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2 • TABLE OF CONTENTS Politics & the Economy ...................................................3 Penguin Group USA presents a new selection Humanity & Culture .........................................................5 Food & Society ..............................................................7 of Geography titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Health & Medicine ............................................................9 History ................................................................................10 Examination and personal copy forms are Penguin Historical Atlases ......................................11 available at the back of the catalog. Science, Technology, & Industry ...............................12 For personal service, adoption assistance, Rural ....................................................................................13 and complimentary exam copies, Urban ..................................................................................14 sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at Conservation & Environment .....................................15 http://www.penguin.com/facinfo Sustainability ...................................................................17 World...................................................................................19 Britain & Ireland ..............................................................20 Western Europe ...............................................................20 Russia & Eastern Europe ...............................................21 Latin America ...................................................................22 Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager The United States ...........................................................23 f THE REAL STATE OF Penguin Library of American Indian History ....26 AMERICA ATLAS Mapping the Myths and Asia ......................................................................................27 Truths of the United States Africa ...................................................................................28 Illustrated throughout with clear, The Middle East ...............................................................29 easy-to-read, four-color graphics, The Real State of America Atlas Other Titles of Interest ..................................................30 draws back the curtain on our com- Penguin Speakers Bureau ...........................................31 plex nation to reveal the myriad realities of the American experi- Index ...................................................................................32 ence—from our changing demo- College Faculty Information Service .......................34 graphics to patterns of home own- ership to the kinds of food we eat. School & Personal Copy Order Form .......................36 See The United States, page 23 Examination Copy Order Form ..................................37 GEOGRAPHY 2012 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) f denotes new or forthcoming title POLITICS & THE ECONOMY • 3 Ian Bremmer Niall Ferguson POLITICS & f THE END OF THE FREE MARKET THE ASCENT OF MONEY THE ECONOMY Who Wins the War Between A Financial History of the World States and Corporations? Ferguson tells the story behind the evolution of “One of the clearest and most comprehensive our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Thomas P. M. Barnett treatments [of state capitalism].”—David Brooks, Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he The New York Times. “A wide-ranging account of calls Planet Finance. “An excellent, just in time GREAT POWERS the rise of state capitalism...apposite examples guide to the history of finance and financial crisis.” America and the World After Bush and acute insights.”—The Economist. —The Washington Post. “Shrewdly anticipates A tour-de-force analysis of the grand realignments Portfolio • 240 pp. • 978-1-59184-440-2 • $16.00 many aspects of the current financial crisis, that are both already here and coming up fast in which has toppled banks, precipitated gigantic the spheres of economics, diplomacy, defense, government bailouts and upended global mar- technology, security, and the environment. Jason Burke kets.”—The New York Times. Berkley • 496 pp. • 978-0-425-23225-5 • $16.00 f THE 9/11 WARS Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311617-2 • $16.00 At once investigation, reportage and contempo- rary history, The 9/11 Wars is an essential book COLOSSUS BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION for understanding the dangerous and unstable The Price of America’s Empire A Future Worth Creating twenty-first century. Penguin • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-303479-7 • $17.00 Putnam • 464 pp. • 978-0-425-21174-8 $16.00 Penguin • 500 pp. • 978-0-14-104459-0 • $20.00 Also available: The War of the World 978-0-14-311239-6; Civilization 978-1-59420-305-3 THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP John S. Burnett War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century Doug Fine DANGEROUS WATERS f TOO HIGH TO FAIL “Barnett offers one of the most provocative and Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas Cannabis and the New comprehensive approaches to understanding Plume • 368 pp. • 978-0-452-28413-5 • $16.00 national security in the 21st century.”—Sherri Green Economic Revolution Goodman, former Deputy Undersecretary of The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal Defense. James Canton, Ph.D. cannabis industry. “Fine is a...storyteller in the Berkley • 448 pp. • 978-0-425-20239-5 • $16.00 THE EXTREME FUTURE mold of...Douglas Adams.”—The Washington Post. The Top Trends That Will Reshape the Gotham • 320 pp. • 978-1-592-40709-5 • $26.00 Alan Beattie World in the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years Available August 2012 Plume • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-28866-9 • $16.00 FALSE ECONOMY A Surprising Economic History of the World Charles Fishman A leading economic writer weaves together ele- William Easterly THE WAL-MART EFFECT ments of economics, history, politics, and human THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN How the World’s Most Powerful Company stories, revealing how governments and countries Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Really Works—and How It’s Transforming make concrete choices that can determine Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good the American Economy whether they remain a rich or poor nation. “[A] “Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western “Saunters through the influential economic ‘eco- thorough examination of economies from the age intervention in the Third World.”—BusinessWeek. system’ that the discount chain represents with of empire to the age of the IMF....Beattie’s analysis “Easterly’s call for a more modest, results-ori- clarity, compelling nuance, and refreshing objec- dazzles with particulars.”—The Washington Post. ented approach to aid is dead-on.”—Los Angeles tivity.”—Christian Science Monitor. 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Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303878-8 • $16.00 Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-303882-5 • $17.00 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Teacher’s Guide available at us.penguingroup.com/tguides For instructions on requesting permission to photocopy Penguin Group (USA) titles, for Graham Evans coursepacks and for general classroom use go and Jeffrey Newnham, editors Joshua Goldstein to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY f WINNING THE WAR ON WAR Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400 OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Decline of Armed “[A] selective compendium of essential ideas, Conflict Worldwide concepts, and theories of international relations, “Does what no other book has attempted, pro- TRY OUR ONLINE viding a synoptic view, and narrative, of the slow TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE specialized terminology, and neologisms (e.g., ‘ethnic cleansing’).”—Choice. but successful evolution of UN peacekeeping.”— Go to www.penguin.com/toc and search Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-051397-4 • $18.00 Paul Kennedy, Yale University. by ISBN (13-digit book #) for the tables of Dutton • 416 pp. • 978-0-525-95253-4 • $26.95 contents to hundreds of Penguin titles. Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-452-29859-0 • $17.00 Paperback available August 2012 f denotes new or forthcoming title GEOGRAPHY 2012 • PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 • POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Alexandra Harney John Kay Carne Ross THE CHINA PRICE f OBLIQUITY f THE LEADERLESS REVOLUTION The True Cost of Why Our Goals Are How Ordinary People Will Take Power Chinese Competitive Advantage Best Achieved Indirectly and Change Politics in the 21st Century Former Financial Times correspondent Harney A leading economist charts the indirect road to “An impassioned, idealistic critique of the state exposes how China’s factory economy gains a happiness and wealth. “A fast-paced detective of global politics and the deepening rift between competitive edge by selling out its workers, envi- story....Brilliant.”—Tim Harford, author of The those with power and those without.”—The ronment, and future. Logic of Life. Guardian (London). Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311486-4 • $16.00 Penguin Press • 240 pp. • 978-1-59420-278-0 • $25.95 Blue Rider Press • 272 pp. • 978-0-399-15872-8 • $22.95 Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-312055-1 • $16.00 Thom Hartmann Paperback available April 2012 Joni Seager THRESHOLD THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF The Crisis of Western Culture Amin Maalouf WOMEN IN THE WORLD The progressive radio host outlines five critical IN THE NAME OF IDENTITY Fourth Edition personal and policy solutions for building a bet- Violence and the Need to Belong “Scholarly, funny, provocative and an essential ter, more sustainable world. “Defines the prob- Translated from the French by Barbara Bray source in any library. You can’t