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From one of Australia’s leading historians, the compelling story of a singular nation still realizing its independence and influence on the global stageAs a land associated with extremes―from remote...

“Kann's latest tour de force explores the ambivalence, during the founding of our nation, about whether political freedom should augur sexual freedom. Tracing the roots of patriarchal sexual...

The must-have companion to the million-copy bestseller, a comprehensive guide to understanding and transforming the impact of traumatic family legacies on our daily livesDepression. Anxiety. Chronic...

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally...

When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on...

Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since...

How the Supreme Court’s move to the right has distorted both logic and the ConstitutionWhat Supreme Court justices do is far more than just “calling balls and strikes.” The Court has never simply...

Moths are often as beautiful as butterflies, and with over 2000 species on the British list are more numerous, more diverse and occupy a far wider variety of habitats and lifestyles. Yet, for most...

Antebellum mainline Protestant ministers are often portrayed as heralds of a national 'faith' in republican progress that reached its high point in the three decades before the Civil War. Mark Hanley...

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that...

"In the early decades of the nineteenth century, G. W. F. Hegel believed that philosophy was finally in position to achieve something it had strived for since Ancient Greece: becoming an objective,...

"Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and judgment? Can a whole culture become...

Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute...

"A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the...

In the brilliant world of Vienna at the turn of the century four men―Karl Renner, Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Friedrich Adler―sought to develop political and economic resolutions to the racial and...

A rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement. As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it...

An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free...

"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a...

Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel...

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique,...