Judy Klein [email protected] FRANKFURT 2019 FIREFIGHTER ZEN: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times Hersch Wilson •New World Library | Emotional Health/Living | October 2020 (ms 1/2020) “Hersch Wilson has taken his thirty years in the firefighting world and turned them into this unflinchingly honest book—a rich read full of the bittersweet wisdom of hard experience.” —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice and Blood and Thunder Writer and firefighter Hersch Wilson juxtaposes the gritty realities firefighters face daily with the Zen-like techniques and practices they employ to stay grounded through each call, and cope with the inevitable personal toll of each crisis. This guide provides an invaluable and unique approach to finding joy and peace in an often disheartening and sometimes devastating world. Wilson shows you that don’t have to be a firefighter to rediscover your best self—you just need to look at the world through a firefighter’s eyes; to see your life as one of purpose, meaning, and service. In addition to his decades as a volunteer firefighter, Hersch Wilson is the author of Changing the Game: The New Way to Sell, Play to Win!, Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life (in its14th printing), and Test of Faith: A Novel of Faith and Murder in New Mexico. He is also an organizational consultant, pilot & former professional dancer. WHERE’S MY OFFICE?: How to Create Agility in the Workplace Chris Kane Foreword by Mark Thompson, CEO of the New York Times and former Director-General of the BBC •Bloomsbury UK | Business | October 2020 (ms Spring 2020) Where’s My Office? offers a game-changing approach to how we use our physical workplaces. Chris Kane presents a challenge to the existing ways we work, providing creative, intelligent and innovative ways to consolidate work environments so that they will harness the true potential of people and space, and contribute more effectively to an organization’s success. Kane’s positions at the BBC and Disney, two of the largest media enterprises in the world, involved making them more productive through their corporate real estate. Here he talks to how an entire sector (real estate) is facing largescale disruption and how CEOs of corporations can boost productivity and improve returns financially, benefitting their workforce and ultimately, society. He shows how a monolithic and traditional organization can use its real estate as a value enhancer rather than as a liability to enable a business to develop into an agile, more productive working environment fit for the demands of the 21st century. Chris Kane is an instigator, an integrator and an interpreter. He is the former head of Corporate Real Estate at BBC and the Founder of Six Ideas, a collective bringing people who are creating and redesigning the future of work together. [email protected] Kleinworks Agency Frankfurt 2019 Page 1 THE LAST DAYS OF SYLVIA PLATH Carl Rollyson •University Press of Mississippi | Biography | March 2020 •RIGHTS: AUDIO to Blackstone In her last months, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written. Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was Plath’s therapist, and may have been the only person to whom Plath revealed her whole self. Barnhouse served more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Hughes and the friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, to reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed to be, in Hughes’s view, his wife’s undoing, and how biographers parsed the events that led to the poet’s death, forms the charged and contentious story this book tells. Carl Rollyson, author of American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, is a journalist, playwright, and professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He has published biographies of Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag. TALK IS CHIEF Leadership, Communication, and Credibility in a High-Stakes World Jack Modzelewski •RosettaBooks | Business/Communication | November 2019 "Talk is Chief is a guide to leadership at a challenging time of tweets, fake news and growing divisions within our democracy …The author makes clear that leadership requires courage in both action and communication." —Leon E. Panetta, Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy and former Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA and White House Chief of Staff Today’s leaders spend up to 90% of each day communicating with colleagues, customers, shareowners, creditors, regulators, advocates, and competitors to make good things happen. They influence culture, opportunity, risk-taking, and risk aversion in their firms. Jack Modzelewski’s decades of experience with Fortune 500 companies has shown him that too many leaders undervalue and therefore underperform their vital communication responsibilities, and they do so at their own peril in this age of heightened activism, transparency, disinformation, and disruption. Leadership communication today—the ability for leaders to be heard and clearly understood above the constant noise of the complicated worlds in which they govern—is of highest importance. In Talk Is Chief, Modzelewski shares compelling stories and strategies that will inspire all to treat their daily communication practices as seriously as they treat their fiscal, operational, value creation, deal making, business transformation, and other executive responsibilities. Communications consultant Jack Modzelewski is founder and president of JackKnifePR. His extensive career in public relations, marketing, communications, and executive management includes roles with multi-national corporations like McDonald’s, AT&T, General Motors, Chase Bank, Monsanto, and Procter & Gamble. He has attended five World Economic Forum (WEF) conferences in Davos and WEF meetings on five continents. [email protected] Kleinworks Agency Frankfurt 2019 Page 2 MOTÖRHEAD: WHERE IS LEMMY? David Calcano and Lindsay Lee, with illustrators Ittai Manero and Samuel Blanco •Fantoons | Music/Pop Culture | 12.5 x 9.5, 32 pages | November 2019 Here’s a challenge for you: Try to find Lemmy living the fast life in the middle of the chaos, sex, drugs and rock n’ roll across these amazing jam- packed 14 double-spread pages. This official Motörhead hardcover features search-and-find art in the tradition of Where’s Waldo, is inspired by the group’s classic albums. David Calcano is the creative director of Fantoons, an animation studio based in Los Angeles, where he works with companies and artists like Rush, Frank Zappa, Steve Martin, Poison, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Mr. Big, Universal Music, and Ole, among many others. FALL OF A GREAT AMERICAN CITY: New York and the Urban Crisis of Affluence Kevin Baker with a Foreword by James Howard Kunstler •City Point Press & Harper’s Magazine | Social Change | October 2019 Writer and editor Kevin Baker examines the impact affluence is having on the very fabric of New York City life, and on many other cities around the world. He posits affluence – and the greed of bankers, billionaires and landlords – is destroying the things we often love most about cities: small shops, good local restaurants, public spaces, street life, affordable apartments, responsive government, beauty, idiosyncrasy, and each other. This is the story of how we are losing so much and how we can begin to take them back. Kevin Baker is the bestselling author of the novels Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row. He’s been published in the New York Times, New Republic, Politico, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among others. THE MELON Amy Goldman and photographer Victor Schrager •City Point Press | Food | October 2019 Melons, the crown jewels of the garden, are beautifully, enticingly and lovingly showcased in Amy Goldman’s newest book, prepared in collaboration with celebrated photographer Victor Schrager over the course of nine years. Her comprehensive work includes portraits in words and stunning photographs of 125 extraordinary varieties of melons, along with expert advice on cultivation and seed saving and a generous selection of mouthwatering recipes by renowned cookbook author Mindy Fox. Amy Goldman is a gardener, author, artist, and well-known advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her books include three that earned the American Horticultural Society Book of the Year award: Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table. [email protected] Kleinworks Agency Frankfurt 2019 Page 3 DIAGNOSIS FEMALE How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health Emily Dwass •Rowman & Littlefield | Medicine/Women | October 2019 “Women are not the weaker sex, they are the less studied sex, and as a result, their health suffers. Journalist Dwass reveals how medical research has long over- focused on men, leading to misdiagnosis, mistreatment, or no treatment for women. Even most brain studies have been conducted on male animals.