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THIS YEAR we turn fifteen and will celebrate like anyteenager: with attitude; energy and a great deal of noise.

Every new title featured here is not only a much loved book,

but now an Ebook to boot.

We are proud to publish those who have been with usfrom the beginning: Francis Fukuyamas Origins of Political

Order is certain to cause a stir. Michael Brooks returns

with an expos of rebel scientists in Free Radicals, while

Ian Stewart continues to impart his love of numbers in

The Mathematics of Life. There are new voices too: inOff Message, Bob Marshall Andrews offers a unique view

of life in Parliament, and Mark Stevenson urges us to

time-travel hopefully in An Optimists Tour of the Future.

Our first fifteen years have been, like our books,

stimulating, enlightening and fun. Heres to the next fifteen.

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M I C H A E L B R O O K S

Free RadicalsThe Secret Anarchy of Science

From the author of the bestselling 13 Things That Dont Make Sense

For more than a century, science has cultivated asober public image for itself. But as bestsellingauthor Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very

different: many of our most successful scientistshave more in common with libertines than librarians.

This thrilling exploration of some of the greatestbreakthroughs in science reveals the extremelengths some scientists go to in order to make theirtheories public. Fraud, suppressing evidence andunethical or reckless PR games are sometimesnecessary to bring the best and most brilliant

discoveries to the worlds attention. Inspiration cancome from the most unorthodox of places, andBrooks introduces us to Nobel laureates whoget their ideas through drugs, dreams andhallucinations. Science is a highly competitive andruthless discipline, and only its most determinedand passionate practitioners make headlines and history. To succeed, knowledge must bepursued by any means: in science, anything goes.

Michael Brooks holds a PhD in quantum physicsand is a consultant to New Scientistmagazine.His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Independent,Observerand THES. He has lectured widely at

universities and science and literary festivals andappeared on numerous BBC radio shows. He is theauthor of the bestselling 13 Things That Dont MakeSense (Profile).

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R I C H A R D M A B E Y

The Perfumier and the StinkhornReflections on Natural Science and Romanticism

In these elegant, short essays, revered naturewriter Richard Mabey attempts to marry aRomantics view of the natural world with that of

the meticulous observations of the scientist.By Romanticism he refers to the view that natureisnt a machine to be dissected, but a communityof which we, the observers, are inextricably part.And that our feelings about that community area perfectly proper subject for reflection, becausethey shape our relationship with it. Scientistseschew such a subjective response, wanting towitness the natural world exactly, whatever feelings

subsequently follow.

Our feelings are an extension of our senses sight, taste, smell, touch and sound and here, ina sextet of inspiring meditations, Mabey exploreseach sensory response in what it means to interactwith nature. From birdsong to poetry, fromPetri dish to microscope, this is a joyful union ofmeandering thoughts and intimate memories.

Richard Mabey is Britains foremost nature writer.He is the author ofWeeds (Profile) the first culturalhistory on the unwanted plants in our gardens, and

throughout the world, Flora Britannica, which won aBritish Book Award and Birds Britannica. He has a regularcolumn in BBC Wildlife magazine and has writtenextensively on nature for the national broadsheets.

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I A N S T E W A R T

Mathematics of LifeUnlocking the Secrets of Existence

Mathematicians and biologists confront natures enigmas

A new partnership of biologists and mathematiciansis picking apart the hidden complexity of animalsand plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of

entire organisms, how they interact, and howchanges in biological diversity affect the planetsecological balance. Mathematics offers new andsometimes startling perspectives on evolutionand how patterns of inheritance and populationwork out over time-scales ranging from millions tohundreds of years as well as whats going on tochange us right now.

Ian Stewart, in characteristically clear andentertaining fashion, explores these and a wholerange of pertinent issues, including how far genescontrol behaviour and the nature of life itself.He shows how far mathematicians and biologistsare succeeding in tackling some of the mostdifficult scientific problems the human race hasever confronted and where their research iscurrently taking us.

Ian Stewarts bestselling books include Professor

Stewarts Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities andProfessor Stewarts Hoard of Mathematical Treasures(both Profile). He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematicsand active researcher at Warwick University.

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In December 1979 Soviet troops poured into

Afghanistan, and special forces seized key

objectives in Kabul, storming the presidentspalace and killing him. The intentions of the

Soviet government were modest: they aimed

to secure the main towns and roads,

stabilise the government, train up the

Afghan army and police, and withdrawwithin six months or a year.

Instead they found themselves in

a bloody war, from which it took them

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AfgantsyThe Russians in Afghanistan, 197989

The painful story of the Soviet war in Afghanistan

As former ambassador to Moscow, RodricBraithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet warin Afghanistan. The story has been distorted

not only by Cold War propaganda but also by themyths of the nineteenth-century Great Game.It moves from the high politics of the Kremlin tothe lonely Russian conscripts in isolated mountainoutposts. The parallels with Afghanistan todayspeak for themselves.

A superb achievement of narrative history, sensitivewriting and exciting fresh research: so wrote

Simon Sebag Montefiore about Rodric Braithwaitesbestseller Moscow 1941. But those words, and manyothers of praise that were given it, could equallyapply to his new book.

Rodric Braithwaite was British Ambassadorto Moscow during the crucial years of 198892.

Subsequently he was foreign policy adviser to JohnMajor. His books includeAcross the Moscow Riverandthe highly praised and bestselling Moscow 1941 (Profile)which was translated into seventeen languages.

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F R A N C I S F U K U Y A M A

The Origins of Political OrderFrom Pre-human Times to the French Revolution

Fukuyamas most important book since The End of History

Virtually all human societies were once organisedtribally, yet over time most developed new politicalinstitutions which included a central state that

could keep the peace, and laws that applied to allcitizens. We take these institutions for granted,but they are absent or unable to perform in many oftodays developing countries with often disastrousconsequences for the rest of the world.

Francis Fukuyama provides a sweeping accountof how todays basic political institutions developed.Beginning with politics among our primate ancestors,

he follows the story through the emergence of tribalsocieties, the growth of the first modern state inChina, the beginning of a rule law in India and theMiddle East, and the development of politicalaccountability in Europe. Drawing on history,evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics,this brilliant, provocative work offers fresh insightson the origins of democratic societies.

Francis Fukuyama is the author ofThe End ofHistory, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future,

State Building andAfter the Neocons. All have beenhugely influential international bestsellers. Fukuyama isa Senior Fellow at Stanford Universitys Freeman SpogliInstitute for International Studies.

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B O B M A R S H A L L - A N D R E W S

Off MessageThe complete antidote to political humbug

In this trenchant and often wildly funny accountof British political life Bob Marshall-Andrewsspeaks out for liberty and democracy, and the role

of parliament in their defence. He takes us behindthe scenes of New Labour from its election in 1997to Gordon Browns departure in 2010. He presentsa scathing analysis of how information and peoplewere manipulated in the lead-up to wars in Kosovo,Iraq and Afghanistan. He considers the effects ofthe influx of female MPs and what led a successionof home secretaries to assault ancient Englishliberties. He casts a mordant eye over the abuse of

expenses and the sale of peerages and influence,and revels in the absurdities of spin.

Off Message is timely and important asprovocative and entertaining as you would expectfrom Tony Blairs least favourite colleague andone of the sharpest minds in British politics.

Bob Marshall-Andrews joined the Labour Partyin 1971 and gained a reputation on the libertarian

left by repeated rebellions against the government.He is a QC, writes across national media and has beena panellist on Question Time,Any Questions andHave I Got News For You.


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Driving with PlatoThe Meaning of Lifes Milestones

Historys greatest thinkers on lifes big moments

If life is meaningless, as Sartre suggests, what isthe point of being born? What does Freud have tosay about losing ones virginity or Nietzsche about

having a mid-life crisis? From birth to death (andbeyond), the best brains in history have thoughtlong and hard about the meaning behind thelandmarks that shape our lives. And now acclaimedpopular philosopher Robert Rowland Smith bringstheir genius together for the first time in this smart,witty and accessible journey through lifes upsand downs.

Drawing on philosophy, art, literature andpsychology, Driving with Plato explores the realmeaning of the hoops we all have to jump through.Youll hear from Aristotle on starting school,learn from St Paul about falling in love, and get tipsfrom Cicero on becoming wise in your old age.Whether youre learning to drive or about to getmarried, Driving with Plato is certain to enlightenand entertain.

Robert Rowland Smith was for seven years aPrize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He teaches

at Londons School of Life, writes for the EveningStandardand Sunday Times and is the author ofBreakfast with Socrates (Profile) which has beentranslated into seventeen languages.

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M A R K S T E V E N S O N

An Optimists Tour of the FutureCheer up it might just happen!

Science writer and stand-up comedian MarkStevensons voyage of discovery brings him faceto face with a moody, furry robot in Boston, an

underwater cabinet meeting in the Indian Ocean,the godfather of nanotechnology, the father ofthe internet and the Australian Outbackssmartest farmer. He sees space planes in theMojave desert, hears solutions to climate change,invents a cocktail in New Zealand, observes apower revolution on a printer, has his genomesequenced and glimpses the next stage ofhuman evolution.

Having been to the future, Stevenson sayseverything could just turn out all right. You dontread that everyday, do you?

Mark Stevenson divides his time between science

and comedy, having retired from rocknroll. He is theco-founder and COO of both Flow Associates andReAgency, an agency for science communication talent.He has recently been elected a fellow of the RSA.


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R E D M O N D O H A N L O N & R U D I R O T T H I E RTranslated by Jane Hedley-Prle

The Fetish RoomThe Education of a NaturalistThe making of a modern great Victorian traveller

Redmond OHanlon is known as an amiableanti-hero the debunker of classical explorationliterature. Here on this joint road trip with

journalist Rudi Rotthier, OHanlon visits placesfrom his dark childhood. With a fine sense ofthe comic, Rotthier excels in painting a portrait ofthis very English writer as he details the escapadesof their journey. OHanlon provides a stream ofstories which offset the bleakness of almost allhis memories, skipping from tales of dysfunctionalparents and sadistic teachers to the consolationsof Darwin and nature.

Plagued by depression and scarred by hischildhood, OHanlon is driven to excess. His mostprized possession is a jar containing some of thecharred remains of a close friend who committedsuicide. It is kept in the Fetish Room a placethat very few have ever seen. Yet, unlikely as itmay seem, this is a remarkably light-hearted,life-affirming and funny book.

Redmond OHanlon is best known for his journeysinto some of the most remote jungles of the world.

His books include Into the Heart of Borneo, In TroubleAgain, Congo Journeyand Trawler. Rudi Rotthier isa Flemish journalist and author. In 2004 he won theBob den Uyl travel book prize for The Quran Route.

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In the Place of JusticeA book that moves without let-up to an ending thats alive with suspenseElmore Leonard

In 1961, at the age of nineteen, young, black,eighth-grade dropout, Wilbert Rideau, despairedof the small-town future his life held for him. He set

out to rob the local bank and in an ill-thought-outand bungled robbery he murdered the bank teller a young, white female. He was arrested and gavea full confession at the local police station whileangry mobs chanted kill that nigger outside.

We meet Rideau, newly sentenced to death row,from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey,one that begins in the most violent prison in

America, where brutality, solitary confinement,sexual slavery and local politics often govern andconfine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot.

The climax of this compelling book is full ofbreathtaking suspense and gripping, gritty, realism.It is a heartbreaking, emotionally wrought andmagical conclusion to Rideaus forty-four yearsin prison.

Wilbert Rideau has won many journalism awards.He was editor of theAngolite, the first prisonpublication to be nominated for a National Magazine

Award. It was nominated seven times under hiseditorship. He also co-directed the documentaryThe Farm which was nominated for an Oscar. He nowlives in Louisiana with his wife Linda and several cats.

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The Friar of CarcassonneHeresy and Inquisition in the Last Days of the Cathars

How Brother Bernard Dlicieux faced king, pope and inquisition

Nearly a century had passed since Languedochad been put to the sword in the AlbigensianCrusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on

the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril.But repression bred resentment and it was inCarcassonne that resistance began to stir. In 1300a great orator emerged there to bring togetherthe currents of resistance. Three years later theterrible prisons were stormed and the inmatesset free. The orator was a Franciscan friar, BernardDlicieux. The forces ranged against him includedthe ruthless Pope Boniface VII, the Machiavellian

French King Philip IV and the grand inquisitorof Toulouse, Bernard Gui (the villain ofThe Nameof the Rose).

This magnificent book, which forms a kind of sequelto Stephen OSheas bestselling The Perfect Heresy,tells Dlicieuxs inspiring life and tragic story.

Stephen OShea is a writer and historian.His previous books on the history of the Middle Ages

are this books bestselling predecessor The PerfectHeresy, popular history at its best (Allan Massie) andSea of Faith (both Profile). He lives in Providence,Rhode Island.

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GallipoliA gripping, revisionist account of epic proportions

One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoliforced Churchill from office, established Turkeysiconic founder Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and

marked Australias emergence as a nation in itsown right. It had begun as a bold move the initiallandings ended with so much blood in the seait could be seen from aircraft overhead led bythe British to ultimately capture Constantinople.This definitive new history of Gallipoli also coversthe desperate attacks of early summer and thebattle of attrition that followed, which shows it wasa lunacy that was never going to succeed.

Drawing on unpublished personal accounts byindividuals at all levels and from all sides not onlyfrom Britain, Australia and New Zealand, butunusually from Turkey and France too Peter Hartcombines his trademark eye for vivid personalstories with a strong narrative to bring a modernview of this military disaster to a popular audience.

Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War

Museum and the author of several acclaimed booksabout the First World War. He is an internationallyacknowledged expert on Gallipoli and has guidedBritish Army staff tours around the battlefield.



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Why Does the World Exist?An Existential Detective Story

The worlds leading minds on our biggest riddle

Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?remains the most curious and most enduringof all metaphysical mysteries. Celebrated essayist

Jim Holt enters the debate that has occupiedRoger Penrose, Stephen Hawking and evenChristopher Hitchens with a broad, lively anddeeply informed narrative that traces all ourefforts to grasp the meaning of the universe.

With sly humour and a highly original approachHolt takes on the role of cosmological detective.Suggesting that we might have been too narrow

in limiting our suspects to God and the Big Bang,he tracks down, among others, an eccentricOxford philosopher, a Nobel Laureate physicist,a French Buddhist monk, and John Updike justbefore he died, to pursue this cosmic puzzle fromevery angle. As he pieces together a solution while offering insights into time, consciousness,and eternity he sheds new and entertaining lighton the meaning of existence.

Jim Holt is an essayist and critic on philosophy,

mathematics and science. He writes regularly forthe New York Times Book Review, NYRB and Prospectmagazine. He is the author ofStop Me If YouveHeard This (Profile).

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Invisible RomansProstitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators and Others

The Romans that history ignored

Robert Knapp finds traces of the invisibleRomans in the nooks and crannies of history;he tracks down and pieces together tell-tale bits

of evidence cast aside by the visible mass ofRoman history and in doing so he recreates aworld lost from view for two millennia. He showshow the invisible Romans sought to survive andcontrol their fates under powers that sometimescontrolled and sometimes ignored them andbefore the afflictions of disease, war and violencethat could at any time assail them.

Devoting a chapter to each of the main groupshe reveals the ways in which their worlds arelinked in need, dependence, exploitation, hopeand fear. Slaves and ex-soldiers seep into theworld of the outlaw; slaves become freed men;the sons of freed men enlist as soldiers; and theconcerns of women transcend every boundary.We see them all at last in the seething tumult ofa great city that shapes their worlds as it reshapes

the wider world around them.

Robert C. Knapp is a historian by training, holdinga Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania in Ancient

History. He has written three books and numerousacademic articles on ancient history, a subject hetaught over thirty years at the University of California,Berkeley, where he is now Professor Emeritus.



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The New NorthThe World in 2050

A charismatic rising star vividly relates the big challengesfacing the world Jared Diamond

The world in 2050 will be radically differentfrom today. Northern countries notably Canada,Russia and those in Scandinavia will rise at the

expense of southern ones. Patterns of humanmigration will dramatically alter and where weare born will be ever more crucial.

The New North explores the four locomotivesthat are changing the world climate change,rising population, globalisation and resourcedepletion and predicts how they will shape theworld in the next four decades.

This is not a doomsday script. All human historyis a story of adaptation and change, in response toour environment and to each other. And as ourcoastlines inundate and the deserts encroach,there will be new homelands for us throughout thehigh latitudes and altitudes, places currentlymarginal for human existence. The New North ison the immediate horizon.

Laurence Smith is Professor of Geography, Earthand Space Sciences at the University of California,

Los Angeles. He has published more than fiftyresearch papers, in journals such as Science and Natureand in 2006 he briefed Congress on the likely impactsof northern climate change.

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Wild CoastTravels on South Americas Untamed Edge

An exhilarating portrait of Guyana

Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor whoperished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlettereturns to South America to find out what has

become of this primeval land. His journey takes himthrough the old colonies of British, Dutch andFrench Guiana, through some of the most fantasticforests in the world and through four hundred yearsof shameless and often colonial history.

Gimlettes ancestor, Robert Hayman died inagony on the Wiapoko River, where the Wild Coastcomes to an end. In death, he realised something

that other Europeans would take several centuriesto discover: that Guyana, formed by slavery andcivil conflict, would exact a terrible price for itsbeauty, and would rarely share out its wealth.

John Gimlette has travelled to over sixty countriesand has published several critically acclaimed books,includingAt the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig. He is a

winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize. Hecontributes regularly to radio and print media includingThe Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent,Wanderlustand Geographical.

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When Will I Sleep Through

the Night?All the things they never tell you

You are having a baby. How do you feel? Excited?Nervous? Downright terrified?

For most people, even if it is something theyhave longed for, having a baby is a voyage intothe great unknown, a turning point after whichtheir lives will never be the same again. When WillI Sleep Through the Night?is a beautifully writtenaccount of one womans experience of pregnancyand the first year of her childs life. By turns funny,moving and reassuring, this is a book that doesnttry to tell you what to do or what to feel but

simply tells it as it is, a story that is both intimateand universal, an ABC of babyhood.

Eleanor Birne was born in 1977 and read English atOxford and has an MA in creative writing from UEA.

She has written pieces for the Independent, TLSandLondon Review of Books. She has worked as abookseller at Waterstones and is now PublishingDirector at John Murray (publishers).

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Memoirs of a DervishSufis, mystics and the sixties

In the summer of 1964, while a military coupwas taking place and tanks were rolling throughthe streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for

Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. Therehe entered a world of marvels and ecstasy,converted to Islam and received an initiation asa faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in NorthAfrica and he studied Arabic in London. He alsopursued more esoteric topics under a holy foolpossessed of telepathic powers.

Political violence, torture, rock music, drugs,

nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first loveand its loss are all part of this strange, exoticstory from the 1960s.

Robert Irwin is one of the best known writers on thehistory and culture of the Islamic world (The Arabian

Nights, The Alhambra and most recently For Lust ofKnowing). He is also an acclaimed novelist and isMiddle East editor ofThe Times Literary Supplement.He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.


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Mountains Beyond Mountains

One Doctors Quest to Heal the World

Strength in What Remains

In Mountains Beyond Mountains we follow the charismatic butflawed genius, Dr Paul Farmer who has dedicated his life tochallenging the preconceptions about poverty and healthcare.

Based in Haiti, Kidders magnificent account shows how asingle person can make a difference in solving global problemsthrough a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction ofpolitics, wealth, social systems and disease. This bestseller is

published for the first time outside the USA.

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at theUniversity of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam.He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

The amazing true story of Deo, a refugee who fled the Burundiangenocide and arrived homeless and alone in New York. Throughthe astonishing kindness of strangers and his own fortitude, hislife is transformed.

One of the truly stunning books Ive read this yearRon Suskind, New York Times

Kidder lets Deo do the talking as this extraordinary man sets

about building a hopeful future out of shattered earth Metro

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Cognitive FireFrom the bestselling author ofDont Sleep, There Are Snakes

Like other tools, language was invented, can bereinvented or lost, and shows significant variationacross cultures. Its as essential to survival as fire

and, like fire, is found in all human societies.

Cognitive Fire presents the bold and controversialidea that language is not an innate component ofthe brain as has been famously argued by Chomskyand Pinker. Rather, its a cultural tool which variesmuch more across different societies than theinnateness view suggests.

Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics andpsychology, and drawing on Everetts pioneeringresearch with the Amazonian Pirahs (whose storyis told in the bestselling Dont Sleep, There AreSnakes), Cognitive Fire argues that language isembedded within and is inseparable from its specific culture. This book is like a fire that willgenerate much light. And much heat.

Daniel Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at

Bentley University in Massachusetts. Previously, he wasChair of the department of languages, literatures andcultures at Illinois State University. He is the author ofDont Sleep, There Are Snakes (Profile).

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The Winter of Our DisconnectHow One Family Pulled the Plug on their Technologyand Lived to Tell/Text/Tweet the Tale

For any parent whos ever IM-ed their child tothe dinner table, or yanked the router from itssocket in a show of primal parental rage, this

account of one familys self-imposed exile from theInformation Age will leave you ROFLing (RollingOn Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will alsochallenge you to take stock of your own familyconnections, to create a media ecology thatencourages kids and parents to thrive.

At the simplest level The Winter of Our Disconnectis the story of how one family survived six months

of wandering through the desert, digitally speaking,and the lessons learned about themselves andtechnology along the way. But more deeply, itquestions the impact of new media on the lives offamilies and the very heart of the meaning of home.

They did it. Could you?

Susan Maushart was born in New York and livedin Australia from 1985 to 2010. She has a Ph.D in

Communication Arts and Science from New YorkUniversity. Her books include The Mask ofMotherhood, Wifework: What Marriage Really Meansfor Women, and What Women Want Next.

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Into The ArenaThe World of the Spanish Bullfight

Very brave. Very British. Very trenches. Very scary. Giles Coren

Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfightoutweighs the moral question of the animalssuffering is something that each person must

decide for themselves as they must decidewhether the taste of a steak justifies the death ofa cow. But if we ignore the possibility that onedoes outweigh the other, we fall foul of the chargeof self-deceit and incoherence in our dealingswith animals.Alexander Fiske-Harrison

In a remarkable and controversial book, Fiske-Harrison trains and performs as a bullfighter and

follows the tracks of a bullfighting year in Spain.He enters the ring himself with the great matadorsof the day. Fiske-Harrison offers a fully roundedand involving spectacle as enacted for centuriesand of the arguments that dog it today.

Alexander Fiske-Harrison was born in 1976

and studied biology and then philosophy at Oxfordand then London. He is a writer and occasional actor and contributes regularly to The Times, ProspectandFinancial Times.

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The Colosseum

S I M O N B R A D L E Y

St Pancras StationNEW UPDATED EDITION

A superb cultural history pithy and occasionally hilariousEvening Standard

A marvellous piece of social, aesthetic and technological history it is impossible to praise Bradleys book too highlyA. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph

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DAVID WATKIN

The Roman ForumWith verve, authority and no little humour, Watkin tells thedetailed and complex story of this great but mutilated landmark superbly done Peter Jones, BBC History Magazine

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VesuviusThe genius of the scene biding its terrible time Charles Dickens

Vesuvius, like every active volcano, is both a symbol and amystery. The ancients explained away its rumblings and internalfires as the activities of subterranean gods but the Greeksand Romans began to consider everything more logically.Following them, from the Renaissance onwards natural scientistsrecorded Vesuvius carefully and attempted to make sense of it.

Grand Tourists climbed it in droves as did Enlightenmentthinkers and Romantic visionaries. For them Vesuvius was aperfect backdrop for their own ideas and emotions.

Vesuvius, with its victim, Pompeii, became a focus of masstourism and today as it looms quietly above the most heavilypopulated volcanic region in the world, remains a catastrophein the making.

Gillian Darley writes, lectures and broadcastson architecture and landscape and is a regular

contributor to publications including the LondonReview of Books and the TLS. Her previous booksinclude Villages of Vision and three biographies,two of which (on John Soane and John Evelyn)were shortlisted for the James Tait Black

Memorial Prize.

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DirtThe Filthy Reality of Everyday Life

May god make your house dirty! Dogon blessing from Mali

Dirt is obsessively avoided, often misunderstood,but paradoxically also an indicator of civilisation(through production of waste), and a near-magical

source of renewable life and medical discovery.History is rich with progressive victories over dirt,from the aqueducts and sewers of the RomanEmpire to Sir Joseph Bazalgettes triumphantMain Drainage of London in the mid-nineteenthcentury, which still functions today. Yet ourrelationship with dirt is complex and ambivalent.Dirt is waste, excrement, rubbish but what thenis soil? Is cleanliness next to godliness or sterility?

Published to coincide with a major new exhibitionat the Wellcome Collection in London in March2011, and lavishly illustrated with images from theWellcomes archives, this provocative book featuresspecially commissioned essays and a short graphicnovel section on the significance and implicationsof dirt from the microbial level through to theenvironmental.

Virginia Smith is a freelance historian and researchfellow at the London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine. Rosie Cox is a senior lecturer at BirkbeckCollege. Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist. Rose

George is a freelance writer. Peter Brimblecombeis professor of atmospheric chemistry at the Universityof East Anglia. Brian Ralph is an illustrator andlecturer at Maryland Institute of Art.

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A L E X A N D E R B A R O N

Theres No HomeA rediscovered classic novel of World War II

An unqualified masterpiece as acute a study ofthe psychology of war as fiction offers us Guardian

Its 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull inthe fighting, an exhausted British battalion marchesinto the searing summer heat of Catania, to begreeted by the women, children and old menemerging form the bomb shelters. Yearning forsome semblance of domestic life, the men beginto fill the roles left by absent husbands and fathers.Unlikely relationships form tender, exploitativeeven cruel, but all shaped by the exigencies of war.

Centred around a love story between Graziela,a young mother, and Sergeant Craddock, whoserough attempts at seduction are vindicated byhis sympathy and the care he shows for hermalnourished child Theres No Home offers anunerringly humane and authentic portrayal ofthe emotional impact of war.

Alexander Baron (191799) was born into aJewish East End family, joined the Communist Party atschool and enlisted in 1939. His experiences at both

D-Day and the Sicily landings informed his bestsellingwar novels, culminating in Theres No Home (1950).He went on to write fourteen novels, and severalscreenplays.

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J A S P E R W Y N N

PaddleA Long Way Around Ireland

Heres a trip for a madcap funny, inspiring andunputdownable Chris Stewart

One summer day, Jasper Wynn sets out to kayakaround Ireland, with his partner Elizabeth. But onday four disaster strikes and he is whisked off tointensive care. As he recovers, Jasper fends offthoughts of mortality by a determination to finishthe journey. So a year later, in the worst summerin living memory, he starts out again alone.

Paddle is the story of a madcap muddling through

a journey of the mind, as well as out at sea amidstthe basking sharks, seals and fulmars. And as stormsrage, enforced shore stays see Jasper playing guitarin the bars, and talking, as only the Irish can, witheveryone along the way. All of which makes for aunique inside view of the new and old Ireland,from a man never quite sure if hell come throughthe next day in one piece.

Jasper Wynn moved to Ireland at age twelve, whereinstead of going to school he learnt to ride horses

and play traditional music. He is the presenter of theChannel Four horse culture series Rawhides, is afrequent contributor to the Sunday Times, Guardianand GQ, and has a column in the Irish Examiner.

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T O B Y L E S T E R

The Fourth Part of the WorldThe Epic Story of Historys Greatest Map

H I L A R Y S P U R L I N G

Burying the Bones

Pearl Buck in ChinaPearl Buck is one of the greatest writers on China, andHilary Spurling has brought her and the China of her timeto life with amazing immediacy and perception. Jung Chang

Original, enlightening and with a narrative as thrilling as anepic film a triumphant landmark in the development ofcreative biography. Elaine Showalter, Literary Review

A terrific story, told with rare intelligence and refinementMail on Sunday

A biographical masterpiece Financial Times

Very impressive the best popular book on cartographysince Nicholas Cranes Mercator; and that is high praise indeedNoel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

Boundlessly engaging the story not just of the maps creation,but pretty much the story of Europes discovery and mappingof the entire world up to that point Sunday Times

Fluent, clear, well informed and perfectly paced. In short,he is an example of a phenomenon increasingly embarrassingto professional historians: a journalist who writes history betterthan we can Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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ATUL GAWANDE

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

J O H N K A Y

ObliquityWhy our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly

Riveting and thought-provoking David Aaronovitch, The Times

A welcome book packed with vivid writing, heart-stoppinganecdotes and statistical surprises Financial Times

It has been years since I read a book so powerful and sothought-provoking Gawande is a gorgeous writer and storytellerMalcolm Gladwell

John Kay is an admirable debunker of myths and false beliefs he can see substantial things others dont. Read this book.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author ofThe Black Swan

Persuasive, rigorous, creative and wise. BrilliantTim Harford, author ofThe Undercover Economist

A characteristic John Kay production. It is a pleasure to readFinancial Times

How rare is it for an academic economist to write with such clarity,intelligence and courage Spectator Business

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Choice

J E R R Y F O D O R & M A S S I M O P I A T E L L I - P A L M A R I N I

What Darwin Got Wrong

Fighting stuff an overdue and valuable onslaught onneo-Darwinist simplicities Mary Midgley, Guardian

A convincing case It looks like its back to the drawing boardScotsman (* * * * * )

A brave and welcome challenge Philip Ball, Sunday Times

Whatever the outcome of intellectual engagement with thisstimulating work, it is sure to be a most rewarding experienceNoam Chomsky

A superb story of our contemporary predicament. You haveno choice but to read this important book. Hanif Kureishi

In this elegant, thoughtful essay, Renata Salecl shows ushow todays abundance of choice makes us more anxious thanever before and less free than we might like to think.Beautifully crafted and concise, it will make readers questionthe hidden logic of their everyday lives. Darian Leader,psychoanalyst and author of The New Black: Mourning,Melancholia and Depression

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Reporting Live from the End of the World

E R I C K A U F M A N N

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Vivid, compelling and conveys some singular experiences Shukmans findings make for urgent, alarming reading Metro

The first-person, present-tense narrative always feels candid whether our hero is throwing up in the bowels of a Norwegianwhaler, being savaged by insects in the Amazon jungle, or missingthe money shot of a crashing Greenland glacierBBC Focus Magazine

Whether camping on ice sheets in Greenland or pursuingillegal loggers in Brazil, Shukmans account has all the eco-actionyou could want Herald

Brilliant and provocative a book every liberal should readJohn Gray

Authoritative and fascinating we must all hope that for allhis research and brilliance, Kaufmann joins the Bergersand Ehrlichs. Literary Review

Controversial, highly informative and thought-provoking.A not-to-be-missed contribution to one of the most pressingand complex debates of our time Morning Star

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DA V ID SMITH

The Age of InstabilityThe Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next

DA V ID HA RV EY

The Enigma of Capital

And the Crises of CapitalismA well-timed call for the overthrow of capitalism entertainingly swashbuckling John Gapper, Financial Times

A lucid and penetrating account of how the power of capitalshapes our worldAndrew Gamble, Independent

Very eloquent with the sort of literary verve and sense ofassurance that recall Marx at his very best

Laurie Taylor, New Humanist

Thought-provoking Larry Elliott, Guardian

A guide through the treacherous and shifting landscape of

the crisis with excellent credentials and a good eye fora telling quotation Ed Crooks, Financial Times

As good a practical guide and prospectus as the Queen couldwish to read Christopher Fildes, Sunday Times

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A Voyage For MadmenNine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back

R I C H A R D H O L M E S

Churchills BunkerThe Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britains Victory

Told with verve and riddled with the drama of beingoverwhelmed by the sheer bloody-mindedness of the sea itself.Delivering shiploads of tension, Nichols makes sure we feelthe loneliness, pain and struggle. You can smell the salty air andfeel the spray on every page Sunday Times

An enthralling tale of human endeavour and courage in the faceof adversity you dont need to know your spinnaker from

your mainsail to enjoy this book Tatler

As a carpenter purrs over perfect dovetailing, so I rejoiced inthe craftsmanship of this book Simon Barnes

Superb Holmes vividly recaptures what it was like to work inChurchills bunker, the fabulous highs and dispiriting lows a fittingmemorial to the men and women who worked so hard down there

over six gruelling years of warAndrew Roberts, Observer

Bright and fascinating it illuminates the underground warren ofsunless rooms where Churchills staff functioned below blackenedLondon streets John Lukacs, author ofFive Days in London

The appeal of Holmess books is not merely their authority buttheir style The Times

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J O H N T E N N E N T & G R A H A M F R I E N D

Guide to Business ModellingTHIRD EDITION

The definitive guide to creating models for business analysis

All organisations face more and more complexdecision-making and the risks dependent on theirdecisions require increasingly explicit understanding

of potential outcomes. The new, fully updated andradically revised edition of this acclaimed guideis full of practical help on how to build the best,most flexible and easy-to-use business models foranalysing the upside or potential downside of anybusiness project, however small or large. Newfeatures include:

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EconomicsMaking Sense of the Modern EconomyTHIRD EDITION

The real world realities of the far from dismal science

A radically revised new edition of this highlyreadable, popular guide aimed at everyone fromstudents to statesmen who want to make sense

of the modern economy and grasp how economictheory works in practice.

It starts with the basics: what economics is about;the sources of economic growth such as peopleand investment; the role of central banks andfiscal policy in setting the macroeconomicframework; and the economics of everything microeconomics. From the underlying theory

it moves to the specifics of the world economy:the developed world and the rise of emergingeconomies, the issues of global imbalancesand the runaway world of finance; the recentgreat recession why it happened, how it wasdealt with, its effects, legacy and the way ahead.The closing part puts the usefulness and thefailings of economics under the spotlight, andlooks at the innovative approaches being

developed to make what has been called thedismal science fit for the modern world.

Saugato Datta, editor of this collection, is aspecialist writer on economics for The Economist.

He has degrees in Economics from Delhi andCambridge universities, and a PhD from MIT.Before joining The Economisthe worked for theWorld Bank in Washington DC.

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R O M A N T S C H P P E L E R & M I K A E L K R O G E R U S

The Decision BookFifty models for strategic thinking

A smart, fun, bestselling guide to making the right choices

Most of us face the same questions every day:What do I want? And how can I get it? How can Ilive more happily and work more efficiently?

A European bestseller, The Decision Bookdistilsinto a single volume the fifty best decision-makingmodels used on MBA courses and elsewhere thatwill help you tackle these important questions from the well known (the Eisenhower matrix fortime management) to the less familiar but equallyuseful (the Swiss Cheese model). It will evenshow you how to remember everything youll have

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R I C H A R D R U M E LT

Good Strategy/ Bad StrategyThe Difference and Why it Matters

The tour de force of strategys strategist

Even though everyone is talking about it, there isno concept in business today more muddledthan strategy. Richard Rumelt, described by

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JA NE V A SS

Daily Mail Tax Guide 2011/2012How to make life altogether less taxing

R O B E R T C O L E

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Following the many complications introduced by the previousadministration, the new government is taking a radical look atthe whole tax system and introducing fundamental changes.

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A useful tool for the uninitiated and a refresher course forthe experienced Irish Times

Witty and pithy a handy compendiumRobert Thickett, Mortgage Strategy

Imperative for the knowledge-thirsty investor The Hindu

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Cognitive Fire 23Daniel Everett

The Decision Book 42Roman Tschppeler& Mikael Krogerus

Dirt 28The Wellcome Collection

Driving with Plato 10Robert Rowland Smith

The Fetish Room 12Redmond OHanlon& Rudi Rotthier

The Friar of Carcassonne 14Stephen OShea

Gallipoli 15

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Good strategy/Bad Strategy 43Richard Rumelt

In the Place of Justice 13Wilbert Rideau

Into the Arena 25Alexander Fiske-Harrison

Invisible Romans 17Robert Knapp

Mathematics of Life 5Ian Stewart

Memoirs of a Dervish 21Robert Irwin

The New North 18Laurence Smith

Off Message 9Bob Marshall-Andrews

The Optimists Tour 11of the FutureMark Stevenson

The Origins of Political Order 8Francis Fukuyama

Paddle 30Jasper Wynn

The Perfumier and the 4StinkhornRichard Mabey

Standing on the Shoulders 2of AnarchistsMichael Brooks

Theres No Home 29Alexander Baron

Vesuvius 27Gillian Darley

When Will I Sleep 20Through the Night?Eleanor Birne

Why Does the World Exist? 16Jim Holt

Wild Coast 19John Gimlette

The Winter of Our Disconnect 24Susan Maushart

INDEX OF NEW TITLES

BACKLIST

Business 46

Economist 40

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Recently published 37

Robert Greene 45

Sort Of Books 52

Wonders of the World 27

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