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- M artin, Demetri THIS IS A BOOK
- A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller! First serial excerpts in The New Yorker and Playboy !
- O’Connor, Richard STOP YOURSELF: Putting the Brakes on Self-Destructive Behavior
- Richard O’Connor, M.S.W., Ph.D.
- Rabin, Nathan YOU DONT KNOW ME BUT YOU DONT LIKE ME: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Musics Most Maligned Tribes
- Race, Kristin with Jenna Glatzer GENERATION STRESS: Mindful Solutions to Help You Raise Happy, Healthy Kids
- Rosolie, Paul MOTHER OF GOD: A Young Man’s Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
- Advance Praise
- Roth, Alvin E. WHO GETS WHAT: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
- Proposal; Manuscript due June 2013
Manuscript (192 pages) The New York Times bestselling author and comedian is back in a softer format. In his first book, THIS IS A BOOK, Demetri Martin introduced fans and readers to his unique brand of long-form humor writing. Now Demetri returns with an eclectic volume devoted entirely to his trademark one-liners and drawings, as well as short prose and poetry, leaving the longer-form material for his next hardcover. Like an indie stepchild of Gary Larson and Jack Handy, POINT YOUR FACE AT THIS contains hundreds of drawings, jokes, and page-long bits, showcasing Martin’s particular penchant for brevity and a sensibility all its own—and will be a great gift book and a must-have for fans of the brainy, ambidextrous, comedian, palindromist (and author), Demetri Martin. Demetri Martin is an award-winning comedian, who is best known for his Comedy Central show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, as well as his stand-up comedy routines and contributions to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Also, he is a person. He has brown hair and is allergic to peanuts. He lives in an apartment somewhere. Rights sold: UK Commonwealth: Particular Books/Penguin M  artin, Demetri
THIS IS A BOOK (Grand Central/Hachette, April 2011) Black & white line drawings throughout Trade Paperback, April 2012 (288 pages) A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller! First serial excerpts in The New Yorker and Playboy! Praise: “Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance.” –Publishers Weekly “He is a palindromist, and anagrammatist, an amateur inventor, and, most visibly these days, an ascendant comedian.” –The New Yorker “The reader who fancies this brand of wry absurdism and playful labeling will be absolutely entertained from The Front to The Back.” –Washington Post Rights sold: UK Commonwealth: Particular Books/Penguin O’Connor, Richard STOP YOURSELF: Putting the Brakes on Self-Destructive Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, August 2013) Manuscript (259 pages) World English rights with Wiley Everyone has some self-destructive habits, and no one understands why. Procrastination, lack of assertion, disorganization, smoking, overeating, overworking, lack of exercise, poor sleep habits, lack of consideration, depressed shopping, internet addiction—all the way up through addictions and direct self-harm. We know what we’re doing to ourselves, and we keep promising to reform. Indeed we do try, often enough, but these habits are hard to break. Every time we try but fail, we get more hopeless and more critical of ourselves. Self-destructive habits are probably the greatest source of unnecessary suffering in our lives. Most approaches to understanding and stopping self-destructive behavior have been ineffective because they provide a "one size fits all" solution—change your thinking, get yourself organized, or delve into your unconscious. In actuality, there are several different motivations/scenarios that drive us to handicap or hurt ourselves: a self-destructive rebellion against some authority; an unconscious self-hate; fears of success, independence, love; a desire for someone else to make us stop; a belief that the usual rules don’t apply to ourselves; and a few others. O’Connor combines his signature integrative approach to human problems with the most important development in psychology in decades: the recognition that the brain changes in response to life experience. Neuroscientists now know that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when we are faced with temptation. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes. This means that even though some self-destructive patterns become deeply entrenched, nothing is beyond our power to change. Richard O’Connor, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the author of several books, including the bestselling Undoing Depression. For fourteen years he was the executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Services and Mental Health, a private, nonprofit mental health clinic. He is currently a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Connecticut and New York. 
Rabin, Nathan YOU DON'T KNOW ME BUT YOU DON'T LIKE ME: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes (Scribner Trade Paperback, June 2013) Manuscript (288 pages) Filled with veteran pop culture writer Nathan Rabin’s “trademark humor, quirkiness, and self-deprecation” (USA Today) comes a gonzo exploration of two of music’s most obsessed fanbases: Phish’s neo-hippie following and hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse’s “Juggalos.” When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take him to the deepest recesses of both the pop culture universe and his own mind. For two very curious years, Rabin, who Mindy Kaling called “smart and funny” in The New Yorker, hit the road with two of music’s most well-established fanbases: Phish’s hippie fans and Insane Clown Posse’s notorious “Juggalos.” Musically or style-wise, these two groups could not be more different from each other, and Rabin, admittedly, was a cynic about both bands. But once he gets deep below the surface, past the caricatures and into the essence of their collective cultures, he discovers that both groups have tapped into the human need for community. Rabin also grapples with his own mental well-being—he discovers that he is bipolar—and his journey is both a prism for cultural analysis and a deeply personal exploration, equal parts humor and heart. Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment guide of The Onion, a position he has held since he was a college student at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1997. Rabin is also the author of a memoir, The Big Rewind, and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently collaborated with pop parodist Weird Al Yankovic on an illustrated autobiography titled Weird Al: The Book. Rabin’s writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve, and Modern Humorist. He lives in Chicago with his wife. Race, Kristin with Jenna Glatzer GENERATION STRESS: Mindful Solutions to Help You Raise Happy, Healthy Kids (St. Martin’s Press, 2013/2014) Manuscript due March 2013 An authoritative parenting guide that aims to give parents the tools they need to create more peaceful homes using brain-based solutions and mindful exercises to counteract the stresses of modern families. Welcome to Generation Stress. Our children’s world is not the same as ours was when we were growing up. They don’t come home from school and play outside with other neighborhood children until the sun goes down. They call each other on their cell phones while they watch TV and play videogames. Three-year-olds know how to use iPhones to find their favorite apps. Kindergarteners bring their favorite gaming devices into restaurants. And parents, who are trying to juggle all that modern-day parenting entails, are just thankful that they have these devices to occupy their kids. In this overscheduled, always-on, media-frenzied new world, many families sense that something big is getting lost. When they think of one word to describe the family life they want, it is often, “happy.” When they think of one word to describe the family life they have, it is usually, “busy.” We spend the majority of our time rushing from one task to the next; making mental to-do lists; worrying about upcoming events; and getting distracted by a constant deluge of emails, voicemails, and text messages. Parenting in the world we live in now – with a sense of always needing to respond to, take in or seek out information -- puts our brains and our children’s brains in a constant state of “fight or flight.” While moderate amounts of stress can make us more resilient, the types and levels of stress that fill most homes today are affecting the way our brains function. The result: We can no longer process information correctly, and both parents and kids wind up with anxiety, depression, trouble concentrating, frustration, anger, and insomnia . . . along with a host of other health issues. So what can we do to counteract the realities of life in Generation Stress? We need to learn methods to de-stress, reconnect with our families, have meaningful social interactions, and recharge our batteries. By taking these steps, we create happier homes. GENERATION STRESS is more than just a book; it’s a movement that will encourage parents to make small changes that will add up to a whole new way of life. Kristen Race, Ph.D. has a doctorate in family, child, and school psychology and has been called a “brain geek” for her interest in neuroscience and behavior in the family system. She is the founder of a groundbreaking yoga program for kids that incorporates a curriculum of mindfulness; and teaches parenting classes that allow her to see first-hand what parents are most concerned about. Dr. Race is a speaker at various national psychology and education conferences, has appeared on television news programs and is the mother of two young children. She lives with her family in Colorado. Rockefeller, Eileen BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF (Blue Rider/Penguin, October 2013) Foreword by Daniel Goleman Afterword by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Proposal; Manuscript due March 2013 UK Commonwealth: Blue Rider/Penguin
In fact, Eileen Rockefeller, the great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and the daughter of David and Peggy Rockefeller, is the first Rockefeller woman to write a family memoir, the first to provide an inside look at what it was like to grow up as the youngest of six children and twenty-two cousins in this famous family. Eileen learned in childhood that great wealth and fame could open almost any door, but they could not buy a sense of personal worth. Her father’s frequent business trips away from home, along with her mother’s dark depressions and terrifying wrath, exaggerated the fierce competition for attention within her family. From outside, strong feelings about her last name -- adulation, judgment, envy, and endless curiosity -- flew around her like a swarm of bees, contributing to her sense of isolation and loneliness. She yearned to be seen not as an icon but as an ordinary human being with a normal life, and like all of us, she had to learn to find her own way. Her personal journey began in adolescence and continues today. As a teenager, rather than attending one of NYC’s elite private schools, she lived on a farm-based school in the Adirondacks, learning to kill, pluck, and cook chickens for her own dinner and sow the seeds for her current role as one of the nation's foremost proponents of agricultural and environmental sustainability. As a young woman, an extraordinary meeting with Georgia O’Keefe helped give her the courage to pursue her own path in life, while mentorship from Norman Cousins inspired her to become a national leader in spearheading the now widespread recognition of the mind/body connection in promoting health. (Cousins also influenced Eileen’s choice in a husband, and she became the first Rockefeller to marry a Jew -- and to raise their sons with Jewish and Rockefeller traditions). More recently, partnership with Daniel Goleman led Eileen to pioneer the growing movement to emphasize social-emotional learning as a critical part of children’s education. Emotional intelligence is a major theme of her life. Throughout her adult life, Rockefeller has been obligated by her family to do something most people can hardly imagine: to give away one-third of her income every year. Lacking the level of resources that enabled her forebears to build some of the greatest universities, museums, and parks in the world, but required to live up to their heritage, she has become a pioneer in the practice of strategic philanthropy, helping the current generation of Rockefellers – and others -- understand that "We could not compete with our fathers or uncles or grandparents. We chose quieter paths, went incognito, and found as much value in helping people as in helping a nation." BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF describes the privileges and isolation of growing up as a Rockefeller, and Eileen’s struggle to be her own person. Family healing has been her passion since she was very young, for it was in her family of origin that she derived both her deepest emotional wounds and greatest strengths. Born into wealth and power, she has learned that real power and richness come not from money, but from our relationships with one another. BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF is a first ever look at the dynamics that have kept the Rockefeller family together for seven generations. It is an affirmation of family and friendships – of the importance of the emotional bonds that help make us whole, whatever the circumstances of our birth. Eileen Rockefeller is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Lesley College. In 1983, she became a leader in the mind/body field by founding the Institute for the Advancement of Health (now the Center for the Advancement of Health, in Washington, D.C.). In 1994, she and Daniel Goleman co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to promote social and emotional learning in schools. In 1997, she helped her extended family expand its own leadership in philanthropy and founded Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), which she led as chair until 2003. RPA is now the largest philanthropic advisory service in the world. Rockefeller has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and recently in the Spanish national daily, El Pais. Rosolie, Paul MOTHER OF GOD: A Young Man’s Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon (HarperCollins, 2014) Proposal; Manuscript due September 2013 Paul Rosolie, a proper explorer from this generation (he’s only 25), journeys alone into the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon—a place where Andean cloud forests intermingle with the steaming lowland tropical jungle at the start of the Amazon River. It’s the place that boasts the single greatest proliferation of life that has ever existed on Earth. Ever. And it’s in terrible danger. The purity of Paul’s commitment to the Amazon, the vital presence of his writing, the adventures he finds, and the land and creatures he encounters all make this a compelling and valuable project. The entire point of the book is to make readers aware that Rosolie might be the last generation of explorers in this land, the Madre de Dios (“Mother of God”). Paul has already earned the praise of Bill McKibben and Jane Goodall—plus the interest of National Geographic, The Discovery Channel and the BBC. He’s come a long way from the boy who worshipped Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter) on T.V., the kid who first traveled to the Peruvian Amazon in his third year of high school (and subsequently dropped out of school to pursue his dream of living in the Amazon rainforest). Through his business partner Juan Julio Durand, Rosolie was privileged to develop a friendship with the Ese-Eja Indians, which has allowed him to acquire the knowledge and skill in the jungle mastered by few Westerners. There are many books about the Amazon, but none like this. The Amazon, with Rosolie as our guide, is less the “green hell” that explorer Percy Fawcett’s men described, full of fear and claustrophobia, and more of a place of awe. There are very few who have Rosolie’s deep knowledge and perspective on this place. Paul Rosolie dropped out of high school in New Jersey in 2005 to pursue his dream of living in the Amazon rainforest. His field experience in tropical forests has taken him to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, to India, and to Indonesian Borneo. In Peru, he pursued conservation efforts in collaboration with the indigenous community of Infierno, an Ese-Eja community on the Tambopata River. He came home to earn an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at Ramapo College and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in tropical ecology. He is a member of MENSA.The BBC and National Geographic WILD are some of the networks that have approached him for wildlife series. Currently he is set to host a greenlit show on African wildlife for Discovery Science Channel. He lives with his wife Gowri (a photojournalist who he met working in India when they were chasing the same snake) in the Amazon, in South India, and in northern New Jersey. Advance Praise: "A great adventure with a great and enduring point: we simply must protect these last, vast slices of the planet that still work the way they're supposed to."--Bill McKibben Rights Sold: UK: Transworld Roth, Alvin E. WHO GETS WHAT: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) Proposal; Manuscript due March 2013 The international bestseller Freakonomics explains the world in terms of rational choices. The international bestseller Predictably Irrational explains the world in terms of irrational choices. But much of the world is shaped not so much by the choices we make as by the choices we have. You can’t just inform Yale University that you’re enrolling, or Google that you are showing up for work. First you need to be admitted or hired. Neither can Yale or Google dictate who will come to them, any more than one spouse can simply choose another: each has to be chosen. Matchmaking, broadly speaking—the processes that influence who gets which jobs, which school slots, which mates—helps shape lives and careers. Matching is economist-speak for how we get the many things that we choose in life that also must choose us. Until recently, economists passed quickly over matching and focused primarily on commodity markets in which prices do most of the work. When buying 100 shares of AT&T on the New York Stock Exchange, you needn’t worry whether the seller will pick you. The market brings the two of you together at the price at which supply equals demand. But in many important areas of our individual and collective lives—jobs, housing, medical care, education, a date on the internet, allocation of the broadband spectrum that makes the internet possible—price is not the only determinant of who gets what. Moreover, some matches don’t use money at all. Kidney transplants cost a lot, but it’s illegal to buy or sell kidneys; taxpayers support schools precisely so that every child can attend for free. When there aren’t enough kidneys to go around (there never are) or seats in the best public schools (there never are), scarce resources must be allocated by some kind of matching process. That’s where Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth comes in. Roth won the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his lifelong work as a founder of the new economic discipline of market design, which brings science to matchmaking and helps solve problems that existing marketplaces haven’t been able to solve on their own. According to a 2011 profile in The Boston Globe, he is a pioneer at “finding situations where a market is failing—often, a place that most people wouldn’t even recognize as a market—and making it work better.” In WHO GETS WHAT, Roth makes his work widely accessible; he explains, among other things:
WHO GETS WHAT sheds new light on the frequently simplistic talk we hear from politicians about free markets. Most markets operate in the substantial space between Adam Smith’s invisible hand and Chairman Mao’s five-year plan. “When we speak about a free market,” says Roth, “we shouldn’t be thinking of a market with no rules, but rather of a market with well-designed rules that allow it to operate freely.” At a time when many marketplaces are being set up by private companies (from eBay auctions to Google’s ad market), Roth’s work reframes the conversation about government—and private—regulation, so that the question becomes not “how much regulation?” but “what kind?” The distribution of life’s rewards is often unfair, but it’s seldom as random as it seems. In this groundbreaking book, Alvin Roth reveals just how much of our life experience takes place in markets and marketplaces, and leads us to a new understanding of who gets what and why. Alvin E. Roth is an American economist and the McCaw Senior Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard Business School. (In January he will become Professor Emeritus at Harvard and take up a permanent position at Stanford). Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying his economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." Rights Sold: Chinese (C): Commonwealth Magazine Chinese (S): China Machine Press Czech: Prah Dutch: Spectrum/Unieboek German: Siedler Verlag/RH Japanese: Nikkei Korean: Sigongsa Portuguese (Brazil): Companhia das Letras Russian: Mann, Ivnov, Ferber Spanish (Spain): RBA Spanish (US/Latin America): Oceano UK Commonwealth: HarperPress SanClements, Michael PLASTIC PURGE: How Cutting Back on Plastic Will Help You Eat Better, Lose Weight, Declutter Your Life, Keep Toxins Out of Your and Your Kids’ Bodies—And Also Save the Sea Turtles (St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paperback, 2014) Proposal; Manuscript due June 2013 In 2011, environmental scientist Michael SanClements started a blog for the environmental site Grist.org about his and his girlfriend’s attempts to cut plastic out of their life for two weeks. Although the experiment ultimately failed, SanClements felt healthier, more organized, more environmentally aware, and, as a bonus, both he and his girlfriend lost weight (most junk food is packaged in plastic, and so was forbidden in the experiment).
Told in Mike’s funny, down-to-earth voice, PLASTIC PURGE will explore why there’s so much plastic in our everyday lives, what it’s doing to our bodies, and how we can use less of it to be healthier, happier (and yes, skinnier!). The first section of the book will contain information about plastics that until now has been hard to find in one place and, as an ecologist, Mike will put together the most up-to-date, most scientifically rigorous information available. He’ll even walk readers through experiments to understand how plastic releases toxins. But the majority of the book will be much more prescriptive, packed with ways to encourage readers to use less plastic, thereby reaping benefits in lots of ways they probably didn’t consider, such as eating a healthier diet and living with less clutter. 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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