Perseus International Rights Foreign Rights Guide Fall 2015 Perseus Books Group Imprints Basic Books .................................................................... 3 Da Capo Press .............................................................. 18 Da Capo Lifelong Books ................................................ 38 Nation Books ................................................................ 39 PublicAffairs ................................................................. 43 Running Press .............................................................. 52 Seal Press ..................................................................... 64 Weinstein Books ........................................................... 72 Westview Press .............................................................. 74 Client Publishers Amherst Media .............................................................. 75 BenBella Books ............................................................. 79 Cicada Books ................................................................ 91 Four Winds Press .......................................................... 93 Frommers ...................................................................... 94 Hazelden Publishing ...................................................... 95 Microcosm Publishing ................................................. 101 Missionday .................................................................. 106 Redleaf Press .............................................................. 104 Roaring Forties Press .................................................. 107 Santa Monica Press ..................................................... 109 Spirit Books ................................................................ 114 Unhooked Books ......................................................... 115 Visible Ink Press ......................................................... 118 Wharton Digital Press .................................................. 121 Subject Index ................................................................ xxx International Subagents ................................................12x Cover design by Rose Traynor Cover image TK Basic Books Arthur Benjamin The Magic of Math: Solving for X and Figuring Out Why “An enthusiastic celebration of the beauty of mathematics.... Benjamin delivers a primer generously filled with insights and intuitions that make math approachable, interesting, and, yes, beautiful.”—Kirkus Reviews “[A] positively joyful exploration of mathematics. [Benjamin’s] approach is simple and refreshingly practical.... Whether figuring out compound interest, using trigonometry to determine the height of a tree, or employing calculus to work out a shortest possible walking route, each topic is presented in the clearest, simplest way possible.... [I]ts energy and enthusiasm should charm even the most math-phobic readers.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Arthur Benjamin shows you that numbers do more than just keep track of things and solve problems. He joyfully shows you how to make nature’s numbers dance. Let his book be your partner for a lifetime of learning.”—Bill Nye, science educator and CEO, The Planetary Society Arthur Benjamin holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in California. He has appeared on The Today Show and The Colbert Report and has been profiled in such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Scientific American, Discover, and Wired. One of his three TED talks has been viewed over 5 million times. He travels and speaks internationally and has presented at the World Science Festival, the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the Liberty Science Center, Google, and Texas Instruments. September 2015 • Mathematics • 240 pages Chinese (s): CITIC: German: Heyne; Korean: Hansol Academy; Russian: Alpina Martin Ford Rise of the Robots: How Technology Will Transform the Future Job Market and Economy “If The Second Machine Age was last year’s tech-economy title of choice, this book may be 2015’s equivalent.”—Financial Times, Summer books 2015, Business, Andrew Hill “[Ford’s] a careful and thoughtful writer who relies on ample evidence, clear reasoning, and lucid economic analysis. In other words, it’s entirely possible that he’s right.”— Daily Beast “[Rise of the Robots is] about as scary as the title suggests. It’s not science fiction, but rather a vision (almost) of economic Armageddon.”—New York Times, Frank Bruni “Well-researched and disturbingly persuasive.”—Financial Times Martin Ford has worked in Silicon Valley in finance at a high-tech company and founded several successful small software-design firms. World Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Oneworld; Chinese (s): CITIC; Chinese (c): Commonwealth Magazine: Japanese: Nikkei BP: Korean: Sejong Books; Polish: CDP.pl; Romanian: Antet XX Press; Spanish: Paidos; UK: Oneworld 3 Basic Books Alexander Nehamas On Friendship The state of “friendship” in the digital age has provoked widespread debate and hand- wringing. Social media allows us to be “friends” with far more people than those with whom we can possibly have meaningful relationships. Many worry that the idea and the practice of friendship have been seriously diminished as a result. One chief concern is that online friendship is motivated primarily by social networking and status seeking rather than genuine affection and intimacy. Another worry is that the ubiquity and convenience of social media have dampened our desire for physical interaction, causing us to miss out on one of the defining and most meaningful features of human experience. In On Friendship, acclaimed philosopher Alexander Nehamas uses contemporary debates about friendship in the Facebook era to launch a general account of friendship, one that promises to help us think though what has and hasn’t changed, in our intensively networked and mediated age. Reminding us of the long history of thinking about friendship, from Aristotle to Montaigne, Adam Smith to William Hazlitt, Friedrich Nietzsche to Bernard Williams, Nehamas draws on a rich array of moving examples from literature and the arts as well as personal experience. Nehamas argues, friendship ultimately resists explanation and is a relationship better understood from the domain of aesthetics than moral theory. In his formulation, “a relationship we can fully explain is not a friendship at all.” Ultimately, Nehamas argues that social media do nothing to alter the unique and inexplicable character of friendship. • Alexander Nehamas is professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Author of four other books, he has also translated Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus into English. He is the recipient of the highly prestigious Andrew Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. April 2016 • Philosophy • 350 pages • World Rights: Basic Books Joseph Mazur Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence What are the chances? This is the question we always ask when we encounter the freakiest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or Lincoln’s dreams foreshadowing the outcome of battles and even his own assassination. But in fact, when we look at coincidences mathematically, we can see that the odds are a lot better than any of us would have thought. In Fluke, mathematician and math popularizer Joseph Mazur explores this weird world of coincidences and how they can be explained, predicted, and accounted for through math. Mazur combines lively anecdotes of coincidences with clear explanations of the principles of mathematical probability, and even provides a helpful aphorism for putting these flukes in context: “If there is any likelihood that something could happen, no matter how small, it is bound to happen to someone at some time.” Though this concept may seem basic, he argues that many people fundamentally misunderstand these principles of probability, leading to a dangerous tendency to look for irrational explanations for surprising phenomena. Fluke asks us to take a second look at the seemingly impossible and provides an entertaining guide to understanding the most astounding moments and surprising coincidences in our lives. • Joseph Mazur is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Marlboro College, and the author of four popular mathematics books, including Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation residency, and two Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Science . March 2016 • Mathematics/Probability • 272 pages • World Rights: Basic Books; UK & Commonwealth: Oneworld; Korean: Eidos; Portuguese (Brazil): Leya 4 Basic Books Mark Seidenberg Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It For most of us, reading is automatic. We read every day, whether it’s a street sign, a newspaper, e-mail, Facebook status updates, a literary novel, or the nutritional content of a box of cereal. We read for work, for school, for pleasure; because we have to, because we want to, because we can’t help it. Yet beneath this seemingly simple behavior, a vast network of activity is occurring in our brains. What, exactly, is happening when we read? Cognitive