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| 365 DAYS WITH FAMOUS NEW ZEALANDERS [Helga Neubauer & Wolfgang Vorbeck] For every day of the year a short biography -- with a photograph of a famous New Zealander. { 370pp, 160x160mm, August 2008; HB, £14.99, 1877339180:9781877339189 , NZVP Books & Calendars Ltd } |
| ALAM DIARIES : Volume 6: 1355-1356 / 1976/1977 [Assadollah Alam; Edited by Alinaghi Alikhani] Text in Persian. The Diaries of Assadollah Alam are probably the most important document about the inner workings of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi period. This is the complete unabridged work. A summary English translation was published in 1992. { 560pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; HB, £26.99, 1588140415:9781588140418 , IBEX Publishers } |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN : The Persistent Illusion of Transience [Ze'ev Rosenkranz & Barbara Wolff (eds)] This beautifully designed book features a significant number of previously unreleased documents and photographs from the Albert Einstein Archives and links them together with short introductions to chapters about Einstein’s private life, his scientific achievements and his political activities. The new volume represents a substantially enlarged English edition of a title originally published as a version to supplement the permanent exhibition on Albert Einstein at the Jewish National and University Library. This book is based on a book entitled 'Albert Einstein -- derrière l’image', published by the Musée Historique de Berne in 2005. REVIEW: "This book has been developed with love, the photos are astonishing." -- Die Zeit. "Of all the books dedicated to the memory of Albert Einstein, this is surely one of the most beautiful". -- the weekly paper of the German Bundestag. { 263pp, 250x320mm, May 2007; HB, £51.50, 965493325X:9789654933254 , Hebrew University Magnes Press } |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY [Nicholas Rescher] Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a contribution to German-American cultural interaction and as a contribution to the history of philosophical ideas. { 342pp, 155x215mm, July 2007; HB, £71.99, 3938793597:9783938793596 , Ontos Verlag } |
| BEATRICE EDGELL : Pioneer Woman Psychologist [Elizabeth R Valentine] Beatrice Edgell was a leading player in the early days of British psychology, and her achievements as ‘first woman’ in so many respects, make her life and work of interest and significance, both to the history of British psychology and to the history of women in science. Despite this, she is relatively little known. Her life leaps off the pages as someone who was competent but also caring, generous and courteous, with a certain dignity but also a lightness of touch and a sense of humour. Although during her life, she published a substantial amount of work (writing three books and about thirty articles), there is relatively little personal material available. Her work is the focus of this book, as indeed it was of her life. The author has set it in the context of the developments and organisations of which she was a part, and to draw attention to the many interesting and important people with whom she came into contact. This book explores the early history of British psychology and sheds light on one of the relatively unknown key figures to have played a significant role in its early stages. { 233pp, 180x260mm, May 2006; HB, £45.99, 1594543895:9781594543890 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| CHURCHILL & SPAIN : The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945 [Richard Wigg] Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. "Churchill and Spain" examines why Franco’s regime was alone among Europe's "Big Three" Fascist dictatorships in being able to survive beyond the end of the Second World War, and to what extent Churchill’s wartime policies enabled Franco to remain in control of Spain. Richard Wigg draws upon Foreign Office documents and reports -- many of which remained secret until the 1990s or only became available in 2005 under the UK Freedom of Information Act -- and the wartime papers of Churchill and Samuel Hoare, Britain’s special envoy to Madrid, to investigate this important aspect of Spanish and British history. The book explores the political, economic and diplomatic relations between Spain and Britain during the Second World War and explains how Churchill's lenient policies towards Franco helped significantly in the survival of Franco's regime after the war. In particular, this work demonstrates how the tolerance shown towards Spain's wartime trading in wolfram allowed the rebuilding of the country’s gold reserves, which proved crucial in enabling Franco’s Spain to endure post-war international isolation. This book, originally published to great acclaim in 2005, and published now for the first time as a paperback, is essential reading for scholars and students of European twentieth-century history, as well as all those interested in Churchill's international role in the Second World War. REVIEW: "A fascinating study of Churchill and of the dire impact of personal relationships on high politics." -- Times Literary Supplement "An important addition to Churchill studies." -- Sir Martin Gilbert { 253pp, 152x229mm, July 2008; PB, £19.50, 1845192834:9781845192839 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| CONSTANCIA DE LA MORA IN WAR & EXILE : International Voice for the Spanish Republic [Soledad Fox] Her fame seemed guaranteed by the compelling story of her life. She had been an aristocrat turned Communist, a celebrated author, and an international political figure whose acquaintances and collaborators included Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Tina Modotti, Vittorio Vidali, and Anna Seghers among many others. Yet, surprisingly, instead of remaining a heroine of the Republic, Constancia de la Mora’s memory somehow faded from Republican history. This book sets out to explore the life of this privileged woman who unexpectedly cast in her lot with that of the Spanish people. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. { 219pp, 152x229mm, December 2006; HB, £35.00, 1845191668:9781845191665 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| DARK & THE BRIGHT : Memoirs, 1911-1989 [Hilde Spiel] The author, journalist, and grand dame of Austrian literature (as she was known in her own lifetime), Hilde Spiel, was born in Vienna in 1911. She emigrated to London in 1936, returning to her Austria for the first time in 1946 as correspondent for the New Statesman. Beginning during her long years of emigration, she created a series of impressive works in both English and German novels such as Flute and Drums and The Darkened Room, her biography of Fanny von Arnstein, several volumes of stories, literary essays and critical works, as well as translations of works by renowned English poets, novelists and dramatists. For twenty years she was Austrian correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Weltwoche, and from 1937 onward an active member of International PEN. She later became general secretary and then vice-president of Austrian PEN. In the early 1960s she resettled in Austria for good, despite her awareness that the chasm between those who had stayed at home and those who had emigrated would never again close completely. In her later years she was honoured with several important literary prizes. Her memoirs, a microcosm of literary and political life in Europe during the upheavals of the twentieth century, not only vividly portray Hilde Spiel as an individual and an intellectual of her time, but also convey the conflicting forces in the lives of Europeans during and after the years of the Second World War. { 444pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; PB, £23.50, 1572411546:9781572411548 , Ariadne Press } |
| DAVID DAICHES : A Celebration of His Life & Work [William Baker & Michael Lister (eds)] David Daiches (1912-2005) was the first Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His distinguished career over more than half a century encompassed Universities on both sides of the Atlantic. His publications were prolific, extending to over one hundred books, three hundred articles, media and television, plus recordings. This Celebration of His Life and Work will include essays on his literary achievements in the areas of Scottish Literature, the Novel, Poetry and New/Historical Criticism and the American connection, and the academic as populariser, by distinguished scholars and critics. The book will appeal to historians of twentieth century literary and cultural criticism, the History of twentieth-century Universities, students of Scottish and American Literature, and the relationship between the academic and journalism in the twentieth century. { 295pp, 152x229mm, September 2007; HB, £55.00, 1845191595:9781845191597 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON HEALTH IN INDIA [Gerrard Vallee (ed)] This is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale’s forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, analysed returns, and did much of the final writing, going on to promote the implementation of its recommendations. In this volume a gradual shift of attention can be seen from the health of the army to that of the civilian population. Famine and epidemics were frequent and closely interrelated occurrences. To combat them, Nightingale recommended a comprehensive set of sanitary measures, and educational and legal reforms, to be overseen by a public health agency. Skilful in implementing the expertise, influence, and power of others, she worked with her impressive network of well-placed collaborators, having them send her information and meet with her back in London. The volume includes Nightingale’s work on the royal commission itself, related correspondence, numerous published pamphlets, articles and letters to the editor, and correspondence with her growing network of viceroys, governors of presidencies, and public health experts. Working with British collaborators, she began this work; over time Nightingale increased her contact with Indian nationals and promoted their work and associations. { 1024pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; HB, £88.50, 0889204683:9780889204683 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA : Mathematician & Martyr [Michael Deakin] In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or Beirut is today. She achieved fame not only in her special field, but also as a philosopher, religious thinker, and teacher who attracted a large popular following. Her life ended tragically in violence at the hands of a rampaging mob of Christian fanatics, who killed her for her "pagan" beliefs, some say at the instigation of St. Cyril of Alexandria. This is the first biography of Hypatia to integrate all aspects of her life. Mathematician Michael Deakin emphasises that, though she was a philosopher, she was first and foremost a mathematician and astronomer of great accomplishment. In a fascinating narrative that brings to life a richly diverse ancient society, he describes her work so that the mathematics, presented in straightforward terms, finds its true place in the context of her life as a whole. Deakin supplies full detail on the historical, intellectual, and religious context of Hypatia's times. He also analyses the pattern of her life and thought, and finally gives an account of the events leading up to her lynch-mob execution. Although this outrageous crime has made Hypatia a powerful symbol of intellectual freedom and feminist aspiration to this day, Deakin makes clear that the important intellectual contributions of her life's work should not be overshadowed by her tragic death. REVIEW: "...this is a useful book, particularly given the fact that the sources are included." -- The Mathematical Association of America Online Reviews, August 20, 2007. { 231pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; HB, £18.99, 1591025206:9781591025207 , Prometheus Books } |
| LIFE & TIMES OF RICHARD CASTRO : Bridging a Cultural Divide [Richard Gould] Hispanic leader Richard Castro was not above a good street fight. Denver police beat him bloody during a 1960s confrontation, and political rivals later shot him and bombed his home. But he emerged from the early struggles of Denver's Hispanic movement -- el Movimento -- to become one of Colorado's most important political figures. During his ten years as a state representative and, later, as a key ally of Denver mayor Federico Pena, Castro personified the Hispanic community's new-found political power. "The Life and Times of Richard Castro" traces Castro's path from the streets of Denver to the chambers of the State Capital. It also chronicles a community's coming of age -- an event that transformed politics and society in Colorado and the West. { 280pp, 155x230mm, November 2007; PB, £16.99, 0942576500:9780942576504 , University Press of Colorado (Colorado Historical Society) } |
| LIFE & TIMES OF THOMAS BALOGH : A Macaw Among Mandarins [June Morris] Thomas Balogh (1905-1985) had a conspiratorial nature and deliberately kept to the shadows so that his substantial role in political life has been little known. His predictions were usually right and he looked at economic and political issues from unconventional angles, but he was an exasperating man who thrived on controversy. He made many enemies and had numerous fallings-out, especially with the civil service, and this affected the way his advice was perceived. This first and only biography covers his life and work: from his youth in Budapest, to his coming to Britain in 1930 and being taken up by Keynes; his advance to being a well known if highly controversial political economist; his reputation as a brilliant though eccentric don at Balliol College, Oxford; his burgeoning interest in politics (both domestic and in underdeveloped countries); and the time of his greatest influence as economic advisor to his close friend Harold Wilson, and later as a Minister of State. The author provides new insights into the Labour Party and Labour government policies between the mid 1950s until 1982. Balogh was such an acute observer of the values and mores of the time that his diary comments throw new and entertaining light on social as well as on political life at the highest level. Interviews with over thirty of the most eminent people in the political/economic world of his era also throw new light on the issues and events of the period. REVIEW: "The author successfully conveys the atmosphere of Whitehall in those troubled years, and captures the flavour of the times with uncanny accuracy." -- Anthony Howard. { 228pp, 152x229mm, April 2007; HB, £39.50, 1845191536:9781845191535 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| MARGARET LAURENCE -- A GIFT OF GRACE : A Spiritual Biography [Noelle Boughton] A stunning book that captures the spirituality and talent of one of Canada's most celebrated writers, Noelle Boughton's biography of Margaret Laurence communicates a great deal about the decency and complexity of both the author and Canadian culture. Like most authors, Margaret Laurence's work drew on the community in which she lived, and the culture of the area informed the tone and content of her work. This original work traces the spiritual core and growth of one of Canada's most powerful artists. Starting from her roots in a middle-class, United Church, small-town prairie milieu, this beautifully wrought book traces Laurence's connection with her home town and its people and explores the themes of community, spirituality and social justice as they were expressed in her life and work. This is an indispensable guide to the life and development of one of Canada's most treasured writers. { 208pp, 125x180mm, October 2006; PB, £9.99, 0889614598:9780889614598 , Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) } |
| MARIETTA BLAU: STARS OF DISINTEGRATION : Biography of a Pioneer of Particle Physics [Brigitte Strohmaier & Robert Rosner] This book depicts the life of the Austrian physicist Marietta Blau (1894-1970). She was considered extraordinarily gifted by Albert Einstein and was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Physics, twice by Erwin Schrödinger. On the other hand, no obituary was ever published on her. At the Institut für Radiumforschung in Vienna, the 'Radium Institute', Marietta Blau developed the photographic method of detecting nuclear particles, a method which played a prominent part in nuclear physics in the following decades. By means of this technique new fundamental particles, the pion and the K-meson, were discovered in the 1940s. The biographical part of the book which includes personal recollections by friends, describes Marietta Blau's life in Vienna before 1938, her emigration to Mexico, her move to the USA in 1944, her work at leading research centers in the US, her return to Vienna in 1960, and the last decade of her life in her hometown, where she continued to work at the Radium Institute for four years. One article is dedicated to her scientific work. Her pre-war research culminated in the discovery of 'disintegration stars', which consist of the tracks of nuclei or nuclear fragments on photographic plates, and made visible for the first time the reactions of atomic nuclei with particles of cosmic radiation. A bibliography of Marietta Blau's scientific publications as well as references to selected literature are also included. Brigitte Strohmaier, born in Vienna in 1948, teaches at the Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik of the University of Vienna (formerly Institut für Radiumforschung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences). { 220pp, 140x215mm, June 2006; PB, £17.99, 1572411473:9781572411470 , Ariadne Press } |
| MAX SHACHTMAN & HIS LEFT : A Socialist's Odyssey Through the 'American Century' [Peter Drucker] Trotsky's "commissar for foreign affairs" was a leader in the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti, an organiser of the 1934 Minneapolis general strike, and a key figure in the 1960s civil rights, labour, and peace movements. { 346pp, 140x215mm, January 1994; PB, £19.50, 1573923451:9781573923453 , Prometheus Books } |
| PRATTLER’S TALE : Bengal, Marxism, Governance [Ashok Mitra] Offering a thought-provoking, incisive analysis of Bengal and India, these memoirs, translated for the first time into English, spanning the 1930s to today, bring contemporary India alive. Mitra mercilessly dissects the middle class, the 'bhadralok', of which he is a member. He analyses the fledgling democracy of India, taking us through the heady days of state planning on the Soviet model, criticising the worldwide mantra of globalisation and liberalisation which he believes aggravates poverty. He held considerable positions of power within the establishment, including the office of economic adviser to prime minister Indira Gandhi. He provides much insider information on the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971. Most intriguing are his thoughts of being a Marxist in a poor country and his discussion of his stint as minister for nine years. { 473pp, 155x230mm, February 2007; HB, £40.00, 8185604800:9788185604800 , Stree } |
| RALPH HARRIS IN HIS OWN WORDS : The Selected Writings of Lord Harris [Ralph Harris. Foreword by Lord Howe of Aberavon] When Lord Harris of High Cross (Ralph Harris) died, in October 2006 at the age of 81, the tributes to him described him as one of the 'men who changed Britain'. Friends and opponents alike acknowledged that Ralph, in his role as General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and in partnership with his friend, Arthur Seldon, had been instrumental in providing the ideas and the intellectual entrepreneurship that sparked the 'Thatcher revolution' of the 1980s, transforming the British economy from one of the worst performers among developed countries to one of the best. This book selects from Ralph's considerable opus, revealing that economics need not always be a 'dismal science'. Economic analysis was, in the hands of Ralph Harris, deployed to great effect in plain language and with a wit and wisdom that made it fun. Colin Robinson's Introduction places Ralph Harris' work in context and provides an invaluable insight into the author's beliefs and personality. This book will be warmly welcomed and read by academics and researchers of economics, politics and the history of ideas as well as those interested in the work of the Institute of Economic Affairs. { 343pp, 155x230mm, March 2008; PB, £25.00, 0255366213:9780255366212 , Institute of Economic Affairs } |
| RANDOLPH CALDECOTT : His Books & Illustrations for Young Readers [Robert J Desmarais] Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the picture book genre. In celebration of this remarkable achievement, Desmarais offers a convincing account of how Caldecott established a new standard of taste in children's picture books. The featured books are from the author's personal collection. Co-published with the University of Alberta Libraries. { 128pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; HB, £23.99, 1551952092:9781551952093 / PB, £14.99, 1551952076:9781551952079 , University of Alberta Press } |
| REBEL ON THE ROAD : And Why I Was Never Neutral [Michael Frome] Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist, a premier environmental muckraker. His memoir is a reflection on years spent teaching himself and others to write subjectively, live purposefully, and age gracefully. { 343pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; HB, £19.50, 1931112657:9781931112659 , Truman State University Press } |
| SUMMER OF ORDINARY WAYS : A Memoir [Nicole Lea Helget] Practising baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the country road with semi-trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of 'The Summer of Ordinary Ways'. { 182pp, 140x210mm, November 2005; HB, £13.50, 0873515439:9780873515436 , Minnesota Historical Society Press (Borealis Books) } |
| WEAVE OF LIFE : A Dalit Woman's Memoirs [Urmila Pawar. Translated from the Marathi by Maya Pandit] Translated for the first time into English, this writer's autobiographical work, Ayadan [Baskets] made publishing history right from its moment of publication in 2004. Outspoken, confronting the issue of domestic conflicts squarely, she talks of what it is like to be an educated Dalit (untouchable) woman. Pawar engages with issues of identity and selfhood, caste/class consciousness, changing expressions of patriarchy and Dalit women's participation in emancipatory struggles and the dead ends reached in Dalit politics where meaningful liberation is not fought for but the seizure of political power through opportunism ( the Dalit woman politician Mayawati was elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, with a population over 130 million with the help of the upper castes). Pawar’s memoirs reveals a complexly constructed divided self as well as the troubled and complex interface between feminist and Dalit movements. As a young girl brought up by her mother, a single parent, her perception of the residual and newly emergent forms of patriarchy, religion, familial relationships, violence and liberation is intense and acute. { 350pp, 145x225mm, September 2008; PB, £15.00, 8185604908:9788185604909 , Stree } |