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 | | Title No: 77877 WIZARDS, ALIENS, AND STARSHIPS Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction Adler, Charles L. HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Physics Mathematics Extent: 484 pp Princeton University Press (January 2014) From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant and innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas--for instance, could Mr. Weasley's flying car in Harry Potter really exist? Which concepts might actually happen--and which ones wouldn't work at all? Wizards, Aliens, and Starships delves into the most extraordinary details in science fiction and fantasy--such as time warps, shape changing, rocket launches, and illumination by floating candle--and shows readers the physics and math behind the phenomena. With simple mathematical models, and in most cases using no more than high school algebra, Charles Adler ranges across a plethora of remarkable imaginings, from the works of Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Trek and Avatar, to explore what might become reality. Adler explains why fantasy in the Harry Potter and Dresden Files novels cannot adhere strictly to scientific laws, and when magic might make scientific sense in the muggle world. He examines space travel and wonders why it isn't cheaper and more common today. Adler also discusses exoplanets and how the search for alien life has shifted from radio communications to space-based telescopes. He concludes by investigating the future survival of humanity and other intelligent races. Throughout, he cites an abundance of science fiction and fantasy authors, and includes concise descriptions of stories as well as a glossary of science terms. WIZARDS, ALIENS, AND STARSHIPS will speak to anyone wanting to know about the correct--and incorrect--science of science fiction and fantasy. Charles L. Adler is professor of physics at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77889 DISCOVER YOUR OPTIMAL HEALTH The Guide to Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Vitality, Your Life Andersen, Wayne Scott HOW-TO / ADVICE / SELF-HELP Health Extent: 214 pp illustr. Da Capo Lifelong Books (June 2013) Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen is one of America's foremost physicians in nutritional intervention, with expert knowledge on how to reach and maintain a healthy weight and create a happier, healthier, more energetic life. Without relying on gimmicks or quick-fix promises, Dr. Andersen details four phases for weight control, vibrancy, and sustainable health over time, including mastering the ability to control your food intake and making quality choices about foods to fuel your body. DISCOVER YOUR OPTIMAL HEALTH offers smart science that is prescriptive and, above all, accessible, presenting a clear, logical plan for overall health and long-lasting wellness that surpasses trendy diets and focuses on the health habits that matter. Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen is a renowned physician and medical director of Medifast, a company offering portion-controlled meal replacements and personal health coaching. After joining Medifast in 2001, Dr. Andersen helped double the company’s sales in the first six months. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77861 HOW TO WAKE UP A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow Bernhard, Toni SPIRITUALITY Buddhism Extent: 218 pp Wisdom Publications Boston Intimately and without jargon, How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow, describes the path to peace amid all of life’s ups and downs. Using step by step instructions, the author illustrates how to be fully present in the moment without clinging to joy or resisting sorrow. This opens the door to a kind of wellness that goes beyond circumstances. Actively engaging life as it is in this fashion holds the potential for awakening to a peace and well-being that are not dependent on whether a particular experience is joyful or sorrowful. This is a practical book, containing dozens of exercises and practices, all of which are illustrated with easy-to-relate to personal stories from the author’s experience. Toni Bernhard is the acclaimed author of How to Be Sick, a Spirituality & Practice “Best Spiritual Books of 2010” winner, and winner of two Nautilus Awards. She’s been interviewed on radio across the country and internationally, and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today online. She maintains a personal relationship with her many thousands of fans on Facebook. Toni fell ill on a trip to Paris in 2001 with what doctors initially diagnosed as an acute viral infection. She has not recovered. In 1982, she’d received a J.D. from the School of Law at the University of California, Davis, and immediately joined the faculty where she stayed until chronic illness forced her to retire. During her twenty-two years on the faculty, she served for six years as Dean of Students. In 1992, she began to study and practice Buddhism. Before becoming ill, she attended many meditation retreats and led a meditation group in Davis with her husband. http://www.tonibernhard.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77123 MASTERING THE ART OF QUITTING Why It Matters in Life, Love, and Work Bernstein, Alan B. Streep, Peg HOW-TO / ADVICE / SELF-HELP Self-improvement Psychology Extent: 81.000 words Da Capo Press (January 2014) Quitting - whether in work, love, or everyday life - is often seen as a bad thing. Persistence is supposed to be the way to achieve your goals. But is that really true? In MASTERING THE ART OF QUITTING, Alan Bernstein, a therapist specializing in advice on careers and transitions, challenges this idea. He proposes that knowing when to persist and when to give up is a vital skill that must be cultivated. Getting past the natural tendency toward preservation of the status quo, Bernstein argues, can make people more emotionally and mentally flexible and better able to deal with life’s unexpected twists and turns. Along with writer Peg Streep, Bernstein explains the basics of how, why, and when to quit, illustrated with inspiring and educational examples and stories. With strategies, questionnaires, and advice, this unique self-help book provides clear and simple lessons on a little-discussed subject. Alan B. Bernstein, MSW, is a graduate of the Nathan Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy and has been in private practice for over 30 years. In addition to family therapy, his work has focused on life transitions and careers. He is author of the Princeton Review’s Guide to Your Career and coauthor of Your Retirement, Your Way. Peg Streep is author or coauthor of 10 books, most recently Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt, which launched on Good Morning America. Among her books are the highly praised Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence and the best-selling Necessary Journeys: Letting Ourselves Learn from Life, both with Dr. Nancy Snyderman. UK: Piatkus/Little, Brown; NL: offer; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77867 DRUG-MEX Guerra contra las drogas en México Boullosa, Carmen CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Latin America Extent: ms 158 pp OR Books Carmen Boullosa, the celebrated Mexican writer known for her fiction (Son vacos, somos puercos; 1991; La milagrosa, 1993; Texas, 2013) has written her first work of non-fiction. We all know of the much-vaunted, US-financed "war on drugs"; what few of us outside the affected areas know is the human cost of this war, which is taking more than 50,000 lives a year in Mexico alone. Here, for the first time, is an eloquent firsthand account of what that means: not by a journalist or muckraker, but a world-class literary novelist. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77833 SWITCHING SUITS The Year I Became A Poker Shark Braithwaite, Julie BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Extent: e-ms 247 pp HarperCollins (June 2012) After stumbling across a late-night episode of Celebrity Poker some months earlier, Julie's conventional suburban life takes a dramatic turn. Julie's casual interest in poker quickly becomes a full-blown obsession, transporting her from Sydney's leafy northern suburbs to exotic-dancer venues and bars littered around the city’s fringes. An unconventional cast of characters, mostly male, enters her life, including Bluffer Bill, Loose Cannon Mick and Hitman Rick. Soon, taking up fellow enthusiast Zoran’s challenge, Julie's earlier aimlessness is replaced by a driving goal: become the poker champ of NSW and beat reigning champion Raymond. She has just twelve weeks to complete her quest - 184 tournaments - plus a list of therapy clients who deserve her undivided attention, not to mention two sons who are old enough to be entertained by her antics but young enough to still like to be fed reasonably regularly. In this fresh, entertaining take on the midlife crisis memoir, Julie takes the reader (and her bemused loved ones) on a collision course between two vastly different worlds. Interview: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/switching-suits/4212610 http://www.juliebraithwaite.com.au Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77871 HOLLYWOOD AND HITLER, 1933-1939 Doherty, Thomas HISTORY Film, Cinema Extent: 429 pp illustr. Columbia University Press (April 2013) The abundance of WWII-era documentaries and the huge cache of archival footage that has emerged since 1945 make it seem as if cinematic images of the Nazis were always as vivid and plentiful as they are today. Yet between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more distinct and ominous only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films, such as Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934), a pioneering anti-Nazi docu-drama by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.; I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936), a sensational true tale of "a Hollywood girl in Naziland!"; and Professor Mamlock (1938), an anti-Nazi film made by German refugees living in the Soviet Union. Doherty also recounts how the disproportionately Jewish backgrounds of the executives of the studios and the workers on the payroll shaded reactions to what was never simply a business decision. His history features a cast of charismatic personalities: Carl Laemmle, the German Jewish founder of Universal Pictures, whose production of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) enraged the nascent Nazi movement; Georg Gyssling, the Nazi counsel in Los Angeles, who read the Hollywood trade press as avidly as any studio mogul; Vittorio Mussolini, son of the fascist dictator and aspiring motion picture impresario; Leni Riefenstahl, the Valkyrie goddess of the Third Reich who came to America to peddle distribution rights for Olympia (1938); screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Dorothy Parker, founders of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League; and Harry and Jack Warner of Warner Bros., who yoked anti-Nazism to patriotic Americanism and finally broke the embargo against anti-Nazi cinema with Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939). As Europe hurtled toward war, a proxy battle was waged in Hollywood over how to conduct business with the Nazis; over whether to address or ignore Nazism in Hollywood feature films; and over how to cover Hitler and his victims in the newsreels. Should Hollywood lie low, or stand tall and sound the alarm? Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77724 THE GOLDEN TICKET P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible Fortnow, Lance HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Mathematics Computers, Internet, e-biz. Extent: 176 pp illustr. Princeton University Press (March 2013) The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. THE GOLDEN TICKET provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, from discovering the shortest route through all the rides at Disney World to finding large groups of friends on Facebook. But difficulty also has its advantages. Hard problems allow us to safely conduct electronic commerce and maintain privacy in our online lives. THE GOLDEN TICKET explores what we truly can and cannot achieve computationally, describing the benefits and unexpected challenges of the P-NP problem. Lance Fortnow is currently professor and chair of the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech having previously taught at Northwestern and University of Chicago. Lance was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey. The P versus NP problem has perplexed him for three decades now and Lance relates the good, bad and ugly of P versus NP in his first book, The Golden Ticket. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77423 LOVE AND MATH The Heart of Hidden Reality Frenkel, Edward BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Mathematics Extent: ms 267 pp Basic Books (October 2013) This is the story of extraordinary math and an extraordinary mathematician, Edward Frenkel. You’ve heard of the search in physics for a unified theory of everything, but Frenkel heads another search for a mathematical theory of everything called the Langlands Program. This program is leading the search for a Rosetta stone that will enable the translation of findings from one seemingly disparate, or even nonintersecting, field of mathematics into another, and it offers an entirely new and powerful way of thinking that also has powerful implications for quantum physics, attracting such luminaries as Ed Witten and major funding from the US Department of Defense. Edward Frenkel is professor of mathematics at the University of California, where he went in 1998 after spending eight years on the faculty of Harvard. He also did his PhD at Harvard, finishing the degree and thesis in one year. In Love and Math, he tells of his intellectual journey from a youth in Russia under the mentorship of remarkable teachers who helped him develop the cutting-edge thinking he’s known for today. Here he describes his journey into the world of 'new math' and its ideas, which have radical implications for our understanding and use of math today and for a future we are just beginning to dream of. Edward Frenkel has authored more than 80 articles in scientific journals. He has published two monographs on his mathematical research, most recently Langlands Correspondence for Loop Groups, and was recently invited to give the American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lectures at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston, the largest mathematics conference in the world. Recently, he became a writer and filmmaker, cowriting and codirecting with French filmmaker Reine Graves and playing the lead in the film Rites of Love and Math. Japan: Bungeishunju; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77834 HOW TO SAY ANYTHING TO ANYONE A Guide to Building Business Relationships That Really Work Harley, Shari BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT Communication Extent: 177 pp Green Leaf Book Group Press (January 2013) We all know how it feels when our colleagues talk about us but not to us. It's frustrating, and it creates tension. When candor is missing in the workplace, employees feel like they're working in the dark. Leaders don't know what employees really think; managers are frustrated when outcomes are not what they expect; and employees often don't know where they stand performance-wise. Many of us remain passive against broken, indirect communication habits, hoping that things will miraculously improve--but they won't. Not without skills and effort. The people you work with can work with you, around you, or against you. How people work with you depends on the relationships you cultivate. Do your colleagues trust you? Can they speak openly to you when projects and tasks go awry? Take charge of your career by taking charge of your business relationships. Make your work environment less tense and more productive by practicing direct communication. Set relationship expectations, work with people how they like to work, and give and receive regular feedback http://howtosayanythingtoanyone.com/ Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 76920 THE TELL The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are Hertenstein, Matthew HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Psychology Extent: ms 77.800 words Basic Books (Fall 2013) Every day we are confronted with situations in which we must make predictions based on limited information. Will this new company’s stock go up? Will the job candidate I interviewed this morning be a good employee? Is my child’s behavior an early sign of autism? We tend to dismiss first impressions as prone to mistakes, but in THE TELL psychologist Matthew Hertenstein argues that our ability to make predictions based on limited knowledge and intuition is surprisingly accurate and shows how we can harness it to improve the decisions and outcomes of our daily lives. Hertenstein shows that by training ourselves to read facial and bodily cues, we can learn the art of previsioning - the ability to predict the thoughts and behaviors of others almost every aspect of our lives. Through cutting-edge research and stories, The Tell offers tools to significantly increase our perceptive acumen. Moreover, this ability is hard-wired via Darwinian natural selection to a large degree; our stone-age minds have developed to allow us to make predictions in a modern world. In contrast to a recent spate of books in behavioral economics and psychology showing where we falter in decision making, The Tell shows us where we succeed, and how we can do better. Of course, the key to making accurate predictions is knowing what to look for. Based on rigorous research in psychology and brain science, The Tell offers tips to hone your powers of observation to further increase your predictive capacities. A charming testament to the power of the human mind, The Tell will, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, show you how to notice what you see. Matt Hertenstein received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Psychology and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at DePauw University, a highly-ranked liberal-arts institution. Japan: Bungeishunju; China: Grand China Publishing; Korea: The Business Books Publisher; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77884 UNDER ANOTHER SKY Higgins, Charlotte HISTORY Extent: 261 pp illustr. Jonathan Cape (July 2013) This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain: about what the idea of 'Roman Britain' has meant to those who came after Britain's 400-year stint as province of Rome - from the medieval mythographer-historian Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edward Elgar and W.H. Auden. What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a splendid, though not particularly reliable, VW camper van. Via accounts of some of Britain's most intriguing, and often unjustly overlooked ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined, and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence. Charlotte Higgins studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. She is the Guardian's chief arts writer. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77878 DREAMS OF OTHER WORLDS The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration Impey, Chris Henry, Holly HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Astronomy/Astrophysics Astronautics, Space Extent: 411 pp Princeton University Press (October 2013) DREAMS OF OTHER WORLDS describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini’s ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe’s dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA’s great observatories - Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble - and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. DREAMS OF OTHER WORLDS reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos. Chris Impey is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. His books include The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, and How It Began. Holly Henry is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77888 WHEN THEY WERE BOYS The True Story of the Beatles’ Rise to the Top Kane, Larry GENERAL NON-FICITON Music Extent: 380 pp Running Press (July 2013) The Beatles exist in a realm of international fame that verges on mythic—it is easy to forget that the superstar gentlemen were once young men struggling to become a musical presence. When They Were Boys tells the story of the Beatles’ rise to fame like no book has before: focusing on the seven-year stretch from the time the boys met as teenagers through their first trip to America in early 1964. As the only American reporter to travel with the Beatles during their 1964 and 1965 US tours, Larry Kane shares his exclusive insight into the evolution of this timeless group. He shares previously untold stories encompassing both the heartbreaks and the lucky breaks, expanded by extensive eyewitness accounts from family members, close friends, and stars of the era. New tales of such epic moments as the first meeting between Lennon and McCartney and Ringo’s replacement of Pete Best, as well as a chapter devoted to the brilliant but troubled soul of manager Brian Epstein, set this book apart from other Beatles titles. Kane also pays homage to those unsung heroes and heroines in Beatles history—from the father who helped propel Paul McCartney to greatness to the bus driver who sparked George Harrison’s ambition. Kane shows that the Beatles’ walk from teenage dreamers to legendary icons - however short it may have been - traced a razor-thin line between success and failure. Larry Kane was the only American reporter to travel with the Beatles during their 1964 and 1965 US tours. He chronicled this experience in his best-selling book Ticket to Ride and he is also author of Lennon Revealed. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77819 THE RATIONAL ANIMAL How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think Kenrick, Douglas T. Griskevicius, Vladas HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Cognitive sciences Extent: 87.000 words Basic Books (September 2013) Psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick and marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius present a radically different but elegantly simple new view of decision making. Yes, decision making is biased, but Kenrick and Griskevicius argue that underneath all those misjudgments is an ancestral decision-making system characterized by what they call "deep rationality." Our evolutionary heritage - why the brain evolved to make the particular choices that it does - reveals the hidden psychology of how we make decisions. And while our choices today may appear superficially irrational, they are rooted in processes that promote evolutionary goals. Deep rationality explains why hunter-gatherers of the Amazonian Shiwiar tribe are better at solving difficult logic problems than Harvard students, why the Zambian president rejected a food donation from the United States when his people were starving, and why people who have worked their whole lives to amass wealth continue to work just as hard to give it away. Whether you are trying to decide what level of risk to take with your investment portfolio, how to negotiate with your boss, which brand of cereal to buy at the supermarket, or which colleague to take to lunch, your choices are guided by deep rationality. How you decide depends on the evolutionary opportunities and threats your ancestral machinery senses. By understanding how these mechanisms work, you can learn to make more effective choices in your everyday life, while also avoiding people who exploit your instincts to pick your pocket. An entertaining tour of cutting-edge findings about human behavior, decision making, and our unexpectedly smart subconscious, THE RATIONAL ANIMAL offers an uplifting message: while our brains may still house caveman impulses, we have evolved to be smarter than we think. Douglas T. Kenrick founded the field of social evolutionary psychology and has been called "a master in helping us understand our real nature" (Dan Ariely). He is professor of psychology at Arizona State University and author of Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life (translated into seven languages). Vladas Griskevicius is associate professor and the McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, as well as an award-winning researcher whose work has been featured in national media, including The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time, and in popular books (Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge and Geoffrey Miller’s Spent). Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77844 NO MERCY Deadly Tactics of Real-Life Survivors Learmonth, Eleanor Tabakoff, Jenny GENERAL NON-FICITON Extent: proposal Text Publishing (September 2013) Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be both horrifying and ultimately self-destructive. Learmonth and Tabakoff outline the physical and neurological changes that typically affect the victims of disaster. Then, using true stories from history as case studies, they investigate the scenario famously imagined by William Golding in Lord of the Flies and borne out by the extraordinary Robbers Cave experiments of the 1950s. As this fascinating book unfolds the awful truth becomes clear. In extremity, humans are capable of a descent into murderous savagery so swift and complete it could - literally - take your breath away. Eleanor Learmonth has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist in Japan and Australia. She has a reputation as a magnet for natural disasters. Jenny Tabakoff has been a senior journalist in Australia and Britain for The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and AAP. She is the co-author of Australian Style. Eleanor and Jenny live in Sydney with their husbands and children. (ca. 75.000 words; manuscript due May 2013) Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77876 QUEENS OF NOISE The Real Story of the Runaways McDonnell, Evelyn GENERAL NON-FICITON Music Extent: 318 pp Da Capo Press (June 2013) In four years the teenage members of the Runaways did what no other group of female rock musicians before them could: they released four albums for a major label and toured the world. The Runaways busted down doors for every girl band that followed. Joan Jett, Sandy West, Cherrie Currie, lead guitarist Lita Ford, and bassists Jackie Fox and Vicky Blue were pre-punk bandits, fostering revolution girl style decades before that became a riot grrrl catchphrase. The story of the Runaways has never been told in its entirety. Drawing on interviews with most of this seminal rock band’s former members as well as controversial manager Kim Fowley, Queens of Noise will look beyond the lurid voyeuristic appeal of a sex-drugs-rock ’n’ roll saga to give the band its place in musical, feminist, and cultural history. Evelyn McDonnell, author or co-editor of five books, has been a pop music critic for the Miami Herald and a senior editor at the Village Voice. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77875 HOW TO TALK TO HOT WOMEN The 9 Secrets to Getting and Keeping the Woman (Women) of Your Dreams Mehow® HOW-TO / ADVICE / SELF-HELP Love, Relationships, Marriage Extent: 259 pp BenBella Books (June 2013) An average guy can pick up beautiful women - again and again. He just needs to know how. Mehow, legendary pick-up artist and creator of Mehow, Inc., used to be an insecure schlub at the bar. Rejected time after time, Mehow always settled for the first acceptable girl who didn’t turn him down. Sound familiar? Whether you are this guy now or have been in the past, Mehow’s lessons in seduction can improve any man’s game. Starting with his training in the seduction fundamentals by the infamous pick-up artists Mystery and Lovedrop, How to Talk to Hot Women follows Mehow’s wild, provocative, and entertaining transformation into a successful pick-up artist. As Mehow mastered the pick-up game, he discovered the nine essential secrets to building immediate chemistry with attractive women. HOW TO TALK TO HOT WOMEN offers practical, field-tested techniques and leaves you with the knowledge to transform your dating reality from rejection to extreme success. Learn specifically what to do and what to say to reach a new level of freedom and confidence to date the women that really interest you - to find the "perfect 10" woman who is right for the next hour, the night, and the rest of your life. Mehow teaches men to be women-magnets. He can teach you. Mehow was born Michal Pospieszalski in Warsaw, Poland. Prior to his pick-up work, Mehow worked in the computer field, first with his own small company and later for larger companies in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and San Diego. Despite a comfortable lifestyle, he became increasingly frustrated with his lack of social life. In early 2006, he discovered the seduction world through attending a bootcamp taught by Mystery, at that time the most famous pick-up artist in the world. After a series of initial failures, Mehow learned to meet and 'close' with beautiful women and began to coach for Mystery’s company. He formed his own company, Mehow, Inc., in early 2007 and developed one of the top producing websites in the seduction business, which is also a marketing model for many sites outside the business. Mehow has become one of the most well-known and sought-after pick-up artists in the world. Among his media appearances are: Current TV, Wealth TV, MTV’s True Life, MTV Canada, British Cosmopolitan, Saturday Night Magazine, TSB Magazine, Young Hollywood.com, and Attraction Blog. http://www.mehow.tv Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 73745 HAPPY CITY Using New Science to Heal Broken Cities (and Save the World) Montgomery, Charles GENERAL NON-FICITON Travel Urbanism Extent: 103.000 words Doubleday Canada (Fall 2013) A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can - and do - make us happier people. In the past four decades more of us are living in cities than ever in history - but is city living cheering us up, or are we as gloomy on our walks to the subway as we were on our long, predawn commutes? And if that’s the case, how can we turn things around? Charles Montgomery’s HAPPY CITY is a delirious tour through the planet’s most exciting (and also most dysfunctional) urban forms. In breezy, vivid prose, Montgomery chronicles his trips to Bogotá, once a dangerous, car-obsessed city, now a bike-loving, bus-riding model of civic excellence; to a Vancouver suburb whose power company gathers thermal energy from sewage to provide heat and hot water for all its citizens; even to California’s San Joaquin Valley in the aftermath of the housing crisis, an apocalyptic vision of suburban growth. Full of fascinating historical detail, cutting-edge insights from behavioural economists, and interviews with an array of leading urban thinkers, HAPPY CITY offers a completely new way to examine city life, showing us how small innovations can radically alter our experience of city life - and how they can make us measurably happier. Charles Montgomery is an award-winning journalist, urbanist, photographer, speaker and advocate for cities and well-being. His first book, The Last Heathen (aka The Shark God), won the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-fiction and was short-listed for two Writers' Trust of Canada awards. Since 2001, he has won four Western Magazine Awards, a National Magazine Award and the 2003 American Society of Travel Writer's Lowell Thomas Silver Award for best North American travel story. www.charlesmontgomery.ca Praise for THE LAST HEATHEN: "Exquisite writing." - Publishers Weekly "... a display of a very real and memorable new talent. ... a script as delicate and impressively beautiful as any essay of exploration that I have read in recent years. ...The endurance he displayed on his travels was admirable, the adventures he survived were tremendous, and the quality of his prose seems matched only by the wisdom of his observations." - Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail "Charles Montgomery is a great reporter with inborn faculties of empathy and understanding for the culture and psychology of the people he meets in his fascinating journey." - Ryszard Kapuscinski http://www.thehappycity.com USA: Farrar Straus & Giroux; UK: Penguin; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77883 CHINA'S SEARCH FOR SECURITY Nathan, Andrew J. Scobell, Andrew CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS China Extent: 406 pp Columbia University Press (November 2012) Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes. Understanding China's foreign policy means fully appreciating these geostrategic challenges, which persist even as the country gains increasing influence over its neighbors. Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell analyze China's security concerns on four fronts: at home, with its immediate neighbors, in surrounding regional systems, and in the world beyond Asia. By illuminating the issues driving Chinese policy, they offer a new perspective on the country's rise and a strategy for balancing Chinese and American interests in Asia. Though rooted in the present, Nathan and Scobell's study makes ample use of the past, reaching back into history to illuminate the people and institutions shaping Chinese strategy today. They also examine Chinese views of the United States; explain why China is so concerned about Japan; and uncover China's interests in such problematic countries as North Korea, Iran, and the Sudan. The authors probe recent troubles in Tibet and Xinjiang and explore their links to forces beyond China's borders. They consider the tactics deployed by mainland China and Taiwan, as Taiwan seeks to maintain autonomy in the face of Chinese advances toward unification. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of China's three main power resources -- economic power, military power, and soft power. The authors conclude with recommendations for the United States as it seeks to manage China's rise. Chinese policymakers understand that their nation's prosperity, stability, and security depend on cooperation with the United States. If handled wisely, the authors believe, relations between the two countries can produce mutually beneficial outcomes for both Asia and the world. Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Andrew Scobell is senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77825 GETTING (MORE OF) WHAT YOU WANT Mastering the Secrets of Psychology and Economics for Negotiation Performance, Profit and Prosperity Neale, Margaret Lys, Thomas Z. BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT Extent: proposal Basic Books (May 2015) According to Margaret Neale (Stanford B. School) and Thomas Z. Lys, (Kellogg School of Management) the field of negotiation books are limited by their reliance on dated psychological frameworks. In GETTING (MORE OF) WHAT YOU WANT, the authors integrate insights from recent breakthroughs in behavioral and classical economics, including those on “limits to rationality,” that prove especially helpful in understanding your own and your counterparts’ perspectives, interests, and likely choices. The authors argue that the strategy proposed in books like "Getting to Yes", propagating a win-win situation, made people feel good, but it put negotiators at a distinct disadvantage when facing counterparts who behave more strategically. Neale and Lys explore the short and long term effects of negotiation, and they show how you can also get more of what you want in everyday interactions with spouses, friends, colleagues, bosses, strangers, or enemies. Implicit within all of this is how you think about negotiation; the takeaway should be larger than “value claiming” and should harness your emotions and psychological quirks to ultimately get what you want. 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. In particular, Neale studies cognitive and social processes in terms of effective negotiating behavior and explores the psychology behind team communication. Thomas Z. Lys is Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting at the Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University. He is an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and has served as a consultant for General Electric and IBM, among other companies. With a foreword by Chip Heath, Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 75883 THE BOMBING WAR Europe 1939 - 1945 Overy, Richard HISTORY World-War II Extent: 884 pp Allen Lane (September 2013) - The first full account of the bombing war in Europe using archive sources - The first account of bombing of Soviet targets and the Soviet civil defence response - The first full account of the German bombing of Britain from the German side - The first publication of Soviet losses from bombing (includes figures for Stalingrad which are a fraction of the usual figure of 40,000 dead) - Recalculation of German civilian losses from bombing - Revision of the history of British bombing to show how it was modelled on German practice - Shows that the British government and chiefs-of-staff in 1939-40 defined the bombing of targets which risked civilian deaths as illegal and explains how the moral issue was circumvented - A new account of the bombing in the rest of Europe, including the German-Italian bombing of Malta, using Malta's civil defence archive for the first time THE BOMBING WAR is the first full history of the major bombing campaigns of the Second World War. It covers all aspects of independent bombing operations from the attack on Warsaw in 1939 to the atomic bombs in August 1945. One of the most important features of the book is a fresh treatment of the German bombing of Britain in 1940/44. This is a story that has always been told from the British side and the narrative has been shaped by British perceptions. Using over 3,000 pages of German air force documents from the hitherto unused Central Archive of the Russian Defence Ministry, the German side of the battle can now be told. The evidence makes it clear that the German campaign was based on a selection of precise targets rather than 'terror bombing', as the British version insists, and that the high death toll was a result of deteriorating accuracy due to weather, growing strain on the crews, declining reliance on electronic navigation and the poor level of air raid protection supplied by the British authorities. British calculations of the effects of the campaign are also included for the first time, and show clearly that if the level of physical damage was comparatively low, Britain's war effort was retarded by the diversion of large resources to cope with the bombing threat. Unlike most other books on bombing, THE BOMBING WAR will explore the impact of bombing on the bombed societies as well as the nature of the military campaign, a history 'from above' as well as 'from below'. In addition to the German story, the book will cover the impact on British society, the effects of bombing in Italy, the Balkans, France and the Low Countries, and the war in Eastern Asia, including bombing of Japanese held areas and the Japanese bombing of China. This will present in one volume a definitive history of a subject that is still regularly debated and argued over 70 years later. USA: Penguin; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77815 PIGS CAN'T SWIM Peppe, Helen BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Extent: 87.500 words Da Capo Press (January 2014) "PIGS CAN'T SWIM is a bracingly honest account of a rural childhood inside a large New England family forced to scratch out an existence in the last house on a dead end country road. The book is brimming full of poignant human narratives that verge on the tragic, vividly and expertly rendered, but it’s also filled with redemptive accounts and empathetic love stories about the natural world and the creature world - dogs, horses, pigs - those wide-eyed companions who provide comfort along the way to those who are powerless to escape their circumstances. Pigs Can’t Swim is a tough book about things spinning out of control. It’s also an instruction manual, a survival guide of interest to anyone who desires to learn how to stay human, humane, and present in one’s own life." (Debra Marquart) With everything happening on Helen Peppe’s backwoods Maine farm: ferocious sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft—life was out of control, even for the animals. Despite the chaos, in telling her family’s story, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and a touching compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeanette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe’s wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own . Helen Peppe,writer and photographer, lives near Portland Maine, with her two children, four dogs, eight rescued rabbits, four guinea pigs, and two destructive kittens. An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir of childhood - the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family introduces an important new voice. http://www.hpeppe.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77816 ONE CHANCE Potts, Paul BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Extent: 224 pp Weinstein Books (September 2013) ONE CHANCE is the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts. When Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night, stepped onto the stage in the premier season of "Britain's Got Talent," no one expected the phenomenal voice that would emerge. Judge Simon Cowell and millions of stunned viewers were instantly taken with Potts, who became a Youtube sensation and multiplatinum artist virtually overnight. Wowing audiences worldwide with his phenomenal voice, Paul went on to win "Britain’s Got Talent" and the hearts of millions. This memoir will tell Pott's remarkable underdog story, revealing his experiences as he seized his biggest dreams and wowed audiences around the world. The Weinstein Company has begun shooting a film by the same name, directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me, Hope Springs) and written by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List). James Corben will play Potts. Paul Potts was born and raised in the U.K. and, until his appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, was a manager at the cell phone store Carphone Warehouse. Following the show, his debut album One Chance went double platinum in the U.K. and sold 3.5 million copies around the world. In addition to a heavy touring schedule in recent years, he has also released two albums, Passione in 2009 and Cinema Paradiso in 2010. Tom Bromley is the ghost/support writer. -- German distribution: Tele München. Film trailer: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19729628/ONC_BTrlr_OneDream_v6_BJ_noslate.mov Britain's Got Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77872 THE BLING RING How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World Sales, Nancy Jo GENERAL NON-FICITON True Crime, Organized Crime Movie/TV series-tie-in Extent: 269 pp illustr. It! Books (May 2013) The true story that inspired the Sofia Coppola film Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson: robbed. More than $3 million in stolen clothing, jewelry, shoes, and handbags reported missing. Who is behind one of the most brazen string of crimes in recent Hollywood history?Meet the Bling Ring: a band of club-hopping teenagers from the Valley with everything to lose. Over the course of a year, the members of the now infamous Bling Ring allegedly burglarized some of the biggest names in young Hollywood. Driven by celebrity worship, vanity, and the desire to look and dress like the rich and famous, these seven teenagers made headlines for using Google maps, Facebook, and TMZ to track the comings and goings of their targets. Many of the houses were unlocked. Alarms disabled. A "perfect" crime - celebrities already had so much, why shouldn't the Bling Ring take their share? As the unprecedented case unfolded in the news, the world asked: How did our obsession with celebrities get so out of hand? Why would a group of teens who already had so much, take such a risk? Acclaimed Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales found the answer: they did it because each stolen T-shirt or watch brought them closer to living the Hollywood dream . . . and because it was terrifyingly easy. For the Bling Ring the motivation was something deeper than money—they were compelled by a compulsion to be famous. Gaining unprecedented access to the group of teens, Sales traces the crimes minute by minute and details the key players' stories in a shocking look at the seedy, and troubling, world of the real young Hollywood. Nancy Jo Sales is an award-winning journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Harper's Bazaar, and many other publications. She has written profiles of Damien Hirst, Hugh Hefner, Russell Simmons, Donald Trump, Tyra Banks, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Taylor Swift. Her acclaimed 2010 Vanity Fair piece "The Suspects Wore Louboutins" is the basis for the Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring. The film by Sofia Coppola (starring Emma Watson) is based on the Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales. Coppola created her own screenplay from the article, so it's a dramatization based on real events, whereas the book is a nonfiction reporting of the real events. Filmstart Deutschland: 15. August 2013. Brazil: Intrinseca; Japan: Hayakawa; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77879 PRAGUE, CAPITAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A Surrealist History Sayer, Derek HISTORY ARTS Europe Extent: 595 pp Princeton University Press (April 2013) Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of "socialism with a human face." Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe's most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic and architectural modernism, and a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague's spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, and much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist André Breton's "black humor," and Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera and Václav Havel. A masterful and unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century and what made us who we are. Derek Sayer is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University and a former Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77846 HEMINGWAY LIVES! Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today Sigal, Clancy HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Literary studies Extent: 160 pp OR Books (May 2013) With the release of a flurry of feature and TV films about his life and work, and the publication of new books looking at his correspondence, his boat and even his favorite cocktails, Ernest Hemingway is once again center stage of contemporary culture. There’s something about Papa that makes any retirement to the wings only fleeting. Now, in this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, Clancy Sigal, himself a National Book Award runner-up, presents a persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today. Sigal breaks new ground in celebrating Hemingway’s passionate and unapologetic political partisanship, his stunningly concise, no-frills writing style, and an attitude to sex and sexuality much more nuanced than he is traditionally credited with. Simply for the pleasure provided by a consummate story teller, Hemingway is as much a must-read author as ever. Though HEMINGWAY LIVES! will provide plenty that’s new for those already familiar with Papa’s oeuvre, including substantial forays into his political commitments, the women in his life, and the astonishing range of his short stories, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work. Those venturing into Hemingway’s writing for the first time will find in Sigal an inspirational and erudite guide. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77393 AUTOPILOT The Art and Science of Doing Nothing Smart, Andrew GENERAL NON-FICITON Extent: 158 pp OR Books (June 2013) Andrew Smart wants you to sit and do nothing much more often – and he has the science to explain why. At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster and more efficiently: that drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. Books such as The One Minute Manager and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People regularly top the bestseller lists, and have spawned a considerable industry. But Andrew Smart argues that slackers may have the last laugh. The latest neuroscience shows that the “culture of effectiveness” is not only ineffective, it can be harmful to your well-being. He makes a compelling case – backed by science – that filling life with activity at work and at home actually hurts your brain. A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled a self-described “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77862 AN ARTIST IN VENICE Van Doren, Adam ARTS Extent: 123 pp illustr. David R. Godine (January 2013) "[Van Doren] has such a gift for watercolors . . . with a bold wet look that still sits up on the page." - John Updike The city of Venice has always provided an almost irresistible lure for both writers and artists. Henry James loved it, as did Ruskin, Browning, Pound, and Brodsky. For artists, it has been a compulsory magnet since the time of Bellini and Canaletto. By the nineteenth century there was hardly an artist of note -- Whistler and Turner, Sargent and Prendergast, Sickert and Bonington -- who was not seduced by the city's charms, history, and aesthetic heritage. For the depiction of Venice by artists, it's a high bar that s been set, but Adam Van Doren, grandson of the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren, convincingly confronts the competition in this charming memoir, a verbal and visual account of his love affair with the city. His story is personal; like all other artists, he sees the city with and through his own eyes, but he is also well-informed historically. He laces his tour with information, opinion, and citation. With Van Doren as guide, the reader's tour of the city is rich and convincing, filled with the presence of illustrious predecessors. With an informed preface by the scholar Theodore Rabb and a charming foreword by Simon Winchester, with 21 full-color drawings by the author/artist, and even six pages of commendably lucid "Notes" on the personalities and structures discussed, this is a book that will proudly take its place alongside the many others that have celebrated this city for centuries. Adam Van Doren studied architecture at Columbia University and painting at the National Academy of Design. He was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, and has taught at the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York. He has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., among other institutions, and his work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Yale University Art Gallery, The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Princeton University Art Museum, and The Wadsworth Atheneum, among others. "Architect and artist Van Doren offers a love letter to Venice in this elegant and slender volume, and he sings his praise to the city through majestic prose and 23 beautiful watercolor paintings of Venice." - PWeekly, starred review Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77859 HOW MUSIC GOT FREE The End of an Industry, The Turn of the Century, and The Patient Zero of Piracy Witt, Stephen Richard GENERAL NON-FICITON Narrative non-fiction Extent: partial ms Viking "...the Michael Lewis-David Grann time-warp, in which 40,000 words blew by so quickly that I could scarcely believe that what I’d read amounted to half of a book. It was - it is - the best narrative nonfiction proposal I’ve ever seen." (from the US agent's submission letter) The book interweaves three fascinating narratives: 1) the story of Karlheinz Brandburg and Bernhard Grill, their invention of the digital audio compression format MP3 which is the dominant delivery method of music today responsible for toppling the hallowed halls of the traditional music business; 2) Doug Morris, arguably the most powerful and most successful record label executive ever whose forty years in the industry produced a veritable Who's Who of music stars; and 3) the tracking, investigation, and prosecution of a web of individuals responsible for making pirated music available online, beginning with one entrepreneurial employee of a CD pressing plant in North Carolina, blossoming out to Alan Ellis, a 20 year-old in Middlesbrough, England who created the world's biggest and best digital library, and beyond, touching down in Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Micronesia, Panama and the Congo. So set your "Wired article" prejudices aside and dive in. Once you’ve come up for air, think about this book not just in terms of the riveting story it tells, or the verve and wit with which it’s told. Think about the work that went in to getting this story, and the obsession with which Stephen pursued it - as someone with no credentials to his name, who quit his job at a hedge fund to go to journalism school for the sole purpose of reporting out this story as far as he could take it. Stephen Richard Witt, at age 34, is a representative of an emerging field of popular nonfiction writing that’s only going to become increasingly important as time goes by: history of the Internet. As much as it is the story of "how music got free", it’s also a portrait of the relatively brief historical moment when ordinary life, suddenly and irrevocably, became entwined with the world online. There was a moment in the development of the Internet when everything changed - and the sudden availability of all the music ever recorded, for free, was a big part of why it did. Witt takes us to that moment - indeed, to the very people responsible for it, one unforgettable person in particular. Neither music, nor the world itself, has been the same since. Manuscript due February 2014. Italy: Einaudi/Stile Libero; Brazil: Intrinseca; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77828 LOVE AND HUNGER Thoughts On The Gift Of Food Wood, Charlotte BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Food & Drink, Cooking Allen & Unwin (2012) Love & Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel overwhelming. An instant antidote to such madness is this wise and practical book - an ode to good food, prepared and presented with minimum fuss and maximum love. Cooking represents 'creativity in its purest form'. It is meditation and stimulation, celebration and solace, a gift both offered and received. It can nourish the soul - and the mind - as well as the body. Love & Hunger will make you long to get into the kitchen to try the surprising tips and delicious recipes, and will leave you feeling freshly inspired to cook with joy for the people you love. Love & Hunger is a gift for all who value the solitary and shared pleasures of cooking and eating. Like a simple but glorious meal, this feast of a book is infused with warmth and generosity. http://www.charlottewood.com.au Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
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 | | Title No: 77708 WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman Adelman, Jeremy BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Biography / Profile Economics Extent: 740 pp Princeton University Press (April 2013) WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. Born in Berlin in 1915, Hirschman grew up amid the promise and turmoil of the Weimar era, but fled Germany when the Nazis seized power in 1933. Amid hardship and personal tragedy, he volunteered to fight against the fascists in Spain and helped many of Europe's leading artists and intellectuals escape to America after France fell to Hitler. His intellectual career led him to Paris, London, and Trieste, and to academic appointments at Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was an influential adviser to governments in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, as well as major foundations and the World Bank. Along the way, he wrote some of the most innovative and important books in economics, the social sciences, and the history of ideas. Throughout, he remained committed to his belief that reform is possible, even in the darkest of times. This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism. "Worldly Philosopher is a brilliant book. It is at once a thrilling story, an inspiring and melancholy intellectual biography, and a history of the shifting involvements of social science in twentieth-century public life." - Emma Rothschild, author of The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History Jeremy Adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and director of the Council for International Teaching and Research at Princeton University. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77777 GROWING MARIJUANA INDOORS A Foolproof Guide Brown, Jay Carter HOW-TO / ADVICE / SELF-HELP Gardening Extent: 120 pp illustr. ECW Press (May 2013) How do you grow the best pot in the world? Whether it’s medical marijuana (cannabis indica) or recreational marijuana (cannabis sativa), a grower needs clear information and helpful tips presented in a straightforward way. Medical marijuana must be free of contaminants, which could prove harmful to patients using it, and so it’s usually grown indoors where the environment can be controlled. Temperature and humidity need to be carefully monitored, and the grower must watch out for and get rid of any insects, moulds, or fungi through the use of air filters and positive ventilation. Sound complicated? Not if you follow Jay Carter Brown’s instructions. With Growing Marijuana Indoors: A Foolproof Guide, growers will learn to breed a variety of plants that can be ingested easily or smoked with a minimum of coughing and which yield a soothing 'body high.' Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77379 OFFICIAL TRUTH, 101 PROOF The Inside Story Of Pantera Brown, Rex BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Biography / Profile Music Extent: 253 pp illustr. Da Capo Press (March 2013) With Mark Eglington Few heavy metal acts survived the turmoil of the early 1990s music scene. The rise of grunge and alternative rock meant that many of them broke up - or were forced underground. Some even tried to adopt the prevailing fashions of the day, with disastrous results. Pantera was different. Instead of humoring the market, the band instead demanded that the audience come to them by releasing a series of fiercely uncompromising - and platinum-selling - albums, such as Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, two number one albums that sold millions of copies with little to no airplay on radio or MTV. Rex Brown’s memoir is the definitive account of life inside one of rock’s biggest bands, one that succeeded against all the odds - but whose career would ultimately end in tragedy when iconic lead guitarist Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott was murdered on stage by a deranged fan. This is the first and only lucid account of the events surrounding one of the most influential bands in heavy metal history, and Rex Brown is the surviving member best qualified to put those incredible years of fame and excess into context. Rex Brown joined Pantera in 1982. He has also played with Down and Kill Devil Hill. Mark Eglinton is an author, journalist, and film producer currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His first book, James Hetfield: The Wolf at Metallica’s Door, was published to considerable critical acclaim. He writes regularly for Outburn magazine and coproduces a series of rock interview ocumentaries titled The Greatest Music Ever Created, and How It Ruined Our Lives, which is cohosted by Metal Hammer magazine. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77673 CALCUTTA Two Years in the City Chaudhuri, Amit BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Travel Extent: 308 pp Hamish Hamilton (February 2013) In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return he discovered that the Calcutta of his imagination had receded and another had taken its place. Lyrical, observant and profound, Calcutta is a personal account of two years (2009-2011) spent in one of the least known - yet greatest - cities of our time by one of our leading novelists. Using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century, when the city burst with a new vitality, and towards the twenty-first, when - utterly changed - it seems to be on the verge of another turn. Along the way he evokes all that is most particular and extraordinary. From the homeless and the working class to the old, declining haute bourgeois; from the new malls and hotels to old houses being destroyed by developers; from politicians on their way out to the city’s fitful attempts to embrace globalisation, Calcutta brings a multifarious universe to life. Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five highly acclaimed novels: A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, Freedom Song, A New World, and The Immortals. He is also a poet, an acclaimed musician, and a highly regarded critic, and has edited The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. India: Hamish Hamilton (February 2013); UK: Union Books; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77729 DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS Clare, Horatio GENERAL NON-FICITON Narrative non-fiction Travel Navigation, Ships Extent: 92.000 words Chatto & Windus (January 2014) This is a book about the oceans and the men who make their lives on them. It does not offer an audit of the maritime world today; rather it focuses on two aspects of professional seafaring: the tiny scale of individuals (they are mostly men) and the vastness of the waters themselves. Tapping into a rich tradition of writing about the sea, DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS is a collection of sea stories, nature writing, portraiture, adventure, biography and history. Structured around two recent voyages by cargo ship, its first conviction is that ships are models of their times and the societies they serve. It is hard to imagine a more contained and telling miniature of the complexity of globalisation, of its courses, costs and profits, than a cargo ship at sea. Its second conviction is that the sea is a great reservoir and forge of stories. Praise for previous title, A SINGLE SWALLOW: "Fizzingly entertaining. His own prose has something of their flight: daring, sharp-edged, fast-moving, graceful, full of surprises. This is a great adventure, thrillingly realised" - Literary Review Horatio Clare is a writer, radio producer and journalist. Clare's memoir RUNNING FOR THE HILLS won a Somerset Maugham Award, was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, and Clare was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77701 TOPSY The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison Daly, Michael GENERAL NON-FICITON Narrative non-fiction Extent: 345 pp Atlantic Monthly Press (July 2013) The first elephant arrived in America in 1796, but it wasn’t until after the Civil War that the circus in America entered its Golden Age, thanks to P.T. Barnum and others in the business. A War of the Elephants emerged - with declarations of whose performance animals were younger, bigger, or more 'sacred,' and bringing our hero, Topsy - an elephant falsely billed as the first native-born - to America. In 1903 on Coney Island, New York, Topsy was electrocuted - over the past century, this bizarre, and ghoulish execution has developed into somewhat of an urban legend. Many historical forces conspired to bring Topsy, Thomas Edison, and those 6,600 volts of alternating current together that day. Tracing them in TOPSY, journalist Michael Daly weaves together a fascinating popular history, the first book on this astonishing tale. With fantastic detail, Daly brings this world to life, its caravans and crooks, its sideshows and athletic feats. And he captures the life of the animals, both the horrible cruelties they suffered and, when treated with kindness, their remarkable performances. Like the war between Barnum and his circus contemporaries, the War of the Currents - in which Edison and George Westinghouse (and the brilliant oddball Nikola Tesla) battled over alternating versus direct current - would play a major role in the life of Topsy. Edison, wary of his competitor’s innovations, maneuvered to have New York’s executions switched to electrocution by alternating current. Daly expertly guides the reader through this peculiar and enduring story, rich in period Americana, and full of larger than life characters, both human and elephant. TOPSY is a touching and entertaining tale. Michael Daly has been a newspaper journalist and columnist for many years, currently with the New York Daily News. He is the author of The Book of Mychal. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 76336 THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII El-Hai, Jack HISTORY World-War II Biography / Profile Extent: 82.700 words PublicAffairs (October 2013) From award-winning author Jack El-Hai comes the dark, unsettling account of the relationship between Hermann Goering, the former Reichsmarschall and flamboyant commander of the German Luftwaffe - essentially Hitler’s last man standing - and Douglas M. Kelley, a young American psychiatrist. Kelley was officially tasked with assessing the mental fitness of Goering and 21 other members of the Nazi leadership to stand trial at Nuremberg, but he was simultaneously following a clandestine personal agenda: an examination of the origins of evil, a search for the precise psychiatric defects that distinguished Nazis from normal people. Based on exclusive access to Douglas Kelley’s journals, medical records, and memos that his family has never before shown to researchers, El-Hai evokes the hours Kelley spent conversing with Goering and administering psychological tests, until the lines between the men blurred to such an extent that Goering considered asking Kelley to adopt his daughter. To Kelley’s great and permanent distress, his studies yielded the disturbing conclusion that there was no 'Nazi personality' and that a genocidal movement like Nazism could arise anywhere, at any time. In a staggering culmination of their relationship, both men eventually committed suicide by cyanide pill, Goering before his scheduled execution and Kelley on New Year’s Eve in 1958, in front of his wife and three children. Jack El-Hai is author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, which won the British Medical Journalists’ Association’s annual 2006 Open Book Award and a 2006 Minnesota Book Award. Film and TV rights to The Lobotomist have been sold to Realm Pictures. http://www.el-hai.com/blog/ France: Les Arènes; Italy: Rizzoli (at auction); Film option: Mythology Entertainment (Shutter Island, Zodiac, The Amazing Spiderman) Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77767 OF DICE AND MEN The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It Ewalt, David M. GENERAL NON-FICITON Narrative non-fiction Extent: 264 pp Scribner (October 2013) The Hobbit meets Moneyball in this definitive book on Dungeons & Dragons - from its origins and rise to cultural prominence to the continued effects on popular culture today. Even if you’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know someone who has: The game has had a profound influence on popular culture. Released in 1974 - decades before the Internet and social media - Dungeons & Dragons is one of the original nerd subcultures, and is still revered by more than thirty million fans. In OF DICE AND MEN, award-winning journalist (and life-long Dungeon Master) David M. Ewalt reveals the magic of the game in an authoritative history. From its origins on the battlefields of ancient Europe, through the hysteria that linked it to satanic rituals and teen suicides, and to its apotheosis as father of the modern video game industry, OF DICE AND MEN recounts the development of a game played by some of the most fascinating people in the world. Chronicling the surprising history of D&D’s origins (one largely unknown even to hardcore players) while examining the game’s profound impact, Ewalt interweaves laser-sharp cultural analysis with his own present-day gaming experiences. An enticing blend of history, journalism, narrative, and memoir, OF DICE AND MENsheds light on one of modern history’s most popular (and widely misunderstood) forms of collaborative entertainment. David M. Ewalt is an award-winning editor for Forbes, where he manages web, print and video projects on a wide variety of topics. He also blogs about technology, the Internet, and anything geeky. In his capacity as tech guru, Ewalt frequently appears as an expert across a range of US media and the BBC. http://www.davidmewalt.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77747 FOREST HOUSE A Year's Journey Into The Landscape of Love, Loss And Starting Over Fraser, Joelle BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Extent: 208pp Counterpoint (March 2013) In the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, Joelle Fraser uses her gift for gorgeous prose to explore the landscapes - both internal and external - of her post marriage, single mother life. After her marriage falls apart, Fraser resolves to stay in the small mountain town where her son’s father lives so her son can remain close to his father but the town proves too claustrophobic. She finds relief nearby- but a world away- in a small house up a winding road tucked into the forest it is invisible. That small and remote forest house - with endless wilderness both buffering and enveloping it, allows her to rebuild. The life she carves out for herself and son Dylan is harsh at times and lyrical at others. The physical landscape feeds her - with its trees and animals, firewood, barbed wire and rugged unforgiving honesty. Fraser’s internal landscape brims over with favorite passages culled from beloved books…but also with guilt and reflection about pulling her son into the confusing and messy reality of divorce. Of course, it is complicated, as our internal lives are. No moment of reveling in her new freedom goes unpunished by self-reproach: How dare she be happy for the quiet afforded her when Dylan is with his dad. Is it okay to be happy? And, as is the case for most of us, her past is not past at all. Her history and the history of her family are very much alive in her, crop-up unbidden, provide hints of explanation, and both prop her up and damn her. It is when all these internal gremlins hound her that she turns to the landscape outside her door. This book is a literary gem for anyone who has navigated the treacherous waters of loss and rebuilt a life, for those who love an expanse of sky, and for those who carry books in their mind - always having a counselor at hand in the wisdom of literature. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77756 THE TURK WHO LOVED APPLES Gross, Matt BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Travel Extent: 280 pp Da Capo Press (April 2013) While writing his celebrated Frugal Traveler column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by its focus on what he thought of as "traveling on the cheap at all costs." When his editor offered him the opportunity to do something less structured, the Getting Lost series was born, and Gross began a more immersive form of travel that allowed him to "lose his way all over the globe" - from developing-world megalopolises to venerable European capitals, from American sprawl to Asian archipelagos. And that’s what the never-before-published material in THE TURK WHO LOVED APPLES is all about: breaking free of the constraints of modern travel and letting the place itself guide you. It’s a variety of travel you’ll love to experience vicariously through Matt Gross - and maybe even be inspired to try for yourself. Matt Gross has written nearly 200 articles for the New York Times Travel section. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 73153 GANDHI BEFORE INDIA How the Mahatma Was Made Guha, Ramachandra BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Biography / Profile Extent: ms 245.000 words Allen Lane (October 2013) GANDHI BEFORE INDIA: HOW THE MAHATMA WAS MADE is the first part of a major two volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi. Drawing on archival research in four continents, and on a large volume of manuscripts and materials not consulted by previous scholars, the book focuses on Gandhi's fascinating, forgotten years in London and South Africa. It explores, in rich detail, his experiments with dissident cults such as Theosophists and vegetarians, his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians, and devout Muslims, his forging of his unique methods of non-violent resistance against a harsh and racist regime, his tormented relations with his wife and sons, and much more besides. As the first serious exploration of the young, unknown, unheralded Gandhi, the book radically alters our understanding and appreciation of this most influential political leader of modern times. Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. His books include INDIA AFTER GANDHI, which was chosen as a Book of the Year by The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has held Visiting Professorships at Yale, Stanford, and Oslo, and in 2011 he held the Phillipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. He writes a popular fortnightly column that is published in newspapers in six languages, and frequently appears on television, as a commentator on politics and history. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2008 he was chosen as one of the world's hundred most influential public intellectuals by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines. Translatable text due May 2013. USA: Knopf (Sonny Metha); Canada: Doubleday; India: Penguin India; NL: Nieuw Amsterdam; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77802 DEMOCRATIC REASON Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many Landemore, Hélène CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Politics / Political Science Extent: 279 pp Princeton University Press (December 2012) Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision making form a cognitive system that ensures that decisions taken by the many are more likely to be right than decisions taken by the few. Democracy as a form of government is therefore valuable not only because it is legitimate and just, but also because it is smart. Landemore considers how the argument plays out with respect to two main mechanisms of democratic politics: inclusive deliberation and majority rule. In deliberative settings, the truth-tracking properties of deliberation are enhanced more by inclusiveness than by individual competence. Landemore explores this idea in the contexts of representative democracy and the selection of representatives. She also discusses several models for the "wisdom of crowds" channeled by majority rule, examining the trade-offs between inclusiveness and individual competence in voting. When inclusive deliberation and majority rule are combined, they beat less inclusive methods, in which one person or a small group decide. Democratic Reason thus establishes the superiority of democracy as a way of making decisions for the common good. Hélène Landemore is assistant professor of political science at Yale University. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77398 CAN THE WORLD TOLERATE AN IRAN WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS? The Munk Debate on Iran Krauthammer and Yadlin vs. Zakaria and Nasr Munk Debate / House of Anansi Press CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Middle East Extent: 71 pp House of Anansi Press (March 2013) With exclusive interviews with Charles Krauthammer and Vali Nasr With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a state of perilous insecurity - along with much of the world’s oil supply. Others argue that a nuclear Iran could be the very stabilizing force that the region needs, as the threat of nuclear war makes conventional conflicts more risky. These same voices also ask: Can the West and Israel afford to attack Iran when doing so could roll back the Arab Spring and re-entrench reactionary forces throughout the Middle East? In this edition of the Munk Debates - Anansi’s premier international debate series - former Israel Defense Forces head of military intelligence Amos Yadlin, Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator Charles Krauthammer, CNN host Fareed Zakaria, and Iranian-born academic Vali Nasr debate the consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran. Canada: Anansi Press (March 2013); Brazil: Elsevier; Russia: AST; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77706 HEART OF DARKNESS Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe Ostriker, Jeremiah P. Mitton, Simon HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Astronomy/Astrophysics Extent: 299 pp illustr. Princeton University Press (January 2013) HEART OF DARKNESS describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest to unravel the deepest secrets of the universe. Over the past thirty years, scientists have learned that two little-understood components--dark matter and dark energy--comprise most of the known cosmos, explain the growth of all cosmic structure, and hold the key to the universe's fate. The story of how evidence for the so-called "Lambda-Cold Dark Matter" model of cosmology has been gathered by generations of scientists throughout the world is told here by one of the pioneers of the field, Jeremiah Ostriker, and his coauthor Simon Mitton. From humankind's early attempts to comprehend Earth's place in the solar system, to astronomers' exploration of the Milky Way galaxy and the realm of the nebulae beyond, to the detection of the primordial fluctuations of energy from which all subsequent structure developed, this book explains the physics and the history of how the current model of our universe arose and has passed every test hurled at it by the skeptics. Throughout this rich story, an essential theme is emphasized: how three aspects of rational inquiry--the application of direct measurement and observation, the introduction of mathematical modeling, and the requirement that hypotheses should be testable and verifiable--guide scientific progress and underpin our modern cosmological paradigm. "A fine introduction to cosmology but rich enough to inform readers familiar with introductions." - Kirkus Reviews "This is a strong, confident book, easily one of the best guides to why cosmologists make the claims they do." - New Scientist "Ostriker and Mitton write with authority, and with style as well."--Martin Rees, Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Astronomer Royal Jeremiah P. Ostriker is professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. Simon Mitton is affiliated research scholar in the history and philosophy of science and a fellow of St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77789 WHAT I LEARNED LOSING A MILLION DOLLARS Paul, Jim Moynihan, Brendan BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT Memoir, Autobiography Extent: 170 pp Columbia University Press (April 2013) Jim Paul’s meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to Governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all - his fortune, his reputation, and his job - in one fatal moment of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led up to Paul’s disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in a number of economic sectors. The book describes the circumstances leading up to Paul’s $1.6 million loss and the essential lessons he learned from it - primarily that, although there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people participating in them, there are very few ways to produce a loss. People lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis or because of psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for instances in which they do not work, psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to abandon one method for another when the first fails. Paul and Moynihan’s cautionary tale concludes with strategies for avoiding loss, tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the dangers of investing, trading, and speculating. Jim Paul (1943 - 2001) was First Vice President in charge of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. International Energy Unit in New York City. During his twenty-five year career in the futures industry, he was a retail broker, floor trader, and research director, and served on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Board of Governors and the Executive Committee. Brendan Moynihan works at Marketfield Asset Management LLC, where his understanding of markets and the media helps shape their macro views and allocations. He is an adjunct professor of finance at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 62963 FOR GOD, COUNTRY, AND COCA-COLA The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It Pendergrast, Mark BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT HISTORY Extent: 252.000 words Basic Books (May 2013 (3rd ed.)) Revised third edition From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the definitive symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola’s dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga. In this revised edition of For God, Country and Coca-Cola, Mark Pendergrast looks at America’s cultural, social, and economic history through the bottom of a green glass Coke bottle and tells the captivating story of the world’s most recognizable consumer product. The tale begins with John Pemberton, a morphine-addicted Atlanta pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola as a hangover cure and treatment for “neurasthenia” in 1886, and ends with a company unchallenged in its global dominance, its role strengthened by a successful turnaround after years of mismanagement. In between, a colorful cast of fathers and sons, hustlers and bankers, accountants and would-be movie moguls steered Coca-Cola to its present position, through ups (the introduction of Diet Coke) and downs (the introduction of New Coke). The revised edition covers the many challenges the company has faced in the 21st century, including everything from questions over soda’s role in the obesity crisis to accusations that the company had union employees murdered in South America. Pendergrast also explores how America’s love of the soda has also evolved into a kind of consumer religion, as evidenced by the Holy of Holies-like “Vault” at the World of Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta, where for a $16 ticket tourists can have their photo taken in front of the safe that holds the sacred and mysterious original formula for Coke. And of course, the book still contains that original formula, now with an additional version from the notes of Frank M. Robinson, the man who named and first marketed Coca-Cola. Mark Pendergrast is a freelance journalist and the author of six works of non-fiction, most recently Japan’s Tipping Point: Crucial Choices in the Post-Fukushima World. The author will allow extensive cuts to facilitate a German edition. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77693 VEGAN EATS THE WORLD 300 International Recipes for Savoring the Planet Romero, Terry Hope HOW-TO / ADVICE / SELF-HELP Food & Drink, Cooking Extent: 376 pp ill. Da Capo Lifelong Books (2013) A collection of 300 international recipes for savouring (and saving) the plant. The ideas come from Romero, an award-winning chef behind several best-selling vegan cookbooks. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77773 BRAINWASHED How We Are Seduced by Mindless Neuroscience Satel, Sally Lilienfeld, Scott O. HUMANITIES / SCIENCE Neurology, Neuroscience Extent: 78.000 words Basic Books (June 2013) In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated. Although acknowledging its tremendous potential, the authors argue that the overzealous application of the burgeoning field of brain science has put innocent people in jail, prevented addicts from healing themselves, and undermined notions of free will and responsibility. A provocative challenge to the use and abuse of a seductive science, BRAINWASHED offers an essential corrective to determinist explanations of human behavior. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77687 THE QUEST FOR SECURITY Protection without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance Stiglitz, Joseph E. Kaldor, Mary CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Politics / Political Science Economics Extent: 387 pp Columbia University Press (April 2013) The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising out of the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. While earlier studies have touched on how globalization has increased economic insecurity and how geopolitical changes may have contributed to military insecurity, this volume looks for some common threads: in a globalized world without a global government, with a system of global governance not up to the tasks, how do we achieve security without looking inward and stepping back from globalization? Contributors seek answers to questions about how we achieve protection of those people who are most insecure without resorting to economic, military, or mafia protectionism. Some have suggested that the turmoil in the eurozone "proves" the deficiencies in the welfare state. This book argues that the superior performance of the Scandinavian countries arises from their superior systems of social protection, which allow their citizens to undertake greater risk and more actively participate in globalization. Others suggest that we can address terrorism or transnational crimes through the strengthening of borders or long distance wars. This book develops the proposition that such approaches have the opposite effect and that only through spreading the kind of human security experienced in well-ordered societies can these dangers be managed. Contributors: Joseph E. Aldy, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Kemal Dervis, Misha Glenny, David Held, G. John Ikenberry, Mary Kaldor, Kristine Kern, Karl Ove Moene, Arthur P.J. Mol, José Antonio Ocampo, Leif Pagrotsky, Saskia Sassen, George Soros, Robert N. Stavins, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Tony Travers, Ngaire Woods, Kevin Young. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77714 THE GREAT DEFORMATION The Corruption of Capitalism in America Stockman, David A. CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Economics USA Extent: 743 pp PublicAffairs (March 2013) In 1981 the American national debt was $1 trillion; today it stands in excess of $14 trillion. Spanning from 1971 to the cataclysmic crash of 2008, Stockman provides a history of the demise of free-market capitalism, as it gradually succumbed to greedy, self-interested cronyism. Beginning with the abandonment of the Gold Standard, an imperfect but effective disciplinary measure that prevented banks from engaging in reckless devaluation and deficit financing - which have since run riot and hijacked the national economy - he explains how crony capitalism gave rise to economic bubbles destined to burst, with staggering global ramifications. As Ronald Reagan’s budget director during Reagan’s first term, and then as a private businessman and increasingly appalled citizen, Stockman witnessed the degeneration of financial orthodoxy firsthand. While denouncing George W. Bush’s financial decisions and decrying Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as "the most incompetent, reckless ever," Stockman is most troubled by the current phase of the process - elephantine government debt. In The Great Deformation he offers his bold take on how America can save itself, in an era of supposed economic recovery in which the White House is in fact $1.645 trillion in debt. David Stockman served three terms as a Michigan congressman. He subsequently joined Salomon Brothers, was a partner at the Blackstone Group, formed the private equity investment fund Heartland Industrial Partners, and was CEO of Collins & Aikman Corp. He is currently chairperson emeritus of the Republican Majority for Choice and president of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also the author of the bestselling The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed, a major New York Times bestseller. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77792 THE WORLD THROUGH ARAB EYES Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East Telhami, Shibley CURRENT AFFAIRS / POLITICS Middle East Extent: 218 pp Basic Books (June 2013) Based on ten years of polling and research, a top expert explains the aspirations that fueled the Arab Spring and will reshape the Middle East in years to come. The Arab world is changing with astonishing speed. The protests of 2011 toppled autocrats and installed in their place governments of varying levels of stability. While the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor precipitated revolution, demographic and economic challenges have long simmered below the surface of outwardly stable regimes throughout the Arab world. Governments are losing their ability to unilaterally shape the national narrative. An increasing percentage of the population is young and dissatisfied with its prospects for economic security. Greater numbers than ever have access to the Internet, text messaging, social media and satellite TV. And despite widespread anger with U.S. policies, everyday Arabs have embraced aspects of Western culture and want Western-style freedoms in their own countries. Over the past decade, Shibley Telhami has conducted an annual opinion poll of the Arab world, and in "The Seeds of Spring" he applies his unparalleled knowledge and expertise to the events of the last two years. Drawing on a broad array of voices from the Arab world, he plumbs the depths of the Arab psyche to analyze the forces and emotions behind the uprisings. In all of the countries that have experienced protests, the demand for dignity has been foremost. The protestors display a potent national pride nursed through decades of perceived humiliations at the hands of the West, and at the same time desire a Western democratic political system. This complex relationship is key to comprehending the seismic changes in Arab politics and society, as well as to appreciating why American perceptions of the Arab world shifted so drastically in the wake of the Arab Spring. "The Seeds of Spring" is vital for anyone who wants to understand the vast implications the Arab uprisings have had and will continue to have for our world. Shibley Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. A frequent contributor to the nation's television, radio, and print media, he is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77779 THE ORIGIN OF FECES What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society Waltner-Toews, David GENERAL NON-FICITON Popular Science Extent: 58.000 words ECW Press (May 2013) An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives - evolutionary, ecological, and cultural - THE ORIGIN OF FECES shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces. David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian and epidemiologist, and the author of two previous popular science books. Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77679 UNSUITABLE FOR PUBLICATION Editing Queen Victoria Ward, Yvonne M. GENERAL NON-FICITON Biography / Profile Literary studies Extent: 168 pp Black Inc. (April 2013) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence. The book they produced would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come - but it was not the full story. The Queen’s two editors, Baron Esher and Arthur Benson, were deeply eccentric men. Both graduates of Eton, they moved in a world of gentlemen’s clubs, passionate male relationships and hidden political networks. Together, they would decide how the Queen was remembered. Based on unprecedented access to the original archives, UNSUITABLE FOR PUBLICATION reveals how key aspects of Victoria’s life were deemed unfit for public consumption: her experience of motherhood, her struggle to combine the roles of ruler and wife, and her intimate friendships with other royal European women. Absorbing and original, this is a fascinating piece of historical detective work. Yvonne M. Ward is a historian with a doctorate from La Trobe University. Her publications include the lead essay in a special edition of THE COURT HISTORIAN, published to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. "Original and important, this book represents a major contribution to our understanding of the modern British monarchy." - Sir David Cannadine "Hats off to Yvonne Ward ... who has exposed the gentlemanly networks that tried to hide the truth about Queen Victoria." - Robert Lacey, author of Majesty: Elizabeth II & the House of Windsor, Henry VIII and Royal. UK: Oneworld Publications; Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77715 THE UNGREAT WAR The Collapse of Austria-Hungary in Russia and Serbia, 1914 Wawro, Geoffrey HISTORY World-War I Extent: 159.000 words Basic Books (Spring 2014) This is a devastating account of the slow deterioration of the Austria-Hungary in fifty-odd-years between the Dual Monarchy’s formation in the 1860s and its collapse following the end of World War I. Wawro begins by describing the bloated bureaucracy and tangled cultural politics of late-nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary, moves on to the horrific bloodletting of the summer and fall of 1914, and finishes with the defensive stalemate and slow bleeding-out of the Dual Monarchy in the later years of the war. Geoffrey Wawro’s narrative reveals the inherent Austro-Hungarian weaknesses that plunged the world into war in the early 20th century, snuffing out millions of lives in the process. Breathtaking in its scope and revelations about World War I and its causes, The Sick Man represents not just an historiographic achievement but also an incredibly humane one. In detailing the egoism and hubris of the Austro-Hungarian leadership and the immense suffering of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers whom they drove to their deaths, Wawro has provided a stunning new lens through which to view the most terrible conflict of its time. Geoffrey Wawro is a prize-winning expert in Modern European history, specializing in the military history of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Europe. He is currently Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas in the Dallas Metroplex. From 2000-2005 he was Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Wawro holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, and has authored four highly regarded books, as well as co-editing the Cambridge Military Histories. He has published widely in both scholarly publications and mainstream media, and is a regular blogger on historical, diplomatic, and defense issues for The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post. He is fluent in German, French, and Italian, and has spent a recent academic leave in archives in Vienna and elsewhere in Europe, researching the topic of this book. (translatable manuscript: June/July 2013) Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77667 WARRIOR POSE How Yoga (Literally) Saved My Life Willis, Brad (aka Bhava Ram) BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Memoir, Autobiography Self-improvement Extent: 367 pp BenBella Books (May 2013) From the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Columbian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction. At the pinnacle of his career, a broken back and failed surgery left Willis permanently disabled and condemned to life in a body brace. Then came a diagnosis of terminal, stage IV throat cancer from exposure to depleted uranium on the battlefield. At his 50th birthday party, friends gathered around Willis, who was crippled, mute, muddled on narcotic medications, depressed, and dying. It was only halfway through the celebration that Willis realized the party's true purpose - his friends were there to say a final goodbye. Willis ultimately chose to abandon the Western medicine that had failed him and embrace the most ancient and esoteric practices of Yoga, becoming a warrior for self-healing and personal transformation. As a symbol of his journey, he took the spiritual name, Bhava Ram, which stands for Living from the Heart. His cancer gone and his body fully restored, Bhava Ram demonstrates not only the power of non-Western medicine to heal the body, mind and the soul, but the capacity within us all to take charge of our lives and overcome even the greatest of obstacles. WARRIOR POSE is an unforgettable story about the power of love between father and son, a memoir from the front lines of the most momentous events of our times, a transformational journey of self-healing, and an inspiration to all who seek inner peace and wholeness. http://www.bhavaram.com Zur Prüfung anfordern | |
 | | Title No: 77617 PARECOMIC Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics Wilson, Sean Michael Thompson, Carl BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY Comics / Graphic Novel Extent: 224 pp illustr. Seven Stories Press (March 2013) Parecomic is a graphic novel about something that affects us all: the system we live in - what is wrong with it, and how me might be able to change it for the better. Written by Sean Michel Wilson and drawn by Carl Thompson, Parecomic is about Michel Albert - the visionary behind "participatory economics" - and his life’s struggle as a left-wing activist in the US. Proposed as an alternative to capitalism, participatory economics (parecon, for short) values equity, solidarity, diversity and participatory self-management. In Albert’s vision, workers and consumers councils use self-managed decision-making, balanced job complexes, remuneration according to duration, intensity, and onerousness of socially valued labor, and participatory planning. Parecomic will guide readers through this anarchist-influenced economic system, alongside the biography that led to its development - beginning with the heady days of 1960s student demos and lifestyle rebellions; following the developments of the antiwar, civil rights, woman’s and Black Panthers movements; to the establishment of alternative media. The recent upsurge in popular protest in the US and around the world shows that people are not happy with the state of capitalism. Parecomic brings to life a new, more sustainable economic model in illustrated form. With an introduction by Noam Chomsky. Zur Prüfung anfordern |
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