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Fall 2013 September – December for the Most Up-To-Date Edelweiss Catalog Information, Visit Contents BloomsBury Fall 2013 september – december For the most up-to-date Edelweiss catalog information, visit http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com CONTENTS BLOOMSBURY ROY G. BIV Jude Stewart 4 The Bone Season Samantha Shannon 5 Rambunctious Garden (pb) Emma Marris 7 On the Trail of Genghis Khan Tim Cope 8 Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 9 Just Plain Dick (pb) Kevin Mattson 11 Becoming a Londoner David Plante 12 The Wild Duck Chase (pb) Martin J. Smith 13 Others of My Kind James Sallis 14 The Shadow Scholar (pb) Dave Tomar 15 Marilyn (pb) Lois Banner 16 The Two Hotel Francforts David Leavitt 17 An Emergency in Slow Motion (pb) William Todd Schultz 19 Torment Saint William Todd Schultz 20 Writing on the Wall Tom Standage 21 Margaret Thatcher Jonathan Aitken 23 In Calamity’s Wake Natalee Caple 24 WWW The Kennedy Half-Century Larry J. Sabato 25 . Hard Twisted (pb) C. Joseph Greaves 27 B Whatever Happened to the Metric System? John Bemelmans Marciano 28 LOOMS Beasts Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 29 Zoo Time (pb) Howard Jacobson 31 B Leonardo and the Last Supper (pb) Ross King 32 URY.COM The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets Simon Singh 33 If Walls Could Talk (pb) Lucy Worsley 35 The Ukulele Handbook Tom Hodgkinson and Gavin Pretor-Pinney 36 The Teleportation Accident (pb) Ned Beauman 37 Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink John F. Mariani 38 The Art of Losing (pb) Kevin Young 39 Home Fires Elizabeth Day 40 Fire in the Belly (pb) Cynthia Carr 41 Owning the Earth Andro Linklater 42 Let Me Tell You a Story Renata Calverley 43 Glorious Misadventures Owen Matthews 44 Historic Blumenthal Heston Blumenthal 45 Respect Yourself Robert Gordon 46 Mirror Earth (pb) Michael D. Lemonick 47 The Light of Amsterdam (pb) David Park 48 Painter of Silence (pb) Georgina Harding 49 Communion Town Sam Thompson 50 In the Land of Oz Howard Jacobson 51 The Remains of Love Zeruya Shalev 52 Celtic Pattern Adam Tetlow 53 Plant Form in the Decorative Arts Lisa Delong 54 Deception (pb) Edward Lucas 55 BLOOMSBURY PRESS The Tragedy of Liberation Frank Dikötter 56 Ebony and Ivy Craig Steven Wilder 57 Volcker (pb) William L. Silber 59 The Downfall of Money Frederick Taylor 60 What if Latin America Ruled the World? (pb) Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 61 Story of a Death Foretold Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 62 Out of the Labyrinth Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan 63 The Art of the Infinite Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan 64 Unaccountable (pb) Marty Makary, M.D. 65 Mr. Selden’s Map of China Timothy Brook 66 Jefferson and Hamilton John Ferling 67 Year of Meteors (pb) Douglas R. Egerton 69 The New Middle East Paul Danahar 70 Buckley (pb) Carl T. Bogus 71 Junkyard Planet Adam Minter 72 BLOOMSBURY DISTRIBUTION AND SPECIALIST TITLES El Clásico Richard Fitzpatrick 73 Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters Daniel Gray 74 Island Summers Tilly Culme-Seymour 75 Wisden Cricketers of the Year Simon Wilde 76 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2013 Lawrence Booth ed. 77 WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM The Essential Wisden John Stern and Marcus Williams, eds. 78 BloomsbURY PRESS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BloomsbURY BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS MCMA IllaN GIFT REPRESENTATIVES SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS QUERIES ORDER INFORMATION BLOOMSBURY USA SEPTEMBER 2013 ROY G. BIV An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color Jude Stewart A stunning and original reference on the colors of the rainbow, from Sweden’s “black socks of envy” to Britain’s pink-colored machismo. ART / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 9/17/2013 Color is all around us every day. We use it to interpret the world—red means 9781608196135 | $18.00 / $19.00 Can. stop, blue means water, orange means construction. But it is also written into our Hardback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: metaphors, of speech and thought alike: yellow means cowardice; green means 7.000 in W | 7.185 in H Colour envy—unless you’re in Germany, where yellow means envy, and you can be “beat up green and yellow.” Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Translation, Audio Jude Stewart, a design expert and writer, digs into this rich subject with gusto. Film/TV: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary What color is the universe? We might say it’s black, but astrophysicists think it Agency might be turquoise. Unless it’s beige. To read about color from Jude Stewart is to unlock a whole different way of looking at the world around us—and bringing it MARKETING all vividly to life. Social media campaign at publication on Bloomsbury accounts, Pinterest The book itself is organized around the rainbow and is lavishly designed, with and Tumblr sites cross-references that liven up each page. (Follow the thread of imperialism, for Shareable infographics available on example, from the pink-colored colonies on maps of the British Empire to the Bloomsbury.com green wallpaper that might have killed Napoleon.) A lovingly packaged, distinctive Print and online feature and review book, it will be the only one of its kind. coverage Gift book roundups ROY G. BIV is a reference and inspiration for designers and artists, as well as a Author events in Chicago region unique, beautiful, and irresistible book for just about anyone. Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for Slate, The Believer, Fast Company, GOOD, I.D., and other publications. She also writes a blog about color for PRINT. She lives in Chicago. Her website is www.judestewart.com. 4 The Bone Season Samantha Shannon A major event—the first book in a seven-part series of dizzying imagination. Welcome to Scion: No Safer Place. It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing. But when Paige is captured and arrested, she encounters a power more sinister even than Scion. The voyant prison is a separate city—Oxford, erased from the map two centuries ago and now controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. These creatures, the Rephaim, value the voyants highly—as soldiers in their army. Paige is assigned to a Rephaite keeper, Warden, who will be in charge of her care and training. He is her master. Her natural enemy. But if she wants to regain her freedom, Paige will have to learn something of his mind and his own mysterious motives. The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine—a young woman learning to harness her powers in a world where everything has been taken from her. It also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut. Samantha Shannon was born and raised in West London. She’s currently pursuing her degree in English literature at the University of Oxford. The Bone Season is her first published work of fiction—the first in a seven-book series. It has been sold in eighteen countries and film rights have been optioned by The Imaginarium Studios, a film company led by Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit) and Jonathan Cavendish (producer of Bridget Jones’s Diary). Follow Samantha on Twitter: @say_shannon; and on her blog: www.samantha-shannon.blogspot.com 5 MARKETING Six-figure blockbuster global campaign ADS: National print/online consumer ad campaign Book club marketing campaign PROMO: Featured at Winter Institute and BEA Viral teaser trailers revealed May and August Social media campaigns Pre-pub online buzz campaign Early online review campaign Major blogger outreach campaign Website http://www.boneseasonbooks.com/ PUBLICITY: Pre-pub media event in NYC National review campaign; Major coverage in all media outlets Radio broadcast campaign; Fall book roundups FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 8/20/2013 9781620401392 | $24.00 / $25.00 Can. Hardback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Audio, Serial Film/TV, Translation: David Godwin Associates 6 BLOOMSBURY USA AUGUST 2013 Rambunctious Garden Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World Emma Marris “Remarkable . Emma Marris explores [the] paradox that . the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.” —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the “rambunctious garden,” a hybrid of wild nature and NATURE / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 8/20/2013 human management. In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and 9781608194544 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems. Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Second Rambunctious Garden brings home the idea that we must give up our romantic serial, Translation, Audio notions of pristine wilderness and embrace the romantic notion of a global half- Film/TV: Scovil Galen Ghosh wild rambunctious garden, tended by us. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608190324 PRAISE MARKETING “Marris is a whip-smart writer . already being compared to the greatest environmental Social media campaign at publication; writers and thinkers of the past century, Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold.” —San giveaways Francisco Chronicle Coverage in paperback columns “An insightful analysis of the thinking that informs nature conservation.” —The Focused outreach to gardening, green, and local-interesting bloggers Economist “Potentially the most optimistic and controversial work about the future of nature to appear in years.” —Grist.org “What may be the most important book about the environment in a generation.” —Idaho Statesman Emma Marris grew up in Seattle, Washington.
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