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NORTON AUTUMN 2018
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Accessory to War
The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and
the Military
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
An exploration of the age-old complicity between sky watchers
and war fighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for
People in a Hurry.
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship
between science and military power, “the world’s best science
communicator” (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil
deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods
and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is an astro- war. “The overlap is strong, and it’s a two- way street”, say the
physicist with the American Museum of
authors, because the astrophysicists and military planners care
Natural History, director of its world-
famous Hayden Planetarium, host about many of the same things: multi- spectral detection, rang-
of the hit radio and TV show StarTalk ing, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion and access
and an award-winning author. AVIS
to space. Tyson and Lang call it a “curiously complicit” alliance.
LANG edited Tyson’s Natural History
magazine column, Universe, from 2002 Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled war-
until 2008, as well as his anthology fare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate
examination of the intersection of science, technology, indus-
Frontier.
Also by Neil deGrasse Tyson: try and power that will introduce Tyson’s millions of fans to yet
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic another dimension of how the universe has shaped our lives and
Quandaries (ISBN 978 0 393 35038 8)
our world.
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate
Frontier (ISBN 978 0 393 35037 1) Praise for Astrophysics For People in a Hurry (ISBN 978 0 393 60939 4):
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of “The style is vintage Tyson–engaging, chatty and littered with historical and
Cosmic Evolution (ISBN 978 0 393 linguistic anecdotes...” Times Higher Education
35039 5) “In an increasingly insular world, [Astrophysics For People in a Hurry] is a
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of welcome window onto a much bigger picture.” The Sunday Times
America’s Favorite Planet (ISBN 978 0 “...a collection of the best and most thrilling moments; astrophysics’ great-
393 35036 4) est hits.” The Guardian
“In Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, [Tyson] shares his awe, encapsulating
everything known about the universe in 12 brief chapters, and giving a memo-
rable spin to standard facts.” New Scientist
“...genuinely accessible.” Summer Reading 2017, The Sunday Times
“Written in a conversational style, [Astrophysics for People in a Hurry] pro-
vides an accessible and fascinating introduction to a mindbending subject.”
Summer’s Hottest Reads 2017, The Daily Mail
“This book topped the nonfiction charts in America: not only a measure of
Tyson’s standing as the popular face of space science in the US but also
testimony to an admirably digestible introduction to a Big Subject.”
Books of the Year 2017: Science, The Times
“...[Tyson] reveals a path through complex thought and theory in astrophys-
ics for the reader...” The 12 Books of Christmas 2017, BBC Sky at Night
October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 06444 5 • 448pp • 155 x 235mm
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Aroused
The History of Hormones and How They Control Just
About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein
A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-
old quest to control them.
Metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system,
fighting, fleeing, puberty and sex: these are just a few of the things
our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit
and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on
a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals
from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a
RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, the author twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles.
of Get Me Out (ISBN 978 0 393
Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medi-
33906 2), is an adjunct professor at
Columbia University and a lecturer cal research and humorous details, Aroused introduces the leading
at Yale University. Her writing has scientists who made life-changing discoveries about the hormone
appeared in The New York Times and
imbalances that ail us, as well as the charlatans who used those
the Psychology Today blog, amongst
others. discoveries to peddle false remedies.
August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 23960 7 • 336pp • 155 x 235mm
End of the Megafauna
The Fate of The World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and
Strangest Animals
Ross D.E. MacPhee
Illustrated by Peter Schouten
The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest
animals on earth.
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures—“megafauna”—
that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth.
With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone.
Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the
Paleomammologist ROSS D. E. MACPHEE
disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths, examining the
is curator of mammals at the American extinction theories, weighing the evidence and presenting his
Museum of Natural History. His work has conclusions. He comments on how past extinctions can shed light
appeared in Science and Nature, and he
has conducted more than forty paleonto-
on future losses and on the possibility of bringing back extinct
logical expeditions in fourteen countries. species through genetic engineering. Gorgeous four-colour illus-
trations bring these megabeasts back to life in vivid detail.
November • £25.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 24929 3 • 256pp • 203 x 254mm • 78 illustrations
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
Peril and Promise in a Hyper-Connected World
Bruce Schneier
A best-selling author and renowned security expert reveals the rise
and risks of a new Goliath: our massively networked, world-sized web.
We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of intercon-
nected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the
“World-Sized Web”. It includes everything from driverless cars to smart
thermostats, from billboards that respond to specific people to drones
equipped with their own behavioural algorithms. While the World-Sized
Web carries enormous potential, Schneier argues that we are unprepared
for the vulnerabilities it brings. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now
The best-selling author of the “excel- crash your car, pacemaker and home security system and everyone else’s.
lent” (The Observer) Data and Goliath Click Here to Kill Everybody explores the risks and security implica-
(ISBN 978 0 393 35217 7), BRUCE
SCHNEIER is the CTO of IBM’s Resilient tions of the World-Sized Web and lays out common-sense policies that
Systems, a fellow at Harvard’s will allow us to enjoy the benefits of this new omnipotent age without
Berkman Center and a fellow at the surrendering ourselves entirely to our creation.
New America Foundation’s Open
Technology Institute .
October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 60888 5 • 288pp • 155 x 235mm
Einstein’s Monsters
The Life and Times of Black Holes
Chris Impey
The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understand-
ing the history and future of our universe.
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every
galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein’s Monsters, Chris
Impey builds on this profound discovery to explore questions at the cut-
ting edge of cosmology, such as what happens if you travel into a black
hole and whether the galaxy or its black hole came first.
Impey chronicles the role black holes have played in theoretical
physics. He then describes the phenomena that scientists have wit-
CHRIS IMPEY is a distinguished profes- nessed while observing black holes: dozens of stars swarming around
sor in the Department of Astronomy at the dark object at the centre of our galaxy; black holes performing
the University of Arizona and the criti-
cally acclaimed author of Beyond (ISBN gravitational waltzes with normal stars; the cymbal clash of two black
978 0 393 35215 3), How It Began, holes colliding, releasing ripples in spacetime. Einstein’s Monsters is the
(ISBN 978 0 393 34386 1) and How incredible story of one of the most enigmatic entities in nature.
It Ends, (ISBN 978 0 393 33998 7) as
well as two astronomy textbooks. November • £22.00 • ISBN 978 1 324 00093 8 • 304pp • 155 x 235mm • 68 illustrations
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Aladdin
A New Translation
Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta
Translated by Yasmine Seale
A dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice,
tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.
Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a
simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagi-
nation—and occasionally dark themes—now comes to vibrant new life.
“In the capital of one of China’s vast and wealthy kingdoms”, begins
Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls
prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess.
PAULO LEMOS HORTA is a professor One of the best-loved folktales of all time, Aladdin has been cap-
of literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, and turing the imagination of readers, illustrators and filmmakers since
is the author of Marvellous Thieves.
YASMINE SEALE is a writer and trans- an eighteenth-century French publication first added the tale to The
lator from Arabic and French, whose Arabian Nights. Here is an elegant, eminently readable rendition of
writing has appeared in Harpers, Aladdin in what is destined to be a classic for decades to come.
The Nation and the London Review
of Books among other publications.
November • £17.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 516 8 • 144pp • 140 x 210mm • 13 illustrations
The Oresteia
Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes at Athens
Aeschylus
Translated by Oliver Taplin
This spellbinding, ground-breaking translation re-energises
Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice and the
efforts to bring peace after generations of strife.
One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia tril-
ogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of
Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband’s return
from war to commit a terrible act of retribution. The next plays, radi-
cally retitled here as The Women at the Graveside and Orestes in Athens,
OLIVER TAPLIN is emeritus professor deal with the aftermath of the regicide, Orestes’ search to avenge his
of classics at the University of father’s death and his ceaseless torment. A powerful discourse on the
Oxford. His books range from The
Stagecraft of Aeschylus to Pots & formation of democracy, The Oresteia illuminates the tensions between
Plays. He has recently published loyalty to one’s family and to the community. In this classic for future
translations of Euripides’ Medea generations, Oliver Taplin captures the lyricism of the original.
and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
and Other Tragedies. August • £21.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 466 6 • 224pp •140 x 210mm
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The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Translated and Edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine
One of the most important poetry publications in years, The Collected
Poems of Bertolt Brecht appears in English for the first time.
Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth
century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very
rare phenomenon, a great poet”. Hugely prolific, Brecht wrote some
2,000 poems and songs—though fewer than half were published in his
lifetime and early editions were extremely selective. Now, award-winning
translators Tom Kuhn and David Constantine give us the most compre-
hensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between
BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956) was 1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of
a German poet, playwright and life, the desire for better and more of it” and reflect the technical vir-
theatre director. TOM KUHN teaches
at the University of Oxford, where
tuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the
he is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. untrammelled forces of love and erotic desire. The Collected Poems of
DAVID CONSTANTINE is a freelance Bertolt Brecht is a monumental achievement and a reclamation.
writer and translator.
Also available: Love Poems (ISBN 978 0 87140 856 3).
November • £35.00 • ISBN 978 0 87140 767 2 • 1456pp • 155 x 235mm • A Liveright book
The Hebrew Bible
A Translation With Commentary
Robert Alter
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning
translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original.
A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert
Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reani-
mates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing
its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful
prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary
power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of
ROBERT ALTER’s translation of the Hebrew Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom
Bible has won the PEN Center Literary
Award for Translation. Alter is the
of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these
Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling
Comparative Literature at the University immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which qui-
of California, Berkeley.
etly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of
the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.
December • £90.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 29249 7 • 3,500pp • 155 x 235mm • 3 maps
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Elegy Landscapes
Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
Stanley Plumly
A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English
Romantic painters.
Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of
two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W.
Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime
and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed
the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate,
close-up perspective.
Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’
Winner of the Truman Capote Award and lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though
the Paterson Poetry Prize, STANLEY PLUMLY connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in
teaches at the University of Maryland.
Also available: the “obsessive, intricate, achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the
intimate, and brilliant” (The Washington relationship between artist and artwork, Elegy Landscapes takes
Post) Posthumous Keats (ISBN 978 0 393 a wide-angled look at the philosophy of the sublime.
33772 3) and The Immortal Evening (ISBN
978 0 393 35306 8). September • £23.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 65150 8 • 208pp • 140 x 235mm
8 pages of illustrations
The Ghost Script
A Graphic Novel
Jules Feiffer
Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily pro-
phetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My
Mother trilogy.
Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in
this epic finale. In The Ghost Script, he plunges us into the blowzy,
boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts, Reds,
pinkos, starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind,
the renamed “Cousin Joseph”, running an underground clearing
JULES FEIFFER is a cartoonist, playwright, house for victims of the entertainment world’s purge. Stumbling
screenwriter, children’s book author and his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-
illustrator, and member of the American talking good guy, always a step or two behind, in this story of plots,
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Also available: Kill My Mother (ISBN 978 counterplots and goon violence. In this satiric assault on America’s
1 63149 106 1), “perfection of its kind” past and present, Feiffer shows how the arc of history evolves from
(New Statesman) and Cousin Joseph starry dreams to thwarted and sold-out dreams.
(ISBN 978 1 63149 065 1).
August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 313 3 • 160pp • 226 x 287mm • A Liveright book
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Home After Dark
A Novel
David Small
A savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry, like no other
work of recent fiction or film.
Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is
a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence
in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking classics such as The Lord
of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his
mother, follows his father to California in search of a dream. Forced
to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a
dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of
DAVID SMALL, author of The New York
malicious boys who bully Russell for being “queer”. Rescued from
Times best-selling Stitches (ISBN 978
0 393 33896 6), is the recipient of the his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immi-
Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal grant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays them by running
and the E.B. White Award.
away with their restaurant’s proceeds. Told through thousands
of spliced images, Home After Dark is a new form of literature, a
shocking graphic interpretation of cinema verité.
October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 87140 315 5 • 400pp • 178 x 229mm • A Liveright book
Kafkaesque
Fourteen Short Stories
Peter Kuper
Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerising
interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.
Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illus-
trating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master’s dark humour,
Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths.
Working from new translations of the classic texts, Kuper has reim-
agined these iconic stories for the twenty-first century, using setting
and perspective to comment on contemporary issues.
Long-time lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper’s innova-
PETER KUPER is a visiting professor tive interpretations, while Kafka novices will discover a haunting
at Harvard University. He frequently introduction to some of the great writer’s most beguiling stories.
contributes cartoons to The New
Yorker and is the illustrator of Mad Kafkaesque stands somewhere between adaptation and wholly
magazine’s “Spy vs. Spy”. His previ- original creation, going beyond a simple illustration of Kafka’s
ous graphic novel, Ruins, won an words to become a stunning work of art.
Eisner Award.
October • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 63562 1 • 160pp • 155 x 235mm
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These Truths
A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades,
award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of
the origins and rise of a divided nation.
The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths”, Jefferson
called them—political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of
the people. And it rests, too, “on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and
unflinching”, writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into
the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation’s history.
Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks
JILL LEPORE is the David Woods whether the course of events has proven the nation’s founding truths or
Kemper ‘41 Professor of American belied them. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American
History at Harvard University and a
staff writer at The New Yorker. Her history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of tech-
many books include the bestsell- nological progress and moral anguish. This spellbinding chronicle offers
ing The Secret History of Wonder an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.
Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist
for the National Book Award.
October • £30.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 63524 9 • 960pp • 155 x 235mm • 127 illustrations
Empress
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Ruby Lal
Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Her legend still
lives, but her story was lost—until now.
In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble
and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite
wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute
politician as well as a devoted partner, she issued imperial orders; coins
of the realm bore her name. When Jahangir was imprisoned by a rebel-
lious nobleman, the Empress led troops into battle and rescued him.
The only woman to acquire the stature of empress in her male-dom-
RUBY LAL is professor of South inated world, Nur was also a talented dress designer and innovative
Asian history at Emory University. architect whose work inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. Nur’s confident
She is the author of Coming of Age
in Nineteenth Century India and assertion of talent and power is revelatory; it far exceeded the author-
Domesticity and Power in the Early ity of her female contemporaries, including Elizabeth I. Here, she finally
Mughal World. receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography.
August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 23934 8 • 320pp • 155 x 235mm • 8 pages of illustrations
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The Art of C.G. Jung
The Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung
A lavishly illustrated volume of C.G. Jung’s visual work, from
drawing to painting to sculpture.
The landmark publication of C.G. Jung’s The Red Book spurred
enormous interest in Jung—not just as a founding figure in
modern psychology but also as a creative man with tremen-
dous figurative and ornamental flair and a vibrant eye for
colour. Expanding beyond that singular achievement, The
Art of C.G. Jung presents a comprehensive display of Jung’s
creative legacy, exploring through text and image Jung’s
Based in Zurich, THE FOUNDATION encounters with visual art as maker, collector and viewer.
OF THE WORKS OF C.G. JUNG was
established by the society of heirs While in his lifetime Jung did not wish to be considered an
of C.G. Jung in 2007 to maintain and “artist” and published his visual work anonymously, the images
develop the literary and creative
reproduced here demonstrate the attainment of fully realised
heritage of Jung and his wife, Emma
Jung-Rauschenbach. artistic ambitions. The Art of C.G. Jung beautifully mirrors the intel-
lectual and personal development so renowned in Jung’s writings.
November • £60.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 25487 7 • 269pp • 241 x 279mm • 254 illustrations
Help!
The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and The Magic of Collaboration
Thomas Brothers
The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the
world’s most celebrated musical acts.
The Beatles and Duke Ellington’s Orchestra stand as the two greatest
examples of collaboration in music history. Thomas Brothers delivers a
portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the coop-
erative method at the foundation of these two artist-groups was the
primary reason for their unmatched musical success.
While clarifying the historical record of who wrote what, with whom
and how, Brothers brings the past to life with photos, anecdotes and
THOMAS BROTHERS, a professor of more than thirty years of musical knowledge, and analysis of songs from
music at Duke University, is the author “Strawberry Fields Forever” to “Chelsea Bridge”. Help! describes in rich
of the “convincing” (Daily Mail) Louis
Armstrong’s New Orleans (ISBN 978 0 393 detail the music and mastery of two cultural leaders whose popularity
33001 4) and the “wonderful” (Literary has never dimmed, and the process of collaboration that allowed them
Review) finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, to achieve an artistic vision greater than the sum of their parts.
Louis Armstrong, Master of
Modernism (ISBN 978 0 393 35080 7). November • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24623 0 • 155 x 235mm • 368pp • 30 Illustrations
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Essential Essays
Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Adrienne Rich
Edited by Sandra M. Gilbert
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly
political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s (1929-
2012) most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of
her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry,
race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today.
October • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 65236 9 • 352pp • 155 x 235mm
Because
A Lyric Memoir
Joshua Mensch
A gripping verse memoir that offers a compassionate and wrenching
account of the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse.
Because explores with extraordinary sophistication the toxic power
of adults who prey on the children in their care. An unflinching take
on the vulnerabilities and dangers of childhood, Because succumbs
neither to self-pity nor platitudes but instead finds consolation in
the healing power of its own narrative act.
August • £18.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 63522 5 • 96pp • 140 x 210mm
A Miscellany
E.E. Cummings
Edited by George James Firmage
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further
light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
Formally fractured and yet gleefully whole, E.E. Cummings’s (1894-1962)
ground breaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of lan-
guage. In A Miscellany his essays explore everything from Cubism to the
circus, analyse his poetic contemporaries and satirise New York society.
As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany “contain[s] a
great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today.
August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 87140 653 8 • 336pp • 127 x 203mm • A Liveright book
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After Emily
Two Remarkable Women and The Legacy of America’s
Greatest Poet
Julie Dobrow
The untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to
Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read American poet but the
story behind her work’s publication in 1890 is barely known.
After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd
and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham and the powerful liter-
ary legacy they shared. Mabel’s complicated relationships with the
Dickinsons—including her thirteen-year extramarital affair with Emily’s
JULIE DOBROW is a profes- brother, Austin—roiled the small town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Julie
sor and director of the Center
Dobrow has unearthed hundreds of primary sources to tell this compel-
for Interdisciplinary Studies at
Tufts University. Her writing has ling story and reveal the surprising impact Mabel and Millicent had on
appeared in publications such as the Emily Dickinson we know today.
The Boston Globe Magazine and
The Huffington Post.
November • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24926 2 • 155 x 235mm • 384pp
51 illustrations; 1 map
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Anne Boyd Rioux
Rediscover the beloved classic Little Women and its lasting power as
it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became
an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it
in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching
it, she has seen its effect on many others. In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, she
recounts Louisa May Alcott’s inspiration for the book and examines why
this tale set in the American Civil War has resonated through time.
Alcott’s novel has moved generations of women, amongst them writ-
ANNE BOYD RIOUX, a professor at the ers such as Simone de Beauvoir, J.K. Rowling, Cynthia Ozick and Ursula
University of New Orleans and author K. Le Guin. Rioux sees the novel’s beating heart in its portrayal of family
of Constance Fenimore Woolson
(ISBN 978 0 393 24509 7), and editor resilience and its look at the struggles of girls growing into women. In
of Miss Grief and Other Stories (ISBN gauging its current status, she shows why it remains a book with such
978 0 393 35200 9), has received power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives.
two National Endowment for the
Humanities awards. September • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 25473 0 • 352pp • 155 x 235mm • 30 illustrations
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Rampage
MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
James M. Scott
The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war
in the Pacific.
By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General
Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines.
He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard
in Manila, a city he loved dearly. But the Japanese had other ideas. While
their command had agreed to abandon Manila after the fall of Leyte, a
rogue Japanese admiral instructed his troops to fight to the death. The
result was the catastrophic destruction of the city, and a rampage that
JAMES M. SCOTT is the author of terrorised the civilian population. An estimated 100,000 civilians lost
Target Tokyo (ISBN 978 0 393 35227 their lives in a massacre as heinous as the “Rape of Nanking”.
6), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,
The War Below and The Attack on Based on extensive research, war-crimes testimony, after-
the Liberty. action reports and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the
most heart-breaking chapters of Pacific war history.
November • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24694 0 • 640pp • 155 x 235mm
16 pages of illustrations; 10 maps
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses
S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Edited by Elizabeth D. Samet
With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced
the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet.
Originally published in 1885 by Mark Twain, Ulysses Grant’s land-
mark memoir has been annotated by Elizabeth Samet in this lavish
edition. No previous edition combines such a sweep of histori-
cal and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet,
obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table.
Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or pre-
ELIZABETH D. SAMET is the author of senting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a
Leadership (ISBN 978 0 393 60366 8). Her
essays and reviews have been published richly annotated edition. Never has Grant’s transformation from
in various publications, including The New tanner’s son to military leader been more insightfully and pas-
York Times Magazine, The New York Times sionately explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the
Book Review and The New Republic.
150th anniversary of Grant’s 1868 presidential election.
November • £32.00 • ISBN 978 1 63149 244 0 • 1,024pp • 178 x 235mm • 83 illustrations • A Liveright book
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Blood & Ivy
The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Paul Collins
A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America’s
most celebrated university.
On 23 November 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest
men vanished. Dr George Parkman, who owned much of Boston’s West
End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard
Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbour but a
Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless ben-
efactor had not left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery
engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials, The Commonwealth
PAUL COLLINS is the author of of Massachusetts vs. John White Webster, Harvard’s professor of chem-
nine books of non-fiction. He is a istry. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbing and dismemberment;
Guggenheim Fellow and chair of
the English department at Portland it became a landmark in the use of medical forensics. Rich in characters
State University. and atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new
science and old money in one of America’s greatest murder mysteries.
August • £18.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24516 5 • 320pp • 155 x 235mm • 8 illustrations
Black Flags, Blue Waters
The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin
With tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches and high-seas intrigue,
Black Flags, Blue Waters reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy.
Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of piracy’s “Golden
Age”—spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s—when lawless
pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Eric Jay
Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these out-
rageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown and
then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish
glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this
ERIC JAY DOLIN is the author of period. Also brilliantly detailed are the pirates’ manifold enemies.
Leviathan (ISBN 978 0 393 33157 Upending misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin pro-
8) and Brilliant Beacons (ISBN
978 1 63149 250 1). He lives in vides this original account of the seafaring outlaws whose raids
Marblehead, Massachusetts, reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.
from which the pirate John Quelch
departed in 1703 and returned to in October • £21.00 • ISBN 978 1 63149 210 5 • 400pp • 155 x 235mm • 100 illustrations
1704, only to be hanged in Boston. A Liveright book
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American Eden
David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of
the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson
The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—physician whose dream to
build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.
When Dr David Hosack tilled America’s first botanical garden in the
Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn’t just dra-
matically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of
advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences.
A charismatic dreamer admired by the likes of Jefferson, Madison
and Humboldt, and intimate friends with both Hamilton and Burr, the
VICTORIA JOHNSON, a former Columbia professor devoted his life to inspiring Americans to pursue
Cullman Fellow, is currently an
medicine and botany with a rigour to rival Europe’s. Though he was
associate professor of urban policy
and planning at Hunter College in shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding fathers Hosack and his story
New York City where she teaches on remain unknown. Now Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack’s
the history of philanthropy.
tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact.
August • £23.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 419 2 • 448pp • 155 x 235mm
16 pages of illustrations • A Liveright book
Still Waters
The Secret World of Lakes
Curt Stager
A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world.
Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature
but because we are so much a part of it. While many of our effects on
the natural world today are new, from climate change to nuclear fall-
out, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds
reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the worlds hidden
beneath the surfaces of our most remarkable lakes, leading us on a
journey from the wilds of Siberia to the Sea of Galilee.
Through decades of first-hand investigations, Stager examines the
CURT STAGER is a professor of natu- significance of our impact on some of the world’s most iconic inland
ral sciences at Paul Smith’s College waters. Along the way he discovers the stories these lakes contain
in New York. He has published
in periodicals such as Science, about us. For him, lakes are not only mirrors reflecting our place in the
National Geographic and The New natural world but also windows into our history, culture and the primal
York Times. connections we share with all life.
August • £21.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 29216 9 • 304pp • 155 x 235mm • 37 photographs
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Wit’s End
What Wit Is, How It Works, And Why We Need It
James Geary
“A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between
waggishness and wisdom.” Stephen Fry
James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innova-
tion to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons
that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s
the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the
optical wit of artists and the metaphysical wit of philosophers.
In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a differ-
ent style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as
JAMES GEARY is the author of four pre-
vious books, including The New York
a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the
Times bestseller The World in a Phrase spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap and the
and is the deputy curator at Harvard heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Demonstrating that brevity really is
University’s Nieman Foundation for
Journalism. He is a sought-after
the soul of wit, Geary crafts each chapter from concise sections of 200,
speaker and avid juggler. 400 or 800 words. Entertaining and illuminating Wit’s End shows how wit
is much more than a sense of humour.
November • £14.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 25494 5 • 140 x 211mm • 128pp
Did You Just Eat That?
Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-
Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab
Paul Dawson & Brian Sheldon
A rollicking yet rigorous inquiry that follows the science of germs
into the kitchen, restaurant and everywhere else you eat and drink.
Did You Just Eat That? provides the answers to perennial ques-
tions about food and germs, such as whether electric hand dryers
spread fewer germs than paper towels or about picking a crisp off
the ground within five seconds of dropping it.
The authors show how they have determined everything from
how much bacteria gets transferred from sharing utensils to how
PAUL DAWSON is a professor at Clemson many microbes live on restaurant menus. They list their materi-
University whose work has been featured
als and methods, guide the reader through their results and offer
on NPR, CNN, Headlines News and MSNBC,
among other media outlets. BRIAN SHELDON explanations of food safety and microbiology. Written with humour,
is a professor emeritus in food microbiology this fascinating book reveals surprising answers to the weirdest and
at North Carolina State University.
most commonly debated questions about food and germs.
November • £14.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 60975 2 • 224pp • 155 x 210mm • Illustrated
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Bake Like a French Pastry Chef
Delectable Cakes, Perfect Tarts, Flaky Croissants,
and More
Michel de Rovira and Augustin Paluel-Marmont
Master the art of French baking with 70 accessible step-by-
step recipes.
Bake Like a French Pastry Chef addresses the secrets of French
pastry including how croissants get their flaky layers, the differ-
ence between pastry cream and Bavarian cream, what a Genoise
cake is and whether mille-feuilles can be made at home.
Created by the Parisian masters Michel et Augustin, this com-
prehensive guide starts from the batters, doughs and creams
MICHEL DE ROVIRA and AUGUSTIN PALUEL-
MARMONT are the co-founders of the that form the building blocks of French pastry and includes com-
Paris-based Michel et Augustin. These plete recipes from brioche to mousse-filled cakes. Step-by-step
two kooky cookies strive to share French instructions and tips give readers the confidence to achieve pastry
pastry know-how around the world.
perfection. For Francophiles and pastry lovers, this charming
manual covers the techniques taught in pastry schools worldwide.
September • Paper • £19.99 • ISBN 978 1 68268 194 7 • 304pp • 216 x 279mm • 70 colour photographs and illustrations
A Countryman Press book
Growing a Revolution
Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R. Montgomery
An inspiring vision for restoring the soil that feeds us all and turns
agriculture into a solution for environmental crises.
In Growing a Revolution, David R. Montgomery leads us on a journey to
see how innovative farmers are adopting complex rotations to restore
the soil, showing how agriculture can help solve our environmental woes.
“How can humanity feed its burgeoning billions when one-third of
agricultural soil is degraded? Pondering that question propelled geolo-
gist David Montgomery on a three-decade, six-continent survey of
farmland. The insights gleaned add nuance to his pointed critiques of
DAVID R. MONTGOMERY is a professor agrotechnology and organic farming, but it’s the findings on rapid soil
of geomorphology at the University
of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur restoration that compel.” Nature
Fellow. He is the author of The Rocks “David Montgomery... is one of our most eloquent and precise earth
Don’t Lie (ISBN 978 0 393 34624 4)
and co-author of The Hidden Half of science communicators... [He] has a knack for opening our minds to
Nature (ISBN 978 0 393 35337 2). large, critically important questions.” New Scientist
August • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35609 0 • 320pp • 140 x 210mm
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The Odyssey
Homer
Translated by Emily Wilson
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble
gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life.
“...a cultural landmark.” Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian
“...an Odyssey for our moment...” The Spectator
“Wilson’s version is an exciting one, all the better I guess for forc-
ing us to think how approachable, how weird, how everyday Homeric
language ever was.” Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement
“For a translation of The Odyssey that knows what it is talking about
and sings as it speaks, this is the one to read.” New Statesman
EMILY WILSON is a professor of
classical studies at the University “...a superb achievement... a wonderfully distinctive—and modern—
of Pennsylvania and the translator version of the poem.” London Evening Standard
of Seneca’s Six Tragedies.
“...a monumental piece of work...” “...combines intellectual authority with addictive readability.”
Stig Abell, BBC Radio 4 Front Row Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph
November • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35625 0 • 592pp • 140 x 210mm • 3 maps
The Collector of Lives
Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney
A lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art.
“The authors’ greatest service to their subject is to reestablish him
as a tireless artist and a central witness to an epic period of Italian
history...” The Sunday Times
“Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney place [Vasari] again at the
centre of 16th-century Italian art.”
Art Books of the Year 2017, The Sunday Times
“...an important book... The authors have done a commendable
job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the
INGRID ROWLAND is an award- reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was
winning author, a regular
contributor to The New York
squeezed out of the picture.” The Economist
Review of Books, and a professor “...a page-turningly compelling overview of Giorgio Vasari and his
of classics, art and architecture
based in Rome. NOAH CHARNEY is an
age...” Literary Review
internationally best-selling author November • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35636 6 • 432pp • 140 x 210mm
and professor of art history. 8 pages of colour illustrations; 3 maps
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DNA Is Not Destiny
The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship
between You and Your Genes
Steven J. Heine
One of the world’s leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype
surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties
about our genes.
Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced and scien-
tists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Steven J. Heine
argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results
is to misinterpret them completely.
In DNA Is Not Destiny, Heine shares his research to not only show
STEVEN J. HEINE is Professor of what your genes can tell you about your health, intelligence, ethnic
Social and Cultural Psychology and
identity and family but also highlight the psychological biases that
Distinguished University Scholar at
the University of British Columbia. make us so vulnerable to the media hype. Heine’s fresh, surprising
He has published over seventy conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering
articles in such periodicals as
and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple,
Science and Nature.
profound truth: your genes create life—but they do not control it.
September • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35580 2 • 352pp • 140 x 210mm
Technically Wrong
Why Digital Products Are Designed to Fail You
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked
into digital products—and harm us all.
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we
want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us
ask how all these digital products are designed or why. Many of the
services we rely on are full of oversights, biases and ethical night-
mares. Technically Wrong takes an unflinching look at the values,
processes and assumptions that lead to these problems and more.
Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of
“This is a powerful read reflecting us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed
on the prejudices that lurk within a choices about the services we use—and demand more from the com-
powerful industry.”
25 best books for IT leaders, IT Pro panies behind them.
SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER is a web “The stories [Sara Wachter-Boettcher] tells... are good, as are the
consultant. She helps organisations
make sense of their digital content examples she provides of corporate failure.” The Sunday Times
and speaks at conferences worldwide. November • Paper • £10.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35604 5 • 240pp • 119mm x 185mm
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
Harnessing the Digital Revolution
Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson
A user’s guide to the digital economy.
Machine, Platform, Crowd explains how digital technologies are chang-
ing the ways that companies organise themselves, perform, improve
and compete. Digital disruptions stem from three main sources: the
integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of
the core and the crowd. Technological progress is shifting the balance
by stressing the second element of the pair.
“For an astute romp through important digital trends, Machine,
Platform, Crowd is hard to beat.” The Economist
Authors of The Second Machine Age
(ISBN 978 0 393 35064 7), ANDREW
“...a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big
MCAFEE served on the faculty data and the sharing economy.”
of the Harvard Business School FT business books of the month: June 2017, Financial Times
before going to MIT and ERIK
BRYNJOLFSSON is a professor at the “...a thorough grounding for the digital warrior in the driving forces of
MIT Sloan School of Management. the 21st-century economy.” Times Higher Education
October • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35606 9 • 416pp • 140 x 210mm
So Much Things to Say
The Oral History of Bob Marley
Roger Steffens
The world’s leading reggae scholar has spent forty years interviewing
Bob Marley. This is the definitive telling of Marley’s life.
Roger Steffens toured with Marley for two weeks of his final tour in 1979
and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens’ award-winning radio
show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholar-
ship to tell the story of Marley’s life.
“...So Much Things to Say is a major work that helps us better under-
stand Marley’s tragic yet inspirational tale.” Mojo
“... a fitting tribute to the tumultuous life and complex character
ROGER STEFFENS is the world’s
leading reggae historian and
of the country’s favourite son.” The Observer
archivist. An author, photographer, “...an absorbing alternative biography.” The Spectator
actor, editor and internationally
renowned lecturer, he was co-host “Steffens identifies many more pieces of the man than have ever
of the award-winning Reggae Beat. before been put together in one book.” The Guardian
September • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35592 5 • 464pp • 140 x 210mm
40 photographs
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Live Cinema and Its Techniques
Francis Ford Coppola
From one of the masters of twentieth-century cinema comes this
indispensable guide to a visionary new form of film-making.
“...the ideas[...]will interest any movie nut.”
Stage & Screen Books of the Year 2017, The Sunday Times
“...a melange of film theory, professional advice, personal history,
television history, work notes and Coppola’s assorted thoughts on
live film production.” Times Literary Supplement
August • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 454 3 • 224pp • 140 x 210mm
20 illustrations • A Liveright book
The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Christopher Lasch
The classic The New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction
from much-lauded The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher
Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification
of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning
social epidemic was ground-breaking. His diagnosis of American culture
is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the
anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life.
November • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35617 5 • 320pp • 140 x 210mm
Counting Backwards
A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
Henry Jay Przybylo
A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious
procedure in medicine.
“In a fascinating new memoir, an anaesthetist reveals what goes on
beyond the operating theatre doors...” The Daily Mail
“...[Henry Jay Przybylo’s] professional memoir Counting Backwards
puts him within the esteemed company of other surgeon writers,
such as the London neurosurgeon Henry Marsh and America’s Atul
Gawande.” i paper
November • Paper • £10.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35642 7 • 256pp • 140 x 210mm
20PAPERBACKS
Alone
Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
Michael Korda
Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of the Second World War and
the great events that led to Dunkirk.
Alone brings to life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century
history. In May 1940, the German war machine blazed into France and
Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister;
Britain, isolated and alone, faced Nazi Germany. Michael Korda relates
what happened and why, and tells his own story of evacuation.
“Anyone wanting to explore the history behind Christopher Nolan’s recent
film could do a lot worse than start here.” Times Literary Supplement
MICHAEL KORDA is the best-
selling author of Hero, Clouds of
“...an absorbing and well-written tale...” Britain at War Magazine
Glory and Charmed Lives. He is a “... a superb retelling of the extraordinary story of May 1940, which in
former editor-in-chief of Simon
and Schuster.
my view can never be told enough... An exciting work of history; I loved
it.” Andrew Roberts, Books of the Year 2017, BBC History Magazine
December • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 491 8 • 544pp • 155 x 235mm
A Liveright book • 12 maps; 68 illustrations
Darwin’s Backyard
How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T. Costa
How Charles Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple
yet ingenious home-spun experiments.
James Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwin’s youth
and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House. To test his insights
into evolution, Darwin devised an array of hands-on experiments.
which yielded truths about nature and evidence for his revolution-
ary arguments. At each chapter’s end, Costa shows how we too can
investigate the wonders of nature at work.
“...Costa more than achieves his stated goals of revealing the evolution
JAMES T. COSTA is a professor of Darwin’s insights and the relevance of his methods now.” Nature
of biology at Western Carolina
University, executive director of “...a charming book...” Times Literary Supplement
Highlands Biological Station and a
trustee of the Charles Darwin Trust.
“...Costa has written an intimate and big-hearted book.”
Science Magazine
October • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35630 4 • 464pp • 140 x 210mm • 60 line drawings
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