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Current Affairs Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi Political Science Steve Inskeep • 978-0-14-312216-6 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A deeply researched Too High To Fail: Cannabis and the New portrait of one of the world’s fastest growing Interventions: A Life in War and Peace Green Economic Revolution cities • “Magnificent, engrossing.... [Inskeep’s] Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh Doug Fine • 978-1-592-40709-5 • $27.00 • Aug voice reflects the best traditions of politically • 978-1-59420-420-3 • $36.00 • Sep 2012 2012 • Gotham • “Well-researched...eye-open- alert travel writing, endowed with calm • Penguin Press • “Thought-provoking....Annan ing. Explores the revenue and benefits to be wisdom and curious empathy.”—Steve Coll, describes the peaceful and more equitable world had from cannabis without a single joint’s being author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens • “A that is within our grasp, and offers his candid lighted....Making a moral case... inside the eco- colorful journey through a sprawling, terrifying perspective on the challenges we must nomic case.”—The New York Times Book city.... Impressively structured and briskly overcome to get there,”—President William J. Review told.”—Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and Clinton • “Focusing mostly on the years of his The Gamble UN tenure, Annan recounts his role in This Machine Kills Secrets: How alleviating global conflicts and underscores the WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle monumental difficulty in restoring and Aim to Free the World’s Information on One of the Deadliest Prescription maintaining peace....The bulk of Annan’s Andy Greenberg • 978-0-525-95320-3 • $27.95 Drugs Ever recollections concern the major conflicts of the • Nov 2012 • Dutton • The first full account of Kathleen Sharp • 978-0-452-29850-7 • $17.00 last several decades, from wars in Somalia, the cypherpunks who are changing our world. • Sep 2012 • Plume • The true story behind one Rwanda, and Bosnia to the September 11 • “Greenberg tells a vivid story that weaves to- of the biggest whistleblower cases of our time terrorist attacks and the U.S. invasions of gether compelling characters and powerful tech- • “Blood Medicine rivals A Civil Action for best Afghanistan and Iraq. Avoiding the nebulous nology that could change politics more pro- nonfiction book of the past twenty years.” rhetoric of many political memoirs, Annan foundly than any invention since the printing —John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling instead provides a peacemaker’s invaluable press.”—David Bacon, IBM, T.J. Watson Research author of The Hunter • “A page-turner, this perspective on those crises as well as insight Center • “Points to a future in which few corpo- alarming chronicle of profit seeking in into the daunting challenges facing diplomats rate and government secrets are safe. This is the American medicine will appeal to all who are in today’s world”—Booklist book you must read to understand the invested in the health care they receive or the WikiLeaks phenomenon and the growing strug- drugs they’re prescribed.”—Library Journal It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! gle over the most sensitive institutional se- James Carville and Stan Greenberg crets.”— Stephen Solomon, Director of the Busi- The Penguin State of the World Atlas: • 978-0-399-16039-4 • $26.95 • July 2012 ness and Economic Reporting Program, New Ninth Edition • Blue Rider Press • Two of the nation’s top York University Carter School of Journalism Dan Smith • 978-0-14-312265-4 • $22.00 • Dec political strategists explain how the Democrats • “Greenberg masterfully portrays a new reality. 2012 • Penguin • The completely up-to-date can capture the 2012 election (and recapture Radical transparency for firms and governments edition of a comprehensive overview of the their base) by recommitting the party to saving is not just a decision but a technological fact of elements that define our world • “Unique and America’s working people • “Refreshingly life.”—Don Tapscott, bestselling author of Mac- uniquely beautiful... [it tells us] more about the specific in some of their policy rowikinomics world today than a dozen statistical abstracts or recommendations in areas such as energy scholarly tomes.”—Los Angeles Times investment and campaign finance reform.” —Kirkus Review

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Vultures’ Picnic: American Empire: The Rise of a Global Inside Story of America’s War in In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Power, the Democratic Revolution at Afghanistan Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores Home 1945-2000 Michael Hastings • 978-0-452-29896-5 • $17.00 Greg Palast • 978-0-452-29864-4 • $17.00 Joshua Freeman • 978-0-670-02378-3 • $36.00 • Dec 2012 • Plume • A behind-the-scenes look • Sep 2012 • Plume • The New York Times • Aug 2012 • Viking • A look at the movements into the workings of the U.S. war in bestselling author of Armed Madhouse returns and developments that propelled America to Afghanistan • “An exciting and enlightening to blow the lid off the oil industry and the world dominance • “Freeman’s ability to exposé of the war in Afghanistan, the dangers banks who fund their lies • “[Palast is] the last interweave national and international of concentrated power and the public’s need to of the great investigative reporters.”—Robert F. perspectives make this, in my opinion, the best know.” —Kirkus Review Kennedy, Jr. grand synthesis of postwar US history we have.”—Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning Winning the War on War: The Decline of Retirement Heist: co-author of Gotham: A History of New York Armed Conflict Worldwide How Companies Plunder and Profit City to 1898 • “Freeman’s epic survey provides a Joshua S. Goldstein • 978-0-452-29859-0 from the Nest Eggs of American Workers fuller understanding of America’s postwar • $17.00 • Aug 2012 • Plume • Goldstein Ellen E. Schultz • 978-1-59184-565-2 • $16.00 achievements and challenges, without the definitively illustrates how decades of effort by • Nov 2012 • Portfolio • An exposé of the ways bias… or despair of other books on these humanitarian aid agencies, popular corporations manipulate retirement plans at important issues.”—Publishers Weekly (starred movements, and especially the United Nations employee expense • “Schultz herds all her review) have made a measureable difference in journalistic cattle into a single corral, laying out reducing violence in our times • “The greatest by what any measure is a damning indictment George F. Kennan: An American Life untold story of the past two decades—that of the broken pension promises too many John Lewis Gaddis • 978-0-14-312215-9 contrary to popular impressions, war has American corporations have made to their • $22.00 • Nov 2012 • Penguin • Three decades become substantially rare and less workers.”—The New York Times in the making, the “magisterial” (Henry dangerous.”—Steven Pinker Kissinger, The New York Times Book Review) biography of America’s most influential Cold Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail War strategist • Winner of the National Book Caitlin Kelly • 978-1-59184-543-0 • $16.00 American History Critics Circle award for Biography and The • Aug 2012 • Portfolio • One woman’s New York Historical Society’s American midcareer misadventures in the absurd world History Book Prize • “This may be the most of American retail • “Kelly deftly pulls back the Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 long-awaited single volume biography ever.... cleverly constructed curtain between the shiny, Laurence Bergreen • 978-0-14-312210-4 An epic work—probing, engrossing, corporate image presented to mall shoppers • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin From the author occasionally revelatory—but also a well-timed and the degrading work environment inhabited of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the on e .” — The New York Times • “A triumph of by the individuals toiling behind the World, a new account of the great explorer both scholarship and narrative writing.” counter.”—Kirkus • “Bergreen’s Columbus was brilliant, —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs audacious, volatile, paranoid, and ruthless.... Lincoln Speeches [A] worthy addition to the literature on The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Abraham Lincoln • Edited by Richard Breeman Columbus.”—The New York Times • “Complex Age of American Innovation • Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo in its themes, intriguing in its substance, and John Gertner • 978-0-14-312279-1 • $17.00 • 978-0-14-312198-5 • $12.00 • Sep 2012 • Part sparkling with surprises.”—The Washington • Mar 2013 • Penguin • The definitive history of the Penguin Civic Classics series • This book Times of America’s greatest incubator of technological contains everything from classic speeches that innovation. • “Filled with colorful characters any citizen would recognize—the first debate Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe and inspiring lessons....The Idea Factory with Stephen Douglas, the “House Divided” Women and the Survival of Community explores one of the most critical issues of our Speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Brenda J. Child • 978-0-14-312159-6 • $15.00 time: What causes innovation?”—Walter Inaugural Address—to lesser known ones. • Feb 2013 • Penguin • The latest volume in the Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review Penguin Library of American Indian History • “ Riveting... Mr. Gertner’s portraits of Kelly The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went series from associate professor of American and the cadre of talented scientists who worked Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and studies at the University of Minnesota at Bell Labs are animated by a journalistic the Middle Class Got Shafted • A groundbreaking exploration of the ability to make their discoveries and inventions Mike Lofgren • 978-0-670-02626-5 • $24.95 remarkable women in Native American utterly comprehensible—indeed, thrilling—to • Sep 2012 • Viking • The ultimate Republican communities. • “An important, pathbreaking the lay reader.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New insider’s caustic exposé of what passes for book...a powerful corrective to the scholarship York Times business as usual in Washington today. on Indian women.” —Jacqueline Peterson, • “Lofgren’s ideas are trenchant and far Washington State University–Vancouver The War of 1812: Writings from reaching….[has] the feel of a long-long- America’s Second War of Independence repressed confession and the authority of an Edited by Donald R. Hickey insider’s testimony, like the anti-war views of a • 978-1-59853-195-4 • $40.00 • Nov 2012 decorated infantry officer.”—George Packer, The • Library of America • A complex and New Yorker • “A well-argued call for more controversial war comes to life in this sanity in American politics.”—Kirkus Review bicentennial collection of eyewitness accounts.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 This Indian Country: American Indian Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled The Generals: American Military Activists and the Place They Made Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Command from World War II to Today Frederick Hoxie • 978-1-59420-365-7 • $32.95 Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio Thomas E. Ricks • 978-1-59420-404-3 • $32.95 • Nov 2012 • Newest volume in the Penguin • 978-0-670-02622-7 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • Nov 2012 • Penguin Press • From the author Press History of American Life series • “A • Viking • The true account of the 1979 rescue of Fiasco and The Gamble, an epic history of the master historian at his very best, Frederick of six American hostages from Iran • “One of decline of American military leadership • “This Hoxie deftly turns a series of evocative the most daring and courageous clandestine is a brilliant book—deeply researched, very biographies into a compelling new synthesis of operations during my career.”—Robert M. well-written and outspoken. Ricks pulls no American Indian political resistance. In doing Gates, “From the Shadows,” former Director of punches.”—William J. Perry, 19th U.S. so, This Indian Country redefines the terrain of Central Intelligence Agency, former U.S. Secretary of Defense • “Thomas E. Ricks has Native American historical memory, even as it Secretary of Defense written a definitive and comprehensive story of centers Indian people in the full sweep of the American generalship from the battlefields of history of the United States.”—Philip J. Deloria, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of World War II to the recent war in Iraq.”—Carlo author of Playing Indian and Indians in the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden D’Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War Unexpected Places • “In this remarkable book, Mark Owen • 978-0-525-95372-2 • $36.00 • “The Generals will be a definitive and Hoxie portrays men and women whose • Oct 2012 • Dutton • The much anticipated controversial work that will spark the debate, weapons were words and whose battlegrounds story by a soldier who was there and who has once again, regarding how we make and choose were courtrooms, Congressional hearings, won five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. our top military leaders.”—Gen. Anthony C. newspapers, and lecture halls. With ingenuity Zinni, USMC (Ret.) “[Ricks] devastating and tenacity, these Native American activists 1775: A Good Year for Revolution analysis explains much that is wrong in US learned to navigate the corridors of U.S. power Kevin Phillips • 978-0-670-02512-1 • $36.00 civil-military relations.”—Hew Strachan, in Washington, D.C., a wilderness surely as • Nov 2012 • Viking • The contrarian historian, Chichele Professor of the History of War, daunting as any on the continent.”—James H. author of American Dynasty, American University of Oxford Merrell, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Theocracy, and Bad Money, and analyst upends The Indians’ New World and Into the American the conventional reading of the American On Shattered Ground: Woods • “Confirms Fred Hoxie’s standing as the Revolution. A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865 leading proponent and practitioner of Edited by Eileen and Roger Panetta contemporary American Indian history.”—Ned The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic • 978-0-451-53219-0 • $7.95 • Nov 2012 Blackhawk, author of Violence Over the Land: Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom • Signet Classics original • An anthology Indians and Empires in the Early American West Marcus Rediker • 978-0-670-02504-6 • $27.95 of primary documents tracing the evolution • Nov 2012 • Viking • Distinguished Professor of the Civil War from its beginnings with the After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of of History at the University of Pittsburgh and 1860 election of Lincoln to the surrender and American History’s Heroes, Villians, and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship assassination with which it ended. It includes Supporting Characters and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea newspaper accounts, broadsheets, poetry, Owen J. Hurd • 978-0-399-53753-0 • $15.00 tells the riveting account of the slave ship songs, photography, maps, and folk tales. • Aug 2012 • Perigee • “Hurd has compiled rebellion told for the first time from the slaves’ information on figures from American history perspective. • The riveting account of the slave Tomorrow Is Now that goes beyond the material often found in ship rebellion told for the first time from the Eleanor Roosevelt • With a New Introduction history books. Hurd’s fourteen chapters are slaves’ perspective. Though the Amistad by Allida Black • With a New Foreword by Bill arranged in rough chronological order and rebellion has been celebrated in films and Clinton • 978-0-14-310699-9 • $15.00 • Nov cover several individuals each, concluding with books, its story has largely been told through 2012 • Penguin • Available again in time for “Loose Ends,” a section discussing others who the eyes of white abolitionists, with the election season, Eleanor Roosevelt’s most had a lesser role in the stories told in the Supreme Court victory by the Africans as the important book—a battle cry for civil rights chapter. While no index is included, the ultimate triumph. Now, Rediker’s captivating further-reading list at the end of the book helps new history turns the lens on the Africans A Just and Lasting Peace: A Doumentary in this regard as it lists individuals by themselves. Using the story of their horrific History of Reconstruction chapter.”—Library Journal plight back to the roots of their shared culture a Edited by John David Smith continent away, he reframes the Amistad story • 978-0-451-53226-8 • $4.95 • Dec 2012 More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black as a crucial moment in the great chain of • Signet Classics original • It is a Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829- resistance stretching from the earliest slave comprehensive and accessible antholgy 1889 revolts through the civil rights struggles of the of primary documents tracing the evolution Stephen Kantrowitz • 978-1-59420-342-8 twentieth century. of Reconstruction. It contains a detailed • $36.00 • Aug 2012 • Penguin Press • A Introduction by the editor making it a perfect narrative account of the long struggle of resource for those studying The Civil War and Northern activists—both black and white, its aftermath. famous and obscure—to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise • “Sweeping, innovative.”—Steven Hahn, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning author of A Nation Under Our Feet

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 American Nations: Vanished Kingdoms: When China Rules the World: The End of A History of the Eleven Rival The Rise and Fall of States and Nations the Western World and the Birth of a Regional Cultures of North America Norman Davies • 978-0-14-312295-1 • $25.00 New Global Order: Second Edition Colin Woodard • 978-0-14-312202-9 • $16.00 • Dec 2012 • Penguin • Davies challenges us to Martin Jacques • 978-0-14-311800-8 • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A journey through the cast aside our assumptions about what makes • Sep 2012 • Penguin • With a new Afterword history of our fractured continent that offers a nations rise and fall and to look beyond the • A groundbreaking look at how China’s revolutionary and revelatory take on American narrow purview of conventional histories • continued economic ascendancy will alter the identity, and how the conflicts between them “Hugely ambitious... From the mists, Mr. balance of global power • “A compelling and have shaped our past and are molding our Davies summons the kingdoms; he records thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... future • “Woodard offers a fascinating way to their emergence, their flowering and their Jacques is a superb explainer of history and parse American (writ large) politics in this demise—whether by ‘internall diseases’ or economics, tracing broad trends with insight excellent book.”—Kirkus Review (starred ‘forraign warre’ in Thomas Hobbes’s words. and skill.”—The Washington Post review) • “[American Nations’] compelling And he examines the traces that the kingdoms explanations and apt descriptions will fascinate have left behind, in works of art or a piece of Thinking the Twentieth Century anyone with an interest in politics, regional rock or perhaps just a place name.” —Wall Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder culture, or history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred Street Journal • 978-0-14-312304-0 • $18.00 • Feb 2013 • review) Penguin • The triumphant final book by Tony Civilization: The West and the Rest Judt, indomitable public critic and author of Niall Ferguson • 978-0-14-312206-7 • $18.00 Postwar. • “A remarkable book... A wild ride • Nov 2012 • Penguin • The definitive history of through the ideological currents and shoals of European & World Western civilization’s rise to global dominance twentieth-century thought.”—Los Angeles History from Harvard University professor. • “A Times • “Judt’s final salvo against what he saw dazzling history of Western ideas that sets out as a culture of historical ignorance and political to provide the reader with epic answers.”—The apathy [is] every bit as brilliant, There Was a Country: Economist • “A pulsing energy suffuses uncompromising, and original as he was.” A Personal History of Biafra [Ferguson’s] account... Fascinating facts burst —NPR Chinua Achebe • 978-1-59420-482-1 • $27.95 like fireworks on every page.”—The Sunday • Oct 2012 • Penguin Press • “Shortly after Times (London) • “This is sharp. It feels urgent. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of gaining independence from Britain in 1960, Ferguson, with a properly financially literate Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945 Nigeria was subject to military coups that mind, twists his knife with great literary Ian Kershaw • 978-0-14-312213-5 • $20.00 resulted in the massacre of thousands of Igbo brio.”—Financial Times • Sep 2012 • Penguin • A portrait of the Third citizens. Fleeing to the east, the Igbo Reich in its last desperate gasps • “Arguably the proclaimed the eastern region of the country The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the most convincing portrait of Germany’s the independent Republic of Biafra. The Great Powers, 1804-2011 Götterdämmerung we have seen so far.” ensuing civil war ended in 1970 with Biafra’s Misha Glenny • 978-0-14-242256-4 • $25.00 —The Wall Street Journal • “No one is better defeat. Achebe (Things Fall Apart) lends his • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A newly revised and qualified to tell this grim story... Kershaw voice to this bloody period in Nigeria’s history updated edition of an award-winning BBC combines vivid accounts of particular human through a blend of insightful political analysis, correspondent’s magisterial history of the experiences with wise reflections on big history, and memoir, interspersed with his Balkan region by Professor Glenny from the interpretive and moral issues.”—The New York poetry....Achebe’s personal stake in the Biafran School of International and Public Affairs at Times Book Review war makes his account more than just a Columbia University. • “A very considerable standard historical retelling. His writing reveals achievement.... Both heartrending and A History of the World in 100 Objects his love and sorrow for his people and his hope beautifully judged.”—Los Angeles Times Neil MacGregor • 978-0-670-02270-0 • $45.00 for Nigeria’s future....More than memoir or • Nov 2012 • Viking • A kaleidoscopic history history, this book is an argument that literature The First Muslim: of humanity told through things we have made must bear witness—Library Journal • “Achebe’s The Story of Muhammad from the Director of the British Museum. history of Biafra...has the tense narrative grip of Lesley Hazelton • 978-1-59448-728-6 • $27.95 • “Beautiful and absorbing.”—The New York the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into • Jan 2013 • Penguin • Muhammad’s was a life Times • “[A] profoundly humane book that the intimate character of the writer’s brilliant of almost unparalleled historical importance; every civilized person should read.”—The Wall mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a yet for all the iconic power of his name, the Street Journal new genre of literature.”—Nadine Gordimer, intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam Nobel Prize winning author is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing Men and Women Who Cracked the on early eyewitness sources and on history, Enigma Code at Bletchley Park politics, religion, and psychology, she renders Sinclair McKay • 978-0-452-29871-2 • $16.00 him as a man in full, in all his complexity and • Oct 2012 • Plume • A look at day-to-day life vitality. Impeccably researched and thrillingly at the secret facility which Churchill called his readable, Hazleton’s narrative creates vivid “secret weapon” • “An eloquent tribute to a insight into a man navigating between idealism quite remarkable group of men and women, and pragmatism, faith and politics, nonviolence whose like we will not see again.”—The Mail on and violence, rejection and acclaim. Sunday (UK) • “ Thrilling in its depiction of long-ago events.”—The Wall Street Journal • “ Anyone seeking to understand today’s Middle East...can learn from this book.”—The Seattle Times

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 American Lady: Governing the World: Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In The Life of Susan Mary Alsop The History of an Idea A Networked Age Caroline de Margerie • 978-0-670-02574-9 Mark Mazower • 978-1-59420-349-7 • $29.95 Steven Johnson • 978-1-59448-820-7 • $26.95 • $26.95 • Oct 2012 • Viking • “This is not just • Sep 2012 • Penguin Press • A history of world • Sep 2012 • Riverhead • Johnson argues that a an exquisitely perceptive portrait of a government, from the Ira D. Wallach Professor new model of political change is on the rise, remarkable woman, it is a beautifully painted of History at Columbia University and transforming everything from local conversation piece including many of the great renowned author of Hitler’s Empire. • “A governments to drug research to arts funding figures from a privileged age of elegance and prodigious work: a master historian’s and education. • “As Johnson points out in this intelligence.”—Antony Beevor, author of reconstruction of how individuals and nations compelling and fascinating book, as the Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin • “Susan Mary since 1815 have sought to promote national character of society embraces social Alsop was a cool, beautiful admixture of public interests in ever more complicated networking, the ways that we foster progress discretion and private daring. On two international settings….Indispensable also for are beginning to change dramatically....The continents and over four decades she invited its full and subtle account of American policies decision-making provess governing the the world’s most powerful people to her homes, since 1917....Profound, relevant, and morally spending of funds would be less hierarchical, facilitating, networking, connecting. Caroline instructive—and a pleasure to read.”—Fritz and the task of identifying and solving de Margerie’s American Lady, is as sharp and Stern • “Mark Mazower has strengthened his community problems would be pushed out to stylish as its fascinating subject.”—Stacy A. claim to be the pre-eminent historian of a the edges of the network, away from central Cordery, author of Alice Roosevelt Longworth generation. Combining breathtaking originality planners....Stimulating and challenging, with meticulous and gloriously eclectic Johnson’s thought-provoking ideas steer us Venice: A New History research....A work of history...that not only steadily into the future.”—Publishers Weekly Thomas F. Madden • 978-0-670-02542-8 fundamentally refashions our understanding of • $35.00 • Oct 2012 • Viking • Using long- the past it enables us to reassess the present.” The World Until Yesterday: What Can buried archival material and a wealth of newly —Misha Glenny We Learn from Traditional Societies? translated documents, Madden weaves a story Jared Diamond • 978-0-670-02481-0 of a place and its people, tracing an arc from Drinking Water: A History • $36.00 • Jan 2013 • Viking • “In the 19th the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to James Salzman • 978-1-59020-720-8 • $27.95 century Charles Darwin’s trilogy—On the its apex as a vast maritime empire and • Nov 2012 • The strange and surprising history Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and The Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a of where your drinking water comes from Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals modern tourist hub • “Thomas Madden’s today—and how you’ll get it tomorrow—from changed forever our understanding of our portrait of Venice glows like one of the city’s the Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and nature and our history. A century from now own rich and colorful artworks—a tapestry Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental scholars will make a similar assessment of Jared woven from a thousand tales, with Policy at Duke University. Diamond’s trilogy: Guns, Germs, and Steel, unforgettable characters, daring exploits, and Collapse, and now The World Until Yesterday, inspiring triumphs against overwhelming odds. his magnificent concluding opus on not only It’s all here: free enterprise and free thought, our nature and our history, but our destiny as a voyages and empire-building between East and Social / Cultural species. Jared Diamond is the Charles Darwin West, and some of the world’s most magnificent Studies of our generation, and The World Until achievements in architecture, painting, and Yesterday is an epoch-changing work that offers music. All the threads of Venetian history are us hope through real-life solutions to our most traced with a scholar’s zeal for accuracy.”—John Is Marriage for White People?: How the pressing problems.”—Michael Shermer, R. Hale, author of Lords of the Sea • “Madden is African American Marriage Decline Publisher of Skeptic magazine, columnist for that rare talent—a serious scholar who tells a Affects Everyone Scientific American, author of The Believing gripping story.”—Lars Brownworth, author of Ralph Richard Banks • 978-0-452-29753-1 Brain and Why Darwin Matters • “The World Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine • $16.00 • Oct 2012 • Plume • Explores why, Until Yesterday is another eye-opening and Empire that Rescued Western Civilization amid rising rates of interracial marriage, so few completely enchanting book by one of our black women wed someone of a different race major intellectual forces, as a writer, a thinker, a The Quest: Energy, Security, and the and how its answer affects the institutions of scientist, a human being.”—Diane Ackerman, Remaking of the Modern World marriage and family for us all from Jackson Eli author of The Zookeeper’s Wife Daniel Yergin • 978-0-14-312194-7 • $20.00 Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford • Oct 2012 • Penguin • An account of the quest University. • “Banks unabashedly explores the Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and for energy and energy security from the most volatile racial issues.”—Randall Kennedy, Surprising Appeal of Living Alone Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize Harvard Law School • “That rare piece of Eric Klinenberg • 978-0-14-312277-7 • $16.00 • “This masterful and illuminating book on one writing that takes a fresh look at a much- • Feb 2013 • Penguin • “ This book will change of the most vital issues of our time, one that discussed problem.”—San Francisco Chronicle our lives...so important that it is likely to will powerfully influence international politics, become both a popular read and a social economics and nations world-wide, should be science classic.”—Psychology Today • “Going essential reading for policy-makers Solo...is causing a sensation, both for how it has everywhere.”—Dr. Henry Kissinger • “[An] shaken up our traditional notions of the single important book... a valuable primer on the life and as a sociological breakthrough.” basic issues that define energy today.”—Fareed —Toronto Star • “Relevant, engaging, and Zakaria, The New York Times Book Review deeply insightful....A fascinating volume that infuses serious social-science research with captivating personal stories.”—Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 Twentysomething: The End of Men: And the Rise of Women Psychology Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck? Hanna Rosin • 978-1-59448-804-7 • $27.95 Robin Marantz Henig and Samantha Henig • Sep 2012 • “The End of Men describes a new • 978-1-59463-096-5 • $25.95 • Nov 2012 paradigm that can, finally, take us beyond Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest • Hudson Street Press • Examines the latest ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in an endless ‘gender war.’ Human Strength neuroscience and psychological research, the What a relief! Ultimately, Rosin’s vision is both Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney financial pressures young people face now, hope-filled and creative, allowing both sexes to • 978-0-14-312223-4 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 changing cultural expectations, the aftereffects become far more authentic: as workers, • Penguin • “Drawing on cutting-edge research of helicopter parenting, and the changes that partners, parents...and people.”—Peggy and the wisdom of real-life experts, Willpower have arisen from social media and all things Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My shares lessons on how to focus our strength, Internet • “Mixing rigorous empirical evidence, Daughter and Schoolgirls • “In this bold and resist temptation, and redirect our lives • “An testimony from twentysomethings themselves, inspired dispatch, Rosin upends the common immensely rewarding book, filled with and the astute observations of a mother and her platitudes of contemporary sexual politics with ingenious research, wise advice, and insightful twentysomething daughter, this insightful and a deeply reported meditation from the reflections.”—Steven Pinker, The New York engaging book shows us that sound bites and unexpected frontiers of our rapidly changing Times Book Review • “Deep and provocative slogans are just not up to the task of capturing culture.”—Katie Roiphe, author of The Morning analysis of people’s battle with temptation and life as it being lived by young adults.”—Barry After and Uncommon Arrangements masterful insights into understanding Schwartz, Ph.D. Dorwin Cartwright Professor willpower: why we have it, why we don’t, and of Social Theory and Social Action at Storyteller how to build it.”—Ravi Dhar, Yale School of Swarthmore College and author of Practical Leslie Marmon Silko • 978-0-14-312128-2 Management, Director of Center for Customer Wisdom • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • Penguin • Now back in Insights print—a classic work of Native American The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among literature by the bestselling author of Ceremony Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us • This edition includes a new introduction by Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Jeffrey Kluger • 978-1-59448-611-1 • $16.00 Silko and previously unpublished photographs Love, Parent, and Lead • Sep 2012 • Riverhead • A “frank and lyrical” • “A rich, many-faceted book... [Silko] has a Brené Brown • 978-1-592-40733-0 • $25.00 (Slate)exploration of the longest sustained sharp sense of the way in which the profound • Sep 2012 • Gotham • Daring Greatly is an relationship we have in life: the one with our and the mundane often run together.”—N. important book—a timely warning about the siblings • “Honest and vulnerable and Scott Momaday, The New York Times Book danger of pursuing certainty and control above caring.”—The Washington Post • “Masterfully Review all. Brené Brown offers all of us a valuable guide weaving anecdotal passages with academic to the real reward of vulnerability: Greater research and scientific data, the author The Injustice System: courage.”—Daniel H. Pink, New York Times thoroughly examines the many manifestations A Murder in Miami bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New of the simple [sibling] relationship.”—Kirkus and a Trial Gone Wrong Mind • “One of the tragic ironies of modern life Clive Stafford Smith • 978-0-670-02370-7 is that so many people feel isolated from each Our Time: Breaking the Silence of “Don’t • $27.95 • Nov 2012 • Viking • The maverick other by the very feelings they have in Ask, Don’t Tell” public defender who inspired John Grisham common: including a fear of failure and a sense Josh Seefried • 978-0-14-312219-7 • $16.00 tells the story of his most frustrating case. of not being enough. Brené Brown shines a • Sep 2012 • Penguin • Publishing in time for bright light into these dark recesses of human the one-year anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t The Magic Room: emotion and reveals how these feelings can Ask, Don’t Tell,” a moving collection of LGBT A Story About the Love We Wish gnaw at fulfillment in education, at work and in service members’ stories. for Our Daughters the home.”—Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Jeffrey Zaslow • 978-1-592-40741-5 • $16.00 Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Hidden America: • Oct 2012 • Gotham • Illuminating the Everything From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an poignant aspects of a woman’s journey to the Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen altar, The Magic Room tells the stories of Mastermind: People Who Make This Country Work women on the brink of commitment • “Shows How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Jeanne Marie Laskas • 978-0-399-15900-8 the poignancy in everyday love stories.” Maria Konnikova • 978-0-670-02657-9 • $26.95 • $26.95 • Sep 2012 • A portrait of the men and —The New York Times • Jan 2013 • Viking • Drawing on twenty-first- women who touch our lives every day, from the century neuroscience and psychology, award-winning journalist • “With beauty, wit, Mastermind explores Holmes’s methods of ever curiosity, and grace, Jeanne Marie Laskas finds present mindfulness, astute observation, and the hidden soul of America.”—Rebecca Skloot, logical deduction. 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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Philosophy / Religion Math / Science / Works, Why It Matters, and What You Environment Can Do to Get More of It Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your • 978-1-58333-508-6 • $17.00 • Jan 2013 Work to God’s Plan for the World The Particle at the End of the Universe: • Avery • The Willpower Instinct is based on Timothy Keller • 978-0-525-95270-1 • $25.95 How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Stanford University psychologist Kelly • Nov 2012 • Dutton • The New York Times Us to the Edge of a New Worl McGonigal’s wildly popular course “The bestselling author shows how God calls each of Sean Carroll • 978-0-525-95359-3• $27.95 Science of Willpower.” Informed by the latest us to express meaning and purpose through • Oct 2012 • Dutton • “The science is research and combining cutting edge insights our work and careers. authoritative, yet bold and lively. The narrative from psychology, economics, neuroscience, Life, God, and Other Small Topics: is richly documented, yet full of human drama. and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains Carroll’s saga pulls you aboard a modern Conversations from Socrates in the City exactly what willpower is, how it works, why it voyage of discovery.”—Frank Wilczek, Nobel Eric Metaxas • 978-0-452-29865-1 • $17.00 matters, and how to get more of it. Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being • “In • Oct 2012 • Plume • The author of the New this superb book, Sean Carroll provides a Dangerous Instincts: Use an FBI Profiler’s York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer brings together fascinating and lucid look at the most an original collection of thought-provoking Tactics to Avoid Unsafe Situations mysterious and important particle in nature, and entertaining philosophical essays by today’s Mary Ellen O’Toole and Alisa Bowman and the experiment that revealed it. Anyone foremost thinkers • “A stunning collection....I • 978-0-452-29852-1 • $16.00 • Oct 2012 with an interest in physics should read this, and can hardly think of any other single-volume • Plume • Sharing the same four-step SMART join him in examining the new worlds of anthology with such weighty, clear-headed method used by the FBI, O’Toole shows readers physics to which this discovery may lead.” pieces.”—Comment how to measure the risk of any situation and —Leonard Mlodinow, author of The Drunkard’s assess people’s true personality • “[A] beneficial Walk though chilling course on personal safety.” An Unknown World: —Kirkus Reviews Notes on the Meaning of the Earth A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Jacob Needleman • 978-1-58542-901-1 • $24.95 Eccentric in an Age of Change The Better Angels of Our Nature: • Sep 2012 • Tarcher • From professor of John Glassie • 978-1-59448-871-9 • $26.95 Philosophy at San Francisco State and the Why Violence Has Declined • Nov 2012 • Riverhead • The vivid and bestselling philosopher’s unforgettable Steven Pinker • 978-0-14-312201-2 • $20.00 unconventional story of Athanasius Kircher, a exploration of the true meaning of life on Earth • Oct 2012 • Penguin • A history of violence— man who tried to know everything. • “I’ve been • “His lively prose, storytelling skills and lucid from the Johnstone Family Professor in the waiting my entire adult life for someone to insights draw us into an animated conversation Department of Psychology at Harvard write a popular biography of the loopy, with a brilliant teacher.”—Publishers Weekly University and New York Times bestselling in-genious scholar Athanasius Kircher, and author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Glassie has delivered marvelously. Kircher may Slate and Harvard • “A supremely important Am I a Jew? Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man’s Search for Himself have been the greatest polymath of all book.... A masterly achievement.”—Peter times—or at least the most eccentric.”—Joshua Theodore Ross • 978-1-59463-095-8 • $25.95 Singer, The New York Times Book Review • “An Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein • Sep 2012 • Hudson Street Press • Quirky and extraordinary range of research... a masterly • “Glassie brings the ultimate professor self-aware, introspective and impassioned, Am effort.”—The Wall Street Journal • “An Athanasius Kircher vividly to life, revealing I a Jew? is a story about the universal struggle astonishingly good book.”—Nicholas D. him to be a kind of cross between Leonardo da to define a relationship (or lack thereof) with Kristof, The New York Times • “A subtle piece of Vinci and Mr. Bean. A most entertaining foray religion. natural philosophy to rival that of the great into the history of science.”—Ross King, author thinkers of the Enlightenment.... He writes like of Brunelleschi’s Dome an angel, too.”—The Economist Why Priests? The Real Meaning of the Eucharist Darwin: Portrait of a Genius Situations Matter: Understanding How Garry Wills • 978-0-670-02487-2 • $27.95 Paul Johnson • 978-0-670-02571-8 • $25.95 Context Transforms Your World • Feb 2013 • Viking • From the Pulitzer • Oct 2012 • Viking • Darwin brings the Sam Sommers • 978-1-59448-620-3 • $16.00 Prize-winning author and professor of history gentleman-scientist and his time into focus • “It • Jan 2013 • Riverhead • A “wonderful and emeritus at Northwestern University is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects witty” (Jonah Lehrer) look at the invisible • Meticulously researched, persuasively argued, human and fallible enough that we would, forces that influence your life—and how and certain to spark debate, Why Priests? indeed, recognize them instantly—while also understanding them can improve it. asserts that the anonymous Letter to Hebrews, illuminating what made them heroes.” • “Sommers shows us the surprising extent to helped inject the priesthood into a Christianity —The Washington Post which humans are influenced by external where it did not exist....But Wills does not factors. It’s a fascinating read, and one that will expect the priesthood to fade entirely away. He improve your life in many ways.”—A.J. Jacobs, just reminds us that Christianity did without it author of My Life as an Experiment • “Offers in the time of Peter and Paul with notable inspiration to outsmart any situation.” success. • “One of the country’s most —Psychology Today distinguished intellectuals.”—The New York Times

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 How to Create a Mind: The Secret of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many What Are You Looking At?: Human Thought Revealed Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t The Surprising, Shocking, Ray Kurzweil • 978-0-670-02529-9 • $27.95 Nate Silver • 978-1-59420-411-1 • $27.95 • Oct and Sometimes Strange Story • Nov 2012 • Viking • The bold futurist and 2012 • Penguin Press • Statistician, political of 150 Years of Modern Art bestselling author of The Age of Spiritual Ma- analyst, and FiveThirtyEight.com founder Nate Will Gompertz • 978-0-525-95267-1 • $27.95 chines and The Singularity Is Near explores the Silver debunks the myths of prediction in • Nov 2012 • Dutton • Channeling Bill Bryson’s limitless potential of reverse engineering the subjects ranging from the financial market to engaging style, a former director of London’s brain. • “Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know weather to sports to politics • “Nate Silver’s The Tate gallery wields his wit and expertise in this at predicting the future of artificial intelli- Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New narrative tour of modern art • “He is a natural gence.”—Bill Gates • “It is rare to find a book Machine for the 21st century (a century we communicator whose passion for art is that offers unique and inspiring content on thought we’d be a lot better at predicting than expressed with wit and verve.”—Sir Nicholas every page. How to Create a Mind achieves that we actually are). Our political discourse is Serota, director of the Tate and more. Ray has a way of tackling seemingly already better informed and more data-driven overwhelming challenges with an army of because of Nate’s influence. But here he shows Guitar Zero: The Science reason, in the end convincing the reader that it us what he has always been able to see in the of Becoming Musical at Any Age is within our reach to create non-biological in- numbers—the heart and the ethical imperative Gary Marcus • 978-0-14-312278-4 • $16.00 telligence that will soar past our own. This is a of getting the quantitative questions right. A • Jan 2013 • Penguin • A fascinating look at the visionary work that is also accessible and enter- wonderful read—totally engrossing.”—Rachel pursuit of music, the mechanics of the mind, taining.”—Rafael Reif, President of MIT • “Ray Maddow, author of Drift • “Yogi Berra was and the surprising rewards that come from Kurzweil pioneered artificial intelligence sys- right: ‘forecasting is hard, especially about the following one’s dreams. • “An entertaining and tems that could read print in any typestyle, syn- future.’ In this important book, Nate Silver enlightening memoir, filled with insight about thesize speech and music, and understand explains why the performance of experts varies music, learning, and the human mind, by Gary speech. These were the forerunners to the pres- from prescient to useless and why we must plan Marcus, one of the deepest thinkers in ent revolution in machine learning that is creat- for the unexpected. Must reading for anyone cognitive science.”—Steven Pinker, New York ing intelligent computers that can beat humans who cares about what might happen next.” Times bestselling author of The Better Angels of in chess, win on Jeopardy!, and drive cars.... —Richard Thaler, author of Nudge Our Nature Offers important insights into a future in which we will begin solving what I believe is the great- Biopunk: Solving Biotech’s Biggest Leonard Maltin’s 2013 Movie Guide: est problem in science and technology today: Problems in Kitchens and Garages The Modern Era the problem of how the brain works and of how Marcus Wohlsen • 978-1-61723-007-3 • $16.00 Leonard Maltin • 978-0-452-29854-5 • $22.00 it generates intelligence.”—Tomaso Poggio, pro- • Aug 2012 • Current • Wohlsen chronicles a • Sep 2012 • Plume • “The go-to choice for both fessor in the MIT Department of Brain and growing community of DIY scientists working film geeks and casual couch potatoes.”—The Cognitive Sciences outside the walls of corporations and New York Times Book Review universities who are committed to Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s democratizing DNA the way the Internet did Lyrics & Prose Chance Discovery Launched a information • “Wohlsen introduces some Ric Ocasek• 978-0-399-16370-8-5 • $25.95 Determined Quest to Save the Oceans fascinating, altruistic individuals, people who • Oct 2012 • Blue Rider Press • A brilliant Capt. Charles Moore with Cassandra Phillips would like to fight disease without profit as personal narrative and definitive collection of • 978-1-58333-501-7 • $16.00 • Sep 2012 • their primary motive.” —Publishers Weekly original song lyrics, photos, and prose poetry Avery • A prominent seafaring environmental- from solo performer and lead singer of The ist and researcher shares his shocking discovery Cars. of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age Music / Drama / Film / Global Model Village • “An extraordinary story and an example of Art / Architecture Slinkachu • 978-0-399-16074-5 • $17.95 • Oct how one person’s perseverance can create a 2012 • Blue Rider Press • Slinkachu is a movement and change the world. Plastic Ocean London-based street artist who arranges is an educational and fascinating read, deliver- The Filmmaker’s Handbook: miniature hand-painted figures and tableaux ing a powerful call to action to protect and save A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital throughout bustling cities and famous our oceans.”—Terry Tamminen, former Secre- Age: 2013 Edition destinations, to fend for themselves and tary of the California EPA and author of Water- Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus to be discovered. colors: How JJ the Whale Saved Us • 978-0-452-29728-9 • $30.00 • Dec 2012 • Plume • The “bible” of video and film I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot production—now updated with the latest the Music Video Revolution Robert Macfarlane • 978-0-670-02511-4 advances in digital formats • “The bible, Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks • $27.95 • Oct 2012 • Viking • From the updated.”—The Independent • “The gold- • 978-0-452-29856-9 • $20.00 • Oct 2012 • acclaimed author of The Wild Places, an standard.”—Boston Globe Plume • This oral history features interviews exploration of walking and thinking with nearly four hundred musicians, • “Macfarlane immerses himself in regions we executives, VJs, celebrities, and famous fans • may have thought familiar, resurrecting them “[A] definitive, riveting, revealing, amazingly newly potent and sometimes beautifully well-reported insiders’ account of how an strange. 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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 9 Education The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use The Referral Engine: Teaching “Plain English” to Rob You Blind Your Business to Market Itself David Cay Johnston • 978-1-59184-358-0 John Jantsch • 978-1-59184-442-6 • $17.00 Saving the School: The True Story • $27.95 • Sep 2012 • Portfolio • “This book • Oct 2012 • “Portfolio • A swift, appealing read of a Principal, a Teacher, a Coach, completes a kind of trilogy, after 2003’s and a thorough primer on the power of letting a Bunch of Kids and a Year in the Perfectly Legal (about tax scams) and 2007’s your products and customers speak for Crosshairs of Education Reform Free Lunch (about government subsidies). The themselves.”—Publishers Weekly Michael Brick • 978-1-59420-344-2 • $25.95 ‘fine print’ refers to a variety of bills— • Aug 2012 • Penguin Press • “Brick humanizes telephone, electric, water, insurance, credit Currency Wars: the policy debates over education and renders card, hospital—and other documents that The Making of the Next Global Crisis an empathetic and generous dry-point of technically disclose costs to the bill payers but James Rickards • 978-1-59184-556-0 • $17.00 teachers and students struggling to succeed are intended to obscure as many hidden costs • Sep 2012 • Portfolio • “One of the scariest against the odds....A poignant and moving read as possible....Investigative journalism at its best, books I’ve read this year. The picture that about the real toll of education reform on those as Johnston seeks to comfort the afflicted while emerges is dark yet comprehensive and charged with shaping our children’s futures.” afflicting the comfortable.”—Kirkus Reviews satisfying.”—Bloomberg Businessweek —Warren St. John, author of Outcasts United (starred) • “Brick has burrowed deep inside a failing Automate This: How Algorithms American high school to write a dramatic, After the Music Stopped: Came to Rule Our World first-hand account of what it took to rescue it. The Financial Crisis, the Response, Christopher Steiner • 978-1-59184-492-1 Where most writing about education rests on and the Work Ahead • $25.95 • Sep 2012 • Portfolio • Drawing on statistics and policy-speak, this one probes the Alan S. Blinder • 978-1-59420-530-9 • $29.95 extensive research and investigative reporting, lives of the school’s remarkable principal, a • Jan 2013 • Penguin Press • Alan S. Blinder, Steiner explores what our world will look like teacher on the front lines, coaches, and several Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of when computers make more and more students.”—S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton decisions for us. of the Summer Moon University, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Creating Room to Read: A Story Board, with bracing clarity, shows us how Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy the U.S. financial system, which had grown far of the New Economy John Wood • 978-0-670-02598-5 • $27.95 • Feb too complex for its own good—and too Steve Stoute • 978-1-592-40738-5 • $16.00 2013 • Viking • The inspirational story of a unregulated for the public good—experienced • Aug 2012 • Gotham • The business marketing former Microsoft executive’s quest to build a perfect storm beginning in 2007. genius at the forefront of today’s entertainment libraries around the world and share the love marketing revolution helps corporate America of books • “Wood is building a global Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global get hip to today’s new consumer—the tan movement around literacy and gender equality. 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This well-written and lively account is a good primer for anyone who wants to Idea Man: A Memoir understand one extreme of America today.”— by the Cofounder of Microsoft Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality; Paul Allen • 978-1-59184-537-9 • $17.00 • Nov University Professor, Columbia University & 2012 • Portfolio • “He re-creates the spirit of Noble Laureate in Economics • “Freeland those early days in all their energy and tumult, advances a paradoxical warning. Open societies providing a fascinating look at what it took to may allow super-achievers to pile up build the Microsoft behemoth.”—Bloomberg extraordinary riches—and to feel that they have • “Riveting reading.”—The Guardian • more or less deserved them. But the more these “Inspiring.”—Geekwire meritocrats succeed, the more likely they are to entrench their own offspring at the top of the The Rare Find: heap, negating the very meritocracy that How Great Talent Stands Out afforded them their chances....Freeland’s George Anders • 978-1-59184-562-1 • $16.00 message must be treated with the utmost • Oct 2012 • Portfolio • Drawing on the best seriousness.”—Sebastian Mallaby, author of advice of talent masters, Anders reveals More Money than God powerful ideas you can apply to your own hiring • “Anders... brings piercing intellect and persistent curiosity to examine the single most important leadership skill: finding and picking the right people.”—Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

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