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- David Frei, Voice of the Westminster Kennel Club and the National Dog Show, author of Angel On A Leash
- —Jim Gorant, author of The Lost Dogs
- —John Hodgman Demery, Monique
- D ikkers, Scott with Dr. Oswald T. Pratt
- E llis, Adam BOOKS OF ADAM: The Blunder Years
- F lorida, Richard THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS--REVISITED, 10 th
- In a revision to his international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class
- Praise: “Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class is an important book for those who feel passionately about the future of the urban center.” –Herbert Muschamp
- —Andrea Sachs, TIME
- Gneezy, Uri and John List THE RIGHT INCENTIVES: Two Renegade Economists Rethink How to Solve our Biggest Social and Economic Problems
- Goodman, Lizzy OUR TIME: Rebirth and Rock Roll, New York, 2001-2011 (IT Books/HarperCollins, 2014) Manuscript due January 2014
- Hardcover, 320 pages Amazon Best Book of the Month (January 2013)! ship i t
- The incredible true story of how college dropouts became the most successful poker crew of all time
- –James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street
- --Bruce Porter, New York Times bestselling author of Blow Film rights
Praise: “SHOW DOG is a well-written, entertaining and accurate look at our great sport of dog shows… Dean makes you feel like you’re right there with a brush or a show lead in your hand. And he also includes enough history and educational information about the inner workings of the sport to make this book a great accessory for anyone who wants to know more, whether they go to dog shows or just watch Westminster or the National Dog Show on television.” —David Frei, Voice of the Westminster Kennel Club and the National Dog Show, author of Angel On A Leash “SHOW DOG is filled with heart and humor, bringing to life extravagant characters, pampered pooches, and over-the-top humans without falling prey to cheap jokes and tired stereotypes. That’s because it’s not really about animal beauty pageants; it’s about the unyielding bond between people and dogs and what they¹ll do to make each other happy.”—Jim Gorant, author of The Lost Dogs
“Fascinating and funny…as I was sucked into the story of Jack the show dog, I began to understand the subtleties of the sport, the amazing talents of these animals, and the affecting human—and canine— drama behind the show. Plus, we all love giant turkey legs, so let's give these dogs a hand!” —John Hodgman 
Demery, Monique FINDING THE DRAGON LADY: Resurrecting South Vietnam’s Madame Nhu (Public Affairs, Fall 2013) Manuscript due June 2013 A woman who rose to power and spectacularly fell from grace, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu was the First Lady the world loved to hate. To Americans, Madame Nhu was known as The Dragon Lady. The Vietnamese, if they dared to speak out against her at all, called her The Tiger Lady (out of cultural respect for the dragon). To members of the press, she was a “female monster,” complete with a “serpent’s tongue: and red-nailed “talons.” They likened her to Lucrezia Borgia, Imelda Marcos and then to Marie Antoinette, a thoughtless woman in over her head. Pulitzer Prize winning Associate Press reporter Malcolm Browne would write in his memoirs that he knew from “personal experience” that Madame Nhu “could be the most dangerous enemy a man could have.” She was famous for her beauty, her fury, and for her incendiary tongue. This book is about the tinderbox years before the long war that would change history forever. In the wake of the Vietnamese War, Madame Nhu largely disappeared from history, popping into the headlines only years later when her parents were murdered by her brother in Washington D.C. To the major Vietnam historians, Nhu is both a minor figure and responsible for the start of the war; she’s both provocative and a prude. But those early years were not even the most arresting of Madame Nhu’s life. When that war was over, she had disappeared. Where Madame Nhu was—in fact, whether she was alive at all—wasn’t widely known until author Monique Demery found her in Paris in 2005. This book is also a detective story of sorts, as Demery finds herself obsessed with understanding this woman beyond her “dragon lady” stereotype. Slowly, she earns Nhu’s trust over a series of interviews (the first time Madame Nhu had spoken with anyone from the Western press in over a decade), but Nhu has her own plans for Monique. The result is a clear-eyed biography of a woman who changed history, a no-hold’s-barred account of her megalomania and abuses of power, but also a deeply empathetic story. Monique Demery holds a Masters in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard and has studied extensively in Vietnam. This will be her first book. D  ikkers, Scott with Dr. Oswald T. Pratt
YOU ARE OLD: Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life (Andrews McMeel, August 2012) Gift Paperback (128 pages) Did you suddenly wake up and realize you are old? How did this happen? Where did all your youthful health, energy, and beauty go? And what can you do to recapture it and revitalize your life? Nothing. You're old. From the New York Times best-selling authors of You Are Worthless and Just Give Up comes an even less inspiring book for those past their prime. One of Scott Dikker's most hilarious creations, Dr. Oswalt T. Pratt is a sad and seriously inept marriage and family counselor barely holding on to his rapidly retreating 40s. And he's out of shape, too. So he knows the pain of growing old. In YOU ARE OLD, he offers steaming buckets of wisdom crafted especially for those wracked with memory loss and other aged infirmities.
Scott Dikkers, cartoonist, filmmaker, and founder and former editor-in-chief of The Onion, has written or co-written several New York Times bestsellers including Our Dumb World and The Onion's Our Dumb Century, which has sold more than a half-million copies and was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His other books include The Onion's Finest News Reporting, which topped 200,000 in sales, the self-help parody You Are Worthless, and the "unauthorized autobiography" of George W. Bush, Destined for Destiny. E  llis, Adam
BOOKS OF ADAM: The Blunder Years (Grand Central, July 2013) Black & white illustrations throughout Manuscript (211 pages) Adam Ellis is a rising star in the world of funny young bloggers. Since starting his blog Books of Adam in July 2010, he has developed a loyal readership with his signature black and white illustrations and charming, self-deprecating, sweetly goofy coming-of-age stories. The book, like much of his blog, will cover the embarrassing and confusing experiences of impending adulthood – including but not limited to moving to a new city, dating, homesickness, being best friends with your cat, trying at failing at home and self-improvement, being a slob and, most importantly, being able to laugh at yourself and shrug it all off. It will include his most popular posts along with 50% new material. With the success of young comic artists and bloggers like Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half and Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, the time is right for Books of Adam to create an actual “Book of Adam.” Adam Ellis is a 24-year old artist, blogger and reluctant hipster who lives in Portland, Oregon. Since starting the blog, he has received many fan mail notes and marriage proposals, exactly one article of hate mail, and has had a cake baked in honor of one of his comics. F  lorida, Richard
THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS--REVISITED, 10th Anniversary Edition (Basic Books, June 2012) Hardcover (512 pages) World English rights with Basic Books In a revision to his international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida proposes a dramatic new social compact for our time—one that can turn our emerging Creative Economy into an enduringly Creative Society. Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in our society: the growing role of creativity. In the decade since, we have endured a series of world shattering events—from the collapse of the tech bubble and 9/11 to the economic meltdown of 2008—any one of which might have been sufficient to derail the trends he described. Instead, they have only become more deeply ensconced, both in the US and across the globe. In late 2011, the social media site LinkedIn reported that the word most used by its members to describe themselves was “Creative.” In this newly revised and expanded edition of his now classic book, Florida has brought all of its statistics up to date (and provided a host of new ones), further refined his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class; incorporated a decade’s worth of his own and his colleagues’ quantitative and qualitative research; and addressed his major critics. Five completely new chapters cover the global effects of the Creative Class and explore the integral features and factors that shape “quality of place” in our rapidly changing cities and suburbs. Florida delves into the roles played by technology, race, and poverty in perpetuating and exacerbating income inequality and the pervasive influence of class throughout every aspect of society. We are in that strange interregnum when the old order has collapsed and the new order is not yet born, Florida writes. The old order has failed; attempts to bail it out, to breathe new life into it or to somehow prop it back up are doomed to history’s dustbin. The key is not to limit or reverse the gains that the Creative Class has made but to extend them across the board, to build a more open, more diverse, more inclusive Creative Society that can more fully harness its members’—all of its members’—capacities.
“An urban-development expert…His ideas about revitalizing cities by attracting artists and high-tech workers have influenced a generation of urban planners.”—Andrea Sachs, TIME “Richard Florida is a phenomenon… there is no academic quite like him.” –The Globe and Mail “Florida’s research and experiences over the past decade have given him the foundation on which to build a new view of business reality.” –Informationweek Rights sold: Chinese (s): Cheers Lithuanian: VGTU Press Gill, Libby CAPTURE THE MINDSHARE AND THE MARKET SHARE WILL FOLLOW (Palgrave, August 2013) Manuscript due March 2013 (240 pages) World English rights with Palgrave CAPTURE THE MINDSHARE AND THE MARKET SHARE WILL FOLLOW reveals how strong branding creates awareness, provides authentic value, motivates others to act, and builds long-term customer loyalty based on trust and respect. Author Libby Gill helps businesses define and articulate their unique brand promise by exploring case studies and client success stories to help readers master the Six Core Mindshare Methods, including concepts to Clarify, Commit, Collaborate, Connect, Communicate, and Contribute. Readers will see their relationships deepen, opportunities expand, and careers flourish as they learn to differentiate themselves in a competitive environment by promising and delivering massive value. Libby Gill is an internationally respected executive coach, brand strategist, and bestselling author. Libby works with top companies to help them successfully position their leaders, business, and brands including Nike, Disney, Kellogg, Oracle, PayPal, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and more. Libby is a frequent TV and radio guest offering expert opinions and guidance on brand strategy and professional development. She has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Phil, CNN, NPR, Oprah & Friends Radio, and many more. Advance Praise: "We’ve seen a lot of great speakers here at Disney, but Libby’s presentation was one of the most inspiring I’ve seen in a long time. She managed to blend practical business information with deep insights about personal responsibility and leadership. After a very challenging year, our group was ready to get back to work, totally re-energized by her empowering message." —Sharon Williams, Senior Vice President, Disney, ABC Gneezy, Uri and John List THE RIGHT INCENTIVES: Two Renegade Economists Rethink How to Solve our Biggest Social and Economic Problems (Public Affairs, September 2013) Preface by Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics Manuscript due March 2013 Two economists (one a liberal originally from Israel, the other a conservative from the University of Chicago, and both on Forbes’ 2010 list of the Seven Most Powerful Economists in the World) shake up the “dismal science” of economics and tackle big, vexing and fundamental questions with their pioneering methods of taking their work out of the lab and into the world. Gneezy and List test the notion that realistic insights into human behavior can be found with the approaches of either traditional or behavioral economics. Their preferred method is to look at economic phenomenon as they naturally occur. With the world as their sandbox, Gneezy and List run unprecedented and often large-scale field experiments in places where people live and work -- from the foothills of Kilimanjaro to the bustling Chicago Board of Trade, from sultry northern India to chilly Illinois; from the playgrounds of schools in Israel to the boardrooms of the largest corporations in the world. Gneezy and List observe people as they make daily decisions in every possible context. The result of their work is a new understanding of what really drives people to behave the way they do. With their groundbreaking approach, Gneezy and List are reaching for one of the holy grails of economics and all the social sciences: to tease out the relation between cause and effect. The issues Gneezy and List focus on in this book have touched their lives -- or those in their family – while yielding surprising insights into the biggest questions that have vexed philosophers, ethicists, psychologists, economists, politicians, marketers, educators and average human beings for millennia. Their work will challenge readers everywhere to rethink some of their basic assumptions about how the world works. This is a book that will change the way we think- not just about the issues discussed in the book, but about the seemingly intractable social problems we all face: from policy makers to teachers to directors of nonprofits to business executives to parents—just a few of the book’s many audiences, along with the thousands of intellectually curious, civic-minded readers who simply want to make the world a better place. Uri Gneezy is the Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. Formerly, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago, and the Israeli universities Technion and Haifa. Gneezy received his Ph.D. from Tilburg University’s CentER for Economic Research. John List received his PhD from the University of Wyoming and is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago after positions at the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland. John has been at the forefront of environmental economics and has served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors for Environmental and Resource Economics. John is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. However, John is best known as one of the world's leading experts on experimental economics. Advance Praise: “It is hard to imagine any story of innovation in our thinking about economics that does not involve Uri and John.” –Dan Ariely, NYT bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality “Their work is simultaneously scientifically path breaking and accessible to the general public… [and] has revolutionized all of social science.” –David Laibson, Harvard economist Rights sold: Canadian: HarperCollins Chinese (C): Commonwealth Chinese (S): China CITIC Hebrew: Kinneret-Zmora Japanese: Toyo Keizai Korean: Gimm-Young Romanian: Publica Com Thai: WeLearn UK Commonwealth: Random House Goodman, Lizzy OUR TIME: Rebirth and Rock & Roll, New York, 2001-2011 (IT Books/HarperCollins, 2014) Manuscript due January 2014 In the tradition of Legs McNeil’s Please Kill Me and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, Goodman’s compelling oral history traces the last great music explosion to come out of New York, which went on to define the very concept of cool in the new millennium. Some of bands are household names (The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Killers), while others had huge cultural cachet and are currently influencing future generation of rock & roll stars (MGMT, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, Grizzly Bear.) The story of OUR TIME goes beyond music: It’s the soundtrack of New York (and America) as we stumbled out of 9/11 and found ourselves in two prolonged wars. It’s also a playlist of the final days of the music industry; as these bands were coming into their own, the music business was coming to grips with the fact that music was now free. Lizzy Goodman’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Nylon, Elle, and Interview. She came of age as a rock and roll journalist as this scene was emerging, and has close relationships with many of the major players. She will provide the backdrop and commentary, but the music makers and their circle will tell the story. G  rotenstein, Jonathan and Storms Reback
SHIP IT HOLLA BOLLAS! How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew (St. Martin’s Press, January 2013) Hardcover, 320 pages Amazon Best Book of the Month (January 2013)! ship it \'ship 'it\ 1. In poker, an exclamation made after winning a big pot. 2. The affirmation of a suggested act of extreme awesomeness. The incredible true story of how college dropouts became the most successful poker crew of all time To be a teenager in 2006 meant having grown up with the Internet. The dot-com bubble had come and gone, leaving in its wake a still-maturing medium whose immense powers were not yet fully understood. It wasn't long before smart, resourceful young men used it to master the game of poker. They took advantage of online poker’s lightning-fast pace and lackluster efforts at age verification to gain, in just a few months, the kind of experience that used to take a lifetime. SHIP IT HOLLA BALLAS! is the story of the top crew to come out of this new world order. With online handles like Good2cu, Apathy and Raptor, they communicated through message boards and online chats, comparing hands, trading tips, developing previously unknown skills. They soon crushed the competition. Emerging from their dorm rooms and basements in places like Fort Worth, Texas, Okema, Michigan, and Toronto, Canada, they joined up in Vegas and parked themselves in a mansion, making millions by sticking it to the poker establishment. Along the way, they did what any red-blooded teenage boy with piles of cash and no responsibility would do: They partied like rock stars, transforming themselves from nerds with zero life skills into legends. Eventually, however, all parties end. This is a powerful, thrilling tale of living it up and laying it all on the line. Jonathan Grotenstein is a former professional poker player and the author or co-author of eight books, including The Sportsman (with Dhani Jones), Drinking with George (with George Wendt), and God Hates Us All, the novel attributed to Hank Moody, David Duchovny’s character on Californication. His first book, Poker: The Real Deal (with Phil Gordon), remains one of the best-selling poker books of all-time. Storms Reback is a former professional poker player and the co-author of two books, All In: The (Almost) Entirely True Story of the World Series of Poker (with Jonathan Grotenstein) and Farha on Omaha: Expert Strategy for Beating Cash Games and Tournaments (with Sam Farha). Advance Praise: "The loud narcissism and adolescent degeneracy of these talented 'ballas' ain't pretty, but the testosterroneous world of high-stakes online poker in America before Black Friday, in all its doomed glory, steadily throbs in Grotenstein and Reback's swift prose." –James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street "An infectious tale, told with the speed of a rocket sled, Ship It Holla Balla! puts us in with a gang of under-age poker geniuses as they turn Las Vegas on its ear, making off with the gelt as well as the girls." --Bruce Porter, New York Times bestselling author of Blow Film rights: Paramount Pictures Rights sold: US/Canada Audio: Audible Hafner, Katie MOTHER, DAUGHTER, ME: Three Generations Under One Roof (Random House, July 2013) Manuscript (380 pages) Journalist and author Katie Hafner chronicles one intense year of three generations living together—her formerly alcoholic mother, her blossoming teenage daughter Zoe, and Katie herself—a woman struggling to deal with the effects of her unstable childhood, the death of her husband, and providing for her own daughter as a single parent. As the year unfolds, Katie’s hard and troubled childhood is reexamined and brought to the surface and some surprising new troubles arise to test the mettle of this new family unit. While hers is a very personal story, Katie’s dilemma is emblematic of what is happening today with an entire generation, caught between their responsibility for their children and their obligation to their aging parents. They are facing some very hard decisions, wanting to do the right thing by their parents, and hoping their children will want to do the same by them. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 364.43 Kb. Share with your friends:
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