Perseus International Rights Foreign Rights Guide Fall 2014 Perseus Books Group Imprints Basic Books .................................................................... 3 Da Capo Press .............................................................. 16 Da Capo Lifelong Books ................................................ 25 Nation Books ................................................................ 37 PublicAffairs ................................................................. 40 Running Press .............................................................. 48 Seal Press ..................................................................... 59 Weinstein Books ........................................................... 63 Westview Press .............................................................. 65 Client Publishers Amherst Media .............................................................. 67 BenBella Books ............................................................. 71 Hazelden Publishing ...................................................... 86 Oneworld ...................................................................... 92 Pear Press ................................................................... 104 Redleaf Press .............................................................. 105 Roaring Forties Press .................................................. 109 Santa Monica Press ..................................................... 111 Visible Ink Press ......................................................... 114 West Hills Press and Hundreds of Heads Books ........... 118 Wharton Digital Press .................................................. 123 Subject Index ............................................................... 124 International Subagents ............................................... 128 Cover design by Rose Traynor Cover image © Olha Afanasieva, Shutterstock 2014 Basic Books Ruth DeFries The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis A Biography of an Ingenious Species “An admirable history of human ingenuity that does not claim it will overcome such looming crises as overpopulation and global warming.” —Kirkus Reviews “DeFries places her faith in human creativity as a primary means to our survival, an appealing point of view for the hopeful but concerned reader.” —Publishers Weekly “Is there a tale more astonishing and improbable than the human story? Lurching between triumph and catastrophe, humankind has transformed itself from a run-of- the-mill forager on the African savanna into a species that dominates every corner of the planet. Now, as our numbers surpass 7 billion, Ruth DeFries shows how our remarkable past can serve as a guide to thinking about our uncertain future. Neither a hymn to optimism nor an invocation of catastrophe, The Big Ratchet is an essential account of how we got to be where we are.” —Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 Ruth DeFries has received many honors, including election into the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” award in 2007; she was also selected as a Fulbright scholar for research in India in 2006. DeFries received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate classes about the global environment and sustainable development for over 15 years. September 2014 • Science/History • 300 pages World Rights: Basic Books; Japanese: Nikkei Publishing Co. Nazila Fathi The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Battle for Modern Iran “The Lonely War reveals a new Nazila Fathi: not just the intrepid New York Times correspondent, but also a woman struggling through life in turbulent Iran. This book, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, mixes the personal with the political against a backdrop of war and revolution. Provocative, moving, insightful, and full of scary characters, The Lonely War takes us deep inside one of the world’s most fascinating societies.” —Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror “A provocative first-hand account of how the Iranian middle class survived the Islamic revolution, eventually rising like the phoenix from the ashes to claim its place in society and politics. Insightful, empathetic, and gripping, this is a story of a nation’s despair and hope and a window onto what the future holds for Iran.” —Vali Nasr, author of Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat Nazila Fathi, currently a writer for NPR and Foreign Policy and a commentator for Voice of America Persian TV, is a fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center; she was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard from 2010 to 2011 and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2012. A frequent guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and Fox News, she has also written for the New York Review of Books, Time, Agence France-Presse, Harvard’s Nieman Reports, and the online news outlets openDemocracy and GlobalPost. December 2014 • Current Affairs/Memoir • 256 pages • World Rights: Basic Books 3 Basic Books Jacob Soll The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations “[A] brilliant, deceptively brief book.... Soll pulls off the miracle of making his history not a monolith but a mosaic. He examines financial affairs in a dozen eras with a cultural historian’s flair for fidelity, but then assembles these fragments into a whole that leaves the reader satisfied with everything except the status quo.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Soll’s wry and lucid book traces this fraught relationship between accountability, economic success and political will from Renaissance Florence and the Netherlands to the larger modern republics of France and America, via the empires of Spain and Britain. In his hands, accountability and accountancy becomes a way of investigating the rise and fall of nations.... Without political will, financial accountability remains toothless, but what scope is there for rigorous accountability when the accountancy firms behind banks and corporations thought too big to fail are already their advisers and representatives? Perhaps some rather old lessons from the surprisingly exciting history of accountancy can help us deal with these not so very new problems.” —Financial Times “Mr. Soll spices his story with big historical personalities.... [He] earns high marks for brevity ... as well as for scholarship.” —Wall Street Journal “A rollicking historical narrative.” —New Zealand Herald “Many have long known, or at least suspected, that CPAs rule the world. The proof is here. The Reckoning is a tale of power, empire, art and culture—and of their half-hidden puppetmasters from the Roman Empire to the Gilded Age.” —James K. Galbraith, author of The End of Normal Jacob Soll is professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He earned a DEA (1993) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a PhD (1998) from Magdalene College, Cambridge University. Soll, author of The Information Master and Publishing The Prince, was awarded the 2011 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and New Republic among other publications. He speaks French, Italian, and Portuguese. May 2014 • Economics/History • 352 pages World Rights: Basic Books; United Kingdom: Penguin; Portuguese (Brazil): Record; Portuguese (Portugal): Lua de Papel/Leya Group; Japanese: Bungei Shunju; Chinese: CITIC 4 Basic Books Andrew Ervin Pwning the Boss: A Noob’s Journey Through Videogame History Pwning the Boss is a first-person history of videogames as told by a new gamer—also known as a “noob”—Andrew Ervin. Learning the seminal games of the last half century on their original machines, Ervin brought a fresh pair of thumbs to experience them as their first players did, interviewing game journalists and creators along the way. Pwning the Boss is packed with original research and never-before-told stories, including how Adam Saltsman and Jason Rohrer managed to install their games in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ervin explores the way that video games are being recognized as an art form today and the important role these games now play in our culture. Wired together by Ervin’s engaging narrative of searching for an Atari 2600 or a supercomputer, this videogame history pulls readers from the earliest games, like Pac Man and Pong, to today’s massively multiplayer online roleplaying game frenzy, as it describes Ervin’s own journey from beginner “noob” to eventually “pwning” (owning) these games and their evolution. • Andrew Ervin is author of Extraordinary Renditions, a collection of novellas that PW named one of its best books of 2010. Ervin has written hundreds of essays and reviews for the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Salon, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and others. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Goucher College, an MA in English from Illinois State University, and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Richard Powers. He teaches part time at Temple University. In the early years of the internet, he worked as a video game developer in the Budapest, London, and New York offices of one of the first online gaming sites. Fall 2016 • Computers and Technology/Games • 272 pages World Rights: Basic Books Arnold Thackray with David Brock and Rachel Jones Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary This expansive biography shares the