2018.09 Corwin | A$67 | NZ$79 | 254x178mm | USA

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing 2edPAUL J SILVIAAll academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. How can we write it all while still having a life? In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers.

Pbk | 110pp | 9781433829734 | 2018.09 APA LifeTools | A$38.99 | NZ$46.99 203x127mm | USA

TECHNOLOGYTechnology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas 3edCARROLL PURSELLThis volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The focus on inventors acknowledges that technology is a fundamental form of human behavior and that, ultimately, it is people who have the ideas, design the machines, and build the institutions. These accessible and succinct essays chronicle the work of the famous—among them, Thomas Jefferson, Eli Whitney, and Thomas Alva Edison—and of the sometimes forgotten—including Ellen Swallow Richards, the founder of the home economics movement. One illuminating essay shows how Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin helped Americans confront the modern technological age.This third edition retains the content of the first two editions and adds three new essays: on Rachel Carson and the rise of the environmental movement; on A. C. Gilbert and the development of an American toy industry; and on Lewis Latimer and the struggle of African Americans to gain recognition as professional inventors and engineers.Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University.


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