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FUTURE TITLESMichael Useem, Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh and Neng LiangThe China Way: Inside the Minds of China’s New Business LeadersThis is a wonderful inside look at the 75 most successful Chinese business leaders by three Wharton professors and one Chinese Business School Professor, looking at what makes them tick and so successful. Their insights will be based on years of conversations and interviews with the Chinese leaders. Michael Useem, Peter Cappelli and Harbir Singh of the Wharton School and Neng Liang of the China Europe Business School located in Shanghai have been doing in-depth research over the past several years at important non state-owned Chinese companies. In interviews with 75 CEOs of the most prominent companies such as Lenovo, Alibaba and Haier they each have gotten to know the key people and what makes them and their businesses tick, and they are able to provide rich material about what these companies and their leaders do differently. They are writing not only for Fortune 500 companies, but also for business people who have to contend with Chinese competitors in their own domestic market. The team of authors will use these companies to provide leadership and management lessons to help the reader improve their own skills. • Peter Cappelli is George W. Taylor Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human Resources, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. • Neng Liang is Professor of Management, Director of the Case Development Center, and Associate Dean for Faculty, China Europe International Business School, China. • Harbir Singh is William and Phyllis Mack Professor of Management and Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. • Michael Useem is William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

December 2016 • Business • 290 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs

Gershom GorenbergThe Good Source: Rommel, Roosevelt & The Search for WWII's Unwitting SpyThis is terrific WWII history-and Gorenberg is uncovering things that have not been revealed before. He has a great prior track and this will be a strong narrative with many fascinating threads, not only telling this story but the implications for what happened after the war. I have a great proposal and the scouts all asked for it.June 1942: Mussolini is poised for his triumphant entry into Cairo, SS officers prepare for the murder of Palestine's Jews as soon as Rommel’s Afrikakorps breaks through Britain’s last desert defenses, Cairo’s playboy king and his army await the Nazi troops they believe will free them from imperialism and, for the British, everything hangs on finding the spy in Cairo—the “Good Source”—who leaks their every move to Rommel before it happens. But there is no spy in the conventional sense; there's a loyal American colonel who can't begin to imagine how he is changing history. Journalist Gershom Gorenberg brings this unknown episode in WWII history to life in this deeply researched and lively narrative. • Gorenberg is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones and has twice been a visiting professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. As a commentator on Middle East affairs, Gorenberg has appeared on Sixty Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Fresh Air and on CNN and the BBC. He lectures worldwide.

Fall 2018 • History/Espionage • 400 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs

1Perseus Spring 2015 Highlights

Ted GioiaHow to Listen to JazzWe’re really excited about this new series coming from Basic—introductions to the lively arts. Jazz and ballet are the first two. We have one on classical music as well but William Morris held on to rights, but I’m sure we can work with them to keep the series together. I have nice, though brief, proposals.From acclaimed music scholar Ted Gioia comes an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz, the first in a series of Basic guides to art, culture, and the good life. Both beginners and more experienced jazz fans can benefit from a patient and informed guide to the music and this one will please both. Gioia will take readers through the question of what jazz is and its history to a look at 20 of its finest artists—from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane—and their not-to-be-missed recordings . Gioia reveals the inner workings of the main jazz styles and how to approach the work of the leading jazz innovators. But above all he teaches about the listening process itself and how carefully cultivating it can enrich your musical experience for the rest of your life. • Ted Gioia is a musician and an award-winning music historian. His book The History of Jazz has sold 100,000 copies worldwide and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, American Scholar, and Hudson Review. He served on the faculty of the jazz studies program at Stanford’s Department of Music, which he helped establish. Gioia is also a renowned jazz pianist, and has recorded three albums, The End of the Open Road, Tango Cool, and The City is a Chinese Vase.

Fall 2016 • Music • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Laura JacobsHow to Look at BalletFrom fashion, film, and dance critic Laura Jacobs comes a new guide to looking at and loving ballet. o some, ballet represents the epitome of the lively arts—to others, it is simply mystifying. Laura Jacobs explains ballet to all of us; from its history and language, to its most brilliant ballets and choreographers, even to a look at how the art form is evolving, to help us understand and appreciate ballet with new depth and pleasure. • Laura Jacobs is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and is also the dance critic for The New Criterion, where she has been since 1994. She has written about dance for The Atlantic, the Chicago Reader, and Boston Phoenix, and about fashion for The New Republic and The Modern Review. She also served as editor in chief of Stagebill, the national program magazine. A collection of her New Criterion essays was published as Landscape with Moving Figures, and she is also the author or co-author of two novels and three books on fashion.

Spring 2018 • Dance/The Arts • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Basic BooksMartin FordRise of the Robots: How Technology Will Transform the Future Job Market and EconomyGreat reviews are coming in. “It’s not easy to accept, but it’s true. Education and hard work will no longer guarantee success for huge numbers of people as technology advances. The time for denial is over. Now it’s time to consider solutions and there are very few proposals


on the table. Rise of the Robots presents one idea, the basic income model, with clarity and force. No onewho cares about the future of human dignity can afford to skip this book.” —JaronLanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future?

“Martin Ford’s Rise of the Robots is a very important, timely, and well-informed book. Smart machines, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and the ‘Internet of things’ are transforming every sector of the economy.… Will smart machines lead to a world of plenty, leisure, health care, and education for all; or to a world of inequality, mass unemployment, and a war between the haves and have-nots, and between the machines and the workers left behind? Ford doesn’t claim to have all of the answers, but he asks the right questions and offers a highly informed and panoramic view of the debate. This is an excellent book that offers us a sophisticated glimpse into our possible futures.”—Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and author ofThe Age of Sustainable Development

Martin Ford has worked in Silicon Valley in finance at a high-tech company and founded several successful small software-design firms.

World Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Oneworld; Chinese (simp.): CITIC; Japanese: Nikkei BP; Korean: Sejong; Romanian: Antet

Arnold Thackray with David Brock and Rachel JonesMoore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary“Finally, Gordon Moore gets the biography he deserves! One of the foremost pioneers of the digital revolution, he is a visionary, engineer, and revered leader. His ‘law’ defined and guided the growth of computing power, and his business acumen helped to create Silicon Valley. This is an inspiring and instructive tale of how brilliance and leadership can coexist with humility and decency in a truly extraordinary person.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

“Moore’s Law is not only a definitive biography of a legendary figure in computing, but a fascinating account of the forces that triggered—and sustain—the digital revolution that has changed life for all of us.” —Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex

Arnold Thackray is president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation with a PhD from Cambridge. He has authored many books about the history of science and technology. He served as editor of the History of Science Society journals, Isis and Osiris, for 17 years. • David Brock is a senior research fellow with the Center for Contemporary History and Policy. As a historian of both science and technology, Brock studied at Brown University, the University of Edinburgh, and Princeton. • Rachel Jones is a London journalist and business writer who specializes in writing about technologyand entrepreneurship.

May 2015 • Biography/Science and Technology • 480 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books; Chinese (simp.): China Renmin Press

Alexander NehamasOn FriendshipInternationally known philosopher on the state of friendship in the age of facebook and the internet. The state of “friendship” in the digital age has provoked widespread debate and


hand- wringing. Social media allows us to be “friends” with far more people than those with whom we can possibly have meaningful relationships. Many worry that the idea and the practice of friendship have been seriously diminished as a result. One chief concern is that online friendship is motivated primarily by social networking and status seeking rather than genuine affection and intimacy. Another worry is that the ubiquity and convenience of social media have dampened our desire for physical interaction, causing us to miss out on one of the defining and most meaningful features of human experience. In On Friendship, acclaimed philosopher Alexander Nehamas uses contemporary debates about friendship in the Facebook era to launch a generalaccount of friendship, one that promises to help us think though what has and hasn’t changed, for better and worse, in our intensively networked and mediated age. Reminding us of the long history of thinking about friendship, from Aristotle to Montaigne, Adam Smith to William Hazlitt, Friedrich Nietzsche to Bernard Williams, Nehamas draws on a rich array of moving examples from literature and the arts as well as personal experience. He shows that morality has always played a relatively minor role in our friendships, even though it has always played a central role in the philosophical literature about friendship. Rather, Nehamas argues, friendship ultimately resists explanation and is a relationship better understood from the domain of aesthetics than moral theory. In his formulation, “a relationship we can fully explain is not a friendship at all.” Ultimately, Nehamas argues that social media do nothing to alter the unique and inexplicable character of friendship or the experience of close friendship itself. • Alexander Nehamas is professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of four other books, hehas also translated Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus into English. He is the recipient ofthe highly prestigious Andrew Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement

Award. April 2016 • Philosophy • 350 pages • World Rights: Basic Books

Arthur BenjaminThe Magic of Math: Solving for X and Figuring Out WhyWe will have pages in April. Tons of interest in this one.Arthur Benjamin is both a professor of mathematics and a magician. He has aninternational reputation for making math fun and intriguing, and his most recent book, The Secrets of Mental Math, has sold over 100,000 copies. In this latest book, he explores the unrivaled applications and beauty of mathematics, taking readers on a lively tour of many of the greatest hits of mathematics: number theory, counting, geometry, algebra, proofs, and even the relatively unknown number tau (which issimply twice the value of pi) make an appearance. He dissects critical mathematicalideas of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus and shows readers how to have fun figuring with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marveling over mathematical magic tricks. • Arthur Benjamin holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in California. He has appeared on The Today Show and The Colbert Report and has been profiled in suchpublications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Scientific American, Discover, and Wired. One of his three TED talks has been viewed over 5 million times. He travels and speaks internationally and has presented at the World Science Festival, the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the Liberty Science Center, Google, andTexas Instruments.

September 2015 • Mathematics • 240 pages


World Rights: Basic Books

Serhii PlokhyThe Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine***Just won the 2015 Lionel Gelber Prize and shortlisted for the 2015 Pushkin House Russian Book Award for The Last Empire, he is one of Basic’s Prize history authors. We’ve just signed up a new book by him on Russia. From the author of The Last Empire—described by Publisher’s Weekly as “one of a rarebreed: a well-balanced, unbiased book written on the fall of Soviet Union that emphasizes expert research and analysis”—comes the history of Ukraine, the gateway to Europe since time immemorial. In this concise history, Serhii Plokhy expertly traverses the years, covering everything from the ninth-century Vikings, to Ukraine’s role in early Christianity, to its place in the Soviet Union, all the way up to the modern Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Paying special attention to the post-Soviet era, Plokhy sheds light on the controversial Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the new “Great Game” between Russia and the West—a battle for control over the metaphorical gates of Europe and thus Europe as a whole. The future of Europe and the world depends on the outcome of this modern crisis, Plokhy argues. If Russia and the Westreach an understanding there, cooperation in other spheres will continue. Failure could lead to the return of the nightmare scenarios of the Cold War. Filled with maps and illustrations, The Gates of Europe is an informative, accessible look at this fascinating region. • Serhii Plokhy is a native-born Ukrainian who has been writing about the region for the last 35 years. He is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university’s Ukrainian Research Institute. Plokhy also serves on the editorial boards of Russian History, East European Politics and Societies, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, and the Journal of Ukrainian Studies.

December 2015 • History • 350 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Penguin Press; Chinese (simp.): CITIC; Romanian: Trei; Polish: Znak: Russian: Corpus

Serhii PlokhyThe Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union SEE ABOVE“Serhii Plokhy’s fine book combines a colorful, fast-paced narrative with trenchant analysis of key players in the Soviet collapse: Gorbachev and Yeltsin battling each other to the bitter end; President George H. W. Bush encouraging the former ‘evil empire’ to stay together, while unintentionally facilitating its demise; Ukrainians’ all-out push for independence turning out to be the coup de grâce. By far our best account yet of the death spiral of the USSR.” —William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

“At last, a definitive account of the breakup of the USSR: for the first time, Serhii Plokhy tells the story not just from the point of view of Moscow, and not from Washington, but also from Kiev and the other republics where many of the most important decisions were actually made. If you don’t understand what really happened in 1991, and if you don’t remember the roles played by the former Soviet republics, then you’ll find it impossible to understand the politics of the region today. This book usefully eviscerates some of the remaining mythology about the end of the Cold War, and is an indispensable guide to the tensions and rivalries of the present.” —Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gulag: A History

“Serhii Plokhy’s dramatic account of the high politics behind the collapse of the Soviet Union could not be more timely.… The Last Empire is a brilliant work of


political narrative: vivid, original, urgent and, above all, wise.” —Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov’s Magic Lantern

May 2014 • History • 496 pages World Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Oneworld; Chinese: Beijing Huaxia Winshare Books; Russian: Corpus; Portuguese (Brazil): Leya; Polish: Znak; Spanish: Turner Edicioes; Estonian: Varrak

Mark RieblingChurch of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against HitlerLong awaited manuscript finally in and edited and it’s every bit as good as we’d hoped with a lot of new information and revelations. This is be one we discuss widely. In this engrossing and game-changing history, a top intelligence expert redraws the conventional image of the wartime pope: from Hitler’s lapdog to anti-Nazi spymaster. Based on 10 years of groundbreaking research with recently released documents, Mark Riebling provides an eye-opening view on the Vatican as the ultimate transnational spy agency, with officials in a top-secret command center in Rome receiving a constant stream of breaking (or as yet unbroken) information from bishops, chaplains, missionaries, and other papal agents across the globe. In this true cloak-and-dagger history, Riebling takes us from secret crypts beneath the Vatican to Nazi bunkers deep in Germany as he traces Pope Pius XII’s secret war against Hitler and charts his true legacy. • Mark Riebling, an expert on American intelligence, cofounded the Center for Policing Terrorism (now the National Counterterrorism Academy). He is author of Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War Between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security. A respected writer, Riebling has contributed articles to the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and International Herald Tribune.

October 2015 • History • 356 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books; ANZ: Scribe; German: Piper; Portuguese (Brazil): Leya; Italian: Mondadori; Polish: Literackie

Michael SchumanConfucius: The Man and the World He CreatedGreat reviews coming on a very interesting book.In his new book, Time’s Asian business correspondent, Michael Schuman, presents ahybrid biography/cultural history that investigates Confucius’s enduring impact on Asia spanning the last 2,000 years. Most people are familiar with Confucius—the most influential Chinese thinker in history—but are likely less familiar with his far-reaching cultural impact, particularly in Asia. As Schuman explains, 30 percent of the world’s population lives in a society whose social mores and traditions rest on Confucius’sideas. It is impossible to understand Chinese history—and even modern China—without understanding Confucius’s role. China has just overtaken Japan as the second-largest economy in the world; that milestone is only the latest sign that Asia, particularlyChina, is continuing to become even more of an important player on the world stage.The ideas that grew from Confucian teachings—ideas that often conflict with commonly held beliefs in the West—have influenced Asian thinking on everything from human rights and politics to education and the role of family. Schuman’s Conf ucius explores the cultural traditions that have evolved over the last 2,000 years to help us understand where China and East Asia are headed in the future as globalization expands.

“If you are interested in how Asia became an economic tiger, read The Miracle....Schuman is not just a skilled reporter—he is also a gifted journalistic


storyteller.”—New York Times

Michael Schuman is the Asian business correspondent for Time and covers economic issues for the entire continent. He has worked at the Wall Street Journal in South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia, won an Overseas Press Club Award for his reporting, and authored The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia’s Quest for Wealth.

April 2015 • Cultural History • 368 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books; German: Kosel; Russian: Ast; Portuguese (Brazil): TresEstrelas/Publifolha

Simon R. DoubledayThe Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the RenaissanceTerrific medieval history about a erudite and multi-cultural Spanish king.In this fascinating and deeply informed biography, Professor Simon Doubleday relatesthe life and wisdom of 13th-century Spanish king Alfonso X, a Christian monarch and polymath who ruled the realms of Castile and Leon after his father, Ferdinand III, reclaimed them from Islam. Alfonso ascended to the throne during a period of incredible cultural cross-pollination in Spain. He was deeply engaged with Islam on a cultural and intellectual level, studying Arabic at an Andalusian madrassa and translating Arabic texts, and grew to be a prudent, educated, and cultured leader. In fluid prose, Doubleday takes us on a fascinating journey through the life and teachings of this remarkable man. • Simon R. Doubleday is professor of history at Hofstra University, editor in chief of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, and author of The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain. He received his BA from Cambridge Universityand his PhD in medieval history from Harvard. He has received awards for outstanding scholarly achievement from Hofstra and for teaching from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He divides his time between New York and the medieval pilgrimage center of Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern region of Galicia in Spain.

December 2015 • History • 300 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Andrew PalmerSmart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation Is Reshaping Our World—for the BetterSix years after the financial crisis, bankers and other Wall Street types remain villains in the public mind. According to the standard critique, they wrecked the economy, destroyed people’s savings, and never adequately paid for their crimes. But as Economist editor Andrew Palmer reveals in Smart Money, this detested industry is not only capable of doing great good for society but offers the our most powerful means of solving some of our most intractable social problems. Overturning our biases and assumptions, Smart Money offers a balanced, clear-eyed view of the peril inherent in finance and a riveting and inspiring brief on a new era of financial innovation that promises to benefit us all. • Andrew Palmer is finance editor of the Economist. He was previously the banking correspondent at the magazine, covering the industry from the first signs of distress in credit markets through the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the efforts of governments to stabilize the financial sector. He has an undergraduate degree in classics from Oxford University and a master’s in international relations from the London School of Economics.


April 2015 • Finance/Economics • 320 pages • World Rights: Basic Books; Chinese(simp.): China Renmin University Press

Margaret Neale and Thomas Z. LysGetting (More of) What You Want: Mastering the Secrets of Psychology andEconomics for Negotiation Performance, Profit, and ProsperityLong awaited manuscript in on how to negotiate everything from work to your personal life. Eminent business professors Margaret Neale and Thomas Z. Lys rely on cutting-edgeresearch to move beyond classical understandings of negotiations, presenting a brand- new approach to deal making that combines the insights of modern economic and psychological perspectives. Leaving behind outdated frameworks, Neale and Lys draw on recent breakthroughs in behavioral and classical economics, including “limits torationality,” to help negotiators understand their opponents’ perspectives, interests, andlikely choices. What emerges is a more sophisticated approach, shifting from unrealistic “win-win” scenarios to a widely applicable, integrated strategy. Incorporating feedback from thousands of students and executives, Getting (More of) What You Want is an engaging and effective guide for readers seeking to prosper in all facets of life, from work to relationships and social interactions. • Margaret Neale is an Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where her research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. She has authored over 70 articles on the topics of bargaining and negotiation and coauthored three books. • Thomas Z. Lys is Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting at the KelloggSchool of Management at Northwestern University. His work has been published in prominent academic journals, and he is editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He has served as a consultant for General Electric and IBM.

May 2015 • Business • 272 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Profile Books; Dutch: Maven; Chinese(simp.): Grand China Publishing; Chinese (complex):Breifing Press

Wendell WallachA Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control We generally associate scientific research and technological development with the promise of innovation and productivity—the goal is to create tools that will make our lives better, easier, and happier. Yet recently widespread concern has arisen that technological development has become a juggernaut beyond human control. New phenomena such as 3-D printing, autonomous robots, cyberwarfare, synthetic organisms, toxic nanoparticles, Big Data and surveillance, designer babies, geoengineering, and complex financial computers threaten not only to outpace our understanding but also to disrupt the structure of society—and even threaten humanity at large. In A Dangerous Master, ethicist Wendell Wallach offers a nuancedconsideration of these fears and answers the question, What responsibility do we have for the technologies we build? He tells the story of the risks, harms, and social impact of new technologies, discusses the drivers of a scientific revolution that appears to be beyond control, and reflects on how we might give form to the future we are creating. The dangers of unbridled technological development are real. But, as Wallach argues, we can reduce many of those dangers significantly, freeing us to reap the rewards of scientific progress. We just need a little foresight and the willingness to make hard choices. • Wendell Wallach is a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, a scholar with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, a fellow at the Institute for Ethics


and Emerging Technology, and a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center. Formerly, he was a founder and president of two computer-consulting companies, Farpoint Solutions and Omnia Consulting, Inc. Among his clients were PepsiCo International and United Aircraft.

June 2015 • Science/Technology • 304 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

John H. MillerA Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life and SocietyWhat if the underlying organizations of honeybee hives, financial markets, and brainsare essentially the same? Or, for that matter, not so different from those of other biological organisms, cities, and computer networks? An exploration into complex systems shows how simple, local actions, once connected, can result in oftenastounding global patterns. In A Crude Look at the Whole, social scientist and economist John H. Miller explores why standard social science—the sort that gives us equations to generate demand and supply curves as well as elaborate answers to the prisoner’s dilemma—fails to give us the tools to escape such catastrophes as the 2007–2008 financial crisis, leaves us vulnerable to “flash crashes,” and fails to explain how many of our elaborate mechanisms for cooperation have emerged. Miller seeks to answer these questions by linking a series of different sets of studies, including those of “power laws” describing size and function; those of evolutionary biology and game theory on the emergence of intelligent and/or cooperative behavior; those of how participants in a market actually generate supply and demand; and more. Ultimately, he argues, by understanding the complex systems that underlie the major societal issues of our time, we will be better equipped to confront and anticipate such challenges before they put an end to us. Scientifically grounded and beautifully written, A Crude Look at the Whole is a powerful exploration of the challenges that we face as a society. A pioneer in the field of complex systems, Miller presents his illuminating work and aims to answer this question: How can we humans learn enough to avoid destroying our economy, our world, and ourselves? • John H. Miller is professor of economics and social science at Carnegie Mellon University and the head of the university’s Department of Social and Decision Sciences. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan and serves on the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.

December 2015 • Science/Business/Economics • 272 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

John S. AllenHome: How Habitat Made Us HumanExpecting this manuscript very soon. Great new title.From neuroanthropologist and research scientist John Allen comes the first scientific history of home life. One of the defining features of the human species is that we create homes. Other species may occupy territories, live in dens, or become accustomed to a familiar space, but none of these are homes in the human sense. The home defines a domestic world, separate and distinct from the outside world that cannot be controlled. Allen suggests that the everyday experience of the home has been critical to our evolution. To tell the story of how we moved from the old way of living to how we do now—not just in houses but with the threat of foreclosure, homelessness, and the ability to happily return from a luxury hotel to an average home—Allen takes us through evolutionary anthropology, neuroscience, the study of emotion, and modern


sociology. The result is a fascinating explanation of the complex relationship we all have with the place we call home. • John S. Allen is a neuroanthropologist affiliated with theDornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center and the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California. He received his PhD in biological anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His previous works include The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food, and he has cowritten two widely adopted anthropology textbooks. Allen maintains a blog on the Psychology Today website called The Omnivorous Mind.

December 2015 • Psychology/Anthropology • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Zeeya MeraliUniverse 2.0: How to Create Your Own CosmosUniverse 2.0 is an entirely serious attempt to answer a seemingly ludicrous question:Could aliens have invented our universe? Many people have theorized about the creation of the cosmos, but what if aliens had the godlike ability to build an entirely new universe? Modern physicists are developing the technology to allow this very feat,creating a universe with independent physical laws, star systems, galaxies, and possibly even life forms. Merali’s is a timely topic following the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, which helped to prove many theories about how particles interact in the universe. As physicists close in on discovering how our universe formed, whether as bubble universes or baby universes or multiverses spinning off of each other, we may soon know for certain the conditions and circumstances of our formation. Is all weknow the product of a big bang, a black hole, or a magnetic monopole? Universe 2.0addresses the universal curiosity surrounding our origins and speculates as to where we may go next. • Zeeya Merali is a British science writer with a master’s degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in theoretical physics from Brown University. She is author of Visualizing Physical Geography and Visualizing Earth Science and has written for a number of publications, including Scientific American, Discover, and Nature. Merali has also worked with New Scientist and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

September 2015 • Science/Physics • 320 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Leonard SaxThe Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Kids When We Treat Them LikeGrownupsSince the 1950s the success and psychological health of children has been on the decline generation after generation. But why? In The Collapse of Parenting, Leonard Sax identifies the root of the problem as the transfer of authority from parents to children, a shift that has been occurring over the last 50 years and is now impossible to ignore. Sax uncovers some of the causes of this shift, but, more crucially, he pinpoints its effects, arguing that the rising levels of obesity, cheating, depression, and anxiety among young people—as well as their parents’ widespread dependence on psychiatric medications to fix such problems—can all be traced back to a corresponding decline in adult authority. But Sax insists there is hope. Parents need to regain the central place in their children lives, displacing same-age peers who cannot provide the kind of guidance and stability parents can. Parents also need to learn that they can’t be a best friend and a parent at the same time, and in fact they’ll make their children’s lives easier if they focus


not on pleasing them but instead on giving them the tools they’ll need to lead happy, healthy lives. With anecdotes from clinical experience and personal visits and interviews with children, teachers, and parents, Sax provides concrete strategies for all parents. • Leonard Sax, MD, PhD, is a family physician, psychologist, and author of Girls on the Edge, Boys Adrift, and Why Gender Matters.

October 2015 • Parenting/Family and Relationships • 304 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Micah ZenkoRed Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the EnemyMicah Zenko describes how competitive organizations can and should mitigate risk by anticipating and understanding the personalities, values, structures, and strategies of potential opponents. What Zenko calls “the devil’s advocate approach” or “red teaming” has been used for centuries in one form or another by all kinds of organizations, from the Catholic Church, to businesses, to governments and militaries, and Zenko elucidates the history and key practices behind this usage. Zenko shows how red teaming can serve efforts as varied as polio eradication campaigns, hostage crises, corporate security reviews, chess games, and football tournaments. He draws on extensive interviews with red teamers in government and business, building a strong case for the utility and even necessity of this practice for anyone who wants to remain competitive in today’s interconnected, multipolar world. • Micah Zenko is a Douglas Dillon Fellow of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations and cochairman of the World Economic Forum’s counterterrorism working group. He holds a PhD in political science from Brandeis University. Before working at the council, he was a research analyst at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and an analyst in the Office of Policy Planning at the State Department. He writes a weekly column for Foreign Policy and has contributed to the Financial Times, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs.

October 2015 • Political Science • 336 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

Rick ShenkmanPolitical Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics Why, when it comes to politics, do we often seem so gullible and uninformed? We are quick to spot a cheater at cards but find it difficult to see through charlatans who sell us political pabulum. Rick Shenkman reveals that our miscalculations come down to four surprising mistakes we make repeatedly. We become apathetic. We don’t correctly size up our leaders. We punish politicians who tell us hard truths. And we fail to show empathy in circumstances that clearly cry out for it. Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral psychology, Shenkman explains that evolution has left us adrift in a modern world with a brain wired for the Stone Age. Whereas in our personal lives ancient instincts often work to our advantage, in politics they usually don’t. Modern cues set off ancient instinctive responses that prompt us to behave in ways contrary to our own interests and good governance. Fortunately, science offers us hope. Shenkman offers concrete steps to do politics better. • Rick Shenkman is associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor and founder of George Mason University’s History News Network. He is author of six books, including the New York Times best-selling Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History. Shenkman is vice president of Vote iQ, a social- networking site built expressly for politics. Educated at Vassar and Harvard, he is also an Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter.


January 2016 • Political Science • 336 pagesWorld Rights: Basic Books

W. David MarxAmetora Highlight for JapanThe Japanese menswear fashion scene is a global powerhouse. Many of the world’s top brands originated in Japan, including A Bathing Ape, an extremely popular label especially in the American music industry, and EDWIN, which established Japan as a world leader in denim. Using intriguing color and monochrome pictures throughout, W. David Marx illustrates the fascinating evolution of Japanese menswear: from the initial resistance to Western styles, to the documentation and preservation of American traditional style dubbed “Ametora,” to the ultimate emergence as one of the largest global producers of American fashion. Marx explores the complexities of this globalization of fashion by looking at the Japanese entrepreneurs, businessmen, students, and radicals who mimicked, imported, and adapted American styles. Ametora is a captivating narrative that follows these remarkable innovators and traverses the history of how Americans’ most beloved wardrobe staples transformed the very look of Japanese society and have affected the culture of menswear everywhere, even today.• W. David Marx is a Japan-based American writer widely recognized as an expert on Japanese fashion, music, and culture. He received his bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies at Harvard College, writing his Noma-Reischauer Prize–winning senior thesis on the Japanese fashion brand A Bathing Ape. He holds a master’s degree from Japan’s most prestigious private university, Keio. A former editor of legendary Tokyo–New York street culture magazine Tokion, Marx has contributed articles about Japanese fashion and culture to magazines such as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, Nylon, and the Fader. He has written Japanese-language articles for the Japan Times and the well-known gentleman’s lifestyle magazine Brutus.

December 2015 • Men’s Fashion/Sociology • 288 pages • color illustrationsWorld Rights: Basic Books

Da Capo PressJames CantonFuture Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will TransformYour World“A bold and provocative yet realistic forecast of what the future may be. If you want to understand the next disruptions, innovations, challenges, and opportunities that face us, read Future Smart now.” —Rudy Burger, managing partner, Woodside Capital; former director, MIT Media Lab EU

“Future Smart’s insights, trend analysis, and deep dives into specific sectors are invaluable. This is your executive briefing on the future of innovation and what’s next for business.” —Toby Redshaw, CEO, Covington Advisors; former global CIO, American Express

“A call to action for every one of us to reinvent ourselves in the presence of a smart future.” —Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering, IBM Research

James Canton, CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, is a leading global futurist and author. Canton has advised three White Houses and over a dozen business


leaders, and his forecasts have been widely reported by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and CNN. His previous books include The Extreme Future and Technofutures.

January 2015 • Technology/Current Affairs • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press; Chinese (simp.): Cheers; Korean: BusinessBooks Publishing

Stephen BownWhite Eskimo: The Incredible Journeys and Timeless Stories of Knud Rasmussen Bown had terrific reviews on his first book, which we licensed in Dutch to Donker and to Oneworld in the UK. This is for all lists that focus on explorers and exploration.While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its soul. Part Danish, part Inuit, the famed explorer-anthropologist made an epic three- year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska, recording the songs and stories of the Eskimo people. This rich oral culture was at the time unknown to Europeans and Americans. Among the ranks of the great explorer-writers who exposed the West to hitherto impenetrable cultures—T. E. Lawrence in the Mideast, Wilfred Thesiger among the Bedouin, Richard Burton in Africa or among the Sufi—Rasmussen stars here not only for his physical courage and ability to assimilate into the life of indigenous peoples but also for the beauty of his writing. White Eskimo and his collection of Eskimo songs and stories are classics of Polar literature. There has been no full-scale biography of Rasmussen in English, and Stephen Bown’s splendidly received life of Roald Amundsen makes him the perfect writer to record the great journeys and fascinating life of the explorer, anthropologist, and writer who first recorded the culture and landscape of the entire Polar rim. • Stephen Bown is author of several books, including The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen; Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900; and Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the GreatestMedical Mystery of the Age of Sail. He lives in Alberta, Canada.

November 2015 • Biography/Anthropology/History • 300 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press

Brian Murphy81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot inAlaska’s Frozen WildernessShortly before Christmas 1943, five army aviators left Alaska’s Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed out of his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly 12 weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact.81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane’s remarkablesaga. In a drama of staggering resolve and moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon’s unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense loneliness—and emerge stronger than before.

“The hardships endured by Leon Crane are unimaginable, and author Brian Murphy expertly takes the reader into Crane’s inspiring journey of survival. You will find yourself rooting for Crane to take the next step, make the next right decision, and fight on. 81 Days Below Zero pulls you


into Crane’s thought process, and you might find yourself wondering what would I have done in a similar situation. Few of us would have that combination of creativeness and mental fortitude to do what Crane did.” —Michael J. Tougias, author of Fatal Forecast, A Storm Too Soon, and Overboard.

Brian Murphy, journalist and author, reported around the world for the AssociatedPress for more than 20 years. He joined the Washington Post in 2014.

May 2015 • Adventure/History/Biography • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press

Simon ReadWinston Churchill Reporting: Wartime Adventures in the Age of EmpireMany know Winston Churchill as Britain’s courageous wartime leader, but few know about his time as a young war correspondent. Winston Churchill Reporting is the first Churchill biography to focus solely on the years between 1895 and 1900, when Churchill reported on the wars of empire in Cuba, India’s Northwest Frontier, the Sudan, and South Africa. During this time Churchill transformed into the man hewould become: a man with a masterful command of language, unwavering courage, and a love of a good cigar and the pleasant burn of a glass of whisky. While serving as a foreign correspondent, Churchill was right in the middle of warfare, often participating in combat himself. Although a work of history and biography, Winston Churchill Reporting is an enthralling tale of high-stakes global adventure, based on Churchill’s newspaper articles, numerous personal letters, and the journals of other soldiers.• Simon Read is an award-winning former British newspaper reporter and author of seven nonfiction books, including The Killing Skies: RAF Bomber Command at War.

September 2015 • Biography • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press

Patrick O’DonnellFirst SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit“A great American writer” —Clive Cussler

“Patrick O’Donnell is already one of America’s foremost combat historians. This fascinating book now places him in the front rank of special operations historians. Based on many years of painstaking archival research and hundreds of interviews, First SEALs takes us deep into World War II naval special warfare, both European andPacific. Beautifully written, original, and compelling from first page to last. I highly recommend this book.” —John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die

“One of our finest military historians, Patrick O’Donnell has crafted a terrific, unforgettable narrative of the forerunners of today’s amazing Navy SEALs—that puts the reader right in the watery battlefield with them.” —WWII Quarterly

“[A] well-written chronicle of the SEAL’s World War I precursor, the Maritime Unit.… Through a combination of detective work in the National Archives and interviews with surviving members, O’Donnell successfully details the group’s past, which provided the foundation upon which the modern SEALs were founded.… This engrossing account of previously unknown World War II history will be of interest to military aficionados of all levels.” —Library Journal


Patrick O’Donnell is a military historian and the award-winning author of seven books, including best seller and William E. Colby Award winner Beyond Valor, Give Me Tomorrow, and We Were One, the highly acclaimed account of the Battle of Fallujah. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and for documentaries produced by the BBC, the History Channel, andFox News.

October 2014 • Military History • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press; Dutch: BBNC

David BrowneSo Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead“David Browne’s So Many Roads is everything Deadheads could want and more. In adeeply reported, warts-and-all portrait of the band in good times and bad, he answers all of our questions and poses a few of his own. As Deadheads celebrate the band’s 50 years, this book will prove a companion that makes that long trip a little less strange but no less fascinating.” —Eric Alterman, author of It Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen and What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News

“With So Many Roads, David Browne has come up with a completely unique way of telling the Grateful Dead’s story, deftly moving back and forth through time from various chronological pivot points, weaving the intricate tale the way the Dead would open up, explore and close a great ’72 ‘Playing in the Band.’ It’s filled with little (and a few big) things I didn’t know, and his evocative prose really brings out the band members’ personalities in a way that few books have.” —Blair Jackson, author of Garcia: An American Life

David Browne is an acclaimed journalist and author of Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth and the recent Fire and Rain.

April 2015 • Music/Biography • 512 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Press

Da Capo Lifelong BooksCharlotte N. MarkeySmart People Don’t Diet: The Scientific Solution for Permanent Weight Loss Charlotte Markey’s Smart People Don’t Diet uses the latest discoveries in psychology, nutritional science, medicine, and community health to offer a step-by-step guide to dieting and weight maintenance. This book offers no gimmicks and no fads—just scientifically proven advice about long-term, healthy weight management.

“This is possibly the best book on weight loss ever written.” —Scientific American

Charlotte N. Markey, PhD, is professor of psychology and director of the graduate program in psychology at Rutgers University. She routinely writes for the award-winning website ScienceOfRelationships.com. Her research has garnered widespread media attention, and she has been featured in and interviewed by the New York Times, Economist, U.S. News & World Report, Health Day, ABC News, Time, Health Psychology, Washington Post, Science Daily, NBC News, Psych Central, Men’s Health, Psychology Today, and a host of others. She also conducts seminars, talks, and


presentations in front of hundreds of people a year, and her “Psychology of Eating” class is one of the most popular courses at Rutgers.

December 2014 • Health and Wellness/Weight Loss • 272 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; ANZ: Black Inc.; Dutch: Lannoo; Russian: Alpina; French: Laffont; Portuguese (Brazil): Objetiva; Portuguese (Portugal): Versus Editora; Spanish: Editorial Sirio; Polish: Galaktya; Czech: Synergie Publishing

Harriet BrownBody of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession withWeight—and What We Can Do about ItBrown is a terrific journalist and wonderful writer with a focus on body issuesConcerns about weight and body image aren’t new. What is new is the height of obsession that those concerns have reached over the last decade. Doctors, the media, friends, schools, advertisements—all of these feed a relentless obsession with the size and shape of our bodies. Body of Truth is a fascinating and provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, metabolism, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies and what we can learn from them to help us shift the way we think. Harriet Brown has been exploring the conundrums of weight and body image for more than a decade, as a science journalist, as a woman who has struggled with weight, and as a mother, wife, and professor. Her book offers a vital newawareness of how the world around us has warped our perceptions of ourselves and our ideas about health. • Harriet Brown is author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, which won a Books for a Better Life Award and a gold-level Mom’s Choice award. She is also editor of poetry, several anthologies, and several nonfiction titles in the American Girl Library. She has had features in the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Prevention, Psychology Today, and Huffington Post. Brown lectures on eating disorders, obesity, and body image throughout the United States and is an associate professor at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

March 2015 • Health and Wellness • 272 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Joe PlumeriThe Power of Being Yourself: A CEO’s Game Plan for Success—by Putting Emotion into Your Life and WorkThere is still a lot to be done on this book. Hopefully these excellent endorsements from well known people will help!“Joe Plumeri is one of the best motivators and leaders that I know. This book is his life story, both the heartaches he has faced and the many accomplishments he has had. Anyone interested in the art of leadership should read this book and, through Joe’s career, learn some of the best traits possible.”—Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co- CEO, Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR)

“Wall Street has created a league of giants in the last half century and I regard Joe Plumeri as its Babe Ruth. Leading by doing it his way and leaving it all on the field. With Joe in our locker room, First Data is in the company of greatness, a genuine aura that comes shining through in The Power of Being Yourself.”—Frank Bisignano, Chairman and CEO, First Data Corporation

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desperately needs a dose of Joe Plumeri. His passion, honesty, and sense of purpose flows through these pages, which are filled with life lessons that extend from his childhood to his rise to the top of the corporate world. Plumeri points out that the key to being a good public speaker or a successful leader is having the courage and self- awareness to be yourself—an important insight for all of us.” —Bill Bradley, former US Senator

Joe Plumeri has served as the CEO of Citibank North America and Willis Group Holdings. He currently advises companies across the globe as senior advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and serves on the boards of numerous institutions, including Mount Sinai Medical Center and the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Feature articles have been written about Plumeri in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, and Newsweek; he’s also a regular guest on CNBC, CNN, and MSNBC and a sought-after lecturer for commencement speeches.

April 2015 • Self-Help/Business • 240 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Chinese (simp.): CITIC

Regina LeedsRightsize ... Right Now! The 8-Week Plan to Organize, Declutter, and Make AnyMove Stress-FreeWe’re so happy to have another great book from Regina Leeds. Her full licensing history is below and with the focus on tidying, this should find some good readership.The word “moving” can inspire dread and panic in anyone who has ever had to dealwith the stress that comes with packing and unpacking a home. Even the most easygoing person can turn into a wreck on moving day. But does it have to be that way? New York Times best-selling author Regina Leeds sees moving as an opportunity to start fresh, downsize, and simplify your life. Her innovative eight-week plan outlines how you can clear clutter, organize, pack, and prepare for the new space. Whether moving into a new house, apartment, or dorm room, readers of this practical plan will be able to settle into a simpler, cleaner home and avoid the stress that comes with moving. • Regina Leeds is the New York Times best-selling author of One Year to an Organized Life. She has been a professional organizer for over 20 years and was named best organizer byLos Angeles magazine

March 2015 • Self-Help/Organizing • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Also by Regina Leeds:The 8-Minute Organizer Russian/Alpina

One Year to an Organized Work LifeTaiwan/CommonwealthChina/Beijing Mediatime BooksKorean/Tree Power StationRussian/United Press

Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined


by common systems and a philosophy that the needs of the patient come first. Over 3,600 physicians and scientists and 50,000 allied staff work at Mayo. Collectively, Mayo Clinic treats more than 500,000 patients per year. For more than 100 years, millions of people from all walks of life have found answers at Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic titles are now available through Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Jani R. Jensen, Ebbie Stewart, and the fertility experts at Mayo ClinicMayo Clinic Guide to Fertility and ConceptionWe just sent you this final PDFWhat options does a couple have when they’ve been trying to conceive a child but so far haven’t had a baby? Mayo Clinic has brought to the subject a team of physicians whose specialties range from its physical to its emotional aspects. They offer premiere medical knowledge and advice for couples trying to have a baby, presenting available options in detail and helping readers sort out what is right for them. More than that, they give solid information about which approaches may be most suitable for which couples. Inchapters addressing everything from how to get pregnant, to when it’s time to seek help, to available treatments, the language is accessible and the tone companionable. There are illustrations throughout, with numerous diagrams, photos, and case studies. • Jani R. Jensen, MD, is a specialist in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and director of the In Vitro Fertilization Program at Mayo Clinic. • Ebbie Stewart, MD, is the chair of Mayo’s Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

April 2015 • Fertility/Health • 288 pagesWorld Rights except Spanish: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Lauren KesslerRaising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the NutcrackerWhen 12-year-old Lauren Kessler overheard her ballet instructor tell her mother thatshe would never be a dancer—the key phrases he used were “bottom heavy” and “thighs”—it seemed the end of her ballet ambitions, though she retained a strong and lasting adoration for the art. Now at her life’s midpoint, Kessler realizes that she wants to pick up where she left off and embark on the journey of becoming a ballerina good enough to dance in The Nutcracker. Between getting her body into ballet shape and finding a dance company willing to let her join its production, there is no easy road for Kessler, and she knows it. With dedication and discipline, she immerses herself in Pilates and yoga, donning toe shoes and tutus, all while discussing the language and history of ballet. In this real-time work of immersive journalism, Kessler details hertransformation from a relatively fit middle-aged woman into a graceful ballet dancer and explores the cultural fascination with ballet and society’s expectations of women’s bodies. This narrative is an inspirational saga of battling the voices in your head telling you that you’re “too fat” or “too old” or just plain saying “no.” Kessler leads by example, overcoming these voices entirely to fulfill her childhood dream. • Lauren Kessler is director of the University of Oregon’s narrative journalism graduate program and has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Ladies’ Home Journal. She most recently authored Counterclockwise.

November 2015 • Self-Help/Memoir • 240 pages • World Rights: Da CapoLifelong Books

Travis Macy with John HancThe Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion’s 8 Core Principles for Success inBusiness, Sports and Life


Travis Macy has trekked, kayaked, climbed, and swum through horizontal freezing rainin the Scottish Highlands, snowshoed across Canada’s desolate plains, and run through parched Mexican deserts. Most famously, in 2013 he won the Leadman, completing the combination trail-running marathon, 50-mile mountain-bike race, 100- mile mountain-bike race, 10K run, and 100-mile trail run over the course of two months in record time. Macy has accomplished this without exceptional strength, speed, flexibility, high-tech performance labs, or performance-enhancing drugs. His secret? A precise and particular outlook he calls the “Ultra Mindset.” Macy has discovered that by applying the Ultra Mindset to other areas of life, anyone can find success and fulfillment that otherwise would have been impossible. Juxtaposing theselessons with stories of Macy’s own sports career and vignettes from other ultra athletes,The Ultra Mindset offers valuable advice for any reader who wants to maximize his orher potential—whether in a marathon, a marriage, a job, or any other aspect of life.• Travis Macy is a sought-after speaker and endurance coach and writes for UltraRunning Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, and Trail Runner Magazine. He is also a stay- at-home dad and remote high school teacher. Find him at TravisMacy.com or on Facebook (Travis Macy and Macy Endurance Coaching), Twitter (@travismacy), or Instagram (@travismacy).

March 2015 • Sports/Recreation/Self-Help/Fitness • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Roy M. Wallack and Bill KatovskyBike for Life: How to Ride to 100, Revised EditionRoy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky have updated their essential cyclist’s resource, Bikefor Life: How to Ride to 100. They present groundbreaking information on medical research, training techniques, nutrition, and technology and equipment trends that impact the sport at every level. They assess the risks of and provide informative solutions for many bike-related conditions that have been overlooked or sensationalized or have just begun to emerge, including impotence, osteoporosis, weakened immune systems, sore backs, depression, and even fractured relationships. Also featured are in- depth interviews with cycling legends, such as Gary Fisher, Ned Overend, John Howard, Missy Giove, Eddie B, and Marla Steb. • Roy M. Wallack has survived the Eco- Challenge, the Soviet Union by bike, and some of the world’s toughest two-wheel events. Author of The Traveling Cyclist and a former editor at Bicycle Guide, California Bicyclist, and Triathlete magazines, he is a sports-gear columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covers cycling, fitness, longevity, triathlon, and running for Bicycling, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Outside, Competitor, and VeloNews. • Bill Katovsky biked solo across America, finished the Hawaii Ironman twice, and founded Triathlete magazine. In 2003, he coauthored Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq: An Oral History, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize.

February 2015 • Biking/Fitness • 400 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Chinese (comp.): Muses; Chinese (simp.): Bookzone; Portuguese (Brazil): Editorial Odisseil; Spanish: Editorial Paidotribo

Susan J. ElliottGetting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real LoveAfter the Big BreakupWe had a nice handful of licenses on her first book—see belowYou’ve broken up, done the work, and you’re ready to move on to a new relationship. InGetting Back Out There, Susan J. Elliott—creator of the wildly popular blog Getting


PastYour Breakup—guides you through the process of deciding when to date again, first date jitters, the selection (and rejection) of potential partners, and the rewarding experience of making a commitment to the right partner and being equipped for a happy, healthy relationship.

“Elliott offers readers humble and perceptive advice for recovering from heartbreak and reentering the dating world.… Elliott’s wisdom—well reasoned, unassuming, and based on experience—is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly

“Extremely encouraging for those who wish to build a healthy relationship and get on with life.” —Library Journal

Susan J. Elliott, JD, MEd, is creator of the Getting Past Your Breakup blog and seminar series and author of Getting Past Your Breakup. She is a sought-after relationship commentator, motivational speaker, certified grief counselor, and attorney. Visit her website at GettingPastYourBreakup.com

January 2015 • Relationships • 304 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Also by Susan Elliott:Getting Past Your BreakupWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Chinese (comp.): Walkers; Czech: Noxi; ANZ: Finch; Polish: Gruner & Jahr; Slovak: Noxi; Vietnamese: TGM Joint Stock Co.

Jeffrey Bernstein10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, Second EditionOccasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior—including tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity—becomes chronic, it can cause big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, child and family psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Bernstein shares a groundbreaking 10-day program to help parents gain back control over their defiant child or teen. The updated guide addresses challenges that today’s parents face (including new information on the rise of defiant behavior due to the Internet and Internet addiction and the effects of stress on family life). This guide explains what causes defiance in kids as well as why it’s so destructive to the family and shows parents, step-by-step, how they can end the behavior. • Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD, a licensed psychologist specializing in child and family therapy, has helped hundreds of children and their families restore their relationships. A well-known relationship expert and author of Why Can’t You Read My Mind? and 10 Days to a Less Distracted Child, he has appeared on The Today Show and Court TV, among other venues. Visit his website at DrJeffOnline.com.

June 2015 • Parenting • 320 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Chinese (comp.): Parenting Source Press; Chinese (simp.): Beijing Huanzhang Graphics; Russian: Family Leisure Book Club

Terry Hope RomeroProtein Ninja: 100 Plant-Based Recipes for Hardcore Soups, One-Pot Meals, andSaucy Bowls That Pack a Protein PunchA very successful Vegan author for DaCapo Lifelong with a new protein based book.


As vegan cuisine continues to evolve, more people are looking for healthier, protein-richplant-based meals. Weeknight kitchen ninjas, everyday athletes, and busy people of the world deserve something better than another bean burger or protein shake for dinner. Terry Hope Romero leads the charge with 100 lean, mean recipes using a wide range of ingredients—from supermarket friendly staples to cutting-edge superfoods—along with an arsenal of gluten- and soy-free options. Recipes include soups, sauces and spreads, casseroles and salads. • Terry Hope Romero is author of several best-selling andaward-winning cookbooks. In 2011 she was named Favorite Cookbook Author by VegNews.

December 2015 • Cooking/Vegan • 208 pages • 50 color photos throughoutWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Isa Chandra MoskowitzVegan with a Vengeance, 10th Anniversary EditionSince its 2005 publication, Vegan with a Vengeance has become a classic in a cookbook category that continues to grow. The 10th anniversary edition brings back the tasty recipes, chatty anecdotes, and money-saving tips that made the book such a hit—and it’s now updated with a new foreword, new recipes, and tempting full-color photos throughout. Vegan with a Vengeance offers reliable, standby recipes for veteran vegans and cheap, easy ways for newbies and “part-time” vegans to get more plant-based foods into their diets. • Isa Chandra Moskowitz, born and raised in Brooklyn, began her vegan cooking journey over two decades ago. In 2003, she created the Post Punk Kitchen community access TV show to give vegans something to watch. In conjunction with the show, she also started the PPK website to foster an online vegan cooking and baking community. Since then, she has authored and coauthored eight vegan cookbooks, including Veganomicon and Isa Does It. Her latest adventure was opening a vegan/vegetarian restaurant, Modern Love Omaha, in June 2014 in her most recent home, Omaha, Nebraska.

April 2015 • Cookery • 304 pages • 75 full-color photosWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Michelle Schoffro CookThe Probiotic Promise: Simple Steps to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out We’ve seen some nice licenses on this already and probiotics are a big trend.Discover the secrets to health, wellness, and super immunity in this exploration of the healing properties of probiotics, complete with prescriptive tips and healthy recipes. Michelle Schoffro Cook draws on new research to demonstrate the link between gastrointestinal health and overall health and how probiotics can address a host of medical issues—even “superbugs” and other microbes resistant to antibiotics. In addition The Probiotic Promise shows what to look for in probiotics, empowering readers to take charge of their health by presenting practical healing information in an easy, do- it-yourself format. It also includes recipes for homemade, naturally fermented foods.• Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, PhD, RNCP, ROHP, holds advanced degrees in natural health and holistic nutrition and has two decades’ experience in the field. She has written several books on health and wellness and has been featured in the Huffington Post and more. She is publisher of the popular health e-newsletter World’s Healthiest News and is a regular blogger for HealthySurvivalist.com and WorldsHealthiestDiet.com. Visit her website at DrMichelleCook.com

February 2015 • Health and Fitness • 288 pages • World Rights: Da Capo Lifelong21


Books; Portuguese (Portugal): 20/20 Editora; Spanish: Planeta Mexicana

Gretchen BeckerThe First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed, Third EditionAfter Gretchen Becker was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, she educated herself on every aspect of this chronic condition. In 2001, she marshaled everything she had learned as a “patient-expert” into the first edition of this book. Now in its third edition, The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes guides you step-by-step through your first year with diabetes, walking you through everything you need to learn and do. The book covers each day of your first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and each subsequent month of the crucial first year. In clear, concise, accessible language, Becker covers a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues and helps newly diagnosed diabetics cope with and take charge of their condition.• Gretchen Becker is author of The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes, Prediabetes, and StopDiabetes and a freelance editor specializing in science and medicine. She also owns and operates Cranberry Hill Farm in Vermont. Visit her website at GretchenBecker.com

October 2015 • Health/Diabetes • 400 pagesWorld Rights; Da Capo Press; United Kingdom: Constable & Robinson

Ricki HellerLiving Candida-Free: 100 Recipes and a 3-Stage Program to Restore Your Health and Vitality“Living Candida Free is both a breath of fresh air and a beacon of hope. It’s differentfrom the usual run of candida books because it’s based on a whole food vegan diet.… Wherever you fall on the dietary spectrum, or whether or not you actually have candida (it’s a safe bet that most of us do), I promise that Living Candida Free will help you. Ricki and Andrea are excellent teachers, full of knowledge, compassion and humor, each with long years of experience studying and battling candida, and helping others to overcome it.” —Savvy Vegetarian

“This book is so good I read it in two days! … Ricki does a great job of making candida(CRC) management less of a chore and more of a journey you want to embark on.”—Seasonal Diet

“Takes a very complicated, sometimes overwhelming topic, and dials it in to an explanation that will empower readers immediately.” —YumUniverse

Ricki Heller is the voice behind the popular food blog Diet, Dessert and Dogs, which celebrates sugar-free, gluten-free, allergy-friendly whole foods through an anticandida lifestyle. After being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, Heller first began to change her eating habits and realized how much the food we eat influences our health. Later, she was diagnosed with candida twice in a decade and followed a strict form of the diet. Her articles and recipes have appeared in Clean Eating, Living Without, Canadian Living, Montreal Gazette, Globe and Mail, Tonic Toronto, and others.

January 2015 • Health and Wellness/Diet • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Da Capo Lifelong Books; Canada: HarperCanada


Nation BooksMark Engler and Paul EnglerThis Is an Uprising: Shaping the Twenty-First Century Through Nonviolent Revolt The Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, and mass demonstrations in Turkey, Spain, and Greece are just some of the recent events that have established nonviolent actionas a potent force in shaping public debate, politics, and policy. In This Is an Uprising,Mark and Paul Engler analyze key concepts in strategic nonviolent action, pulling together ideas developed by Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, Saul Alinsky, and other theorists and practitioners of unarmed uprisings. Through carefully selected historical examples and interviews with contemporary revolutionaries, environmentalists, and activists of all stripes, they show that rather than an unpredictable and spontaneous occurrence, strategic nonviolent action is a force that can be harnessed for lasting social change. • Mark Engler is a freelance journalist and a senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus, a network of foreign policy experts. He is a columnist for Dissent and New Internationalist. His articles have appeared in the Nation, Progressive, Newsday, Audubon, San Francisco Chronicle, Guardian, Mother Jones, Christian Science Monitor, Ecologist, and Progreso Semanal (Miami), and he isauthor of How to Rule the World. • Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor and a renowned organizer whose activities have been covered by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and local news. He has been arrested eight times to date for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.

February 2016 • Current Affairs • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Nation Books

Robert ScheerThey Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations andSnooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy“Scheer acquits himself as a passionate advocate for privacy rights; you’d want him by your side at a protest.” —Los Angeles Times

“Scheer powerfully connects the dots of our chilling Orwellian present, one in which privacy is considered a luxury, rather than a right.” —Publishers Weekly

“A vital piece of work that demands attention.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Robert Scheer reminds us that privacy is everything—the protector of our liberty, the guarantor of our personal autonomy, the fountainhead of our democracy—and yet it’s disappearing faster than an electronic blip moving at warp speed from your computer to the NSA. With clarity and precision, Scheer dissects the military-intelligence complex, showing it to be neither very secure nor very intelligent, but, rather, dangerous to us all.” —Robert B. Reich

“Scheer is one of the most important journalists in America. He is not only brilliant, possessed by a fierce and uncompromising integrity, but is a lyrical and often moving writer. All of these talents are on full display in his latest book about the rise of the security and surveillance state and the terrifying dystopia that will be visited upon us all unless our right to privacy is returned to us.” —Chris Hedges

Robert Scheer, former national affairs correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is editor in chief of the Webby Award–winning online magazine


Truthdig and professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

December 2014 • Current Affairs and Politics • 304 pagesWorld Rights: Nation Books

Scott HortonLords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare “Lords of Secrecy is one of the most important contributions to the vital debate about democracy in the post–Cold War era yet published. Scott Horton diligently peels away layers of hypocritical rhetoric designed to obscure what has been happening. This is a call to arms: American democracy is under threat and the power of increasingly unaccountable agencies must be brought under control.” —Misha Glenny, author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

“[D]etails some remarkable abuses.... It is hard not to extrapolate from these tales a notion of a vast secret state beyond control. Horton does so with some finesse. The book is compelling.” —Sam Jones, Financial Times

“Big Brother is watching indeed. This useful book catches him in the act and even offers some thoughts on how to poke his eyes out.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A clear-eyed, deeply informed analysis that reveals the full extent of the threat posed by a Surveillance State that functions in darkness and secrecy. But far from being merely descriptive, Lords of Secrecy also catalogues and assesses the tools that citizens in a democracy can use to fight back.” —Glenn Greenwald

Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and writes No Comment for the website. A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, Horton lectures at Columbia Law School. A lifelong human rights advocate, Horton served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union.

December 2014 • Current Affairs/Politics • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Nation Books

PublicAffairsDick Lehr and Gerard O’NeillBlack Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI and a Devil’s DealLast chance to translate in time for the global film release in September/October A gripping, epic, true story of violence, betrayal, and corruption, Black Mass is currentlybeing crafted into a film by Cross Creek Pictures (producers of Black Swan) with a screenplay by Russell Gewirtz (writer of The Inside Man) and set for worldwide release in fall 2015. John Connolly and James “Whitey” Bulger grew up together as two boys coming of age on the bare-knuckle streets of South Boston. Decades later, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI’s Boston office, while Bulger had become a godfather in the Irish Mob. Connolly hatched an audacious plan to use Bulger as a top-secret snitch in the FBI’s war against the Mafia. But over time the information started flowing the opposite way, and the lines between good and evil blurred. Gerard O’Neill and Dick Lehr take us deep undercover to expose one of the worst scandals in FBI history, the chilling true story of a dark deal between two old friends


that spiraled out of control. • Gerard O’Neill and Dick Lehr are award-winning journalists. O’Neill has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Hancock and Loeb awards; Lehr, a Pulitzer finalist, has also won the Hancock and Loeb awards.

Published • True Crime • 288 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs; United Kingdom: Canongate; Chinese (simp.): Beijing Ruyixinxin; German: Goldmann; Italian: Rizzoli; French: Hugo et Cie; Japanese: Kadokawa; Polish: Marginesy; Russian: AST; Thai: Amararin

Andrei Soldatov and Irina BoroganThe Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the NewOnline RevolutionsWe are happy to have a new book by these two fearless Russian journalists on the role of the internet in both government surveillance as well as fighting it. Half of Russia’s email traffic passes through an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of South-West Moscow. The eighth floor is occupied by the FSB, the successor organization to the KGB, and it has a box the size of a VHS player that once intercepted just phone calls. Now it monitors emails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. It is the Russian government’s front line in the battle for the future of the Internet. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan’s fearless investigative reporting in The Red Web is both harrowing and alarming. They explain the long and storied history of Russian advanced surveillance systems, from research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in 1995. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia’s antagonists abroad, there is a community of activists, editors, programmers, and others finding ways to challenge abusive state powers online. The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the very device bywhich totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. The Red Web exposes howeasily a free global exchange can be splintered and coerced into becoming a tool of geopolitical warfare. • Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are cofounders of Agentura.ru and authors of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB. Soldatov worked for Novaya Gazeta from 2006 to2008. The New York Times, Moscow Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor,Le Monde, and BBC, among others, have featured Agentura.ru and its reporting. The New York Times called it “a web site that came in from the cold to unveil Russian secrets.”

August 2015 • Current Affairs/Politics • 400 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs

Jason ZweigThe Devil’s Financial DictionaryDefinitions in this witty and enlightening guide to the facts, fads, follies, and fiction of business and investing include “DAY-TRADER, n. See IDIOT”; “FEE, n. A tiny word with a teeny sound, which nevertheless is the single biggest determinant of success or failure for most investors. Those who keep fees as low as possible will, on average, earn the highest possible returns”; “RUMOR, n. The Wall Street equivalent of a fact”; “STOCK MARKET, n. A chaotic hive of millions of people who overpay for hope and underpay for value.” In The Devil’s Financial Dictionary Jason Zweig posits that the stock market serves not to redistribute capital efficiently from those who have a surfeit to those who can put it to productive use in corporate enterprises; rather, it serves to humiliate those who think they know what the future holds. The stock


market is a mechanism for putting a price tag on surprises. Those who “play” the stock market like a game willlose. Those who respect it as a force of nature will prosper—but only so long as they remain humble and patient. • Jason Zweig became a personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal in 2008. He was a senior writer for Money and author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to explore the neuroscience of investing.Zweig is also editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, a classic text described by Warren Buffett as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” Before joining Money in 1995, Zweig was mutual funds editor at Forbes. Earlier, he was a reporter-researcher for the Economy and Business section of Time. Also a popular public speaker, Zweig has addressed the Aspen Institute, the CFA Institute, and university audiences at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.

September 2015 • Business/Economics • 224 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs

Robin ChasePeers, Inc.: The Game-Changing Business Model Putting People andPlatforms to WorkFinal pages are in. “Clear-eyed, practical and radical insight from a visionary who has already built part of our future. This is just the beginning.” —Seth Godin, author of It’s Your Turn

“Peers Inc will change our ideas about how the economy is shaped and will transform how we work, build businesses and crack pressing societal problems.” —Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail

“A remarkably comprehensive, and extremely clear, guide to the world’s new logic. I’m less interested in how these peer networks make money than in how they make change; as Robin Chase points out, if we’re going to fight climate change we’re going to need just about everyone engaged. Here’s a recipe!” —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org

Robin Chase, recognized as both a thought leader and an in-the-trenches practitioner, founded Zipcar and cofounded Buzzcar (in France) and Veniam Works; her two TED talks have been viewed 1 million times. She has been named one of Time magazine’s100 Most Influential People, Fast Company’s Fast 50 Innovators, and Businessweek’s Top 10 Designers. A graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, she was also a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

May 2015 • Business Trends • 256 pages • World Rights: PublicAffairs;United Kingdom: Headline; Chinese (simp.): Cheers Press; Korean: Sinbad Press

Ram CharanThe Attacker’s Advantage: Uncertainty’s Upside“Coping with structural uncertainty and radical shifts in business models means executives need the insight to see around corners and the courage to move beyond boundaries. Ram Charan shows what it takes to go on the attack.” —Dominic Barton, global managing director, McKinsey & Company

“An invaluable resource for anyone navigating the market’s ever-changing but always taxing demands.” —Publishers Weekly


“The Attacker’s Advantage will challenge your beliefs and take you out of your comfort zone with stories and examples of how change is impacting business, and how the winners are transforming the threats from change into a competitive advantage for themselves.” —Kishore Biyani, founder and group CEO, Future Group

Ram Charan, a world-renowned business advisor, author, and speaker, has spent the past 35 years working with many of the top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. Charan is known for his expertise in uncovering core business problems and unseen opportunities. He has authored 15 books since 1998 that have sold over 3 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Execution, coauthored with Larry Bossidy in2002, was a number one Wall Street Journal best seller.

February 2015 • Business and Economics • 224 pages • World Rights excluding Portuguese: PublicAffairs; Chinese (comp.): Commonwealth; Chinese (simp.): China Machine Press

Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan WoetzelNo Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the TrendsMcKinsey will partner with local publishers in markets where they have offices to help launch local editions. I’m not sure what that entails but we can ask them on a case by case basis.“No Ordinary Disruption is no ordinary management book. Everyone in and aroundbusiness and technology has heard about disruption for awhile now, but the way Dobbs, Manyika and Woetzel dissect the phenomenon and give it meaning is truly new and exciting. They not only provide a prescient diagnosis of what’s to come, but also offer compelling thoughts on how we succeed in a world that’s moving faster and faster every day. The massive changes they describe can be overwhelming, but they do a remarkable job of inspiring us to confront them with intellect, humanity, and a profound optimism about our future.” —Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman

“No one can know the future but McKinsey’s new book, No Ordinary Disruption, takes a very good shot. By reading this book, you can prepare for what the future will bring. Everyone with responsibility for thinking about the next trends should carefully consider this analysis.” —Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury secretary

“The world is getting more connected, and thus more complex. New strategies are necessary for a networked age. No Ordinary Disruption is an excellent primer in how to think strategically about the transformational role of technology and the accelerating global flows of goods, capital, and talent—and how to prepare yourself for a future that will be marked by relentless change and massive opportunity. I highly recommend this book.” —Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chairman of LinkedIn

Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel are directors at McKinsey Global Institute, the flagship think tank of the world’s leading consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, which counts 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies as clients.

April 2015 • Business • 288 pages • World Rights: PublicAffairs: Chinese (simp): GrandChina Publishing; Chinese (cplx): Briefing Press

Kentaro ToyamaGeek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology“Toyama’s research reminds us that there are very few one-size-fits-all


solutions. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”—Bill Gates

“Read this book! With engaging stories and penetrating insight, Toyama reveals that even the most powerful technologies can’t cure our social ills and he inspires us toward a more deeply human kind of progress.” —Ben Mezrich, author of TheAccidental Billionaires

Kentaro Toyama, PhD, is a senior research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and an internationally recognized leader in the field of technology and society. His work with facial-recognition algorithms resulted in a study called “Probabilistic Tracking with Exemplars in a Metric Space,” which won the David Marr Prize. He has been featured in the New York Times and Forbes, lectured at the United Nations, Harvard, and MIT, and published over 100 scholarly articles about computer science, technology, and society.

May 2015 • Technology/Sociology • 352 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs; Korean: UI Books

Adam TannerWhat Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It“Books with sexy titles and decidedly unsexy topics—like, say, data—have a tendency to disappoint. But What Stays in Vegas is an engrossing, story-packed takedown of the data industry.… Perhaps most important, given that it is such a murky subject, What Stays in Vegas offers a narrative that transforms Big Data from spreadsheet-dull to a racy read people will pay attention to.” —Financial Times

“Tanner illustrates his arguments with a traditional, vivid example from the business and entertainment world: Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.… [He] weaves this example into a gripping account of the modern direct-marketing industry.… In this fascinating look at the dazzling if suffocating domain of digital information gathering, Tanner concludes that it is returning us to a world of farms and villages, where intimate details of everyone’s lives were public knowledge.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Data may be to the 21st century economy what oil was to the 20th, a hugely valuable asset essential to economic life and often a source of conflict. This entertaining yet deeply informative book is a great guide to what has, or hasn’t, happened and to what lies ahead.” —Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary; president emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University

Adam Tanner writes about the business of personal data. He is a Nieman fellow in Harvard University’s Department of Government. He has worked for Reuters News Agency as Balkans chief based in Belgrade, Serbia, and as San Francisco bureau chief and reported from Moscow, Berlin, and Washington, DC. He contributes a columnfor Forbes.

September 2014 • Technology/Business • 352 pagesWorld Rights: PublicAffairs; Chinese (simp.): Posts and Telecom


Running PressClara BensenNo Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and WanderingFour Chapters in on this wonderful bookWhat happens when you welcome the unknown instead of attempting to control it? This memoir of travel and romance that blossomed on a luggage-free, city-hopping voyage from Istanbul to London explores that question. Clara Bensen created an OkCupid dating account where she met Jeff, an intriguing and handsome professor who shared her penchant for exploration and experimentation. Eight weeks later, the two were off to begin their 21-day minimalist travel experiment with no luggage, no reservations, andno plans. They set off with just the clothes on their backs and a very limited supply of other essentials. They slept where they could—on couches, floors, park lawns, and the occasional real bed—jumping from city to city by foot, car, ferry, train, and almost every mode of transportation on earth. Clara’s inspiring story has been optioned for film by New Line Cinema. • Clara Bensen is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. Her Salon.com article “The Craziest OkCupid Date Ever” about this trip was the 10th most viewed article of 2013.

January 2016 • Travel/Memoir • 325 pagesWorld Rights: Running Press; ANZ: Hardie Grant; Chinese (comp.): Locus; Chinese (simp.): United Sky; Czech: Metafora; Dutch: Nijgh; French: Éditions Jean-Claude Lattes; Italian: Rizzoli; German: Bastei Lubbe; Polish: Czarna Owca; Portuguese (Brazil): Leya

Lisa HoehnYou Probably Shouldn’t Write That: Tips and Tricks for Creating an OnlineDating Profile That Doesn’t SuckA helpful guide to writing an online profile that will actually attract dates. . .This is a complete guide to creating and revamping the perfect online dating profile, from picking the right username, to choosing the right photos, to helpful hacks for being sarcastic and funny. Lisa gets down and dirty with the big and small details that make a profile stand out. (Preview: There’s power in a good selfie, and too manyexclamation points make you seem nuts.) With exercises, activities, and before and after examples, Lisa will help both dating veterans and novices write the profiles theydeserve. • Lisa Hoehn is founder of Profile Polish, an online dating profile makeover service, which has been featured in the Guardian, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Daily Dot, XoJane, and NBC News. She lives in New York City.

December 2015 • Dating/Advice • 144 pagesWorld Rights: Running Press

Helen WrathDraw with a Vengeance: Get Even in Ink and Let Karma Handle the Rest Combining the creative format of Wreck This Journal with the dark humor of The Bunny Suicides, every page in this journal is a drawing prompt for a twisted situation in which to doodle the objects of your aversion, making them suffer in hilarious ways. Everyone has an ex-lover, a boss, or a crazy relative who’d make even Mother Teresa reach for brass knuckles. That person is called X (because “egotistical imbecile” takes up too much space). Readers can draw a nude X embracing a cactus or tear out a drawing of X’s face to burn in effigy! • Helen Wrath draws inspiration


from past narcissistic boyfriends, irrational bosses, and passive-aggressive roommates.

December 2015 • Humor/Creativity • 128 pagesWorld Rights: Running Press

Running PressGame of Thrones: The Noble Houses of WesterosA New Book in conjunction with HBO HBO’s blockbuster series has reached over 19 million viewers per episode worldwide. In collaboration with HBO, Running Press has produced this must-have guide for the show’s dedicated fans and newbies alike. This guide provides a detailed look at the major houses that inhabit the Game of Thrones universe. Full of information on each house’s sigil, home, family tree, character profiles, alliances, and more, this will be a necessity to navigate the complicated twists, turns, and political machinations thatkeep viewers and readers hooked.

October 2015 • Television • 144 pages • full-color photos and illustrations throughoutWorld Rights: Running PressAgented by Silke Bruinink in Western Europe

Robb PearlmanGame of Thrones: In MemoriamThis photo- and fact-filled memorial tribute is dedicated to every character killed on theshow to date and includes a fully illustrated character profile. The HBO international smash hit keeps growing in popularity, being seen in over 200 markets around the globe and accumulating 41 Emmy nominations. Readers will be scrambling to get their copy of In Memoriam for their own Game of Thrones collections. • Robb Pearlman is author of Fun with Kirk and Spock, Nerd Haiku, Spoiler Alert, and several other books.

March 2015 • Performing Arts/Television • 144 pages • color photos throughoutWorld Rights: Running Press; French: Flammarion; German: Panini; Russian: Eksmo; Spanish: Ediciones UranoAgented by Silke Bruinink in Western Europe

Edward Z. EpsteinAudrey and Bill: A Romantic Biography of Audrey Hepburn and William HoldenOn-screen they were the couple viewers wished had gotten together in the 1954 classic Sabrina. Backstage, that iconic film ignited a great Hollywood romance. Here, for the first time, is the captivating story of the on-set romance that turned into a lifelong love story between Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. Edward Z. Epstein gathers firsthand insight from studio publicists, costars, and former friends. Hepburn was a star on the world stage. Holden was a handsome, talented, but tormented man. This poignant, captivating love story has been waiting to be told. • Edward Z. Epstein has written biographies of Paul Newman, Mia Farrow, Marlon Brando, and Lucille Ball.

April 2015 • Biography/Entertainment and Performing Arts • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Running Press; German: Langen Mueller; Polish: PublicatAgented by Silke Bruinink in Western Europe

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Fellini: The SixtiesFor the very first time, carefully selected imagery from all of Federico Fellini’s films of the 1960s will be showcased in this collectable book. The 1960s were the director’smost iconic and representative decade, a time in which he made classics such as 8 1/2,La Dolce Vita, Juliet of the Spirits, and Satyricon. Filled with hundreds of never-before- seen or -published photographs—and featuring an extensive interview with La Dolce Vita star Anita Ekberg—Fellini: The Sixties is a remarkable compendium of a legendary filmmaker’s greatest work. • Manoah Bowman is a photography preservationist whose photo archive details the history of cinema and Hollywood. He has contributed to many publications, studios, and museums, including Paramount, Universal, and Disney.

October 2015 • Film and Television • 304 pages • B&W and color photos throughoutWorld Rights: Running PressAgented by Silke Bruinink in Western Europe

Ramy GafniHow to Fake Real Beauty—Tricks of the Trade to Master Your Makeup Ramy Gafni, a celebrity beauty expert who has worked his magic on countless celebrated international beauties, shares his secrets in this beauty how-to. Readers will learn how to enhance natural beauty while concealing imperfections. Makeup can help fake anything, from a clear complexion to fuller lips—it’s all a matter of knowing how to apply it. Known for his humor, honesty, and creativity, Gafni helps people bring out their individual beauty with his innovative techniques and unique products. This guide will teach readers how to get ready for a close-up and confidently take center stage in any situation. • Ramy Gafni is a professional makeup artist who has worked with celebrities from Taylor Swift to Tina Fey and Rihanna. He opened his New York Citysalon in 2004 and created his own brand of cosmetics, RAMY Beauty Therapy. His work has been featured in Vogue, Allure, InStyle, and People.

June 2015 • Beauty and Grooming • 208 pages • color illustrations throughoutWorld Rights: Running PressAgented by Silke Bruinink in Western Europe

Dr. Ginger SouthallThe Rainbow Juice Cleanse: Lose Weight, Boost Energy, and SuperchargeYour HealthShe just appeared on the Dr. Oz tv program and her book became Amazon’s #1 mover and shaker that day and the day following.Juicing is enormously popular among health-conscious people, and its popularity is spreading. In this creative and delicious twist on the trend, Dr. Ginger Southall teaches readers how “drinking the rainbow”—fresh, organic juices in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—will help with weight loss, antiaging, and energy gain. Through this revolutionary new juicing program, readers will get the kick start they need to lose weight and improve their health by drinking seven colors in seven days. With 50 food and juice recipes and amazing full-color photos, this book provides an innovative lookat the juicing health phenomenon. • Dr. Ginger Southall, DC, is founder and CEO of Dr. Ginger LLC, a wellness consulting company that promotes her 30-Day Change Your Life Detox Challenge. She has also been an instructor of nutrition and digestive and metabolic physiology at Hippocrates Health Institute and was recipient of the Fitness Physician of the Year Award by the New York Center for Strength and Performance. Currently she is a partner in wellness with Avalon Organics, a Diabetes


Influencer for Omichannel Health Media.

April 2015 • Health/Cooking/Juicing • 208 pages • color illustrations throughoutWorld Rights: Running Press

Maureen AboodRose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh and Classic Recipes from MyLebanese KitchenUsing some of the biggest staples in a Middle Eastern kitchen—spices and lots of freshherbs—Maureen Abood blends traditional Lebanese dishes with modern style. The unique and flavorful recipes range from “Pistachio Crusted White Fish,” to “Stone Fruit Salad with Flower Waters and Shaved Coconut,” to “Spiced Sweet Bread with Rose Water Milk Glaze.” Appealing to all types of eaters—with vegan, vegetarian, and meat dishes—these recipes promote healthy eating with a ton of flavor. This journey through delectable, diverse Middle Eastern flavors will reveal how easy it is to incorporate the exotic flavors of Lebanon into tasty meals that are healthy, inventive, and soulful.• Maureen Abood is a Lebanese American who has had great success sharing her recipes both on the Huffington Post and on her popular blog, similarly titled Rose Water and Orange Blossoms, which receives 35,000 visitors each month.

April 2015 • Cooking/Lebanese • 272 pages • color photos throughout • World Rights: Running Press

Blaine Wetzel and Joe RaySea and SmokeInspired by his time cooking at the renowned Noma in Denmark, Blaine Wetzel came onas the executive chef at the Willows Inn on the remote Pacific Northwest Lummi Island. Wetzel transformed the inn into a hyperlocal culinary destination for serious diners, who fly or ferry in for the best meal of their lives. A smokehouse, several fishermen, a farmer, and a dedicated staff who forage for mushrooms and shellfish yield a colorful pallet of ingredients for the restaurant’s nightly 16-course prix fixe menu. Dishes include “Smoked Mussels,” “Herring Roe on Kelp with Charred Dandelions,” “Aged Venison Legs and Wild Lettuce with Seeded Bread,” “Warm Blueberries,” and “An Ice Cream Made from Sweet Woodruff.” If you can’t hop on the ferry or charter a plane to Lummi, this book is the next-best thing. • Chef Blaine Wetzel was chef-de-partie at Noma in Copenhagen. He was listed by Food & Wine magazine as one of its Best New Chefs of 2012 and won the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2014.• Joe Ray, who immersed himself in the Willows Inn’s kitchen for a year, has been writing and shooting food and travel stories around the world for more than 15 years.

October 2015 • Cooking/travel • 240 pages • color photos throughout • World Rights: Running Press

Heather BairdSea Salt Sweet: The Art of Using Salts for the Ultimate Dessert Experience Every dessert has the ability to become salty and sweet with this cookbook incorporating gourmet and artisan salts into 35 recipes. From sure-to-please classics like chocolate chunk kettle chip cookies to lemon pie with soda cracker crust to exotic twists like espresso mousse soufflés with fleur de sel, there’s something for every baker in this unique cookbook. • Heather Baird is author of the Sprinklebakes: DessertRecipes to Inspire Your Inner Artist food blog, which has been twice nominated by


Saveurmagazine as best baking blog.

November 2015 • Cooking • 272 pages • World Rights: Running Press

Seal PressDr. Elizabeth LombardoBetter Than Perfect: Free Yourself from Impossible Standards So You Can Live a Happier, Healthier Life“With the goal of helping people ‘before they need the couch,’ clinical psychologist Lombardo explains how to combat perfectionism and stop striving for unattainable goals.… Verdict: A solid starting point for those who suffer from perfectionist tendencies.” —Library Journal

“Dr. Lombardo’s strategies will help you get out of your own way to create the life you want—one that’s filled with happiness and success. I highly recommend Better Than Perfect!”—Marci Shimoff, New York Times best-selling author of Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason, and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul

“At The Oprah Winfrey Show, I met many transformational speakers and authors, and I can say with assurance that Dr. Lombardo’s path to change is a phenomenal one. Let her show you how to get out of your own way, and get the most out of life!” —Candi Carter, CEO of New Chapter Entertainment and former senior producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show

Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo holds a master’s in physical therapy and a PhD in clinical psychology. She has also had a thriving private practice for over a decade. She has been featured as a perfectionism expert on television on CNN and The Today Show, in printin Allure, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Health, Woman’s World, and the Wall Street Journal, and online at HuffingtonPost.com, Forbes.com, Shape.com, and Self.com, among many others.

September 2014 • Self-Help/Health and Wellness • 268 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press; Chinese (comp.): Business Weekly; Chinese (simp.): Beijing Phoenix Edita Media; Japanese: Kongo Shuppan; Russian: Mann, Ivanov, and Ferber; Spanish: Planeta Mexicana; Turkish: Yabanci Yayinlari

Jamye WaxmanHow to Break Up with Anyone: Letting Go of Friends, Family, and EveryoneIn BetweenNot all relationships are made to last forever. Sometimes what started as a beautiful friendship or productive partnership can turn toxic, or one-sided, or unhealthy—and the best solution for both parties is to end it. In How to Break Up with Anyone, relationship expert Jamye Waxman has written a much needed guide to every step of a nonromantic breakup. Drawing from her personal and professional experiences, Waxman walks the reader through the process of disengaging from a friend, family member, community, or even a former version of him- or herself, addressing both the practicalities and emotional considerations of what it means to break up. While ending a relationship might sometimes be painful, Waxman keeps the message positive, focusing on the ultimately liberating aspects of putting unhealthy relationships to rest.• Jamye Waxman, MEd, is a sex educator, media consultant, and successful author of several books, including Getting Off. She has been profiled on Forbes.com and


featured as an expert in magazines such as Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan,and Glamour.

August 2015 • Self-Help/Relationships • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press

Emily V. GordonSuper You: How to Become Your Own SuperheroA great conceit done with humor.Superheroes don’t start from glorious beginnings. Their origins are almost always marked by traumatic events that leave them helpless and scared. Batman witnessed his parents’ murder. Superman was sent away from his dying planet with no one to guide him as he grew up. What makes these superheroes super is their determination to not be defined by helplessness. They embrace their flaws and their mistakes and striveevery day to become the best versions of themselves. Super You is a fun, friendly, andunabashedly geeky guide to becoming the superhero of your own extraordinary life. Emily Gordon examines comic book tropes to find lessons that anyone can apply to overcoming tragic events and adversity. With activities in every chapter to help identify each person’s superpowers, special tools, and personal kryptonite—and weapons against it—Super You is the perfect sidekick for every growing hero, empowering everyday people to transform into the most kick-ass versions of themselves. • Emily V. Gordon is a former couples and family therapist and current writer and producer. She has written for Rookie, Hello Giggles, Huffington Post, and Daily Beast. In addition, she hosts a podcast about video games and produces a weekly stand-up show called The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, which is also a TV series for Comedy Central.

September 2015 • Self-Help/Psychology • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press

Amy FerrisShades of Blue: An Anthology About Depression, Suicide, Sadness, and ThatFlicker of Hope in the Middle of CrazyFerris is well known and this has some terrific contributors. We all know something about depression, whether it’s the light blue days when thingsgo wrong to the deep indigo blue of the full-on illness. Coming at it from her ownsuicide attempt 40 years ago, author and screenwriter Amy Ferris attempts to break the taboo and bring frank discussions of the illness out into the open with this brave and poignant collection of essays from a broad range of people who have suffered through it. Contributors include Martha Frankel, Elizabeth Rosner, John Berendt, Caroline Leavitt, Bob Guccione Jr., Beverly Donofrio, Pete Werner, and many others. As Ferris says so well herself, “We need to say, write, scream, shout out-loud: you are not alone.” • Amy Ferris is an author, screenwriter, editor, and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis, debuted theatrically (Off-Broadway) in 2012. Ruth Pennebaker of the New York Times called her memoir “poignant, free-wheeling, cranky and funny.” Ferris coedited, along with Hollye Dexter, the new anthologyDancing at the Shame Prom. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, is on thefaculty at the San Miguel de Allende Literary Festival and on the advisory board of the Women’s Media Center, and is a founding board member of the Scranton, Pennsylvania–based Pages and Places Literary Festival.

September 2015 • Self-Help/Psychology • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press


Kara Richardson WhitelyGorge: My 300-Pound Journey up Kilimanjaro“In Gorge, Kara Richardson Whitely takes us where few have dared to go before: thrillingly up to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro and profoundly down to the darkest depths of food addiction. Kara is fearlessly honest and powerfully intelligent. I was moved and inspired by every page of this beautiful book.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Gorge reminds us of just how strong the human spirit is, and how resilience and determination can, in fact, triumph over despair.” —Ann Hood, author of Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Kara Richardson Whitely is currently having a documentary, titled Big Fat Mountain, made about her story by Barcroft USA, a production company that works with the TLC, Discovery, and National Geographic networks. She has written for publications like Self, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and Runner’s World. Her story has appeared on numerous television programs, including Oprah’s Lifeclass. A blogger, she speaks at various women’s and health conferences across the United States.

April 2015 • Memoir/Fitness/Travel • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press

Debby HerbenickThe Coregasm Workout: The Revolutionary Method for Better SexThrough Exercise“For anyone looking to start an innovative new exercise routine, The Coregasm Workout delivers the ultimate happy ending!” —Ian Kerner, New York Times best-selling author of She Comes First

“Debby Herbenick has written a fascinating description of the phenomenon of exercise- induced orgasm that is at once an experiential account of a ‘coregasm’ and a guide for those seeking to learn how to achieve one. This book helps shed light on the complexity of orgasm as well as its intimate connection to the functioning of the whole body. Everyone has something to learn from reading this book!” —Madeleine M. Castellanos, MD, author of Wanting to Want: What Kills Your Sex Life and How to Keep It Alive

“As a sex therapist, clients are often surprised at the way lifestyle changes related to diet or exercise can boost their sex life. The Coregasm Workout shows how exercise is connected to sexual arousal and orgasm in fascinating ways.” —Rose Hartzell, PhD, EdS, CHES, LMFT, and AASECT Certified Sexuality Therapist, San DiegoSexual Medicine

Debby Herbenick is codirector of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, an associate research scientist in the Department of Applied Health Science in Indiana University, Bloomington’s School of Public Health, and the sexual health educator for the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She is the voice behind the Kinsey Institute’s Kinsey Confidential column and podcast series. She has given two TEDx talks (in 2011 and 2013) and is author of Amazing Sex and Read My Lips.

April 2015 • Fitness/Sexuality • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press


Jes BakerThings No One Will Tell Fat GirlsWith smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview. With the same straightforward tone that catapulted her to global attention when she wrote a public letter addressing the sexist comments of Abercrombie & Fitch’s CEO, Baker shares personal experiences along with in-depth research in a way that isapproachable, digestible, and empowering. Featuring notable guest authors, Things NoOne Will Tell Fat Girls is an invitation for all women to reject fat prejudice, learn to love their bodies, and join the most progressive and life-changing revolution there is: the movement to change their world, not their body. • Jes Baker is internationally known for her blog The Militant Baker, the “Attractive and Fat” campaign, and her dedication to shifting social paradigms into a place where all people are offered the opportunity tolove themselves just as they are. “Attractive and Fat” drew coverage from CNN, TheToday Show, and the BBC, among many other outlets. Her extensive body advocacy work has continued to garner attention from hundreds of national and international media networks. When not blogging, Baker spends her time producing the Body Love Conference, speaking, and working with clothing companies to promote more plus- size fashion.

August 2015 • Self-Help/Personal Growth • 224 pagesWorld Rights: Seal Press

Weinstein BooksPamela Anderson and John PierreConnect and Transform: Simple Everyday Changes for Spectacular Health A health and diet book by Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson.Women always wonder how celebrities maintain the perfect body while juggling insane schedules—and now they have the opportunity to find out. Pamela Anderson, actress, model, and vegan, shows readers how to maintain not only a healthy body but a healthy mind—through an earth friendly diet, exercise, and a mindful lifestyle. Anderson is a major proponent of the vegan diet. Through exclusive personal anecdotes, Anderson reveals how she develops a healthy “fitness/mind connection” through exercise and meditation. Readers learn what she eats, how she exercises—and how it’s all connected. They also learn how they can “sneak in” small changes to their daily diet and exercise regime to adopt an overall healthier lifestyle. Throughout the book, John Pierre,“Trainer to the Stars,” provides short, easy exercises used by celebrities and sport stars all over the country. • Pamela Anderson is an actress, model, and vegan activist known for her roles on Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P. Anderson is a proud member of the animal rights movement. She works with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to promote veganism and was the first recipient of the Linda McCartney Memorial Award for animal rights protectors. • John Pierre is a nutrition and fitness consultant known as the “Trainer to the Stars” due to his frequent work withcelebrities, rock stars, and Fortune 500 executives. He has devoted the past 25 years to enriching peoples’ lives through his expertise in geriatrics, nutrition, fitness, women’s empowerment, green living, and cognitive improvement.

October 2015 • Health and Fitness • 288 pages • 8-page color photo insert, 20B&W photographs


World Rights: Weinstein Books

Dick Van Dyke with Todd GoldKeep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Old AgeBeloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his 90th birthday in December2015. He’s an established legend, having starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty BangBang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. And yet he’s still keeping himself busy, entertaining us through television, movies, the theater, and social media. Everyone wonders, How does he do it? For the first time, Van Dyke shares his secrets and tips on old age: just keep moving. Keep Moving serves as an instruction manual on how to embrace old age with a positive attitude. The chapters are filled with exclusive personal anecdotes that explore various themes on aging: adapting to physical and social changes, dealing with the loss of friends and loved ones, staying current, falling in love again, and “keeping moving” every day like there’s no tomorrow. • Dick Van Dyke is a Hollywood icon and New York Times best-selling author of My Lucky Life in and out of Show Business. He has received the Theatre World Award, a Tony, a Grammy, and four Emmys, as well as the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013. He lives in California. • Todd Gold is a New York Times best-selling author who has collaboratedon several dozen books with celebrities, including Dick Van Dyke, Belinda Carlisle, Maureen McCormick, Drew Barrymore, and Sonny Bono, among others. He is currently the executive editor of XFINITY TV.

September 2015 • Memoir • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Weinstein Books

Louise Troh with Christine Wicker My Spirit Took You In: The Romance that Sparked an Epidemic of FearWe can show it without an NDA now.Louise Troh — fiancée of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America — breaks her silence about her experience in this deeply moving memoir, chronicling the decades long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. Louise Troh fled war in Liberia decades ago and made her way to an Ivory Coast refugee camp where she met and married Eric Duncan. They had achild but the marriage didn’t survive the stress of a refugee camp. She left for America with their son when he was three while Eric returned to Liberia; both remarried and then divorced other people. Years later they reconnected. Eric finally arrived in the US to re-marry Louise and meet his son but just days after his arrival he succumbed to Ebola and died. • Louise Troh is the fiancée of Thomas Eric Duncan, who became the first person to die of the Ebola virus in America on October 8, 2014. Troh is fromLiberia and currently lives with her family in Dallas, Texas. • Christine Wicker is a former religion reporter for The Dallas Morning News and the author of New York Times bestseller Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead. She has written for Parade magazine, Huffington Post, and AOL’s Politics Daily. She met Louise Troh through their congregation at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, where she lives.

April 2015 • Biography/ Autobiography • 280 pagesWorld Rights: Weinstein Books

BenBella BooksMichael FosselThe Telomerase Revolution: The Enzyme That Holds the Key to Human Aging


…and Will Soon Lead to Longer, Healthier LivesThis will come out before the Elizabeth Blackburn book coming from Grand Central. He is a well-regarded researcher and professor who is working on bringing telomere-based drugs to clinical trials, so is writing about the evolution of this science, it’s applications, and the possibilities for therapies in the near future. We have 3 chapters.Dr. Michael Fossel has been in the forefront of aging research for decades and is author of the definitive textbook on human aging. In The Telomerase Revolution, he takes us on a detailed but highly accessible scientific journey, providing startling insights into the nature of human aging. Every time a cell reproduces, its telomeres (the tips of the chromosomes) shorten. With every shortening of the telomeres, the cell’s ability torepair its molecules decreases—it ages. The Telomerase Revolution describes howtelomerase will soon be used as a powerful therapeutic tool, with the potential to dramatically extend life and even reverse human aging. This is the definitive work on the latest science on human aging, covering both the theory and the clinical implications of telomerase therapy. • Dr. Michael Fossel earned both his PhD and MD from Stanford University, where he taught neurobiology and research methods. Winner of a National Science Foundation fellowship, he was a clinical professor of medicine for almost three decades, executive director of the American Aging Association, and founding editor of Rejuvenation Research. In 1996 he wrote the first book on the telomerase theory of aging, Reversing Human Aging, and in 2011 he coauthored The Immortality Edge, a best-selling discussion of the potential for extending the human lifespan. The world’s foremost expert on the clinical use of telomerase for age-related diseases, Fossel has lectured at the National Institute for Health and the Smithsonian Institute. He has appeared on Good Morning America, 20/20, Extra, CNN, BBC, Discovery Channel, and NPR.

October 2015 • Science/Health • 312 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Michelle GielanBroadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change We are all constantly broadcasting information to others, even if we don’t say a word. Drawing from her experience as a researcher and journalist, Michelle Gielan shares strategies for choosing the right message, getting through to others (especially during moments of high stress), and using nonverbal communication to your advantage. Most important, you’ll understand why positivity is the most underutilized resource available. Change is possible, and by incorporating simple communication habits, which oftentake just a couple of minutes a day, you can ripple out that positive change to others and create an upward spiral of success. • Michelle Gielan, founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research, is an expert on the science of positive communication. She works with Fortune 500 companies and schools to raise employee engagement, productivity, and happiness at work. Gielan is a partner at GoodThink, a positive psychology consulting firm, and she holds a master’s in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and advice have received attention from Forbes, USA Today, CNN, FOX, Huffington Post, and NPR.

August 2015 • Business/Psychology • 224 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books; Chinese (simp.): CITIC

Jeanne SegalFeeling Loved: The Science of Nurturing Meaningful Connections and


BuildingLasting HappinessTapping into the latest in brain science, emotional psychology, and early childhooddevelopment, this text aims to give readers the roadmap to finding love and happiness. New research confirms that one’s ability to deal with stress and the experience of feeling loved are directly connected to the ability to find happiness. This book enables readersto identify the challenges in their lives that are keeping them from giving and receiving love, to use techniques proven to reduce stress and regulate emotions, and to transform relationships with those around them. • Jeanne Segal is a psychologist, sociologist, author, and pioneer for mental health innovation. She founded a nonprofit self-help website with her husband and has been helping individuals for more than 30 years.

November 2015 • Personal Growth/Psychology • 208 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Caroline CederquistThe MD Factor Diet: A Physician’s Proven Diet for Metabolism Correction andHealthy Weight LossObesity is a worldwide epidemic, with millions of people suffering from weight-related ailments. The MD Factor Diet reveals how metabolic dysfunction is a major cause ofweight gain and a serious obstacle to weight loss. In this revolutionary guide, Dr. Caroline Cederquist helps to identify whether your metabolism is the problem and to combat this considerable opponent to weight loss. In her MD Factor Action Plan, she lays out the simple ways to correct metabolism, improve cholesterol and blood pressure, enhance sleep quality, and more! In just two weeks, Dr. Cederquist’s unique and innovative program will help you achieve a more energized, lighter, and healthier you!• Caroline Cederquist, MD, is an expert in the field of weight loss and metabolism. As the director of the Cederquist Medical Wellness Center and bistroMD, Dr. Cederquist helps people transform their bodies through an innovative home diet delivery program. She is a nationally recognized media personality who has been featured on television shows such as Dr. Phil and The Ricki Lake Show and in other media outlets, including the Huffington Post, New York Times, and Parenting Magazine.

December 2014 • Health/Diet • 264 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Bruce RosemanThe Addictocarb Diet: Avoid the 9 Highly Addictive Carbs While Eating AnythingElse You WantThere’s a reason diets don’t work. Science has shown that a class of carbohydratescalled “addictocarbs” light up the brain’s pleasure centers, causing irresistible cravings that make it almost impossible to eat moderately. Finally, there’s a way to overcome this addiction. It’s called The Addictocarb Diet, and it’s a cure—not a fad. In thisrevolutionary new approach to weight loss, Dr. Bruce Roseman reveals how he transformed his life and the lives of close to 1,000 of his patients with this simple yet effective new diet based on the latest findings in addiction neuroscience. The Addictocarb Diet teaches how to avoid the nine highly addictive carbs while eating anything else you want through his comprehensive diet’s three steps: “Shaking the


Addiction,” “Addictocarb Rehab,” and “Staying Slim.” This revolutionary new system is perfect for everyone, including those with gluten or lactose sensitivities, vegetarians, diabetics and sufferers of other ailments, and even those just looking to lose a littleweight! • Dr. Bruce Roseman has been a family doctor in private practice in Manhattan for 30 years and is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital. He has served as medical editor for several food- and health-related books and magazines, including The Olive Oil Cookbook, The Low Cholesterol Oat Cure, and Whittle’s The Health Report and as a medical columnist for Woman’s World.

July 2015 • Health and Fitness/Diet and Nutrition • 220 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Del Sroufe with LeAnne CampbellThe China Study Quick and Easy Cookbook: Cook Once, Eat All Week with WholeFood, Plant-Based RecipesA new book for the China Study publishersFrom the best-selling author of Forks Over Knives: The Cookbook comes the third in aline of successful China Study cookbooks, which have sold more than 425,000 copies. In this installment, Chef Del Sroufe takes kitchen time management to the next level and provides busy home cooks with menu plans, pantry lists, and more than 100 delicious plant-based recipes that are quick, easy, and multipurpose. Sroufe teaches how to cook one day a week and prepare meals ahead of time so meals can be simple, healthy, and delicious—even for those with a busy schedule! Edited by LeAnne Campbell, author of The China Study Cookbook, every recipe follows the nutrition standards set forth by The China Study, ensuring optimal healthful and quality eating.• Del Sroufe went to work in 1989 for one of Columbus’s premier vegetarian restaurants, the King Avenue Coffeehouse, where he honed his craft as a baker and chef. Sroufe opened Del’s Bread, a vegan bakery, before beginning vegan meal-delivery service in 2001. In 2006, he joined Wellness Forum Foods as co-owner and chef. Sroufe is author of Forks over Knives: The Cookbook, a vegan cookbook companion to the acclaimed documentary Forks over Knives. • LeAnne Campbell PhD, authored The China Study Cookbook and has been preparing meals based on a whole-food, plant- based diet for almost 20 years.

May 2015 • Cooking/Vegetarian and Vegan • 320 pages • color photosWorld Rights: BenBella Books; Spanish: Editorial Sirio

Kim Campbell with a forward by T. Colin Campbell, PhDThe PlantPure Nation Cookbook: The Official Companion Cookbook to theBreakthrough Film ... with over 150 Plant-Based RecipesThe PlantPure Nation Cookbook brings the powerful, science-based approach to nutritioninto your kitchen, featuring mouthwatering recipes that promote the health benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet. Recipe developer Kim Campbell shares over 150extensively tested, 100 percent plant-based recipes that she has created and cultivated over 25 years of vegan cooking, such as the “Caribbean Quinoa Bowl,” “Buffalo Beans and Greens,” “Edamame Burgers,” and a delicious “Reuben Potato Bake.” The book is also a companion to the documentary film The PlantPure Nation created by the director and producers of Forks over Knives. This film captures the story of plant-based nutrition’s impact on a small town in the American rural South and the effort to bring about historic political change. With a foreword by The China Study’s Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the book includes tips, tricks, and grocery lists for everyone interested in a whole-food, plant-based diet. • Kim Campbell is the


daughter-in-law of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of the successful The China Study and father of the rapidly growing plant-based nutrition movement. She works with her husband, Nelson, promoting health and wellness. With her honed culinary skills, she knows how to create flavors, textures, and presentations that will appeal to anyone experiencing a plant-based diet for the first time. Campbell holds a bachelor’s degree in human service studies, with a minor in nutrition and child development, from Cornell University.

January 2015 • Cooking/Vegetarian and Vegan • 304 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books; French: Éditions l’Age d’Homme

Lindsay S. NixonHappy Herbivore Guide to Plant-Based LivingFrom one of the major Vegan Cookbook authors comes a guide on how to go Vegan.Embracing any new lifestyle entails facing changes, questions, and skeptics, but one doesn’t have to do that alone. In Happy Herbivore Guide to Plant-Based Living, best- selling author Lindsay S. Nixon provides a practical, in-depth guide to transitioning to— and living—a plant-based life. Her expertise has already helped hundreds of thousands switch to this healthier regimen. She offers tips on what to say to critical carnivores,how to live a plant-based life with a busy lifestyle, and ways to make easy substitutionsin recipes that won’t change the texture and taste of favorite dishes, providing insight into key ingredients to include in a diet while exposing the myths concerning soy, carbs, fat, and protein. This book is filled with beautiful full-color photos, new plant-based recipes, and Nixon’s savvy advice. • Lindsay S. Nixon is the best-selling author of the Happy Herbivore cookbook series, which has sold over 200,000 copies; her website, HappyHerbivore.com, received over 1.9 million unique visitors in 2013. Her recipes have been featured in the New York Times, VegNews, and Women’s Health and onOprah.com, Fitness.com, WebMD.com, and Shape.com, among many other outlets.

May 2015 • Health/Diet and Nutrition • 256 pages • color photosWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Other titles by Lindsay S. Nixon in the Happy Herbivore cookbook seriesThe Happy Herbivore Cookbook Everyday Happy Herbivore Happy Herbivore AbroadHappy Herbivore Light and LeanHappy Herbivore Holidays and Gatherings

Lani MuelrathThe Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide for Transitioning to a HealthyLifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal WeightIt’s been proven that a plant-based diet is good for your weight, health, budget, and the environment, but until now the proof hasn’t come with a game plan. The Plant-BasedJourney provides support for every step of the way to make your transition to a plant- based diet a fun and fulfilling experience. In this accessible five-step guide, Lani Muelrath empowers you as you make your own dietary transition. In addition, she explains how exercise and your mind-set support dietary change. Muelrath shares


more than 20 recipes along with meal-plan templates and ready-in-minutes recipes to pull together delicious and satisfying meals. Whether you’re a plant-based newbie looking to shed pounds or a seasoned vegan in search of fresh inspiration and navigational skills, The Plant-Based Journey is your essential and definitive guide to a healthier, trimmer you. • Lani Muelrath, MA, is an award-winning professor and instructional design expert specializing in plant-based living, fitness, and weight management. She is published in prominent magazines, blogs, and newsletters and has recently been featured by ABC, USA Today, and the Saturday Evening Post.

September 2015 • Vegan/Health • 304 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Kory Kogon, Breck England, and Julie SchmidtPresentation Advantage: How to Inform and Persuade Any AudienceA book from the FranklinCovey group.The average attention span of an adult is eight seconds—eight seconds! How do you get a message across in that time? In Presentation Advantage, FranklinCovey outlines its “Connect Model,” the mental model that allows you to connect with the message, yourself, and the audience during any presentation. Your audience’s distractions will no longer override what you have to say. • Kory Kogon is global practice leader for productivity, focusing her research and content development on time and project management and communication skills. Before joining FranklinCovey, she spent more than six years as the executive vice president of worldwide operations forAlphaGraphics, Inc. • Dr. Breck England is senior product architect and writer in chief for FranklinCovey. As a senior consultant, Breck has 25 years of field experience in helping some of the world’s prime corporations become more effective in leadership and communication. • Julie Schmidt is a regional practice leader for FranklinCovey’s Productivity Practice, partnering with the northeastern and southeastern US and Canada regions. Before joining FranklinCovey, she spent more than 12 years with Xerox Corporation’s Professional Services Division.

September 2015 • Business/Marketing • 208 pagesWorld Rights: BenBella Books

Cicada BooksAlice BowsherThe LineA wonderfully clever crossover adult coloring book. In this interactive coloring book, readers follow a neon line that turns successively froma tightrope into a washing line, a cable car, a plate of spaghetti, a rope bridge, and a tug of war. Playful characters dance, queue, climb, and frolic in the gate-folded pages, adding a level of wit and humor that will appeal to adults as much as children. • Alice Bowsher is a young illustrator whose work is to be featured in the upcoming Boden collection as well as in numerous publications.

June 2015 • Coloring Book—All Ages • 24 pages • illustrations throughoutWorld Rights: Cicada Books

Sam KneeThe Bag I’m In: Youth Street Fashion, 1959–1989In 20th-century Britain, young people have defined their region, class, and musical taste through their clothes. From Mod to Skinhead and Rocker to Rudeboy


by way of Goth, the look of each movement is clearly depicted in this key resource for fashion students, fans, and cultural historians. This cultural archive features the distinctive illustration style of Florence Bamberger and previously unpublished photography.• Sam Knee is author of the critically acclaimed A Scene Between; he came of age in theindie UK music and fashion scene of the 1980s.

October 2015 • Fashion/Music • 304 pages • photos throughoutWorld Rights: Cicada Books

Hazelden PublishingTracey CleantisThe Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward “[A] must-read for anyone who’s had enough of platitudes and is ready for a self-help manual with a dose of reality.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A bold, brave and incredibly relevant book.” —Lee Woodruff, New York Times best- selling author of Perfectly Imperfect—a Life in Progress, with her husband, Bob Woodruff, and CBS This Morning contributor

“Lovingly supportive yet realistic, it is written with honesty and humor.” —AnnaJedrziewski, Retailing Insight

“An antidote for the supposed-to-be’s which plague so many of us. If you have dashed dreams, if you live in a world of hurt, if you can’t see your way out, read The NextHappy and finally heal! I wish I’d had this book on my bed-side table long ago.” —Laura Munson, New York Times best-selling author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness and founder of Haven Retreats.

Tracey Cleantis has personal experience with moving on from impossible plans when fertility treatments did not work for her. Now a certified, licensed marriage and family therapist with a national reputation as an expert on dealing with losses and letting go, she runs two popular psychology blogs: Freudian Sip on the Psychology Today website and La Belette Rouge, which is rated one of the top-10 psychology and memoir blogs. Cleantis has been featured in media outlets such as the Huffington Post, Psychologies Magazine, and Redbook.

March 2015 • Self-Help • 200 pagesWorld Rights: Hazelden Publishing

Joseph Shrand and Leigh DevineDo You Really Get Me? Finding Value in Yourself and Others Through Empathy and ConnectionIn a sense, we all try to be mind readers. We “theorize” about whether we are admiredor envied, despised or loved. Psychologists use the term “theory of mind” to describe our natural tendency to make assumptions about what others think and how they feelabout us based on their tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. The more emotional baggage we bring to our interactions, the more likely we are to


negatively misinterpret other people’s feelings and the more disconnected from them we become. In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Shrand and Leigh Devine teach us that by setting aside self-doubt and assuming the best about ourselves and others, we can make more meaningful connections based on mutual respect and value. • Joseph Shrand, MD, is an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School. He applies his I- Maximum (I-M) Approach to this text and as a medical director at the High Point Treatment Center. He has also authored The Fear Reflex. • Leigh Devine has an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written and produced many notable publications and documentary programs, specializing in psychology, medicine, and science.

October 2015 • Personal Growth/Psychology • 200 pagesWorld Rights: Hazelden Publishing

Jeff JayNavigating Grace: A Solo Voyage of Survival and RedemptionNice spiritual survival storyJeff Jay’s recent life was full of tragedy: his marriage had ended, his father had passed away, his brother had committed suicide, and Jeff’s own alcoholism had taken him to the edge of death. At the threshold of self-destruction, Jeff set out on a solo escape by sea on an old sloop named Lifeboat. It ultimately became a journey of personal transformation. Finally able to breathe, Jeff relaxed into his first day sailing the Atlantic when a dark winter storm descended, tossing him into a weeklong fight for survival on the open sea. As he faced the realization that only divine intervention could deliver him from certain death, Jeff desperately called on the deity that had intervened in the darkest hours of his addiction years earlier. An intensely personal testimony to calling on the power of grace in our darkest hours, Jeff’s is a beautifully written tale of far- fetched dreams, desperate prayers, and those miraculous moments that change ourlives forever. • Jeff Jay is an addiction specialist, popular speaker and consultant, and co-author of the best seller Love First. He has appeared on CNN, PBS, Forbes Online, and in numerous professional journals.

August 2015 • Travel/Memoir • 220 pagesWorld Rights: Hazelden Publishing

Rosemary O’ConnerA Sober Mom’s Guide to Recovery: Taking Care of Yourself to Take Care ofYour KidsRecovering from an addiction is difficult, but when you add the tremendous responsibilities of motherhood, recovery can seem like an impossible goal. A Sober Mom’s Guide to Recovery combines down-to-earth advice and inspiring stories from recovering moms to offer guidance on over 50 topics, including stress, relapse,relationships, shame, dating, and parenting. The result is a practical handbook for dailylife, building strong relationships with one’s children, and finding hope for the future.• Rosemary O’Conner is the founder of Recovery Services for Women and a certified recovery/life coach. She serves on the advisory board of Stepping Stone, an alcohol and drug recovery program for women.

September 2015 • Personal Growth/Psychology • 200 pagesWorld Rights: Hazelden Publishing


Microcosm PublishingMicrocosm Publishing specializes in work designed to make readers feel good about being alive, take an active role in bettering their lives, and impact the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes self-empowerment, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity by challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and bookettes about DIY skills, food, zines, and art.

Elly BlueBikenomicsBikenomics provides a surprising and compelling new perspective on the way we getaround and on how we spend our money, as families and as a society. Elly Blue starts with a look at real transportation costs and moves on to examine the current civic costs of our transportation systems. She tells the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and cities who are investing in two-wheeled transportation with tremendous success.• Elly Blue is author of Everyday Bicycling, and her work has appeared onBicycling.com and in BikePortland, Bitch Magazine, Grist Magazine, Momentum, and Reclaim Magazine. She has been featured on Democracy Now! and Oregon Public Broadcasting, as well as in the Oregonian. She blogs about bicycling and empowerment at TakingTheLane.com.

Published • Transportation/Cycling • 192 pagesWorld Rights: Microcosm Publishing; Japanese: Ohta Shuppan; Chinese (c): Motif Press

Joshua PloegIn Search of Lost Taste: The Adventure Vegan CookbookThis book follows Joshua Ploeg, the traveling chef. The stories (and recipes) shared are from Ploeg’s many appointments—where he shows up with a bag of groceries and cooks his clients a multicourse vegan meal using their pots and pans. Ploeg relies on his background playing in a punk rock band and his spark to fuel creative, risky, andunique dinners. • Joshua Ploeg is a vegan personal chef/caterer, writer, and punk musician. He has written multiple cookbooks, including This Ain’t No Picnic and Something Delicious This Way Comes: Spellbinding Vegan Cookery.

Fall 2014 • Cooking and Wine • 128 pagesWorld Rights: Microcosm Publishing

MissiondayMissionday, established in 2013, publishes health- and business-related books. It focuses on helping select authors share their ideas through unique content-ownership arrangements and research-based marketing strategies.

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Tom Rath is an expert on the role of human behavior in business, health, and economics. He has written five international best sellers over the past decade, starting with the number one New York Times best seller How Full Is Your Bucket? In 2013, his StrengthsFinder 2.0 was the top-selling book worldwide on Amazon.com. His latest New York Times best sellers are Strengths-Based Leadership, Wellbeing,


and Eat Move Sleep. In total, his books have sold more than 6 million copies and have made more than 300 appearances on the Wall Street Journal best-seller list. In addition to his work as a researcher, writer, and speaker, Rath serves as a senior scientist and advisor forGallup, where he previously spent 13 years leading the organization’s work on employee engagement, strengths, leadership, and well-being. He holds a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan and an MS in psychology from the University ofPennsylvania, where he is now a guest lecturer.

Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big ChangesThis is one of those rare books that come along to change how we think, feel, and act every day. While Tom Rath’s best sellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 6 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible. Eat Move Sleep will help readers make good decisions automatic. With every bite one takes, a better choice will be made. Readers will move a lot more than they do today and sleep better than they have in years. More than a book, Eat Move Sleep is a new way to live.

“One of the most successful nonfiction writers of his generation, Tom Rath has produced a blockbuster book that offers readers deep insights alongside specific actions. Eat Move Sleep is a transformative work.” —Daniel Pink, best-selling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

“For managers to be successful, this book on eating, moving, and sleeping is essential.”—Globe and Mail’s Top Business Books of 2013

“A passionate and practical guide to how to live better and longer. Eat Move Sleep will change your life. It might also save it.” —Sir Ken Robinson, best-selling author ofThe Element

“Tom Rath’s next project [Eat Move Sleep] may be his most important yet.... Fortune500 leaders look to him as one of the greatest thinkers of his generation.” —Washingtonian

Published • Self-Help/Well-Being • 240 pages • World Rights: Missionday; German: Goldman Verlag; Polish: Vital; Russia: Alpina Publishers; Chinese (simp.): China Youth Press; Chinese (comp.): Motifpress Co., Ltd.; Japanese: Shinchosha; Korean: Hanbit Media; Lithuania: UAB Media Incognito; Thailand: Openworlds

Are You Fully Charged? The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and LifeIn this short, easy read, Tom Rath reveals the three keys that matter most for our daily health and well-being and effectiveness in our work. Drawing on the latest and most practical research from business, psychology, and economics, he focuses on changes we can make to create better days for ourselves and others. Are You Fully Charged? challenges us to stop pursuing happiness and focus on meaningful work instead. It will lead us to rethink daily interactions with the people who matter most and show us how to create the energy we need in order to be our best every day.


May 2015 • Business/Well-Being • 240 pagesWorld Rights: Missionday

OneworldThomas PoveyProfessor Povey’s Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with SolutionsUncompromisingly challenging, this valuable guide provides fascinating insight into the strange world of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious universities—Oxford and Cambridge. Consisting of over 100 of the toughest puzzles asked in the mathematical sciences at Oxbridge interviews, this is the essential guide for those wanting to apply to either of these enigmatic universities (as well as for those who are just plain curious to see whether they have what it takes to study at Oxbridge). Compiled in an easy-to-use format with 10 chapters split across the mathematical sciences—including visual aids and historical asides—each section offers a new way of thinking about the math and physics you already know, with each answer providing a humorous blend of personal anecdote, scientific history, and application. • Thomas Povey studied physics at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and went on to complete a doctor of philosophy in the Turbomachinery Group; he was subsequently appointed as the Rolls Royce Industrial Fellow before taking up his current post as tutorial fellow at University College in 2004. He lives in Oxford, United Kingdom.

September 2015 • Science/Mathematics • 288 pages • World Rights: Oneworld; Korean: Banni Publishing; Chinese (simp.): Hunan Science and Technology Press Co; Japanese: Maruzen

Chris GeigerThe Cancer Survivors’ ClubThis new collection offers truly inspirational, uplifting, and reassuring survival stories. These poignant personal accounts from normal people demonstrate an extraordinary determination to survive against the odds and prove that, with survival rates doubling, anything is possible. Each story is written from the perspective of survivors or their loved ones and will provide those touched by cancer with hope, strength, and encouragement.

“I have no doubt this book will be very useful indeed. When a diagnosis is made many people are afflicted by fear and negativity—Chris Geiger will prove an inspiration.” —Bel Mooney, Daily Mail columnist

“What a wonderful book. I laughed I cried and was inspired.” —Nursing Times

“I feel this is a very inspirational book to read and shows that with courage, determination and a positive attitude cancer can be beaten.” —Bob Champion, MBE, Grand National winner and cancer survivor

Chris Geiger is a UK- and US-based journalist who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and given only three months to live while still in his twenties. He began a two-year battle that would change his life. He won the Columnist of the Year Award from EDF Energy for his numerous lighthearted newspaper columns publicizing cancer and cancer charities. He also writes regular columns for both local and national newspapers.


February 2015 • Self-Help/Cancer • 208 pagesWorld Rights: Oneworld

Ilan PappeThe Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied TerritoriesFollowing his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe turns his attention to the annexation and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank to bring us the first comprehensive critique of the Occupied Territories. Based on groundbreaking archival research, NGO records, and eyewitness accounts, Pappe’s investigation of the “bureaucracy of evil” explores the brutalizing effects of occupation, from the systematic abuse of human and civil rights, Israel Defense Forces roadblocks, mass arrests, and house searches to the forced population transfer, the settlers, and the infamous wall that is rapidly turning the West Bank into an open prison. Providing a sharp contrast with life in Israel, this is a brilliantly incisive and moving portrait of daily life in the Occupied Territories. • Ilan Pappe holds the chair in history at the University of Exeter and is academic director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is also author of the best-selling A History of Modern Palestine.

May 2015 • Current Events/Politics • 288 pagesWorld Rights: Oneworld

Roaring Forties PressRoaring Forties Press (RoaringFortiesPress.com) is an innovative publishing company dedicated to the proposition that books can be both smart and stylish. Its books are designed to open readers’ eyes, literally and metaphorically. Roaring Forties Press was founded by Deirdre Greene and Nigel Quinney, who together have more than 50 years’ experience in all facets of the publishing industry, both in the United States and abroad. Ten years ago, they decided to collaborate to create books that enrich both the eye and the mind.

Julie McSorley and Marcus McSorleyOut of the Box: The Highs and Lows of a Champion SmugglerWe are negotiating an ANZ license and there is a film deal in the works. More to come!Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box, but that was only the start of his adventures. Crazily impulsive, romantic, and free-spirited, Spiers became a national hero for smuggling himself 13,000 miles homeas air freight. But as his fame and sporting career faded, Spiers decided to smuggle something very different. Soon, he was on the run with his girlfriend, playing a cat-and- mouse game with police on three continents. A wild road trip across India and Africa—involving idyllic beaches and prison hellholes, shady friends and shadier cops, gun- toting militias and drug-running gangsters—led to a court room in Sri Lanka and the fight of his life. Could Spiers beat the death sentence he’d just been given, or was this box too big to climb out of? • Julie McSorley is a freelance illustrator and writer. She lives in Spain with her husband and divides her time between writing and painting.• Marcus McSorley is an actor who has done theater, short films, commercials, and a lot of Shakespeare. He lives on the same street where his father built the infamousbox in 1964.


October 2014 • True Crime • 300 pagesWorld Rights: Roaring Forties Press

Colette Rausch with a foreword by the Dali LamaSpeaking Their Peace: Voices from Countries Emerging from ConflictWE are excited about the foreword.Packed with 100 unforgettable interviews from 11 conflict zones across the globe, Speaking Their Peace lets “ordinary” people tell their own extraordinary stories of life during wartime and their efforts to build better, more peaceful lives for themselves, their families, and their societies. Speaking Their Peace gives voice to a remarkable variety of people: women whose husbands and children were grabbed from their hands and slaughtered—women who tell us they are trying to hide their sadness for the sakeof the children who remain; ex-soldiers, some celebrating the righteous cause for which they fought, others wondering what happened to the social justice for which their comrades died; former child soldiers, terrifying even to their own families, describing how they are working to reconcile victims and victimizers; students, traumatized when friends were raped and murdered, explaining how today they are using their education to fight for women’s rights. The conflict zones are Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan, Burma/Myanmar, Nepal, Kosovo, Nicaragua, Peru, Liberia, Yemen, and Iraq.• Colette Rausch has worked for 20 years to build the rule of law in countries emergingfrom conflicts. She is currently the associate vice president for governance, law, and society and director of the Rule of Law Center at the United States Institute of Peace.

March 2015 • Biography/International Politics • 304 pagesWorld Rights: Roaring Forties Press


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Unhooked BooksUnhooked Books focuses on titles that help people unhook from complicated relationships and resolve high-conflict disputes. It publishes titles on self-help, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, health and wellness, parenting and co-parenting, and other great topics.

Bill Eddy and L. Georgi DiStefanoIt’s All Your Fault at Work: Managing Narcissists and Other High Conflict People No, it’s not just your imagination—more and more people in the workplace today have high-conflict personalities, and they can make your life at work stressful, frustrating, and extremely challenging. The good news is that their behavior is not about you—it’s about them—and you can learn strategies and techniques to deal with them more effectively. Based on Bill Eddy’s high-conflict personality theory, he and coauthor L. Georgi DiStefano expertly define the problem and walk you through their proactive approach to minimizing conflict and keeping interactions with these people as peaceful as possible.

“This book belongs in every leader’s library. Although I believe there’s a pearl of good in everyone, some people’s pearl is hard to find. You may not be able to change a high conflict personality, but by using Bill Eddy’s and Georgi DiStefano’s techniques, you’ll be able to keep the focus on solutions rather than arguments.” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., is a lawyer, therapist, and mediator and president of the High Conflict Institute. Eddy is a certified family law specialist in California and senior family mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Previously, he was a licensed clinical social worker. He is on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National JudicialCollege. • L. Georgi DiStefano, LCSW, has served as a clinician, program director, trainer, and consultant throughout her career. She has worked as a trainer for the National Association of Social Workers on alcohol/substance dependency and has been invited to speak on her work at international conferences. This is her third book.

February 2015 • Management/Relationships • 244 pagesWorld Rights: Unhooked Books

Bill EddyIt’s All Your Fault: 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others forEverythingTherapist and mediator Bill Eddy offers practical methods for handling high conflict people in any situation, including neighbor disputes, workplace conflicts, family battles, arguments with strangers, and so forth.

Published • Relationships/Workplace Issues • 256 pagesWorld Rights: Unhooked Books

Also by Bill Eddy:BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People by Bill Eddy


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Lynne Kenney and Wendy YoungBloom: 50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, andOver-the-Top KidsBloom is a brain-based approach to parenting all children. Stop second-guessing theway you handle misbehaviors and learn why they occur in the first place. Come to understand the developmental origins of behaviors and take a fresh look at how you can address them with skill-building techniques that produce real and lasting change.• Lynne Kenney, PsyD, is a mother of two, a practicing pediatric psychologist, and author of The Family Coach Method. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. Recently named one of the Top 100 Docs to “Listen to” on Twitter, Dr. Kenney has been featured in Parents, Parenting, and People magazines. • Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD, is the mom of three, an award-winning child and family therapist, and an early childhood mental health consultant. She is clinical director of Comprehensive Counseling and Consulting, LLC. Her writing has appeared in magazines such as Parenting, Family Fun, and Woman’s World.May 2015 • Parenting • 256 pages • World Rights: Unhooked Books

Visible Ink PressSamuel Willard CromptonThe Handy Military History Answer BookThis book has all the answers to more than 1,100 questions on the history of war, weapons, tactics, strategies, and logistics. Key battles, turning points, important people, and events that helped shape history are also included, with an overview of the aftermaths of conquests and destruction of warfare. Everything from small miscalculations to the biggest invasions are covered; from the early Greeks and Romans to Genghis Kahn, through civil wars and world wars, to modern weapons and terrorism, this book provides a concise and captivating look at how the military has shaped world history. • Samuel Willard Crompton has authored several books about war and itsside effects, including The Handy Civil War Answer Book. He also contributed to the 24-volume American National Biography and is a specialist on the French and Indian Wars.

March 2015 • History/Military • 560 pages • B&W photos, illustrations, and mapsWorld Rights: Visible Ink Press

Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas E. SvarneyThe Handy Nutrition Answer BookFrom nutrition basics to food chemistry, from food allergies to illnesses and diets, this book explores over 800 questions about food, nutrition, and maintaining one’s health. An appendix provides an easy-to-use and in-depth look at the effectiveness of several popular weight loss and lifestyle diets, including gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, Mediterranean, Weight Watchers, Atkins, and more. A helpful glossary of terms enables readers to fully grasp the concepts discussed. Nutrition and its misconceptions are also traced throughout history. • Patricia Barnes-Svarney has written or coauthored more than 35 books, including The Handy Math Answer Book and the award-winning New York Public Library Science Desk Reference. • Thomas


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E. Svarney is a scientist who has written extensively about the natural world. He has also coauthored multiple bookswith Patricia Barnes-Svarney, including The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book.

February 2015 • Cooking/Reference • 384 pages • B&W photos, illustrations, charts, and tablesWorld Rights: Visible Ink Press

David A. LeemingThe Handy Mythology Answer BookWhether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origins, history, and traditions. The Handy Mythology Answer Book examines and explains myths and mythology from the ancient Greek and Roman to the Egyptian and Babylonian, from the Native North American Indian to the Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, and African, as well as the lesser-known myths from around the world. It answers nearly 600 questions and offers fun facts about the treachery and the violence, the inspirational and the epic, and the supernatural monsters and heroic mortals found in mythology. • David A. Leeming received his BA in English from Princeton University and his PhD in comparative literature from New York University. He spent eight years teaching at Robert College in Istanbul and 26 years at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he is an emeritus professor of English and comparative literature. His books include a biography of James Baldwin and many books on mythology, including, most recently, Myth: A Biography of Belief, Jealous Gods and Chosen People. He is also editor in chief of The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion.

August 2014 • Mythology/Reference • 400 pagesWorld Rights: Visible Ink Press

Wharton Digital PressCharlene LiThe Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital TransformationTechnology has revolutionized the very idea and nature of relationships, including those between leaders and their followers. Yet New York Times and Wall Street Journal best- selling author Charlene Li argues that many leaders remain at arms length from those they lead and serve, relying on specialized teams to interact with customers, on their direct reports to keep tabs on how employees are doing, and on the digital natives in their organizations to stay abreast of new technologies. It’s time to make a change: Li helps readers to connect directly by listening, sharing, and engaging, using digital technologies. • Charlene Li is founder and CEO of Altimeter Group and author of the New York Times best seller Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can TransformHow You Lead. She is also coauthor of the critically acclaimed, best-selling Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, named one of the best business books of 2008.

March 2015 • Business/Leadership • 110 pagesWorld Rights: Wharton Digital Press

Kevin Werbach and Dan HunterThe Gamification Toolkit: Dynamics, Mechanics, and Components for the Win


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In the office world, there are many games to be played. Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter have figured out that you can actually utilize the strategies behind playing true games and apply them to the workplace. Games can offer valuable insights and practical tools to improve business performance. In this work specifically, the authors are able to go deeper into the key game elements that help you to take your “gamification” to the next level in the business setting. This is a brief but comprehensive guide to help you build a game—for the win. • Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on legal, business, and public policy aspects of the Network Age. He is associate professor of legal studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was named the first “Iron Prof”for his gamification research. • Dan Hunter is an expert on Internet law, intellectual property, and the application of games to public policy arenas. He is the Foundation Dean of Swinburne Law School in Australia and regularly publishes on issues dealing with the intersection of computers and law.

May 2015 • Business • 50 pagesWorld Rights: Wharton Digital Press


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