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The Dijkstra Agency PMB 515, 1155 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA 92014 • (858) 755-3115 Dijkstra & Associates www.dijkstraagency.com • Fax (858) 794-2822 Sandra The Dijkstra Agency FRANKFURT 2015 Sandra Dijkstra Elise Capron * Jill Marr * Thao Le Andrea Cavallaro * Roz Foster Jessica Watterson *Jennifer Kim www.dijkstraagency.com 2015 Dijkstra Agency Foreign Agents Denmark/Scandinavia Licht & Burr Literary AgencyTrine Licht ([email protected]) Eastern Europe Prava I Prevodi Ana Milenkovic-- Greece ([email protected]) Milena Lukic-- Czech, Slovak ([email protected]) Nada Popovic-- Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Baltics ([email protected]) Tamara Vukicevic-- Bulgaria, Romania [email protected] France La Nouvelle Agence Vanessa Kling ([email protected]) Michèle Kanonidis ([email protected]) Germany Agence Hoffman Andrea Wildgruber ([email protected]) Claudia Lichte ([email protected]) Uwe Neumahr ([email protected]) Hungary Katai & Bolza Peter Bolza ([email protected]) Indonesia Maxima Creative Agency Santo Manurung ([email protected]) Israel TBPAI Dalia Ever-Hadani ([email protected]) Italy Bernabo Associates Mariavittoria Pucetti ([email protected]) Japan English Agency of Japan Hamish Macaskill ([email protected]) Korea Eric Yang Agency Henry Shin ([email protected]) Netherlands Sebes & Van Gelderen Agency Paul Sebes ([email protected]) Willem Bisseling ([email protected]) Jeanine Langenberg ([email protected]) Poland Graal Literary Agency Urszula Jedrach [email protected] Russia Synopsis Agency Natasha Sanina ([email protected]) Spanish/Portuguese/Catalan/ Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria Latin America Sandra Bruna ([email protected]) Natalia Berenguer ([email protected]) Taiwan/China Bardon-Chinese Agency David Tsai ( <[email protected]>) Thailand TuttleMori Agency Pumi Boonyatud [email protected] Turkey Onk Agency Nazli Cokdu Ulas ([email protected]) UK Abner Stein Agency Caspian Dennis ([email protected]) Kate McLennan ([email protected]) Anna Carmichael ([email protected]) Please contact Andrea Cavallaro with any inquiries • (858) 755-3115 x104 • Fax (858) 794-2822 • [email protected] Sandra Dijkstra & Associates - PR List Summer 2015 2 NON-FICTION 2016 ALIBABA: The House that Jack Ma Built Duncan Clark Ecco/Harper April 2016 From such unremarkable origins, how did Jack Ma build the house that is Alibaba? For his out-sized ambitions and unconventional methods, Jack Ma has been referred to by some as “crazy Jack”. What is the method to his madness? As the company sets its ambitions on China’s financial sector and media markets, what are the limits to his ambitions? How will the company’s international expansion impact Silicon Valley and Hollywood? In twelve chapters, Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built explores the company and the man who founded it. In these pages readers, will learn how Jack Ma, a former English teacher and twice-failed entrepreneur, harnessed the private sector to the rapid growth of the Internet in his country, creating a chemical reaction which powered Alibaba’s rise to become one of the largest firms in the world. Readers will also learn about Jack Ma’s early struggles, and how a combination of skill and luck provided him the opening for his later success. The country’s long-suppressed but now unleashed entrepreneurial sector, depended upon the Internet coming to China. Despite government efforts to contain, censor and channel, the Internet is transforming Chinese society and business. As China’s economy slows, and Alibaba’s relationship with the government shows signs of straining, Jack Magic is being put to the test as never before. Duncan Clark was raised in the UK, US and France. He has been based in Beijing since 1994 and first met Jack Ma in 1999. He worked as a consultant to Alibaba in its early years. As a Visiting Scholar at Stanford he co-founded the ‘China 2.0’ research program which featured as speakers leading figures from China including Jack Ma, who came to speak twice. He is also a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong, Duncan is widely quoted in international media outlets such as CNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, and the New York Times. Sold to: China Citic Sandra Dijkstra & Associates - PR List Summer 2015 3 NON-FICTION 2016 ANATOMY OF MALICE: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals Joel Dimsdale Yale May 2016 ANATOMY OF MALICE is the story of a complex and often troubled quest to make sense of the most extreme kind of evil, this most famous of war crime trials, through the history of the Rorschach test, and of its ultimate effects on the two doctors whose lives became deeply entangled in the worlds and lives of these criminals. Renowned psychiatrist Joel Dimsdale--who was invited to speak at the 2015 anniversary of the Nuremberg trials—explores the desire to understand evil, through the lens of the psychological testing done on the leaders of Nazi Germany, the most devastating international war criminals of our time. Relying heavily on the Rorschach inkblot test, a psychologist and a psychiatrist-- Gustave Gilbert and Douglas Kelley—were chosen to lead the investigation. Their test results are still surrounded by intrigue: Gilbert and Kelley were bitter rivals, held differing views of their test results, and one of the doctors, Kelley, was a close friend of Goering. Both Kelley and Goering would ultimately both kill themselves with cyanide. Dr. Joel Dimsdale is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the department of psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. He was previously on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He is an active investigator, a former career awardee of the American Heart Association, and is past-president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has edited seven books. Sold to: Italy Newton Taiwan Business Weekly Sandra Dijkstra & Associates - PR List Summer 2015 4 NON-FICTION 2016 ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME: Portraits of Individual Lives Bernd Heinrich Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2016 In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day- to-day observations of individual wild birds at work and at play. Why does a great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young act surreptitiously, and get attacked by the mate? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest hole into the side of Heinrich’s cabin allow him to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest cleaning. What will happen when one of a clutch of redstart warbler babies fledges out of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below and it can’t fly? Bernd Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands and knees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing.”—Boston Globe Bernd Heinrich is an acclaimed scientist and the award-winning author of numerous books, including the best-selling Winter World, Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and The Homing Instinct. He writes for Scientific American, Outside, American Scientist, and Audubon, and has published book reviews and op-eds for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Among Heinrich's many honors is the 2013 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction, for Life Everlasting. He lives in Maine. Also by Bernd Heinrich THE HOMING INSTINCT: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2015 “[A] delightful, wide-ranging meditation on the pull of home… A special treat for readers of natural history.” – Kirkus Reviews Sold to: Germany Matthes & Seitz Netherlands Meulenhoff UK Harper LIFE EVERLASTING: The Way of Animal Death Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bernd Heinrich receives a letter from a severely ill friend asking if he might have a "green burial" at Heinrich's hunting camp, and the acclaimed biologist/author sets out to explore exactly how the animal world deals with the death-to-life cycle and what we can learn from the process, both ecologically and spiritually. Sold to: Germany Matthes & Seitz Japan Kagaku-Dojin Korea Kungree Poland Czarne Sandra Dijkstra & Associates - PR List Summer 2015 5 NON-FICTION 2016 CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A History of American Mountaineering Maurice Isserman Norton April 2016 Mountains have had an outsized impact on American identity: the Rockies and Tetons pulled us westward toward Manifest Destiny; the Catskills and Appalachians stirred the transcendentalists; and Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Continental Divide tells this gripping history through four centuries of landmark climbs and thrilling first ascents. With an incredible cast―including Lewis and Clark, Thoreau, Emerson, and John Muir―Isserman describes epic campaigns from Mt. Washington to Denali, and traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. Maurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History, Hamilton College. His book FALLEN GIANTS was reviewed by the New York Times as "the book of a lifetime... an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling... Armchair mountaineers will give the book pride of place in their collections.” DEAR LOS ANGELES David Kipen Random House Spring 2016 The problem with chronological histories of Los Angeles is that they make too much sense. As megacities around the world leave off looking to L.A. as a cautionary example and, instead, start to see it as a way forward, Kipen presents an anecdotal history that turns Southern California history inside out. Travelling from the pivotal year of 1935 both backward to 19th-century annexation and forward to the city we think we know, Dear Los Angeles teases out patterns and parallels hitherto hard to glimpse. Far from a city without history, L.A. becomes, to paraphrase Joyce, a nightmare from which the future is trying to awake. David Kipen was born in Los Angeles the same year that Marcel Duchamp and Dennis Hopper, at the former’s retrospective in Pasadena, toasted each other with pink champagne.
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