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Brosh, Allie

HYPERBOLE AND A HALF: An Illustrated Wonderland of Stories and Anecdotes and Other Things, Too
(Touchstone/S&S, Fall 2013)
Four-color illustrations throughout

Manuscript due March 2013
Named one of the Funniest Sites on the Web by PC World and winner of the 2011 Bloggies Awards for Most Humorous Weblog and Best Writing, the creator of the immensely popular Hyperbole and a Half blog presents and illustrated collection of her hilarious stories with fifty percent new content.
In a four-color, illustrated collection of stories and essays, Allie Brosh’s debut HYPERBOLE AND A HALF chronicles the many “learning experiences” Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws, and the horrible experiences that other people have had to endure because she was such a terrible child. Possibly the worst child. For example, one time she ate an entire cake just to spite her mother. And, in an attempt to win the heart of her potbellied, 45-year-old neighbor-man, she stole his cat and kept it in her closet for two days. She blames the dismal failure of that plan on their age difference.

Brosh’s website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. Artful, poignant, and uproarious, Brosh’s self-reflections have captured the hearts of countless readers and her book is one that fans and newcomers alike will treasure.

 

Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mom tricked her into writing a story to distract her from her immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape. She started her award-winning blog in 2009. Brosh lives in Bend, Oregon, with her fiancé, her two dogs, and six pet rats.
Praise for Hyperbole and a Half:

“This site is chock full of childhood stories and random thoughts, all accompanied by hilarious drawings done by MS Paint…It’ll cost ya hours of your life as you laugh out loud while reading.” –Whitney Matheson, USA Today

"Once I started reading Hyperbole and a Half, I found myself unable to stop -- except to laugh uproariously."

--Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.com
"If you haven’t seen Hyperbole and a Half, here’s a rough analogy: David Sedaris sets out to write a graphic memoir, but decides to use the MS Paint application on his computer rather than hire an artist…[Brosh’s] writing is twisted and sharp but also earthy and accessible. Her naïve art plays brilliantly against dark comic themes." 

--Michael Humphrey, True/Slant
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Brown, Laura
HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING: A Practical Guide to Everything You’ll Ever Have to Write—at Work, at School, and in Your Personal Life

(W.W. Norton, Fall 2013)

Manuscript due March 2013
Writing is more important now than it’s ever been. At work, at school, in our personal lives—business and personal e-mails, thank-you’s, and reports, not to mention blogs and text messages—we’re all writing more than ever before.
In spite of the increasing demand for writing, most people find writing a chore. As a corporate writing trainer and writing teacher, Laura Brown has seen difficulty with writing—and sometimes even dread—in literally every group she’s worked with, regardless of age, social background or education. Employees procrastinate about writing at work, students pull all-nighters when a term paper deadline looms, and people neglect thank-you notes and sympathy cards, all because they lack confidence in their writing. And when they finally do sit down to write, they often have tremendous difficulty communicating clearly. Surveys of corporate employees and hiring managers consistently list writing skills as some of the hardest to find, while college teachers decry the decline in the quality of student writing. For many, writing is an onerous task that produces poor results.
Now there’s a resource for all these intimidated, reluctant, and ineffective writers.  HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING will offer readers concise guidance and good models they can use to get all their writing tasks done quickly and painlessly. What’s more, it will be the first book of its kind to embrace the profound changes that the Internet has brought about in people’s writing habits. While many writing books treat e-mail as an afterthought, HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING takes a comprehensive and integrated approach to the use of e-mail and other electronic communication, offering guidance on how to communicate most effectively in our wired world. A comprehensive reference for all occasions, Laura Brown’s HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING will be the only book the average person will ever need to get through all the writing tasks that life presents them.
Laura Brown, Ph.D, is a New York-based writer and writing coach who has taught writing to just about everyone—from corporate executives to high school students, in such places as Iona College, Columbia University, AOL Time Warner and at some of New York’s top independent schools. She has a thriving practice coaching corporate executives one-on-one in a wide variety of writing projects, including clients at Citigroup, DHL, TMP Worldwide, WarburgPincus, and Deloitte, among others. Dr. Brown is co-author of Build Your Own Garage: Blueprints and Tools to Unleash Your Company’s Hidden Creativity (The Free Press, 2001) with Professor Bernd H. Schmitt of Columbia Business School. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, and many other professional journals.


Butler, David and Linda Tischler

THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN: Why it Works for Coca-Cola – and How It Can Work for You

(Free Press, October 2013)

Manuscript due January 2013

               

In October 2009, Linda Tischler’s cover story for Fast Company’s best-selling “Masters of Design” issue described how David Butler, Coca-Cola’s vice president of global design, was using design for competitive advantage and social benefit, transforming everything from fountain machinery in thousands of fast food restaurants in America, to point of purchase displays in Kazakhstan, to sustainable water usage in Kenya. David quickly became the hottest thing on the design/business lecture circuit, addressing audiences all over the world -- executives at Wal-Mart and Disney, the advertising industry’s annual festival in Cannes, the Economist’s Big Rethink conference in London --and realized that he was responding to an insatiable need for his message. Fast Company started getting so many questions about design that it launched a new site devoted to design, the first spin-off of the company’s hugely popular website, where Linda is a popular blogger and Tweeter, and Coca-Cola, realizing how effective David’s message was – and how effective he was at delivering it – gave approval, for the first time in its history, to a book based on insider access to one of its most critical and strategic functions.
Coca-Cola is well known for the design of a glass bottle that has become one of the most enduring cultural icons of all time.  What’s never been revealed, until now, is how Coca-Cola uses design thinking to increase productivity, reduce costs, drive consumer engagement, and enhance sustainability.  (Among other things, the company plans to double its juice business in ten years by thinking about everything from the health of American honey bees to how to transport juice from Brazil to the rapidly expanding markets in China.)With 450 brands in 200 countries, and 20,000 retailers selling 1.6 billion servings of Coke products per day, not to mention a market value of $128B,  it would be hard to find a bigger canvas on which to explore design as an enterprise function.
THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN is a handbook for anyone who wants to understand the business and social value of design, and learn how to use design to make their own business or organization more effective, competitive, and profitable.  While design practitioners will learn a lot from this book, it is targeted to readers who have no background in design. Based on an unprecedented look at how one of the world’s greatest companies uses design to compete in a global economy, the goal of the authors – and of the Coca-Cola company – is to show how THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN can help make the world a better place.
David Butler is the Vice President of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company. Since 2004, he has led the design thinking for some of the world’s most loved and valuable brands. Coca-Cola has been recognized with numerous design awards including the prestigious Grand Prix from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. David’s career experience includes leading brand, product and experience design with numerous Fortune 100 companies. He is a frequent lecturer and strong advocate for design education.
Linda Tischler is a Senior Editor at Fast Company, where she writes about the intersection of business and design. For the past several years, she has been responsible for the magazine’s annual “Masters of Design” issue, which celebrates the people in the forefront of design thinking. Tischler has twice been nominated for National Design Awards in the “Design Mind” category, and this year Fast Company was nominated for the “Corporate Achievement” category in recognition of its design coverage.

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Chamine, Shirzad
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
(Greenleaf Book Group, April 2012)
Hardcover (221 pages)
World English rights through distribution
Most attempts to increase performance or fulfillment soon fizzle.  Think about it.  Why do team retreats result only in temporary bumps in teamwork and performance? Why do newly learned management techniques give way to old habits? Why is happiness from new achievements so fleeting?  Why do nagging fears and anxieties constantly return?  Why are new years’ resolutions abandoned? The answer... sabotage.  Your mind is not only your best friend, but also your worst enemy.  It secretly harbors “saboteurs” that cause most of your setbacks.  You can change that. 
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the groundbreaking new science and practice that measures and improves the percentage of time your mind acts as your friend versus your enemy.  Only 20% of individuals and teams score above the tipping point that supports lasting increases in performance or fulfillment.  Learn how to raise your score beyond that tipping point and help others do the same.   
The breakthrough tools and techniques in this book combine the best of neuroscience, positive psychology, organizational science, and coaching.  They have been honed over years of coaching hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams, so they fit a busy life.  Some require as little as ten seconds to produce meaningful results. 
This book shows you how to:

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  Determine the Positive Intelligence score for yourself or your team.
  
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  Increase your score above the critical tipping point in as little as 21 days.
  
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  Identify which of the ten “saboteurs” is your hidden internal enemy.
  
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  Weaken your saboteur and strengthen its counterpart.
  
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  Develop new brain “muscles,” even while doing daily routines, to access untapped mental powers and insights.
  
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  Apply Positive Intelligence tools and techniques to improving both performance and fulfillment, teambuilding, managing conflicts, improving work/life balance, reducing stress, and motivating and developing others. 
  

Shirzad Chamine is chairman and former CEO of CTI, the largest coach training organization in the world.  CTI has trained coaches and managers in most of the Fortune 500 companies, and faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools.  Shirzad has personally coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams.  Prior to coaching, Shirzad was the CEO of a software company.  His background includes Ph.D. studies in neurobiology in addition to a BA in Psychology, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.   He lectures at Stanford.
Praise:
“Positive Intelligence can change your life and transform your business. A real game-changer.”

--James D. White, Chairman and CEO, Jamba Juice

“Positive Intelligence ranks in the top three most influential business books I have ever read.  If I could give only one book to the thousands of team members in my organization to enhance their performance, it would be this one.”

--Lisa Stevens, Regional President, Wells Fargo Bank

“I’ve worked closely with Shirzad and experienced him walking the PQ walk. Most change initiatives fizzle because of our mental Saboteurs. Shirzad gives us the tools to conquer them and create positive change that lasts. This is a must-read for any individual or team serious about unleashing peak performance.”

–Dean Morton, former COO, Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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Cook, Kevin
THE LAST HEADBANGERS: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless ‘70s---the Era that Created Modern Sports (W.W. Norton, September 2012)
Hardcover, 288 pages

The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitch-hiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient ’49ers brought a new era—the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Chronicling that pivotal decade, Cook draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals while Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Cook also laments the physical toll the game took on football’s greatest generation.

Certain to be controversial, THE LAST HEADBANGERS promises to be the sports book of the year.

Praise:
“Cook brings to life both the outsized personalities…and also the great rivalries and games of the era…an enjoyable and insightful look at a wild and wooly era in American sports.” –Kirkus Reviews
“A head-slap of a book. Whap, yeah, that's how it was.” --Roy Blount Jr.
Kevin Cook is the award-winning author of Titanic Thompson and Tommy's Honor. He writes for Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Men’s Health and other magazines, and appeared on ESPN and CNN. He lives in New York City.

Coonerty, Ryan and Jeremy Neuner

THE RISE OF THE NAKED ECONOMY: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace

(Formerly, We Are All Self-Employed)

(Palgrave, 2013/2014)

Manuscript due January 2013
World English rights with Palgrave

The idea of “work” as we know it is undergoing a once in-a-century transformation.  This book will tell you how to understand, survive, and prosper from the transformation of how, where, and why we work.
Through their rapidly growing business NextSpace Coworking+Innovation, Inc ,Coonerty and Neuner are creating the office of the future for the worker of the future.  They provide these prospective “laptop millionaires” with the tools—physical, virtual and fiscal—to succeed in the new economy. 
In their book, the authors explain how the trend toward self-employment will literally reorder the economy – and, if done correctly –will allow people to rediscover and reclaim some of their fundamental humanity and live more productive, happier, and more sustainable lives. Moreover, they address the questions and needs of this emerging workforce by discussing the new “how-to’s” of starting your own business: securing funding for a new business, using online and traditional networking, where and how to work, and identifying opportunities in the global marketplace. 
Coonerty and Neuner are the co-founders and owners of NextSpace Coworking + Innovation, Inc. (www.NextSpace.us), the largest and most successful co-working businesses in the world, with locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and Santa Cruz. Coonerty is the two-time Mayor of Santa Cruz, California and holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Neuner is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his Master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he specialized in business and government policy.

Dean, Josh

SHOW DOG: The Pampered Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
(It Books/HarperCollins, February 2012)
Hardcover (416 pages)
World English rights with HarperCollins



Veteran magazine journalist Josh Dean will capture the idiosyncratic world of professional dog training, from the local competitions held in florescent-lit school gymnasiums to the granddaddy of them all, The Westminster Dog Show, as he follows a loveable novice dog through the inaugural year in competition.
By spending a year alongside rising star Jack, a champion Australian Shepard, and his friends, Josh Dean rips back the curtain on the dog show world, providing not just a hilarious and often touching portrait of a colorful subculture only slightly exaggerated by the film Best In Show, but also a revealing look at our love affair with the world’s most doted upon and tinkered with animal species, examining the colossal array of dog types and the humans who love them.
By and large, the book follows Jack as he grows, over the course of a year (through Westminster, in February of 2011), from still-improving adolescent to seasoned adult show dog. We get to know him and the people around him, to experience what it’s like to own a show dog, and to train one. And at the end of every day we come to appreciate him for what he is, a loveable and intelligent house pet—albeit one with a highly unusual acumen.
Supplementing Jack’s story is the history and sociology of this eccentric and fascinating subculture of breeders and dog show fanciers. Dean explores the history of breeding and of dog shows, and all the many related peculiarities: judging, training, naming, promoting, hairstyling, kennel owning, RV driving, treat selecting, and more.
Josh Dean is a former deputy editor of Men’s Journal and was one of the founding editors of PLAY, The New York Times Sports Magazine. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outside, GQ, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Fast Company, Inc., Travel + Leisure and many others. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News as well as numerous public radio programs. He lives in Brooklyn.

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