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Perseus Books Hachette Book Group Translation Rights Guide Fall 2016 Perseus Books Group Imprints Basic Books .................................................................... 3 Da Capo Press .............................................................. 14 Da Capo Lifelong Books ................................................ 25 Nation Books ................................................................ 37 PublicAffairs ................................................................. 41 Running Press .............................................................. 50 Seal Press ..................................................................... 63 Weinstein Books ........................................................... 71 Westview Press .............................................................. 72 Client Publishers Amherst Media .............................................................. 77 BenBella Books ............................................................. 80 Cicada Books ................................................................ 94 Columbia Global Reports .............................................. 95 ECW Press ..................................................................... 97 Hazelden Publishing .................................................... 112 Microcosm Publishing ................................................. 117 Missionday .................................................................. 126 Redleaf Press .............................................................. 127 Roaring Forties Press .................................................. 131 Santa Monica Press ..................................................... 133 Spirit Books ................................................................ 134 Unhooked Books ......................................................... 136 Visible Ink Press ......................................................... 137 Wharton Digital Press .................................................. 140 Subject Index ............................................................... 141 International Subagents ............................................... 145 Cover design by Rose Traynor Front cover image by Gaelle Marcel; back cover image by Steve Richey Both licensed under Creative Commons Zero Basic Books Gregory Berns What It’s Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience From best-selling neuroscientist Gregory Berns comes a deeply insightful look into the minds of other animals. We live with aliens. They share our homes. We tend to their basic needs. And sometimes they climb into our beds to sleep. They are animals, of course, but they might as well be aliens because we know almost nothing about their inner experiences. What is it like to be a dog? A bird? Or a dolphin? Until recently, these questions were unanswerable. Berns has been doing MRI research on the brains of dogs, sea lions, dolphins, and even rodents, and he’s finding that animal brains may not be as different from our own as we may like to think. We are on the verge of creating new technologies that will let us decode the animal experience and eventually translate human communication into a form that animals can better grasp. In this groundbreaking and fascinating book, Berns leads us to a new and surprising understanding of these brains that we have dismissed as so unlike our own. • Gregory Berns is author of the New York Times best seller How Dogs Love Us and Iconoclast. He is Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics in the Psychology Department at Emory University. He has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense and has published 70 peer- reviewed original research articles in such journals as Science, Nature, and Neuron. His research is frequently the subject of popular media coverage, including articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New Scientist, and Wired. He speaks frequently on CNN and NPR and has been profiled on ABC’s Primetime, CBS’s Sunday Morning, NOVA, and 60 Minutes, among others. Fall 2017 • Science/Animal Behavior • 256 pages World Rights: Basic Books Zeeya Merali Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes Big Bang in a Little Room is an entirely serious attempt to answer a seemingly ludicrous question: Could aliens have invented our universe? Many people have theorized about the creation of the cosmos, but what if aliens had the godlike ability to build an entirely new universe? Modern physicists are developing the technology to allow this very feat, creating a universe with independent physical laws, star systems, galaxies, and possibly even life forms. Zeeya Merali’s is a timely topic following the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, which helped to prove many theories about how particles interact in the universe. As physicists close in on discovering how our universe formed, whether as bubble universes or baby universes or multiverses spinning off each other, we may soon know for certain the conditions and circumstances of our formation. Is all we know the product of a big bang, a black hole, or a magnetic monopole? Big Bang in a Little Room addresses the universal curiosity surrounding our origins and speculates as to where we may go next. • Zeeya Merali is a British science writer with a master’s degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in theoretical physics from Brown University. She is author of Visualizing Physical Geography and Visualizing Earth Science and has written for a number of publications, including Scientific American, Discover, and Nature. Merali has also worked with New Scientist and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. February 2017 • Science/Physics • 320 pages World Rights: Basic Books; Chinese (s): Ginkgo (Beijing) Book Co.; Japanese: Bungei Shunju 3 Basic Books Richard Harris Rigor Mortis For decades scientists have been taking shortcuts around the tried-and-true methods that are supposed to keep researchers from fooling themselves into seeing in their results only what they want to see. The consequences are now haunting biomedical research. Simply too much of it is wrong—and wrong not simply because science is hard but often due to unforced errors, errors of haste, and wishful thinking. This book tells the backstory of how scientists cut corners, how the field is waking up to the problems and finding ways to eradicate many unnecessary errors, and how it is accelerating the search for new treatments and cures. The stories in this book follow scientists who have been willing to call out the problems they see and set things right. We are witnessing the start of a cultural shift in biomedical science, and Harris explores the underlying pressures that encouraged these mistakes, as well as the efforts now under way to chart a new course for the entire research enterprise. • Richard Harris, a celebrated science journalist, has been covering science, medicine, and the environment as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 29 years. He has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science science journalism award so many times that he’s no longer eligible for it. Harris has also won the Lewis Thomas Award for his biomedical reporting, among many others. Until recently he was the president of the National Association of Science Writers, and he’s currently on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. April 2017 • Science/Medicine • 240 pages World Rights: Basic Books Mark Seidenberg Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It For most of us, reading is automatic. We read every day, whether it’s a street sign, a newspaper, an e-mail, a Facebook status update, a literary novel, or the nutritional content of a box of cereal. We read for work, for school, for pleasure; because we have to, because we want to, because we can’t help it. Yet beneath this seemingly simple behavior, a vast network of activity is occurring in our brains. What exactly is happening when we read? Cognitive psychologist and reading expert Mark Seidenberg pulls back the curtain on our reading minds in Language at the Speed of Sight and shows that it is more important than ever—for us and for our children—that we understand the science of reading. For all the progress scientists have made in the cognitive science of reading and comprehension, the way we teach reading is still based on folk wisdom and anecdotal classroom evidence, and it isn’t working and shouldn’t continue. Fortunately, Seidenberg has a better way. This is cutting-edge science with real implications for one of our most fundamental social and political issues: how we teach our children. Covering such topics as how your eyes move across the page to the main causes of reading impediments, Language at the Speed of Sight offers a wide- ranging and erudite examination of this most human of activities, as well as concrete proposals for how we can all become—and nurture—better readers. • Mark Seidenberg is Hilldale Professor and Donald O. Hebb Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin. A cognitive neuroscientist, he has studied reading and dyslexia for over three decades. He received a PhD and three other degrees from Columbia University. He has published over 100 scientific articles and was recently honored as one of the 250 most cited researchers in the areas of psychology and psychiatry.