The Disappearance of Butterflies
Josef H. Reichholf
“This is a brilliant, authoritative and iconoclastic challenge to the industrial farming that is destroying insect life. But Josef Reichholf’s lifetime of scrupulous scientific observation of butterflies and moths does not lead to despondency. He identifies overlooked solutions, from discarding fertiliser to embracing disorder and greening cities. And he reveals more of the miraculous biology of butterflies and moths, and their marvellous relationships with a whole web of life – including us.”
Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterly Isles
October 2020
Pearl Harbor
Japan’s Attack and America’s Entry into World War II
Takuma Melber
“Melber clearly is on top of his subject matter, having mastered the story of Pearl Habor from the perspectives of both Japan and the United States. In so doing he offers fascinating new insights into what led to the attack on Pearl Harbor and thus to America’s entry into the Second World War. He displays a thorough knowledge of the Japanese and American literature, and he writes in a manner that is both accessible and authoritative. This is an excellent book and it will find a ready readership both among university students and among the general public.”
Richard Bessel, University of York
October 2020
The Empire of Depression
A New History
Jonathan Sadowsky
“Drawing from medicine, psychology, anthropology and memoir, Jonathan Sadowsky shows how much the history of depression can inform how we understand it in the present day. A scholarly but immensely readable book which challenges dogmatic opinions about a complex condition which is ‘hard to manualise’ but sadly too often politicised.”
Linda Gask, writer and psychiatrist
October 2020
What Is at Stake Now
My Appeal for Peace and Freedom
Mikhail Gorbachev
“I was fortunate in being with Margret Thatcher when she met Mikhail Gorbachev in 1984. He did more to end the Cold War than anyone else and it ended without a shot being fired. We need to listen to his wise advice and encourage Vladimir Putin, not just Donald Trump, to act on it. Neither wants war but, as Gorbachev writes, we could end up with it by accident with the world being devastated.”
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom
September 2020
The Covid-19 Catastrophe
What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again
Richard Horton
The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was clear in January that a dangerous new virus was causing a devastating human tragedy in China. And yet the world ignored the warnings. Why? In this short and hard-hitting book, Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinizes the actions that governments around the world took – and failed to take – as the virus spread from its origins in Wuhan to the global pandemic that it is today.
June 2020
