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CHI CA GO CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL EDITION INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EDITION SEFALLCRETL Y BOOKSMAPPED TH2017E WORLD GO PRESS F AL CA L B OOKS CHI of 20 STREET CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60637 ILLINOIS STREET CHICAGO 17 TH UNIVERSITY EAST 60 1427 Recently Published Fall 2017 Contents General Interest 1 Special Interest 32 Paperbacks 93 How to Tame a Fox (and Our Latest Longest War Distributed Books 106 Build a Dog) Losing Hearts and Minds in Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Afghanistan Edited by Aaron B. O’Connell Author Index 180 Tale of Jump-Started Evolution Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26565-0 Cloth $30.00/£22.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44418-5 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-26579-7 Title Index 182 Cloth $26.00/£19.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-44421-5 Subject Index 184 Ordering Inside Information back cover Henry David Thoreau A River Runs through It A Life and Other Stories Laura Dassow Walls Norman Maclean ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34469-0 With a Foreword by Robert Redford Cloth $35.00/£26.50 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47206-5 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-34472-0 Paper $15.00/£11.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-47223-2 Down and Out in the Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Cover design by Mary Shanahan New Economy How People Find (or Don’t Find) Norman Maclean Catalog design by Brian Beerman and Mary Shanahan Work Today With a New Foreword by Timothy Egan Ilana Gershon ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45035-3 Paper $18.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45214-2 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45049-0 Cloth $25.00/£19.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45228-9 VIRGIL The Aeneid Translated by David Ferry n 2012, David Ferry capped a long career as a poet with a Na- tional Book Award, given in honor of his book Bewilderment: New I Poems and Translations. But he had no interest in resting on his laurels. In fact, he was in the middle of the most ambitious poetic project of his life. Six years earlier, at age eighty-two, he had embarked on a complete translation of one of the foundational works of Western culture: Virgil’s Aeneid. Now we have it, and it is a glorious thing. Ferry has long been known as perhaps the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics having established them- selves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same “There is no better poet on the planet than genius, rendering Virgil’s formal, metrical lines into an English that David Ferry.” —Alan Shapiro is familiar and alive. Yet in doing so, he surrenders none of the feel of the ancient world that resonates throughout the poem and gives it NOVEMBER 432 p., 1 halftone 6 x 9 the power that has drawn readers to it for centuries. In Ferry’s hands, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45018-6 the Aeneid becomes once more a lively, dramatic poem of daring and Cloth $35.00/£26.50 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-45021-6 adventure, of love and loss, devotion and death. Never before have CLASSICS POETRY Virgil’s twin gifts of poetic language and fleet storytelling been pre- sented so powerfully for English-language readers. Ferry’s Aeneid will be a landmark, a gift to longtime lovers of Virgil and the perfect entry point for new readers. “I sing of arms and the man . .” The epic journey, from the fall of Troy to the founding of Rome, is ready to begin. Join us. David Ferry is the author of a number of books of poetry and has translated several works from classical languages. He was elected a fellow of the Ameri- can Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement in 2011, and won the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry for Bewilderment. general interest 1 JOHN DAVIES and ALEXANDER J. KENT The Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World With a Foreword by James Risen early thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues N to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neigh- borhood at a finger’s reach, the amount the Soviet government knew “When money and technology weren’t about your family’s city, street, or home would astonish you. Revealing an issue—when it was just about brain- how this was possible, The Red Atlas is the never-before-told story of the power and hard work—the Soviets could most comprehensive mapping endeavor in history and the surprising compete with anyone. So it shouldn’t be maps that resulted. a surprise to learn that their mapmakers, From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic like their athletes, were among the best mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world in the world. Many of the maps in this that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full collection were made to guide Soviet sol- range of military planning. For big cities like New York, DC, and Lon- diers in potential wars against enemies don, all the way down to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, abroad. But like the best socialist-realist the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. propaganda posters, they transcend their What they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious, like original purpose. Decades after they were locations of factories and ports, or more surprising, such as building created, they are now unique works of heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests art, offering the viewer what can only be early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions called a kind of emotional-cartographic- of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have political experience.” been gained by actual Soviet feet on the ground. The Red Atlas in- —Joe Weisberg, creator and executive producer cludes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, explor- of The Americans ing their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going NOVEMBER 272 p., 282 color plates 7 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38957-8 on all around us. Cloth $35.00 /£26.50 A fantastic historical document of an era that sometimes seems all E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-38960-8 HISTORY too near, The Red Atlas offers an uncanny view of the world through the eyes of Soviet strategists and spies. John Davies is editor of Sheetlines, the journal of the Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps. He lives in London. Alexander J. Kent is a reader in cartography and geographical information science at Canterbury 2 general interest Christ Church University and president of the British Cartographic Society. 2ND PROOF ❍✔ MARY ❍ BRIAN JAN CIENSKI Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy oland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as “bread,” “shoes,” P and “milk products,” from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you’d be hard-pressed to recognize the same squares—buzzing with bars and cafés—today. In the years since the collapse of communism, Poland’s GDP has almost tripled, making it the eight-largest economy in the European Union, with a wealth of well-educated and highly skilled workers and a buoyant private sector. Many consider it one of the only “The remarkable success of Polish entre- European countries to have truly weathered the financial crisis. preneurs is the great postcommunist story As the Warsaw bureau chief for the Financial Times, Jan Cienski that has not been told. Cienski knows spent more than a decade talking with the people who did something how to tell that story, and, with Start-Up that had never been done before: recreating a market economy out of Poland, he has shaped his outstanding a socialist one. Poland had always lagged behind wealthier Western understanding of the history of Poland’s Europe, and by the 1980s the gap had grown to its widest in centuries. economic transformation and access to But the corrupt Polish version of communism also created the condi- the top Polish entrepreneurs into a highly tions for the country’s eventual revitalization, bringing forth a remark- readable journalistic account.” —Anders Åslund, ably resilient and entrepreneurial people prepared to brave red tape author of How Capitalism Was Built and limited access to capital. In the 1990s, more than a million Polish people opened their own businesses, selling everything from bicycles OCTOBER 272 p. 6 x 9 to leather jackets, Japanese VCRs, and romance novels. The most ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30681-0 Cloth $27.50/£20.50 business-savvy turned those primitive operations into complex corpo- E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30695-7 rations that now have global reach. ECONOMICS EUROPEAN HISTORY Start-Up Poland tells the story of the opening bell in the East, painting lively portraits of the men and women who built successful businesses there and what they did to catapult their ideas to incredible success.