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                                            Accessory to War
                                            The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and
                                            the Military
                                            Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
                                            An exploration of the age-old complicity between sky watchers
                                            and war fighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for
                                            People in a Hurry.
                                            In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship
                                            between science and military power, “the world’s best science
                                            communicator” (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil
                                            deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods
                                            and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of
ƒ NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is an astro-          war. “The overlap is strong, and it’s a two- way street”, say the
  physicist with the American Museum of
                                            authors, because the astrophysicists and military planners care
  Natural History, director of its world-
  famous Hayden Planetarium, host           about many of the same things: multi- spectral detection, rang-
  of the hit radio and TV show StarTalk     ing, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion and access
  and an award-winning author. AVIS
                                            to space. Tyson and Lang call it a “curiously complicit” alliance.
  LANG edited Tyson’s Natural History
  magazine column, Universe, from 2002          Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled war-
  until 2008, as well as his anthology      fare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative
  Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate
                                            examination of the intersection of science, technology, indus-
  Frontier.
ƒ Also by Neil deGrasse Tyson:              try and power that will introduce Tyson’s millions of fans to yet
  Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic     another dimension of how the universe has shaped our lives and
  Quandaries (ISBN 978 0 393 35038 8)
                                            our world.
  Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate
  Frontier (ISBN 978 0 393 35037 1)         ƒ Praise for Astrophysics For People in a Hurry (ISBN 978 0 393 60939 4):
  Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of          “The style is vintage Tyson–engaging, chatty and littered with historical and
  Cosmic Evolution (ISBN 978 0 393            linguistic anecdotes...”                                Times Higher Education
  35039 5)                                    “In an increasingly insular world, [Astrophysics For People in a Hurry] is a
  The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of       welcome window onto a much bigger picture.”                   The Sunday Times
  America’s Favorite Planet (ISBN 978 0       “...a collection of the best and most thrilling moments; astrophysics’ great-
  393 35036 4)                                est hits.”                                                         The Guardian
                                              “In Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, [Tyson] shares his awe, encapsulating
                                              everything known about the universe in 12 brief chapters, and giving a memo-
                                              rable spin to standard facts.”                                    New Scientist
                                              “...genuinely accessible.”            Summer Reading 2017, The Sunday Times
                                              “Written in a conversational style, [Astrophysics for People in a Hurry] pro-
                                              vides an accessible and fascinating introduction to a mindbending subject.”
                                                                                Summer’s Hottest Reads 2017, The Daily Mail
                                              “This book topped the nonfiction charts in America: not only a measure of
                                              Tyson’s standing as the popular face of space science in the US but also
                                              testimony to an admirably digestible introduction to a Big Subject.”
                                                                                   Books of the Year 2017: Science, The Times
                                              “...[Tyson] reveals a path through complex thought and theory in astrophys-
                                              ics for the reader...”        The 12 Books of Christmas 2017, BBC Sky at Night

                                            October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 06444 5 • 448pp • 155 x 235mm

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                                               Aroused
                                               The History of Hormones and How They Control Just
                                               About Everything
                                               Randi Hutter Epstein
                                               A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-
                                               old quest to control them.
                                               Metabolism, behaviour, sleep, mood swings, the immune system,
                                               fighting, fleeing, puberty and sex: these are just a few of the things
                                               our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit
                                               and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on
                                               a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals
                                               from a basement filled with jarred nineteenth-century brains to a
ƒ RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, the author             twenty-first-century hormone clinic in Los Angeles.
  of Get Me Out (ISBN 978 0 393
                                                  Brimming with fascinating anecdotes, illuminating new medi-
  33906 2), is an adjunct professor at
  Columbia University and a lecturer           cal research and humorous details, Aroused introduces the leading
  at Yale University. Her writing has          scientists who made life-changing discoveries about the hormone
  appeared in The New York Times and
                                               imbalances that ail us, as well as the charlatans who used those
  the Psychology Today blog, amongst
  others.                                      discoveries to peddle false remedies.
                                               August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 23960 7 • 336pp • 155 x 235mm

                                                     End of the Megafauna
                                                     The Fate of The World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and
                                                     Strangest Animals
                                                     Ross D.E. MacPhee
                                                     Illustrated by Peter Schouten
                                                     The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest
                                                     animals on earth.
                                                     Until a few thousand years ago, creatures—“megafauna”—
                                                     that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth.
                                                     With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone.
                                                        Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the
ƒ Paleomammologist ROSS D. E. MACPHEE
                                                     disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths, examining the
  is curator of mammals at the American              extinction theories, weighing the evidence and presenting his
  Museum of Natural History. His work has            conclusions. He comments on how past extinctions can shed light
  appeared in Science and Nature, and he
  has conducted more than forty paleonto-
                                                     on future losses and on the possibility of bringing back extinct
  logical expeditions in fourteen countries.         species through genetic engineering. Gorgeous four-colour illus-
                                                     trations bring these megabeasts back to life in vivid detail.

November • £25.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 24929 3 • 256pp • 203 x 254mm • 78 illustrations

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                                             Click Here to Kill Everybody
                                             Peril and Promise in a Hyper-Connected World
                                             Bruce Schneier
                                             A best-selling author and renowned security expert reveals the rise
                                             and risks of a new Goliath: our massively networked, world-sized web.
                                             We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of intercon-
                                             nected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the
                                             “World-Sized Web”. It includes everything from driverless cars to smart
                                             thermostats, from billboards that respond to specific people to drones
                                             equipped with their own behavioural algorithms. While the World-Sized
                                             Web carries enormous potential, Schneier argues that we are unprepared
                                             for the vulnerabilities it brings. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now
ƒ The best-selling author of the “excel-     crash your car, pacemaker and home security system and everyone else’s.
  lent” (The Observer) Data and Goliath          Click Here to Kill Everybody explores the risks and security implica-
  (ISBN 978 0 393 35217 7), BRUCE
  SCHNEIER is the CTO of IBM’s Resilient     tions of the World-Sized Web and lays out common-sense policies that
  Systems, a fellow at Harvard’s             will allow us to enjoy the benefits of this new omnipotent age without
  Berkman Center and a fellow at the         surrendering ourselves entirely to our creation.
  New America Foundation’s Open
  Technology Institute .
                                             October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 60888 5 • 288pp • 155 x 235mm

                                             Einstein’s Monsters
                                             The Life and Times of Black Holes
                                             Chris Impey
                                             The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understand-
                                             ing the history and future of our universe.
                                             Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every
                                             galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein’s Monsters, Chris
                                             Impey builds on this profound discovery to explore questions at the cut-
                                             ting edge of cosmology, such as what happens if you travel into a black
                                             hole and whether the galaxy or its black hole came first.
                                                 Impey chronicles the role black holes have played in theoretical
                                             physics. He then describes the phenomena that scientists have wit-
ƒ CHRIS IMPEY is a distinguished profes-     nessed while observing black holes: dozens of stars swarming around
  sor in the Department of Astronomy at      the dark object at the centre of our galaxy; black holes performing
  the University of Arizona and the criti-
  cally acclaimed author of Beyond (ISBN     gravitational waltzes with normal stars; the cymbal clash of two black
  978 0 393 35215 3), How It Began,          holes colliding, releasing ripples in spacetime. Einstein’s Monsters is the
  (ISBN 978 0 393 34386 1) and How           incredible story of one of the most enigmatic entities in nature.
  It Ends, (ISBN 978 0 393 33998 7) as
  well as two astronomy textbooks.           November • £22.00 • ISBN 978 1 324 00093 8 • 304pp • 155 x 235mm • 68 illustrations

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                                         Aladdin
                                         A New Translation
                                         Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta
                                         Translated by Yasmine Seale
                                         A dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice,
                                         tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.
                                         Long defined by film adaptations that have portrayed Aladdin as a
                                         simplistic rags-to-riches story for children, this work of dazzling imagi-
                                         nation—and occasionally dark themes—now comes to vibrant new life.
                                         “In the capital of one of China’s vast and wealthy kingdoms”, begins
                                         Shahrazad, there lived Aladdin, a rebellious fifteen-year-old who falls
                                         prey to a double-crossing sorcerer and is ultimately saved by a princess.
ƒ PAULO LEMOS HORTA is a professor           One of the best-loved folktales of all time, Aladdin has been cap-
  of literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, and    turing the imagination of readers, illustrators and filmmakers since
  is the author of Marvellous Thieves.
  YASMINE SEALE is a writer and trans-   an eighteenth-century French publication first added the tale to The
  lator from Arabic and French, whose    Arabian Nights. Here is an elegant, eminently readable rendition of
  writing has appeared in Harpers,       Aladdin in what is destined to be a classic for decades to come.
  The Nation and the London Review
  of Books among other publications.
                                         November • £17.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 516 8 • 144pp • 140 x 210mm • 13 illustrations

                                         The Oresteia
                                         Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes at Athens
                                         Aeschylus
                                         Translated by Oliver Taplin
                                         This spellbinding, ground-breaking translation re-energises
                                         Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice and the
                                         efforts to bring peace after generations of strife.
                                         One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia tril-
                                         ogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of
                                         Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband’s return
                                         from war to commit a terrible act of retribution. The next plays, radi-
                                         cally retitled here as The Women at the Graveside and Orestes in Athens,
ƒ OLIVER TAPLIN is emeritus professor    deal with the aftermath of the regicide, Orestes’ search to avenge his
  of classics at the University of       father’s death and his ceaseless torment. A powerful discourse on the
  Oxford. His books range from The
  Stagecraft of Aeschylus to Pots &      formation of democracy, The Oresteia illuminates the tensions between
  Plays. He has recently published       loyalty to one’s family and to the community. In this classic for future
  translations of Euripides’ Medea       generations, Oliver Taplin captures the lyricism of the original.
  and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
  and Other Tragedies.                   August • £21.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 466 6 • 224pp •140 x 210mm

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                                             The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
                                             Bertolt Brecht
                                             Translated and Edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine
                                             One of the most important poetry publications in years, The Collected
                                             Poems of Bertolt Brecht appears in English for the first time.
                                             Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth
                                             century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very
                                             rare phenomenon, a great poet”. Hugely prolific, Brecht wrote some
                                             2,000 poems and songs—though fewer than half were published in his
                                             lifetime and early editions were extremely selective. Now, award-winning
                                             translators Tom Kuhn and David Constantine give us the most compre-
                                             hensive English collection of Brecht’s poetry to date. Written between
ƒ BERTOLT BRECHT (1898-1956) was             1913 and 1956, these poems celebrate Brecht’s unquenchable “love of
  a German poet, playwright and              life, the desire for better and more of it” and reflect the technical vir-
  theatre director. TOM KUHN teaches
  at the University of Oxford, where
                                             tuosity of an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, as well as by the
  he is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College.       untrammelled forces of love and erotic desire. The Collected Poems of
  DAVID CONSTANTINE is a freelance           Bertolt Brecht is a monumental achievement and a reclamation.
  writer and translator.
                                             ƒ Also available: Love Poems (ISBN 978 0 87140 856 3).
                                             November • £35.00 • ISBN 978 0 87140 767 2 • 1456pp • 155 x 235mm • A Liveright book

                                                  The Hebrew Bible
                                                  A Translation With Commentary
                                                  Robert Alter
                                                  A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning
                                                  translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original.
                                                  A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert
                                                  Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reani-
                                                  mates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing
                                                  its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful
                                                  prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary
                                                  power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of
ƒ ROBERT ALTER’s translation of the Hebrew        Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom
  Bible has won the PEN Center Literary
  Award for Translation. Alter is the
                                                  of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these
  Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and           magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling
  Comparative Literature at the University        immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which qui-
  of California, Berkeley.
                                                  etly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of
                                                  the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible.
                                                  December • £90.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 29249 7 • 3,500pp • 155 x 235mm • 3 maps

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                                               Elegy Landscapes
                                               Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
                                               Stanley Plumly
                                               A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English
                                               Romantic painters.
                                               Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of
                                               two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W.
                                               Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime
                                               and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed
                                               the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate,
                                               close-up perspective.
                                                   Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’
ƒ Winner of the Truman Capote Award and        lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though
  the Paterson Poetry Prize, STANLEY PLUMLY    connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in
  teaches at the University of Maryland.
ƒ Also available: the “obsessive, intricate,   achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the
  intimate, and brilliant” (The Washington     relationship between artist and artwork, Elegy Landscapes takes
  Post) Posthumous Keats (ISBN 978 0 393       a wide-angled look at the philosophy of the sublime.
  33772 3) and The Immortal Evening (ISBN
  978 0 393 35306 8).                          September • £23.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 65150 8 • 208pp • 140 x 235mm
                                               8 pages of illustrations

                                               The Ghost Script
                                               A Graphic Novel
                                               Jules Feiffer
                                               Never has the incomparable Jules Feiffer been more eerily pro-
                                               phetic than in this stunning finale to his best-selling Kill My
                                               Mother trilogy.
                                               Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in
                                               this epic finale. In The Ghost Script, he plunges us into the blowzy,
                                               boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts, Reds,
                                               pinkos, starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind,
                                               the renamed “Cousin Joseph”, running an underground clearing
ƒ JULES FEIFFER is a cartoonist, playwright,   house for victims of the entertainment world’s purge. Stumbling
  screenwriter, children’s book author and     his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-
  illustrator, and member of the American      talking good guy, always a step or two behind, in this story of plots,
  Academy of Arts and Letters.
ƒ Also available: Kill My Mother (ISBN 978     counterplots and goon violence. In this satiric assault on America’s
  1 63149 106 1), “perfection of its kind”     past and present, Feiffer shows how the arc of history evolves from
  (New Statesman) and Cousin Joseph            starry dreams to thwarted and sold-out dreams.
  (ISBN 978 1 63149 065 1).
                                               August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 313 3 • 160pp • 226 x 287mm • A Liveright book

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                                                   Home After Dark
                                                   A Novel
                                                   David Small
                                                   A savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry, like no other
                                                   work of recent fiction or film.
                                                   Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is
                                                   a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence
                                                   in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking classics such as The Lord
                                                   of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his
                                                   mother, follows his father to California in search of a dream. Forced
                                                   to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a
                                                   dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of
ƒ DAVID SMALL, author of The New York
                                                   malicious boys who bully Russell for being “queer”. Rescued from
  Times best-selling Stitches (ISBN 978
  0 393 33896 6), is the recipient of the          his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immi-
  Caldecott Medal, the Christopher Medal           grant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays them by running
  and the E.B. White Award.
                                                   away with their restaurant’s proceeds. Told through thousands
                                                   of spliced images, Home After Dark is a new form of literature, a
                                                   shocking graphic interpretation of cinema verité.
October • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 87140 315 5 • 400pp • 178 x 229mm • A Liveright book

                                            Kafkaesque
                                            Fourteen Short Stories
                                            Peter Kuper
                                            Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerising
                                            interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.
                                            Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illus-
                                            trating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master’s dark humour,
                                            Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths.
                                            Working from new translations of the classic texts, Kuper has reim-
                                            agined these iconic stories for the twenty-first century, using setting
                                            and perspective to comment on contemporary issues.
                                                Long-time lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper’s innova-
ƒ PETER KUPER is a visiting professor       tive interpretations, while Kafka novices will discover a haunting
  at Harvard University. He frequently      introduction to some of the great writer’s most beguiling stories.
  contributes cartoons to The New
  Yorker and is the illustrator of Mad      Kafkaesque stands somewhere between adaptation and wholly
  magazine’s “Spy vs. Spy”. His previ-      original creation, going beyond a simple illustration of Kafka’s
  ous graphic novel, Ruins, won an          words to become a stunning work of art.
  Eisner Award.
                                            October • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 63562 1 • 160pp • 155 x 235mm

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                                        These Truths
                                        A History of the United States
                                        Jill Lepore
                                        In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades,
                                        award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of
                                        the origins and rise of a divided nation.
                                        The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths”, Jefferson
                                        called them—political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of
                                        the people. And it rests, too, “on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and
                                        unflinching”, writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into
                                        the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation’s history.
                                            Telling the story of America, beginning in 1492, These Truths asks
ƒ JILL LEPORE is the David Woods        whether the course of events has proven the nation’s founding truths or
  Kemper ‘41 Professor of American      belied them. Finding meaning in contradiction, Lepore weaves American
  History at Harvard University and a
  staff writer at The New Yorker. Her   history into a tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of tech-
  many books include the bestsell-      nological progress and moral anguish. This spellbinding chronicle offers
  ing The Secret History of Wonder      an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.
  Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist
  for the National Book Award.
                                        October • £30.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 63524 9 • 960pp • 155 x 235mm • 127 illustrations

                                        Empress
                                        The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
                                        Ruby Lal
                                        Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Her legend still
                                        lives, but her story was lost—until now.
                                        In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble
                                        and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite
                                        wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute
                                        politician as well as a devoted partner, she issued imperial orders; coins
                                        of the realm bore her name. When Jahangir was imprisoned by a rebel-
                                        lious nobleman, the Empress led troops into battle and rescued him.
                                            The only woman to acquire the stature of empress in her male-dom-
ƒ RUBY LAL is professor of South        inated world, Nur was also a talented dress designer and innovative
  Asian history at Emory University.    architect whose work inspired her stepson’s Taj Mahal. Nur’s confident
  She is the author of Coming of Age
  in Nineteenth Century India and       assertion of talent and power is revelatory; it far exceeded the author-
  Domesticity and Power in the Early    ity of her female contemporaries, including Elizabeth I. Here, she finally
  Mughal World.                         receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography.
                                        August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 23934 8 • 320pp • 155 x 235mm • 8 pages of illustrations

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                                                   The Art of C.G. Jung
                                                   The Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung
                                                   A lavishly illustrated volume of C.G. Jung’s visual work, from
                                                   drawing to painting to sculpture.
                                                   The landmark publication of C.G. Jung’s The Red Book spurred
                                                   enormous interest in Jung—not just as a founding figure in
                                                   modern psychology but also as a creative man with tremen-
                                                   dous figurative and ornamental flair and a vibrant eye for
                                                   colour. Expanding beyond that singular achievement, The
                                                   Art of C.G. Jung presents a comprehensive display of Jung’s
                                                   creative legacy, exploring through text and image Jung’s
ƒ Based in Zurich, THE FOUNDATION                  encounters with visual art as maker, collector and viewer.
  OF THE WORKS OF C.G. JUNG was
  established by the society of heirs                  While in his lifetime Jung did not wish to be considered an
  of C.G. Jung in 2007 to maintain and             “artist” and published his visual work anonymously, the images
  develop the literary and creative
                                                   reproduced here demonstrate the attainment of fully realised
  heritage of Jung and his wife, Emma
  Jung-Rauschenbach.                               artistic ambitions. The Art of C.G. Jung beautifully mirrors the intel-
                                                   lectual and personal development so renowned in Jung’s writings.

November • £60.00 • ISBN 978 0 393 25487 7 • 269pp • 241 x 279mm • 254 illustrations

                                            Help!
                                            The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and The Magic of Collaboration
                                            Thomas Brothers
                                            The fascinating story of how creative cooperation inspired two of the
                                            world’s most celebrated musical acts.
                                            The Beatles and Duke Ellington’s Orchestra stand as the two greatest
                                            examples of collaboration in music history. Thomas Brothers delivers a
                                            portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the coop-
                                            erative method at the foundation of these two artist-groups was the
                                            primary reason for their unmatched musical success.
                                                While clarifying the historical record of who wrote what, with whom
                                            and how, Brothers brings the past to life with photos, anecdotes and
ƒ THOMAS BROTHERS, a professor of           more than thirty years of musical knowledge, and analysis of songs from
  music at Duke University, is the author   “Strawberry Fields Forever” to “Chelsea Bridge”. Help! describes in rich
  of the “convincing” (Daily Mail) Louis
  Armstrong’s New Orleans (ISBN 978 0 393   detail the music and mastery of two cultural leaders whose popularity
  33001 4) and the “wonderful” (Literary    has never dimmed, and the process of collaboration that allowed them
  Review) finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,   to achieve an artistic vision greater than the sum of their parts.
  Louis Armstrong, Master of
  Modernism (ISBN 978 0 393 35080 7).       November • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24623 0 • 155 x 235mm • 368pp • 30 Illustrations

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                                             Essential Essays
                                             Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
                                             Adrienne Rich
                                             Edited by Sandra M. Gilbert
                                             A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly
                                             political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
                                             The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s (1929-
                                             2012) most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of
                                             her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry,
                                             race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and relevant today.

                                            October • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 65236 9 • 352pp • 155 x 235mm

 Because
 A Lyric Memoir
 Joshua Mensch
 A gripping verse memoir that offers a compassionate and wrenching
 account of the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse.
 Because explores with extraordinary sophistication the toxic power
 of adults who prey on the children in their care. An unflinching take
 on the vulnerabilities and dangers of childhood, Because succumbs
 neither to self-pity nor platitudes but instead finds consolation in
 the healing power of its own narrative act.

 August • £18.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 63522 5 • 96pp • 140 x 210mm

                                             A Miscellany
                                             E.E. Cummings
                                             Edited by George James Firmage
                                             Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further
                                             light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
                                             Formally fractured and yet gleefully whole, E.E. Cummings’s (1894-1962)
                                             ground breaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of lan-
                                             guage. In A Miscellany his essays explore everything from Cubism to the
                                             circus, analyse his poetic contemporaries and satirise New York society.
                                             As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany “contain[s] a
                                             great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today.
                                             August • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 87140 653 8 • 336pp • 127 x 203mm • A Liveright book

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                                          After Emily
                                          Two Remarkable Women and The Legacy of America’s
                                          Greatest Poet
                                          Julie Dobrow
                                          The untold story of the mother and daughter who opened the door to
                                          Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
                                          Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read American poet but the
                                          story behind her work’s publication in 1890 is barely known.
                                              After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd
                                          and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham and the powerful liter-
                                          ary legacy they shared. Mabel’s complicated relationships with the
                                          Dickinsons—including her thirteen-year extramarital affair with Emily’s
ƒ JULIE DOBROW is a profes-               brother, Austin—roiled the small town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Julie
  sor and director of the Center
                                          Dobrow has unearthed hundreds of primary sources to tell this compel-
  for Interdisciplinary Studies at
  Tufts University. Her writing has       ling story and reveal the surprising impact Mabel and Millicent had on
  appeared in publications such as        the Emily Dickinson we know today.
  The Boston Globe Magazine and
  The Huffington Post.
                                          November • £19.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24926 2 • 155 x 235mm • 384pp
                                          51 illustrations; 1 map

                                          Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
                                          The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
                                          Anne Boyd Rioux
                                          Rediscover the beloved classic Little Women and its lasting power as
                                          it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
                                          Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became
                                          an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it
                                          in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching
                                          it, she has seen its effect on many others. In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, she
                                          recounts Louisa May Alcott’s inspiration for the book and examines why
                                          this tale set in the American Civil War has resonated through time.
                                              Alcott’s novel has moved generations of women, amongst them writ-
ƒ ANNE BOYD RIOUX, a professor at the     ers such as Simone de Beauvoir, J.K. Rowling, Cynthia Ozick and Ursula
  University of New Orleans and author    K. Le Guin. Rioux sees the novel’s beating heart in its portrayal of family
  of Constance Fenimore Woolson
  (ISBN 978 0 393 24509 7), and editor    resilience and its look at the struggles of girls growing into women. In
  of Miss Grief and Other Stories (ISBN   gauging its current status, she shows why it remains a book with such
  978 0 393 35200 9), has received        power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives.
  two National Endowment for the
  Humanities awards.                      September • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 25473 0 • 352pp • 155 x 235mm • 30 illustrations

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                                                Rampage
                                                MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
                                                James M. Scott
                                                The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war
                                                in the Pacific.
                                                By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General
                                                Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines.
                                                He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard
                                                in Manila, a city he loved dearly. But the Japanese had other ideas. While
                                                their command had agreed to abandon Manila after the fall of Leyte, a
                                                rogue Japanese admiral instructed his troops to fight to the death. The
                                                result was the catastrophic destruction of the city, and a rampage that
 ƒ JAMES M. SCOTT is the author of              terrorised the civilian population. An estimated 100,000 civilians lost
   Target Tokyo (ISBN 978 0 393 35227           their lives in a massacre as heinous as the “Rape of Nanking”.
   6), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,
   The War Below and The Attack on                  Based on extensive research, war-crimes testimony, after-
   the Liberty.                                 action reports and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the
                                                most heart-breaking chapters of Pacific war history.
                                                November • £22.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24694 0 • 640pp • 155 x 235mm
                                                16 pages of illustrations; 10 maps

                                                      The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses
                                                      S. Grant
                                                      Ulysses S. Grant
                                                      Edited by Elizabeth D. Samet
                                                      With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced
                                                      the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs yet.
                                                      Originally published in 1885 by Mark Twain, Ulysses Grant’s land-
                                                      mark memoir has been annotated by Elizabeth Samet in this lavish
                                                      edition. No previous edition combines such a sweep of histori-
                                                      cal and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet,
                                                      obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table.
                                                          Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or pre-
 ƒ ELIZABETH D. SAMET is the author of                senting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a
   Leadership (ISBN 978 0 393 60366 8). Her
   essays and reviews have been published             richly annotated edition. Never has Grant’s transformation from
   in various publications, including The New         tanner’s son to military leader been more insightfully and pas-
   York Times Magazine, The New York Times            sionately explained than in this timely edition, appearing on the
   Book Review and The New Republic.
                                                      150th anniversary of Grant’s 1868 presidential election.
 November • £32.00 • ISBN 978 1 63149 244 0 • 1,024pp • 178 x 235mm • 83 illustrations • A Liveright book

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                                        Blood & Ivy
                                        The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
                                        Paul Collins
                                        A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America’s
                                        most celebrated university.
                                        On 23 November 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest
                                        men vanished. Dr George Parkman, who owned much of Boston’s West
                                        End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard
                                        Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbour but a
                                        Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless ben-
                                        efactor had not left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery
                                        engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials, The Commonwealth
ƒ PAUL COLLINS is the author of         of Massachusetts vs. John White Webster, Harvard’s professor of chem-
  nine books of non-fiction. He is a     istry. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbing and dismemberment;
  Guggenheim Fellow and chair of
  the English department at Portland    it became a landmark in the use of medical forensics. Rich in characters
  State University.                     and atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new
                                        science and old money in one of America’s greatest murder mysteries.

                                        August • £18.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 24516 5 • 320pp • 155 x 235mm • 8 illustrations

                                        Black Flags, Blue Waters
                                        The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
                                        Eric Jay Dolin
                                        With tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches and high-seas intrigue,
                                        Black Flags, Blue Waters reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy.
                                        Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of piracy’s “Golden
                                        Age”—spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s—when lawless
                                        pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Eric Jay
                                        Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these out-
                                        rageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown and
                                        then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish
                                        glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this
ƒ ERIC JAY DOLIN is the author of       period. Also brilliantly detailed are the pirates’ manifold enemies.
  Leviathan (ISBN 978 0 393 33157       Upending misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin pro-
  8) and Brilliant Beacons (ISBN
  978 1 63149 250 1). He lives in       vides this original account of the seafaring outlaws whose raids
  Marblehead, Massachusetts,            reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.
  from which the pirate John Quelch
  departed in 1703 and returned to in   October • £21.00 • ISBN 978 1 63149 210 5 • 400pp • 155 x 235mm • 100 illustrations
  1704, only to be hanged in Boston.    A Liveright book

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                                          American Eden
                                          David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of
                                          the Early Republic
                                          Victoria Johnson
                                          The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—physician whose dream to
                                          build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.
                                          When Dr David Hosack tilled America’s first botanical garden in the
                                          Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn’t just dra-
                                          matically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of
                                          advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences.
                                          A charismatic dreamer admired by the likes of Jefferson, Madison
                                          and Humboldt, and intimate friends with both Hamilton and Burr, the
 ƒ VICTORIA JOHNSON, a former             Columbia professor devoted his life to inspiring Americans to pursue
   Cullman Fellow, is currently an
                                          medicine and botany with a rigour to rival Europe’s. Though he was
   associate professor of urban policy
   and planning at Hunter College in      shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding fathers Hosack and his story
   New York City where she teaches on     remain unknown. Now Victoria Johnson eloquently chronicles Hosack’s
   the history of philanthropy.
                                          tireless career to reveal the breadth of his impact.
                                          August • £23.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 419 2 • 448pp • 155 x 235mm
                                          16 pages of illustrations • A Liveright book

                                          Still Waters
                                          The Secret World of Lakes
                                          Curt Stager
                                          A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world.
                                          Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature
                                          but because we are so much a part of it. While many of our effects on
                                          the natural world today are new, from climate change to nuclear fall-
                                          out, our connections to it are ancient, as core samples from lake beds
                                          reveal. In Still Waters, Curt Stager introduces us to the worlds hidden
                                          beneath the surfaces of our most remarkable lakes, leading us on a
                                          journey from the wilds of Siberia to the Sea of Galilee.
                                             Through decades of first-hand investigations, Stager examines the
 ƒ CURT STAGER is a professor of natu-    significance of our impact on some of the world’s most iconic inland
   ral sciences at Paul Smith’s College   waters. Along the way he discovers the stories these lakes contain
   in New York. He has published
   in periodicals such as Science,        about us. For him, lakes are not only mirrors reflecting our place in the
   National Geographic and The New        natural world but also windows into our history, culture and the primal
   York Times.                            connections we share with all life.
                                          August • £21.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 29216 9 • 304pp • 155 x 235mm • 37 photographs

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                                                 Wit’s End
                                                 What Wit Is, How It Works, And Why We Need It
                                                 James Geary
                                                 “A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between
                                                 waggishness and wisdom.”                         Stephen Fry
                                                 James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innova-
                                                 tion to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons
                                                 that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s
                                                 the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the
                                                 optical wit of artists and the metaphysical wit of philosophers.
                                                     In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a differ-
                                                 ent style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as
ƒ JAMES GEARY is the author of four pre-
  vious books, including The New York
                                                 a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the
  Times bestseller The World in a Phrase         spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap and the
  and is the deputy curator at Harvard           heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Demonstrating that brevity really is
  University’s Nieman Foundation for
  Journalism. He is a sought-after
                                                 the soul of wit, Geary crafts each chapter from concise sections of 200,
  speaker and avid juggler.                      400 or 800 words. Entertaining and illuminating Wit’s End shows how wit
                                                 is much more than a sense of humour.
                                                 November • £14.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 25494 5 • 140 x 211mm • 128pp

                                                      Did You Just Eat That?
                                                      Two Scientists Explore Double-Dipping, the Five-
                                                      Second Rule, and other Food Myths in the Lab
                                                      Paul Dawson & Brian Sheldon
                                                      A rollicking yet rigorous inquiry that follows the science of germs
                                                      into the kitchen, restaurant and everywhere else you eat and drink.
                                                      Did You Just Eat That? provides the answers to perennial ques-
                                                      tions about food and germs, such as whether electric hand dryers
                                                      spread fewer germs than paper towels or about picking a crisp off
                                                      the ground within five seconds of dropping it.
                                                          The authors show how they have determined everything from
                                                      how much bacteria gets transferred from sharing utensils to how
ƒ PAUL DAWSON is a professor at Clemson               many microbes live on restaurant menus. They list their materi-
  University whose work has been featured
                                                      als and methods, guide the reader through their results and offer
  on NPR, CNN, Headlines News and MSNBC,
  among other media outlets. BRIAN SHELDON            explanations of food safety and microbiology. Written with humour,
  is a professor emeritus in food microbiology        this fascinating book reveals surprising answers to the weirdest and
  at North Carolina State University.
                                                      most commonly debated questions about food and germs.
                                                      November • £14.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 60975 2 • 224pp • 155 x 210mm • Illustrated

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                                                    Bake Like a French Pastry Chef
                                                    Delectable Cakes, Perfect Tarts, Flaky Croissants,
                                                    and More
                                                    Michel de Rovira and Augustin Paluel-Marmont
                                                    Master the art of French baking with 70 accessible step-by-
                                                    step recipes.
                                                    Bake Like a French Pastry Chef addresses the secrets of French
                                                    pastry including how croissants get their flaky layers, the differ-
                                                    ence between pastry cream and Bavarian cream, what a Genoise
                                                    cake is and whether mille-feuilles can be made at home.
                                                        Created by the Parisian masters Michel et Augustin, this com-
                                                    prehensive guide starts from the batters, doughs and creams
 ƒ MICHEL DE ROVIRA and AUGUSTIN PALUEL-
   MARMONT are the co-founders of the               that form the building blocks of French pastry and includes com-
   Paris-based Michel et Augustin. These            plete recipes from brioche to mousse-filled cakes. Step-by-step
   two kooky cookies strive to share French         instructions and tips give readers the confidence to achieve pastry
   pastry know-how around the world.
                                                    perfection. For Francophiles and pastry lovers, this charming
                                                    manual covers the techniques taught in pastry schools worldwide.
 September • Paper • £19.99 • ISBN 978 1 68268 194 7 • 304pp • 216 x 279mm • 70 colour photographs and illustrations
 A Countryman Press book

                                              Growing a Revolution
                                              Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
                                              David R. Montgomery
                                              An inspiring vision for restoring the soil that feeds us all and turns
                                              agriculture into a solution for environmental crises.
                                              In Growing a Revolution, David R. Montgomery leads us on a journey to
                                              see how innovative farmers are adopting complex rotations to restore
                                              the soil, showing how agriculture can help solve our environmental woes.
                                              “How can humanity feed its burgeoning billions when one-third of
                                              agricultural soil is degraded? Pondering that question propelled geolo-
                                              gist David Montgomery on a three-decade, six-continent survey of
                                              farmland. The insights gleaned add nuance to his pointed critiques of
 ƒ DAVID R. MONTGOMERY is a professor         agrotechnology and organic farming, but it’s the findings on rapid soil
   of geomorphology at the University
   of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur         restoration that compel.”                                        Nature
   Fellow. He is the author of The Rocks      “David Montgomery... is one of our most eloquent and precise earth
   Don’t Lie (ISBN 978 0 393 34624 4)
   and co-author of The Hidden Half of        science communicators... [He] has a knack for opening our minds to
   Nature (ISBN 978 0 393 35337 2).           large, critically important questions.”              New Scientist
                                              August • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35609 0 • 320pp • 140 x 210mm

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                                        The Odyssey
                                        Homer
                                        Translated by Emily Wilson
                                        A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble
                                        gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life.
                                        “...a cultural landmark.”                  Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian
                                        “...an Odyssey for our moment...”                                The Spectator
                                        “Wilson’s version is an exciting one, all the better I guess for forc-
                                        ing us to think how approachable, how weird, how everyday Homeric
                                        language ever was.”           Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement
                                        “For a translation of The Odyssey that knows what it is talking about
                                        and sings as it speaks, this is the one to read.”    New Statesman
ƒ EMILY WILSON is a professor of
  classical studies at the University   “...a superb achievement... a wonderfully distinctive—and modern—
  of Pennsylvania and the translator    version of the poem.”                     London Evening Standard
  of Seneca’s Six Tragedies.
ƒ “...a monumental piece of work...”    “...combines intellectual authority with addictive readability.”
  Stig Abell, BBC Radio 4 Front Row                                        Edith Hall, The Sunday Telegraph

                                        November • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35625 0 • 592pp • 140 x 210mm • 3 maps

                                        The Collector of Lives
                                        Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
                                        Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney
                                        A lively introduction to a seminal figure in the very human story of art.
                                        “The authors’ greatest service to their subject is to reestablish him
                                        as a tireless artist and a central witness to an epic period of Italian
                                        history...”                                         The Sunday Times
                                        “Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney place [Vasari] again at the
                                        centre of 16th-century Italian art.”
                                                              Art Books of the Year 2017, The Sunday Times
                                        “...an important book... The authors have done a commendable
                                        job of returning to his rightful place the man who inflated the
ƒ INGRID ROWLAND is an award-           reputation of art and artists so successfully that he himself was
  winning author, a regular
  contributor to The New York
                                        squeezed out of the picture.”                      The Economist
  Review of Books, and a professor      “...a page-turningly compelling overview of Giorgio Vasari and his
  of classics, art and architecture
  based in Rome. NOAH CHARNEY is an
                                        age...”                                            Literary Review
  internationally best-selling author   November • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35636 6 • 432pp • 140 x 210mm
  and professor of art history.         8 pages of colour illustrations; 3 maps

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                                            DNA Is Not Destiny
                                            The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship
                                            between You and Your Genes
                                            Steven J. Heine
                                            One of the world’s leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype
                                            surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties
                                            about our genes.
                                            Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced and scien-
                                            tists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Steven J. Heine
                                            argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results
                                            is to misinterpret them completely.
                                                In DNA Is Not Destiny, Heine shares his research to not only show
 ƒ STEVEN J. HEINE is Professor of          what your genes can tell you about your health, intelligence, ethnic
   Social and Cultural Psychology and
                                            identity and family but also highlight the psychological biases that
   Distinguished University Scholar at
   the University of British Columbia.      make us so vulnerable to the media hype. Heine’s fresh, surprising
   He has published over seventy            conclusions about the promise, and limits, of genetic engineering
   articles in such periodicals as
                                            and DNA testing upend conventional thinking and reveal a simple,
   Science and Nature.
                                            profound truth: your genes create life—but they do not control it.
                                            September • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35580 2 • 352pp • 140 x 210mm

                                            Technically Wrong
                                            Why Digital Products Are Designed to Fail You
                                            Sara Wachter-Boettcher
                                            A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked
                                            into digital products—and harm us all.
                                            Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we
                                            want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us
                                            ask how all these digital products are designed or why. Many of the
                                            services we rely on are full of oversights, biases and ethical night-
                                            mares. Technically Wrong takes an unflinching look at the values,
                                            processes and assumptions that lead to these problems and more.
                                            Wachter-Boettcher demystifies the tech industry, leaving those of
 ƒ “This is a powerful read reflecting       us on the other side of the screen better prepared to make informed
   on the prejudices that lurk within a     choices about the services we use—and demand more from the com-
   powerful industry.”
     25 best books for IT leaders, IT Pro   panies behind them.
 ƒ SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER is a web          “The stories [Sara Wachter-Boettcher] tells... are good, as are the
   consultant. She helps organisations
   make sense of their digital content      examples she provides of corporate failure.”      The Sunday Times
   and speaks at conferences worldwide.     November • Paper • £10.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35604 5 • 240pp • 119mm x 185mm

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                                        Machine, Platform, Crowd
                                        Harnessing the Digital Revolution
                                        Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson
                                        A user’s guide to the digital economy.
                                        Machine, Platform, Crowd explains how digital technologies are chang-
                                        ing the ways that companies organise themselves, perform, improve
                                        and compete. Digital disruptions stem from three main sources: the
                                        integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of
                                        the core and the crowd. Technological progress is shifting the balance
                                        by stressing the second element of the pair.
                                        “For an astute romp through important digital trends, Machine,
                                        Platform, Crowd is hard to beat.”                The Economist
ƒ Authors of The Second Machine Age
  (ISBN 978 0 393 35064 7), ANDREW
                                        “...a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big
  MCAFEE served on the faculty          data and the sharing economy.”
  of the Harvard Business School                 FT business books of the month: June 2017, Financial Times
  before going to MIT and ERIK
  BRYNJOLFSSON is a professor at the    “...a thorough grounding for the digital warrior in the driving forces of
  MIT Sloan School of Management.       the 21st-century economy.”                      Times Higher Education
                                        October • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35606 9 • 416pp • 140 x 210mm

                                        So Much Things to Say
                                        The Oral History of Bob Marley
                                        Roger Steffens
                                        The world’s leading reggae scholar has spent forty years interviewing
                                        Bob Marley. This is the definitive telling of Marley’s life.
                                        Roger Steffens toured with Marley for two weeks of his final tour in 1979
                                        and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens’ award-winning radio
                                        show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholar-
                                        ship to tell the story of Marley’s life.
                                        “...So Much Things to Say is a major work that helps us better under-
                                        stand Marley’s tragic yet inspirational tale.”                   Mojo
                                        “... a fitting tribute to the tumultuous life and complex character
ƒ ROGER STEFFENS is the world’s
  leading reggae historian and
                                        of the country’s favourite son.”                     The Observer
  archivist. An author, photographer,   “...an absorbing alternative biography.”                         The Spectator
  actor, editor and internationally
  renowned lecturer, he was co-host     “Steffens identifies many more pieces of the man than have ever
  of the award-winning Reggae Beat.     before been put together in one book.”            The Guardian
                                        September • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35592 5 • 464pp • 140 x 210mm
                                        40 photographs

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                                            Live Cinema and Its Techniques
                                            Francis Ford Coppola
                                            From one of the masters of twentieth-century cinema comes this
                                            indispensable guide to a visionary new form of film-making.
                                            “...the ideas[...]will interest any movie nut.”
                                                        Stage & Screen Books of the Year 2017, The Sunday Times
                                            “...a melange of film theory, professional advice, personal history,
                                            television history, work notes and Coppola’s assorted thoughts on
                                            live film production.”                   Times Literary Supplement

                                            August • Paper • £13.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 454 3 • 224pp • 140 x 210mm
                                            20 illustrations • A Liveright book

 The Culture of Narcissism
 American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
 Christopher Lasch
 The classic The New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction
 from much-lauded The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
 When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher
 Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification
 of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning
 social epidemic was ground-breaking. His diagnosis of American culture
 is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the
 anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life.
 November • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35617 5 • 320pp • 140 x 210mm

                                            Counting Backwards
                                            A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
                                            Henry Jay Przybylo
                                            A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious
                                            procedure in medicine.
                                            “In a fascinating new memoir, an anaesthetist reveals what goes on
                                            beyond the operating theatre doors...”               The Daily Mail
                                            “...[Henry Jay Przybylo’s] professional memoir Counting Backwards
                                            puts him within the esteemed company of other surgeon writers,
                                            such as the London neurosurgeon Henry Marsh and America’s Atul
                                            Gawande.”                                                  i paper
                                            November • Paper • £10.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35642 7 • 256pp • 140 x 210mm

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                                         Alone
                                         Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
                                         Michael Korda
                                         Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of the Second World War and
                                         the great events that led to Dunkirk.
                                         Alone brings to life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century
                                         history. In May 1940, the German war machine blazed into France and
                                         Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister;
                                         Britain, isolated and alone, faced Nazi Germany. Michael Korda relates
                                         what happened and why, and tells his own story of evacuation.
                                         “Anyone wanting to explore the history behind Christopher Nolan’s recent
                                         film could do a lot worse than start here.” Times Literary Supplement
ƒ MICHAEL KORDA is the best-
  selling author of Hero, Clouds of
                                         “...an absorbing and well-written tale...” Britain at War Magazine
  Glory and Charmed Lives. He is a       “... a superb retelling of the extraordinary story of May 1940, which in
  former editor-in-chief of Simon
  and Schuster.
                                         my view can never be told enough... An exciting work of history; I loved
                                         it.” Andrew Roberts, Books of the Year 2017, BBC History Magazine
                                         December • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 1 63149 491 8 • 544pp • 155 x 235mm
                                         A Liveright book • 12 maps; 68 illustrations

                                         Darwin’s Backyard
                                         How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
                                         James T. Costa
                                         How Charles Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple
                                         yet ingenious home-spun experiments.
                                         James Costa takes readers on a journey from Charles Darwin’s youth
                                         and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House. To test his insights
                                         into evolution, Darwin devised an array of hands-on experiments.
                                         which yielded truths about nature and evidence for his revolution-
                                         ary arguments. At each chapter’s end, Costa shows how we too can
                                         investigate the wonders of nature at work.
                                         “...Costa more than achieves his stated goals of revealing the evolution
ƒ JAMES T. COSTA is a professor          of Darwin’s insights and the relevance of his methods now.”      Nature
  of biology at Western Carolina
  University, executive director of      “...a charming book...”                               Times Literary Supplement
  Highlands Biological Station and a
  trustee of the Charles Darwin Trust.
                                         “...Costa has written an intimate and big-hearted book.”
                                                                                          Science Magazine

                                         October • Paper • £12.99 • ISBN 978 0 393 35630 4 • 464pp • 140 x 210mm • 60 line drawings

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