Alumni Books Publications
Regulatory Hacking
Evan Burfield (2002, PPE)
Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups (Portfolio, 2018) One of the most valuable skillsets for the next era of innovation is…
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
Dr Michael Vatikiotis (1980, Anthropology & Geography)
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) ‘The gun is never far removed…
The Simple Physics of Energy Use
Peter Rez (1973, Metallurgy)
The Simple Physics of Energy Use (OUP, 2017) As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in…
John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
Peter Raina (1960, Modern History)
John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (Peter Lang, 2017) John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable…
Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer
Professor David Mabberley (1967, Botany)
Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer (NewSouth Publishing, 2017) Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as…
An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Keith Johnson (1963, English)
An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Routledge, 2017) The 3rd Edition of An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning…
The Murder Pit
Mick Finlay (1984, Human Sciences)
The Murder Pit (Harper Collins, 2019) Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of…
Shakespeare’s Heir
Chris Crowcroft (1971, Law)
Shakespeare’s Heir: Last Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator (Aesop Modern, 2017) Retired investigator Richard Palmer lives in the Charterhouse, a charity…
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
Professor Sheryll Cashin (1984, Law)
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (Beacon, 2017) This book was released in conjunction with…
The Oystercatcher Girl
Gabrielle Barnby (2000, Clinical Medicine)
The Oystercatcher Girl (ThunderPoint Publishing Limited, 2017) Set amidst the spectacular scenery of the Orkney Islands, Gabrielle Barnby’s skilfully plotted first…
Bird’s Milk
Jana Bakunina (1999, Economics & Management)
Bird’s Milk (Matador, 2017) In Bird’s Milk, Jana Bakunina tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from…
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson (1978, English)
The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Press, 2016) The first in a series of reimagined Shakespeare plays, commissioned…
How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life
Heather Townsend (1994, Engineering)
Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie outline the challenges and opportunities that lie before any professional who wants to get to…
The Death of an Owl
Piers Torday (1993, English)
The Death of an Owl (W&N, 2016) Piers Torday has published The Death of an Owl, which was the final,…
The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748
Christopher Storrs (1972, Modern History)
The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748 (Yale University press, 2016) A major reassessment of Philip V’s leadership and what it meant for…
When Morning Comes
Arushi Raina (2013, Visiting Student)
When Morning Comes (Tradewind, 2016) It s 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and…
Clinical Chemistry
William Marshall (1963, Biochemistry)
Clinical Chemistry (Elsevier, 2016), now in its eighth edition, considers what happens to the body’s chemistry when affected by disease….
I am the Song (CD)
Bernard Hughes (1992, Music)
A CD of choral music by Bernard Hughes has been released by Signum Records. I am the Song contains choral…
The House on Bellevue Gardens
Rachel Hore (1979, Modern History)
The House on Bellevue Gardens (Simon & Schuster, 2016) Rachel Hore’s latest book tells the story of Eleven Bellevue Gardens,…
Protest in Putin’s Russia
Mischa Gabowitsch (1995, PPE)
Protest in Putin’s Russia (Polity Press, 2016) In this the first full-length study of the 2011 Russian protests, Mischa Gabowitsch…
The Road to Corbyn
Dr Rob Donovan (1967, Modern History)
The Road to Corbyn (Matador, 2016) Following the style of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Road to Corbyn begins with…
International Taxation and the Extractive Industries
Philip Daniel (1966, PPE)
International Taxation and the Extractive Industries (Routledge, 2016) This book, edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Artur Świstak and Victor Thuronyi, includes contributions…
Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
Dr Peter Cave (1984, English)
Peter Cave has published Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education (University of Chicago Press, 2016)….
The Penultimate Curiosity
Andrew Briggs (1968, Physics)
The Penultimate Curiosity (Oxford University Press, 2016) Professor Andrew Briggs and his co-author Roger Wagner launched their book entitled The Penultimate…
Protecting Civilians in War
Dr Miriam Bradley (1999, PPE)
This book explores the limitations of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations refugee agency when…
Auger Electron Spectroscopy
John Wolstenholme (1970, Chemistry)
Auger Electron Spectroscopy: Practical Application to Materials Analysis and Characterisation of Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films, (Momentum Press, 2015).
From Pitt to Peel 1783-1846
Michael Wells (1968, Modern History)
From Pitt to Peel 1783-1846 (Hodder Educ, 2015) Michael Wells has published a number of textbooks on British History to…
Headlines from the Holy Land: Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
James Rodgers (1984, Modern Languages)
Headlines from the Holy Land: Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) James Rodgers draws on his experience as the…
