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This dignified, just and unbearable account aLYSia SheWchuK Designer & Digital Assets Coordinator of the dark heart of Sri Lanka needs to be read by everyone.” — Roma Tearne, author of Mosquito LonnY Knapp Print Production Manager Laura repaS Publicity Director The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it Kate McQuaid Senior Publicist became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger fred horLer Marketing Manager guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns, triSh Osuch Web Content Manager and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout barbara hoWSon VP Sales & Rights that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war crimes investigation, and Frances aLLiSon charLeS International Sales Manager Harrison, a BBC correspondent for Sri Lanka during the conflict, recounts those crimes for the first time in sobering, shattering detail. eMily MocKLer Sales Associate, National Accounts eva o’brien Sales Assistant about the contributor GiLLian fizet Rights Manager Frances Harrison was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as well as the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Imperial College in London. For many aManda Lee Data Asset Administrator years she worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC posted in South Asia, South East Asia, and Iran. From 2000–4 she was the resident BBC Correspondent MarK LuK Operations Manager in Sri Lanka. She has worked at Amnesty International as Head of News and while writing Still Counting the Dead was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University. Anansi_F12_cover.indd 3-4 12-05-25 11:40 AM HOUSE OF ANANSI FALL 2012 / WINTER 2013 ANANSI Nonfiction...2 Fiction...9 ANANSI INTERNATIONAL Nonfiction...14 Fiction...15 Poetry...16 ANANSI “A” LIST...18 SPIDERLINE...20 NEW IN PAPERBACK...23 GRANTA AND PORTOBELLO...29 INDEX...45 www .HOUSEOFANANSI.COm At www.houseofAnAnsi.com you cAn: • Find books by interest, genre, curriculum, • Read bios, watch videos, and see links to popularity, age, and audience author websites, blogs, and Twitter feeds • Preview sample chapters, and sample spreads • Access teaching guides, curriculum links, for illustrated works key industry reviews, and awards details • Take advantage of our one-click shopping cart • Download reading guides • Buy e-book editions directly from us • Enter contests • Start a wish list and send to a friend • Connect with us on our blog and social networks • Submit your own review and read other user reviews. • Sign up for our newsletters • Add books to Goodreads, Shelfari, and Librarything Anansi_F12_pages.indd 1 12-05-25 11:28 AM Anansi Nonfiction September 22, 2012 Working the Dead Beat 50 Lives that Changed Canada By Sandra Martin Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin offers an extraordinary collection of obituaries of Canada’s most legendary and infamous political figures, activists, celebrities, theorists, and cultural icons, as well as an intimate portrait of the life of the obit writer. Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada’s famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Here are builders such as feminist and editor Doris Anderson, and businessman and famed art collector Ken Thomson. Here are our rogues, rascals, and romantics; our • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / service men and women; and here are those private citizens whose lives have General had an undeniable public impact. Finally, Martin interweaves these elegant • 978-0-88784-246-7 and eloquent biographies with the autobiography of the obit writer, offering an • $29.95 exclusive and intimate view of life on the dead beat. • Hardcover Beautifully written, compelling, and vivid, Working the Dead Beat is a tribute • 6" x 9" to those individuals who, each on their own and as a collective, tell the story • 352 pages of our country, and to the life of the obit writer who chronicles their extraordinary lives. • For sale with exclusive rights in CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Sandra Martin is the obituary columnist at the Globe and Mail. She has won Other Formats the Atkinson and Canadian Journalism Fellowships and multiple National EPUB $24.95 Magazine Awards. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed collection The 978-1-77089-049-7 First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, and was also the co-editor of the annual Oberon Best Short Stories and Coming Attractions anthologies, and is the co-author of three books, including Rupert Brooke in ALSO AVAILABLE Canada and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers, and the Explosion of Plastic The Secret of the Credit, which was shortlisted for the Canadian Business Book Award. A past Crown president of PEN Canada, she lives in Toronto with her husband and her cat, John Fraser Alice. 2 Page 3 Anansi Nonfiction September 29, 2012 The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011 New and Updated Edition By Misha Glenny "The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkans people." — San Francisco Chronicle From the bestselling author of McMafia and DarkMarket comes this unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century which gives readers the essential historical background to more than one • HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States hundred years of events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire • 978-1-77089-273-6 region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or • $24.95 explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, • Trade paperback Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Now updated to include the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, the capture of all indicted war criminals from the Yugoslav wars and each state’s quest for legitimacy in the European Union, The Balkans • 5.5" x 8.4375" • 792 pages explores the often catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention. • For sale with exclusive rights in: CA ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR Misha Glenny is the international bestselling author of McMafia: A Journey Other Formats Through the Global Criminal Underworld; DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, EPUB $20.95 Cybercops and You, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and named a 978-1-77089-274-3 Globe and Mail Top 100 Book;The Rebirth of History; The Fall of Yugoslavia , which won the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Book on Foreign Affairs; and The Balkans: 1804-1999. He was an International Scholar at the ALSO AVAILABLE Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He has worked as a political consultant in McMafia southeastern Europe, and is regularly consulted by U.S. and European Misha Glenny governments on Balkan issues. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and $19.95 magazines such as the Guardian, London Review of Books, the Globe and Mail, the New Statesman, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times. He lives in London, U.K. DarkMarket Misha Glenny $18.95 3 Anansi Nonfiction September 29, 2012 The Universe Within From Quantum to Cosmos By Neil Turok The most anticipated nonfiction book of the season, this year’s Massey Lectures is a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future by world-renowned physicist Neil Turok. Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come. In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, explores transformative discoveries — from the nature of light, to the evolution of the cosmos, to the bizarre world of the quantum, and the emerging ideas which may yield • SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects tomorrow’s technologies.
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