Press Releases

The Global Cold War
Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
Odd Arne Westad

A global history of the origins and course of the Third World revolutions and of the US and Soviet interventions which shaped them.

Publication: January 2006

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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English 3ed
Dominic Head

The most comprehensive A-Z guide to authors and works from all over the world.

Publication: January 2006

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The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
Eisen / Keefe

Comprehensive coverage of Mozart's life and works, and of the people, places and compositional contexts that directly affected him.

Publication: January 2006

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Sustainable Fossil Fuels
Mark Jaccard

'Make no mistake. Mark Jaccard's Sustainable Fossil Fuels is a beacon for rational decision-making in 21st century. Buy it and read it. It could change your world forever.' The Globe and Mail

Publication: January 2006

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Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Santoro / Gorrie

Where do the lines begin and end between the pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility to society and to its own profit/loss considerations? A discussion of the ethical dilemmas of drug industry behavior.

Publication: March 2006

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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al.

Presents most recent findings on climate change from leading international scientists, for researchers, policy-makers, engineers.

Publication: March 2006

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The Historical Statistics of the United States 5 Volume Set
Millenial Edition
Edited by Susan B. Carter et al.

Updated version of an essential reference work.

Publication: March 2006

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The Economics of Cancer Care
Nicholas Bosanquet, Karol Sikora

Analyses the causes of tension between those paying for care, those providing the care and those marketing drugs and devices.

Publication: March 2006

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The New Physics
Ed. Gordon Fraser

Lively and accessible account of the hottest topics in physics, written by leading international experts including Nobel prize winners.

Publication: March 2006

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The Tasks of Philosophy
Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. For the first time his Selected Essays are collected in two superbly chosen volumes.

Publication: April 2006

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Ethics and Politics
Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. For the first time his Selected Essays are collected in two superbly chosen volumes.

Publication: April 2006

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Alms for Jihad
J. Millard Burr

Ground-breaking study of Islamic charities and the complex and secret financial systems that support terror.

Publication: May 2006

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Design for a New Europe
John Gillingham

Discusses how the European integration process broke down, but also how it can be repaired.

Publication: May 2006

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The Tasks of Philosophy Selected Essays
Alisdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. For the first time his Selected Essays are collected in two superbly chosen volumes.

Publication: June 2006

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Concise History of Western Music
Paul Griffiths

Griffiths shows how music has changed through the centuries, and suggests how that change mirrors development in the human notion of time.

Publication: June 2006

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Forbidden Words
Keith Allen / Kate Burridge

Examines how we use language to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct.

Publication: August 2006

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Satan: A Biography
Henry Ansgar Kelly

How the Satan of the New Testament became the modern day personification of evil.

Publication: August 2006

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How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Edited by Bjorn Lomborg

Written by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problem, and what we can do to solve them.

Publication: available from August 2006

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The Price of Peace
Edited by Charles Reed and David Ryall

Publication: no date available

9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks
Yuval Neria, Raz Gross, Randall Marshall, Ezra Susser

Practitioners with first-hand experience assess the impact of disaster and terrorism on mental health and well-being in the light of 9/11.

Publication: September 2006

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Darwinism and its Discontents
Michael Ruse

Presents an ardent defence of Darwin's theory of evolution, exploring recent controversies such as Creationism.

Publication: September 2006

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Superfractals
Michael Barnsley

Describes - with breath-taking illustrations - new mathematics and algorithms that open a whole theory that could have applications in computer graphics, bioinformatics, economics, signal processing and beyond.

Publication: October 2006

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The Material World
Rodney Cotterrill

A beautifully illustrated account of matter from the individual atom to the living organism.

Publication: October 2006

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