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From: Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds by Leo Braudy

INDEX BIOGRAPHY Lindy Grant BLANCHE OF CASTILE, QUEEN OF FRANCE Molly Haskell STEVEN SPIELBERG A Life in Films Chris Knight DECODING CHOMSKY Science and Revolutionary Politics Susan Rubin Suleiman THE NÉMIROVSKY QUESTION The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France Malcolm Vale HENRY V CULTURAL HISTORY Leo Braudy HAUNTED On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds CULTURAL STUDIES Clive James PLAY ALL A Bingewatcher’s Notebook

CURRENT AFFAIRS Alexander Cooley & DICTATORS WITHOUT BORDERS John Heathershaw Power and Money in Central Asia Sumit Ganguly & ASCENDING INDIA AND ITS STATE CAPACITY William R. Thompson Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy Rory Miller DESERT KINGDOMS TO GLOBAL POWERS The Rise of the Arab Gulf ECONOMICS Angela Cummine CITIZENS’ WEALTH Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson EUROPE ISN’T WORKING Fredrik Erixon & Björn Weigel THE INNOVATION ILLUSION How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES David W. Orr DANGEROUS YEARS Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward William Sweet CLIMATE DIPLOMACY FROM RIO TO PARIS The Effort to Contain Global Warming

HISTORY Carlos M. N. Eire REFORMATIONS The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 James Heinzen THE ART OF THE BRIBE Corruption, Politics, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, 1943-1953 Louis Rose PSYCHOLOGY, ART, AND ANTIFASCISM Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature Christopher Wickham MEDIEVAL EUROPE PHILOSOPHY Julian Baggini THE EDGE OF REASON

A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World Terry Eagleton MATERIALISM Andrew Stark THE CONSOLATIONS OF MORTALITY Making Sense of Death RELIGION Richard Holloway A LITTLE HISTORY OF RELIGION Chloë Starr CHINESE THEOLOGY Text and Context

SCIENCE David Bercovici THE ORIGINS OF EVERYTHING IN 100 PAGES (MORE OR LESS) James Owen Weatherall VOID (previously WHY NOTHING REALLY MATTERS)

The Strange Physics of Nothing

Jon Willis ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS The Scientific Search for Alien Life SOCIOLOGY Joseph Turow THE AISLES HAVE EYES How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

BLANCHE OF CASTILE, QUEEN OF FRANCE

This is the first modern scholarly biography of Blanche of Castile, whose identity has until now been subsumed in that of her son, the saintly Louis IX. A central figure in the politics of medieval Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated and prolific patron of religion and culture. From her marriage as an Angevin princess to the future Louis VIII of France, she was at the centre of French diplomacy and twice ruled France as regent.

In this vibrant and authoritative account Lindy Grant looks at the social and religious networks on which Blanche’s power and agency depended, and reveals the medieval queen of France to be an intellectually questioning personality and an innovative ruler with an acute sense of the authority open to a woman at the highest reaches of medieval society.

Lindy Grant is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading, and previously worked as a medieval curator in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Her previous titles include Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270 (Yale, 2005).

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Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Princess of Castile Chapter 2 The Lord Louis and the Lady Blanche Chapter 3 King Louis VIII and Queen Blanche Chapter 4 Queen Regent Chapter 5 Queen Dowager Chapter 6 The Crusade Regency Chapter 7 Family, Friends and Familia Chapter 8 Religion, the Church and Other Faiths Chapter 9 Piety and Devotion Chapter 10 The Culture of the Court Chapter 11 Legitimacy and Authority Chapter 12 Ruler and Counsellor Chapter 13 The Image of the Queen

STEVEN SPIELBERG A Life in Films (Jewish Lives Series) “Everything about me is in my films,” says Steven Spielberg, the most popular entertainer of all time whose films signified the arrival of the Hollywood blockbuster. Taking these words as her guide, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg’s works, from powerhouse hits such as Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park to critically acclaimed works such as Schindler’s List to less well-appreciated movies like Empire of the Sun. Haskell shows how Spielberg’s unique filmmaking reveals the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined. She looks at the way in which Spielberg’s fraught childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents’ divorce and his return to Judaism later in life emerge in his films through the recurring motifs of the outsider, the lonely child and the boy who lives through his imagination in the worlds of science fiction and adventure. In this brilliantly incisive portrait, the distinguished critic offers a critical and engaging insight into the extraordinary director whose creativity has enchanted audiences for more than forty years.

Molly Haskell was previously Associate Professor of Film at Barnard College, New York, and is the author of My Brother My Sister (Penguin, 2014), Frankly, My Dear (Yale, 2009), Love and Other Infectious Diseases (William Morrow, 1992) and From Reverence to Rape (University of Chicago Press, 1987). She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. She has also served on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival.

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Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Beginnings and the Lost Ark Chapter 2 Steve Bites His Nails and Hears Voices Chapter 3 Arcadia: The Best and Worst of Times Chapter 4 The Kid with the Briefcase Chapter 5 Jaws Chapter 6 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Chapter 7 1941 and Raiders of the Lost Ark Chapter 8 E.T., Poltergeist and The Twilight Zone Chapter 9 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Color Purple Chapter 10 Empire of the Sun Chapter 11 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, and Never-Be-a-Man-Land Chapter 12 Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park and The Shoah Foundation Chapter 13 Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park Chapter 14 Saving Private Ryan and A I Chapter 15 Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can: Run, Run, Run Chapter 16 Terminal, War of the Worlds and Munich: Chapter 17 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Tintin, War Horse Chapter 18 Lincoln and Bridge of Spies

DECODING CHOMSKY Science and Revolutionary Politics Occupying a pivotal position in post-war thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and one of the world’s most prominent political dissidents. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, known as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and the mind. Knight looks at Chomsky in his social and institutional context, closely examining his published writings, public statements and interviews, to show how the tension between his role as scientist dependent on military funding and lynchpin of the political left led to a troubling disconnect between his political dissidence and his science. Provocative, fearless and engaging, Decoding Chomsky explains the enigma of one of the greatest intellectuals of our time, revealing a profoundly divided man with disturbing cracks in his genius.

Chris Knight is senior research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. A distinguished anthropologist, his research is focused on the evolutionary emergence of human language and symbolic culture. He is the author of Blood Relations (Yale, 1995). Autumn 2016

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Contents Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Chapter 2 The Language Machine Chapter 3 A Man of his Time Chapter 4 The Most Hideous Institution on this Earth Chapter 5 The Cognitive Revolution Chapter 6 The Tower of Babel Chapter 7 The Pentagon’s New Tower Chapter 8 Machine Translation: The Great Folly Chapter 9 A Universal Alphabet of Sounds Chapter 10 Russian Formalist Roots Chapter 11 Incantation by Laughter Chapter 12 Tatlin’s Tower Chapter 13 An Instinct for Freedom Chapter 14 The Linguistics Wars Chapter 15 Between Colliding Tectonic Plates Chapter 16 The Escapologist Chapter 17 The Soul Mutation Chapter 18 Carburetor and Other Innate Concepts Chapter 19 A Scientific Revolution? Chapter 20 Mindless Activism, Tongue-tied Science Chapter 21 Chomsky’s Tower Chapter 22 Selfish Genes and Co-operative Childcare Chapter 23 The Human Revolution

THE NÉMIROVSKY QUESTION The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France Irène Némirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a “foreign Jew” in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. But her two young daughters survived, and as adults they brought their mother back to life. In 2004, Suite Française, Némirovsky’s posthumous novel, became an international bestseller; some critics, however, condemned her as a “self-hating Jew” whose earlier works were rife with anti-Semitic stereotypes. Informed by personal interviews with Némirovsky’s descendants and others, as well as by extensive archival research, this wide-ranging biography situates Némirovsky in the literary and political climate of interwar France, examining her choices as a female writer and, for the first time, the post-war lives of her daughters. Némirovsky's Jewish works, Suleiman argues, should be read as explorations of the conflicted identities that shaped the lives of secular Jews in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

Susan Rubin Suleiman is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard. Her books include Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Risking Who One Is and Subversive Intent, published by Harvard in 2006, 1994 and 1990 respectively. Suleiman has been awarded the Radcliffe Medal for Distinguished Achievement and a decoration by the French government as Officer of the Order of Academic Palms.


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Contents Note on Translations and Citations Introduction A Writer Reborn…and Debated Part One Irène Chapter 1 The “Jewish Question” Chapter 2 Némirovsky’s Choices: 1920-1939 Chapter 3 Choices and Choicelessness: 1939-1942 Part Two Fictions Chapter 4 Foreigners and Strangers: Némirovsky’s Jewish Protagonists Chapter 5 Portraits of the Artist as a Young Jewish Woman Part Three Denise and Elisabeth Chapter 6 Orphans of the Holocaust : Two Lives Chapter 7 Gifts of Life: A Mother and her Daughters (p. 289) Notes Sources and Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

HENRY V Shakespeare’s centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king’s reputation as a wager of war, a perception that has persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly-researched volume a different view of Henry emerges: a multidimensional ruler of great piety who introduced a radically new conception of England’s European role in secular and ecclesiastical affairs, a lover of music and art, a responsible king and committed governor who fully appreciated his duties toward those he ruled. Historian Malcolm Vale draws on extensive primary archival evidence that includes many documents annotated or endorsed in Henry’s own hand. Focusing on a series of themes—the interaction between king and Church, the rise of the English language as a medium of government and politics, the role of ceremony in Henry’s kingship, and more—Vale revises understandings of Henry V and the matters that concerned him most as he conducted the everyday business affairs of England.

Malcolm Vale is Emeritus Research Fellow in Modern History, St John’s College, Oxford. His books include A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe (IB Tauris, 2015), The Ancient Enemy (Macmillan, 2009), The Princely Court (OUP, 2004), and The Origins of the Hundred Years War (OUP, 1996).


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Contents Prelude Baptism of Fire Introduction Chapter 1 The Everyday Business of Kingship Chapter 2 ‘In mine own hand’: The Personalisation of Kingship Chapter 3 The King and the English Language Chapter 4 The King and the Church I: Public Piety and Private Devotion Chapter 5 The King and the Church II: Prerogative, Power and the Papacy Chapter 6 The King and the Peaceful Arts Chapter 7 Last Will and Legacy Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

HAUNTED On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, here looks at how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity over the last four hundred years, from the Protestant Reformation to the films and fiction of today. Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy first focuses on the relation between horror and religion and proceeds to explore four major types of the monstrous from which others arise: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). He discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous. A compelling and incisive work, Haunted reveals how feelings, attitudes, and fears thought to be unchanging or immediate in fact have long, complex histories that touch on all aspects of our politics and culture.

Leo Braudy is University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous books, including The Hollywood Sign, (Yale, 2011), From Chivalry to Terrorism (Knopf, 2003), The Frenzy of Renown (OUP, 1986), and Jean Renoir (Doubleday, 1972).


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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Between Hope and Fear: Horror and Religion Chapter 3 Terror, Horror, and the Cult of Nature Chapter 4 Frankenstein, Robots, and Androids: Horror and the Manufactured Monster Chapter 5 The Detective’s Reason Chapter 6 Jekyll and Hyde: The Horror From Within Chapter 7 Dracula and the Haunted Present Chapter 8 Horror in the Age of Visual Reproduction

PLAY ALL A Bingewatcher’s Notebook Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as TV columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, programming, and the very manner in which TV is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many of the medium’s most notable twenty-first-century accomplishments and their not always subtle impact on modern society—including such acclaimed serial dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Mad Men, and The Sopranos, as well as the comedy 30 Rock. With intelligence and wit, James explores a TV landscape expanded by cable and broadband and profoundly altered by the advent of Netflix, Amazon, and other “cord-cutting” platforms that have helped to usher in a golden age of unabashed binge-watching.

Clive James is an Australian memoirist, poet, translator, critic, and broadcaster. He has written more than thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Latest Readings (Yale, 2015), and Cultural Amnesia (W.W. Norton, 2007). He has received a Special Award for Writing and Broadcasting from the judges of the Orwell Prize (2008), the Philip Hodgins Memorial medal for Literature (2003), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Cultural Studies

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Chapter 1 Title Sequence Chapter 2 The Ducks Have Left the Pond Chapter 3 Actors Airborne Chapter 4 Sorkin on the Racing Line Chapter 5 Sweet Faces Speak Poetry Chapter 6 City of the Dead Chapter 7 Breaking Understandably Bad Chapter 8 The Way We Weren’t Chapter 9 Displays of Secrecy Chapter 10 Game of Depths Chapter 11 Ariadne’s Labyrinth

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DICTATORS WITHOUT BORDERS Power and Money in Central Asia Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is in reality a globalisation leader with more extensive involvement in economics, politics, and security dynamics beyond its borders than any other world region. Yet Central Asia’s international activities are mostly hidden from view, with disturbing implications for world security. Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia’s supposedly isolated leaders with global power centres. The authors also uncover widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploiting of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Riveting and important, this book exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored.

Alexander Cooley is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, New York and Director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. His books include Great Games, Local Rules (OUP, 2012) and Logics of Hierarchy (Cornell, 2005; cowinner of the 2006 Marshall Shulman Prize). He has also been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Quarterly. John Heathershaw is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Exeter. He spent several years working for governmental, international non-governmental and academic institutions in and on Central Asia, and is the author of Post-Conflict Tajikistan (Routledge, 2009).

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Contents Chapter 1 Central Asia Beyond Borders Chapter 2 Inside-Outside, Onshore-Offshore: How Central Asia Went Global Chapter 3 Kazakhstan’s Enron or Democratic Champion? The Case of Mukhtar Ablyazov Chapter 4 The Warlords’ President and his Family State Chapter 5 Uzbekistan’s Closed Polity and Global Scandals Chapter 6 Prince Maxim and the Switzerland of the East Chapter 7 The New Offshore Silk Roads Chapter 8 Diaspora Communities, Political Exiles and Extraterritorial Repression Chapter 9 Confronting the Challenge of Authoritarianism Beyond Borders in Central Asia and Beyond

ASCENDING INDIA AND ITS STATE CAPACITY Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy India’s ascent as a formidable power on the world stage, and its geopolitical ramifications, has received much attention in recent years. This comprehensive study by Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson, two highly distinguished scholars of political science and international relations, delves into the intricate inner workings of this great Asian nation to reveal an Indian state struggling to maintain national security, domestic order, and steady fiscal growth due to weaknesses in its economic and political institutions. The authors’ sobering account examines India’s perceived strengths, its domestic and foreign policy initiatives, and its infrastructural and economic growth problems. Ganguly and Thompson address the nation’s misuse of revenue, its unions’ opposition to reform, its failure to create new institutions and other important hurdles it has faced and will continue to face over the coming decade and beyond.

Sumit Ganguly is Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. William R. Thompson is Distinguished Professor and Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. They have published between them over thirty titles, most recently Asian Rivalries (Ganguly and Thompson, University of Chicago Press, 2011) and India since 1980 (Ganguly, CUP, 2011).


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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 The Indian State’s Capacity to Get Things Done Chapter 2 Ascending Major Powers State Capacity Chapter 3 Conceptualizing and Measuring State Strength Chapter 4 Extraction and Legitimacy Chapter 5 Violence Monopoly State Capacity Corollaries: Economic Chapter 6 The Economy Chapter 7 Infrastructure Chapter 8 Inequality State Capacity Corollaries: Political Chapter 9 Democratic Institutions Chapter 10 Grand Strategy Chapter 11 Defense and Security Policies Summary and Conclusion Chapter 12 Ascending India and Its State Capacity Problems and Prospects Notes Index

DESERT KINGDOMS TO GLOBAL POWERS The Rise of the Arab Gulf Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented influence on international affairs—the result of their almost unimaginable riches in oil and gas—and have become an East-West hub for travel, tourism, sport, culture, trade, and finance. But can the autocratic regimes maintain stability at home and influence abroad as they deal with the demands of social and democratic reform? Taking into account an array of factors including Islamism, terrorism, the Arab Spring, volatile oil prices and global power dynamics, Rory Miller, an expert in Gulf politics and international affairs, considers the achievements of these countries since the 1973 global oil crisis and investigates how the shrewd Arab Gulf rulers, who have overcome crisis after crisis, meet the external and internal challenges of the onrushing future.

Rory Miller is Professor of Governments at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, Qatar, and formerly Director of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London. He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently Inglorious Disarray (Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2011). He writes regularly for the international media, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Jerusalem Post, The Daily Star (Beirut), The Irish Times and The National (Abu Dhabi).


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Contents Introduction Small States, Big Powers Chapter 1 Over a Barrel Chapter 2 Neighbourhood Watch Chapter 3 Tax Americana Chapter 4 Thy Brother’s Keeper Chapter 5 Bloc Party Chapter 6 Sheik Down Chapter 7 Self-Defence Chapter 8 Oil Change Chapter 9 Divided We Stand Chapter 10 Going Global Conclusion Power Index

CITIZENS’ WEALTH Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andreas Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation’s historic copper boom in two Sovereign Wealth Funds. A year later, when prices plummeted and unemployment soared, Chile’s government was able to stimulate recovery by drawing on the funds. State-owned investment vehicles that hold public funds in a wide range of assets, Sovereign Wealth Funds enable governments to access an unprecedented degree of wealth. Consequently, more countries are seeking to establish them. Looking at Chile, China, Australia, Singapore, and numerous other examples, including a comparative analysis of Britain and Norway’s use of oil revenues, Angela Cummine tackles the key ethical debates surrounding the use of Sovereign Wealth Funds, asking such questions as to whom does the wealth belong and how should the funds be managed, invested, and distributed. With sovereign funds—and media attention—continuing to grow, this is an invaluable look at a hotly debated economic issue.

Angela Cummine is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University.


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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: The Normative Significance of Sovereign Wealth Funds Part One Sovereign Fund Ownership Chapter 2 Who Owns a Sovereign Wealth Fund: Government, State or Citizen? Chapter 3 How Citizens Own SWFs: A Fiduciary Model of Popular Ownership Part Two Ownership As Control Chapter 4 Popular Control of Sovereign Funds in Theory: Democratising Management Chapter 5 Popular Control of Sovereign Funds in Practice: Democratic Management in Norway and Beyond Chapter 6 Popular Control of Sovereign Wealth: Ethical Investment in Theory and Practice Part Three Ownership As Benefit Chapter 7 Benefit Rights to Sovereign Wealth Income Chapter 8 Realising Benefit Rights: Lessons from Alaska Chapter 9 Constraints on Direct Distribution of Sovereign Wealth Income Chapter 10 Conclusion – From Sovereign Funds to Community Funds

EUROPE ISN’T WORKING Fifteen years after the euro’s creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assert that there is now ample evidence to evaluate its performance. Examining a range of key economic indicators both hard (growth, unemployment, living standards, budgets and trade deficits) and soft (centred around social democratic values), the authors conclude that the euro has essentially undermined the European Union. Europe Isn't Working delves into the history of the single currency to show that its design was fatally flawed. Comparing the European Central Bank to the Federal Reserve, Elliott and Atkinson argue that the architects of the euro subjugated economic measures to political considerations. Consequently, countries that didn’t meet the economic convergence criteria were still allowed entry. The end result is a dysfunctional currency union that is unable to cope with difficult economic circumstances. Assessing the situations in Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, and Iceland, as well as Britain, this engaging and accessibly written volume will be widely read in the run-up to the upcoming British referendum on Brexit (Britain’s exit from the European Union).

Larry Elliott is economics editor at The Guardian. His previous books include Going South (Macmillan, 2012). Dan Atkinson is economics editor at The Mail on Sunday.


Economics

Contents Chapter 1 Whatever Happened to New Coke? Chapter 2 The New Gold Standard Chapter 3 Case Study: Greece Chapter 4 A Burning Building with No Exits Chapter 5 Case study: Italy Chapter 6 Papering over the Cracks Chapter 7 Case Study: Britain, a Bullet Dodged. Chapter 8 The Crisis That Never Ends Chapter 9 Iceland and Ireland: Two Countries in Crisis Chapter 10 The Italian Job: How Mario Draghi Saved the Euro (For Now) Chapter 11 Kicking the Can Down the Road Conclusion End of the Affair

THE INNOVATION ILLUSION How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is, in fact, being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices. Capitalism, they argue, has lost its mojo. Assessing the experiences of global companies, including Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, and Apple, the authors explore three key themes: declining economic dynamism in Western economies, growing corporate defensiveness to contest markets and innovate, and excessive regulation limiting the diffusion of innovation. At a time of low growth, high unemployment, and growing income inequality, innovation-led growth is more necessary than ever, and this book unequivocally details the obstacles hindering our future prosperity.

Fredrik Erixon is the director and cofounder of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), a world-economy think tank in Brussels. Björn Weigel is a business strategist and entrepreneur who has worked for innovation-based startups as well as Booz Allen Hamilton.


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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Capitalism in the 21st Century: Why Has Innovation Growth Stagnated?

- Obituary of an Ideology and the Era of Globalisation - The Irresistible Comfort of Corporate Socialism - The Hoarding of Money - The Deadly Hand of Grey Money

Chapter 3 Resisting Innovation

- Killing Me Softly – A Story of Corporate Decline - Success Through Creative Destruction – A Story of Success

Chapter 4 The Politics of Innovation

- I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help – Vested Interests - A Postcard From Bavaria – GM and Shale Gas - Demographic Dividends, Demographic Losses

Chapter 5 Bounded Prometheus, Bounded Capitalism

- Rage Against the Machine - Twin Hopes – Technological Progress, Societal Growth - Stagnation and Inequality

Chapter 6 A Manifesto for Innovation Growth

DANGEROUS YEARS Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers the situation of Earth and human civilization in the light of what we now know about climate change. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability, writes with refreshing candour: even with the current international focus on climate change, climate and ecological systems will not likely reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet—increasingly threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, capricious climate. In addition to this, the ongoing possibility of nuclear war and the advent of “super-intelligent” technology pose equally lethal threats to civilisation. Orr argues that these threats are interrelated: all are global, permanent, and symptomatic of deeper flaws embedded in our systems of governance, politics, economy, sciences and culture. Yet we are not fated to destroy the Earth, Orr insists. He imagines the path to sustainability as a quest and a transition that is feasible if built upon optimism and education, stable democratic institutions, and bottom-up change. He lays out specific principles and priorities to guide us toward sustainability and enduring harmony between human and natural systems.

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, Ohio, and founding editor of the journal Solutions. He has won a National Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation. His books include Earth in Mind, (Island Press, 2004) and The Nature of Design (OUP, 2002).


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Contents Preface Acknowledgements Prologue The Road to Montana Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Perfect Storm Chapter 3 A Brief Digression on Denial and Procrastination Chapter 4 The Goal: Resilience Chapter 5 Economy Chapter 6 Governance Chapter 7 Education Chapter 8 Heart Chapter 9 The Long Revolution Chapter 10 The Political Economy of Sustainable Democracy Chapter 11 Cities as Systems in a Hotter Time Chapter 12 The Oberlin Project Afterword Notes

CLIMATE DIPLOMACY FROM RIO TO PARIS The Effort to Contain Global Warming Climate diplomacy is and will continue to be one of the central issues facing the international community, yet it has received surprisingly little focused attention. In Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris, William Sweet gives an overview of all that has been accomplished in international climate negotiations from the Montreal protocol of 1987 to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. He argues that limiting warming to two degrees Celsius is a worthy goal, that other fundamental interests can be accommodated, and that climate diplomacy can succeed. Based on interviews with the major players and environmental activists, as well as Sweet’s long journalistic coverage of climate meetings, this nuanced and accessibly written account assesses the prospects for effective diplomatic action in the future and demonstrates the need for continued, coordinated international action. William Sweet has been

working as a report, writer, and editor since 1975, specialising in global issues such as nuclear arms control and disarmament, food and resources, and energy and climate. He was formerly editor for EnergyWise and lead energy blogger for IEEE Spectrum Magazine. He is the author of Kicking the Carbon Habit (Columbia University Press, 2006) and The Nuclear Age (Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1984).


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Contents Preface Part One The Stakes Chapter 1 Can Catastrophic Climate Change Be Averted? Chapter 2 What Else is at Stake? Chapter 3 Can Diplomacy Deliver? Part Two The Players Chapter 4 The Superpowers Chapter 5 BRICs, BASICs and Beyond Chapter 6 Sentimental Attachments, Existential Threats Part Three The Action Chapter 7 The Road to Rio Chapter 8 Rio and Kyoto Chapter 9 Copenhagen Chapter 10 The Road to Paris Epilogue Paris Appendixes Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

REFORMATIONS The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 In this vivid and comprehensive survey, Carlos M. N. Eire tells the story of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Interweaving social, economic, political, cultural, religious and intellectual history, he explores the changes that took place between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg’s printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years’ War. Eire emphasises the interrelationship of the movements and churches that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, devoting equal attention to the various Protestant traditions as well as Catholicism, scepticism, and secularism. He also demonstrates how profoundly changes to religion impacted the Western secular world and considers the expansion of European culture and religion into other lands, particularly the Americas and Asia. A powerful introductory survey, Reformations brings to life one of the most dramatic and intriguing turning points in world history, showing how it did not only affect people long gone but continues to shape our world and define who we are today.

Carlos M. N. Eire is T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies at Yale University. He is past president of the Society for Reformation Research and serves on the editorial board of the journal Church History. His books include A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton, 2010) and War Against the Idols (CUP, 1986). His memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana (Simon & Schuster, 2003) won the National Book Award in Nonfiction.

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Contents Preface Part One On the Edge Prelude Rome, 1450 Chapter 1 An Age of Breakthroughs Chapter 2 Religion in Late Medieval Christendom Chapter 3 Reform and Dissent in the Late Middle Ages Chapter 4 Italian Humanism Chapter 5 Humanism Beyond Italy Chapter 6 Forerunners of the Catholic Reformation Part Two Protestants Prelude Rome, 1510 Chapter 7 Luther: From Student to Monk Chapter 8 Luther: From Rebel to Heretic Chapter 9 Luther: The Reactionary Chapter 10 The Swiss Reformation Chapter 11 The Radical Reformation Chapter 12 Calvin and Calvinism Chapter 13 England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1521–1603

Part Three Catholics Prelude Rome, 1564 Chapter 14 Catholic Reform: Facing the Challenge Chapter 15 Catholic Reform: Healing the Body of Christ Chapter 16 Catholic Reform: Fashioning a New Clergy Chapter 17 Catholic Reform: The Society of Jesus Chapter 18 Missions to the New World Chapter 19 Missions to the East Indies Part Four Consequences Prelude Rome, 1626 Chapter 20 The Age of Religious Wars Chapter 21 The Age of Orthodoxy Chapter 22 The Confessional Age Chapter 23 The Age of Devils Chapter 24 The Age of Reasonable Doubt Chapter 25 The Age of Outcomes Chapter 26 The Spirit of the Age Epilogue Assessing the Reformations Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

THE ART OF THE BRIBE

Corruption, Politics, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union, 1943-1953

Remarkably little attention has been paid to how and why the bribe, despite anti-

corruption campaigns and a huge network of secret informants charged with exposing it,

became an entrenched presence at all levels of Soviet state and social life. Amid corruption

scandals, the Soviet Union saw bribery as a “capitalist relic” to be smashed in the wake of

World War II. A great irony is that the regime’s mass arrests, widespread shortages, and

arbitrary bureaucracy enabled bribery to flourish—it was a skill with its own practices and

culture and a way for ordinary citizens to ease their difficult lives.

Focusing on the agencies of criminal justice and law enforcement, James Heinzen’s

innovative work offers revealing insights into how the Stalinist state and society actually

functioned and examines the various lenses through which bribery was viewed during the

Stalinist era.

James Heinzen is Professor of

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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One Chapter 1 The Landscape of Bribery and Corruption in the Shadows of Stalinism Chapter 2 “Pick the Flowers while they’re in Bloom”: Bribes in the Agencies of Law Enforcement Part Two Chapter 3 The Art of the Bribe: Popular Perceptions and Everyday Practice Chapter 4 “Greetings from Sunny Georgia!” Cultural Brokers and the Bribe Trail Part Three Chapter 5 “A Grave Evil”: The Limits of Postwar “Campaigns” against Bribery Chapter 6 Informers and the State: Exposing Bribery, Economic Crime and Crimes against State Property Chapter 7 At the Intersection of Counterrevolution and Bribery: Corruption in the Courts of Military Justice? Chapter 8 The Death of a Judge: Bribery, Scandal, and Power in the Stalinist High Courts Epilogue The Bribe after Stalin Conclusion The Bribe and its Meaning in Soviet History Notes Bibliography Index

PSYCHOLOGY, ART, AND ANTIFASCISM Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E.H. Gombrich to collaborate on a project that had implications for psychology and neuroscience, and foreshadowed their influential contributions to the Allied war effort. Their subject: the psychology of caricature and its use and abuse in propaganda. Though their work together was never quite completed, their collaboration was a seminal early effort to integrate science, the humanities, and political awareness, while galvanising Gombrich’s theories on perception, image-making, and creativity. In this fascinating biographical and intellectual study, Louis Rose draws on numerous documentary sources and looks at how Kris and Gombrich’s project traced caricature as a product of republican culture and political dissent. He provides a nuanced reconstruction of the intellectual and political trajectories of disrupted lives, and reveals the long reach of Hitler and the wide impact of Freud.

Louis Rose is Professor of History at Otterbein University, Ohio, and the Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives at the Library of Congress. Among his publications are The Survival of Images and The Freudian Calling published by Wayne State University Press, in 2001 and 1998 respectively.


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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 The Unfinished Project Chapter 2 Toward a Psychology of Art, 1919-1932 Chapter 3 The Vienna-London Connection, 1932-1936 Chapter 4 Daumier in Vienna, 1936 Chapter 5 The Caricature Book, 1936-1938 Chapter 6 From Vienna to London and New York, 1938-1941 Chapter 8 War Work, 1941-1945 Chapter 9 Between Past and Future, 1945-1965 Bibliography

MEDIEVAL EUROPE The millennium between the breakup of the Western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Christopher Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the middle ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, and political circumstances affected individual lives and international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe’s medieval period and a provocative revision of exactly how and why the Middle Ages matter.

Christopher Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. An enormously distinguished historian of the medieval period, his books include Sleepwalking into a New World (Princeton, 2015), Framing the Early Middle Ages (OUP, 2009) and the best-selling The Inheritance of Rome (Allen Lane, 2009).


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Contents Chapter 1 A New Look at the Middle Ages Chapter 2 Rome and its Western Successors, 500-750 Chapter 3 Crisis and Transformation in the East, 500-850/1000 Chapter 4 The Carolingian Experiment, 750-1000 Chapter 5 The Expansion of Christian Europe, 500-1100 Chapter 6 Reshaping Western Europe, 1000-1150 Chapter 7 The Long Economic Boom, 950-1300 Chapter 8 The Ambiguities of Political Reconstruction, 1150-1300 Chapter 9 1204: The Failure of Alternatives Chapter 10 Defining Society: Gender and Community in Late Medieval Europe Chapter 11 Money, War and Death, 1350-1500 Chapter 12 Rethinking Politics, 1350-1500 Chapter 13 Conclusion Bibliography

THE EDGE OF REASON A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. Seen by Aristotle as the capacity that sets us apart from other animals, today reason is the cold tool of desiccated logic, enemy of mystery and ambiguity, denier of emotion in everyday life, implement of oppression, patriarchal construct, a Western imposition and the privileging of one side of the brain over the other. Julian Baggini argues that we need to recover our reason, both to understand what it really is, and to put it in its proper place. He eloquently outlines a fresh model of reason—far from sterile and scientistic, it is the dynamic process of giving and assessing objective reasons for beliefs and values. Addressing major areas of debate such as religion, science, politics, psychology, and economics, The Edge of Reason is a call for us all to recognise what it means to be a part of a “community of reason” where disagreements are settled by debate and discussion, not brute force or political power. It makes a compelling case for the continued relevance of rational enquiry in addressing the intractable problems of today.

Julian Baggini is a philosopher, best-selling author, and co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosopher’s Magazine. His books include Freedom Regained (Granta, 2015), The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and 99 other Thought Experiments (Granta, 2005) and Atheism (OUP, 2003). He appears frequently in the media, runs the website www.microphilosophy.net and tweets from the handle @microphilosophy to over thirteen thousand followers.


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Contents Introduction Part One The Judge Chapter 1 The Eternal God Argument Chapter 2 Science for Humans Chapter 3 Rationality and Judgement Part Two The Guide Chapter 4 Lives of the Mind Chapter 5 The Challenge of Psychology Chapter 6 Guided by Reason Part Three The Motivator Chapter 7 Rational Morality Chapter 8 Scientific Morality Chapter 9 The Claims of Reason Part Four The King Chapter 10 The Rational State Chapter 11 Political Reason Conclusion Chapter 12 Using Reason

MATERIALISM

Materialism may be at the centre of today’s important scientific, cultural and philosophical debates, but it is far from being fully understood. In this succinct, intellectually stimulating introduction, Terry Eagleton elaborates a concept of materialism that straddles our animality and our rationality. He argues that it is precisely our materiality—our bodies, our corporeal activity and means of being in the world—that defines us and makes thought and consciousness possible. Eagleton considers afresh the values and beliefs of three very different materialists—Marx, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein—drawing striking comparisons between their philosophies. Reflecting on a wide array of topics, from ideology and history to language, ethics, and the aesthetic, Materialism is a valuable exposition on philosophical thought that strikes to the heart of how we think about ourselves and the world in which we live. Terry Eagleton is Distinguished

Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland. His most recent books are Culture, Hope Without Optimism, Culture and the Death of God, How to Read Literature, The Event of Literature, Why Marx was Right, On Evil and Reason, Faith and Revolution, all published by Yale in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 respectively.


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Contents Preface Chapter 1 Materialisms Chapter 2 Do Badgers Have Souls? Chapter 3 Emancipating the Senses Chapter 4 High Spirits Chapter 5 The Rough Ground Index

THE CONSOLATIONS OF MORTALITY Making Sense of Death For those who don’t believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good, that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality, that true immortality would be awful, and that we experience the kinds of losses in life that we will eventually face in death. Can any of these consolations honestly reconcile us to our inevitable demise? In this timely book, Andrew Stark tests the psychological truth of these consolations and searches our collective literary, philosophical, and cultural traditions for answers to the question of how we, in the twenty-first century, might accept our mortal condition. Ranging from the ideas of Epicurus and Heidegger to bucket lists, the flaming out of iconic figures in popular culture, and the tendency to self-immortalise through charitable donations, Stark’s poignant and fresh exploration shows how these diverse consolations, taken together, reveal death as a blessing no matter how much we may love life.

Andrew Stark is Professor of Management and Political Science at the University of Toronto. His books include Drawing the Line (Brookings Institution, 2010) and The Limits of Medicine (CUP, 2006). He lives in Toronto, Canada.


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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Death Is Benign Chapter 1 Attending Your Own Funeral Chapter 2 How to Rest on Your Laurels Chapter 3 Look Who’s Calling Himself Nothing Chapter 4 Bucket Lists Part Two Mortality Intimates Immortality Chapter 5 Retiring Your Jersey Chapter 6 Regrets? How Much Time Do You Have? Chapter 7 You Never Know Chapter 8 Making Your Mark

Part Three Immortality Would Be Malignant Chapter 9 Is This All There Is? Chapter 10 Still Life Chapter 11 A Wistful Backward Glance Chapter 12 Making the Sun Run Interlude Mortality versus Immortality: Why Not the Right to Choose? Part Four Life Intimates Death Chapter 13 The Big Sleep Chapter 14 Stardust and Moonshine Chapter 15 Every Time I Say Goodbye, I Die a Little Conclusion My Last Espresso Notes Index

A LITTLE HISTORY OF RELIGION

Richard Holloway offers a welcome antidote to thick, dusty tomes on religion as he retells the entire history of religion—from the dawn of religious belief to the twenty-first century—with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and without, and with young readers in mind, he encourages curiosity and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery, and calmly restores a sense of the value of faith. Ranging far beyond the major world religions of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, the author also examines where religious belief comes from, the search for meaning throughout history, today’s fascinations with Scientology and creationism, religiously motivated violence, hostilities between religious people and secularists, and more. Holloway proves an empathic yet discerning guide to the enduring significance of faith and its power from ancient times to our own.

Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Throughout his life and career he has been open about his struggles with faith, the institutionalization of religion, and the place of God in moral debates, making him a household name and leading him to resign his bishopric in 2000. An exceedingly popular writer and broadcaster today, his many publications include best-selling Leaving Alexandria (Canongate, 2012) and How to Read the Bible (Norton, 2006).


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Contents Chapter 1 Is Anybody There? Chapter 2 The Doors Chapter 3 The Wheel Chapter 4 One into Many Chapter 5 Prince to Buddha Chapter 6 Do No Harm Chapter 7 The Wanderer Chapter 8 In the Bullrushes Chapter 9 The Ten Commandments Chapter 10 Prophets Chapter 11 The End Chapter 12 Heretic Chapter 13 The Last Battle Chapter 14 Worldly Religion Chapter 15 The Way to Go Chapter 16 Stirring up the Mud Chapter 17 Religion Gets Personal Chapter 18 The Convert Chapter 19 The Messiah

Chapter 20 Jesus Comes to Rome Chapter 21 The Church Takes Charge Chapter 22 The Last Prophet Chapter 23 Submission Chapter 24 Struggle Chapter 25 Hell Chapter 26 Vicar of Christ Chapter 27 Protest Chapter 28 The Big Split Chapter 29 Nanak’s Reformation Chapter 30 The Middle Way Chapter 31 Beheading the Beast Chapter 32 Friends Chapter 33 Made in America Chapter 34 Born in the USA Chapter 35 The Great Disappointment Chapter 36 Mystics and Movie Stars Chapter 37 Opening Doors Chapter 38 Angry Religion Chapter 39 Holy War Chapter 40 The End of Religion

CHINESE THEOLOGY Text and Context In this ground-breaking and authoritative study, Chloë Starr explores key writings of Chinese Christian intellectuals, from philosophical dialogues of the late imperial era to the micro-blogs of pastors in the twenty-first century. Through a series of close textual readings, she sheds new light on such central issues in Chinese theology as Christian identity and the evolving question of how Christianity should relate to society and state. Reading these texts in their socio-political and traditional literary contexts, Starr opens a new conversation about the nature of Chinese theology and the challenge it offers to broader understandings of how theology is created and contextualised. Concentrating on those theologians who have engaged most actively with their cultural and political milieus, Starr argues throughout her readings that text is as important as context.

Chloë Starr is associate professor of Asian Christianity and Theology at Yale University Divinity School. She is the author of Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing (Brill, 2007), co-editor of The Quest for Gentility in China (Routledge, 2008) and editor of Reading Christian Scriptures in China (Bloomsbury, 2008).


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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 From Missionary Writings to Chinese Christian Texts: An Introduction Chapter 2 The Christian Imprint: The Shaping of Republican Era Theology Chapter 3 Zhao Zichen and a Creative Theology: The Life of Jesus (1935) Chapter 4 The Public and Personal Faces of the Church: Xu Zongze’s Suisi suibi and the Shengjiao zazhi (Revue Catholique) Chapter 5 Wu Leichuan, Christianity and Chinese Culture and the Kingdom of God Chapter 6 The Church and the People’s Republic of China Chapter 7 Ding Guangxun: Maintaining the Church Chapter 8 State Regulations, Church Growth and Textual Profusion Chapter 9 Yang Huilin: An Academic Search for Meaning Chapter 10 Visible and Voluble: Protestant House-church Writings in the Twenty-First Century Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

THE ORIGINS OF EVERYTHING IN 100 PAGES (MORE OR LESS) In this short, compelling book, geophysicist David Bercovici covers 13.8 billion years and explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life and human civilization. Bercovici marries humour and scientific intrigue, propelling readers across time and space, while making connections between the essential theories that give us our current understanding of topics as wide-ranging as particle physics, plate tectonics, and photosynthesis. The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less) is a treasure trove of compelling science and fascinating history, providing both science lovers and complete neophytes with an unforgettable introduction to the fields of cosmology, geology, climate science, human evolution, and more.

David Bercovici is Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An expert on planetary physics and plate tectonics, he spends as much time as he can by volcanoes.


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Contents Preface Chapter 1 Universe and Galaxies Chapter 2 Stars and Elements Chapter 3 Solar System and Planets Chapter 4 Continents and Earth’s Interior Chapter 5 Oceans and Atmosphere Chapter 6 Climate and Habitability Chapter 7 Life Chapter 8 Man and Civilization Bibliography Index

VOID The Strange Physics of Nothing (Foundational Questions in Science Series) James Owen Weatherall’s book The Physics of Wall Street was a New York Times bestseller and named one of Physics Today’s five most intriguing books of 2013. In his newest volume, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff—protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons—is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space as nothingness extended in all directions, a kind of theatre in which physics could unfold. But both quantum theory and relativity tell us that Newton’s picture can’t be right. Nothing, it turns out, is an awful lot like something, with a structure and properties every bit as complex and mysterious as matter. In his signature lively prose, Weatherall explores the very nature of empty space—and solidifies his reputation as a science writer to watch.

James Owen Weatherall is Assistant Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Physics of Wall Street (Houghton Mifflin, 2013).


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Contents Prologue Much Ado about Nothing Chapter 1 The Plenum and the Void Chapter 2 Waves of Space Itself Chapter 3 The Nothing Nothings Epilogue Why Nothing Really Matters: Quantum Gravity and Beyond Bibliography

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS The Scientific Search for Alien Life Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy. Presenting the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, Willis asks readers to imagine five of the most plausible scenarios for finding life in the universe, from whether it might exist in Mars’s subsoil ice to whether it could be nurtured by the water-ice moons Europa and Enceladus. He even looks beyond our own solar system, investigating the top candidates for a “second Earth” in a myriad of exoplanets. Covering the most up-to-date research, all aspects of modern astrobiology from physical studies of the Solar System to telescope exploration of exoplanets and the search for intelligent alien signals, this accessibly written book provides readers with the cutting-edge knowledge necessary to decide where they would look for life beyond Earth.

Jon Willis is Associate Professor of Astronomy at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has worked as an astronomer in Chile and Canada, and he has given numerous public talks, news interviews, and television documentary appearances.


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Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Alien Extravaganza Chapter 2 A Universe Fit for Life? Chapter 3 What on Earth Is Life? Chapter 4 A Biological Tour of Our Solar System Chapter 5 Mars: The Riddle in the Sands Chapter 6 Europa and Enceladus: Life Aquatic? Chapter 7 Titan: Nature’s Petrochemical Plant Chapter 8 Exoplanets: Worlds without End Chapter 9 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Chapter 10 The Meaning of (Alien) Life? Notes References Billions and Billions of Books Index

THE AISLES HAVE EYES How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power By one expert’s prediction, within twenty years, shoppers will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about specific products as they browse their local stores. The notion may be outlandish, but it reflects executives’ drive to understand shoppers in the aisles with the same obsessive detail that they track us online. In fact, a hidden surveillance revolution is already taking place inside brick-and-mortar stores, where many still do most of their buying. Advertising and digital studies expert Joseph Turow pulls back the curtain on these trends. Drawing on his interviews with retail executives, analysis of trade publications, and experiences at insider industry meetings, he shows how a new hyper-competitive generation of merchants is already using data mining, in-store tracking, and predictive analytics to change the way we buy, undermine our privacy, and define our reputations. Eye-opening and timely, The Aisles Have Eyes is essential reading to understand the future of retail and its impact on our most widespread public activity—shopping.

Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including most recently The Daily You (Yale, 2012), and Media Today (Routledge, 2011). Autumn 2016

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Contents Chapter 1 A Frog Slowly Boiled Chapter 2 The Discriminating Merchant Chapter 3 Toward the Data-Powered Aisle Chapter 4 Hunting the Mobile Shopper Chapter 5 Loyalty as Bait Chapter 6 Personalizing the Aisles Chapter 7 What Now? Notes Acknowledgments Index

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