Forthcoming Titles
9781009548434
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available January 2025
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge
Dr Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge
Key Features
• By creating good lifestyle habits, everyone can live a fuller life. While many focus their attention on their physical health throughout their life, they rarely consider improving their brain health which is every bit as important. This book presents clear guidance about how everyone can improve their cognition, resilience and wellbeing
• Provides evidence-based lifestyle factors that promote good brain health, cognition and wellbeing to be adopted early in life and to be maintained throughout, promoting a healthier, longer and happier life
Brain Boost
Healthy Habits for a Happier Life
Medicine
About
Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it’s vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience. This book is packed with practical tips, based on scientific evidence, that will teach you how to implement lifestyle strategies that will improve your brain health, cognition, and overall wellbeing. Covering the benefits of exercise, diet, sleep, social interactions, kindness, mindfulness, and learning, you will discover how adopting habits to improve these areas of your life at an early age will lead to a longer, healthier life. Embracing these simple strategies to prioritise your brain health and wellbeing is essential for a fulfilling life, with lifestyle choices playing a significant role in promoting resilience, creativity, and overall quality of life across all ages. For anyone seeking to lead a fulfilling life through happiness, health, and personal growth, this is the book for you.
About the Authors
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian
Dr Barbara J. Sahakian is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences and is one of the top female scientists in the world. She is the recipient of The Conversation’s Sir Paul Curran Award for 2023, and has written popular science books. Professor Sahakian is frequently interviewed on radio, newspapers and TV, including Netflix.
Dr
Christelle
Langley
Dr Christelle Langley is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. She has been involved in several high-impact studies and is gaining a national and international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.
Advance praise
‘As modern medicine gives us longer, fuller lives it has never been more important to support our brain health. Barbara and Christelle have brilliantly distilled this complex science into easily achievable methods, therein providing readers the opportunity to maintain the best possible brain health.’
Lord Darzi of Denham, OM, KBE, PC, FRS, Imperial College London
9781009228961
Paperback
AUD $29.95 / NZD $32.95
Available November 2024
Dr Charlotte Markey, University of Reading
Key Features
• Chapters include relatable and inspiring personal stories from real people that bring topics to life
• Q&A and myth-busting sections in each chapter provide easily accessible answers to common questions
• Based on scientific research, it offers evidence-based, reliable information at a time where there is so much misinformation about body image and other related issues like nutrition, eating disorders and mental health
Adultish
The Body Image Book for Life
Psychology
About
Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults. This all-inclusive book provides evidence-based information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. Packed with valuable features like Q&As, myth-busting, real-life stories, and expert advice, it is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you’re in.
About the Author
Dr Charlotte Markey is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at Rutgers University, Camden. She is a worldleading expert in body image research, having studied body image and eating behavior for over twenty-five years. Through all her roles as a scientist, teacher, writer, and parent she is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping others to develop a healthy body image.
Review
‘Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life is an excellent resource on body image for people of every age! Dr. Charlotte Markey has done a remarkable job of synthesizing research and connecting her readers to experts in the field, to create a very readable, understandable and thorough discussion of all topics on body image today. I am very grateful to Charlotte for bringing this must-read book into the world.’
Denise Hamburger - BE REAL Founder & Executive Director
9781009382465
Hardback
AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95
Published October 2024
Dr Linda Gask, University of Manchester
Key Features
• Grounded in the real-life experiences of women with whom readers will be able to identify
• Provides an informed, referenced, and balanced overview of what is happening to women’s mental health and what must change
• Written in an accessible, engaging, and readable style that includes reference to recent history, and literature as well as dealing with the complexity of mental health and illness
Out of Her Mind
How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change
About
For centuries so called ‘difficult women’ have been labelled as ‘hysterical’ and ‘out of their minds’. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it’s ‘all in their heads’. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them? And why have so many lost faith in mental healthcare? Drawing on the lived experiences of women, alongside expert commentators, recent history, current events, and her own personal and professional experience, Dr Linda Gask explores women’s mental healthcare today. In doing so she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women can’t all be out of their minds.
About the Author
Dr Linda Gask is Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. Now retired, she has been the Royal College of Psychiatrists Presidential Lead for Primary Care and has written about her own experience of mental illness in two memoirs, The Other Side of Silence and Finding True North. A lifelong feminist, she has an international reputation in the fields of primary care mental health and doctor-patient communication and has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation.
Review
‘A psychiatrist’s clear, accessible feminist narrative of the mental health problems girls and women still face from childhood through to old age, pressured to care for others while not receiving proper care from the mental health system themselves. It reminded me of so many of the reasons why a feminist perspective helps us understand & live our lives.’ Maggie Gee - author of The Ice People, The White Family and The Red Children
9781009414593
Hardback
AUD $37.95 / NZD $40.95
Available 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
literature
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
9781009158190
Paperback
AUD $30.95 / NZD $33.95
Available February 2025
Dr Marissa A. Harrison, Pennsylvania State University
Key Features
• Explores what motivates serial murderers and addresses why society is so fascinated by them
• Provides data-driven analysis and meticulously researched case studies to illustrate key psychological phenomena among female serial killers
• Compares the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, crimes, and victims, showing why female killers’ crimes often go undetected despite being just as heinous as those committed by males
Just as Deadly
The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
About
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 better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. In this riveting account, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison draws on original scientific research, various psychological perspectives, and richly detailed case studies to illuminate the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, and crimes. She also emphasizes the countless victims of this grisly phenomenon to capture the complexity and tragedy of serial murder. Meticulously weaving data-based evidence and insight with intimate storytelling, Just as Deadly reveals how and why these women murder— and why they often get away with it.
About the Author
Dr. Marissa A. Harrison is a research psychologist, author, and associate professor at Penn State Harrisburg. Her studies on serial murder and human sexuality have been covered in popular media such as The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Time.
Advance praise
‘Dr Harrison has clearly demonstrated her expertise on female serial killers. Her seminal work will stand the test of time, scrutiny, and reliability. Her scholarship, insightful analysis, and penchant for detail make this book the best on the market. Excellent reading for those interested in why and how women become serial killers.’
Eric W. Hickey, author of Serial Murderers and their Victims, 7th Edition
9781009276856
Paperback
AUD $30.95 / NZD $33.95
Available December 2024
Nikki M. Taylor, Howard University
Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
NEW in Paperback
About
From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.
Key Features
• Challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, nonviolent forms of resistance
• Details the complex lives of enslaved women through case studies that span the colonial through the antebellum era
• Delves into each case study to illustrate the shared plight across time
About the Author
Nikki M. Taylor is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Howard University. She specializes in nineteenth-century African American History. This is her fourth book.
Advance praise
‘… a cogent reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the gendered experience of American slavery.’
Publishers Weekly
‘…an extraordinary, and necessarily gruesome, account of the ways in which enslaved women resisted the violence and oppression they encountered daily. By challenging existing narratives, Taylor sheds new light on the lengths some went to for safety, dignity, revenge and justice.’
Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine - Best Books of 2023
American history
9781009457040
Hardback
AUD $38.95 / NZD $42.95
Available March 2025
Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge
Key Features
• The author was granted unprecedented access for four years to one of the UK’s most prolific and successful paedophile hunting teams, through which he gained deep insight into the hunters’ personal reckoning with their work.
• Drawing on his own personal history, Mark employs an engaging and compelling first-person narrative while offering a sensitive and thoughtful analysis of the organisational dynamics of civil activist groups formed around an extreme and highly affective cause
Dark Justice Inside
the World of Paedophile Hunters
Management
About
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? Following four years of unprecedented access to the UK’s most prolific team of paedophile hunters, Mark de Rond offers balanced and insightful answers to the perplexing question of why these groups persist in using extreme methods to hold predators to account in view of less harmful alternatives. In doing so, he invites us to consider the societal impacts of paedophile hunters on our laws and institutions, as well as societal cohesion and safety.
About the Author
Mark de Rond is Professor of Organisational Ethnography at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is considered one of the most original and effective researchers in his field. He immerses himself in the life of his subjects, which include doctors and nurses at war, a ragtag band rowing the Amazon, peace activists and paedophile hunters. He seeks to engage with questions to which the answers can actually make a real difference to real people.
9781009457590
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Available February 2025
Ed Regis
Key Features
• Rigorously scrutinizes the many proposals for human interstellar travel based on current scientific principles and advanced technologies
• Brings readers ‘down to Earth’ by identifying and correcting the many invalid assumptions and explaining some hard facts about the difficulty, cost and, hazards of interstellar travel
• Shows that the propulsion systems which some theorists say will be used to get to the stars are in reality unproven, and are unlikely to be invented soon
Starbound
Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
Physics and astronomy
About
This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage ‘to the stars.’ From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, the idea of human interstellar travel being easy or even inevitable has entered our popular consciousness. In this book, Ed Regis critically examines whether humankind is bound for distant stars, or if instead we are bound to our own star, for the indefinite future. How do we overcome the main challenge that even the nearest stars are unimaginably far away? He explores the proposed technologies and the many practical aspects of undertaking an interstellar journey, finishing with his reflections on whether such a journey should be planned for.
About the Author
Ed Regis holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University and is the author of ten previous books about science and technology. He has also written for Scientific American, Wired, Nature, Harper’s, Omni, Discover, and Air & Space Smithsonian. He lives with his wife, Pam, in the Maryland mountains.
GIFTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS from Cambridge
University Press
Hardback | AUD $37.95 | NZD $41.95 9781009256605 The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time.
Hardback | AUD $29.95 | NZD $32.95 9781009392365
Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today – after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word – it's not always entirely clear what it means.
9781009568517
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available November 2024
Simon Sharpe
Key Features
• A policy insider’s compelling views on science, economics, and diplomacy showing how changes in each could lead to faster progress in addressing climate change
• Goes against conventional wisdom and contradicts some mainstream narratives about climate change solutions, providing a fresh perspective and new ideas
• This new paperback edition includes a brand new chapter on how international cooperation on climate change can be reconciled with economic and geopolitical competition
Five Times Faster
Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change – Updated
About
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. This is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe. This edition has been brought upto-date throughout, and includes a new chapter on how international cooperation on climate change can be reconciled with economic and geopolitical competition. It also includes a response to the question the book has most often provoked: ‘How can I help?’
About the Author
Simon Sharpe is Managing Director of S-Curve Economics, and Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team. He designed and led flagship international campaigns of the UK’s Presidency of the UN climate change talks (COP26) in 2020–2021; worked as the head of private office to a minister of energy and climate change in the UK government; and has served on diplomatic postings in China and India. He has published influential academic papers and created groundbreaking international initiatives in climate change risk assessment, economics, policy, and diplomacy.
Climate Change
NEW in Paperback
9781009569316
Hardback
AUD $36.95 / NZD $39.95
Available March 2025
Janet Todd, University of Cambridge
Key Features
• Janet Todd is a leading critic of Jane Austen and this accessible book distils the ‘essence’ of her thinking into readable and concentrated form, which can be read by anyone with an interest in Austen
• Combines astute literary reflection with memoirs of a reading life
• Shows how Austen’s books remain surprisingly applicable to contemporary settings, exploring themes such as self-regard and the obsession with our bodies, English patriotism and the destructive march of tourism
Living with Jane Austen
About
Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that ‘we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be’. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen’s own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen’s 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how - for over half a century - Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life. Part personal memoir, part expert interaction with all the letters, manuscripts and published novels, Janet Todd’s book reveals what living with Jane Austen has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen’s work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.
About the Author
Janet Todd has been thinking and writing about books for more than half a century. She has been a biographer, novelist, critic, editor and memoirist. In the 1970s, she helped open up the study of early women writers by beginning a journal and compiling encyclopedias before editing the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn and Jane Austen.
Advance praise
‘Intimate, knowledgeable and frequently unexpected, this is a book for all Jane Austen’s readers by one of the very best of those readers.’ Richard Cronin, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow
‘Sharing a mind is as exciting as sharing a bed. In this gentle, witty, semimemoir, Janet Todd reveals her eccentric encounters with books and shows us why the novels of Jane Austen should matter to all of us now.’ Miriam Margolyes
Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
9781108958165
Paperback
AUD $28.95 / NZD $31.95
Available November 2024
Eric Turkheimer, University of Virginia
Key Features
• Demonstrates how the naturenurture debate can be applied to our daily lives, from influencing how we parent to our own self-awareness
• Explains the basics of quantitative genetics of human twins, with examples, showing the reader what a heritability coefficient is, and how to compute it from simple twin data
About
There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments or our genes? Is nature the governing force behind our behaviour or is it nurture? While it is now widely agreed that it is a mixture of both, discussions continue as to which is the dominant influence. This unique volume presents a clear explanation of heritability, the ongoing nature versus nurture debate and the evidence that is currently available. Starting at the beginning of the modern nature-nurture debate, with Darwin and Galton, this book describes how evolution posed a challenge to humanity by demonstrating that humans are animals, and how modern social science was necessitated when humans became an object of natural science. It clearly sets out the most common misconceptions such as the idea that heritability means that a trait is ‘genetic’ or that it is a justification for eugenics.
About the Author
Eric Turkheimer is a Clinical Psychologist and the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Eric studies how interactions between genes and environments shape the development of human behaviour and has explored the scientific and philosophical basis of the nature-nurture debate for thirty-eight years. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association (2012), a winner of the James Shields Award for Twin Research (2009), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
9781316512012
Hardback
AUD $48.95 / NZD $52.95
Available November 2024
Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University
David A. Hopkins, Boston College
Key Features
• Examines the growing ‘diploma divide’ separating Democratic and Republican voters
• Traces the evolution of the culture war, placing contemporary controversies over movies, music, and media in historical context
• Takes an objective and analytical approach, with takeaways for conservative, liberal, and moderate readers
Polarized by Degrees
How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War
Transformed American Politics
Politics
About
Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized the nation’s political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war. In a sequel to their award-winning collaboration Asymmetric Politics, Grossmann and Hopkins draw on an extensive variety of evidence to explore how these changes have affected both major parties. They show that the Democrats have become the home of highly-educated citizens with progressive social views who prefer credentialed experts to make policy decisions, while Republicans have become the populist champions of white voters without college degrees who increasingly distrust teachers, scientists, journalists, universities, non-profit organizations, and even corporations. The result of this new “diploma divide” between the parties is an increasingly complex world in which everything is about politics – and politics is about everything.
About the Authors
Matt Grossmann
Matt Grossmann is Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He serves as Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and Contributor to FiveThirtyEight. He is author of six books, including How Social Science Got Better (2021) and Asymmetric Politics (2021).
David A. Hopkins
David A. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is the author of Red Fighting Blue (2017) and the co-author of Asymmetric Politics (2021) and Presidential Elections. His political analysis has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and Bloomberg Opinion.
9781009523394
Paperback
AUD $46.95 / NZD $50.95
Available January 2025
Robin Derricourt, University of New South Wales
Key Features
• Presents a narrative of five major innovations in human history
• Identifies the multiple impacts on society arising from a single innovation
• Covers different examples across time and space, moving readers away from a presentist and Eurocentric model of history
Five Innovations That Changed Human History
Transitions and Impacts
Archaeology
About
We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human history, we might ask: which innovations brought about truly significant and long-lasting transformations? Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, Robin Derricourt explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on multiple aspects of human lives. The topics presented are the taming and control of fire, the domestication of the horse,and its later association with the wheeled vehicle, the invention of writing in early civilisations, the creation of the printing press and the printed book, and the revolution of wireless communication with the harnessing of radio waves. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Derricourt’s survey of key innovations makes us consider what we mean by long-term change, and how the modern world fits into the human story.
About the Authors
Robin Derricourt is an honorary professor of history at the University of New South Wales and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His previous books in archaeology and history include Inventing Africa, Antiquity Imagined, Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions, and Unearthing Childhood: Young Lives in Prehistory, which won the 2019 PROSE Award in Ancient History and Archaeology.
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