Rights Guide Spring 2024

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

The long-awaited Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud preserves the original Standard Edition translation from the German by James Strachey, while adding a new layer of revisions and translations with explanatory annotations under the executive editorship of neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, and Freud scholar Mark Solms. The Revised Standard Edition also presents material not previously translated into English, including 56 lectures, drafts, letters, forewords, and other works of interest.

This groundbreaking update of the Standard Edition—which was first published 60 years ago—revises errors and mistranslations while retaining the original translation for comparison. To preserve the historical—and at times controversial—translation and commentaries from James Strachey’s version, a subtle

underlining distinguishes Mark Solms’s revisions and additions in an easy and accessible way, highlighting where there are differences from the old Standard Edition. Readers can examine what Strachey contributed before the revisions, in tandem with Solms’s updates, retranslations, and notes which bring Freudian material into dialogue with the most recent 21st-century developments in the field.

Commissioned by the British Psychoanalytical Society and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield, the 24-volume Revised Standard Edition brings together decades of scholarly deliberation concerning the translation of Freudian technical terms while retaining the best of Strachey’s original English translation. This landmark work will captivate a wide audience, from interested lay readers to practicing clinicians to scientists and scholars in fields related to psychoanalysis.

Volume 1: Pre-Psychoanalytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts 1886–1899

Volume 2: Studies on Hysteria (Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud) 1893–1895

Volume 3: Early Psychoanalytic Publications 1893–1899

Volume 4: The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) 1900

Volume 5: The Interpretation of Dreams (Second Part) and on Dreams 1900–1901

Volume 6: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life 1901

Volume 7: A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works 1901–1905

Volume 8: Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious 1905

Volume 9: Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ and Other Works 1906–1909

Volume 10: Two Case Histories (‘Little Hans’ and the ‘Rat Man’) 1909

Volume 11: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Leonardo da Vinci and Other Works 1910–1912

Volume 12: The Case of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works 1910–1914

Volume 13: Totem and Taboo and Other Works 1913–1914

About the Co-Publishers

British Psychoanalytical Society (Incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis) www.psychoanalysis.org.uk

Founded in 1913, the British Psychoanalytical Society is home to an international community of professionals dedicated to helping people enhance their lives through psychoanalysis. Past members of the Society include some of the most important figures in the history of psychoanalysis—Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, John Bowlby, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Joseph Sandler, Hannah Segal, and Donald Winnicott, among others. The Institute of Psychoanalysis is the outward face and training body of the British Psychoanalytical Society. As a Component Society of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the Institute of Psychoanalysis provides rigorous trainings in psychoanalysis with adults and with children, and also runs a range of conferences, lectures, and courses for mental health professionals, related disciplines, and the wider public, attracting audiences worldwide.

Volume 14: On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works 1914–1916

Volume 15: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Parts I and II) 1915–1916

Volume 16: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Part III) 1916–1917

Volume 17: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works 1917–1919

Volume 18: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology and Other Works 1920–1922

Volume 19: The Ego and the Id and Other Works 1923–1925

Volume 20: An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, The Question of Lay Analysis and Other Works 1925–1926

Volume 21: The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents and Other Works 1927–1931

Volume 22: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis and Other Works 1932–1938

Volume 23: Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psychoanalysis and Other Works 1937–1939

Volume 24: Translation Notes, Indexes and Bibliographies

The Institute’s extensive archives include a wealth of material relating to the history and clinical practice of the British Psychoanalytical Society, including letters and papers of a number of eminent psychoanalysts. The Institute oversees current scholarly outlets including the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the New Library of Psychoanalysis book series.

About the Editor

Mark Solms is a globally acclaimed psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist, known for the integration of contemporary neuroscience with psychoanalytic methods and theories, and for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming. He is the Director of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, the Science Director of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

Brushed Aside

The Untold Story of Women in Art

By Noah Charney - Foreword by Ingrid RowlandAfterword by Marina Abramovic

Discover anew the herstory of art that Publishers Weekly calls "illuminating" and Foreword Reviews calls "spirited" for an enlightening art history read.

How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then… even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female curators, critics, patrons, collectors, muses, models and art influencers?

This book provides a 360 degree look at the role, influence, and empowerment of women through art— including women artists, but going beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel. In 1971, Linda Nochlin published a famous essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” This book responds to it by showing that not only have there been scores of great women artists throughout history, but that great women have shaped the story of art. The result is a book that sheds light on the art world in a very new way, finally celebrating the great women artists and influencers who deserve to be much better known. The entire history of art can be told as a herstory of art.

The forgotten history of women in art.

Rights exclusions: Audio

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2023

232 pages

45 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7099 1

eBook

978 1 5381 7100 4

Art • Women Artists

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Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books, most recently, The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World, and including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, the American University of Rome, and the University of Ljubljana. He lives in Slovenia.

Making It

The Artist's Survival Guide

By Jaša and Noah Charney

Making It peels back the shroud and reveals the highs and struggles in the life and career of a working artist.

Rights exclusions: Audio, Slovenian

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2021 • 192 Pages • 19 Illustrations

Paperback 978 1 5381 4199 1

eBook 978 1 5381 4200 4

Art • General

Gold Wine

Rebula, the Liquid Gold That Links Slovenia and Italy

By Noah Charney

A travelogue through the world of Slovenian wine that will delight adventurous travelers and wine lovers everywhere.

Rights exclusions: Slovenian, Italian

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2022 • 224 Pages • 85 Illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 6651 2

eBook 978 1 5381 6652 9

Cooking • Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine

The Devil in the Gallery

How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World

By Noah Charney - Foreword by Martin J. Kemp

A guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts.

Rights exclusions: Audio

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2021 • 200 Pages • 82 Illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 3864 9

eBook 978 1 5381 3865 6

Art • History / General

The Thefts of The Mona

Lisa

The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork

By Noah Charney - Foreword by Steve Berry

Did Picasso steal the Mona Lisa? He was arrested on suspicion for it. Read this to find out why.

Rights exclusions: Audio

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

February 2024 • 192 pages • 21 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8136 2

eBook 978 1 5381 8137 9

True Crime • Heists & Robberies

12-Hour Art Expert

Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces

By Noah Charney

An invitation for readers of all ages for a one-stop immersion into art.

"... this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts." Publishers Weekly

The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces provides a fun, fullcolor, crash course in art appreciation in a down-toearth, quirky, and personal manner by one of the world’s best-known art historians.

The 12-Hour Film Expert

Everything You Need to Know about Movies

By Noah Charney and James Charney

The only book you need to become an expert on film history, technique, and appreciation.

The 12-Hour Film Expert is for anyone who wants to learn more about film and how to truly appreciate what they are watching, but they aren’t sure where to begin. This book guides its readers through a selection of film masterpieces in a variety of genres, from silent films and westerns to dramas and romantic comedies.

Rights exclusions: Audio, Korean

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2022 • 184 Pages • 48 Illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 5659 9

eBook 978 1 5381 5660 5

Art • History / General

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2024 • 248 Pages • 50 Illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7342 8

eBook 978 1 5381 7343 5

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

Photo by laura adai on Unsplash

Life on the Run

One Family’s Search for Peace in War-Torn Ukraine

By Sergey Maidukov

This is a gripping story that begins in February 2022, when the author and his family shared the fate of millions of Ukrainian refugees driven out of their cities and villages by the Russian invasion. Over a year later, the intense panic of the first weeks and months has subsided, and the author is able to convey the story through a clearer lens. This is not a hate-filled recounting of their experiences—despite ongoing attacks. Instead, it focuses on the moments of love, friendship, unity, courage, and faith that Ukrainians experienced since the onset of the war. While war can be experienced as an out-ofcontrol fire, it can also bring forward the healing warmth of kinship.

Sergey Maidukov is a Ukrainian writer who has sold tens of thousands of copies of his published books in the countries of the former USSR, such as Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and the Baltics. Widely recognized in Western Europe for his intimate knowledge of the criminal world, he worked for 22 years as a commissioned writer for the largest publishing houses in Russia and Ukraine.

A gripping account of one family’s war experience.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

May 2024

260 pages

13 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 8573 5

eBook

978 1 5381 8575 9

Biography & Autobiography • Military

Photo by Svitlana Maidukova

Audrey Hepburn

A Beautiful Uncertainty

By Tom Santopietro

Audrey Hepburn was a fairy-tale princess, onscreen and off. Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion—she transcended her era to become a global icon whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century.

Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating, and supplemented with incisive commentary from award-winning fashion designer Jeffrey Banks, Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertainty is a one-ofa-kind exploration of Audrey’s glamorous image and remarkable life. Always leading with her heart, Hepburn is shown here fully captured in all her complexity: an often self-doubting but brilliant and genuinely kind woman who used her fame and activism to change the world.

Slipping behind the scenes of Hollywood’s Golden Age, author Tom Santopietro details Audrey’s legendary dance partnership with Fred Astaire on the classic Funny Face, her lifelong friendship with Roman Holiday co-star Gregory Peck, and her love affairs with Albert Finney and William Holden. Throughout, Audrey’s life and career is juxtaposed with a deep look at the unerring taste of a fashion icon who played muse to the brilliant designer Hubert de Givenchy, one whose unique sensibility inspired women from Jacqueline Onassis to Carly Simon.

Rich in biographical detail and full of new photographs and stories, this is a fitting tribute to an enchanting and beloved icon.

Tom Santopietro is the author of nine previous books, including The Sound of Music Story, The Importance of Being Barbra, and Sinatra in Hollywood. Over the past thirty years, he has managed three dozen Broadway shows.

A gorgeous, full-color celebration of Audrey Hepburn.

Applause

September 2024

256 pages

63 illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 6808 1

eBook

978 1 4930 6809 8

Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment & Performing Arts

Cover coming soon

Photo by Anika De Klerk on Unsplash

Rockin’ the Kremlin

My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Russia

By David Junk - With Fred Bronson

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk was one of the first idealistic, young Americans to seize this opportunity.

Rockin’ the Kremlin is the thrilling true story of how David became the first CEO of Universal Music Russia and built impactful cultural bridges with music—but also how that would all shatter with the rise of Vladimir Putin and invasions of Ukraine. There was no proper music industry in the USSR, and creating a modern music industry in Russia would be far more challenging than anyone had anticipated. David assembled a team of young and talented Russians, and they navigated a terrain filled with political chaos, organized crime, powerful oligarchs, bombings, and violence—with cultural clashes tinting many aspects. They captivated millions by bringing superstar acts to Russia for the first time ever, including Metallica, Mariah Carey, Sting, and Eminem, while developing local talent such as Alsou and t.A.T.u.— Russia’s greatest selling pop act of all time. Eventually, David would even build a music industry in Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe.

David Junk was the first CEO of Universal Music in Moscow. He was Vice-President Eastern Europe at Universal Music in 2003. He is a founding member of the Russian Music Industry Association and the US Ambassadors Task Force on Intellectual Property Rights.

Fred Bronson is the author of six books including The Jacksons: Legacy. For over three decades, he has been reporting on the music industry for Billboard magazine, His articles have also appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and the Los Angeles Times.

The true story of Universal Music

Russia’s first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2024

252 Pages

32 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7875 1

eBook

978 1 5381 7876 8

Biography & Autobiography • Music

When Rock Met Reggae

How the Cultural Crossover of Bob Marley, The Clash, The Specials and More Changed the Face of Rock Music

By Steven Blush

Bringing the same incisive, cross-genre perspective he offered in When Rock Met Disco, Steven Blush gives a spirited survey of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music in When Rock Met Reggae. The inspiration of ska, rock-steady, dub, and reggae—heard on independent recordings played on “soundsystems” from Kingston and Brixton—created a new rock tonality and attitude, spanning from Eric Clapton to The Clash. Meanwhile, the “Two Tone” sounds—traversing The Specials, Madness, and UB40—fueled the ‘90s ska revival of Sublime, No Doubt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and beyond. Attentive to the racial, political, and—ahem— pharmaceutical aspects of this intricate story, Blush gives a memorable account of one of the most fertile crosspollinations in pop music history.

Steven Blush has written seven books about rock and pop culture, including, most recently, When Rock Met Disco: The Story of How The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade.

A fascinating exploration of the intersection of Rock and Reggae.

Backbeat

September 2024

256 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 7447 1

eBook

978 1 4930 7448 8

Biography & Autobiography • Music

Cover coming soon

Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

Where the Evidence Takes Us A Memoir of a Scotland Yard Detective

By Kevin O’Leary

Embark on a riveting journey through the tumultuous world of law enforcement.

Gain unprecedented access to the world of law enforcement as a former Detective Chief Superintendent shares his personal experiences and insights, offering a unique insider’s perspective on the challenges and transformations within the Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard’s most challenging roles and high-profile cases over three decades.

Kevin O’Leary is a former senior detective at New Scotland Yard. Kevin now designs and delivers immersive leadership development programs and serves as the series consultant for acclaimed UK TV shows, including Hunted and The Heist

Hemingway’s Passions His Women, His Wars, and His Writing

By Nancy W. Sindelar

Much has been written about Hemingway, but to date no book has linked the women he loved to his written work.

Hemingway scholar Nancy Sindelar captures Ernest Hemingway’s life and romantic adventures, revealing his own feelings about his relationships and the ways his experiences with the women he loved appear in his literary works. Much has been written about Hemingway, but to date no book has linked the five women he loved to his written work.

Nancy W. Sindelar, PhD, is the author of Influencing Hemingway: The People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work and a popular presenter on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024 • 244 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 7485 2

eBook 978 1 5381 7486 9

Biography & Autobiography • Law Enforcement

Lyons Press

November 2024 • 256 pages • 69 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 8468 5

eBook 978 1 4930 8469 2

Biography & Autobiography • Literary Figures

Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash.

BODY, MIND

Spooky Great Lakes

Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore

By S. E. Schlosser - Illustrated by Paul Hoffman

Pull up a chair or gather ‘round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Great Lakes folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser and through artist Paul G. Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. You’ll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. The stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.

S. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of “let’s pretend” quickly built themselves into full-length stories. She created and maintains the Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all 50 states, some dating back to the origins of America. She lives near the Hudson River in New York State.

Paul Hoffman illustrates books of many genres— children’s titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and cookbooks. For the Spooky series, he employs a scratchboard technique and an active imagination. He lives in Massachusetts.

Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Great Lakes region.

Globe Pequot

August 2024

200 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8569 9

eBook

978 1 4930 8570 5

Body, Mind & Spirit • Supernatural (incl. Ghosts)

The Art of Small Business Social Media

A Blueprint for Marketing Success

By Peggy Fitzpatrick

After social media marketing maven Peg Fitzpatrick’s smash success book “he Art of Social Media, she realized small business owners need more than just power tips. In The Art of Small Business Social Media she provides a hands-on guide designed to empower these underdogs. It teaches them to leverage social media for brand growth and sales, turning their passion into profit.

Social media is Peg Fitzpatrick’s passion. She works with global brands and leaders spearheading successful social media campaigns for companies such as Motorola, Audi, Canva, Google, and Virgin, and has been a brand ambassador for McDonald’s, Kimpton Hotels, and Adobe Spark. Peg is the co-author of The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users along with Guy Kawasaki and has contributed to two other books, What the Plus!: Google+ for the Rest of Us and APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book. Peg is a sought-after social media speaker, having presented at Hubspot’s INBOUND conference, Alt Summit, BlogHer, BlogHer Pro, and Social Media Examiner’s Social Media Marketing World, as well as a keynote at SXSW with Guy Kawasaki.

Power tips to empower small business social media marketing.

Rights exclusions : Translation

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

978 1 5381 9299 3

Cover coming soon

Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash.

Let’s Change the World How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference

By Emiliana Vegas

A how-to and inspiration guide for everyone who wants to make a difference in the world through their professional life.

So many talented young people try and change the world. Yet, they often find the global institutions difficult to understand, hard to get into, and even harder to navigate. Enter Let’s Change the World, an informative guide to building and navigating a career in international development for current and aspiring changemakers.

Emiliana Vegas (EdD) has been a leading economist at the World Bank, before joining the Inter-American Bank and serving as co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Vegas has served on international education boards, including on the Governing Board for UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning Rights exclusions : Audio

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024 • 208 pages • 10 illustrations

Hardback 9781538190289

eBook 9781538190296

Business & Economics • Careers / General

The Electric Vehicle Revolution Five Visionaries Leading the Charge

By Kenneth K. Boyer

A fascinating look at the leading personalities driving the transition to electric vehicles and reinventing the auto industry.

This book shows the promise, perils, and personalities of the world’s automobile makers as they re-engineer a post-carbon present and future. Driving the narrative is the key to it all: the green transformation of the global auto parts supply chain and the commitment to electric vehicles.

Kenneth K. Boyer is a fisher designated professor of operations and business analytics in the Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. A supply chain management researcher with over fifty peerreviewed publications, he is the author of two prior books, Extending the Supply Chain and Operations and Supply Chain Management for the 21st Century.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2024 • 240 pages • 19 illustrations

Hardback 9781538190746

eBook 9781538190753

Business & Economics • Industries / Automobile Industry

Photo by William Navarro on Unsplash

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Bartending Basics

More Than 400 Classic and Contemporary Cocktails for Any Occasion

By Cheryl Charming - Photographs by Susan Bourgoin

MAKE IT EASY!

For centuries, tending bar—whether for friends or professionally—has held a fascination for many. Whatever your plans, Bartending Basics will allow you to instantly master more than 400 cocktails, including classics such as Margaritas, Martinis, Vodka Gimlets, Mai-Tais, and Mojitos. In a spirited blend of stunning color photos and engaging text, this guide takes a step-by-step, picturedriven approach that focuses on the basics, while offering plenty more to those who set their bar high. With each turn of the page, you’ll discover how a simple cocktail, combined with imagination and a knack for which flavors mix well, can be twisted into unlimited possibilities.

Inside you’ll find 400 recipes & 372 full-color photos covering:

• Bar gear

• Glassware

• Martinis

• Margaritas

• Tropical drinks

• Vintage & modern cocktails

• Shots & shooters

• Holiday drinks

• Sangrias

Bartending Basics allows the reader to instantly master more than 400 cocktails.

Lyons Press

September 2024

256 Pages

372 Illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 8689 4

eBook

978 1 4930 8690 0

Cooking • Beverages / Alcoholic / Bartending

Photo by Ambitious Studio* - Rick Barrett on Unsplash.

Crochet Monsters

With more than 35 body patterns and options for horns, limbs, antennae and so much more, you can mix and match options for thousands upon thousands of possibilities!

By Megan Lapp

With 37 Monster body options, plus myriad variations for limbs, mouths and teeth, horns, antennae, tails, scales, and so much more, you will never make the same Monster twice. Choose from wide open mouths with fangs to adorable Monsters with bunny ears and a cat tail to Monsters with hair poufs and scales. Make oneeyed spiders or three-eyed aliens, dragons with scales or little friends that don’t match any known monster to date. There is nearly no limit to the variations you can combine!

All Monsters use worsted weight and/or sport weight yarn and a size G-6 (4 mm) hook. Patterns are appropriate for beginner through advanced crocheters. If a stitch is new to you, just turn to the Glossary for detailed instructions on how to work it. Photos are included for each pattern piece and any complex stitches so you can be sure you are on the right track as you work.

Choosing your next Monster’s look is half the fun. Get family and friends involved in picking options for their own Monster and share the creativity! Get excited for these Monsters to skitter, galumph, stomp, and roll right off your hook!

Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can’t wait for her next exciting design. Megan’s background is in the Fine Arts, having graduated with honours from Lafayette College, USA, with a double major in Art and Music.

Combine with sheer limitless variation for a unique monster every time you return to this book!

Stackpole Books

July 2024

360 pages

1600 illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7162 7

eBook

978 0 8117 7163 4

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend

19 Designs Easy Cute Critters to Legendary Beasts

By Megan Lapp

Since 2017, Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has built a following for her unique crochet creations. Her crochet creatures are like nothing else out there. They are intricately detailed and colourful, and yet with her stepby-step instructions, anyone can achieve her results.

Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend includes 13 Cute Critter patterns—small and adorable creatures that are quick and fun to make and a great place to start—and 6 standard-size mythological beasts in all their glory, including a dragon, kraken, feathered serpent, owl griffin, phoenix, and unicorn. Megan’s imagination is always at play, and many of her patterns include various options for wing styles, feathers, and more.

Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can’t wait for her next exciting design. Megan’s background is in the Fine Arts, having graduated with honours from Lafayette College, USA, with a double major in Art and Music.

Grab your hook start crocheting your own creatures of myth and legend!

Stackpole Books

March 2023

256 pages

784 colour illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7148 1

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Crochet Impkins

Over a million possible combinations! Yes, really!

By Megan Lapp

Enter the world of the reclusive yet mischievous Impkins! Surely, you have seen them out of the corner of your eye from time to time, racing from hiding place to nook or cranny—odd little creatures of stitch and stuffing, of endless variety in form and manner.

With Crochet Impkins, Megan Lapp follows up on her globally successful Crochet Creatures of Myth and Legend With detailed instructions for crafting these charming little creatures, the books offers techniques, methods, and an endless array of options for ears, antennae, hats, wings, tails, scales, horns, hairstyles, clothing, and accessories that make each Impkin unique.

Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions has been creating crochet creatures from her imagination since 2017 and has amassed thousands of fans who just can’t wait for her next exciting design. Megan’s background is in the Fine Arts, having graduated with honours from Lafayette College, USA, with a double major in Art and Music.

Bring your very own Impkin alive with hook and yarn.

Stackpole Books

August 2023

216 pages

460 illustrations

Paperback

978 0 8117 7160 3

eBook

978 0 8117 7161 0

Crafts

Knit Wild

21 Wander-full Sweater Designs

By Anna-Sofia Vintersol

With animal and nature-inspired themes, the sweater designs of Anna-Sofia Vintersol share your love of all things wild and free. Delightful designs feature yokes of dog faces and pawprints, foxes, bears, whales, and other colorwork patterns. A favorite pattern is sure to be Kitulo, a “choose your own adventure” sweater which can be endlessly customized with myriad mix-and-match charts. Every sweater from this design is one of a kind!

Beautifully detailed, colorful, and robust when knitted in hardy wool yarns, these sweaters are ready for outdoor adventures and will keep you toasty on hikes and when camping. Prefer to sip cocoa indoors when temperatures dip? Knit them in a less-insulating wool and you’ll be quite comfortable. The color work keeps the knitting interesting; you’ll love watching the patterns emerge. Sizes range from 2XS to 4XL and are unisex--ready to be knit and enjoyed by all!

Anna-Sofia Vintersol is a knitwear designer and artist, also known as “@loparefur” (“wool fox” in Icelandic) on Instagram and social media. She lived in Norway the past six years before moving to the US with her husband Calvin and four-month old son Waya Riverdancer. Her Fair Isle knitwear designs are inspired by beautiful, wild nature, the animals living in it, her dogs, and indigenous cultures such as Anishinabe and Cherokee-her husband’s tribes.

Embrace the outdoors with these nature-inspired knit projects!

Rights sold: Russian

Stackpole Books

August 2024

240 Pages

200 Illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8117 7467 3

eBook

978 0 8117 7468 0

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

Crochet Messy Bun Hats

12 Quick & Easy Designs to Keep Out the Cold

By Kristi Simpson

Easy to follow patterns and stylish designs!

With more coverage than a headband but a hole for your messy bun or ponytail to hang freely (no odd bump in your hat), messy bun hats are the perfect solution for your carefree style! A variety of interesting yet easy stitch patterns in mediumweight yarn make these hats quick and fun to work up. Make a variety of styles and colors for yourself and to give as gifts. They are a joy to crochet and will keep your head warm in style!

Kristi Simpson is the author of Supersize Crochet Animals, Sweet & Simple Baby Crochet, Adorable Baby Crochet, Ultimate Crochet Nursery, and Crochet Stitch Sampler Baby Blankets. Known for her fresh and modern style, Kristi’s patterns have been published in magazines, books, catalogs, and online venues.

Crochet Nativity

Complete Instructions for 10 Dolls

By Bianca Santos Crochet your own Nativity!

Crochet the holy family and their visitors at Christmas: Step-by-step instructions and patterns for Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, three wise men, angel, sheep, cow, and donkey. Bianca is the designer behind Crocheniacs.

Bianca Esmanhoto is a former military sergeant who is passionate about arts and teaching. Crochet started as a stress relief from her air traffic controller job, won her heart, and soon gained exclusive dedication in her life. Her creative and somewhat restless mind is always looking for more, and so her business, Crocheniacs, was born. She says, “Writing this book is a dream and by far one of the most amazing accomplishments of my life.”

Stackpole Books

October 2024 • 32 pages • 25 illustrations

Paperback 978 0 8117 7469 7

eBook 978 0 8117 7470 3

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Stackpole Books

September 2024 • 32 pages • 250 illustrations

Paperback 978 0 8117 7498 7

eBook 978 0 8117 7499 4

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Crocheting

Margaret Holzmann’s Iconic Knit Blankets and More

30+ Graphic Patterns for Blankets, Pillows, Tops, and Table Runners

By Margaret Holzmann

A guide to creating your own iconic knits!

Margaret Holzmann, author of the popular Geometric Knit Blankets, is back, this time with themed designs featuring cats, dogs, houses, Christmas trees and candy canes, among other graphic, colorful designs. 30+ patterns for blankets and pillows, plus table runners and tops featuring icons from the blanket designs.

Margaret Holzmann likes to design and knit the BIG things: blankets, throws, and sweaters. She uses these larger items as a canvas for color work, shapes, and texture. She excels at construction techniques, the geometry of knitting, and color theory. Following a career as an engineer, she is now a full-time knit designer living in Monrovia, California, and her patterns have appeared in many knitting publications.

Stackpole Books

December 2024 • 224 pages • 200 illustrations

Paperback 978 0 8117 7572 4

eBook 978 0 8117 7573 1

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

Victorian Housecats to Knit

By Sara Elizabeth Kellner

The Morgans and their kitties are sure to delight all cat-loving knitters!

In the Victorian era, each room had a purpose, and in the imagined house of the Morgans, each room also has a feline inhabitant. Meet each cat and choose your favorites to knit: 20 cat patterns. From the cuddly and adorable Nursery Kittens to Aunt Pru’s Persian, each will capture your heart and get your needles flying.

Sara Elizabeth Kellner is the author of Wild and Woolly Knitted Animals and the designer of Rabbit Hole Knits - toy and animal patterns for hand knitters. Her goal when designing is to create patterns that portray the animals realistically while still evoking the personality of each, a twinkle in each of their eyes, and the question “Did I just see that animal move?” on the lips of every knitter.

Stackpole Books

November 2024 • 176 pages • 180 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8117 7278 5

eBook 978 0 8117 7279 2

Crafts & Hobbies • Needlework / Knitting

Cover coming soon

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Image from Knit Wild, page 20

Achieving a Good Death

A Practical Guide to the End of Life

By Chris Palmer

There is an art to dying well that can be taught and learned. While death is inevitable, dying badly is not. This practical guide to achieving a good death will reduce the fear that often cloaks discussions about death and dying and give readers the knowledge and skills to achieve a peaceful and gentle death.

With the multiple options available at the end of life, people can design and direct their end-of-life journey so they have as fulfilling and meaningful life as possible right up to the end and achieve the elusive good death when the time comes. Chapters focus on essential elements of living well and preparing for a good death

This thoughtful and gentle guide, exploring one of the most difficult human topics, equips every reader with the information they need to overcome the anxiety and confusion that so often overwhelms end-of-life planning so they may intentionally plan for “a good death” that will provide comfort for all during one’s final act.

Chris Palmer is an author, speaker, wildlife filmmaker, conservationist, professor, and grandfather. He serves on the Board of Montgomery Hospice and Prince George’s Hospice and as Vice President of the Board of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maryland & Environs. Chris also serves on the Advisory Council for the Maryland Office of Cemetery Oversight, and he founded and runs the aging, dying, and death group in the Bethesda Metro Area Village. He is a trained hospice volunteer and was formerly a Board member of the Green Burial Association of Maryland. He frequently gives presentations and workshops to community groups on aging, death, and dying issues. This is his 10th book. Proceeds from all his books go to fund scholarships for American University students. His website is www.ChrisPalmerOnline.com

Death is inevitable, dying badly is not. A good death is achievable, and this book explains how.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

288 Pages

2 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4758 5051

2

eBook

978 1 4758 5052 9

Family & Relationships • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Cover coming soon

Photo by CHIRAG K on Unsplash.

What Are We Really Fighting About?

How to Transform Conflicts into Conversations

By Lisa Brateman

What Are We Really Fighting About? How to Transform Conflicts into Conversations gives couples permission to fight. Because, after all, everyone does.

We’re so conditioned to think that all fights and arguments are bad, but that isn’t true. This book shows couples that fighting can be productive if they learn to fight in a way that isn’t hurtful and shift away from entrenched patterns that aren’t working. It’s okay to feel angry with a partner and have a heated argument if couples fight with respect, acceptance, and love—and then reconcile differences and disagreements.

What Are We Really Fighting About? shows couples exactly how to change sides—to understand their partners’ pain, to acknowledge and appreciate their perspective, and ultimately to create an environment where vulnerability is welcome. Many examples of couples who have successful mastered the art of productive arguments will enable readers to use these techniques in their own relationships. As a result, readers will learn how to fight better by articulating what they need and what is possible, and then find ways to make conflict productive and healthy. Developing the skills to turn conflicts into conversations will open the space for understanding.

Lisa Brateman, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, relationship specialist, public speaker, and media commentator who has offered individual, couples, group therapy, and coaching in New York City for over twenty years. Lisa is a member of the Private Practitioners Group, and The Medical Reserve Corps in New York City, as well as a contributing member of SheSource at the Women’s Media Center. She is also a regular presence on BBC radio as a guest expert on relationships and sleep issues. The mother of two sons, she lives with her partner in Manhattan.

Couples will learn strategies that will help them fight better so they can transform conflicts into conversations.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

224 Pages

11 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 8224 6

eBook

978 1 5381 8225 3

Family & Relationships • Marriage & LongTerm Relationships

Cover coming soon

Photo by Afif Ramdhasuma on Unsplash.

Born Into Loss

Shadows of a Deceased Sibling and Family Journeys of Grief

By Sarah Reed Vollmann and Joann M. O’Leary

Subsequent siblings, also known as replacement children, were born after the death of a sibling, and face a familial landscape that was dramatically altered by loss. This book explores the common repercussions of their role and shares complex life stories from more than one hundred subsequent sibling interviews.

Joann O’Leary began her career as a Licensed Practical Nurse in an NICU, then a birth to five special education program and after her MPH moved into a hospital setting working with families within a High-Risk Perinatal Center. She has taught courses at the University level for over 20 years with the focus on unexpected outcomes of pregnancy, including the impact on children. She has facilitated support groups for bereaved families for over 35 years. She is the author of Different Baby, Different Story: Pregnancy and Parenting after Loss

Sarah Vollmann, MPS, ATR-BC, LICSW, is a registered, board-certified art therapist and a licensed independent clinical social worker. She maintains a private practice with a focus upon grief and traumatic loss, and she is a faculty member of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. She is an adjunct professor in the art therapy program at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design, and she is also the Lead Counselor at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School. Sarah has published articles and book chapters on grief and loss, including a research article entitled “A legacy of loss: Stories of replacement dynamics and the subsequent child.” (The Omega Journal of Death and Dying, 2014.) She presents both nationally and internationally on art therapy, grief, and bereavement.

Lessons in healing and resiliency from adults born after the death of a sibling.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2024

Hardback

978 1 5381 7216 2

eBook

978 1 5381 7217 9

Family

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Steadfast Parenting

How to Raise Children of Character in a World That Sorely Needs Them

By Patricia McGann

The rules and guidelines for raising families in our crisisoriented, communication overloaded, high-pressure culture are changing by the minute. Yet, the fundamental principles of effective parenting remain. As parents seek to support children who are learning to hold their own in today’s divided society, they need reassuring and consistent information on how to keep their family going in the right direction.

In Steadfast Parenting: How to Raise Children of Character in a World That Sorely Needs Them, educator, counselor, mother, and grandmother Patricia McGann shares practical advice for parents as they navigate the bumpy, unpredictable road of parenting. With a special focus on building a positive relationship between parents and children, McGann returns to the basics for how to raise happy, healthy, and kind kids. She walks parents through the family, social, and school issues for each stage of development—infants, toddlers, elementary-aged, tweens, and teens—reminding parents throughout that they should trust their instincts and enjoy the small, shiny moments that occur along the way.

A practical guide that encourages families to return to the basics of parenting in order to raise happy, respectful, and loving children. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

The Dutchman’s Gold

By Larry Weill

The Dutchman’s Gold is a historical novel involving a pair of situational treasure hunters from New York who are enticed into a search for one of this country’s largest treasures. The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in Arizona has attracted thousands of seekers over the past two centuries, all trying to use a series of tantalizing crews to locate the hidden mine. The clues left behind are not fictional; they are real, as is the bloody trail of the bodies of treasure hunters who have pursued the legend of the mine.

The Dutchman’s Gold is a non-stop, nail-biting tale of sleuth against an unexpected adversary. Throughout the narrative, Chris, Sean, and their supporting cast overcome a host of greedy rivals to solve the centuriesold mystery. It concludes with a surprise ending that combines intrigue and suspense with the treasure hunters’ sense of morality toward the Native American land owners. This book will be of great interest to mystery readers and history buffs alike. It is a real page-turner that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very final paragraph.

Larry Weill’s career life has been as diverse and interesting as the characters in his books. He has studied biology and entomology, and is an avid naturalist. He has worked as a Wilderness Park Ranger, a fire-tower observer, a financial planner, a technical writer, and a career Navy Reservist. Larry is a lifelong devotee to the mountains, and he loves the Adirondacks. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his family, and they frequently hike and climb in the Adirondacks. He is the author of Excuse Me, Sir… Your Socks are on Fire as well as the first two books in this fiction series, Adirondack Trail of Gold and In Marcy’s Shadow.

A historical novel involving a pair of situational treasure hunters from New York who are enticed into a search for one of this country’s largest treasures.

North Country Books

August 2024

312 Pages Paperback

978 1 4930 8554 5

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash Cover coming soon

Mark Twain’s Tales of the Macabre & Mysterious

Edited by R. Kent Rasmussen

An enduring icon of American culture, Mark Twain is still widely read, carefully studied, and reinterpreted more than a century after his death. He is best known for humor and for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but his writings extend far beyond the humorous and his immortal boy heroes. He wrote in a dizzying variety of genres, and much of his work resists categorization by exploring themes well outside the realms of normal human experience. Indeed, it would not be a stretch to say that some of his stories deal with characters and themes on the “far side” of human experience. His books such as The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, for example, place protagonists in improbably dimensions of time and space, while tales from lesser-known works address the spooky, grisly, and inexplicable. It is a world in which buffalos climb trees, elephants eat Bibles, dogs bark Morse code messages, and human beings commit terrible crimes, make incredible mistakes, and play fantastic tricks on one another. This is an entertaining collection of both mysteries and marvels by an icon of American culture and literature.

R.Kent Rasmussen is the holder of a UCLA doctorate in history and a retired reference-book editor. He has long been recognized as a leading world authority on Mark Twain, about whom he has published thirteen books. Those volumes include such now-standard reference works as Mark Twain A to Z; its expanded revision, Critical Companion to Mark Twain; and The Quotable Mark Twain. Mark Twain books that he has edited include four volumes of critical essays; several collections of Mark Twain’s own writings, including the Penguin Classics edition of Autobiographical Writings; and Mark Twain for Dog Lovers, a Lyons Press publication. He lives in Thousand Oaks, CA.

An entertaining collection of mysteries and marvels by an icon of American literature.

Lyons Press

August 2024

272 Pages

63 Illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 8613 9

eBook

978 1 4930 8614 6

Fiction • Literary

Constipation Nation

What to Know When You Can’t Go

By Carmen Fong

Most Americans have had constipation symptoms at some point in their lives. Statistics show up to 30% of Americans are affected with chronic constipation. This number reaches 60% as we age. During the pandemic, constipation and its related anorectal issues worsened because everyone was sitting at home.

After seeing thousands of patients in her practice as a colorectal surgeon, Dr. Fong realized that she was repeating the same information, sometimes twenty times a day. Yet, this information was not common knowledge. What was found on the Internet was confusing and conflicting, leaving people who Googled their symptoms with more questions than answers.

Constipation Nation helps readers who would rather research information themselves before seeing a healthcare professional to troubleshoot their poop chute. Drawing from 200 evidence-based sources as well as historical texts, Constipation Nation addresses all aspects of constipation, combining medicine, physiology, anatomy, microbiology, nutrition, history, and social sciences to get to the bottom of it all to explain why we doo… and why we don’t.

Carmen Fong, MD, FACS (she/her/they) is a ChineseAmerican writer and colorectal surgeon. She’s a New York City transplant who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her wife, her daughter, and two cats. Dr. Fong is Co-Director of the Hemorrhoid Centers of America and specializes in office-based proctology. She’s a member of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. At Sarah Lawrence College, she studied creative writing under William Kelley. She was a Stony Brook Children’s Literature Fellow and writes poetry, young adult, and adult fiction. She blogs about healthcare and surgery on BaselineMed.com and is a Doximity Op-Med Fellow.

A definitive guide to the science and history of constipation.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

200 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8619 0

eBook

978 1 5381 8620 6

Health & Fitness • Diseases / Gastrointestinal

Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

The Dressmaker’s Mirror

By Susan Weiss Liebman

After the author’s pregnant, 36-year-old niece unexpectedly collapsed and dies in a restaurant in 2008, her autopsy report was reminiscent of previous early deaths in geneticist Susan Liebman’s family including that of her 4-year-old uncle who was said to have died when a heavy dressmaker’s mirror fell on him. A narrative that is equal parts genetic and family detective story, chronicles the sorrows a deadly mutation caused in the family as well as how she discovered the killer, a new heart disease gene mutation that affects 1 in 800 Ashkenazi Jews.

Susan W. Liebman, PhD, is a research geneticist personally affected by a deadly mutation. She understands all too well the lifesaving importance of such testing when there is a family history of disease or if someone has a condition commonly caused by a genetic mutation. Beyond that, working with patients in her Ashkenazi heart disease research study convinced her that widespread genetic screening for treatable conditions could save and improve lives even in the absence of personal or family history of disease. Dr. Liebman has promoted genetic testing while teaching medical students, providing continuing medical education, and in her published essays on heart health for popular audiences. Starting in 2016 she lobbied genetic testing companies to include the FLNC gene in their cardiomyopathy panels. She has dialoged with J-Screen about offering tests for dominant mutations alongside their popular prenatal screens for recessive mutations. She has used social media, email and Zoom to work with cardiomyopathy patients, heart advocacy groups and medical providers.

As a mother, she prayed for the curse to spare her children. As a geneticist, she set out to find the killer…

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2024

224 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 9680 9

eBook

978 1 5381 9681 6

Health

Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Herding Immunity

The Startling History of Life Before and After Vaccines

By Stacy Mintzer Herlihy

Once largely an issue for parents and children, vaccines now occupy a central space in the very heart of our national conversation. We’ve all been forced to think about this subject closely for over two years. In the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, thousands of deaths from a single virus once again swept the earth. Millions of Americans now suffer from the aftermath as they cope with the effects of long haul COVID.

Life Before and After Vaccines moves the reader from the early history of vaccines into modern conversations about this subject. In the book, the author connects the dots between the modern anti vax movement and previous anti vax movements. She will help readers understand the history of vaccines and the equally long history of vaccination opposition.

Life Before and After Vaccines also explores the many large and small ways that lack of access to vaccination has meant societal change, and includes updates on several of the topics in the author’s previous work.

Stacy Mintzer Herlihy is a freelance writer and public health advocate. She is a Shot@Life Champion and founder of New Jersey Parents For Vaccines. Ms. Herlihy is the co-author of Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines are Safe and Save Lives (Rowman & Littlefield 2012) Finalist Foreword Reviews Book of the Year (Adult Health NonFiction) Ms. Herlihy is also the author of Teens and Smoking: Your Questions Answered,Corporations That Changed the World: Disney. Her articles have appeared in many publications including Kveller, USA Today and The Newark Star Ledger. She works for ETS and Pearson as a standardized writing test scorer and test scoring supervisor.

at the long history of vaccines, yesterday, today and still to come.

Photo by Mathurin NAPOLY / matnapo on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

We the Poisoned

Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans

By Jordan Chariton - Foreword by Erin Brockovich

Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Flint water crisis, Chariton uncovers new evidence that sheds light on the miscarriage of justice and corruption that led to the poisoning of Flint’s citizens.

Most people perceive the Flint water crisis as a tragic failure, long in the rearview mirror, born from terrible government decisions to cut corners and save money. However, an active cover up is still victimizing Flint residents nearly a decade later. From crooked Wall Street financial schemes to illegal political payoffs, destruction of evidence, witness tampering, perjury, and threatened whistleblowers, We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans will, for the first time, reveal the real story behind the government’s full involvement in the Flint water crisis.

As the coverup continues today, innocent residents have been arrested, surveilled, threatened, and made to feel like they are crazy. With more immune-damaged residents slowly dying every year, Flint’s lead levels again on the rise, and a deadly pandemic thrown on top of it, it is time for the true story of the Flint water cover up to be told. We the Poisoned is a cautionary tale about “take charge” leaders who come to power with no real understanding of the workings of government and a willingness to make moral compromises to pursue their own path to power.

Jordan Chariton is an independent investigative reporter known for reporting on-the-ground across America on stories that often fall through the cracks. He is the CEO and lead reporter for Status Coup News, an independent news outlet. His work has been featured in The Guardian, VICE News, The Intercept, CNBC, The Hill, and more. He lives with his wife and daughter in the New York area.

Rowman

August 2024

256 Pages

18 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9424 9

eBook

978 1 5381 9425 6

The never-before-told story of the poisoning of Flint and the cover up of the Flint water crisis.

Photo by mrjn Photography on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Through Hell to Dunkirk

A Frontline Story of the Miraculous Evacuation of France in World War II

By Henry de la Falaise

In the spring of 1940, the Germans invaded France, and the British army crossed the English Channel to fight alongside its ally. But the blitzkrieg quickly punched through French defenses and threatened to cut off and trap the British in France—until the British managed to escape at Dunkirk. The dashing Henry de la Falaise, a French marquis, World War I hero, and Hollywood director, served in a British armored car regiment, with which he fought in the Battle of France, the retreat to the Channel, and the miraculous evacuation from Dunkirk. This is his story: a dramatic firsthand account of one of the pivotal moments of World War II.

Henry de la Falaise won the Croix de Guerre for heroism in both world wars. Between the wars he directed several films and was married to Gloria Swanson. He died in 1972.

A dramatic firsthand account of the miraculous evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, a pivotal moment of World War II.

Cover coming soon

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash.

HISTORY

Where Every Ghost has a Name

A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence

By Kim Liao

A bittersweet, informative and ultimately hopeful portrait of a family reconciling issues of identity and displacement against a backdrop of political unrest.

A gripping tale of Taiwan’s road to democracy through the lens of one family’s sacrifices, bearing witness to the heroic work of all who dreamed of a free Formosa. The book is an adventure story, a detective hunt through history, and a quest to reconcile intergenerational trauma as told by the granddaughter of a leader of the Taiwanese independence movement

Kim Liao is an author of creative nonfiction, fiction, journalism, and criticism. She was a 2010-2011 Fulbright Creative Writing Research Scholar in Taiwan..

Rights exclusions: Translation

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024 • 216 pages

Hardback 978 1 5381 9405 8

eBook 978 1 5381 9406 5

History • Asia / General

Calm in the Chaos

True Tales from Elite U.S. Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers

By Brian Dickinson

Brian Dickinson takes an in-depth look at the training that saved his life and the missions—both his and others’—where these skills were put to the test to save other people.

Stories from a U.S. Navy rescue swimmer providing a fresh perspective on what it takes to survive some of the most dangerous rescues imaginable, and how that shapes the rest of a person’s life.

Brian Dickinson, former US Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmer (E5), is an expert in survival, adversity and overcoming obstacles. Brian has spoken about his experience on major news productions such as CNN with Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo, ABC’s Good Morning America, and NBC’s Today Show

We Dared to Fly

Dangerous Secret Missions During the Vietnam War

By William Reeder Jr.

The book is filled with riveting combat accounts and brings the reader into the lives of this group of fascinating brave men.

We Dared to Fly is the true story of the young men who daily risked their lives on classified surveillance missions deep behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War.

William Reeder is a retired U.S. Army colonel, highly decorated with extensive combat experience. In Vietnam, he was an AH-1 Cobra and AH-64 Apache attack helicopter pilot. He is also a former prisoner of war (POW) in Vietnam. Reeder holds a Ph.D. in history and does training and leadership development consulting with NATO Special Operations forces. He is also the author of Extraordinary Valor.

Lyons Press

November 2024 • 256 pages • 25 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 7853 0

History • Military / United States

Lyons Press

November 2024 • 272 pages • 25 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 8530 9

History • Military / Vietnam War

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Becoming Eisenhower

How Ike Rose from Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander

By Michael Lee Lanning

One of the great, and most important, stories in military history.

Becoming Eisenhower is the story of a young man who pursued the army for its free education but found his calling as an officer, of an officer who was initially overlooked but motivated by frustration to make himself the army’s indispensable man, the story of how General Eisenhower carried these experiences to Supreme Command and the presidency.

Michael Lee Lanning served more than twenty years in the U.S. Army. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, and the History Channel and has written more than twenty-five books. His previous books include Vietnam, 1969–1970: A Company Commander’s Journal, which the New York Times called “one of the most honest and horrifying accounts of a combat soldier’s life to come out of the Vietnam War.”

Stackpole Books

October 2024 • 288 pages • 21 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8117 7387 4

eBook 978 0 8117 7388 1

History • Military / World War II

Great American Wartime Survival Stories

Edited by Tom McCarthy

An inspiring collection of hope from those who made it through the most trying of circumstances.

Great American Wartime Survival Stories is an extraordinary collection of stories presenting indefatigable human beings caught in circumstances that summoned extraordinary resilience and strength: a plane crash in the jungles of Burma, a Pacific typhoon, perilous flight from Confederate soldiers intent on killing the enemy. The heroes within these stories are unflappable, gifted with the strength and perseverance to calmly face their Maker and move ahead. Within each of these enduring stories is an uplifting lesson on the human condition.

Tom McCarthy is an award-winning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks

Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic

By James D. Charlet

Fascinating stories and legends from the dramatic history of these treacherous waters.

More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches. These are the stories of daring rescues, tragic failures, enduring mysteries, buried treasure, and fascinating legend.

James D. Charlet leads tours, educational programs, and speaking engagements and contributes to local and national media with articles on Outer Banks and nautical history. He has been involved with the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site & Museum for the past 21 years and was the Site Manager of the Historic Site for 10 years.

Globe Pequot

Lyons Press

October 2024 • 256 pages • illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 8430 2

eBook 978 1 4930 8431 9

History • Military / World War II

October 2024 • 264 pages • 46 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 3590 8

Paperback 978 1 4930 3588 5

eBook 978 1 4930 3589 2

History • United States / State & Local / South

She Went to Space

Maine’s

Astronaut Jessica Meir

By Fran Hodgkins

In 2019, Maine native and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir participated in the first all-female spacewalk, an historic honor she’d been preparing for since first grade, when she drew a picture of an astronaut standing on the moon. This book for young readers follows Meir’s career as a marine biologist, physiologist, and astronaut. Filled with stunning photography from earth and beyond, it is an inspiration for girls (and boys) enthralled by science and exploration.

Fran Hodgkins is the author of numerous children’s books, including Andre the Famous Harbor Seal, How People Learned to Fly, and Do Pufins Ever. . .? She lives in Rockport, Maine.

The inspirational story of astronaut Jessica Meir — perfect for young readers with a passion for science.

Down East Books

September 2024

32 pages

Hardback

978 1 6847 5072 6

Juvenile NonFiction • Biography & Autobiography / Women

Introverts

Insights and Tips for Teenagers

By Christie Cognevich

Many introverted teenagers feel pressured to exhibit extroverted traits while their vivid inner lives and intelligences are overlooked. Introverts: Insights and Tips for Teenagers explores the difficulties introverts may face while also highlighting how they can develop and embrace their unique abilities to find social, academic, and future career success.

Readers will learn:

·Strategies to thrive in an extroverted world

·Insight into what makes someone an introvert

·The truths behind common myths about introverts

·How to maintain energy and find life balance

Featuring original interviews with other young introverts who share their advice, Introverts addresses a range of common experiences affecting many teenagers and provides practical insight to help readers cultivate their imaginative, thoughtful, sensitive, and quiet strengths.

Christie Cognevich is a writer and former educator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned a PhD in English literature from Louisiana State University and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She taught literature, composition, and creative writing at the high school and university level for over a decade. She is the author of Depression: Insights and Tips for Teenagers and Dealing with Stress: Insights and Tips for Teenagers.

A must-read book for introverted teenagers to help them understand and harness their unique abilities to find success and fulfillment.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

320 Pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 7730 3

eBook

978 1 5381 7731 0

Young Adult NonFiction • Inspirational & Personal Growth

Hungry Authors

The Indispensable Guide to Planning, Creating, and Publishing a Nonfiction Book

By Liz Morrow and Ariel Curry - Foreword by Allison Fallon

So many people want to write a book. They dream of holding their work in their hands, seeing their name on the spine. They feel passionate and invigorated, ready to take action. They know it won’t be easy; it takes grit, initiative, and commitment. But with the right mindset and the right plan, publishing a book is within every writer’s reach.

In Hungry Authors, writers and publishing experts

Liz Morrow and Ariel Curry offer aspiring authors an engaging, hands-on resource that includes:

·A practical roadmap for ideating, planning, writing, and publishing a book

·Tips and tricks for how to get an agent or publisher’s attention, even without a huge platform

·Access to dozens of extra resources on the accompanying website, www.hungryauthors.com

Any author with a great idea and a boatload of gumption can write and publish an impactful nonfiction book, and Hungry Authors is the tool every writer needs to make that happen.

Liz Morrow is a writer and collaborator, partnering with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and business experts to bring their books to life. She specializes in personal and professional development and memoir. She lives in Greenville, SC.

Ariel Curry is a writer and editor at Ariel Curry Editorial with over 10 years of experience in traditional publishing. She lives in Chattanooga, TN.

Industry insiders offer insight and advice to aspiring nonfiction authors.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2024

232 Pages

40 Illustrations Paperback

978 1 5381 8732 6 eBook

978 1 5381 8733 3

Language

Batgirl and Beyond

The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City

By Tim Hanley

For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has been a powerful, independent heroine, belying the sidekick status the name implies. Betty Kane, the original Bat-Girl, was a hero for young girls at a time when the genre was leaving them behind. Barbara Gordon embodied the values of the women’s liberation movement and became a powerful figure in disability representation. Cassandra Cain was a woman of color in the traditionally monochromatic DC Comics universe. Stephanie Brown was a perpetual outsider, a voice for those who never belonged but kept trying regardless.

Exploring the history of the Batgirls and their unconventional fans, Batgirl and Beyond: The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City showcases the turbulent evolution of the superhero industry and its female heroines, as well as the importance of the legions of fans who pushed the genre forward to become more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming to all. Tim Hanley traces how each Batgirl dealt with a litany of mistreatment from a publisher who didn’t understand their distinct appeal and didn’t care to learn. From erasure to benchings to grievous injury and even death, Batgirl has been subject to the genre’s worst excesses— and she has not fared much better on television or in movies. However, Batgirl always comes back stronger and more resilient, and has remained a staple in the DC universe for decades.

Tim Hanley is a comic book historian and writer whose work focuses on the American comic book industry. His books include: Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine (2014) and Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes (2022) He’s also written for The Atlantic, Polygon, and The Comics Journal

Explores the history of Batgirl from her groundbreaking comics debut and devoted fanbase to her disappointing live-action appearances and ultimately a canceled film.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2024

192 Pages

30 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9242 9

eBook

978 1 5381 9243 6

Literary Criticism • Comics & Graphic Novels

Nights at the Red Steinway

Notes on Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere

By Will Friedwald

Author, journalist, and historian Will Friedwald is one of the leading writers on jazz music today. Nights at the Red Steinway collects key writings (from the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere) to form a deeply personal and engaging survey of jazz piano. Through Friedwald’s insightful and passionate prose, we’re treated to an unorthodox history of the piano in jazz, ranging from Jelly Roll Morton and the other legendary piano professors of the New Orleans red-light district, to jazz-age piano pioneers as Thomas “Fats” Waller and Earl “Fatha” Hines, as well as swing masters like Teddy Wilson and Joe Bushkin. Along the way, we also encounter masters and monsters endowed with sheer, overwhelming technique, like Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson, as well as key figures in the evolution of swing into bebop and modern jazz, like Mary Lou Williams and her student, Thelonious Monk, as well as the legendary Bud Powell. There’s even a special section on musicians so talented that were nicknamed after royalty: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Nat King Cole. Irreverent when it wants to be, and serious when it counts, this is an indispensable collection for jazz fans of all stripes.

Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The New York Stage Review, Vanity Fair, Playboy magazine and other publications. He is also the host of the radio show Sing! Sing! Sing! on San Diego KSDS on Saturday mornings. He also is the author of ten books including the awardwinning A Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz And Pop Singers. He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received eleven Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and other documentaries. He studied elocution with Prof. Henry Higgins and musicology with Prof. Harold Hill.

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Backbeat

October 2024

320 Pages

20 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 8412 8

eBook

978 1 4930 8413 5

Music • Essays

A collection of the best writing on the history of the piano in jazz.

Photo by Anne Nygårdr on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Cranking Up the History of Stevie Wonder, Pop Music, and the Whole Wide World in 11 Songs

By Arthur Lizie

The first entrant in Backbeat Books’ new “Goes to 11” series, this fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonder’s place in pop music history through eleven of his most important songs. Track by track, it offers a telescopic look at each star in Wonder’s brilliant, funky constellation, giving the backstory of every song along with an explanation of the musical and cultural environment into which it was released. Together they form a composite picture of an artist who is a veritable pop vortex: an artist among artists, continually drawing in and disseminating musical influence.

Arthur Lizie is a Professor of Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University. He is the author of the books Prince FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Purple Reign and Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters.

This fun and informative book explores Stevie Wonder’s place in pop music history through eleven of his most important songs.

Photo by Sašo Tušar on Unsplash.

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The Bear Almanac

A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World Second Edition

By Gary Brown

The bears of the world—from the polar bears of the Arctic to the Andean bear of South America—are among the most studied and loved of all wild creatures. In this revised and updated edition, Gary Brown collects what is known about the world’s bears, capturing in words and images a complete factual compendium of bear knowledge for the amateur naturalist and the bear specialist alike.

The Bear Almanac is for anyone who has ever paused to wonder at both the might—and the mind—of the bear. Beyond their well-known, imposing physical traits, these generally shy creatures command the ability to learn rapidly and to reason. In addition to addressing such topics as bear physiology, social behavior, and habitats, this comprehensive resource lists endangered bears by state and covers a breadth of other bear-related topics, such as the effects of war on bears and what to do if you meet up with one, as well as issues in the news related to the most beloved, and mysterious, of creatures.

Gary Brown is a retired National Park Service ranger and an expert on conservation and bear management. The author of Outwitting Bears and Safe Travel in Bear Country, he lives in Bozeman, Montana.

A compendium of bear knowledge for the amateur naturalist and the bear specialist alike.

Lyons Press

August 2024

360 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8645 0

eBook

978 1 4930 8191 2

Nature

Bear Attacks of the Century True Stories of Courage and Survival Second Edition

By Larry Mueller and Marguerite Reiss - Foreword by Lamar Underwood

A valuable resource for those fascinated by these majestic yet sometimes deadly creatures.

Bear Attacks of the Century compiles tales of courage, documenting the most harrowing encounters between humans and bears. Offering expert guidance on how to avoid such encounters and providing insights that may help bears and people emerge unscathed from an encounter, this book becomes essential reading for hikers, hunters, campers, or anyone venturing into bear territory.

Larry Mueller was the hunting dog editor at Outdoor Life and wrote numerous articles, as well as Speed Train Your Own Retriever

Marguerite Reiss was an outdoor writer who contributed to Reader’s Digest, Outdoor Life, and Guideposts

Lyons Press

August 2024 • 196 pages

Paperback 978 1 4930 8552 1

eBook 978 1 4930 8553 8

Nature • Animals / Bears

The Western Horse

A Popular History of the Wild and Working Animal

By Randi Samuelson-Brown

A celebration of the history and culture of the western horse.

The Western Horse celebrates more than four centuries of the western horse, its ability to capture the popular imagination, and the means by which it has come to symbolize the American West. Beginning in the 1500s, The Western Horse delves into the origins and variations of the western breeds, their role in the expansion and settlement of the West, and the lawless element they attracted.

Randi Samuelson-Brown is a native of Colorado, originally from Golden. She is the author of multiple books including The Bad Old Days of Colorado: Untold Stories of the Wild West, which was a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards 2021. When not writing or researching, she usually can be found riding horses. She lives in Denver, CO.

TwoDot

September 2024 • 216 pages • 39 illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 7384 9

eBook 978 1 4930 7385 6

Nature • Animals / Horses

Acting with Adler

Expanded and Updated Edition

By Joanna Rotte - Foreword by Isaac Butler

Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre. Her methods of training, her principles of acting and character interpretation, and her analyses of the seminal plays of the modern theatre comprise a legacy for everyone who followed her. Acting with Adler looks at that legacy through the particular immediacy and authenticity of her own spoken words. Over three years in the 1970s, author Joanna Rotté worked under the direction of Adler as a student and actor, all the while taking copious notes that form the heart of this book. Rotté’s recounting of her time with Adler reveals a teacher speaking about her principles in a tough-minded, demanding manner, inspired by her overriding conviction that an actor “becomes bigger through working.”

This new edition of Rotté’s acclaimed text includes an entirely new foreword from Isaac Butler, author of The Method; a preface that places Adler more fully in her historical context; and an afterword that reflects on Adler’s philosophical and practical contributions, considering what her teachings have to offer performers working today.

Joanna Rotté is Professor Emerita of Theatre at Villanova University, where she taught in the graduate theatre program and served as artistic director and head of the Theatre Department. A former student of Adler’s, she has served as a guest lecturer for the Adler Conservatory in New York. She holds a doctorate in theatre history and production from the CUNY Graduate Center.

An expanded and updated edition featuring new reflections on Adler in her historical context and from the vantage point of today.

Applause

September 2024

216 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8511 8

eBook

978 1 4930 8512 5

Performing Arts • Acting & Auditioning

Gloria Swanson

Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen

By Stephen Michael Shearer

Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as “Norma Desmond” in Billy Wilder’s noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom’s leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Husband (1921), and The Affairs of Anatol (1922). Throughout that decade and well into the 1930s, Swanson set fashion standards on and off the screen in creations designed by such illustrious couturieres as Mitchell Leisen, Paul Iribe, Norman Norell, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ree, Capt. Edward H. Molyneux, Coco Chanel, Rene Hubert, and later Edith Head. In the 1950s, she designed and managed her own line of ready to wear fashion patterns called Forever Young for women of a discernible age.

Gloria Swanson: Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen is a photographic tribute to this extraordinary woman. Focusing on sense of style and fashion, the book contains hundreds of personal and professional photographs, many never before published, and running biographical commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer, author of the definitive book of the star.

Stephen Michael Shearer is an actor, a former model, and the author of three highly regarded film biographies: Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life (University Press of Kentucky, 2006), Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr (St. Martin’s Press, 2010), and Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). His book on Patricia Neal is currently in post film production and stars Hugh Bonneville as Roald Dahl. His second book on Hedy Lamarr has recently been used for the basis for the PBS/ American Masters feature documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, produced by Susan Sarandon, in which he appears.

A photographic tribute to Hollywood's first glamour queen.

Lyons Press

November 2024

288 Pages

250 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7704 5

Performing

SHEMP!

The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy

By Burt Kearns

Shemp Howard is one of the most recognizable faces of the twentieth century. He was also one of Hollywood’s most influential comic actors. An original member of the Three Stooges, Shemp, along with his brother Moe and vaudeville violinist Larry Fine, perfected a brand of raucous, lowbrow, slapstick comedy that had audiences rolling in the aisles of vaudeville houses, Broadway theatres, and movie palaces, and left an indelible imprint on the face of popular entertainment. Then he walked away... and the new Three Stooges – Moe, Larry, and brother Curly – made history.

But Shemp didn’t disappear. He made Hollywood history on his own, in a successful and — until now — unexplored career in more than a hundred movie shorts and features.

Shemp! is the first book to challenge the “official” version of Three Stooges history that’s been repeated for decades, shattering myths as it uncovers the surprising and often unsettling facts behind the man’s unlikely story: how the child of Jewish immigrants, racked with severe anxiety and a supposed fear of automobiles, dogs, and water— could conquer vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood. And it’s more than a biography: author Burt Kearns digs into the shorts and feature films he did on his own—more than a hundred of them—and, through interviews with fans, family members, scholars, experts, filmmakers, and celebrities, examines the “cult of Shemp” that thrives today.

Burt Kearns is an established author, journalist, colorful interview subject, and also, as noted by Vanity Fair, “a show business and pop culture savant.”

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Shemp! is the first book to challenge the “official” version of Three Stooges history.

Applause

October 2024

256 Pages

20 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 4930 7421 1

eBook

978 1 4930 7422 8

Performing Arts • Film / Genres / Comedy

Photo by Alessia C_Jpgon Unsplash

American Noir Film

From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl

By M. Keith Booker

American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences loves. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman.

M. Keith Booker is professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author or editor of over fifty books including The Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels (2010), Mad Men: A Cultural History (2016), Tony Soprano’s America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (2017), Star Trek: A Cultural History (2018), and The Coen Brothers’ America (2019).

A deep dive into classic noir films and how filmmakers today are refreshing and updating the genre for new generations.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

November 2024

240 Pages

15 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9409 6

eBook

978 1 5381 9410 2

Performing Arts

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein

The 50th Anniversary of The Year of Mel Brooks

By Bruce G. Hallenbeck

Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of The Year of Mel Brooks explores in depth the zeitgeist that led to 1974 becoming “the year of Mel Brooks.” It was that year that Brooks pulled off the onetwo punch of two of his greatest comedies, and indeed two of the most enduring American comedies ever: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein

Although both films are well-known, the stories beyond the making of each movie are less so— how they came to be and how the era’s pop-culture trends not only permitted them to be made, but caused them to become the lasting comedy classics that they are recognized as today. The two movies certainly have their differences:

Blazing Saddles is a riotous send-up of Westerns whose edgy approach to race and sex would have prevented it from being made even a few years earlier—the censorship of the time would not have allowed it. Young Frankenstein, Brooks’ immediate follow-up, looked further back in cinema history to parody the old classic Universal horror movies, produced in glorious black and white. But both films were not only hilarious, but they played with charged social and cultural themes in an inimitable way, not only raising the bar for modern comedies, but reshaping the two genres they were sending up.

Bruce G. Hallenbeck is an author, actor and screenwriter whose films include Vampyre, Fangs and The Drowned, and whose many books on film history include The Hammer Frankenstein, Rock’n’Roll Monsters: the American International Story and Poe Pictures. Hallenbeck has also acted in such features as Shadow Tracker, Edge of Reality and Project D: Classified. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Rosa, four cats and several ghosts.

The stories behind the films that made 1874 “the year of Mel Brooks.”

Applause

December 2024

256 Pages

25 Illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 7800 4

eBook

978 1 4930 7801 1

Performing Arts • Film / History & Criticism

Photo by Nahuel Maretich on Unsplash Cover coming soon

Columbia Pictures

A Century of Hollywood Motion Picture Magic

By Jim Pauley

Columbia Pictures reaches a major milestone in 2024 by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Columbia’s incorporation. In the same vein of recent Hollywood movie studio titles such as Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot, Paramount: City of Dreams, and MGM: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot, this new book documents the studio history of Columbia Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, as well as Columbia’s back lot in Burbank, California. This book reveals how Columbia came to be founded by Joe Brandt and brothers Harry and Jack Cohn in 1924, and uses the “studio tour” concept to describe Columbia’s history of filmmaking, which includes Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on the River Kwai, as well as many serials and television programs. The book has hundreds of photos, including studio documents, vintage publicity stills, and candids, along with aerial views and maps. The majority of the photos have never been published before.

Jim Pauley is a Hollywood historian with a special interest in the studio of Columbia Pictures and the famous comedy team The Three Stooges. In December 2012, his book titled The Three Stooges: Hollywood Filming Locations was published by Santa Monica Press. Pauley has given numerous presentations on The Three Stooges filming locations, which included Columbia Pictures. These presentations were given in Hollywood and other locations in California, as well in the Philadelphia area where he is from.

A fully illustrated history of Columbia Pictures with never before seen photographs.

Photo by Gabe on Unsplash Cover coming soon

The Documentarian

The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business

By Roger Nygard

The Documentarian: The Way to a Successful and Creative Professional Life in the Documentary Business is the ultimate go-to source for making documentaries, containing the crucial tips and strategies that every filmmaker needs to know. It is detailed in explaining how to conceive, shoot, and sell a documentary, along with specific advice overall in how to succeed in the independent film business. Included is wisdom from experts like film agents, publicists, festival directors, and award-winning documentary filmmakers such as Ken Burns, Davis Guggenheim, Liz Garbus, Rachel Grady, Freida Lee Mock, Errol Morris, Sam Pollard, Michael Tollin, Frederick Wiseman, and Marina Zenovich. Nygard describes his journey through the film business, including a case study profiling the making and selling of the documentary Trekkies; what it took to push the film to a recordsetting sale to a major studio, with a huge payout to the filmmakers. This book is inspirational and leaves readers—after finishing a chapter or the whole book— feeling more inspired to go forth with their own struggle.

Roger Nygard grew up outside Minneapolis on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. At age seven he discovered his father’s 8mm camera and began making short comedy films—and he never stopped. Nygard has since directed TV series such as The Office and The Bernie Mac Show, and he has edited Emmy-nominated episodes of VEEP and Curb Your Enthusiasm. As an award-winning documentarian, Nygard has tackled serious topics in a humorous way, like Trekkies and The Nature of Existence, and his latest work is, Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor’s Behind the Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies, published by Applause Books.

“I have a great idea for a documentary. Now what do I do?”

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Applause

August 2024

272 Pages

88 Illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 8622 1

eBook

978 1 4930 8623 8

Performing Arts • Television / Direction & Production

Photo by Irham Setyaki on Unsplash.

Cover coming soon

Puppy Care

A Complete Guide to Raising a Happy Puppy in a Positive Environment

By Joan Capuzzi - Photographs by Eli BurakianContributions by Carina MacDonald

Puppies add life to any home, and may even prolong our own lives. But the cuddliness comes with questions: Which puppy is right for you? Wet or dry food? Crate or gate? When teaching a puppy manners, is it “down” or “off”? Enter Puppy Care—a comprehensive, visually organized roadmap to everything from selecting a puppy and bringing one home to training the new family member, as well as such practicalities as health care and behavior, cost, and nutrition. Practicing vet Joan Capuzzi, VMD, guides you down the exciting but unpredictable journey of puppyhood on your way to a healthy, wellsocialized, mature adult dog.

Joan Capuzzi, VMD, is a practicing small animal veterinarian and a professional writer who holds both undergraduate (BS) and graduate (VMD) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. A journalist for more than 20 years, she began her writing career with business magazines.

Stephen Gorman is a photographer and writer whose work has appeared in Knack Dog Care & Training and Knack Dog Tricks, and in such magazines as Outside and Audubon. Visit him at www.stephengorman.com.

Eli Burakian is a photographer whose work has appeared in Knack Dog Care & Training and Knack Dog Tricks. Visit him at www.burakphotography.com

A roadmap to puppy husbandry— from selecting a puppy to preparing to bring one home to acquiring, training, and living with the new family member.

Lyons Press

November 2024

256 Pages

400 Illustrations

Paperback

978 1 4930 8642 9

eBook

978 1 4930 8659 7

Pets • Dogs / General

Care and Management of Horses

A Practical Guide for the Horse Owner

Updated Edition

By Heather Smith Thomas

Equine authority Heather Smith Thomas provides a common-sense approach to keeping a horse healthy, sound, comfortable, and happy. Intended for the serious horse person, Care and Management of Horses emphasizes the whole horse—mental and physical—and encourages the owner to center horse-keeping practices around the horse’s needs. Topics include nutrition, seasonal care, safe handling, and foot care.

Heather Smith Thomas grew up on a cattle ranch near Salmon, Idaho, and while still in high school started writing about horses and cattle. She wrote articles to help pay her way through college at the University of Puget Sound. She has raised and trained horses for 60 years and has been writing about them nearly that long, selling more than 14,000 stories and articles to horse and livestock publications. Thomas writes regularly for more than thirty farm and livestock publications and about twenty-five horse publications. She has published twentythree books, including A Horse in Your Life: A Guide for the New Owner and Your Horse and You.

Thomas and her husband continue to raise beef cattle and use horses on their Sky Range Ranch in the mountains of eastern Idaho. Their daughter Andrea Daine lives nearby on the ranch and helps with the cattle care, horses, haying, irrigating, etc., and their son Michael and his wife, Carolyn, own and operate the upper part of the ranch.

Eclipse Press

August 2024

304 Pages

152 Illustrations Paperback

978 1 4930 8081 6

eBook

978 1 4930 8517 0

Pets • Horses

The Wisdom of Romanticism

By Michael K. Kellogg

The post-Enlightenment movement known as Romanticism is a messy period; so messy, in fact, that many scholars eschew any attempt to define it. In reaction to the overreliance placed on reason by Enlightenment thinkers, Romantics emphasized individual freedom, emotional intensity, introspection, sincerity, and heightened imagination. They sought out nature at its wildest and most sublime: tall mountains, steep gorges, and resounding cataracts. They dabbled in the gothic and grotesque, in mythology, the sacred, and the mystical. Romanticism was a turning inward into subjectivity.

That isn’t to say that the change in thinking was inconsequential. Far from it. The transition from Haydn and Mozart to Beethoven and Chopin could not have been more dramatic. The German-born composer Giacomo Meyerbeer brought grand opera to new heights. The paintings of Francisco Goya, William Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, and J. M. W. Turner were all part of the transition away from a classical, academic style to the “emotive extremes” that heralded the coming of impressionism in the latter part of the century. In this latest entry into his popular Wisdom series, Kellogg explores the mercurial and ephemeral movement known as “Romanticism,” arguing that what Romanticism “is” includes many contradictions, precisely what the rationalists rejected.

Michael K. Kellogg (Washington, DC), educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law School, is a founding and managing partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC. He is the author of The Wisdom of the Renaissance, The Wisdom of the Middle Ages, The Greek Search for Wisdom, and The Roman Search for Wisdom.

Michael Kellogg profiles such disparate authors as Rousseau and Balzac, Goethe and Hegel, Wordsworth and Jane Austen, revealing that classifying Romantic thinkers is a highly subjective enterprise – which is the whole point.

Prometheus

November 2024

352 Pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 8711 2

eBook

978 1 4930 8712 9

Philosophy • Movements / Humanism

Photo by Olga Dudareva on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Army of Liars

How Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence are Corrupting the Nature of Truth and Endangering the Future of Humanity

By Andrew Edwards - Foreword by Rand Schulman

Following up his groundbreaking book Digital is Destroying Everything, Andrew Edwards now unveils the sinister agenda of An Army of Liars, the digitally-driven bad actors seeking to destabilize the United States by eroding the very foundations of liberal democracy with a relentless barrage of fabricated narratives and poisonous, digitally promoted misinformation.

Pulling no punches, Edwards identifies the culprits: social media platforms protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, audience targeting, realtime content recommendation, foreign state actors, and radical factions fueled by hate. Today’s social media has been weaponized by enemies of the United States and hate and discord are now the currency of thousands of anonymous “content providers.”

Army of Liars unpacks how we got here, exactly is wrong with digital enterprise, and how to go about fixing it so that humanity may survive even in an age of artificial intelligence and digital command and control.

Andrew V. Edwards is an author, technologist, entrepreneur, perennial iconoclast, and visual artist residing in New York’s Hudson Valley. He is the author of Digital is Destroying Everything and dozens of articles about digital marketing for ClickZ, the world’s largest online source of marketing advice and information. He has also published fiction and had a play produced in New York’s East Village. His prizewinning paintings have been exhibited nationally. He is a Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association.

Army of Liars is designed to help humans not only survive in a digital age, but to conquer digital and prosper in an age of truth in media.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

224 Pages

3 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9415 7

eBook

978 1 5381 9416 4

Political Science • Propaganda

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Trailblazer

The Story of the First Black Female Secret Service Agent to Protect the President and Her Fight for Justice

By Cheryl Tyler

Trailblazer is the remarkable and inspiring story of Cheryl Tyler, a Black woman who defied all odds and shattered barriers in her quest to protect the highest office in the land. This captivating memoir transports readers into Tyler’s world as she embarks on an extraordinary journey to become the first Black female agent assigned to the Presidential Protective Division of the United States Secret Service (USSS).

Her dedication, resilience, and unwavering commitment to her duty shine through as she serves as a top agent, safeguarding not only Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton but also world leaders and renowned celebrities. Those accomplishments earned her well-deserved accolades, but this book uncovers the untold story of the challenges she faced as a woman of color in a predominantly male all-white profession.

With emotional depth and gripping detail, Tyler’s memoir delves into the heart-wrenching struggles she endured during an eighteen-year class action lawsuit against the USSS. Alongside other Black agents, she fought relentlessly to eradicate racial slurs, workplace discrimination, and unfair employment practices within the Agency. As plaintiffs, they emerged victorious, securing a historic $24 million compensation for themselves and other agents who had faced discrimination

Cheryl Tyler spent 15 years as a Secret Service Agent. She is the founder and owner of CLT3 Security Logistics in Washington, DC.

A captivating story of one woman’s fight for equality and her extraordinary journey to make a lasting impact.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

240 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 9710 3

eBook

978 1 5381 9711 0

Political Science • Security (National & International)

Suffering and Smiling

Everyday Life in North Korea

By Byung-Ho Chung

Suffering and Smiling: Daily Life in North Korea, is a field report, rather than a theoretical account, of North Korean culture based on two decades of the author’s personal observation and contact with people, both within North Korea and abroad. Understanding the cultural and historical context of “suffering” and “smiling” is crucial to understanding the ongoing nuclear arms conundrum surrounding the Korean Peninsula.

Suffering and smiling coexist in the everyday lives of North Koreans. The Arduous March of partisans led by Kim Il-Sung in the struggle against Imperial Japan was seen as a symbol of great suffering in the nation. Then, the widespread famine of the 1990s in North Korea was referred to as the Arduous March (gonan ui haengun). Throughout this period of national suffering, signs commanding the nation to smile could be seen across the country, their slogan reading: March with a smile though the roads are rough!

The North Korea of today is fast changing, unbeknownst to the outside world. To understand and anticipate such changes, one must understand the norms and values that shape the behaviors of the people who make up North Korea. The concept of suffering and smiling can help us understand contemporary North Korean society.

Byung-Ho Chung is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Institute for Globalization and Multicultural Studies at Hanyang University, South Korea. He has visited North Korea as well as China’s borders with North Korea on numerous occasions for humanitarian purposes. He also has conducted research into issues relating to the educational and social integration of North Korean refugees in South Korea. He is the co-author of North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics, R&L, 2012.

A first-hand glimpse inside everyday North Korea.

Rights exclusions : Korean, Japanese Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

226 Pages

24 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9384 6

eBook

978 1 5381 9385 3

Cover coming soon

Photo by Micha Brändli on Unsplash.

The Dawn of Mind

How Matter Became Conscious and Alive

By James Cooke

Although consciousness is at the very center of who we are, its exact nature continues to confound modern science. From where does consciousness originate? At our core, are we material bodies or immaterial conscious minds? Many assume that consciousness is a product of our complex brains, a product of evolution—and yet, there is no evolutionary reason that a mechanical function of the brain should allow us to enjoy the beauty of a sunrise or become intoxicated with the smell of rain on dry earth. If consciousness is not the product of sophisticated human brains, might the nonhuman living world be conscious? If so, where does that place us in relation to the rest of life on Earth—and what does this imply about our domination and plundering of the natural world for resources? Dr. James Cooke is no stranger to intricate and existential questions such as these, and he confronts them head-on in his compelling, inventive, revolutionary new book, The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive. Weaving together cutting-edge science and the contemplative insights that arise from mystical experience, as occurs with meditation and the emerging therapeutic paradigm of psychedelic medicine, Cooke radically redraws our understanding of what it truly means to be who we are.

Dr. James Cooke holds three degrees from Oxford University: a First-class honors Bachelor’s degree in experimental psychology, a Master of Science in neuroscience, and a PhD in neuroscience. He has conducted research into the brain basis of consciousness for over a decade. He has launched the Innerspace Institute, a platform for promoting understanding around science, secular spirituality, and social change. He also works as a science writer and consultant to psychedelic medicine companies. In early 2022, He left academia to focus on public communication full time.

Using both science and mystical experience, The Dawn of Mind takes a radically new look at our understanding of consciousness.

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Prometheus

November 2024

225 Pages

Hardback

978 1 6338 8992 7

eBook

978 1 6338 8993 4

Psychology

Cover coming soon

Photo by Christopher Sardegna on Unsplash.

Our Fictional Minds

Myths of Perception and a New Model of Consciousness

By David Fisher

Our Fictional Minds examines and challenges our most common—and seemingly common-sense—ideas about human consciousness. Drawing on developments in neuroscience, psychology, and monitoring technology, psychologist David Fisher shows how and why our usual takes on the human mind both serve us and limit us. Instead, research points to a more complete and allencompassing way to understand consciousness.

In this thoughtful well-considered book, Fisher explores our collective scientific and philosophical knowledge (and imaginings) about what a human mind might be and how it might work, discovering that shifted our perspective on hypnosis, uniquely, may lead to unforeseen insights on the human mind.

David Fisher, Ph.D., LP, APBB is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a member of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and a recipient of the American Psychological Association's Clinical Practice Award. Fisher practiced at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and was a psychologist in private practice. He has published articles in many professional journals and has spoken at conferences and other venues around the world. He was the co-founder of, and Managing Director of Assessment for, International Claims Solutions LLC in Australia. He also co-founded and was Chairman of the Board of PsyBar LLC, a network of 1,800 MDs and Ph.D. psychologists who provide psychological and psychiatric services in the US and abroad.

Challenging common conceptions of what we think we know about consciousness.

Prometheus

August 2024

208 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8533 0

eBook

978 1 4930 8534 7

Psychology • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Everyday Rituals

The Liberating Power of Our Routines

By Pearl Katz Ph.D

When we are in painfully difficult or confusing life situations, our minds grapple for structure: a funeral ceremony definitively lays the dead to rest; the exaggerated choreography of a surgical room confirms its sterility; and a daily schedule gives prisoners a sense of normalcy. These practices, these rituals, give us peace. Though it might seem contradictory, ordered rituals actually bring us freedom, creativity, and mental wellbeing. In Everyday Rituals, Pearl Katz shows us just how transformative rituals are, no matter what kind.

Katz applies her years of fieldwork and psychiatric study to tangible, everyday life. She writes a thoroughly persuasive argument, using case studies, to truly inspire readers. Specific hormones flow and brain paths open when artists follow their creative regimen, and mental health increases in patients under hospital directive; in contrast, young people suffer stress in unbounded undergraduate hookup culture. And after the coronavirus ripped many rituals from life, the ill effects of a life without routine burn bright. It’s in the ordinary that Katz discovers unlimited potential: mundane routine actually sparks incredible imagination. With scientific evidence, case studies, and personal narrative, Katz enlightens us as to how and why we can feel true freedom.

Pearl Katz has been on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1985. She teaches residents in Psychiatry about how culture and ethnicity influence mental illness and therapy. She received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She worked for the federal government as a Scientific Review Officer for the National Institute of Mental Health and as a Public Health Analyst for the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Pearl Katz shows us the transformative power of rituals.

Prometheus

August 2024

280 pages

4 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 6338 8954 5

eBook

978 1 6338 8955 2

Psychology

The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul

Inside the Early Church—with Menus and Recipes

By Douglas E. Neel

The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul takes readers inside the world of the early Christian church through a new lens—what people ate (and didn’t eat). The early church encompassed diverse communities and people, and understanding its food helps us understand both the worship and culture of these people, as well as their sources of conflict. Each chapter introduces readers to a different community or church Paul visited or started, explores one or two key foods, and offers recipes that reflect each community. Recipes range from simple to complex, from snack to feast. The Food and Feasts of the Apostle Paul aims to help readers more fully experience the diverse cultures of the early Christian church to better understand the teachings of Jesus, Paul, and early Christian leaders.

Douglas E. Neel is an Episcopal priest and the author of The Food and Feasts of Jesus (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). He owned a catering company specializing in firstcentury food and currently teaches classes on ancient food and feasts. Neel enjoys making his own cheese and wine and lives in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

Discover the food culture of the first century, exploring not only the significance of various meals but also accessible recipes to recreate tastes of these historic feasts.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

256 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 0477 4

eBook

978 1 5381 0478 1

Religion • Biblical Studies / General

Photo by Alexander Kaufmann on Unsplash.

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Why Can’t There Be Peace in the World?

Children’s Questions for God

By Pat Fosarelli

Over a period of fifteen years, Johns Hopkins pediatrician

Pat Fosarelli, MD, a professor at St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute, surveyed approximately 9,000 children, adolescents, and teens about their understand of God. This book reveals their answers to a single query: “If you could ask God a question, what would that question be?” The candid, unvarnished responses Fosarelli received from this racially and socioeconomically diverse group are hardly the precious, saccharine content of Hallmark cards. They are illuminating, profound, curious, and weighty, revealing how these children understand themselves and their existence. Some of their responses focus on the nature of God (“Who are God’s parents?”); others focus on themselves (“Why can’t friendships last forever?) and people around them (“Why are some people poor?”); some responses address suffering (“Why do people die?”) and creation (“Why do some animals hurt people?”) and heaven (“Will I see my mother?”). Fosarelli guides readers through children’s stages of development, explaining how these stages correlate with the content and sophistication of their questions, and suggesting how parents and teachers can respond most effectively to questions children may ask about God.

Dr. Pat Fosarelli, MD, has served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, and for the last 15 years she has been the Chair of the Johns Hopkins Professional Advisory Group (PAG). Dr. Fosarelli regularly contributes as a book reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association and is the author of twelve books and numerous articles and pamphlets in the medical and theology/ministry fields. She currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

If children could ask God one question, what would it be? A pediatrician surveyed 9,000 children and their responses illuminate the hopes, dreams, anxieties, and fears of a future generation.

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.

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Living Torah Gateway to a Timeless Tradition

By Gil Graff - Foreword by Rabbi David Wolpe

An essential guide to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.

Drawing upon commentaries authored over two millennia ago, Living Torah is a masterful introduction to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Graff identifies a key theme of each book, explores the modern significance of each theme, and invites readers to relate these themes to their own lives. This volume offers a fresh perspective on foundational texts that have shaped Jewish life and influenced humanity.

Gil Graff, JD, PhD, serves as executive director of Builders of Jewish Education (BJE). She holds graduate degrees in education, history, and Jewish studies, and has taught learners of all ages. Graff has also authored three books and scores of articles and essays on topics of Jewish history, law, and education.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024 • 184 pages • illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 9429 4

eBook 978 1 5381 9430 0

Religion • Biblical Commentary / Old Testament / General

Till the Moon Be No More

The Grit and Grace of Growing Older

By Valerie Schultz

A poignant, humorous take on the absurdities, contradictions, joys, angst, and grace of aging.

From hip replacement to learning new bird names, from grandparenting to losing your last dog, from retirement to thoughts of one’s legacy, from jury duty to forgetfulness, from getting rid of stuff to the mystery of the afterlife, this book takes the reader on the bittersweet journey of aging with grace and humor.

Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, journalist, columnist, and a contributing writer to the Jesuit publication America and the daily prayer book Give Us This Day. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, as well as in Catholic publications such as US Catholic. Her books include Overdue: A Dewey Decimal System of Grace (2019) and A Hill of Beans: The Grace of Everyday Troubles (2021).

Sheed & Ward

October 2024 • 160 pages • illustrations

Hardback 9781538193372

eBook 9781538193389

Religion • Spirituality

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Reclaiming Our Planet

How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

By Alexander Gates

The popular media is full of doomsday scenarios regarding the environment and especially climate change. Perhaps these scare-tactics are necessary to call the public to action, however, they also have the unintended effect of convincing people that there is no hope for our planet.

In Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Alexander Gates explores past environmental crises that humanity has faced and successfully addressed to encourage readers that slowing and preventing climate change is possible. From the elimination of toxins and pesticides, such as lead and DDT, to an increase in Bald Eagle populations, Gates demonstrates that concerted efforts from motivated activists and scientists can and do lead to victories.

Set against the backdrop of these human victories over pollution, Reclaiming Our Planet also evaluates if our current approaches to are appropriate and highlights what more could be done. From solar panels and wind turbines to electric vehicles, Gates analyzes the advantages and drawbacks of such technologies along with possible new innovations in geothermal, algal fuels, and nuclear energy. Readers will be left optimistic that by learning from our history, the planet may still have a bright and healthy future ahead.

Alexander Gates, PhD, is a Distinguished Service Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. He has published nine books, 81 professional papers, and edited 11 professional volumes. His work in geology, education, and diversity improvement in STEM has been recognized with 26 professional awards.

Offers hope for beating climate change by highlighting moments in history in which humans have successfully reversed environmental damage.

Building a God

Thinking Critically About the Risks, Ethics, and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

By Christopher DiCarlo

Humankind is now at the crossroads of perhaps our most unique moment in our short history as a species on Earth. Given enough computing power, data, and time, it is inevitable that at some point in our not-too-distant future, we will succeed in creating a form of artificial intelligence that far surpasses our own. And when that time comes – and it really appears to be a matter of when, not if – how will such a being respond to us? In Building a God, Christopher DiCarlo, a global leader in the ethics of artificial intelligence, unpacks the tangled web surrounding AI, revealing to readers what we know, what we don’t, and how we might prepare ourselves for eventualities that we don’t know we don’t know yet.

In this incisive and cogent meditation on the future of AI, DiCarlo argues for the ethical governance of AI by identifying the key components, obstacles, and points of progress gained so far by the global community, and by putting forth thoughtful and measured policies to regulate this dangerous technology.

Christopher DiCarlo, PhD is a Senior Researcher and Ethicist at Convergence Analysis – a UK-based think tank researching and advising on AI Risk and Governance. He is the author of several books including: How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions. He is the Ethics Chair for the Canadian Mental Health Association and a lifetime member of Humanist Canada. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and at The Life Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University and has won several awards including Canada’s Humanist of the Year. Dr. DiCarlo hosts a podcast called: All Thinks Considered in which he engages in free and open discussion with world thought leaders, politicians, and entertainers.

Discover what we know about AI, what we don’t, and how we might prepare ourselves for eventualities that we don’t know we don’t know yet.

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The Path to Singularity

How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

By J. Craig Wheeler - Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson

J. Craig Wheeler argues that we must take charge of our technology now, before we lose the ability to control it, which many estimate will happen around 2040, if not sooner. He reviews today’s technology in crucial areas that will have the greatest impact on our futures — artificial intelligence, robotics, brain/computer interfaces, and genetic engineering — and shows us how these technologies are interrelated and where they are heading.

Our understanding of the structure and function of DNA and proteins along with new techniques like CRISPR give us unprecedented power to manipulate our own biology, to cure disease, and maybe to control our own evolution, producing designer babies, lab-grown brains, and artificial life. He describes how all technology is developing at an increasingly swift pace that makes these issues more urgent than ever. There is likely to be a tipping point when change occurs at a pace so rapid that humans are not able to adjust, either individually or as a society. He then outlines the disruptions to our social, economic, and democratic systems these advances are likely to cause.

John Craig Wheeler is an American astronomer. He is the Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his theoretical work on supernovae. He is a past president of the American Astronomical Society, a Fellow of that society, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was one of the original signatures of the infamous letter calling for a temporary pause of work on AI in March, 2023. Over a thousand leader in tech signed this letter including Elon Musk.

A timely and important look at how the rapid development of technology, such as AI, will impact the future of human society.

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Prometheus

November 2024

350 Pages

Hardback

978 1 4930 8543 9

eBook

978 1 4930 8544 6

Science • Philosophy & Social Aspects

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The Upside of OCD

Flip the Script to Reclaim Your Life

By Michael Alcee

Many OCD sufferers fail to improve using the standard exposure-response prevention (ERP) treatment. But, as Clinical Psychologist Michael Alcee contends, it’s not the patients who are failing the treatment, but rather the treatment that is failing the patients because it ignores the heightened empathy and existential sensitivity that accompanies OCD.

Part treatment-manual and part-manifesto, The Upside of OCD shows sufferers and therapists how to flip the script to get back to the upside of OCD: the creative powers that allow OCD sufferers to see the world with such unique depth, feeling, and intensity.

Using vivid case examples, practical exercises, personal anecdotes, and inspiring stories this book integrates the best of what’s already out there for OCD treatment with a new relational twist that will take your treatment to a whole new level.

Michael Alcee, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Tarrytown, NY, and is a Mental Health Educator at the Manhattan School of Music. He is the author of Therapeutic Improvisation: How to Stop Winging It and Own It as a Therapist. Michael was the winner of the American Psychological Association’s Division 39 Schillinger Memorial Award in 2019 for the best essay on the link between psychoanalysis and jazz. He is a regular contributor at Psychology Today where he writes about the intersection between creativity, psychotherapy, parenting, improv, pop culture, & much more. Michael has contributed to NPR, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times, among others. He has been a TEDx speaker and organizer and has appeared on a variety of podcasts.

Helpful guide to overcoming OCD and unlocking creativity.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

Hardback

978 1 5381 9110 1

eBook

978 1 5381 9111 8

Self-Help • Compulsive Behavior / Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Cry Forever

A Survival Guide for Grieving Parents

By Larry Carlat

What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Cry Forever is about the anguish that the death of a child brings and how to survive and thrive in its aftermath. It’s part memoir, part self-help, zero bullshit and 100 percent straight from the heart. It’s about our never-ending love for our lost children and how that love ultimately helps us transform and heal. This book is a practical roadmap for a road no one would ever choose to travel, primarily parents who have lost a child, but really anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one. It specifically delineates grief’s emotional roller coaster ride while providing constant hope along the way.

Larry Carlat launched Rollingstone.com and was its editor-in-chief for more than 10 years. He has also managed digital platforms for Men’s Health, PBS and Sony Music. He was editor-in-chief of Purple Clover, an entertainment site aimed at a 50+ audience, and is widely considered a social media expert, having grown the site’s Facebook audience from zero to 8 million in less than five years. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health and Slam. More recently, he launched an Extraordinary Parents website, featuring moving stories written by parents who have lost a child. Carlat lives in Marina Del Rey, California, where he is an editor at WebMD. He is also a volunteer group leader for bereaved parents at Our House Grief Support Center in Los Angeles.

A heartbreaking, at times surprisingly humorous, yet ultimately comforting guided tour through the first-year hell of losing a child.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

216 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8659 6

eBook

978 1 5381 8660 2

Self-Help • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Photo by Claire Kelly on Unsplash.

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Our Journey to Sustainability

How Fellow Heroes Make a Difference

By Jon R. Biemer

Everyday, countless individuals are hard at work, seeking solutions to environmental problems and creating new ways to live sustainably. From electric vehicle owners to animal lovers, journalists to artists, scientists to indigenous communities, it takes the combined effort of many to make a difference in preserving our planet. But what is it that motivates people to act on behalf of the planet?

That is the question at the heart of Our Journey to Sustainability: How Fellow Heroes Make a Difference. Compiling over 100 stories from personal interviews, research, and his own experiences, Jon R. Biemer explores the varied motivations that inspire environmental action and presents 25 sustainable wisdom tips that readers can implement in their own lives, answering the question of what it takes to create sustainability. Readers will visit cities and towns across America, indigenous reservations, and wildlife preserves. They will be introduced to the heroes in the trenches working to create a healthier environment, on scales both small and large, while learning how actions can add up to great results.

Jon R. Biemer has more than forty years of experience creating sustainability, including repair cafes, free cycling, village building convergences, and ballot initiatives for outdoor school and clean energy. Biemer is a mechanical engineer and holds a certificate in processoriented psychology. He has managed utility energy conservation programs and now provides organizational development consulting to non-profits. He is the author of Our Environmental Handprints: Recover the Land, Reverse Global Warming, Reclaim the Future and a member of the Society for Environmental Journalists. He lives with his wife in New Mexico.

Explores the motivations, successes, and visions of individuals working tirelessly to heal our planet.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2024

256 Pages

26 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 7873 7

eBook

978 1 5381 7874 4

Self-Help • Green Lifestyle

The Emotionally Agile Brain

Mastering the 12 Emotional Needs that Drive Us

By J.D. Pincus

In Embracing Your Agile Brain J.D. Pincus offers a new model for understanding human motivation based on decades of psychological research. Unlike Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs, however, this model proposes that rather than a single hierarchy, there are separate hierarchical levels in each of four domains: Self, Material, Social, and Spiritual. Ultimately everyone has a unique fingerprint of emotional needs at any given moment in time. Becoming aware of that motivational state is a profound revelation for most people. It cuts right through the noise and distractions of life, and frees them to pursue what they really want.

J.D. Pincus, PhD, is Senior Psychologist at Leading Indicator Systems focusing on emerging methods for measuring emotion and motivation. He developed the unified pyramid model of human motivation and the image-based AgileBrain measurement technique. He recently published the motivational model in the peerreviewed journal Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, and the application of the pyramid model to the concept of employee engagement. His seminal article on the concept of motivation in applied psychology, published in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, has been cited in 187 subsequent papers. He is a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a Washington DCbased think tank. He was named Researcher of the Year by PMRG and named to the Power List by Senior Market Advisor magazine.

Uncover your motivational type and style to make changes and pursue the life you want.

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Cover coming soon

Shy by Design

12 Timeless Principles to Quietly Stand Out

By Michael Thompson

Is your shyness holding you back from going after what you want? Are you tired of feeling like you aren’t good enough? Do your self-limiting beliefs sabotage you from speaking up and owning your story?

In Shy by Design, career coach and leadership and communications lecturer, Michael Thompson, shares his inspiring journey of moving from being riddled with self-doubt due to his shyness and debilitating stutter to becoming a sought-after career coach, university lecturer, and strategic communication advisor for leading business executives, entrepreneurs, and creators (despite still being shy, and at times, still stuttering).

Packed with actionable strategies and heartfelt stories, this transformative book will revolutionize your relationships, help you embrace the blessing of being underestimated, and amplify your impact.

The author’s inspiring journey navigating the often loud world of sales and communication – while staying true to his shy nature – will ignite the courage of shy individuals to embrace their unique strengths. This empowering book will provide readers with the motivation and action steps to embrace shyness as the superpower that it is.

Michael Thompson is a career coach, leadership and communication lecturer at EAE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and a strategic communication advisor to top business leaders around the globe. He is the author of many viral articles on Medium.com and his work has appeared in publications including Business Insider and Forbes. When he’s not working with students and clients, he can be found exploring the Mediterranean with his wife and their two young boys in his adopted home of Palamós, Spain. Learn more about Michael and his work on his website at https://mikethompsonblog.com/.

Communication and confidence tools for shy people!

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2024

Hardback

978 1 5381 7584 2

eBook

978 1 5381 7585 9

Self-Help

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Parents in Recovery

Navigating a Sober Family Lifestyle

By Sarah Allen Benton

Parents in Recovery is not a book about “how” to parent. It is also not a book about “how” to get sober. Instead, it is meant to be a guide for parents in recovery (PIRs) from substance use disorders that provides insights and strategies for coping with the many unique and not so unique, challenges they may face. It is also intended to give the loved ones and families of PIRs an inside look at this world and explain why certain changes and behaviors are necessary to maintain long-term recovery. Each chapter is an integration of research, the voices of parents in recovery, input from addiction treatment experts, parent recovery wisdom suggestions and the author’s past journal accounts. This guidebook can support mothers and fathers in navigating their way through parenting with a sober lifestyle—which includes physical, emotional, social, spiritual, behavioral, environmental, and vocational wellness. It is written for those who have embraced sobriety before, during or after becoming a parent and can serve as a “job-aid” on this journey. While many parents feel shame associated with aspects of their addiction, this book emphasizes the gifts and accomplishments of being in recovery and how they positively impact the entire family system.

Sarah Allen Benton is co-owner of Benton Behavioral Health Consulting, specializing in clinical and business support services. Sarah is also a Clinical Strategy Advisor for Aware Recovery Care, where she was formerly the Director of Clinical Services. Sarah is a popular public speaker and international trainer for mental health professionals on treatment of substance use disorder. She has been in recovery from alcohol use disorder since February 2004 and uses her own story to increase awareness and fight the associated stigma. She has been featured in the New York Times and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah lives in Killingworth, Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

A guidebook for mothers and fathers navigating parenting with a sober lifestyle.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

240 Pages

Hardback

978 1 5381 8189 8

eBook

978 1 5381 8190 4

Self-Help • Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol

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Profilers

Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind

Edited by John H. Campbell and Don Denevi

In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes. Among the subjects discussed are: dealing with hostage situations, child abduction and murder in the David Meirhofer case, interviewing Jeffrey Dahmer, autoerotic murder, the challenges of creating psychological profiles, the use of forensic linguistics to track the Unabomber, assaultative eye injury ("enucleation"), and geographic profiling. A must for readers of true crime, forensic investigations, and murder mysteries, this unique collection of revealing articles offers a chilling and unparalleled glimpse into the workings of the criminal mind.

Insights on profiling from experts who have experience tracking some of the most notorious criminal minds.

Prometheus

January 2025

377 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8700 6

eBook

978 1 6159 2026 6

Previously Published in Hardback (2004)

978 1 5910 2266 4

Social Science • Criminology

Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash.

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The Jailer’s Reckoning

How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America

By Kevin B. Smith

The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other industrial democracy in the world. The U.S. has more ex-prisoners than the entire population of Ireland, and more people with a felony record than the populations of Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Liberia combined. Why did the U.S. become the world’s biggest jailer? And what are the costs of having the world’s largest population of ex-prisoners? And what can we do about it?

In this landmark book, Kevin B. Smith explains that the United States became the world’s biggest jailer because politicians wanted to do something about a very real problem with violent crime. That effort was accelerated by a variety of partisan and socio-demographic trends that started to significantly reshape the political environment in the 1980s and 1990s. The force of those trends varied from state to state, but ultimately led to not just historically unprecedented levels of incarceration, but equally unprecedented numbers of ex-prisoners. Serving time behind bars is now a normalized social experience—it affects a majority of Americans directly or indirectly. There is a clear price, the jailer’s reckoning, to be paid for this. As Smith shows, it is a society with declining levels of civic cohesion, reduced economic prospects, and less political engagement. Mass incarceration turns out to be something of a hidden bomb, a social explosion that inflicts enormous civic collateral damage on the entire country, and we must all do something about it.

Kevin B. Smith has been studying and teaching state politics and policy for more than twenty years. Among his nine books, he is the co-author of Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, and prior to life in academia he covered state and local politics as a newspaper reporter. Smith is professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

This book explores what is driving mass incarceration in the US and assesses the hidden political, social, and economic costs.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

232 Pages

15 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9238 2

eBook

978 1 5381 9239 9

Social Science • Penology

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Lou Vairo

The Godfather of U.S. Hockey

By Lou Vairo and Michael McKinley

When Lou Vairo saw the Russians play hockey on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” in 1972, he was stunned. He knew he had seen a different type of hockey than the one he had grown up playing. He boldly wrote the coach of the Russian team, who astonishingly invited him to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Lou learned so much about hockey that he came home and changed the game, becoming known as The Godfather of Hockey in the U.S. This is his remarkable story, told for the very first time.

Lou Vairo: The Godfather of Hockey tells how Lou rose from the roller-hockey streets of Brooklyn to become a force behind the success of American men’s ice hockey. His journey is epic, from learning to coach hockey at the most basic level, to becoming a scout with the goldmedal winning 1980 Miracle on Ice US Olympic team, to coaching in the NHL and in Europe, and creating Hockey USA’s diversity program.

Lou Vairo has served as head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team, scout to the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team, and head coach of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team. He was honored twice for his lifetime commitment to hockey, receiving the John “Snooks” Kelley Founders Award from the American Hockey Coaches Association and the Walter Yaciuk Award from USA Hockey’s Coaching Education Program. In May of 2022, he was inducted into the New York State Hockey Hall of Fame.

Michael McKinley is a journalist, author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. The author of more than a dozen books, his most recent book, Willie: The Game Changing Story of the NHL’s First Black Player, was nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award as best biography. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more at www.libertayo.com.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024

224 Pages

30 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9565 9

eBook

978 1 5381 9566 6

Sports &

The remarkable autobiography of Lou Vairo, the “Godfather of Hockey"

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I Love Baseball

Players, Managers, Sportswriters, and Celebrity Fans Talk About Their Love for the Game

By Wayne Stewart

From zany mascots to the most beautiful ballparks ever, and from great traditions to humorous anecdotes from the game, I Love Baseball explores the many reasons we love baseball. It’s all here:

• The inspirational men and moments that enliven the sport

• Players’ thoughts on the game they love so deeply

• Quotes from sportswriters and from classic movies on baseball

• Celebrities who have fallen in love with the game

• The lighter side of baseball from quirky ballpark features to the game’s rich humor

• Even the oddities from baseball’s spectacular “sideshow"

Based on assiduous research and the author's exclusive interviews with baseball legends past and present, this book will be a cherished keepsake for fans of the game everywhere.

Wayne Stewart is the author of 38 books and hundreds of articles in sports. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including ESPN Classic, and has done extensive public speaking for libraries and writers’ groups through the Cleveland Speakers Bureau. He lives in Lorain, Ohio.

A must have book for fans of Baseball.

Lyons Press

December 2024

240 Pages Paperback

Shocktober

The Biggest Upsets in World Series History

By Jonathan Weeks

Baseball’s October showcase has provided some high drama over the years. Willie Mays’s spectacular catch in 1954, Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off homer in 1960, and Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit blast in 1988 are just a few of the memorable moments that have dominated highlight reels. The outcome of the Series has not always been terribly surprising—especially during the late 1940s and early 1950s when the Yankees captured five consecutive championships, breaking their previous record of four straight titles from 1936 to 1939. But in spite of its predictability at times, the Fall Classic has taken many unexpected turns. The 1906 Cubs lost to the weak-hitting White Sox after establishing a new regular season record for wins. The 1955 Dodgers avenged seven prior October failures with an improbable victory over the seemingly invincible Yankees. And in 1969, the Mets finally shed their image as “loveable losers,” dethroning the powerful Orioles. In more than a century of World Series plays, a number of similar scenarios have emerged. Twenty-two of those stories are told in Shocktober. The book also includes an appendix of game statistics as well as a section on World Series trivia.

Jonathan Weeks has published several nonfiction books on the topic of baseball, most recently The Legend of the Mick: Stories and Reflections on Mickey Mantle. Additionally, he has two novels to his credit—one of them a posthumous collaboration with his father. He lives in Malone, New York.

Dynasty Restored

How Larry Bird and the 1984 Boston Celtics Conquered the NBA and Changed Basketball

By Thomas J. Whalen

A historic look at the fabled 1983-84 Boston Celtics and an unforgettable season.

Dynasty Restored takes a detailed historic look at the fabled 1984 NBA championship showdown between the LA Lakers and Boston Celtics. Related issues of ethnicity, politics, class, and economics are also explored, along with colorful portraits of all the players, owners, and coaches involved.

Thomas J. Whalen is an associate professor of social science at Boston University. Whalen's social/ political commentary has appeared inpublications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He has also appeared on several national broadcast outlets including CNN and NPR.. Whalen is the author of multiple books, most recently Kooks and Degenerates on Ice: Bobby Orr, the Big Bad Bruins, and the Stanley Cup Championship That Transformed Hockey (R&L, 2020).

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024 • 240 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 5971 2

eBook 978 1 5381 5972 9

Sports & Recreation • Basketball

Globetrotter

How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports

By Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob - Foreword by Mannie Jackson

The captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, originator of the Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicago’s South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation.

Mark Jacob is the co-author of the eight books. He is former metro editor of the Chicago Tribune and former adjunct professor at Northwestern University.

Matthew Jacob is the co-author of What the Great Ate. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2024 • 272 pages • 24 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 5381 8145 4

eBook 978 1 5381 8146 1

Sports & Recreation • Basketball

Four Quarters of History

Ten Games That Define the Modern NFL

By Sean Deveney

Discover the games that have propelled pro football to the most popular game in America

This book focuses on ten games of the modern era that, collectively, have shaped and defined the National Football League and have helped propel pro football to its status as the most popular game in America.

Sean Deveney is an editor at Heavy.com. He has covered the NBA on a national basis for twenty years and is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Fun City: John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s, Remembering Kobe Bryant, and The Original Curse: Did the Cubs

Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?

The World’s Greatest Hunting Stories

Edited by Lamar Underwood

A collection of enduring tales that have passed the test of time and have attracted generations of readers.

As William Faulkner has so eloquently written, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In this collection, hunting stories by distinguished writers bring to printed pages the days afield they enjoyed in world-wide locations in days long past. Prose vivid and timeless captures the drama and emotions experienced in hunts for deer, as well as big game and birds in locations ranging from the Rocky Mountains to Britian’s moors to African plains.

Lamar Underwood is the former editor-in-chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and former editorial director of the Outdoor Magazine Group of Harris Publications in New York. The numerous books he has edited include Tales of the Mountain Men, The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, Survival Stories, and War Stories and the novel On Dangerous Ground.

Lyons Press

October 2025 • 288 pages • 10 illustrations

Hardback 978 1 4930 6283 6

eBook 978 1 4930 6911 8

Sports & Recreation • Football

Lyons Press

October 2024 • 272 pages • illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 8522 4

eBook 978 1 4930 8523 1

Sports & Recreation • Hunting

The Greatest Adventure Stories

Ever Told

Nineteen Gripping Tales

Edited by Lamar Underwood

In the gripping tale "Love of Life," told as only Jack London could tell it, a starving prospector fights for life in the rugged Yukon; in "Typhoon," Joseph Conrad takes us out to sea where a lonely ship braves a brutal and massive storm; and in "Captured by the Blackfeet," Vardis Fisher tells the chilling tale of a mountain trapper who must escape his captors—or face certain death. These are just some of the spellbinding moments found in this collection of classic adventure tales. From Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier to Thor Heyerdahl crossing the Pacific by raft, every story in this collection will keep you on the edge of your seat. With contributions from: Joel P. Kramer, Vardis Fisher, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tom Wolfe, Arthur C. Clarke, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, John Wesley Powell, Thor Heyerdahl, Jack Schaefer, Jon Krakauer, Jack London, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Thomas Hornbein, Sir Francis Chichester, Francis Parkman, Joseph Conrad, and Theodore Roosevelt. This anthology is filled with your favorite writers and some lesser-known gems—a perfect gift for any lover of exciting tales.

Lamar Underwood is a former editor-in-chief of both Sports Afield and Outdoor Life and has edited over a dozen books for The Lyons Press, including Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told and Into the Backing. He is also the author of 1001 Fishing Tips and 1001 Hunting Tips. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

An edge-of-your-seat collection of the best in adventure writing.

Behind Bars

True Crime Stories of Whiskey Heists, Beer Bandits, and Fake Million-Dollar Wines

By Mike Gerrard

Behind Bars is filled with stories both ancient and urgent of what happens when alcohol meets crime, from illicit stills in the Scottish Highlands to moonshine in the USA, rum smuggled by Caribbean pirates, the roaring times of Prohibition, to current-day gangs selling millions of dollars’ worth of fake Bordeaux and the often-unsolved cases of people walking into a liquor store, stealing whiskey bottles worth tens of thousands of dollars, and walking out, never to be seen again.

Award-winning travel and drinks writer Mike Gerrard takes readers on a centuries-long journey highlighting the most bizarre – and expensive – alcohol-related crimes all while revealing the inside world of booze: how it has been distilled, legislated, imbibed, and infused into culture and society for hundreds of years. Discover the evolution of the world-leading whiskey industry in Scotland; how the war in Ukraine has impacted illicit vodka rings; how Southern smugglers laid the foundation for NASCAR; and the machinations behind the Whiskey Ring Scandal, a White-House Prohibition conspiracy involving highranking American officials under President Grant.

Mike Gerrard is an award-winning travel and drinks writer who has written for National Geographic, The Times of London, American Express, Google, Microsoft, BBC Good Food, Waitrose Drinks, The Huffington Post, and BBC Travel He has written over 40 travel guidebooks, including the best-selling National Geographic Traveler Guide to Greece, as well as a collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive (Blue Sky Books, 2010). He also publishes the Travel Distilled website (traveldistilled.com), which combines his two passions. His first drinks book is Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in Your Drink (Ben Bella, July 2023).

Behind Bars smartly and swiftly shows that the link between alcohol and crime is a never-ending story.

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Prometheus

October 2024

208 Pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 8441 8

eBook

978 1 4930 8442 5

True Crime • Heists & Robberies

No Haven

The Connecticut Mob and the Rise of America’s Model City

By Paul Bleakley

No Haven is the story of how the Mafia operated in New Haven, told through the experiences of some of the key players in the Connecticut organized crime scene. From the 1930s, Connecticut became a region where Mafia families like the Genoveses, Gambinos, Colombos, and Patriarcas shared turf for most of the twentieth-century— at times, working together with enough profits to go around and, at other times, descending into open war to rival that experienced in any major city. Representing the Genoveses, Midge Renault reigned supreme over the city thanks to his reputation for wanton violence. At the same time, Colombo capo Ralph ‘Whitey’ Tropiano maintained a lower profile, which belied his reputation is a vicious killer. It was his lieutenant, Billy ‘The Wild Guy’ Grasso who ultimately rose to the top of the heap, though. When Grasso signed up with the Patriarca Family out of New England, he began a campaign of conquest that only ended when his body was found on a riverbed outside of Hartford in 1989. These events take place in a city going through transformative urban renewal and social change, in a concerted effort to make it America’s “Model City.”

Paul Bleakley is assistant professor of Criminal Justice and University Research Scholar at the University of New Haven. He is vice chair of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Historical Criminology. Paul has worked at universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Before entering academia, he worked as a journalist in both London and Sydney. He is the author of several books on historical crime, including Under a Bad Sun (2021) and The Australian Gamble (2023). He currently lives in West Haven, CT.

Boston to the north and New York City to the south, Connecticut’s history of organized crime is often overlooked. Here’s the untold story of New Haven’s illegal past.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

September 2024

252 Pages

6 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 9290 0

eBook

978 1 5381 9291 7

True Crime • Organized Crime

Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash.

Informing with clarity, persuading with conviction.

The Brookings Institution and its scholars are known worldwide as a source for original and innovative thought in foreign policy, American politics and governance, current affairs, metropolitan policy, economics, and development. In turn, the Brookings Institution Press helps bring the knowledge and research by scholars from within and outside the Institution to a wider audience of readers, researchers, students, and policymakers through its books and journals. The Press publishes about forty books a year that harness the power of fact and rigorous research to start conversations, inform debates, change minds, and move policy.

Backlist highlights

Publishing has been an integral facet of the Brookings Institution mission since its founding in 1916. The Brookings Institution Press grew from its beginning as an outlet for institutional research to a full-fledged scholarly press publishing an impressive variety of peer-reviewed titles, and by 1958 it had joined the Association of American University Presses.

In recent years, the Press has published such exciting, successful titles as Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves, Diversity Explosion: How the New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America by William H. Frey, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Clifford Gaddy and Fiona Hill, and Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympic and the World Cup by Andrew Zimbalist—in other words, books that address real-world issues and get people talking.

Digitally Invisible

How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

By Nicol Turner Lee

More than one-half of the world’s 7.7 billion people still do not have access to the Internet, including millions of people in the United States, which has led the digital revolution. Most of these non-adopters—whether by choice or circumstance—are poor, less educated, people of color, older, or living in rural communities. As the digital revolution is quickly carving out this other America, it’s likely that these people on the margins of the information-based economy will fall deeper into abject poverty and social and physical isolation.

Based on fieldwork across the United States, this book explores the consequences of digital exclusion through the real-life narratives of individuals, communities, and businesses that lack sufficient online access. The inability of these segments of society to exploit the opportunities provided by the Internet is rapidly creating a new type of underclass: the people on the wrong side of a digital divide. The book focuses on the places in America where technology is widening the gaps among social classes, racial and ethnic minorities, and urban and rural communities.

The author offers fresh ideas for providing equitable access to existing and emerging technologies. Her ideas potentially can offset the unintended outcomes of increasing automation, the use of big data, and the burgeoning app economy. In the end, she makes the case that remedying digital disparities is in the best interest of U.S. competitiveness in the technology-driven world of today and tomorrow.

Nicol Turner Lee is a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where she and specializes in legislative and regulatory policies targeting telecommunications and high-tech industries.

Real-life consequences of the digital divide, and what can be done to close it.

Brookings Institution Press

August 2024

256 pages Hardback

978 0 8157 3898 5

Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash. Cover coming soon

Techlash

Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By Tom Wheeler

Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st-century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised.

Warning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

Businessman, venture capitalist, and former chairman of the Federal Communication Corporation during the Obama administration, Tom Wheeler is the author of several books including, most recently, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Brookings, 2019). He resides in Washington, DC.

The case for balancing entrepreneurial innovation with public interests.

Rights sold: Romanian

Brookings Institution Press

October 2023

264 pages

7 illustrations

Hardback

978 0 8157 3993 7

eBook

978 0 8157 3994 4

Business & Economics

From Gutenberg to Google

The History of Our Future

By Tom Wheeler

In this fascinating book, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today. The first big network revolution was the invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century. The second revolution came with the invention of the telegraph early in the nineteenth century. Never before had people been able to communicate over long distances faster than a horse could travel. Along with the development of the world’s first high-speed network—the railroad—the telegraph upended centuries of stability and literally redrew the map of the world.

Wheeler puts these past revolutions into the perspective of today, when rapid-fire changes in networking are upending the nature of work, personal privacy, education, the media, and nearly every other aspect of modern life. Outlining “What’s Next,” he describes how artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, and the need for cybersecurity are laying the foundation for a third network revolution.

Before he became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in 2013, Tom Wheeler started or helped found several companies offering new cable, wireless, and video communications services.

How Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today.

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Romanian, Audio

Brookings Institution Press

June 2024

320 pages

Paperback

978 0 8157 4061 2

Previously published in hardback (2019)

978 0 8157 3532 8

eBook

978 0 8157 3533 5

Computers • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The Rise of the Global Middle Class

How the Search for a Good Life Can Change the World

By Homi Kharas

The middle class is the most successful group in world history. Sometime before 2030 the fifth billionth person will join the middle class. What started a little over two hundred years ago as a search for a better life has fueled unprecedented global transformation. In his new book Homi Kharas looks at how this powerful dream captivated generations through history, but its demands have led younger generations to ask if it is all worth it. Can the middle class continue to thrive, or will it falter under the stresses of automation, consumerism, pollution, and political strife?

The Rise of the Global Middle Class traces the history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India. Along the way we meet knocker-uppers who have been displaced by alarm clocks. We learn how the Chinese Communist Party drew legitimacy from its ability to enlarge the Chinese middle class.

Kharas proposes a new middle-class manifesto that addresses the pressing issues of inequality, climate change, and technological advances.

Homi Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a co-founder of World Data Lab, a company with a mission to make everyone count. An economist by training, he is a pioneer in the study of the global middle class. He has over four decades of experience working in or writing about international financial institutions, and contributed to the shaping of the UN-brokered global agreement in 2015 to pursue Sustainable Development Goals in every country and region of the world. He has worked and traveled in almost 90 countries.

The history of the middle class from its origins in Victorian England to present day India.

Rights sold: Korean

Brookings Institution Press

November 2023

192 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4032 2

eBook

978 0 8157 4033 9

Business & Economics • Economic Conditions

U.S.-Taiwan Relations Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?

By Ryan Hass, Bonnie Glaser and Richard Bush

An invaluable resource to understand this critical moment in U.S. foreign policy.

This book explains how the U.S.-Taiwan relationship arrived at its current moment, rightsizes the risk of cross-Strait conflict with China, and argues that the United States must counter both military and nonmilitary threats to Taiwan if it wishes to preserve peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

Ryan Hass is the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at the Brookings Institution. Bonnie Glaser is Managing Director of the IndoPacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Richard Bush is author of seven books, including most recently, Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life (Brookings Press, 2021).

Rights sold: Chinese Complex

Brookings Institution Press April 2023 • 184 pages • 4 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4034 6

Paperback 978 0 8157 3999 9

eBook 978 0 8157 4000 1

Political Science • International Relations / General

Japan’s Quiet Leadership Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

By Mireya Solis

Illuminates where the Japanese polity, economy, and people are heading as we move past the Abe era, and well into the 2020s and beyond.

Japan’s Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan’s domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country’s security profile.

Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for Policy Studies and Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Japanese foreign economic policy, regional integration in East Asia and U.S. economic strategy in Asia.

Rights sold: Japanese Brookings Institution Press August 2023 • 260 pages • 22 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4026 1

Paperback 978 0 8157 3997 5

eBook 978 0 8157 3998 2

Political Science • World / Asian

Middle Eastern Maze

Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022

By Itamar Rabinovich

Middle East Maze is an expanded and updated version of Itamar Rabinovich’s The Lingering Conflict, published by Brookings in 2012. This new book offers a unique narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process by a senior academic historian who has served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and as a peace negotiator with Syria. Rabinovich places the Arab-Israeli relationship in the larger context of Middle Eastern regional and international politics. He also examines Iran’s and Turkey’s new roles in the region. An equally important place is given to the U.S. policy in the Middle East and to the U.S. special relationship with Israel.

This revised new edition covers the signing of the Abraham Accords, the new policies pursued by the Trump and Biden administrations, the full-fledged Syrian civil war, the heyday of the Islamic State, Russia’s military intervention in Syria, the Iranian nuclear drive, and the lengthy domestic political crisis in Israel.

Itamar Rabinovich is a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. A professor and president emeritus at Tel Aviv University, he served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and chief negotiator with Syria.

An insider’s analysis of the ArabIsraeli conflict and peace process.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023

376 pages

Hardback

978 0 8157 4010 0

Paperback

978 0 8157 4011 7

eBook

978 0 8157 4012 4

Political Science • World / Middle Eastern

Red Arctic Russian Strategy Under Putin

By Elizabeth Buchanan

Red Arctic charts Arctic strategy under Putin from how it is formulated, what drives it, and where it’s going.

Three main themes are intertwined throughout the book: Russian Arctic interests; Putin’s vision to regain great power status; and the emerging narrative of a new cold war in the Arctic. Weaved together, they dovetail nicely to present a qualitative assessment of Russian Arctic strategy devoid of ideological biases.

Elizabeth Buchanan is Head of Navy Research at the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre. Dr. Buchanan holds a PhD in Russian Arctic Strategy under Putin, specializes in polar geopolitics and is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Modern War Institute at West Point Military Academy. She is an Affiliate of the US Department of Defense’s George Marshall Center.

Brookings Institution Press

March 2023 • 224 pages • 20 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4004 9

Paperback 978 0 8157 3888 6

eBook 978 0 8157 3889 3

Political Science • World / Russian & Former Soviet Union

Regulating Digital Industries

How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech

By Mark MacCarthy

A call for a single industry regulatory agency to promote competition, privacy and free speech in digital industries.

This is the first book to address the tech backlash within a coherent policy framework. It treats competition, privacy and free speech as objectives that must be pursued in a coordinated fashion by a dedicated industry regulator. It argues for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy and free speech in tech and outlines the structure and powers of a regulatory agency able to develop, implement and enforce digital rules for the 21st century.

Mark MacCarthy is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and adjunct professor at Georgetown University.

Brookings Institution Press

November 2023 • 498 pages • 1 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4015 5

Paperback 978 0 8157 3981 4

eBook 978 0 8157 3982 1

Business & Economics • Industries / Computers & Information Technology

Small Isn’t Beautiful The Case against Localism

By Trevor Latimer

Exposes the disadvantages of localism beyond slogans and marketing.

“Local” has become synonymous with good. Trevor Latimer’s, however, argues that “localism” is based on an “undeserved aura of respectability, virtue, and good sense” and can produce results that are misguided or even dangerous. Particularly when it comes to public policies, decisions made at the local level are rarely superior and are sometimes unjust. Latimer exposes the supposed “virtue” of localism as a hodgepodge of weak arguments and misleading hunches.

Trevor Latimer received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Georgia and Dartmouth College.

America and the Yemens A Tragic Encounter

By Bruce Riedel

The first in-depth review of America’s role in the Yemeni civil war.

This book provides a history of US relations with the various entities of north and south Yemen, and the first in-depth review of America’s role in the deadly Saudi directed war in the Yemens. Three Presidents—Obama, Trump, and Biden—have been deeply involved in this conflict. Riedel places this current war in the context of America’s history of engaging with the Yemens. America and the Yemens is of interest to readers seeking to have a better understanding of America’s role in the Middle East.

Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution where he specializes in the Middle East and South Asia. He resides in Chestertown, Maryland.

The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World

Edited by Tarik M. Yousef and Adel Abdel Ghafar

For everyone who is interested in the GCC region.

This policy-oriented book of essays by noted scholars and experts considers the key trends shaping GCC countries, ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, to climate change, economic disruptions, demographics and other domestic concerns, and shifts in the global order.

Tarik M. Yousef was a non-resident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. His professional career has spanned the academic world, the public policy arena, and the NGO space.

Adel Abdel Ghafar was a non-resident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. His research interests include state-society relations, socioeconomic development and foreign policy in the MENA region.

Brookings Institution Press

February 2023 • 288 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 3971 5

Paperback 978 0 8157 4048 3

eBook 978 0 8157 3972 2

Political Science • General

Brookings Institution Press August 2023 • 104 pages

Hardback 978 0 8157 4013 1

eBook 978 0 8157 4014 8

Political Science • International Relations / General

Brookings Institution Press March 2023 • 310 pages • 26 illustrations

Hardback 978 0 8157 4005 6

Paperback 978 0 8157 3953 1

eBook 978 0 8157 3954 8

Political Science • World / Middle Eastern

Backlist Highlights

Stan Lee

A Life

Centennial Edition

By Bob Batchelor - Foreword by Tom DeLonge

Stan Lee’s extraordinary life was as epic as the superheroes he co-created, from the Amazing Spider-Man to the Mighty Avengers. His ideas and voice are at the heart of global culture, loved by millions of superhero fans around the world.

In Stan Lee: A Life, award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary. Born in the Roaring Twenties, growing up in the Great Depression, living and thriving through the American Century, and dying in the twentyfirst century, Stan Lee’s life is a unique representation of recent American history. Batchelor examines Lee’s fascinating American life by drawing out all its complexity, drama, heartache, and humor, revealing how Lee introduced the world to heroes that were just as fallible and complex as their creator—and just like all of us.

An up-close look at a legendary figure, this centennial edition includes completely new material to give the full measure of a man whose genius continues to mesmerize audiences worldwide.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. Batchelor has served as an onair commentator for television and radio programs, including The National Geographic Channel, PBS NewsHour, and the BBC. He is the host of “True Crime Tuesday with Bob Batchelor,” which airs bi-monthly on WCPO’s Cincy Lifestyle. Batchelor lives in Cincinnati with his wife Suzette and their teenage daughters.

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

October 2022

264 Pages

30 Illustrations

Hardback

978 1 5381 6203 3

eBook

978 1 5381 6204 0

Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment & Performing Arts

Stan Lee

The Man Behind Marvel

By Bob Batchelor

In Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel, Bob Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at this iconic visionary, a man who created (with talented artists) many of history’s most legendary characters. In this energetic and entertaining biography, Batchelor explores how Lee capitalized on natural talent and hard work to become the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager. After toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations of readers. Marvel superheroes became a central part of pop culture, from collecting comics to innovative merchandising, from superhero action figures to the ever-present Spider-Man lunchbox.

Batchelor examines many of Lee’s most beloved works, including the 1960s comics that transformed Marvel from a second-rate company to a legendary publisher. This book reveals the risks Lee took to bring the characters to life and Lee’s tireless efforts to make comic books and superheroes part of mainstream culture for more than fifty years.

Bob Batchelor is an award-winning cultural historian and biographer and author of more than a dozen books. His work has been featured in Time, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, LitHub, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

Rights sold: Russian, Polish, Audio, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Vietnamese

Rowman & Littlefield

December 2018

264 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 2843 5

Previously published as hardback

978 1 4422 7781 6

eBook

978 1 6338 8825 8

Biography & Autobiography • Entertainment & Performing Arts

The Millionaire Next Door

The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and William D. Danko PhD, foreword by Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

“Why aren’t I as wealthy as I should be?” Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century.

According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family’s wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America’s rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue they live next door.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

William D. Danko is professor emeritus at the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

December 2016

272 pages

Hardback

978 1 6307 6250 6

Business &

The Next Millionaire Next Door

Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth

By Thomas J. Stanley PhD and Sarah Stanley Fallaw PhD

Is the millionaire next door still out there today? The latest research from Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and his daughter, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, confirms that, yes, the millionaire next door is alive and well. And he’s achieving his financial objectives much the same way he always has: by living below his means, being a contrarian in a maelstrom of hyper-consumption, and being disciplined in reaching his financial goals.

The book examines wealth in America 20 years after Dr. Stanley’s groundbreaking work on self-made affluence. While a new generation of household financial managers are being inundated with the proliferation financial advice, The Next Millionaire Next Door provides readers with an analysis of what it takes to achieve wealth with data-based conclusions and evidence from those who have built wealth on their own over the last two decades. In this current work, the authors detail how specific decisions, behaviors, and characteristics align with the discipline of wealth building, covering areas such as consumption, budgeting, careers, investing, and financial management in general. Through case studies, survey research, and a careful examination of quantitative studies of wealth, the authors illustrate what it takes to achieve financial success today, regardless of market conditions or rising costs.

Thomas J. Stanley was an author, lecturer, and researcher who started studying the affluent in 1973. He died in 2015.

William D. Danko is professor emeritus at the School of Business, State University of New York at Albany.

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Lyons Press

October 2020

272 pages

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Business & Economics • General

Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines

More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? How did they prove their identity? And how much of the modern gold supply comes from the Romans?

In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel, Told in Stone. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life. Learn the answers to: Did a tsunami inspire the Story of Atlantis? How did they send longdistance messages? What if Caesar had survived the Ides of March? How did the Romans build the aqueducts? Did they practice Buddhism? How deadly was the eruption that destroyed Pompeii? What if the Roman Empire hadn’t been ravaged by the Antonine Plague? Did they attend concerts? How did they pay taxes? Was Caligula actually insane? Did they have tattoos?

Garrett Ryan earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan. Besides teaching at several universities and authoring a series of academic works, he has brought ancient history to life for hundreds of thousands of readers through his contributions to online forums, his website toldinstone.com, and his ToldinStone Youtube Channel. He lives in Chicago.

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Prometheus

December 2023

288 pages

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History • Ancient / General

Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War

Elephants

Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans

By Garrett Ryan

Why didn’t the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?

In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.

Garrett Ryan earned his PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan. Besides teaching at several universities and authoring a series of academic works, he has brought ancient history to life for hundreds of thousands of readers through his contributions to online forums and his website toldinstone.com

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Prometheus

September 2021

288 pages

Paperback

978 1 6338 8702 2

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History • Ancient / Rome

When Paris Sizzled

The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them—one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.

The epicenter of all this creativity, as well as of the era’s good times, was Montparnasse, where impoverished artists and writers found colleagues and cafés, and tourists discovered the Paris of their dreams. Major figures on the Paris scene—such as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proust—continued to hold sway, while others now came to prominence—including Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker, as well as André Citroën, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse.

Paris of the 1920s unquestionably sizzled. Yet rather than being a decade of unmitigated bliss, les Années folles also saw an undercurrent of despair as well as the rise of ruthless organizations of the extreme right, aimed at annihilating whatever threatened tradition and order—a struggle that would escalate in the years ahead. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland, has taught at several universities, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. She has traveled extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes. Her books include Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Twilight of the Belle Epoque, Clash of Crowns, and Paris Discovered. She lives in Manhattan with her husband.

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Rowman & Littlefield

February 2019

344 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 2180 1

Previously published in hardback (2016)

978 1 4422 5332 2

eBook

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History • Europe / France

The Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition

By Robert B. Marks

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment.

Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present in an environmental context, the book considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the twenty-first century, and why the changed relationship of humans to the environmental likely will be the hallmark of the modern era—the Anthropocene. Once again arguing that the US rise to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years.

Robert B. Marks was Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College and the author of China: Its Environment and History (R&L 2012) and Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial China (CUP 1998). He is the recipient of Whittier College’s Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

January 2024

328 Pages

17 Illustrations

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History • Modern / General

Acting in Film

An Actor’s Take on Movie Making

By Michael Caine

A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos throughout, with chapters on: Preparation, In Front of the Camera – Before You Shoot, The Take, Characters, Directors, On Being a Star, and much more.

“Remarkable material ... A treasure ... I'm not going to be looking at performances quite the same way ... FASCINATING!”

– Gene Siskel

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Applause

June 2006 192 Pages

Hardback 978 1 5578 3654 0

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Performing Arts • Acting & Auditioning

Stella Adler The Art of Acting

By Howard Kissel

Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twentytwo lessons in this book.

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Applause

November 2000 • 288 Pages

Hardback 978 1 5578 3373 0

Performing Arts • Acting & Auditioning

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Critical Thinking

Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life, Second Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

Critical Thinking, 2nd Edition is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life—as a professional, as a consumer, citizen, friend, or parent. Richard Paul and Linda Elder identify the core skills of effective thinking, then help you analyze your own thought processes so you can systematically identify and overcome your weaknesses.

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking

March 2020 • 476 Pages

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Philosophy • Logic

Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools Eighth Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

This bestselling volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library empowers readers with critical thinking tools based on the groundbreaking work of Richard Paul and Linda Elder. The new edition provides students, educators, and professionals with an authoritative problem-solving framework essential for every aspect of life.

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking

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Philosophy • Logic

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking for almost 25 years. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He authored more than 200 articles and seven books on the topic.

Critical Thinking

Learn the Tools the Best Thinkers Use, Concise Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. It provides students with the basic intellectual skills they need to think through content in any class, subject, or discipline, and through any problems or issues they face.

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking

September 2013 • 370 Pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 3950 9

eBook 978 1 5381 3951 6

Philosophy • Logic

The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking

Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Principles, Fourth Edition

By Richard Paul and Linda Elder

This volume of the Thinker’s Guide Library employs critical thinking concepts in the development of productive scientific thought. Readers will learn to reason within the logic of their scientific disciplines and will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging framework of inquiry set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder.

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking

January 2015 • 70 Pages • 41 Illustrations

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Education • Decision-Making & Problem Solving

The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever

Need

Twenty-First-Century Edition

By Joanna Martine Woolfolk

This new edition of The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need is packed with updated information on Sun signs, Moon signs, Ascending signs, the placement of Planets in your Houses, and the latest astronomical discoveries.

This book provides the compatibility between every sign (144 combinations) and dispenses advice about health, money, lifestyle, and romance, while also offering advice on dealing with the negative aspects of each sign. This edition also takes an even closer look at the inner life of the individual and the emotional needs that motivate a person. Chapters include a look back on the history and mythology of astrology as well as the newest developments in astronomy. This is an indispensable source book for unlocking the mysteries of the cosmos through the twenty-first century and beyond.

Joanna Martine Woolfolk has had a long career as an author, columnist, lecturer, and counselor. She has written the monthly horoscope for numerous magazines in the United States, Europe, and Latin America—among them Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, Self, YM, House Beautiful and StarScrollInternational.

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Taylor Trade Publishing

November 2012

552 pages

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978 1 5897 9653 9

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Body, Mind & Spirit • Astrology / General

Recursivity and Contingency

By Yuk Hui

This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.

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Yuk Hui is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and The Question Concerning Technology in China. An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2017).

Nihilism and Technology

By Nolen Gertz

This book brings together the philosophies of technology and nihilism to investigate how we use technologies, from Netflix and Fitbit to Twitter and Google. It diagnoses how technologies are nihilistic and how our nihilism has become technological.

Nolen Gertz is assistant professor of applied philosophy at the University of Twente, and a Senior Researcher at the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. He is the author of The Philosophy of War and Exile. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Forbes, and on ABC Australia

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Rowman & Littlefield International

January 2019 • 336 Pages

Hardback 978 1 7866 0052 3

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Philosophy • Movements / Critical Theory

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Rowman & Littlefield International

June 2018 • 242 Pages

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Philosophy • Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Origins of Form

The Shape of Natural and Man-made Things— Why They Came to Be the Way They Are and How They Change

By Christopher Williams

Origins of Form will make readers—especially those who design and build—aware of their physical environment. Williams' practical, no-nonsense approach and his exquisite drawings provide a clear understanding of what can and cannot be, how big or small and object should be, how its function will relate to its design, how its use will change it, and what laws will influence its development.

Christopher Williams has lectured on and written many articles about the theory of design. He graduated from New York’s Pratt Institute, attended classes at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and earned a Ph.D. in design theory from Antioch College. His first book was Craftsmen of Necessity (1974). He lives in Big Sur, California, where he writes and practices architecture.

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Architectural Book Publishing

April 2013 144 Pages 175 Illustrations

Paperback 978 1 5897 9808 3

eBook 978 1 5897 9936 3

Architecture • Reference

The Craft of Intelligence America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

By Allen Dulles

This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles’s incomparable experience as a diplomat, international lawyer, and America’s premier intelligence officer. Dulles was a high-ranking officer of the CIA’s predecessor—the Office of Strategic Services—and was present at the inception of the CIA, where he served eight of his ten years there as director. Here he sums up what he learned about intelligence from nearly a half-century of experience in foreign affairs.

Allen W. Dulles, one of the most important figures in the history of American intelligence, served under eight U.S. presidents, from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.

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Lyons Press

May 2016 • 300 pages

Hardback 978 1 4930 1879 6

eBook 978 1 5992 1577 8

Political Science • Intelligence & Espionage

Racism without Racists

Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Sixth Edition

By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Racism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality, and argues that color-blind racism has emerged as the fountain of frames, stylistic components, and racial stories Whites rely on to articulate their views on racial affairs.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University. The recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association, he is the author of numerous other books including White Logic, White Methods. He served as president of the Southern Sociological Society and the American Sociological Association in 2017–2018.

Everyday Bias

Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives, Updated Edition

By Howard J. Ross

To be human is to be biased. From this simple truth, diversity expert Howard J. Ross explores the biases we each carry within us. Incorporating anecdotes from today’s headlines alongside case studies from over 30 years of diversity consulting, Ross helps readers understand how unconscious bias impacts our day-to-day lives and, particularly, our daily work lives. The updated edition draws new examples from today’s headlines such as the #me too Movement, police shootings, and bias in the ever more partisan Trump era.

Howard J. Ross, a lifelong social justice advocate and founding partner of the diversity consulting firm Cook Ross, Inc., is the author of Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance (2011).He resides in Washington, DC.

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December 2021 • 392 Pages • 5 Illustrations

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Social Science • Discrimination & Race Relations

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

July 2020 • 214 Pages • 15 Illustrations

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eBook 978 1 5381 4229 5

Family & Relationships • Prejudice

Building the Bonds of Attachment

Awakening Love in Deeply Traumatized Children, Third Edition

By Daniel A. Hughes

A highly accessible resource for students and professionals as well as parents, Building the Bonds of Attachment presents a composite case study of one child’s developmental course following years of abuse and neglect. Weaving theory and research into a powerful narrative, Hughes offers effective methods for facilitating attachment in children who have experienced serious trauma. The text emphasizes both the specialized psychotherapy and parenting strategies often necessary in facilitating a child's psychological development and attachment security. Hughes steps through an integrated intervention model that blends attachment and trauma theories with the most current research as well as general principles of both parenting and child and family therapy. Thoughtful and practical, the third edition provides an invaluable guide for therapists and social workers, students in training, and parents.

Daniel A. Hughes, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in child abuse and neglect, attachment, foster care, and adoption. He actively trains other therapists in the model of treatment known as Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, both within the United States and in other countries.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

June 2017

304 Pages

Hardback

978 1 4422 7412 9

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978 1 4422 7413 6

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978 1 4422 7414 3

Psychology • Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent

The Primitive Edge of Experience

By Thomas H. Ogden

“In this magnificent book, Ogden illuminates the darkest recesses of the human psyche with his brilliant formulation of the autistic-contiguous position. He also provides refreshing new perspectives on the Oedipus complex and female psychology. With this impressive contribution, Thomas Ogden has come into his own as one of the most creative and original psychoanalytic thinkers of our time.” —Glen Gabbard

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

The Matrix of the Mind Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

By Thomas H. Ogden

“Ogden re-interprets Klein to illuminate Freudian instinct theory, using the contributions of Bion, Fairbairn, and particularly Winnicott–British object relations theorists–to clarify and extend aspects of their work and to move towards an impressive exposition of the way in which the human mind develops.”—Pamela M. Ashurst, The British Journal of Psychiatry

Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., is a graduate of Amherst College, the Yale School of Medicine, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.

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Jason Aronson, Inc.

December 1992 • 254 pages

Paperback 978 0 8766 8290 6

eBook 978 0 7657 0738 3

Psychology • General

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Jason Aronson, Inc.

July 2022 • 286 pages

Paperback 978 1 5682 1051 3

eBook 978 1 4616 3157 6

Psychology • General

Understanding the Borderline Mother

Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

By Christine Ann Lawson

Some readers may recognize their mothers as well as themselves in this book. They will also find specific suggestions for creating healthier relationships.

Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.

Christine Ann Lawson, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has previously served as adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and Butler University.

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Jason Aronson, Inc.

September 2000 • 350 Pages

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eBook 978 0 7425 9993 2

Psychology • General

Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist

How to End the Drama and Get On with Life

By Margalis Fjelstad

People with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders are master manipulators; Caretakers fall for them every time. This book helps Caretakers break the cycle and puts them on a new path of personal freedom, discovery, and self-awareness, through the use of real stories and practical suggestions from a seasoned therapist.

Margalis Fjelstad, PhD, LMFT, has a private psychotherapy practice in Ft. Collins, CO, specializing in work with clients who are in relationship to someone who has borderline or narcissistic personality disorder, and she facilitates groups on Caretaker recovery. She has previously been an Adjunct Faculty member at Regis University in Colorado Springs and at California State University in Sacramento.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

August 2014 • 232 Pages • 8 Illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4422 3832 9

eBook 978 1 4422 2019 5

Psychology • Mental Health

A History of the Popes From Peter to the Present

By John W. O’Malley, SJ

A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus’ chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last two thousand years. Rather than describe each pope one by one, this engaging narrative focuses on the popes that shaped pivotal moments in both church and world history.

John W. O’Malley, S.J., is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of religion at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., and is the author of numerous books, including What Happened at Vatican II and Four Cultures of the West.

Before I Go Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters

By Peter Kreeft

In Before I Go, Kreeft presents lessons learned about life, faith, morality, priorities, marriage, and more, as his legacy to his children—and to readers. He shares his practical wisdom, as well as his concern for truth and goodness, in a warm and readable way.

Peter Kreeft has been featured on the PBS series “The Question of God.” He is professor of philosophy at Boston College and lives in West Newton, Massachusetts.

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Sheed & Ward

January 2010 • 368 pages

Paperback 978 1 5805 1228 2

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Religion • Christian Theology / History

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Sheed & Ward

December 2007 • 264 pages

Hardback 978 1 5805 1224 4

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Religion • General

Math Makers

The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians

By Alfred S. Posamentier and Christian Spreitzer

Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers to life while making their contributions understandable to readers with little math background. Among the fascinating characters profiled are Isaac Newton (1642–1727), the founder of classical physics and infinitesimal calculus—he frequently quarreled with fellow scientists and was obsessed by alchemy and arcane Bible interpretation; Sophie Germain (1776–1831), who studied secretly at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, using the name of a previously enrolled male student—she is remembered for her work on Fermat’s Last Theorem and on elasticity theory; Emmy Noether (1882–1935), whom Albert Einstein described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics—she made important contributions to abstract algebra and in physics she clarified the connection between conservation laws and symmetry.

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

Christian Spreitzer is a co-author of The Mathematics of Everyday Life and The Joy of Mathematics

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Prometheus

April 2020

440 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8520 2

eBook 978 1 6338 8521 9

Mathematics • History & Philosophy

The Joy of Chemistry

The Amazing Science of Familiar Things

By Cathy Cobb and Monty Fetterolf

This book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any fun. Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf, both professional chemists and experienced educators, introduce readers to the magic, elegance, and, yes, joy of chemistry. From the fascination of fall foliage and fireworks, to the functioning of smoke detectors and computers, to the fundamentals of digestion (as when good pizza goes bad!), the authors illustrate the concepts of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, using familiar materials.

The Joy of Physics

By Arthur W. Wiggins, illustrated by Sidney Harris

For those who have always wanted to discover the joy of physics, this is the book that they’ve been waiting for. Many people remember their struggles with physics in high school and have wished for the right opportunity to gain an appreciation of this significant area of knowledge. Now is their chance not only to understand physics, but to do physics. The author provides the general reader with a funfilled, entertaining, and truly educational tour of this allimportant science.

The Joy of Geometry

By Alfred S. Posamentier

A veteran math educator reveals the hidden fascinations of geometry and why this staple of math education is important. Geometry is more than axioms, postulates, theorems, and proofs. It’s the science of beautiful and extraordinary geometric relationships. This book will awaken readers to the appeal of geometry by placing the focus squarely on geometry’s visually compelling features and intrinsic elegance.

Alfred S. Posamentier has published over sixty books in the area of mathematics and mathematics education.

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Prometheus

January 2010 • 400 pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2771 3

eBook 978 1 6159 2019 8

Science • Chemistry / General

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Prometheus

March 2011 • 472 pages

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eBook 978 1 6159 2180 5

Science • Experiments & Projects

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Prometheus

September 2020 • 162 pages

Paperback 978 1 6338 8586 8

eBook 978 1 6338 8587 5

Mathematics • Geometry / General

The Milestones of Science

How We Came to Understand the Universe

By James D. Stein

If we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthroughs in the history of science – as well as the scientists behind him – from the ancient world to what the future of science may hold.

Comprised of riveting and readable stories from along the path of scientific discovery in the fields of Astronomy, The Earth, Matter, Forces and Energy, Chemistry, Life, Genetics & DNA, The Human Body, Disease, and Science in the 21st Century, author James D. Stein showcases the most noteworthy achievements of our species in a compelling and comprehensive way.

Concluding with a chapter that describes how the internet has changed the process of doing science in the twenty-first century, this essential book covers not just the science, but the people whose life work helps us better understand the world around us.

James D. Stein received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor of Mathematics at California State University in Long Beach, California. His background includes working on projects related to the moon landing in the 1960s and as a stock options trader during the 1980s.

His books focus on what mathematics has been able to tell us about the Universe we live in, and how that knowledge can be used to improve our lives. Unfortunately, he has yet to find a way to use mathematics to improve his ability to play either tennis (to the relief of his opponents) or piano (to the despair of his neighbors).

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Prometheus

April 2023

216 Pages

1 Illustration

Hardback

978 1 6338 8848 7

eBook

978 1 6338 8849 4

Science • History

Einstein’s Brainchild

Relativity Made Relatively Easy!

By Barry R. Parker, illustrated by Lori Scoffield-Beer

Physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein's theories to life. While tracing the story of Einstein's life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way.

Parker's incomparable gift for language captures Einstein's uniqueness, singular brilliance, and stunning theories. The clarity of the writing coupled with the many illustrations will drive home the point why so many consider Einstein to be the greatest scientist who ever lived and Time magazine named Albert Einstein "Person of the Century."

Rights sold: Turkish, English in Indian Subcontinent

Prometheus

April 2007 • 280 Pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2522 1

eBook 978 1 6159 2368 7

Science • Relativity

Leonardo’s Brain

Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

By Leonard Shlain

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

Leonard Shlain was a best-selling author and San Francisco surgeon. He delivered presentations based upon his books in venues around the world including Harvard, The New York Museum of Modern Art, and CERN. His fans include Al Gore, Norman Lear and singer Bjork who credited Shlain ‘s Alphabet vs. The Goddess with inspiring her in her single “Wanderlust” and the album Volta. Shlain died in May 2009 at the age of 71 after a battle with brain cancer.

Rights sold: Russian, Italian, Audio, Japanese, Turkish, English in Indian Subcontinent

Lyons Press

December 2015 • 256 Pages • 15

Illustrations

Paperback 978 1 4930 0939 8

eBook 978 1 4930 1557 3

History • Europe / Renaissance

Dear Professor Einstein

Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children

Edited by Alice Calaprice

This enchanting book displays a small sampling of the amusing, touching, and sometimes precocious letters sent to Albert Einstein by children from around the world, and his often witty and very considerate responses. Enhancing this correspondence are numerous photographs showing Einstein amid children, wearing an Indian headdress, carrying a puppet of himself, donning furry slippers, among many other wonderful pictures. Complete with a foreword by Einstein's granddaughter Evelyn, a biography and chronology of Einstein's life, and an introduction by Einstein scholar Robert Schulmann on the great scientist's educational philosophy, this wonderful compilation will be welcomed by teachers, parents, and all the young, budding scientists in their lives.

Rights sold: Vietnamese

Prometheus

September 2002 • 200 Pages

Hardback 978 1 5910 2015 8

eBook 978 1 6159 2276 5

Literary Collections • Letters

Only One You

By Linda Kranz

There's only one you in this great big world. Make it a better place. Adri's mama and papa share some of the wisdom they have gained through the years with their eager son. Their words, simple and powerful, are meant to comfort and guide him as he goes about exploring the world. This exquisitely illustrated book explodes with color and honest insights. Kranz's uniquely painted rockfish, set against vibrant blue seas, make an unforgettable and truly special impression. Only One You will inspire parents and children of all ages as they swim through the sea of life.

You Be You

By Linda Kranz

When little Adri sets out to explore the ocean, he has no idea how colorful the world is. He quickly discovers that there are all kinds of fish in the deep blue sea—big and tiny, smooth and spiny, colorful and plain, different and the same. In this companion book to the best-selling Only One You, Kranz uses her famous rockfish to convey the message of beauty in difference in a vibrant and engaging way that will get kids hooked. Now in board book for younger children.

Linda Kranz, winner of the IRA children’s choices award, is the author of many books and journals, including Only One You. Linda lives with her husband in Flagstaff, Arizona

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese

Rising Moon

July 2006 • 32 Pages

Hardback 978 0 8735 8901 7

Board book 978 1 58979 748 2

eBook 978 1 4617 4236 4

Juvenile Fiction • Family / Parents

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean

Taylor Trade Publishing

October 2011 • 32 Pages • 32 Illustrations

Hardback 9781589796669

Board book 978 1 58979 747 5

eBook 9781589796676

Juvenile Fiction • Social Issues / General

Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

At the heart of Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots? lives an energetic, spirited, and contemporary child who has lots of important questions for her mom. Do princesses ride tricycles, climb trees, do chores, or have to eat the crusts of their bread? The mother’s voice is timelessly reassuring as she answers her daughter’s questions and advises her that being like a princess has to do with what we are on the inside.

Do Princesses Have Best Friends Forever?

By Carmela LaVigna Coyle, illustrated by Mike Gordon and Carl Gordon

Your favorite princess has met her match! Join in the fun as two little girls celebrate their friendship by playing dress up, making forts, stomping in the mud, and generally doing all the things that best friends do. Together they learn that being a princess is about more than just crowns and dress up. It’s about being yourself and sharing that with a friend.

Carmela LaVigna Coyle’s first book, Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?, is enjoyed by little princesses everywhere and has been succeeded by four other princess books.

Mike Gordon’s award-winning illustrations span fiction, non-fiction, entertainment, and educational books worldwide. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Carl Gordon and his father have been a team since 1999. Mike Gordon creates the line art illustrations, and the color is computer generated by Carl. He lives in Hove, England.

Rights sold: Spanish

Taylor Trade Publishing

March 2016 • 32 pages

Board book 978 1 6307 6164 6

Previously published as hardback 978 0 8735 8828 7

eBook 978 1 4617 4240 1

Juvenile Fiction • Imagination & Play

Rights sold: Spanish, Simplified Chinese

Taylor Trade Publishing

February 2011 • 32 pages

Hardback 978 1 5897 9542 6

eBook 978 1 4617 4117 6

Juvenile Fiction • Social Issues / Friendship

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