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Brian Fagan
ELIXIR: A HISTORY OF WATER AND
HUMANKIND
June 2011
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Brian Fagan's Elixir: A History of Water and
Humankind spans five millennia, from the
beginnings of civilization to the Industrial
Revolution, when we started to turn water into a
commodity. Fagan explores how the role of
water in modern society has deep roots in the
distant past. Circa 2500 B.C., aqueducts watered
fields in Sumer and the Indus Valley-and also
supplied fountains, baths, and latrines. Some Sumerian homes had waterflushed latrines connected to a sewer system-a convenience that didn't return
until four thousand years later. Northern Europeans suffered a millennium of
disease and squalor after Roman sanitation and sewage advances were
forgotten. European civilization would not emerge from the Dark Ages until
clean water was widely available.
Moving from simple early cultures to great agrarian societies to the beginning
our industrial world, Fagan traces the long and often troubled relationship
between humans and their water supplies. Drawing on his training as an
archaeologist, Fagan explains history's lessons: The only way to ensure
adequate clean water is to understand water as a finite resource, and further, to
make water conservation a fundamental concern. Elixir explains how water
rituals lie at the center of daily life-and, in a telling lesson for present
environmental challenges, how they are essential for sustainability.
Mark Kurlansky
WHAT? ARE THESE THE 20 MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
HUMAN HISTORY-OR
IS THIS A GAME OF 20 QUESTIONS?
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a playful,
provocative, brilliantly illuminating little book that examines life's big
questions.
What is What? Could it be that Mark Kurlansky has written a very Sh01i,
terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of
questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policyindeed, all of civilization-to
ask what may well be the twenty most important
questions in human history? Or has he given us a really smart, impossibly
amusing game of twenty questions?
In What? Kurlansky distills the deep questions of life to their sparkling
essence, supplying endless fodder for thoughtful conversation, but also endless
opportunity to ponder and be challenged by-and entertained by-these
questions in refreshingly original ways. As Kurlansky says, In a world that
seems devoid of absolute certainties, how can we make declarative statements?
Without asking the questions, how will we ever get to the answers?
With Kurlansky's striking black-and-white woodcut illustrations throughout,
What? will engage, provoke, and amuse anyone who reads it. Will you?
Mark Kuriansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The
Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and Nonviolence: The
History of a Dangerous Idea, among many other books.
Brian Fagan is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. His books on the interaction of climate and human
society have established him as a leading authority on the subject and he
lectures frequently around the world. He is the author of the New York Times
bestseller The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of
Civilizations, The Little Ice Age, The Long Summer, and Fish on Friday.
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Catherine McKinley
INDIGO: BEAUTY, DEATH, HISTORY, AND THE COLOR THAT
SEDUCED THE WORLD
May 2011
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For almost five millennia, in every culture and every major religion, indigo-a
blue pigment obtained from the small green leaf of a parasitic shrub through a
complex process that even scientists still regard as mysterious-has
been one
of the world's most valued colors.
Indigo is the story ofthis precious dye and its ancient heritage: its relationship
to slavery as the "hidden half" of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound
spiritual and sartorial significance that is little recognized but no less alive
today (blue jeans, anyone?). It is an untold story, brimming with rich,
electrifying tales of those who shaped the course of 20th-century colonial
history and a world economy. But Indigo is also the story of a personal quest:
McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan as their
virile armor; the kin of several generations of Jewish "rag traders"; the
maternal granddaughter of a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and she's a
paternal granddaughter of African slaves-her ancestors were traded along the
same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase
human life. McKinley's journey in search of beauty and her own history began
with a Fulbright fellowship to research indigo; it ultimately leads her to a new
and satisfying path, to finally "taste life."
Catherine McKinley is the author of The Book of Sarahs. A Fulbright fellow
and a former graduate fellow in Africana studies at Cornell University, she is
the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the
Audre Lorde Estate, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and
Hedgebrook. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in
Bronxville, New York, and lives in New York City with her two children.
Art Wolfe and Jeffrey MoussaieffMasson
OF DOGS AND MEN
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Of Dogs and Men features the glorious photographs of renowned nature and
animal photographer Art Wolfe, with text by bestselling author Jeffrey
MoussaieffMasson, capturing the bond, formed in pre-history, between
humans and dogs. It is, as Masson tells us, the only example oflove between
two different species.
Jeffrey Moussaieff
Masson is one of the
world's most popular and
admired writers on the
emotional life of animals.
His books have sold over
2,000,000 copies
worldwide. His bestselling
book Dogs Never Lie About
Love has sold more than
900,000 copies in the
United States and has been
translated into twenty-five
languages. His groundbreaking book on animal emotions, When Elephants
Weep, has sold more than 700,000 copies in the U.S.
Over the course of his thirty-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked
on every continent and in hundreds of locations. Hailed by William Conway,
former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, as "the most prolific
and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world," Wolfe has taken
an estimated one million images in his lifetime and has released more than
sixty books.
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How The
CLIMATE CRISIS
Will Change
EVERYTHING
Paul Gilding
THE GREAT DISRUPTION: HOW THE
CLIMA TE CRISIS WILL CHANGE
EVERYTHING~(EOR THE BETTER)
April 2011
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"One of those who has been warning me of
[a coming crisis] for a long time is Paul
Gilding, the Australian environmental
business expert. He has a name for this
moment-when both Mother Nature and
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Father Greed have hit the wall at once- 'The
Great Disruption. ' "<Thomas Friedman in the New York Times
The world has entered The Great Disruption, an economic and ecological crisis
that marks the end of economic growth as the earth bites back. While the crisis
will involve great dislocation and suffering, it will also lead to deep reflection
and drive a great awakening and transformation. During this transition we will
see humanity at its worst and at its best. As nationalism rears its ugly head, we
will witness great conflict between nations over resources and the mass
suffering of refugees. However, we will also see the best humanity can offer:
great compassion and extraordinary innovation. Scientists, business leaders,
community organizers, and youth will all build the future.
The Great Disruption is an all too realistic forecast of the way this crisis will
unfold and a description of the way forward, with many examples of the
changes already under way.
Paul Gilding has served as CEO of a range of innovative NGOs and
companies, including Greenpeace International, Ecos Corporation, and Easy
Being Green. He has also helped to establish and served on the board of the
Inspire Foundation, the Australian Business Community Network, and Climate
Coolers. He has received various awards for his work, including recognition
from the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is on the Global Core Faculty
of the Prince of Wales's Business and the Environment Program of Cambridge
University.
Rye Barcott
IT HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO WAR:
A MARINE'S PATH TO PEACE
April 2011
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In 2000, a twenty-year-old college student
heading to the Marines sought to understand
the ethnic violence that had convulsed Africa
and might one day confront him in uniform.
Rye Barcott rented a tin shack in the heart of
the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He learned
Swahili, asked questions, and listened to
young people talk about how they survived in
squalor he had never imagined. He stumbled
into friendship with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a hardscrabble
community organizer, Salim Mohamed.
It Happened on the Way to War is the gripping story of this unlikely trio's
journey to empower one of Africa's largest slums. Together they built Carolina
for Kibera (CFK), a Time magazine "Hero of Global Health" that uses sports to
prevent violence, improve health care, and promote youth leadership. CFK is a
pioneer in a movement called participatory development. Barcott learned that
with the right kind of support, people in desperate places can take control of
their lives and create breathtaking change.
An inspiring story of sacrifice and courage, failure and triumph, and the ability
of a small group of committed people to help change the world: truly Three
Cups of Tea meets Jarhead.
Rye Barcott founded the renowned nongovernmental organization Carolina
for Kibera (CFK) with Salim Mohamed and Tabitha Atieno Festo while he was
an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After
graduation, he served as a Marine for five years on active duty. In 2006 ABC
World News named then captain Barcott a Person of the Week and Person of
the Year for his dual service to Kibera and the Marine Corps. As a Reynolds
Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, he earned master's degrees in business and
public administration from Harvard University. He is currently a member of
the board of trustees at World Learning and a TED Fellow. He lives in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
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THE POWER OF MUSIC:
PIONEERING DISCOVERIES IN THE
NEW SCIENCE OF SONG
April 2011
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Granddaughter of the founders of New York
City's Mannes College of Music, Elena
Mannes is an Emmy Award-winning
documentary film producer. The Power of
Musis, inspired by a PBS documentary
Mannes created, is a study of our human
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connection to music and a tale of science
and innovation. Mannes chronicles visionary
researchers and accomplished musicians at
the crossroads of science and culture, discovering how much of our musicality
is learned and how much is innate? Can examining the biological foundations
of music help scientists unravel the intricate web of human cognition and brain
function? Why is music virtually universal across cultures and time-does it
provide some evolutionary advantage? Can music make people healthier?
Might music contain organizing principles of harmonic vibration that underlie
the cosmos itself?
Elena Mannes has won six Emmys and many other national awards for her
documentaries. The Power of Music is her first book.
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William Holstein
THE NEXT AMERICAN ECONOMY
May 2011
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At a time when debate is raging about how
to create jobs and revive the American
economy, veteran business writer William J
Holstein argues that the best way for us to
recover our economic footing is to do what
America does best-innovate
and create
new industries. Contrary to the perception
that the American economy has run out of
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inspiration and new ideas, Holstein conducts
WILLIAM
HOLSTEIN
case studies of innovation in Boston,
Pittsburgh, Orlando, San Diego and other
technology "clusters." In the face of economic powerhouses such as Japan and
China that are pursuing conscious national strategies, he argues that Americans
must find new avenues of cooperation among universities, business and
government to become more competitive. His book offers many fresh insights
into how Americans can create a real economic recovery, but he warns that
much hard work remains.
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The Next American Economy shows the way toward creating a sustainable
economy, using twelve case studies, including a John Deere factory in Iowa
and companies exporting infrastructure equipment and technology to emerging
markets. In order to achieve economic growth again, and to sustain it, we must
stage a recovery that is based more on manufacturing, research, innovation,
winning service sector models, and improved education, particularly for
workers already in the work force.
William J. Holstein has written for Business Week, the New York Times, and
Fortune, among other publications, and is the author of Why GM Matters,
Manage the Media, and The Japanese Power Game. He lives in Cortlandt
Manor, New York.
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Rowan Jacobsen
SHADOWS ON THE GULF: A JOURNEY
THROUGH OUR LAST GREAT
WETLAND
May 2011
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The Gulf Coast's Mississippi Delta was recently
recognized as the only place on earth with
oyster reefs that can support sustainable fishing.
Oysters, shrimp, and fish thrive in the nutrientrich marshes, reefs, and wetlands, creating an
area as fertile as it is beautiful. Around this
natural wealth, a culture as unique as the reefs
themselves has grown. In New Orleans, Cajun cooking and coastal culture
have forged a place in our national identity and our economy.
The oil industry has long insisted that that they can drill along these shores
without harm, but as they quietly dredged canals through the wetlands, they
were destroying an acre of Louisiana marsh every half hour. Over 2,000 square
miles have already been lost. After the catastrophic BP Deepwater spill, these
practices can no longer escape public scrutiny. In Shadows on the Gulf,
Jacobson provides us with a wide perspective on the presence of drilling along
the Gulf, and what impact the recent spill will have on the ecosystemincluding human life in the region. Combining deep ecological understanding
with on-the-ground reporting and stirring first-person accounts, Jacobsen
personalizes what has become the greatest environmental disaster in recent
times, and contextuaLizes it in a Longhistory of inexcusable practices-and an
even longer history of beauty and bounty. Shadows on the Gulfmakes the case
that the future of the Gulf depends not only on breaking from the grip of Big
Oil, but in truly respecting those other natural resources that give the region its
value.
William Stolzenburg
RAT ISLAND
June 2011
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The most massive wildlife rescue in history is under way. On remote oceanic
islands around the world, birds and other species are being lifted from the brink
of oblivion. There is just one catch: This campaign to rescue the islanders
entails massacring their enemies.
Rat Island is the story of an eclectic international cadre of biologists and
professional hunters dedicated to defending the most valuable conservation real
estate in the world. IsLands, at just 3 percent of the earth' s landmass, harbor
more than half of all endangered species. Their demise comes by way of
invaders from the mainland-goats,
pigs, cats, and rats----destroyers of fragile
habitats, predators of defenseless prey. The natives' salvation now hinges on
erasing these invaders to the last.
Rat Island is a metaphor for a world under invasion. It is also a real place, a
seven-thousand-acre mass of volcanic rubble between Alaska and Siberia,
whose riotous colonies of seabirds were silenced years ago by shipwrecked
rats. In the recent battle for Rat Island comes a critical test. The outcome may
decide whether some of the grandest wildlife spectacles in all of nature will
soon be resurrected-whether
the flagging spirits of modern environmental
conservation may finally be infused with hope.
William Stolzenburg has studied predator-control techniques and worked as a
wildlife technician, monitoring endangered species. He is the author of Where
the Wild Things Were and has written hundreds of magazine features and
columns on the ecology of rarity and extinction for Science News and Nature
Conservancy, among others. He lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Award-winning author of A Geography
of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, and American Terroir. His
writings on food, the environment, and the connections between the two have
appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Newsweek, Eating Well, and the
Art of Eating. Jacobsen lives in rural Vermont with his wife and SOIL
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Emma Marris
RAMBUNCTIOUS GARDEN:
SAVING NATURE IN A POST-WILD
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A new paradigm shift is roiling the environmental
world. For decades people have unquestioningly
accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve
nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many
scientists have come to see that this concept is an
outdated dream that prevents us from having a
fuller relationship with nature and thwarts bold new plans to save the
environment.
Humans have changed and managed the landscapes they inhabit since
prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the
fingerprints of humanity. Nature will never get back to its original state (which
Marris argues may not always be a bad thing), so why waste time and effort
trying? The new model is the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature
and human influence.
In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists
and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and empty lot jungles. Marris
describes the new approaches, including rewilding, assisted migration, and the
so-called novel ecosystems.
Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theory and
fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up
our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the idea of a
global, half-wild rambunctious garden, tended by us. We have forever altered
the earth. We can't now abandon it to fate.
Emma Marris is a rising star among writers about nature. She writes
frequently for Nature, Conservation, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor,
and others. This is her first book.
Fred Guterl
ENDGAME
September 2011
Bloomsbury USA
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In the five-hundred-million-year history of life on this planet, there have been
five so-called mass extinction events. There is evidence now that a sixth is
under way, with the earth already losing as many as two hundred species per
day. The cause, of course, is human activity.
What this bleak future will truly hold, though, is much in dispute. Will our
immune systems be attacked by so-called super bugs, always evolving, and
now more easily spread than ever? Will the disappearance of so many species
cripple the biosphere? Will global warming transform itself into a runaway
effect, destroying ecosystems across the planet? In this provocative and
sobering book, Fred Guterl examines each of these scenarios, laying out the
existing threats, and proffering the means to avoid them.
This book is more than a tour of an apocalyptic future; it is a political salvo, an
antidote to well-intentioned but ultimately ineffectual thinking. Though it's
honorable enough to switch light bulbs and eat home-grown food, the scope of
our problems, and the size of our population, is too great. And so, Guterl
argues, we find ourselves in a trap: Technology got us into this mess, and it's
also the only thing that can help us survive it.
Endgame is a fascinating view of a future we all want to avoid, as well as an
urgent call to action. With vivid description and penetrating intelligence,
Guterl shows just where our future is heading, and ultimately lights a path
toward safe harbor.
Fred Guterl is assistant managing editor of Newsweek International. He
directs its coverage of science, technology, and the environment. He holds a
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester
and has taught science writing at Princeton University. He lives in Montclair,
New Jersey, with his wife and two children.
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loan Grillo
EL NARCO: THE BLOODY RISE OF MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
September 2011
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In the last three years, more than 11,000 people have been killed in drugtrafficking-related violence in Mexico. That staggering number is not a
misprint-the scale of the Mexican cartels and the horrifying violence of their
struggles for turf and market share are unprecedented in the history of crime. El
Narco is filled with true stories that are stranger than fiction-hostage
beheadings that take on the aspect of ritual killings, gangsters far better armed
than federal troops, a rogue sect of Christianity devoted to a narco saint,
fashion styles and music genres inspired by the cartels and their soldiers. One
Mexican official was murdered six hours after taking office and announcing a
crackdown on the cartels. Perhaps most shocking of all is the wholesale
defection of elite Mexican armed forces to work for, and in some cases run
cartels. This is more than a crime story-El Narco has far-reaching
implications. The US Department of Homeland Security recently classified
Mexican cartels as the number one organized crime risk to public safety.
loan Grillo, has been reporting in Mexico for eight years and has unparalleled
access and connections, He has interviewed foot soldiers of the cartels in
prison, flown in private jets with President Felipe Calderon, and talked to
hundreds of people on both sides of the battle, both ordinary citizens hoping
for an end to the violence and the cartel soldiers themselves. Grillo has
reported from all over Mexico for Time, NPR, the Houston Chronicle, and the
Associated Press, and has appeared on CNN and BBC reports regularly.
Tim Cope
IN THE STEPPES OF THE NOMADS
September 2011
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The unforgettable story of a three-and-a-half-year journey on horseback across
the lands of the steppe nomads, more than six thousand miles from Ulan Bator,
Mongolia, to the edges of Vienna, Tim Cope's trek took him across Mongolia,
Kazakhstan, Kalmykia, southem Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, and Hungary, and
across the "starving steppe," where temperatures fell to fifty below and rose to
a scorching heat. This is a classic adventure story of one man, a dog, and a
horse facing a rarely visited land, encountering history, tracing complex
cultures, and struggling with personal loss.
Tim Cope has worked as a guide in Antarctica, studied as a wilderness guide
in the Finnish and Russian Arctic, ridden a bicycle from Russia to China, and
rowed a boat through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. He has contributed to
Australia's Sun-Herald, Australian Geographic, and National Geographic
Adventure. He is the coauthor of Off the Rails: Moscow to Beijing by Bike for
which there is a companion documentary that received first prize in the Grants
Film Festival in Austria.
David Blatner
SPECTRUMS
September. 2011
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In his two previous books, The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book, Blatner
ingeniously blended narrative and illustration to bring to life the infinitude of
the number pi and the mysteries of flying in airplanes. In Spectrums, he
illuminates the variety of spectra that affect our lives every day: numbers (the
largest to the smallest), light and sound in their many frequencies, length and
breadth (protons to the width of the entire observable universe), mass (lightest
to heaviest) and time (from the quickest of calculations to the age of the
universe). With clear images reinforcing his observations, Blatner makes our
daily lives richer and more meaningful through greater appreciation of their
scale.
David B1atner is known worldwide for his award-winning books and lectures
on electronic print and Web-based publishing. The Joy of Pi has been licensed
worldwide including in Latin America, Japan, Taiwan (Chinese complex),
Portugal, Italy, Korea, Greece, Canada, Germany, China (Chinese simplified),
Sweden, and Turkey.
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David Rothenberg
THE BEAUTY SECRET: HOW ART MAKES US HUMAN
September 2011
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The Beauty Secret is a meditation on the nature of beauty, both in art and in
nature, exploring how attraction and attractiveness are as important as sexual
selection in the complex history oflife on earth. Philosopher and musician
David Rothenberg covers a lot of ground, from birds who make art to how
mathematics can be used to judge the authenticity of a Jackson Pollock
painting. Rothenberg's trademark voice combines big-picture questions with a
personal journey as he chronicles the research of important thinkers in the
field.
Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing,
Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes, Hand's End: Technology and
the Limits of Nature, Always the Mountains, and Thousand Mile Song. He was
the editor of the MIT Press jomnal Terra Nova: Nature & Culture, and edited
the various Terra Nova books based on the journal, His articles have appeared
in Wired, Kyoto Journal, the New York Times, and many other publications. He
has appeared many times on public radio and television.
Nathan Hodge
ARMED HUMANITARIANS:
THE
OF THE NATION BUILDERS
February 2011
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In May 2003, President George W. Bush
declared victory in Iraq. But while we won the
war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our
failure prompted a fundamental change in our
foreign policy. Confronted with the
shortcomings of "shock and awe," the U.S.
military shifted its focus to "stability
operations": counterinsurgency and the
rebuilding of failed states. In less than a
decade, foreign assistance has become militarized; humanitarianism has been
armed.
Combining recent history and firsthand reporting, Armed Humanitarians traces
how the concepts of nation-building came into vogue, and how, evangelized
through think tanks, government seminars, and the press, this new doctrine
took root inside the Pentagon and the State Department. Following this
extraordinary experiment in armed social work as it plays out from
Afghanistan and Iraq to Africa and Haiti, Nathan Hodge exposes the
difficulties of translating these ambitious new theories into action.
Ultimately seeing this new era in foreign relations as a noble but flawed
experiment, he shows how armed humanitarianism strains om resources,
deepens om reliance on outsourcing and private contractors, and leads to
perceptions of a new imperialism, arguably a major factor in any number of
new conflicts around the world. As we attempt to build nations, we may in fact
be weakening om own.
Nathan Hodge is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who specializes in defense
and national security. He has reported from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and
a number of other countries in the Middle East and former Soviet Union. He is
the author, with Sharon Weinberger, of A Nuclear Family Vacation, and his
work has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and many
other newspapers and magazines.
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Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D.
NO MORE WHISPERS:
DISORDER
January 2012
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SILENCING
YOUR INNER EATING
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Thirty percent of ten- to fourteen-year-olds are actively dieting. Over 80
percent of ten-year-olds are afraid of being fat. Up to 20 percent of women
have eating disorders, with up to 61 percent reporting diagnostic symptoms and
up to 92 percent endorsing dieting. For Cynthia M. Bulik, whispers are
negative self-talk that haunt women from childhood into late adulthood. In No
More Whispers, Bulik helps readers replace negative self-talk with positive
ways to view their bodies, and helps them make healthy choices with the same
self-coaching techniques that she uses to coach and counsel athletes, applying
them to women who struggle with self-esteem, body image, and weight issues.
No More Whispers is a must-read for women who want to live healthy lives
free of the pressures of the impossible standards of beauty.
Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., is the William and Jeanne H. Jordan Distinguished
Professor of Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health, and director of
the UNC Eating Disorders Program. She is the author of Crave and has been
featured or quoted in Vogue, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall
Street Journal.
Seth Horowitz
OF SOUND MIND
January 2012
Bloomsbury USA
Jack Lynch
YOU COULD LOOK IT UP
March 2012
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You Could Look It Up tells the story of mankind's urge to collect vast amounts
of knowledge and present it accessibly-and,
because encyclopedias of all
kinds are windows into the cultures that created them, a chronicle of the
development of civilization from ancient Babylon to the present. Jack Lynch
has structured his book thematically, with sections on "Laws," "Words I: The
Birth of the Dictionary," Nature," "Ailments," and nine others. "Laws" begins
with the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1760 B.C.), the oldest known collection of
legal writings, and ends with Westlaw, an ongoing online resource created in
the 1970s to collect information from more than forty thousand legal databases.
"Nature" begins with Theophrastus's third century B.C. Historia plantarum and
ends with The Encyclopedia of Life, the 2008 online catalog of genomes. In
between are all manner of other volumes-some
well-known, many unknown,
all fascinating-that
further our appreciation of the ways knowledge has
expanded. Each chapter is suffused with Lynch's splendid wit and historical
insight. While encyclopedias have been written about before, there is no book
like You Could Look It Up.
Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University and a Samuel
Johnson scholar, having studied the great lexicographer for nearly a decade. He
is the author of Becoming Shakespeare and The Lexicographer's Dilemma and
the editor of Samuel Johnson's Insults and Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. He
lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
*World Rights
*Proposal Available
Every day, we are beset with millions of sounds-ambient
ones like the rumble
of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds,
such as human speech, music, and sirens. How do we know which sounds
should startle us, which should engage us, and which should turn us off? In this
fascinating exploration, research psychologist and sound engineer Seth
Horowitz shows how our sense of hearing manipulates the way we think,
consume, sleep, and feel. With an inquisitive instinct and articulate prose,
Horowitz shows us a part of our brain that has more say over our thoughts than
we realize.
Seth Horowitz is a Brown University research psychologist and sound
engineer.
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Jude Stewart
A COLOR MISCELLANY
January 2012
Bloomsbury USA
*World Rights
John de Graaf and David Batker
WHA T'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY?
Spring 2012
*World Rights
Bloomsbury Press
*Proposal Available
In this beautifully illustrated and packaged book, designer and raconteur Jude
Stewart unravels the historical, social, and cultural meanings of all the colors
of the rainbow, from the green of envy to the yellow of cowardice and
everything in between.
In their decades spent crusading for better quality of life, fihmnaker and
activist John de Graaf and economist David Batker have spoken to enthusiastic
audiences around the world, yet every campaign has been met with a single
rebuke: "Sounds great, but what will that do to the economy?"
Color is a daily mystery we all swim in. In the cartoon strip of everyday life,
panel after panel is crammed with colored objects, with every blank outline
shaded in: pencils, subways, umbrellas, ties, cherries, leaves, smoke. Color is
so ubiquitous, it's invisible-until, suddenly, it's not. When we're young, red
first means apples, fire trucks, and stop signs. Then we add lobsters, valentines,
short wavelengths of light, fire, Communism, Republican states, and Chinese
celebrations.
Batker and de Graaf think we have been asking the wrong question. Over the
past four years, with help from various organizations including the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, they have been at work developing a new set of metrics based
on the principle of the "greatest good for the greatest number over the longest
run." This simple principle aims to challenge our obsession with GDP and
"economic growth," which, lately, have served stockholders and quarterly
earnings at great expense to taxpayers.
We learn these free associations for every color everywhere. But how do we
ever make sense of what we actually see? What color makes our curtains look
literary, marital, or like the British empire? In her analytical way, Stewart
stockpiles the meanings of what is literally before our eyes, then lays them out
for sorting, edification, and visual delight.
Jude Stewart has written on design and culture for Slate, the Believer, I.D.,
Metropolis, Business Week, Nextbook, Fast Company, GOOD, ReadyMade, and
many others. A contributing editor for Print magazine, she writes
"Colorswatch," a twice-monthly column on color. She has lectured about
design at RISD, the Adult Education series in Brooklyn, and the
Fachhochschule Mainz in Germany, and has been interviewed on NPR's Day
to Day and by Brian Lehrer on WNYC. She lives in New Haven and her
Web site is www.judestewart.com.
What's the Economy For, Anyway asks readers to think differently about the
issues that most affect their everyday lives and invites them to join the
movement for a more visionary and equitable tomorrow.
John de Graaf has been producing documentaries for more than thirty years.
He has produced fifteen national primetime PBS specials and won more than
one hundred local, national, and international awards for filmmaking. De Graaf
is the coauthor of Ajjluenza, which sold over 150,000 copies and was published
in ten foreign editions and chosen as a campus read at ten universities. He is
the director of the nonprofit Take Back Your Time and has published articles
in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Psychology Today, among
others.
David Batker is the executive director of the nonprofit Earth Economics. An
economist, he has worked for both the World Bank and Greenpeace. He helped
change lending policies at the World Bank as well as several other
transnational lending institutions. He is a popular public speaker around the
world. Recent talks include the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
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Michael Meyer
IN MANCHURIA
May 2012
Walker & Co.
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North of the Great Wall lies a hidden China: A tense border with North Korea,
festering scars from Japanese invaders, booming trade with Russia, remade rust
belt cities, "black earth" farms feeding the nation, rising Christianity,
archaeological digs that shake the foundation of Chinese history, and a railroad
that ties all of it together. In Manchuria is a narrative about a land and its
people inspired by the family members of the author's wife: parents who
worked as "barefoot doctors" for the People's Liberation Army; a son who
became a wealthy stockbroker after leaving home during the democracy
protests in 1989; a daughter living in Osaka; Frances, the author's wife, who
works as an attorney in Manhattan; and Uncle Jiu, who still works on the
family rice farm in Manchuria.
In addition to the character-driven narrative of daily life across the farm's
growing seasons, In Manchuria will also show how that life once
foreshadowed the Communist revolution, and now foreshadows the Party's
evolution. The government often tests policies in Manchuria before
implementing them nationwide. Civic, social, and economic policies being
piloted in Uncle Jiu's village include political campaigns and elections for
local government posts, a relaxation of the "one-child policy," and an
abolishment of all taxes. Traveling by historic railroad, Meyer uncovers
forgotten landmarks such as the Willow Palisade, the "Puppet" Emperor's
Palace, Unit 731 headquarters, and Qingyuan and Shenyang. In Manchuria is a
moving chronicle and a vital window onto China's past and present.
Michael Meyer is the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing and has written
for the New York Times Book Review, Reader's Digest, National Geographic
Traveler, Time, and many other publications. Meyer has also appeared on the
Today show, CBS's Early Show, and NPR's All Things Considered, among
others. He has lived in China for fifteen years, first as part of the Peace Corps,
then as a teacher.
Ross King
LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER
September 2012
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Walker & Co.
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Knaus
(Germany); De Bizige Bij (Holland); Kinneret (Israel); Rizzoli (Italy);
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Leonardo da Vinci's transcendent painting The Last Supper defined the master
artist. Until now, no one has told the full story behind its creation. Political
events weighed on da Vinci and all ofItaly during the time of the painting's
conception and creation, as his patron, the Duke of Sforza, unleashed forces
leading to a decades-long series of tragedies known as the Italian Wars. Sforza
was overthrown by French forces in 1499, forcing da Vinci to flee Milan with
the paint on The Last Supper barely dry. The Last Supper ensured Leonardo's
universal renown as a visionary master of the arts.
Ross King is the author of the bestselling titles Brunelleschi 's Dome,
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, and The Judgment of Paris. He lives in
England.
Brian Fagan
DECODING THE OCEANS
October 2012
Bloomsbury Press
SOLD: BUK (U.K.)
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In Decoding the Oceans, Brian Fagan draws on his experiences as an
archaeologist and sailor to explain how ocean navigation has changed history.
He explores fundamental questions about man's relationship to the massive
and unfriendly expanse of open waters that covers most of the earth's surface.
Chronicling some of the earliest known ocean crossings, from Asia to New
Guinea and beyond, as well as the historical development of seafaring, from
coasting to sailing by starlight, Fagan shows how modern ocean travel is rooted
in ancient knowledge.
Brian Fagan is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. His books on the interaction of climate and human
society have established him as a leading authority on the subject. He is the
author of the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming, The Little Ice
Age, and The Long Summer.
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Seymour Chwast
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY
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Bloomsbury USA
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The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting
his unparalleled take-and influence-an
the world of
illustration and design far the last half century. In his version of
Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast's first graphic navel, Dante
and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noirish
realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, finding bath the wicked and the wondrous on
their way.
Seymour Chwast was born in New York City and is a graduate of The Cooper Union,
where he studied illustration and graphic design. He was a founding partner of the
celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence an
contemporary visual communications.
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STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN:
The Truth About
the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to
Save Humanity
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December 2009
*Finished Books
Bloomsbury USA
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"When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist
with the mast powerful and consistent voice calling far intelligent action to preserve
our planet's environment." - Al Gore, Time magazine
Dr. James Hansen, the nation's leading scientist an climate issues, speaks out for the
first time with the full truth about global warming: The planet is hurtling even more
rapidly than previously acknowledged to. a climatic paint of no return. Although
Hansen was Al Gore's science adviser far An Inconvenient Truth, his recent data shows
that our situation is even mare dire today.
Dr. James Hansen is the director afNASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He
teaches in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Columbia University,
and is frequently called to testify before Congress an climate issues.
Richard E. Rubenstein
REASONS TO KILL: Why Americans Choose War
October 2010
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In Reasons to Kill, noted scholar Richard E. Rubenstein
explores bath the rhetoric that sells war to. the public and the
underlying cultural and social factors that make it so.
effective. With unmatched historical perspective and
insightful commentary, Rubenstein offers citizens new ways
to. think for themselves about crucial issues of war and peace.
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Richard E. Rubenstein is University Professor of Conflict
Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University. He is the author of seven
books, including When Jesus Became God and Aristotle's Children. He lives in
Washington, D.C.
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Fall 2010
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Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology
have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama
gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a
young leader, often too ambitious for his own goad, but still
equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The route to the
White Hause began an the streets of Chicago's South Side.
Edward McClelland, a veteran Chicago. journalist, tells the real story of the first black
president's political education in the capital of the African American palitical.
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community. Obama's touch wasn't always golden, and the unflappable and charismatic
campaigner we know today nearly derailed his political caree~ wi~h a dis~strous run for
Congress in 2000. Obama learned from his mistakes and rebuilt his public persona.
Edward McClelland is a veteran political journalist working out of Chicago.
His previous books include The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen,
Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters and God-Save-the-Queen
Monarchists of the Great Lakes and Horseplayers: Life at the Track. He
has written far the Chicago Reader, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Slate,
Salon, Chicago magazine and many ather publications.
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Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach
BLUR: How to Know What's True in the Age of
Information Overload
November 2010
*World Rights
Bloomsbury USA
*Galley Available
SOLlJ:Dasan Books (KOrea)
HOW TO KNOW WHAT'S TRUE
IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION
Veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom
Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic, serious-minded guide
to navigating the twenty-first century media terrain. Blur
reveals the craft that has been used in newsrooms by the
BILL KOVACH and TOM ROSENSTIEl
very best journalists for getting at the truth. In an age when
the line between citizen and journalist is becoming
increasingly blurred, Blur is a crucial guide for those who want to know what's true.
OVERLOAD
Together, Kovach and Rosenstiel have authored The Elements of Journalism, winner of
the 2002 Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University, and Warp Speed. In his fiftyyear career, Bill Kovach has been chief of the New York Times Washington bureau and
senior counselor for the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Tom Rosenstiel has
worked as chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek, media critic for the Los
Angeles Times, and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Brian Fagan
CRO-MAGNON: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the
First Modern Humans
March 2010
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Bloomsbury Press
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AMERICAN TERROIR: Savoring the Flavors of Our
Woods, Waters, and Fields
August 2010
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Bloomsbury USA
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Originally used by the French to describe the way local
conditions such as soil and climate manifest themselves in
the flavor of a wine, terroir has been little understood (and
often mispronounced) by Americans, until now. A natural
outgrowth of the slow and local food movements,
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many North American foods that are dependent on place
for their uniqueness. It is the first guide to the "flavor landscapes" of some of our most
iconic foods, including apples and cider, honey, maple syrup, clams, oysters, salmon,
beef and pork, wild mushrooms, wild rice, wine, cheese and chocolate.
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Rowan Jacobsen writes about food, the environment, and the connections between the
two. His work has appeared in the Art of Eating, the New York Times, Wild Earth,
Wondertime, Culture & Travel, NPR.org, and elsewhere. He is the author of A
Geography of Oysters, which was nominated for both an IACP and a James Beard
award, Fruitless Fall, and The Living Shore. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife
and son.
Bill Pronzini
THE HIDDEN: A Novel of Suspense
November 2010
*World Rights
Walker & Co.
*Finished Books
Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans and
the most technologically inventive people that had yet lived.
The prolonged encounter between Cro-Magnons and
archaic Neanderthals between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago
was one of the defining moments in history. The
Neanderthals were pushed aside by the Cro-Magnons'
intellectual abilities and cutting-edge technologies, which allowed them to thrive in the
challenging climate of the Ice Age. Cro-Magnon is the story of a little-known yet
seminal chapter of human experience.
A series of seemingly random murders along the rugged
northern California coast. A young couple with marital
problems who spend the week between Christmas and New
Year at a friend's remote coastal cottage. Two couples in a
neighboring home whose relationships are thick with
festering menace. A fierce winter storm that leads to a night
of unrelenting terror. These are the main ingredients in Bill
Pronzini's chilling and twist-filled tale about the hidden
nature of crime and its motives.
Brian Fagan is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Great Warming:
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, The Little Ice Age, and The
Long Summer.
Bill Pronzini is the author of more than seventy novels, including three in
collaboration with his wife, crime novelist Marcia Muller, and is the creator of the
popular Nameless Detective series. He received the prestigious Grand Master Award
from the Mystery Writers of America in 2008.
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Highlights from our Recent Backlists
Michael Steinberger
AU REVOIR TO ALL THAT:
Food, Wine, and the End of France
June 2009
*World Rights
Bloomsbury USA
SOLD: Bloomsbury (UK)
Jorge Zahar (Brazil)
DoubJeday (Canada)
Muses (China complex)
Editions Fayard (France)
Ediciones Urano (Spain)
Manage YourTime
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Your Stress
Rita Emmett
MANAGE YOUR TIME TO REDUCE YOUR STRESS
January 2009
*World Rights
Walker&Co.
SOLD: Editions De L'Homme (France)
Natur Och Kultur (Sweden)
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KEYNES: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's
Most Influential Economist
November 2009
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Chuo Keizai (Japan)
Etlatun Yayinevi (Turkish)
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THE TOWERING WORLD OF JIMMY CHOO
May 2009
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Brian Fagan
THE GREAT WARMING:
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
March 2008
*World Rights
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China Renmin (Chinese Simple)
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Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D.
THE ESP ENIGMA:
The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena
Walker & Co.
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January 2009
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Dr. Jason Martineau
Miranda Lundy, Anthony Ashton, Jason
Martineau, Daud Sutton, John Martineau
QUADRIVIUM: The Four Classical Liberal
Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, and
Cosmology
November 2010
*World Rights
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THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC:
Melody Rhythm, and Harmony
*World Rights
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Patmos Verlag (Germany)
The Quadrivium-the
classical curriculumcomprises the four liberal arts of Number,
Geometry, Music, and Cosmology. It was
studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a
way of glimpsing the nature of reality.
Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and the cosmos
expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are
metaphysical truths; life across the universe investigates them; they
foreshadow the physical sciences.
Quadrivium is the first volume to bring together these four subjects in many
hundreds of years. Composed of six successful titles in the Wooden Books
series-Sacred
Geometry, Sacred Number, Harmonograph, The Elements of
Music, Platonic and Archimedean Solids, and A Little Book of Coincidence-it
makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us
today. Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, Quadrivium will
appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the
universe works.
Miranda Lundy
SACRED GEOMETRY
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lives in England. Anthony Ashton is an economist and journalist. He lives in
England. Dr. Jason Martineau is a composer, pianist, and private music
instructor. He lives in Berkeley, California. Daud Sutton is a geometer and
artist. He lives in England. John Martineau is the editor and publisher of
Wooden Books. He lives in Glastonbury, England.
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A LITTLE BOOK OF COINCIDENCE
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PLATONIC AND ARCHIMEDEAN SOLIDS
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(Sweden) Dharma (Turkey)
Anthony Ashton
HARMONOGRAPH:
A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
*World Rights
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Kodansha (Japan), Marubol (Korea)
Oniro (Spain), Svenska Forlaget (Sweden)
Dharma Yayincilik (Turkey)
Joyce Hargreaves
A LITTLE HISTORY OF DRAGONS
*World Rights
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Alexandria Publications (Greece)
Andrew Sutton
RULER & COMPASS
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Jonathan Horning
SIMPLE SHELTERS
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Gerard Cheshire
EVOLUTION:
A Little History of a Great Idea
*World Rights
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Alexandria Publications (Greece)
Daud Sutton
ISLAMIC DESIGN: A Genius for Geometry
*World Rights
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Patmos Verlag (Germany)
Steven Saunders
MIND TRICKS: Ancient and Modern
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Scott Olsen
THE GOLDEN SECTION
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Alexandria Publications (Greece)
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PERSPECTIVE
AND OTHER
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
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Hunan Science (Chinese Simple)
Zdenek Karnik-Dokoran (Czech)
David Wade
SYMMETRY: The Ordering
Principle
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Simple)
Patmos Verlag (Germany)
Alexandria Publications (Greece)
Marubol (Korea)
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Exmo (Russia)
GeoffStray
THE MA VAN AND OTHER
ANCIENT CALENDARS
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The English Agency (Japan)
Marubol (Korea)
-OTHER WOODEN BOOKS TITLESRobin Heath
STONEHENGE;
Ancient
Temple of Britain
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(AUS, NZ)
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Macro Soc (Italy)
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Oniro (Spain)
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MoffBetts
THE HUMAN BODY: A Basic
Guide to the Way Vou Fit Together
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Robin Heath
SUN, MOON AND EARTH
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Matt Tweed
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS:
Atoms, Quarks, and the Periodic
Table
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David Wade
LI: Dynamic Form in Nature
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Complex)
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Oniro (Spain)
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Matt Tweed
THE COMPACT COSMOS: A
Journey Through Space and
Time
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Guy Ogilvy
THE ALCHEMIST'S
KITCHEN
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The English Agency (Japan)
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Burkard Polster
Q.E.D.
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peter@kataibolza.hu
P.O. Box 453
1000 Sofia
359298628
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anna@anas-bg.com
Israel:
Ilana Kurshan
The Harris I Elon Agency
43 Emek Refa'im Street
China I Taiwan:
Yu-Shiuan Chen,
Bardon Chinese Media Agency
3F, No. 150 Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 2
Taipei, Taiwan
100 ROC
886 223 644 95
yushiuan@bardon.com.tw
Entrance A, 3'd FL
Baka Jerusalem 91083
Israel
972 256 332 37
ilana@thedeborahharrisagencv.com
Czech Repu blic:
Kristin Olson
Kristin Olson Literary Agency
S.LO
Klimentska 24
11000 Praha 1
Czech Republic
420222582 042
kristin.olson@litag.cz
France:
Donatella d'Ormesson
232 bid St. Germain
75007 Paris
France
336 223 888 27
ddonnesson@free.fr
Germany:
Beatrice Beckmann
Agence Hoffman
Landshuter Allee 49
80637 Munchen
Germany
49 89 308 48 07
b.beckmann@agencehoffman.de
Italy:
Marco Vigevani
Marco Vigevani Agenzia Letteraria
Via Cappuccio, 14
20123 Milan
Italy
390 286 996 553
claire@marcovigevani.coll1
Japan:
Harnish Macaskill
The English Agency Ltd.
Sakuragi Bldg. 4F, 6-7-3 Minami
Aoyama
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062,
Japan
334065803
hamish@eaj.co.jp
Korea:
Sue Yang
Eric Yang Agency
BI D 54-7, Banpo-dong
Seocho-ku, Seoul 137-802
Korea
822592 3356
sueyang@eyagency.com
Poland:
Kamila Kanafa
Graal Ltd.
Pruszkowska 29, 10k. 252
--'02119 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: 482 289 520 00
kamila@graaLcom.pl
Russia:
Ludmilla Sushkova
Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency
Apartment 72, Stroenie 6, Tsvetnoy
Blvd. 21,
127051 Moscow, Russia
709 522 952 81
sushkova@awax.ru
Scandinavia:
Elina Ahlback
Hiilikatu 3
F 1-00 180 Helsinki,
Finland
358400548402
elina@ahlbackagency.com
Spain I Portugal:
Beatriz Coll
RDC Agency
Fernando VI, 15-3 derecha
28004 Madrid
Spain
349 130855 85
rdc@rdc1itera.com
Turkey:
Filiz Karaman
Nurcihan Kesimr Literary Agency
Cagaloglu Yokusu Saadet Han No: 42
D: 204
Sirkeci -Istanbul
Turkey 34112
902 125 285 797
filiz@nurcihankesim.net
Yugoslavia:
Ana Milenkovic
Prava I Prevodi
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina lOBI I
5th Floor
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
381113119880
ana@pravaiprevodi.org
UK, ANZ, Canada: Lauren Shekari
Bloomsbury USA
175 Fifth Avenue
Floor 8
New York, NY 10010
646-438-6060
Lauren.shekari@bloomsburyusa.com
Thailand:
ThananchaiPandey
Tuttle Mori Agency
6th FL, Siam Inter Comics Bldg.
459 Soi Piboon-Oppathum (Ladpra 48)
Samsen Nok, Huay Kwang
Bangkok 10320
Thailand
Tel: 662 694 3026
thananchai@tuttlemori.co.th
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