Mental health, history in flames and Gatsby at 100: new books coming soon
Mental health, history in flames and Gatsby at 100: new books coming soon
Find out how mental healthcare is failing women, learn about the destruction of medieval manuscripts, understand America's transformed politics, and celebrate 100 years since The Great Gatsby was first published.
Our selection of Cambridge books to educate and inspire coming later this year includes a survival kit for young adults on body confidence and a prize winning book on radical law. Discover more below.
Prize-winning look at how law is used for the benefit of society
Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizens discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240,000 homes back from multi-billion corporations. In Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Joanna Kusiak, tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble. She offers a vision of urban housing as democratically held commons, legally managed by a radically new institutional model that works through democratic conflicts.
This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Expected publication: May 2024
The destruction and preservation of historic knowledge
To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts explores cases in which large volumes of written manuscripts of the Middle Ages were destroyed during a single day. This destruction didn't occur by accident of fire or flood but by human forces such as arson, shelling and bombing.
This book analyses the lost manuscripts as well as the efforts made to preserve them. History in Flames reminds us that historical knowledge rests on material remains, and that these remains are vulnerable.
Expected publication: August 2024
Confidence in adulthood
Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence in Adultish: The Body Image Book For Life by Dr Charlotte Markey. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults.
This all-inclusive book provides evidence-based information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. It is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you're in.
Expected publication: September 2024
She's ‘out of her mind’
For centuries so called 'difficult women' have been labelled as 'hysterical' and 'out of their minds'. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it's 'all in their heads'. Why is it so hard for women to find the kind of help they need? Why is no one listening to them?
In Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change, Dr Linda Gask explores women's mental healthcare today. In doing so, she confronts her role as a psychiatrist, recalling experiences treating women and as a woman who has received mental healthcare, illustrating the dire need for more change, faster. Women can't all be out of their minds.
Expected publication: October 2024
Understanding American politics
Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes that have polarized the nation's political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war.
In Polarized by Degrees: How The Diploma Divide and Culture War Transformed American Politics, authors Grossmann and Hopkins show that the Democrats have become the home of highly-educated citizens with progressive social views who prefer credentialed experts to make policy decisions, while Republicans have become the populist champions of white voters without college degrees who increasingly distrust experts. The result of this is an increasingly complex world in which everything is about politics – and politics is about everything.
Expected publication: September 2024
A century of Gatsby
Rich in humour, sharply observant of status and class, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby's efforts to keep his faith – in money, in love, in all the promises of America – amid the chaos and conflict of life on Long Island's Gold Coast during the Roaring Twenties.
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby presents the established version of the text in a collector's volume replete with social, cultural, and historical context, and numerous illustrations. The introduction examines persistent myths about Fitzgerald, his greatest work, and the age he embodies, while offering fresh ways of reading this iconic work.
Expected publication: January 2025
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Mental health, history in flames and Gatsby at 100: new books coming soon
Cambridge books to educate and inspire coming later this year
