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9781009620215
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Available August 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University
Key Features
• Offers a definition of what manipulation is and why manipulation is bad
• Explains how manipulation reduces freedom and what we should do to reduce it
• Shows how governments, companies, and ordinary people should combat manipulation
Manipulation What
It Is, Why It’s Bad, What to Do About It
About
New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power - of freedom - through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy. In, Manipulation, nudge theory pioneer and New York Times bestselling author, Cass Sunstein, offers a new definition of manipulation for the digital age, explains why it is wrong; and shows what we can do about it. He reveals how manipulation compromises freedom and personal agency, while threatening to reduce our well-being; he explains the difference between manipulation and unobjectionable forms of influence, including ‘nudges’; and he lifts the lid on online manipulation and manipulation by artificial intelligence, algorithms, and generative AI, as well as threats posed by deepfakes, social media, and ‘dark patterns,’ which can trick people into giving up time and money. Drawing on decades of groundbreaking research in behavioral science, this landmark book outlines steps we can take to counteract manipulation in our daily lives and offers guidance to protect consumers, investors, and workers.
About the Author
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. The most cited law professor in the world, he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. During the Obama Administration, he served as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including several New York Times bestsellers.
9781009340236 Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
Available August 2025
Alan McDougall, University of Guelph
Key Features
• Tells the history of Liverpool FC through the voices of its supporters
• Draws on over 50 interviews with fans from around the world
• The first history of Liverpool FC to incorporate the history of women’s football
Dreams and Songs to Sing
A People’s History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp
History
About
Dreams and Songs to Sing is a unique people’s history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall takes us on a global tour of Liverpool FC’s history, viewed through the eyes of the people who’ve been there all along: the supporters. He weaves together interviews with fans from around the world, poignant farewells to Shankly, birthday cards to Michael Owen, letters from grieving Italians after Heysel, and eyewitness accounts of Hillsborough to tell the inseparable story of the club and the city. This is a history which crosses borders of class, gender, race, and nation, ranging well beyond the pitch but never forgetting the crowds and matches at the heart of it all. Rarely does sports writing have this much intelligence and soul, powerfully combining the personal with the universal, and the everyday with the epic.
About the Author
Alan McDougall is a leading sports historian and a lifelong Liverpool fan. He is author of The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany (2016) and Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football (2020).
Advance Praise
Never before has a book cast the net so wide to try and capture what truly makes this football club so special. One minute you are in Turin, the next in Toronto, but always with Liverpool in your heart. I came away from reading it with an even greater sense of pride and wonder at my club.’
John Gibbons, The Anfield Wrap
‘This latest book on Liverpool FC is superbly researched and quotes the comments of die-hard Reds. It takes you from the Shankly years to the Klopp generation - and not just the good parts.’
John Pearman, Red All Over The Land
9781009374811
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available March 2025
Alan McDougall, University College London
Key Features
• With clear guidance and practical examples, this book empowers parents to have better conversations with their children about drugs, know what to look out for if they are worried, and when and how to seek help
• Descriptions of different types of drugs as well as emerging trends helps parents quickly develop their knowledge and increase their confidence in having meaningful conversations
• Inclusion of numerous case studies to illustrate different drug related problems
How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs
About
Broaching the topic of drugs and drug use with your child can feel particularly daunting. With the illegal drug market constantly evolving, it can be difficult to stay up to date with the latest information. How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs is an evidence-based, practical guide from a leading addiction specialist. The book offers clear and accessible guidance for parents on how to have effective conversations with their child about this difficult topic. It provides a summary of both established and newly emerging drugs, how drugs work in the brain, how they cause harm, and why some people are more vulnerable than others to problems, including signs parents should be looking out for. This is a book that all parents will need at some stage. It will help you feel better informed about drugs, more confident in talking to your child, and better equipped to tackle any problems.
About the Author
Owen Bowden-Jones is a psychiatrist who has spent nearly thirty years researching and treating mental health and addiction problems. He is the Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, President of the Society for the Study of Addiction, and an Honorary Professor at University College London
Mental Health
9781009275392
Paperback
AUD $36.95 / NZD $39.95
March 2025
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Key Features
• Shows how the dominant way of thinking about work and socioeconomic policies, neoliberalism, is rooted in centuries of distorted thinking about the work ethic
• Makes the history of political economy accessible to readers without specialized training in philosophy or economics
• Challenges the conventional Cold War historiography of political economy by exposing fissures within liberal thought and continuities between liberalism and the Marxist tradition
Hijacked
How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It
History
About
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today’s neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.
About the Author
Elizabeth Anderson is the Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University of Michigan. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (1995), The Imperative of Integration (2010), and Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) (2017). She is a MacArthur Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, The New Yorker described her as ‘a champion of the view that equality and freedom are mutually dependent […] Anderson may be the philosopher best suited to this awkward moment in American life.’
9781009466097
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
April 2025
Dr. Lynne M. Drummond, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Laura J. Edwards
Key Features
• Covers all available current knowledge, research, and understanding of hoarding disorder in simple and accessible language
• Includes self-help guidance and advice for relatives and friends, guiding towards recovery
• Personal narratives and case studies make this guide accessible and relatable for those affected by hoarding, as well as their loved ones and health professionals. Allows readers to find comfort in knowing that they’re not alone in their struggles
Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding
Medicine
About
Are you or someone you know struggling with hoarding disorder, feeling ashamed or guilty about your belongings, and afraid to let them go? It’s more common than you might think, affecting up to 6% of the general population. But despite its prevalence, seeking help can be challenging. This new book provides a clear description of hoarding, exploring it as a symptom of other issues as well as a condition in its own right. You’ll learn about different treatment options and find step-by-step guidance and tools for recovery in the self-help section. Personal narratives and case studies make this guide accessible and relatable for those affected by hoarding, as well as their loved ones and health professionals. Don’t let hoarding disorder control your life - take the first step towards recovery today with this invaluable resource.
About the Authors
Dr Lynne M. Drummond
Dr Lynne M. Drummond is an internationally renowned psychiatrist and researcher, who has been helping people with OCD and hoarding for over forty years. In addition to her roles as Honorary Consultant and Visiting Professor, Dr Drummond also works extensively with various charities involved with OCD and Hoarding. Everything You Need to Know About Hoarding is her fifth book.
Laura J. Edwards
Laura Edwards is a freelance writer with an interest in making science accessible to a wider readership. She is assistant author of three books on mental health.
9781009414593
Hardback
AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95
January 2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edited by
James L. W. West, III
Sarah Churchwell, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Key Features
• Makes the authoritative scholarly edition of The Great Gatsby available to general readers in a beautiful, celebratory, collectible version
• Debunks myths and clichés about the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby
• Full annotations identify literary works, songs, movie and stage stars, musical works, politicians, other public figures mentioned in the novel
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
About
The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical prose that revives a vanished world of glittering parties and vibrant jazz, where money and deceit walk hand in hand. Rich in humor, sharply observant of status and class, the book tells the story of Jay Gatsby’s efforts to keep his faith – in money, in love, in all the promises of America – amid the chaos and conflict of life on Long Island’s Gold Coast during the Roaring Twenties. This centennial edition presents the established version of the text in a collector’s volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations. The authoritative introduction examines persistent myths about Fitzgerald, his greatest work, and the age he embodies, while offering fresh ways of reading this iconic work.
About the Editors
James L. W. West, III
James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus,at Pennsylvania State University. He is a biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor. From 1994 to 2019, he was General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently completed in eighteen volumes (sixteen under his editorship). Professor West’s variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.
Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013), The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (2022), Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018), and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004).
American literature
9781009440066
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
March 2025
Mike Berners-Lee
Key Features
• Finds new angles on the biggest challenges of our time - the Polycrisis, of which climate change is one symptom – by standing further back, digging deeper, joining up the issues and learning from failure
• Tackles the root causes, rather than just the symptoms, of our climate and ecological emergency
• Empowering and hopeful for readers: practical tips on how to maximise your impact, and be part of the evolution that humanity so urgently needs
• The engaging style makes overlooked but essential concepts dazzlingly clear
A Climate of Truth
Why We Need It and How To Get It
Earth and environmental science
About
We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution, inequality, and more. What, exactly, has been holding us back? Mike Berners-Lee looks at the challenge from new angles. He stands further back to gain perspective; he digs deeper under the surface to see the root causes; he joins up every element of the challenge; and he learns lessons from our failures of the past. He spells out why, if humanity is to thrive in the future, the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in our politics, our media, and our businesses. Anyone asking ‘what can each of us do right now to help?’ will find inspiration in this practical and important book.
About the Author
Mike Berners-Lee is a leading thinker, researcher, best-selling author and consultant on the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. About his first book – How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything (2010) – Bill Bryson wrote ‘I can’t remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating, useful and enjoyable all at the same time’. His book There Is No Planet B (2021), was described by the Financial Times as ‘a handbook for how humanity can thrive’. He founded and directs Small World Consulting, which helps organisations of every size and type to have a positive role in our world. Mike is a professor at Lancaster University, where his research includes emissions modelling, sustainable food systems and the impact of AI.
Discover There is No Planet B
9781108821575 | Paperback
AUD $21.95 / NZD $23.95
Published January 2021
9781009489522
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Available June 2025
Michael Aldous, Queen’s University
Belfast
John D. Turner, Queen’s University
Belfast
Key Features
• Explains the 20th century evolution of the British CEO
• Establishes why the dramatic rise in CEO pay has happened
• Explores the influence of social mobility in making a CEO and vice versa
• Unpacks the lack of diversity present in the CEOs of the FTSE 100, and of women in particular
• Discusses whether CEOs are the heroes or villains of Britain’s economic story
The CEO
The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains of Industry
About
The CEOs of Britain’s largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they really worth that exorbitant salary? Michael Aldous and John Turner provide the answers by telling the story of the British CEO over the past century. From gentleman amateurs to professional managers, entrepreneurs, frauds, and fat cats, they reveal the characters who have made it to the top of the corporate ladder, how they got there, and what their rise tells us about British society. They show how the quality of their leadership influences productivity, innovation, economic development and, ultimately, Britain’s place in the world. More recently, issues have arisen regarding high CEO pay, poor performance, and a lack of professionalisation and diversity. Are there lessons from history for those who would seek to reform Britain’s flagging corporate economy?
About the Authors
Michael Aldous
Michael Aldous is a business historian and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast. He is a founder and codirector of the Long Run Institute (LRI), which uses historical analysis to help senior executives and policy makers make better decisions.
John D. Turner
John D. Turner is Professor of Finance and Financial History, Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His previous book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles (2021) was named an Economics Book of the Year by the Financial Times.
Economic history
9781009554114
Hardback
AUD $42.95 / NZD $46.95
April 2025
Kate Loveman, University of Leicester
Key Features
• Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary
• Brings fresh understandings to the methods and motives behind the creation of this most famous of journals
• Offers new ways of reading the diary and new insights into what it can tell us about groups and people underrepresented in the historical records
• Shows that Pepys’s diary continues profoundly to influence how we understand the Restoration period, history, and the question of whose stories are worth telling
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
About
During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few people who can read Pepys’s shorthand – unlocks the riddles of the diary, investigating why he chose to preserve such private matters for later generations. She also casts fresh light on the women and sexual relationships in Pepys’s life and on Black Britons living in or near his household. Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys’s history became part of the history of the nation.
About the Author
Kate Loveman is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester and an internationally recognized expert on Pepys and Restoration literature. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660–1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture, Samuel Pepys and his Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660–1703, and the editor of The Diary of Samuel Pepys for Everyman.
9781009572736
Hardback
AUD $57.95 / NZD $62.95
March 2025
Zev Eleff, Gratz College
Key Features
• Places ideas of ‘greatness’ in historical context and explores the growth of ‘celebrity’ in the twentieth century
• Sheds light on lesser-known stories of America’s ‘greatest’ figures
• Provides an accessible yet thorough evaluation on greatness and American culture
The Greatest of All Time A History of an American Obsession
About
Americans love to talk about ‘greatness.’ In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of ‘greatness’ culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides a uniquely American language for participants to discuss their ‘ideal’ aspirational values and make meaning of their personal lives. The many incarnations and insinuations of ‘greatness’ suggest more about those carrying on the conversation than they do about those being discussed. An argument for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt over George Washington as America’s greatest statesman says as much about the speaker as it does about the legacies of former US presidents. Making a case for the Beatles, Michael Jordan, or Mickey Mouse involves the prioritization of politics and perspectives. The persistence of Henry Ford as a great American despite his toxic antisemitism offers another layer to this historical phenomenon. Using a variety of compelling examples, Eleff sheds new new light on “greatness” and its place in American culture.
About the Author
Zev Eleff is President and Professor of American Jewish History at Gratz College. He is the author, most recently, of Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America
American history
9781009586573
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Available June 2025
Francis Young
Key Features
• The first book in English about the late survival of pre-Christian religion in northern and eastern Europe, even after the climacteric Battle of Grunwald in 1410
• Francis Young is an established and internationally acclaimed authority on the history of pre-Christian belief and the intersection between history and myth: both his previous CUP books were academic bestsellers
• Brings entirely new and surprising perspectives to the interpretation of pagan religions in Europe in the period post–1387
• The history of paganism is a subject of considerable appeal and fascination, to readers in several fields: history, religion, myth and folklore, and the history of ideas
Silence of the Gods
The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
History of religion
About
The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last ‘pagan’ peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around the dusky edgelands, pre-Christian religions endured and indeed continued to flourish for an astonishing five centuries. Silence of the Gods tells, for the first time, the remarkable story of these forgotten peoples: belated adopters of Christian belief on the outer periphery of Christendom, from the Sámi of the frozen north to the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians around the Baltic, as well as the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia’s Volga-Ural Plain. These communities, Dr Young reveals, responded creatively to Christianity’s challenge, but for centuries stopped short of embracing it. His book addresses why this was so, uncovering stories of fierce resistance, unlikely survival and considerable ingenuity. He revolutionises understandings of the lost religions of the last pagans.
About the Author
Francis Young grew up in Bury St Edmunds, England, and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge. He has written over twenty books in the fields of folklore and the history of religion and supernatural belief, including Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic (2022), Magic in Merlin’s Realm (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Twilight of the Godlings (Cambridge University Press, 2023). His work has also appeared in History Today, BBC History Magazine and The Catholic Herald, as well as other periodicals. A regular podcaster, and broadcaster on BBC Radio, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a lay canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, and teaches courses in religious history and folklore for the Department for Continuing Education in the University of Oxford.
Just as Deadly
The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
9781009158190
Paperback
AUD $30.95 / NZD $33.95
February 2025
Dr. Marissa A. Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
You’ve heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their betterknown male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated.
Dark Justice
Inside the World of Paedophile Hunters
9781009457040
Hardback
AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95
March 2025
Mark de Rond, Cambridge University
It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning themselves as ‘paedophile hunters.’ Operating outside the law, these groups use social media to bait and expose those seeking to engage children sexually, both on- and offline. Their work has been remarkably effective, but at what cost?
Making Do Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World
9781009464284
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
April 2025
Susan L. Carruthers, University of Warwick
Imagine a world in which clothing wasn’t superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of uprooted people struggled to subsist? In this richly textured history, Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, ‘Make Do and Mend’, to reveal how central fabric was to postwar Britain.
An Improbable Psychiatrist
9781009515061
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
November 2024
Rebecca Lawrence
An Improbable Psychiatrist is a powerful and insightful story of mental illness, told through the dual lens of a doctor, who later became a patient. Rebecca Lawrence shares her story of being a doctor and a psychiatrist while living with bipolar disorder. She details her experience of being an inpatient on a psychiatric ward, receiving electroconvulsive therapy, training as a doctor, and navigating the challenges of grief, loss, and family.
