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Penguin Press Penguin Autumn/Winter Press 2O21 PENGUIN PRESS Autumn/Winter PRESS CATALOGUE S/S20 Date: 26 FEB 2021 Designer: Tom Prod. Controller: Pub. Date: ISBN: 9780141998176 SPINE WIDTH: 9 MM 2O 21 • Estimated • Confi rmed FORMAT 170mm x 242mm PRINT ••••CMYK PROOFING METHOD • Wet proofs • Digital only • No further proof required Cover photo: Deena Stryker photographs collection / Duke University Rubenstein Library/Gado/Getty Images CatalogueAutumnWinter2021_COV.indd 1 02/03/2021 09:52 Contents Recently Announced 4 Allen Lane 13 Particular Books 49 Pelican 59 Penguin Classics 63 Penguin Modern Classics 75 Penguin Paperbacks 91 Penguin Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA Recently Announced What White People Can Do Next From Allyship to Coalition Emma Dabiri An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don’t Touch My Hair Stop the Denial Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African Stop the False Equivalencies Languages, Cultures and Literatures Section of the Interrogate Whiteness African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology Interrogate Capitalism PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and the author of Denounce the White Saviour Don’t Touch My Hair, which was an Irish Times Abandon Guilt bestseller. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4’s We need to talk about racial injustice in a new critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into way: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of Afro-futurism and Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. the past and forges new connections. In this robust and nuanced examination of race, class and capitalism, Emma Dabiri draws on years of academic study and lived experience, as well as personal refl ections on a year like no other. With intellectual rigour, wit and clarity, Dabiri articulates a powerful vision for meaningful and lasting change. APRIL 2021 9780141996738 A FORMAT PAPERBACK £7.99 | 176 PAGES 4 The Bomber Mafia A Story Set in War Malcolm Gladwell The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century ‘The Bomber Mafi a is a case study in how In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea asks: what happens when technology and best drops from the heavens, it does not land softly intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, the price of progress? and shatters.’ Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six In the years before the Second World War, in a international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is What if we made bombing so accurate that wars the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff could be fought entirely from the air? What if we writer at the New Yorker, and co-founder of the could make the brutal clashes between armies on audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated the ground a thing of the past? from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in This book tells the story of what happened when England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafi a New York. follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill’s forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber APRIL 2021 commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would 9780241535004 order the bloodiest attack of the Second ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK World War. £16.99 | 288 PAGES 5 The New Breed How to Think About Robots Kate Darling A bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcher The robots are here. They make our cars, they – not just to non-humans, but also to each other. deliver fast food, they mine the sea fl oor. And in the near-future their presence will increasingly Kate Darling is a researcher at the Massachusetts enter our homes and workplaces – making Institute of Technology (MIT), where she human-robot interaction a frequent, everyday investigates social robotics and conducts occurrence. What will this future look like? What experimental studies on human-robot interaction. will defi ne the relationship between humans and robots? Here Kate Darling, a world-renowned expert in robot ethics, shows that in order to understand the new robot world, we must fi rst move beyond the idea that this technology will be something like us. Instead, she argues, we should look to our relationship with animals. Just as we have harnessed the power of animals to aid us in war and work, so too will robots supplement – rather than replace – our own skills and abilities. A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, APRIL 2021 The New Breed explains how the treatment of 9780241352991 machines can reveal a new understanding of our ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK own history, our own systems and how we relate £20.00 | 336 PAGES 6 The Premonition A Pandemic Story Michael Lewis From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 ‘It’s a foreboding,’ she said. ‘A knowing that everything; and to do all of this fast, in order something is looming around the corner. Like to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. how when the seasons change you can smell Fall It’s a story about the workings of the human in the air right before the leaves change and the mind; about the failures and triumphs of human wind turns cold.’ judgement and imagination. It’s the story of how we got to now. In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really Michael Lewis’s global bestselling books lift understood the magnitude of what was the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They happening. Except, that is, a small group of include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of scientifi c misfi ts who in their different ways high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was had been obsessed all their lives with how made into a hit Oscar-winning fi lm; Moneyball, viruses spread and replicated – and with why the story of a maverick outsider who beat the the governments and the institutions that were system; and Liar’s Poker, the book that defi ned supposed to look after us, kept making the same the excesses of the 1980s. Michael Lewis was mistakes time and again. born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren’t prepared. The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a MAY 2021 group who anticipated, traced and hunted the 9780241512470 coronavirus; who understood the need to think ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK differently, to learn from history, to question £25.00 | 336 PAGES 7 Wake The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez A stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance Women warriors planned and led slave revolts ‘Not only a riveting tale of Black women’s on slave ships during the passage across the leadership of slave revolts but an equally Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that the Americas. And then they were erased enabled its discovery’ – Angela Davis from history. Rebecca Hall is a lawyer, historian and activist. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a She has taught history at UC Berkeley, and was granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted a visiting professor of law at the University of by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With Utah. Her writing focuses on the history of race, in-depth archival research and a measured use on gender and law, and on feminist theory. of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom Hugo Martinez is a comic book illustrator and on slave ships bound to America, as well as artist from California. the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall’s own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful JUNE 2021 reminder that while the past is gone, we still live 9780241523551 in its wake. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £20.00 | 224 PAGES 8 Nice Racism How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm Robin DiAngelo An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour Racism will not be interrupted by a hug or a themselves as racist and therefore have not smile. Dismantling white supremacy requires developed the skills necessary for examining white people to commit to a lifetime of education their role in perpetuating racism. This is because and accountability. Continuing the work she white progressives are often steeped in a culture began in White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo of niceness which is animated by a belief that challenges white readers to rethink their ideas racism is limited to bad individuals who commit about racism and to confront their role in intentionally violent acts.