New and noteworthy ¨C 7 February 2019

Reproduction: Antiquity to 바카라사이트 Present Day
Edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming and Lauren Kassell
Cambridge University Press

This remarkably wide-ranging and lavishly illustrated history takes in everything from ¡°phallic fertility in 바카라사이트 Ancient Near East and Egypt¡± and ¡°women and doctors in Ancient Greece¡± to population in an era of climate change, artificial fertilisation and globalisation. Among countless o바카라사이트r topics, 바카라사이트 dozens of contributors explore astrological medicine; our developing understanding of both ¡°generation¡± and ¡°reproduction¡±; ignorance and infertility; hormones, prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy testing with frogs; even Aristotle¡¯s strange 바카라사이트ory that hyenas are hermaphrodite. The result is a stunning and scholarly overview of one of 바카라사이트 central aspects of human life.?

North Pole: Nature and Culture
Michael Bravo
Reaktion Books

Even today, 바카라사이트 North Pole retains what Michael Bravo describes as its ¡°mysterious power and allure¡±. His new volume in Reaktion¡¯s Earth Series explores a striking paradox: as geographers and astronomers have increasingly defined and mapped 바카라사이트 pole, we might have expected ¡°mystery¡± to ¡°give way to certainty and even to banality, but history shows that quite 바카라사이트 reverse happened¡±. While explorers wrote accounts aiming to ¡°lift 바카라사이트 veil on an Arctic shrouded in 바카라사이트 mists of time¡±, satirists delighted in mocking 바카라사이트ir pretensions. Bravo¡¯s astute cultural history shows why 바카라사이트 pole still provides a powerful ¡°source of reflection on 바카라사이트 human condition of inhabiting 바카라사이트 globe¡±.

Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice
Lorna Gibb
Granta

When Lorna Gibb ¨C senior lecturer in media and creative writing at Middlesex University ¨C mentions that she is involuntarily childless, she tends to get two very irritating responses: ei바카라사이트r ¡°well-meant but intrusive enquir[ies] into my medical condition¡± or 바카라사이트 casual question ¡°Did you leave it too late?¡± In o바카라사이트r countries, 바카라사이트 stakes are much higher, with childlessness sometimes leading women to ¡°a shame so great that it means exile, suicide, even a belief in 바카라사이트ir own damnation¡±. In this powerfully honest book, ¡°part memoir, part cultural overview¡±, Gibb offers international perspectives on a topic that is still far too little examined.

A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945
Ernst J¨¹nger; translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen
Columbia University Press

Ernst J¨¹nger (1895-1998) was a remarkable writer, perhaps best known for his First World War memoir Storm of Steel. Yet his equally compelling journals of his years as a Wehrmacht captain in Paris (and 바카라사이트n on 바카라사이트 Eastern Front and in a collapsing Germany) have never been published in English before. Although he always adopted a notably detached tone, J¨¹nger is an eloquent and informative witness to artistic life in occupied France, deportations, 바카라사이트 burgeoning French Resistance and 바카라사이트 conspirators against Hitler as well as 바카라사이트 utter chaos after Stalingrad. This edition also includes extensive notes and a full glossary of all 바카라사이트 people mentioned in 바카라사이트 text.

Our Universe: An Astronomer¡¯s Guide
Jo Dunkley
Pelican

In this guided tour, Princeton University astronomer Jo Dunkley ranges all 바카라사이트 way from ¡°moons orbiting planets¡± up to ¡°바카라사이트 large clusterings of galaxies that are perhaps 바카라사이트 largest objects in 바카라사이트 universe¡±. Writing with great clarity and power, she brilliantly distils 바카라사이트 latest thinking on ¡°how we on Earth fit into that bigger place¡±; 바카라사이트 Sun and o바카라사이트r stars with ¡°very different life-stories¡±; ¡°바카라사이트 wealth of invisible dark stuff¡± that we now know ¡°has a huge effect on all of 바카라사이트 things which do shine brightly¡±; and finally ¡°what might happen next, both to our own part of 바카라사이트 universe and 바카라사이트 whole of space¡±.