Alumni Books Publications
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…
Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems
Thomas Povey (1996, Physics)
Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems (Oneworld, 2015) Thomas Povey’s recent book is a collection of over one hundred of his favourite…
Big Data Revolution: What Farmers, Doctors and Insurance Agents Teach Us About Discovering Big Data Patterns
Patrick McSharry (1995, Mathematics)
Big Data Revolution: What Farmers, Doctors and Insurance Agents Teach Us About Discovering Big Data Patterns (Wiley, 2015). Patrick McSharry’s…
Sensational Subjects and Sympathetic Sentiments
John Jervis (1965, PPE)
Sensational Subjects and Sympathetic Sentiments (Bloomsbury, 2015) In John Jervis’ latest books, Sensational Subjects explores the themes that underlie the…
Your Customer Rules!
David Jaffe (1982, Politics, Philosophy & Economics)
Your Customer Rules! (Jossey-Bass, 2015) Co-authored with Bill Price, who set up Amazon’s customer service, David Jaffe’s second book recommends…
Sisters of Fury
Keith Jacobsen (1967, Modern Languages)
Sisters of Fury. (2015, Book Guild Ltd). Keith Jacobsen’s recent book is his fourth novel and it is dedicated to…
Discovery and Measurement of the Higgs Boson in the WW Decay Channel
David Hall (2010, Physics)
Discovery and Measurement of the Higgs Boson in the WW Decay Channel (Springer, 2015) David Hall has won a Springer…
Wasted: How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future
Georgia Gould (2005, History & Politics)
Wasted: How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future (Little, Brown, 2015) Georgia Gould attempted to uncover the values, aspirations and…
In the Wolf’s Mouth
Adam Foulds (1994, English)
In the Wolf’s Mouth (Vintage, 2015) The book follows the lives of four very different men, all navigating the chaos…
It’s Been An Education
Tony Elder (1953, History)
It’s Been An Education, (Brown Dog Books, 2015) Tony Elder’s book is a personal and often humorous account of his…
The Portugese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013
Mustafah Dhada (1977, International Relations)
The Portugese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013. (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015). In an in-depth study of perhaps the…
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Helen Dancer (1994, Politics, Philosophy & Economics)
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania (James Currey, 2015). Drawing on her ethnographic research in Tanzania’s Arusha region, Helen Dancer’s…
Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties
Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina's Impact on Civil Liberties (Carolina Academic Press, 2015)
Involuntary Heroes: Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Civil Liberties (Carolina Academic Press, 2015) Mitch Crusto’s latest book is about the government’s…
Port Jackson Gentlemen
Richard Cox (1951, English)
Port Jackson Gentlemen (Rosenberg Publishing, 2015) This book is a narrative of the first free settlers – the Exclusives, or…
Plen an Gwari: The Playing Places of Cornwall
Will Coleman (1981, Zoology)
Plen an Gwari: The Playing Places of Cornwall (Golden Tree Productions, 2015) This book aims to open up the undiscovered…
Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway
Raphael Cohen-Almagor (1997, Politics)
Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press,…
Settled Wanderers
Sam Berkson (2001, English Language & Literature)
Settled Wanderers (Influx Press, 2015) Settled Wanderers features poems Sam Berkson wrote at the refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, where…
Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization
Gurnek Bains (1980, Psychology)
Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization (Wiley, 2015) Gurnek Bains’ latest book promotes successful engagement with cultures around the world,…
Beats Working For a Living: My Life as a Geologist
Rob Ryan (1951, Geology)
Beats Working For a Living: My Life as a Geologist (Jabiru, 2014) This book covers his early life in Kenya,…
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Mark Miodownik (1988, Metallurgy)
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World (Penguin, 2014) Mark Miodownik’s book explores…
You Never Know Your Luck: Reflections of a Cockney Campaigner for Education
Fred Jarvis (1949, PPE)
You Never Know Your Luck: Reflections of a Cockney Campaigner for Education (Grosvenor House Publishing, 2014) Fred Jarvis is the…
A Giotto Triptych and Afterwords
W.D. (Bill) Jackson (1965, English)
A Giotto Triptych and Afterwords (Shoestring Press, 2014) Bill Jackson’s recent books are two further selections of poetry from the third part (provisionally…
